Don't Let Your Sin Find You Out (Numbers 30:1-36:13)
Pastor Omar Portillo
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Introduction
Introduction
Strongholds are developed by the constant and repeated presence of sin. So far in Numbers we have seen the incremental presence of sin, in many different forms:
Gossip
Complaining
Rebellion
Sorcery
Compromising
Cursing
Harlotry
No offering or attonment could take away the power of this force of sin in mankind.
As we studied - sin is a curse (Genesis 3:13-15)
(1 John 3:4)
Undealt with sin will continue to surface even when we ignore it. We must face it.
Our Bible study today will be an attempt to demonstrate this proces and will highlight some of the most important aspects of the undealt with sin.
Bible Study Scripture (Num 30:1-16) (Num 31:1-24) (Num 32:1-23) (Num 33:50-56)
Bible Study Scripture (Num 30:1-16) (Num 31:1-24) (Num 32:1-23) (Num 33:50-56)
Presentation
Presentation
Numbers 30:1–2 (NKJV)
Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded:
If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
As frequently as a sin has been repeated in our lives, we have reafirmed our predesposition to obey that desire for sin. This means we have made an agreement with that desire and have established it as a thing I must do.
Vows have power as an established law
The Lord Himself is a being of vows:
When the Father asked Abraham to offer Isaac at mount Moriah- Abraham obeyed, then the Father said, by means of the Son:
Genesis 22:15–18 (NKJV)
Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,
and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—
blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
נֶדֶר neder or
נֵדֶר neder (623d); from 5087; a vow:—votive(3), votive offering(1), votive offerings(5), vow(26), vows(24)Thomas, R. L. (1998). New American Standard Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek dictionaries : updated edition. Anaheim: Foundation Publications, Inc.
Votive means “an expressed desired”
A verbal expression of our desire, will and strong wish .
It is a “binding obligation”
A votive offering
Gone with the Wind example.
Numbers 30:3–11 (NKJV)
“Or if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,
and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand.
But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the Lord will release her, because her father overruled her.
“If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself,
and her husband hears it, and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand.
But if her husband overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord will release her.
“Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.
“If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath,
and her husband heard it, and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand.
This is for all of us, being the BRIDE of Christ:
But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand; her husband has made them void, and the Lord will release her.
Numbers 30:15 (NKJV)
But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.”
Romans 3:19–22 (NKJV)
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
even the righteousness of God, through faith in (of) Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
God takes action in Numbers as well to provide the same freedom as our Lord Jesus
Numbers 31:1–9 (NKJV)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the Lord on Midian.
A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”
So there were recruited from the divisions of Israel one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from each tribe; he sent them to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles and the signal trumpets in his hand.
And they warred against the Midianites, just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.
And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.
As we studied in our last session, PHINEHAS stops the plague by piercing throught with the spear (Numbers 25:7)
Numbers 31:8 (NKJV)
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.
But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.
And Moses said to them: “Have you kept all the women alive?
Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.
Obedience is part of the walk with God
Obedience that follows through
Numbers 32:1 (NKJV)
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock,
Numbers 32:5 (NKJV)
Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.”
Numbers 32:6–23 (NKJV)
And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?
Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.
So the Lord’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’
So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.
And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.” WARNING
Then they came near to him and said: “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, (the children stay)
but we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance.
For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”
Then Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war,
and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,
and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be blameless before the Lord and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.
They did not want to fight for what the Lord had given them
They decided to stay where they were - do their own
They were a discouragement to others
If you do not POSSESS what the Lord has given you, He may come to the point not to give it to you
They wanted the INHIRETANCE without having to do anything for it- without REPENTANCE
Moses follows through with giving the inhiratence
Now Moses documents all He is doing in this book: Jornals of the Journey
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
Aaron dies
Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
The land that was promised is the land of Canaan- the promise land - promised to Abraham. The Canaanites are worried.
Now the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
They go on the move and finally camp
Numbers 33:49 (NKJV)
They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the Abel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.
MOAB
From my Father
Son of Lot
Born of incest - Genesis 19:30-38
How to Possess the Land?
Numbers 33:50–56 (NKJV)
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;
you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”
To contend with undealt with sin, not only are we
called to obedience
to not vow before the Lord
to look for the one who was pierced
But also to:
Clean our act
to drive out all inhabitants who are in the land we posses
to destroy all engraved stones - vows
to destroy all molded images -idols
to demolish all high places
The Lord explains the alternative in verses 55 and 56
Also, He calls us to set boundaries around what He has given us:
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
“Command the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.
Summary
Summary
What do we need to do to not allow our sin to find us out?
We see that as frequently as a sin has been repeated in our lives, we have reafirmed our predesposition to obey that desire for sin. This means we have made an agreement with that desire and have established it as a thing I must do.
Vows have power as an established law
Sin is verbal expression of our desire, will and strong wish - James defines this as:
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Obedience is part of the walk with God
Obedience that follows through
We are required to repent
We need a husband to overrule our vows and cover for us- taking the guilt Himself
We are called to possess what has been given to us
We are called to clean our act and the house
We are called to set proper boundaries
The Lord Jesus summarizes it for us in the following scriptures:
“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.’
But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;
nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
This one is regarding vows
The next one is regarding the cleaning
“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
By no means am I saying go hurt yourself. But to make sure you get rid of the things that make you fall and do business with the Lord.