THE BRAZEN SERPENT AN ILLUSTRATION OF CHRIST. 

 (1) Its design was the same, to save suffering, sinful, dying men. 

(2) It was made in the form of the fiery serpents, but was itself perfectly harmless. So Christ was made sin for us, took the form of our sinful human nature, was subject to human conditions, yet without sin. 

(3) Like the serpent, Christ was lifted up upon the cross to draw all men unto Him. Christ crucified is the most conspicuous object in the history of the world. It is the center around which the whole moral and religious warfare of the world is gathered. It is the Alcyone around which all the stars of heaven are circling. So that by both enemies and friends the cross is made prominent, and all may hear of the Saviour.

(4) The power of healing was not in the serpent, but in God through the