It is the king's mountain." It was to be a real fealty: it was not merely a dogma pure and simple, but to be known as a fact. viii. 3. ii. "( Romans 6:6 ) Paul the apostle said, "I am crucified with Christ" ( Galatians 2:20 ). The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. 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. The point then for the Jew was the one true God. The first chapter takes cognizance of themselves; the second chapter puts them to the test in the presence of other people. Psalm 138:1-2. In the harvest there is the gathering in of the good and the extinction of the evil; but the vintage knows nothing but vengeance from God. 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. 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. ^D John VII. The offspring of your herds and flocks. A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. And it is always our unbelief that places the limitations upon the work that God is seeking to do in our lives. And so often the good that he wanted to do, he couldn't do and the evil he didn't want to do was the thing that he was doing until he found himself in just a miserable, wretched state. Jehovah their God did not make Himself visible to them by a similitude. Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." We say, "Oh, but I'm so weak and I've tried so hard and you don't know how long I've been struggling with this thing". 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. We know well how the family is apt to trench on generous feeling, and how it is apt to shut itself up to no more or better than a refined selfishness. 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. For we must remember that the sabbath does not mean a seventh day, as some persons (I am sorry to say) equivocate; but the seventh day and no other. A Plain Description of the Essence and Attributes of God, Out of the Holy Scripture, So Far as Every Christian must Competently Know, and Necessarily Believe, that Will be Saves. "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them." We have the consecration of the people to God. They would have further proof of Gods unfailing goodness when they saw the rich land God was giving them. With the enemies? Such is the reason why a Christian even now on earth passes into a new state of things altogether. And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land. Both were powerful motives not to dread the Canaanite races, who were destined to extirpation. 6. They were only tenants, and had to pay Him rent. This is then what he was pressing. 2. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. There must be times of getting, of learning, of consulting for one's own edification, else it will go hard with us in the work and battle of life. But God is very careful, in the face of the passover, that there should not be a forgetfulness of that escape which brought them out together then. So it is that the New Testament gives us the failure of the apostle Peter, not merely at the beginning but in the very midst of his career. iv. 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. The heritage of the descendants of Jacob shall be restored unto thee!" After the praise and worship session, go with your prophetic sword into battle using these 13 prayer points for DAY 6. 95. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." In Deuteronomy 6:1-9, . So these are the words which Moses spake unto all of Israel on the side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea ( Deuteronomy 1:1 ). We never can duly understand the Old Testament unless in the light of the New; and if there is anyone who is personally and emphatically "the light," need it be said that it is Jesus? Some wonder why it should be joined with the other commandments; but the sabbath is so much the more important here, because it is not strictly a moral command. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. His brother was the political head of that community in Alexandria, and he himself on one occasion represented his co-religionists, Alfred EdersheimThe Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, A Plain Description of the Essence and Attributes of God, Out of the Holy Scripture, So Far as Every Christian must Competently Know, and Necessarily Believe, that Will be Saves. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." 10. Once more obedience is pre-eminently the matter, and this too as delivered men once bondslaves, but now free to obey (ver. He did not assume knowledge of Israels history that is independent of the biblical account nor did he recount events previously unrecorded. This is met by the call to action - "Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: turn you, and take your journey" (vers. 8-10. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. It is not so where God governs. Where else can be found such jealous care as this? 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. So you appointed the seventy to be rulers over them, the chief men and he charged them to hear the causes of the people and to judge among the people. I. 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, [Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] And this is enforced in the very words which our Saviour employed. It extends to Deuteronomy 4:40; and is divided from the second discourse by the Deu 1:4 :41-49. It did not alter their duty, if the antecedent history of Moab and Ammon, just as much as that of Esau, was far from good. "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. The lawgiver, about to be taken from them, looks back on all the past; but he looks forward also to the land they were about to enter. This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. 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! I do not regard this as evincing the spirit of obedience, but rather a spice of self-confidence. 4; Eph. 45-48. Hence, I need not say, there is peculiar solemnity in its character. and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. We are far from being then on the ground of a mere rehearsal of what has been shown in the previous books. So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and went presumptuously up into the hilt And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do," there was a most ignominious flight "and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. (7 "You shall have no other gods before [] me. The consequence is that, though all have their place, these distinctions may here seem small indeed. 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. ( Romans 7:24 ). Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? 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. 3. The same Spirit which has the power of miracle is the Spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. Still more take the opposite hypothesis and contend that its legislation is of a later character than that of the preceding book. If it were merely a question of man, nobody would think of choosing for another. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. (Gen. Xlix. 