_Them that love Him and keep His commandments._ LOVE GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS The love of God, according to the Scripture notion of it, is a duty easy to be comprehended. And the text before us, which attaches so great a reward to this grace, does, at the same time, show us what it means in s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt consume all the people._ THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CANAANITES I. The destruction of the Canaanites was in conformity with the ordinary procedure of God in the moral government of the world. If He choose, in punishing sinners, to visit at one time with a flood of waters, at another with fi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh._ ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE CHRISTIAN WARRIOR To a man about to journey into a strange country nothing gives more comfort or confidence than if there be put into his hand, by way of guide through it, a bo... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord thy God will send the hornet._ SECRET SINS DRIVEN OUT BY STINGING HORNETS I. Sins which are left and hidden. John Bunyan very wisely describes the town of Mansoul after it had been taken by Prince Immanuel. The Prince rode to the Castle called the Heart and took possession of it, and the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible._ COURAGE AND HUMANITY I. The complaint has been made often that the qualities which Christians are especially encouraged to cultivate are not manliness and courage; that, so far as the Christian id... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord thy God will put out those nations._ GOD’S EXPULSION OF EVIL As you read this Scripture you will instantly remember the position occupied by the Jews at the time these words of promise were spoken to them. The forty years of wilderness wandering had run their round. The narrow stream of J... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold._ THINGS NOT TO BE DESIRED Showing, as he always shows, a most penetrating mind, Moses points to a very subtle temptation which would arise in connection with the progress of Israel. The graven images of the heathen nations were to be burned with fire. Mose... [ Continue Reading ]