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Numbers chapter 6 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Numbers chapter 6, let us pray, Father, God, who loves us, who
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  rescued us, Father of lights, the one who is so incredibly
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  close to us, Lord, we come to you today, Father, we're asking,
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  Father, for forgiveness. We're asking for healing today,
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  God. Show up and show off and show
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  out, God. Rescue those to the utmost,
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  Father. Your arm is not too short to
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  save God. We receive our forgiveness
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  today. We receive our healing today.
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  We receive the atonement, Father, the atonement, Father.
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  We receive our justification, God.
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  We receive your righteousness, Lord.
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  What a scandalous exchange for our sinfulness.
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  God. I pray, Father, that you'll make
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  us holy as you are. Holy God, I pray that we can
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  gird up our loins to stand in your holy presence, Lord, on the
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  day of your coming. Father, we yearn and we look
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  towards, we press towards, we speed the day.
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  God of the Bema seat. Lord, we are so incredibly
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  expectant of what you're going to do this morning.
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  God, I pray somebody gets saved. I pray somebody gets wrecked.
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  I pray God that you mess up our theology.
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  God, I pray that you'll mess up our doctrine, Father, and I pray
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  that you'll help us to see you through the biblical narrative,
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  the biblical lens. God will let go of all of the
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  heresy, will let go of all of the traditionalism.
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  God will let go of all of our pre programmed ideas.
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  God and the bylaws. Father, I pray that you'll mess
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  up all of our preprogrammed ideas of who you are, God.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll break down the disruptive
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  denominational division, Father. And I pray that we'll actually
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  understand your Word through and through, God, from beginning to
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  end, Lord. Not man's opinion, Father.
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  But what does the word say, Father?
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  So we hold on to it. We live it, Father.
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  We hide it, God. We meditate upon it, Father.
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  It's your word, Father, that we're desperately after.
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  God. We want more of you, Lord, we
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  want you. And Lord, we see you high and
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  lift it up. Lord, we see you on the throne.
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  God peels of Thunder. Lord, we see the lightnings.
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  God in the rainbow, the sea of glass mingled with fire.
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  Father, we see the four living creatures.
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  God, we see the 24 elders. Lord, we pray God, that the
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  mixed holy multitude. God, all praise you.
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  Lord, every knee will bow and every tongue confess, Lord, that
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  you are preeminent. Lord, you are outside of time.
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  God, you love long. Lord, you are so incredibly
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  forgiving. And so, Lord, we step into our
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  bridal identity today. We step into what you have for
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  us today. God, I pray you'll teach us,
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  Holy Spirit. Convict us.
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  Prick our heart, God. Break our heart, God, for what
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  breaks yours. We pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. We pray God that you'll come and
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  get your glory. Father, it's all about you.
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  It's always been about you. Hide me, hide my words, Father,
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  it's only you, Lord. So Lord, just continue to have
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  your way. Have your will in our lives.
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  God, we get out of our own understanding.
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  We get out of our own way. God, we step in to what you have
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  for us today. Continue to use us, Lord.
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  Use your word. In our lives, the word became
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  flesh, God. We munch on it, we devour it.
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  God help us to digest it. Lord, I pray help us to actually
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  go out and to evangelize. Lord, help us to be your hands
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  and feet. Lord, I pray that we could take
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  care of the widows and the orphans and their time of
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  distress. Help us not to be play actors
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  God, but help us to actually believe what it is that we read.
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  Father, thank you Lord Jesus for all the things that you do and
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  everything that you've done. We are yours.
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  We're your sold out lay down lovers.
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  We just want more of you. Father, I decrease as you
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  increase. Holy Spirit, teach us and guide
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  us. Give us discernment for this
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  hour. Help us to know what to do and
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  when to do it. Help us not to miss it.
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  And it's in your holy and precious name, King Jesus
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  Christ, that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And the Lord spoke unto Moses,
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  saying to speak unto the children of Israel, say unto
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  them, when either man or woman shall separate themselves, to
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  vow a vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the
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  Lord. So here we're going to get to
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  see this interesting little section here where the Nazarites
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  come up. This is where you see Samson,
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  this is John the Baptist. You see that they're not to
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  touch any fermented drink. They're not to cut their hair.
