God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

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.

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

Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

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