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February 25, 2025 | Numbers 5-6
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In this episode, hosts dive into the Book of Numbers, covering chapters 5 and 6. They discuss how God's instructions aimed at purifying the camp from diseases and ensuring dedication and faithfulness within marriage. The intriguing and sometimes mystifying 'test for adultery' and the rules around it are also explored with thoughts on ancient Israeli culture and its implications. Additionally, they touch on the Nazarite vow and how it can be paralleled to modern-day practices like fasting. The episode concludes with the Aaronic blessing, highlighting God's desire to bless His people. Throughout, the hosts emphasize respect for the Bible’s original cultural context and its enduring principles.

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview

00:56 Using Descript for Sermons

01:49 Challenges of Preaching

02:17 Discussion on Numbers 5: Cleansing and Restitution

06:05 Test for Adultery in Numbers 5

08:57 Understanding Ancient Cultural Contexts

15:13 Numbers 6: The Nazarite Vow

18:40 The Aaronic Blessing

19:48 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome to a very minimal, easy, non

controversial episode of the day.

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This is going to be so

straight fire, straight.

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No, just like straight, like no

bumps, just like straight plane.

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It's no, I thought you

were contradicting me.

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And so you were like, no, we're

going to fight in this one.

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Oh no, we're not fighting.

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That's good.

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I'm going to be throwing logs your

way for you to fire with play with.

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That's great.

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But nothing on my side.

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I am here to help host.

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From a co pilot trajectory.

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It's see, here's the thing.

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I'm host when it benefits

what I want to do.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Any other time that it

doesn't, I'm co host.

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Okay.

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That's how this works.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah, those are the rules.

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I don't know if I signed up for that.

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I don't think I did.

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You can negotiate it in our contract.

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We've got a lot of episodes in the can.

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I don't know what episode

this is, but this is 300.

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Going on year three of doing this for us.

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Two and a half.

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It's funny that, because we've been using

this new software for, I don't know how

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long now this thing called Descript.

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Yeah.

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So we have not only the episodes, but

we have most of the transcripts for it.

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So we could like control F

and see, Hey, when did we last

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talk about that one thing?

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So I've been Using it lately.

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And it's been cool to see something

cause I was using it for my sermons.

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And I'm like, Oh, did

I talk about that yet?

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So I control F and I found like, Oh

yeah, I guess I did talk about it, but

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not the way I want to talk about it now.

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So I'm going to use that illustration.

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Yeah.

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Really helpful.

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That is helpful.

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I try to make a note because that,

yeah, it's so easy as pastors to reuse

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illustrations just because you go back

to the well and it's like, Oh, okay.

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I've already said that a couple of times.

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Or you think, okay, when did

I say that in this series?

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Was that another series?

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Where did I preach this?

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Descript.

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It's all there.

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All your transcripts,

even cross references.

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Sometimes I'll be like, okay, I've gone

to that cross reference too many times.

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Like it makes my point really well

in this, but I feel like I've hit

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that one so many times recently.

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I need to find a different one.

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That's what makes our job so fun and

so challenging because on the one hand,

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faithfulness is not doing anything new.

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As people often say, if

it's new, it ain't true.

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If it's true, it ain't new.

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And that's, and that is true.

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On the other hand, how you say certain

things and how you communicate them

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can be fresh and novel without saying

something fundamentally different

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from what you've said before.

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Even as you're saying the

cross references, our job

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is difficult in that regard.

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We have to be fresh and new

without saying anything brand new.

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Yeah.

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That's a challenge.

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It is very much so a challenge.

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Yeah.

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Speaking of challenging, let's

jump into numbers five and six.

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There's nothing challenging here.

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Nothing challenging at all.

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Numbers five is about the

cleansing of the people of God.

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And this is, God is saying, this is

how I want you to purify the camp

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and what I want that to look like.

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And so verses one through four dealing

with skin disease again, which is always a

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fun subject to talk about this person was

to put outside, be put outside the camp.

