1 00:00:14,099 --> 00:00:17,359 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast. 2 00:00:18,379 --> 00:00:24,079 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:26,960 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:42,859 Frank, you want to pray us in? Yeah, yeah, of course. How are we all doing? All right, guys, 5 00:00:43,119 --> 00:00:47,880 I'm gonna pray us out, okay? All right, everybody, bow your heads. Dear heavenly 6 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,000 Father, I thank you just so much for these people in my Lord. I thank you for 7 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,020 for this wonderful Bible study that's about to happen tonight, Lord. You know, 8 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:00,399 I'm very thankful for all the people here, Lord, and, you know, we are looking to 9 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:05,900 learn Your Word tonight in Numbers 30, Lord. And, you know, we're all here to, you 10 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:09,840 know, learn Your Word, Lord, that You have given us many teachings that none of us 11 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,439 were aware of, Lord, that there's just so much that You can do for us, Lord. 12 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,579 And You are just so good, Lord, for us, Lord, that You fulfill us with Your Holy 13 00:01:18,579 --> 00:01:24,620 Spirit whenever we feel down, Lord. And, Lord, You're just, You're our 14 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:30,079 anchor, Lord, to this day, Lord, and You just have done so much that we can't 15 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:35,379 explain, Lord. And, Lord, You're just so loving, so kind, Lord, that You 16 00:01:35,379 --> 00:01:40,599 fulfilled all of our hearts here, Lord, that Your Holy Spirit is mighty 17 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:46,819 powerful, and, you know, we can't be any more thankful. So, again, Lord, that we 18 00:01:46,819 --> 00:01:51,579 will take away what we have learned, Lord, and we apply to You, Lord, that Your 19 00:01:51,579 --> 00:01:57,540 teachings can, you know, encourage us to be like You, Lord, in our lives. And it's 20 00:01:57,540 --> 00:02:04,980 in Your beautiful, precious name we pray. Amen. Thank you. Of course. So, we're in 21 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:11,300 chapter 30 of Numbers, and I was looking over this passage and just 22 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:18,520 thought how God knows exactly what He is doing, doesn't He? I think we call it 23 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,439 coincidence so often, but there's so many little details in our lives that line up 24 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:32,080 so perfectly. And this is a chapter about vowels, how to make them well and what 25 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,840 they should look like in the realm of family and the household. And we just 26 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:43,099 crossed the threshold of a new year, and many of us may have made some vowels or 27 00:02:43,099 --> 00:02:51,020 resolutions. I just think it's awesome that the Lord timed this chapter to be 28 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:55,580 during the new year week. So, thank you Lord for that. Amen. 29 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:11,460 So, there's a lot of a lot of commitments and a lot of resolutions that we make in 30 00:03:11,460 --> 00:03:18,819 life, and I was looking up information about New Year's resolutions and kind of 31 00:03:18,819 --> 00:03:23,979 just the facts, because I think we all, they're typically comical in the sense 32 00:03:23,979 --> 00:03:29,180 that we make a New Year's resolution and we don't typically stick to it. And I 33 00:03:29,180 --> 00:03:32,840 found three facts about New Year's resolutions I thought would be 34 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,840 interesting to ponder as we start to look at what does it mean to make biblical 35 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:46,120 vowels. 80% of resolutions fail by mid-February. Twenty-three percent quit 36 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:52,180 by the end of the first week in January. Only 9% of people that make a 37 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:57,000 resolution keep their resolution all year long. Of course, that's just the people 38 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:05,560 that reported it, but thought that was interesting and relatable. So, why do we 39 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:11,500 break promises to ourselves? I think that there's two main reasons, one being 40 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:17,639 lack of discipline. Jamie talked about this a couple Sundays ago, but then also 41 00:04:17,639 --> 00:04:26,300 foolish promises are easily made. Simple commitments like I'll go to the gym every 42 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:31,500 day this year, even though we only went five days last year, or I'm not gonna eat 43 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:39,500 any sugar this year as we put down our coffee with creamer in it. We make vowels 44 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:45,800 or commitments, promises to ourselves like this all the time. And it's not 45 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,860 necessarily bad to be ambitious. It's a good thing to have ambition and to make 46 00:04:50,860 --> 00:04:57,199 goals and to chase after things that would make us better people, but they can 47 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:02,439 be done in foolishness instead of thought out with prayer and wisdom. And 48 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:08,540 I actually found, I was looking at it through my own notes, trying to find a 49 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:13,680 list of New Year's resolutions that I've made in the past, and I don't 50 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:20,000 typically make them, but I dug quite a few years back and found a list that I had 51 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,639 made. Now, mind you, this is before I turned 25 and my prefrontal cortex was 52 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:34,399 developed. But a few examples this year, run 100 miles, which technically I may 53 00:05:34,399 --> 00:05:38,300 have accomplished that by now because I didn't specify I had to do it all at 54 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:43,579 once. Sprint full out for half a mile, which I just watched a Jason Bourne film 55 00:05:43,579 --> 00:05:53,120 I think. That's from that. That counts? Okay. Again, younger days. Swim underwater for four 56 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,980 minutes, pick a walk, and learn another language. 57 00:05:58,180 --> 00:06:06,139 Needless to say, we make foolish goals sometimes, ones that we will never 58 00:06:06,980 --> 00:06:18,339 commit to. I haven't done any of these actions. And then we get to numbers and 59 00:06:18,339 --> 00:06:24,500 we hear all about vows. And we see that there's really three main things 60 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:30,500 that God, I think, wants us to see in this chapter. And the first is that 61 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:37,459 vows are, not vows themselves, sorry, but integrity to keeping those vows is very 62 00:06:37,459 --> 00:06:45,240 important. God wants us to be a reflection of Him, and He is perfectly 63 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:51,819 faithful to fulfill every promise that He makes, and He wants us to do the same. 64 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:57,399 And that's why this chapter fits right into numbers. After all of these 65 00:06:57,399 --> 00:07:03,339 different laws, vows doesn't seem like it necessarily fits in between them, but 66 00:07:03,339 --> 00:07:09,019 it's a reflection of, a character of integrity. And it leads us to holy living, 67 00:07:09,699 --> 00:07:18,660 and it protects us from pain of sinful living. Whenever we commit to our word, we 68 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:24,300 aren't only, we're only doing something that is good, but we're preventing 69 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:31,800 ourselves from a life that is hurtful. I'm just thinking of it as a picture I 70 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:39,500 had in my head of every time that we have a promise that we make to ourselves or 71 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:44,740 to other people. Just picture this line across the page, and on it is our 72 00:07:44,740 --> 00:07:48,860 self-confidence. And every time we say we're gonna do something and we don't 73 00:07:48,860 --> 00:07:54,860 do it, that just starts to dip, and dip, and dip. And we do this to ourselves all 74 00:07:54,860 --> 00:08:00,040 the time, and God loves us so much that He doesn't want us to fall into a life of 75 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:05,100 low self-esteem and lack of confidence. He wants us to be able to trust ourselves, 76 00:08:05,579 --> 00:08:12,720 wants us to be able to trust our word. And just thinking back on the last few 77 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,699 weeks, just to apply this to myself before we even read it, and then we will 78 00:08:17,699 --> 00:08:23,639 actually dig into the word. But I do this, so I get up pretty early throughout 79 00:08:23,639 --> 00:08:28,120 the year, and every winter though it gets more and more challenging to wake up 80 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:35,500 early. And every winter comes though, and I still want to commit to, I get up 81 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:41,799 typically at five o'clock, and I want to commit to that. I want to commit to, 82 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:44,679 alright, I'm gonna get up at five, I'm gonna get my work done, I'm gonna read 83 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,700 the word, I'm gonna go on a prayer walk, whatever it is, the list is there, and I 84 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:53,840 want to commit to it. And almost every winter it happens where a week goes by, 85 00:08:53,980 --> 00:09:00,879 and not a single day that week I get up at five. And it puts me in this cycle 86 00:09:00,879 --> 00:09:06,480 that maybe some of you have felt or been in where we make these commitments 87 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:12,740 to ourselves, not necessarily to anyone else, but then day by day by day by 88 00:09:12,740 --> 00:09:20,139 day goes by, and we don't actually go, we don't fulfill the commitment, and it 89 00:09:20,139 --> 00:09:26,220 just puts us in a cycle of self-loathing perhaps, or just again lowering and 90 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:35,440 lowering our our self-confidence in our own word. So that's just context to why 91 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:41,259 this chapter is important. It has real spiritual implications to how we can 92 00:09:41,259 --> 00:09:45,259 actually live a better life, and hopefully a better year. That's a good 93 00:09:45,259 --> 00:09:49,720 good passage to read at the beginning of the year, a reminder, and hopefully a good 94 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,580 call to action. So we'll start in verse 1. 