It was God who made the family rejoice, and they were to go out to those that were strangers to it. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. "I will not give you of their land." Shake it Up De 1:6 "The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 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. "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. "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." 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." Was not this a positive promise? They are each of them seeking supremacy. 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. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb. Accordingly the very large introduction is an address to the people for the purpose of enforcing these claims. Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.". *Dr. D. (Introd. iii. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted. Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." In growing up as children, they weren't as aware of the hazards of the wilderness.And so Moses is sort of recounting for them. The point then for the Jew was the one true God. The inspired editor may have given later names, and added "as it is in this day," or explanatory remarks. 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. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. This was their real object. Now get moving. Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. I. This men forget. God wanted to free them from the horrible bondage of Egypt, yet now they are accusing God of hating them.You remember the case of Job, it said in all of these things, that is the loss of his family and his wealth and all, he did not curse God neither did he charge God foolishly. It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." *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). 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. Such was the genuine result of sending the spies. They were "a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead." And we are told that we are not to yield to the flesh or give place to the flesh to fulfill its desires, but to walk after the spirit, and that our warfare is actually a spiritual warfare. This is the preamble to the recitation of the law in Deuteronomy, and includes the text of "the Shema," what has become the central prayer of Judaism, and which Jesus identifies as the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:36 and Mark 12:29-30. 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. 29.) This is a universal and abiding principle. But. Consequently there is here a heavy blow struck at the tendency towards idolatry. Then they are told not to celebrate the feast indiscriminately where and as they please. In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? Did He warrant Israel to coerce Sihon with threats of vengeance or win by cajolery? By whom? 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 . 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. Moses reflected on the past mainly as Israels history stands revealed in the earlier books of the Pentateuch. I do not dwell on this. "I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." "Jehovah said unto me, Fear not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. 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? And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. i. "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. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. ^b 12 And ^a 18 Now ^b on the morrow [on the Monday following the triumphal entry], ^a in the morning ^b when they were come out from Bethany, ^a as he returned to the city [Jerusalem], he hungered. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. May my inner and outward actions, attitude, words and motives reflect a heart that loves the Lord with . He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely by divine direction; God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. 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. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. Thus, we see, the second exhortation contains a lesson about other people, as the first was the danger of disobedience on their own part. Jeremiah, or any other prophet. Now, the wilderness experiences where I am trying to bring my flesh into conformity to the will of God, and I'm promising God that I'm gonna do better, that I'm not gonna fail next time. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. I. We need not dilate on the beautiful detail but at the same time simple truth of this chapter. 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. How great the blessing of one who walks, as Christ walked, in dependence on God, not consulting Him only if constrained, but of a ready mind, and assured that by His Spirit, through the written word, He deigns to guide every step of your way where self is judged, and to give you to take the right path with a simplicity incomparably better than all the wisdom the world could muster, if one sought in independence to choose for oneself! Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the 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. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. And in verse Deuteronomy 1:2 is a little commentary, it says. But in Deuteronomy the point is to centralize them all around Jehovah Himself. viii. Deuteronomy 31:6 - Prayer Points For Protection From Fear/Failure. In the one case there was a remembrance of creation; in this case, of symbolic redemption, the bringing out of Egypt. We hear of sin and trespass-offerings, peace and burnt-offerings, meat-offerings and drink-offerings, not to speak of the daily lambs and occasional victims. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. Pray it at midnight and midday. The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. 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. 94.]. [173] Philo was born in Alexandria, about the year 20 before Christ. We are far from being then on the ground of a mere rehearsal of what has been shown in the previous books. 2). Hence the story of the Amorites, as we saw, is given. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. 8. So he's getting up there now, about a hundred and twenty years old. The Christian is not a mere man, nor is he a Jew. But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. There is another peculiarity in the book of Deuteronomy which it is well to present briefly before we descend to particulars; it supposes the failure of the people. Some there are, no doubt, who assume that God has not in these things expressed any will of His, own. I`m blessed socially, physically, mentally and psychologically! the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. We'll go in, we'll take the land". There is then (verses 12-18) pointed out the way to deal with a city guilty of idolatry. And Moses said, "No, don't. ii., pp. Now Israel had totally failed in their place. (Dr. D.'s Introd. It is obedience. The spring of obedience was wanting. 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. (Gen. Xlix. How many one has known who would have liked much to be martyrs! 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. He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:6), and relates here, 1. 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! 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. It is not then a grouping of types, whatever might be the particular scope and aim of those employed, such as we have seen in distinct forms throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, or Numbers; but here all that the Spirit is using, whether it be direct moral application which forms much the larger part of the book, or whether it be a selection of such shadows as fall in with its. Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. vol. The place were they were now encamped was in the plain, in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 1:5), where they were just ready to enter Canaan, and engage in a war with the Canaanites. 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. 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. 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! Where else can be found such jealous care as this? O Lord in Heaven, please in my job and at my workplace I ask for promotion and payment increase in Jesus' name. Prayer Point #2: For The Body of Christ To Be In Unity and Walk In Love. 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. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) We have the consecration of the people to God. Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. The date of this sermon which Moses preached to the people of Israel. This closes the first part of Deuteronomy. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. But God, in fact, is always left out of the calculations of unbelief. Consequently we have these three feasts, which set forth particularly Jehovah providing to fill the heart of His people with peace and joy to overflowing, Yet at the first of these feasts Israel were not told to rejoice. So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and went presumptuously up into the hilt And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do," there was a most ignominious flight "and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. 29.) In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. Hence there is a tone of exceeding seriousness, as well as of chastened affection; there is a solemnity founded on the grand dealings of a God whose faithful and holy hand was now ushering them into His land. Who shall deliver me from this bondage to my flesh?" In such a case there is no room for will, nor sparing of the heart. And I'm making all of these vows and I'm doing my best to bring my flesh into conformity to God and to God's will, but I find this perverse law that Paul found working. See Romans 8:15. 1. St. Paul gives this interpretation in Romans 4:13. 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. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. So long God had borne their manners, and they had borne their own iniquity (Numbers 14:34), and now that a new and more pleasant scene was to be introduced, as a token for good, Moses repeats the law to them. The wish emanated neither from God nor His servant but from the people, though Moses, at God's command, did send them to the ruin of that generation, as it turned out And it has been well remarked on the one hand, that he graciously omits to repeat God's offer to make himself a fresh stock after their destruction but for his intercession; while on the other he confesses how he, no less than their fathers, had grieved Jehovah, so that he was not to lead them into the land any more than they, but to give that place of honour to Joshua. iv. What did it matter about all others? Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. No wonder therefore that Deuteronomy in general has been but little understood, even by the children of God; that the thoughts of expositors are comparatively vague in explaining it; and that men are apt to read it with so little insight into its bearing that the loss might seem comparatively trifling if it were not read at all. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. The aged lawgiver in these last words was led of the Holy Ghost to speak home to their souls. The reason is obvious. Coming to the Valley of Eshcol, searching it out and taking the fruit and bringing it back. 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.' For a people in relationship with God such is the only possible way, either of pleasing Him, or of tasting that joy of the Lord which is the strength of His people. Many of them did not see the miracle of the Red Sea being parted. There is the peril of religion becoming a species of enjoyment. We have to consider whether we are undertaking it out of some human desire of heroism. 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. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 4; Isa. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. What have I to ask beside? And it is always our unbelief that places the limitations upon the work that God is seeking to do in our lives. God appointed judges (Deuteronomy 1:16) to help Moses carry the burden of legal decisions that resulted from the giving of the Law. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. The people of Israel had nearly completed their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. They are no longer to go up and take possession of the land, but to turn back and take their journey into the wilderness. 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. We have to remember that we get and learn only that we may apply and act. There he kept them about a year, and then told them they had dwelt long enough there, they must go forward. Owing to the comparatively loose nature of the connection between consecutive passages in the legislative section, it is difficult to present an adequate summary of the book of Deuteronomy. When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! Gifted by God (ver. There is no mercy shown in the vintage. This was their point of imitating God. May we not forget it ourselves! It extends to Deuteronomy 4:40; and is divided from the second discourse by the Deu 1:4 :41-49. In fact He acted as the landlord. Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it; and that ye may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey" (ver. I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. 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. But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. What shall we wear?These kinds of things, and in that we differ nothing from the heathen, from the animals. 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. But then as he moves into the eighth chapter of Romans, he found the answer to his cry. Plainly then the savage knows quite well that it is unjustifiable to steal. In this case let us see the principles of Jehovah's discipline. Once more obedience is pre-eminently the matter, and this too as delivered men once bondslaves, but now free to obey (ver. Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. 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. They could take possession of no lands whatever of their own will. For instance, it is not everybody that is called to serve God in a public way; nor is everyone called to take a particular step or course which might involve him in trouble and persecution. "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 11-52. Ver. "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." This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. For we must remember that the sabbath does not mean a seventh day, as some persons (I am sorry to say) equivocate; but the seventh day and no other. But God is very careful, in the face of the passover, that there should not be a forgetfulness of that escape which brought them out together then. They came to a place, they said, "Awe my, this looks like a good place to pitch our tents". So it is that the New Testament gives us the failure of the apostle Peter, not merely at the beginning but in the very midst of his career. Thus, for the renewal of the covenant described in Deuteronomy, the prologue recalls not only the covenants history, but also the ability of the Lord of the covenant to fulfill his promise. And in it, I must recognize that this old body of flesh, with its desires, has been crucified that it should no longer rule over me but that I now can be ruled by the spirit of God.Now Paul describes his wilderness experience in the seventh chapter of Romans as he talks about seeing the law of God, consenting that the law of God was good and determining to fulfill the law of God. Prayer Point #4: Pray for God's will to be done. They hesitated and by staying outside of the land, they were not obeying God's instructions. - 1 Timothy 2:3-5. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. It is evident that they are somehow or another connected with God, and touch matters of religion, as men would say. O. T. i. pp. But there is no discrepancy whatever, nor confusion of Aaron's death in the last year of the wilderness sojourn with the separation of Levi some thirty-eight years before. It is making God less than a man; for if he could not be content without it, how much less the living God? "Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from among you. A Summons To Advance . God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. A disgraceful perversion; for Deuteronomy 10:6-7 is manifestly a parenthesis. For what are we here but to please God? And the grand principle too we may just notice in passing: Jehovah reminds them by Moses that He had allowed much while they were in the wilderness which could not be tolerated now (ver. The other whom Jesus called thought about his father and mother; he would like to see them first. a. Prayer Point #3: Pray for Those Being Persecuted Because of the Gospel. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. [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 ). Was anything like this the rule where man even took up the Bible for his own ends? For although he may allow himself a dispensation to take from others, let a man steal from him, and it will soon be seen whether he does not condemn the wrong. Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. 12-18; ^C Luke XIX. 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