"And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel" (I Chronicles 21:1).

"And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not"(Numbers 11:23).

It is very easy in our human nature to "look on things after the outward appearance" (II Corinthians 10:7).

"I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you" (John 8:37).

The Bible graphically describes the person who gives no place to the word of God in his life. The spiritual condition of such a person is revealed as follows:

"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (II Corinthians 3:18).

“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (I John 2:1).