God Desires that All His People be Nazarites Fully Separated and Sanctified unto God

A consecrated person is a Nazarite, one who voluntarily separates and sanctifies himself unto the Lord for His purpose.

God has a provision for those who love Him and want to give themselves to Him for His purpose: even though you may not have been born of Aaron’s family in the tribe of Levi, you could separate and sanctify yourself unto the Lord to be a Nazarite, making a vow to separate yourself to Jehovah and be holy to Him (see Num. 6:1-8).

Especially in the age today, when the church is degraded and the normal function of the priests has been neglected, God has a need for many of His believers to be Nazarites, those who separate themselves unto God to be absolutely for Him, utterly living a life unto Him, and being ultimately for God.

God desires that all His people would be for nothing else but God – loving God, seeking God, living God, and being constituted with God in order to bless others with God for the expression of God.

The real Nazarite was the Lord Jesus; He was absolute for God, separating Himself unto God and sanctifying Himself to be fully for God, loving God, seeking God, and living God to bless others with God for God’s expression.

Today we need to be those who see God’s need and desire and give ourselves to Him for His purpose to be His Nazarites, the consecrated ones, those who live a life on earth for His purpose. Our entire Christian life should be a life unto the Lord, living not to ourselves but to Him.

The Nazarites are the overcomers of today, and the Nazarites are those who can bring the Lord Jesus back. It is only the voluntarily consecrated ones who are sanctified absolutely and ultimately to God that can bring the Lord back and turn the age from the age of the church to the age of the kingdom.

When the Lord gains a sufficient number of Nazarites on earth, He will return. May we choose the provision the Lord gives us and tell Him,

Lord, we separate ourselves unto You for Your purpose. Sanctify us and saturate us with Yourself. Lord, we want to be separated unto You to be Your duplication, to be Your Nazarite, a priest who is a real Nazarite! We are here for Your purpose. We are here for nothing else but God. Lord, we choose to love You, seek You, live You, and be constituted with You so that we may bless others with the Triune God for the corporate expression of God.

God Desires and Needs His People to be Nazarites

Today God desires and needs Nazarites, those who voluntarily consecrate themselves to God for His purpose.

In the Old Testament God had a particular tribe in His people Israel, the tribe of Levi, that was separated unto Him for His service. Particularly, those of the house of Aaron were priests to God, serving Him in the tabernacle / the temple. But God made a provision for those who want to make a special vow to separate themselves to Jehovah for His purpose.

Samuel was such a one: he was of the tribe of Levi but of the house of Korah, who took the lead to rebel against Moses. However, Samuel was consecrated to God even from his mother’s womb, and when he grew up he lived as a Nazarite, one who separated and sanctified himself unto God for His service.

The Lord Jesus was the real and unique Nazarite, and the Nazarite spoken of in Num. 6:8 is a type of Christ in His living absolutely for God in His humanity (see John 4:34; 5:19, 30; 7:18; 14:24). God desires that ALL His people would be Nazarites, those who are sanctified absolutely and ultimately to God, being for nothing other than God.

God wants us to love ONLY Him with all of our heart, mind, emotion, will, and physical strength (Mark 12:30), and He wants us to have Him as our first love, best love, and unique love.

When He regenerated us, we were captured by Him and we gave our whole being to Him. Now, He continually draws us, speaks to us, appears to us, and calls us to be His Nazarites, those who are absolute for God’s purpose.

Being a Nazarite is a test of our absoluteness, and in ourselves we cannot be a Nazarite; only by being one with Christ and by taking Christ as our absoluteness can we be a Nazarite to God, a part of the corporate Nazarite fulfilling God’s purpose in this age.

We need to separate ourselves unto the Lord from anything worldly, anything that defiles us, and anything of death, and we need to sanctify ourselves to Him to be saturated with God and filled with Him. Negatively, we separate ourselves unto the Lord; positively, we sanctify ourselves to Him.

What God desires is to have a group of Nazarites in this age, those who are one with Him for His purpose to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom. This is what God desires, and this is what God needs today!

Choosing to be the Nazarites of Today to Bring the Lord Back!