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And that was not only for

the ceremonial elements, but

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that was also just practical.

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They didn't want this to spread in

this nomadic group of people because

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it would decimate the people of Israel.

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If all of a sudden, everybody in

Israel got leprosy because they

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didn't put the person outside the

camp, that's practically a bad thing.

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And they were gonna be purged

by being put outside the camp.

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Is this leprosy as we know it today?

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Probably body parts falling

off skin, all those things.

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It doesn't seem to be that way because

it, I think it was earlier in, or

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in Leviticus when it's talking about

this, it talks about the person that

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is completely white from the disease

or the leprosy is head to toe.

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Yeah.

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And then that person is now clean and

allowed to come back into society.

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That would imply that it's a different

form of leprosy than what we know today.

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And that's where most

I think scholars land.

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This is not leprosy as we know it today.

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2025.

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We have medical definitions and Specific

things in mind when we say that the

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bible uses this as a catch all term

to describe skin conditions Yep, which

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one of the only places you can get

leprosy today is from an armadillo dude.

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Praise god.

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Let's get rid of those

armadillos It's nail beds.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I've heard such that they

can carry the disease.

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Wow So If you see an armadillo.

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If you see an armadillo,

don't pick him up.

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Don't pick him up.

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Don't cuddle with him.

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Yep.

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Don't name him Charlie,

and give him to your kids.

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That'd be weird.

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Yeah, just run 'em over because

that's what you do in Texas.

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I don't know.

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You'd run 'em over though.

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Oh yeah.

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You don't like animal cruelty and pain.

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Don't . I don't like animal

cruelty and pain, contrary to you.

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I love it.

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It's my favorite thing.

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So it is an interesting question.

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We were just talking about this

recently about animal suffering.

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We'll get to that at some point

when it makes sense, but that is

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something to put a pin in because

I would like to talk about that.

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It's true.

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We don't have many

armadillos, lots of Bobcats.

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I've not seen one in person.

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Dude, the ring app, you need ring.

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I've not seen one in person.

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Okay.

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I've heard, yes, my neighbors report

sightings and I heard your wife saw

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one recently at a women's gathering.

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Yeah.

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It was on her back fence in her backyard.

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I don't know.

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I.

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I don't know.

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It could have been someone else's cat.

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It doesn't have to be a bobcat.

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It, I, it had the pointy ears.

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I think everybody would, there was.

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Could have been what, a neighbor

kid dressed up as a bobcat?

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I don't know.

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We don't know that.

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I don't know.

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Every time I see Jacob though, I'm like,

I want to post on ranked bobcat sighting.

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Because he goes to Celina.

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Yeah, that's funny.

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You should do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, people are hilarious about that.

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They're like, yeah, now that

everybody's mocking them on that.

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But the ring app is worth it's got

some yucks, the neighbor section on it.

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And you just go there and

scroll it for a little while.

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It's like, okay, people, the other

day we're all in a panic because

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I guess there was a fire down at

PGA at the golf course down there.

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Yeah.

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So that, that everybody's like, why are

all the fire engines going down to PGA?

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People are coming up with extreme ideas.

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Like they found a terrorist in there.

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That's what it is.

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Yeah.

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Terrorists in Texas.

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Where are we?

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We're in numbers.

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Leprosy is a generic term to refer

to all kinds of skin conditions.

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That's all I wanted to say.

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All right.

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And they're put outside the camp

Hebrews 13, by the way, Christ

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is crucified outside the camp.

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And there's a intentionality there by

the writer of Hebrews saying that he was

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willing to go outside the camp for us.

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But.

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We'll get there in Hebrew.

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All right.

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Numbers five, five, three, 10.

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Restitution.

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This is if you have offended somebody,

if you've sinned against them, then you

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are to confess that you were to offer

the sacrifice appropriate for that.

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And then you were to pay them back

and add 20 percent on top of that.

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And so there was a, this was meant

to deter them because it was serious.

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You didn't want to have somebody

to treat that flippantly and say

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the consequence isn't that bad.

