Identifier: jewishtabernacle00need (find matches)
Title: The Jewish tabernacle and priesthood
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Needham, George C. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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for me ! (Gal. ii. 20.) Wecommend to the reader the following passages of Scripturebearing on this point: 1 Cor. xv. 3 ; Matt. xx. 28; 1 John iii.16; Gal. i. 4; I Pet. iii. 18; Rom. iv. 25 ; Isa. liii. 12; Heb. ix.28; Lev. xvii. 11 ; Heb. ix. 22; 1 Pet. i. 18, 19; Acts xx. 28;Rom. v. 8-10. Not what I feel or do, Can give me peace with God ;Not all my prayers and sighs and tears,Can bear my awful load. Thy work alone, O Christ, Can ease this weight of sin ;Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,Can give me peace within. I bless the Christ of God,I rest on love divine;And with unfaltering lip and heart,I call this Saviour mini.. THE BRAZEN LAVER. We now come to notice the Brazen Laver in its typical sig-nification. It stood between the altar and door of the Taber-nacle. Its use was to hold water, wherewith the priestscleansed their hands and feet, and with which parts of thesacrifices were washed. Sin is not only guilt needing an atone-ment—a breach of law needing expiation, as we have seen,
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THE JEWISH TABERNACLE AND PRIESTHOOD. but it is also moral defilement, and requires cleansing. Tothose who would render acceptable worship, purity is essen-tial. Washing the hands and feet from outward defilement isbut the symbol. At the Altar we have the_great tr_utpLof-jus-tification foreshown. At the Laver, cleansing, sanctification,preparation for service and worship is the prominent thought.The order of the vessels and their relation to each other issignificant. The Altar first, next the Laver. Christ for us atthe cross is the first part of the Gospel. Christ in tis, as theconsequence, by His spirit and word, is the second part. Bothstand connected. The Holy Spirit, through the truth, whichhas a cleansing power, leads us to the blood which faithapplies to the soul. Through constant application of thisremedy we are cleansed from daily pollutions. And withpurged consciences we become prepared for spiritual worship.The following Scriptures set forth this truth: Christ alsoloved the

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