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. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. ^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. 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." 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. Why should they not rejoice? 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? He might not grant such a liberal concession to others as he left to himself. 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. 303)." 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. Deuteronomy 4:1. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. Some there are, no doubt, who assume that God has not in these things expressed any will of His, own. But the believer sees wisdom and grace in comparing the first historical statement with the solemn use the legislator makes to the generation about to enter the land, and the added information is of grave import. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. We know well how the family is apt to trench on generous feeling, and how it is apt to shut itself up to no more or better than a refined selfishness. (Gen. Xlix. Then follows the appointment, iv. 4; Eph. Notice: 1. The object is quite different. It is the design of the book which governs the description in each case. viii. Moses recounts for them the history of what had taken place before as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. "Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. The chief point to observe is that there was not a spirit of obedience in the people, and this they lacked because there was no faith in God. "3. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. 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 ). 1. There is the peril of religion becoming a species of enjoyment. . Thank Him for bringing you through the land of your [proverbial] enemies, for your enemies stood between you and the Promised Landand now you are that much closer to crossing over into the Promised Land. "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. 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. 4; Eph. Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. 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. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. Known thoroughly, in all its parts, peoples, districts, conformation, accessibilities, and inaccessibilities. and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. 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." So Paul speaks of this frustration, "Oh wretched man that I am. Although there were eleven days journey before them before they would arrive at Kadesh-barnea, nevertheless, lest anything should delay the people, who were naturally but too indolent, tie stimulates them by setting before them the ease with which it might be accomplished, telling them that they had but to lift up their feet and advance, in order to attain the promised rest. May the Lord give us hearts to rejoice in all His, grace and truth and glory! 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. I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. i. 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). 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 is a universal and abiding principle. 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! *It is distressing that any man bearing the Christian name should write as does Dr. Davidson. 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! 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. 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. This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. And Israel bow to the will of their God. This is the plain gist of the book. He that believes may calmly confide in God under all circumstances. In the first section, i.-iv. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israel's covenant God, has done for his people. ^D John VII. 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! THE CHURCH'S DANGER - to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state of apathy or simple receptivity. The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. Praying through Deuteronomy 31:6. His Father will take care of him. The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. Thus does dying Jacob, in announcing Ernst Wilhelm HengstenbergChristology of the Old Testament, DeuteronomyOwing 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. His eyesight is still keen, he can still hear very well and he is addressing these people, rehearsing for them the work of God in their past because many of them were born while in the wilderness. "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. The truth is that the difference is due to moral development of Israel according to Jehovah's wisdom on the eve of introducing His people into the land, and the more settled and social habits He would have them cultivate there. So, after it has been brought before us from the first, we find their failure to trust Jehovah leads to a fresh command. 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. (Exodus 18:23) But inDeuteronomy 1:9; Deuteronomy 1:9, etc., Moses speaks of the same institution as his own without any reference to Jethro, or the divine command of which Jethro spoke." There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. Prayer Point #2: For The Body of Christ To Be In Unity and Walk In Love. Listen, God'll take you all the way if you'll just believe Him and trust Him for it. You must bring your instrument to a point before it will penetrate, to an edge that it . 7. 2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) Help me reach greater heights. I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. Jehovah your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. They are then shown what may or may not be eaten, whether beasts, fishes, or fowls. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. xlv. 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. "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." Indeed he could not have written either in its present form, because that in Exodus is Jehovistic, and older than the record in Deuteronomy. ). It is really sort of Moses' final address to the people. Study Notes - Deuteronomy 6 1-9. In this case let us see the principles of Jehovah's discipline. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. And yet the inability to bring the flesh into conformity with the spirit of God. This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. The law-giver sets before them the manner in which the law dealt with themselves, in one feature particularly, which he presses on them. Hence, I need not say, there is peculiar solemnity in its character. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. 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? You may not possess all of your possessions and yet, if you spend your life roaming in the wilderness it's not God's will, it's not his desire, but he will be with you there and help you there. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." ^A Matt. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. 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. 5-8; 1 Cor. In Deuteronomy 15:1-23 we find a similar principle as to the year of release. 29.) In short how could it be respected as it deserves, if regarded as an almost garrulous repetition of the law? There is a third feast, that of tabernacles. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. "We turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed Mount Seir many days. "But Sihon," it is said, "king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him: for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.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). For when severed from Christ then those ordinances only became a snare to men. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. 1. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." 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. Tempting God was to doubt Him, as many, all of us, are apt to do. 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. 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." Clearly it traces the discipline of Jehovah by the way. Pray it at midnight and midday. *Dr. D. (Introd. iv. So this fact also is used. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. kind this book, while it does not want allusions to what God had said in all the other books, has, no less than the rest of them, its own peculiar character. There may be lands where everything morally is at the lowest point, and where therefore a wrong is less severely estimated than elsewhere. The Lord will conquer your . He chose to have a place where He would put His name. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.--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 received the . A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. "Judah, thou, thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; before thee shall bow down the sons of thy father. xlv. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! He has given no title to adopt doctrines, practices, ways, government, or any one thing that is not His expressed will for His children. 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. And I feel that the analogies that are to be made are that of the Christian walk and life and experience. 6.The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. 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.] Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. Ah! Then comes out another instance. We suppose that the record in Exodus is the older one. 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 . All is perfect in its own place, and the imputation of self-contradiction as baseless as it is malicious and irreverent. If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. Pray along these points: Thank Father God for how far He has already brought you. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Hence the story of the Amorites, as we saw, is given. It would not be good for us always to be in this state of simple receiving. "Can you call Him Father?" In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israels covenant God, has done for his people. "Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned" "we have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight." "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. Such conversion does not suit God, who must have His own. Monday, April 4, a.d. The greater the blessing of God, the more thoroughly you are put on the ground that God has given you, the more He insists on thorough and constant obedience. A great auditory, no question, he had, as many as could crowd within hearing, and particularly all the elders and officers, the representatives of the people; and, probably, it was on the sabbath day that he delivered this to them. i. p. 42, note 4.) Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you." The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. Whither shall we go up? 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. Not at all, but His own people. He is encouraging them to go in and to take the land that God had promised to them. 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. The remembrance of their own estate as slaves in Egypt till delivered by Jehovah is most suitable in verse 15; but it is certain that this is an appeal to their hearts, not the ground stated by God in promulgating the fourth commandment. But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. This is then what he was pressing. ( Romans 7:24 ). XXI. When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! ], "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. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. Know ye not that the old man was crucified with Christ? They're each of them seeking to rule our lives. In the harvest there is the gathering in of the good and the extinction of the evil; but the vintage knows nothing but vengeance from God. Not that I doubt the sabbath-day to be of the deepest possible moment, and so lasting in its claims that, when the millennium comes, that day of rest will be in full force again. They hesitated and by staying outside of the land, they were not obeying God's instructions. Hence, while he fails not to show that Jehovah was with himself, and how Joshua was to displace him, he does not hesitate to set before all the story of his own shame, so to speak. 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. Not only did the Lord say the right thing, but the ground, the line, and the spirit of the book whence He chose His answers were such as took the becoming place under such circumstances before God. All the previous part prepares the way. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. will be blessed. For a reason given already. 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. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there." i. 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 ). II. I dare say we have almost all done so, without referring to any particular mode; for alas! This is clearly shown. 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. It is obedience. iv. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. 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. 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