deuteronomy 1:6 prayer points

If people like to choose for themselves, as mere men, what an awful delusion it is to be choosing for God to be really governed by your own will in matters of religion! Now the life of the spirit begins with the death of the old nature, the old man, which is the position that we must take by faith. "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. There the nation enjoyed a season of rest, ratified its covenant with God, received the Law, constructed a sanctuary, and was otherwise equipped and organized. Besides, if these high places had been dedicated to heathen gods, Israel must not dare to consecrate them to the true God. 39; vi. This he tried to conceal from One, all whose ways were obedience, venturing to insinuate what a noble demonstration of His Messiahship it would be. This indicates that Moses assumed that those who read Deuteronomy would have prior knowledge of his preceding four books. What is meant by a moral law is that which one can pronounce on from within even without a prescription from God. What a guard this was against the misuse of outward forms! Was this their trust? This was a truth which Israel was most prone to disregard. 303)." iv. 94.]. Verse Deuteronomy 1:6. Commonly indeed we see that Christians understand a great deal better what the Jews ought to have done, than what they themselves ought to be doing. If it were merely a question of man, nobody would think of choosing for another. It is Jehovah gathering the people round Himself. 1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. I. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement. Now a new generation was getting ready to enter the promised land. ^A Matt. 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. Covenant favour would surely do as much for Israel as providence had done for Moab and Ammon! 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. I am afraid there was not much more in the weeping than in the acknowledgment of the sin. "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. XXI. More than that, it was the cause of Moses not being allowed. I do not regard this as evincing the spirit of obedience, but rather a spice of self-confidence. "On comparing the decalogue as recorded inExodus 20:2-17; Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21, it will be observed, "1. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. Israel was called in everything to confide in Jehovah and obey. In the ninth and tenth the terms 'falsehood' and 'covet' are not the same as in Exodus. 2. My Father, I ask that You grant me prosperity in all my endeavours. 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. Our mind will be upon the fleshly things continually; What shall we eat? 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." It was not then and there that Aaron died, as he alas! Moses began his recital of Israels history at Horeb (Sinai) because this is where Yahweh adopted the nation by making the Mosaic Covenant with her. Is this what you read? (October, a.d. This was their boast. Psalm 138:1-2. 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. 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. The people of Israel had nearly completed their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. 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 . For the LORD your God which goes before you, shall fight for you, according to all that he did in Egypt before your eyes; And yet you went in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God ( Deuteronomy 1:29-32 ). But also it would appear that the deepest wisdom lay in citing from that book, as well as its most applicable words. The copulative conjunction is prefixed to the last four commandments in Deuteronomy. 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. The constant stubbornness of the people was the reason why they were not allowed to enter Canaan. 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. Deuteronomy 7:1-26 one may sum up in a very few words. In His dealings with them He applied a higher standard, and far more severity. 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. It was simply a question of subjection to God and obeying Him, who had from the first a plan for the nations round Israel as their centre. A few words on the next few chapters will suffice for the present. India, China, Africa, etc., - he knows them all, yet he says, "Go in and possess.". In the delight of His people He delights. But God will lift you to the highest level you will let him. Indeed he could not have written either in its present form, because that in Exodus is Jehovistic, and older than the record in Deuteronomy. "And so Moses sort of rehearses for them some of the problems that he had as God was dealing with him. The quotation is from Dennis Baly, The Geography of the Bible.]. (Deuteronomy 1:11 NKJV). 8-10. Now in Numbers it doesn't tell us that they came to Moses to request these spies, but in Deuteronomy is adding a little bit more detail than he gave in the book of Numbers. Next to having Christ Himself is the following in His steps. God appointed judges (Deuteronomy 1:16) to help Moses carry the burden of legal decisions that resulted from the giving of the Law. Here is a list of powerful I AM affirmations that could be used as prayer points. Jeremiah, or any other prophet. 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. 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. And you know God told me to go here and it was just really horrible and all," and all this stuff. 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. prayer, holy living, organized and beneficent activity to reach the lost sheep of our great communities, and multiplied missionary agencies in foreign lands. 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"! The object is quite different. We can all see how very bad it was in Israel; but do we feel that it is still worse in the Christian? The lawgiver, about to be taken from them, looks back on all the past; but he looks forward also to the land they were about to enter. Thank You, loving Father, that You never change. Deuteronomy 1:6-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. Because they had not a particle of confidence in God. They were only tenants, and had to pay Him rent. Oh, I'm getting close because I realize now I can't deliver myself. 