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Sword & Trowel 2016: Issue 2


VERSE 9: ‘And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand...for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers’ – that is Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, who stood by faith in evangelical relation- ship with God.


VERSE 10: ‘If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes’, that is to preserve and observe them, but as a fruit of evangelical conversion and transfor- mation, for this is the sense of the next sentiment – ‘If thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.’


What a contrast this is. The key


words ring out, ‘Turn! Heart! Soul!’ This is pure Gospel, pure grace.


VERSE 11: And now read a crowning appeal by Moses, quoted by Paul in Romans 10, who virtually calls it the preaching of Christ: ‘For this com- mandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.’ It is not hidden or kept from you, nor is it difficult, says Moses. He implies he had preached it for years. It is not something only the learned or the priests or the doc- tors of the law can understand. It is not something that belongs to far off sages, that you have to travel far to the East to find. It is not far from you, for it is right here in this cov- enant of grace.


VERSE 12: ‘It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it [down] unto us?’ Over 1,400 years later Paul


would apply this more distinctly, but at the very least they were evidently taught that you did not have to ask the priests to obtain it for you, be- cause you could secure it for yourself by personal repentance and faith. ‘Ac- cess to the blessings of the covenant of grace is very near to you.’


VERSE 14: ‘The word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.’ In this so-distinctively evangelical appeal to the people Moses is saying, ‘What I describe to you is not the demands of the law, precious and important as they are, and conscientious as we must be to obey them. We cannot by works be accepted by God. What he calls us to “perform” is only the utterance of a word from the mouth, that is a prayer from the heart. It is a prayer for pardon and life from a believing heart, nothing more or less.’ This covenant is entered by simply addressing the Lord in faith that the coming Messiah will take away sin.


VERSE 15: Here is the great appeal to souls made by Moses, warning the





A new German edition of God’s Rules for Holiness by Dr Masters is being published by Missionswerk Voice of Hope. (Copies will also be available


from Tabernacle Bookshop.)


The ‘Evangelical Covenant’ of Moses page 23


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