DEADLY BITE< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:1-21

A deadly bite can be devastating and fatal indeed and in truth. A deadly bite is a sin, generated and it has its entire root from sin and sinning to the name of God. Today you want to look up to God for His goodness and mercy in every area that a deadly bite has taken place in your marriage, and finances, in your health, and the life of the children that God has placed in your care. A deadly bite is the result of sin and sinning against God. The children of Israel in one of their consistent rebellious act of complaining in getting everything they needed, they positioned themselves for a deadly bite. In the case of their deadly bite, it was complaining against the quality of bread provided for them by the Almighty God. Numbers 21:5, ÒAnd the people spoke against God and against Moses: ÒWhy have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.Ó They have complained for lack of water and bread a number of times, but this time around they were complaining against the quality of the provision of food by calling GodÕs provision worthless. Indeed a worthless complaint will bring forth a death that is not worth it. This type of complaining provoked the hand of God, ÒSo the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.Ó (Numbers 21:6) Do you complain in any way before God? It is a deadly way of approaching God for needs do not take to the way of complaints directly or indirectly. The way out of a deadly bite was faith-based prescription. The children of Israel cried out for deliverance, ÒThen the LORD said to Moses, ÒMake a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.Ó (Numbers 21:8) The healing and deliverance from a deadly bite requires looking up at the hanged up serpent on the pole. Just as there was a provision for healing in looking up to the pole of the bronze serpent, so we have been provided healing and deliverance by looking up at the cross. John 3:14, ÒAnd as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.Ó He was lifted up for our healing and deliverance only if we would look up at Him. There is no foolishness in looking up, but foolishness is achieved by taking a stand of not obeying the command of proven evidences in the infallible proofs of the name of Jesus. Remember you cannot be foolish to GodÕs command, ÒBecause the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.Ó (1 Corinthians 1:25) You must believe and look up to Jesus.