That's good. Turn in your hymnals, if you would, and sing. I've picked a song tonight called I Am Thine, O Lord. I'd like us to sing it. 358. Chapter 6 of Numbers is all about the Nazirite, someone who takes special time to dedicate himself to God. We as believers don't do quite the same things the Nazirites did, but this is a song about drawing near to the Lord. So let's sing that together. Very interesting. Some of the thoughts that come of singing that song is taking time to be close to the Lord and in His presence. It's not easy to get away from stimuli these days. Maybe Paul's got it down by walking to church. What can interrupt you while you're walking to church? Well, lots of things, but not as many. You know, with our amazing technology these days. Drawing near to the Lord. Well, in Numbers chapter 6, I'd invite you to turn there in your Bibles, please. Numbers chapter 6. Our sixth lesson, our extreme lessons that count in the wilderness, is in chapter 6. And that is, a vow of dedication demands more. A vow of dedication demands more. Now let me ask you a question. To what kinds of things today are people visibly dedicated and what kinds of things mark these people? So this is where I'm going to be quiet while you answer or contribute. Sports. People, there are athletes who are visibly committed. What would tell you this guy is visibly, or gal, is committed? I was thinking more of a fan. Ron said, it's the fans he's talking about. Tell us what marks a fan has committed. Never miss a game. Never miss a game. We're all totally, have all the paraphernalia. Follow all the staff. Great. I didn't know before I moved to Pueblo that I was supposed to have an orange and blue mailbox. But many people do, and I sometimes wonder The angel of death is going to come over my house with no orange and blue on it. But yeah, that's Mark's, a Bronco fan, sure. Don't miss a game. That was one of the first, without being too embarrassing, one of the first things I learned when I began ministry in Colorado. We said, well, let's put the Kilawana schedule together. Well, you need to know what the Broncos game is, when they're going to be played first. Why? Because you don't want to schedule The junior high, Oana, when there's a Broncos game, nobody will come. Oh, okay. So I learned that very early. And we just scheduled around it. We had plenty of times. But yeah, the person who said that was a fan. Okay, what else commits Mark's people who are dedicated to things? Okay, what would mark someone who's dedicated to his job? Okay. Yeah, okay. Something would mark someone who's dedicated to his job would mean he works plenty and beyond. Okay, that's true. Someone who goes above and beyond the call of duty. You notice that if someone comes to your home, right, and you hire them to do something, if they just do the minimum and then escape or if they explain things as they go along and take extra steps to meet your request. That's a huge difference. By the way, that's a prayer request. I was about to say a young man. gentleman came to my home, he might be older than me or same age, I don't know, but he came and he helped us repair our deck. We had several sagging spots and I was concerned about them for several months, for a year, and we just waited and waited and waited and I finally said, I happened to run into a guy who said, you know, here's some decking parts. So I bought some for a different purpose and he said, I repair decks. We started talking and so I hired him just to do one day's work. And he did a beautiful job. He explained every step. He wasn't afraid for me to learn how to do it. He was dedicated to doing a great, great job. Undercharged me. It was amazing. Really good. What else marks someone who's dedicated? Oh, by the way, pray for him. We talked a bunch of times because he's at a pastor's house and he knew it. And it was a really sweet time. What other people might be dedicated to their something? Social causes, save the whales, bumper sticker, or shaking a fist at you, or something else, who knows, right? I thought of breast cancer, the first one, because everybody's got these little pink little bows around, right? That's a mark of dedication to that cause, anyway. Other things? Children. Okay. What would mark... Someone dedicated to children. Caring for them. Doing things to show care for them. Spending a lot of time. Instead of just saying, well, I gave birth to you, go on, grow up and see you later. Dedicated to children. I thought of marriage. A wedding ring is one way to show you're dedicated. It's not the only way. It's only a starting point. It's one way. Vegetarians. They'll tell you, I don't eat meat. Sometimes it's with a sneer or a flare. I'm better than you because I don't eat all those other living creatures. They're not crying because of me. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes it's just medically necessary. I wish I knew what IBDFM is. Oh, that was supposed to be IBM. If you're an IBM man, what did you look like? You had a certain color shirt, certain kind of buttons, certain stripe. It was crystal clear. You talked a certain way, you dressed, you cut. Military, obvious. You can spot a military member from blocks away sometimes just by the way they walk. Usually accurate. A nurse. When I was a baby, not yet born, Before I was a baby, not yet born, my mother's nurse instructor said, if you're going to be a dedicated nurse, you will never have children. And obviously she didn't do that because I was born after nursing school, but before her graduation from college. But she was still dedicated. But there were those who would say, we are not going to have any children, so we can always be available. A nursing career. A sailor. Sometimes Navy has to be dedicated. A priesthood. A guy's a priest or a monk or a nun. A pastor. He has to be committed internally and there's some externals as well. It's true. Well, in Numbers chapter 6, we see something very interesting. And in this chapter, we're going to see that there are times when God said, you may, if you wish to take a special time and dedicate your life to me in a special way, you may express that by taking a vow called a Nazirite vow. The word Nazir or Nazar simply means to separate. to distinguish. So a Nazirite was someone distinguished. Not the same as the word Nazarene, which Nazarene was a little town, and Pastor Tim could probably tell us the meaning of that if we wanted to ask him. But anyway, a Nazarene was someone who came from Nazareth. But a Nazirite was way, way, way before that in the Old Testament. Now, both men and women could do this, and it's very interesting that it works out that way. I'd like to look at the distinct lifestyle that distinguishes the Nazirite. Look at verses 1 through 8 with me, and I'll read from the ESV tonight. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. All the days of his separation, he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. Interesting that phrase only occurred once here, but it's central to the whole idea of this chapter He shall let the locks of his hair of his head grow long All the days that he separates himself to the Lord, he shall not go near a dead body. Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head." He marks him on his head. All the days of his separation, he is holy to the Lord. That phrase is used twice. So, very interesting. Both men and women can do this. To make a vow is to, the idea is to do something wondrous or wonderful, something that's distinctive. That's the literal meaning, to cause a wonder. And so, God says, I want my people to know that, yes, the priests are uniquely committed to me. They belong to him as the mediators of his truth, of his covenant. And yet, he says, But there may be times when someone wants to draw themselves closer to me in a special way, and they're going to show that they're taking extra steps to do that. And so that's a real possibility. What are the marks of someone who's a Nazirite? Well, in verses 3 through 8, there are three things that mark them to others as a Nazirite. Number one is no wine, strong drink, or anything that could have produced it. Grapes, raisins, stuff like that. Can't leave your thermos out in the car in the summertime, overnight, with apple juice in it. That would be a problem. It's remarkable that happens. How would I know? But who knows? But, you know, it's interesting. None of that. And the third thing is no dead bodies. I'm sorry. Third thing is no dead bodies. Second is no haircuts. This sort of rattles my fundamental perspective. Someone with long hair could be dedicated to the Lord. Well, if they were Jewish, at least. And the Orthodox priests do that, actually, don't they? Or the Orthodox Jews do. They have these long curls. If you're a Hasidic Jew, you've got these long curls because you're not going to cuddle. It's to show that you are very dedicated to the Lord. Someone told me the other day, yeah, you could let your sideburns really go and make curls out of them. I don't think it'll work in me. It's too straight. But anyway. Three things, no strong drink, no alcohol of any kind or close to it, no hair cutting, and no dead bodies. What are some examples of these guys in the Bible? And gals could have been there, but we know some names of several. Who are some of them? That's a good statement. Did you hear that? Samson was technically a Nazirite, but he did not follow the rules. He really didn't. And yet, God used him despite all of his failures, and obvious failures. In the end, He used him. John the Baptist was a Nazirite. Samuel was a Nazirite. Great, you got all the examples I wrote down. Are there other examples? Those are the three that popped into my mind. Surely there were others, but those are three we know. These were lifelong Nazarites in those cases. So, no alcohol or vinegar to keep your mind clean, so mentally you are distinguished. No dead bodies to keep your body clean. That's a representative, I believe, of many things you would do to be hygienically clean. And thirdly, no