3. "The Lord knoweth the righteous" with a knowledge which is over and above that of omniscience. The farmer no longer rejoices in his ignorance; and agricultural chemistry has taken rank among the established studies of the day. With self-dedication. Trust only. It is so with individuals; it is so with nations.(D. Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ. And that is all we know of the land in which we are just entering. It is so with individuals; it is so with nations.(D. Not, like Egypt, a land rainless and artificially watered. The perennial watchfulness of God. The sins you have committed, and the sentiments and feelings which they have awakened in you. Moore, M. But what proof are all such appliances against the continued drought, or the falling blight, or the wasting rains? Many can see this with regard to the wasting sickness, who find it hard to apply to the case of a tyrant's misdoing. Only he who has tasted the bitterness of sorrow for sin can taste and see how gracious the Lord is. Only remember, the day of the valley is coming; the shadow, the mist, and parting are coming; and the wise man, though not with noise and fuss, will be quietly preparing upon the hills for that. But they were known to God. Now, there is a two-fold preparedness for death which you should desire to possess. 1. And the second is a preparedness as to character, which fits or capacitates for the enjoyment of eternal blessedness.III. Because He has engaged Himself hereto. 1. If you can do without God at all, it certainly is not when you are standing on the pinnacle. Deuteronomy 32:11-12: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. The man of business is accustomed at this season to review the transactions of the preceding year, that he may ascertain the amount of his gains and losses. You ought not, indeed, to conjecture new and unusual circumstances in which it is possible that you may be placed, and to distract your thoughts from present duties, by considering what in all probability you would do, were these conjectures to be realised; for the grace, or Divine assistance, which the Christian is encouraged to ask, is grace for present need, and not present grace for future supposed necessities. Have you been led gradually to think less of the evil involved in them, and to indulge in them with diminishing repugnance? we have been fools enough to do, in one five minutes we have done that which has cost us rivers of tears to undo; in an unguarded moment we have spoken a word which we could not recall, but which we could have recalled if we should have had to bite our tongues in halves to have had it unsaid. Duncan. The man of business is accustomed at this season to review the transactions of the preceding year, that he may ascertain the amount of his gains and losses. (4)The right had His approbation. Have you been led gradually to think less of the evil involved in them, and to indulge in them with diminishing repugnance? Could we do without Him in adversity? I. The word is very suggestive to us. )The land that the Lord eateth forD. BUT THE EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE A CARED FOR PEOPLE, and, therefore a fresh ground for our devotedness and love, IS TO BE FOUND IN THE TIME WHEN THIS BLESSING OF AN ABUNDANT HARVEST HAS BEEN SENT TO US. But now comes the second distinction, and that is, a difference in the toilsomeness of their lives. First, the privilege itself, and that is of being under the eyes of God; the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it. First, in the word of perpetuity, and that is, always. So says the Christian. In the third place, we will imagine that we BLOT THE TEXT OUT ALTOGETHER. An exclusive emphasis, as it does signify that He does care of it both in the denial of others' care for it, and in His own denial of care for others. But your ignorance of futurity should urge you to seek preparedness for the events that will befall you, whatever they may be. Here are springs that shall never dry; here are fountains and streams that shall never be cut off. LOOK FORWARD TO THE YEAR WHICH HAS COMMENCED. LOOK FORWARD TO THE YEAR WHICH HAS COMMENCED. Lessons: 1. And it is added, as if that word were not enough for such dull ears as ours, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. And it becomes you as rational, as immortal, and as accountable beings, to reflect seriously on all that you have received and endured and done during the past year, that thus you may be able to correct what has been wrong, and to supply what has been wanting, in your character and conduct, so as to be better prepared for the trial which you must undergo when you leave the present scene of activity.1. It would never have been there but for the hills. )LinksDeuteronomy 11:12 NIVDeuteronomy 11:12 NLTDeuteronomy 11:12 ESVDeuteronomy 11:12 NASBDeuteronomy 11:12 KJVDeuteronomy 11:12 Bible AppsDeuteronomy 11:12 ParallelDeuteronomy 11:12 Biblia ParalelaDeuteronomy 11:12 Chinese BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 French BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 German BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 CommentariesBible Hub, (4)A holy land.2. "Very true," added Cineas, "for then we may easily regain Macedon, and make absolute conquest of Greece; and when all these are in our possession, what shall we do then. The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it. With gratitude