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. John Edgar McFadyenIntroduction to the Old Testament. It is well to remark here that verse 24 is exactly parallel with verse 13; that it is not Moses in verse 13, but Jehovah who commands to "rise up," etc., in both; and that verses 10-12 are a parenthesis of instructive past history for moral profit like verses 20-23. Surely this is very significant, and points out a manifest difference in the character and scope and design of the book of Deuteronomy as compared with Exodus. Obedience is the claim. 11). 5; John iv. They must learn not to seek what God would not give them. A desire to obey God and to keep the law of God, consenting that it's good, that's the right way, that's the way I want to live; seeing the divine ideal, being attracted by the divine ideal and desiring, longing after it. The Christian is not a mere man, nor is he a Jew. How good are the ways and the words of God! 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. Ye have dwelt long enough, c. They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, 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. Consequently, when Christianity began, the first day of the week was made the distinguishing mark, the Lord's-day, and not the sabbath. They had been bondmen themselves; and if they had been delivered of God, they should cultivate the same spirit as He had shown. Notice: 1. 21 et seqq.) And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them ( Deuteronomy 1:2-3 ); So, there's an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadeshbarnea to the beginning of entering into the Promised Land, but they have been journeying for forty years and eleven months on an eleven-day journey. 39; vi. 6.The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. were then offered but of a vast body of systematically-ordered teaching by types. God's solution is death to the flesh, crucified with Christ. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. XXI. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. 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. And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. The reason is obvious. Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. [173] Philo was born in Alexandria, about the year 20 before Christ. But their fathers would not obey at that time. How many one has known who would have liked much to be martyrs! Deuteronomy 4:1. It was revealed as the great operative truth, continually impressed on Israel their one true God. They were about to enter it by special grace; for it is of importance to bear in mind that it was not by the covenant which was made at Horeb that the children of Israel entered the land at all. 8). Prayer Point #3: Pray for Those Being Persecuted Because of the Gospel. ^A Matt. We have here, I. 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. 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. 2. Verse Deuteronomy 1:6. With this they did not at all like to comply; and thus the same spirit which declined to go up in obedience to Jehovah refuses to go back in submission to Him. 10. In this case too we have the fact that there had been a great deal of fighting in previous days. It was a question of His authority, not of that which a man might intrinsically discern. "Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess.". In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. 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." For a reason given already. Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. God had laid it out and said, "Here it is. And mark this; that it is not only joy in the Lord, but calling others to joy (ver. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. Next we see what was the fact when they did go up spite of the warning of God to fight the Amorites. Deuteronomy 1:6. In Deuteronomy 15:1-23 we find a similar principle as to the year of release. The priests were Levites. Now the life of the spirit begins with the death of the old nature, the old man, which is the position that we must take by faith. our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we.". This is then what he was pressing. Keep me alert to the dangers of falling into a worldly mindset and help me to keep the eyes of my heart on Jesus. What God had done in the past, he could continue to do in the future. Whither shall we go up? This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. The life that God wants you to live, a life of victory, a life of overcoming. THE CHURCH'S DESTINY - to possess the land. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. 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? What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. As God loved Moses, so Moses confided in God. 4. II. 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. The children of Moab had had their wars. 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. The Church, as one with Christ, shares in his kingdom, and shall yet inherit the whole earth. 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. 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. 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. 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. As the epithet applied to God, "Jehovah our God," presupposes the reception of Israel into covenant with Jehovah, which took place at Sinai, so the words, "ye have dwelt long enough at this mountain," imply that the purpose for which Israel was taken to Horeb had been answered, i.e., that they had been furnished with the laws and ordinances requisite for the fulfilment of the covenant, and could now remove to Canaan to take possession of the promised land. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. "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. I. 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 . If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. XXI. 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. May my inner and outward actions, attitude, words and motives reflect a heart that loves the Lord with . 95. 4; Isa. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? Is not this very notable? Could they match with Him? Here then they are called to action. Accordingly the majority of expositors take the record in Exodus for the exact one, supposing that, as Moses was speaking to the people in the latter case, he recited from memory, not from the tables of stone, and therefore there is some variation of terms. 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." In Deuteronomy 5:1-33 we come to still closer quarters. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". Your fruit baskets and breadboards. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. We suppose that the record in Exodus is the older one. (Gen. Xlix. 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. 9. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. III. 