11). Certainly they could not; this Jehovah spreads in the most forcible manner before His people for their cheer and stay. When Peter and John came to the Samaritans, and found that they were, 'And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain; 18. "Can you call Him Father?" "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. That generation had passed away no doubt. There is then (verses 12-18) pointed out the way to deal with a city guilty of idolatry. These feasts made an appeal to a male Israelite which none besides could make. We're prone to look at the obstacles. For the LORD your God which goes before you, shall fight for you, according to all that he did in Egypt before your eyes; And yet you went in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God ( Deuteronomy 1:29-32 ). "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. On this we need not particularly dwell, but they are reminded of their own place. 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. I`m blessed socially, physically, mentally and psychologically! They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. "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. This therefore gives its tone to the book. "6. 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. Religion, divorced from active employment, must soon lose its robustness, and degenerate into a sickly religiosity. They hesitated and by staying outside of the land, they were not obeying God's instructions. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. "What is the mountainous country of Judea? Hence, in the first feast, we find they were to eat unleavened bread. Monday, April 4, a.d. Thus we come to what might be called the direct charges, having done with all the introductory part. It is therefore the strongest assertion of His authority. It extends to Deuteronomy 4:40; and is divided from the second discourse by the Deu 1:4 :41-49. 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! 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. It is not therefore a question of how far the offerings, etc. We need not dilate on the beautiful detail but at the same time simple truth of this chapter. Such moral motives as are added are therefore as appropriate in Deuteronomy as they could not, ought not to, be in Exodus. 6.The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb. But the same duty abides for them. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. There is thus a presentation of a faithful God, whose demand was for a faithful people." We know well that, if God made known His acts unto Israel, He made His ways known unto Moses. 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. We shall find how thoroughly this applies all through the book to the perplexity of poor proud rationalism, but in itself a simple yet very important truth indeed. We shall find more than that before we have done with the book of Deuteronomy, though we may in this lecture not look fully at a special character of it which is presented in the latter part of the book, where it will be proved that the New Testament also uses it in a very striking manner. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, 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. Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? They did not have a personal memory of the horrible bondage in Egypt. 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. 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). In short how could it be respected as it deserves, if regarded as an almost garrulous repetition of the law? If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. Israel must not slight God's claims in common things. Deuteronomy 8:18. 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." 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. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. "Hear, O Israel." The evil that I would not, that I do"( Romans 7:19 ). Many of them did not see the miracle of the Red Sea being parted. The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. 3. In other words, he is saying that God went before you through the wilderness to search for the best place for you to pitch your tent and then led you by the fire and by the cloud.Oh, if we only realized how all encompassing the work of God is that surrounds our lives. In this Second Narration, Moses expressly declares that God not only gave them a visible sign, by uplifting the cloud, but that He also verbally commanded the people to leave Mount Sinai, and to set about the performance of the rest of their journey. He was just being led by his own mind. Temple Cleansed. 39; vi. Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. Study Notes - Deuteronomy 6 1-9. Tempting God was to doubt Him, as many, all of us, are apt to do. And mark this; that it is not only joy in the Lord, but calling others to joy (ver. He quotes accordinglyPsalms 91:1-16; Psalms 91:1-16, intimating to Jesus that, if He were the Son of God, all He had to do was to throw Himself from the pinnacle of the temple; and all must endorse His claims. 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. 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. practical object, seems to be from first to last an enforcement of obedience, grounded on the relationship between Jehovah their God and Israel, whom He was just bringing as His people into His land. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. *The effort of rationalists to show that "the Deuteronomist" wrote long after Israel were in the land of Palestine is mere ill-will and want of depth. For a people in relationship with God such is the only possible way, either of pleasing Him, or of tasting that joy of the Lord which is the strength of His people. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there." Was not this a positive promise? 2. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. 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. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. In the first section, i.-iv. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. 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. Help me to abide in Christ, knowing that His grace is sufficient for every challenge in life. We shall meet with others ere long, we shall come to civil ones, but we are not going beyond the religious charges at present. 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. 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. (Dr. D.'s Introd. Ver. It is the design of the book which governs the description in each case. 1. May my inner and outward actions, attitude, words and motives reflect a heart that loves the Lord with . 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! They're each of them seeking to rule our lives. The orders which God gave them to decamp, and proceed in their march (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:7): You have dwelt long enough in this mount. 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. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. Then comes out another instance. Giants had dwelt there in times past, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims. 