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Numbers 21:4-9 - Look and Live - Steven Fresquez

Numbers 21:4-9 | Preached by Noah Gwinn

Our sin is deeper than we realize, but God's mercy is greater than we can imagine. Discover how the bronze serpent points us to Jesus Christ, the One who brings healing, forgiveness, and eternal life to all who look to Him in faith. Speaker: Pastor Noah Gwinn

He is The Story - A Summer DevotionalLook and LiveThe Bronze Serpent | Numbers 21

What does an ancient bronze snake on a pole have to do with your salvation today? In this episode, we unpack the fast-paced and highly prophetic events of Numbers Chapter 21.After getting stuck in another cycle of complaining, Israel faces a deadly plague of fiery serpents. Discover the profound grace behind God's unusual cure and how Jesus later used this exact story to explain His mission on the cross. We also chart Israel's massive shift from wandering to winning as they pick up momentum and conquer the powerful Amorite kings. It's time to stop looking at your wounds and start looking at the cure!Subscribe to our channel for weekly studies, hit that like button, and share this powerful message of healing!#Numbers21 #எண்ணாகமம்21 #BronzeSerpent #LookAndLive #PropheticShadows #TamilBibleStudy #ChristianPodcastTamil #BibleStudyTamil #WildernessBreakthrough

Join us as Pastor Jonathan Goodman preaches this Lord's Day in John 3:14-15. https://www.youtube.com/live/8sT7xTwfW2c?si=B5ZFlH8MZBwFt_CJ

Preaching Point: Though sin brings death, God offers life through a repentant, faith-filled response to His appointed means.Text: Numbers 21:4–9 (ESV) 4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 And 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.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

Last Sunday we continued our study through the Gospel of John, picking up in John 6:34-40. The crowd that witnessed the feeding of the five thousand is still missing it, still thinking Jesus is talking about bread for their stomachs. And Jesus doesn't back down or soften the message. He says plainly, "I am the bread of life." Not "I give" the bread of life, I am the bread of life. The invitation Jesus gave that day is still standing: come to me, be accepted, be kept, be raised. Listen to the audio or watch the video now.Also on YouTube:⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIhAvYplO3Y⁠Sunday, May 17, 2026Pastor Kevin PierpontCalvary Church, Webberville, Michigan⁠https://calvarychurch.xyz⁠⁠

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Study Passage: Numbers 21:4-9From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 And 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.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

Old age is not a disease. Pastor Bankie teaches that believers must fight for faith and stop making excuses for weakness, sickness, or frailty. He points to Numbers chapter 21 verse 9, where healing came from an attentive, expectantly steady gaze, showing that health and healing belong to God alone.

The Lord was ready to bring Israel into the Promised Land in just eighteen months. Instead, it took forty years. Is your own "wilderness wandering" a result of geography, or is it a matter of the heart? Summary: In this episode, we dive into the Book of Numbers. We move past the genealogies to uncover the spiritual friction that keeps us from moving forward. We analyze the pivotal moments where faith collided with fear and learn how to speed up the clock on our own spiritual progress. The Timetable of Faith: We discuss how our activities or procrastinations can "slow the hands of the clock" on God's promises. The Report of the Spies: We contrast the "grasshopper complex" of the ten spies with the "mountain-moving faith" of Joshua and Caleb. The Brazen Serpent: We explore the profound simplicity of "looking to live" and why we sometimes refuse the easiest cures offered by the Savior. Miriam and Aaron's Murmuring: We look at the dangers of "steadying the ark" and questioning local and prophetic leadership. The Daughters of Zelophehad: We conclude with the beautiful balance of agency and order found at the end of the book, proving that the "Number" God cares most about is the individual soul. Call-to-Action: Are you currently in a "Caleb" season of faith or a "Grasshopper" season of fear? What is one "giant" in your way that you are ready to overcome with the Lord's help? Share your journey in the comments! To keep your faith "Unshaken" while navigating the wilderness, please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell. Chapter Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:21 The Book of Numbers: "Wander, Wander, Die" 12:44 Numbering Israel & Setting up Camp 22:08 Setting Up Camp 31:29 Ransoming the Firstborn 51:28 Awakening a Guilty Conscience 1:06:56 Set Apart for God 1:24:26 Gifts to God 1:41:55 Flexibility & Obedience 1:59:09 Murmuring about the Manna 2:18:15 The Meekness of Moses 2:47:05 Spying Out the Land 2:57:16 Faith or Fear 3:14:18 Rebellion in the Ranks 3:36:55 Proof of the Priesthood 3:54:24 Moses' Mistake 4:07:34 The Brazen Serpent 4:20:23 Balaam & the Rewards of Unrighteousness 5:00:18 Idolatry & Adultery 5:09:00 Renumbering Israel & Exceptions to the Rule 5:18:47 Successors & Mentors 5:35:47 Unity & Diversity 5:46:33 Exodus & Inheritance 5:58:59 Conclusion