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 was the substantial meaning of the tithes and other requisitions (ver. 2). "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. i. Then follows the appointment, iv. Some there are, no doubt, who assume that God has not in these things expressed any will of His, own. Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. They are then shown what may or may not be eaten, whether beasts, fishes, or fowls. "We turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed Mount Seir many days. The chief point to observe is that there was not a spirit of obedience in the people, and this they lacked because there was no faith in God. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. Preventive against Backsliding. "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. What did not so much manifest obedience is left out, though it might have an important spiritual meaning in its place; for certainly other feasts (as the feast of atonement, for instance) had. This is the plain gist of the book. This was their point of imitating God. Consequently there is here a heavy blow struck at the tendency towards idolatry. This is clearly shown. It is really sort of Moses' final address to the people. In such a case there is no room for will, nor sparing of the heart. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. And in the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him commandment unto them; After they had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelled in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, on the eastside of Jordan, Moses began to declare this law ( Deuteronomy 1:2-5 ). This is a universal and abiding principle. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. will be blessed. Deuteronomy 1:6-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. Heavenly Father, Help us to faithfully obey Your voice and being careful to do all that You command, today and in the future. On the other hand, there is no mercy but ruthless severity always served out to those who refuse to fraternise, not to speak of ceaseless enmity to those who condemn and oppose. . It ought most of all to shock the Christian. And thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. It is not to be doubted that the words cited from Deuteronomy were the very best that they were chosen according to divine perfection. Mark the very fact here set before us: not a single man of the congregation of Jehovah that left Egypt passed into the holy land save two individuals, who identified themselves by faith from the very first with the glory of Jehovah. Boy, what a horrible thing to say.So, the people were discouraged and they said, The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we have seen the sons of the Anakims ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). III. *It is distressing that any man bearing the Christian name should write as does Dr. Davidson. Ver. It was very important, therefore, that these men judge fairly (Deuteronomy 1:17). So Paul speaks of this frustration, "Oh wretched man that I am. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. "Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life." 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. What is it that characterises Christianity? (October, a.d. If one were simply a man, one must have to do with the place and state of Adam fallen. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:7 . God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. Israel must not slight God's claims in common things. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israels covenant God, has done for his people. 2. Is there anything so wholesome! 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." The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. His Father will take care of him. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. 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. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. Here then we have all laid bare. practical object, seems to be from first to last an enforcement of obedience, grounded on the relationship between Jehovah their God and Israel, whom He was just bringing as His people into His land. We now begin to understand a little of the very beginning of God's Book--of the times in which it was written, the materials used by its first author, and the different kinds of writing from which he had to choose; but we must go a step farther. Or, if the cognate clause used in both books, 'that God wrote them on two tables of stone,' be not literally pressed in one case, there is no necessity for doing so in the other. And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. 2. The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. [Note: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Pentateuch, 3:284.] Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. It is ever the same duty of submission to God's will. There is another remark to be made. 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. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? 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. There is a third feast, that of tabernacles. So, all of these things transpired in Deuteronomy, as far as Moses was concerned, in the last forty days of his life; his final exhortations to the people prior to their crossing and entering into the land. There are many, many Christians who have been long enough, and far too long, in the mount, and it would be welt for themselves if they could hear this voice summoning them to go forward. I have called it therefore an abstract typical system; for the value of it does not at all depend on the fidelity of the people to it. All the previous part prepares the way. "I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." What gentle censures, if any, what palpable favouritism towards his own party, where they most deserve reproof and rebuke or perhaps still more stringent measures! Deuteronomy 1:1-46 lets us see the end of disobedience; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 give us to know as clearly the result of obedience. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. To what were they always inclined? Is this what you hear? I do not envy them the thought that God has not revealed His mind about what is nearest to Himself, and what most of all is bound up with His glory! With this then most fittingly He begins. i. p. 42, note 4.) We are to observe the statutes and to do them. Every step in really obeying God puts the man morally to the test, and is more or less attended with severe trial. "5. The book of Deuteronomy throughout pre-eminently brings in the authority of God over a people in relationship with Himself, displayed and proved in obedience. "Hear, O Israel." 8. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. The very point of faith, for which we are especially responsible, is what we are in most danger of forgetting under pressure or carelessness. "The importance of history has two focal points: (a) there is the covenant tradition of promise, from Abraham to Moses; (b) there is the experience of God in history working out in deed the content of the promise. "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." If the rigidly literal meaning of the phrase 'God spake these words' is not adhered to in the case of the one record, it need not in the case of the other. The aged lawgiver in these last words was led of the Holy Ghost to speak home to their souls. But he found that there was another law, a perverse kind of a law, that whenever he would do good, evil was present with him. It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. We know the profanity of Esau; we know the solemn circumstances of Moab and Ammon from their very origin; but for all that God would not permit His people to indulge in what did not become Himself as represented however feebly in and by Israel. our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we.". It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. We may rejoice in the God that has so dealt with us, but is it becoming that Christ's death should be a call to transports? It seems just a parenthesis, and not a question of chronology.*. ], "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. It is the same principle here again as elsewhere. 39; vi. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give your father ( Deuteronomy 1:6-8 ). They are no longer to go up and take possession of the land, but to turn back and take their journey into the wilderness. God would "give his angels charge concerning him;" and what a fine proof it would be that He was the true Messiah, if He threw Himself down from such a height, and withal the angels preserved Him! "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. The man who said, "Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest," had no faith at all. 18, 19, 12, 13; ^B Mark XI. 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. It is founded on the life of Christ in resurrection, when the Holy Ghost brings us into the power of enjoyment. It is the book which our Lord quotes in His temptations with Satan. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." 21 et seqq.) And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. And Jehovah spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words" because they were called to obey "but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. In Deuteronomy 10:1-22 we find the provision of Jehovah's goodness is stated in a very striking way. Undoubtedly the gatherings in of the corn and the wine (that is, the harvest and the vintage) are the well known types of God's final dealings: the harvest when He separates the wheat from the chaff, or at any rate from that which is not wheat; and the vintage when He executes unsparing judgment upon the vine of the earth upon all religion that is vain and denies heaven. )Ver. The section summarizes events recorded in greater detail in Numbers 10:11-42. We have to remember that we get and learn only that we may apply and act. We all know that it is natural to wretched, wilful man. 24; 2 Cor. "What is the mountainous country of Judea? 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. What we find here is a warning not to yield to the sight of their eyes or the violence of their hands, guarding against a covetous spirit which pays slight regard to that which God had assigned to others. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. Every part of my life is BLESSED! Prayer Point #5: Pray for Israel. And so it is glorious to come in to the walk and the life of the spirit, to enter into that life that God wants you to live as a child of God, as His child. 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. (1) Et non sans cause; and not without reason. Thus, for the renewal of the covenant described in Deuteronomy, the prologue recalls not only the covenants history, but also the ability of the Lord of the covenant to fulfill his promise. They had been bondmen themselves; and if they had been delivered of God, they should cultivate the same spirit as He had shown. 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. 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. May the Lord give us hearts to rejoice in all His, grace and truth and glory! St. Paul gives this interpretation in Romans 4:13. There were reasons due to God's character why Moses should not bring the people into the laud. We shall find how thoroughly this applies all through the book to the perplexity of poor proud rationalism, but in itself a simple yet very important truth indeed. And I'm making all of these vows and I'm doing my best to bring my flesh into conformity to God and to God's will, but I find this perverse law that Paul found working. In comparing the allegorical Canons of Philo with those of Jewish traditionalism, we think first of all of the seven exegetical canons which are ascribed to Hillel. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. The Israelites thought to settle the whole matter with God by saying, "We have sinned;" but then they proved that there was nothing settled, nothing right; because what really pleases God is this the acceptance of His good will, whatever it be. But inasmuch as the Lord's three answers are taken from the early portion of Deuteronomy, which comes before us on this occasion, I have at once referred to this patent fact. Moses began his recollections of the journey by reminding the people that their coming possession of Canaan was solely because of Gods grace, not because of any virtue in them (1:1-8).Only through Gods mercy had they grown into a strong and contented people who enjoyed the blessing (rare among ancient races) of just, impartial and humanitarian government (9-18). We shall meet with others ere long, we shall come to civil ones, but we are not going beyond the religious charges at present. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you." We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. This is so decided that in the millennial age there will be a strict maintenance of that day with all the authority of God Himself, vested in and exercised by the Messiah governing Israel and the earth. Hence therefore we see why it is that the first circumstance in their history brought before them was that God told them not to go up to the mountain of the Amorites; but they would go up in self-will and self-confidence, and utterly failed before their enemies. O Lord in Heaven, please in my job and at my workplace I ask for promotion and payment increase in Jesus' name. In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the John LightfootFrom the Talmud and Hebraica, Barren Fig-Tree. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. 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. The character of it was so solemn as scarce to admit of this. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. The discourse itself. 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. in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book." We see from this that it is mere ignorance to suppose that there is not a divine system in the book; and this is more remarkable, I think, in Deuteronomy, if possible, than in the preceding books. I am persuaded that above all the Christian, who has a still nearer relationship with God, is the very last person who ought to exercise a choice in self-will. 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