THE SIN OF COVETING...AND THE JOY OF CONTENTMENT (10 OF 10)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Exodus 20:17
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Title: The Sin of Coveting...and the Joy of Contentment (10 of 10)
Series: Written in Stone
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Exodus 20:17
July 23, 2023
I ran across a story in my studies about a community college teacher. He taught basic English to people who were emigrating into the United States; people who knew English, but didn't know it as well as they would like to know it. So, he's teaching this basic English class, and he said he had an assignment for his students. And they had to, in class, write a paper, and the topic of the paper was, "What I would do if I had one million dollars." So, he gives the assignment. The students, most of them are adults all over the place from different countries. They're writing and writing and writing. They stay very quiet for about 30 minutes. And, finally, this woman from South America got up and she went to the teacher's desk. She had two pages that had lots of cross-outs and lots of calculations and things like that. She put her paper on his desk, and she said, "It's not going to work. I need a hundred thousand dollars more."
We've been in a series on the Ten Commandments, "Written in Stone." And today, we want to look at the final commandment, the tenth commandment, a different commandment than the other commandments because it's a commandment that doesn't deal with action; it deals with attitude.
Exodus chapter 20, verse 17. The LORD says, "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 belongs to your neighbor." Coveting is well discussed in the Word of God. It's really not something we necessarily think about a lot. We think about the actions, but coveting is about attitude. And coveting in the tenth commandment really bleeds over to all the other commandments. It's a fitting conclusion to God's Decalogue.
Now, I want to ask you a question, and I want you to think about this for a m ...
Series: Written in Stone
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Exodus 20:17
July 23, 2023
I ran across a story in my studies about a community college teacher. He taught basic English to people who were emigrating into the United States; people who knew English, but didn't know it as well as they would like to know it. So, he's teaching this basic English class, and he said he had an assignment for his students. And they had to, in class, write a paper, and the topic of the paper was, "What I would do if I had one million dollars." So, he gives the assignment. The students, most of them are adults all over the place from different countries. They're writing and writing and writing. They stay very quiet for about 30 minutes. And, finally, this woman from South America got up and she went to the teacher's desk. She had two pages that had lots of cross-outs and lots of calculations and things like that. She put her paper on his desk, and she said, "It's not going to work. I need a hundred thousand dollars more."
We've been in a series on the Ten Commandments, "Written in Stone." And today, we want to look at the final commandment, the tenth commandment, a different commandment than the other commandments because it's a commandment that doesn't deal with action; it deals with attitude.
Exodus chapter 20, verse 17. The LORD says, "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 belongs to your neighbor." Coveting is well discussed in the Word of God. It's really not something we necessarily think about a lot. We think about the actions, but coveting is about attitude. And coveting in the tenth commandment really bleeds over to all the other commandments. It's a fitting conclusion to God's Decalogue.
Now, I want to ask you a question, and I want you to think about this for a m ...
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