What a difference between God's conduct of His people, and man's corruption of it! 2. They might be greater, stronger, wiser, more than the Israelites; but what of Jehovah? The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. This seems to me put to the test in the question of the land of Edom. They have been camped out at Mount Horeb for about a year. It is evident therefore, that this book has the most sensible difference from all that preceded it. 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. Unless I am very much mistaken,--the maps of Adricomus, Tirinius, and others, ought to be corrected, which have feigned to John LightfootFrom the Talmud and Hebraica, Kadesh. Now, the wilderness experiences where I am trying to bring my flesh into conformity to the will of God, and I'm promising God that I'm gonna do better, that I'm not gonna fail next time. It was only eleven days journey from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, and about the same from Kadesh to the plains of Moab where the people now were, but they had taken forty years to get there. This was their boast. 10. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. Jehovah had cut down the former generation for their disobedience. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto Him the people shall adhere." Grace has brought us out of the condition of a nation in the flesh or of men in the earth. The law of the sabbath is not given to Christians. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). But the tone, mind, and heart of Moses are nowhere more characteristically apparent than in these his last words to the people of Jehovah whom he loved. This was guarded against from the first by the fact that no similitude of God was vouchsafed. Thus: God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. 2). It is very improbable that both proceeded from one and the same writer, because on the principle of strict literality of language he contradicts himself. I. One of the most weighty duties is not properly a moral question at all, but depends simply on the commandment of God. The question was, did the present generation about to be brought into the holy land profit by the past? and all this kind of stuff.Well, it's obvious God didn't lead him. 94.]. "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. Its moral turns on this the only possible way of maintaining relationship with God, namely, obedience; what the nature of that obedience is, and how it is modified; how God graciously takes into account the weakness of those brought into this relationship, and how He provides for His own glory in it. But their fathers would not obey at that time. Yet they complained against him and refused to go with him into the land he had chosen for them (19-33). These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day." We however are not under law but grace. 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). 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. This is the meaning of it, and such is precisely the path of duty. 7. 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. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. Why did they not? Temple Cleansed. 2. "Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life." 1. 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 . And thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Your fruit baskets and breadboards. There are many, many Christians who have been long enough, and far too long, in the mount, and it would be welt for themselves if they could hear this voice summoning them to go forward. Every motive of gratitude and compassion should urge us to it. THE CHURCH'S DUTY - to obey her Lord, and go forward at once to this great work. "The Deuteronomist, writing at a later period of the same arrangement [the mission of the spies in Numbers], represents the people proposing the measure to Moses, who on consideration resolved to execute it, because it approved itself to his heart and conscience: 'Ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land; and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe.' 24; 2 Cor. 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. But you are the one that puts the limitations on what God wants to do. However, this was not the promised Land. "You've encompassed this mount" God said, "long enough. What love there was in this, if by any means he might impress obedience on the people that were just going into the land! . . 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. The prime duty for every creature, whether Jew or Christian, is obedience. The Promised Land into which God was bringing them is typical to the glorious life and victory in the spirit. It was by this Scripture that the Lord, as we know, repelled the first temptation of the adversary. It is the due conduct of a people in relationship with Jehovah; no longer the bringing out of typical institutions, but the development of the moral ways which become the people with whom Jehovah had a present connection and intercourse on earth. Moses reflected on the past mainly as Israels history stands revealed in the earlier books of the Pentateuch. The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough. Jehovah gave them no such license as the right to slay, burn, or plunder others as they liked. There is no better evidence and earnest of God's favour than his putting his law in our hearts, Psalms 147:19; Psalms 147:20. But this was no reason why they were to expect Jehovah to destroy the Ammonites now. Israel must not slight God's claims in common things. In Deuteronomy 6:1-25 we find the first of those texts which our Lord quotes. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. They were not compelled to take this to the one place that God had consecrated. I have no hesitation in subscribing the opinion that our Lord Jesus chose them not only because they were in themselves exactly such as met and confronted Satan's temptations perfectly, but because there was a moral suitability in the fact that they were the words addressed to the people when ruin had already come in when nothing but the grace of God was afresh appealing to them before they were brought into the holy land. May we not forget it ourselves! Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. 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. For although he may allow himself a dispensation to take from others, let a man steal from him, and it will soon be seen whether he does not condemn the wrong. He might not grant such a liberal concession to others as he left to himself. The LORD our God spake unto you in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, [and so forth] and take the land that I have promised. These were solemn words to bring before the minds of Israel just about to enter into the good land. "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. But also it would appear that the deepest wisdom lay in citing from that book, as well as its most applicable words. 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." We were bondmen, and are not. will be blessed. 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." They would have further proof of Gods unfailing goodness when they saw the rich land God was giving them. And here the people were making this blasphemous accusation; "because God hates us, he brought us out here". Others might be optional, but these feasts were obligatory. What shall we wear?These kinds of things, and in that we differ nothing from the heathen, from the animals. * This it is well to note, as we should not have discovered it from the Book of Numbers. 9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the . 6, 7). 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. And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. will be blessed. *. ^d 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? 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. It would not be good for us always to be in this state of simple receiving. In this Second Narration, Moses expressly declares that God not only gave them a visible sign, by uplifting the cloud, but that He also verbally commanded the people to leave Mount Sinai, and to set about the performance of the rest of their journey. His eyesight is still keen, he can still hear very well and he is addressing these people, rehearsing for them the work of God in their past because many of them were born while in the wilderness. 4; Isa. 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"! Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. The sabbath law rests entirely on the word of God Himself. Why should they covet? Such is the sceptic's puny effort to lower the character and credit of scripture. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. Thus we come to what might be called the direct charges, having done with all the introductory part. (Ad. 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.
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