About the title vow
about vows
Numbers 30:1-16
We are God's people who live by God's unspeakable grace. The more we realize this grace, the more we are compelled to give thanks and give thanks to God. David lived his whole life with the heart of, ‘How can I repay the Lord for your kindness?’ “With what shall I repay the Lord for all the grace that has been bestowed upon me?” (Psalm 116:12) He received abundant grace from God, and whenever he thought of the grace God had bestowed upon him, he did his best to dedicate himself more to God. This is the attitude that believers who live by the grace of God should have.
When we realize God's grace in this way, we want to do something for God. So, they make a promise to give their property to God or to set aside their body, and this is called a vow. Today's text is talking about this vow.
rules to follow
The law had a vow offering as a kind of peace offering. A vow is a sacrifice in which a person makes a vow to offer a sacrifice to God for some reason. As such, when offering a sacrifice to repay the vows made to God, it was necessary to offer a perfect sacrifice without blemish. There were times when a person made a vow to give himself to God. At this time, according to the age, according to the law, it was necessary to convert it into money and give it. Other vows that could be made to God included animals, houses, and fields.
The case of the Nazarite was special. Those who made a vow to set apart their bodies and dedicated them to God were called Nazarites. A person who made a vow as a Nazarite first set a time limit to dedicate himself to God. During that vow, they were not to eat any produce of the vine, and they were not to cut or shave their heads. It was also forbidden to defile oneself by being near a corpse. These ordinances indicated that the Nazirites had to completely separate themselves from worldly pleasures and indulgences because they had to give themselves completely to God to carry out God's work. Samuel in the Old Testament and John the Baptist in the New Testament were Nazarites who gave their lives to God.
Prostitutes' income or stolen goods could not be offered as vows. Because God is holy, he could not give unrighteous and dirty income. Those who made a vow to God had to pay it, and the time to pay it must not be delayed. If delayed, it became a sin. If a daughter or wife made a vow, they could be sanctioned by the father or husband. In that case, the vow itself would be nullified. Today's text is mainly about this case.
General principles of vows
“If a man has made a vow to the LORD or has made a vow to the LORD, he shall not break it, but he shall do all that his mouth has spoken” (verse 2). These words contain the basic elements of a vow. The vow makes the object of its promise to God. A vow is a promise to God. This is where the words 'swearing' and 'oath' come from. vow(