Satan's primary weapon in the last days is deception, particularly self-deception that leads us to believe we can transform ourselves through good works or religious activities. The story of Nicodemus reveals that even respected religious leaders can miss the essential truth of spiritual rebirth. Despite his position and knowledge, Nicodemus had never experienced the transformation that only the Holy Spirit can provide. Jesus taught him that we cannot change our fallen nature through human effort - we need complete spiritual transformation. The solution is found by looking to the cross, where Christ's sacrifice provides the power for the Holy Spirit to create new hearts within us.

Jason Seville, Pastor of Del Ray Baptist Church

www.longviewbaptistchurch.org Numbers 21:4-9 Sunday, April 19th, 2026 1) From the time we are born we have been bitten and are dying! 2) God provided the remedy for sin! 3) The promise of life is found by looking to Jesus Christ alone!

Old Testament ReadingNumbers 14:26-45

Look And Live - Finale

Message by Matt Hessel. https://lbcc.org

John 3:16 may be the most quoted verse in the Bible — but what does it actually mean?In this message from John 3:14–21, we explore why Jesus connects His crucifixion to Moses lifting up the bronze serpent in the wilderness. What does “look and live” mean? What does it mean to be not condemned? And how does Jesus reverse the curse of sin?"Eternal life is not just life after death — it is the life that begins the moment you believe."

