0:01 in our continued study of Jesus in the
0:03 Old Testament tonight we're going to be
0:06 looking at one of the strangest types or
0:08 representations I think of Jesus Christ
0:12 is a bronze serpent a serpent on a pole
0:14 that was identified by Jesus himself as
0:18 being related to Jesus and his work on
0:23 the cross this raises a lot of questions
0:24 and we're gonna try and answer those
0:26 questions because in those questions and
0:28 the answers to those questions I think
0:30 we learned a lot about typology and how
0:33 to see Jesus in the Old Testament I'm
0:34 very excited getting into the series
0:36 because what's gonna happen over the
0:38 course of many weeks is we're gonna
0:40 stockpile all of these examples of types
0:43 and it's gonna I think make us pretty
0:47 good at finding these types of Christ on
0:50 our own throughout the Old Testament so
0:54 so here we go I've titled this study in
0:56 my own notes nahusha 10 so if you wanted
0:59 to I'll explain that later but now who
1:02 should Dan it's a fun fun Hebrew word so
1:05 in John chapter 3 we actually see Jesus
1:06 bringing this up so here's a little
1:07 intro to this from the words of Jesus in
1:10 John three verses 14 and 15 he's
1:11 speaking to Nicodemus here and he says
1:15 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
1:18 wilderness so must the Son of Man be
1:20 lifted up that whoever believes in Him
1:24 may have eternal life and so he that's
1:26 that's where Jesus relates this so
1:27 everything I'm about to share with you
1:29 is based on the fact that our Lord
1:31 Himself said that this was related to
1:32 him somehow
1:35 and this is built of course on the
1:37 foundation that Jesus also said that
1:39 this was what was meant by the Old
1:41 Testament right this isn't just him
1:43 grabbing an example saying hey here's an
1:45 analogy of me but we also have Jesus
1:46 telling people that all of the Old
1:48 Testaments about him that that was the
1:50 original design so we're looking at it
1:51 from that perspective so here's some of
1:53 the questions I'll try to answer today
1:56 is Jesus comparing himself to a serpent
1:58 because that's what really strikes
2:00 people is odd is Jesus comparing himself
2:02 to a serpent which would normally we
2:04 would think of as a satanic type thing
2:07 and if so why what is the point there
2:10 also what specific points does the New
2:12 Testament say correspond to Christ in
2:13 some way like we'll just
2:15 start by saying what are the things
2:18 Jesus says this piece of the story
2:19 relates to this thing that I'm doing
2:21 like what are the exact connections the
2:24 parallels and then we'll ask this are
2:26 there additional points that aren't laid
2:28 out in the text but by studying the two
2:31 passages we can find them on our own so
2:32 that's kind of like where we get a
2:34 little bit of creativity going on
2:36 hopefully we're not fabricating things
2:37 but we're we're discovering them for
2:42 ourselves and then are there principles
2:44 that I can learn from the way that this
2:46 is a type of Christ so there's a bronze
2:47 serpent this is a somehow type of Christ
2:49 can I learn some principles from this
2:51 that will help me find my own types and
2:53 then finally because I want to
2:55 incorporate the theology of typology
2:57 after we do all that we're gonna add
3:00 answer the question of can we learn new
3:04 theology from types can we learn new
3:06 theology from types so this is a
3:08 question about how we approach typology
3:11 in the first place so that that will
3:13 come after we do the type itself so here
3:14 we go um the two passages we're gonna be
3:17 in is numbers 21 and John 3 those are
3:19 our two chief passages tonight so let's
3:21 start in verse 21 we're gonna look at
3:23 verses 4 through 9 this is this is the
3:25 scenario they very short short story
3:28 where this bronze serpent comes up
3:30 pretty much without explanation it's
3:32 like this is what happened and then many
3:33 years later Jesus relates it to himself
3:36 so here's the story numbers 21 verse 4
3:38 it's speaking of the wanderings of
3:41 Israel after they left Egypt and now
3:42 they're in the wilderness on their way
3:44 toward the promised land and in numbers
3:47 21 4 it says from mount hor they set out
3:50 by way of the Red Sea to go around the
3:52 land of Edom and the people became
3:54 impatient on the way it's a it was a
3:56 journey that was made unnecessarily long
3:59 because they couldn't go through Edom
4:01 they had to go around eat them because
4:02 of conflict that would arise if they
4:05 tried to go through so the people become
4:08 impatient and the people verse 5 spoke
4:11 against God and against Moses and they
4:13 said why have you brought us up out of
4:15 Egypt to die in the wilderness for
4:17 there's no food and no water and we
4:21 loathe this worthless food and let me
4:22 just point out they're talking about the
4:25 manna the manna right the manna bread
4:27 and the manicotti
4:30 and they whatever you know fill in the
4:32 fill in the the blank there or whatever
4:35 manda burgers whatever you want to call
4:40 it manna tacos so they they're
4:42 complaining about even the which just
4:44 shows you the level of complaint because
4:46 God is providing them with the bread
4:48 from heaven so to speak a different type
4:50 of Christ which we'll get into in a
4:52 future time and they're complaining and
4:53 griping about it they're complaining it
4:56 says against God and Moses now it sounds
4:57 like they're just complaining against
4:59 Moses but the text tells us that their
5:00 complaining was really also against God
5:04 and then in verse 6 the Lord sent fiery
5:06 serpents among the people and they bit
5:09 the people so that many many people of
5:12 Israel died so God's not not cool with that
5:12 that
5:15 he sends fiery serpents that word fiery
5:16 is actually a bit of a challenge when
5:19 they're translating it it could mean the
5:20 word fiery actually you could translate
5:24 it serif does that sound familiar serif
5:26 I wouldn't I could say you could not
5:28 translate it and say it's serif because
5:29 that's the Hebrew word for a type of
5:32 angelic being but it's also clearly a
5:34 word used to determine to represent a
5:36 serpent so it's called a fiery serpent
5:38 some translations would say flying
5:41 serpent it probably in this context it's
5:42 definitely not talking about spiritual
5:45 creatures it's it's talking I won't go
5:46 through the whole study I came through
5:48 to get to this conclusion but it's
5:50 talking clearly about the actual snakes
5:52 or serpents themselves there this word
5:53 is probably being used about them
5:56 because of either their color they had a
5:58 particular bright coloring so they're
