耶稣拯救我们脱离死亡
在约翰福音3章，耶稣教导说，民数记21章记载那个关于铜蛇的不可思议的故事，其实是指向祂和祂医治的工作的。耶稣拯救我们脱离罪和死亡。
民数记包括很多关于以色列民长途跋涉走过旷野时埋怨神的故事，在民数记21章，祂们又因食物发怨言了。这一次，神因他们的叛逆和违命便惩罚他们。
和圣经中很多故事一样，这个故事的下文是人们祈求神的赦免，而神便以怜悯来回应他们的祈求。然而，神的回应却是非常特别的。神说：“你制造一条火蛇，挂在杆子上，凡被咬的，一望这蛇，就必得活。”
摩西制造的铜蛇，代表咬人之蛇的毒液的解毒剂。凡一望被举起的铜蛇的，就不会死亡。
当耶稣教导众人关于祂到来所作的工时，祂提起这个古旧的故事。我们因犯罪和背叛神为自己带来死亡的惩罚，耶稣到来拯救我们脱离死亡。祂为我们在十字架上被举起来，付上生命为我们偿还罪债。我们若凭信心仰望耶稣，相信祂牺牲的拯救大能时，“我们在他里面必得永生。神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。”
祷告
耶稣啊，感谢你，因为我们只要凭信心仰望你，便可以得救。阿们。
民数记 21:4-9；约翰福音 3:14-16
4他们从何珥山起行，往红海那条路走，要绕过以东地。百姓因这路难行，心中甚是烦躁，
5就怨讟神和摩西说：“你们为什么把我们从埃及领出来，使我们死在旷野呢？这里没有粮，没有水，我们的心厌恶这淡薄的食物！”
6于是耶和华使火蛇进入百姓中间，蛇就咬他们，以色列人中死了许多。
7百姓到摩西那里，说：“我们怨讟耶和华和你，有罪了。求你祷告耶和华，叫这些蛇离开我们。”于是摩西为百姓祷告。
8耶和华对摩西说：“你制造一条火蛇，挂在杆子上。凡被咬的，一望这蛇，就必得活。”
9摩西便制造一条铜蛇，挂在杆子上。凡被蛇咬的，一望这铜蛇就活了。
14摩西在旷野怎样举蛇，人子也必照样被举起来，
15叫一切信他的都得永生。
16“神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的不致灭亡，反得永生。
Jesus Spares Us From Death
"Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him." - John 3:14-15
In John 3, Jesus teaches that the strange story about a bronze snake in Numbers 21 points to him and his work of healing. Jesus saves us from sin and death.
The book of Numbers includes many stories about the Israelites' complaining to God as they trekked through the wilderness. In Numbers 21 they complain again about the food. And in this case God punishes them for their rebellion and disobedience.
Like many Bible stories, this one continues with a plea for forgiveness, and God provides a merciful response. But the response is very unusual. God says, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole. Then whoever looks at it can live."
The bronze snake that Moses made represented a sort of antidote to the venom of the snakes that were biting people. Looking to the bronze snake that was lifted up spared the people from death.
Jesus brought up this old story while he was teaching about the work he had come to do. Jesus came to save us from the death we brought on ourselves by sinning and rebelling against God. Lifted up on a cross for our sake, Jesus died to pay the price of our sin. And when we look up to Jesus in faith, believing in the power of his sacrifice to save, "we may have eternal life in him. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
Jesus, thank you that we can look to you in faith and be saved. Amen.
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