and confidence. He cares for it — that is, He is anxious about it (Hosea 11:8). There is no man can express more affection in any thing whereof he is solicitous as to the welfare of it, than God does express towards His Church, as there is occasion for it. And it becomes you as rational, as immortal, and as accountable beings, to reflect seriously on all that you have received and endured and done during the past year, that thus you may be able to correct what has been wrong, and to supply what has been wanting, in your character and conduct, so as to be better prepared for the trial which you must undergo when you leave the present scene of activity.1. The expression of the text teaches us that the Lord takes a personal interest in us. This proposition which we are now upon, it hath both an inclusive emphasis and an exclusive. It would be a deep enigma in Providence, and contrary to all that has been hitherto known among men, if the desolating scenes which are now taking place in the East should be without some great moral — should pass away, like the dark shapes upon a storm cloud, and leave no trace behind. It is a blessed but a perilous position which God's people are called to occupy. Cherish a sincere desire and resolution to have Jehovah for your God. It has an inclusive emphasis in it, as it does signify; that God does indeed take care of His Church and land. Thus it signifies to us God's earliness, and readiness, and forwardness in His goodness towards His people, that He takes the very first season and opportunity that is afforded unto Him, for the hastening of His favours upon them. The outward blessings you have received, and the manner in which you have employed them. It occupies, as it were, a middle position between the year which has just closed, and which you cannot recall, and that portion of time of equal duration on which you have entered; and it thus invites you to look back to the one, to look forward to the other, and in connection with both to look up to that God who has brought you safely through the former, and who alone can determine the events that will befall you during the course of the latter.I. With confession of sin, and engagement to holiness. Deuteronomy 11:11-12 I. )LinksDeuteronomy 11:12 NIVDeuteronomy 11:12 NLTDeuteronomy 11:12 ESVDeuteronomy 11:12 NASBDeuteronomy 11:12 KJVDeuteronomy 11:12 Bible AppsDeuteronomy 11:12 ParallelDeuteronomy 11:12 Biblia ParalelaDeuteronomy 11:12 Chinese BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 French BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 German BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)The produce of the land was assured. How many have perished in the wilderness, buried under its golden sands, who would have lived and thriven in the hill country. However that may be, it means that the land of Egypt was watered with extraordinary labour, in order to preserve it from sterility. Or have you been prompted to increased vigilance, in avoiding everything that has a tendency to betray you into them, and increased care to keep at a distance from them, and shun even the appearance of them? But what proof are all such appliances against the continued drought, or the falling blight, or the wasting rains? I would have you use the text by the way of seeking greater blessings and richer mercies than you have ever enjoyed. It speaks to our hearts of a kind and loving oversight. Moore, M. A.I. Verse 11-12. 1 Kings 9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. There are valleys in which we catch the sound of weeping, and see the rolling mist and never the sunlight. A Fresh Start Deuteronomy 11:12 NKJV A land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year. Enter now into covenant with Him, if you have not hitherto done so; and if in past times you have chosen Him to be your God, renew your solemn engagement to Him.2. Let us proceed also, as God does with us. Thirdly, an eye of direction, a teaching eye; God has such an eye as this which He does sometimes vouchsafe His Church. But all these mercies, and the fruitfulness of the land consequent upon them, were suspended upon their … First, we may take notice of the continuance of the privilege he mentioned in the word of constancy or perpetuity. The trials you have endured, and the effect which they have had upon you.4. (1)The land, with all its interests, was precious to Him. The outward blessings you have received, and the manner in which you have employed them.2. With prayer for forgiveness and needed grace. It would be a deep enigma in Providence, and contrary to all that has been hitherto known among men, if the desolating scenes which are now taking place in the East should be without some great moral — should pass away, like the dark shapes upon a storm cloud, and leave no trace behind. And the second is a preparedness as to character, which fits or capacitates for the enjoyment of eternal blessedness.III. But we cannot allow a Divine purpose to the pestilence, and refuse a heavenly mission to the sword. LOOK FORWARD TO THE YEAR WHICH HAS COMMENCED. It would be ever fresh with endless charm. Which the Lord careth for — In a special manner, watering it immediately, as it were, by his own hand, without man’s help, and giving peculiar blessings to it, which Egypt enjoyed not. The trials you have endured, and the effect which they have had upon you.4. [But should they disobey, the peculiar conditions