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. God had laid it out and said, "Here it is. Here we see that God had a most deliberate choice in the smallest matters as well as in the greatest; but He begins with what most nearly touches His presence. 364-366.). 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! Crossed over Jordan finally and began the conquest of the land.So, an interesting little commentary. This was the mount that burned with fire (Hebrews 12:18), and gendered to bondage,Galatians 4:24. The fact is that, no matter what might be the measure of carrying them out in the wilderness, God was setting forth by them the shadows of good things to come. Meanwhile they were not to meddle with their kindred, even though jealous and unkind. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. "Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 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. This is precisely what does put man to the proof morally. 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. When we compare, for instance, the way in which Moses, under the direction of God, was to lead on the Israelites, and the way in which Mahomet perverted the word into a fable for ambitious ends, and allowance of human lusts and passions, who cannot see the difference? 11-52. This therefore gives its tone to the book. They hesitated and by staying outside of the land, they were not obeying God's instructions. Go in" and the key is of course "to possess the land which the Lord has sworn to your fathers. . Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. And so it is important that we not fail where they failed but that we, by faith, take this position of victory, of power, of strength, of walking in the spirit reckoning the old man, the old nature, to be dead with Christ.So, that which should have taken eleven days took them forty years, actually forty-one years to be exact, because it wasn't until the forty-first year on the tenth day that they entered in to the land that God had promised. We are to observe the statutes and to do them. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." Why should they not rejoice? At all events, whatever may be His grace, whatever His ways with His people, obedience is that with which He cannot dispense. 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. Still it is too solemn to admit of what is so buoyant, which has its own proper exercise. Grace has brought us out of the condition of a nation in the flesh or of men in the earth. Hence, I need not say, there is peculiar solemnity in its character. To get from the Red Sea into the Promised Land, it was necessary to go through the wilderness, an eleven-day journey, but most of the wilderness experience was illegitimate.Now I feel that the history is a typical history, that there are spiritual analogies to be made to the children of Israel coming out of Egypt passing through the wilderness into the Promised Land. There may be lands where everything morally is at the lowest point, and where therefore a wrong is less severely estimated than elsewhere. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. So it was done; but it is added that, when they did depart from Horeb and went through the wilderness, "which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God doth give unto us. It is after this will come the full time of joy for the earth. Yet he discourses not to them concerning military affairs, the arts and stratagems of war, but concerning their duty to God; for, if they kept themselves in his fear and favour, he would secure to them the conquest of the land: their religion would be their best policy. I. It had more of the family character; but a beautiful feature is connected with it: "And the Levite (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee), and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." 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. "The saying pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eschol, and searched it out. He did not just write Deuteronomy for the generation of Israelites about to enter the Promised Land but for later generations as well, including our generation. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". 17; 1 Kings Lewis BaylyThe Practice of Piety, The Mountainous Country of Judea. Man must not presume to choose. in keeping with the rhetorical style of the book." Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. 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. 2. Why did they not? vol. I pray for the younger generation that are surrounded by increasing attacks on the Word of God. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. It ought most of all to shock the Christian. 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.] [Note: Peter C. Craigie, The Book of Deuteronomy, p. )Ver. Moses reflected on the past mainly as Israels history stands revealed in the earlier books of the Pentateuch. In the tenth day of the first month of the forty-first year, they crossed Jordan into the Promised Land after mourning the death of Moses for thirty days. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. [173] Philo was born in Alexandria, about the year 20 before Christ. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. They were tried after this by another case of forbearance. Hence, if darkness had not veiled their eyes, they would have seen that the latter clause of Deuteronomy 5:12 cited could not be in Exodus, and that its existence in Deuteronomy proves that we have here a grave and instructive reference to the commandments formally given in the second book of Moses. 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. 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." It was revealed as the great operative truth, continually impressed on Israel their one true God. Whereas, even in God's dealings with a nation after the flesh (and such is the truth as to Israel here), there was an admirable check on man and witness of divine government, though the law made nothing perfect. They did not have a personal memory of the horrible bondage in Egypt. And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. 8-10. "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the Law and were organised as a church militant, an army encamped around the tabernacle of God. Jeremiah, or any other prophet. God is saying to you, "Hey, you've been there long enough, walking in circles. Background of Text: Israel has been delivered out of Egypt. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israels covenant God, has done for his people. Known thoroughly, in all its parts, peoples, districts, conformation, accessibilities, and inaccessibilities. That borders on blasphemy. The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. 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. To apply what now occupies us here, give me the chief, fundamental, and most salient points of Christianity, and I will show you that these are the very truths that Christians are most in danger of forgetting. - 1 Timothy 2:3-5. i. Temple Cleansed. Pray it during the day too. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. 5. "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.". [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. If you suspect a rogue is in your employment, you may test him by marking a piece of money to see whether he steals or not: am I then going to mark something for God to see whether He will keep His word or not? 6.The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. Known to God (ver. 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. The land was straight before them, and they might, as far as that was concerned, have gone in and taken possession of it at once. It is remarkable that, even though in this connection Moses gives them what are called the ten commandments, there is nevertheless an express and manifest difference in the form as compared with Exodus; so little is Deuteronomy a mere rehearsal of the earlier books. In Deuteronomy 9:1-29 another topic is prominent. And it is obvious, beloved friends, obedience depends on this that we really do what God commands us now that we are doing what is suitable to our present position and state. My Father, I ask that You grant me prosperity in all my endeavours. ^D John VII. But one must only expect this from men whose aim is to reduce the inspired writers to their own level, and who think that piety can co-exist with fraud, yea, with fraudulent falsehood about God. Prayer Point #3: Pray for Those Being Persecuted Because of the Gospel. