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. 45-48. So is it with the Church, when she concentrates her attention too exclusively on her own spiritual improvement, and forgets her mission to the world. 4. 2. 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! Now we find what would test their obedience. Far from being done with, we know from the word of God that He will maintain the sabbatical rest strictly, and enforce it in the days of the kingdom; so that, if a man does not bow to His authority, he will assuredly come under divine judgment: so much does Jehovah make of it in itself, and so much will He make of it for the obedience of others in the day that is coming. And the beautiful thing is that God is with you, even in the wilderness experiences. 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? We are to observe the statutes and to do them. 35; xxxii. ( Romans 7:24 ). Now he dwells chiefly on their part in the matter, confessing his own inability to cope with their great increase, which ho touchingly entreats God to swell a thousand times, but withal urges on the rulers to judge righteously. 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. 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. That borders on blasphemy. God will lift to the highest level that you will allow Him to lift you and do the best for you on that level, but the work of God in our lives is always limited by us. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. We'll go in, we'll take the land". ii. Then follows the appointment, iv. 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. Commonly indeed we see that Christians understand a great deal better what the Jews ought to have done, than what they themselves ought to be doing. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of Egypt." And though he recounts the forty years from Egypt to coming into the land, yet we are told that these things came in the eleventh month in the first day of the fortieth year. However the "strife" (Deuteronomy 1:12) of the people would prove to be their undoing. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. Hence the story of the Amorites, as we saw, is given. i. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. He has given no title to adopt doctrines, practices, ways, government, or any one thing that is not His expressed will for His children. Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. 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. and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. Jehovah was most careful exactly where He had least sympathy. Now recognizing my weakness, I'm crying for power outside of myself. 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. And it is always our unbelief that places the limitations upon the work that God is seeking to do in our lives. "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.' God appointed judges (Deuteronomy 1:16) to help Moses carry the burden of legal decisions that resulted from the giving of the Law. It seems needless to say that this is altogether short of Christianity; and as we have referred to the difference of a Jew and a Christian as to the sabbath-day and the first day of the week, so as to this. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, with the institution of the cities where the manslayer might find refuge. Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. 367.). Such was the uniform walk of Jesus. It is not the liberty of grace, which the feast of pentecost is, but rather the epoch in type when the liberty of glory shall arrive. 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? 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. None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. Temple Cleansed. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. I do not regard this as evincing the spirit of obedience, but rather a spice of self-confidence. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. Kadesh. Deuteronomy 1:6-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. It is exactly so here. The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. There are deeper feelings in the heart than joy. A people holy to Jehovah must not eat anything that dies of itself, nor accustom itself to an uncomely act, were it with a dumb and dead kid and the milk of its dam. And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. 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? In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. Shake it Up De 1:6 "The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. [They said] Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, and to destroy us ( Deuteronomy 1:27 ). Every part of my life is BLESSED! And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. 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. 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. In Deuteronomy 6:1-9, . And some of them were slain because they presumed to go without the presence of God. In such a case there is no room for will, nor sparing of the heart. 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 ). Help me reach greater heights. The copulative conjunction is prefixed to the last four commandments in Deuteronomy. "You've encompassed this mount" God said, "long enough. At the same time we are told how the tribe of Levi was separated, after having brought in (in an episodical way) an allusion to Aaron's death. Such is the sceptic's puny effort to lower the character and credit of scripture. A Summons To Advance . This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. The point urged here is, that when they came and stood, as far as any then could stand, in the presence of God, they had seen no similitude of Jehovah. There the nation enjoyed a season of rest, ratified its covenant with God, received the Law, constructed a sanctuary, and was otherwise equipped and organized. But it was not a question here of truth or its forms, but of obedience: this is ever in view. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. See Romans 8:15. The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. Next we see what was the fact when they did go up spite of the warning of God to fight the Amorites. Hence, while he fails not to show that Jehovah was with himself, and how Joshua was to displace him, he does not hesitate to set before all the story of his own shame, so to speak. But what wonderful grace! 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. We all know that it is natural to wretched, wilful man. The mount of blessing and the mount of curse were there on the other side Jordan. (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea.) It is obedience. Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. *Nothing can be weaker than the harping on the phrase "the priests the Levites," as in the writings of Davidson and Colenso (following the superficial scepticism of foreign authors, who themselves followed the old Deists of our own country). 