of the land put it in his power to scourge them, as he so often did, with drought and famine (1 Kings 17:1; Joel 1.; Haggai 1:10, 11). LOOK FORWARD TO THE YEAR WHICH HAS COMMENCED. With gratitude and confidence. Should we call that a cared for land over which the ploughshare had never passed, neither iron had entered to break up the fallow ground? I tried to discover the other day what time there was in one's life when one could best afford to be without God. He begins, and He goes on in His goodness, His eyes which He cast upon His Church and people, they never fail, but continue, and hold good still. Egypt is the land where they looked down for their supply — wateredst it with thy foot. It occupies, as it were, a middle position between the year which has just closed, and which you cannot recall, and that portion of time of equal duration on which you have entered; and it thus invites you to look back to the one, to look forward to the other, and in connection with both to look up to that God who has brought you safely through the former, and who alone can determine the events that will befall you during the course of the latter.I. But we cannot allow a Divine purpose to the pestilence, and refuse a heavenly mission to the sword. Fetch all thy supplies from Him. Daring figure to use of God, Warranted Ex. No; his "strength is to sit still." We need not climb the mountains to water their heads, for our God is as high as the hills. The spiritual privileges with which you have been favoured, and the improvement which you have made of them. (1)The land, with all its interests, was precious to Him. But we cannot allow a Divine purpose to the pestilence, and refuse a heavenly mission to the sword. Fourthly, an eye of protection and preservation and authority. But your ignorance of futurity should urge you to seek preparedness for the events that will befall you, whatever they may be. It occupies, as it were, a middle position between the year which has just closed, and which you cannot recall, and that portion of time of equal duration on which you have entered; and it thus invites you to look back to the one, to look forward to the other, and in connection with both to look up to that God who has brought you safely through the former, and who alone can determine the events that will befall you during the course of the latter.I. Ask the tortured spirit that has been deserted by its friend I Ask the child of poverty, or the daughter of sickness tossing by night and day on that uneasy bed, Couldst thou do without thy God? And that is always. It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year. With prayer for forgiveness and needed grace. He tells you that it is the day of battle with him, and that the darts fly so thick in business nowadays, that the burdens of life are so heavy in this age that without God a man in middle life is like a naked man in the midst of a thicket of briars and thorns — he cannot hope to make his way. It is our sins that grow monotonous; our graces are dew-bespangled till the end. That would be a vain attempt; and if it were practicable, it would be unwise in you to make it. 2. In the one case, there is evidence that you have been making a mock at sin, or have looked on it as a trivial thing, which ought not to awaken in you any deep distress; in the other, there is ground for the conclusion that you possess the broken and contrite spirit which God does not despise.II. Sermons How sweet and fertile the valleys were, they knew. (Homiletic Monthly. Phl 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. These marching Israelites had been told what the land was to be like in outline. Should we call that a cared for land over which the ploughshare had never passed, neither iron had entered to break up the fallow ground? With self-dedication. The laws of weather, by which the rain comes up off the sea, were unknown to him. God cared for it. The hills collect the rain for a hundred fruitful valleys. bless the Lord! Israel must come out of this into a land where they look up for their supply, up into the hills whence cometh their help — a land of hills and valleys that drinketh in the rain of heaven. Moore, M. And the second is a preparedness as to character, which fits or capacitates for the enjoyment of eternal blessedness.III. The Paperback Bible presents the Bible by the Book and is designed to be portable, readable, and truly personal with ample margins for notations. 10, 11.) When a nation turns from the Word of God it is turning from the source of spiritual food and drink. Cherish a sincere desire and resolution to have Jehovah for your God. Secondly, it is a fixed eye. You can sit in your own houses, or under your own vine, or under your own fig tree, and God Himself shall be your irrigator. "A land which the Lord thy God CARETH for," says the Jewish lawgiver. The Lord takes care of His Church as that which He receives the greatest advantage from any other besides; not in a strict sense, but in a qualified, and as He is pleased to account it. But we cannot allow a Divine purpose to the pestilence, and refuse a heavenly mission to the sword. First, here is the initial point of God's providence, taking its rise from the beginning of the year. Let your contemplation of the past prompt to an humble acknowledgment of the greatness and inexcusableness of the offences by which you have provoked the Divine displeasure, and let the anticipation