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. ", Then comes (ver. Read: Deut. the LORD is a faithful and covenant-keeping God. ", Next, he presses their singular privilege in His presence with them. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. 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. 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 life that God wants you to live, a life of victory, a life of overcoming. The And the beautiful thing is that God is with you, even in the wilderness experiences. Deuteronomy 6 Commentary | Precept Austin The greater the blessing of God, the more thoroughly you are put on the ground that God has given you, the more He insists on thorough and constant obedience. This is the name that God gave to Moses at the burning bush event at And he started complaining so much about God I grabbed hold of him. The passage insists on the unity of the true God. [Note: Kalland, p. 22. They were tried after this by another case of forbearance. CONCLUSION: A sad pass it has come to with us when the God of eternal Some there are, no doubt, who assume that God has not in these things expressed any will of His, own. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the Law and were organised as a church militant, an army encamped around the tabernacle of God. He sets Himself against the high places; He will not have them. 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 failure to possess the land (Deuteronom DEUTERONOMY 1:6 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:40. The LORD our God spake unto us in (f) Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt Still more since Christ: misused ordinances are practically the same thing in principle, asGalatians 4:1-31; Galatians 4:1-31 teaches. refers to areas north of the Dead sea (Deuteronomy 11:30; Joshua 8:14). 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. Moses first speech reviews Israels past And I cannot bring my flesh into conformity unto God. Let us now look at the details as far as it can be done in so brief a glance as we can afford to give it at present. "5. If we have," &c. In the same sceptical spirit follows Dr. Colenso. It is not the Jewish people in the school of Jehovah to manifest what was in their heart, and what He was towards them; but the people strengthened by Jehovah in presence of a power mightier than their own. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. . 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. All this is brought out to Israel as the fruit of obeying Jehovah. as well as to their Deuteronomy 1:6 Jehovah our God spake unto us in Hor _THE LORD OUR GOD SPAKE UNTO US IN HOREB, SAYING, YE HAVE DWELT LONG We have to consider whether we are undertaking it out of some human desire of heroism. 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. Let's turn to Deuteronomy. Jehovah had cut down the former generation for their disobedience. It is not to be doubted that the words cited from Deuteronomy were the very best that they were chosen according to divine perfection. Be the first to react on this! But Moses began with It is not correct therefore that the sabbath-day is done with: many people in Christendom think so; but I take the liberty of having a stronger view about the sabbath than even those who think themselves strongest. "Reckon ye your old man to be dead with Christ. 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? "Thou shalt not tempt Jehovah thy God." He lost patience with them and in so doing brought Gods punishment upon himself (34-40; see Numbers 20:2-13). He could have cited from any other, had any other been in all respects so suitable to the occasion. God had cared for them throughout the long and weary journey from Mount Sinai (Horeb), carrying them as a father carries his young son who has become too tired to walk. deserved. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount They had stayed at mount Sinai, or Horeb, almost a year, receiving the law, erecting the tabernacle, numbering the people, ranking them under their standards, &c. And so, being fitted for an orderly march, they were commanded to depart thence, and proceed to the nearest borders of Canaan. Thus Jehovah from the very first was teaching them that they were not called out on an errand of indiscriminate conquest. However the "strife" (Deuteronomy 1:12) of the people would prove to be their undoing. And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land; no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession." Giants had dwelt there in times past, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims. Accordingly the very large introduction is an address to the people for the purpose of enforcing these claims. It is a call to obedience. second discourse by the Deu 1:4 :41-49. describing all these places, the LORD commanded His people to take 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. called an abstract typical system. In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? This is the point here, and thus we see the connection with all that has gone before. It is no use talking about Israel: the first object is God. 94.]. When Jesus was asked which is the greatest commandment, he cited a passage from Deuteronomy 6 as the fundamental and first tenet of Scripture. THE LORD OUR GOD. And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land. The tenth has also the first two clauses in a different order from that in Exodus, and adds 'his field.'. Syria, the northern border of the land that God has promised to His And this is enforced in the very words which our Saviour employed. The Command From Yahweh To Go Forward ( Deuteronomy 1:6-8 ). a mountainous district-literally "th FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43) which space of time the law was given them, the tabernacle and This was the mount that burned with fire (Hebrews 12:18), and gendered to bondage,Galatians 4:24. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. The point urged here is, that when they came and stood, as far as any then could stand, in the presence of God, they had seen no similitude of Jehovah. God would have his children capable. and describing what Yahweh had commanded. "But the Lord heard the words of your complaining, he was angry and said, "You're not to go in". Not at all, but His own people. And the two main principles of tha. In Deuteronomy 6:1-25 we find the first of those texts which our Lord quotes. The events in this section of verses took place before Israel left Horeb. Scripture: John 10:10; Exodus 2:23 - 25; Dt. An Israelite king could never send his people to buy horses in Egypt. Was there any reason in this why the children of Israel should have wars with them now? I'm tempted to smack you in the mouth talking about God that way. Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT This is the plain gist of the book. We say, "Oh, but I'm so weak and I've tried so hard and you don't know how long I've been struggling with this thing". 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. So he's gett Deuteronomy 5:2; Exodus 17:6; Exodus 19:1; Exodus 19:2; Exodus 3:1; An Israelite king had to be a fellow Israelite and not a foreigner. The fact of Esau's pride and contempt of Israel gave them no license to take their land. (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb to Kadeshbarnea.) Deuteronomy, spite of its Septuagintal title, is no such repetition; but the Spirit of God by Moses has given us, along with special moral exhortation, such types as bear on the position of the people on the very edge of the promised land. The section summarizes events recorded in greater detail in Numbers 10:11-42. It was otherwise with Mahomet. In this description, we see various places listed and it "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine." O. T. i. 