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All I've got to do is confess

and then bring the sacrifice.

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It's like, no, it's going to cost you.

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You've got to add a 20%.

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Fee on top of that in, in

repaying them for that.

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And so there's restitution that's again

part of the purification And now the

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bread and butter of the chapter verses

11 through 31 the test for adultery.

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Why does god hate women?

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That's the first question

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Obviously, I do not believe that, but this

really, for a modern reader, you read this

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section and you say what about the gal

and what, why is her thigh falling off?

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What's all this talk about?

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How do we read this in 2025 respecting its

originating culture and also applying it

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however we can apply it to today's issues?

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So I found.

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It's, let me get the title

of the resource, right?

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Hop on pop the Zondervan internet

illustrated Bible background commentary.

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Zondervan illustrated Bible

background commentary.

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That's a good resource of having.

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You should have that.

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Yeah.

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They've got an Old Testament

edition and a New Testament edition.

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They've got it on Logos.

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They went into talking about this and in

one of the points they made, I thought

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was super helpful is this, that the

woman suspected of adultery, she was

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going to be examined in these rules

and regulations, but the one she was

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going to be examined by was the Lord.

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Not humanity.

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And so this is not the whim of men

saying, we think you're guilty.

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And so thus we're going to, we're

going to punish you as we see fit.

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Rather, she is going to be brought before

the Lord and the Lord is going to be the

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one that is going to ultimately rule.

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Yes or no on this.

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And that's why it's set up this way in

what appears almost a little bit mystical

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as far as this, you're going to drink this

and if it causes, it's going to cause your

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womb to swell your thigh to fall away,

which is probably talking about sterility

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or lack of fertility at that point.

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And yet I think that The silver lining

in something that seems rather, we're

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going to throw labels out there in our

culture, like this is patriarchal and

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this is abusive and this is masochistic

and everything else like that.

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I think this is God saying,

listen, I'm going to be the one

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that's going to weigh this out.

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In the end, I'm not going to leave

it in the hands of a jealous husband,

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or I'm not going to leave it in the

hands of a group of men that are

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going to decide one way or the other.

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So in some ways, I think there's a, an act

of mercy towards the woman that she's her

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fate is not in the hands of her accuser,

nor is it in the hands of a human judge,

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but it is ultimately in the hands of God.

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That's a great take.

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Yeah.

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God vindicates her or finds

her out and exposes her sin.

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And part of what's unique about

this is that the guy, if there is

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an adulterer male is not in view.

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This is, we don't know.

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We don't have any information on that.

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If we did.

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Both would be put to death, right?

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That's the way it's supposed to work here.

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We have a husband who has suspicions and

he gives him a recourse to deal with it.

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Now, another follow up question

that someone might have is then

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what about her rights in this?

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Does she have any way to accuse

her husband if she thinks

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that he's committed adultery?

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And the short answer is no.

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There's nothing here about that.

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She doesn't have a way to say,

Hey, I want you to drink this

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dirt mix here from the ground.

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And I want you to confess or this or that.

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Why do you think that might be the case?

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Is there any.

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Any biblical wisdom or insight that

you could provide that would help us to

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navigate why Again 2025 eyes looking at

this and from an ancient perspective and

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saying how do these guys think about this?

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Why does she not have these things?

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Yeah, that's a tough That's a tough one

because there's not really an answer

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that makes everybody feel warm and fuzzy

and good inside at the end of the day

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sure, And this doesn't mean that the

guy was not accountable for his actions.

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This does not mean that the guy was

not called to be faithful to his wife.

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This does not mean that God has

condoning extramarital affairs for

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the man, but not for the woman.

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As you already mentioned, if this

is something where they're caught

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together, then this is an offense that

they're going to be stoned to death.

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Yeah.

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In fact, the, even the message

Mesopotamian culture, the code of

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Hammurabi taught the same thing that,

that the male and female were going to

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be bound together and thrown in a river

and drowned for the sin of adultery.

