Fresh Bread
      # 27

JESUS NAILED TO THE CROSS
SATAN NAILED TO A POLE

        Jesus was nailed to the Cross for us, but He didn’t stay there. Satan was totally defeated at the Cross. Our Lord wants the Sting of Sin to be removed from our lives completely.
        In Numbers 21, the children of Israel asked Moses to pray for them that God would take away the fiery serpents that were stinging them. Moses prayed and God gave him a remedy.
        For years, I never understood the true meaning of this message…but today, I believe I do. God is pouring out His revelation knowledge to all His children who will take time to hear.
        This is the remedy that God gave Moses for the children of Israel and we can apply the same remedy today.
        “And the Lord said into Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” (Numbers 21:8).

        Have you been bitten by fiery serpents such as lies, mental and emotional attacks, physical or financial or relationship attacks? Those tormenting spirits that bring pain, confusion, doubt, hopelessness, frustration? The Holy Spirit, our Teacher, uses things in the natural to teach us things of the Spirit. How many centuries ago was it when the natural fiery serpents were attacking the children of Israel , and today, through our lack of revelation knowledge, we allow them to continue to attack us?
        I’ve asked you to put SIN in a BOX, believing it was detached from you at the Cross, so you can be free to serve our Lord. Please remember that
         SIN is an outside attack on the children of God.

                                “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin:
                                for His seed remains in him (us): and he (we)
                                cannot sin, because he is (we are) born of God.”
                                                (I John 3:9).

        When I use to read Numbers 21:8, it looked like we were being asked to worship Satan. I knew that wasn’t right…but I didn’t know what was right until the Holy Spirit revealed it to me.
        I believe now that God is saying to us: “Fear not. Trust Me! Look at what I have done to the devil, I have crushed his head forever. I have had Moses nail him to a pole.

        You no longer have to be afraid of him. I sent My Son to the Cross to set you FREE from the fear of SIN and death.
        “Accept all the things Jesus did for you at the Cross. He totally defeated Satan…and if you will look at that ole serpent and keep him nailed to the pole, with his head crushed, you’ll know that his sting can no longer hurt you.
        As a child of God, you can no longer look at that “Serpent on the Stick” (pole) without remembering the victory God provided for us at the Cross.
        As the seed of God, we were nailed to the Cross with Christ, died to our sins, and rose with Him to live our lives through Him. We were not nailed to a pole with the Serpent. So we do not have to be afraid of Satan and can only experience more power in our lives as we spiritually and mentally keep Satan nailed to that pole. We can walk right up to that “Serpent on a Stick”, look him in the eye, and say, “What a loser! You are defeated forever. I’m no longer afraid of SIN. It cannot contaminate me because I am the seed of God, and His seed remains in me.
        We cannot look at “Satan on a Stick” without turning our eyes immediately higher to the Cross; and being reminded that “Greater is He Who is in us than he who is in the world.” That ole serpent the devil…who is “Stuck on a Stick”… has no more control over us.

HIS STING IS GONE
THE STING OF SIN IS GONE FROM OUR LIVES
LEAVING US FREE TO SERVE.

        Satan likes to play mental games with us. Let’s remind him how we see his head crushed and nailed to a pole. We’re not taking the nail out! We have the authority to mentally keep him out of our business. We follow our Father God. Satan is not our father…we are not his seed, and do not have time for Satan’s antics when he wants to lie to us and try to convince us that Jesus did not really “crush” his head.
        So, when you feel bitten by a fiery serpent, look at the “Serpent on the Pole”, and you will immediately remember Jesus at the Cross…risen…free from the nails…but Satan is still nailed to the pole. Praise God!

BY THE POWER OF GOD
LET’S
KEEP HIM THERE!!

        It’s been several days since I’ve received some fresh bread to share and there are so many wonderful ingredients in this message, that I feel we have only dipped our fingers in the batter.
        Once again, please use this message as a “spur” to search the scriptures for yourself, asking for revelation knowledge so that this truth can be sealed in your heart, leading you to more freedom in the Lord each day.
        If you want a very good explanation of what I am attempting to share, read John G. Lakes ’s book, The John G. Lake Sermons on Dominion over Demons, Disease, and Death; edited by Gordon Lindsay, published by Christ for the Nations Inc., Dallas , Texas . Pages 87-94. This is good Bread.
        Jesus said in John 3:14-15, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”