2. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow

3. 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord

4. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 1.No Wine or Grapes (v3-4)

5. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 1.No Wine or Grapes (v3-4) 2.No Cutting of Hair (v5)

6. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 1.No Wine or Grapes (v3-4) 2.No Cutting of Hair (v5) 3.No Contact with the Dead (v6-8)

7. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly

8. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly 1.Open to both men and women (v2)

9. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly 1.Open to both men and women (v2) 2.Open to all tribes, not just Levites

10. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly Many of the Nazirite restrictions were similar, but actually more stringent than for the Levites.

11. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly Many of the Nazirite restrictions were similar, but actually more stringent than for the Levites. a. Ordinary priests could mourn their closest relatives but neither the High Priest nor the Nazirites could touch the dead to mourn at all, even for their father or mother. (Lev 21:2, 11)

12. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly Many of the Nazirite restrictions were similar, but actually more stringent than for the Levites. b. At the end of their consecration, the Nazirites offered a more extensive set of offerings than the Levites at their consecration (Num 8:5-22)

13. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly Many of the Nazirite restrictions were similar, but actually more stringent than for the Levites. c. The consecration of the Nazrite’s head was a close parallel to the consecration of the head of the High Priest who wore a crown that said ‘Holy to the Lord’ (Ex 28:36-37)

14. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly So in giving to the laity a way of consecration like that of the priests, God was symbolically teaching them that they were all to be a nation and kingdom of priests. (Ex 19:5-6)

15. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly 3. Separated by a Vow

16. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly 3. Separated by a Vow A vow is a promise made to and before God, in which you are calling on God to be the witness of your promise and to also be your judge should you fail to carry out that promise.

17. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly 3. Separated by a Vow A vow is a promise made to and before God, in which you are calling on God to be the witness of your promise and to also be your judge should you fail to carry out that promise. And most often, the promise carried with it a request for the Lord’s help or action in some way.

18. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow 1. Separated/Consecrated to the Lord 2. Separated Willingly 3. Separated by a Vow Verses 9-12 show what must take place if the Nazirite vow is accidently broken: they must start all over again.

19. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite

20. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7

21. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 a.Christ’s coming at his birth is seen as a consecration- a body you have prepared for me.

22. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 a.Christ’s coming at his birth is seen as a consecration- a body you have prepared for me. b.It is also seen as a voluntary act of Jesus; behold, I have come to do your will, O God.

23. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 2. At his death: Luke 22:18, John 19:28-30

24. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 2. At his death: Luke 22:18, John 19:28-30 Lk 22:18 has a couple important connections:

25. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 2. At his death: Luke 22:18, John 19:28-30 Lk 22:18 has a couple important connections: a.Like the Nazrite vow, he abstains as a time of consecrating himself to the task of dying on the cross

26. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 2. At his death: Luke 22:18, John 19:28-30 Lk 22:18 has a couple important connections: a.Like the Nazrite vow, he abstains as a time of consecrating himself to the task of dying on the cross b.Like the High Priest’s restriction (Lev 10:8-10) he is abstaining because he is about to go on duty to sacrifice

27. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 2. At his death: Luke 22:18, John 19:28-30 No claims of earth or nature were ever allowed, for a single moment, to come in between His heart and that work which He came to do. (C.H. Mackintosh)

28. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow Jesus Christ, the Spiritual Nazirite 1. At his birth: Hebrews 10:5-7 2. At his death: Luke 22:18, John 19:28-30 Jesus is the one true Nazarite, who though in the form of God…did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped but made himself nothing. (Php 2:6-7) He voluntarily separated himself to fulfill the task the Lord had given him to die for sin.

29. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow A Consecrated People

30. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow A Consecrated People The church is a lay priesthood; priests who are not priests by tribe or ethnicity, but by the consecration of Jesus Christ. (1 Pet 2:9)

31. Numbers 6:1-21 Messiah: Will, Separation and Vow A Consecrated People The church is a lay priesthood; priests who are not priests by tribe or ethnicity, but by the consecration of Jesus Christ. (1 Pet 2:9) Our bodies are to be consecrated to the Lord as spiritual worship (Rom 12:1-2)