deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points

(I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the Mount.)" Hence the language differs most sensibly even from the joyous scene of blessing of which the feast of weeks was so redolent. i. p. 42, note 4.) "And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." ii. We shall meet with others ere long, we shall come to civil ones, but we are not going beyond the religious charges at present. It is the book which our Lord quotes in His temptations with Satan. 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. Thus: God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. He and other sacred authors are to be regarded as nothing more than representatives of the intelligence of their age in relation to the Deity. 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. 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. Obedience is the claim. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. 5; John iv. ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? Such is the point here in the seventh chapter. (Gen. Xlix. 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. 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 then comes the exhortation to beware of corrupting themselves by idolatries, by the likeness of any creature. (Gen. Xlix. It is evident that they are somehow or another connected with God, and touch matters of religion, as men would say. Is this what you read? The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. 17; 1 Kings Lewis BaylyThe Practice of Piety, The Mountainous Country of Judea. 1. "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. *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). *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. 24. "Thou shalt not tempt Jehovah thy God." It was after the golden calf, nay more than this; it was after the whole disciplinary dealings of Jehovah had now come to an end. Fr. 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 ). It is granted that they did not all perish in the same way, but they all fell in the wilderness. Still it is too solemn to admit of what is so buoyant, which has its own proper exercise. 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. 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. 8-10. xlv. 2). 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. 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. So it was done; but it is added that, when they did depart from Horeb and went through the wilderness, "which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God doth give unto us. In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. They were to remember what rebellion must end in. He might and would give it to them, but still He always kept His place. This is the point here, and thus we see the connection with all that has gone before. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. 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. ], "The Lords gift of Canaan to Israel (Deuteronomy 1:8) and his command to them to enter and to possess the land began here and was reiterated and emphasized repeatedly in the speeches of Moses recorded in Deuteronomy. Here then they are called to action. "The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. Such then is the early and remarkably striking introduction to the book. The inspired editor may have given later names, and added "as it is in this day," or explanatory remarks. We suppose that the record in Exodus is the older one. 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. xlv. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. [Note: Peter C. Craigie, The Book of Deuteronomy, p. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. Why should they not rejoice? The obedience spoken of in this chapter, which called every male of Israel up to remember Jehovah at these three feasts, gathered them to the place which Jehovah their God would choose. 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. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". Once more obedience is pre-eminently the matter, and this too as delivered men once bondslaves, but now free to obey (ver. Known to God (ver. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted. 1. The Blessedness and Glory of the Promised Land, The Impartiality of God to be Reflected in the Judges of His People, Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year, briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb. "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." Therefore we can understand it as if He said, When you were in the strange country, when you left it in haste to wander here and there in the wilderness, there were great difficulties and many irregularities which cannot be allowed now. I. 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? There is no mercy shown in the vintage. Temple Cleansed. 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. Moses called Mt. 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. This was the mount that burned with fire (Hebrews 12:18), and gendered to bondage,Galatians 4:24. Here then we have all laid bare. Bless me with divine strength that comes from you, Lord. There is a time in our Christian experience of growth and development and there is sort of the legitimate wilderness experience, but God surely does not want you to spend your whole life in the wilderness. This fact appears to be of some importance, because notoriously difficulties have been raised, on the score of practicability, as to the various ordinances requiring sacrifices and offerings where the means did not appear. 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.". Moses reminds them how he had shared the burden of care for them with others. 45, was edited and abbreviated somewhat. *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. These were solemn words to bring before the minds of Israel just about to enter into the good land. The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. To apply what now occupies us here, give me the chief, fundamental, and most salient points of Christianity, and I will show you that these are the very truths that Christians are most in danger of forgetting. This was their point of imitating God. But the believer sees wisdom and grace in comparing the first historical statement with the solemn use the legislator makes to the generation about to enter the land, and the added information is of grave import. For a reason given already. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. We know well that, if God made known His acts unto Israel, He made His ways known unto Moses. When such a death is really before one in service, then perhaps the difficulties would be incomparably more felt; for the Lord does not call to such a course or end to gratify human nature, or to give an opportunity for glorifying man, but always for His own glory. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. 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"! What was meant by this? 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.' 17; 1 Kings, "What is the mountainous country of Judea? XXI. When Peter and John came to the Samaritans, and found that they were John MacNeilThe Spirit-Filled Life, Afraid of Giants'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. Moses mentions how the saying pleased him: here things are stated exactly as they were. "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. "but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live." Background of Text: Israel has been delivered out of Egypt. And this is enforced in the very words which our Saviour employed. Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. It was not then and there that Aaron died, as he alas! Both are substantially the decalogue; but Moses did not write both. When man builds up a society, when he founds a religion or any other scheme, how wholly different his course! A fair question arises for those who honour the divine word, why events so long severed in time are thus introduced seemingly together. If we have," &c. In the same sceptical spirit follows Dr. Colenso. If it were merely a question of man, nobody would think of choosing for another. The other whom Jesus called thought about his father and mother; he would like to see them first. Help me to make the right choices as I continue along the path of life. But he found that there was another law, a perverse kind of a law, that whenever he would do good, evil was present with him. And that which I could not do because of the weakness of my flesh I find that God has done for me and has made provision for me through the power of the Holy Spirit. And he started complaining so much about God I grabbed hold of him. But there is no discrepancy whatever, nor confusion of Aaron's death in the last year of the wilderness sojourn with the separation of Levi some thirty-eight years before. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon." I`m blessed into my down sitting and I`m blessed into my uprising! Such is the fertile topic which we find throughout the book. Posted 11:47 pm by & filed under can you fly with pericarditis. And there in the wilderness he speaks of the Lord your 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. That is the point to do God's will. Ver. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. Deuteronomy 1:6. However the "strife" (Deuteronomy 1:12) of the people would prove to be their undoing. So long God had borne their manners, and they had borne their own iniquity (Numbers 14:34), and now that a new and more pleasant scene was to be introduced, as a token for good, Moses repeats the law to them. And so they chose one from each tribe to go in and to spy out the land. It seems probable to us that the record in Exodus is the more exact. 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. Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. He begins his narrative with their removal from Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 1:6; Deuteronomy 1:6), and relates here, 1. The same principle is steadily pursued on all sides. "Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. Rekam, and that Double. This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. But then Moses reminds them how that they got together and said, "Oh, we've sinned against God. Israel kept the path of right and courtesy. To what were they always inclined? This is clearly shown. This, I believe, is one of the great snares of Christendom from of old and now that is, the stereotyped acknowledgment of sin, the mere habit of hurrying through a formula of confession to God. It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. 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. How good is the Lord! May I not venture to think that other considerations entered, and that His citation of Deuteronomy only is in no way meant to disparage fitting words found elsewhere? "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. Moses recounts for them the history of what had taken place before as a warning not to repeat the same mistakes. And mark this; that it is not only joy in the Lord, but calling others to joy (ver. Surely this again makes it too plain to call for many words of ours to demonstrate what Moses, or rather God Himself, has in view in all these chapters. Edomites or Moabites or Ammonites, unfeeling and disposed to injure Israel, still God would educate His people in remembering whatever bond of nature there was: if blows came, God would not forget the delinquent. Nothing less. There is the peril of religion becoming a species of enjoyment. 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. The Lord puts no weapon of a kind to injure any into our hands; but bids us leave vengeance with himself. The life that God wants you to live, a life of victory, a life of overcoming. So, after it has been brought before us from the first, we find their failure to trust Jehovah leads to a fresh command. That in Deuteronomy has an amplification corresponding to the style of the book. Thus when the story of their rebellion is mentioned, it leads Moses to go back and to trace how this spirit betrayed itself even so early as at Horeb; for when it is a question of rebellion, we must go to the root of it. This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount.--From the beginning of the second month of the first year of the exodus (Exodus 19:1) to the twentieth day of the second month of the second year (Numbers 10:11).This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the . 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