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. Go in" and the key is of course "to possess the land which the Lord has sworn to your fathers. In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. Study Notes - Deuteronomy 6 1-9. Not at all, but His own people. We shall find more than that before we have done with the book of Deuteronomy, though we may in this lecture not look fully at a special character of it which is presented in the latter part of the book, where it will be proved that the New Testament also uses it in a very striking manner. They were the dues He demanded in virtue of His position as landlord of the people in the land. Moses mentions how the saying pleased him: here things are stated exactly as they were. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the . At the same time there is the gracious bringing in of God, and of what was suited to the people of God, when ruin was there. Pray it at midnight and midday. Thank Him for bringing you through the land of your [proverbial] enemies, for your enemies stood between you and the Promised Landand now you are that much closer to crossing over into the Promised Land. "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 ). In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. 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. For the LORD your God which goes before you, shall fight for you, according to all that he did in Egypt before your eyes; And yet you went in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God ( Deuteronomy 1:29-32 ). And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. 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. 3. But you are the one that puts the limitations on what God wants to do. 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. To what were they always inclined? And I cannot bring my flesh into conformity unto God. A few, however, think that the record in Deuteronomy is the more exact, because when Moses recorded the words in Exodus he had heard the decalogue pronounced; whereas, when he repeated it in Deuteronomy, it was in his hands, inscribed in permanent letters. 4; Eph. They came to a place, they said, "Awe my, this looks like a good place to pitch our tents". 18, 19, 12, 13; ^B Mark XI. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. It was because of this very truth: Jehovah was with them. Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. That was a tragedy of failure on their part and it was a failure of faith. Genesis 39: 2-6. They hesitated and by staying outside of the land, they were not obeying God's instructions. 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. it is an easy thing to say, "We have sinned;" but how often we have to learn that it is not the quick abrupt confession of sin which affords evidence that sin is felt! He did not assume knowledge of Israels history that is independent of the biblical account nor did he recount events previously unrecorded. i. p. 42, note 4.) NOTE: This edition of this sermon is taken from an earlier published edition of Spurgeon's 1857 message. Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Prayer Paraphrased - - I am blessed in the city and I`m blessed in the field! "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.". Now notoriously as a dogma it is acknowledged everywhere in Christendom except by heretics; but the moment it is appropriated as a practical fact, people stand back and begin to qualify and mutilate. 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. 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. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. But they saw the giants in the land and the high-walled cities instead of God. And there in the wilderness he speaks of the Lord your God. What shall we wear?These kinds of things, and in that we differ nothing from the heathen, from the animals. Og the king came out, and as with Heshbon, so with Bashan. kind this book, while it does not want allusions to what God had said in all the other books, has, no less than the rest of them, its own peculiar character. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. 5, 6; 1 Tim. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. In the delight of His people He delights. prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. cxliii. Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. It was "the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee." When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. He lost patience with them and in so doing brought Gods punishment upon himself (34-40; see Numbers 20:2-13). Besides, "Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. [Note: Peter C. Craigie, The Book of Deuteronomy, p. deserved. Ye have dwelt long enough, c. Exodus 19:1-2 and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:6), and relates here, 1. 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." The fixed use of the name Horeb to designate the mountain group in general, instead of the special name Sinai, which is given to the particular mountain upon which the law was given, is in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book. There, even were it the family gathered in such a sort as this within their gates, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, all have their part. But we are wrong. He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely by divine direction; God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. 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. "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." "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. He said, "How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance or your burdens or your strife? And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.'' British Library, Harleian MS. 5596. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." Surely this is highly significant. 12). What God lays on one He does not necessarily enjoin on another. It is the people repudiating the ways of the heathen, and consecrated to God. Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. Heavenly Father, thank You for the Word of God and all the wisdom and instructions it contains. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. But. (f) In the second year and second month, Nu 10:11. 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. What we have here is not a repetition; it leads us into things secret what wrought in the people and hindered their blessing. We however are not under law but grace. 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. 8. Not so. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there." We know how these traditions linger among men, particularly in the East. Yet it would be hazardous to assert that it is the exact original. 303)." This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. Let us now look at the details as far as it can be done in so brief a glance as we can afford to give it at present. 