deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points

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. Such conversion does not suit God, who must have His own. For a Jew no doubt there is the law of Moses. It did not alter their duty, if the antecedent history of Moab and Ammon, just as much as that of Esau, was far from good. Fr. This is now developed. What we have here is not a repetition; it leads us into things secret what wrought in the people and hindered their blessing. *See Dr. Lightfoot's Works, ii. I. It ought most of all to shock the Christian. "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Is this what you feel? 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. 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. This seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. Moses reminds them how he had shared the burden of care for them with others. Here then they are called to action. 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. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. In Deuteronomy 11:1-32 is given the summing up of the whole matter, the practical conclusion which the lawgiver keeps before their eyes. viii. Jehovah had cut down the former generation for their disobedience. In advancing to take possession of the world for Christ, we have the encouragement of thinking that he knows precisely to what kind of work he is sending us, and yet promises success. "Why would God leave there and then you know, dump me?" It represented that death which befell the Lamb, and arrested the judgment of God which had gone out against us because of sin. 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. With this then most fittingly He begins. Philo of Alexandria and Rabbinic Theology. In the delight of His people He delights. ii. It is the book which our Lord quotes in His temptations with Satan. It is rather a proof of hardness of heart. There was incomparably greater strictness of judgment with the children of Israel than with all their enemies put together. That it is said of both, " God spake all these words." That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which was shown in the mount. 18, 19, 12, 13; ^B Mark XI. 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. Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents, in the fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and the cloud by day ( Deuteronomy 1:33 ). Such is the principle: no sparing friends, relatives, "wife of thy bosom," could be tolerated. Not that this made the smallest cloud between Master and servant. 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. Israel's stay at the mount was good while it lasted, There was a danger that Israel's stay at the mount might last too long, The conquest of which is commanded by God, Early in the year 1857. 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. What did not so much manifest obedience is left out, though it might have an important spiritual meaning in its place; for certainly other feasts (as the feast of atonement, for instance) had. The life that God wants you to live, a life of victory, a life of overcoming. 45-48. (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. "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. I`m blessed relationally, interpersonally, I am BLESSED, I am BLESSED! 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). 4; iv. They had marched round to the eastern side of the Jordan; they were now on that border of the land, after God's long-continued process of dealing with them in the wilderness had come to its full measure. Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. What shall we drink? "5. He is encouraging them to go in and to take the land that God had promised to them. 1. But for the Christian a very essential feature of his standing is that he is delivered from the status of man or Israel, and called to Christ and heavenly things. pt. 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. The first thing introduced here is the fact that Jehovah had spoken to them in Horeb, saying, "Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. 1:6-7. ^A Matt. It was because of this very truth: Jehovah was with them. We suppose that the record in Exodus is the older one. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy 6:1-25 we find the first of those texts which our Lord quotes. It is not a book for the wilderness, except for their hearts to look back on whilst on the borders before they entered the land. Next follows the account of their fear before God's solemn words, their promise to obey, and the mediatorial place which the people desired and God sanctioned for Moses. "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." That was a tragedy of failure on their part and it was a failure of faith. 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. For instance, as they must not trifle with blood, because it belonged to God (Deuteronomy 12:16-25), the dreamer must be guarded against a dream (Deuteronomy 13:1-5). The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near 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. It is well to remark here that verse 24 is exactly parallel with verse 13; that it is not Moses in verse 13, but Jehovah who commands to "rise up," etc., in both; and that verses 10-12 are a parenthesis of instructive past history for moral profit like verses 20-23. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. That is the point to do God's will. 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. Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as Jehovah God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. Ver. We however are not under law but grace. 6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 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". Then in Deuteronomy 13:1-18 there is a similar line, all these early injunctions being what we may call religious statutes. The copulative conjunction is prefixed to the last four commandments in Deuteronomy. "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. 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. And then he really started getting on God's case. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. Now, shut up". In the one case there was the thorough sifting and scrutiny of God with whom most? 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. Those who persist in hardening themselves must indeed be destroyed; but not by us. And Jehovah spake unto me, saying, Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israels covenant God, has done for his people. With the enemies? ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? Was this their trust? 11-52. 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. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. And you came near to me Moses said, and you said, Let's send spies into the land, in order that they might find out which cities we'll be facing and the directions by which we should go into the land ( Deuteronomy 1:21-22 ). And so they chose one from each tribe to go in and to spy out the land. The spring of obedience was wanting. And yet the inability to bring the flesh into conformity with the spirit of God. 1. "4. Jehovah your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing." 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? These figures Moses was inspired to give as a whole to the people, entirely apart from the question whether they were or could be carried out according to the letter while passing through the wilderness. "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine." I. O. T. i. pp. Or, if the cognate clause used in both books, 'that God wrote them on two tables of stone,' be not literally pressed in one case, there is no necessity for doing so in the other. 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. 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. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. But there is another point peculiar to this book. Hence the story of the Amorites, as we saw, is given. So these are the words which Moses spake unto all of Israel on the side of Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea ( Deuteronomy 1:1 ). If God had held to the terms of that covenant, never could the people have found their way into Canaan; but God was pleased to bring in fresh terms by a way which will be shown before we have done with this sketch of Deuteronomy; and it was simply and solely because of those fresh terms of mercy which God Himself brought in of His own grace that Israel entered there. There was no doubt whatever that Esau had behaved so ill that the children of Israel were not likely to forget it. 45-48. However Judea, here and there, doth swell out much with mountains, yet its chief swelling appears in that broad back of mountains, that runs from the utmost southern cost as far as Hebron, and almost as Jerusalem itself. Where else can be found such jealous care as this? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." Background of Text: Israel has been delivered out of Egypt. 95. 12). This closes the first part of Deuteronomy. Here then we have all laid bare. If you suspect a rogue is in your employment, you may test him by marking a piece of money to see whether he steals or not: am I then going to mark something for God to see whether He will keep His word or not? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." So, all of these things transpired in Deuteronomy, as far as Moses was concerned, in the last forty days of his life; his final exhortations to the people prior to their crossing and entering into the land. Coming to the Valley of Eshcol, searching it out and taking the fruit and bringing it back. 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. There is another peculiarity in the book of Deuteronomy which it is well to present briefly before we descend to particulars; it supposes the failure of the people. So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? ". Surely this is highly significant. This was their point of imitating God. 5-8; 1 Cor. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. There He assigned this as the portion of the high priest and his sons, that of the Levites, this again of the people. They were about to enter it by special grace; for it is of importance to bear in mind that it was not by the covenant which was made at Horeb that the children of Israel entered the land at all. Moses himself had the deepest sense of the situation, but in no way as one who distrusted Jehovah, for he had well learned to count on His love. It is strange how little we know of the personal history of the greatest of uninspired Jewish writers of old, though he occupied so prominent a position in his time. Both were powerful motives not to dread the Canaanite races, who were destined to extirpation. His Father will take care of him. (1) These are the words. 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. A summary of the address is given in the chapter-headings usually found in English Bibles. The very point of faith, for which we are especially responsible, is what we are in most danger of forgetting under pressure or carelessness. It seems needless to say that this is altogether short of Christianity; and as we have referred to the difference of a Jew and a Christian as to the sabbath-day and the first day of the week, so as to this. Now, the cry almost indicated the answer itself; "Who shall deliver me?" Ah! 5, 11, 14, 18, 21, 26). THE CHURCH'S DANGER - to abide at the mount, to settle down into a state of apathy or simple receptivity. 7. It was to be a real fealty: it was not merely a dogma pure and simple, but to be known as a fact. Yet He joins its observance with prohibitions of evil which man could himself judge. Others might be optional, but these feasts were obligatory. So this fact also is used. It was not merely a sight of God, but One who deigned to take the liveliest and most intimate interest in His people Israel. will be blessed. What love there was in this, if by any means he might impress obedience on the people that were just going into the land! 29.) ), "2 Notwithstanding such express declaration, the following diversities occur. "I will not give you of their land." "The saying pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: and they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eschol, and searched it out. 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." Occasionally in Deuteronomy he supplemented what he had written earlier with other explanatory material. Which the Holy Scripture called "The hill-country of Judah," Joshua 21:11; Luke 1:39. "Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Jehovah God of your fathers giveth you. He that believes may calmly confide in God under all circumstances. To get from the Red Sea into the Promised Land, it was necessary to go through the wilderness, an eleven-day journey, but most of the wilderness experience was illegitimate.Now I feel that the history is a typical history, that there are spiritual analogies to be made to the children of Israel coming out of Egypt passing through the wilderness into the Promised Land. 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." It probably covers the last month and a half of Moses' life. "Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day." 4; Eph. Of course it is a fact that the priests are there; but one of the peculiar features of this book is that, although sacerdotalism existed, the priests are designedly swamped with the Levites, as the whole of the people are gathered round Jehovah. 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. Verse Deuteronomy 6:5. Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. Men have reasoned with great detail, especially in recent years, enquiring how all this could be done in the desert by a people who found it hard enough to pass unscathed themselves, though they had Jehovah their God with them to feed them with angels' bread, and water if need were from the rock. And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And so they departed from Horeb. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. kind this book, while it does not want allusions to what God had said in all the other books, has, no less than the rest of them, its own peculiar character. 9. 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. "We turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed Mount Seir many days. And there in the wilderness he speaks of the Lord your God. Times we know when the sense of what we have been, of what we are, and of God's putting all our evil away for ever by the death of His own Son, is too deep for joy if not for tears. In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. "Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day Jehovah talked with you face to face in the Mount out of the midst of the fire. Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God: and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us." But the same duty abides for them. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. ", Then comes (ver. That in Deuteronomy has an amplification corresponding to the style of the book. Praying through Deuteronomy 6:6. Indeed he could not have written either in its present form, because that in Exodus is Jehovistic, and older than the record in Deuteronomy. This was their boast. "Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover in any of thy gates, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee: but at the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. 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. In a certain sense it might be a season too good and deep for joy. The priests were Levites. John here used the word "Jews" as a designation for the Jerusalemites, who, as enemies of Christ, were to be distinguished from the multitudes who were in doubt, [Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] a. He's looking now outside of himself for the help. "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 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 the. We see that what has been remarked is just what is expressed in this verse: "And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only," (what exercise of faith was there in that?) Every part of my life is BLESSED! There he kept them about a year, and then told them they had dwelt long enough there, they must go forward. And in it, I must recognize that this old body of flesh, with its desires, has been crucified that it should no longer rule over me but that I now can be ruled by the spirit of God.Now Paul describes his wilderness experience in the seventh chapter of Romans as he talks about seeing the law of God, consenting that the law of God was good and determining to fulfill the law of God. In Deuteronomy 4:1-49 we find another line of things. So they began the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, which Moses begins to rehearse for them in chapter two. There are deeper feelings in the heart than joy. To the end of the chapter follow the most earnest warnings, as well as bright promises: disobedience or obedience would be the turning point in the land. NOTE: This edition of this sermon is taken from an earlier published edition of Spurgeon's 1857 message. Then is laid down the memorial that Jehovah, who gave them His law, was the same who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. 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. 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. So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. They might be greater, stronger, wiser, more than the Israelites; but what of Jehovah? Deuteronomy 31:6 - Prayer Points For Protection From Fear/Failure. 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. And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. 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. It is really sort of Moses' final address to the people. He lost patience with them and in so doing brought Gods punishment upon himself (34-40; see Numbers 20:2-13). The word of God tests whether he submits to it, whether he lives on it, whether he delights in it, whether his meat is to do the will of God as the Lord Jesus proved His meat was. 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. Preventive against Backsliding. Then follows the appointment, iv. Father in Heaven, I ask for your blessings . 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. Deuteronomy 1:6-9. . Heavenly Father, Help us to faithfully obey Your voice and being careful to do all that You command, today and in the future. 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 the first section, i.-iv. 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. What a difference between God's conduct of His people, and man's corruption of it! This is a universal and abiding principle. Every step in really obeying God puts the man morally to the test, and is more or less attended with severe trial. 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. 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. The grand duty and safeguard is evermore to heed His word, and the consulting Him not only for their own path but in respect to others. Then they are told not to celebrate the feast indiscriminately where and as they please. God went before you to find the place for you to pitch your tents. And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people." To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. May my inner and outward actions, attitude, words and motives reflect a heart that loves the Lord with . "The good that I would I do not. A desire to obey God and to keep the law of God, consenting that it's good, that's the right way, that's the way I want to live; seeing the divine ideal, being attracted by the divine ideal and desiring, longing after it. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. 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 Alfred EdersheimThe Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, The Blessing of Jacob Upon Judah. To what were they always inclined? 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. In Deuteronomy 6:1-9, . The point then for the Jew was the one true God. Once more obedience is pre-eminently the matter, and this too as delivered men once bondslaves, but now free to obey (ver. Tempting God was to doubt Him, as many, all of us, are apt to do. 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. Know ye not that the old man was crucified with Christ? And the beautiful thing is that God is with you, even in the wilderness experiences. For when severed from Christ then those ordinances only became a snare to men. * This it is well to note, as we should not have discovered it from the Book of Numbers. 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