95 00:09:57,860 --> 00:10:03,559 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribe of the people of Israel, saying, This is 96 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:08,580 what the Lord has commanded. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an 97 00:10:08,580 --> 00:10:14,200 oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do 98 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:20,259 according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. If a woman vows a vow to the 99 00:10:20,259 --> 00:10:26,059 Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her 100 00:10:26,059 --> 00:10:31,960 youth, and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has 101 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:37,500 bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every 102 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:42,440 pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father opposes her 103 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:48,299 on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which 104 00:10:48,299 --> 00:10:52,279 she has bound herself, shall stand, and the Lord will forgive her because her 105 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:57,419 father opposed her. If she marries a husband while under her vows or any 106 00:10:57,419 --> 00:11:01,139 thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself, and her 107 00:11:01,139 --> 00:11:05,580 husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her 108 00:11:05,649 --> 00:11:09,970 vows shall stand, and her pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. 109 00:11:10,470 --> 00:11:15,409 But if on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he 110 00:11:15,409 --> 00:11:21,169 makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by 111 00:11:21,169 --> 00:11:25,730 which she bound herself, and the Lord will forgive her. But any vow of a widow 112 00:11:25,730 --> 00:11:29,970 or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand 113 00:11:29,970 --> 00:11:34,649 against her. And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself by a 114 00:11:34,649 --> 00:11:38,830 pledge with an oath, and her husband heard of it, and said nothing to her, and did 115 00:11:38,830 --> 00:11:43,289 not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she 116 00:11:43,289 --> 00:11:50,850 bound herself shall stand. You can probably see a repetition here. But if 117 00:11:50,850 --> 00:11:54,830 her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then 118 00:11:54,830 --> 00:11:58,850 whenever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her 119 00:11:58,850 --> 00:12:05,090 pledge of herself, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the 120 00:12:05,090 --> 00:12:10,610 Lord will forgive her. Any vow, any binding oath to afflict herself, her 121 00:12:10,610 --> 00:12:16,590 husband may establish, or her husband may make void. But if her husband says 122 00:12:16,590 --> 00:12:21,870 nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her 123 00:12:21,870 --> 00:12:25,870 pledges that are upon her. He has established them because he has said 124 00:12:25,870 --> 00:12:29,370 nothing to her on the day that he heard of them. But if he makes them null 125 00:12:29,370 --> 00:12:34,809 and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity. These are 126 00:12:34,809 --> 00:12:39,409 the statues that the Lord commanded Moses about a man and his wife, and about 127 00:12:39,409 --> 00:12:43,269 a father and his daughter, while she is in her youth within her father's house. 128 00:12:50,049 --> 00:12:55,070 If you're reading through a yearly reading, this is definitely one of 129 00:12:55,070 --> 00:12:59,269 those passages that you can read through pretty quick and just move right 130 00:12:59,269 --> 00:13:03,929 along. But it is really great that we have this Wednesday night opportunity 131 00:13:03,929 --> 00:13:10,610 going just a chapter at a time, because it's good to slow down and look at this 132 00:13:10,610 --> 00:13:17,790 and look at what are the virtual implications for us currently. And I 133 00:13:18,029 --> 00:13:22,250 think that I have a few actually verses here. Let me just actually follow my 134 00:13:22,250 --> 00:13:40,490 notes. So there's three main things that as I was reading through, the Lord 135 00:13:40,490 --> 00:13:47,529 just stood out to me. And the first is right in verse two. If a man vows a vow 136 00:13:47,529 --> 00:13:51,990 to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break 137 00:13:51,990 --> 00:13:57,169 his word, shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. Integrity. 138 00:13:57,590 --> 00:14:03,070 Integrity was the first word that came to my mind as I was reading this. Like I 139 00:14:03,070 --> 00:14:09,090 mentioned earlier, God is a God that is fully integrous. Is that a word? Can I say 140 00:14:09,090 --> 00:14:17,990 that? It is now. God has full integrity. I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we're at the 141 00:14:17,990 --> 00:14:23,549 part where you said integrity that also got me too. Yeah. Seriously, it was 142 00:14:23,549 --> 00:14:27,750 very powerful. Yeah, we have we have a discussion, a few discussion questions 143 00:14:27,750 --> 00:14:31,909 that I'd love to hear more on your thoughts on that after Frank, because yeah 144 00:14:31,909 --> 00:14:38,610 we'll touch base on that. Yeah, sure. And God makes promises in 145 00:14:38,610 --> 00:14:44,549 scripture and he always fulfills his promises. Just reading the other day in 146 00:14:44,549 --> 00:14:50,610 Deuteronomy and Moses is explaining to the people, he's giving them kind of the 147 00:14:50,610 --> 00:14:56,330 final words before he passes on and Joshua takes over in position and he 148 00:14:56,330 --> 00:15:01,450 actually sings this song to them and I'm not gonna sing it. You don't want to 149 00:15:01,450 --> 00:15:07,909 hear that. In fact, it's in Deuteronomy. I think it's Deuteronomy 30 or 32 150 00:15:07,909 --> 00:15:15,029 maybe. It's not very melodious in English, but you could certainly try. But he 151 00:15:15,029 --> 00:15:19,649 talks about all the covenants that the Lord has made, talks about all the 152 00:15:19,649 --> 00:15:25,269 commandments and the laws that the Lord has given to his people and it ends with 153 00:15:26,430 --> 00:15:32,629 in paraphrasing, if you obey you'll be blessed and if you don't obey and then 154 00:15:32,629 --> 00:15:38,649 he gives us very prophetic, very gruesome picture of what will happen and I say 155 00:15:38,649 --> 00:15:41,789 it's prophetic because that is what happened to Israel because they didn't 156 00:15:41,789 --> 00:15:48,490 obey and they did become slaves again and they did get destroyed and scattered 157 00:15:48,490 --> 00:15:57,870 among the nations and so again God fulfills all his promises which means 158 00:15:57,870 --> 00:16:03,090 if his promise is I'll bless you if you obey, he'll fulfill that and if his 159 00:16:03,090 --> 00:16:08,450 promises I will allow destruction if you disobey, he'll fulfill that as well. 160 00:16:09,590 --> 00:16:16,190 There's a few verses that if you have a paper I'm gonna call on you to read so 161 00:16:16,190 --> 00:16:32,070 be brave. Don't pass your paper away. These verses I think just highlight further how 162 00:16:32,070 --> 00:16:37,370 important integrity is to God and if someone wants to read that first one 163 00:16:37,370 --> 00:16:44,649 Ecclesiastes 5 4 through 5 someone could read that. When you 164 00:16:44,649 --> 00:16:51,090 vow a vow to God do not delay paying it for he has no pleasure in fools pay what 165 00:16:51,090 --> 00:16:57,129 you vow it is better that you should not now and that you should bow and not pay 166 00:16:57,129 --> 00:17:08,950 and can someone read Ecclesiastes 5 2. Do not be wracked with your mouth now let 167 00:17:08,950 --> 00:17:14,029 your heart be hasty to utter a word before God for God is in heaven and you 168 00:17:14,029 --> 00:17:22,049 are on earth therefore let your words be few. I love that ending right there 169 00:17:22,049 --> 00:17:27,049 let your words be few. My mom always had a saying if you have nothing good to say 170 00:17:27,049 --> 00:17:32,970 then say nothing at all and I think that is so true and can someone read the 171 00:17:32,970 --> 00:17:42,369 Deuteronomy 23. If you make a vow to the Lord your God you shall not delay 172 00:17:42,369 --> 00:17:46,990 fulfilling it but if you refrain from bowing you will not be guilty of sin 173 00:17:46,990 --> 00:17:53,269 whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do. We're gonna circle back to that 174 00:17:53,269 --> 00:18:03,329 one whenever we look at the vows made by wives and daughters because there's a lot 175 00:18:03,329 --> 00:18:07,490 of grace wrapped in here that could easily be missed and Deuteronomy 176 00:18:07,490 --> 00:18:12,789 highlights it really well but one more and then we'll pause can someone read 177 00:18:12,789 --> 00:18:14,549 that verse in Matthew. 178 00:18:39,630 --> 00:18:46,349 I think as always Jesus wraps up anything said in the Old Testament beautifully 179 00:18:46,349 --> 00:18:53,990 right in the gospel and I love that passage because it at first glance we 180 00:18:53,990 --> 00:18:59,369 could think that we shouldn't be making vows at all or perhaps that it's sinful 181 00:18:59,369 --> 00:19:05,150 to make the vow that's not what we're seeing in Numbers 30 in fact it's the 182 00:19:05,150 --> 00:19:09,990 sinful act that we're seeing is not fulfilling it not making it that's not 183 00:19:09,990 --> 00:19:15,369 the thing that we're up not to do but not fulfilling it and I think that what 184 00:19:15,369 --> 00:19:21,930 Jesus is alluding to in Matthew is that we should be so full of integrity that 185 00:19:21,930 --> 00:19:27,029 when we say yes to something that we don't have to make a vow that people 186 00:19:27,029 --> 00:19:32,930 know that when Danny says something when Amir says yes to this I know that it's 187 00:19:32,930 --> 00:19:38,349 already complete it's finished it's done and I know that that's what he's saying 188 00:19:38,349 --> 00:19:43,410 because that's what he did right the final words on the cross it is finished 189 00:19:43,410 --> 00:19:47,210 the vow was complete right there covenant solidified 190 00:19:54,230 --> 00:20:02,430 so Jesus is calling us to a higher standard of integrity to go beyond vows 191 00:20:02,430 --> 00:20:09,670 and to be people that don't require vows at all a simple yes or no should be 192 00:20:09,670 --> 00:20:22,910 enough because somebody James 5 verse 12 but above all my brothers do not swear 193 00:20:22,910 --> 00:20:29,190 either by heaven or by earth or by any other oaths but let your yes be yes and 194 00:20:29,190 --> 00:20:36,190 your no be no so that you may not fall under condemnation again a reflection of 195 00:20:36,190 --> 00:20:42,250 what Jesus is saying and a powerful truth for us of letting our yes be yes 196 00:20:42,250 --> 00:20:47,769 and our no be no I think that we can all at times reflect back on times when our 197 00:20:47,769 --> 00:20:55,769 yes was no and our no was yes so before we read on there's there's two other two 198 00:20:55,769 --> 00:21:01,089 other main main themes that I want to point to but because we're in a circle 199 00:21:01,089 --> 00:21:10,569 well we'll do a little bit of discussion after each theme talked about so on the 200 00:21:10,569 --> 00:21:18,849 topic of integrity in verse two what other things do you guys see why perhaps 201 00:21:18,849 --> 00:21:23,730 maybe a better starting question would be why do you see it so important for us 202 00:21:24,449 --> 00:21:31,650 as followers of Christ to have integrity why is it so important for us to be people 203 00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:41,650 that say yes and mean yes anybody can answer well we want to be more like 204 00:21:41,650 --> 00:21:45,529 Christ in Christ kept his