6:00 called these fiery shining type things
6:03 or because of the sting of their bite
6:04 when they bit you the poison burned and
6:06 you felt it like it was burning you so
6:10 their fiery so then this goes on the
6:12 Lord sent fiery serpents among the
6:13 people and they bit the people so that
6:15 many of the people of Israel died and
6:18 the people came to Moses and said we
6:20 have sinned for we have spoken against
6:22 the Lord and against you pray to the
6:24 Lord that he take away the Serpent's
6:25 from us so Moses prayed for the people
6:28 and the Lord said to Moses make a fiery
6:31 Serpent and set it on a pole and
6:33 everyone who was bitten when he sees it
6:36 shall live so Moses made a bronze
6:39 Serpent and set it on a pole and if a
6:40 servant bit anyone he would look at
6:45 a bronze serpent and live now this isn't
6:46 related to the type but it's in the
6:47 passage - let me just draw our attention
6:50 to it the judgment that that's coming
6:52 upon them is because of their rebellion
6:53 in their unbelief and there's a lesson
6:56 for us in this the rebellion was
6:58 manifested specifically by them
7:00 complaining and having a doom and gloom
7:05 attitude about their lives and I think
7:07 that we should take note of this because
7:11 sometimes we we over spiritual eyes some
7:13 things and we under special eyes others
7:15 and maybe we under spiritual eyes our
7:17 griping and complaining and it's
7:19 possible that our complaining is not
7:21 just our I'm just getting it off my
7:24 chest or I'm just venting I mean
7:25 couldn't the Israelites have just said
7:28 Oh Moses were just venting as they get
7:30 bitten and died I guess because it shows
7:32 how God felt about this so we have to be
7:34 cautious and guard our hearts it's not
7:36 as though you can never bring your
7:38 complaint to the Lord because you can so
7:39 I don't think we should to go too far
7:41 with this truth but at least absorb it
7:43 into our lives that there's a type of
7:45 complaining that says God I'm not
7:46 trusting your plan for my life I'm not
7:48 trusting your provision for my future
7:50 and I'm dis disregarding or even
7:53 disdaining what you have provided for me
7:56 today this worthless bread I'm just
7:57 spitting in the face of what God has
7:59 given me so guard your heart cuz
8:01 complaining can reveal it a very
8:03 spiritual a very genuine spiritual issue
8:05 but what happens next is the people
8:06 repent after they're bitten and many of
8:07 them die they start repenting that's in
8:09 verse 7 and they admit it we've we
8:10 sinned against God we've sinned against
8:12 Moses they fully admit what they did and
8:15 they asked Moses to do what to pray for
8:19 them Moses this is a side this is just a
8:20 bonus for you we're not doing Moses
8:23 today but Moses is a type of Christ and
8:24 one of the ways he is is that he
8:27 intercedes for the people on behalf of
8:28 the people he goes to God interceding
8:32 for them so he goes and he prays for
8:34 them and then the scenario is the people
8:37 are doomed and the bronze serpent is
8:39 made the bronze serpent is set on a pole
8:41 these are just the data points we're
8:43 gonna then apply to Jesus the bronze
8:45 serpent said on a pole and the solution
8:48 is look at it and you'll be okay just
8:51 look at it
8:54 so let me answer a quick question before
8:57 we move on to the words of Jesus is this
8:59 idolatry is Moses building an idol
9:01 because this is what honestly this is
9:02 what often times liberal scholars do
9:05 they'll grab a passage like this and
9:07 they'll go you can see that idolatry was
9:11 still happening within the people this
9:12 is a little bit laughable because this
9:14 sort of scholarship only works on people
9:16 who don't actually read the Bible right
9:18 because you know if you read the text of
9:19 Scripture that the Bible is very clearly
9:22 against idolatry from page one from in
9:24 the beginning God created heavens in the
9:25 earth when you compare that to the other
9:27 creation accounts of other peoples at
9:32 that time so no it's not idolatry on
9:33 some people that want to take one
9:35 passage pull it out of context use it to
9:37 attack the Bible with it but it's just
9:39 this is just the twisting of the Bible
9:40 the same way cults do it where you grab
9:42 a passage use it to say what you want
9:44 except in this case they want to say
9:46 unbelief and so they they use the Bible
9:48 like that second kings 18:4
9:50 this same bronze serpent pops up again
9:52 in the scripture and the problem is now
9:54 it actually has become an idol you see
9:56 they're not worshiping it and Moses this
9:58 time there's you're just you look at it
10:00 you live that's it end of story
10:02 it wasn't wrong to just make artistic
10:03 works there was nothing wrong with that
10:05 the temple was full of artistic works
10:07 representations of angels and different
10:08 pomegranates and things like that
10:12 mmm pomegranates I like pomegranates but
10:14 second kings 18:4 what happens is
10:16 they've begun to worship this thing as
10:18 an idol and so one of the kings of
10:19 Israel comes up and they're having a
10:21 revival and he clears out the land of a
10:23 shuras and he destroys the high places
10:26 and he takes the bronze serpent which
10:27 they've turned into an idol and he
10:29 breaks it into pieces and they call it
10:33 nahusha tan which means a thing of brass
10:36 now this is the biblical worldview see
10:38 the unbelievers of the time would have
10:39 seen an idol and they thought oh there's
10:40 some sort of spiritual significance to
10:42 this this image and this there's like a
10:44 there's like a spirit in it or upon it
10:46 but the king of Israel that king of
10:48 Israel knows the Word of God and he says
10:53 it's a thing of brass you dummies it's a
10:54 piece of brass like when Isaiah mocks
10:56 the idols and he goes with with some of
10:58 the tree you make anion with the other
11:03 you burn it hello McFly like gods like
11:04 try to get their attention
11:07 the folly of idolatry and so that's very
11:09 consistent in the scriptures and and the
11:11 second Kings eighteen passage kind of
11:13 supports that so now let's look at Jesus
11:16 in John John chapter three and we'll
11:17 look at the specific context of his
11:20 conversation with Nicodemus and how this
11:22 thing relates to him and it will ask
11:24 some tough questions that should give us
11:27 good insights so John chapter 3 verse 13
11:30 it says no one has ascended into heaven
11:33 except he who descended from heaven the
11:36 Son of man and as Moses lifted up the
11:38 serpent in the wilderness so must the
11:40 Son of Man be lifted up that whoever
11:42 believes in Him may have eternal life
11:46 for God so loved the world that He gave
