Josué 1
Matthew Henry · Citado em PreceptAustin
Josué 1
Henry - At this place and at this time the banks were overflowed. Joshua had no bridge or boats, and yet he must believe that God, having ordered the people over, would open a way. (Play God Will Make A Way) God will make a way Where there seems to be no way He works in ways we cannot see He will make a way for me He will be my guide Hold me closely to His side With love and strength for each new day He will make a way, He will make a way THOUGHT - What "overflowing Jordan" has God allowed in your life and yet He has clearly charged you to cross over? God's commandments (arise and cross are both commands) always include His enablements! Beloved, trust and obey and He will make the way! You and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel - God's charge was not only to His new commander Joshua but was also to all this people (see similar description "this people" in Josh 1:6), emphasizing God's covenant love was to be experience by every soul in the nation. God reiterates His covenant promises made to the Patriarchs, to give the land to Israel. Critics of passages like this forget one key truth - God owns the earth. Jesus created it (Col 1:16, Heb 1:2). Jesus sustains it (Col 1:17, Heb 1:3). Therefore God can do whatever is his good and acceptable and perfect will with that which belongs to Him. He is always good, always righteous and always just, so no created being has the right (and should not have the audacity) to criticize what He does with His land! If you question God's actions, then you do well to recall the words of David in the inspired Word... The earth is the LORD’S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. -- Psalm 24:1 Genesis 15:13+ God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. 14 “But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15 “As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 “Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.” 17 It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite 20 and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim 21 and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.” Related Resource: Why did God command the extermination / genocide of the Canaanites, women and children included? The writer of Chronicles makes it clear that Yahweh's gift was (1) an unbreakable, grace-based, covenant promise, (2) which was everlasting, and (3) finally was given specifically to the nation of Israel (contrast the aberrational teaching in many churches today of replacement theology / supersessionism)! Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations, 16 The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac. 17 He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, 18 Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, As the portion of your inheritance.” (1Chr 16:15-18) Utley on the land God was giving Israel - In the OT and in Assyrian documents it is called “the land flowing with milk and honey” because of its fertility. J
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Henry - If we willingly banish holy meditations in our solitary hours, Satan will soon occupy our minds with sinful imaginations Madvig notes that Meditation "does not mean theoretical speculation about the law, such as the Pharisees indulged in, but a practical study of the law, for the purpose of observing it in thought and action, or carrying it out with the heart, the mouth, and the hand. Such a mode of employing it would be sure to be followed by blessings. Marston writes of the Book of the Law "was to be the subject of his diligent study, his mind must dwell upon its provisions. He must see in it, not simply the production of the great mind of Moses, but the inspired code which Jehovah, the King of Israel, had given for the government of His people. For himself, in all his private life and public duties; for the people, in all that might concern their individual and social welfare, here was the rule, the standard, the directory. Joshua, therefore, was to meditate day and night on the revealed will of God; that his heart being full of it, his life might proclaim it, and out of the abundance of his heart his mouth might speak. So with ourselves. No one can truly value the Word of God who does not study it and meditate upon it; none can be prepared to defend it who have not experienced its preciousness. If we would really be courageous as regards the Bible, and its teachings and requirements, we must have learned how all-sufficient it is under the operations of the Holy Spirit to direct and animate the soul. (Marston)