When we Repent for being Serpentine we are Qualified to Enjoy Christ as Eternal Life

Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself. John 12:31-32

The Lord Jesus as the Son of Man was lifted up in the form of the serpent on the cross to bear the judgment for the serpent-poisoned people; if we repent of our serpentine nature and believe into Him, He becomes our Substitute and we enjoy eternal … [Continue reading]

Christ came as the reality of the Bronze Serpent and Destroyed Satan on the Cross

Who Himself bore up our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose bruise you were healed. 1 Pet. 2:24

Christ came as the reality of the bronze serpent; He was lifted up on the cross, and we - the serpent-bitten men, those who became serpentine in nature - can look at Him and not die but live! Hallelujah! This week in our deeper study of the book of … [Continue reading]

Being Open Vessels to the Lord and Closing our Vessel toward Death and Defilement

Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. Rom. 3:24

Defilement is unavoidable, but we can learn to close our vessel toward death and defilement, and we can open our vessel toward the Lord! The redemption that Christ has accomplished on the cross is eternally effective and always available for us to … [Continue reading]

Allow the Holy Spirit to Apply the Efficacy of Christ’s Redemption to us to Cleanse us

In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the riches of His grace. Eph. 1:7

Whenever we, the people of God, become unclean and impure because of our contact with death, we need to experience the water of impurity, that is, we need to apply the efficacy of Christ's redemption by the sprinkling of the Holy Spirit as the living … [Continue reading]

Praise the Lord for the Eternal and Unchanging Efficacy of the Lord’s Redemption!

...Through His own blood, entered once for all into the Holy of Holies, obtaining an eternal redemption. Heb. 9:12

Praise the Lord for the eternal and unchanging efficacy of the Lord's redemption, the most stable thing in the universe, which can be applied to us today and at any time in the future to cleanse us from sin and uncleanness! Amen! The ashes of the … [Continue reading]

The High and Dignified Christ became Lowly as a Man and Terminated the Sins of All Creation

But emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men. Phil. 2:7

How we thank and praise the Lord that, as the high and dignified Christ with a resurrected, ascended, glorified, and honored humanity, He was willing to be lowly, becoming in the likeness of men, so that He may be near man and deal with sin and … [Continue reading]

We can Enjoy and Experience the Redeeming Christ as the reality of the Red Heifer

...God, sending His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Rom. 8:3

The red heifer, the principal component of the water for impurity, signifies the redeeming Christ, for He is the reality of all the offerings and in particular as the redeeming One He can remove the defilement of death. The context of Numbers 19, … [Continue reading]