God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.
Max AndersGod 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.
Max AndersBelievers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.
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