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Mills River SDA Church

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

Cory Reeves

The House God Built

02 The Outer Court

03 The Cleansing Laver

04 The Truth About Angels

05 The Golden Lampstand

06 The Table of Showbread

07 The Altar of Incense

08 The Daily Today

09 The Most Holy Place

10 Repairers of the Breach

11 The Day of Atonement in the Old Testament

12 The Revealer of Secrets

13 The Cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary

Beres Powell

14 The Good News of the Judgment

Josef Ludwig

15 The Adversary of the Heavenly Sanctuary

Andy Williams

16 The Mark of the Beast and the Seal of God

17 The Judgment and 1844

19 Our High Priest’s Victory Over Death

18 When the Day of Atonement Ends

20 The Judgment Continues

21 The Final Phase of the Judgment

22 Living in the Day of Atonement

23 Sharing the Sanctuary Message

24 The Sanctuary and the Testimony of Jesus

25 The Feast of Tabernacles

Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, as we continue our walk in the sanctuary, Father, it opens so many things to us.

And Father, we ask that you would come into our hearts and our lives, that you would impact us for your kingdom.

So we've been learning in our presentations that God gave Israel the sanctuary to help them understand the plan of salvation.

It also was given to us so we could see the big picture of how salvation works.

The plan was not intended only for Israel and us, but also so we could intelligently cooperate with God.

We serve a God of love and he is interested in saving the whole world the people created in his image He is interested in saving you personally Our study revealed that there is only if you remember there is only 1 way in Through the gate that represents Jesus.

And then if you remember, we come to the altar, the foot of the sanctuary.

And at the foot of the sanctuary, we see that our God, thank goodness, praise God, wants to separate the sin from the sinner.

I'm so glad we serve a God that wants to separate the sin from the sinner.

And then tonight, we are coming to the next piece of furniture, so to speak, in the courtyard.

And we're gonna learn more about the laver tonight.

1 of the interesting things about the laver is it was made of bronze we're going to learn of.

And do you know where most of that bronze came from?

And when they asked Israel for a donation for the sanctuary, these mirrors were given and they made something.

And this something, this laver, is to show us who we really are as a people.

I know we did a lot of introduction the last 2 nights, but tonight we're jumping in.

Number 1 in your study guide, what service was conducted at the laver?

You shall also make a laver of bronze and its base also of bronze for washing.

For Aaron and his son shall wash their hands and their feet in water from it." You see, the laver was filled with water to allow the priest to wash their hands and feet.

They were to get the water from up top and wash at the base.

I think in the picture you're going to see here in a minute, you can see some depictions of it actually have a trough at the base of the laver.

We're not sure exactly how that worked or how that looked, but there's different depictions.

I think the example here on this has a pedestal base which wouldn't allow for that.

But we know they didn't bathe, they didn't jump into the laver to wash.

They pulled the water from the top and they used it at the base of the laver.

What was the significance of this washing?

When they go into the tabernacle of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister or burn an offering made by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, lest they die.

They shall wash their hands and feet, lest they die.

Before they ministered inside the tabernacle, or before they brought an offering, the priests had to wash their hands and feet.

As we learn and study the sanctuary, we have been finding that it is full of symbolism, correct?

The symbolism of washing is washing away defilement of sin as they entered into the presence of God to do their work.

We understand that the role of the priest was literally an object lesson for the people.

When People came to the tabernacle to watch the service.

In fact, we are still reflecting on this service today.

Tonight, we're reflecting on the service that God gave us.

God gave specific instructions to the priest that they would communicate the plan correctly.

Done incorrectly, and the incorrect message gets sent.

Do you remember a story of Nabab and Abihu?

If you wanna write that down, if you wanna look at that later, you can.

God had given specific instructions to the priest that whenever they were to use fire, in any service, they were to use fire that God had lit on the brazen altar.

Any fire lit, even the menorah, was to be lit from that original fire.

God told them not to use any other fire, not common fire.

Now, Bible students, what is fire symbolic of in the Bible?

So when we come into service with God, we go with the right spirit.

Our Bible tells us that there is another spirit in this world.

But we have to make sure we're following the right spirit.

Thus, when Nabab and Abihu got careless and said fire is fire, it's no big deal, they could be sending the wrong message to the children of Israel.

Without correction, this message could be life-ending.

And sadly, it was for those 2, if you go back and read that story.

You know, this tells me something significant.

My life, your life, is set to be an example to others.

You and I are entrusted with truth that we're learning here.

We are called to our Bibles so that we can share Jesus with those those who've never opened their Bibles.

The work of being reconciled to God, being justified, which began at the brazen altar, continues at the laver.

This work of being of reconciled to God we refer to as justified or simply justification.

It is a big word and it simply means what it says.

So if justification is God's view of you, it's just if you had never sinned.

God's view of you as if you'd never sinned, as if it had never happened.

This is key because we don't often believe that God has forgiven us.

Have you ever run into someone or talked to someone and they say, I just don't think God can forgive me?

Or have you ever personally done something and you pray for forgiveness and you walk away and say you know I need to be extra good for a little while because that was so bad.

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Series

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

03 The Cleansing Laver

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Parent Series

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Recorded

Like Sinner, Like Savior

52m

Heaven’s Glimpses

46m

ABC's of Prayer (with Video)

7 - Lord Save my Teenager

50m

Divine Assurance

A Warranty For Eternity

40m

The Man And His Mission

49m

Experience The Power

Well Done

59m

A Stamp of Approval

1h 4m

A God Worth Knowing

11 A New Birth

52m

Secrets from the Ancient Sanctuary

05 Millions are Looking at the Wrong Temple

46m

Through the Sanctuary by Sean Brizendine

03 At the Laver

50m

Plenary

Dead Know Nothing

1h 13m

Perfect Love- Cast Out All Fear

51m

Sound Doctrine