haircuts to stand out visibly, to be visibly distinctive. You know, you meet someone who's got really long hair and they just sort of stand out if everybody else has short. On the other hand, if everybody had short or long, they would stand out the other way. But that's not the way it was. Long hair stands out on men. And in this case, God said that can and must distinguish a Nazirite. It's interesting, this word for nezer, or separation, on his head is also used for the high priest's crown. And the point is, both the high priest's crown and the Nazarite's hair, his uncut hair, challenged other Israelites to follow the Lord wholeheartedly. That was the point. It wasn't boasting about them, but to say, follow the Lord, commit yourself to the Lord. So verses 1 through 8 give the requirements for a Nazarite. Verses 9-12, we're going to find out, uh-oh, what if the guy next to you dies? What if Doug's in Nazareth, and this guy keels over at work, and Doug already goes, I'm in Nazareth, you just wrecked it. Well, there's a solution, if that were the case. And the Lord's going to explain in verses 9-12. Verse 9, And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it. On the eighth day he shall bring two turtle doves, or two pigeons, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day, and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be Four letter word, void. You're kidding. Nope, the Lord's not kidding. Because his separation was defiled. So see, what's happening is, someone who becomes a Nazirite, they would declare for such and such a time period, I intend to be a Nazirite, or they would say indefinitely. And the Lord's saying, if you get defiled by a dead body touching you, even if it's by accident, you have to restart. What do you do if you restart? Well, there's some steps here. First, it's very, very simple. Shave your head. Might not have been popular with women to be Nazarites, I don't really know. But you were to shave your head, take all the hair back off. Well, that would make you stand out from your previous state, wouldn't it? Here's a guy who's got long hair, now he's got no hair. What happened? Well, you know, death is a mark of uncleanness, and I had to start all over again. Secondly, offer two turtledoves or pigeons. I'm about to sing the 12 Days of Christmas. I don't know why they've got two turtledoves, but they're in there. As atonement, as a sin and burnt offering, consecrate his head, meaning dedicate it and establish a beginning, and then offer him one male lamb, one year old, as a guilt offering. So two major animal offerings and then a shaved head to start all over. Say, is that important? Is it important enough to God to explain it? Yeah. He had to start all over. If something happened, he was to display that uncleanness was unacceptable to God. And he was to restart his vow by this process here. So a defiling dead body meant a definite dead restart. Well, what happens then? What would you do when your vow is closing? You've come to the end and you've said, you know, I've really enjoyed this time of being, I feel it's accomplished its purpose of being separated to the Lord and distinguished for His sake. Then how would you close it? Quite a few steps. It's quite a ceremony that God chooses for closing off this time of a Nazarite vow. Let's look at verses 13 through 20. And this is the law for the Nazarite, when the time of his separation has been completed, he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and he shall bring his gift to the Lord, one male lamb, a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering, one new lamb, a year old, without blemish, as a sin offering, one ram, without blemish, as a peace offering, and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, And now the unleavened wafer is smeared with oil, and their grain offering, and their drink offerings. And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering. And he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice, a peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall also offer its grain offering and its drink offering. And the Nazarite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head, and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazarite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration. And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the priest that is waived and the thigh that is contributed. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine." Verse 20. So the steps are pretty involved, huh? First step, you offer one male lamb a year old as a burnt offering. That thing goes up in smoke. Second thing, you offer a ewe lamb, a female lamb, one year old, as a sin offering to express repentance and request forgiveness for sin, which is ever present. Third is a basket of unleavened bread with loaves of fine flour and oil and even wafers, translation here says smeared with oil. Wow, makes you hungry a little bit. But it's pleasing. It's to be a pleasing thing to the Lord. It's the fragrance, the smell, the cooking, even the offering. A grain offering, the drink offerings that go with all these things. And then he used to shave his head. So everyone notices, your vow's finished. Shave your head. You know, kids do things like that now today, right? To identify with those going through chemotherapy and things like that. They'll all shave their heads. I'm proud of them. I haven't participated with them, but I'm proud of them for their solidarity. But shave your head and burn the hair with the peace offering. And the idea is I'm at peace with God and I'll give every hair off my head for that. And then the wave offering. The cool thing about the wave offering is where it's directed. Where is the wave offering going? It's waved before the Lord, and it goes to the Kohen. It goes to the priest. The priest, God said, the priest is to be fed, at least in part, many times, with a portion of the sacrifices given. In this passage, the waved offering is waved before the Lord, and then he takes the boiled shoulder of the ram, puts that in the hand of the former Nazarite. He takes the unleavened loaf, gives it to him, the unleavened wafer, the breast that he would have customarily already offered, and the thigh contributed with this offering, puts them in his hands as a waving before the Lord, and then he gives it to the priest as part of his food. So God provided for the priest in this way. It's a very interesting closing process. But the idea is, this person has walked in close fellowship with God. He's denied himself many things in order to be committed to the Lord. Verse 21 surprised me though. Because you can go above and beyond. Now listen to this. This is the law, or the Torah, of the Nazarite, of the Nazir. But if he vows an offering to the Lord above his Nazarite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazarite. So if he pledges 10 oxen at the beginning of his vow as a Nazirite. He is not finished. He cannot escape this vow until he offers that. If you pledge your Maserati to become a Nazirite, you don't get to keep it at the end. You keep, you pay the value of offered. Very interesting. We don't have a lot of things like that in the New Testament. Because we offer what? ourselves as the living sacrifice. It was one thing to say, you know, I love Christ, He's forgiven me, okay, take me Lord. Well, that'd be sort of easy in a sense. It wouldn't be fun before. But the Lord says, I want us to be living sacrifices, day by day, living out. So this is different. But this was a very serious thing. He can vow more to express love or to express, God has already blessed me so much, I want to give more, as part of my Nazarite vow. Not as a boasting, except in God's goodness to Him. So that can happen, but he needs to do it. Pay the vow. Ecclesiastes says, Proverbs repeats this kind of thing. So he can vow above this. He must keep it. Does that mean he was a better Nazarite than others? Doesn't say that. Doesn't say that at all. It just says he can do that. And he should. If he wishes to, he needs to fulfill it. So this is really an interesting thing to think through, and we'll talk about some applications about that in a couple of moments. Before we do that, God wants the Israelites to remember, it's not just the Nazarites who know my blessing, nor is it simply the priests. But all Israel is to be blessed but through the priest. So look with me at the portion which says we're going to honour the Aaronic blessing. The verses 22-27. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Speak to Aaron and his sons saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel. You shall say to them, The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you. and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them." Many Bible scholars believe that this is what the high priest spoke when he came out of the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement. He said, guess what? There's good news. God accepted our sacrifice. He has extended forgiveness. I'm alive. I came out. I'm here. And then pronounces the Aaronic blessing. That's what many believe. So here you have a guard, a guard from God in verse 24. The Lord bless you and keep you. The word keep is shamar. It's to keep, to protect. It's the same word used for these guards throughout the Old Testament. The spiritual security guards to keep something, to protect something. Shamar. Maybe that's the word. Where are our deacons? Mark is here representing the deacons. Maybe that's the word we should have chosen for our security team. The Mesa Hill shamarim. The guards. We were debating what's the best word to be really careful of. And we came up with, I think, watch. Sort of like watchmen. But he says, God is here to bless you and protect you. I could just bless you and throw you out there. Secondly, God is here as a grace. Verse 25, the Lord make His face to shine upon you, to smile as it were. Doesn't it feel like the sun shines when someone attractive beams at you? Your spouse or your children? Someone you love? Make His face to shine upon you. It's one of the best gifts we can give to someone else. It's a smile. It's a blessing. But God Himself to beam upon them, and be gracious. Gracious, that word is going to be from Keset again. The idea is steadfast love. Love expressed through a covenant. Love that doesn't go away because he started it. Love that won't leave. It's grace you don't deserve. Goodness you don't deserve. That's grace. In this case, it's special through a covenant. And he says, not only a guard in verse 24, a grace in verse 25, but a glory in verse 26. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. God's glory would be as it were upon His people, reflecting His goodness to them. Now, the word for peace is, you know the word for peace in Hebrew. It's what? Shalom. Shalom. If you see someone on the street who's Hebrew, you can say, Shalom aleichem. And the person should answer, aleichem shalom. And to you, peace. This word for peace is very inadequate in the English language. Because we think of the word of peace, meaning we're not at war with anybody. Gordon and Paul, I'd say they must be at peace. I never see them fight. They probably have serious discussions, but they're at peace. But this is more than just being at peace. This is the word of well-being. Contentment because everything is going pretty well. All your needs are supplied. Your enemies are not tromping you. You're not afraid. That's shalom. When he says, may the Lord give you peace, it means, may He make everything good. But it's from Him. It's not just because you earned it or achieved it. And so that's just a beautiful blessing. I've sung this in weddings. I'm sure you've heard it sung in weddings, right? You may have heard this sung in some of your worship services. But this is a very popular blessing. And even non-believers, people who know nothing about the Bible, love to sing this. They love this little poem because it's such beautiful stuff. It's so good that only God can ultimately give this. And yet God says, I'm going to speak it for the Aaronic line, but does it stay there? It goes out to everyone the priests are instructing and helping and assisting and mediating between God and them. So what a beautiful passage. A vow of dedication demands more. And God says, you can do that. You may not be a priest, but you can come closer and have a period of time where you are just dedicated in a special way to me for whatever reason. It's not explained for what reason. Here, we know the case for Samuel because he wanted to be a priest. He wanted to serve like a priest, right? For Samson, because an angel said, this guy's going to be a Nazirite. And he accomplished special purposes that God had, despite all of his human failings at it. And John the Baptist, don't know exactly why he was a Nazirite. I have a personal theory, which Pastor Tim might help me check out someday. But I tend to think John the Baptist's parents died before he reached adulthood, because they were pretty old. They were well advanced in years, Luke graciously says, when he was born. And so he dedicated himself and lived out in the wild. But this is something that God says. A vow of dedication demands more. Just as a marriage would, just as being in the military does, But this is to the God of the universe, a very special thing. And there's a special blessing to those who know and find His favor by drawing near to Him. That's what I think this passage is saying. Draw near to Him. Nazarite or not, draw near to Him. He's the source. Now here's some questions, some application questions, so help me with these. What kinds of things do distinguish or should distinguish the New Testament believer? What kinds of things should distinguish, or I'm sorry, do distinguish, or perhaps should distinguish, but maybe don't always, a New Testament believer? Pastor Tim? A love for God's truth. A love for God's truth. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Jim? Fruit of the Spirit. Fruit of the Spirit. You can meet a lot of nice people, but when trials come, you begin to see whether God's there or not. Yeah, the fruit of the Spirit. Doc? Consistent worship. Yeah. It should characterize a New Testament believer. We love God. I hope by this point in your lives, and I'm pretty sure it's true, you don't come to church just because, they'll come call me if I don't. No. My five-year-old always says, Daddy, is tomorrow for church? Can I come tomorrow to church? Is tomorrow Awana? Is tomorrow Sunday morning? He can hardly wait. He loves it. Well, I'm 51, and I look forward to it. Okay, what else? Love for telling others about Christ, because you realize He's the best thing you can tell them about. He's the best thing that's in your life. Sometimes we're afraid to because we don't remember how good God is. Right? Yeah, so it should mark us. Okay? Well, you answered the next question, but I'll ask it anyway. Are these marks primarily internal or external? Okay, they are internal. They start inside with