John 3:1-17Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, who came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God because no one can do the signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born from above.” Nicodemus said, “How can one be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?”Jesus answered him, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Do not be astonished that I've said to you, ‘You must be born from above.' The wind blows where it chooses and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? Very truly I tell you, we speak about what we know and we testify to what we have seen and yet, you do not receive our testimony. If we speak to you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe when we tell you about heavenly things?“No one has ascended to heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up a serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.“For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” I heard about the shoes long before stepping foot into the Holocaust Exhibition yesterday in Cincinnati with the group of Cross of Gracers who made the trip there. Not only had I heard about the shoes, but I'd seen something similar at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. several years ago. In Cincinnati there were pictures and a couple of stories about individual shoes from murdered Jews. D.C.'s museum hosts an exhibit of actual shoes, though, piled several feet deep – hundreds of them – men's shoes, women's shoes, the tiny shoes of children – stacked, like bodies you might say, as a grisly reminder – not just of the number of lives destroyed by the Holocaust, but the very simple, profound, fairly universal symbol of humanity that was lost in those years.What's also sobering to realize is that there are museums and memorials around the world with equally large and disturbing piles of shoes of their own. Which makes sad, terrifying sense of course. More than six million murdered Jews leave behind plenty of shoes to go around. (And let us not forget the queer folk, the Roma people, those with disabilities, and thousands of others who were also murdered as part of Hitler's Holocaust and Final Solution.)Anyway, and of course, we also saw, yesterday, plenty of pictures, video footage, and so many living, personal testimonies about the horrors of that regime, and of those days, and of that sinful stain on humanity's history. And they are difficult to see – sad, shameful, and scary – but necessary, to look at, in my opinion; as people of faith, as responsible citizens, as human beings on the planet, as children of God.And, for so many reasons, I thought of these things when I thought about this morning's Gospel.See, when Jesus reminds Nicodemus about that time in Israel's history when “Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,” he's recalling that strange story from the book of Numbers when God's people had lost faith and had been disobedient and doubtful of God, so that poisonous serpents showed up to bite them as punishment, so the story goes. When they realized the error of their ways and asked for help, Moses – at God's direction – put a bronze serpent on a pole, and set it up so that God's people could look at the serpent – like some sort of sacred, spiritual anti-venom – and be healed from the poisonous of those snakes that had plagued them. They were called to look back; to face their fear; to stare their struggle, their sadness, their sin – the source of their pain and punishment – in the eye – in order to be healed of it.And isn't that, a lot of the time, the very last thing we are inclined to do – get close to and look at the source of our struggle and sinfulness, I mean? Isn't it hard and scary, sometimes, to look our fear, our shame, our guilt, and our greatest threat in the eye? Aren't we pretty good at – if not inherently wired for – avoiding so many of the difficult, scary, broken parts of our lives and of our history, rather than face them, admit them, let alone engage and get close to them and expect good things to come of it?And it's no wonder, really. Our world is an unforgiving, judgmental, punishment- seeking, vengeance-hungry, score-keeping, death-dealing kind of place to live in. Admitting mistakes is bad for approval ratings – just ask a politician. Failure is to be avoided at all costs – just ask a student or a young athlete in your life. Admitting sin and seeking forgiveness feels like weakness – just look in the mirror.But this is what I hear Jesus ask of us in this morning's Gospel. “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up” … on a pole… on a tree… on a cross for all the world to see, so that we might look at him, so that we might look to him for deliverance from that which we fear threatens us most – our greatest mistakes, our deepest guilt, our darkest shame, our unfathomable brokenness, our Sin – with a capital S – heaped upon God, in Jesus, and left to die on a cross.And that's the power – and the practical, holy importance – of museums and memorials that point to and remind us of our history, and that force us to look it straight in the eye, even when, especially when, it's terrible and terrifying – like any Holocaust exhibit, like the Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, like the Vietnam Wall, the 9/11 Museum, the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, New York.These are hard, holy reminders of humanity's capacity for inhumanity. But there is also warning and hope and potential for transformation when we dare to confront, study, learn from, and be changed by what we've done.- I don't know how anyone could spend 5 minutes in that Cincinnati exhibit and deny the atrocities of Hitler's regime – but there are too many who still pretend it didn't happen or that it wasn't as bad as it was, and who refuse to believe what their eyes could see if they'd just look.- After learning that some of the Nazi's first sinister steps toward “Making Germany Great” included very deliberately “Germanizing” the names of towns, villages, and streets, I'll think even harder every time I hear or see someone refer to “The Gulf of America” on a map.- And when I hear about innocent US Citizens being unfairly, unjustly detained, imprisoned, and deported, I'll remember the way that happened to innocent Japanese Americans once before, too, while we were simultaneously, ironically, fighting to liberate Jews from similar tyranny in the same damn war.We need all the reminders and reality checks we can get, people. Because, as Maya Angelou used to say, something with which I believe Jesus would agree: “When you know better, you do better.”That's why yesterday – and all of this – is more than a history lesson for me. It's an exercise of faith because these Lenten days are all about doing this work – looking back, acknowledging, admitting, confessing, repenting of our sins – working to change and be changed because of them – and extending mercy, grace and love to the world of God's children as a result.Because “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.” And because “God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”It's hard to look at what hurts, horrifies and threatens to kill us – at what has killed too many of us – and trust that, in doing so, we can be saved. But that's Jesus' invitation today, nonetheless… “to look and live” like those Israelites were commanded to do, way back when. To look at the Sin that has bitten us and that bites us, still. To see, repent for, and change all the ways we manage to break the heart of God; not avert our eyes, not run from, not pretend or deny the fullness of our Sin – and to not be fooled into believing God can't redeem it, either.And that's why we look to the cross … so that we might stop hiding from the sins that hang there – all the things done, left undone, and yet to be done – so that we might look full in the face at our greatest shame and our deepest fears and into the threat of our own brokenness – into the face, even, of death – and to see God's promised salvation in spite of it all.Because when we see the whole of our SIN crucified and killed … then forgiven and raised to new life … it can't bite, burden, or betray us any longer. And when we receive and accept the fullness of this grace, we can learn to walk in the shoes of our neighbor and live transformed lives in return – asking for forgiveness, extending mercy, and loving one another – wholly – the way we have already been loved, by God, in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen

Look And Live - Lifted For You Part 2

Look And Live - Stop Staring At The Bite

Mike McCoy 2-1-2026 PM An Old Testament story who's true meaning would remain a mystery for centuries, until Jesus explains its immeasurable truth in the New Testament. That's the subject of this message by Brother Mike. Crossville First Free Will Baptist Church www.crossvillechurch.com

Stan shared that through salvation and baptism, we are no longer under judgment because Jesus has already been judged on our behalf. It is important to confess our sins in order to be free. Freedom and healing is found in the blood of Jesus.

