Title: Code Word Part 4




FAMILIARITY BREEDS COMPLACENCY
BUT IT ALSO BREEDS BOREDOM

EMBRACE:
To hold, accept completely

WHAT WE EMBRACE DEFINES OUR LIFE AND DETERMINES OUR DESTINY

WHAT IF WE TAKE A MOMENT TO 
TRULY EMBRACE WHAT WE OFTEN CONSIDER FAMILIAR?

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness…
John 3:14 (CSB)

They set out from Mount For by way of the Red Sea to bypass the land of Edom, but the people became impatient because of the journey. The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
Numbers 21:4-5 (CSB)

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede with the Lord so that He will take the snakes away from us.” And Moses interceded for the people
Numbers 21:6-7 (CSB)

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bittern looks at it, he will recover.” So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bittern, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.
Numbers 21:8-9 (CSB)

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
John 3:14-15 (CSB)

For God loved…
John 3:16 (CSB)

For God loved the world in this way…
John 3:16 (CSB)

GOD DIDN’T WAIT FOR THE 
WORLD TO TURN TO HIM 
BEFORE TURNING TO THE WORLD

For God loved the world in this way: He gave His one and only Son…
John 3:16 (CSB)

For God loved the world in this way: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 (CSB)

HE GAVE LIFE TO GIVE LIFE

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
John 3:17 (CSB)

THERE IS ONLY ONE COURSE OF 
ACTION AND THAT IS TO LOOK UP

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believe in Me will never die. 
Do you believe this?
John 11:25-26 (CSB)

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the one and only Son of God.
John 3:18 (CSB)

This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
John 3:19 (CSB)

WHAT ARE YOU EMBRACING?
WHAT WILL YOU EMBRACE?
WHAT ARE YOU BEING EMBRACED BY?

GOD’S LOVE IS WIDE ENOUGH TO EMBRACE ALL MANKIND AND DEEP ENOUGH TO ERASE YOUR PAST SIN