promise to us so if we want to be more like him we 205 00:21:45,529 --> 00:21:47,509 have to keep our promises as well 206 00:21:50,689 --> 00:21:59,130 the Christians are constantly under massive scrutiny it's important we believe 207 00:21:59,130 --> 00:22:07,769 believe the precepts you know the teachings of the Bible I think that way 208 00:22:09,849 --> 00:22:22,309 you attract people rather than you can release into to be so to scrutinize you 209 00:22:22,309 --> 00:22:27,329 know yeah Christians because amongst all the religions I think increase 210 00:22:27,329 --> 00:22:33,609 Christianity is more scrutinized because it ties up with a lot of things 211 00:22:39,470 --> 00:22:41,630 you're representing the community 212 00:22:49,410 --> 00:22:55,529 so someone if they met someone a Christian without integrity someone say oh yeah 213 00:22:55,529 --> 00:23:03,349 I've met Christmas for you kind of ruin your ruining Christ's good name 214 00:23:25,210 --> 00:23:33,289 any other thoughts on that before we move on or any stories that really 215 00:23:35,129 --> 00:23:40,609 I think one key thing is a faithfulness show that you're a trustworthy person 216 00:23:40,609 --> 00:23:45,470 know the Bible talks about like you know having a servant that you can or like if 217 00:23:45,470 --> 00:23:48,890 you have somebody that you're you can't have put your faith in like a servant 218 00:23:48,890 --> 00:23:54,130 who's not trustworthy it's not like a pain to the master so you want to be 219 00:23:54,130 --> 00:23:58,569 somebody that you know people can trust you know especially in context of like 220 00:23:58,569 --> 00:24:02,089 work and stuff like if you tell them to do something they're gonna do it 221 00:24:02,089 --> 00:24:06,009 and just also more importantly than that but just faithfulness to God because I'm 222 00:24:06,009 --> 00:24:09,549 in the book of Jeremiah you know that the nation of Judah like they're 223 00:24:09,549 --> 00:24:12,970 forsaking God they're worshiping other Gods and that's why they end up losing 224 00:24:12,970 --> 00:24:17,349 to the Babylon and then being destroyed and that's because that faithfulness is 225 00:24:17,349 --> 00:24:20,730 not not there so I think God is teaching us to be faithful you know 226 00:24:28,610 --> 00:24:45,630 I think I always love looking at anytime there's a commandment given it's it can 227 00:24:45,630 --> 00:24:51,670 be looked at in multiple ways but like two of which are this is a reflection of 228 00:24:51,670 --> 00:24:57,309 my holiness and I want you to be that reflection of the world and then two is 229 00:24:57,309 --> 00:25:04,589 this this will give you a better life like it just thinking of all the all 230 00:25:04,589 --> 00:25:11,410 the different cleansing commandments that they're given that at the time they 231 00:25:11,410 --> 00:25:15,849 probably felt like this is so much like why do we have to do this but then fast 232 00:25:15,849 --> 00:25:20,369 forward thousands of years and we have modern medicine and we're like they were 233 00:25:20,369 --> 00:25:27,650 being saved from so many diseases as well as reflecting God's holiness and 234 00:25:28,230 --> 00:25:32,990 so yeah I think you guys are all right in the fact that this is a picture of 235 00:25:33,890 --> 00:25:39,490 God's faithfulness and he wants us to he wants us to take part in his 236 00:25:39,490 --> 00:25:43,490 faithfulness not just to be on the receiving end but to be on the giving 237 00:25:43,490 --> 00:25:51,230 end and it really is I like what you said Monday too it really is a blessing when 238 00:25:51,230 --> 00:25:57,529 we're faithful to others it becomes a blessing when you have a business and 239 00:25:57,529 --> 00:26:02,970 you finally find that worker that always shows up that never never calls 240 00:26:02,970 --> 00:26:10,210 out unexpected or just is always putting the needs of the business or the 241 00:26:10,210 --> 00:26:16,470 customers first it's a huge blessing to be found as a person with integrity 242 00:26:19,069 --> 00:26:24,750 there's another another thing that I noted as I was going through this and 243 00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:36,109 we'll read through we'll start in verse 3 we'll go down verse 3 down to verse 5 244 00:26:36,109 --> 00:26:41,190 if a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge while within 245 00:26:41,190 --> 00:26:45,130 their father's house in her youth and her father hears of her vow and of her 246 00:26:45,130 --> 00:26:49,430 pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her then all her 247 00:26:49,430 --> 00:26:54,730 vows shall stand and every pledge by which he has bound herself shall stand 248 00:26:54,730 --> 00:27:00,630 but if her father opposes her on that day the day he hears of it no vow for is no 249 00:27:00,630 --> 00:27:04,529 pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand and the Lord will forgive her 250 00:27:04,529 --> 00:27:09,910 because her father opposed her the next theme that I was noticing is humility 251 00:27:11,490 --> 00:27:18,529 both I'm not gonna read again the with the wife as well because it's in fact 252 00:27:18,529 --> 00:27:26,150 the same it's the same wording but what we're seeing is that they had to take a 253 00:27:26,150 --> 00:27:32,970 position of humility and submission to I'll make a vow but in the end it it 254 00:27:32,970 --> 00:27:37,849 stands on my father or it stands on my husband because that was the God 255 00:27:37,849 --> 00:27:43,769 ordained position of authority that he was putting over them and so they had to 256 00:27:43,769 --> 00:27:50,569 take a place of humility and I love this because it can be looked at as like 257 00:27:50,569 --> 00:27:58,109 oh that's in modern society I know that people are so frustrated with this that 258 00:27:58,109 --> 00:28:04,549 the woman couldn't make a vow without her husband's say so in a sense but 259 00:28:05,630 --> 00:28:10,849 again we're looking at this now and we should be looking at it with spiritual 260 00:28:10,849 --> 00:28:15,029 eyes and therefore what is the spiritual implication for us and whether 261 00:28:15,029 --> 00:28:19,730 you're a woman or a man in this room their spiritual implications because what 262 00:28:19,730 --> 00:28:26,069 does it say in Ephesians 5 we are the bride of Christ and therefore we have to 263 00:28:26,069 --> 00:28:32,950 take the position of humility all of us under God and under Christ and with 264 00:28:32,950 --> 00:28:44,849 that comes great grace if we jump down in verse 14 I believe if if her husband 265 00:28:44,849 --> 00:28:51,109 says nothing to her from day to day then he establishes all her vows or all her 266 00:28:51,109 --> 00:28:55,289 pledges that are upon him he has established them because he said nothing 267 00:28:55,289 --> 00:28:59,089 to her on that day they heard of them but if he makes them little and void 268 00:28:59,089 --> 00:29:05,349 after he has heard of them then he shall bear her iniquity perfect gospel 269 00:29:05,349 --> 00:29:11,130 language right there who bore our iniquity Christ so there's great grace in 270 00:29:11,130 --> 00:29:20,470 the humility but yet it can also be a challenge and a hardship so on on the 271 00:29:20,470 --> 00:29:24,809 thought of humility if we're looking at this from that perspective what are 272 00:29:24,809 --> 00:29:30,710 some things that you guys notice in this text on humility or some application 273 00:29:30,710 --> 00:29:33,170 that you might see 274 00:29:33,170 --> 00:29:40,910 I was thinking that had serious consequences yeah 275 00:29:40,910 --> 00:29:47,390 both of them I thought looking at this and how the woman could be in effect 276 00:29:47,390 --> 00:29:54,670 covered by us and I thought and an eye and he paid with his life now she was a 277 00:29:54,670 --> 00:30:01,410 widow and widows don't have the same protection that a wife has yeah so she 278 00:30:01,410 --> 00:30:17,930 also yeah it's a good connection yeah yeah I think of it as like you know 279 00:30:17,930 --> 00:30:25,769 like we all made vows in our lives where she's like being unsaved that like you 280 00:30:25,769 --> 00:30:30,309 know with the devil we made deals with the devil in a sense that like you 281 00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:38,490 know with our living make commitments that we shouldn't have made spiritual 282 00:30:38,490 --> 00:30:44,490 relationships we made commitments that were like not sanctioned by God you 283 00:30:44,490 --> 00:30:50,710 know and yet if we let him my version actually says overrule similar to I 284 00:30:50,829 --> 00:31:00,549 your said the husband if the husband and the and the all and the father voids it 285 00:31:00,549 --> 00:31:06,289 or something like that mine says overruled but like you know God will 286 00:31:06,289 --> 00:31:12,150 overrule all of our agreements yeah if we let him yeah and then that comes down 287 00:31:12,150 --> 00:31:20,170 to the yeah being submissive like you said like thank God like I could say yeah 288 00:31:20,170 --> 00:31:30,710 but I didn't actually mean it your dad can you clean this mess up yeah so yeah so 289 00:31:30,710 --> 00:31:36,450 it's a good thing we're not committed to all the foolish vows at the vows we've 290 00:31:36,450 --> 00:31:52,769 ever made yeah in sin yeah no go ahead when it makes me think of it's just my 291 00:31:52,769 --> 00:31:56,349 personal beliefs with the mixture of like hierarchy and I believe like 292 00:31:56,349 --> 00:32:01,490 pre-determinism so it just shows that absolute power of like authority like you 293 00:32:01,490 --> 00:32:05,509 can't do anything in and of yourself in and of yourself you don't really have any 294 00:32:05,509 --> 00:32:10,210 power it really comes from your connection to the higher and in this sense 295 00:32:10,210 --> 00:32:14,190 you know I know it's not popular you know because you know feminism is rampant 296 00:32:14,190 --> 00:32:18,309 but me personally I think about like the standard that Paul talks about at first 297 00:32:18,309 --> 00:32:23,630 Corinthians which is like God over Christ Christ over man man over woman you have 298 00:32:23,630 --> 00:32:27,009 to look if you simplify it like between like the man and the woman like the 299 00:32:27,009 --> 00:32:33,150 man is in that God role just like how God told Moses like you'll be a God to 300 00:32:33,150 --> 00:32:37,650 Aaron and Aaron will be a prophet to Pharaoh so it's kind of like that so it 301 00:32:37,650 --> 00:32:41,569 shows like the absolute authority and power of the man in the relationship 302 00:32:41,569 --> 00:32:46,349 with the woman so in either case like she can't just do things on her own just 303 00:32:46,349 --> 00:32:49,589 like I feel like you know we're not ultimately in control God is in control 304 00:32:49,589 --> 00:32:55,829 so we can't do anything on our own everything has to be from God yeah I 305 00:32:56,710 --> 00:33:04,690 yeah yeah I really think that's going off what you were saying to Chris of how we 306 00:33:04,690 --> 00:33:12,930 like we all make foolish commitments we all make foolish vows and in in that 307 00:33:12,930 --> 00:33:22,609 last verse it says that he shall bear the iniquity so it was really is almost I 308 00:33:22,609 --> 00:33:26,710 guess in a sense harder to be a man after making a foolish vow than it was to 309 00:33:26,710 --> 00:33:31,329 be a daughter or a wife because like you said the the husband could kind of come 310 00:33:31,329 --> 00:33:37,549 in and save the day but he had to he had to pay whatever was owed he had to do 311 00:33:37,549 --> 00:33:45,349 whatever was owed he had to pay the price whatever that looks like and it's 312 00:33:45,349 --> 00:33:49,130 just again it's just such a beautiful picture of us like we're the bride in 313 00:33:49,130 --> 00:33:56,170 this situation and it's amazing because every mistake that we've made he pays the 314 00:33:56,170 --> 00:34:01,049 iniquity on the cross he paid our iniquity and I don't know why the verse 315 00:34:01,049 --> 00:34:06,049 is not in my mind right now but there's a verse that quite literally says that I 316 00:34:06,049 --> 00:34:15,409 can't think of the reference yeah yeah yeah yeah that's beautiful you know in 317 00:34:15,409 --> 00:34:21,469 just thinking back to the Ephesians 5 where where it's described of us being the 318 00:34:21,469 --> 00:34:26,710 bride of Christ it starts with husbands love your wives and therefore Christ is 319 00:34:26,710 --> 00:34:30,929 loving us and covering a multitude of our sins and I just want to point out to 320 00:34:30,929 --> 00:34:35,889 the in the Ephesians 5 also talks about submitting one to another and then 321 00:34:35,889 --> 00:34:40,289 speaks to kind of Christmas saying but I mean we all have read that before where 322 00:34:40,289 --> 00:34:45,289 it says then you know why submit to your husband and husband love your wives 323 00:34:45,289 --> 00:34:48,289 as Christ love the church like you were just saying so it's this whole thing of 324 00:34:48,289 --> 00:34:52,929 submitting to one another and I know even in a marriage sometimes where we're 325 00:34:52,929 --> 00:34:58,309 not sure what to do and Chris has a real strong inclination like I could go either 326 00:34:58,309 --> 00:35:04,349 way with something I yield to his direction because ultimately he's going 327 00:35:04,349 --> 00:35:08,309 to be held accountable honestly that's how I was taught because if I don't know 328 00:35:08,309 --> 00:35:11,869 you know I mean and if I don't even I don't like it or whatever I still like 329 00:35:11,869 --> 00:35:16,110 if you really are feeling this is what it is I'm okay doing it because it's not 330 00:35:16,110 --> 00:35:20,969 like against anything so anyways just that whole picture of I've always heard 331 00:35:20,969 --> 00:35:25,809 that before like we're cut the covering of our husbands as a wife and it's 332 00:35:25,809 --> 00:35:29,949 really out of protection sometimes because we can be more emotional about a 333 00:35:29,949 --> 00:35:34,389 decision and they might you know a guy might be more just practical with it 334 00:35:34,389 --> 00:35:39,489 you know and it just makes more sense so I've just learned to yield in those 335 00:35:39,489 --> 00:35:45,449 ways when I don't know for sure yeah and that reminds me of Christ you know yeah 336 00:35:45,449 --> 00:35:55,969 yeah we're all still learning to yield to our groom all right there's one more 337 00:35:55,969 --> 00:36:09,250 theme in here oh is that last that last verse that I'd read 15 if you make 338 00:36:09,250 --> 00:36:14,929 the Nolan Boyd after he has heard of them then he shall bear her iniquity and 339 00:36:15,650 --> 00:36:21,849 the word that stood in my mind was responsibility the responsibility rests 340 00:36:21,849 --> 00:36:28,750 on the one in headship the husband bears the iniquity or a widow then she has to 341 00:36:28,750 --> 00:36:34,969 bear the iniquity herself and our application is that again we fail our 342 00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:41,389 over and over but Christ is the one that takes the responsibility and I love 343 00:36:41,389 --> 00:36:49,949 that in the gospel Jesus doesn't just know and void but he actually pays he 344 00:36:49,949 --> 00:37:02,489 pays he paid the the final the final price but there is there is a 345 00:37:02,489 --> 00:37:11,849 responsibility and this is something to just on a practical note of making 346 00:37:11,849 --> 00:37:18,989 commitments being people that are yeses yes and our know is no there's a lot of 347 00:37:18,989 --> 00:37:23,269 a lot of different ages in here which means there's a lot of differing wisdom 348 00:37:23,269 --> 00:37:29,550 which is good because I think as we kind of like close into final thoughts 349 00:37:29,550 --> 00:37:36,769 and we'll get into other discussion questions is how do you guys see the 350 00:37:36,769 --> 00:37:43,429 the practical walking the south of being people that obey Jesus when he said 351 00:37:43,429 --> 00:37:47,750 let your yes be yes and you know be no what does that look like to you I know 352 00:37:47,750 --> 00:37:53,710 just in my own in my own life personally one one thing that my wife and I have 353 00:37:53,710 --> 00:37:59,309 committed to is if if we say we're gonna go to an event for example we 354 00:37:59,309 --> 00:38:03,630 always show up and that's something I know in my generation perhaps you guys 355 00:38:03,630 --> 00:38:09,210 have dealt with this as well but because of technology and the beautiful blue text 356 00:38:09,210 --> 00:38:14,190 bubble it's so easy to just say oh I don't feel good you know I'm gonna text 357 00:38:14,190 --> 00:38:21,630 that I can't come and we found it to be so frustrating when people cancel last 358 00:38:21,630 --> 00:38:26,610 minute and so that's one way that we've been trying to walk this out is if we 359 00:38:26,610 --> 00:38:31,309 say we're gonna be somewhere we always show up even if we don't feel great or 360 00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:38,429 we're tired or we don't really want to be there what are some ways that you guys 361 00:38:39,590 --> 00:38:48,130 see the need to take responsibility or do take responsibility I would say for 362 00:38:48,130 --> 00:38:56,670 January taking this personal silence prayer and what's it called fasting 363 00:38:56,670 --> 00:39:06,110 praying and silence except during my work hours and when I'm serving so I found 364 00:39:06,110 --> 00:39:10,429 that preparing the day before my schedule because there's always like nine 365 00:39:10,429 --> 00:39:14,869 more morning things that I call my one things that come up during the day but 366 00:39:14,869 --> 00:39:19,730 taking the time to make sure that I have the rest the adequate rest for the day 367 00:39:19,730 --> 00:39:23,510 because no matter what our schedule something's gonna pop in I think 368 00:39:23,510 --> 00:39:36,349 preparing it advance helps me to keep my yeses yeses and my nose noes I would 369 00:39:40,549 --> 00:39:48,469 say things that are like a responsibility like an ongoing thing I 370 00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:54,449 think it's really important like I've tried to make it a practice that if I've 371 00:39:54,449 --> 00:40:01,809 committed to something it's usually for a period of time and you sometimes has 372 00:40:01,809 --> 00:40:08,170 an indefinite period of time so you know and I like being someone who's 373 00:40:08,170 --> 00:40:15,590 consistent with what was agreed on where I agreed to continue doing you know kind 374 00:40:15,590 --> 00:40:21,329 of like a job or a role or something like that and then if it needs to end then I 375 00:40:21,329 --> 00:40:26,909 need to make sure I'm passing it to someone or if it's officially noted yeah 376 00:40:26,909 --> 00:40:31,469 this is gonna end now but that kind of thing just because I think people need 377 00:40:31,469 --> 00:40:36,889 predictability in life you know like they can feel secure that this has 378 00:40:36,889 --> 00:40:41,630 happened even like Wednesday nights that we're here you know we're consistent you 379 00:40:41,630 --> 00:40:48,110 know I know we did get some calls about last week where are you guys you know 380 00:40:48,110 --> 00:40:54,989 but I'm not too many but uh but just a consistency you know and I think me 381 00:40:54,989 --> 00:41:02,010 personally I just feel you know calling to be one of those consistency factors 382 00:41:02,010 --> 00:41:11,610 that's when he pulls me along with you wouldn't be here no I'm very consistent 383 00:41:11,610 --> 00:41:16,510 but cuz I like routine but he is definitely somebody who will always say 384 00:41:16,510 --> 00:41:20,909 well we're here like we can do it like there's gonna be a time you really 385 00:41:20,909 --> 00:41:25,570 can't so do it whenever it's available just do what you're you know I mean it 386 00:41:25,570 --> 00:41:31,650 just kind of helped me to be more like that yeah I think it's you know that's 387 00:41:31,650 --> 00:41:39,449 one of my personal commitments you know or convictions you know I think it grows 388 00:41:39,449 --> 00:41:44,909 our knowledge of how much capacity we have to when we do definitely because I 389 00:41:44,909 --> 00:41:51,829 tend to think that my capacity is much lower than it probably really is yeah and 390 00:41:51,829 --> 00:41:57,590 then I commit to but I'm also I say yes probably too much and I say yes to ten 391 00:41:57,590 --> 00:42:01,309 things and now it's like a week of exhaustion but then I get through the 392 00:42:01,309 --> 00:42:10,210 week and I'm like thank you we did it you know hey man you just know that like 393 00:42:10,210 --> 00:42:16,510 oh I can actually say yes to more than it and I think I like I like that say say 394 00:42:16,510 --> 00:42:18,070 what yes why you can 395 00:42:24,050 --> 00:42:31,250 what are some other ways that you guys have found to practically walk out making 396 00:42:31,250 --> 00:42:38,449 saying yes and following through a little bit easier I made it too long of a 397 00:42:38,449 --> 00:42:47,890 question just what are what are some practical ways that you've been able to 398 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,659 say stick with your word 399 00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:09,400 I think it's a very serious thing to be to really keep your vows keep your yes 400 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:17,300 yes no no because I can remember I felt terrible once because we were invited to 401 00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:22,360 a wedding reception and never occurred to me and a little miss me myself and I 402 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,240 you know not thinking about the expense of what was going on that wedding and 403 00:43:27,019 --> 00:43:32,679 that our absence was probably I know it was a plate it was the dinner we were 404 00:43:32,679 --> 00:43:36,780 planning they were planning our dinner was there yeah and we just thought of 405 00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:40,639 well we just thought you know we'd better something else after as long as I 406 00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:46,460 learned this really okay and I really marriage and I thought this is not very 407 00:43:46,460 --> 00:43:50,199 good those poor people I mean that's $50 out of that pocket we just you know 408 00:43:50,199 --> 00:43:54,119 didn't think didn't think of it just thinking of ourselves you know we said 409 00:43:54,119 --> 00:44:00,000 we'd be there we were you didn't know and I got so convicted of it that I 410 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:06,519 remember going to the mother's house the next day right and just 411 00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:11,039 repented and just telling her how sorry I was but doing that was terrible so 412 00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:25,019 rude I heard yeah I would say like I just ask God for his blessings and they're 413 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:31,159 going to a quiet time and say God I just wanted to do this I share with Pastor 414 00:44:31,159 --> 00:44:38,840 Chris one time about my job interview like four years ago and my the guy who 415 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:46,059 was doing the interview he asked me like how how's how your day goes I thought he 416 00:44:46,059 --> 00:44:49,500 said about my work and say I'll just make sure meet the deadlines and 417 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:54,800 everything you know then he said no no I mean like how's your day because I want 418 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,940 to get out of the fitness world you know