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>>WELL HAPPY SABBATH, FRIENDS.
AGAIN, I WANT TO ISSUE A
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SPECIAL WELCOME TO ANY VISITORS
THAT WE MAY HAVE HERE TODAY.
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AND IF YOU HAVE BEEN
COMING LATELY, OR IF YOU'RE ONE
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OF OUR REGULAR MEMBERS, YOU'LL
KNOW THAT WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF
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A SERIES WHERE WE HAVE
BEEN TALKING ABOUT THOSE LAWS OF
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LOVE - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- AND THEY'RE ALSO LAWS OF
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LIBERTY. AND
THERE'S REALLY TWELVE
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PARTS TO THIS PRESENTATION.
WE STARTED WITH - I CALLED IT
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'ZERO' BECAUSE I
DIDN'T WANT IT TO CONFUSE WITH
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ANOTHER
COMMANDMENT - THE INTRODUCTION.
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AND THEN WE'VE BEEN
GOING THROUGH THE COMMANDMENTS.
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TODAY WE'RE ON
THE TENTH COMMANDMENT.
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WE WILL CONCLUDE NEXT
SABBATH BECAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT
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FAIR FOR ME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT
THE LAW AND MAKE THIS EMPHASIS
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ON THE LAW WITHOUT REALLY
TALKING ABOUT, 'NOW HOW DO WE
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OBEY? WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT?
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WHAT'S THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE NEW AND THE OLD COVENANT?'
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AND SO HOW DO WE MAKE THESE
THINGS PRACTICAL IN OUR LIVES?
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AND SO WE'LL DEDICATE OUR
FINAL PRESENTATION TO THAT
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VERY IMPORTANT TRUTH.
BUT TODAY WE ARE DEALING
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WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE TENTH
COMMANDMENT AND I'VE ENTITLED
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IT 'A GREEDY HEART' - IT'S
THE MYTH OF MORE, YOU MIGHT SAY.
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
GONE THROUGH THE SUPERMARKET
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BEFORE, OR IT MIGHT BE A
DEPARTMENT STORE OF SOME SORT
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AND YOU'VE HEARD THIS SCREAM
AND IT'S SOME TODDLER AND THEIR
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SHOPPING CART IS BEING PUSHED
PAST THE CANDY AISLE OR THE TOY
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SECTION - SOMETIMES THEY'VE BEEN
TRAILING ALONG ON THE GROUND AND
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THEY LATCH ON TO SOMETHING THEY
THINK THEY OUGHT TO HAVE AND YOU
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CAN HEAR THE MOTHER OR THE
FATHER TRYING TO GET IT OUT OF
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THEIR LITTLE FISTS AND THEY
WON'T LET GO AND THEN THEY FALL
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DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND IT LOOKS
LIKE THEY'RE HAVING A SEIZURE
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AND THEY THRASH AND THEY SCREAM
AND THEY WHINE AND THE MOTHER -
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GRANDMOTHER - WHOEVER IS
TRYING TO FIND SOME DIGNIFIED
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WAY TO JUST LEAVE THEM WHERE
THEY ARE AND ACT LIKE YOU REALLY
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DON'T KNOW THEM. AND
THE OTHER SHOPPERS ARE
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THINKING ALL KINDS OF THINGS
ABOUT HOW THE SITUATION SHOULD
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BE DEALT WITH - REMEMBERING
THAT THERE ARE VIDEO CAMERAS
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IN MOST OF THOSE STORES.
AS WE GET OLDER, WE BECOME
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MORE
SOPHISTICATED IN OUR TANTRUMS.
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CHILDREN ARE UNINHIBITED.
THEY SEE SOMETHING THEY WANT
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AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
IT, THEY'LL LET YOU KNOW 'I
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REALLY WANTED THAT AND I WON'T
BE HAPPY UNLESS I GET IT.' AND
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I KNOW, WITH MOST OF OUR KIDS,
THAT SOMETIMES WE'D GIVE IN TO
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THOSE DESIRES - NOT
EVERY TIME, BUT SOMETIMES.
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YOUR KID SAYS, 'OH REALLY, IF
I HAD THAT MATCHBOX CAR I WOULD
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REACH FULL BLISS AND
ETERNAL SATISFACTION - THAT
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STATE OF WELL-BEING WE ALL
LONG FOR, CALLED HAPPINESS.
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IF I JUST HAD THAT ONE
THING.' AND SO YOU GIVE IN.
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YOU KNOW, PARENTS ARE LOVING
- SOMETIMES WE INDULGE - AND YOU
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BUY IT FOR THEM.
HOW LONG DOES THEIR
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HAPPINESS LAST? WE
DON'T ALWAYS OUTGROW
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THOSE EMOTIONS, WE JUST
COVER THEM UP A LITTLE BETTER.
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A LOT OF US, IN OUR
HEARTS, ARE DISSATISFIED.
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STORY OF ONE SUCH PERSON IN
THE BIBLE - YOU WOULD THINK IF
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YOU WERE KING FOR A DAY YOU'D
BE HAPPY, BUT SOMETIMES EVEN
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KINGS AREN'T HAPPY.
THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH.
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TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO 1
KINGS, CHAPTER 21 AND WE READ
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THERE ABOUT A KING
BY THE NAME OF AHAB.
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1 KINGS CHAPTER 21, YOU
START WITH THE FIRST VERSE, "AND
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IT CAME TO PASS AFTER
THESE THINGS THAT NABOTH THE
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JEZREELITE HAD A VINEYARD WHICH
WAS IN JEZREEL, NEXT TO THE
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PALACE OF AHAB KING OF SAMARIA."
- SO ADJACENT TO THE PALACE,
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NABOTH, WHO WAS ONE OF THE
CITIZENS - HE WAS - PROBABLY
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HAD A LARGE FAMILY - AN
OLDER GENTLEMAN - HE HAD A FIELD
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WHERE HE HAD A NICE VINEYARD.
VINEYARDS WERE THE PRIZE.
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THAT WAS THE BEST THING,
IF YOU HAD A GOOD VINEYARD.
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AND AHAB, HE LOOKED
OVER THE WALL AND SAID, 'BOY,
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NABOTH'S A
PRETTY GOOD VINEKEEPER.
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EVERYTHING'S SO MANICURED
AND BEAUTIFUL.' YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
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- JUST THIS WEEK KAREN AND I
WENT TO A WORKERS' MEETING - HAD
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TO DRIVE THROUGH NAPA -
SOME BEAUTIFUL WINE COUNTRY.
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AND WHILE WE DON'T DRINK
WINE, WE DO APPRECIATE THE
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MANICURED HILLS AND THE
BEAUTIFUL HOUSES THAT THEY HAD
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THERE ADJOINING THEM AND
IT'S LOVELY TO LOOK UPON.
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AND SO AHAB'S LOOKING
OVER HIS WALL THINKING,
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'WELL, I MIGHT HAVE A PALACE AND
I MIGHT HAVE MY OWN BARNS AND
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VINEYARDS, BUT I
DON'T HAVE THAT ONE.
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I'M JUST NOT GOING TO BE
HAPPY UNTIL I DO HAVE THAT ONE.
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"SO AHAB SPOKE TO NABOTH
SAYING, "GIVE ME YOUR VINEYARD
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THAT I MIGHT HAVE IT FOR A
VEGETABLE GARDEN." - WHAT A
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SHAME TO PLUCK UP VINES THAT
TAKE FOREVER TO GROW AND PUT
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TURNIPS IN - "GIVE ME
YOUR VINEYARD THAT I MIGHT HAVE
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IT FOR A VEGETABLE GARDEN
BECAUSE IT IS NEAR, NEXT TO MY
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HOUSE;" - IT'LL BE CONVENIENT
- "AND FOR IT I WILL GIVE YOU A
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VINEYARD BETTER THAN IT.
OR, IF IT SEEMS GOOD TO YOU,
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I WILL GIVE YOU ITS WORTH
IN MONEY." - WHAT DO YOU WANT?
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I NEED TO HAVE IT.
BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM.
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ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH
LAW, YOU'RE NOT TO SELL YOUR
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FAMILY'S INHERITANCE FROM
YOUR TRIBE TO A DIFFERENT TRIBE.
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"BUT NABOTH SAID TO AHAB, 'THE
LORD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GIVE
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THE INHERITANCE OF
MY FATHERS TO YOU!'"
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WELL, WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?
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SO AHAB WENT TO HIS HOUSE
SULLEN" - HE WAS DEPRESSED
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THAT MEANS - "AND DISPLEASED
BECAUSE OF THE WORD WHICH NABOTH
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THE JEZREELITE HAD SPOKEN TO
HIM; FOR HE HAD SAID, 'I WILL
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NOT GIVE YOU THE INHERITANCE OF
MY FATHERS.' AND HE LAY DOWN ON
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HIS BED AND HE TURNED AWAY
HIS FACE AND WOULDN'T EAT ANY
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FOOD.'" - THAT'S
CALLED A FULL-GROWN TANTRUM.
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NOW, I KNOW THAT WAS
PECULIAR WITH HIM, BUT NO OTHER
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ADULTS DO THAT WHEN THEY
CAN'T GET WHAT THEY WANT.
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SO JEZEBEL COMES HOME.
SHE'S WONDERING 'WHY IS
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YOUR SPIRIT SO DEPRESSED?
WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?'
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'I SPOKE TO NABOTH THE
JEZREELITE, AND SAID TO HIM,
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'GIVE ME YOUR VINEYARD FOR
MONEY; OR ELSE I'LL TRADE YOU.
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AND HE WON'T GIVE IT TO
ME.' THEN SHE SAID TO HIM,
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'YOU NOW EXERCISE
AUTHORITY OVER ISRAEL!
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ARISE, EAT FOOD, AND LET
YOUR HEART BE CHEERFUL; I'LL GET
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YOU THE VINEYARD.'' HE HAD A
TANTRUM AND HIS LITTLE WIFEY WAS
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GOING TO HELP HIM
GET WHAT HE WANTED.
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WELL, WHAT THAT MEANT WAS
SHE PROCLAIMED A FEAST AND HIRED
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TWO FALSE WITNESSES TO
SAY THAT NABOTH WAS GUILTY OF
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CURSING GOD AND CURSING THE
GOVERNMENT AND ON BOTH FRONTS -
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BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHAT THEY DID
WITH JESUS, THEY SAID THAT HE
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WASN'T OBEYING THE LAWS
OF GOD OR THE LAWS OF CAESAR.
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AND THEN THEY IMMEDIATELY
TOOK HIM OUT BEFORE THEY COULD
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HAVE MUCH OF A TRIAL - OUT
OF THE CITY - AND THEY STONED
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NABOTH. THIS INNOCENT MAN
DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
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IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE MAFIA
- YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY
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WANT, THEY HAVE WAYS
OF GETTING WHAT THEY WANT.
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AND JEZEBEL,
THAT'S HOW SHE OPERATED.
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SO NOW AHAB IS
FINALLY GOING TO BE HAPPY.
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JEZEBEL COMES HOME AND
SAYS, 'I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS.
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GO TAKE POSSESSION.
THE VINEYARD IS YOURS.
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YOU'RE GOING TO
GET WHAT YOU WANT.
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NOW YOU'LL BE HAPPY.' SO
AHAB DOESN'T WANT TO ASK ANY
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QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW
SHE WORKED THAT OUT.
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HE SUSPECTS THERE WAS FOUL
PLAY, BUT AS LONG AS HE GETS
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WHAT HE WANTS - SO WHILE HE'S
WALKING AROUND AND SURVEYING
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NABOTH'S VINEYARD AND THINKING,
'I'LL CUT THAT DOWN HERE AND
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I'LL PUT THE VEGETABLES HERE
AND I'LL HAVE THE FOUNTAIN...'
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GUESS WHO SHOWS UP
AND SPOILS HIS PARTY?
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HIS OLD NEMESIS,
ELIJAH THE PROPHET.
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AND ELIJAH CAME DOWN - HE
SAID AS SOON AS AHAB SEES HIM HE
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SAYS, 'OH, HAVE
YOU FOUND ME MY ENEMY?'
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HE SAID, 'I'M YOUR ENEMY
BECAUSE YOU SOLD YOURSELF TO
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WORK WICKEDNESS AND YOU KILLED
AN INNOCENT MAN AND TOOK HIS
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VINEYARD. AND HE
SAYS, 'NOW BECAUSE
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YOU'VE DONE THIS' - WELL LET ME
READ IT TO YOU OUT OF THE BIBLE.
