The section summarizes events recorded in greater detail in Numbers 10:11-42. This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. It's yours." What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. Again, what can be more simple and appropriate than that Moses at the close should omit the name and counsel of Jethro, and bring the people into greater prominence than himself in the choice of rulers? He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. "6. And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20. Yet He joins its observance with prohibitions of evil which man could himself judge. "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. . Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted. 45-48. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing. vol. 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? Obedience is the real spring of blessing, as disobedience is the sure pathway of ruin. These figures Moses was inspired to give as a whole to the people, entirely apart from the question whether they were or could be carried out according to the letter while passing through the wilderness. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. Not at all, but His own people. It is not the death of Christ with all its solemn, however blessed, issues. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. There the nation enjoyed a season of rest, ratified its covenant with God, received the Law, constructed a sanctuary, and was otherwise equipped and organized. Jehovah was most careful exactly where He had least sympathy. 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. This is so decided that in the millennial age there will be a strict maintenance of that day with all the authority of God Himself, vested in and exercised by the Messiah governing Israel and the earth. Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. The fact of Esau's pride and contempt of Israel gave them no license to take their land. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, with the institution of the cities where the manslayer might find refuge. 45, was edited and abbreviated somewhat. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." If they betook themselves to rites and ceremonies as a means of pleasing God, Jesus gave Himself up to unreserved obedience was Himself the constant pattern of One who never sought His own will. It is not merely "thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of free-will offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee," but "seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose: because Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the increase of thine hands; therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.". In this case too we have the fact that there had been a great deal of fighting in previous days. It is not the Jewish people in the school of Jehovah to manifest what was in their heart, and what He was towards them; but the people strengthened by Jehovah in presence of a power mightier than their own. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. They came to a place, they said, "Awe my, this looks like a good place to pitch our tents". "But the Lord heard the words of your complaining, he was angry and said, "You're not to go in". We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. The first and introductory address of Moses to the people is here commenced. Ver. 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. 4; Isa. 367.). He points out that God had been with them through the wilderness experience. ( Romans 7:24 ). The point then for the Jew was the one true God. - 1 Timothy 2:3-5. )Ver. Where the world or the flesh governs, the trial is not felt. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. "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. Then follows the appointment, iv. I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. 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. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. xlv. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. Verse Deuteronomy 1:6. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. And there in the wilderness he speaks of the Lord your God. (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of mount Seir to Kadeshbarnea.) And then he really started getting on God's case. 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 knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. The tenth has also the first two clauses in a different order from that in Exodus, and adds 'his field.'. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. How good is our God, and what a witness of His grace! But the tone, mind, and heart of Moses are nowhere more characteristically apparent than in these his last words to the people of Jehovah whom he loved. Not so. They are cardinal elements of the teaching of the book and show that, as Baly has said, Palestine was, in fact, the Chosen Land for the Chosen People; not, it should be noticed, chosen by them, but chosen for them (p. But there is another point peculiar to this book. ). The Mosaic Covenant is central in Deuteronomy. I have no hesitation in subscribing the opinion that our Lord Jesus chose them not only because they were in themselves exactly such as met and confronted Satan's temptations perfectly, but because there was a moral suitability in the fact that they were the words addressed to the people when ruin had already come in when nothing but the grace of God was afresh appealing to them before they were brought into the holy land. Obedience is the claim. Who shall deliver me from this bondage to my flesh?" Besides, "Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes." 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 ). 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. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. [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. 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. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. 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 . As God loved Moses, so Moses confided in God. 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. deserved. 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." Therefore it was that, when God told them to go up, they refused and suffered the consequence of their disobedience. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? i. There is thus a presentation of a faithful God, whose demand was for a faithful people." ], "The Lords gift of Canaan to Israel (Deuteronomy 1:8) and his command to them to enter and to possess the land began here and was reiterated and emphasized repeatedly in the speeches of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy. 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. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. 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. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. They are each of them seeking supremacy. [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. 2. iv. Not surprisingly, they were defeated and driven back into the wilderness (41-46). And he's saying God led him to do this and God led him to do that. The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. De 1:7 'Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and .read more Scripture: Deuteronomy 1:6-8 He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely by divine direction; God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. Is it not a beautiful indication of what the true God is, even in His least institutions? For although there were flocks and herds led into the wilderness with the children of Israel at the command of Jehovah, and they may have added more from enemies they conquered, the fact just now referred to meets and removes a host of objections raised about it, and proves that the nature of these ordinances has not been understood. 39; vi. Blessing for the world is after God has thus cleared the scene: in the prospect of this the Christian is called to rejoice to have the joy not only of liberty now but of the glory that is about to displace the oppression, the sorrow, the wretchedness, the sin, of this poor long-groaning earth, when all shall be put under the only One who is competent to bear the burden and to govern it to the glory of God. 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. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. May I not venture to think that other considerations entered, and that His citation of Deuteronomy only is in no way meant to disparage fitting words found elsewhere? Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". He may not at all have understood at the moment what was working in the people; but all is told out. The quotation is from Dennis Baly, The Geography of the Bible.]. The children of Moab had had their wars. Moses began his recollections of the journey by reminding the people that their coming possession of Canaan was solely because of Gods grace, not because of any virtue in them (1:1-8).Only through Gods mercy had they grown into a strong and contented people who enjoyed the blessing (rare among ancient races) of just, impartial and humanitarian government (9-18). But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. The Promised Land into which God was bringing them is typical to the glorious life and victory in the spirit. I must have to come to the place where I despair of freeing myself or despair of my own righteousness or despair of ever being righteous in the eyes of God by my own works and my own efforts. 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. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. 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. 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) "The importance of history has two focal points: (a) there is the covenant tradition of promise, from Abraham to Moses; (b) there is the experience of God in history working out in deed the content of the promise. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. 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 ). Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." They possess that inimitable solemnity which cannot be so much uttered in words as felt in the general bearing of the book. 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. 10. This he had fully shown in the history. Why should they not rejoice? Whither shall we go up? *. God will lift to the highest level that you will allow Him to lift you and do the best for you on that level, but the work of God in our lives is always limited by us. 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. All the previous part prepares the way. India, China, Africa, etc., - he knows them all, yet he says, "Go in and possess.". 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. This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. [Note: C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Pentateuch, 3:284.] What shall we drink? 4; iv. We have to consider whether we are undertaking it out of some human desire of heroism. Help me to abide in Christ, knowing that His grace is sufficient for every challenge in life. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. Accordingly this is the solemn and central truth that is brought in here. 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. And be. 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. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! NOTE: This edition of this sermon is taken from an earlier published edition of Spurgeon's 1857 message. (1) Et non sans cause; and not without reason. Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. "Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned" "we have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight." Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. The very point of faith, for which we are especially responsible, is what we are in most danger of forgetting under pressure or carelessness. : Pray for a great Awakening and for Salvations flesh? with of. 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