I AM REVEALED - “Jehovah Rapha – The Lord Who Heals You” Numbers 21:4-9 (Exodus 15:26) Episode #3

I AM REVEALED - ALL CHURCH STUDY - “Jehovah Rapha – The Lord Who Heals You” Numbers 21:4-9 (Exodus 15:26) / Episode #3

Numbers 21:4-9 The Bronze Snake
4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
6 Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

Exodus 15:26
26 He said, “If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.”

OUTLINE:

“Jehovah Rapha – The Lord who heals you” Numbers 21:4-9 (Exodus 15:26)
OUR SIN ON “THE WAY” IS WHY WE NEED HEALING (“…the people became impatient on the way” – v. 5)

- Impatient. Forgetful. Ungrateful. (vs. 4&5)

- Result: pain and death (Romans 3:23)

- Confession is the first step to healing (“…we have sinned against the Lord.” James 5:16)
THE LORD WHO HEALS YOU PROVIDES A PICTURE OF HIS HEALING (“…make a serpent…and set it on a pole…” – v. 8)

- A serpent lifted up (vs. 8&9)

- Jesus, the Lord who heals you (Luke 4:30, 7:18-22; Matthew 9)

- The Son of Man lifted up (John 3:14, Isaiah 53:5)

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