DEVARIM

Words [of Moses]

3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel [Shema, Yisroel], ye approach this day unto battle [milchamah] against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

We all know that life in the Truth is a battle.

I do not mean a battle with errors in others, but with unbelief in ourselves; by unbelief I do not mean an unbelief that we would affirm or own to, but the latent unbelief that belongs by nature to the unenlightened human brain on every subject - the passive feeling that belongs to ignorance.

We are all ignorant at the start-ignorant of everything. Knowledge comes slowly from without. It has to be "sought for" as the Scriptures represent: and when found, it won't stay unless we take means to retain it.

Human memory is weak, and soon forgets, - especially with regard to the class of things that constitute the Truth. They are all things "not seen," whether past, present or future; and some of them are things for which we have not much natural liking and therefore forgetfulness and consequent unbelief becomes very easy, unless we are on our guard.

Bro Roberts - Regarding God, and his works

18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their god's; so should ye sin against Yahweh your Elohim.

Duty is obedience to the commandments of God, and not the following of a supposed natural bias. Natural bias may be whim and darkness. The keeping of the commandments of God is the following of the light, whatever the commandments are.

He makes alive, and has a right to kill, and when he says "Kill ", it is wickedness to refrain. The slaughter of the wicked Canaanites was by the order of God, and became an act of righteousness. So with all the other so-called "difficulties". They are difficulties that vanish with a right understanding.

Law of Moses Ch 3