ProphetOfKek is correct both in the above comment and his/her reply to yours here.
Look up the story in Numbers chapter 21 in which Moses is told by God to craft a figure of a snake and put it on a tall stick so that when the people of Israel who had been bitten by poisonous serpents looked upon it, they would be healed.
They key is that they had to look to the serpent on the stick to be saved. If they had been bitten, but refused to look, they would die on their own.
This is a "type", "shadow", or "echo" of what Jesus would do in the future. Jesus represents the serpent, which at first seems highly controversial, but the imagery is not suggesting that Jesus is evil (referencing that it was the serpent that tempted Eve), but that Jesus is sin. Look to Jesus upon the cross to save you from your sin, because He died as sin.
Is ProphetOfKek's comment a cold harsh truth? Absolutely, but in today's world and with the dumpster fire that the Christian church is today, I think more of those very simple truths need to be put out there.
We are a church that has taken on the mantle of the Pharisees of Jesus day, to the point that I wonder if it is possible for Jesus to return in all His holy glory with 10,000saints behind him, and yet in such a manner that most would accuse Him of being a false messiah.
Unlikely, but we live in Clown World, and, frankly, we have a Clown Church at this point.
Jesus doesn’t have to die for your sins. You can do it yourself.
He did though. The Father willed it.
ProphetOfKek is correct both in the above comment and his/her reply to yours here.
Look up the story in Numbers chapter 21 in which Moses is told by God to craft a figure of a snake and put it on a tall stick so that when the people of Israel who had been bitten by poisonous serpents looked upon it, they would be healed.
They key is that they had to look to the serpent on the stick to be saved. If they had been bitten, but refused to look, they would die on their own.
This is a "type", "shadow", or "echo" of what Jesus would do in the future. Jesus represents the serpent, which at first seems highly controversial, but the imagery is not suggesting that Jesus is evil (referencing that it was the serpent that tempted Eve), but that Jesus is sin. Look to Jesus upon the cross to save you from your sin, because He died as sin.
Is ProphetOfKek's comment a cold harsh truth? Absolutely, but in today's world and with the dumpster fire that the Christian church is today, I think more of those very simple truths need to be put out there.
We are a church that has taken on the mantle of the Pharisees of Jesus day, to the point that I wonder if it is possible for Jesus to return in all His holy glory with 10,000saints behind him, and yet in such a manner that most would accuse Him of being a false messiah.
Unlikely, but we live in Clown World, and, frankly, we have a Clown Church at this point.