attitudes. As MacArthur said long ago when I was a PUP student, everything is attitude. Wow, that really woke me up. Now, if you look around and say, you know, maybe the Christians are just the ones with beards. Or the ones without beards. The ones that have button-down shirts, or the ones that have t-shirts are the real true mature Christians because they think how you look isn't the issue. None of those are the issue, are they? Ultimately. There may be attitudes expressed in some of those things. My kid is an Awana Honors kid. is not the mark of a Christian, although you sort of have to love Christ to want to take your kid to Oana very often, or your kid needs to learn to love it, sure. What are some ways we can, as believers, dedicate or draw near to God, let's say, for a period of time or in a special way? What are some things that people, that we, either biblically speaking or just practically speaking, might do that would allow us to draw near to God in a special way for any period of time? Why would we as Christians want to draw near to God just for a period of time? Anybody have any thoughts on that? I'm going to let some others answer because I bet they've been thinking about it. Mark? Even though we go to church every week and we come closer to the Lord, but also He's allowed us to work. Can you state one sentence for me, for those of us who are... Okay. In order to be what we should be when we're not just with the Lord, we do need to spend some time alone with the Lord. Cleaning our hearts up, honoring and giving thanks changes our attitude. If you start the day, or at least if all of your 24-hour cycles have no pause to talk to God, you're going to end up with a diverted focus. Did you say retreat was one? Fellowship opportunities? Bible studies? These are all special opportunities to draw near to God. Sure, that's one reason Pastor Jake and we as men and women and couples will often times have a retreat just so we can be not distracted by reading the newspaper for breakfast and answering all the emails and making sure that Facebook didn't have any unread notifications that day, whatever. My pastor friend in Pueblo, every year on his birthday or near his birthday, he will take the whole day and just go and evaluate his whole life and his year in ministry. And he'll evaluate where he is and think, what's good, what would God like me to do this coming year? And he'll just make a list and then boil it down and come up with You know, one to five things he wants to do dramatically or with strength different. And it's pretty impressive, he actually does it. I think it's a great idea. Gordon MacDonald used to take one day every month off from everything and just go spend time with the Lord. Interesting. Those are some ways we can. A popular designation for time with the Lord is quiet time. That's what I was taught at Word of Life, and I was grateful for it. You know, I'm told some of the saints of the faith didn't have a lot of quiet time. Was it Susanna Wesley, who found it so difficult to pray because of how many children she had? You know, Karen knows what she did. What'd she do, Karen? She pulled her apron over her head, And she told her kids, when I pull my apron over my head, don't bother me until I'm done. And she would just pause in her day and pray. And when she was done, she came out. Now if someone were about to die or they fell off the porch, she would probably pull it down and walk out the door and pick them up. But pretty impressive. And sometimes we have to do that. One way to do that is taking a walk for five minutes or ten minutes and pray while you're walking. I try to pray while I'm biking. That's one way I can pray. It's a little bit challenging, but it's a good way to pray. Good way to meditate on scripture and talk to the Lord about things. I will confess I don't close my eyes when I'm praying on my bicycle. Thank you, Pastor Tim. Nor on the highway. When I'm kneeling by my bed, I'm not too afraid of that, though. I'm sure you aren't either. Anything else that you noticed? Any observations? Now, you know, this is just a Jonathan slice of this passage, but you just challenged me to say, are there times that I need to make sure? Do I have regular times that are just the Lord and I, or am I making it clear that I belong to him? And I'm not, not so I can draw attention to me, but to him, if I need to sacrifice something. The principle of fasting is not commanded in the New Testament. There are some examples, but there are times when not eating allows you time to pray, or it allows you just not to be distracted by the desire for food. Sometimes that can be helpful. I don't have a medical scoop on that, so be very wise about that. Fasting never requires no water, by the way. I would challenge you to be grateful for God's blessing that he has given through his word, through his son, the great high priest. And all the joy and all the good things we have come from him. Let's live as those who are marked as lifelong sacrifices belonging to him.