This was the mount that burned with fire (Hebrews 12:18), and gendered to bondage,Galatians 4:24. Now get moving. He and other sacred authors are to be regarded as nothing more than representatives of the intelligence of their age in relation to the Deity. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. 7). And then he really started getting on God's case. Now, shut up". will be blessed. With this they did not at all like to comply; and thus the same spirit which declined to go up in obedience to Jehovah refuses to go back in submission to Him. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. For Egypt, the area of bondage, slavery, hardship, is the type of the life of the world, in the world, slaves to our flesh to Satan; and so it is typical of our old life. In the first section, i.-iv. He has given no title to adopt doctrines, practices, ways, government, or any one thing that is not His expressed will for His children. They must learn not to seek what God would not give them. 94.]. "Now therefore hearken, O Israel." iii. XXI. "The Deuteronomist, writing at a later period of the same arrangement [the mission of the spies in Numbers], represents the people proposing the measure to Moses, who on consideration resolved to execute it, because it approved itself to his heart and conscience: 'Ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land; and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe.' It is not correct therefore that the sabbath-day is done with: many people in Christendom think so; but I take the liberty of having a stronger view about the sabbath than even those who think themselves strongest. 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 the. But Jesus knew God Himself as Moses never did, and by His use of it put honour on the book that makes plain how in a state of ruin the one saving principle is obedience. Moses mentions how the saying pleased him: here things are stated exactly as they were. Not any ordinary fleshly sin on our part, as many suppose. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. What was meant by this? In special instances judgment to the full took its course. It is not at all a people or a class kept at a distance by intervening priests. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. 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." Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. The same Spirit which has the power of miracle is the Spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. They are then shown what may or may not be eaten, whether beasts, fishes, or fowls. ( Romans 7:24 ). Those who persist in hardening themselves must indeed be destroyed; but not by us. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? The time was near the end of the fortieth year since they came out of Egypt. "Is He then indeed your Father?" a. It is not then a grouping of types, whatever might be the particular scope and aim of those employed, such as we have seen in distinct forms throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, or Numbers; but here all that the Spirit is using, whether it be direct moral application which forms much the larger part of the book, or whether it be a selection of such shadows as fall in with its. His eyesight is still keen, he can still hear very well and he is addressing these people, rehearsing for them the work of God in their past because many of them were born while in the wilderness. "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. O Lord in Heaven, please in my job and at my workplace I ask for promotion and payment increase in Jesus' name. Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. But in Deuteronomy the point is to centralize them all around Jehovah Himself. 2). In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. It might belong to the true God; but "Thou shalt not hearken" if there was the smallest risk of going after other gods. Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. Religion, divorced from active employment, must soon lose its robustness, and degenerate into a sickly religiosity. Praying through Deuteronomy 31:6. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:7 . 6, 7). But the believer sees wisdom and grace in comparing the first historical statement with the solemn use the legislator makes to the generation about to enter the land, and the added information is of grave import. However the "strife" (Deuteronomy 1:12) of the people would prove to be their undoing. But God wants us to not be governed by the flesh but to be governed by the spirit; and thus, there is this spiritual warfare seeking the dominancy in your life. Here then they are called to action. Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in the fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and the cloud by day ( Deuteronomy 1:33 ). The greater the blessing of God, the more thoroughly you are put on the ground that God has given you, the more He insists on thorough and constant obedience. Is not this very notable? Bearing this in mind, any reader can see that "at that time" in verse 8 really coalesces with "at that time" in verses 1-6, and therefore is in perfect accord withNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26; and yet is it repeated in p. 336. Jehovah was most careful exactly where He had least sympathy. Then the bitter consequences came. But Satan as usual tampered with the plain written word, alike with its letter and its spirit; for after "to keep thee" he omitted "in all thy ways." For although he may allow himself a dispensation to take from others, let a man steal from him, and it will soon be seen whether he does not condemn the wrong. So Jehovah our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people." 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. It probably covers the last month and a half of Moses' life. "The good that I would I do not. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, into spiritual trouble and affliction of mind, he knows when they have dwelt long enough in it, and will certainly find a time, the fittest time, to advance them from the terrors of the spirit of adoption. "And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, 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." 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) "The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. Again, what can be more simple and appropriate than that Moses at the close should omit the name and counsel of Jethro, and bring the people into greater prominence than himself in the choice of rulers? "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.". He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". So this fact also is used. Our means are the preaching of the gospel, prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. 