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IT SAYS HERE THAT - "BEHOLD"
- VERSE 21 - THIS IS 1 KINGS
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CHAPTER 21, VERSE 21, "BEHOLD,
I WILL BRING CALAMITY ON YOU.
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I WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR
POSTERITY, AND WILL CUT OFF FROM
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AHAB EVERY MALE IN
ISRAEL, BOTH BOND AND FREE.
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I WILL MAKE YOUR HOUSE LIKE
THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF
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NEBAT, AND LIKE THE HOUSE OF
BAASHA THE SON OF AHIJAH,'" -
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THEY WERE WIPED OUT -
THEY WERE TOTALLY ELIMINATED -
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"'BECAUSE OF THE PROVOCATION
WITH WHICH YOU HAVE PROVOKED ME
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TO ANGER, AND MADE ISRAEL
SIN.'" IT SAYS THERE WAS NO ONE
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LIKE AHAB, VERSE 25, "...WHO
SOLD HIMSELF TO DO WICKEDNESS IN
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THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,
BECAUSE JEZEBEL HIS WIFE STIRRED
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HIM UP." - VERSE 27 - "SO WHEN
AHAB HEARD THOSE WORDS," - OF
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ELIJAH - "HE TORE HIS CLOTHES
AND PUT SACKCLOTH ON HIS BODY,
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AND FASTED AND LAY IN SACKCLOTH,
AND WENT ABOUT MOURNING."
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NOTICE, THE CHAPTER BEGINS
BY HIM THINKING, 'I'LL NEVER BE
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HAPPY UNLESS I GET
NABOTH'S VINEYARD.' - HE WAS
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COVETING ANOTHER MAN'S
FIELD - AND WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE
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COULDN'T HAVE IT HE THOUGHT,
'I'M GOING TO TAKE IT BY HOOK OR
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CROOK. I'VE GOT TO HAVE IT.'
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WHEN HE FINALLY
GOT IT, NOW HE'S HAPPY.
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IS HE HAPPY? NOW
HE'S MORE UNHAPPY.
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HE TEARS HIS CLOTHES
AND GOES ABOUT MOURNING.
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WHEN YOU COVET WHAT YOU
SHOULD NOT COVET, SHOULD YOU
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EVER GET IT, THE LORD WILL
NOT BLESS AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE
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HAPPINESS. A MAN'S
LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST
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IN THE ABUNDANCE OF
THINGS HE POSSESSES.
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WE ARE BOMBARDED IN OUR
DAY AND AGE WITH MATERIALISM
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- HYPERMATERIALISM.
IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE JUST
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SNIFFING IT, WE'RE
MAINLINING MATERIALISM.
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THERE IS NO TIME IN THE
HISTORY OF THE WORLD - NEVER
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BEFORE HAS THERE BEEN A CULTURE
THAT HAS HAD TO INGEST SO MUCH
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ADVERTISING THAT IS DESIGNED
- THE BRIGHTEST AND THE BEST AND
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THE MOST POWERFUL MINDS IN
THE WORLD ON MADISON AVENUE
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INVEST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
- APPROXIMATELY 500 BILLION
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DOLLARS EVERY YEAR IS SPENT
ON MARKETING IN NORTH AMERICA -
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ENCOURAGING YOU TO BE
DISSATISFIED WITH WHAT YOU
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HAVE OR THE BRAND THAT YOU HAVE
OR HOW MUCH YOU HAVE, OR WHO YOU
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HAVE. AND YOU
ONLY THINK HAPPINESS
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WILL COME FROM GETTING
MORE OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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YOU'RE BEING TOLD OVER AND
OVER AND OVER AGAIN 'THE GRASS
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IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THE FENCE.' PSALMS 119, VERSES
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36 AND 37, "INCLINE MY HEART
TO YOUR TESTIMONIES, AND NOT
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TO COVETOUSNESS. TURN
AWAY MY EYES FROM LOOKING
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AT WORTHLESS THINGS, AND
REVIVE ME IN YOUR WAY." WE MAY
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NOT THROW OURSELVES ON THE
GROUND AND HAVE A TANTRUM BUT,
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IN OUR OWN WAY, MANY HAVE GREEDY
HEARTS AND WE'RE NOT SATISFIED.
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NOW, THE TENTH COMMANDMENT -
I'M ASSUMING THAT YOU KNOW WHAT
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THE TENTH COMMANDMENT IS,
BUT LET ME READ IT TO YOU.
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AND YOU'LL FIND IT NOT ONLY
IN EXODUS 20, VERSE 17, YOU'LL
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FIND IT AGAIN IN DEUTERONOMY
5, VERSE 21 AND IN VARIOUS AND
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SUNDRY PLACES IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT AND OTHER PARTS OF THE
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BIBLE. AND WE READ EXODUS 20:17
- THESE WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE -
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"YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE; YOU SHALL NOT
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COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, NOR
HIS MALE SERVANT, NOR HIS FEMALE
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SERVANT, NOR HIS OX, NOR
HIS DONKEY, NOR ANYTHING THAT IS
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YOUR NEIGHBOR'S." NOW SOME
PEOPLE - I THINK I SHARED WITH
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YOU IN AN EARLIER PRESENTATION
DURING THIS SERIES - SOME
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CHURCHES DIVIDE THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS DIFFERENTLY
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THAN THE WAY WE HAVE
BEEN PRESENTING THEM.
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THEY WANT TO ELIMINATE
THE COMMANDMENT ON IDOLATRY.
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AND I ACTUALLY SHOWED YOU A
PHOTOGRAPH IN FRONT OF A LOCAL
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CATHOLIC CHURCH WHERE IT
GOES FROM COMMANDMENT 1 TO
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COMMANDMENT 2 ABOUT DON'T -
TAKING THE NAME OF THE LORD IN
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VAIN - LEAVES OUT THE
COMMANDMENT ABOUT IDOLATRY -
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COMMANDMENT 3 IS THE
SABBATH. YOU GO, 'WAIT A MINUTE.
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SOMETHING'S GOING TO BE
WRONG WITH THE MATH HERE.
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YOU'RE GOING TO BE SHORT.' WELL,
WHAT THEY DO IS THEY TAKE THE
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COVETOUSNESS COMMANDMENT
AND THEY DIVIDE IT IN TWO - AS
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THOUGH COVETING YOUR NEIGHBOR'S
WIFE AND COVETING HIS HOUSE IS,
00:13:18.13\00:13:20.66
YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT. THE
COMMANDMENT'S JUST ON NOT
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COVETING. PROOF FOR THAT IS
DEUTERONOMY 5:21, WHEN MOSES
00:13:23.47\00:13:28.27
REPEATS THE COMMANDMENT ON
COVETING HERE, HE MIXES IT UP.
00:13:28.27\00:13:32.34
SO YOU CAN'T DIVIDE IT
AND SAY IT'S REALLY TWO
00:13:32.34\00:13:34.34
COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE MOSES
VIEWED IT AS ONE COMMANDMENT.
00:13:34.34\00:13:38.01
NOTICE DEUTERONOMY 5:21,
"YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR
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NEIGHBOR'S WIFE;" -
WHAT CAME FIRST HERE?
00:13:40.95\00:13:42.68
WIFE. IN THE OTHER
ONE, WHAT CAME FIRST? HOUSE.
00:13:42.68\00:13:46.82
AND SOME HAVE TRIED TO MAKE
A CASE SAYING, 'WELL, THAT'S
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BECAUSE THEY TREATED THEIR
WIVES JUST LIKE PROPERTY.' NO,
00:13:49.92\00:13:54.00
IT'S NOT AT ALL LIKE THAT.
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER
00:13:54.00\00:13:55.90
SACRED RELATIONSHIPS, AS
WELL AS THEIR POSSESSIONS.
00:13:55.90\00:13:58.87
BY THE WAY, THIS
COMMANDMENT ABOUT COVETOUSNESS
00:13:58.87\00:14:02.57
CAN BE SUMMED UP IN 'YOU ARE NOT
TO HAVE AN ILLICIT DESIRE FOR
00:14:02.57\00:14:07.18
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S
POSSESSIONS, POSITIONS, OR
00:14:07.18\00:14:12.38
PERSONS' - AND THE WIFE IS
A PERSON, NOT A POSSESSION.
00:14:12.38\00:14:17.22
THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT IN
THE BIBLE, THAT'S WHY IT SAID,
00:14:17.22\00:14:18.65
'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND
YOUR MOTHER' - WASN'T PROPERTY.
00:14:18.65\00:14:23.69
SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO
SAY, 'WELL, WE CAN DO AWAY WITH
00:14:23.69\00:14:25.23
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE
THEY JUST WERE, YOU KNOW,
00:14:25.23\00:14:27.20
TREATING WIVES LIKE PROPERTY.'
THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANT.
00:14:27.20\00:14:30.10
IT CAN ALSO BE SAID, 'THOU
SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S
00:14:30.10\00:14:32.20
HUSBAND.' IT DOESN'T
MEAN THAT HE'S PROPERTY.
00:14:32.20\00:14:37.67
SO, 'DO NOT COVET YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, DO NOT COVET
00:14:37.67\00:14:40.81
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S' -
I'M IN DEUTERONOMY 5:21 -
00:14:40.81\00:14:42.91
'YOUR NEIGHBOR'S
HOUSE OR HIS FIELD.' -
00:14:42.91\00:14:45.18
YOU SEE, IT MENTIONS FIELD
HERE. IT DOESN'T MENTION FIELD
00:14:45.18\00:14:47.25
IN EXODUS 20 - 'HIS MALE
SERVANT, HIS FEMALE SERVANT, HIS
00:14:47.25\00:14:50.99
OX, HIS DONKEY' - THAT MEANS
THE CAR IN HIS GARAGE OR HIS
00:14:50.99\00:14:53.52
ROTOTILLER - 'OR ANYTHING
THAT IS YOUR NEIGHBOR'S.'
00:14:53.52\00:14:58.26
YEAH, I KNOW, HOW MANY OF
YOU HAVE AN OX AND A DONKEY?
00:14:58.26\00:15:01.93
YOU SEE, LET'S JUST MAKE
IT RELEVANT FOR US TODAY.
00:15:01.93\00:15:06.03
IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
PAUL MAKES IT CLEAR IT'S ONE
00:15:06.03\00:15:08.00
COMMANDMENT - ROMANS
7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?
00:15:08.00\00:15:11.91
IS THE LAW SIN? CERTAINLY NOT!
00:15:11.91\00:15:13.58
ON THE CONTRARY, I WOULD
NOT HAVE KNOWN SIN EXCEPT
00:15:13.58\00:15:16.24
THROUGH THE LAW. FOR
I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN
00:15:16.24\00:15:18.88
COVETOUSNESS UNLESS THE
LAW HAD SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT
00:15:18.88\00:15:21.85
COVET.'" YOU NOTICE, HE
STATES IT AS ONE COMPREHENSIVE
00:15:21.85\00:15:25.19
COMPLETE COMMANDMENT THERE.
YOU CANNOT DIVIDE IT IN TWO.
00:15:25.19\00:15:28.82
I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT
THE CHURCH IS TRYING TO GET RID
00:15:28.82\00:15:31.73
OF THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT
IDOLATRY - WERE WORKING SOME
00:15:31.73\00:15:34.76
HANKY PANKY ON THE BIBLE
THERE - IT'S NOT - THAT'S NOT
00:15:34.76\00:15:37.67
APPROPRIATE TO DO IT
THAT WAY. SO THIS IS THE TENTH
00:15:37.67\00:15:39.97
COMMANDMENT: 'DO NOT
COVET ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE NOT
00:15:39.97\00:15:45.31
SUPPOSED TO BE DESIRING.'
IT IS PROBABLY THE MOST UNIQUE
00:15:45.31\00:15:50.25
OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
I SAY THAT FOR SEVERAL REASONS.
00:15:50.25\00:15:53.45
FIRST OF ALL, MOST OF
THE COMMANDMENTS HAVE TO DO
00:15:53.45\00:15:55.85
WITH OUTWARD
BEHAVIOR OR CONDUCT.
00:15:55.85\00:15:59.29
THE LAST COMMANDMENT POINTS
BACK TOWARD THE SOURCE OF ALL
00:15:59.29\00:16:02.09
SIN. IT'S
SOMETHING ON THE INSIDE.
