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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, we are back.
Thank you for hanging out withme here on Berean's Corner.
Go ahead and hit pause and getyourself a glass of water, cup
of coffee, cup of tea as we getinto today's lesson and when you
get back, open your Bible toNumbers, chapter 5.
The title of today's lesson isOn Defilement and the Adultery
(00:22):
Tests.
On defilement and the adulterytests as always, as I like to
mention, wherever you are herein this podcast, go ahead and
give it a like, give it acomment and share with your
family and friends.
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chapter, verse by verse.
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(00:46):
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All right on to today's lesson,numbers, chapter five.
As always, we start out readingand then we get into the
chapter.
So Numbers, chapter 5.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Numbers 5.
The Lord said to Moses Commandthe Israelites to send away from
the camp anyone who has aninfectious skin disease or a
discharge of any kind, or who isceremonially unclean because of
a dead body.
Send away male and female alike.
Send them outside the camp sothey will not defile their camp,
where I dwell among them.
(01:46):
The Israelites did this.
They sent them outside the camp.
They did just as the Lord hadinstructed Moses.
The Lord said to Moses Say tothe Israelites when a man or
woman wrongs another in any wayand so is unfaithful to the Lord
, that person is guilty and mustconfess the sin he has
(02:07):
committed.
He must make full restitutionfor his wrong, add one-fifth to
it and give it all to the personhe has wronged.
If that person has no closerelative to whom restitution can
be made for the wrong, therestitution belongs to the Lord
and must be given to the priestalong with the ram with which
(02:27):
atonement is made for him.
All the sacred contributionsthe Israelites bring to a priest
will belong to him.
Each man's sacred gifts are hisown, but what he gives to the
priest will belong to the priest.
Then the Lord said to MosesSpeak to the Israelites and say
(02:48):
to them If a man's wife goesastray and is unfaithful to him
by sleeping with another man andthis is hidden from her husband
and her impurity is undetectedsince there is no witness
against her and she has not beencaught in the act, and if
feelings of jealousy come overthe husband and he suspects his
(03:10):
wife and she is impure, or if heis jealous and suspects her
even though she is not impure,then he is to take his wife to
the priest.
He must also take an offeringof a tenth of an ephah of barley
flour on her behalf.
He must not pour oil on it orput incense on it, because it is
a grain offering for jealousy,a reminder offering to draw
(03:34):
attention to guilt.
The priest shall bring her andhave her stand before the Lord.
Then he shall take some holywater in a clay jar and put some
dust from the tabernacle floorinto the Lord.
Then he shall take some holywater in a clay jar and put some
dust from the tabernacle floorinto the water.
After the priest has had thewoman stand before the Lord, he
shall loosen her hair and placein her hands the reminder
(03:57):
offering, the grain offering forjealousy, while he himself
holds the bitter water thatbrings a curse.
Then the priest shall put thewoman under oath and say to her
If no other man has slept withyou and you have not gone astray
and become impure while marriedto your husband, may this
(04:18):
bitter water that brings a cursenot harm you.
But if you have gone astraywhile married to your husband
and you have defiled yourself bysleeping with a man other than
your husband, here the priest isto put the woman under the
curse of the oath.
May the Lord cause your peopleto curse and denounce you when
(04:41):
he causes your thigh to wasteaway and your abdomen to swell.
May this water that brings acurse enter your body so that
your abdomen swells and yourthigh wastes away.
Then the woman is to say Amen,so be it.
The priest is to write thesecurses on a scroll and then wash
(05:04):
them off into the bitter water.
He shall have the woman drinkthe bitter water that brings a
curse, and this water will enterher and cause bitter suffering.
The priest is to take from herhands the grain offering for
jealousy, wave it before theLord and bring it to the altar.
The priest is then to take ahandful of the grain offering as
(05:26):
a memorial offering and burn iton the altar.
After that, he is to have thewoman drink the water.
If she has defiled herself andbeen unfaithful to her husband,
then when she is made to drinkthe water, that brings a curse.
It will go into her and causebitter suffering, her abdomen
(05:49):
will swell and her thigh wasteaway, and she will become
accursed among her people.
