The Laver, the way to escape the chastening of God

The way to escape His chastening  is to judge ourselves. We simply must examine our lives and our motives daily. When the Holy Spirit shows us sin, we must deal with it. First John 2 says we can judge ourselves when we walk in the light (I:7). We do this by feeding daily on God's Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to throw light on our actions and attitudes. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us (v. 8), but when we become conscious of our sin and "we confess our sins, e is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (v. 9). This is washing at the laver. We are not to come as some do saying "We have not sinned", and thereby "make Him a liar" (v.10), but we are to name the sin to God and trust Him to forgive it that very moment.

Now, it is one thing to confess sin and another to ask God to forgive you all your sins. Many come saying glibly "God, forgive us of our many sins." They have not confessed a thing and will not get the peace and forgiveness they desire. This is a deep truth and the reason many believers no longer have "the joy of their salvation"

(Ps. 51:12), so we must confess in order to get the joy we once new.

The ultimate purpose of the laver was for the priests to cleanse themselves so they could go into the holy place. Inside the holy place were the food for the priests or the shewbread, the altar of incense or place of prayer, and the candlestick. These represent spiritual exercises and worship for the believer. The reason most people do not enjoy praying or worshiping the Lord is that they are on the outside the holy place, out of fellowship with Him. It is such a serious thing that God warned them twice that they should wash "that they die not" (Ex. 30:20). We are under grace today, and God does not kill every believer who comes into His presence in an attempt to worship with unconfessed sins, but His mercy does not make it less wrong.

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The Laver: the procedure of washing for us today.

The procedure for us today is given in 1 Cor. 11:31-32 "For if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world". This confirms the fact that, when the believer sins, the result is not condemnation with those who have rejected the payment made by Christ. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus" (Ro. 8:1). For the believer, the result of sin is chastening, a spanking, if you please, from the Lord. The unbeliever, the world, will be judged later at the great white throne, but he is "condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God" (Jn. 3:18). That will be his day of execution, and now he only dwells in the death cell, as it were. The believer is judged right away, either by himself or by the Lord. If the Lord has to judge him now, it will be via weakness, sickness, or death (1 Co. 11:30).

 

Look at Hebrews 12:4-11 to understand something of the Lord's chastening: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth" (v. 6). God chastens us, His children, because He loves us and does not want us ruined by sin. God does not merely give out advice. His Word says, "he that spareth his rod hateth his son" (Pr. 13:24). God "chasteneth...every son whom he receiveth," for still "there is none righteous, no, not one" (Rom. 3:10). If one who professes to be a believer goes on in sin and is not chastened of the Lord, it is because he is not really saved at all, not a child of God, according to Heb. 12:8. God's chastening is always for our own good, and "it yieldeth the peaceable le fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby" (v.11).

 

"Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live/" (v. 9). Notice these two words at the end: "and live". God said Aaron and his sons were to wash at the laver "lest they die." It is repulsive for a child not to be in submission to his earthly father, but it is much worse for a child of God, who has been redeemed from his sins at such tremendous cost, not to submit to God's chastening. God will not stand for that. God's child can come to the point of hating God's reproof and thereby commit the "sin unto death" and God will take his life, for "he that hateth reproof shall die" (Pr. 15:10). What other explanation can be given for these two words "and live"? This "sin unto death" of 1 Jn. 5:16 is that of a believer, and the death must be physical. Since God chastens through death, as shown in 1 Cor. 11:30 and many other examples in the Bible, this must be the result and explanation of these verses. It is a serious thing to get out of fellowship with God and face His chastening.

 

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The Laver. For the forgiveness of a Christians sins

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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