I said you know what God is in my 419 00:44:58,940 --> 00:45:04,659 hearts you know no matter what kind of day this mostly ice you know I'm always 420 00:45:04,659 --> 00:45:09,420 very happy and he said I think we're gonna go ahead go on where you have the 421 00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:16,079 good well because I'm Jewish and I'm like oh and I was like this is it I'm not you 422 00:45:16,079 --> 00:45:22,239 know I don't think I'm doing a good job you know but he said that I like he likes 423 00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,659 my enthusiasm you know I think he likes Jesus as a good person you know yeah 424 00:45:28,519 --> 00:45:35,320 yeah so it was right after Easter he Jackie I'm secretary his secretary 425 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:43,820 he called me and I said yeah you got the job yeah so changed my life and also really good yeah so yeah so that's the 426 00:45:43,820 --> 00:45:54,840 that the day I just really pray you know that is something that 427 00:45:57,220 --> 00:46:04,599 the power of prayer is so important because it really like Jesus Jesus showed 428 00:46:04,599 --> 00:46:09,699 us perfect integrity complete humility and full responsibility and it's really 429 00:46:09,699 --> 00:46:14,780 hard to fill those shoes when we're trying to reflect him and he doesn't 430 00:46:14,780 --> 00:46:22,400 call us perfection he calls us obedience but he helps us obey in those things 431 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:28,219 when we ask of that in James if anyone lacks wisdom let him ask and he'll give 432 00:46:28,219 --> 00:46:35,980 generously and I know for myself that is something that I'm I'm a very scatter 433 00:46:35,980 --> 00:46:43,659 brained person if you've heard me teach maybe you've noticed that and God bless 434 00:46:43,659 --> 00:46:50,539 me with a very organized life thank goodness but it is something that has 435 00:46:50,539 --> 00:46:55,920 become such a challenge of really just sticking to the commitments that I make 436 00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,360 because I'm always thinking about so many different things that things just 437 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:06,739 kind of slip off into forgotten land and I actually I had a story about a year 438 00:47:06,739 --> 00:47:16,699 ago similar to yours where our neighbor he's about 83 and he has real bad back 439 00:47:16,699 --> 00:47:21,019 issues so you can't get around very well and he's got a beautiful garden out 440 00:47:21,019 --> 00:47:27,320 front and I go and garden with him every summer and this last summer he asked me 441 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,400 he said hey could you commit to like three or four days a week helping me 442 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:36,480 with my garden and normally it's only like an hour or two hours so in my mind 443 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:43,500 I was like sure why not and so I said yes and weeks went by before I 444 00:47:43,500 --> 00:47:48,739 scheduled to come over and help him and it was about two and a half weeks 445 00:47:48,739 --> 00:47:51,719 actually and he called me said hey could you come over I want to talk to you 446 00:47:51,719 --> 00:48:00,519 about something and this is a guy that is not a believer and he he came out of 447 00:48:00,519 --> 00:48:06,179 his house and we sat down outside and goes so look you you told me that you 448 00:48:06,179 --> 00:48:11,000 you would help me and like I can't get around and do this myself and I was 449 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:17,219 really kind of counting on you and then this is why I don't think I'll ever 450 00:48:17,219 --> 00:48:23,420 forget this and hopefully I it sinks into my brain well enough to actually start 451 00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:28,619 being better at this but I said you are a man that goes to church you should 452 00:48:28,619 --> 00:48:36,719 have the the ability to say yes to something and then commit to it you're 453 00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:41,280 right Peter I'm being rebuked by this guy that doesn't even believe in Jesus 454 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:49,019 but it was such a and he worked in HR for years so it was probably the most 455 00:48:49,019 --> 00:48:56,019 loving gracious rebuke that I've ever received Christians included honestly and 456 00:48:56,019 --> 00:49:00,900 he did it so well but I was so convicted by the Lord of like I can't 457 00:49:00,900 --> 00:49:05,039 believe I let this guy down who was counting on me and one of the things 458 00:49:05,039 --> 00:49:09,659 that he said is I understand like I just started a business he's like I understand 459 00:49:09,659 --> 00:49:13,320 you're starting a business you've got a two-year-old in your house you've got a 460 00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:18,119 lot going on and so if you need to say no to me I don't mind I can get 461 00:49:18,119 --> 00:49:25,260 somebody else but don't say yes and not so I think it is it is so important to 462 00:49:27,219 --> 00:49:31,139 not we're not again we're not gonna be perfect we're gonna make plenty of 463 00:49:31,139 --> 00:49:37,500 mistakes but it is so important to be people of integrity to be people that 464 00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:44,019 take responsibility of our words because we are a reflection of Christ to this 465 00:49:44,019 --> 00:49:51,860 world and whatever we're doing especially for this guy Peter I just think of this 466 00:49:51,860 --> 00:49:58,599 so often of whatever I'm doing that's what Jesus is doing for him because I'm 467 00:49:58,599 --> 00:50:06,079 the only Christian in his circle I'm the only reflection of Christ and there's a 468 00:50:06,079 --> 00:50:09,920 lot of days of conviction because of that because I'm not the best neighbor I 469 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:17,260 could be much better so there's a few more discussion questions I actually 470 00:50:17,260 --> 00:50:27,139 didn't print one off for myself yeah thanks so looking looking kind of at 471 00:50:27,139 --> 00:50:35,159 our own lives what kinds of promises or commitments do you find yourself most 472 00:50:35,159 --> 00:50:39,059 likely to make and then struggle to keep 473 00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:49,260 ones that require a lot of time yeah usually promises to myself promises to 474 00:50:49,260 --> 00:50:51,659 myself are the first ones that I'll break 475 00:50:54,720 --> 00:51:09,159 because nobody else knows right I think that's that's the one that I struggle 476 00:51:09,159 --> 00:51:14,480 with the most as well yeah I give that example silly kind of one of getting up 477 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:20,900 early but that really is it's I don't want to go back on what I was just 478 00:51:20,900 --> 00:51:24,960 saying how it's really it is so important for us to be full of integrity 479 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:30,360 for the sake of what we're reflecting but also for ourselves like that's that's 480 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,179 why I just I love going through these books of the Bible because sometimes it 481 00:51:34,179 --> 00:51:39,320 can be super monotonous but it also is this sweet reminder of how much God 482 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,920 cares for us and how much he doesn't want us to live an awful life he 483 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:49,960 doesn't want us to go in these cycles of feeling terrible about ourselves and and 484 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:58,059 though the more we don't commit to the promises we even make to ourselves the 485 00:51:58,059 --> 00:52:02,900 the worse we end up feeling that's how I feel at least 486 00:52:19,259 --> 00:52:27,699 the next discussion question I realize I'm looking at these these are kind of 487 00:52:29,039 --> 00:52:42,840 they kind of are poking into our personalized I apologize we're the 488 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:52,519 offline yeah George cut how have broken promises to yourself or to others 489 00:52:52,519 --> 00:53:07,539 affected your confidence integrity or relationships we ever noticed we've both 490 00:53:07,539 --> 00:53:18,539 had had had several situations in life where that people were upset that we 491 00:53:18,539 --> 00:53:24,860 didn't reach out to them but they didn't reach out to us right and it's kind of 492 00:53:24,860 --> 00:53:31,179 like and you're like thinking well was it my responsibility or was it our 493 00:53:31,179 --> 00:53:35,980 responsibility you know in terms of isn't it a relationship kind of both ways 494 00:53:35,980 --> 00:53:45,380 and you know and but then again you know it is you know it obviously meant a 495 00:53:45,380 --> 00:53:50,320 lot more to that person though I or we didn't reach out to them then vice 496 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:55,079 versa because maybe there's less going on or you're maybe whatever you know 497 00:53:55,079 --> 00:54:00,000 maybe they're more offended when I realize if life's busy if you want to 498 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:05,440 meet up or talk or let's let's do it you know but like let's not be upset 499 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:10,260 about it you know I don't know if that actually answers the question because I 500 00:54:10,260 --> 00:54:16,280 do feel guilty sometimes for that but it's like is that my responsibility when 501 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:21,420 it wasn't established does that make sense yeah totally you know I had that 502 00:54:21,420 --> 00:54:28,559 actually pretty recently and so I kind of determined in my own minds for the 503 00:54:28,559 --> 00:54:33,360 next two months I'm gonna reach out every other week and if nothing happens 504 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:38,860 then I'll just let it go and two months one by and I reach out and we didn't end 505 00:54:38,860 --> 00:54:42,880 up meeting in two months like all right you're being offended over nothing though 506 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:52,260 because I've now reached out yeah I do think that's a good 507 00:54:52,260 --> 00:55:03,400 because it's a common one specified you know yeah what are some other examples 508 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:10,460 in your guys lives the question again how have broken promises yourself or 509 00:55:10,460 --> 00:55:18,260 others affected your confidence integrity or relationships I'm gonna say 510 00:55:18,260 --> 00:55:23,199 going off of the previous example like making promises to yourself like when 511 00:55:23,199 --> 00:55:26,719 you say like hey I promise I won't like commit this sin again then you do 512 00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:31,639 usually like that feeling of despair yeah but going on to like conversations 513 00:55:31,639 --> 00:55:35,619 we're having earlier that's why I'm glad like in the New Testament you know 514 00:55:35,619 --> 00:55:39,719 Jesus tells us like not to make a vow and it reminds me of a sermon that I 515 00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:43,679 heard I know some of you know like the Macho pastor I like like what he's 516 00:55:43,679 --> 00:55:47,920 he was preaching a sermon about vows and he said that you know ultimately and 517 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,699 it goes into like my beliefs about pre-determinism and ultimately we're not 518 00:55:51,699 --> 00:55:56,880 in control and it's kind of prideful to make a vow saying