Crystallization-Study of Numbers (1)
Message Five
God’s Desire for All His People to Be Today’s Nazarites
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Num. 6:2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to Jehovah.
Isa. 7:15 He will eat curds and honey until he knows how to refuse evil and choose good.
Word of Appetizer
God desires that all His people be Nazarites; how do we become today’s Nazarites?
Numbers 6:2 speaks of a man or a woman making “a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to Jehovah.” Here we see that a Nazarite is sanctified by making a special vow to separate himself to God.
To be a Nazarite is to be sanctified absolutely and ultimately to God. To be sanctified in this way is to be for nothing other than God.
Spiritual Burden
God desires that all His people be Nazarites; to be a Nazarite is to be sanctified, separated, absolutely and ultimately to God, that is, to be for nothing other than God and for nothing other than His satisfaction-the testimony of Jesus.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Among the human race, the unique Nazarite is the Lord Jesus; hence, a Nazarite is a type of Christ in His living absolutely for God in His humanity; God desires that all His people be Nazarites; to be a Nazarite is to be sanctified, separated, absolutely and ultimately to God, that is, to be for nothing other than God and for nothing other than His satisfaction-the testimony of Jesus.
There is a contrast in the Scriptures of two Nazarites— Samuel and Samson: Samuel is a positive pattern of a faithful Nazarite; Samson is a negative example of a Nazarite;
The Experience of Life
The reason anyone can choose the Father’s will and give up something, deny himself, or choose the difficult thing is that behind him there is the great and reinforcing power of the enjoyment of Christ as the richest grace and the sweetest love.
To be filled with Christ is to be filled with submission, having a submissive spirit, standing, atmosphere, and intention; if you are such a person, there will be a great blessing for you and your future.
Practice and Application
We must enjoy Christ as our new wine day by day so that we can be poured out to God as a drink offering for His satisfaction.
We need to separate ourselves from everything of our natural man with its natural enthusiasm, natural affection, natural strength, and natural ability so that we may live by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit, and serve by the Spirit, doing everything by the Spirit in our spirit for God’s unique testimony.
In order to be saved from death, we must be filled with “anti-death,” filled with Christ as the life-giving Spirit by exercising our spirit to pray.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
Num. 6:2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to Jehovah.
Isa. 7:15 He will eat curds and honey until he knows how to refuse evil and choose good.
I. Among the human race, the unique Nazarite is the Lord Jesus; hence, a Nazarite is a type of Christ in His living absolutely for God in His humanity
- In His human living, the Lord Jesus ate butter (the richest grace) and honey (the sweetest love) all the days of His life; this richest grace and sweetest love of the Father enabled Him to choose the good things of the Father’s will and refuse the evil.
- The reason anyone can choose the Father’s will and give up something, deny himself, or choose the difficult thing is that behind him there is the great and reinforcing power of the enjoyment of Christ as the richest grace and the sweetest love.
Key Verses (2)
Num. 6:3-4 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, nor shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh or dried grapes. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.
5 All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to Jehovah; he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
Num. 6:6-7 All the days that he separates himself to Jehovah he shall not come near a dead person. He shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because his separation to God is upon his head.
II. To be a Nazarite is to be sanctified, separated, absolutely and ultimately to God, that is, to be for nothing other than God and for nothing other than His satisfaction—the testimony of Jesus
- Abstaining from wine and anything related to its source signifies abstaining from all kinds of earthly enjoyment and pleasure.
- Not shaving the head signifies not rejecting but being absolutely subject to the headship of the Lord as well as to all deputy authorities appointed by God.
- Not being defiled by the death of his blood relatives, but remaining in his separation to be holy to God, signifies that a Nazarite overcomes natural affection; we need to separate ourselves from everything of our natural man with its natural enthusiasm, natural affection, natural strength, and natural ability so that we may live by the Spirit, walk by the Spirit, and serve by the Spirit, doing everything by the Spirit in our spirit.
