This sermon explored the significance of the bronze laver in Exodus 30:17–21, emphasizing its connection to the believer’s ongoing cleansing through God’s Word. While the blood of Christ secures our justification, the water of the Word sanctifies and prepares us for fellowship with God. The laver teaches us that daily communion with the Lord requires continual washing from the defilements of the world. With alarming cultural statistics showing a decline in the authority of Scripture among professing Christians, we are reminded of our urgent need to return to God’s Word as our only sufficient, certain, and infallible standard of truth and life.
Brad Jordan Brad is the Pastor of Christ Reformed Baptist Church, an RBC church plant in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina (Hartsville, Darlington, Florence, Sumter and surrounding areas). He has a wife, Lisa, and three kids, Kaylee, Anna and Jonathan. Born and raised in South Carolina, Brad has been a pastor for over 15 years and has a great passion and desire for shepherding the flock of CRBC and "teaching them to keep all that [Christ] commanded".