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. 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. Rekam, and that Double. This is then what he was pressing. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. God always holds to His own principles, and He teaches us to respect them in others. It is as true for us as for them, though not shown in the same legal way or outward manner. Still stubborn and disobedient, the people who would not go into Canaan with God then tried to conquer the country without him. We are far from being then on the ground of a mere rehearsal of what has been shown in the previous books. In Deuteronomy 5:1-33 we come to still closer quarters. It is a different thing however with the book of Deuteronomy; and this was my reason for remarking it at this point. For instance, it is not everybody that is called to serve God in a public way; nor is everyone called to take a particular step or course which might involve him in trouble and persecution. The book of Deuteronomy discloses it. Behold I have set the land before you,Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:8. The sabbath law rests entirely on the word of God Himself. And so they departed from Horeb. 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. Israel kept the path of right and courtesy. Now, apart from the irreverence of so treating an inspired book, such an impression is as far as possible from the fact. He has given no title to adopt doctrines, practices, ways, government, or any one thing that is not His expressed will for His children. This was a lesson for Israel of prime moment. Deuteronomy 4:1. A Plain Description of the Essence and Attributes of God, Out of the Holy Scripture, So Far as Every Christian must Competently Know, and Necessarily Believe, that Will be Saves. "Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine." It is not merely "thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of free-will offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee," but "seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose: because Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the increase of thine hands; therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.". Not that I doubt the sabbath-day to be of the deepest possible moment, and so lasting in its claims that, when the millennium comes, that day of rest will be in full force again. Deuteronomy 14:1-29 insists on what became the children of Jehovah their God in abstaining from unseemly maimings or disfigurements for the dead, as well as from any food which He, who knew better than they, pronounced abominable. Deuteronomy 8:18. Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. 303)." Temple Cleansed. But then as he moves into the eighth chapter of Romans, he found the answer to his cry. We recognize that a part of the wilderness experience was legitimate. Accordingly the majority of expositors take the record in Exodus for the exact one, supposing that, as Moses was speaking to the people in the latter case, he recited from memory, not from the tables of stone, and therefore there is some variation of terms. 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. Psalm 42 It reinforces his earlier exhortations in Deuteronomy 7:12-15 and 28:2-12. If truth be abandoned, it indicates the power of Satan as the source, and not the true God. He did not assume knowledge of Israels history that is independent of the biblical account nor did he recount events previously unrecorded. "4. And some of them were slain because they presumed to go without the presence of God. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. 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. "Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession." *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. "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." These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. 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. So it is that it does not withhold from us the over-heatedness of a Paul, as well as the weakness of a Barnabas; that it tells out the stumbling both of Thomas and of Mark: all is openly communicated for our instruction. God would "give his angels charge concerning him;" and what a fine proof it would be that He was the true Messiah, if He threw Himself down from such a height, and withal the angels preserved Him! The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. He was a descendant of Aaron, and belonged to one of the wealthiest and most influential families among the Jewish merchant-princes of Egypt. John Edgar McFadyenIntroduction to the Old Testament. Many count it buried in Christ's grave, but it is not. Because he hath wholly followed the Lord. Psalm 138:1-2. This is a universal and abiding principle. The truth is that the solemn circumstances appear to recall to the mind of Moses the awful lapse of Israel when "they made the calf which Aaron made," and Levi, of odd perfidious to the stranger for a sister's sake, consecrated themselves to Jehovah in the blood of their idolatrous brethren; and Moses hews at Jehovah's command tables of stone like the first, and put them, written as before, in the ark which he had made. And yet the inability to bring the flesh into conformity with the spirit of God. [Breakfast with the Jews came late in the forenoon, and these closing days of our Lord's ministry were full of activity that did not have time to tarry at Bethany for it. Is there anything so wholesome! That in Deuteronomy has an amplification corresponding to the style of the book. It ought most of all to shock the Christian. His fame and prolonged obscurity made his enemies anxious for him to again expose himself in their midst. I'm tempted to smack you in the mouth talking about God that way. He would have them happy in Himself, and enjoying all He had given them to enjoy. That was a tragedy of failure on their part and it was a failure of faith. In Psalms it says, "And they limited the holy one of Israel by their unbelief" ( Psalms 78:41 ). vol. 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. 35; xxxii. 6, 7). Let me just refer to this for a moment longer, lest there should be any mistake about what appears to me to be the truth about it. Obedience is the real spring of blessing, as disobedience is the sure pathway of ruin. A disgraceful perversion; for Deuteronomy 10:6-7 is manifestly a parenthesis. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. For so long I tried to deliver myself, ended in failure. I do not mean that there should not be the profoundest feeling of gratitude, and the fullest expression of thanksgiving to God. 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. the relation of the inner motives for the sending of the spies. But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. All is perfect in its own place, and the imputation of self-contradiction as baseless as it is malicious and irreverent. Moses called Mt. 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. So the commandment of God; "you've been here long enough, you've circled this mountain long enough". Not any ordinary fleshly sin on our part, as many suppose. And this is another chapter from which our Lord quotes when tempted, to which we may refer in passing. In such a case there is no room for will, nor sparing of the heart. Pray it during the day too. This was their point of imitating God. Rebuilding the Temple (Ezra 1:1-6:22) Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project The Book of Ezra begins with a decree from King Cyrus of Persia, allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple that had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 BC (Ezra 1:2-4). *. Our, (October, a.d. The discourse itself. II. And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19. And so it is important that we not fail where they failed but that we, by faith, take this position of victory, of power, of strength, of walking in the spirit reckoning the old man, the old nature, to be dead with Christ.So, that which should have taken eleven days took them forty years, actually forty-one years to be exact, because it wasn't until the forty-first year on the tenth day that they entered in to the land that God had promised. "O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me?" What better blessing after all can be on earth, except Christ Himself, if indeed it be not a part of Christ, than that life of Christ which walks in obedience? In Deuteronomy 6:1-25 we find the first of those texts which our Lord quotes. 8. 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. Next we see what was the fact when they did go up spite of the warning of God to fight the Amorites. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: 5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. The truth is that the difference is due to moral development of Israel according to Jehovah's wisdom on the eve of introducing His people into the land, and the more settled and social habits He would have them cultivate there. They were to remember what rebellion must end in. Jehovah had cut down the former generation for their disobedience. 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? Satan took advantage of the scripture that said that He should not dash His foot against a stone. DAY 6 PRAYER POINTS. It is not therefore a question of how far the offerings, etc. 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. 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