00:16:02.09\00:16:05.33
IT'S SOMETHING GOING ON
HERE. YOU CAN BE COVETOUS.
00:16:05.33\00:16:10.00
YOU CAN BE JUST A RANK,
COVETOUS PERSON AND OUTWARDLY
00:16:10.00\00:16:14.57
YOU CAN LOOK LIKE
THE FINEST CHRISTIAN.
00:16:14.57\00:16:17.27
JESUS TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE
WHO PRAYED LONG PRAYERS AND THEY
00:16:17.27\00:16:20.11
WENT TO CHURCH BUT THEY
DEVOURED WIDOWS' HOUSES.
00:16:20.11\00:16:23.41
THEY WERE COVETOUS. BUT
THEY WERE VERY RELIGIOUS
00:16:23.41\00:16:27.58
- BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING
ON THE DESIRES OF THE HEART.
00:16:27.58\00:16:29.92
IT'LL EVENTUALLY
PLAY OUT IN THE LIFE.
00:16:29.92\00:16:32.29
EXODUS 18:21 - WHEN THEY WERE
TO PICK JUDGES - "MOREOVER YOU
00:16:32.29\00:16:38.09
SHALL SELECT FROM ALL THE
PEOPLE ABLE MEN, SUCH AS FEAR
00:16:38.09\00:16:41.20
GOD, MEN OF TRUTH, HATING
COVETOUSNESS; AND PLACE SUCH
00:16:41.20\00:16:46.63
OVER THEM TO BE RULERS..." THAT
WAS THE CRITERIA THAT THEY WERE
00:16:46.63\00:16:49.50
TO HATE COVETOUSNESS.
THAT GREED FOR WHAT OTHERS
00:16:49.50\00:16:53.14
HAD - IF THEY HAD THAT
IN THEIR HEARTS THEY'LL BE
00:16:53.14\00:16:55.78
VERY SUSCEPTIBLE TO
BRIBES AND TWISTING JUDGMENT.
00:16:55.78\00:17:00.08
SO THE LORD WANTS US
TO HAVE HONEST HEARTS.
00:17:00.08\00:17:02.58
THIS COMMANDMENT IS
REALLY KEPT IN THE HEART.
00:17:02.58\00:17:06.76
JAMES 1:14 - IT REALLY
REPRESENTS A SUMMARY OF
00:17:06.76\00:17:11.43
THE WHOLE LAW, BECAUSE IF YOU
GET THE TENTH COMMANDMENT RIGHT
00:17:11.43\00:17:15.90
YOU'LL GET THE REST
RIGHT. AND EVERY COMMANDMENT YOU
00:17:15.90\00:17:20.67
COULD BREAK COULD
START WITH COVETOUSNESS.
00:17:20.67\00:17:25.74
BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR
NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, IT BEGINS WITH
00:17:25.74\00:17:28.24
COVETING YOUR NEIGHBOR'S
WIFE. BEFORE YOU STEAL YOUR
00:17:28.24\00:17:31.88
NEIGHBOR'S ORBITAL BUFFER
- I MEAN, WON'T YOU JUST PICK
00:17:31.88\00:17:36.79
SOMETHING -
YOU'VE GOT TO COVET IT.
00:17:36.79\00:17:40.12
AND SO COVETOUSNESS HAPPENS
IN THE HEART FIRST BEFORE IT
00:17:40.12\00:17:42.66
IS PLAYED OUT. YOU
KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING
00:17:42.66\00:17:45.69
HAPPENING UNDERGROUND
BEFORE YOU EVER SEE THE FRUIT.
00:17:45.69\00:17:48.43
THERE'S A GERMINATION
THAT HAPPENS BELOW THE SURFACE
00:17:48.43\00:17:50.63
THAT YOU DON'T SEE. AND
SOMETHING OFTEN HAPPENS IN
00:17:50.63\00:17:54.04
THE HEART - BEFORE SOMEONE'S
MURDERED, THEY'RE USUALLY
00:17:54.04\00:17:56.20
THINKING HOMICIDAL
THOUGHTS IN THEIR HEART.
00:17:56.20\00:17:59.21
AND SO COVETOUSNESS IS
TALKING ABOUT HAVING A HEART
00:17:59.21\00:18:02.11
THAT'S RIGHT. BEFORE NABOTH WAS
00:18:02.11\00:18:04.91
MURDERED WHAT HAPPENED?
AHAB WANTED WHAT HE HAD.
00:18:04.91\00:18:10.49
SO IT STARTED WITH COVETOUSNESS.
00:18:10.49\00:18:12.22
JAMES 1:14, "BUT EACH ONE IS
TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY
00:18:12.22\00:18:16.79
BY HIS OWN DESIRES" - IT'S
ON THE INSIDE - "AND ENTICED.
00:18:16.79\00:18:20.26
THEN, WHEN DESIRE HAS
CONCEIVED," - IT SPROUTS - "IT
00:18:20.26\00:18:23.40
GIVES BIRTH TO SIN; AND SIN,
WHEN IT IS FULL-GROWN, BRINGS
00:18:23.40\00:18:26.43
FORTH DEATH." VIRTUALLY EVERY
OTHER VIOLATION OF GOD'S LAW CAN
00:18:26.43\00:18:31.94
BE TRACED BACK, IN SOME WAY, TO
STARTING WITH COVETOUS FEELINGS
00:18:31.94\00:18:36.58
IN THE HEART. NOW, AS WE DEFINE
COVETOUSNESS, I WANT TO MAKE IT
00:18:36.58\00:18:42.68
CLEAR THAT IT IS NOT WRONG
TO DESIRE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE.
00:18:42.68\00:18:47.92
YOU WOULD BE HOMELESS AND
SINGLE RIGHT NOW - ALL OF YOU -
00:18:47.92\00:18:52.06
IF YOU DIDN'T, AT SOME POINT,
DESIRE OR COVET SOMETHING OR
00:18:52.06\00:18:56.20
SOMEONE. IT IS
NOT WRONG TO WANT A
00:18:56.20\00:18:58.90
HOUSE, IT IS NOT WRONG TO WANT
A FIELD, IT IS NOT WRONG TO WANT
00:18:58.90\00:19:02.17
AN OX OR A DONKEY
OR A CAR OR A SPOUSE.
00:19:02.17\00:19:06.17
MATTER OF FACT, IT IS
RIGHT TO WANT THOSE THINGS.
00:19:06.17\00:19:08.54
GOD PLACED THOSE
DESIRES IN YOUR HEART.
00:19:08.54\00:19:10.98
THE BIBLE EVEN TELLS US
THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE ARE
00:19:10.98\00:19:13.42
COMMANDED TO
COVET. SO IT'S NOT THAT
00:19:13.42\00:19:15.95
COVETING IS WRONG.
SOMETIMES YOU TAKE HALF A
00:19:15.95\00:19:20.26
COMMANDMENT AND YOU
GET THINGS ALL MIXED UP.
00:19:20.26\00:19:23.09
THE COMMANDMENT SAYS, 'DO
NOT MAKE UNTO THEE A LIKENESS
00:19:23.09\00:19:26.49
OF ANYTHING IN THE HEAVEN ABOVE,
OR THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THE
00:19:26.49\00:19:30.47
WATER UNDER THE EARTH'
AND PEOPLE STOP RIGHT THERE.
00:19:30.47\00:19:33.03
THEY SAY, 'DON'T HAVE A
PHOTOGRAPH - IT'S A LIKENESS
00:19:33.03\00:19:34.77
OF SOMETHING.
DON'T HAVE A PAINTING OF
00:19:34.77\00:19:36.50
FLOWERS ON YOUR WALL -
IT'S A LIKENESS OF SOMETHING.
00:19:36.50\00:19:38.74
DON'T HAVE -' AND PEOPLE HAVE
NO ART, THEY HAVE NO PHOTOGRAPHS
00:19:38.74\00:19:41.58
OF THEIR KIDS
BECAUSE IT'S IDOLATRY.
00:19:41.58\00:19:43.41
THEY DON'T READ THE REST
OF THE COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS,
00:19:43.41\00:19:46.25
'AND BOW DOWN TO THEM.' RIGHT?
00:19:46.25\00:19:49.12
SAME THING WITH
THE COVET COMMANDMENT.
00:19:49.12\00:19:50.45
IT DOESN'T JUST SAY 'DON'T
COVET ANYTHING.' IT SAYS, 'DON'T
00:19:50.45\00:19:53.42
COVET THINGS THAT YOU HAVE NO
RIGHT TO DESIRE.' YOU SEE WHAT
00:19:53.42\00:19:58.26
I'M SAYING? SO,
WHAT IS COVETOUSNESS?
00:19:58.26\00:20:02.80
OH, BY THE WAY, I WAS
GOING TO GIVE YOU A VERSE.
00:20:02.80\00:20:05.10
1 CORINTHIANS 12:31
- WHAT CAN YOU COVET?
00:20:05.10\00:20:07.74
HE SAYS, "BUT COVET EARNESTLY"
- WE'RE COMMANDED TO COVET
00:20:07.74\00:20:11.07
EARNESTLY - "THE BEST
GIFTS: AND YET SHEW I UNTO YOU A
00:20:11.07\00:20:15.14
MORE EXCELLENT WAY." IF YOU'RE
GOING TO COVET SOMETHING, THE
00:20:15.14\00:20:17.21
BEST THING TO COVET - TO
LONG AFTER - TO CRAVE - IS THE
00:20:17.21\00:20:20.55
SPIRITUAL GIFTS - THE BEST GIFTS
- THE GIFT OF LOVE IS WHAT HE
00:20:20.55\00:20:23.79
MENTIONS. WHAT IS COVETOUSNESS?
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.82
IT IS A FORBIDDEN DESIRE,
AN ENVIOUS EAGERNESS TO POSSESS
00:20:26.82\00:20:31.13
WHAT IS NOT LAWFULLY
OBTAINABLE; EXCESSIVELY AND
00:20:31.13\00:20:34.93
CULPABLY DESIROUS OF
THE POSSESSIONS OF ANOTHER;
00:20:34.93\00:20:37.90
INAPPROPRIATE OR
INORDINATE DESIRE FOR THE
00:20:37.90\00:20:40.80
POSSESSIONS, POSITIONS, OR
PERSONS THAT BELONG TO SOMEONE
00:20:40.80\00:20:44.57
ELSE. SOMETIMES WE
COVET A PERSON'S POSITION.
00:20:44.57\00:20:51.78
SOMETIMES WE'RE
COVETOUS BY COMPARISON.
00:20:51.78\00:20:56.72
IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 20,
VERSE 1 - REMEMBER THE PARABLE
00:20:56.72\00:21:01.19
WHERE A CERTAIN MAN HAD
SERVANTS WORKING IN HIS FIELD?
00:21:01.19\00:21:05.33
MATTER OF FACT, WE BETTER
GO AHEAD - WHY DON'T WE GO
00:21:05.33\00:21:08.90
THERE? MATTHEW
CHAPTER 20, VERSE 1 AND
00:21:08.90\00:21:20.24
- "FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
IS LIKE A LANDOWNER WHO WENT
00:21:20.24\00:21:23.24
OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING TO
HIRE LABORERS FOR HIS VINEYARD.
00:21:23.24\00:21:26.25
NOW WHEN HE HAD AGREED WITH
THE LABORERS FOR A DENARIUS" - A
00:21:26.25\00:21:29.15
PENNY - WHAT WE WOULD CALL -
THAT WAS A FAIR DAY'S WAGE - "A
00:21:29.15\00:21:32.79
DAY, HE SENT THEM INTO
HIS VINEYARD...AND HE WENT OUT
00:21:32.79\00:21:35.89
ABOUT THE THIRD HOUR AND
SAW OTHERS STANDING IDLE IN
00:21:35.89\00:21:39.03
THE MARKETPLACE, AND SAID
TO THEM, 'YOU ALSO GO INTO THE
00:21:39.03\00:21:42.60
VINEYARD, AND WHATEVER IS RIGHT
I WILL GIVE YOU.' SO THEY WENT.
