Title: The Laver and Purification

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Before we are reborn, our outer self is a liability and a cause of problems. Afterwards it is an asset because it functions as a filter for purifying our spirit. This explains why we find so much junk in it sometimes!

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Exodus 30:17-21; 38:8
James 1:19-24
Exodus 40:6-8, 11-12, 30-32
Job 9:29-31; 15:14-16
Psalms 51:1-3, 7, 9-10, 17
Isaiah 1:16-18
Jeremiah 2:20-22
Ezekiel 36:24-26, 29, 31
Malachi 3:1-3
Mark 7:1-8, 14-23
2 Corinthians 7:1
Ephesians 5:25-27, 32
2 Timothy 2:20-22
James 4:7-8

694. Just as heaven, deriving as it does from the Lord, constitutes through mutual love one human being and one soul so to speak, and consequently has one end in view, which is to preserve and save all men eternally, so conversely does hell, deriving as it does from the proprium, constitute through self-love and love of the world, that is, through hatred, one devil and one frame of mind (animus), and consequently has one end in view, which is to destroy and condemn all men eternally. That this is the nature of their endeavours I have perceived thousands and thousands of times. Unless therefore the Lord were preserving everybody in every fraction of a moment, man would perish.