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 ). It would not be good for us always to be in this state of simple receiving. Setting up other gods in the wilderness. Accordingly the very large introduction is an address to the people for the purpose of enforcing these claims. 5-8; 1 Cor. [Note: Kalland, p. 22. Hence it is that he alludes to the fate of Dathan and Abiram whom the earth swallowed up in consequence of their flagrant apostasy and fighting against God. 3. 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. So it habitually is where the faith is real; but nature is not yet judged root and branch. It might belong to the true God; but "Thou shalt not hearken" if there was the smallest risk of going after other gods. iii. But in Deuteronomy the point is to centralize them all around Jehovah Himself. They might be greater, stronger, wiser, more than the Israelites; but what of Jehovah? practical object, seems to be from first to last an enforcement of obedience, grounded on the relationship between Jehovah their God and Israel, whom He was just bringing as His people into His land. 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. We all know that it is natural to wretched, wilful man. In Deuteronomy 5:1-33 we come to still closer quarters. Jehovah had cut down the former generation for their disobedience. In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. Jehovah went along with them; and of course the faithful turned back just as much as the unfaithful. THE CHURCH'S DESTINY - to possess the land. 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. This is now developed. All the previous part prepares the way. Appendix ii. It is not to be doubted that the words cited from Deuteronomy were the very best that they were chosen according to divine perfection. "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. viii. 7 Powerful Prayer Points with Scripture. 45-48. They were about to go into the land to enjoy it; but "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one. It was "the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee." "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." For we must remember that the sabbath does not mean a seventh day, as some persons (I am sorry to say) equivocate; but the seventh day and no other. Sinai "Horeb" almost exclusively in this book, ". 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 J. O. T. i. pp. 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. i. I must despair of all of these self-improvement programs and I must cry out for help outside of myself, for therein is the power of the spirit manifested. Not surprisingly, they were defeated and driven back into the wilderness (41-46). And be. Monday, April 4, a.d. 11). 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. Gods guidance from Sinai to Kadesh 1:6-46. "5. It was not necessarily, I conceive, because there were no words elsewhere admirably adapted to meet the case. 11-52. Coming to the Valley of Eshcol, searching it out and taking the fruit and bringing it back. The above diversities show that the ipsissima verba spoken by God cannot be in both, because both do not exactly agree. We need further insight to think the right way and make right life decisions. 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. W. McGarveyThe Four-Fold Gospel, In the Temple at the Feast of Tabernacles. If they were going to possess the land, let them remember it was God's land, not theirs. His Father will take care of him. The tenth has also the first two clauses in a different order from that in Exodus, and adds 'his field.'. Heavenly Father, Help us to faithfully obey Your voice and being careful to do all that You command, today and in the future. It is pentecost. "Your eyes have seen all the great acts of Jehovah which he did. This therefore gives its tone to the book. Rekam, and that Double. "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.' It was to be a real fealty: it was not merely a dogma pure and simple, but to be known as a fact. "Jehovah heard the voice of your words and was wroth, and sware saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers.". Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done. Now, there is the coming out of the old life, being delivered from the old life, and this new relationship that we experience with God, learning to walk by faith, as we are setting aside the things of the flesh life and are beginning this new walk in the spirit. The same Spirit which has the power of miracle is the Spirit of truth and the Holy Spirit. 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. I. Both were powerful motives not to dread the Canaanite races, who were destined to extirpation. God must and does choose for Himself a simple yet most important consideration (ver. Help me to make the right choices as I continue along the path of life. It was no longer "How shall I free myself?" So, after it has been brought before us from the first, we find their failure to trust Jehovah leads to a fresh command. 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. They came to a place, they said, "Awe my, this looks like a good place to pitch our tents". They knew no reason why weary wastes of disappointing years should stretch between Bethel and Peniel, between the Cross and Pentecost. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone." 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. "The good that I would I do not. 40, Moses, after reviewing the recent history of the people, and showing how it reveals Jehovah's love for Israel, earnestly urges upon them the duty of keeping His laws, reminding them of His spirituality and absoluteness. Prayer Point #1: Pray for a Great Awakening and for Salvations. Whither shall we go up? II. "( Romans 6:6 ) Paul the apostle said, "I am crucified with Christ" ( Galatians 2:20 ). This claim, based on God's act of bringing Israel out of enslavement in Egypt, is also highlighted at the end of this chapter (6:20-25 . Prayer Point #3: Pray for Those Being Persecuted Because of the Gospel. [Note: Peter C. Craigie, The Book of Deuteronomy, p. I do not dwell on this. Look at the way in which Jehovah treated even these enemies of Israel. 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. 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