Numbers 30:10-15 (KJV)
And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; [11] And her husband heard it , and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. [12] But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her. [13] Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. [14] But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them . [15] But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them ; then he shall bear her iniquity.
If her husband hath utterly made them void.. then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips shall not stand. Our words as Christians are not important. It is overruled by words of Christ. We remember what Christ said:
Luke 21:33 (KJV)
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But our words do pass away. Our words are like sand, upon which if a man builds a house, it shall be swept away like a house without foundation. Let us therefore not make much of man's words. Let us build not our lives upon theories and ideas of man, lest we be swept away on the Day of Judgment. Only doing Christ's words is important:
Matthew 7:24-27 (KJV)
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: [25] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. [26] And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: [27] And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Even making much of a Christian's words is dangerous. A Christian, though he may say wise things, is still a wicked man who is living by the grace of God. A Christian only has anything worth to say if he repeats Christ's words. See what this law says, that every vow of the woman the husband may establish it or her husband may make it void. It is up to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has the authority over the Christian whether what we have said shall come to pass, or whether what we have said shall not come to pass. He has the authority over our lives. He tells us how to live and what our lives shall be. His words replace our words and our thoughts and our lives. Let us not confuse ourselves as though our words have any meaning beside from Jesus Christ's authority. Even when we preach or speak of the things of God, we know that Christ has the authority to make our words completely void, if we are speaking that which is not right.
Let us follow, then, this rule:
1 Peter 4:11 (KJV)
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God
Let us pray that God makes void all our foolish words that have not been reflections of God's scriptures. We must speak as living scriptures. That is why the mouth of the Christian exists. Let us remember that our words "shall not stand", if they are not a reflection or a proper explanation of Christ's words. Jesus Christ is the guard over our mouths:
Psalm 141:3 (KJV)
Set a watch, O Lord , before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
But how scary is the thought if Jesus keeps his peace against our foolish vows? It is terrible thought Christ keeps not a watch over our mouths, and rebukes us not for our faults. The silence of God is the true judgment. When God's words ceases to be heard, and when only it is us speaking, that is the judgment of God. God has left us from taking care of the words of our mouths and has ceased from speaking His words of authority over us. Then our own words will take us captive and send us to be prisoners to our own sinful vows:
Proverbs 6:2-5 (KJV)
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. [3] Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. [4] Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter , and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Christ is the deliverer that comes to free us from the traps of our tongue that we have set for our souls. But if He is not there to help us from our sinful state, we shall surely be swallowed up by death and the fire that we have set with our tongue. Let us flee from using our tongue for evil, lest Christ's cold silence leave us to ourselves with our own words. We need Christ's words to speak for us, and establish us and to make our words void. His word is the authority that controls our lives.
His making our words void come at the expense, for read the last verse of the passage, that if the husband makes void his wife's words after he heard them, he must bear her iniquity. Christ bore the consequences of our broken promises and unfaithfulness of our lips and the uncleanness of our lips. The consequence was Jesus Christ suffering the wrath of God on that tree. Jesus died the death that we should have died for every time we have spoken evil and falsehood with our mouths. Our mouths were made to praise God, but we have used it for evil, even to curse God. Who can stand in the everlasting burnings against those who have sinned with their mouths against God? We are like Isaiah:
Isaiah 6:5 (KJV)
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
How unclean are our mouths compared to this holy prophet of God! We would have undone ourselves, if Christ did not come and nullify every wicked sin we have committed with our mouths. But Christ bore instead the consequence of our broken promises, and died a cursed death for the evil of our mouths. Let us worship the risen Christ, to whom we have been married to, and die to the foolishness of our speech in which we once lived. Christ did not taste sin, but He still bore the consequence of our sins. He did it not that we may continue to sin, but that we may sin no more out of the gratitude of our hearts. We deserve to die for our sins, and taste the bitterness of eternal death. But Christ tasted it for us, that we may live. Let us live in His love, and give Him the offering of the praise of our lips:
Hebrews 13:15 (KJV)
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
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