Josué 23
G. Campbell Morgan · Citado em PreceptAustin
Josué 23
Morgan - Jos. 23:11 As the time of Joshua's passing approached, he twice gathered the people together, and delivered farewell messages to them. The first of these is contained in this chapter. Its burden is that of the power and faithfulness of God, and the consequent earnest desire of the great leader for the faithfulness of the people to Him. The references which Joshua made to himself were very few and brief; the principal ones being: "I am old and well stricken in years," "I am going the way of all the earth." Only incidentally did he refer to his own work. After having declared that Jehovah had brought them in, he said: "I have allotted unto you these nations that remain." His references to Jehovah were constant: "Jehovah your God bath done"; "Jehovah your God, He it is that fought for you," and so on. Earnestly and urgently he charged them to be "courageous to keep and to do" the law, to "cleave unto Jehovah"; closing with the most solemn warning as to what would happen to them if they departed from their allegiance. Of all the wonderful address, the words we have chosen constituted the supreme note. Everything else is assured if men love Jehovah. Failure to keep the law is always the outcome of failure in love to the Law-giver. For such failure in love, men are responsible. In order that love may be maintained, they need to take heed to themselves. That is the meaning of the charge of Jude: "Keep yourselves in the love of God." To cease to discipline the life, is to cool in devotion. The Puritans: Daily Readings - Our Duty to Love Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God. Joshua 23:11 It is your duty to love Christ. If it be your duty to have a natural affection unto parents and children, it is much more your duty to have spiritual affections unto Christ: if it be your duty to have conjugal affection unto your earthly husband and wife, it is a greater duty to have conjugal love unto this your heavenly Husband: if it be your duty to love brethren, sisters, and kindred, that love you, it is a greater duty to love Jesus Christ, who loves you above all relations: if it be your duty to love your enemies, it is much more your duty to love Christ, who is your best friend. It is the will of your heavenly Father that you should love Christ: the devil would have you hate Him, but God would have you love Him; and whether it be most reason that you should obey the will of God or the will of the devil, judge. It is the will of Christ that you should love Him; the will of the flesh is against this love, but whose will ought you to comply with; you are not debtors to the flesh, that you should obey its command, neither are you debtors to any creatures, to give them your choicest affections, but you are debtors unto Christ, to give Him your chief love; Christ has most right to your love, and will you not give to Christ His due? if you are bound to give men their due, are you not much more bound to give unto Christ His due?…Had you thousands of rams, and ten thousand rivers of oil to offer to Him: had you all the treasures of the earth at your dispose, and should lay it down all at His feet, it would be all slighted and disregarded by Him, if you give away your hearts from Him. (Randall Pederson) A. J. Gordon - Take good heed therefore unto your souls Josh. 23:11 (Margin) Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is mixed with the quartz and rock in which it lies imbedded. So your soul is useless to God till taken out from sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you must be separated unto Christ, stamped with His image and superscription, and made into a divine currency, which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian is, so to speak, the circulating medium of Christ, the coin of the realm by whom the great transactions of mercy and grace to a lost world are carried on. As the currency stands for the gold, so does the Christian stand for Christ, representing His good and acceptable will. F B
Josué 23
Morgan - My All in All Not one of all the LORD's good promises to the house of Israel failed. -- Joshua 21:45 (NIV) The LORD is faithful to all his promises.. -- Psalm 145:13 (NIV) The faithfulness of God is that aspect of His character that results in His complete adherence to fulfilling His Word and keeping His promises. He is unalterably reliable to do exactly as He has said. Because He is trustworthy, we can trust and not worry. God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?. -- Numbers 23:19 You know with all your heart and all your soul that none of the good promises the Lord your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.. -- Joshua 23:14 Not one of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses has failed.. -- 1 Kings 8:56 Lord, You have treated Your servant well, just as You promised.... May Your faithful love comfort me, as You promised Your servant.... Sustain me as You promised.... Defend my cause, and redeem me; give me life, as You promised.. -- Psalm 119:65, 76, 116, 154 Splendid to be so near the gates of heaven! I am lost in amazement! There has not failed one word of all His good promises! —Frances Ridley Havergal on her deathbed Joshua 23:15 "It shall come about that just as all the good words which the LORD your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. shall: Lev 26:14-46 Dt 28:15-68 Jdg 3:8,12 4:1,2 6:1 10:6,7 13:1 2Ch 36:16,17 Lu 21:22-24 1Th 2:16 Related Passages: 2 Kings 24:20 For through the anger of the LORD this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. Judges 2:6+ (NOTE THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL WITHIN ONLY ONE GENERATION AFTER JOSHUA DIED) When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land. 7The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD which He had done for Israel. 8 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of one hundred and ten. 9 And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. 10 All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel (THIS GENERATION DID NOT KNOW YAHWEH, NOR YAHWEH'S PAST WORK AND FORGOT HIS WARNINGS). 11 Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals, WORDS OF WARNING ALSO WILL NOT FAIL The good news in Joshua 23:14 is now followed by the "bad news!" Neither good news or bad news from God will fail! This is Joshua's second warning in this section. It shall come about that just as all the good words which the LORD your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the threats - While most of God's promises are encouraging, the warning promises are not, but they are still profitable for hey are calculated to awaken a sense of reality. In this context, the point is that if God kept all His good promises, He will surely keep all of the warning promises! The threats had been clearly enunciated to the first generation (e.g., Lev 26:14-46, see summary of "blessing and cursings") and then repeated to the second generation (Dt 28:15-68), the very ones being addressed now by Joshua.