If, however, the woman has notdefiled herself and is free from
impurity, she will be clearedof guilt and will be able to
have children.
This, then, is the law ofjealousy.
When a woman goes astray anddefiles herself while married to
(06:10):
a husband, or when feelings ofjealousy come over a man because
he suspects his wife, thepriest is to have her stand
before the Lord and is to applythis entire law to her.
The husband will be innocent ofany wrongdoing, but the woman
(06:31):
will bear the consequences ofher sin.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, the last time we were together we looked
at the duties of the Kohathites,the Gershonites and the
Merorites.
Today we are looking at thedefilement and the test of
adultery, as I mentioned earlier.
That's the chapter of thislesson.
Now we will break this downinto three parts.
Part number one the regulationregarding leprosy in male and
(06:57):
females.
We see this in verses one,through four numbers, five
verses one 4.
Then the Lord spoke to Mosessaying Command the sons of
Israel that they send away thecamp, every leper and everyone
having a discharge and everyonewho was unclean because of a
dead person you shall send away,both male and female.
(07:20):
You should send them outsidethe camp so that they will not
defile their camp, where I dwellin their midst.
And the sons of Israel did soand sent them outside the camp,
just as the Lord had spoken toMoses.
Thus the sons of Israel did.
Now we have to remember thatback in this time, leprosy was
(07:41):
the big thing.
Leprosy was a big deal backwhen these scriptures were
written.
It was a very contagiousdisease and it was something
that the Lord took serious andhe wanted his people to take
serious.
Part number two, the restitutionof sin sin.
We see this in verses 5 to 10.
Then the Lord spoke to Mosessaying speak to the sons of
(08:02):
Israel.
When a man or woman commits anyother sins of mankind, acting
unfaithfully against the Lord,and that person is guilty, then
he shall confess his sins whichhe has committed and he shall
make restitution in full for hiswrong and add it to one-fifth
of it and give it to him whom hehas wronged.
(08:24):
But if the man has no relativeto whom restitution may be made
for the wrong, the restitutionwhich is made for the wrong must
go to the lord, for the priest,besides the ram of atonement by
which atonement is made by him,also every contribution
pertaining to all the holy giftsof the sons of israel which
(08:47):
they offer to the priest shallbe his.
So every man's holy gifts shallbe his.
Whatever any man gives to thepriest, it becomes his.
Now I want to point outsomething.
In verse 6 notice the wordmankind.
Let's, let's go back, look atthat once again.
Speak to the sons of israelwhen a man or woman commits any
(09:09):
of the sins of mankind.
Now, that word mankind hebrew120 this word adam means mankind
, it means all of mankind's.
It means male or female, and Ilike to point that out because
sometimes people get thingsconfused or they take things the
wrong way and when they seemankind they think that only
(09:30):
means males.
But in this sense it means maleand female mankind in that
sense.
So he's speaking to both.
Now we will move on to partthree.
Now this is going to be alengthy part of the chapter, but
in verses 11 through 31 we readabout the test of adultery.
Then the lord spoke to mosessaying speak to the sons of
(09:53):
israel and say to them if anyman's wife goes astray and is
unfaithful to him and a man hasintercourse with her and it is
hidden from the eyes of herhusband and she is undetected
although she has defiled herselfand there is no witness against
her and she has not been caughtin the act, if a spirit of
(10:14):
jealousy comes over him and heis jealous of his wife when she
has defiled herself, or if aspirit of jealousy comes over
him and he is jealous of hiswife when she has not defiled
herself, the man shall thenbring his wife to the priest and
shall bring as an offering forher one-tenth of an ephah of
(10:34):
barley meal.
He shall not pour oil on it,nor put frankincense on it, for
it is a grain offering ofjealousy, a grain offering of
memorial, a reminder of iniquity.
So we see what this is gettinginto.
Here is the test of adultery.
Now notice it said that theyreally is saying that if the man
knows or he doesn't know, now,if he knows, that's one thing,
(10:57):
but if he doesn't know, theycall it the spirit of jealousy,
meaning that basically he's,he's making an accusation
against his wife.
