God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.
The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.
Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.
There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.
Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.