The Laver

This is my radio script for the Laver.

As a Christian you begin your walk as a baby but you are to study the Word and become mature. We live in an instant society. We have fast food, instant messages, instant this and instant that. The Christian walk begins instantly when you receive Jesus but the total transformation is not instant. Yes, there are times that God instantly takes away addictions and performs miracles, but most of the time it takes time and patience and is a process.

I find it very interesting that The laver was made out of the bronze mirrors the women brought with them from Egypt and they were used to reflect the outward appearance and used for vanity. They would use these mirrors to see their imperfections that needed to be corrected with make up and outward adornment and also feed the flesh with pride. Now these mirrors are being used to reflect what does not look like Jesus, and our bodies, which are now the temple of God, are transformed from walking out vanity to honoring God as we present ourselves through the blood of Jesus and are cleansed as we apply the Word of God and are transformed.

As you look into the Word as the priest looked at his reflection in the laver, it reflects the areas that you need to retrain to come into alignment with God's kingdom, His principles, and where you need to retrain your flesh.

The children of Israel wore phylacteries which contained the word of God on their forehead to keep the Word of God constantly before them and to remind them to obey it. The Word of God should always be in our thoughts and directing our actions.

The Word says that we can retrain our flesh to know the difference between good and evil. (Heb. 5:14) That comes through applying the Word of God to your life, renewing your mind to the Word of God, and bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. When I look at Galatians 5 I see the list of the fruit of the spirit. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Since as a Christian we are to walk according to the spirit and not according to the flesh then anything that doesn't line up to the fruit of the spirit needs to be taken to the altar and then cleansed by submitting it to Jesus and putting it at the cross and receiving what God's word says about it. Galatians 5:19-21 lists the deeds of the flesh.

19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Just as you apply medicine for physical problems you need to take the water of the Word and apply it to any area of your flesh that has not submitted to the principles of the kingdom of God and has not been placed on the altar. The altar of sacrifice-the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross- and the water of the Word represented by the laver to cleanse us prepares us to go into the Holy Place and into the presence of God.

The lack of applying the word of God to our lives today has caused a spiraling down of morality and disentegration of our nation. The obvious results of not applying the Word to our daily lives has been the senseless crimes, murders, and school shootings. We no longer teach our children God's Word as the standard upon which we live our lives.

I have observed that when people get into sin and their behavior changes they change churches to one that has a liberal stand on their behavior and change their thinking about what the word of God states. Instead we should be applying the word of God to our behavior and changing our behavior.

Even Soviet President Putin stated “In many countries today-specifically targeting the West- moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased,” He also said “They're now requiring not only the proper acknowledgement of freedom of conscience, political views and private life, but also the mandatory acknowledgement of the equality of good and evil, which are inherently contradictory concepts.”

He is right! We are now calling evil good and the liberals are calling good evil in order to be politically correct rather than Biblically correct.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, says “…. in terms of politics and morality, America no longer leads the world,”

The only answer is a return to God and a return to God's Word as the foundation for our lives. Begin today to make a decision to study God's Word and apply it to your life as your standard for what is right and wrong...instead of the world's opion for what is right and wrong.