11:48 His only Son that whoever believes in
11:50 Him should not perish but have eternal
11:53 life so the context is where he's
11:55 telling Nicodemus you've got to be born
11:57 again if you're gonna enter into the
11:58 kingdom of heaven
11:59 you got to be born again if you're gonna
12:02 see it and then he's explaining to him
12:04 how this is gonna happen and he talks
12:05 about his mission right he talks in
12:08 verse 13 how he's from heaven and he
12:10 said no one's able to go to heaven to
12:13 access God but he's come from heaven and
12:15 how will he achieve our salvation he'll
12:17 be lifted up you guys already know what
12:19 this is talking about this is talking
12:21 about the cross this is talking about
12:23 his death on the cross but what you
12:25 might not know is how much John in the
12:27 Gospel of John actually talks about that
12:30 with the phrase lifted up so that that
12:33 phrase lifted up is the Greek Hoopa Oh
12:35 kupah oh that's a it's a good name for a
12:37 kid if you want just throwing it out
12:40 there but it means to lift up or like
12:42 physically or metaphorically to exalt
12:45 and so sometimes it's actually used in a
12:46 very positive sense like you're being
12:48 exalted like when I say i exalt you
12:51 lords like i Hoopa or just koopa oh
12:54 because it means i exalt it's it's a
12:57 Greek thing or I am exhausting
12:59 technically so it means to lift up or it
13:00 means to exalt and there's these two
13:02 different senses now normally in the
13:05 scripture there's 12 uses of exalt like
13:08 this kupah Oh in Matthew Luke acts
13:10 second Corinthians James and first Peter
13:12 and every time it's used in the
13:14 metaphorical sense to lift up is like to
13:17 exalt but in John there's four uses of
13:18 the word
13:20 and every time it's a reference in a
13:22 physical sense in a physical literal
13:25 sense and it specifically always relates
13:28 to the cross so John is clearly talking
13:29 about the cross Jesus is in this passage
13:32 so let me give you the examples of the
13:33 same word lifted up because lifted up
13:35 seems like a generic phrase right
13:36 why should I really assume this is about
13:40 the cross well John 8:28 and says and
13:42 Jesus said to them when you have lifted
13:45 up the Son of man same word then you
13:47 will know that I am he and that I do
13:49 nothing on my own authority but speak
13:52 just as the father taught me so he goes
13:54 when you've lifted me up how would they
13:56 how would they know who he is
13:57 like they'd know his identity they get
14:00 who he was when they lifted him up and
14:01 there's a couple ways this happens I
14:02 think the you don't separate the
14:04 crucifixion from the resurrection and so
14:06 that the death and resurrection stands
14:08 like as a testimony to who Jesus really
14:09 was like that's when the light bulb went
14:11 on for people for most people but some
14:13 the light bulb went on when he was
14:16 crucified and Jesus did something he did
14:17 this cool rabbi thing when he was on the
14:20 cross a rabbi would traditionally quote
14:23 the beginning of a passage to load the
14:25 passage in the mind of his students
14:28 right so I could do this I could say I'm
14:29 gonna talk about Genesis 1 well I didn't
14:31 call it by chapters back then I would
14:34 just say in the passage in the beginning
14:35 God created the heavens and the earth
14:37 and you start going oh yeah yeah this
14:39 was out from a void okay day 1 he
14:40 creates light then it's like okay and
14:42 you start kind of loading the passage in
14:44 your mind well that's how they would do
14:46 it back then and Jesus on the cross
14:49 cries out my God my God why have you
14:53 forsaken me and he quotes Psalm 22 verse
14:56 1 this messianic crucifixion chapter
14:58 written before crucifixion was invented
14:59 and it's like they're on the cross for
15:01 the student of scripture who sees him
15:03 and they go pierced my hands and feet
15:06 like dogs they've surrounded me the
15:07 congregation of the wicked has enclosed
15:11 me oh well and they start thinking of
15:12 the passage itself like they're gambling
15:14 from like clothing and casting Lots from
15:17 so the light bulb was going on beginning
15:18 at the moment of his crucifixion I think
15:20 that's kind of I don't know kind of
15:22 exciting I think it's just cool you know
15:23 it's neat
15:25 God just like pulls the veil off you
15:27 know goes ha ha like that's what I was
15:28 doing that whole time
15:32 and so the next passage is John 12
15:34 verses 31 through 34 we get the word
15:36 lifted up twice used twice in this
15:41 passage so John 12:31 it says here Jesus
15:43 speaking he says now is the judgment of
15:46 this world and now the ruler of this
15:48 world will be cast out speaking of Satan
15:51 and went and I when I am lifted up from
15:52 the earth there's that word lifted up
15:55 will draw all people to myself he said
15:57 this to show by what kind of death he
15:59 was going to die so clearly this is a
16:01 crucifixion he's talking about lifted up
16:04 and in the crowd they get it they so the
16:05 crowd answered him we've heard from the
16:08 law that the Christ remains forever how
16:10 can you say that the Son of Man must be
16:13 lifted up who is this son of man so from
16:15 their Jewish perspective they're
16:17 thinking we expect Messiah when he
16:19 arrives to just stay and reign forever
16:21 right this is he's gonna reign forever
16:25 so maybe Jesus is saying that the Son of
16:26 Man is different than the Messiah and
16:28 the Son of Man is this character that
16:30 will die but the Christ he's gonna
16:31 remain forever so they're confused they
16:33 don't understand that there's two
16:35 comings of Christ he dies and he reigns
16:38 forever both are true but clearly the
16:40 point is clearly they knew what Jesus
16:43 meant when he said when I lifted up they
16:45 understood the context of this this was
16:46 about him
16:49 being crucified hmm finally there's John
16:53 1832 that supports this it says this was
16:54 to fulfill the word that Jesus had
16:56 spoken to show by what kind of death he
17:00 was going to die so throughout John we
17:01 have these multiple places where Jesus
17:03 were first himself being lifted up this
17:05 refers to the crucifixion and so it does
17:08 in John 3 so in John 3 when Jesus says
17:11 as the serpent was lifted up so the Son
17:14 of Man must be lifted up so as the
17:15 servant was put on a pole the Son of man
17:19 must be placed on the cross so lifted up
17:21 is clearly about the cross and can I
17:23 draw us to one other interesting passage
17:25 I'll give you a moment to turn there
17:28 because it's too cool so Isaiah 52 verse
17:31 13 we all know Isaiah 53 is the
17:33 messianic passage right or it's the