like yes I'm gonna for 519 00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,400 sure do this because you're kind of putting trust in yourself and we're just 520 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,579 flesh you know we can't trust ourselves you know we're gonna ultimately fail and 521 00:56:04,579 --> 00:56:08,480 so that's why it's not a good idea to make a vow because we're ultimately 522 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,960 putting confidence in ourself instead of God so it's easier to just say like 523 00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:16,599 hey like if it's the Lord's will like I'll do this or that or like I'll say 524 00:56:16,599 --> 00:56:20,059 like yes if it's God's will like I'll do that but I'm not gonna make a definite 525 00:56:20,059 --> 00:56:23,619 promise like I can fulfill it because I don't know like what's gonna happen may 526 00:56:23,619 --> 00:56:27,760 not be God's will I can promise like hey I'll meet you at the store but what if 527 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,900 like God had something else in mind you know what if something happens like an 528 00:56:30,900 --> 00:56:34,719 accident happens and I'm not able to go so ultimately it's just recognizing like 529 00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:39,460 God's ultimately in control it's not up to me or anybody else you know it's 530 00:56:39,460 --> 00:56:43,780 God and so yeah if he wants me to change he'll he'll change me himself so 531 00:56:43,780 --> 00:56:47,639 yeah just leave it up to him and just not try to do things in my own power 532 00:56:47,639 --> 00:56:50,619 because when you do that it's like it's a lot of stress and a lot of pressures 533 00:56:50,619 --> 00:56:54,400 it's like dang why can't I get it right well because in and of myself I'm 534 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,219 powerless you know but all the powers with God so if I just trusted him then 535 00:56:58,219 --> 00:57:04,820 it'll all work out so yeah I don't want to piggy off back off of that though 536 00:57:04,820 --> 00:57:11,760 because like for me that can also go into places of lack of personal 537 00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:17,019 responsibility because it's like oh if it's God's will then and I'm not changing 538 00:57:17,019 --> 00:57:21,179 God's will but it's like ultimately you do have to have some sort of personal 539 00:57:21,179 --> 00:57:26,440 responsibility like not saying it wrong or anything but like like there is this 540 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:32,059 story like for me it's like I can't put that on God to not change his sin habit 541 00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:38,260 because it's like I'm choosing to do the sin God's not like oh this is your sin 542 00:57:38,260 --> 00:57:42,579 to carry for the rest of your life it's my will that you have you know cuz it's 543 00:57:42,579 --> 00:57:46,960 like it's not God's will for us to have sin at all it's actually quite the opposite so like 544 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,460 for me like that put me in a dangerous place where I'm like lacking self 545 00:57:50,460 --> 00:57:55,059 responsibility where I'm like oh yeah it's God's will for me to change or like 546 00:57:55,820 --> 00:58:00,920 it's God like God God's got this so I don't have to do this I can just sit and 547 00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:04,739 wait for things to happen but it's like no like there's many examples in 548 00:58:04,739 --> 00:58:10,320 the Bible where God tells people to go like go do this like Moses like go to 549 00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:17,320 Egypt go tell Pharaoh like you know like yeah so like that for me like not saying 550 00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:21,760 they're wrong like I said but for me I can usually use that as a crutch of like 551 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:28,219 oh God told me to just sit and wait and be patient like be still know that he's 552 00:58:28,219 --> 00:58:32,380 God so all I have to do is just sit and wait no like you have to get off your 553 00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:37,500 stuff like faith without works is dead so like ultimately it's like that that's 554 00:58:37,500 --> 00:58:43,820 for me I can use that as a danger and I do know that too when there is the 555 00:58:43,820 --> 00:58:49,739 temptation to sin that he has given us his spirit and the power to overcome so 556 00:58:49,739 --> 00:58:55,739 when we feel that temptation or that desire we can say you know turn to the 557 00:58:55,739 --> 00:58:58,880 Lord say Lord I know I need your power right now to overcome this you say 558 00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:04,460 you're gonna give me a way of escape and he promises to so he did he does live in 559 00:59:04,460 --> 00:59:09,619 us he's not some outside God you know so we are able to partner and co-labor 560 00:59:09,619 --> 00:59:14,639 with him to do the right thing you know but also taking responsibility when we do 561 00:59:14,639 --> 00:59:19,500 fail and going to him thanks thankful for his mercies and his grace you know 562 00:59:20,220 --> 00:59:27,260 because we all need him and it's really that dependency on him yeah yeah I think 563 00:59:27,260 --> 00:59:34,019 that both those really good we had a guy at Bible College that was the every 564 00:59:34,019 --> 00:59:39,820 every time you ask him something well it's the Lord wills it we'll see Sam I 565 00:59:39,820 --> 00:59:41,320 need you to come tonight 566 00:59:44,980 --> 00:59:54,219 baby but yeah I think that there is that you know and this could have just been 567 00:59:54,219 --> 00:59:58,059 you know me seeing these things and maybe they're not really there the 568 00:59:58,059 --> 01:00:02,260 integrity humility and responsibility but I think that I do think they're 569 01:00:02,260 --> 01:00:08,440 intentional in there because there is human responsibility to obedience to 570 01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:15,420 doing what we say we'll do I love I think I actually just heard a message 571 01:00:15,420 --> 01:00:21,179 recently on that the passage where Jesus is saying don't make a vow but 572 01:00:21,179 --> 01:00:26,659 rather let your yes but yes you know you know and this is David Guzik I don't 573 01:00:26,659 --> 01:00:32,760 know if you know him but he yeah he has a really good commentary you guys like 574 01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:46,920 commentaries yeah I'm not sure but yeah he he was really pointing to the fact 575 01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:55,940 that Jesus made vows God makes vows he makes lots of vows and promises but he 576 01:00:55,940 --> 01:01:00,920 always fulfills them Jesus always fulfilled them and so he wasn't arguing 577 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:06,139 that they shouldn't be made but that we should be people that don't need them 578 01:01:06,940 --> 01:01:15,739 because when I say yes to Aaron I mean yes and he can count on that and our 579 01:01:15,739 --> 01:01:28,360 yes becomes action I let me just pull up that the one verse it's in verse two 580 01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:45,059 yeah yeah it's just up the last sentence in verse two he shall do according to all 581 01:01:45,059 --> 01:01:50,099 that proceeds out of his mouth I just think there's a lot of spiritual imagery 582 01:01:50,099 --> 01:01:56,900 there in the sense that when we look at God the perfect vow keeper when he spoke 583 01:01:56,900 --> 01:02:02,260 everything into existence he just did it with his words which is such a beautiful 584 01:02:02,260 --> 01:02:08,259 picture that when his yes is spoken it's not just I'll get to it but it's 585 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:16,059 it's done now and so when he spoke light light is down there not it's on its way 586 01:02:16,059 --> 01:02:23,840 and so I think that we should strive to be as followers and and apprentices to 587 01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:29,980 Jesus we should strive to be men and women that our yes is action already 588 01:02:29,980 --> 01:02:33,739 taking place to get the thing done and I think that's why in Ecclesiastes he 589 01:02:33,739 --> 01:02:38,079 says that over and over pay immediately like if you make a commitment take 590 01:02:38,079 --> 01:02:44,239 care of it quickly but yeah what was your question so I was gonna ask so cuz 591 01:02:44,239 --> 01:02:47,539 now it makes me think about this first in a different way I might have some 592 01:02:47,539 --> 01:02:50,559 reflection to do tonight but what made me think about I know there's some 593 01:02:50,559 --> 01:02:54,079 Christians that say like all vows are simple maybe like outside of marriage 594 01:02:54,079 --> 01:02:58,460 vows but all vows are simple because after Jesus says that you know let your 595 01:02:58,460 --> 01:03:02,820 yes be yes you know you know like don't swear at all he said anything more 596 01:03:02,820 --> 01:03:07,739 than that is evil so that that to me like it makes it seem like making the 597 01:03:07,739 --> 01:03:11,380 vowels are swearing like that's not really the right thing to do or it's 598 01:03:11,380 --> 01:03:14,960 even sin so I just wanted your perspective on that what would you use 599 01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:19,340 the word word like evil for that you know anything more than yes or no it's 600 01:03:19,340 --> 01:03:25,980 like you swear I think again it goes back to he knows our hearts and he was 601 01:03:25,980 --> 01:03:29,840 speaking to Pharisees and he knows their hearts he knows that these are men that 602 01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,539 make vows over and over but are are lying to the people they're making a 603 01:03:34,539 --> 01:03:42,739 vow to so yeah go ahead I got a question what about today if you stand in the 604 01:03:42,739 --> 01:03:52,139 court you take a vow to tell the truth about the truth I heard a lady in court 605 01:03:52,139 --> 01:04:10,340 refused to one thing like something that the two of you were even talk about but 606 01:04:10,340 --> 01:04:15,000 while you're talking about a vow I was even thinking about like like a vow is 607 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:24,360 and I promised to do something but I was thinking and if I don't then I will like 608 01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:30,320 I think that's where like you're kind of saying that you can't fully trust me so 609 01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:36,179 if I can't if I don't do this then I will give you this or I will like you 610 01:04:36,179 --> 01:04:40,699 know what I mean it's almost like maybe that's the evil part is the is the 611 01:04:40,699 --> 01:04:46,420 part of saying like yes be yes but not contingent upon if I don't then I have to 612 01:04:46,420 --> 01:04:50,539 do all these things I got to clean your house for a year you know like all of a 613 01:04:50,539 --> 01:04:56,920 sudden like maybe that's where where the flesh comes in because you're like putting 614 01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:03,700 a loophole or you're already even saying that I might not do it you're 615 01:05:04,500 --> 01:05:10,679 right and then if I don't I promise something else that I might not also show 616 01:05:10,679 --> 01:05:16,780 up to do that either yeah it's always becoming like this domino effect of like I 617 01:05:16,780 --> 01:05:23,900 promise and if not then you know instead of just saying I'll be there and that's 618 01:05:23,900 --> 01:05:27,199 it you could trust that because I just said that it's not