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. . They came to Kadeshbarnea and he speaks again of the tragic failure at Kadeshbarnea.Verse twenty-one: Behold, the LORD thy God has set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. This becomes the centre for all; and the book of Deuteronomy is founded on that fact, Israel being on the Point of entering into the land. In Deuteronomy 5:12 the term keep corresponds to remember in Exodus 20:8, and the last clause of the former verse, 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded,' is wanting in Exodus. We have the consecration of the people to God. The priests were Levites. A disgraceful perversion; for Deuteronomy 10:6-7 is manifestly a parenthesis. 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. This is now developed. May we not forget it ourselves! 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. And so it is important that we not fail where they failed but that we, by faith, take this position of victory, of power, of strength, of walking in the spirit reckoning the old man, the old nature, to be dead with Christ.So, that which should have taken eleven days took them forty years, actually forty-one years to be exact, because it wasn't until the forty-first year on the tenth day that they entered in to the land that God had promised. There is thus a presentation of a faithful God, whose demand was for a faithful people." The aged lawgiver in these last words was led of the Holy Ghost to speak home to their souls. The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. 2. So they began the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, which Moses begins to rehearse for them in chapter two. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN. In the commandment to keep it Jehovah the God of Israel speaks to this effect: "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." DAY 6 PRAYER POINTS. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children;" and they were to bind them for a sign; they were to make much of them at all points outside the house and inside, and always. There is no better evidence and earnest of God's favour than his putting his law in our hearts, Psalms 147:19; Psalms 147:20. All is perfect in its own place, and the imputation of self-contradiction as baseless as it is malicious and irreverent. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). Our mind will be upon the fleshly things continually; What shall we eat? So it was done; but it is added that, when they did depart from Horeb and went through the wilderness, "which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God doth give unto us. It is the king's mountain." 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. How good is our God, and what a witness of His grace! Your fruit baskets and breadboards. Bless me with divine strength that comes from you, Lord. "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.". "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. These feasts made an appeal to a male Israelite which none besides could make. To have confidence in God is one of the important points here, to cherish full confidence that whatever He gives us is the very best thing for us. 29.) Is not this very notable? 35; xxxii. Known thoroughly, in all its parts, peoples, districts, conformation, accessibilities, and inaccessibilities. And that which I could not do because of the weakness of my flesh I find that God has done for me and has made provision for me through the power of the Holy Spirit. 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. If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. XXI. If it were merely a question of man, nobody would think of choosing for another. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of Egypt." The first of all rights, and the highest of our duties, is that God should have His rights. It is a call to obedience. There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. 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. Ver. 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. This was their boast. 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. Is this what you read? The law-giver sets before them the manner in which the law dealt with themselves, in one feature particularly, which he presses on them. Lad the phrase been inverted to "the Levites the priests" (which never occurs), there would have been some force in the argument: as it is, there is none. It was otherwise with Mahomet. Indeed He found His moral glory in this very fact, that He alone of all men that ever lived never in a single particular swerved from that which after all is the sweetest, loveliest, highest thing in man here below absolute devotedness to another, doing the will of His God and Father. What God lays on one He does not necessarily enjoin on another. Then comes out another instance. 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. It is founded on the life of Christ in resurrection, when the Holy Ghost brings us into the power of enjoyment. It seems just a parenthesis, and not a question of chronology.*. Types are but sparsely presented over the great bulk of the instruction which crowds its pages. It will be observed that first of all in this chapter, it was not activity but subjection. 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. 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. 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. Such conversion does not suit God, who must have His own. 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." 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. Now, shut up". deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. Every step in really obeying God puts the man morally to the test, and is more or less attended with severe trial. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. There He assigned this as the portion of the high priest and his sons, that of the Levites, this again of the people. Then in Deuteronomy 2:1-37 the law-giver reminds them how they took their weary journey. We know how these traditions linger among men, particularly in the East. The conscience feels that a certain act of confessing the sin is necessary, but perhaps there is hardly anything which more hardens the heart than the habit of confessing sin without feeling it. 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. The time was near the end of the fortieth year since they came out of Egypt. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which was shown in the mount. It was not yet Christ manifested, but man under trial of the law and its ordinances and restraints, dealt with as living in the world, and instructed in view of this present life. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. "But the Lord heard the words of your complaining, he was angry and said, "You're not to go in". In such a case there is no room for will, nor sparing of the heart. The offspring of your herds and flocks. For what are we here but to please God? It is a different thing however with the book of Deuteronomy; and this was my reason for remarking it at this point. The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. Moses reminds them how he had shared the burden of care for them with others. 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? 5, 6; 1 Tim. The constant stubbornness of the people was the reason why they were not allowed to enter Canaan. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. 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. i. p. 42, note 4.) "Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword," the small things as well as great. 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. 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. Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. 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. Hence, if darkness had not veiled their eyes, they would have seen that the latter clause of Deuteronomy 5:12 cited could not be in Exodus, and that its existence in Deuteronomy proves that we have here a grave and instructive reference to the commandments formally given in the second book of Moses. 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! It was God who made the family rejoice, and they were to go out to those that were strangers to it. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. What was meant by this? Commonly indeed we see that Christians understand a great deal better what the Jews ought to have done, than what they themselves ought to be doing. 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. 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. The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. Then is laid down the memorial that Jehovah, who gave them His law, was the same who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. 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." And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. 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. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. How good are the ways and the words of God! I must despair of all of these self-improvement programs and I must cry out for help outside of myself, for therein is the power of the spirit manifested. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. He knew fully that Jehovah was doing nothing but what was for His own glory; how could His servant then find fault? Setting up other gods in the wilderness. The tenth has also the first two clauses in a different order from that in Exodus, and adds 'his field.'. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. In this case let us see the principles of Jehovah's discipline. i. Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. The references to "the river Euphrates" (Deuteronomy 1:7) and "the stars of heaven for multitude" (Deuteronomy 1:10) hark back to Gods promises to Abraham. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. The heart may be made up to follow the Lord, but the difficulties are still felt keenly; whereas the man who only theorises is ready in his own conceit, in word at least, to do anything; but there is no seriousness of spirit: he does not know himself yet. 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. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. He points out that God had been with them through the wilderness experience. We may without difficulty see the admirable appropriateness of such an introduction. And so often the good that he wanted to do, he couldn't do and the evil he didn't want to do was the thing that he was doing until he found himself in just a miserable, wretched state. It is not the people's consecration to God, but their discipline, the trial of heart, and exercise by the way to which Jehovah subjected the people; and a most instructive section it is in this point of view. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." 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. 226-228.) 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. He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. Here is a list of powerful I AM affirmations that could be used as prayer points. 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. 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 . They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. Begin to move forward in your spiritual development, in your spiritual life. But then as he moves into the eighth chapter of Romans, he found the answer to his cry. 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. It ought most of all to shock the Christian. Not surprisingly, they were defeated and driven back into the wilderness (41-46). 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. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. The Lord will conquer your . There he kept them about a year, and then told them they had dwelt long enough there, they must go forward. All the previous part prepares the way. Nobody likes this. He did not assume knowledge of Israels history that is independent of the biblical account nor did he recount events previously unrecorded. 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. Now he dwells chiefly on their part in the matter, confessing his own inability to cope with their great increase, which ho touchingly entreats God to swell a thousand times, but withal urges on the rulers to judge righteously. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! The book of Deuteronomy throughout pre-eminently brings in the authority of God over a people in relationship with Himself, displayed and proved in obedience. Then the bitter consequences came. "And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." Praying through Deuteronomy 31:6. 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? 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