The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark.
The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.
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.
Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.
Distance is no barrier to the love of God.
Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.