Some wonder why it should be joined with the other commandments; but the sabbath is so much the more important here, because it is not strictly a moral command. 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. Now I affirm that on the face of the scriptures no candid person can deny that Exodus is professedly given as the history of the matter; Deuteronomy as a subsequent recital to the people, without the least aim at reiterating the words, which would have been the easiest thing in the world; for even these free thinkers do not pretend that the Deuteronomist did not possess Exodus. The word of Jehovah mentioned here is not found in this form in the previous history; but as a matter of fact it is contained in the divine instructions that were preparatory to their removal (Numbers 1-4 and Numbers 9:15-10:10), and the rising of the cloud from the tabernacle, which followed immediately afterwards (Numbers 10:11). Because they had not a particle of confidence in God. We suppose that the record in Exodus is the older one. We were bondmen, and are not. So Jehovah our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people." will be blessed. Heavenly Father, thank You for this important lesson. There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. It will be observed that first of all in this chapter, it was not activity but subjection. 9. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. Hence Moses says, "These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. Such is the principle: no sparing friends, relatives, "wife of thy bosom," could be tolerated. It was "the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee." 4; iv. He cites from none other. And some of them were slain because they presumed to go without the presence of God. deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points. Our, (October, a.d. This is a solemn lesson that there may be a thorough spirit of disobedience at the very time that people talk of doing whatever God is pleased to command. In Deuteronomy 5:1-33 we come to still closer quarters. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. There is a warfare that goes on in our lives; the flesh warring against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these two are contrary. 2). 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. Jehovah gave them no such license as the right to slay, burn, or plunder others as they liked. In Psalms it says, "And they limited the holy one of Israel by their unbelief" ( Psalms 78:41 ). The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. They were the dues He demanded in virtue of His position as landlord of the people in the land. And here the people were making this blasphemous accusation; "because God hates us, he brought us out here". The date of this sermon which Moses preached to the people of Israel. Hence, I need not say, there is peculiar solemnity in its character. (1) Et non sans cause; and not without reason. They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. Not withstanding [Moses said] you rebelled against the Lord: And you murmured in your tents ( Deuteronomy 1:26-27 ). Even in the very witness of domestic blessing there must be the largeness of heart that goes out to those who have no friends to care for them. In Deuteronomy 12:1-32 we have statutes and judgments. The book of Deuteronomy throughout pre-eminently brings in the authority of God over a people in relationship with Himself, displayed and proved in obedience. This is clearly shown. They are no longer to go up and take possession of the land, but to turn back and take their journey into the wilderness. If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. 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. We shall meet with others ere long, we shall come to civil ones, but we are not going beyond the religious charges at present. But also it would appear that the deepest wisdom lay in citing from that book, as well as its most applicable words. Why should they covet? 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. 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. We have to remember that we get and learn only that we may apply and act. cxliii. God Himself did not disclose Himself by an external creature-shape. 8-10. Obedience is the claim. They got their eyes upon the obstacles rather of than the power of God to remove the obstacles.And this is the mistake that we so often make as we look at our own lives and we look at the dominion that our flesh has had over us. 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. We know the profanity of Esau; we know the solemn circumstances of Moab and Ammon from their very origin; but for all that God would not permit His people to indulge in what did not become Himself as represented however feebly in and by Israel. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. The fact is that redemption, even in type, is a stronger motive to obedience than creation itself. This seems the reason why it is brought in here, as the time was long past; whereas all was fresh in Exodus, which is the main display of that truth. Go in" and the key is of course "to possess the land which the Lord has sworn to your fathers. Ver. We're the ones that place the limits on God's work. That in Deuteronomy has an amplification corresponding to the style of the book. This too explains why the book of Deuteronomy is made use of in the New Testament in so very striking a manner, and in circumstances so eminently critical. But where is the savage even who does not know the wrongness of stealing? viii. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. 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. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. NOTE: This edition of this sermon is taken from an earlier published edition of Spurgeon's 1857 message. Posted 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. The Mosaic Covenant is central in Deuteronomy. 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! ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. 8). So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". 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. Before we pass to the next chapter, it would be well to observe for a moment the second answer of our Lord "Ye shalt not tempt Jehovah your God." This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. For so long I tried to deliver myself, ended in failure. 