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Charles Spurgeon · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Spurgeon - Jehovah's word is not fickle nor uncertain; it is settled, determined, fixed, sure, immovable. Man's teachings change so often that there is never time for them to be settled; but the Lord's word is from of old the same, and will remain unchanged eternally. Some men are never happier than when they are unsettling everything and everybody; but God's mind is not with them. The power and glory of heaven have confirmed each sentence which the mouth of the Lord has spoken, and so confirmed it that to all eternity it must stand the same, — settled in heaven, where nothing can reach it. In the former section David's soul fainted, but here the good man looks out of self and perceives that the Lord fainteth not, neither is weary, neither is there any failure in his word. The verse takes the form of an ascription of praise: the faithfulness and immutability of God are fit themes for holy song, and when we are tired with gazing upon the shifting scene of this life, the thought of the immutable promise fills our mouth with singing. God's purposes, promises, and precepts are all settled in his own mind, and none of them shall be disturbed. Covenant settlements will not be removed, however unsettled the thoughts of men may become; let us therefore settle it in our minds that we abide in the faith of our Jehovah as long as we have any being. (Treasury of David) POSB - Man is not to tamper with God's holy commandments, His Holy Word: Man must not add his own ideas or thoughts to God's Word nor the ideas and thoughts of other people. (ED: THIS IS A WARNING TO ALL WHO PREACH AND TEACH - DO NOT USE THE WORD TO PROMOTE YOUR PERSONAL AGENDA AS I SAW ONE PASTOR DO WITH Pr 29:18+ STATING HE HAD A "VISION" FOR THE CHURCH WHILE TOTALLY IGNORING THE TRUE MEANING OF THE TEXT. WHAT WAS THE RESULT? THE CHURCH SPLIT ABOUT ONE YEAR LATER!) Man must not take away from God's Word, must not omit any statement or requirement. (Preacher's Outline & Sermon Bible – Deuteronomy) Christopher Wright on the maintenance of the integrity of God's Word - It was not to be treated like a menu from which one could select what suited one’s taste, nor as a mere foundation for personal inventiveness. God’s word must be taken whole in its overall meaning and thrust. It is not to be trifled or tampered with. Such a concern certainly underlies the canonical principle. (UCBS Deuteronomy) Precise divine instructions call for precise human obedience. Ultimately of course "precise human obedience" is only possible by dependence on the Holy Spirit of God, for the most part external to God's saints in the Old Testament and of course internal, indwelling all God's saints in the New Testament. Grant - There is always the danger of adding to or taking away from the Word of God. This practice is first found when the serpent spoke to Eve in the Garden of Eden. His opening words took away from the Word of God. The Lord had said, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it" (Gen 2:16-17). The serpent, however, stated, "Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden" (Gen 3:1). He took away from the word of God by omitting, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat", and the warning that the Lord had given—"for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die". He also added to it, for the Lord did not say, "Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden". (Ge 3:1+) The purpose on that occasion was to make the prohibition placed on Adam and Eve, which was for their good and to ensure their blessing, appear to be designed to limit them and deny them the enjoyment of Eden. Rather than enjoying the God of bountiful provision he sought to present Him as the God of limitations whose wish was to suppress the "potential" that is in man. Let all beware when he whispers into the ears, "Yea, hath God said", for his purpose today has not changed. (What the Bible Teaches)
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Spurgeon adds that "This is the main burden of the apostle's pleading with Timothy, "Hold fast." We have equal need of the same exhortation, for this is an evil day, and thousands hold everything or nothing as the winds of opinion may change." One of the best ways for saints today to hold fast God's word is to hide it in our hearts, memorizing (See Memorizing His Word) and meditating (See Meditating on His Word) upon it (Ps 119:9, 10, 11+). Hold fast to God's sound words and they will hold you sound and fast! Held fast (01695)(dabeq from dabaq = to cling) is an adjective indicating clinging to, holding fast to, remaining in close contact by being faithful and steadfast. Dabeq is used only 3x in the OT - Dt 4:4, 2 Chr 3:12, Pr 18:24. In Deut. 4:4 the picture is of one who remained faithful to Jehovah when others were drawn away by the lusts of the flesh. The Septuagint uses the verb proskeimai in the present tense (calling for continual action) which means maintaining allegiance to and adhering to God and His Word of truth. 2 Chronicles 3:12 The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched (Lxx = hapto = to make close contact, as by touching or taking hold of) the wall of the house; and its other wing of five cubits was attached to the wing of the first cherub. ESV 2 Chronicles 3:12 and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub. Proverbs 18:24 A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Literally - "There is one who loves that clings more than a brother" Amplified (2015) The man of too many friends [chosen indiscriminately] will be broken in pieces and come to ruin, But there is a [true, loving] friend who [is reliable and] sticks closer than a brother. How can a friend stick closer than a brother? Dabeq is derived from the more frequently used verb dabaq (1692) which means to stick to, adhere to, cling to, join with, stay with, stay in close proximity to and which yields the noun form for "glue". Dabaq describes cleaving to one’s wife (Gen. 2:24), Ruth clinging to Naomi (Ruth 1:14+). Dabaq describes something that sticks or clings to something else (Ezek 29:4 and Ezekiel’s tongue to roof of his mouth Ezek. 3:26). Dabaq describes an attitude of loyalty or commitment. It is used in parallel with “love” in Ge 34:3; (in Solomon's sad saga in) 1 Ki. 11:2; Pr 18:24. Here