As believers in Christ we are priests of God by His ordination and we should be Nazarites by choice. Be being born of God we become priests of God, a royal priesthood, those who spend time with God and bring God to man and man to God (see 1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; cf. Exo. 19:6; Isa. 61:6). This is God’s ordination, and it is of Him that we are priests to God.

However, God needs us to voluntarily choose to be His Nazarites, those who make a special vow to the Lord to be for Him and for His purpose only. In order for God to accomplish His purpose He needs man’s cooperation to complement God’s ordination.

God limits Himself to man’s cooperation, and when there are some men and women who consecrate themselves voluntarily to the Lord, He can accomplish His purpose. D.L. Moody (inspired from Henry Varley) once said, “The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in and by the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him. I will try my utmost to be that man.”

In the time of Eli, the priesthood was waning and God needed someone to complement it; Samuel rose up and consecrated himself to God for His purpose from a very young age, and therefore God could accomplish His purpose and turn the age from the age of the priesthood to the age of the kingship.

Today we need to be those who voluntarily choose to be Nazarites to the Lord for His purpose, even to make a vow before Him regarding this.

Lit., shall be wonderful to vow a vow. A Nazarite was sanctified by making a special vow to separate himself to God. The priests, who were such by birth, were ordained by God out of His initiation, whereas the Nazarite, who became such by a vow, was separated to God by himself out of his initiation. God’s ordaining of one family (Aaron’s) to be the priests excluded all others from this opportunity. But the vow of the Nazarite opens the gate, affording all the people of God an equal opportunity to be absolutely for God as a warrior (Judg. 13:5) or as a priest (1 Sam. 1:11; 2:11). Whoever is willing may take this opportunity on his own initiative. The accomplishing of God’s purpose requires man’s cooperation to complement God’s ordination, as illustrated by the case of Samuel, who as a Nazarite fulfilled the duty of a priest, complementing the deficient Eli, a priest ordained by God (1 Sam. 1 — 3). (Footnote 1 on Numbers 6:2, Recovery Version Bible, on, make a vow)

It is a wonderful thing before the Lord for us to willingly and voluntarily make a vow before Him to be the Nazarites He needs today for His purpose. This is optional, and with the distractions in the world today it is not that easy to take such a decision and fulfill it before the Lord.

But if we come to the Lord personally and consecrate ourselves to Him for His purpose, He will be able to do it in us. We will lay our hands on the Lord’s head and be identified with Him as the real and unique Nazarite, taking Him as the reality of all the offering and overcoming any natural affection, earthly pleasure, rebellion and death to be His Nazarites, one with Christ as THE Nazarite.

Only the Nazarites can bring the Lord Jesus back, and all those who are used by God to turn this age must be Nazarites! How wonderful it is before God when many young and old men and women would tell Him,

Lord Jesus, I consecrate myself to You for Your purpose. I voluntarily come to You to be separated and sanctified absolutely and ultimately to God. Lord, I am here for You and for Your purpose. I give myself love You, seek You, live You, and be constituted with You for You to have a way to be expressed and ministered to man. Lord, make me one with You as the real and unique Nazarite before God. I cannot do this in myself, but I join myself in faith to the Lord Jesus, the Nazarite, to live a life that is instrumental in Your hands to change this age!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my Christian experience, bro. Ed Marks’ sharing in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Numbers, msg. 8, as quoted in, the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Heavenly Vision, week 6 / msg 6, The Vision of Consecration.
• Recommending: see www.21centurynazarites.com for many testimonies of young people who consecrate themselves to the Lord and share their enjoyment of being a Nazarite.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # In this godless age / Lord, You need some Samuels / Burdened with a vision clear of Your economy / Where’s Your ark today? / And the ones who’d care for You, / E’en to put themselves aside to gain Your heart’s desire? / Raise up some to meet Your need, some Nazarites, / Prophets, priests, and judges, and men of prayer, / Speaking forth Your word, with Your authority, / A photo of Your heart for Your move. (Song on Being a Nazarite)
  # My heart longs for absolute surrender / That I’d wholly consecrated be, / Not in word alone but all my being / Would be fully given unto Thee. (Song on Consecration)
  # Take my life, and let it be / Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; / Take my moments and my days, / Let them flow in ceaseless praise, / Let them flow in ceaseless praise. (Hymns #445)