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! Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. The true Israelite does not require to put God to the test. 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. 5, 6; 1 Tim. The priests were Levites. But the second feast brings out joy in a very distinct and delightful manner. He knew fully that Jehovah was doing nothing but what was for His own glory; how could His servant then find fault? Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to, The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. 4; iv. . None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. We'll go in, we'll take the land". We are far from being then on the ground of a mere rehearsal of what has been shown in the previous books. I am persuaded that above all the Christian, who has a still nearer relationship with God, is the very last person who ought to exercise a choice in self-will. What we have here is not a repetition; it leads us into things secret what wrought in the people and hindered their blessing. Was not this a positive promise? So this fact also is used. Jehovah gave them no such license as the right to slay, burn, or plunder others as they liked. 4; iv. This therefore gives its tone to the book. We're the ones that place the limits on God's work. Gifted by God (ver. God had already multiplied the Israelites, and He was ready to give them the land. The quotation is from Dennis Baly, The Geography of the Bible.]. To what were they always inclined? Where else can be found such jealous care as this? In Deuteronomy 5:14 is the addition, 'thine ox nor thine ass,' as well as the clause, 'that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.' It would not be good for us always to be in this state of simple receiving. Let me ask, Why were there these three feasts, and these three only? Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. "Hear, O Israel." Help me to be courageous in the face of my enemies. 29.) And then he really started getting on God's case. "Is He then indeed your Father?" The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. There is thus a presentation of a faithful God, whose demand was for a faithful people." "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. On the other hand, there is no mercy but ruthless severity always served out to those who refuse to fraternise, not to speak of ceaseless enmity to those who condemn and oppose. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. vi. 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. What God was displaying by them has now found its meaning, since Christ was revealed and the mighty work of redemption effected. Next to having Christ Himself is the following in His steps. * It is a familiar point to many, but may claim a brief notice here, especially as all do not see its bearing in by no means the least striking of the ten words; I speak of the law of the sabbath. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! We never can duly understand the Old Testament unless in the light of the New; and if there is anyone who is personally and emphatically "the light," need it be said that it is Jesus? 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? The point then for the Jew was the one true God. Crossed over Jordan finally and began the conquest of the land.So, an interesting little commentary. That in Deuteronomy has an amplification corresponding to the style of the book. A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. This makes the principle at stake to be felt the more. His Father will take care of him. 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. Wherein lay the superior propriety of Deuteronomy to furnish answers at that juncture for Christ, as compared with any other book of scripture? Religion, divorced from active employment, must soon lose its robustness, and degenerate into a sickly religiosity. They had marched round to the eastern side of the Jordan; they were now on that border of the land, after God's long-continued process of dealing with them in the wilderness had come to its full measure. DAY 6 PRAYER POINTS. 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? What better blessing after all can be on earth, except Christ Himself, if indeed it be not a part of Christ, than that life of Christ which walks in obedience? Know ye not that the old man was crucified with Christ? 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. Preventive against Backsliding. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. 1:6-7. Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. I have called it therefore an abstract typical system; for the value of it does not at all depend on the fidelity of the people to it. This then is the crucial test, so to speak, which Moses applies throughout; this is the homily; for indeed Deuteronomy we may call a book of divine homilies in this respect. That generation had passed away no doubt. "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." This closes the first part of Deuteronomy. The trip from Egypt to Sinai was only preparation for the giving of the covenant. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. Those who persist in hardening themselves must indeed be destroyed; but not by us. The date of this sermon which Moses preached to the people of Israel. Forever and ever. Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. Even before the law from Abraham's days there certainly was no injunction more solemn or more obligatory than the circumcision of every male child; yet we are assured that no male was circumcised during Israel's wandering for forty years through the wilderness. "I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." "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. "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. 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. "And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them." Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. 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. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. It was not God's desire that they perish in the wilderness. 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. "Your eyes have seen all the great acts of Jehovah which he did. Israel kept the path of right and courtesy. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. It is the design of the book which governs the description in each case. Jehovah was most careful exactly where He had least sympathy. "But the Lord heard the words of your complaining, he was angry and said, "You're not to go in". 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. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. 8). This was a lesson for Israel of prime moment. The inspired editor may have given later names, and added "as it is in this day," or explanatory remarks. Deuteronomy 1:6. This is pursued to the end of the chapter, with the institution of the cities where the manslayer might find refuge. All this then precedes another lesson. The heritage of the descendants of Jacob shall be restored unto thee!" After the praise and worship session, go with your prophetic sword into battle using these 13 prayer points for DAY 6. He wanted to leave them his blessing nay, he wanted them to have the best blessing that God could give them. I know God will do it; I do not require to put Him to the proof. [Note: Kalland, p. 22. 2. "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. The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. 12-18; ^C Luke XIX. Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the fact. Now this is a foolish charge that they brought against God and it is something that we oftentimes are prone to do. Rekam, and that Double. We are to observe the statutes and to do them. 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. THE CHURCH'S DANGER - to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state of apathy or simple receptivity. 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. Every motive of gratitude and compassion should urge us to it. It was otherwise with Mahomet. Clearly it traces the discipline of Jehovah by the way. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. 30.) 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. ii. Men have reasoned with great detail, especially in recent years, enquiring how all this could be done in the desert by a people who found it hard enough to pass unscathed themselves, though they had Jehovah their God with them to feed them with angels' bread, and water if need were from the rock. What a difference between God's conduct of His people, and man's corruption of it! O. T. p. 65) says: "From Deuteronomy 10:8 it is plain that the Levites were not appointed at Sinai but later; whereas we learn fromNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26. that their institution took place at Sinai." Yet they complained against him and refused to go with him into the land he had chosen for them (19-33). Not so. It is the king's mountain." 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. Why should they not rejoice? At the same time it is in no way opposed to the strictest views of inspiration to hold that the law was edited by an inspired man, whether Ezra (according to the Jews, as Josephus, etc.) "Oh, this might be dangerous, and that were presumptuous;" and so men talk on that is, the moment it becomes a real living truth, and not words on paper. Did He warrant Israel to coerce Sihon with threats of vengeance or win by cajolery? The Mosaic Covenant is central in Deuteronomy. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. What love there was in this, if by any means he might impress obedience on the people that were just going into the land! In the one case there was a remembrance of creation; in this case, of symbolic redemption, the bringing out of Egypt. Ver. III. 8. So Paul speaks of this frustration, "Oh wretched man that I am. It is not therefore a question of how far the offerings, etc. But there never was a system that more thoroughly pandered to the evil heart of man, and gratified it in its violence against others, and in its corrupt lusts for itself, than that frightful imposture. And so they departed from Horeb. ( Romans 7:24 ). There are many, many Christians who have been long enough, and far too long, in the mount, and it would be welt for themselves if they could hear this voice summoning them to go forward. Deuteronomy is an eminently practical book. And yet the inability to bring the flesh into conformity with the spirit of God. Psalm 42 It reinforces his earlier exhortations in Deuteronomy 7:12-15 and 28:2-12. 4; Eph. 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. )Ver. Was it not the pettishness of disobedient children, if ever there were such? But in Israel's case God enforced a far more thorough and searching discipline in all their ways. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. Will-worship is intolerable. "Because God hates us he brought us out here to kill us in the wilderness", when in reality God loved them and wanted to give them a land that they might dwell in, that it might be their land. This seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. 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