of the future be accompanied with sincere resolutions of new obedience.3. Let your contemplation of the past prompt to an humble acknowledgment of the greatness and inexcusableness of the offences by which you have provoked the Divine displeasure, and let the anticipation of the future be accompanied with sincere resolutions of new obedience.3. This much I can tell of your fortune in the New Year. A land which the LORD your God cares for: the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. To stand on the hill-top is an exquisite joy. (3)A beautiful land. It would be a deep enigma in Providence, and contrary to all that has been hitherto known among men, if the desolating scenes which are now taking place in the East should be without some great moral — should pass away, like the dark shapes upon a storm cloud, and leave no trace behind. With confession of sin, and engagement to holiness. Egypt's fertility depended on God also, but less directly. First, as it serves to inform us, and to satisfy us in the truth of this point, which we have now before us, that we be persuaded of it. Still, however, there is a state of habitual preparedness for everything that may occur in his future life, which it is of the highest importance for you to possess. 16, 17). Have you been led gradually to think less of the evil involved in them, and to indulge in them with diminishing repugnance? With prayer for forgiveness and needed grace. With gratitude and confidence. 2. With confession of sin, and engagement to holiness. BUT THE EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE A CARED FOR PEOPLE, and, therefore a fresh ground for our devotedness and love, IS TO BE FOUND IN THE TIME WHEN THIS BLESSING OF AN ABUNDANT HARVEST HAS BEEN SENT TO US.III. 2. A land which the Lord thy God careth for. Ask God in His great mercy to pardon the sins of the past year, and to grant to you that assistance which will enable you to avoid these sins during the year that has commenced.4. So he threatens (vers. There is the land to live in — the land that drinketh in the rain of heaven. But here the scoffer may interject, "Why, if this be 'a land which the Lord careth for,' IS IT SUFFERED TO BE DARKENED HERE AND THERE BY THE OVERHANGING PESTILENCE, or drained of its best blood to keep down a despot's pride?" What, can His eyes be always upon us? Deuteronomy 11:12 ESV - a land that the LORD your God cares - Bible Gateway. We have long enough been fretting and murmuring in the wilderness. what could we do? Moore, M. A.I. Moore, M. A.I. )The land that the Lord eateth forD. BUT THE EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE A CARED FOR PEOPLE, and, therefore a fresh ground for our devotedness and love, IS TO BE FOUND IN THE TIME WHEN THIS BLESSING OF AN ABUNDANT HARVEST HAS BEEN SENT TO US.III. It is so with individuals; it is so with nations.(D. But your ignorance of futurity should urge you to seek preparedness for the events that will befall you, whatever they may be. Duncan. Many can see this with regard to the wasting sickness, who find it hard to apply to the case of a tyrant's misdoing. )LinksDeuteronomy 11:12 NIVDeuteronomy 11:12 NLTDeuteronomy 11:12 ESVDeuteronomy 11:12 NASBDeuteronomy 11:12 KJVDeuteronomy 11:12 Bible AppsDeuteronomy 11:12 ParallelDeuteronomy 11:12 Biblia ParalelaDeuteronomy 11:12 Chinese BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 French BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 German BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 CommentariesBible Hub, (4)The right had His approbation. It speaks to our hearts of a kind and loving oversight. (3)No wrong-doer could be uncondemned. 10 “At that time the L ord said to me, l ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and m make an ark of wood. You ought not, indeed, to conjecture new and unusual circumstances in which it is possible that you may be placed, and to distract your thoughts from present duties, by considering what in all probability you would do, were these conjectures to be realised; for the grace, or Divine assistance, which the Christian is encouraged to ask, is grace for present need, and not present grace for future supposed necessities. This alludes, possibly, to the practice amongst all eastern nations where the land is irrigated, of letting out a certain quantity of water into a trench, and then having small gutters dug in the gardens, to compel the water to run along different parts of the ground. With gratitude and confidence. LOOK BACK ON THE YEAR WHICH HAS EXPIRED. Secondly, in the words of extent, or production. It is the trial that sends us to the Lord for help. He knows what it is to fulfil the command of Paul — "I would have you without carefulness" We can take things as God gives them, without all this toil and labour. It will be a year of ups and downs, of hills and valleys. I wonder how long it took the Israelites to learn that the hills were necessary to the valleys. 