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. But in Deuteronomy the point is to centralize them all around Jehovah Himself. We are also shown the astonishing patience of Jehovah, and with that which might be difficult to understand if we did not look to the moral scope of the book the destruction of the first tables, the writing out of fresh ones, and the place in which they were to be kept. 10. "Reckon ye your old man to be dead with Christ. It seems just a parenthesis, and not a question of chronology.*. Again, in Deuteronomy 5:16 two new clauses are supplied, 'and that it may go well with thee,' and 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.' The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. The consequence is that, though all have their place, these distinctions may here seem small indeed. Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. Man must not presume to choose. He quotes accordinglyPsalms 91:1-16; Psalms 91:1-16, intimating to Jesus that, if He were the Son of God, all He had to do was to throw Himself from the pinnacle of the temple; and all must endorse His claims. The essential revelation of God to us is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Father displayed by the Son, and made known by the Spirit. (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). 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. And thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. "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. [Note: Craigie, p. Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. "What is the mountainous country of Judea? "Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. Our mind will be upon the fleshly things continually; What shall we eat? Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. And then he really started getting on God's case. In all the three occasions the Lord Jesus draws His answers from the book of Deuteronomy. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. "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." "Jehovah heard the voice of your words and was wroth, and sware saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers.". O. T. i. pp. We see that what has been remarked is just what is expressed in this verse: "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only," (what exercise of faith was there in that?) a. 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. It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. We're always the one that put the restrictions upon what God can do for us. 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? Therefore, I must take a position of faith and recognize that the old nature, the life of the flesh, was crucified with Christ in order that I might now live after the new nature, the nature of Christ, and living now after the spirit. Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? 8). There is no mercy shown in the vintage. How good is the Lord! Faith leads to obedience: first of all the acceptance of His word brings and secures blessing by faith for our souls; and then, having received it, we surrender ourselves to His will. This, I believe, is one of the great snares of Christendom from of old and now that is, the stereotyped acknowledgment of sin, the mere habit of hurrying through a formula of confession to God. The references to "the river Euphrates" (Deuteronomy 1:7) and "the stars of heaven for multitude" (Deuteronomy 1:10) hark back to Gods promises to Abraham. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. They are no longer to go up and take possession of the land, but to turn back and take their journey into the wilderness. If one were simply a man, one must have to do with the place and state of Adam fallen. "Can you call Him Father?" W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. God went before you to find the place for you to pitch your tents. ). In Psalms it says, "And they limited the holy one of Israel by their unbelief" ( Psalms 78:41 ). 2. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. No, not merely so, but by ourselves. In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. 1:6-7. A great auditory, no question, he had, as many as could crowd within hearing, and particularly all the elders and officers, the representatives of the people; and, probably, it was on the sabbath day that he delivered this to them. O Lord in Heaven, please in my job and at my workplace I ask for promotion and payment increase in Jesus' name. The Lord, by the simple fact that He quotes Deuteronomy, gives evidence that He had before His eyes the condition of the people of God, whatever might be their own insensibility. Begin to move forward in your spiritual development, in your spiritual life. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. 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. This men forget. We have to remember that we get and learn only that we may apply and act. 2. Let me ask, Why were there these three feasts, and these three only? Jehovah went along with them; and of course the faithful turned back just as much as the unfaithful. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.". 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. ^A Matt. 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. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. This then is the crucial test, so to speak, which Moses applies throughout; this is the homily; for indeed Deuteronomy we may call a book of divine homilies in this respect. "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. If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. They were tried after this by another case of forbearance. We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. Still more since Christ: misused ordinances are practically the same thing in principle, asGalatians 4:1-31; Galatians 4:1-31 teaches. It is after this will come the full time of joy for the earth. This was their point of imitating God. His brother was the political head of that community in Alexandria, and he himself on one occasion represented his co-religionists, Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. 1. 226-228.) We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. The truth is that the solemn circumstances appear to recall to the mind of Moses the awful lapse of Israel when "they made the calf which Aaron made," and Levi, of odd perfidious to the stranger for a sister's sake, consecrated themselves to Jehovah in the blood of their idolatrous brethren; and Moses hews at Jehovah's command tables of stone like the first, and put them, written as before, in the ark which he had made. Praying through Deuteronomy 31:6. 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. It is possible, however, that the ipsissima verba may be in one or other. Consequently there is here a heavy blow struck at the tendency towards idolatry. Moses reminds them how he had shared the burden of care for them with others. "I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." 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