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." It is strange how little we know of the personal history of the greatest of uninspired Jewish writers of old, though he occupied so prominent a position in his time. 226-228.) 21 et seqq.) [Breakfast with the Jews came late in the forenoon, and these closing days of our Lord's ministry were full of activity that did not have time to tarry at Bethany for it. This is constantly forgotten when men talk about the moral law. O. T. p. 65) says: "From Deuteronomy 10:8 it is plain that the Levites were not appointed at Sinai but later; whereas we learn fromNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26. that their institution took place at Sinai." II. Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God, who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day." No, not merely so, but by ourselves. Genesis 39: 2-6. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. It is not therefore a question of how far the offerings, etc. We have here, I. They were not compelled to take this to the one place that God had consecrated. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. The law of the sabbath is not given to Christians. And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them ( Deuteronomy 1:2-3 ); So, there's an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadeshbarnea to the beginning of entering into the Promised Land, but they have been journeying for forty years and eleven months on an eleven-day journey. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. This then is the leading truth of Deuteronomy. To the end of the chapter follow the most earnest warnings, as well as bright promises: disobedience or obedience would be the turning point in the land. Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the fact. Pray it at midnight and midday. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. He had compromised Him at a critical occasion, and could not but feel that so it was. It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. Jehovah your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. We have to consider whether we are undertaking it out of some human desire of heroism. Not only did the Lord say the right thing, but the ground, the line, and the spirit of the book whence He chose His answers were such as took the becoming place under such circumstances before God. We can all understand an orderly arrangement where there are types all arranged in a consecutive manner; but here in these moral exhortations it is, though in another way, just as sensible. It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as Jehovah God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. I`m blessed physiologically! In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." "What is the mountainous country of Judea? i. "Judah, thou, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; before thee shall bow down the sons of thy father. . 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. We're always the one that put the restrictions upon what God can do for us. The life that God wants you to live, a life of victory, a life of overcoming. This therefore gives its tone to the book. When such a death is really before one in service, then perhaps the difficulties would be incomparably more felt; for the Lord does not call to such a course or end to gratify human nature, or to give an opportunity for glorifying man, but always for His own glory. The reason is obvious. Such is the fertile topic which we find throughout the book. They were to be guided simply not by what Jehovah had done in providence by Ammon, Moab, or Esau, but by His will as to themselves. Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. Ver. Background of Text: Israel has been delivered out of Egypt. Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet." 3. The mount of blessing and the mount of curse were there on the other side Jordan. 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 orders which God gave them to decamp, and proceed in their march (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:7): You have dwelt long enough in this mount. (Dr. D.'s Introd. 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. 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. It was a question of His authority, not of that which a man might intrinsically discern. They would not go up when Jehovah bid them, and when He commanded them to turn back, they wished to go forward. For edition we have restored the fuller text of the earlier published edition, while retaining a few of the editorial refinements of the Met Tab edition. We were bondmen, and are not. These feasts made an appeal to a male Israelite which none besides could make. 8-10. What God had done in the past, he could continue to do in the future. Then they are told not to celebrate the feast indiscriminately where and as they please. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea.) Next follows the account of their fear before God's solemn words, their promise to obey, and the mediatorial place which the people desired and God sanctioned for Moses. Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? It's yours." Known to God (ver. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. There is a warfare that goes on in our lives; the flesh warring against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these two are contrary. But what wonderful grace! 303)." If they betook themselves to rites and ceremonies as a means of pleasing God, Jesus gave Himself up to unreserved obedience was Himself the constant pattern of One who never sought His own will. But there is another point peculiar to this book. Then in Deuteronomy 13:1-18 there is a similar line, all these early injunctions being what we may call religious statutes. But the cry must come, "Who shall deliver me?" Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." THE CHURCH'S DANGER - to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state of apathy or simple receptivity. 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. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children;" and they were to bind them for a sign; they were to make much of them at all points outside the house and inside, and always. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. Israel must not slight God's claims in common things. We'll go in, we'll take the land". (October, a.d. (1) These are the words. No doubt the malicious mind of the sceptic takes occasion from it to turn what he does not seek to understand to the disparagement of inspiration. 5-8; 1 Cor. Why should they covet? The word of God tests whether he submits to it, whether he lives on it, whether he delights in it, whether his meat is to do the will of God as the Lord Jesus proved His meat was. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. "But Sihon," it is said, "king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him: for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. If people like to choose for themselves, as mere men, what an awful delusion it is to be choosing for God to be really governed by your own will in matters of religion! "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." ( Romans 7:24 ). Now, the wilderness experiences where I am trying to bring my flesh into conformity to the will of God, and I'm promising God that I'm gonna do better, that I'm not gonna fail next time. In short, whatever it be to which God summons us is precisely what the devil endeavours to obscure, and so to hinder our testimony. This men forget. The LORD our God spake unto you in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, [and so forth] and take the land that I have promised. "Jehovah said unto me, Fear not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. 6.The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. 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. O. T. i. pp. Pray it during the day too. 1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. If we have seen the object of all this part of Deuteronomy to be the enforcement of obedience, there is nothing which maintains obedience so much as redemption; and if that were the case when it was only an outward deliverance, how much more when it is eternal? We're prone to look at the obstacles. However Judea, here and there, doth swell out much with mountains, yet its chief swelling appears in that broad back of mountains, that runs from the utmost southern cost as far as Hebron, and almost as Jerusalem itself. This is clearly shown. God's solution is death to the flesh, crucified with Christ. perhaps the more appropriate translation is the one that points to the exclusive demand of this God to be the only God Israel acknowledges and worships (5:6 See also Exodus 20:2). There He assigned this as the portion of the high priest and his sons, that of the Levites, this again of the people. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt J. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. 45, was edited and abbreviated somewhat. "Who shall deliver me" and God's answer then comes, "I am delivered by the power the dynamic of the spirit for ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you"( Acts 1:8 ). It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. But where is the savage even who does not know the wrongness of stealing? Father in Heaven, I ask for your blessings . Was not this a positive promise? Before we pass to the next chapter, it would be well to observe for a moment the second answer of our Lord "Ye shalt not tempt Jehovah your God." But we must not overlook another part of the chapter not the Lord strengthening the people against the mightiest of adversaries, but Israel reminded of their rebellious heart even under such circumstances against Jehovah. (Gen. Xlix. 9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the . 1. What nation had such a wonder as God Himself in their midst God Himself near the least of them? The acknowledgment in a creed is all well; but when it comes to be the truth for one's own soul, stamping its value on our communion and also on our ways, men at once retreat back into some "dim religious light," where it is all forgotten and lost, merely owned verbally, but without power for the heart and life. Of course it is, God went before you and prepared you that place and then led you to it so that they could say, "All the way my savior leads me. The first thing introduced here is the fact that Jehovah had spoken to them in Horeb, saying, "Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. Thus then the circumstances of Moses, as well as of the people, were precisely those suited to impress the lesson of obedience. May I quickly confess my faults and choose life (to the saving of the soul) and not death. The first of all rights, and the highest of our duties, is that God should have His rights. What have I to ask beside? And so they chose one from each tribe to go in and to spy out the land. 12-18; ^C Luke XIX. For what are we here but to please God? Obedience is the claim. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. 7-9). For instance, a man knows perfectly well that he has no right to steal. Here we find out that the request for the spies actually came from the people and that it seemed good unto Moses. This was the substantial meaning of the tithes and other requisitions (ver. maro itoje harrow house; cupid shuffle artist net worth; lakeside garden centre warminster menu We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. God went before you to find the place for you to pitch your tents. 24; 2 Cor. And he comes to help me and do for me what I can't do for myself. . [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. It ought most of all to shock the Christian. The other whom Jesus called thought about his father and mother; he would like to see them first. There may be lands where everything morally is at the lowest point, and where therefore a wrong is less severely estimated than elsewhere. They are no longer to go up and take possession of the land, but to turn back and take their journey into the wilderness. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, Moses and his Writings[Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted, There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long, The conquest of which is commanded by God, Early in the year 1857. Study Notes - Deuteronomy 6 1-9. So it is that it does not withhold from us the over-heatedness of a Paul, as well as the weakness of a Barnabas; that it tells out the stumbling both of Thomas and of Mark: all is openly communicated for our instruction. Not, indeed, by carnal weapons, as the Israelites were commanded to conquer Canaan, nor yet by the destruction of those against whom we war; but by the nobler weapons of the truth, and by seeking men's salvation. (Exodus 20:1; Deuteronomy 5:22. ii. Our, (October, a.d. So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. So, their fear was inspired because of these cities that were high and walled and because the people, the inhabitants were large, gigantic kinds of people. II. I dare say we have almost all done so, without referring to any particular mode; for alas! In all the three occasions the Lord Jesus draws His answers from the book of Deuteronomy. With this then most fittingly He begins. Our J. But they saw the giants in the land and the high-walled cities instead of God. When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. At all events, whatever may be His grace, whatever His ways with His people, obedience is that with which He cannot dispense. 2. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. 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