SERMONS ON THE 10TH COMMANDMENT
Our sermon ideas on the 10th Commandment will help you preach a powerful message. This is a topic that is desperately needed to be preached on in today's culture. Coveting is an issue that can run deep in our hearts and guide so many of our thoughts and actions. Prepare your message on the 10th Commandment with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
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Idolatry in Disguise (10 of 10)
by Robert Dawson
Little boy started lost first tooth and put it under the pillow and woke up the next morning $.25 richer. A week later his second tooth fell out. He put it under his pillow and awoke the next morning with another $.25 under the pillow. He was getting a little frustrated with the tooth fairy's return so when his next tooth fell out a week later he had his older brother write a note for the tooth fairy that read: Dear Tooth Fairy: I have been a good boy. I wonder if you could give me $1 for my tooth, because I could use more money. Most of us know how the little guy feels. We have all been there. No matter what we have, no matter what we have been...
What's On Your Wish List? (11 of 11)
by Jeff Ginn
1. Has it begun at your house yet? It has at ours. Our children have begun formulating their wish list. On their paper they have carefully recorded their ''must have'' items for Christmas. 2. This morning everyone needs to take out a pencil and a piece of paper. Try to make sure that your pencil has an eraser. Because we may need to make some corrections on our list. By the way, with the internet the wish list has a new twist. You can log onto a website ''800.com'', pick out the items that you would like and email the list to friends. Before we make our lists, I want you to come with me into our garage. 3. In our garage we have a large cardboard box....
You Shall Be Content (10 of 10)
by Joe Alain
The tenth message in a series of ten sermons on the Ten Commandments. ''You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, not his male servant, nor his female servant, not his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.'' Exodus 20:17, NKJV Mark Driscoll begins a sermon on the tenth commandment with a simple but powerful illustration. Imagine a genie showed up to you and granted you seven wishes (I know genies usually give 3 but let's go with the 7). Close your eyes (seriously but don't go to sleep on me) and I'll ask you the questions and you can decide what your answers...
The Secret of Satisfaction (10 of 10)
by Stan Coffey
If you have your Bible I invite you to turn in God's Word to Exodus 20:17. Today we come to the conclusion of a series of messages on values, ''Timeless Values for Today's Family''. And the values that we find in the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses so long ago are the values upon which we can still build strong families, strong lives, strong character, and strong homes. These are the values we want to pass on to our children. And today we want to talk about ''The Secret Of Satisfaction''. As we talk about the tenth of the Ten Commandments, ''thou shalt not covet.'' You could just put a period after you shall...
Can't Get No Satisfaction (10 of 10)
by James Merritt
1. It came to guitarist, Keith Richards, literally in the middle of the night. He woke up, recorded the lyrics on a cassette tape player and went back to sleep. Three weeks later, the Rolling Stones recorded that song and it became their first number one hit, both in the United Kingdom and in the United States and it became their launching pad to fame. Mick Jagger, who wrote the lyrics to the song, said at the time it simply expressed his frustration with the consumerism and commercialism he found in the United States. 2. In forty years, nothing has changed. You could almost make this song the national anthem of our nation. In the last twenty...
The Sin That Nobody Confesses as Sin (11 of 11)
by Ken Trivette
1. D.L. Moody speaking on covetousness said, "Whoever heard it confessed as sin? I have heard many confessions, in public and private, during the past 40 years, but never have I heard a man confess that he was guilty of this sin." Another minister said, "Among all the prayers in prayer meeting and deep confessions of sin in times of searching, I have never once heard the sin of covetousness acknowledged." One preacher preaching on covetousness entitled his sermon, The Sin We Never Admit. 2. The tenth and final commandment declares, "Thou shalt not covet." It seems that no one will admit that they have been guilty of...
The Myth of Madison Avenue (10 of 10)
by Eric McQuitty
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Those nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; and from dependency to bondage (Alexander Tytler, 1748-1813). Introduction: The myth of Madison Avenue We are the Baskin-Robbins society. Although we may only be able to eat one or two flavors at a time, we want all thirty-one to choose from. There are more "things" in...
When Is Enough, Enough? (10 of 10)
by Rick White
Exod. 20:17 ''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.'' Message Truth: The subject of coveting deals directly with the matter of the heart. It is usually the first commandment that we break and the hardest to keep. God is very concerned that we do not allow our goods to turn into gods. Introduction: 1. One day Abraham Lincoln was walking down the street with two small boys who were both crying loudly. A neighbor passing by inquired. ''What's the matter, Abe? Why all the fuss?'' Lincoln...
