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One and the Just. Acts 4:27 calls Him God's "holy child". Acts 4:27 in the New International Version calls Him "God's Holy servant, Jesus". Hebrews 4:15calls Him "without sin". Hebrews 7:26calls Him "holy, harmless, unde- filed, separate from sinners, made higher than the heavens".
As for His genuine love, Paul says that the love of Christ surpasses knowledge (Ephesians 3:19). As for His meekness. He is humble and lowly in heart (Matthew 11:29). Hebrews 10:5-6 confirms: "Wherefore when he Cometh into the world, he saith. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In biumt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God." (See also Psalm 40:6-8.) Isaiah says, "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (53:6).
Paul declares that "...He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him" (11 Corinthians 5:21). In Galatians 3:13, he also says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written. Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." (See Colossians 1:14; Hebrews 9:28; I Peter 2:24.)
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to com pass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged becauseoftheway. AndthepeoplespakeagainstGod,andagainstMoses, WhereforehaveyebroughtusupoutofEgypttodieinthewilderness? for
there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light read. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit thepeople,andmuchpeopleofIsraeldied. Thereforethepeoplecameto Moses, and said. We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from
us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, thateveryonethatisbitten,whenhelookethuponit,shalllive. AndMoses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if
a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived" (Numbers 21:4-9).
, spoken of by the Lord Jesus as the perfect type of His being lifted up". Those who looked by faith at the brazen serpjent were
saved from the bites of the literal serpents. And, "...the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God" (1 Corinthians 1:18). The flesh and blood of Christ is the savingpowerindeed. Theparallelisclear:thebrazenserpentliftedupin the image of a real serpent is compared with the Son of Man on the cross. As brass cannot be requited with the nature of the real serpent, the Son of