THE simplicity of Scripture is very striking. What grace to poor sinners that it is so! When the children of Israel sinned in the wilderness, God sent among them fiery serpents, which bit many of the people, and many died.
The people then came to Moses and owned their sin, and begged him to petition God to take away the serpents.
Moses immediately responded, and God as quickly answered him, and gave him a remedy. “Make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole, and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live.”
Now mark the result. Moses made a serpent of brass and set it upon a pole―
“And it came to pass that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived.”
How wonderful! How simple! But what has that to do with us? Just this. The Lord Jesus Christ said in John 3:14,15,14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:14‑15) “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.” Why? “That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Reader, if your sins are not forgiven, you are perishing. Death eternal stares you in the face. The bite of sin is fatal, and “all have sinned.” Before you cry, the remedy is found. Jesus was uplifted on the cross for you. Believe it and live. All are bitten. Many, oh, many are perishing eternally. Some have believed in Him and live. If you believe in Him you too shall live.
“What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Do you want to be LOST eternally? Then just go on living the careless, thoughtless life you are now leading until death suddenly removes you.
Do you want to be SAVED? Then come as you are, a poor guilty sinner, to the Lord Jesus Christ. But do it AT ONCE.