2. But the godly man will neither desire this nor be content with it. As His in a way of providence, and protection, and preservation; so ours in a way of obedience, and fruitfulness, and circumspection. Men will in this way labour, and toil, and strive. A. All God's judgments, whatever the instrumentality employed, are to teach men righteousness. We must consider THE SPECIAL MERCY. He shall be your God forever and ever. Our age, distinguished as it has been by scientific advances of all kinds, has perhaps in nothing made more rapid strides than in improved methods for the cultivation of the soil. We must now turn away altogether from the allegoric, and come to this special mercy, which is the lot only of God's people. All God's judgments, whatever the instrumentality employed, are to teach men righteousness. The sins you have committed, and the sentiments and feelings which they have awakened in you. New Tablets of Stone. Is there nothing in your life you wish away? The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him. LOOK UPWARD TO GOD, IN CONNECTION BOTH WITH THE RETROSPECT OF THE PAST, AND WITH THE ANTICIPATION OF THE FUTURE.1. Verse 11-12. There was to be no monotony in their new home. Love and Obedience Rewarded. 2. I. The spiritual privileges with which you have been favoured, and the improvement which you have made of them.3. But not so the Christian. Enter now into covenant with Him, if you have not hitherto done so; and if in past times you have chosen Him to be your God, renew your solemn engagement to Him. 4. I do not mean that you should look forward to it with the design of discovering the events which will occur in your history, or the vicissitudes which you will experience during its course. But what proof are all such appliances against the continued drought, or the falling blight, or the wasting rains? Should we call that a cared for land over which the ploughshare had never passed, neither iron had entered to break up the fallow ground? The first is a preparedness as to state, which imparts a title to eternal blessedness. It is a lie to say that being good takes all the charm and colour out of life. Moore, M. A.I. 3. "But," says Moses, "the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys." Duncan.What are the reflections which are specially appropriate to "the beginning of the year"? THE RESULTS OF THIS CONTRAST TO THE INHABITANTS. With self-dedication. No; we must be taught, as Israel was taught, that fruitfulness was not so much the happy product of the soil, still less the natural requital of man's industry and skill, but an immediate effect of the Divine blessing — a consequence of the eyes of the Lord never being off the land, but ever seeking and ever caring for it to do it good.II. The spiritual privileges with which you have been favoured, and the improvement which you have made of them.3. It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of … A. The sins you have committed, and the sentiments and feelings which they have awakened in you. Denomination: Pentecostal. II. Every Home a Little Church: (Deuteronomy 6:1-9; 2 Timothy 3:14-17) The Lord Who is Faithful (Deuteronomy 7:9) Christ B.C. 19:4 "I bare you on eagles wings and brought you unto myself." But here the scoffer may interject, "Why, if this be 'a land which the Lord careth for,' IS IT SUFFERED TO BE DARKENED HERE AND THERE BY THE OVERHANGING PESTILENCE, or drained of its best blood to keep down a despot's pride?" The word is very suggestive to us. This is God's manner of dealing, not only like some misers, perhaps, to make a feast for a time, and once a year, but like a liberal and free-hearted person — that keeps open house all the year long, from the beginning of the year to the end. Do not be angry with the hills, because they shut you in. (4)The right had His approbation. Still, however, there is a state of habitual preparedness for everything that may occur in his future life, which it is of the highest importance for you to possess. 3. With prayer for forgiveness and needed grace. )LinksDeuteronomy 11:12 NIVDeuteronomy 11:12 NLTDeuteronomy 11:12 ESVDeuteronomy 11:12 NASBDeuteronomy 11:12 KJVDeuteronomy 11:12 Bible AppsDeuteronomy 11:12 ParallelDeuteronomy 11:12 Biblia ParalelaDeuteronomy 11:12 Chinese BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 French BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 German BibleDeuteronomy 11:12 CommentariesBible Hub, (1)The land, with all its interests, was precious to Him. Duncan.What are the reflections which are specially appropriate to "the beginning of the year"? Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. - J.O. (4)The right had His approbation. If life were all one dead level every pleasure would grow wearisome, the dull sameness of life would oppress us. Cherish a sincere desire and resolution to have Jehovah for your God. Enter now into covenant with Him, if you have not hitherto done so; and if in past times you have chosen Him to be your God, renew your solemn engagement to Him.2. But what proof are all such appliances against the continued drought, or the falling blight, or the wasting rains? Many can see this with regard to the wasting sickness, who find it hard to apply to the case of a tyrant's misdoing. He looks upon His land, as if He would in a manner look through it and pierce it with His eyes. With self-dedication. And it becomes you as rational, as immortal, and as accountable beings, to reflect seriously on all that you have received and endured and done during the past year, that thus you may be able to correct what has been wrong, and to supply what has been wanting, in your character and conduct, so as to be better prepared for the trial which you must undergo when you leave the present scene of activity.1. As a word of respect. We cannot tell what loss and sorrow and trial are doing. 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