00:21:42.60\00:21:46.03
AGAIN HE WENT OUT ABOUT THE
SIXTH AND THE NINTH HOURS, AND
00:21:46.03\00:21:48.30
DID LIKEWISE. AND
ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR"
00:21:48.30\00:21:51.07
- ONLY ONE MORE HOUR OF WORK
- "HE WENT OUT AND FOUND OTHERS
00:21:51.07\00:21:53.41
STANDING IDLE, AND SAID
TO THEM, 'WHY HAVE YOU BEEN
00:21:53.41\00:21:54.91
STANDING HERE IDLE ALL
DAY?' THEY SAID TO HIM, 'BECAUSE
00:21:54.91\00:21:57.45
NO ONE HIRED US.' HE SAID
TO THEM, 'YOU ALSO GO INTO THE
00:21:57.45\00:21:58.91
VINEYARD, AND WHATEVER IS RIGHT
YOU WILL RECEIVE.'" - 'I'LL BE
00:21:58.91\00:22:00.68
FAIR WITH YOU.' SO
THEY TRUST HIM AND THEY GO.
00:22:00.68\00:22:03.45
- "SO WHEN EVENING HAD COME,
THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD SAID
00:22:03.45\00:22:05.32
TO HIS STEWARD, 'CALL THE
LABORERS AND GIVE THEM THEIR
00:22:05.32\00:22:07.66
WAGES, BEGINNING WITH THE LAST
TO THE FIRST.' AND WHEN THOSE
00:22:07.66\00:22:12.16
CAME WHO WERE HIRED ABOUT
THE ELEVENTH HOUR, THEY EACH
00:22:12.16\00:22:14.76
RECEIVED A DENARIUS." -
NOW YOU GOT THE PICTURE HERE?
00:22:14.76\00:22:17.87
ALL THESE MEN HAVE BEEN
OUT WORKING IN THIS LARGE
00:22:17.87\00:22:19.77
VINEYARD THIS LANDOWNER
HAS - HE'S RECRUITING PEOPLE -
00:22:19.77\00:22:22.94
HE'S GOT TO GET THE HARVEST IN.
THE WEATHER'S GOING TO TURN BAD.
00:22:22.94\00:22:25.44
AND SOME START IN THE
BEGINNING OF THE DAY AND THEY'RE
00:22:25.44\00:22:27.81
WORKING ALL DAY LONG THROUGH
THE HEAT OF THE DAY AND THEY SEE
00:22:27.81\00:22:29.64
OTHER WORKERS ARE JOINING
THEM - THE LABOR FORCE INCREASES
00:22:29.64\00:22:32.48
THROUGH THE DAY - AND EVEN ONE
HOUR LEFT IN THE DAY SOME NEW
00:22:32.48\00:22:35.02
PEOPLE SHOW UP TO WORK
AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN SWEATY OR
00:22:35.02\00:22:37.85
BURNT AND THEY GO WORK ONE HOUR.
00:22:37.85\00:22:40.76
NOW, WHISTLE BLOWS, THEY
CALL EVERYONE TOGETHER, THEY
00:22:40.76\00:22:44.59
LINE THEM ALL UP AND THEY SAY,
'OKAY, LET'S START WITH THE ONES
00:22:44.59\00:22:47.66
WHO CAME LAST AND WE'LL
PAY THEM.' AND SO THEY GO, 'ONE
00:22:47.66\00:22:50.70
PENNY, ONE PENNY, ONE PENNY.'
NOW THE ONES WHO ARE AT THE
00:22:50.70\00:22:54.34
END OF THE LINE
ARE SAYING, 'WOW!
00:22:54.34\00:22:56.07
HEY, WAIT 'TIL HE GETS
TO US. HE GAVE THEM A PENNY.
00:22:56.07\00:22:58.37
WE SHOULD BE GETTING MORE.' AND
HE GOES TO THE ONES WHO WORKED
00:22:58.37\00:23:01.91
HALF THE DAY, 'ONE PENNY, ONE
PENNY, ONE PENNY.' THEN ONE WHO
00:23:01.91\00:23:04.81
WORKED, YOU KNOW, THREE-QUARTERS
OF THE DAY, 'ONE PENNY, ONE
00:23:04.81\00:23:06.82
PENNY.' AND THEY
GO, 'WHAT'S WITH THIS?'
00:23:06.82\00:23:09.35
AND FINALLY, IT GETS TO THE
ONES WHO WORKED ALL DAY LONG,
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.35
'ONE PENNY, ONE
PENNY.' AND THEY'RE MAD.
00:23:11.35\00:23:15.89
WOULD YOU BE MAD? ONLY IF
YOU'VE GOT A COVETOUS HEART.
00:23:15.89\00:23:22.36
ARE YOU GETTING WHAT
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GET?
00:23:22.36\00:23:25.43
ARE YOU GETTING
WHAT YOU AGREED TO?
00:23:25.43\00:23:27.37
IF YOU THOUGHT THAT THE
LANDOWNER WAS UNFAIR YOU
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.44
SHOULD HAVE SAID, 'I'M
WORKING SOMEWHERE ELSE.' NOW
00:23:29.44\00:23:31.97
YOU'RE GOING TO GO JOIN
A UNION AND PICKET, RIGHT?
00:23:31.97\00:23:39.75
HE CALLED THEM ALL "AND
WHEN THOSE CAME WHO WERE HIRED
00:23:39.75\00:23:41.75
ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR,
THEY EACH RECEIVED A DENARIUS.
00:23:41.75\00:23:43.79
BUT WHEN THE FIRST CAME,
THEY SUPPOSED THAT THEY WOULD
00:23:43.79\00:23:45.89
RECEIVE MORE; AND THEY LIKEWISE
RECEIVED EACH A DENARIUS.
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.42
AND WHEN THEY HAD RECEIVED
IT, THEY COMPLAINED AGAINST THE
00:23:48.42\00:23:50.73
LANDOWNER." THEY WOULD HAVE
BEEN HAPPY IF NO ONE ELSE HAD
00:23:50.73\00:23:53.23
RECEIVED ANYTHING, BUT WHY ARE
THEY UNHAPPY? BECAUSE SOMEONE
00:23:53.23\00:23:57.80
WHO WORKED LESS SEEMED
TO GET THE SAME AS THEM.
00:23:57.80\00:24:02.17
THEY DIDN'T GET
MORE, THEY GOT THE SAME.
00:24:02.17\00:24:04.54
'IT'S NOT FAIR.'
WE'VE ALL SEEN IT.
00:24:04.54\00:24:08.34
TAKE THE KIDS OUT FOR ICE
CREAM FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY AND
00:24:08.34\00:24:10.85
BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT A BIG GAGGLE
OF KIDS YOU BUY EACH OF THEM A
00:24:10.85\00:24:13.11
SINGLE SCOOP AND THEY'RE
ALL DELIGHTED, THEY'RE HAVING A
00:24:13.11\00:24:16.38
GREAT TIME UNTIL SOME MOM COMES
IN WITH HER KID ABOUT THE SAME
00:24:16.38\00:24:19.69
AGE AND HE GETS A TRIPLE SCOOP.
AND THEY SEE HIM WALK OUT OF
00:24:19.69\00:24:24.59
THE STORE WITH THREE SCOOPS
STACKED ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER
00:24:24.59\00:24:29.13
AND ALL THEY GOT IS THEIR
ONE LITTLE HALF-EATEN SCOOP OF
00:24:29.13\00:24:31.47
VANILLA - THEY'RE
NOT HAPPY ANYMORE. WHY?
00:24:31.47\00:24:37.04
WE'VE GOT GREEDY HEARTS.
A MILLIONAIRE IS HAPPY WITH
00:24:37.04\00:24:40.84
HIS MILLIONS UNTIL HE
FINDS OUT THERE'S BILLIONAIRES
00:24:40.84\00:24:42.84
OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.
THEY'RE NOT HAPPY ANYMORE.
00:24:42.84\00:24:46.78
SO SOMETIMES WE LOSE
OUR HAPPINESS BY COMPARISON.
00:24:46.78\00:24:51.92
YOU KNOW, ONE REASON THAT WE
OWN A LOT THAT WE OWN IS BECAUSE
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.52
WE LOOK AROUND US - YOU MIGHT
EVEN DO IT SUBCONSCIOUSLY - ALL
00:24:54.52\00:24:56.99
THE TIME, WE SEE WHAT EVERYONE
ELSE IS DRIVING, WHAT EVERYONE
00:24:56.99\00:24:59.09
ELSE IS WEARING, WHAT KIND OF
HOUSE THEY'RE ALL LIVING IN AND
00:24:59.09\00:25:01.83
WE DON'T WANT TO BE LABELED
AS BEHIND THE TIMES OR ARCHAIC.
00:25:01.83\00:25:06.43
AND SO, WE SAY, 'I
PROBABLY OUGHT TO GO SHOPPING.'
00:25:06.43\00:25:10.71
MATTER OF FACT, EVERY NOW
AND THEN, THE WOMAN IN MY LIFE
00:25:10.71\00:25:18.55
WILL SAY, 'DOUG, YOU'VE
BEEN WEARING THAT SUIT FOR TEN
00:25:18.55\00:25:20.25
YEARS.' AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A
TIME WHEN YOU NEED TO GO, BUT IF
00:25:20.25\00:25:24.19
YOU'RE NOT LOOKING
AROUND YOU DON'T REALIZE IT.
00:25:24.19\00:25:27.22
WHAT I DO IS, I'LL BE WATCHING
A PROGRAM THAT'S TWELVE YEARS
00:25:27.22\00:25:30.56
OLD AND I THINK, 'I'VE STILL
GOT THAT SAME SUIT AND TIE.' BUT
00:25:30.56\00:25:36.16
IT STILL FITS - PRAISE THE LORD!
AND SO I'D RATHER HAVE THAT
00:25:36.16\00:25:41.57
PROBLEM THAN THE OTHER
ONE. SO, BUT WE ARE CONSTANTLY
00:25:41.57\00:25:46.81
UNDER PRESSURE BY THE CHANGING
STYLES AND THE FADS AND THE
00:25:46.81\00:25:50.05
DESIGNS AND WE'RE THINKING WE'VE
GOT TO BUY, BUY, BUY TO KEEP UP.
00:25:50.05\00:25:53.72
BECAUSE, BY COMPARISON, WE
THINK WE'RE FINE UNTIL SOMEBODY
00:25:53.72\00:25:57.89
DRIVES UP - OUR NEIGHBOR PULLS
INTO HIS YARD WITH A BRAND-NEW
00:25:57.89\00:26:01.16
SHINY CAR AND OURS SUDDENLY
LOOKS OLD AND WE'RE NOT HAPPY
00:26:01.16\00:26:04.69
ANYMORE. SO WE GO
KICK A DENT IN HIS
00:26:04.69\00:26:11.20
CAR AND WE FEEL BETTER, RIGHT?
COLOSSIANS 3:5, "THEREFORE,
00:26:11.20\00:26:19.94
PUT TO DEATH YOUR MEMBERS
WHICH ARE ON EARTH:" - AND HE'S
00:26:19.94\00:26:23.14
TALKING ABOUT THESE
FLESHLY, SELFISH DESIRES -
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.61
"FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS,
PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND
00:26:25.61\00:26:29.58
COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS
IDOLATRY." HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT
00:26:29.58\00:26:33.59
THAT COVETOUSNESS IS IDOLATRY?
YOU'D NEVER BOW DOWN TO AN IDOL,
00:26:33.59\00:26:38.33
BUT SOME OF US BOW
TO THE IDOLS OF FASHION.
00:26:38.33\00:26:44.33
SOMEONE SAID, I THINK IT
WAS A PASTOR, HADDEN R.W.
00:26:44.33\00:26:49.10
ROBINSON, "COVETOUSNESS IS
SIMPLY CRAVING MORE OF WHAT
00:26:49.10\00:26:52.84
YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH
OF." COVETOUSNESS IS SIMPLY
00:26:52.84\00:26:57.18
CRAVING MORE OF WHAT
YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH OF.
00:26:57.18\00:27:00.98
BUT WE'RE NOT HAPPY. I'M
NOT DONE WITH MY VERSE IN
00:27:00.98\00:27:04.99
COLOSSIANS 3, "...COVETOUSNESS,
WHICH IS IDOLATRY.
00:27:04.99\00:27:08.29
BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS
THE WRATH OF GOD IS COMING UPON
00:27:08.29\00:27:10.79
THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE." IT'S
- IT REPRESENTS AN UNCONVERTED
00:27:10.79\00:27:15.76
HEART WHEN WE'RE
CONSTANTLY DISSATISFIED.
