What God Says Is Yours, Is Yours!

Scripture: Deuteronomy 19:14

"You shall not move your neighbor's boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

Commentary:
The laws which Moses had hitherto been repeating and urging mostly concerned the acts of religion and devotion towards God; but here he comes more fully to press the duties of righteousness between man and man. This chapter relates, I. To the sixth commandment, "Thou shalt not kill’’ (v. 1–13). II. To the eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal’’ (v. 14). III. To the ninth commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness,’’ (v. 15, etc.) (Henry, 1996).

Here is a statute for the preventing of frauds and perjuries; for the divine law takes care of men’s rights and properties, and has made a hedge about them. Such a friend is it to human society and men’s civil interest.

I. A law against frauds, v. 14. 1. Here is an implicit direction given to the first planters of Canaan to fix land-marks, according to the distribution of the land to the several tribes and families by lot. Note, It is the will of God that every one should know his own, and that all good means should be used to prevent encroachments and the doing and suffering of wrong. When right is settled, care must be taken that it be not afterwards unsettled, and that, if possible, no occasion of dispute may arise.

2. An express law to posterity not to remove those land-marks which were thus fixed at first, by which a man secretly got that to himself which was his neighbour’s. This, without doubt, is a moral precept, and still binding, and to us it forbids,

(1.) The invading of any man’s right, and taking to ourselves that which is not our own, by any fraudulent arts or practices, as by forging, concealing, destroying, or altering deeds and writings (which are our land-marks, to which appeals are made), or by shifting hedges, meer-stones, and boundaries. Though the land-marks were set by the hand of man, yet he was a thief and a robber by the law of God that removed them. Let every man be content with his own lot, and just to his neighbours, and then we shall have no land-marks removed.

(2.) It forbids the sowing of discord among neighbours, and doing any thing to occasion strife and law-suits, which is done (and it is very ill done) by confounding those things which should determine disputes and decide controversies.

 And, (3.) It forbids breaking in upon the settled order and constitution of civil government, and the altering of ancient usages without just cause. This law supports the honour of prescriptions. Consuetudo facit jus—Custom is to be held as law.

Reflection:
As children of God we have certain rights that have been given to us because of the promises that God has made to us in His word. We are the rightful heirs to the promises of God through the faith of Abraham. The promises of God have already been ear-marked for his children, and no one can take what is rightfully ours. No one can claim hold to what God has given us, unless we forfeit the promise through disobedience. The contract that God has set in writing is for our protection, and sets a boundary in place; that says what can, and what cannot take place in our lives. We are linked to our Father, through a boundary line that He has set in place. No one can come past the boundary line that God has instituted to protect us; bless us, and to keep us from harm. Be encouraged to know that the boundary in which God has set up, can never be crossed; and that what God says is yours, is yours!

Strong's Concordance Definitions:
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove: 5253
1) to move away, backslide, move, go, turn back

a) (Qal) to backslide, prove recreant to
b) (Hiphil)
1) to displace, move back
2) to remove, carry away
d) (Hophal) to be driven back, be moved back

Thy Neighbor's: 7453
1) friend, companion, fellow, another person

a) friend, intimate
b) fellow, fellow-citizen, another person (weaker sense)
c) other, another (reciprocal phrase)

Landmark: 1366
1) border, territory

a) border
b) territory (enclosed within boundary)
c) region, territory (of darkness) (fig.)

Which they of old time: 7223
1) first, primary, former

a) former (of time)
1) ancestors
2) former things
b) foremost (of location)
c) first (in time)
d) first, chief (in degree)
adv
2) first, before, formerly, at first

Have set: 1379
1) to bound, border

a) (Qal) to bound, border
b) (Hiphil) to set bounds, set bounds for

In thine inheritance: 5159
1) possession, property, inheritance, heritage

a) property
b) portion, share
c) inheritance, portion

which though shalt inherit: 5157
1) to get as a possession, acquire, inherit, possess

a) (Qal)
1) to take possession, inherit
2) to have or get as a possession or property (fig.)
3) to divide the land for a possession
4) to acquire (testimonies) (fig.)
b) (Piel) to divide for a possession
c) (Hithpael) to possess oneself of
d) (Hiphil)
1) to give as a possession
2) to cause to inherit, give as an inheritance
e) (Hophal) to be allotted, be made to possess

Giveth thee: 5414
1) to give, put, set

a) (Qal)
1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
3) to make, constitute
b) (Niphal)
1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
c) (Hophal)
1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
2) to be put upon

thee to possess: 3423
1) to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir

a) (Qal)
1) to take possession of
2) to inherit
3) to impoverish, come to poverty, be poor
b) (Niphal) to be dispossessed, be impoverished, come to poverty
c) (Piel) to devour
d) (Hiphil)
1) to cause to possess or inherit
2) to cause others to possess or inherit
3) to impoverish
4) to dispossess
5) to destroy, bring to ruin, disinherit

References:
Blue Letter Bible. "Book of Deuteronomy 19 - (NASB - New American Standard Bible)." Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2010. 13 Mar 2010. http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Deu&c=19&t=NASB

Henry, Matthew. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 19." . Blue Letter Bible. 1 Mar 1996. 2010. 13 Mar 2010.
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Higgins, S. (2010). What God Says Is Yours Is Yours - (RP). Devotions for Thought. Http://www.devotionsforthought.blogspot.com, Http://www.higginspublishing.com