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So that tells us that there was a

weightiness to the act of adultery,

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That pervaded the culture that nobody

was sitting here saying this is an okay

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thing for the man to do but the woman

You don't have a right in this The thing

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that makes us uncomfortable is does the

woman have a recourse to go and accuse

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her husband of being unfaithful to her?

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And that's what's at the heart of this

not whether or not god's condoning this

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But what can she do and the answer is

we don't have any clear teaching of

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this in the bible That says this is

what the woman's allowed to do, right?

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But I do think we have other examples.

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Let me point to the example of

for instance hannah So Hannah was

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married to was it it wasn't Eli.

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Hannah was married to Anyways,

Samuel's mom she was married

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and yet childless at the time.

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And we see that Hannah was wrestling over

that state of being barren and she went

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before the Lord and she pleaded with the

Lord over her circumstances and the Lord

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responded directly to her, answered her

prayers and provided her with Samuel.

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And then later on, provided her with

more children down the road after

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she dedicated Samuel to the Lord.

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So in that.

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Instance, I think that what

we can draw from that is God

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does care about these women.

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God does care about the ladies

that are present in Israel.

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And I think if we see him respond to

Hannah in that way, if there was a

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woman in Israel at this time, who was

watching her husband go out and do things

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with others and be unfaithful to her.

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If she was to plead before the

Lord, the way that Hannah did.

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I think we can see the character of

God being true to that woman in that

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instance, as he was to Hannah, even though

we don't have that specifically as a

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case study in the Old Testament for us.

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Yeah.

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I would only caution adding to

this, that we're looking at this

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and to keep on emphasizing this

because I think it's so important.

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We're reading this from

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We have a very different

understanding of equality, equity.

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We have a different understanding

of male, female gender.

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There's arguments, even the day

within the church, there's in house

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discussions about how male female

relationships are supposed to work.

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And again, we're looking at this from 2025

with all of our baggage saying this is

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the way that God should have done this.

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If I were God, I would

have said this and that.

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Why didn't God do this?

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Why didn't God do that?

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And I get that.

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I have some of those same questions.

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As you just said here, there's

not an easy answer to this that we

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could say it makes perfect sense.

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God did this and this now.

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And again, I just need you to feel

the fact that you're reading this.

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With a different set of eyes than the

modern or not the modern the original

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audience would have received it for

them They would have said oh, yeah

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makes perfect sense The lord knows what

he's doing and I just want you to feel

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the sense of saying i'm not going to

understand God's ways perfectly as I look

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from 2025 and i'm looking here about 14.

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What see 1445 thereabouts because

that's when they were That's when

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they left exodus or left egypt rather

through the exodus There's a lot

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of distance between us Give God the

upper hand, give God the benefit of

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the doubt and say, okay, there's just

things I don't understand about this.

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And maybe I'll have a better answer

for this in the next year or so, as I

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continue to study the Bible, but just

be patient with the fact that you're

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not going to understand everything

about how this culture operated.

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And that's okay.

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Lemuel, that was his name.

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Okay.

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Really?

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I thought you were right with Eli.

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That's why we should read

our Bible every year.

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The details that you should

know, we'll hopefully remember.

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Now I'm confused what

you were saying is true.

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Yeah, I'm sorry.

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I didn't mean to that just flashed

into my mind there for a second.

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No, yeah, totally.

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It's hard for us not to read through

our modern day eyes, but we do need

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to understand that and understand

things have changed drastically.

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It is appropriate to read the Bible

through modern day eyes after you do the

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work of saying, what did it mean to them?

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Okay.

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You have to start with it.

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When we do that, the TAN method, T A N,

then always now, we always ask, what did

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it mean to the original audience then?

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After you do that groundwork,

then you could say what does it,

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what are the enduring principles

that are always applicable?

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And then how do I apply that now

there's work that needs to be done.

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If you were to just take this a day

and say I'm just going to take this

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and apply this in 2025, you're going

to have issues because you're not doing

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the groundwork of saying, what did

it mean to that culture at that time?