00:27:15.76\00:27:19.17
IT'S NOT ONLY COVETING POSITION
AND POSSESSIONS, IT'S PERSONS.
00:27:19.17\00:27:29.78
I'M NOT HAPPY WITH WHO I HAVE.
00:27:29.78\00:27:33.05
THE GRASS IS OFTEN GREENER
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE.
00:27:33.05\00:27:37.12
HAVE YOU READ THE STORY
ABOUT DAVID AND BATHSHEBA?
00:27:37.12\00:27:41.76
I DON'T THINK I NEED TO READ
THE WHOLE SORDID TALE RIGHT NOW,
00:27:41.76\00:27:44.76
I THINK MOST OF US,
UNFORTUNATELY, KNOW IT.
00:27:44.76\00:27:47.76
DAVID - HOW MANY
WIVES DOES HE HAVE?
00:27:47.76\00:27:51.37
TEN - BEFORE BATHSHEBA - AND
NUMBERLESS CONCUBINES, I THINK.
00:27:51.37\00:28:00.11
HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF CONCUBINES
AS WELL. HE'S GOT ABOUT A DOZEN
00:28:00.11\00:28:02.58
CONCUBINES AT THIS TIME.
HE WALKS ON THE ROOF OF HIS
00:28:02.58\00:28:06.61
HOUSE ONE DAY WHILE THE
ARMY'S OFF FIGHTING AND SPIES
00:28:06.61\00:28:10.85
BATHSHEBA - SEES THIS BEAUTIFUL
LADY - WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH
00:28:10.85\00:28:16.86
SHE WAS PARTICIPATING
IN ALL THAT HAPPENED.
00:28:16.86\00:28:18.93
SHE MAY HAVE KNOWN
DAVID WALKED THAT TIME OF DAY.
00:28:18.93\00:28:21.06
THERE'S NOT MUCH RECORD
ABOUT HOW SHE REACTED TO ALL OF
00:28:21.06\00:28:23.83
THIS, BUT HE INQUIRES FROM
HIS SERVANTS - HE SAID, 'YOU
00:28:23.83\00:28:28.94
KNOW THAT HOUSE AROUND
THE CORNER THAT'S GOT THE BIG
00:28:28.94\00:28:31.24
COURTYARD WITH THE BATH IN THE
BACK AND - WHO IS THAT WOMAN?'
00:28:31.24\00:28:36.51
THEY SAID, 'OH,
THAT'S BATHSHEBA, THE WIFE,
00:28:36.51\00:28:39.51
DAVID, WIFE OF URIAH - YOUR
MIGHTY MAN - THAT'S BATHSHEBA,
00:28:39.51\00:28:42.98
URIAH'S WIFE.' DAVID STARTS
TO THINK, 'I MIGHT HAVE A HALF
00:28:42.98\00:28:50.16
DOZEN WIVES - OR A DOZEN WIVES,
BUT I DON'T THINK ANY OF THEM
00:28:50.16\00:28:53.16
LOOK LIKE HER.' THE BIBLE
SAYS HIS WIVES WERE BEAUTIFUL.
00:28:53.16\00:28:57.43
ONE OF THEM WAS THE MOTHER
OF ABSALOM - BEAUTIFUL SON - THE
00:28:57.43\00:28:59.77
OTHER ONE WAS ABIGAIL, THE
BIBLE SAYS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL.
00:28:59.77\00:29:06.34
BUT THIS ONE WAS JUST
SUDDENLY LOOKING A LITTLE MORE
00:29:06.34\00:29:09.01
BEAUTIFUL AND SO HE JUST
COULDN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT.
00:29:09.01\00:29:15.42
HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW,
SOMETHING'S BEEN MISSING
00:29:15.42\00:29:17.79
IN MY LIFE AND I BET THIS IS IT.
00:29:17.79\00:29:20.06
AND I THINK - GOD PROBABLY
DESIGNED THAT I SHOULD WALK
00:29:20.06\00:29:22.49
ON MY ROOF AT THAT VERY TIME OF
THE DAY.' I MEAN, WHO KNOWS WHAT
00:29:22.49\00:29:25.79
KIND OF CRAZY RATIONALIZATION
HE WAS THINKING, BUT I'VE HEARD
00:29:25.79\00:29:28.46
PEOPLE RATIONALIZE COVETOUSNESS
A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS
00:29:28.46\00:29:34.64
AND WHATEVER - HE THOUGHT, YOU
KNOW, 'I WON'T DO ANYTHING BUT I
00:29:34.64\00:29:40.88
WOULD LIKE TO JUST - SHE'S
PROBABLY LONELY - JUST TALK TO
00:29:40.88\00:29:42.54
HER A LITTLE BIT. I'M LONELY,
SHE'S LONELY. LET'S JUST VISIT.
00:29:42.54\00:29:45.15
BRING HER TO THE HOUSE.'
YOU KNOW - AND ONCE YOU OPEN THE
00:29:45.15\00:29:49.02
DOOR LIKE THAT IT'S
USUALLY NOT GOING TO END WELL.
00:29:49.02\00:29:54.92
THEY SAID, 'WE'LL JUST BE
FRIENDS.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT
00:29:54.92\00:29:57.39
BEFORE? BY THE
WAY, LADIES, IT'S NOT
00:29:57.39\00:30:00.50
JUST MEN COVETING WOMEN,
IT'S WOMEN BEING DISSATISFIED
00:30:00.50\00:30:04.00
WITH THEIR HUSBANDS
TOO - WANTING A BETTER ONE.
00:30:04.00\00:30:06.94
YOU'RE WATCHING SOAP OPERAS
ALL DAY LONG AND THOSE, YOU
00:30:06.94\00:30:11.47
KNOW, DASHING CHARACTERS THAT
THEY'VE GOT ACTING IN HOLLYWOOD
00:30:11.47\00:30:14.31
WITH THEIR MAKE-UP ON AND
THEY'RE ALWAYS TRIM AND FIT AND
00:30:14.31\00:30:16.48
POLITE AND LOVING AND SENSITIVE
AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT YOUR
00:30:16.48\00:30:18.88
HUSBAND'S NOT. AND
YOU'RE THINKING, 'YOU KNOW,
00:30:18.88\00:30:24.29
THERE'S THIS OTHER GUY I
SEE AT WORK AND HE JUST SEEMS SO
00:30:24.29\00:30:27.49
NICE AND HE'S WILLING TO
LISTEN AND...' YOUR HUSBAND
00:30:27.49\00:30:32.56
BURPS AND HE'S JUST GOT THESE
PROBLEMS AND - NOTHING LIKE THE
00:30:32.56\00:30:37.50
GUYS ON TELEVISION IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
00:30:37.50\00:30:41.30
"AND I THINK I'M NEVER GOING
TO BE HAPPY UNTIL I GET THAT
00:30:41.30\00:30:44.27
OTHER MAN.' THE
DEVIL'S GOT A LOT OF WAYS OF
00:30:44.27\00:30:48.51
FRAMING THAT, BUT LET ME ASK
YOU, DID DAVID GET BATHSHEBA?
00:30:48.51\00:30:56.65
WAS HE HAPPY OR DID THAT
END VERY BADLY? IT WENT FROM
00:30:56.65\00:31:03.86
ADULTERY TO MURDERING A FRIEND
TO HAVING FOUR OF HIS SONS DIE,
00:31:03.86\00:31:09.13
LOSING THE RESPECT OF HIS
PEOPLE. COVETING WHAT YOU SHOULD
00:31:09.13\00:31:12.87
NOT WANT NEVER
BRINGS SATISFACTION.
00:31:12.87\00:31:18.21
AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A
VERY RELEVANT MESSAGE IN OUR DAY
00:31:18.21\00:31:20.38
AND AGE BECAUSE THERE IS A
WHOLE BRANCH - IT'S MUCH BIGGER
00:31:20.38\00:31:26.41
THAN ANY ONE DENOMINATION
- THERE IS A WHOLE BRANCH OF
00:31:26.41\00:31:29.18
CHRISTIANITY IN NORTH AMERICA
THAT'S CALLED 'PROSPERITY
00:31:29.18\00:31:33.32
PREACHING' - 'THE
PROSPERITY GOSPEL'.
00:31:33.32\00:31:35.62
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT?
00:31:35.62\00:31:37.79
LAST NIGHT KAREN AND I
TURNED ON 3ABN AND THERE'S OTHER
00:31:37.79\00:31:41.06
CHRISTIAN CHANNELS AND SO
WE WERE SCROLLING BETWEEN, YOU
00:31:41.06\00:31:44.23
KNOW, AS YOU CHANNEL SURF
BETWEEN 3ABN AND HOPE CHANNEL,
00:31:44.23\00:31:47.90
AMAZING FACTS AND SOME OF
THE OTHER CHANNELS, YOU ALSO
00:31:47.90\00:31:50.84
ENCOUNTER SOME VARIOUS
EVANGELICAL CHANNELS ALONG
00:31:50.84\00:31:54.31
THE WAY AND I STOPPED AT
THIS ONE AND I TOLD KAREN,
00:31:54.31\00:31:57.28
I SAID, 'THAT'S A PROSPERITY
PREACHER THERE.' JUST - I HADN'T
00:31:57.28\00:32:01.58
EVEN HEARD ANYTHING YET.
AND SURE ENOUGH, BEFORE TEN
00:32:01.58\00:32:04.62
MINUTES WENT BY, HE SAID THE
WORD PROSPERITY AND TALKED ABOUT
00:32:04.62\00:32:07.42
MONEY ABOUT HALF A
DOZEN TIMES OR MORE.
00:32:07.42\00:32:10.29
AND HE WAS SAYING WE DON'T
NEED TO OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF
00:32:10.29\00:32:13.76
GOD BECAUSE THAT'S THE OLD
COVENANT. 'GOD WANTS TO BLESS
00:32:13.76\00:32:16.56
YOU NOT BECAUSE OF YOUR
OBEDIENCE, HE JUST WANTS TO
00:32:16.56\00:32:19.67
BLESS YOU BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN
HIM AND HE'S GOING TO MAKE YOU
00:32:19.67\00:32:21.47
PROSPER.' AND, FRANKLY,
IT WAS A DOCTRINE OF DEVILS.
00:32:21.47\00:32:27.61
BUT THERE'S A WHOLE
CADRE OF PASTORS AND EVEN
00:32:27.61\00:32:31.45
DENOMINATIONS OUT THERE THAT
HAVE BOUGHT INTO THIS IDEA THAT
00:32:31.45\00:32:36.15
YOU FOLLOW JESUS, YOU TAKE
UP A GOLDEN CROSS AND YOU FOLLOW
00:32:36.15\00:32:41.02
JESUS AND HE WANTS YOU TO BE
HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE AND IF
00:32:41.02\00:32:43.89
YOU'RE NOT HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND
WISE, AND IF YOU'RE NOT BLESSED
00:32:43.89\00:32:46.70
IN EVERY WAY, THEN
YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
00:32:46.70\00:32:49.30
BUT IS THAT WHAT JESUS
TOLD US? IT SAYS IN LUKE 5:11 -
00:32:49.30\00:32:58.01
CHRIST CALLED THEM TO FOLLOW
HIM, "AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT
00:32:58.01\00:33:01.38
THEIR BOATS TO LAND,
THEY FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED
00:33:01.38\00:33:05.85
HIM." HOW CAN YOU MARKET
A GOSPEL LIKE THAT IN SUCH
00:33:05.85\00:33:09.65
A MATERIALISTIC CULTURE?
FORSAKE EVERYTHING AND FOLLOW
00:33:09.65\00:33:12.99
JESUS, WHEN WE'RE BEING
PROGRAMMED TO BE DISSATISFIED?
00:33:12.99\00:33:18.29
AND ONE MORE, PAUL SAID, IN 1
TIMOTHY 6:9 AND 10, "BUT THOSE
00:33:18.29\00:33:23.73
WHO DESIRE TO BE RICH FALL
INTO TEMPTATION" - WHAT ENDS UP
00:33:23.73\00:33:27.70
HAPPENING IF WE NURTURE - IF
WE FEED THIS DESIRE TO BE RICH?
