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. - J.O. Could they match with Him? (1) These are the words. Both were powerful motives not to dread the Canaanite races, who were destined to extirpation. Then again we have what is always brought out in the book of Deuteronomy. 6 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Then follows the appointment, iv. We are studying Deuteronomy 6:1-9 for Sunday, December 2. Crossed over Jordan finally and began the conquest of the land.So, an interesting little commentary. "Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you." 8 "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 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? What was meant by this? NOTE: This edition of this sermon is taken from an earlier published edition of Spurgeon's 1857 message. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. p. 136 (Pitman's Edition). I said, "Hey, you shut up and get out of here. "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." What God lays on one He does not necessarily enjoin on another. "Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 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"! Meanwhile they were not to meddle with their kindred, even though jealous and unkind. He cites from none other. It is rather a proof of hardness of heart. ^b 12 And ^a 18 Now ^b on the morrow [on the Monday following the triumphal entry], ^a in the morning ^b when they were come out from Bethany, ^a as he returned to the city [Jerusalem], he hungered. After God speaks it is time to move to the next level. Thank Him for bringing you through the land of your [proverbial] enemies, for your enemies stood between you and the Promised Landand now you are that much closer to crossing over into the Promised Land. "Jehovah our God made a covenant with us at Horeb." There is no mercy shown in the vintage. And he's saying God led him to do this and God led him to do that. It consists of moral addresses, and appeals in a tone quite unexampled in all the five books of Moses. It was God who made the family rejoice, and they were to go out to those that were strangers to it. Nothing can be more manifest than the moral groundwork which Moses is preparing for all the rest of the book that follows. "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. I pray that by Your grace, I would choose to live a victorious life that trusts Your Word, submits to Your will, and honours Your name in every eventuality of life. It is the king's mountain." This year and its institutions fill up exactly one-third of the text of the Pentateuch. 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. Our mind will be upon the fleshly things continually; What shall we eat? Forever and ever. The evil that I would not, that I do"( Romans 7:19 ). The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. And when they had situations that were too difficult for them to handle, that Moses would handle those cases. vi. This was their real object. 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." So, they are words of encouragement as he is recounting that which God has done. And the grand principle too we may just notice in passing: Jehovah reminds them by Moses that He had allowed much while they were in the wilderness which could not be tolerated now (ver. It is not the tabernacle, nor the priest, not the wilderness, but obeying God as His people in the land. Deuteronomy 1:6-9. . "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. What a horrible thing, what a horrible thing to say about God and against God; God hates us. "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." 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. And what was the Lord's answer? How good is the Lord! "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. 4; Eph. 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). "Can you call Him Father?" God went before you to find the place for you to pitch your tents. 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. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son." prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. Consequently it is an anticipation of what was before them. vi. 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. Deuteronomy 1:6-8New International Version. "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.' 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. Now recognizing my weakness, I'm crying for power outside of myself. 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. Did He offer him the book of the law with the one hand or the sword with the other? And this characterizes the book of Deuteronomy. 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. The less that Israel felt they had failed, the more Jesus felt it for them. He had compromised Him at a critical occasion, and could not but feel that so it was. And in the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had given him commandment unto them; After they had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelled in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, on the eastside of Jordan, Moses began to declare this law ( Deuteronomy 1:2-5 ). Others might be optional, but these feasts were obligatory. )Ver. 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. 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. 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. (6) The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb.--The "Lord our God," "Jehovah our Elohim," is the watchword of the whole book. "6. So this is where the word Deuteronomy comes from "Moses began to declare this law". Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. Once more obedience is pre-eminently the matter, and this too as delivered men once bondslaves, but now free to obey (ver. 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. II. In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. iv. The word Deuteronomy means the second law. Yet He joins its observance with prohibitions of evil which man could himself judge. Is not this in wonderful harmony with the rest, following on the confession of the one true God of Israel? i. In style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israel's covenant God, has done for his people. 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). 2. And we're looking at the obstacles rather than the power of God to deliver us from those obstacles. 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. These bear chiefly the character of logical deductions, and as such were largely applied in the Halakhah. This was the period of organisation, in which the people received the Law and were organised as a church militant, an army encamped around the tabernacle of God. 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. It was "the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee." In Deuteronomy 16:1-17 (where I now stop) we have the winding up of all this part the termination of the statutes which had to do with religion. 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." 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. Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh "hereunto, 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. vol. [It was now eighteen months since Jesus had visited Jerusalem, at which time he had healed the impotent man at Bethesda. You must bring your instrument to a point before it will penetrate, to an edge that it . Now it was God's desire all along to bring them into the land. The hardest thing to find now in a Christian is real intelligence about Christianity. We shall find a fresh one made in the land of Moab, but first of all they are reminded of the Sinaitic covenant. If a person takes what does not belong to him, every man, even a heathen, can judge it. 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. To hear someone, you know, making all these accusations against God, horrible things, it's tragic. 29.) "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. 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. 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. *Dr. Davidson (Introd. The other had its place when God was giving the book of Leviticus. 29.) Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. It is making God less than a man; for if he could not be content without it, how much less the living God? 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. And so often the good that he wanted to do, he couldn't do and the evil he didn't want to do was the thing that he was doing until he found himself in just a miserable, wretched state. The Israelites realized nothing of the kind. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, into spiritual trouble and affliction of mind, he knows when they have dwelt long enough in it, and will certainly find a time, the fittest time, to advance them from the terrors of the spirit of adoption. God will lift to the highest level that you will allow Him to lift you and do the best for you on that level, but the work of God in our lives is always limited by us. 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. They might be greater, stronger, wiser, more than the Israelites; but what of Jehovah? 4. "The importance of history has two focal points: (a) there is the covenant tradition of promise, from Abraham to Moses; (b) there is the experience of God in history working out in deed the content of the promise. 3. (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). Deuteronomy 1:1-46 lets us see the end of disobedience; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 2:1-37; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 give us to know as clearly the result of obedience. The references to "the river Euphrates" (Deuteronomy 1:7) and "the stars of heaven for multitude" (Deuteronomy 1:10) hark back to Gods promises to Abraham. Read: Deut. All this is made to converge on the children. He too it was who had given the Mount to Esau: that was enough. 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