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. 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. Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. (Deuteronomy 1:22-23) In the same manner an important social arrangement is declared to have been made by Moses at the suggestion of Jethro his father-in-law, who says in prophesying, 'If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able,' etc. It was to be a real fealty: it was not merely a dogma pure and simple, but to be known as a fact. Consequently it is that great feast which finds its answer in Christianity more particularly (the passover being of course the foundation); but this is pre-eminently its character as a present fact. 41-43--here irrelevant (cf. And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. I pray that I may abide in Christ and He in me and that my life would be a testimony to Your goodness and grace. "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." There is no mercy shown in the vintage. 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. I know God will do it; I do not require to put Him to the proof. So you appointed the seventy to be rulers over them, the chief men and he charged them to hear the causes of the people and to judge among the people. 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. 8-10. "I will not give you of their land." But inasmuch as the Lord's three answers are taken from the early portion of Deuteronomy, which comes before us on this occasion, I have at once referred to this patent fact. The sermon that appears in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of Egypt." It was revealed as the great operative truth, continually impressed on Israel their one true God. And this is another chapter from which our Lord quotes when tempted, to which we may refer in passing. This is the preamble to the recitation of the law in Deuteronomy, and includes the text of "the Shema," what has become the central prayer of Judaism, and which Jesus identifies as the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:36 and Mark 12:29-30. To what were they always inclined? vi. But no, God would not have them to meddle. He is encouraging them to go in and to take the land that God had promised to them. But. And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace." 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. Here then we have all laid bare. And I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 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. So this fact also is used. They would have further proof of Gods unfailing goodness when they saw the rich land God was giving them. Notice: 1. (Ad. ^A Matt. "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. Why did they not? (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. Indeed he could not have written either in its present form, because that in Exodus is Jehovistic, and older than the record in Deuteronomy. I must despair of all of these self-improvement programs and I must cry out for help outside of myself, for therein is the power of the spirit manifested. The passage insists on the unity of the true God. He knew fully that Jehovah was doing nothing but what was for His own glory; how could His servant then find fault? A people holy to Jehovah must not eat anything that dies of itself, nor accustom itself to an uncomely act, were it with a dumb and dead kid and the milk of its dam. ", Next, he presses their singular privilege in His presence with them. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. With the enemies? The book from which they were selected had itself a special appropriateness to the occasion, as we shall see: can it be doubted that the blessed Lord knew this infinitely well when He was pleased to use it? This is the grand pith of the chapter as it appears to me. None ever honoured God's word as Christ did. 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? This is then what he was pressing. They were to be guided simply not by what Jehovah had done in providence by Ammon, Moab, or Esau, but by His will as to themselves. If therefore God was dishonoured by the high places, they must all come down. The essential revelation of God to us is the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost the Father displayed by the Son, and made known by the Spirit. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. And so they departed from Horeb. They are then shown what may or may not be eaten, whether beasts, fishes, or fowls. This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. Undoubtedly the gatherings in of the corn and the wine (that is, the harvest and the vintage) are the well known types of God's final dealings: the harvest when He separates the wheat from the chaff, or at any rate from that which is not wheat; and the vintage when He executes unsparing judgment upon the vine of the earth upon all religion that is vain and denies heaven. We can all understand an orderly arrangement where there are types all arranged in a consecutive manner; but here in these moral exhortations it is, though in another way, just as sensible. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. 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. It reminds them of his gracious acts on their behalf and calls from them a fitting response of covenant loyalty. For edition we have restored the fuller text of the earlier published edition, while retaining a few of the editorial refinements of the Met Tab edition. We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. It is the king's mountain." vol. Begin to move forward in your spiritual development, in your spiritual life. They came to Kadeshbarnea and he speaks again of the tragic failure at Kadeshbarnea.Verse twenty-one: Behold, the LORD thy God has set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. And in verse Deuteronomy 1:2 is a little commentary, it says. They knew it was not God's will that forty years of wilderness wanderings should lie between Egypt and the Promised Land (Deut. But Israel is called to action. That generation had passed away no doubt. 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