17:35 suffering servant passage but some
17:36 people don't realize it actually starts
17:40 in 52 isaiah 52:13 is the first verse of
17:41 that section
17:49 of that section of Isaiah this is a this
17:51 is a really neat passage totally relates
17:55 to what we're talking about today and it
17:58 says behold my servant shall act wisely
18:02 he shall be high and lifted up and shall
18:04 be exalted
18:06 the interesting thing is you would think
18:09 in isolation isaiah 52:13 is saying that
18:11 jesus will be exalted like purely in the
18:14 metaphorical sense but it says he'll be
18:15 high he'll be lifted up and he'll be
18:19 exalted and Jesus is both in the
18:21 physical and the literal sense but as
18:24 isaiah 52:13 as you continue reading it
18:26 says behold look my servant he'll be
18:28 high lifted up and exalted and then it
18:31 describes all the shame and pain and
18:34 suffering he goes through for the rest
18:35 of the chapter and on all the way
18:39 through the next chapter of Isaiah he'll
18:40 be lifted up and what does that mean how
18:42 will the how will the servant of God be
18:44 lifted up oh well he'll be bruised for
18:46 our transgressions wounded because of
18:48 our sins he's gonna bear the
18:50 chastisement of our peace right well all
18:52 we like sheep have gone astray but he'll
18:55 he'll bear the sin and the consequence
18:57 of all the sins of mankind of all of us
19:02 so what we're looking at here as we do
19:03 it especially to do Jesus in the Old
19:05 Testament is just the consistency of the
19:07 scriptures in talking about this theme
19:09 of Christ and who he is and what he
19:11 would do so it's kind of a poetic irony
19:15 that the term lifted up is used to
19:18 represent the most shameful moment but
19:20 at the same time the moment in all of
19:22 history where God's love and grace was
19:25 most exalted that we look I mean
19:29 Christians literally take a torturing
19:30 murder device and put it on the walls of
19:33 their churches because we see it as the
19:35 moment where Jesus was lifted up both
19:39 physically and exalted we see it as
19:41 God's left so it's a beautiful thing so
19:43 lifted up clearly about the cross now
19:46 let's talk about this serpent how
19:47 relates to the serpent the serpent was
19:49 lifted up on a wooden pole Jesus was
19:53 lifted up on a wooden cross on a wooden cross
19:54 cross
19:58 I think galatians 3:13 brings a little
19:59 bit information to this as well it says
20:01 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the
20:05 law by becoming a curse for us for it is
20:06 written cursed is everyone who is
20:07 hanging on a tree
20:10 here's another you might say type of
20:11 Christ but I think this is a different
20:13 kind of type a little bonus one for you
20:15 tonight I can't help it but they kind of
20:16 come in here as we're studying when we
20:20 get more but turn to Deuteronomy 21 as
20:23 we're putting this all together we're
20:24 seeing the significance of the Cross
20:26 itself as it was it was called a tree
20:28 and it was fair to call things a tree
20:31 this is not this isn't cheating it was
20:32 fair to call things a tree that were not
20:34 living trees it was but it was wood it
20:39 was the wood from a tree so Galatians
20:40 3:13 you're on your way to Deuteronomy
20:43 21 violations 3:13 right it says Christ
20:45 became a curse for us and then it says
20:46 it's written cursed is everyone who
20:48 hangs on a tree well here is the passage
20:50 in the law that says that cursed is
20:52 anyone who hangs on a tree and I think a
20:53 lot of times people don't understand
20:57 this passage Deuteronomy 21 verse 22 it
20:58 says and if a man has committed a crime
21:01 punishable by death and he's put to
21:03 death and you hang him on a tree his
21:05 body shall not remain all night on the
21:08 tree but you shall bury him the same day
21:11 for a hanged man is cursed by God you
21:13 shall not defile your land that the Lord
21:14 your God has given you for an
21:18 inheritance no man I'm gonna explain why
21:20 this is a type of Christ in some sense
21:24 but first when you see hanged you tend
21:28 to think a noose but that's not what
21:32 they mean they mean hanged like I hung a
21:34 picture on the wall I just I fixed
21:36 something to something else it was
21:39 hanged it was supported not from being
21:40 standing but being from being attached
21:42 to something else that's the idea of
21:44 being hanged on a tree but in
21:47 Deuteronomy 21 this is not where the law
21:49 is prescribing killing somebody by
21:51 hanging them rather what was the Old
21:53 Testament way of carrying the capital
21:57 punishment stoning so in Deuteronomy 21
21:59 it's saying if you kill them as in
22:01 they've been stoned and then you hang
22:04 them on a tree as a way of displaying
22:07 the person who is stoned and
22:10 was brought under the curse of the law
22:12 the Curt what's the curse of the law
22:15 you sin you die that's the curse of the
22:18 law and so then they they they send to
22:20 the point of death to the point of the
22:22 death penalty they experience the death
22:24 penalty they're placed on a tree but
22:26 gods like I don't want in Israel the
22:28 person to sit on the tree or on the
22:30 pieces of wood or whatever for days and
22:32 weeks and months which is something that
22:35 was not uncommon in those other cultures
22:37 to display the the people who had
22:39 rebelled against the culture or I bailed
22:40 against the government to display their
22:41 bodies for long periods of time God goes
22:43 I don't want that that person has been
22:45 cursed I don't want it to be displaying
22:48 that take them down after a day seems
22:50 innocuous right until you realize it's
22:54 all about Jesus and you go Jesus this
22:57 whole cursed hanged on a tree cursed by
22:59 God it relates to the fact that Jesus
23:01 takes the curse of all of mankind upon
23:03 himself and there he is hanging on a
23:05 tree and there's this text in the Old
23:06 Testament to help us understand the
23:09 theological implications Jesus became a
23:13 curse for us he became a curse it says
23:15 in Galatians curse it is everyone who's
23:17 hanging on a tree now that that's a
23:19 whole different kind of typology right
23:21 that's like this is conceptual typology
23:23 I don't know what else to call it where
23:25 you read the Old Testament law and you
23:26 realize that some of the laws that make
23:29 you go oh I wonder what that's about
23:31 they sometimes relate to Christ and
23:34 connect to this New Testament reality so
23:37 um I can't help but think and I need a
23:39 better analogy than this I know I do but
23:40 you guys remember the old Karate Kid
23:42 movie back in the day when daniel-san
23:44 was being trained by mr. Miyagi and mr.