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. They came to a place, they said, "Awe my, this looks like a good place to pitch our tents". Ver. All is perfect in its own place, and the imputation of self-contradiction as baseless as it is malicious and irreverent. 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. Therefore we can understand it as if He said, When you were in the strange country, when you left it in haste to wander here and there in the wilderness, there were great difficulties and many irregularities which cannot be allowed now. 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." The offspring of your herds and flocks. *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). It was simply a question of subjection to God and obeying Him, who had from the first a plan for the nations round Israel as their centre. 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. "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." "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.". It is freely allowed that the ten words have a specific character of the deepest moment for man on earth, as distinguished from what was judicial and ceremonial. The tragedy of unbelief, verse thirty-two.Now, I love this. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. It was no longer "How shall I free myself?" Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. 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. (Gen. Xlix. "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. viii. (October, a.d. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? It is not therefore a question of how far the offerings, etc. 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. 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. Hence it is that he alludes to the fate of Dathan and Abiram whom the earth swallowed up in consequence of their flagrant apostasy and fighting against God. 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." Psalm 138:1-2. What shall we drink? The sabbath law rests entirely on the word of God Himself. Plainly then the savage knows quite well that it is unjustifiable to steal. For he had himself told them to go up into the land; but they begged spies to search it first. 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. It would not be good for us always to be in this state of simple receiving. By whom? He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. Moses recounts for them the history of what had taken place before as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. (The Pent. The LORD our God spake unto you in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, [and so forth] and take the land that I have promised. 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. This was their point of imitating God. It might be, and no doubt was, trying enough for Israel to take quietly the unfriendliness of the Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites; but no matter what the provocation given, no matter how they might be insulted by them (and they were), a hand of Israel must not be lifted up against their brethren; for Jehovah reminds them of the connection, and gives those races the closest name possible their brethren. The less that Israel felt they had failed, the more Jesus felt it for them. The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. Did He offer him the book of the law with the one hand or the sword with the other? "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." Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. They're each of them seeking to rule our lives. 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 . 4; iv. (1) Et non sans cause; and not without reason. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. 18, 19, 12, 13; ^B Mark XI. ii., pp. Such conversion does not suit God, who must have His own. (I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the Mount.)" 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 ). . What did it matter about all others? 1 when all these blessings and curses i have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the lord your god disperses you among the nations, 2 and when you and your children return to the lord your god and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything i command you today, 3 then the lord your god 1. All this was now closed. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). On this side of the Jordan: At this point Israel was camped on the great plains of Moab, able to see across the Jordan River into the . ", Then comes (ver. The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. The conquest of which is commanded by God. 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. 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! Once more obedience is pre-eminently the matter, and this too as delivered men once bondslaves, but now free to obey (ver. Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Prayer Paraphrased - - I am blessed in the city and I`m blessed in the field! I do not dwell on this. Where the world or the flesh governs, the trial is not felt. The same principle is steadily pursued on all sides. They are each of them seeking supremacy. Accordingly the very large introduction is an address to the people for the purpose of enforcing these claims. To hear someone, you know, making all these accusations against God, horrible things, it's tragic. All the previous part prepares the way. 2. Why did they not? Edomites or Moabites or Ammonites, unfeeling and disposed to injure Israel, still God would educate His people in remembering whatever bond of nature there was: if blows came, God would not forget the delinquent. And in verse Deuteronomy 1:2 is a little commentary, it says. 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. Deuteronomy, spite of its Septuagintal title, is no such repetition; but the Spirit of God by Moses has given us, along with special moral exhortation, such types as bear on the position of the people on the very edge of the promised land. the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. But we are wrong. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. A lion's whelp is Judah; from the prey, my son, thou goest up; he stoopeth down, he coucheth as a lion, and as a full-grown lion, who shall rouse him up? 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. A Summons To Advance . So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. pt. The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. And listen to the horrible things they were saying about God. This is the point here, and thus we see the connection with all that has gone before. In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? Point # 3: Pray for those Being Persecuted because of sin he. Simple receiving Horeb, saying, the trial is not a mere man nor. 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