What is Holy Water and is it Biblical?

The next piece of furniture in the tabernacle is the bronze laver.

What is a bronze laver or what's a laver? Washbowl, right.

Today we have sinks but yeah it would be a basin of water and you know not to be disrespectful but any if you go and look at it usually the the pictures the depictions of the bronze laver it kind of looks like a birdbath and not to get off point

I mean it's all kind of tied in together how many of you have gone into a church and you walk through the front door and the first thing you see is this laver birdbath basin of water type of the thing so I think yeah and they put their hand in and do the sign of the cross so you will see that in typically

Roman Catholic churches and in the washbowl is water but it's they call it what holy water and we've talked about this before right how the religion of Rome seems to be more based on Old Testament religion than it is on New Testament biblical

Christianity they have their special priesthood the ornate clothing like Aaron had they claim the

Lord's Supper is a real they have a real sacrifice Jesus is being re -sacrificed or represented it's a real altar remember we talked about all this and they keep the wafer up front in a box that they call the tabernacle so if you see them go into the church and kneel before they go into the pew they're bowing to that host that piece of bread that contains the divinity of Christ and it's in the box called the tabernacle so it really isn't any surprise that they would have a basin of water which is you know based on the the bronze laver so holy water in their system is just regular water that's been blessed by a priest and they believe that it can repel evil among other things they believe holy water can repel evil and wash away what they call venial sin so if you committed murder or adultery

I mean splashing water that's not going to do any good that's a mortal sin but you know the little sins you know taking the water that will wash away venial or little sins is that biblical it's not enough to say well we have this laver and well there's a laver in the

Old Testament it's the same same kind of deal that no that's that's not that's not legitimate so there my point is there's no real connection except that they're both basins of water so the furniture in the tabernacle is symbolic right

I mean it really happened it was really there but it's symbolic and it points ahead to the person and work of Christ so now that we have the real thing once we have the faith once for all delivered to the

Saints we don't need to go back and observe all these

Old Testament rituals so we're not supposed to go backwards the applications and meanings for us of all the things in the tabernacle these are all spiritual in nature it's this none of this is

God's way of telling us here's the furniture that you should have in your church in the year 2021 that is not the point of any of this it's all pointing to Christ so there's no need for us to have a laver or a basin of water here at Morris Quarter Church because we have