Pick it back up in verse 16.
Then the priest shall bring hernear and have her stand before
the lord, and the priest shalltake holy water in an
earthenware vessel and he shalltake some of the dust that is on
the floor of the tabernacle andput into the water.
(11:20):
The priest shall then have thewoman stand before the Lord and
let the hair of the woman's headgo loose and place the grain
offering of memorial in herhands, which is the grain
offering of jealousy, and in thehand of the priest is to be the
water of bitterness that bringsa curse.
And the priest shall have hertake an oath and shall say to
(11:41):
the woman if no man has liedwith you and if you have not
gone astray into uncleanness,being under the authority of
your husband, but immune to thiswater of bitterness that brings
a curse.
If you, however, have goneastray, being under the
authority of your husband, andif you have defiled yourself and
a man other than your husbandhas had intercourse with you,
(12:05):
then the priest shall have thewoman swear with the oath of the
curse.
And the priest shall say to thewoman the Lord, make you a
curse and an oath among yourpeople by the lord's, making
your thigh waste away and yourabdomen swell.
And this water that brings acurse shall go into your stomach
and make your abdomen swell andyour thigh waste away, and the
(12:28):
woman shall say amen, amen.
Now I'm gonna start right there,so we see what.
What's going on here.
So this is the test that thepriest is going to get to the
woman.
She's going to swear oath, hehas put the dust in this water
and he's basically going to sayit's like being under oath.
You know, do you swear to tellthe truth?
The whole truth is nothing butthe truth.
And you see, at the end ofverse 22, the woman shall say
(12:49):
amen, amen.
Pick it back up at verse 23.
The priest shall then writethese curses on a scroll and he
shall wash them off into thewater of bitterness.
Then he shall make the womandrink the water of bitterness
that brings a curse, so that thewater which brings a curse will
go into her and causebitterness.
And the priest shall take thegrain offering of jealousy from
(13:11):
the woman's hand and he shallwave the grain offering before
the lord and bring it to thealtar.
And the priest shall take ahandful of grain offering as
this memorial, as an as an emory, as as a memorial offering,
offer it up in smoke on thealtar and afterwards he shall
make the woman drink the water.
When he has made her drink thewater, then it shall come about,
(13:33):
if she has defiled herself andhas been unfaithful to her
husband, that the water whichbrings a curse shall go into her
and cause bitterness and heradamant will swell and her thigh
will waste away and the womanwill become a curse among her
people.
So you?
So, as we see what's going on,if it's true, this is what's
going happen, but verse 28,.
But if the woman has notdefiled herself and is clean,
(13:56):
she will then be free andconceive children.
So, in other words, if herbelly, if her abdomen doesn't
swell, her thigh doesn't wasteaway, then she is clean.
This is the law of jealousy.
When a wife, being under theauthority of her husband, goes
astray and defiles herself, orwhen a spirit of jealousy comes
over a man and he is jealous ofhis wife, he shall then make the
(14:19):
woman stand before the lord,and the priest shall apply all
this law to her.
Moreover, the man shall be freefrom guilt, but that woman
shall bear her guilt.
So what it's talking about himbeing free of his guilt.
It means that once this test isdone, he will be free of his
guilt or of his jealousy.
Now I want to read fiveobservations that, uh, my pastor
(14:43):
, who uh, broke down thischapter, uh, that he said about
this at the end of this chapter,he actually did, uh, five
observations of his own, and youcan find this in pastor david
david thompson's exposition ofnumbers.
It is on page 35 that I'mreading, because I want to read
his five observations pertainingto this.
(15:05):
Number one there's no placethat we know of where any man
ever did this to his wife, andthat is true.
I've never seen anywhere inscripture where a man went back
here and actually applied thistest.
Number two this was a publicexposure and most husbands would
not want to publicly, publiclyexpose this.
When mary was pregnant withjesus, joseph suspected
immorality, but he was not goingto publicly expose this.
When Mary was pregnant withJesus, joseph suspected
(15:26):
immorality, but he was not goingto publicly do this.