00:33:27.70\00:33:34.64
YOU KNOW, IN THE
INVESTMENT WORLD, EVERY NOW AND
00:33:34.64\00:33:36.78
THEN YOU HEAR ABOUT SOME PONZI
SCHEME WHERE ALL THESE DEAR
00:33:36.78\00:33:40.55
PEOPLE PUT THEIR RETIREMENT INTO
SOME FUND - WE ALL HEARD ABOUT
00:33:40.55\00:33:44.92
MADOFF AND OTHERS LIKE HIM -
THERE'S A LOT OF THEM AROUND -
00:33:44.92\00:33:48.36
AND THEY'LL GO AROUND AND MEET
WITH PEOPLE AND THEY'LL TALK
00:33:48.36\00:33:50.29
ABOUT, 'LOOK, IF YOU INVEST WITH
THIS NEW CORPORATION THAT WE'VE
00:33:50.29\00:33:52.89
FORMED, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU
DOUBLE YOUR MONEY IN TWO YEARS.
00:33:52.89\00:33:56.93
NO INTEREST - ANYTHING
LIKE THAT.' AND THEY CREATE THIS
00:33:56.93\00:33:59.13
SCENARIO AND THEY SELL IT AND
THEY'VE GOT THE PAPERWORK AND IT
00:33:59.13\00:34:01.64
SOUNDS SO AUTHENTIC AND THEY
SHOW THESE STORIES - THEY'VE
00:34:01.64\00:34:04.24
GOT TESTIMONIALS AND THESE
DEAR, SINCERE PEOPLE, WHO KNOW
00:34:04.24\00:34:08.24
IN THEIR HEART OF HEARTS, 'BOY,
YOU KNOW, YOU GET RICH THAT
00:34:08.24\00:34:10.58
QUICK AND SOMETHING CAN'T
BE RIGHT.' BUT THEIR REASON IS
00:34:10.58\00:34:15.75
SMOTHERED AND SUFFOCATED BY
THEIR GREED AND EVEN GOOD PEOPLE
00:34:15.75\00:34:20.49
HAVE INVESTED THEIR LIFE
SAVINGS AND THEIR RETIREMENT IN
00:34:20.49\00:34:22.96
THESE SCHEMES AND THEN ONE DAY
THEY FIND OUT - THEY SAY, 'LOOK,
00:34:22.96\00:34:26.36
I NEED TO MAKE A WITHDRAWAL.'
AND THEY DON'T HEAR ANY
00:34:26.36\00:34:28.03
MORE FROM THEIR INVESTOR AND HE
SKIPS TOWN AND YOU FIND OUT HE
00:34:28.03\00:34:31.57
SKIPS TOWN WITH ALL THE MONEY
OF ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE THAT
00:34:31.57\00:34:33.94
HAVE LOST EVERYTHING. OR
THEY GO TO JAIL - THEY'RE
00:34:33.94\00:34:37.81
PROSECUTED - BUT THEY
SPENT IT ALL AND THE GOVERNMENT
00:34:37.81\00:34:40.78
SAYS, 'WE'RE SO SORRY.
THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO.
00:34:40.78\00:34:42.74
WE'RE GOING TO PUT THEM IN
JAIL BUT YOUR MONEY'S GONE.'
00:34:42.74\00:34:45.41
AND YOU KNOW WHAT USUALLY
WAS AT THE FOUNDATION OF THAT?
00:34:45.41\00:34:49.22
THEY WANTED TO GET TOO
MUCH TOO FAST AND THEY "PIERCED
00:34:49.22\00:34:54.42
THEMSELVES THROUGH
WITH MANY SORROWS." I HAD AN
00:34:54.42\00:34:58.39
INVESTMENT ADVISOR TELL ME
ONE TIME - I SAID, 'OH, I HEARD
00:34:58.39\00:35:00.76
ABOUT THIS INVESTMENT OVER HERE
AND, BOY, YOU CAN GET, YOU KNOW,
00:35:00.76\00:35:03.16
TWELVE PERCENT.' AND SHE
SAID, 'HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED.'
00:35:03.16\00:35:10.34
HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED.
PEOPLE THAT WANT TO MAKE TOO
00:35:10.34\00:35:13.24
MUCH TOO FAST,
IT DOESN'T END WELL.
00:35:13.24\00:35:15.71
AND THAT'S ALSO TRUE
IN THE CHRISTIAN REALM.
00:35:15.71\00:35:18.55
THIS IDEA THAT 'I'M GOING
TO COME TO JESUS BECAUSE THE
00:35:18.55\00:35:20.12
PREACHER TELLS ME IF I
ACCEPT JESUS AND IF I MAKE THIS
00:35:20.12\00:35:22.98
BIG DONATION, ALL OF A
SUDDEN WINDOWS IN HEAVEN ARE
00:35:22.98\00:35:25.49
GOING TO OPEN AND I'M GOING
TO HAVE ALL THIS PROSPERITY AND
00:35:25.49\00:35:28.49
I'M GOING TO BE DRIVING' - AND
A LOT OF PREACHERS HAVE TURNED
00:35:28.49\00:35:32.26
INTO POSITIVE THINKING
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS THAT TELL
00:35:32.26\00:35:35.90
PEOPLE ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU'RE
GOING TO GET IF YOU FOLLOW JESUS
00:35:35.90\00:35:39.00
IN THE WORLD. IF
THAT'S YOUR REASON FOR
00:35:39.00\00:35:42.04
FOLLOWING JESUS THEN YOU
SIGNED UP FOR THE WRONG GROUP
00:35:42.04\00:35:45.67
BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO FOLLOW
JESUS BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM AND
00:35:45.67\00:35:48.51
YOU WANT YOUR SINS FORGIVEN AND
YOU WANT TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER.
00:35:48.51\00:35:50.61
GOD CAN BLESS
PEOPLE, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND.
00:35:50.61\00:35:54.78
BUT PLEASE GET
THE PERCENTAGES RIGHT.
00:35:54.78\00:35:59.19
HERE'S THE PERCENTAGE: 'IT
IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO
00:35:59.19\00:36:02.92
THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN
A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM
00:36:02.92\00:36:05.76
OF HEAVEN.' CAN IT BE
DONE? YEAH, IS IT THE RULE
00:36:05.76\00:36:09.90
OR THE EXCEPTION? JESUS
SAID IT'S THE EXCEPTION.
00:36:09.90\00:36:13.87
IT IS HARD FOR A
RICH MAN TO BE SAVED.
00:36:13.87\00:36:17.07
THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF
JESUS. TAKE THAT UP WITH HIM.
00:36:17.07\00:36:19.34
THAT'S NOT WHAT THESE
PASTORS ARE TEACHING PEOPLE.
00:36:19.34\00:36:22.51
THEY'RE TEACHING PEOPLE THAT
JESUS WANTS YOU ALL TO BE RICH.
00:36:22.51\00:36:26.11
WHY WOULD HE SAY IT'S SO
HARD FOR YOU TO BE SAVED IF
00:36:26.11\00:36:27.85
YOU'RE RICH AND TELL EVERYBODY
HE WANTS THEM TO BE RICH?
00:36:27.85\00:36:32.05
THAT COULD BE WHY THE GOSPEL
IS SPREADING THE FASTEST IN THE
00:36:32.05\00:36:34.92
POOREST COUNTRIES AND IT
COULD BE WHY, SPIRITUALLY, WE'RE
00:36:34.92\00:36:38.19
SO LUKEWARM IN THE PROSPEROUS
COUNTRIES - WHERE THERE'S SO
00:36:38.19\00:36:41.90
MUCH MATERIALISM IT BECOMES
A GOD. PROSPERITY PREACHING.
00:36:41.90\00:36:48.57
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S
CROSSING INTO THE PROMISED
00:36:48.57\00:36:51.24
LAND WAS
INHIBITED BY COVETOUSNESS.
00:36:51.24\00:36:56.18
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER
WHEN JOSHUA CROSSED OVER AND
00:36:56.18\00:36:57.98
THEY CONQUERED JERICHO AND HE
SAID, 'DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING IN
00:36:57.98\00:37:02.62
JERICHO, IT'S ALL
CONSECRATED TO THE LORD.
00:37:02.62\00:37:04.89
YOU'LL BE
CURSED IF YOU TOUCH IT.
00:37:04.89\00:37:06.52
GOD'LL BLESS YOU
- YOU'VE GOT PLENTY.
00:37:06.52\00:37:08.39
DON'T REACH OUT FOR
THAT FORBIDDEN CURSED THING.
00:37:08.39\00:37:13.13
BUT AIKEN, THE SON OF
CARMI, WHEN HE WAS WITH THE
00:37:13.13\00:37:17.17
SOLDIERS AND THEY WERE GOING
FROM ROOM TO ROOM IN JERICHO
00:37:17.17\00:37:19.97
AND CONQUERING THE CITY, HE
FOUND THIS ONE HOUSE WHERE HE
00:37:19.97\00:37:24.21
SAW THE WARDROBE HAD
JUST SOME BEAUTIFUL, VERY
00:37:24.21\00:37:27.04
EXPENSIVE BABYLONIAN CLOTHES.
HE THOUGHT, 'WHAT A SHAME TO
00:37:27.04\00:37:30.01
BURN UP THAT ROBE.' AND
HE ALSO FOUND, IN A DRAWER
00:37:30.01\00:37:33.55
SOMEWHERE, THERE WAS
SOME SILVER AND A BAR OF GOLD.
00:37:33.55\00:37:37.19
AND HE KNEW HE WASN'T SUPPOSED
TO DO IT, BUT, WELL, LET ME
00:37:37.19\00:37:40.09
GIVE IT TO YOU IN HIS OWN WORDS.
00:37:40.09\00:37:41.42
FINALLY, WHEN THEY CAST LOTS
AND THEY FOUND OUT WHAT HE HAD
00:37:41.42\00:37:43.43
DONE, THEY HAD LOST THE BATTLE
WITH AI AND ABOUT 32 PEOPLE WERE
00:37:43.43\00:37:48.06
KILLED BECAUSE GOD COULD
NOT BLESS THEM IN THEIR FUTURE
00:37:48.06\00:37:51.00
BATTLES BECAUSE OF
AIKEN'S COVETOUSNESS.
00:37:51.00\00:37:53.17
YOUR COVETOUSNESS WILL
NOT ONLY AFFECT YOU, YOUR
00:37:53.17\00:37:56.87
COVETOUSNESS
WILL AFFECT THE ARMY.
00:37:56.87\00:38:00.14
SO IF YOU THINK WHETHER OR
NOT YOUR COVETOUSNESS IS JUST
00:38:00.14\00:38:02.58
BETWEEN YOU AND GOD, IT
AFFECTS THE BATTLES THE CHURCH
00:38:02.58\00:38:05.75
WINS, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.
00:38:05.75\00:38:08.12
ALL OF ISRAEL LOST A
BATTLE BECAUSE OF THE
00:38:08.12\00:38:09.98
COVETOUSNESS IN ONE MAN'S TENT
- WHICH STARTED IN HIS HEART.
00:38:09.98\00:38:17.49
AND, FINALLY, AIKEN
ANSWERED JOSHUA AND SAID,
00:38:17.49\00:38:19.56
'INDEED, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST
THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AND THIS
00:38:19.56\00:38:22.36
IS WHAT I'VE DONE: WHEN I SAW
AMONG THE SPOILS OF JERICHO A
00:38:22.36\00:38:27.34
BEAUTIFUL BABYLONIAN GARMENT
AND 200 SHEKELS OF SILVER AND A
00:38:27.34\00:38:30.77
WEDGE OF GOLD WEIGHING 50
SHEKELS, I COVETED THEM AND I
00:38:30.77\00:38:35.68
TOOK THEM. THERE
THEY ARE HIDDEN IN
00:38:35.68\00:38:38.25
THE EARTH IN THE MIDST OF MY
TENT WITH THE SILVER UNDER IT.'
00:38:38.25\00:38:42.32
COVETOUSNESS CAN BE
FATAL. WHAT HAPPENED TO AIKEN?
00:38:42.32\00:38:47.92
HE WAS STONED AND THEN BURNED.
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FAMILY?
00:38:47.92\00:38:51.49
THEY ALL KNEW
ABOUT DAD'S SECRET STASH.
00:38:51.49\00:38:53.60
THEY BECAME ACCESSORIES -
THEY WERE STONED AND THEY WERE
00:38:53.60\00:38:56.87
KILLED TOO. YOUR
COVETOUSNESS WILL PLAY
00:38:56.87\00:39:00.17
ITSELF OUT AND YOUR KIDS
WILL TYPICALLY PRIORITIZE
00:39:00.17\00:39:03.64
THE WAY YOU DO. IF
YOU GIVE AND YOU'RE
00:39:03.64\00:39:07.04
GENEROUS, THEY'LL OFTEN SEE YOU
MODEL THAT - THEY'LL DO THAT.