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Yes.

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So what are the takeaways?

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If we could derive any from this?

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Just that God cares about

the purity of marriage.

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I think that's front and center.

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Foremost for us.

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I think God does care about the sanctity

of the marriage relationship and we'll

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look at the old testament and say

Look, this king had multiple wives

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and this man had multiple wives and

so clearly god was okay with polygamy

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and polyamory And yet here we see

this example, and clearly he's not.

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So his silence in some areas or his lack

of action, as it may appear in some areas

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does not mean that he's condoning things.

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He cares about the marriage

relationship between a man and a wife.

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And we see that as a key

takeaway here in this passage.

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And I think, let me just

offer one small thing here.

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I think it's appropriate to be jealous

over your spouse, not in a negative

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evil sense, but to have a right jealousy

for the purity of your marriage.

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If you see some.

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Person flirting with your spouse, you're

not going to just hit their passively

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and say Hey, I guess that's a good

sign that they're still attractive.

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No, I'm jealous for my spouse.

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They're not mine in a technical

sense, but this is my marriage.

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This is my spouse.

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It's good to have a healthy, godly.

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Let me emphasize that godly

jealousy over your spouse.

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So we need more duels.

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So we're saying more duels.

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Let's bring it back.

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Yeah.

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10 paces turn and fire.

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Elana.

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That was the one that was way off.

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Eli was close.

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Yeah, but not Leal.

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That's a le writer of Proverbs

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I don't even know where I was.

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Le that, listen Abe, I know you

had the email going already to me.

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, so it's okay.

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. It's Elana.

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Elana, that's right.

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Yeah.

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Elana was, that's why I

was like, Eli feels right.

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It's Eli was the priest.

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I knew that, yeah, I knew Eli

was the priest at the time,

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but I could not get to Elna.

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Anyways, that's number seven, five,

number seven, six number seven, six.

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We deal with the Nazarites

in the Nazarite vow.

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The Nazarites were a group of people

that had taken a vow, usually a

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voluntary vow a consecration of

themselves to the service of God.

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Usually for a set period of time, they

would say, I'm going to vow myself to

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the Lord in service of this, for this

amount of time, a couple of Nazarites

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that we know from the Bible, Samson

and Samuel were both set apart by

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their parents to be lifelong Nazarites.

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So that wasn't just a period of time.

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That was.

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Forever.

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We think that maybe that was

the vow that Paul had taken

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when he has to shave his head.

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John the Baptist lifelong.

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Yep.

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Nazir.

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Yep.

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So this is something that is, is not

just here in the book of numbers but

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pervades through scripture as well.

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And yeah, go ahead.

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I was going to ask, so we

come back to valves again.

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This is a, this is an interesting thing

because you dedicate yourself to the

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Lord for a certain period of time.

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Is this, what role did this

play in Israel's history?

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And does it have any

application to us today?

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And let me answer the second part first.

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I think a modern day equivalent might be.

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Fasting might be saying,

Hey, you know what?

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I'm going to seek the Lord's will in this

area of my life for a period of time.

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So I'm going to fast from this,

maybe Texas Twinkies for two months.

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There you go.

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Unless Dan invites us to lunch.

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And if that's the case, and I'll

suspend the fast and I'll do it over

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again, because there is place for that.

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We're going to shave your head

to go back to step too far.

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So maybe it's fasting because

that's what this was about.

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And I think that to go back to the

first question, this was meant to,

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Set someone aside for a purpose.

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And again, maybe that was a period

of time, or maybe that was as in the

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case with Samuel and Samson, their

entire life, they were to be set apart

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by their parents to serve the Lord in

these external elements of the Nazarite

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vow, be it not drinking or, growing

your hair out or whatever it may be.

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It wasn't there was nothing magical in

and of that in and so when you think to

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the story of Samson by the for example

The strength was in his hair because

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the hair represented his obedience

to the Lord It wasn't that there was

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something mystical and magical about

the guy's long hair when his hair got

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cut It was an act of disobedience.