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. . And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. commenced. He lays down the great principles of obedience. 1. "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.". A summary of the address is given in the chapter-headings usually found in English Bibles. So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there." longer, but set forward for the land of Canaan. That generation had passed away no doubt. For Egypt, the area of bondage, slavery, hardship, is the type of the life of the world, in the world, slaves to our flesh to Satan; and so it is typical of our old life. The evil that I would not, that I do"( Romans 7:19 ). 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. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. But nobody knows about the sabbath-day unless Jehovah command it. _not_ occur in Deut. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. required no haste as to th 1-8 Moses spake to the people all the Lord had given him in If they were going to possess the land, let them remember it was God's land, not theirs. The same Spirit which has the power of miracle is the Spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. II. Add to Playlist. Where else can be found such jealous care as this? Deuteronomic editor. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. Did He offer him the book of the law with the one hand or the sword with the other? 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. 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. Deuteronomy Study Guide - J. Vernon McGee The people of Israel had nearly completed their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. The date of this sermon which moses preached to the people of Boy, what a horrible thing to say.So, the people were discouraged and they said, The people are greater and taller than we are; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and we have seen the sons of the Anakims ( Deuteronomy 1:28 ). Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you." He was just being led by his own mind. I am afraid there was not much more in the weeping than in the acknowledgment of the sin. all died in the wilderness? 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. At the same time we are told how the tribe of Levi was separated, after having brought in (in an episodical way) an allusion to Aaron's death. 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. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." Moses had appointed wise and respected men chosen by the people as leaders because the Israelites had become numerous. God's words must be laid up in our hearts, that our thoughts may be daily employed about them. 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. 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. Yet it would be hazardous to assert that it is the exact original. 1). "Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned" "we have sinned against Jehovah: we will go up and fight." 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. Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. Introductory Discourse But due to lack of trust in the LORD, the Israelites rebelled against the command to conquer the land of Canaan. So they began the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, which Moses begins to rehearse for them in chapter two. Once the children of Israel are redeemed, Leviticus instructs them to live a holy life that reflects the life of their covenant redeemer (cf. This then is the leading truth of Deuteronomy. Begin to move forward in your spiritual development, in your spiritual life. Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. He points out that God had been with them through the wilderness experience. Outline of Deuteronomy: I. This was their boast. A gr DEUTERONOMYNOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 1:6 Moses First Speech: Now we find what would test their obedience. Far from being done with, we know from the word of God that He will maintain the sabbatical rest strictly, and enforce it in the days of the kingdom; so that, if a man does not bow to His authority, he will assuredly come under divine judgment: so much does Jehovah make of it in itself, and so much will He make of it for the obedience of others in the day that is coming. God's solution is death to the flesh, crucified with Christ. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. Sinai), where they were given the Law, to Kadesh-barnea, at the border of the Promised Land. Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the fact. Here then we have all laid bare. The true Israelite does not require to put God to the test. Such conversion does not suit God, who must have His own. Inspirational Bible Verses and Scripture Quotes, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. 27-30 Moses reviews the general blessings and curses that stem from keeping or Obedience is the claim. That is, we see in them a number of 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. If the rigidly literal meaning of the phrase 'God spake these words' is not adhered to in the case of the one record, it need not in the case of the other. At all events, whatever may be His grace, whatever His ways with His people, obedience is that with which He cannot dispense. We'll go in, we'll take the land". So Paul speaks of this frustration, "Oh wretched man that I am. How good is the Lord! Such is the sceptic's puny effort to lower the character and credit of scripture. Hey, it's time to go in and begin to possess that which God has promised unto you." He called the judges to conduct their legal procedures with equity, knowing that every judgment belongs to the LORD. (3) The Book of Reproofs. 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. In the wilderness (going around in circles) or c. In God's Promise Land - cleansed, infilled and enjoying the Life made possible by God's Holy Spirit. 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. 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. They were to remember what rebellion must end in. May the Lord give us hearts to rejoice in all His, grace and truth and glory! It is evident that they are somehow or another connected with God, and touch matters of religion, as men would say. 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.". So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. What we find here is a warning not to yield to the sight of their eyes or the violence of their hands, guarding against a covetous spirit which pays slight regard to that which God had assigned to others. : "The LORD of hosts" (Samuel) and "the Holy Ono Consequently there is here a heavy blow struck at the tendency towards idolatry. He did not just write Deuteronomy for the generation of Israelites about to enter the Promised Land but for later generations as well, including our generation. Introduction to Second Sermon on expositing the Law (4:43 - 49) IV. What was meant by this? For when severed from Christ then those ordinances only became a snare to men. In Deuteronomy 16:1-17 (where I now stop) we have the winding up of all this part the termination of the statutes which had to do with religion. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. 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. Deuteronomy 1:1 The first chapter takes cognizance of themselves; the second chapter puts them to the test in the presence of other people.

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