You Shall Not Covet (11 of 11)
Series: The Ten Commandments
Scott Maze
Exodus 20:17
Today I want to talk to you about a problem both the rich and the poor have - the problem of coveting.
Remember we have divided the Ten Commandments into two categories: The first four are commandments directly related to God Himself -
You Shall No Other gods Before Me...
You Shall Not Make Any Carved Image...
You Shall Not Take the Name of the Lord You God in Vain...
You Shall Remember the Sabbath and Keep it Holy
And the second group is the last six:
Honor Your Mother and Father
You Shall Not Murder
You Shall Not Commit Adultery
You Shall Not Steal
You Shall Not Lie
And today's focus is, You Shall Not Covet.
You can think of these two sections as the two tablets of the Ten Commandments. Tablet One has the four commandments pertaining to God Himself. And Tablet Two has the six commandments pertaining to people.
Today's Scripture
''You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's'' (Exodus 20:16).
''And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's'' (Deuteronomy 5:21).
Coveting doesn't get a lot of publicity. Does your moral vocabulary include the word covet? In the process of raising our children, do parents use this word? When I mentioned this word to my oldest son in the car this week, he asked what is coveting. Unless you are studying and memorizing the Ten Commandments, you're unlikely to think of the concept. You may not have heard of covet but you have heard of some of it's first cousins:
...Envy...
...Jealousy...
...Greed...
...Lust.
To covet is to crave, to yearn for something that belongs to another. It's not simply wanting ...
Series: The Ten Commandments
Scott Maze
Exodus 20:17
Today I want to talk to you about a problem both the rich and the poor have - the problem of coveting.
Remember we have divided the Ten Commandments into two categories: The first four are commandments directly related to God Himself -
You Shall No Other gods Before Me...
You Shall Not Make Any Carved Image...
You Shall Not Take the Name of the Lord You God in Vain...
You Shall Remember the Sabbath and Keep it Holy
And the second group is the last six:
Honor Your Mother and Father
You Shall Not Murder
You Shall Not Commit Adultery
You Shall Not Steal
You Shall Not Lie
And today's focus is, You Shall Not Covet.
You can think of these two sections as the two tablets of the Ten Commandments. Tablet One has the four commandments pertaining to God Himself. And Tablet Two has the six commandments pertaining to people.
Today's Scripture
''You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's'' (Exodus 20:16).
''And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's'' (Deuteronomy 5:21).
Coveting doesn't get a lot of publicity. Does your moral vocabulary include the word covet? In the process of raising our children, do parents use this word? When I mentioned this word to my oldest son in the car this week, he asked what is coveting. Unless you are studying and memorizing the Ten Commandments, you're unlikely to think of the concept. You may not have heard of covet but you have heard of some of it's first cousins:
...Envy...
...Jealousy...
...Greed...
...Lust.
To covet is to crave, to yearn for something that belongs to another. It's not simply wanting ...
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