In growing up as children, they weren't as aware of the hazards of the wilderness.And so Moses is sort of recounting for them. It is obedience. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. If we have," &c. In the same sceptical spirit follows Dr. Colenso. Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise. Is there anything so wholesome! Consequently there is here a heavy blow struck at the tendency towards idolatry. We are far from being then on the ground of a mere rehearsal of what has been shown in the previous books. 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. W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, Moses and his Writings[Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] What God had done in the past, he could continue to do in the future. How good are the ways and the words of God! We need not dilate on the beautiful detail but at the same time simple truth of this chapter. If it is a question of access to God in His sanctuary, priests are definitely brought out, and the proper book for this is Leviticus; but there is a larger truth than this that God has a people whom He puts in a place of consecration to Himself. They were a people brought into relationship with God, and the object of His words was to guard them from practical inconsistency with that relationship. We have to remember that we get and learn only that we may apply and act. In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? It is not then a grouping of types, whatever might be the particular scope and aim of those employed, such as we have seen in distinct forms throughout the books of Exodus, Leviticus, or Numbers; but here all that the Spirit is using, whether it be direct moral application which forms much the larger part of the book, or whether it be a selection of such shadows as fall in with its. 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. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. 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. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the . And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God doth give us. This is precisely what does put man to the proof morally. May I quickly confess my faults and choose life (to the saving of the soul) and not death. The priests were Levites. And listen to the horrible things they were saying about God. Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. He was just being led by his own mind. 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. What nation had such a wonder as God Himself in their midst God Himself near the least of them? It is a different thing however with the book of Deuteronomy; and this was my reason for remarking it at this point. 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. The fact of Esau's pride and contempt of Israel gave them no license to take their land. 12). John Edgar McFadyenIntroduction to the Old Testament. In fact He acted as the landlord. After God speaks it is time to move to the next level. Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." Now, the wilderness experiences where I am trying to bring my flesh into conformity to the will of God, and I'm promising God that I'm gonna do better, that I'm not gonna fail next time. Psalm 138:1-2. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. 21 et seqq.) Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the fact. (Introd. 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. All this then precedes another lesson. The evil that I would not, that I do"( Romans 7:19 ). And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted. 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. Again, in Deuteronomy 5:16 two new clauses are supplied, 'and that it may go well with thee,' and 'as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.' And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. Not surprisingly, they were defeated and driven back into the wilderness (41-46). [They said] Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, and to destroy us ( Deuteronomy 1:27 ). 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. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:6. The point then for the Jew was the one true God. The same with Sinai, as Aben Ezra observes; while the Israelites lay encamped near this mountain, the Lord spoke unto them: saying, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: or near it; for hither they came on the first day of the third month from their departure out of Egypt, and they did not remove from thence until the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, Exodus 19:1 so that they were here a year wanting ten days; in which space of time the law was given them, the tabernacle and all things appertaining to it were made by them, rulers both ecclesiastical and civil were appointed over them, and they were numbered and marshalled in order under four standards, and so ready to march; and all this being done, they must stay no longer, but set forward for the land of Canaan. 9. How good is our God, and what a witness of His grace! It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. there is formality enough, and without having written forms, the heart may frame forms of its own, as we may have observed, if not known it in our own experience, without finding fault with other people, For notoriously, in a legal state of mind people are apt to get through the acknowledgment of sin in what they know has grieved the Lord; but even then there is a want of bowing to His will. He wanted to leave them his blessing nay, he wanted them to have the best blessing that God could give them. 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. That it is said of both, " God spake all these words." And I'm making all of these vows and I'm doing my best to bring my flesh into conformity to God and to God's will, but I find this perverse law that Paul found working. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. This is the point here, and thus we see the connection with all that has gone before. Why should they not rejoice? I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! 7). 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. Bearing this in mind, any reader can see that "at that time" in verse 8 really coalesces with "at that time" in verses 1-6, and therefore is in perfect accord withNumbers 8:1-26; Numbers 8:1-26; and yet is it repeated in p. 336. It is not the liberty of grace, which the feast of pentecost is, but rather the epoch in type when the liberty of glory shall arrive. 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." Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give your father ( Deuteronomy 1:6-8 ). This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. Temple Cleansed. 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. Study Notes - Deuteronomy 6 1-9. In Psalms it says, "And they limited the holy one of Israel by their unbelief" ( Psalms 78:41 ). Ver. 11-52. 5-8; 1 Cor. "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. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. So Paul speaks of this frustration, "Oh wretched man that I am. Giants had dwelt there in times past, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims. The acknowledgment in a creed is all well; but when it comes to be the truth for one's own soul, stamping its value on our communion and also on our ways, men at once retreat back into some "dim religious light," where it is all forgotten and lost, merely owned verbally, but without power for the heart and life. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. Monday, April 4, a.d. Fr. Here is a list of powerful I AM affirmations that could be used as prayer points. 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. 24; 2 Cor. It was revealed as the great operative truth, continually impressed on Israel their one true God. 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. In Deuteronomy 3:1-29 it is substantially similar with Bashan. Deuteronomy 4:1. a. And so it is glorious to come in to the walk and the life of the spirit, to enter into that life that God wants you to live as a child of God, as His child. 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 was to be a real fealty: it was not merely a dogma pure and simple, but to be known as a fact. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. It is not at all a people or a class kept at a distance by intervening priests. This closes the first part of Deuteronomy. He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:6), and relates here, 1. The other whom Jesus called thought about his father and mother; he would like to see them first. He may not at all have understood at the moment what was working in the people; but all is told out. The land was straight before them, and they might, as far as that was concerned, have gone in and taken possession of it at once. He gave them this rehearsal and exhortation purely by divine direction; God appointed him to leave this legacy to the church. Now, there is the coming out of the old life, being delivered from the old life, and this new relationship that we experience with God, learning to walk by faith, as we are setting aside the things of the flesh life and are beginning this new walk in the spirit. (Dr. D.'s Introd. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." 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. We are also shown the astonishing patience of Jehovah, and with that which might be difficult to understand if we did not look to the moral scope of the book the destruction of the first tables, the writing out of fresh ones, and the place in which they were to be kept. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. By whom? The reason is obvious. 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. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? I`m blessed socially, physically, mentally and psychologically! 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. "Is He then indeed your Father?" They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. If they were going to possess the land, let them remember it was God's land, not theirs. Such is the principle: no sparing friends, relatives, "wife of thy bosom," could be tolerated. 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.) Kadesh. In Deuteronomy 5:1-33 we come to still closer quarters. Then in Deuteronomy 13:1-18 there is a similar line, all these early injunctions being what we may call religious statutes. Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. This then is the leading truth of Deuteronomy. 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. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the, (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. Such is the reason why a Christian even now on earth passes into a new state of things altogether. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". We know well that, if God made known His acts unto Israel, He made His ways known unto Moses. 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. Jehovah had cut down the former generation for their disobedience. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. xlv. prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. It will be observed that first of all in this chapter, it was not activity but subjection. 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. 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