His initial reaction was toprivately put her away and if
you remember that story, that'swhat Joseph said he was going to
do.
He said that he will quietlyput her away because what was
happening was that Joseph reallywanted to accuse Mary and say
oh no, I don't believe a word.
You're saying you've been withanother man and now you're
(15:46):
pregnant and you're trying toput it off, saying that the Holy
Spirit did this and he wantedto do it and he wanted to go do
it quietly, but this was to bedone in public.
Number three if the husband werewrong in his suspicions, he
would owe her a great apologyand would have to work to
rebuild the relationship.
However, the woman would shinebright with a great reputation,
(16:08):
just like uh, you know, see backhow joseph did so.
That is true when you reallythink about it.
You got to think about howhumiliating this would be and
for you to have that spirit ofjealousy, you being a man, and
then you're wrong about it.
You have.
You have publicly shamed yourwife, you've embarrassed her,
you've actually embarrassedyourself as well, and it will
take some time to work on that.
(16:28):
Number four although this lawof jealousy is no longer
operative, do not assume thatgod does not observe sin and
that he will not judge sin.
That's something that we allshould know.
And then number five if god'speople want god's blessings,
they must keep themselves freefrom defiling sin.
See first Timothy, chapter 5,verse 22.
(16:48):
All right, people.
That brings us to the end ofnumbers, chapter 5.
As always, I hope you gotsomething out of this lesson.
As I mentioned earlier, whenyou go over to the website, you
will also see everywhere thatyou can hear this podcast.
Pretty much wherever yourfavorite podcast app is, you can
get this podcast, I thank.
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I thank you all for joining me.
As I always say, I am prayingfor you and I ask you to do the
(17:12):
same for me, to give me thestrength to continue on.
All right, that was numbers,chapter five.
That's all for now.
God bless, thank you, thank you.
All right, we are back.
Thank you for hanging out withme here on Berean's Corner.
Go ahead and hit pause and getyourself a glass of water, cup
of coffee, cup of tea as we getinto today's lesson and when you
get back, open your Bible toNumbers, chapter 5.
The title of today's lesson isOn Defilement and the Adultery
(00:22):
Tests.
On defilement and the adulterytests as always, as I like to
mention, wherever you are herein this podcast, go ahead and
give it a like, give it acomment and share with your
family and friends.
Let them know that there's abrother out there that goes
through books of the bible, chat, book by book, chapter by
chapter, verse by verse.
That way we're getting all ofthe lord's good word.
Remember our website over onbuzzsprout?
(00:46):
Um, sorry about that,brian'scornerbuzzsproutcom.
You can go over there.
Not only can you listen to theshow over there, but you can
also see the transcript of eachshow.
Also over there you will seeother places.
You can follow us like ouryoutube page, brian's corner.
That way, when you over there,you will see other places.
You can follow us like ouryoutube page, barren's corner.
(01:06):
That way, when you over there,you will click on it.
It'll take you directly to theright place, because there could
be other ones out there.
So we want to make sure thatyou always end up in the right
place.
All right on to today's lesson,numbers, chapter five.
As always, we start out readingand then we get into the
chapter.
So Numbers, chapter 5.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Numbers 5.
The Lord said to Moses Commandthe Israelites to send away from
the camp anyone who has aninfectious skin disease or a
discharge of any kind, or who isceremonially unclean because of
a dead body.
Send away male and female alike.
Send them outside the camp sothey will not defile their camp,
where I dwell among them.
(01:46):
The Israelites did this.
They sent them outside the camp.
They did just as the Lord hadinstructed Moses.
The Lord said to Moses Say tothe Israelites when a man or
woman wrongs another in any wayand so is unfaithful to the Lord
, that person is guilty and mustconfess the sin he has
(02:07):
committed.
He must make full restitutionfor his wrong, add one-fifth to
it and give it all to the personhe has wronged.
If that person has no closerelative to whom restitution can
be made for the wrong, therestitution belongs to the Lord
and must be given to the priestalong with the ram with which
(02:27):
atonement is made for him.
All the sacred contributionsthe Israelites bring to a priest
will belong to him.
