In the old testament to become a Nazarite you must make a commitment to consecrate you life to the Lord for the rest of your life. Making a vow to the Lord should never be broken.
Numbers
6:1-8
And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, 2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or
woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves
unto the LORD: 3
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall
drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any
liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 4 All the days of
his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the
kernels even to the husk.
5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall
no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he
separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let
the locks of the hair of his head grow.
6 All the days that he separateth himself unto
the LORD he shall come at no dead body. 7 He shall not
make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for
his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon
his head. 8
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
When making a vow to the Lord or anyone, as a promise to assure to pay
it.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 When thou vowest a
vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay
that which thou hast vowed.
Here in the book of Deuteronomy the Lord tells us that don't delay in
paying what you promised him, or it will become sin unto you.
Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou shalt
vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD
thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Numbers 30:2 If a man vow a vow
unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not
break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
It were better not to make a vow into the Lord then to make one and not
keep it.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 Better is it
that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Jonah in the
bible broke a promise to the Lord. The Lord told Jonah to go unto Nineveh to
preach unto them, because the city of Nineveh was sinful, and Lord had compassion
on them and he was giving the people of Nineveh another chance to salvation to
be delivered.
Jonah
decided to take another route and avoided the promise to the Lord and run from
doing what he promised that which he said he was going to do to preach into the
city of Nineveh.
So, Jonah
decided to flee from the presence of the Lord, and Jonah took a ship to
Tarshish.
Jonah 1:
3 But Jonah rose up to flee
unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he
found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into
it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Sin will
follow you wherever you go. As Jonah was sailing to Tarshish a great storm came
and the ship was tossing hard on the sea to the point that the ship was going
to parish. The shipmasters of the ship was so afraid that he ordered everyone
on the ship to start praying to their gods, but nothing was changing the
condition of the storm, so the shipmaster went down into the lower part of the
ship if there were other people to pray unto there gods, and he found Jonah
sleeping, and the shipmaster woke up Jonah and told him to pray to his God. The
shipmaster had no clue that he was the cause of the problem, and the shipmaster
also had no clue that he served a true God.
Jonah
1:4-6 But the LORD sent out a great wind
into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was
like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners
were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were
in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down
into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So
the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper?
arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish
not.
Why do we
break a promise God? The answer to that is we lose the fear of the Lord because
we are drawn away of our own lust.
James 1:14 But
every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
A person
that reroutes from a path when that person is tempted in his flesh to fulfill a
desire that burns in a caving to finish the need. (The devil is the
tempter)
Jonah prayed
in the belly of the whale that God holds the key to salvation.
Jonah 2:9 But
I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that
that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
Pastor Rolando Ramos
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