SUMMARY OF CHAPTER FOUR Exhortations to obedience, 1. Nothing to be added to or taken from the testimonies of God, 2. The people are exhorted to recollect how God had destroyed the ungodly among them, 3; and preserved those who were faithful, 4. The excellence of the Divine law, 5, 6. No nation in t... [ Continue Reading ]
LESSON FOUR DEUTERONOMY 4:1-43 B. SIGNIFICANCE OF PAST EVENTS (Deuteronomy 4:1-40) 1. BLESSINGS PROMISED FOR THOSE WHO HEED GOD'S ALL-SUFFICIENT LAW (Deuteronomy 4:1-8) a. PROSPERITY (Deuteronomy 4:1-4) And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do... [ Continue Reading ]
2. THE TEMPTATION TO FORGET GOD'S UNIQUE REVELATION (Deuteronomy 4:9-31) a. GOD APPEARED AT HOREB BY WORD, NOT BY PHYSICAL FORM (Deuteronomy 4:9-14) 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all t... [ Continue Reading ]
b. WARNING AGAINST MAKING PHYSICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GOD OR GODS (Deuteronomy 4:15-24) 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire; 16 lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven imag... [ Continue Reading ]
I MUST NOT GO OVER THE JORDAN (Deuteronomy 4:22)See under Deuteronomy 1:37. c. PUNISHMENT FOR IDOLATRY: BANISHMENT FROM THE LAND (Deuteronomy 4:25-28) 25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven... [ Continue Reading ]
d. REPENTANCE WILL REVEAL GOD'S GRACE (Deuteronomy 4:29-31) 29 But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days... [ Continue Reading ]
3. THE GLORY AND GREATNESS OF ISRAEL'S GOD (Deuteronomy 4:32-40) 32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been _any such thing_ as this great thing is, or hat... [ Continue Reading ]
APPENDIX: APPOINTMENT OF EASTERN CITIES OF REFUGE (Deuteronomy 4:41-43) 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; 42 that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these citie... [ Continue Reading ]
LESSON FIVE DEUTERONOMY 4:44 TO DEUTERONOMY 6:3 II. THE SECOND DISCOURSE The Law of God (Deuteronomy 4:44 to Deuteronomy 26:19) INTRODUCTION (Deuteronomy 4:44-49) POSITION OF ISRAEL; SUMMARY OF CONQUESTS 44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: 45 these are the testi... [ Continue Reading ]