My Comments On The Brazen Laver:

My Comments On The Brazen Laver:

Exodus 38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

I find it interesting to note that the looking glasses of the women were made of of brass. It was this material that was made into the brass lavers, that the priests were to wash in daily. Brass is always symbolic of judgement in the Word of God, especially in relation to the tabernacle furniture and furnishings.

I believe this signifies that as we look into the Word of God - as James teaches - and see ourself revealed or reflected therein, we are to then judge the sin in our lives and allow the water of the Word to clean us up.

James 1:22-25 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Here is a passage dealing specifically with judging ourselves (ie. any sin that may be in our lives) before we partake of the Lord's Supper - though the principle is there of judging the sin in our lives and cleaning it up - just as the looking glass and the bronze laver signified.

1 Corinthians 11:27-29, 31-32 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body... 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.

Let us examine ourselves, see the dirt in our lives that is revealed from the mirror of God's Word, heed and apply the correction that is so needed, and let God's Holy Spirit cleanse our hearts and lives through the laver of the water of God's Word.

August 10th, 2005
Jerry Bouey