How great the blessing of one who walks, as Christ walked, in dependence on God, not consulting Him only if constrained, but of a ready mind, and assured that by His Spirit, through the written word, He deigns to guide every step of your way where self is judged, and to give you to take the right path with a simplicity incomparably better than all the wisdom the world could muster, if one sought in independence to choose for oneself! iv. "And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.". "Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name." "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. "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. Crossed over Jordan finally and began the conquest of the land.So, an interesting little commentary. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:6. "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. And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.". God went before you to find the place for you to pitch your tents. We luxuriate in retired communion, in restful fellowship with God, in converse with fellow-believers, in Church ordinances; and we think how sweet it would be if this could always last. I pray that by Your grace, I would choose to live a victorious life that trusts Your Word, submits to Your will, and honours Your name in every eventuality of life. He is encouraging them to go in and to take the land that God had promised to them. Man must not presume to choose. The Christian is not a mere man, nor is he a Jew. This is precisely what does put man to the proof morally. Preventive against Backsliding. 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. In Deuteronomy 4:1-49 we find another line of things. Prayer Point #4: Pray for God's will to be done. The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. 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. Pray it at midnight and midday. May I learn the lessons You desire to teach me so that I may mature in the faith by trusting Your Word and obeying Your commands. Consequently we have these three feasts, which set forth particularly Jehovah providing to fill the heart of His people with peace and joy to overflowing, Yet at the first of these feasts Israel were not told to rejoice. 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. "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." In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israels covenant God, has done for his people. Deuteronomy 31:1 "And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel." "Moses went and spake": Though some interpreters view this verse as the conclusion to the foregoing address in (chapters 29-30), it is better to see these words as an introduction to the words of Moses which follow, based upon the general pattern of Deuteronomy. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. ^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. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. He's looking now outside of himself for the help. Hence there is a tone of exceeding seriousness, as well as of chastened affection; there is a solemnity founded on the grand dealings of a God whose faithful and holy hand was now ushering them into His land. And here the people were making this blasphemous accusation; "because God hates us, he brought us out here". perhaps the more appropriate translation is the one that points to the exclusive demand of this God to be the only God Israel acknowledges and worships (5:6 See also Exodus 20:2). 5, 6; 1 Tim. "Jehovah heard the voice of your words and was wroth, and sware saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers.". 2. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. I know God will do it; I do not require to put Him to the proof. Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the fact. 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! The law-giver sets before them the manner in which the law dealt with themselves, in one feature particularly, which he presses on them. * 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. Moses says, "We turned," not "Ye," merely. Yet he discourses not to them concerning military affairs, the arts and stratagems of war, but concerning their duty to God; for, if they kept themselves in his fear and favour, he would secure to them the conquest of the land: their religion would be their best policy. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. 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. [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. (Dr. D.'s Introd. But their fathers would not obey at that time. 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. 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. Thus, after God's controversy with them on account of the golden calf, the first and surest sign of God's being reconciled to them was the renewing of the tables. Heavenly Father, Help us to faithfully obey Your voice and being careful to do all that You command, today and in the future. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. 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. He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:6), and relates here, 1. And as for the children of Ammon, they too had passed through similar experience. And Moses said, "No, don't. What is it that characterises Christianity? For so long I tried to deliver myself, ended in failure. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. The lawgiver, about to be taken from them, looks back on all the past; but he looks forward also to the land they were about to enter. There was no doubt whatever that Esau had behaved so ill that the children of Israel were not likely to forget it. 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. What a difference between God's conduct of His people, and man's corruption of it! The intercession of Moses prevailed so far for his brother and the people, that the one lived till near the end of the wanderings in the desert, and the others, instead of perishing as a whole at once, lived to take their journey from a land of wells (Beeroth) to Mosera where Aaron died at Mount Hor, and thence to Gudgodah, and to Jotbath, "a land of rivers of waters:" such was the patient goodness of God to both, as the long interval made the more marked.*. The passage insists on the unity of the true God. It is the due conduct of a people in relationship with Jehovah; no longer the bringing out of typical institutions, but the development of the moral ways which become the people with whom Jehovah had a present connection and intercourse on earth. He might not grant such a liberal concession to others as he left to himself. Not any ordinary fleshly sin on our part, as many suppose. 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. They said, "We have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us.". And Jehovah spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words" because they were called to obey "but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. 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. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. Hence, I need not say, there is peculiar solemnity in its character. Forever and ever. 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. I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. Mark the very fact here set before us: not a single man of the congregation of Jehovah that left Egypt passed into the holy land save two individuals, who identified themselves by faith from the very first with the glory of Jehovah. "Can you call Him Father?" This closes the first part of Deuteronomy. XXI. Heavenly Father, thank You for this important lesson. Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. It ought most of all to shock the Christian. But one must only expect this from men whose aim is to reduce the inspired writers to their own level, and who think that piety can co-exist with fraud, yea, with fraudulent falsehood about God. 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 Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. So they began the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, which Moses begins to rehearse for them in chapter two. British Library, Harleian MS. 5596. 8). Ver. Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. i. p. 42, note 4.) It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. It is not so where God governs. 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. O. T. i. pp. There is another remark to be made. In Deuteronomy 15:1-23 we find a similar principle as to the year of release. 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. "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.' But the cry must come, "Who shall deliver me?" 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." I`m blessed physiologically! In short how could it be respected as it deserves, if regarded as an almost garrulous repetition of the law? Thus we know for certain that the most fundamental requirement of all, the Levitical ritual, was not practised; and if they did not prove faithful in that which was most urgent as well as least difficult in point of means for executing it, we can hardly suppose that they carried out their obedience in what was surrounded with immense if not insuperable obstacles. Now comes another promise: "Behold," says He, "I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite." Sihon rushed on them to his own ruin; and only so did Israel smite and dispossess the king of Heshbon. 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. 1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. Next we see what was the fact when they did go up spite of the warning of God to fight the Amorites. 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. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. 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. But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day." The word Deuteronomy means the second law. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely by divine direction; God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. But God wants us to not be governed by the flesh but to be governed by the spirit; and thus, there is this spiritual warfare seeking the dominancy in your life. Moses reminds them how he had shared the burden of care for them with others. were then offered but of a vast body of systematically-ordered teaching by types. 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. "Virtually all of Palestine and Syria are included in these terms [in Deuteronomy 1:7], an area larger than Israel ever possessed in fact, even during the reigns of David and Solomon." Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. For we must remember that the sabbath does not mean a seventh day, as some persons (I am sorry to say) equivocate; but the seventh day and no other. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. And this is another chapter from which our Lord quotes when tempted, to which we may refer in passing. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. 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. And thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. I. Above all the prime object is to press obedience on the people of God, but the obedience of a people who had already found what it was to have utterly broken down on their own assumed responsibility. If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. It is the design of the book which governs the description in each case. 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