Episode Transcript
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Brothers and sisters,
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let us glory in the Cross.
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I put to you that the Cross
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and brazen serpent are alike.
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The Israelites, while in the desert,
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lost their patience with God.
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Straying from the right path, so to speak,
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they were plagued with snake bite.
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God instructed Moses
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to forge a brazen serpent.
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When Israel looked at the serpent,
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the venom was negated.
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In the case of the brazen serpent,
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venom was healed by a non-venomous serpent.
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In the case of the Cross,
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our sin, our straying,
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was healed by the Son of Man’s obedience unto death.
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Therefore, when you or I start to lose our patience,
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and stray from the right path,
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let us look upon the Cross.
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So that, our impatience
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might be healed by looking upon patience,
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patience that was exalted at the Ascension.
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Brothers and sisters,
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let us glory in the Cross.
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I said that the brazen serpent
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was like the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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to whom be glory and honour for ever and ever.
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Amen.
