Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. In the one case there was a remembrance of creation; in this case, of symbolic redemption, the bringing out of Egypt. This was their point of imitating God. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. The Lord puts no weapon of a kind to injure any into our hands; but bids us leave vengeance with himself. 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. 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. 30.) Oh, I'm getting close because I realize now I can't deliver myself. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. These seven canons were next expanded by R. Ishmael (in the first century) into thirteen, by the analysis of one of them (the 5th) into six, and the addition of this sound exegetical rule, that where two, Ver. Did He offer him the book of the law with the one hand or the sword with the other? 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. They are each of them seeking supremacy. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. What a guard this was against the misuse of outward forms! 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. 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. But the motive here is not because God rested upon that day, but because they were to remember that they were servants in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah had brought them out through a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm: "Therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath-day." Occasionally in Deuteronomy he supplemented what he had written earlier with other explanatory material. Deuteronomy 1:6. 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. Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as Jehovah God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. The mount of blessing and the mount of curse were there on the other side Jordan. 29.) vol. This seems the reason why it is brought in here, as the time was long past; whereas all was fresh in Exodus, which is the main display of that truth. It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. (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 it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed from among the people, that Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them." Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. How good are the ways and the words of God! Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. 1. Is not this very notable? And he comes to help me and do for me what I can't do for myself. It is after this will come the full time of joy for the earth. 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. The Blessedness and Glory of the Promised Land, The Impartiality of God to be Reflected in the Judges of His People, Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb. 24; 2 Cor. 367.). (7 "You shall have no other gods before [] me. He chose to have a place where He would put His name. However the "strife" (Deuteronomy 1:12) of the people would prove to be their undoing. Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Obedience is the claim. 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. It is the due conduct of a people in relationship with Jehovah; no longer the bringing out of typical institutions, but the development of the moral ways which become the people with whom Jehovah had a present connection and intercourse on earth. Coming to the Valley of Eshcol, searching it out and taking the fruit and bringing it back. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. It is not so where God governs. Nothing of the sort. Hence, in the first feast, we find they were to eat unleavened bread. By whom? But for the Christian a very essential feature of his standing is that he is delivered from the status of man or Israel, and called to Christ and heavenly things. There is another remark to be made. But we must not overlook another part of the chapter not the Lord strengthening the people against the mightiest of adversaries, but Israel reminded of their rebellious heart even under such circumstances against Jehovah. 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. All this is brought out to Israel as the fruit of obeying Jehovah. And here the people were making this blasphemous accusation; "because God hates us, he brought us out here". In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. All is perfect in its own place, and the imputation of self-contradiction as baseless as it is malicious and irreverent. So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". For instance, a man knows perfectly well that he has no right to steal. The broader character of the book, with its aim of bringing forward the people, and consequently the tribal divisions, rather than particular families, fully accounts for this. And so they departed from Horeb. Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in the fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and the cloud by day ( Deuteronomy 1:33 ). "Hearken" and "do," that ye may "live" and "possess.". These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. 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. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). 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 . Still more since Christ: misused ordinances are practically the same thing in principle, asGalatians 4:1-31; Galatians 4:1-31 teaches. Heavenly Father, Help us to faithfully obey Your voice and being careful to do all that You command, today and in the future. They were tried after this by another case of forbearance. What have I to ask beside? ^D John VII. God's solution is death to the flesh, crucified with Christ. Our means are the preaching of the gospel, prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:6. 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. ( Romans 7:24 ). We're always the one that put the restrictions upon what God can do for us. Why should they covet? Many of them did not see the miracle of the Red Sea being parted. This is what Moses is enforcing by every possible kind of declaration and motive; by his own example and by theirs, as well as the example of their fathers. This claim, based on God's act of bringing Israel out of enslavement in Egypt, is also highlighted at the end of this chapter (6:20-25 . I`m blessed socially, physically, mentally and psychologically! "I will not give you of their land." 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. It was not in His mind to offer men His law or the sword. 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. 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! Now I affirm that on the face of the scriptures no candid person can deny that Exodus is professedly given as the history of the matter; Deuteronomy as a subsequent recital to the people, without the least aim at reiterating the words, which would have been the easiest thing in the world; for even these free thinkers do not pretend that the Deuteronomist did not possess Exodus. Jeremiah, or any other prophet. The very point of faith, for which we are especially responsible, is what we are in most danger of forgetting under pressure or carelessness. For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing." It was only eleven days journey from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, and about the same from Kadesh to the plains of Moab where the people now were, but they had taken forty years to get there. He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely by divine direction; God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. 12). Yet for all that, even though it was but the governmental display of God with a nation (not fully as with Christ, but provisionally by Moses), there is not a fragment of it that does not, when candidly examined, prove the goodness and the holiness of God, as much as it illustrates also on the other side the rebelliousness of man, chosen man, even the people of God. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. 21 et seqq.) ^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. 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. ( Romans 7:24 ). [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. Sihon rushed on them to his own ruin; and only so did Israel smite and dispossess the king of Heshbon. 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. But Israel is called to action. 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. 5-8; 1 Cor. 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. Where else can be found such jealous care as this? O. T. i. Setting up other gods in the wilderness. Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? Religion, divorced from active employment, must soon lose its robustness, and degenerate into a sickly religiosity. [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 ). Jehovah went along with them; and of course the faithful turned back just as much as the unfaithful. Fr. The law-giver sets before them the manner in which the law dealt with themselves, in one feature particularly, which he presses on them. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing. But the same duty abides for them. See Romans 8:15. 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. And it is always our unbelief that places the limitations upon the work that God is seeking to do in our lives. deserved. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. But the cry must come, "Who shall deliver me?" What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. And Israel bow to the will of their God. 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." I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." But God wants us to not be governed by the flesh but to be governed by the spirit; and thus, there is this spiritual warfare seeking the dominancy in your life. In the very first place is laid down utter destruction of the high places. [Note: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Pentateuch, 3:284.] Giants had dwelt there in times past, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims. "6. )Ver. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. These were solemn words to bring before the minds of Israel just about to enter into the good land. 5, 6; 1 Tim. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 4:1. 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.] It probably covers the last month and a half of Moses' life. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. 6. 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. It was a question of His authority, not of that which a man might intrinsically discern. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. 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. He has given no title to adopt doctrines, practices, ways, government, or any one thing that is not His expressed will for His children. pt. Pray it during the day too. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. Read: Deut. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. They had had many a sight of their own hearts, and they had had ample experience of God's ways in patient and gracious government. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. Posted 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. 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. The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. 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 will be blessed. May the Lord give us hearts to rejoice in all His, grace and truth and glory! The spring of obedience was wanting. "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.". God wants to bring you on into the walk of the spirit and the life of the spirit and a life that is dominated by the spirit. (Gen. Xlix. ^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. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.". Shake it Up De 1:6 "The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 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. Thus we come to what might be called the direct charges, having done with all the introductory part. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. But. What is it that characterises Christianity? "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. It extends to Deuteronomy 4:40; and is divided from the second discourse by the Deu 1:4 :41-49. I pray that I may abide in Christ and He in me and that my life would be a testimony to Your goodness and grace. 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 ). Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet." 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. Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. Thus, we see, the second exhortation contains a lesson about other people, as the first was the danger of disobedience on their own part. III. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. Who shall deliver me from this bondage to my flesh?" ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. 8 "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. What we have here is not a repetition; it leads us into things secret what wrought in the people and hindered their blessing. None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. 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 shall meet with others ere long, we shall come to civil ones, but we are not going beyond the religious charges at present. In this case too we have the fact that there had been a great deal of fighting in previous days. 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