The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to the character and supernatural power of the God of heaven. Closeness to Him produces changes in character and holiness.

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims.

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

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

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's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves.