There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.
An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.
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.
Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.
Training leaders is part of the work of discipling.
The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.