<TITLE>06. Par 31-35</TITLE>L-31 God is under obligation to His Word. Peter said on the Day of Pentecost, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." That's the Scripture, just as clear as I know how to read it.
If you repented and are baptized, then God's under obligation, if your faith is right towards God to give you the Holy Ghost the minute that you obey His Word. Believe that. God will vindicate it to you.
If your heart's really right before God, and you're taught right, and believing it, and walk up there with the assurance, something's going to happen, 'cause God's more willing to give you the Holy Ghost than you are willing to accept It.

L-32 Now, let's go just a little farther with it. And now, when Moses went and talked to God... Said, "God, what's going to do about this?"
Watch the Holy Spirit, quickly. Said, "Go make a serpent out of brass, and put it on a pole, and lift it up in the midst of Israel. And it'll come to pass, that ever who looks upon this serpent, believes, will be made well of their diseases."

L-33 Now first thing, the brass and the pole, the serpent, is formed and everything spoke of Jesus Christ. Jesus, talking to Nicodemus, said, "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up for the same purpose."
Now, what was the first thing they done? The first thing the people had did, was that they disputed with God. They had sinned. That's the reason that the serpents bit them, and the wisdom of the Egyptian doctors, that they had with them, could not heal the snakebite, because it was a Divine thing. So now, God, knowing if He could get rid of sin, He would get rid of sickness. So he made the serpent.

L-34 The serpent, the first place, represented sin already judged from the garden of Eden, the serpent that his legs was taken off.
The brass represented Divine judgment, as a brazen altar, and--and the brass skies in the days of--of Elijah, when Ahab had ruled the country so long.
And the pole represented the cross. Everything represented Christ. Why did He foreshow that? God, in the beginning, He was only letting the children of Israel draw interest on what He was going to do. See?
In the mind of God, Christ was already crucified. For He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Back in Eden, Christ in God's thoughts, which became His Word, had not yet materialized. But He knew it was, for He had promised it. And He let the children of Israel draw interest before the deposit was made. So to show that it was, Him knowing what was going to be, He made something here that represented... So through the serpent, they could see what was going to happen, and through that, they received healing.

L-35 When they could get rid of sin, you've got to get healing. Oh, my. That makes the Methodists feel good, doesn't it?...?... Look. Get rid of the cause, and you got the cure already. Drawing interest...
And if God in His infinite mind, foreknowing that hundreds of years later that Jesus would die on a cross, and made sin for us, be crucified, and let Israel be healed by the phenomenal before Christ was crucified, how much more will He after Christ is crucified? If that was the type, how much more by the antitype? How much greater program have we today than what Moses had?
And yet when Moses come out of the wilderness, there wasn't a feeble one among them. Forty years, Doctor Moses... I imagine if there's a doctor here tonight, you'd like to have some of his prescription.


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