- Not coming near a dead person or not being defiled by the sudden death of one beside him signifies that a Nazarite is separated from death; in order to be saved from death, we must be filled with “anti-death, ” filled with Christ as the life-giving Spirit by exercising our spirit to pray.
Key Verses (3)
1 Sam. 1:11 And she made a vow and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if You will indeed look upon the affliction of Your female servant and remember me and not forget Your female servant, but give to Your female servant a male child, then I will give him to Jehovah for all the days of his life, and no razor will come upon his head.
2:35 And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest…
3:20 And all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of Jehovah.
7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
Jer. 15:1 And Jehovah said to me, Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My soul would not turn toward this people. Send them out of My sight and let them go.
III. There is a contrast in the Scriptures of two Nazarites— Samuel and Samson
A. Samuel is a positive pattern of a faithful Nazarite:
Hannah’s prayer was an echo, a speaking out, of the heart’s desire of God; it was a human cooperation with the divine move for the carrying out of God’s eternal economy.
Samuel, who was one with God on earth. As the acting God on earth, the representative of the very God in heaven to rule over His people on earth. Samuel began to minister.
In God’s ordination Samuel was a new priest and a prophet, whose speaking changed the age, not through revolution but through divine revelation, to bring in the kingship.
B. Samson is a negative example of a Nazarite:
Samson is an illustration of one who moved in the Spirit of power but not in the Spirit of life; he was very powerful, yet with him we cannot see anything of life.
Samson failed in not contacting God and in indulging in fleshly lusts.
Nazarite does not need the Spirit of God rushing upon him (Judg. 14:6, 19); rather, a Nazarite needs a heart that is a reflection of God’s heart.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 Among the human race, the unique Nazarite is the Lord Jesus—John 5:30; Phil. 2:8
(Please illustrate that a Nazarite is a type of Christ in His living absolutely for God in His humanity.)
T2 Because the Lord Jesus ate butter and honey all His life; He was able to choose the good things and rejected the evil—Isa. 7:14-15
(Please illustrate that the reason we can choose the Father’s will or deny ourselves is the enjoyment of Christ as the richest grace and the sweetest love.)
D2
T1 God desires that all His people be Nazarites—Num. 6:1-2
(Please illustrate that the priests are ordained by God out of His initiation, but the Nazarites become such by a vow out of their own initiation.)
T2 A Nazareite had to abstain from wine and anything related to its source signifies abstaining from all kinds of earthly enjoyment and pleasure—Num. 6:3-4.
(Please illustrate that we should be careful of anything that makes us happy with experience.)
D3
T1 Not shaving the head signifies not rejecting the headship of the Lord —Col. 2:19
（Please illustrate that to be a Nazarite what are the two things we must take care of?）
T2 Not shaving the head also signifies being absolutely subject to all deputy authorities appointed by God—Rom. 13:1-2a
(Please illustrate that everywhere on earth is deputy authority with experience.)
D4
T1 A Nazareite is not being defiled by the death of his blood relatives—Num. 6:7
(Please illustrate that we need to separate ourselves from everything of our natural man.)
T2 A Nazareite is not coming near a dead person—Num. 6:6-9
(What should we do if we are defiled by some unexpected deadness?)
D5
T1 Hannah’s prayer was an echo, a speaking out, of the heart’s desire of God—1 Sam 1:11
(Please illustrate that what does Hannah’s prayer indicate.)
T2 Samuel is a positive pattern of a faithful Nazarite—1 Sam 1:11; 2:35; 3:20; 7:15
(Samuel was one with God on earth; which five kinds of identity does he minister？)
D6
T1 Samuel is ranked with Moses in being for God and for God’s interest—Jer. 15:1
(Please illustrate that why Samuel was so useful in the hand of God.)
T2 Samson failed in not contacting God and in indulging in fleshly lusts— Judg. 13:3-5, 2 Tim. 2:22).
(Please illustrate that Samson is a negative example of a Nazarite.)
