Thru the Bible - #145-Numbers 30- The Law of Vows

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Welcome to Marine's Corner, the podcast where we go through books of the Bible chapter by chapter and verse by verse. Wherever you are in the world, thank you for joining. Grab a glass of water, a cup of coffee, a tea, and let's get into today's lesson. Yes, yes, yes. Welcome back. And uh just like I always ask you all to do, I have my water sitting right next to me. Hope that you have something to wet your whistle as well. And I hope that you all have been doing well. Welcome back to Barin's Corner. We are continuing on through our chronological Bible study, and today we are at Numbers 30. The title of today's lesson is The Law of Vows. So open up your Bible to Numbers 30. We're gonna bring the reader in. We're gonna read the chapter, and then we will go into it and break down the chapter. Numbers chapter 30, let's read.

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Numbers 30. Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, This is what the Lord commands. When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word, but must do everything he said. When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to the Lord or obligates herself by a pledge, and her father hears about her vow or pledge, but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand. But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. The Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her. If she marries after she makes a vow, or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself, and her husband hears about it, but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her, or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the Lord will release her. Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her. If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath, and her husband hears about it, but says nothing to her, and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the Lord will release her. Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes, or any sworn pledge to deny herself. But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows, or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them. If, however, he nullifies them sometime after he hears about them, then he is responsible for her guilt. These are the regulations the Lord gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living in his house.