23:46 Miyagi he's supposed to be training him
23:48 in karate but instead he tells him you
23:52 know wax the car wax on wax off right
23:54 and paint the fence and he's really like
23:55 strict about it you can't just like
23:57 paint the fit no no paint defense oh you
23:59 got a pink defense like this and then
24:01 just some other job he does where he's
24:02 did something like I don't know what he
24:03 was doing with that but he's there's
24:04 some reason why he was doing this and
24:07 mr. Miyagi at one point when Danielson
24:08 is really mad why don't you teach him a
24:13 karate mr. Danielson or mr. Johnson mr.
24:17 Miyagi attacks Daniel and he tells them
24:20 to paint the fence and to wax the car as
24:22 self-defense from the
24:24 whoa I know karate right was like.he
24:26 honor he's gonna I know kung-fu like he
24:27 suddenly is aware that he's got these
24:32 skills and the thing is mr. Miyagi gave
24:34 him these like repetitive things that
24:36 would then relate to real-life karate
24:38 although I'm not saying that you can
24:40 really learn karate but painting fences
24:42 it's a story but the analogy to
24:44 Scripture is there God gives them these
24:46 rules and these policies and these
24:48 pictures and these type ologies so that
24:50 when it comes to Jesus it's not totally
24:54 new information instead it's like oh oh
24:56 I get it
24:59 oh I understand the light bulb goes on
25:01 so that's kind of like the conceptual
25:04 typology um so the Serpent's lifted up
25:05 on a pole back to the serpent passage
25:07 right it's lifted up on a pole it's
25:08 placed on the pole Jesus was lifted up
25:10 on the cross he's placed on the cross
25:12 you would look to the serpent and you
25:14 wouldn't die of your poison you look to
25:19 Jesus and you will not die of your curse
25:22 it seems pretty simple and really
25:23 beautiful and that's the point that's
25:25 the beauty of this particular type as
25:27 it's so simple it's it just relates to
25:30 just it not works no no your works got
25:31 you here on the ground writhing in pain
25:34 and Jesus he comes he does the job you
25:37 just look to him but there's more in it
25:39 he says in John 3:14
25:42 so must the Son of Man be lifted up as
25:44 the servant was lifted up so must the
25:45 son of man this is think about this the
25:48 serpent there was no option like you
25:49 were bit you were going to die unless
25:52 you looked at the serpent it was a
25:54 simple thing but it was the only way and
25:56 isn't that Jesus
25:59 it's absolutely simple beyond simple but
26:01 it's the only way it's the only solution
26:04 to the curse of our sin it was a
26:06 life-threatening crisis with a simple
26:09 solution and I think it has a special
26:12 message to Nicodemus the Pharisee
26:14 because here's the Pharisee right the
26:16 people are standing under Moses under
26:18 the law and they're condemned in their
26:20 sin and there's something else that
26:22 Moses points them to the serpent he
26:24 can't do it but he could point them to
26:26 it and they can look at that and they
26:28 can be saved and so Moses he points to
26:31 Christ Jesus said you you study the
26:32 Scriptures for in them you think you
26:34 have eternal life but it is them that
26:35 testify of me
26:40 he's the truth and the life so beautiful
26:42 but but then there's the issue of the
26:45 serpent itself is Jesus the Son of Man
26:47 being compared to a serpent some people
26:53 say no some people say that he's not but
26:55 I think he is I think if you just read
26:56 the words it seems like he's comparing
26:58 himself to this as the serpent as Moses
27:00 lifted up the serpent so the Son of Man
27:03 must be lifted up in the parallel Jesus
27:06 isn't the pole the poles related to the
27:09 cross but Jesus is related to the
27:11 serpent so how is this is is this
27:13 relating Jesus to Satan is this the
27:15 parallel here I think not exactly
27:17 because in the context of the passage
27:19 they weren't being attacked by Satan
27:21 they were being attacked by serpents
27:24 plural not one serpent and serpents
27:25 don't all represent Satan that's
27:27 certainly not the case this is good news
27:29 if you own a snake don't worry this is
27:34 that satanic it's just a snake so there
27:36 was lots of serpents the serpents though
27:37 what did they represent to the
27:39 Israelites they represented their their
27:41 consequences of their sin the rebellion
27:42 against God was answered by judgment
27:44 that came in the form of serpents so if
27:46 anything they don't represent messengers
27:49 of Satan but messengers of God coming to
27:52 destroy them because of their sin so
27:53 what represents their sin and the
27:55 judgment for their sin and in a sense
27:58 God takes our sin and the judgment for
28:02 our sin and lifts them up puts them into
28:06 Christ on the cross there's a powerful
28:07 statement that it's difficult to
28:10 understand in 2nd Corinthians 5:21 it
28:14 says for our sake he made him to be sin
28:17 who knew no sin that in him we might
28:19 become the righteousness of God that's
28:21 2nd Corinthians 5:21 it says that Jesus
28:26 was made to be sin now it's careful to
28:28 say who knew no sin like this is not
28:31 like him sinning but he became sin on
28:35 the cross and so in a sense the serpent
28:37 representing Jesus is kind of drawing or
28:40 contrast our awareness to what did Jesus
28:41 do on the cross
28:44 what sort of shame what sort of
28:46 experience was this what was what was
28:48 Jesus well he made him who knew no sin to
28:49 to
28:52 be sin for us he was not a sinner on the
28:57 cross he became sin on the cross Wow
28:59 he became the offence the wickedness and
29:01 the judgment all of it centered right on
29:04 the cross but that being said it's hard
29:07 not to see Satan in some way represented
29:08 I mean you know the first time you see a
29:10 serpent in Scripture it's it's Satan
29:13 when you see a serpent the last time in
29:15 scripture that Satan the great serpent
29:19 you know we see this that serpent of old
29:23 he is called in Scripture so how could