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  You can see that God has a special place for those who
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  vowed the vow and who will live a life that is countercultural.
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  Somebody whose stiff arms all the cultural norms and says I
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  want to live in a way that is holy and pleasing unto God and
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  God will honor that friends. And we are all called to
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  separate ourselves and to be holy as he is holy and to not be
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  deluged and watered down by the cultural norms of everything
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  that everybody's saying. This is OK when it's actually
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  anti biblical friends. You see it creeping up.
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  We removed prayer out of schools and took the 10 commandments
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  down out of the courtroom, friends.
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  And you can see this sliding scale of degradation down into
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  the pits of despair where you see so many people and they
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  don't have the mental fortitude, they don't have the spiritual
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  aptitude, they don't have the appetite friends to get through
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  the hard things in life. And you see them going by the
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  wayside left and right. Friends And what we need is we
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  need the Spirit of God in this hour.
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  We need revival in this hour. We need a hunger for God's Word,
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  the pure Word. Friends, we need to separate
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  ourselves from all of the false narratives that are out there in
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  the mainstream. Friends, we need to be able to
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  get in to the biblical narrative, the rhetoric of the
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  Bible. What does God say, even if it's
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  not popular? Friends, that is what we need in
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  this hour. We need to take a vow to be
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  countercultural in this hour. 3 He shall separate himself from
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  wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine and
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  vinegar of strong drink. Neither shall he drink any
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  liquor of grapes nor eat moist grapes are dried, so they're to
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  stay away from all of the products of the grape.
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  They God did not want them to be drunk on wine, He wanted them to
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  be drunk on the Spirit of God. For all the days of his
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  separation shall eat nothing that is made of the vine tree,
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  from the kernels even to the husk. 5 All the days of the vow
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  of separation. There shall no razor come upon
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  his head until the days be fulfilled in the which he
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  separates himself unto the Lord. He shall be holy, and let the
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  locks of his hair of his head grow.
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  So we saw that whenever Delilah finally talked Sampson out of
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  where his strength came from, the Philistines were able to
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  come in and overpower him. But you see that at the end of
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  his life, he took out more Philistines because he came
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  back, his hair started growing back.
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  And that is what is referenced here.
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  And there's no superpower, there's no real power to letting
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  your hair grow. It's all about your connection
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  with God Almighty and the devotion that we have.
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  That's where the power comes from.
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  And Samson had got puffed up and became prideful and thought he
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  could just go out and shake off the Philistines.
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  He did not realize the Lord had departed.
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  And that's what you need to understand is that as long as
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  we'll make it about God and about God alone, then he will be
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  well pleased to be in our lives and to actually fight our
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  battles. But when we willfully step out
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  in disobedience and make it about self, make it about this
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  world, then you cannot expect for the covering of God to
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  continue on with you. Doesn't mean that you've lost
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  your salvation. It just means that God is
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  distant because you pushed him out, because you made it about
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  self, you made it about this world. 6 All the days of a
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  separation unto the Lord, he shall come in no dead body.
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  So the dead body was a great reminder of the fallen sinful
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  state of mankind, and that is what is referenced here. 7 He
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  shall not make himself unclean for his father, for his mother,
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  his brother, for his sister, when they died, because the
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  consecration of his God is upon his head.
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  So you saw that even for the priest it was OK for the
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  immediate family, but here for the Nazarite they are actually
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  held to a higher degree of standard of holiness.
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  Friends. 9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he has
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  defiled the head of his consecration, then he shall
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  shave his head in the day of his cleansing.
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  On the 7th day he shall shave it, 10 And on the 8th day he
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  shall bring 2 turtles, two young pigeons, to the priest, to the
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  door of the Tabernacle of the congregation. 11 And the priest
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  shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a
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  burnt offering, and make atonement for him, that he
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  sinned by the dead, and he shall hallow his head the same day.