00:39:07.04\00:39:10.58
IF YOU'RE GRASPING AND IF
YOU THINK EVERY TIME YOU'RE
00:39:10.58\00:39:12.71
DEPRESSED THE ANSWER IS TO
GO SHOPPING, THEY'LL THINK THAT
00:39:12.71\00:39:15.88
TOO - THAT HAPPINESS COMES,
SOMEHOW, THROUGH MATERIALISM.
00:39:15.88\00:39:19.99
AND IT PERPETUATES ITSELF.
WE KNOW THE STORY OF GEHAZI.
00:39:19.99\00:39:25.16
YOU FIND THIS IN
2 KINGS CHAPTER 5.
00:39:25.16\00:39:28.03
WE ALL KNOW ABOUT NAAMAN,
THE LEPER WHO WAS HEALED, RIGHT?
00:39:28.03\00:39:32.93
AND AFTER HE'S HEALED HE'S
SO THANKFUL - HE'S CLEANSED FROM
00:39:32.93\00:39:36.60
HIS LEPROSY IN THE JORDAN
RIVER AND HE JUST WANTS TO GO
00:39:36.60\00:39:40.61
BACK AND HE WANTS
TO BLESS THE LORD.
00:39:40.61\00:39:42.14
HE SAID, 'OH, GOD'S
GIVEN ME SO MUCH.' YOU KNOW, HE
00:39:42.14\00:39:43.68
TOOK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS' WORTH
OF GOLD AND SILVER AND CLOTHES
00:39:43.68\00:39:47.28
TO PAY FOR HIS PROPHET - THE
PROPHET HEALING HIM - AND WHEN
00:39:47.28\00:39:53.02
HE COMES TO ELISHA AND
SAYS, 'TAKE A BLESSING.
00:39:53.02\00:39:54.99
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
HEALING ME.' ELISHA SAYS, 'NO,
00:39:54.99\00:39:57.76
THIS IS ON THE
HOUSE.' 'OH NO, NO, NO, NO!'
00:39:57.76\00:40:00.93
NOW GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF
ELISHA'S STANDING THERE AND
00:40:00.93\00:40:04.90
HE'S THINKING, 'ARE
YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
00:40:04.90\00:40:06.74
THIS GUY - LOOK AT ALL HE'S GOT!
00:40:06.74\00:40:08.10
LOOK AT WHAT - WE
COULD HAVE A BETTER HOUSE.
00:40:08.10\00:40:10.37
WE COULD HAVE A BETTER
CHARIOT, WE COULD HAVE A BETTER
00:40:10.37\00:40:11.84
EVERYTHING. WE COULD HAVE
SERVANTS - IF YOU'D JUST TAKE
00:40:11.84\00:40:13.71
HALF OF WHAT HE'S OFFERING.
YOU'RE SENDING HIM AWAY?'
00:40:13.71\00:40:17.41
HE DOESN'T SAY THAT, BUT
HE'S THINKING IT IN HIS HEART.
00:40:17.41\00:40:22.22
ELISHA KNEW THAT YOU COULDN'T
CHARGE NAAMAN BECAUSE HE'S
00:40:22.22\00:40:25.62
GOING BACK TO SYRIA - HE WANTED
HIM TO KNOW THAT THE GIFTS OF
00:40:25.62\00:40:28.39
GOD ARE FREE - THAT YOU DON'T
PAY FOR THE HEALINGS THAT GOD
00:40:28.39\00:40:32.26
AND THE MIRACLES THAT GOD -
DID ANYONE EVER PAY JESUS FOR A
00:40:32.26\00:40:34.46
MIRACLE? AND ELISHA
WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:40:34.46\00:40:37.37
IT WAS SO IMPORTANT NOT TO
TAKE NAAMAN'S MONEY - AND THAT
00:40:37.37\00:40:41.30
HE TOOK THAT
MESSAGE BACK TO HIS PEOPLE.
00:40:41.30\00:40:43.30
AND AFTER NAAMAN RODE AWAY
WITH ALL OF HIS MONEY, THE BIBLE
00:40:43.30\00:40:46.54
SAYS GEHAZI SAID WITHIN HIS
HEART, 'I'M GOING AFTER HIM.'
00:40:46.54\00:40:51.35
AND AS HE RAN TO HEAD HIM OFF
ON THE ROAD, HE FORMULATED AND
00:40:51.35\00:40:56.18
CONCOCTED SOME STORY AND HE
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, RIGHT AFTER
00:40:56.18\00:40:59.62
YOU LEFT SOME POOR PROPHETS CAME
TO VISIT US AND THEY'RE SONS OF
00:40:59.62\00:41:02.56
PROPHETS AND THEY HAVE
NOTHING AND ELISHA SENT ME HE
00:41:02.56\00:41:04.99
SAID, YOU KNOW, 'IF YOU DO HAVE
A LITTLE BIT OF CLOTHES AND GOLD
00:41:04.99\00:41:08.10
OR SILVER WE CAN GIVE THEM,
THAT'D BE GREAT.' NAAMAN SAID,
00:41:08.10\00:41:11.57
'SURE!' - HE'S HAPPY. HE'S GOT
A LIFE. HE WAS DYING OF LEPROSY.
00:41:11.57\00:41:14.84
HE SAYS, 'I'LL
GIVE WHATEVER YOU WANT.
00:41:14.84\00:41:16.14
HERE, TAKE TWO.' WHICH
ALSO SHOWS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE
00:41:16.14\00:41:19.24
SALVATION YOU'RE
GENEROUS. YOU WANT TO GIVE.
00:41:19.24\00:41:23.61
AND SO GEHAZI, HE TAKES
THIS STUFF AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW
00:41:23.61\00:41:26.58
HOW HE CARRIED IT ALL. HE
SLINKS BACK TO ELISHA'S HOUSE.
00:41:26.58\00:41:30.52
HE SQUIRRELS IT AWAY IN
BARNS SOMEWHERE AND COMES IN TO
00:41:30.52\00:41:33.72
SEE ELISHA AND - CAN YOU
HIDE ANYTHING FROM A PROPHET?
00:41:33.72\00:41:39.29
AND ELISHA SAYS,
'GEHAZI, WHERE WERE YOU?'
00:41:39.29\00:41:42.73
'OH, I WASN'T ANYWHERE.' 'OH' -
HE SAID, - 'DID NOT MY HEART GO
00:41:42.73\00:41:47.94
OUT AFTER YOU WHEN YOU FOLLOWED
AFTER THE MAN AND HE CAME DOWN
00:41:47.94\00:41:50.87
FROM HIS CHARIOT TO MEET YOU?'
00:41:50.87\00:41:52.74
HE SAID, 'IS IT A TIME TO
GET OLIVE YARDS AND VINEYARDS
00:41:52.74\00:41:55.74
AND MAIDSERVANTS
AND MANSERVANTS?'
00:41:55.74\00:41:57.58
HE - ELISHA - BEGAN TO
RECITE EXACTLY THE THINGS THAT
00:41:57.58\00:42:01.22
GEHAZI WAS THINKING HE WAS
GOING TO BUY WITH THAT MONEY.
00:42:01.22\00:42:04.72
HE SAID, 'NOW, BECAUSE YOU'VE
DONE THIS THING, THE LEPROSY
00:42:04.72\00:42:07.89
OF NAAMAN WILL CLING TO YOU AND
YOUR SEED FOREVER.' AND HE WENT
00:42:07.89\00:42:12.89
OUT OF ELISHA'S
PRESENCE A LEPER WHITE AS SNOW.
00:42:12.89\00:42:16.53
DID HE STILL HAVE
THE GOLD AND SILVER?
00:42:16.53\00:42:19.70
YEAH. WAS HE HAPPY? NO.
DIDN'T END WELL, DID IT?
00:42:19.70\00:42:26.74
A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST
IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS HE
00:42:26.74\00:42:29.41
POSSESSES. WHAT
SHALL I MORE SAY?
00:42:29.41\00:42:34.72
ISAIAH 57:17, "FOR THE
INIQUITY OF HIS COVETOUSNESS I
00:42:34.72\00:42:38.79
WAS ANGRY AND STRUCK
HIM;" WHAT WAS BALAAM'S PROBLEM?
00:42:38.79\00:42:45.69
HE WAS A RELIGIOUS
LEADER - PROPHET - COVETED.
00:42:45.69\00:42:49.00
HE WAS WILLING TO CURSE GOD'S
PEOPLE IF YOU PAID HIM RIGHT.
00:42:49.00\00:42:52.20
AND THERE ARE STILL PASTORS
OUT THERE THAT WILL PREACH WHAT
00:42:52.20\00:42:54.10
PEOPLE ARE ITCHING TO HEAR
IF THEY MAKE AN OFFERING TO HIS
00:42:54.10\00:42:56.71
PERSONAL ACCOUNT.
WHAT ABOUT DELILAH?
00:42:56.71\00:43:02.91
SHE HAD THE STRONGEST,
BEST LOOKING MAN IN THE WORLD,
00:43:02.91\00:43:04.98
BUT SHE WAS WILLING TO
SELL HIM FOR SILVER, WASN'T SHE?
00:43:04.98\00:43:08.22
BECAUSE SHE COVETED THE
MONEY. HEBREWS 13, VERSE 5, "LET
00:43:08.22\00:43:15.12
YOUR CONDUCT BE WITHOUT
COVETOUSNESS; BE CONTENT WITH
00:43:15.12\00:43:19.83
SUCH THINGS AS YOU HAVE.
FOR HE HIMSELF HAS SAID, 'I
00:43:19.83\00:43:22.96
WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE
YOU.'" YOU KNOW, THE ESSENCE OF
00:43:22.96\00:43:28.60
THE MESSAGE ABOUT
COVETOUSNESS IS: BE CONTENT.
00:43:28.60\00:43:34.54
UNBIBLICAL OR, WHEN I
SAY 'UNBIBLICAL', COVETING
00:43:34.54\00:43:39.11
THINGS THAT ARE FORBIDDEN
IS REALLY DISSATISFACTION.
00:43:39.11\00:43:44.05
AND THERE ARE SO MANY
PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT HAPPY AND
00:43:44.05\00:43:45.79
THEY THINK THAT GETTING
SOMETHING OR SOMEONE ELSE IS
00:43:45.79\00:43:48.22
GOING TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS.
IF THEY GET THAT PROMOTION
00:43:48.22\00:43:51.16
- THAT POSITION, THOSE
POSSESSIONS, THAT PERSON
00:43:51.16\00:43:53.83
- EVERYTHING'S
GOING TO BE BETTER.
00:43:53.83\00:43:59.67
WHAT BROUGHT SIN INTO OUR WORLD?
THE DEVIL SAID TO EVE, 'OH,
00:43:59.67\00:44:06.88
YOU'RE NOT AS
SMART AS YOU COULD BE.
00:44:06.88\00:44:09.21
YOU THINK EVERYTHING'S OKAY,
BUT IF YOU EAT THIS FRUIT YOU
00:44:09.21\00:44:11.88
WOULD BE MUCH BETTER
OFF. YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD.'
00:44:11.88\00:44:15.32
HE PLANTED THE SEED
OF DISCONTENT IN HER
00:44:15.32\00:44:18.65
HEART AND WHEN SHE WAS
DISCONTENT SHE THEN COVETED THE
00:44:18.65\00:44:22.09
FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
ISN'T THAT WHAT HAPPENED?
00:44:22.09\00:44:26.83
1 TIMOTHY 6, VERSE 6,
"NOW GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT
00:44:26.83\00:44:32.33
IS GREAT GAIN." THAT'S A
GOOD VERSE FOR US TO REMEMBER.
00:44:32.33\00:44:35.34
"GODLINESS WITH
CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN.
00:44:35.34\00:44:39.27
FOR WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO
THIS WORLD, AND IT IS CERTAIN WE
00:44:39.27\00:44:41.44
CAN CARRY NOTHING
OUT." WHAT DID JOB SAY?
00:44:41.44\00:44:43.35
'NAKED I CAME INTO THIS
WORLD, NAKED I'M GOING OUT.'
