40<\/strong>. thou shalt keep his statutes and his commandments<\/em> ] Return to the keynote in Deu 4:1<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n prolong thy days<\/em> ] See on Deu 4:26<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n Deu 4:40<\/span><\/p>\n Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes, and His commandments, . . . that it may go well with thee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A command and a promise<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Israels relation to God.<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> In contrast with Gentile beliefs–polytheistic–each nation its own God; mostly debased forms of human passion.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> Jehovah proclaims Himself only <\/em>God, others His subjects (Jer 10:7<\/span>; Psa 22:28<\/span>); but they, His one <\/em>people (chap. 32:9).<\/p>\n (3)<\/strong> Moses bids them realise that they are <\/em>the prerogative nation of the world (Exo 19:6<\/span>).<\/p>\n (a) <\/strong>By His presence among them.<\/p>\n (b) <\/strong>By keeping commandments.<\/p>\n (c) <\/strong>Of this, love of God must be the root.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The grounds of this relation.<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> Not thy righteousness.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> Love for thy fathers.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>A full life–long share of temporal blessings.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Then partly realised by–<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> Rescue from Egypt (Deu 4:20<\/span>); and<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> Then their recent first victory, taking possession of the land (Num 21:33-35<\/span>).<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>But partly in store.<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> Jordan to be crossed, and<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> Canaan won.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Thus, in spite of their dastardly unworthiness, promise ripened to performance. (H. Hayman, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Penalty of disregarding commands<\/strong><\/p>\n On the bridge of a good steamer was the captain giving the right course, N-by-W. 67. He bad taken account of eddies and currents. The second officer, leaving, perhaps, the currents out of consideration, came and directed the helmsman to make it N-by-W. 57, but to bring the ship round so gently that the captain would not notice it. The result was a disastrous wreck. If we refuse to hearken to Gods voice, and we disobey His commands, our lives will be wrecked, and all our hopes of happiness shattered.<\/p>\n Obedience indispensable<\/strong><\/p>\n Suppose I have a son, say ten years old, and I want him to go to school until he is fifteen or twenty years, but he has just set his will against mine. He says, I refuse to go to school for another day. I tell you that that child will be unable to do one thing to please me until he goes to school. He may make all the sacrifices he may have a mind to, he may go out and earn two or three shillings a day, and bring every penny to me; but I do not want his money, I want his obedience. What God wants is obedience. (D. L. Moody.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Obedience to God is conducive to our welfare<\/strong><\/p>\n Another peculiar excellency of our religion is, that it prescribes an accurate rule of life,–most agreeable to reason and to our nature; most conducive to our welfare and content, tending to procure each mans private good, and to promote the public benefit of all, by the strict observance whereof we bring our human nature to a resemblance of the Divine; and we shall also thereby obtain Gods favour, oblige and benefit men, and procure to ourselves the conveniences of a sober life and the pleasure of a good conscience. For if we examine the precepts which respect our duty to God, what can be more just, pleasant, or beneficial to us than are those duties of piety which our religion enjoins? What is more fit and reasonable than that we should most highly esteem and honour Him who is most excellent; that we should bear the sincerest affection for Him who is perfect goodness Himself, and most beneficial to us; that we should have the most awful dread of Him that is infinitely powerful, holy, and just; that we should be very grateful to Him from whom we received our being, with all the comforts and conveniences of it; that we should entirely trust and hope in Him who can and will do whatever we may in reason expect from His goodness–nor can He ever fail to perform His promises; that we should render all due obedience to Him whose children, servants, and subjects we are? The practice of such a piety, of a service so reasonable, cannot but be of vast advantage to us, as it procures peace of conscience, a comfortable hope, a freedom from all terrors and scruples of mind, from all tormenting cares and anxieties. (I. Barrow.<\/em>)<\/p>\n Thou shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments<\/strong>,…. All his laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, partly being under obligation to him for all the great and good things done by him for them before enumerated, and partly and chiefly because he is the Lord God in heaven and in earth, and has a right to command and ought to be obeyed:<\/p>\n which I command thee this day<\/strong>; in the name of the Lord, and which he repeated, opened, and explained, and charged them afresh to observe; otherwise they were such that had been given long ago:<\/p>\n that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee<\/strong>; that they and theirs might enjoy temporal mercies, and continue in the land of Canaan, and partake of all the blessings in it, as follows, and of the sanctuary of the Lord, and the privileges of it:<\/p>\n and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for ever<\/strong>; that is, that they and theirs might live long in the land of Canaan, which the Lord gave for an inheritance for ever, provided they kept his law, and were obedient to his commands; see De 6:25<\/span>, and though they have had several interruptions by their captivities, and especially by their present very long one, yet when they shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, they shall have their land restored to them again, and shall never more be dispossessed of it.<\/p>\n for ever = all the days: i.e. for all time. <\/p>\n keep: Deu 4:1, Deu 4:6, Deu 28:1-14, Lev 22:31, Lev 26:1-13, Jer 11:4, Joh 14:15, Joh 14:21-24 <\/p>\n it may go: Deu 5:16, Deu 6:3, Deu 6:18, Deu 12:25, Deu 12:28, Deu 22:7, Eph 6:3, 1Ti 4:8 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Exo 20:12 – that thy Exo 34:11 – Observe Lev 18:26 – keep Deu 1:18 – General Deu 2:29 – into the land Deu 5:29 – that it might Deu 5:33 – well Deu 6:2 – thy days Deu 11:1 – his statutes Deu 11:9 – prolong Deu 11:21 – your days Deu 25:15 – that thy days Deu 30:20 – thou mayest Rth 3:1 – may be 2Ch 7:17 – observe 2Ch 33:8 – to do all Psa 105:45 – That Isa 65:20 – There shall Jer 7:7 – in the land Jer 22:15 – then<\/p>\n 4:40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may {b} go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.<\/p>\n (b) God promises reward not for our merits, but to encourage us, and to assure us that our labour will not be lost.<\/p>\n Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, forever. 40. thou shalt keep his statutes and his commandments … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 4:40”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>Moses enjoins an obligation, which is really the highest privilege.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Moses holds out a promise. Each Israelite had–<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"