God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.