<TITLE>09. Par 23-25</TITLE>L-23 Now, what price did it take to get us? We're going to speak of it through judgment. Now, let's turn to "as Moses lifted up the brass serpent." He said, "in the wilderness..." Just the same reason that Moses lifted up the brass serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Now, Moses lift up the brass serpent for a compound purpose; that was because they were grumbling. And another thing, they were sick. And then that would bring in Divine healing right there for the children of Israel.
Exodus... Let's get the Numbers, about 21, and find out if that isn't a better--a better thing of it...?... Numbers 21 here. I had my slip laying right on it, happened to be: Numbers 21. And let's notice here just for a few moments, how that the children of Israel starting on their journey: perfect type of the church today, making its a way to the glory land. Don't you believe that we're each day, gaining a little ground as we go along? Building a campfire on a new ground every night, I feel just a little closer than I did yesterday, I believe, don't you? Just building a new campfire each night: moving on up.

L-24 Israel, as long as they were journeying, they were going towards the promised land. After while, they become murmurers and complainers because they failed to receive God in His great form of power.
Oh, I love to kinda brag just a little bit here, if you'll excuse it on the tabernacle, the strangers and so forth. You're one of us; we don't have any difference here: just all one here in Christ. We just love one another.
Now, how that we have tried to stand for the full Gospel, the supernatural. If God says He does a certain thing, He's God the Creator, we accept it; we believe it. When God does something, we say, "Yes, sir." And we believe that the Scriptures are not to be tampered with or translate and say, "Well, it didn't mean that exactly now." We believe It means just exactly what It says. We just don't fool with it at all: say, "That's it." If my faith won't come up to it, well, that's my fault. It's a--it's not God's fault.

L-25 Now, the children of Israel in their journey, they were--didn't have very far to go. They could've really walked it in a week if they'd just had went on. But what got in their road was their grumblings and complaining. God had worked with them.
And then, when they went over into the promised land, they taken one out of every tribe, which was the twelve tribes. And two of them come back, which was Joshua and Caleb, and said, "We can take the land."
But ten of them come back and said, "It's too much. We just can't do it because the people are too great, and their--their cities are all walled in, and we're just like grasshoppers in their sight, so we can't do it." And they were then at the place called "Kadesh-barnea."
Kadesh-barnea was once the judgment seat of the world. There's a great spring and many little springs lead off from it, which is a perfect type again: Christ the Big Spring, the church, the little spring, off from Christ, the judgment seat.
Judgment begins at the house of God. Here's where we are judged. And isn't it a pity that when we see that we're wrong and doing the wrong thing, living the wrong kind of life, associating wrong and everything, that we're just not big enough to walk up and say, "God, I'm sorry, I--I--I'm the one's wrong. You're right and I'm wrong, and You forgive me and help me to do better the next time." If we's just that--that real about ourselves. But we don't. We hear the Gospel preached and we say, "Oh, well, I don't even believe it that way."


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