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  So here, if he was to accidentally stumble upon a dead
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  body or someone was to die, and instead then he had to go to the
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  priest and tell him, and then he had to make an atonement. 12 And
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  he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation,
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  and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass
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  offering. For the days that were before
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  shall be lost because his separation was defiled.
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  So he has to hit the reset button, friends. 13 And this is
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  the law of the NASA, right? When the days of his separation
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  are fulfilled, he shall be brought unto the door of the
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  Tabernacle of the congregation. 14 And he shall offer his
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  offering unto to the Lord, 1 male lamb of the first year
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  without blemish for a burnt offering, and one female lamb of
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  the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and 1 ram
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  without blemish for a peace offering. 15 And a basket of
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  unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, wafers
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  of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat
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  offering, and their drink offerings. 16 And the priests
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  shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin
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  offering and his burnt offering. 17 And he shall offer the ram
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  for a sacrifice of peace, offerings unto the Lord, and the
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  basket of unleavened bread. The peak priest shall offer also
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  his meat offering and his drink offering. 18 And the Nazarite
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  shall shave his head of separation at the door of the
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  Tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the
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  head of his separation, and put it in the fire, which is under
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  the sacrifice of the peace offerings. 19 And the priest
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  shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened
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  cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put
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  them upon the hands of the Nazarite after the hair of a
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  separation is shaved. 20 And the priest shall wave them for a
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  wave offering before the Lord. This is holy for the priests,
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  and the wave breasts, and the heave shoulder, and after that
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  the Nazarite may drink wine. 21 This is the law of the Nazarite
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  who has vowed and is offering unto the Lord for a separation,
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  beside that, that his hand shall get according to the vow which
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  he vowed. So he must do after the law of
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  his separation. So this Nazarite was to go and
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  to make a vow unto God, and to do the things that are
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  prescribed here. And at the end of it all God
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  would honor whatever it was that he had vowed and that he was to
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  do. And so God here is showing us
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  that He wants us to live lives that are apart from how the rest
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  of the world operates. Friends, we are the called out
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  ones. The ecclesia were not to be
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  overran and watered down by all of the norms that we see
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  presented to us. We are the stiff arm.
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  All of the things that are counter biblical, the things
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  that God says are good are the things that we hold on to.
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  We don't try to operate within how the rest of the world
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  operates because it'll lead us astray.
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  It's like putting a ring in your nose and being LED off into
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  slavery and bondage. Friends. 22 And the Lord spoke
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  unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his son,
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  saying, On this wise you shall bless the children of Israel,
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  saying unto them, 24 The Lord bless you and keep you.
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  The Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to
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  you. 26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give
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  you peace. We'll end on 27 and they shall
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  put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
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  So here we see this benediction pronounced over the children of
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  Israel. Friends, it is pronounced over
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  to you. And he is faithful for
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  generations upon generations upon generations.
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  And we are called to be chain Breakers, Friends.
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  We are not called to be those who make excuses for our sins.
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  We're called to be those who stand in the gap.
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  Stand in the light, friends. Let God burn out all the dross
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  and the impurities. Be the high priest of your home.
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  God desires to bless us, and you need to understand that He
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  blessed us eternally, magnificently in Christ Jesus.
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  If we'll get under the yoke and get under the blood of Christ
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  and be baptized, you need to know that repentance is the
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  pathway. Turn from all of your wicked
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  ways. Admit that you're a Sinner in
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  desperate need of a Savior. Receive forgiveness.
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  Be at one with him. Receive your justification in
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  the righteousness of Christ. Let it rest upon you and walk in
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  that and receive this benediction.
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  Receive this blessing upon you today.
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  Friend, do not stay out there in the far place, in the far
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  country. Don't stay out there squandering
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  your inheritance. Come back to the Father's house.
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  Actually see your need for repentance today.
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  Confess all the times that you've got it wrong, the times
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  that we've been steeped in the culture, the times that we have
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  chosen this world over. God's revealed will here in the
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  66 book Canon of Genesis to Revelation.
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  I pray that you've been eternally immortally blessed by
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  this chapter here in the Book of Numbers.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.