The Nine Guys Who Missed Thanksgiving (1 of 4)
by Chris Brown
A question and an observation: Luke 17:11-14 - What does it take to get you to use your ''Master'' Card? Luke 17:13 - Obedience always precedes God's blessings. Luke 17:14 Gratitude: it's way more than an attitude! 1. It's a decision and an action. Luke 17:15, Philippians 4:4-7, Colossians 3:17 2. It's an act of humility. Luke 17:16, Deuteronomy 8:11-17 3. It draws us closer to God. Luke 17:12 and 16, Psalm 100:4, James 4:7-10, Romans 1:214. It's God's will. 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Ephesians 5:19 Putting it into practice: Taking it home 1. We've all found ourselves at some point falling into the trap of not showing gratitude just as...
Be Content
by David Cawston
Our American culture is totally based upon the unbridled desire to have. . . to have the best, the newest, the latest, the most advance, the safest, the most fashionable. Our national motto has become "Shop till you drop. As one pundit has described modern day consumers, they are those who buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to keep up with the people they don't like. I am not saying that it is wrong to own property, purchase the goods and services we need or to succeed in private enterprise. But I am calling attention to an obsessive spirit in America the drive to consume beyond the boundaries of need. Crown Ministries...
How Much Is Enough? (9 of 10)
by M. Kenneth Lyon
Well, at last, here we are on number 10. Started out at number 1. We've gone through all the Commandments. We're on the last step... at least we'd like to think so! But did you know there's an 11th Commandment? It's over in the NT. It's called the bottom line commandment. It's under that commandment that Jesus gave the summation of all of these that we find the energy and we find the wherewithal to complete and fulfill these ten. So next week this is such an important time that all three of the pastors are gonna be involved in the sermon, taking a run at this all- encompassing commandment. It does not mean that we'll have...
God's Word: Gambling And The Texas Lottery (21 Of 26)
by Stan Coffey
If you are looking for a verse that says "Thou shalt not gamble" you will look in vain. Neither will you find a verse that says, "Thou shalt not drive through a school zone at 110 miles per hour." This illustrates the fact that the Bible is not a book of minute rules but a book of principles. If it were a book of rules and laws we would have to have a freight train to carry such a book because there are so many situations that would have to be addressed. Secondly, the rules and laws that applied to the first century do not necessarily apply to ours. Thirdly, smart people can find loopholes in laws but they cannot find loopholes in principles which always....
The Perfect Ten (1 of 11)
by Ken Trivette
In the past couple of years, the Ten Commandments have often made the headlines. Probably the most notable has been the case of Alabama's Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and his fight to keep a two-and-half-ton granite monument of the Ten Commandments in Alabama's Judicial Building. Judge Moore was ultimately suspended for refusing to remove the monument and on November 14, 2003, workers removed the monument and placed it in a back room out of public view. Judge's Moore case is just one among many that have placed the Ten Commandments in the headlines, Chattanooga being one of them. It is such attention that has made me once again look at the Ten Commandments with...
The Ten Commandments: God's Expectations
by Tony Nester
Whenever I go to eat at a restaurant I hope that I'm not going to be assigned an overly friendly waiter or waitress. You know the kind a mean. He or she informs you of his or her name, place of birth, current feelings, and then begins to ask how I am and how I feel and what special occasion has brought me out to this restaurant. This is not what I want in a waiter or waitress. What I want is someone to explain the menu and then bring my order in a timely fashion. I don't want a serious relationship with my waiter or waitress. I just want good service. It's easy for us to treat God the way I treat waiters and waitresses. We just want God to give...
Missing the Purpose
by Christopher Harbin
Purpose is something that is easily altered or even thwarted. It has been said that over time institutions begin to exist for self-preservation. Over time, we forget what things stand for and why they were created. We forget historical purposes and lay our new rationale for those things we hold dear. We look at our vehicles as something other than replacements for horse and buggy transportation. We look at housing as much more than shelter from the elements. We look at sports as something other than recreation and friendly competition. We look at church as something other than a training ground for serving God. Have we thwarted...
God's Word From The Mountain (4 of 5)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: Commenting on the Bible, Ronald Reagan once said: ''I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'' History gives a lot of credence to that comment. Someone has made a list of some of our nation's more famous documents and they found that: The Gettysburg address is 286 words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,300 words. BUT, the U.S. Government regulations on cabbage sales: 26,911 words. By contrast: The Lord's prayer: 66 words. The 10 Commandments: 179 words. If you notice, God is the master...
Satisfaction Guaranteed (10 of 10)
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: The last commandment is the lynch pin of the 10, the previous 9 commandments all have a strong overt element to them, they are actions observed, but, this final commandment strikes at the heart and mind! In a sense this last commandment is the basis of all the other 9! Even if all your overt actions showed faithfulness to the commandments this last one would condemn you for it reaches down inside the person's heart and desires and motives. In fact, it was Paul in Romans 7:7-8 that stated that this was the one commandment of the 10 that made him realize his sinfulness and brought him to realize his need of Christ...
