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

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

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.

Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.

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

Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.