God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.