if I don't if I'm not 619 01:05:27,199 --> 01:05:31,460 there then I'll give you a hundred bucks like that's where all the sudden 620 01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:37,400 that's like oh wow that's weird you know that's what your word is worth a hundred 621 01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:41,519 bucks you know does that make any sense to anybody that's just what I was thinking 622 01:05:41,519 --> 01:05:45,800 about well you actually made me think about like two different examples and if 623 01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:49,099 anybody want to give their thoughts on it it would be helpful I was thinking 624 01:05:49,099 --> 01:05:52,199 about like the vow that Jephthah made because sometimes that it could be 625 01:05:52,199 --> 01:05:56,219 dangerous and he made a vow like you know if you help out with this thing 626 01:05:56,219 --> 01:06:00,559 that's great out of my house I'll sacrifice and then his daughter came out 627 01:06:00,559 --> 01:06:05,159 having to sacrifice his daughter let me get out of that like couldn't get out of 628 01:06:05,159 --> 01:06:09,199 that you probably could have we just read it if you read it yeah you know what I 629 01:06:09,199 --> 01:06:12,559 mean that's a great example about the Jephthah and then also in the book of 630 01:06:12,559 --> 01:06:17,099 Acts with those guys that they made a it said they bound themselves under a 631 01:06:17,099 --> 01:06:20,619 curse and it made an oath that they were going to kill the Apostle Paul and 632 01:06:20,619 --> 01:06:23,539 he said they weren't gonna eat anything until they killed him so maybe it's 633 01:06:23,539 --> 01:06:29,019 like and he said it was a curse so it was like something negative so it makes 634 01:06:29,019 --> 01:06:38,460 me think about that yeah I think sometimes it's also about translation though words 635 01:06:38,460 --> 01:06:44,019 that into English so because like the word evil in Hebrew is raw or I think is 636 01:06:44,019 --> 01:06:49,320 raw it can also mean like something that's harmful or destructible so if 637 01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:53,599 you're not keeping about to yourself you're harmful to maybe someone like you 638 01:06:53,599 --> 01:06:57,199 maybe hurt the person's feelings if you didn't go their wedding or you hurt 639 01:06:57,199 --> 01:07:00,900 yourself if you're not fulfilling the things to yourself so it can in some way 640 01:07:00,900 --> 01:07:06,179 be harmful not necessarily your daughter yeah so it doesn't necessarily it might not 641 01:07:06,179 --> 01:07:09,320 I mean it could mean evil sometimes it does leave the evil but I think that word 642 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:14,360 possibly might mean a different different took it out as evil when it 643 01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:17,940 could just be harmful or something I do want to get to Roger at some point 644 01:07:17,940 --> 01:07:23,820 because he's had his hand up for a while sorry Roger you raised your hand a 645 01:07:23,820 --> 01:07:30,440 little bit it was saying how has it affected you your confidence yeah and I've 646 01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:36,920 had less confidence I tend to put yeah I carry a book and write things down and I 647 01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:45,679 tend to relabel those intentions rather than promises or vows or these are 648 01:07:45,679 --> 01:07:59,800 intentions so it's kind of the way I've changed because sometimes you tend to 649 01:07:59,800 --> 01:08:08,500 overschedule yeah and usually somebody who has to make a valid exam I'm gonna 650 01:08:08,500 --> 01:08:13,280 do it I promise I swear on my whatever I'm gonna usually means they're not 651 01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:24,539 trusted my question is saying I promised today the same as saying I bow in the 652 01:08:24,539 --> 01:08:30,180 biblical time right yeah I think it depends on who it's doing I think if it's 653 01:08:30,180 --> 01:08:36,000 to God certainly but also we're under grace and that's that's the thing about 654 01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,699 this chapter that's so beautiful is how it ends with that the poor husband 655 01:08:41,699 --> 01:08:48,220 and he takes all of it like yeah if she makes a bad vow and one if he didn't say 656 01:08:48,220 --> 01:08:51,239 anything it's his fault already because he should have been suitoring his 657 01:08:51,239 --> 01:08:59,899 household better but then too he has to be the one that pays what's due and 658 01:09:02,379 --> 01:09:08,720 there's so many like movies but this is in reality too of that you know deathbed 659 01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:15,500 moment where well God if you give me one more turn you know I'll commit my life to 660 01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:19,960 you this time and then they continue to live a life of sin even though God heals 661 01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:30,020 them in the end if we're committed to Jesus and he's washed us with his blood 662 01:09:30,020 --> 01:09:38,039 doesn't matter how many times we do that he still pays it so I would just to go 663 01:09:38,039 --> 01:09:44,460 back to some of your questions though I don't have a full answer for you but I 664 01:09:44,460 --> 01:09:51,939 would just spend time looking at that passage because he trying to find where 665 01:09:51,939 --> 01:10:02,680 it is I wrote it down somewhere which one 33 because he starts by saying you 666 01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:11,659 shall not swear falsely and I think that's that's the distinction and again 667 01:10:11,659 --> 01:10:22,640 he's talking this is sermon on the mount and yeah I think just looking back at the 668 01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:32,659 text in its fullness it's chapter 5 starting in verse 33 yeah so I don't 669 01:10:32,659 --> 01:10:35,880 really have an answer but maybe just sitting and pondering on that because it's 670 01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:42,020 it's a promise made that we weren't gonna commit yes Roger 671 01:11:06,660 --> 01:11:14,619 yeah it's judges 11 I'm guessing you're talking about Jeff's though yeah judges 672 01:11:14,619 --> 01:11:21,140 11 is where it talks about that and I would say no he doesn't and the reason I 673 01:11:21,140 --> 01:11:30,199 would say that is when you read the passage if I can find it nope judges is 674 01:11:42,239 --> 01:11:49,340 so it's in I'll just read it it's in verse 29 of chapter 11 of judges the 675 01:11:49,340 --> 01:11:57,439 Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah and just backstory he just got called in as 676 01:11:57,439 --> 01:12:03,119 the big muscle basically to take over this army they they're struggling and 677 01:12:03,119 --> 01:12:07,520 they're like Jephthah's a good warrior let's call him even though they had 678 01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:13,079 just kicked him out of town a few chapters before it says then the Spirit 679 01:12:13,079 --> 01:12:16,579 of the Lord was upon Jephthah and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and 680 01:12:16,579 --> 01:12:21,479 pass on to Mispa and Gilead and from Mispa of Gilead he passed on to the 681 01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:26,600 Ammonites and Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said if you will give the 682 01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:31,859 Ammonites into my hand then whatever comes out from the door of my house to 683 01:12:31,859 --> 01:12:37,760 meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's and I 684 01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:44,520 will offer it up for a burnt offering so that is the vowel that is made if 685 01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:50,279 you weren't familiar that's what is being talked about then he defeats the 686 01:12:50,279 --> 01:12:57,619 Ammonites and he's walking home and he was I don't know why he was expecting to 687 01:12:57,619 --> 01:13:08,239 come out of his house when he said this he had one daughter so perhaps maybe he 688 01:13:08,239 --> 01:13:10,939 was thinking a pet would come out you know he doesn't have a lot of family 689 01:13:10,939 --> 01:13:15,279 living at home I could have been his wife maybe he didn't like his wife 690 01:13:18,599 --> 01:13:30,399 his daughter is the one that comes out and he's obviously he's just 691 01:13:30,399 --> 01:13:36,079 heartbroken and the thing that I thought was really neat here and I will answer 692 01:13:36,079 --> 01:13:40,500 your question sorry but the thing that I thought was really cool is that the 693 01:13:40,500 --> 01:13:46,840 daughter says so he basically tells her like I made a vow that I can't go back 694 01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:53,819 on and she says my father you have opened your mouth to the Lord do to me 695 01:13:53,819 --> 01:13:58,600 according to what has gone out of your mouth now that the Lord has avenged you 696 01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:04,699 on your enemies on the Ammonites that's that's some faithful submission right 697 01:14:04,699 --> 01:14:12,539 there I don't think she knows what he vowed to do but to fully answer your 698 01:14:12,539 --> 01:14:20,260 question it says that obviously it's it's clarified what is about to happen 699 01:14:20,260 --> 01:14:26,500 and then she says let this thing be done for me leave me alone two months that 700 01:14:26,500 --> 01:14:31,220 I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity and my 701 01:14:31,220 --> 01:14:37,000 companions so he said go and he set her away for two months and in other 702 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:44,359 translations it said let me weep that I may never marry so it never says in here 703 01:14:44,359 --> 01:14:52,359 that she was burnt and what more often happened if you were committing your 704 01:14:52,359 --> 01:14:57,399 child to the Lord meant that you would be a servant in the temple so it's more 705 01:14:57,399 --> 01:15:06,180 likely that God said no because he's always against child sacrifice and rather 706 01:15:06,180 --> 01:15:11,979 said you were foolish but you still have to be responsible and so your daughter's 707 01:15:11,979 --> 01:15:16,939 gonna come and and serve me in the temple so that's all implication I don't know 708 01:15:16,939 --> 01:15:23,500 if that's what happened but it doesn't say that she died and it does say that 709 01:15:23,500 --> 01:15:29,039 she's specifically weeping for the fact that she's not gonna marry so I think it 710 01:15:29,039 --> 01:15:35,300 would have been more explicit if she's weeping that I'm gonna die yeah yeah it 711 01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:41,560 sounds to me then that Jesus really clarifies that for safety yes we yes and 712 01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:48,979 you know we know yeah yeah yeah I don't want to belabor the point too much but 713 01:15:48,979 --> 01:15:53,020 I'm looking at the verse right now so I have like the King James version so 714 01:15:53,020 --> 01:15:57,640 he didn't say like do not swear falsely but it says in verse 33 it says you 715 01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:01,539 have heard that I've been said by them of old times this is like what the elders 716 01:16:01,539 --> 01:16:07,159 are saying people in the past like don't swear falsely but I say unto you do not swear at 717 01:16:07,159 --> 01:16:11,399 all so that that's where people get that like you should not make any vow 718 01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:15,039 don't swear don't make oaths that's