It reminds them of his gracious acts on their behalf and calls from them a fitting response of covenant loyalty. It is pentecost. "I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." In the commandment to keep it Jehovah the God of Israel speaks to this effect: "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." It probably covers the last month and a half of Moses' life. The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. The conscience feels that a certain act of confessing the sin is necessary, but perhaps there is hardly anything which more hardens the heart than the habit of confessing sin without feeling it. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israel's covenant God, has done for his people. 364-366.). The truth is that the difference is due to moral development of Israel according to Jehovah's wisdom on the eve of introducing His people into the land, and the more settled and social habits He would have them cultivate there. This too explains why the book of Deuteronomy is made use of in the New Testament in so very striking a manner, and in circumstances so eminently critical. For instance, as they must not trifle with blood, because it belonged to God (Deuteronomy 12:16-25), the dreamer must be guarded against a dream (Deuteronomy 13:1-5). Now in Numbers it doesn't tell us that they came to Moses to request these spies, but in Deuteronomy is adding a little bit more detail than he gave in the book of Numbers. "Oh, this might be dangerous, and that were presumptuous;" and so men talk on that is, the moment it becomes a real living truth, and not words on paper. Although there were eleven days journey before them before they would arrive at Kadesh-barnea, nevertheless, lest anything should delay the people, who were naturally but too indolent, tie stimulates them by setting before them the ease with which it might be accomplished, telling them that they had but to lift up their feet and advance, in order to attain the promised rest. May I not venture to think that other considerations entered, and that His citation of Deuteronomy only is in no way meant to disparage fitting words found elsewhere? He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. He was just being led by his own mind. 367.). Still more since Christ: misused ordinances are practically the same thing in principle, asGalatians 4:1-31; Galatians 4:1-31 teaches. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.". 4; iv. It was very important, therefore, that these men judge fairly (Deuteronomy 1:17). And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son." In general, Moses spoke unto them all that the Lord had given him in commandment (Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 1:3), which intimates, not only that what he now delivered was for substance the same with what had formerly been commanded, but that it was what God now commanded him to repeat. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. Was it not the pettishness of disobedient children, if ever there were such? Even before the law from Abraham's days there certainly was no injunction more solemn or more obligatory than the circumcision of every male child; yet we are assured that no male was circumcised during Israel's wandering for forty years through the wilderness. viii. It was not yet Christ manifested, but man under trial of the law and its ordinances and restraints, dealt with as living in the world, and instructed in view of this present life. It was because of this very truth: Jehovah was with them. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. 35; xxxii. They failed to enter in by faith to that which God had promised to them. W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. In short, whatever it be to which God summons us is precisely what the devil endeavours to obscure, and so to hinder our testimony. Then comes out another instance. To apply what now occupies us here, give me the chief, fundamental, and most salient points of Christianity, and I will show you that these are the very truths that Christians are most in danger of forgetting. "Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." 39; vi. This therefore gives its tone to the book. Numbers 13:1-33 gives the fact when God warranted Moses to send the spies; Deuteronomy supplies the motives which wrought in the people to desire them. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. Our, (October, a.d. But then as he moves into the eighth chapter of Romans, he found the answer to his cry. Taking the passage in this light, and reading the wider truth into it, we get the idea of a land which is: 1. Deuteronomy is an eminently practical book. 2). They did not have a personal memory of the horrible bondage in Egypt. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. (Ad. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). I`m blessed socially, physically, mentally and psychologically! 18, 19, 12, 13; ^B Mark XI. Is it not a beautiful indication of what the true God is, even in His least institutions? ii. Moses called Mt. God wants to bring you on into the walk of the spirit and the life of the spirit and a life that is dominated by the spirit. But there is no discrepancy whatever, nor confusion of Aaron's death in the last year of the wilderness sojourn with the separation of Levi some thirty-eight years before. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land; no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." Our mind will be upon the fleshly things continually; What shall we eat? Those who persist in hardening themselves must indeed be destroyed; but not by us. They said, "We have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.". In special instances judgment to the full took its course. For a people in relationship with God such is the only possible way, either of pleasing Him, or of tasting that joy of the Lord which is the strength of His people. Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to John LightfootFrom the Talmud and Hebraica, Kadesh. This is clearly shown. (7 "You shall have no other gods before [] me. What a guard this was against the misuse of outward forms! But. We all know that it is natural to wretched, wilful man. Ver. Both are substantially the decalogue; but Moses did not write both. 24; 2 Cor. They could take possession of no lands whatever of their own will. The time was near the end of the fortieth year since they came out of Egypt. Above all the prime object is to press obedience on the people of God, but the obedience of a people who had already found what it was to have utterly broken down on their own assumed responsibility. It is the due conduct of a people in relationship with Jehovah; no longer the bringing out of typical institutions, but the development of the moral ways which become the people with whom Jehovah had a present connection and intercourse on earth. This is a solemn lesson that there may be a thorough spirit of disobedience at the very time that people talk of doing whatever God is pleased to command. It had more of the family character; but a beautiful feature is connected with it: "And the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee), and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." It is founded on the life of Christ in resurrection, when the Holy Ghost brings us into the power of enjoyment. But also it would appear that the deepest wisdom lay in citing from that book, as well as its most applicable words. What is it that characterises Christianity? No wonder therefore that Deuteronomy in general has been but little understood, even by the children of God; that the thoughts of expositors are comparatively vague in explaining it; and that men are apt to read it with so little insight into its bearing that the loss might seem comparatively trifling if it were not read at all. What nation had such a wonder as God Himself in their midst God Himself near the least of them? My Father, I ask that You grant me prosperity in all my endeavours. In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. We luxuriate in retired communion, in restful fellowship with God, in converse with fellow-believers, in Church ordinances; and we think how sweet it would be if this could always last. I must have to come to the place where I despair of freeing myself or despair of my own righteousness or despair of ever being righteous in the eyes of God by my own works and my own efforts. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:6. Psalm 138:1-2. "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is in all things that we call upon him for? What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. So long God had borne their manners, and they had borne their own iniquity (Numbers 14:34), and now that a new and more pleasant scene was to be introduced, as a token for good, Moses repeats the law to them. God wanted to free them from the horrible bondage of Egypt, yet now they are accusing God of hating them.You remember the case of Job, it said in all of these things, that is the loss of his family and his wealth and all, he did not curse God neither did he charge God foolishly. It is very possible that not a single institution during that time may have been strictly enforced or obeyed among the people. Bless me with divine strength that comes from you, Lord. I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. "Is He then indeed your Father?" Was anything like this the rule where man even took up the Bible for his own ends? This is the point here, and thus we see the connection with all that has gone before. But one must only expect this from men whose aim is to reduce the inspired writers to their own level, and who think that piety can co-exist with fraud, yea, with fraudulent falsehood about God. Because they had not a particle of confidence in God. Is not this in wonderful harmony with the rest, following on the confession of the one true God of Israel? The copulative conjunction is prefixed to the last four commandments in Deuteronomy. It is not the people's consecration to God, but their discipline, the trial of heart, and exercise by the way to which Jehovah subjected the people; and a most instructive section it is in this point of view. 2. But the second feast brings out joy in a very distinct and delightful manner. 4; iv. 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20. "These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which Jehovah God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth." It is the king's mountain." the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. And I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. The events in this section of verses took place before Israel left Horeb. II. 16); yet it has pleased his majesty to reveal himself to us in his word, so far as our weak capacity can best conceive him. And he's saying God led him to do this and God led him to do that. Accordingly the majority of expositors take the record in Exodus for the exact one, supposing that, as Moses was speaking to the people in the latter case, he recited from memory, not from the tables of stone, and therefore there is some variation of terms. Meanwhile they were not to meddle with their kindred, even though jealous and unkind. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! I. I`m blessed relationally, interpersonally, I am BLESSED, I am BLESSED! For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing." will be blessed. I must despair of all of these self-improvement programs and I must cry out for help outside of myself, for therein is the power of the spirit manifested. But the same duty abides for them. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." How much did Moses know about the history of his forefathers, Abraham and Jacob, and of all the old nations and kings mentioned in Genesis, before God called him to the great work of writing, (Ad. The spring of obedience was wanting. Owing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing. Jehovah was most careful exactly where He had least sympathy. (Deuteronomy 1:22-23) In the same manner an important social arrangement is declared to have been made by Moses at the suggestion of Jethro his father-in-law, who says in prophesying, 'If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able,' etc. That borders on blasphemy. * So difficult is it to unbelief that some take the ground of making Deuteronomy belong to an older age when the distinction of priests from Levites was not yet brought in. Sihon rushed on them to his own ruin; and only so did Israel smite and dispossess the king of Heshbon. Surely this again makes it too plain to call for many words of ours to demonstrate what Moses, or rather God Himself, has in view in all these chapters. 7. XXI. What did it matter about all others? At all events, whatever may be His grace, whatever His ways with His people, obedience is that with which He cannot dispense. 4; Eph. He cites from none other. Deuteronomy 1:6. It might be, and no doubt was, trying enough for Israel to take quietly the unfriendliness of the Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites; but no matter what the provocation given, no matter how they might be insulted by them (and they were), a hand of Israel must not be lifted up against their brethren; for Jehovah reminds them of the connection, and gives those races the closest name possible their brethren. . I pray for the younger generation that are surrounded by increasing attacks on the Word of God. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Thus when the story of their rebellion is mentioned, it leads Moses to go back and to trace how this spirit betrayed itself even so early as at Horeb; for when it is a question of rebellion, we must go to the root of it. The above diversities show that the ipsissima verba spoken by God cannot be in both, because both do not exactly agree. "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Jehovah God of your fathers giveth you. 3. Deuteronomy 4:1. Prayer Point #4: Pray for God's will to be done. How great the blessing of one who walks, as Christ walked, in dependence on God, not consulting Him only if constrained, but of a ready mind, and assured that by His Spirit, through the written word, He deigns to guide every step of your way where self is judged, and to give you to take the right path with a simplicity incomparably better than all the wisdom the world could muster, if one sought in independence to choose for oneself! More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. O. T. i. pp. Then in Deuteronomy 13:1-18 there is a similar line, all these early injunctions being what we may call religious statutes. To what were they always inclined? If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. In this Second Narration, Moses expressly declares that God not only gave them a visible sign, by uplifting the cloud, but that He also verbally commanded the people to leave Mount Sinai, and to set about the performance of the rest of their journey. It is most instructive to note how exceedingly anxious the early Christians were, that, as soon as a man was converted, he should be "filled with the Holy Ghost." How good are the ways and the words of God! 2. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the, (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. Moses recounts for them the history of what had taken place before as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. 4. They're each of them seeking to rule our lives. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. There is a third feast, that of tabernacles. The other whom Jesus called thought about his father and mother; he would like to see them first. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. When Peter and John came to the Samaritans, and found that they were John MacNeilThe Spirit-Filled Life, Afraid of Giants'And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain; 18. It is well for persons that they are not to stay long under the law, and the terrors of it, but are directed to Mount Zion; Hebrews 12:18. ], "The Lords gift of Canaan to Israel (Deuteronomy 1:8) and his command to them to enter and to possess the land began here and was reiterated and emphasized repeatedly in the speeches of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy.
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