Today's message for us is that forgiveness for sins we commit after salvation is already assured and provided for in the laver.
God does not want us to sin. "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 Jn. 2:1-2). God would still say, "Go, and sin no more" (Jn. 8:11). But, knowing that the spirit of man "indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mt.... 26:41), and that man will sin, God says there is provision made for cleansing that sin. Jesus is our Lawyer or Advocate who pleads our case, because Satan, "the accuser of our brethren" (Rev. 12:10), will certainly accuse us. How will our Lawyer plead our case? Heb. 9:26 says He has gone into God's presence with His own blood which He shed once and for all. This is God's sole basis for our atonement and forgiveness, "for the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 Jn. 1:7).
At their consecration the priests were washed by another.
"And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water"
(Lev. 8:6). However, they were to wash themselves at the laver. When we are saved or born again, we are washed by Christ Himself, our High Priest. "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" (Titus 3:5). From then on we are responsible to come to the laver ourselves and wash our own feet cleansing our sins) If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness), even as "Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat" (Ex. 30:19).
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