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. 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. And so they departed from Horeb. In this case let us see the principles of Jehovah's discipline. It was "the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee." 11-52. I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! 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. 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." In the delight of His people He delights. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. And he started complaining so much about God I grabbed hold of him. i. p. 42, note 4.) Could they match with Him? They were to remember what rebellion must end in. In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? This is now developed. "The Deuteronomist, writing at a later period of the same arrangement [the mission of the spies in Numbers], represents the people proposing the measure to Moses, who on consideration resolved to execute it, because it approved itself to his heart and conscience: '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 the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe.' Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. Deuteronomy 1:6-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. 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. 2). Is it not a beautiful indication of what the true God is, even in His least institutions? Our J. We're the ones that place the limits on God's work. If we have," &c. In the same sceptical spirit follows Dr. Colenso. 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. 8. There is another peculiarity in the book of Deuteronomy which it is well to present briefly before we descend to particulars; it supposes the failure of the people. How many one has known who would have liked much to be martyrs! Praying through Deuteronomy 6:7 . 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. The events in this section of verses took place before Israel left Horeb. "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. Psalm 138:1-2. All this is brought out to Israel as the fruit of obeying Jehovah. We have to consider whether we are undertaking it out of some human desire of heroism. It is not a book for the wilderness, except for their hearts to look back on whilst on the borders before they entered the land. Here then we have all laid bare. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. And I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, into spiritual trouble and affliction of mind, he knows when they have dwelt long enough in it, and will certainly find a time, the fittest time, to advance them from the terrors of the spirit of adoption. Here we find out that the request for the spies actually came from the people and that it seemed good unto Moses. Conceive the state of mind which could say that "in Deuteronomy Moses repeatedly lays the blame of his expulsion on the people (Deuteronomy 1:37; Deuteronomy 3:26; Deuteronomy 4:21); but according toNumbers 20:12; Numbers 20:12 God punished him thus for not believing Him, while inNumbers 27:14; Numbers 27:14 his punishment was occasioned by the legislator's own disobedience"! 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. Thus then the circumstances of Moses, as well as of the people, were precisely those suited to impress the lesson of obedience. This is just as characteristic a truth for us as the one Jehovah was for a Jew. Hence therefore we see why it is that the first circumstance in their history brought before them was that God told them not to go up to the mountain of the Amorites; but they would go up in self-will and self-confidence, and utterly failed before their enemies. The book of Deuteronomy acknowledges this failure, and takes its stand not only on the fact that it was impossible to deny, it but on the duty of confessing it. It is obedience. (1) Et non sans cause; and not without reason. 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. 95. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. This is a universal and abiding principle. Power supernatural has not the smallest value, nay, is to be shunned rigorously, if it weakens consciences as to the true God. 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. Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. It is the king's mountain." Psalm 42 It reinforces his earlier exhortations in Deuteronomy 7:12-15 and 28:2-12. It is not at all a people or a class kept at a distance by intervening priests. "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. I. In general, Moses spoke unto them all that the Lord had given him in commandment (Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 1:3), which intimates, not only that what he now delivered was for substance the same with what had formerly been commanded, but that it was what God now commanded him to repeat. *Nothing can be weaker than the harping on the phrase "the priests the Levites," as in the writings of Davidson and Colenso (following the superficial scepticism of foreign authors, who themselves followed the old Deists of our own country). If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. Will-worship is intolerable. Nothing irritates me more than to have people make foolish charges against God.I was-had a young man come in when we were back over in the little chapel and he was you know, "God led me do this and God led me to do that and God led me here" and then he's, you know, "God led me out there and I almost starved to death. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. Kadesh. 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. Some there are, no doubt, who assume that God has not in these things expressed any will of His, own. 1. "Who shall deliver me" and God's answer then comes, "I am delivered by the power the dynamic of the spirit for ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you"( Acts 1:8 ). The people of Israel had nearly completed their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them ( Deuteronomy 1:2-3 ); So, there's an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadeshbarnea to the beginning of entering into the Promised Land, but they have been journeying for forty years and eleven months on an eleven-day journey. "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son." God is saying to you, "Hey, you've been there long enough, walking in circles. Read: Deut. 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 . 5; John iv. It is freely allowed that the ten words have a specific character of the deepest moment for man on earth, as distinguished from what was judicial and ceremonial. Moses began his recital of Israels history at Horeb (Sinai) because this is where Yahweh adopted the nation by making the Mosaic Covenant with her. Grace has brought us out of the condition of a nation in the flesh or of men in the earth. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." 2. There is no mercy shown in the vintage. 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. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. 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.

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