are the uses of dabaq in Deuteronomy, some in a context similar to the present passage (clinging to God) and some with negative implications (Cling to Him and be blessed or disobey Him and He will make pestilence and disease cling to them). Deuteronomy 10:20; “You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and you shall swear by His name. Deuteronomy 11:22 “For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him, Dt 11:23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Deuteronomy 13:4 “You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. Deuteronomy 13:17 “Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand (as it did with Achan - Josh 7:20, 21-26), in order that the LORD may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers, Deuteronomy 28:21 “The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it. Deuteronomy 28:60 “He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. Deuteronomy 30:20 by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” Facts of the Matter - Newell Hillis - Devotional from February 7: Clinging To The Lord Your God " You are to cling to the Lord your God." – These were Joshua's parting words to wayward Israel, just before his death. ( Joshua 23:8) CLING: " To hold fast to something, as by grasping, sticking, embracing, or winding around". As a wet raincoat would CLING to your back.As a person on the verge of death would CLING to life. "To remain attached in thought or practice". " To follow close after, pursue hard; to resist separation". Jesus put it this way: " If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps, he must give up all right to himself… and keep close behind me." (Luke 9:23a+ – Phillips) CLINGING conveys the sense of desperation: That there is no other viable option. QUESTION: ARE YOU CLINGING TO CHRIST? Or to: Your bank account? Your reputation? Your capabilities? SELF SUFFICIENCY is the arrogant assumption that I can go it alone… without God. CLINGING is the humble acknowledgment that I must be intimately connected to God for life to make sense and to be worth living. In Joshua's admonition to CLING to God he gives this warning: " If you ever go back and CLING to the rest of these nations (i.e. the world and its values)… (they) shall be to you as: A snare and a trap… A whip on your sides… Thorns in your eyes… until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you." (Joshua 23:12) QUESTIONS: Are you CLINGING to Christ? Or do you have it so together that you can go it alone? If so, are you willing to pay the price of independence? Deuteronomy 4:5 "See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. Dt 4:1 Pr 22:19,20 Mt 28:20 Ac 20:27 1Co 11:28 15:3 1Th 4:1,2 Heb 3:5 Deuteronomy 4 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries MOSES AGAIN EMPHASIZES DOERS WILL BE BLESSED See - This is a command to get the hearer's (reader's) attention. Moses had taught and now the people were to obey. I have taught (instructed) (03925)(lamad) means to give information which calls for a proper response with regular action, implying acceptance of, or submission to the information taught. The Lxx translates lamad with an interesting verb deiknuo which means to make known the character or significance of something by visual, auditory, gestural, or linguistic means and can have the nuance of to teach something to someone (as in Acts 10:28+ Peter says "God has shown me".) Statutes and judgments - This combination occurs 4 times in this chapter (Dt 4:1, 5, 8, 14), so clearly God wants to impress upon His people the importance of His Word of truth and life. And don't miss the fact that what Moses taught was the pure Word of God, a good pattern for all God's teachers to imitate. Are you a teacher of the Word? Are you studying the pure milk of the Word or are you studying books by men about the Word? There is a huge difference! Taught..do - Once again Moses emphasizes that it is the doer of the law who will be blessed not those who just hear (James 1:22-24-note). James affirms this axiomatic truth... But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. (James 1:25-note) Just as the LORD my God commanded me - Moses obeyed God's command to teach. Moses asserts that he is teaching with divine authority. All of God's teachers should do no less! That you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. - The land was promised to Abram in a covenant but God's promises still need to be possessed. And they are possessed by faith and obedience -- trust and obey for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus than to trust and obey. The unconditional covenant did not negate Israel's personal responsibility. As Alexander Maclaren said "Faith is the hand that grasps. It is the means of communication, it is the channel through which the grace which is the life, or, rather, I should say, the life which is the grace, comes to us. It is the open door by which the angel of God comes in with his gifts. It is like the petals of the flowers, opening when the sunshine kisses them, and, by opening, laying bare the depths of their calyxes to be illuminated and coloured, and made to grow by the sunshine which itself has opened them, and without the presence of which, within the cup, there would have been neither life nor beauty. So faith is the basis of everything; the first shoot from which all the others ascend. (Read full sermon on 1Thessalonians 1:3) On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given (past tense - not will give but have given = it is that sure and certain!) this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”(Ge 15:18-21-note) Entering to possess it - Possession of the promises is a key truth in Deuteronomy 4 - Dt 4:1, 5, 14, 22, 26, 47 Too many Christians use the “dip and skip” method of Christian living. -- Maxwell John Maxwell - Forty-two times in the Bible we read that the blessings of God are contingent on our obedience. One of the many examples is Psalm 25:10. “All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, / To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.” Too many Christians use the “dip and skip” method of Christian living. They dip into His promises and skip His commands. This type of living did not please God in the day of Moses and it does not please Him now.. (Preacher's Commentary) REPETITION OF TIMELESS PRINCIPLE IN Dt 4:1 – GOD’S WORD – OBEDIENCE – POSSESSION of the Promises.