Each man's sacred gifts are hisown, but what he gives to the
priest will belong to the priest.
Then the Lord said to MosesSpeak to the Israelites and say
(02:48):
to them If a man's wife goesastray and is unfaithful to him
by sleeping with another man andthis is hidden from her husband
and her impurity is undetectedsince there is no witness
against her and she has not beencaught in the act, and if
feelings of jealousy come overthe husband and he suspects his
(03:10):
wife and she is impure, or if heis jealous and suspects her
even though she is not impure,then he is to take his wife to
the priest.
He must also take an offeringof a tenth of an ephah of barley
flour on her behalf.
He must not pour oil on it orput incense on it, because it is
a grain offering for jealousy,a reminder offering to draw
(03:34):
attention to guilt.
The priest shall bring her andhave her stand before the Lord.
Then he shall take some holywater in a clay jar and put some
dust from the tabernacle floorinto the Lord.
Then he shall take some holywater in a clay jar and put some
dust from the tabernacle floorinto the water.
After the priest has had thewoman stand before the Lord, he
shall loosen her hair and placein her hands the reminder
(03:57):
offering, the grain offering forjealousy, while he himself
holds the bitter water thatbrings a curse.
Then the priest shall put thewoman under oath and say to her
If no other man has slept withyou and you have not gone astray
and become impure while marriedto your husband, may this
(04:18):
bitter water that brings a cursenot harm you.
But if you have gone astraywhile married to your husband
and you have defiled yourself bysleeping with a man other than
your husband, here the priest isto put the woman under the
curse of the oath.
May the Lord cause your peopleto curse and denounce you when
(04:41):
he causes your thigh to wasteaway and your abdomen to swell.
May this water that brings acurse enter your body so that
your abdomen swells and yourthigh wastes away.
Then the woman is to say Amen,so be it.
The priest is to write thesecurses on a scroll and then wash
(05:04):
them off into the bitter water.
He shall have the woman drinkthe bitter water that brings a
curse, and this water will enterher and cause bitter suffering.
The priest is to take from herhands the grain offering for
jealousy, wave it before theLord and bring it to the altar.
The priest is then to take ahandful of the grain offering as
(05:26):
a memorial offering and burn iton the altar.
After that, he is to have thewoman drink the water.
If she has defiled herself andbeen unfaithful to her husband,
then when she is made to drinkthe water, that brings a curse.
It will go into her and causebitter suffering, her abdomen
(05:49):
will swell and her thigh wasteaway, and she will become
accursed among her people.
If, however, the woman has notdefiled herself and is free from
impurity, she will be clearedof guilt and will be able to
have children.
This, then, is the law ofjealousy.
When a woman goes astray anddefiles herself while married to
(06:10):
a husband, or when feelings ofjealousy come over a man because
he suspects his wife, thepriest is to have her stand
before the Lord and is to applythis entire law to her.
The husband will be innocent ofany wrongdoing, but the woman
(06:31):
will bear the consequences ofher sin.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, the last time we were together we looked
at the duties of the Kohathites,the Gershonites and the
Merorites.
Today we are looking at thedefilement and the test of
adultery, as I mentioned earlier.
That's the chapter of thislesson.
Now we will break this downinto three parts.
Part number one the regulationregarding leprosy in male and
(06:57):
females.
We see this in verses one,through four numbers, five
verses one 4.
Then the Lord spoke to Mosessaying Command the sons of
Israel that they send away thecamp, every leper and everyone
having a discharge and everyonewho was unclean because of a
dead person you shall send away,both male and female.
(07:20):
You should send them outsidethe camp so that they will not
defile their camp, where I dwellin their midst.
And the sons of Israel did soand sent them outside the camp,
just as the Lord had spoken toMoses.
Thus the sons of Israel did.
Now we have to remember thatback in this time, leprosy was
(07:41):
the big thing.
Leprosy was a big deal backwhen these scriptures were
written.
It was a very contagiousdisease and it was something
that the Lord took serious andhe wanted his people to take
serious.
Part number two, the restitutionof sin sin.
We see this in verses 5 to 10.
Then the Lord spoke to Mosessaying speak to the sons of
(08:02):
Israel.
When a man or woman commits anyother sins of mankind, acting
unfaithfully against the Lord,and that person is guilty, then
he shall confess his sins whichhe has committed and he shall
make restitution in full for hiswrong and add it to one-fifth
of it and give it to him whom hehas wronged.
(08:24):
But if the man has no relativeto whom restitution may be made
for the wrong, the restitutionwhich is made for the wrong must
go to the lord, for the priest,besides the ram of atonement by
which atonement is made by him,also every contribution
pertaining to all the holy giftsof the sons of israel which
(08:47):
they offer to the priest shallbe his.
So every man's holy gifts shallbe his.
Whatever any man gives to thepriest, it becomes his.
Now I want to point outsomething.
In verse 6 notice the wordmankind.
Let's, let's go back, look atthat once again.
Speak to the sons of israelwhen a man or woman commits any
(09:09):
of the sins of mankind.
Now, that word mankind hebrew120 this word adam means mankind
, it means all of mankind's.
It means male or female, and Ilike to point that out because
sometimes people get thingsconfused or they take things the
wrong way and when they seemankind they think that only
(09:30):
means males.
But in this sense it means maleand female mankind in that
sense.
So he's speaking to both.
Now we will move on to partthree.
Now this is going to be alengthy part of the chapter, but
in verses 11 through 31 we readabout the test of adultery.
Then the lord spoke to mosessaying speak to the sons of
(09:53):
israel and say to them if anyman's wife goes astray and is
unfaithful to him and a man hasintercourse with her and it is
hidden from the eyes of herhusband and she is undetected
although she has defiled herselfand there is no witness against
her and she has not been caughtin the act, if a spirit of
(10:14):
jealousy comes over him and heis jealous of his wife when she
has defiled herself, or if aspirit of jealousy comes over
him and he is jealous of hiswife when she has not defiled
herself, the man shall thenbring his wife to the priest and
shall bring as an offering forher one-tenth of an ephah of
(10:34):
barley meal.
He shall not pour oil on it,nor put frankincense on it, for
it is a grain offering ofjealousy, a grain offering of
memorial, a reminder of iniquity.
So we see what this is gettinginto.
Here is the test of adultery.
Now notice it said that theyreally is saying that if the man
knows or he doesn't know, now,if he knows, that's one thing,
(10:57):
but if he doesn't know, theycall it the spirit of jealousy,
meaning that basically he's,he's making an accusation
against his wife.
Pick it back up in verse 16.
Then the priest shall bring hernear and have her stand before
the lord, and the priest shalltake holy water in an
earthenware vessel and he shalltake some of the dust that is on
the floor of the tabernacle andput into the water.
(11:20):
The priest shall then have thewoman stand before the Lord and
let the hair of the woman's headgo loose and place the grain
offering of memorial in herhands, which is the grain
offering of jealousy, and in thehand of the priest is to be the
water of bitterness that bringsa curse.
And the priest shall have hertake an oath and shall say to
(11:41):
the woman if no man has liedwith you and if you have not
gone astray into uncleanness,being under the authority of
your husband, but immune to thiswater of bitterness that brings
a curse.
If you, however, have goneastray, being under the
authority of your husband, andif you have defiled yourself and
a man other than your husbandhas had intercourse with you,
(12:05):
then the priest shall have thewoman swear with the oath of the
curse.
And the priest shall say to thewoman the Lord, make you a
curse and an oath among yourpeople by the lord's, making
your thigh waste away and yourabdomen swell.
And this water that brings acurse shall go into your stomach
and make your abdomen swell andyour thigh waste away, and the
(12:28):
woman shall say amen, amen.
Now I'm gonna start right there,so we see what.
What's going on here.
So this is the test that thepriest is going to get to the
woman.
She's going to swear oath, hehas put the dust in this water
and he's basically going to sayit's like being under oath.
You know, do you swear to tellthe truth?
The whole truth is nothing butthe truth.
And you see, at the end ofverse 22, the woman shall say
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amen, amen.
Pick it back up at verse 23.