29:24 the serpent relate to the cross in some
29:26 sense or Satan in some sense
29:28 well John 12:31 I read this earlier but
29:30 Jesus says now is the judgment of this
29:31 world now the ruler of this world will
29:35 be cast out and this is where the
29:37 serpent takes on almost a different
29:38 picture because you realize it wasn't
29:40 actually a serpent on the cross it
29:42 wasn't a real serpent it was a bronze
29:44 cast serpent was something to represent
29:47 the other thing and then you'd look to
29:49 this thing to have power over that thing
29:51 and so we see Jesus becomes sin and
29:54 become all of the atrocities in some
29:55 sense that we've committed against God
29:57 so that we might have victory over not
30:00 only the judgment of God but over Satan
30:04 himself so we see so much come together
30:06 on the cross the cross is like the the
30:09 fulcrum you hear the story who was it
30:12 that said if he had a fulcrum and a
30:13 lever long enough he can move the world
30:16 he doesn't know who that was Pythagoras
30:18 or one of those guys I don't know who it
30:21 was him someone like that Bart Simpson
30:24 one of those guys said that and but the
30:25 fulcrum is that that thing where you put
30:27 the lever on top of it and you can you
30:28 can pivot and move everything else
30:30 because of that and then since the cross
30:33 is like the fulcrum everything else
30:34 comes together and is impacted and
30:36 changed the direction if it all has
30:38 changed so the sin of man comes together
30:40 on the cross the law the law of God
30:42 comes together on the cross as Christ
30:44 fulfills it mankind is represented by
30:46 Jesus on the cross God is represented by
30:49 Jesus on the cross oh man and God come
30:52 together the trees both of knowledge the
30:54 knowledge of good and evil and the the
30:55 tree of eternal life all come together
30:57 at the cross because here's the
30:59 knowledge of good and evil being brought
31:01 brought to bear and the payment being
31:02 made for it
31:04 but also eternal life is being purchased
31:08 on that tree mercy and justice both the
31:10 forgiveness and punishment they come
31:12 together at the cross wrath and grace
31:15 come together at the cross the fall and
31:17 redemption come together at the cross
31:19 judgment and forgiveness come together
31:21 at the cross life and death come
31:26 together at the cross and so we have not
31:28 only human things but supernatural
31:30 things that come together in some sense
31:32 conceptually at the cross so in that
31:33 sense I think the cross is the fulcrum
31:37 and Satan is overcome at the cross and
31:39 and in this I'll share something that
31:41 would be actually be probably
31:43 controversial to some people but the
31:45 some people have made a big deal about
31:48 the fact that back in the day not
31:50 necessarily with the Israelites or
31:51 biblically but in the same time period
31:53 as them amongst other peoples they had
31:57 something they called well it was some
31:59 some form of magic I think they called
32:04 it not replacement magic something else
32:05 like that there's some other term for it
32:07 but what they would do is they would
32:10 they would say oh we want to have power
32:12 over whatever this negative thing is in
32:13 our life we'll make an image that
32:15 represents it and then that will give us
32:17 power over that other thing and you see
32:19 how this relates to the bronze serpent
32:21 except the bronze serpent isn't said to
32:24 have any powers God does the healing he
32:25 tells them just look at it so we don't
32:27 see this in the text but if you
32:28 understand that that might have been in
32:30 the mind of some of the people and you
32:32 can see how this relates to we'll have
32:35 power over Satan as we look to the one
32:37 who overcomes him on the cross and so
32:40 there is maybe maybe some correspondence
32:42 there so that that's for the people who
32:44 some here's like what are you talking
32:45 about my but for those who've heard this
32:47 before I feel like this might help you
32:49 understand how it relates to a good
32:51 theology and not using it to to rob
32:57 people of a good theology the cross is
33:00 actually compared to a tree in the
33:05 scriptures and it's the tree where Satan
33:08 originally tempts Eve right and then the
33:10 cross is compared to a tree curses a is
33:14 everyone who hangs on a tree and then we
33:16 have the tree again in Revelation and the
33:16 the
33:19 or the in the new paradise the new new
33:21 new heaven and we're partaking of this
33:23 tree Colossians 2:14 it says by
33:26 canceling the record of the debt that
33:28 stood against us with its legal demands
33:30 this he set aside nailing it to the
33:33 cross so in this passage that the record
33:35 of our sins and debt are nailed to the
33:37 cross he disarmed the rulers and
33:39 authorities and put them to open shame
33:42 by triumphing over them in it and in the
33:44 next verse there Colossians 2:15 God's
33:47 triumphing over the rulers this talk
33:50 about spiritual beings so much Satan and
33:53 his Dominion so he triumphs or triumphed
33:55 over our sin tramped over the enemy it
34:00 all comes together on the cross so
34:02 here's here's a principle I think we can
34:05 learn from this as we studied I think
34:07 we've we haven't exhausted every aspect
34:08 of it but nor do I want to do that until
34:10 you're just bored to death with me
34:13 talking about it so here's a principle
34:14 we can learn from the bronze serpent
34:19 analogy or picture is that when there
34:22 are things that have that aren't the
34:24 same as the cross or the same as what
34:26 Jesus did but there's a pattern that's
34:29 similar we can see this as a type so the
34:31 serpent on a cross you might now if I
34:32 come up this myself
34:33 you'd be like Mike that's not a type
34:35 you're just making stuff up wouldn't you
34:38 be thinking that about me like come on a
34:39 serpent don't compare that to Jesus how
34:41 is that related to Jesus the serpent and
34:42 they looked through it that just seems