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It was an act of a lack of

faithfulness to the Lord.

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And that's why the Lord was no

longer with him in the sense

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of his strength at that point.

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And that's why he suffered there.

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So this is about worshiping God.

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This is an expression of devotion to God.

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And it was for a period of time to

serve to accomplish something, to

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seek the Lord's will in something.

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Or maybe to repay a blessing that God

had provided for a person, maybe God had

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done something and spared their life.

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And so they said, as a result of you

sparing my life, God, I'm going to go

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and commit myself into your service

for this period of time as a Nazirite.

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And so I think again, today, our modern

example would probably be the closest

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thing I could think of would be fasting.

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That's a good call.

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I like that.

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And I think this is really neat too.

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These guys had a really special place

and these gals, it's not just for guys.

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I think this is also

applicable to the ladies.

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I don't ever read of a

gal being a Nazarite.

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Nevertheless, this is really sweet because

they're like the priest in so many ways.

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They don't have the same privileges

as the priest, but they're set

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apart in very similar ways.

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And I think it's really sweet that God

gives them an opportunity to do this.

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It's a way to say, I love you, Lord.

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Here's what my life is.

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I want you to take it, use

it, and use it as you see fit.

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I think, in one sense, the Nazirite

vow is no longer applicable because

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we're all dedicated to the Lord.

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We all belong to Him fully,

completely, from A to Z, the

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beginning of our life to the very end.

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So the Nazirite vow, in some ways,

is, I don't know, no longer necessary.

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All of you belong to all of Christ,

and therefore, you should operate as

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a Nazirite, even though you don't have

The same Nazarite privileges or the vows

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that you make or the hair situation.

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You're you belong to the Lord.

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So this is great I love it.

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But now we have something

better in Christ totally Yep.

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Numbers six, 22 through 27 is the

conclusion here of chapter six,

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and this is the Aaronic blessing.

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This is what God is instructing

Aaron to pronounce over the people,

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over the whole nation, not just

the priests and the Levites and the

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Nazarites, but over the whole nation.

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These are the words that are familiar

to us, may his face shine upon us.

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In fact, there's a silver

scroll in or a, it's actually

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not silver, I take that back.

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I think it's actually written on stone.

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But it's it's in the Jerusalem museum

and it contains this, and it's one of the

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oldest examples of scripture, scriptural

writing that we have in our possession.

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And so it goes all the way back here.

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I think they traced it all the way

to, I want to say around 700 BC.

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And it, Is part of the Aaronic

blessing is on that scroll.

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So cool, really cool that God

commands Aaron to bless the people.

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Yep.

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I love that.

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That's the God's heart right there.

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God cares about his people

and he wants to bless them.

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I think that's helpful

for us as Christians.

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I think about the fact that we ought

to be blessing our families and our

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friends and just speaking truth over

them like this and the Lord bless you.

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The Lord keep you.

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May the Lord make his

face to shine upon you.

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It doesn't have to be that, but

I think that's just God's heart.

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He wants to bless his people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Y'all will.

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Hey, let's wrap up this episode with

prayer and then we'll be done with this.

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Tuesday's edition of

the daily Bible podcast.

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Let me pray.

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God we thank you for just the

reminder in the passage today before

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us that you are God and we are not.

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And we are bound by time.

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You are transcendent of time and your

ways are perfect and right in accordance

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with how you reveal them and how you

unfold them given the certain context

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and dispensation and season and time.

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So God, we want wisdom and we want

humility as we approach the scriptures

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to not sit in judgment because of our

cultural influences and understandings.

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But we also thank you that what we

see here is that you love marriage and

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that you care about the purity of the

relationship between a husband and wife.

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And so God help us to

appreciate that element as well.

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And to fight for that, we want to

be a church of pure marriages and

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marriages that you were going to

use for the good of your kingdom.

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And so we ask that and pray

for that in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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