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Date: November 23, 2025Speaker: Aaron Beane

Listen to this week's sermon, In the Wilderness preached by Rev. Benjamin Kandt from Numbers 21 and John 3.

Passage: John 3:9-15Speaker: Stephen Chen

Passage: John 3:9-15Speaker: Stephen Chen

In this message, Peter shares a powerful word on the transforming revelation of the cross. Drawing from Scripture and personal encounters, he reveals how Jesus' sacrifice breaks shame, heals the mind, and invites every heart to draw near again. This episode calls listeners to look at the cross—and live.Join us weekly on Zoom for Gospel Hour on Wednesdays at 9a CST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9657760302THE BRAVEHEART SUMMIT REGISTRATION IS LIVE! SECURE YOUR SPOT TODAY! The Braveheart Summit is a gathering point for people who are hungry to get trained in the Gospel and commissioned to take action for the furthering of God's Kingdom. Whether you're brand new to Braveheart or you've been with us for years, the Summit is for you. Join us in San Antonio and expect to get equipped, encouraged, strengthened and sent home on fire with a flame that never burns out.Details - November 6th-8th in San Antonio, Texas Click here to register. Click here to give to Braveheart and pay it forward. Send us a textSupport the show

Send us a textWillie is home sick and missing Sabbath School when his friends bring class to him. After a sweet visit and a lesson about the bronze serpent, Willie falls asleep and dreams he is in the Israelite camp, bitten by a snake. His friends race him through the crowded tents to look at the serpent on the pole. Willie chooses to trust God, looks up in faith, and is healed. He wakes to find his fever lower and learns with Mom why some people would not believe and how God's love invites us to trust Him. A gentle story that helps kids understand “look and live” and how Jesus heals those who believe. Talk about it:Why did Willie need to look at the serpent in his dream?What does “look and live” mean for us today?When is it hard to trust what God says, and how can you choose faith?Who could you encourage to believe God this week?Visit our website: kathyskidsstorytime.orgWe'd love to hear from you.To reach us quickly, click the “Send us a text” link at the top of the episode description.Or write to us by mail:Kathy's Kids StorytimePO Box 44270Charlotte, NC 28215-0043

Send us a textAfter years in the desert, the Israelites grumble again when water runs out. Moses loses his patience and strikes the rock instead of speaking to it, and God sadly tells him he will not lead the people into Canaan. Later, as the people complain, poisonous snakes sweep through the camp. God gives a surprising rescue plan. Moses lifts a bronze snake on a pole, and everyone who looks in faith is healed. This story points to Jesus, who would be lifted up on the cross so that everyone who believes in Him can live forever. Talk about it:Why was striking the rock a problem, and what can we learn about trusting God?What happened when people chose to look at the bronze snake?How does this story help you understand what Jesus did on the cross?What is one way you can choose faith when you feel afraid?Visit our website: kathyskidsstorytime.orgWe'd love to hear from you.To reach us quickly, click the “Send us a text” link at the top of the episode description.Or write to us by mail:Kathy's Kids StorytimePO Box 44270Charlotte, NC 28215-0043

This Sunday Pastor Josh Kelsey shows us how complaining is more than words, it's poison that delays the promise. Israel's grumbling in the wilderness revealed unbelief, but God's response was both strange and beautiful: look and live. Healing didn't come from striving harder but from fixing their eyes on the serpent lifted on the pole. Centuries later, Jesus fulfills this moment on the cross becoming the curse so we could be free. True freedom isn't the absence of snakes, it's the presence of a Savior who breaks their power. Stop fighting the snakes. Stop striving. Lift your eyes to Jesus, the One who heals.