THE OBJECTIVE ASPECT OF LIFE--Part 5

The 3rd type of Christ, as The Son of Man to supply the need of His people, in our Earthly
Pilgrimage, foreshadowed the provision of The Priesthood-
Numbers 29;7-11-[Turn].

The Wilderness was the place, where the true character of the flesh, came into full view.
Israel was at the end of her Wilderness Journey, but, her flesh WAS UNCHANGED.
that which is born of the flesh, is flesh.

Now The 2nd Generation, committing the same sins, as they first did, 40 years before, just as soon as they left Egypt, by The Power of God, through The Red Sea, PROVES WE LEARN LITTLE
FROM HISTORY. [Hegel]

The 2nd Test of No Water, was to bring out THE PROVISION AND VALUE OF CHRIST'S
PRIESTHOOD, typified by Aaron.
There was no need to smite The Rock, one had to ONLY SPEAK TO IT--
These types were fulfilled in Christ in John 10 and 17.

In Hebrews 7, 10, The Priesthood is viewed in its perfect form--Melchisadek--Eternal Security
[The Holy Spirit]-9 sacrifices we offer daily.

FOURTH-THE BRASS SERPENT SYMBOLIZED THE PROVISION FOR REVEALING THE NATURE OF SIN IN GOD'S PEOPLE, AND ITS REMEDY.

In John 3;14-15, Christ was not telling Nicodemus, What he had to do, to be born from Above.
Neither did He quote a OT Passage that told A Redeemed People, how they could be born from Above.

The interpretation usually given, is that Christ likened Nicodemus to the dying Israelite, whose look of faith on The Brass Serpent, brought health and life.

Conversely, John 3;14-15 DOES NOT TELL What a passive sinner must do, to be born from
Above.
Conversion and Regeneration do not come in the same manner.
Regeneration is the act of The Holy Spirit on the passive sinner, by which He imparts The Principle of Life.
Whereas Conversion is the act of The Regenerated Sinner, by the power of The Indwelling Spirit of Life, to embrace Jesus Christ as Lord, through The Gospel Message.
This is the first conversion experience, and many will follow in The Christian Life.

Adam's Descendants have been infected with The Serpent's venom, so as to be called, A
Generation of Vipers [Matthew 23;33].

Original Sin DOES NOT LOSE Its fermentation, in The Redeemed.

By trials alone, the saints learn experientially, that the nature of sin NEVER CHANGES FOR THE BETTER, and that Sin, which brought The Death Sentence on all men, is alive in all men, even in The Elect, who have been delivered from Its Penalty.

Sin is not abolished in those who have been born from Above, but, It has been condemned.
Christians know the sin principle in them has been condemned;
they also know they have the last word, in the dialogue with Death-2 Timothy 1;10-[Turn].. .

The Brass Serpent foreshadowed Jesus Christ, as He was lifted up, on The Cross.
As The Serpent was a reminder of the curse, so the cross, on which Christ suffered reminds The
Elect, that He became a curse for us-[Galatians 3;13].

God condemned Sin, on The Crucified One, at The Cross.

Sin's heinous nature came by man, and deliverance from its guilt and its consequences, MUST ALSO COME BY THE MAN, WHO IS MORE THAN MAN, JESUS CHRIST, The God-Man.
The Kinsman Redeemer is the nearest relative, any person can have.

The Serpent symbolized the curse, caused by sin, and The Brass typified God's Judgment,
falling on The One, made a Sin Offering.

Deliverance was experienced by The Israelites' looking at The Brass Serpent, lifted upon a pole [Numbers 21], and Deliverance is experienced by Regenerated Sinners, looking at the objective Saviour, lifted up on the cross.

Numbers 21 clearly reveals that, at this point, in Israel's History, the people were characterized by overcoming their enemies.
Their enemies represent the fleshly principles, which are opposed to that, which is spiritual, in God's people.

GOD NEVER PURPOSED to bring His people into what His Love desires, until we have learned the fight we must wage, to gain the spiritual height, that pleases Him.

Spiritual life is in The Risen Saviour;
therefore, it is outside of the life, in the flesh, because, believers live in The Sphere of The
Resurrection, since we've been raised by God's Grace [Colossians 3;1].

The bite of the serpent is the Divine Conviction of what the flesh truly is, in the source of its being.
God's design is to bring His people, to judge the root of our problem, the principle of sin, that remains in us, AFTER OUR REGENERATION, AND CONVERSION.

[We will continue on the brass serpent, in our next post].