Ecclesiastes 5: The Cost Of Rash Vows

Jesus And James On Oaths

Vows Made By Men

Vows Of Single Women Under Fathers

Vows Of Married Women And Covering

Widows, Divorced Women, And Accountability

Modern Application: Let Your Yes Be Yes

Closing Prayer And Listener CTA

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Today we are looking at the law of vows, as I mentioned earlier, is the title of the lesson. Now, a vow, Hebrew 5088, is a promise to God. Now we start out this chapter by seeing who Moses is speaking to. Notice verse 1. Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the word which the Lord has commanded. So once again, in this book of Numbers, right here where we are, we see who Moses is speaking to. For those of you who may be new and don't know why I always do that, is because I believe that context is very important, and it's very important to know who the writer is talking to and why they're talking to them. We know right here by verse one that Moses is talking to the children of Israel. Now, uh, we need to be mindful that when a vow is made to God and it isn't followed through on, that angers the Lord. When you give the Lord your word and you say, Lord, you know, my Lord, this is a vow that I'm giving to you that you have to follow through on that thing. You can't, you know, be halfway with it. You have to 100% be in because if you don't, you risk angering the Lord. Let's uh look at somewhere uh that speaks on this. Uh keep your finger right here in numbers and turn to Ecclesiastes. Turn to Ecclesiastes chapter five. Let me give you an example of this. Ecclesiastes chapter five. I am uh looking at verses one through six. Guard your steps as you go to the house of God and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Do not be hasty in word or impulsive in thought to bring up a matter in the presence of God. For God is in heaven and you are on the earth, therefore let your words be few. For the dream comes through with much effort, and the voice of a fool through many words. When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it, for he takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. Do not let your speech cause you to sin, and do not say in the presence of the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry on account of your voice and destroy the work of your hands? We see right there that the Lord takes a vow very serious. And as Solomon said right there in Ecclesiastes, it's better to just not vow at all. So give you an example. Let's say that you make a vow to, you know, give a certain thing. Let's say that there is a fundraiser going on. Let's say there's a fundraiser going on at your church, at your church, at a uh at the community center, at the senior center, wherever it is, you make a vow and say, listen, I'm gonna give$500 for this thing that you're doing. You should follow through on that. That's what the writer is talking about here. You need to be sure that you pay that$500. It's best to keep your mouth shut and not say anything than to make a vow and then not follow through on it. Now, even in our times, we have been told not to make promises to God we can't keep. Let's go to the New Testament, go to Matthew chapter 5. Keep your finger in numbers so it'll be easy to get back there. And let's go to um let's go to Matthew chapter 5. In Matthew chapter 5, we are looking at verses 34 to 37. Matthew 5, 34 to 37. But this is Jesus speaking. But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king, nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. Jesus is saying, I'm sorry, one more verse. But let your statement be yes, yes, or no, no, and anything beyond these is of evil. So even the even the Lord Jesus is telling you, you know, let your yes be yes and let your no be no. Let the things that you say be of what you said. Uh James even chimed in on this. Listen, I got one more for you in the New Testament. Turn to uh James. And when you uh and when you get there, go to chapter 5. James chapter 5. Notice verse 12. But above all, my brethren, do not swear either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no no, so that you may not fall under judgment. Now, back to Numbers chapter 30, and we're getting back on these vows. There are four vows made by different people in this chapter, and that's how we're gonna break it down by the four vows. Vow number one, the ones made by men. Notice verse two. If a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. Once again, this is a vow made by men. When a man says something, he needs to do everything he vows to do, whether that's a favor for a person, whether that's something that you're willing to pay, something you're willing to do, you need to do the thing that you said you were gonna do. Vow number two, the ones made by single women. We see this in verses three to five. Also, if a woman makes a vow to the Lord and binds herself by an obligation in her father's house, in her youth, and her father hears her vow and her obligation by which she has bound herself, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her because her father had forbidden her. Now, this is very simple. When you if you go back to verse three, when it says, if a woman makes a vow to the Lord and binds herself by an obligation in her father's house, this is talking about a single woman who is still a virgin, who is still in her father's home. You have to remember at the time that these scriptures were written, young women were to stay with their father under his guidance and under his protection until he handed her off to her husband. So what this is saying is if she makes a vow and her father hears it but he says nothing about it, the Lord is gonna hold her to that vow. So, for example, if she said, You know what, Lord, I'm gonna stay a virgin my whole life or until I'm 30, and her father hears and doesn't say anything, she is now bound by that vow. But if she says something of other like and say, you know, Lord, I'm gonna stay a virgin until I'm 30, and her father hears it and says, I, you know, saying, No, I forbid that. You're you know, you're gonna be married within the next few years. That's our hope, anyway. You're not gonna do that, then the Lord will forgive what she said on account of her father. Remember, her father is her covering. So the Lord is gonna take the fact that he pulled that vowel off of her, and then the Lord will do the same. Which brings us to vowel number three the ones made by married women. We see this in verses six through eight. However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself, and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her, on the day he hears it, then her vow shall stand, and her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he shall honore her vow, which she is under, and the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself, and the Lord will forgive her. Okay. Now you just heard me talk about fathers. You heard me talk about uh single women being under their father's home. Now, this is a married woman. This is a woman who has been given away from her father to a man, and she is now married under this man. So a woman goes from under her father's covering. This is how the Lord intended on it to be. She goes from her father's covering to her husband's covering. Women are not supposed to be single out here in the world on their own, making all of their own decisions, and you know, just going off and saying things. They are to have a covering, and that's what this is showing here. The first one said shows that she's under her father's covering, the second one she's under her husband's covering. Same thing here. If she makes a vow and she's very capable of making her own vows and her husband says nothing, then she is gonna be held capable of said vow. But if she makes a vow and her husband hears of it, let's think of something that a wife may say. See, let's say that this wife makes a vow and says, Lord, you know, I vow that we're gonna give half of our income to this cause, or Lord, you know, I vow that our children are gonna do this, and the husband hears it and he doesn't approve of it, then he can say, No, no, dear wife, we're we're not gonna do that. They go to the Lord, and then the Lord will also lift it off of the wife, and she won't be held accountable to that vow. Which brings us to vow number four, the ones made by a divorced woman or a widow. We see this in verses nine through fifteen. But the vow of a widow or a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself shall stand against her. However, if she vowed in her husband's house or bound herself by an obligation with an oath, and her husband heard it, but said nothing to her and did not forbid her, then all the vows shall stand, and every obligation by which she bound herself shall stand. But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips, uh excuse me, concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of herself shall not stand. Her husband has annulled has annulled them, and the Lord will forgive her. Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may annul it. But if her husband indeed says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her obligations which are on her. But if he indeed annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt. These are the statutes which the Lord commands Moses as between a man and his wife, and as between a father and his daughter, while she is in her youth in her father's house. Listen. Did you did you catch that in in uh verse 15? But if he indeed annoys them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt. So that now falls on the man, even though this section is talking about divorced women and widows. This now falls back on the husband and says that he, if you know saying, if he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt. See that's why this thing is is very is is very serious. The husband needs to pay attention to his wife, uh knows what she's saying and the things she's talking about, and the wife needs to be very careful of the things she says. Now remember, if she says these things, because listen, even though your wife is under your covering, uh, you can't control her mouth. You can't stop her from saying whatever she's gonna say, but she has to know that there are consequences to it. And if you say something, my dear wife, uh uh to the Lord, you have to stick with that thing unless your husband chimes in. And if the husband doesn't chime in, to be honest with you, it makes him just as accountable because if that thing that she is talking about is gonna be a detriment to the family and he and he just says nothing, uh, then as it said at the end of verse 15, he shall bear bear her guilt. So it is very clear, even though this is uh uh talking about Israel, this is still a lesson for us today. Watch your mouth, be careful of what you say, and when you make a vow, you need to stick to that thing. All right, people. That brings us to the end of Numbers chapter 30. I hope that you enjoyed this lesson. I hope that you got something out of this lesson. As always, I am praying for you, each and every one of you on all six continents. That's the beautiful thing about this internet. You know, we have been able to reach all of the continents, all six continents, and we have had listeners on every continent. Wherever you are, I am praying for you. I hope that you are doing great in the Lord. I hope you are standing strong in the faith. And as I always ask, I want you to do the same for me because I need your prayers as well. Pray that I stay steadfast in these scriptures, fight the good fight, and finish the race. And Lord's will, we will finish this race together. All right, that brings us to the end of the lesson for today. That is all for now. God bless. Thank you for listening to Berean's Corner. We appreciate you joining us as we dive into God's word and seek biblical truth together. If this episode encouraged or challenged you, be sure to subscribe, share, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. You can find Berean's Corner on Buzzprout, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon Music, and more. Let's stay connected. If you have questions, comments, or prayer requests, reach out to us at BereansCorner.budsprout.com where you can follow along with show transcripts and leave a message in the fan mail spot. Also follow us on YouTube at Bareans Corner. 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