why some Christians say shouldn't do that 719 01:16:15,039 --> 01:16:19,180 all like in the courts don't do it just to say yes no don't make any 720 01:16:19,180 --> 01:16:22,600 promises except of course like marriage vows that's the exception but the 721 01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:26,460 outside of that they say like don't swear at all don't make oaths so Jesus said 722 01:16:26,460 --> 01:16:34,680 in verse 34 so yeah yeah I'll have to think about that to me I whenever I was 723 01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:39,000 reading it I knew that would come up eventually because it was like gone 724 01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:42,220 through the passage before and it's come up and you have to look at all the 725 01:16:42,220 --> 01:16:46,840 different Hebrew like yeah and Hebrew and then the full counsel of the Bible 726 01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:51,239 you know and what I know that again that guy referenced earlier David music 727 01:16:51,239 --> 01:16:57,920 he does do a whole study on that so I could try and find it but yeah you know 728 01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:03,680 give you a better answer words interchangeably vowels promises yeah I read 729 01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:10,260 right I think they're sort of differences they are yeah yeah so even in numbers I 730 01:17:10,260 --> 01:17:15,399 didn't go too deep into it but there's I think seven seven different words being 731 01:17:15,399 --> 01:17:24,119 used but we're reading it as bow bow bow bow each one is slightly different but 732 01:17:24,119 --> 01:17:29,779 kind of the same implications for all of them which is why I didn't bring up it's 733 01:17:29,779 --> 01:17:35,979 kind of cool yeah I will say you cannot be punished for anything you've not made 734 01:17:35,979 --> 01:17:45,239 a vow so yeah practical basis I think we should learn to say no to things we 735 01:17:45,239 --> 01:17:53,159 cannot yeah yeah absolutely I mean more recently I've learned to say yeah I don't 736 01:17:53,159 --> 01:17:59,399 count it as failure to be honest yeah that's great yeah yeah I think that's 737 01:17:59,399 --> 01:18:06,939 something that my wife said recently to me of saying no isn't a failure or you 738 01:18:06,939 --> 01:18:12,319 let somebody down yeah it's not letting somebody down it's being responsible for 739 01:18:12,319 --> 01:18:18,279 your family and specifically for me I have family but I think it's so true 740 01:18:18,279 --> 01:18:23,779 because again in my context when I say yes to something I'm committing my whole 741 01:18:23,779 --> 01:18:29,779 family I'm not just committing me coming tonight means that Tara's at home by 742 01:18:29,779 --> 01:18:38,079 herself with Maria which she's fine she doesn't be there but but still there's 743 01:18:38,079 --> 01:18:42,220 there's other commitments that I've made in the past that I get home and I 744 01:18:42,220 --> 01:18:50,500 tell Tara about it's kidding yeah so it really is like it I just I love Jesus 745 01:18:50,500 --> 01:18:55,760 because he gives us a blueprint for how to give live a good life not an easy 746 01:18:55,760 --> 01:19:02,880 life or a comfortable life but a good life and it's hard to walk it out but 747 01:19:05,119 --> 01:19:11,260 anyways I think yeah thank you guys for being willing to get in a circle do 748 01:19:12,519 --> 01:19:18,039 we do want right out we will yeah I was gonna ask so if anyone had any prayer 749 01:19:18,039 --> 01:19:22,800 alcohol I know oh you're fine I know McRoberts we could be praying for them 750 01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:31,539 yeah and Tammy I'll walk oh I didn't hear I'm not in the prayer chat okay Roger 751 01:19:33,699 --> 01:19:40,960 right hey daddy so Tammy's father sick too right oh yes 752 01:19:44,099 --> 01:19:51,739 he had this is a great great-granddaughter coming in May he really 753 01:19:51,739 --> 01:20:00,399 wants to be here so I'm suffering from gastritis since December 754 01:20:00,399 --> 01:20:05,739 and it's taken I also have fibromyalgia so I've been in a flare you know like the 755 01:20:05,739 --> 01:20:11,119 constant state of healing the doctors are saying I have like eight more specialist 756 01:20:11,119 --> 01:20:14,420 appointments before they decide they're gonna take my gallbladder in March or 757 01:20:14,420 --> 01:20:20,340 April but I I'm praying for a hundred percent healing I had to go to the 758 01:20:20,340 --> 01:20:24,180 hospital again because I couldn't walk or talk last week but the doctor said 759 01:20:24,180 --> 01:20:30,420 that my body is healing it's just that my physical body is weak from fighting so 760 01:20:30,420 --> 01:20:41,859 I just pray for continued healing yeah I got you ma'am don't worry let's pray we 761 01:20:41,859 --> 01:20:44,960 don't all have to pray there's a big group but we can so we'll just kind of 762 01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:51,479 popcorn and well Chris you open us all the other guys thank you for your word 763 01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:56,420 Lord thank you for the amazing sharpening that was done here tonight so 764 01:20:56,420 --> 01:21:02,880 many excellent points were shared Lord and definitely feel refreshed more by 765 01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:08,319 this wisdom thank you for it Lord and we do pray for Tia Lord that you would 766 01:21:08,319 --> 01:21:13,460 heal her completely and that her body would just rise up and fight this thing 767 01:21:13,460 --> 01:21:18,899 and Lord if she needs her gallbladder out you know or that you would guide 768 01:21:18,899 --> 01:21:24,840 the doctors to know that and guide them in that surgery but in the meantime just 769 01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:30,760 just fill her with your healing power and Lord also we pray for Tammy's father 770 01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:37,579 or that you would restore him long enough to to see his loved ones everyone 771 01:21:37,579 --> 01:21:45,659 he needs to and just encourage Tammy during this time Lord and she's there 772 01:21:45,659 --> 01:21:49,899 for her father in Jesus name Amen 773 01:22:01,259 --> 01:22:07,720 I am going to lift up the McRoberts to you and if you know of Doug's mother for 774 01:22:07,720 --> 01:22:13,859 this weekend or we just pray your comfort around all of them Lord and 775 01:22:13,859 --> 01:22:18,880 thankful Lord that she knew you as her Lord and Savior and I just pray Lord that 776 01:22:19,419 --> 01:22:25,699 if there's anyone there that the gospel would be clear that they would come to 777 01:22:25,699 --> 01:22:32,840 know you as well Lord and I just pray Lord that you'll just be with Doug's dad 778 01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:37,840 as he has been sick of pneumonia and then the ICU and all that this week so 779 01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:43,520 we just thank you that he is doing a little better and that you just heal Doug 780 01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:48,600 up to us he's has a big cold and whatever he got after all this where we 781 01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:52,899 just prayed over that family would just plead the blood of Jesus over Jake each 782 01:22:52,899 --> 01:22:57,260 one of them and Jake that he'll get better and be home in time for the funeral and 783 01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:02,979 Lord you know all the details and we're just going to trust you to just bring 784 01:23:02,979 --> 01:23:08,180 glory to your name through it all Lord and we're grateful for tonight Lord and 785 01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:13,579 just how wonderful it is to be amongst your people and our sisters and 786 01:23:13,579 --> 01:23:14,359 brothers in Christ 787 01:23:24,980 --> 01:23:30,100 I'm gonna pray that thank you so much for your work and the scripture that he 788 01:23:30,100 --> 01:23:38,119 studied and help us to use that points to use in our life and what do I pray 789 01:23:38,119 --> 01:23:44,920 for this tea and then God put your blessing hand on our body and you are the 790 01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:50,620 doctors of doctors and you know how you created our body so we pray for all the 791 01:23:50,880 --> 01:24:00,600 staff the team level wanted to to to take care of heart they do your name and 792 01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:09,319 thank you so much for for this final study and help us each other we can build 793 01:24:09,319 --> 01:24:16,579 each other and then we learn that how the words they don't have like created 794 01:24:16,579 --> 01:24:21,699 power just like the way you created this world of our words can break and build 795 01:24:21,699 --> 01:24:28,079 somebody so thank you so much for this for this final study and learn from it 796 01:24:28,079 --> 01:24:30,800 and just stay brave. Amen. 797 01:24:38,259 --> 01:24:59,739 I pray for Leanna, recovering from the waltz of the baby home, just pray that she'll be encouraged and get back to normal and pray they'll be able to help our problems as a result of that. 798 01:25:08,879 --> 01:25:15,100 Dear Heavenly Father, I hope and heal that she gets healed by you Lord that you that 799 01:25:15,100 --> 01:25:19,659 you uplift her body and just fight to fight this thing Lord as you heal her 800 01:25:19,659 --> 01:25:25,560 with her mighty strength with your mighty hand Lord and Lord just let her know 801 01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:29,380 that she's loved Lord and just let her know that the doctors are there for her 802 01:25:29,380 --> 01:25:36,079 and Lord that you are there also for her to save her as you are also our anchor 803 01:25:36,079 --> 01:25:40,899 and you know you have the strength to strengthen us and especially the ones 804 01:25:40,899 --> 01:25:47,180 that are that are sick Lord and I know that you can heal all of us and I 805 01:25:47,180 --> 01:25:52,500 hope and pray for that for her as well and her recovery and you know I thank 806 01:25:52,500 --> 01:25:56,800 you so much for Bible study tonight I thank you for all the wonderful people 807 01:25:56,800 --> 01:26:01,899 that showed up here tonight Lord to learn your word and it's in your name we pray 808 01:26:01,899 --> 01:26:09,180 Amen. We just lift up the allen block family as well just pray for healing 809 01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:15,239 and Lord I just pray that you would have your hand of healing to be over and 810 01:26:15,239 --> 01:26:24,079 bring comfort and enjoy even like a silly thing to ask for we ask for joy in 811 01:26:24,079 --> 01:26:30,079 the midst of all the hardship that people in this church are feeling or 812 01:26:30,079 --> 01:26:36,939 that you would bring joy we love you we thank you for your word Lord help us to 813 01:26:36,939 --> 01:26:43,000 be men and women of integrity help us to take responsibility for our words and 814 01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:49,479 our actions like you did Jesus on the cross or we know we'll stumble and we 815 01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:55,199 thank you for your grace and love and mercy Lord help us this year to be 816 01:26:56,359 --> 01:27:03,020 different than we were last year in Jesus name amen thanks everybody 817 01:27:09,079 --> 01:27:14,520 thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss his 818 01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:19,699 word don't forget to join us for worship lives Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. 819 01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:24,199 Eastern on YouTube be blessed and have a great day