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Spurgeon - The Lord God who is to be served by us, even as our covenant God, is a “consuming fire.” In love He is severely holy, sternly just. We hear people say, “God out of Christ is a consuming fire,” but that is an unwarrantable alteration of the text. The text is “Our God”—that is, God in Christ—“is a consuming fire.” “Our God” means God in covenant with us; it means our Father God, our God to whom we are reconciled. He, even our God, is still a “consuming fire.” Under the New Testament, God is not an atom less severe than under the old; and under the covenant of grace the Lord is not a particle less righteous than under the law. We are so saved by mercy that no sin goes unpunished: the law is as much honored under the gospel as under the law. The substitution of Jesus as much displays the wrath of God against sin as even the flames of hell would do. While the Lord is merciful, infinitely so, and His name is love, yet still our God is a consuming fire, and sin shall not live in His sight. Adore and tremble, for our God Is a consuming fire! His jealous eyes His wrath inflame, And raise His vengeance higher. -- Isaac Watts One's interpretation of "consuming fire" depends on how one views God. If one sees Him with spiritual eyes of a blood bought, heaven bound believer this person will experience awe and reverence and there will be times when he (or she) is overwhelmed with God's majesty as our souls are engaged by the supremacy of God. If you are not a believer first note that you WILL ALSO SEE God, not with spiritual eyes, but with physical eyes (cp Rev 1:7-note, Rev 20:11-15-note) and secondly you will be consumed by His righteous wrath. That does not mean you will be annihilated, which is wishful thinking by godless sinners! Paul gives us a preview of "coming attractions" For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, (2 Thes 1:6-9) Comment: The Consuming Fire will consign unbelievers away from His presence and in lake of fire where they will be tormented forever and ever but never actually consumed. This is a horrible thought to me, one I even have trouble writing, but it is the truth of every unbeliever who every lived. This immutable truth should serve to stir our hearts with a Spirit enabled power which so that we desire to speak the Gospel boldly as we ought to do (cp Eph 6:19-20-note) with our lost relatives, neighbors, friends and co-workers...while today is still called today! Jon Courson - For we who know Him, the fact that our God is a consuming fire should be anything but frightening, for anything fire touches soon becomes fire, too. Aren't you kind of sick of yourself? I'm so tired of me. Consequently, I find myself praying, "Consume me, Lord. Set me free from my fleshly inclinations. Make me burn bright and pure, holy and hot for You." Spurgeon - He who prays without fervency does not pray at all. We cannot commune with God, who is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29), if there is no fire in our prayers. What does it mean that God is a consuming fire? | GotQuestions.org Why is God a jealous God? | GotQuestions.org F B
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Spurgeon - A Jealous God Sermon by H Raikes - The Jealousy of God Sermon by R.M. Edgar The Divine Jealousy of Graven Images Spurgeon - A JEALOUS GOD - That is a very wonderful and suggestive expression—"a jealous God." See that it be engraven on your hearts. Jesus will not endure it that those of us who love Him should divide our hearts between Him and something else. The love which is strong as death is linked with a jealousy cruel as the grave, "the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." The royal word to the spouse is, "Forget also thine own people and thy father's house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him." Of course, beloved, the Master never condemns that proper natural affection which we are bound to give, and which it is a part of our sanctification to give in its due and proper proportion to those who are related to us. Besides, we are bound to love all the saints, and all mankind in their proper place and measure. But there is a love which is for the Master alone. Inside the heart there must be a sanctum sanctorum, within the veil, where He Himself alone must shine like the Shekinah, and reign on the mercy-seat. There must be a glorious high throne within our spirits, where the true Solomon alone must sit; the lions of watchful zeal must guard each step of it. There must He, the King in His beauty, sit enthroned, sole monarch of the heart's affection. (Flashes of Thought) NIV Study Bible note on jealous God - God will not put up with rivalry or unfaithfulness. Usually His "jealousy" concerns Israel and assumes the covenant relationship (analogous to marriage - {Ed: cp Isa 54:5, Jer 31:32-note}) and the Lord's exclusive right to possess Israel and to claim her love and allegiance. Actually, jealousy is part of the vocabulary of love. The "jealousy" of God (1) demands exclusive devotion to Himself (see Ex 34:14; Dt 4:24; 32:16,21; Jos 24:19; Ps 78:58; 1Co 10:22; Jas 4:5 and NIV text note), (2) delivers to judgment all who oppose him (see Dt 29:20; 1Ki 14:22; Ps 79:5; Isa 42:13; 59:17; Eze 5:13; 16:38; 23:25; 36:5-6; Na 1:2; Zep 1:18; 3:8) and (3) vindicates his people (see 2Ki 19:31; Isa 9:7; 26:11; Eze 39:25; Joel 2:18 and note; Zec 1:14 and note; Zech 8:2). In some of these passages the meaning is closer to "zeal" (the same Hebrew word may be translated either way, depending on context). Matthew