The Look That Healed

 *24/04/2022*

*ANOINTING HEALING AND COMMUNION SERVICE*

TOPIC:

*The Look That Healed*

Text:

Numbers 21:4-9 NKJV

Many years ago, the children of Israel were traveling from Egypt to Canaan. They had become a nation of about a million people. God led them out of Egypt in a miraculous way, with Moses as their leader. By night He gave them light from a pillar of fire, and by day He shaded them from the heat with a cloud.

One time after the Israelites had spoken against God and against Moses, the Lord sent "fiery serpents" (poisonous snakes) into their camp as a punishment (Numbers 21:6)

They bit the people. There was much weeping and crying among them, for it was a painful, deadly bite.

"The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against you; pray to the Lord, that He take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people"

Numbers 21:7; Mark 1:15

The Lord told Moses to make a brazen serpent and set it upon a pole so that every one could see it. God promised that whoever was bitten by the poisonous snakes and *looked up (in faith)* to the raised serpent should be healed.*Those who looked were healed*.

According to Numbers 21:7, the people first of all recognized their sin, were sorry for their disobedience, and were anxious to be healed. God does not save us until we repent and turn away from our sins. *We are invited to look to the crucified One, the One who was "lifted up" that we might be healed*

John 12:32

Sin, like the bite of the poisonous snakes, is very deadly. There is only one cure for it - the cleansing by "the blood of Jesus Christ"

1 John 1:7

Our Heavenly Father has provided this way to heal all who have been bitten by Satan; that is, all who have sinned.*Looking by faith to Jesus is our only hope*. He was nailed to the cross and shed His blood for the remission of sins.

Romans 3:24-25

*Jesus Himself says, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up: That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life"*

John 3:14-15

" Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am your God, and there is none else "

Isaiah 45:22

*Will you look?*

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