34:45 kind of pagan to me but instead it was
34:46 actually meant to meet them right where
34:48 they're at and give him a picture that
34:50 one day you know he'd be like wax on wax
34:53 off oh I think the light would go on so
34:55 I think we can look for things in the
34:57 Old Testament that have similarities to
35:00 Jesus that are not direct parallels but
35:02 when you grab them you go
35:04 you know there's several points where it
35:06 really does line up this may well be
35:09 something God intended us to find it may
35:12 well be that so let me read to you in
35:15 John 3:14 Jesus says as Moses lifted up
35:17 the serpent in the wilderness so must
35:20 the Son of Man be lifted up this phrase
35:24 as as the son of man Jesus uses this
35:27 phrase a few times he goes as and uses
35:29 an Old Testament story and then go
35:30 the son of man and uses a New Testament
35:33 reality so another example is this is
35:39 Jonah in Matthew 23:39 he says just
35:43 actually Matthew 20 Matthew verse 40
35:44 chapter 12 sorry I'm getting all tongue
35:47 twister for just as Jonah was three days
35:49 and three nights in the belly of the
35:51 great fish so will the Son of Man be
35:52 three days and three nights in the heart
35:57 of the earth as Old Testament so will
35:59 son of man new testament in this case
36:01 it's just a piece of the Jonah's story
36:03 three days and three nights down in the
36:05 belly of a great fish so the Son of Man
36:06 three days and three nights in the heart
36:11 of the earth in Luke 11:30 Jesus draws
36:14 more on the Jonah analogy and says for
36:15 as Jonah became a sign to the people of
36:17 Nineveh so will the Son of Man be to
36:19 this generation this is a different side
36:23 of Jonah - right Jonah he he doesn't
36:24 want a quitter Nineveh right and how
36:26 does how does he arrive at Nineveh he's
36:29 barked up by this fish by the sea
36:32 creature throws him up and he may or may
36:34 not have died as you read the text he
36:35 may have actually died there's actually
36:37 detected you know is he being symbolic
36:39 here did he actually die anyway and then
36:41 he gets barbed up after three days and
36:43 they see him and they're taking him more
36:45 seriously now right like some stranger
36:47 just came and he's telling us random
36:49 things okay dude this guy just got
36:51 thrown up by a fish and he says he has a
36:53 message from God I be like what like
36:55 everybody's at least listening now and
36:58 so as it was assigned to them something
36:59 that drew their attention like
37:00 something's going on here that's more
37:03 than just this guy so Jesus his
37:05 resurrection is a sign that something's
37:08 going something is going on so there's a
37:10 prophetic comparison Old Testament
37:13 pieces of the story relate to pieces of
37:15 Jesus's story that's a fair comparison
37:17 we're legit and looking in the Old
37:18 Testament for that kind of parallel
37:21 because Jesus himself did it there's
37:23 another principle I think we learned as
37:24 we go through these stories if you
37:26 haven't noticed it already you probably
37:27 have in your own studies but it's the
37:30 huh factor when you're reading an Old
37:32 Testament passage in you go that's
37:35 awfully strange and so often that's the
37:38 very story that represents Jesus one of
37:40 the most shocking first stories you read
37:42 in the new in the Old Testament
37:44 is that where Abraham is told to kill
37:48 his own son and people are like what is
37:50 going on here I can't get over this
37:51 passage and I'll be I'll be like me
37:53 either man I can't get over it either
37:55 but for a completely different reason
37:57 than you like this is about Jesus you
37:59 know this is a parallel of Christ
38:00 there's so many passages where you go
38:03 what is this talking about why is this
38:06 even here and those passages often are
38:08 the very ones that represent Jesus so we
38:09 have the bronze serpent we have Jonah
38:11 being thrown out by a fish we have
38:13 Abraham offering his own son we've got
38:17 the rock that Moses struck twice once
38:19 God got mad at him for it right then we
38:21 have Abraham or severity said that we
38:23 have Melchizedek and the story milk
38:25 Abraham eats this guy Melchizedek and
38:27 he's tied what is going on here right
38:30 these passages are all about Jesus and
38:32 then the New Testament identifies all of
38:34 them as being referencing crisis
38:36 beautiful stuff so the principal I learn
38:39 is when I go what on earth is going on
38:42 look for Jesus don't make stuff up but
38:44 just begin your search you know look for
38:46 Christ in that passage there's another
38:49 principle we learn when looking for
38:51 types and that is they all fall short
38:53 every example we've gone through so far
38:57 they in some way fall short right Jonah
38:59 he he was in a fish and then thrown upon
39:01 us in Jesus he died and he was
39:03 resurrected right the serpent the bronze
39:05 serpent was lifted up and it just
39:07 brought them physical life Jesus he was
39:08 crucified and brought us eternal life
39:12 this is a very different thing they all
39:15 fall short just like a shadow falls
39:17 short of being the thing that casts the
39:20 shadow right the shadow you can identify
39:21 some people by their shadow
39:23 have you done this your friend walking
39:24 up and you see they're telling you I
39:26 know who that is and the same thing is
39:28 true we see his shadow in the Old
39:29 Testament but of course it falls short
39:34 of the type so what does this mean where
39:37 the thing falls short I don't go oh
39:39 therefore it's not a type instead I just
39:42 go this is to create a need for Jesus in
39:44 the heart and mind of the people Hebrews
39:46 does this in the book of Hebrews it
39:47 talks about how the blood of bulls and
39:49 goats would never satisfy to take away
39:53 sin it fell short but it did represent
39:55 Christ and so these types they represent Jesus
39:56 Jesus
39:59 they often fall short I think that's a
40:01 very interesting thing to know find
