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. At all events, whatever may be His grace, whatever His ways with His people, obedience is that with which He cannot dispense. *The effort of rationalists to show that "the Deuteronomist" wrote long after Israel were in the land of Palestine is mere ill-will and want of depth. We'll go in, we'll take the land". They possess that inimitable solemnity which cannot be so much uttered in words as felt in the general bearing of the book. 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. 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. there is formality enough, and without having written forms, the heart may frame forms of its own, as we may have observed, if not known it in our own experience, without finding fault with other people, For notoriously, in a legal state of mind people are apt to get through the acknowledgment of sin in what they know has grieved the Lord; but even then there is a want of bowing to His will. 3. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! 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. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.--From the beginning of the second month of the first year of the exodus (Exodus 19:1) to the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11).This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the . It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. Posted 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. "And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." 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. We need not dilate on the beautiful detail but at the same time simple truth of this chapter. The book of Deuteronomy acknowledges this failure, and takes its stand not only on the fact that it was impossible to deny, it but on the duty of confessing it. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. 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. Our J. 2. 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 ). Prayer Point #2: For The Body of Christ To Be In Unity and Walk In Love. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. In the one case there was a remembrance of creation; in this case, of symbolic redemption, the bringing out of Egypt. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. Religion, divorced from active employment, must soon lose its robustness, and degenerate into a sickly religiosity. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. 7). 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 ). These were solemn words to bring before the minds of Israel just about to enter into the good land. 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. So it habitually is where the faith is real; but nature is not yet judged root and branch. 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. 5, 6; 1 Tim. Kadesh. The Church, as one with Christ, shares in his kingdom, and shall yet inherit the whole earth. Jehovah went along with them; and of course the faithful turned back just as much as the unfaithful. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? Is it not a beautiful indication of what the true God is, even in His least institutions? It will be observed that first of all in this chapter, it was not activity but subjection. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. 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. It is evident that they are somehow or another connected with God, and touch matters of religion, as men would say. In Deuteronomy 15:1-23 we find a similar principle as to the year of release. "Now therefore hearken, O Israel." And you came near to me Moses said, and you said, Let's send spies into the land, in order that they might find out which cities we'll be facing and the directions by which we should go into the land ( Deuteronomy 1:21-22 ). It is not a book for the wilderness, except for their hearts to look back on whilst on the borders before they entered the land. "The good that I would I do not. The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. If God had held to the terms of that covenant, never could the people have found their way into Canaan; but God was pleased to bring in fresh terms by a way which will be shown before we have done with this sketch of Deuteronomy; and it was simply and solely because of those fresh terms of mercy which God Himself brought in of His own grace that Israel entered there. As God loved Moses, so Moses confided in God. 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. It is after this will come the full time of joy for the earth. The quotation is from Dennis Baly, The Geography of the Bible.]. We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. "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. W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. [Note: Craigie, p. 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. He could have cited from any other, had any other been in all respects so suitable to the occasion. At the same time it is in no way opposed to the strictest views of inspiration to hold that the law was edited by an inspired man, whether Ezra (according to the Jews, as Josephus, etc.) 8. i. This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. Here are the list of prayers we have studied in the book of Numbers: The ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. 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. May the Lord give us hearts to rejoice in all His, grace and truth and glory! I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. 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. 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. (1) Et non sans cause; and not without reason. 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. They were the dues He demanded in virtue of His position as landlord of the people in the land. It was no longer "How shall I free myself?" will be blessed. A Summons To Advance . What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. They would not go up when Jehovah bid them, and when He commanded them to turn back, they wished to go forward. Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. 95. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God doth give us. Moses recounts for them the history of what had taken place before as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. And so they departed from Horeb. "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 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? They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. And I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. I'm tempted to smack you in the mouth talking about God that way. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." The less that Israel felt they had failed, the more Jesus felt it for them. They failed to enter in by faith to that which God had promised to them. With this then most fittingly He begins. 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. II. Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. "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." The above diversities show that the ipsissima verba spoken by God cannot be in both, because both do not exactly agree. Its moral turns on this the only possible way of maintaining relationship with God, namely, obedience; what the nature of that obedience is, and how it is modified; how God graciously takes into account the weakness of those brought into this relationship, and how He provides for His own glory in it. I do not dwell on this. There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. Clearly it traces the discipline of Jehovah by the way. His Father will take care of him. 2. Not so. 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. Still more take the opposite hypothesis and contend that its legislation is of a later character than that of the preceding book. 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. "Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day Jehovah talked with you face to face in the Mount out of the midst of the fire. And if we yield to the flesh, the flesh will govern and rule our lives and we will have the resulted mind of the flesh. 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. The Lord puts no weapon of a kind to injure any into our hands; but bids us leave vengeance with himself. cxliii. What have I to ask beside? Consequently it is not an isolated fact that they wished spies, or that Jehovah acceded to their desire to have them (this we have already seen), but here "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 bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come." There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. II. 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. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. So he's getting up there now, about a hundred and twenty years old. 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. 9. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." The prospect which he gave them of a happy and early settlement in Canaan: Go to the land of the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 1:7); enter and take possession, it is all your own. 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 . He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:6), and relates here, 1. All the previous part prepares the way. 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. What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. "Jehovah God that hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt" He was the only God. iv. 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. O Lord in Heaven, please in my job and at my workplace I ask for promotion and payment increase in Jesus' name. "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 ). 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. God says, then, that enough time had been spent in one place; (1) for, before they left it, an entire year had passed away there. 2. "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. * It is a familiar point to many, but may claim a brief notice here, especially as all do not see its bearing in by no means the least striking of the ten words; I speak of the law of the sabbath. 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 seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. Prayer Point #5: Pray for Israel. If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. It was not in His mind to offer men His law or the sword. They're each of them seeking to rule our lives. There he kept them about a year, and then told them they had dwelt long enough there, they must go forward. "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.". And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. 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. were then offered but of a vast body of systematically-ordered teaching by types. This supposes a heart that knows God; and certainly so it is with Moses. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. It's yours." 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. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. 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