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh "hereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. He is encouraging them to go in and to take the land that God had promised to them. Surely this is highly significant. 45-48. Nobody likes this. Beside the tithe of their increase truly rendered from corn, wine, oil, with the firstlings, which, if distant from the place Jehovah would choose for His centre of worship, might be turned into money, and there spent before Him with a joyful household and the Levite not forsaken, there was to be a tithe at the end of three years, mentioned in the 28th and 29th verses: "At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates." 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. 95. Thus we know for certain that the most fundamental requirement of all, the Levitical ritual, was not practised; and if they did not prove faithful in that which was most urgent as well as least difficult in point of means for executing it, we can hardly suppose that they carried out their obedience in what was surrounded with immense if not insuperable obstacles. 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. 2). 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 ). When Peter and John came to the Samaritans, and found that they were, '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. 1. (Deuteronomy 1:22-23) In the same manner an important social arrangement is declared to have been made by Moses at the suggestion of Jethro his father-in-law, who says in prophesying, 'If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able,' etc. 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. Such is the reason why a Christian even now on earth passes into a new state of things altogether. 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." And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. We know how these traditions linger among men, particularly in the East. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. 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. Preventive against Backsliding. 2. 2. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. They failed to enter in by faith to that which God had promised to them. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. 12-18; ^C Luke XIX. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. 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. To what were they always inclined? The word of Jehovah mentioned here is not found in this form in the previous history; but as a matter of fact it is contained in the divine instructions that were preparatory to their removal (Numbers 1-4 and Numbers 9:15-10:10), and the rising of the cloud from the tabernacle, which followed immediately afterwards (Numbers 10:11). 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. How good are the ways and the words of God! Thus was kept up a thorough sense of discipline in the people, and above all dependence on and confidence in Jehovah. This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.". 5, 11, 14, 18, 21, 26). And be Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy Scripture, Philo of Alexandria, the Rabbis, and the Gospels - the Final Development of Hellenism in Its Relation to Rabbinism and the Gospel According to St. John. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. I am afraid there was not much more in the weeping than in the acknowledgment of the sin. A disgraceful perversion; for Deuteronomy 10:6-7 is manifestly a parenthesis. 24; 2 Cor. The first and introductory address of Moses to the people is here commenced. Is not this in wonderful harmony with the rest, following on the confession of the one true God of Israel? 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. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. "3. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! His death to the law is not therefore to weaken the authority of the law, but because of the principles of divine grace which are now brought out in Christ risen from the dead, founded on His death, manifested in His resurrection, and maintained by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. At the same time Moses, though well aware of this, reminds them of the real source of their misery, and of the judgment that had fallen on them from God. Our adversaries? These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. We however are not under law but grace. vol. They were not compelled to take this to the one place that God had consecrated. *It is distressing that any man bearing the Christian name should write as does Dr. Davidson. 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. Yet they complained against him and refused to go with him into the land he had chosen for them (19-33). 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 ). "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." 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. The character of it was so solemn as scarce to admit of this. The Christian is not a mere man, nor is he a Jew. [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 ). It is not the death of Christ with all its solemn, however blessed, issues. He lost patience with them and in so doing brought Gods punishment upon himself (34-40; see Numbers 20:2-13). "6. Not any ordinary fleshly sin on our part, as many suppose. III. Notice: 1. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. 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. Now, shut up". If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. 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! In other words, he is saying that God went before you through the wilderness to search for the best place for you to pitch your tent and then led you by the fire and by the cloud.Oh, if we only realized how all encompassing the work of God is that surrounds our lives. the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, Moses and his Writings[Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] "Ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire in the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12). It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. Covenant favour would surely do as much for Israel as providence had done for Moab and Ammon! We're the ones that place the limits on God's work. Thus, we see, the second exhortation contains a lesson about other people, as the first was the danger of disobedience on their own part. Nothing irritates me more than to have people make foolish charges against God.I was-had a young man come in when we were back over in the little chapel and he was you know, "God led me do this and God led me to do that and God led me here" and then he's, you know, "God led me out there and I almost starved to death. "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee: but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. Now therefore, hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. With the enemies? "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." O. T. i. 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. Read: Deut. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there." 30.) To hear someone, you know, making all these accusations against God, horrible things, it's tragic. Heavenly Father, thank You for this important lesson. This fact appears to be of some importance, because notoriously difficulties have been raised, on the score of practicability, as to the various ordinances requiring sacrifices and offerings where the means did not appear. "You've encompassed this mount" God said, "long enough. It reminds them of his gracious acts on their behalf and calls from them a fitting response of covenant loyalty. 39; vi. Then follows the appointment, iv. THE CHURCH'S DANGER - to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state of apathy or simple receptivity. So, after it has been brought before us from the first, we find their failure to trust Jehovah leads to a fresh command. Tempting God was to doubt Him, as many, all of us, are apt to do. There is the peril of religion becoming a species of enjoyment. The spring of obedience was wanting. ". "I will not give you of their land." 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. 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. Verse Deuteronomy 1:6. 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. This is the grand pith of the chapter as it appears to me. See Romans 8:15. 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. 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