40:02 where that where they fall short because
40:04 there may well be a message for us in
40:06 the very fact that they fall short there
40:08 may be a message in that because the
40:09 message as we read through Hebrews
40:11 especially and which is a great thing to
40:12 study as we're looking at types I
40:13 encourage you on your own just read the
40:16 book Hebrews look how Hebrews just keeps
40:18 focusing on the fact that Jesus yeah
40:20 he's like that but better he's like that
40:21 he's like the priest but better he's
40:23 like these angels but better he's like
40:25 you know you name it the the prophets
40:30 but better Jesus is better okay now and
40:33 ask my final question that we'll get
40:35 into tonight which is can we learn new
40:38 theology from typology so let's suppose
40:39 that I'm reading the Old Testament and I
40:41 come across something I get real excited
40:43 about it I go hey all that no one's ever
40:46 seen this before which that never
40:48 happens by the way but let's say you
40:50 know it's ever seen this before this
40:52 Psalm is definitely messianic this about
40:54 Jesus or or this this this guy right
40:56 here Peleg in the days of Peleg when the
40:58 earth was divided like that's about
41:00 Jesus and he came to divide how this has
41:02 been a wife and father and children and
41:04 and this is talking about and so you
41:05 find something and you think this
41:08 relates to Christ somehow but in your
41:10 discovery of that you you along with
41:11 that you come up with some new theology
41:15 is that legitimate can you do that I
41:17 think the answer is gonna be no I think
41:19 one of our rules for typology is you
41:21 can't come up with a new theology
41:25 because types are representing who Jesus
41:27 he's the reality that's the shadow he's
41:29 the reality if I look at the reality and
41:33 then I look at the shadow and I go you
41:34 know I think the shadow teaches me more
41:37 about you than the reality then
41:38 something's wrong like say I look at
41:40 your shadow and your shadow looks like
41:42 you have a gun sticking out of your hip
41:44 and I go ha they have a gun look what I
41:45 discovered in the shadow but then I look
41:48 at you it's a banana right then I go you
41:50 drew too much knowledge from the shadow
41:53 and the same parallel is true here don't
41:55 draw new brand new teaching and theology
41:59 out of the shadows of Christ so we just
42:01 look to the this is a safe way to do
42:03 typology you've got to stick with the
42:05 current existing theology of the
42:07 Scriptures the clear teaching and not
42:09 come up with new stuff the Bible says
42:10 that the faith was
42:12 once and for all delivered past tents to
42:15 the Saints we're not gonna learn new
42:18 stuff now the mystery has already been
42:21 revealed Christ is the revelation and so
42:23 we've already received it so then you
42:25 might go well Mike if I can't learn new
42:27 theology and all I can find is
42:28 representations of Jesus then what's the
42:31 point somebody's gonna have this
42:33 question right and and part of me I just
42:37 want to go what's the point like what's
42:41 wrong with you all I'm gonna do is
42:42 discover new ways in which the scripture
42:47 scripture represents Jesus like yep
42:49 what's wrong with that like if that
42:51 doesn't delight your soul then I don't
42:55 understand I don't get it but may I say
42:57 this you won't learn new theology but
42:59 you might get a better understanding of
43:02 the theology you already have you might
43:03 learn to get it deeper
43:05 you might learn a practical symbol that
43:07 represents a solid teaching a new
43:09 testament but the representation of it
43:10 the symbol of it man when I saw Abraham
43:12 offering his son he just brought me to
43:14 new depths of what God did for me it's
43:16 not new theology but it's new depths in
43:19 your theology there's a lot for us to
43:21 learn it drives the truths I've got
43:22 deeper into our hearts and minds as we
43:24 see it through the scripture and you
43:26 realize more and more how stinking
43:30 amazing the Bible is I am blown away I
43:34 don't have enough words to describe the
43:37 amazing genius that has gone into the
43:40 text of scripture for us I'm just in
43:42 shock and awe and as we as we study
43:44 these things just like this was written
43:46 by you know multiple authors over
43:48 thousands of years
43:50 different generations different people
43:53 different languages and here's here's
43:55 Jesus and here's Jesus and here's Jesus
43:57 and here's and he's my Lord and my
44:01 Savior and it just it blows me away so
44:04 neat stuff needs stuff and next time
44:07 next time which will be three weeks from
44:09 today because for two weeks we're not
44:10 meeting because we have things going on
44:12 with the church on Sunday nights and
44:13 Father's Day and then we have that the
44:15 talent show cone up so so here's what
44:16 we're gonna do preview for next time
44:19 we're gonna look at theophanies in the
44:21 Old Testament so we'll look at the often
44:23 ease and Christ often ease
44:25 what's the difference and and we'll
44:27 answer some tough questions about those
44:30 things so I'm very much looking forward
44:33 to getting into that stuff so let's pray
44:35 father God we thank you so much for your
44:38 holy word we definitely take it for
44:40 granted but we pray that you'd open our
44:42 eyes more and more so we learn to take
44:45 the Bible less for granted than we did
44:47 yesterday that we'd see this this
44:50 treasure this most amazing thing the
44:53 scripture is the Word of God Lord it has
44:55 never stopped being absolutely amazing
44:57 but sometimes we don't appreciate it for
44:59 what it is so we pray we wouldn't miss
45:01 we wouldn't miss it we wouldn't miss out
45:03 we know that we don't receive eternal
45:06 life from the from the Word of God the
45:07 Bible but these are the things that
45:11 testify of Jesus and so we want to learn
45:13 we want to grow we want to receive and
45:14 so we pray for wisdom insight and that
45:16 you just keep taking this deeper in