The priest shall then writethese curses on a scroll and he
shall wash them off into thewater of bitterness.
Then he shall make the womandrink the water of bitterness
that brings a curse, so that thewater which brings a curse will
go into her and causebitterness.
And the priest shall take thegrain offering of jealousy from
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the woman's hand and he shallwave the grain offering before
the lord and bring it to thealtar.
And the priest shall take ahandful of grain offering as
this memorial, as an as an emory, as as a memorial offering,
offer it up in smoke on thealtar and afterwards he shall
make the woman drink the water.
When he has made her drink thewater, then it shall come about,
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if she has defiled herself andhas been unfaithful to her
husband, that the water whichbrings a curse shall go into her
and cause bitterness and heradamant will swell and her thigh
will waste away and the womanwill become a curse among her
people.
So you?
So, as we see what's going on,if it's true, this is what's
going happen, but verse 28,.
But if the woman has notdefiled herself and is clean,
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she will then be free andconceive children.
So, in other words, if herbelly, if her abdomen doesn't
swell, her thigh doesn't wasteaway, then she is clean.
This is the law of jealousy.
When a wife, being under theauthority of her husband, goes
astray and defiles herself, orwhen a spirit of jealousy comes
over a man and he is jealous ofhis wife, he shall then make the
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woman stand before the lord,and the priest shall apply all
this law to her.
Moreover, the man shall be freefrom guilt, but that woman
shall bear her guilt.
So what it's talking about himbeing free of his guilt.
It means that once this test isdone, he will be free of his
guilt or of his jealousy.
Now I want to read fiveobservations that, uh, my pastor
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, who uh, broke down thischapter, uh, that he said about
this at the end of this chapter,he actually did, uh, five
observations of his own, and youcan find this in pastor david
david thompson's exposition ofnumbers.
It is on page 35 that I'mreading, because I want to read
his five observations pertainingto this.
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Number one there's no placethat we know of where any man
ever did this to his wife, andthat is true.
I've never seen anywhere inscripture where a man went back
here and actually applied thistest.
Number two this was a publicexposure and most husbands would
not want to publicly, publiclyexpose this.
When mary was pregnant withjesus, joseph suspected
immorality, but he was not goingto publicly expose this.
When Mary was pregnant withJesus, joseph suspected
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immorality, but he was not goingto publicly do this.
His initial reaction was toprivately put her away and if
you remember that story, that'swhat Joseph said he was going to
do.
He said that he will quietlyput her away because what was
happening was that Joseph reallywanted to accuse Mary and say
oh no, I don't believe a word.
You're saying you've been withanother man and now you're
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pregnant and you're trying toput it off, saying that the Holy
Spirit did this and he wantedto do it and he wanted to go do
it quietly, but this was to bedone in public.
Number three if the husband werewrong in his suspicions, he
would owe her a great apologyand would have to work to
rebuild the relationship.
However, the woman would shinebright with a great reputation,
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just like uh, you know, see backhow joseph did so.
That is true when you reallythink about it.
You got to think about howhumiliating this would be and
for you to have that spirit ofjealousy, you being a man, and
then you're wrong about it.
You have.
You have publicly shamed yourwife, you've embarrassed her,
you've actually embarrassedyourself as well, and it will
take some time to work on that.
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Number four although this lawof jealousy is no longer
operative, do not assume thatgod does not observe sin and
that he will not judge sin.
That's something that we allshould know.
And then number five if god'speople want god's blessings,
they must keep themselves freefrom defiling sin.
See first Timothy, chapter 5,verse 22.
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All right, people.
That brings us to the end ofnumbers, chapter 5.
As always, I hope you gotsomething out of this lesson.
As I mentioned earlier, whenyou go over to the website, you
will also see everywhere thatyou can hear this podcast.
Pretty much wherever yourfavorite podcast app is, you can
get this podcast, I thank.
Wherever your favorite podcastapp is, you can get this podcast
.
I thank you all for joining me.
As I always say, I am prayingfor you and I ask you to do the
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same for me, to give me thestrength to continue on.
All right, that was numbers,chapter five.
That's all for now.
God bless, thank you, thank you.
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