00:44:43.35\00:44:45.81
"AND HAVING FOOD AND
CLOTHING, WITH THESE WE SHALL BE
00:44:45.81\00:44:48.05
CONTENT." IF YOU HAVE THE BASICS
THEN BE SATISFIED BECAUSE IF
00:44:48.05\00:44:54.09
YOU'RE NOT
SATISFIED WITH THE BASICS...
00:44:54.09\00:44:55.72
SOMEONE WAS ASKING -
WAS IT NELSON ROCKEFELLER -
00:44:55.72\00:45:00.20
VERY WEALTHY FAMILY
THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY.
00:45:00.20\00:45:03.13
HOW MUCH MONEY DOES IT
TAKE FOR A PERSON TO BE CONTENT?
00:45:03.13\00:45:07.00
HE SAID, 'A LITTLE MORE.'
IT'S ALWAYS A LITTLE MORE.
00:45:07.00\00:45:12.41
PEOPLE ARE NEVER SATISFIED.
PHILIPPIANS 4:11, "NOT THAT I
00:45:12.41\00:45:17.15
SPEAK IN REGARD TO NEED, FOR I
HAVE LEARNED IN WHATEVER STATE I
00:45:17.15\00:45:21.25
AM, TO BE CONTENT." IT'S OKAY,
YOU KNOW, GOD'S BLESSED YOU
00:45:21.25\00:45:26.59
AND YOU'RE CONTENT, GREAT.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH AND
00:45:26.59\00:45:30.19
YOU LEARN TO BE CONTENT.
"I KNOW HOW TO BE FULL AND HOW
00:45:30.19\00:45:36.26
TO BE HUNGRY, BOTH TO
ABOUND AND TO SUFFER NEED.
00:45:36.26\00:45:38.90
I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH
CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME." YOU
00:45:38.90\00:45:42.94
KNOW, I THINK THAT'S THE
KEY RIGHT HERE IS LEARNING TO
00:45:42.94\00:45:44.77
BE CONTENT. I
HEARD THIS STORY ONE TIME
00:45:44.77\00:45:46.94
- LET'S SEE IF I CAN GET IT
RIGHT - IT WASN'T IN MY NOTES SO
00:45:46.94\00:45:48.84
I'M - IT'S JUST COMING BACK
TO ME. THIS WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN
00:45:48.84\00:45:53.21
WENT DOWN TO MEXICO
TO GO ON A FISHING TRIP.
00:45:53.21\00:45:55.85
HE HAD SAVED UP FOR A WHILE AND
HE BROUGHT SOME BUDDIES AND THEY
00:45:55.85\00:45:59.45
WENT DOWN TO BAJA CALIFORNIA AND
THEY WENT OUT AND HE WAS TALKING
00:45:59.45\00:46:03.89
TO THE MAN HE RENTED THE FISHING
BOAT FROM - ONE OF THE LOCAL
00:46:03.89\00:46:06.76
VILLAGERS - AND HE'S TAKEN OFF
FISHING AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
00:46:06.76\00:46:10.13
THIS BOAT'S OKAY, BUT YOU CAN
GET A LOT BETTER BOAT, YOU KNOW,
00:46:10.13\00:46:14.30
IF YOU'D GO OUT MORE THAN ONCE
A DAY - YOU COULD TAKE OUT MORE
00:46:14.30\00:46:18.14
CUSTOMERS - YOU
COULD DOUBLE YOUR INCOME.
00:46:18.14\00:46:20.71
YOU COULD GET A BIGGER
BOAT. EVENTUALLY, YOU COULD EVEN
00:46:20.71\00:46:22.98
HAVE OTHER PEOPLE THAT
WERE WORKING FOR YOU - YOU COULD
00:46:22.98\00:46:27.08
RETIRE - THEY COULD GO OUT
AND DO THE FISHING AND YOU COULD
00:46:27.08\00:46:30.82
THEN GET ANOTHER BOAT AND YOU
COULD OWN THE FLEET OF BOATS.'
00:46:30.82\00:46:33.92
AND HE SAID, 'LET ME TELL
YOU ABOUT BUSINESS PRINCIPLES
00:46:33.92\00:46:36.66
SO THAT YOU COULD GROW THIS
INDUSTRY. DAY AFTER DAY YOU'VE
00:46:36.66\00:46:39.76
BEEN DOING THIS' HE
SAID. AND THE MEXICAN FISHERMAN
00:46:39.76\00:46:44.23
SAID TO HIM, HE SAID,
'OKAY. THAT'S VERY SMART.'
00:46:44.23\00:46:47.94
HE SAID, 'LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT
AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN I HAVE
00:46:47.94\00:46:52.21
ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL
THESE PEOPLE WORKING FOR ME?'
00:46:52.21\00:46:54.78
HE SAID, 'YOU CAN DO WHATEVER
YOU WANT.' HE SAID, 'WELL, I'LL
00:46:54.78\00:46:57.85
PROBABLY TAKE A LITTLE BOAT AND
GO OUT WITH FRIENDS FISHING.' HE
00:46:57.85\00:47:03.02
SAID, 'I'M DOING WHAT I
WANT NOW.' JUST A LITTLE MORE.
00:47:03.02\00:47:13.16
LUKE CHAPTER 12, YOU KNOW
THE PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL.
00:47:13.16\00:47:18.27
LUKE 12:13, "THEN ONE FROM
THE CROWD SAID, 'TEACHER, TELL
00:47:18.27\00:47:23.07
MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE THE
INHERITANCE WITH ME.'" BOY,
00:47:23.07\00:47:27.24
YOU KNOW, I'VE - FAMILIES
THAT HAVE GOT ALONG TOGETHER FOR
00:47:27.24\00:47:31.01
YEARS - SOMEBODY DIES
AND THERE'S A DISPUTE OVER A
00:47:31.01\00:47:34.42
WILL OR PROPERTY AND FOLKS YOU
NEVER THOUGHT WOULD BE UGLY CAN
00:47:34.42\00:47:40.29
GET VERY UGLY. AND YOU
KNOW WHAT'S AT THE HEART OF IT?
00:47:40.29\00:47:44.73
THEY'LL SAY,
'IT'S THE PRINCIPLE.
00:47:44.73\00:47:46.16
IT'S NOT THE MONEY, IT'S THE
PRINCIPLE.' USUALLY WHEN PEOPLE
00:47:46.16\00:47:49.30
SAY THAT, IT'S THE
MONEY. NOT ALWAYS, BUT USUALLY.
00:47:49.30\00:47:56.94
"'TELL MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE
THE INHERITANCE WITH ME.' BUT
00:47:56.94\00:48:00.71
JESUS SAID, "MAN, WHO MADE
ME A JUDGE OR AN ARBITRATOR OVER
00:48:00.71\00:48:04.55
YOU?'" - HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME
INTO THE WORLD TO HELP SETTLE
00:48:04.55\00:48:08.12
THESE FINANCIAL DISPUTES.' - AND
THEN HE TOLD THEM, 'TAKE HEED'"
00:48:08.12\00:48:13.62
- THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS -
"'AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS'" -
00:48:13.62\00:48:19.23
WHAT DOES 'BEWARE' MEAN?
IT'S LIKE HE SAID, 'REMEMBER
00:48:19.23\00:48:21.30
LOT'S WIFE.' HE SAID,
'SIT UP. PAY ATTENTION.
00:48:21.30\00:48:23.40
I'M WAVING A FLAG HERE BEWARE.'
BECAUSE IT'S EVERYWHERE.
00:48:23.40\00:48:29.10
"'FOR ONE'S LIFE DOES NOT
CONSIST IN THE ABUNDANCE OF
00:48:29.10\00:48:31.64
THE THINGS HE POSSESSES.'
THEN HE SPOKE A PARABLE TO THEM,
00:48:31.64\00:48:35.44
SAYING: 'THE GROUND OF A
CERTAIN RICH MAN'" - HE'S
00:48:35.44\00:48:37.05
ALREADY RICH - "'YIELDED
PLENTIFULLY.'" - AND, YOU KNOW A
00:48:37.05\00:48:41.25
RICH PERSON - HAS A LITTLE MORE
- HE SAID, 'IF I HAD A LITTLE
00:48:41.25\00:48:43.05
MORE THEN I'D GIVE MORE.'
THAT'S TYPICALLY NOT TRUE.
00:48:43.05\00:48:45.95
YOU KNOW, PERCENTAGE-WISE
POOR PEOPLE GIVE A HIGHER
00:48:45.95\00:48:47.96
PERCENTAGE OF THEIR
INCOME THAN RICH PEOPLE DO.
00:48:47.96\00:48:50.99
THE IDEA OF 'LORD, IF YOU JUST
BLESS ME WITH RICHES I'LL BE
00:48:50.99\00:48:52.99
MORE GENEROUS.'
THAT, STATISTICALLY, IS NOT
00:48:52.99\00:48:55.20
PROVEN TRUE. IT
SEEMS LIKE THE MORE
00:48:55.20\00:48:57.67
PEOPLE HAVE, THE SMALLER
THE PERCENT OF WHAT THEY GIVE
00:48:57.67\00:48:59.93
- WITH A FEW
EXCEPTIONS. THERE ARE SOME VERY
00:48:59.93\00:49:01.97
GENEROUS WEALTHY PEOPLE OUT
THERE, BUT BY AND LARGE - THIS
00:49:01.97\00:49:06.44
RICH MAN HAD A GREAT BUMPER CROP
"AND HE THOUGHT WITHIN HIMSELF
00:49:06.44\00:49:10.78
SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL I DO SINCE I
HAVE NO ROOM TO STORE MY CROPS?'
00:49:10.78\00:49:14.75
- IT NEVER EVEN OCCURRED TO
HIM, 'MAYBE I SHOULD GIVE HALF
00:49:14.75\00:49:16.79
OF IT AWAY SINCE I DON'T HAVE
ROOM.' NO, HE SAID, "I WILL DO
00:49:16.79\00:49:22.29
THIS: I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS
AND BUILD GREATER, AND THERE I
00:49:22.29\00:49:25.76
WILL STORE ALL MY
CROPS AND MY GOODS.
00:49:25.76\00:49:27.60
AND I WILL SAY TO MY
SOUL, 'SOUL, YOU HAVE MANY GOODS
00:49:27.60\00:49:30.07
LAID UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE
YOUR EASE; EAT, DRINK, AND BE
00:49:30.07\00:49:34.50
MERRY.' BUT GOD
SAID TO HIM, 'FOOL!
00:49:34.50\00:49:38.41
THIS NIGHT YOUR SOUL WILL
BE REQUIRED OF YOU; THEN WHOSE
00:49:38.41\00:49:42.74
WILL THOSE THINGS BE
WHICH YOU HAVE PROVIDED?'
00:49:42.74\00:49:46.35
SO IS HE WHO LAYS UP
TREASURE FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT
00:49:46.35\00:49:48.85
RICH TOWARD GOD.'" AND
BEING RICH TOWARD GOD HERE
00:49:48.85\00:49:51.59
DOES NOT MEAN JUST
MAKING GOOD OFFERINGS.
00:49:51.59\00:49:53.56
BEING RICH TOWARD GOD
MEANS GIVING YOUR LIFE TO GOD -
00:49:53.56\00:49:59.19
NOT SPENDING YOUR LIFE JUST
FOR YOURSELF, BUT SPENDING YOUR
00:49:59.19\00:50:01.66
LIFE FOR GOD. WAS
HE HAPPY IN THE END?
00:50:01.66\00:50:09.74
A LOT OF PEOPLE COME TO THE
END OF THEIR LIVES AND THEY'VE
00:50:09.74\00:50:11.87
GOT LOTS OF THINGS AND LOTS OF
STUFF AND IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE
00:50:11.87\00:50:15.58
LORD AND IF THEY'VE NOT BEEN
SHARING AND GENEROUS WITH OTHERS
00:50:15.58\00:50:19.21
OF THEIR TIME AND THEIR
MEANS, THEY END UP EMPTY AND
00:50:19.21\00:50:23.59
UNSATISFIED.
WRAPPING IT UP HERE, EPHESIANS
00:50:23.59\00:50:28.19
5, VERSE 1,
"THEREFORE BE IMITATORS OF GOD
00:50:28.19\00:50:32.13
AS DEAR CHILDREN. AND
WALK IN LOVE, AS CHRIST ALSO
00:50:32.13\00:50:35.43
HAS LOVED US AND GIVEN
HIMSELF FOR US, AN OFFERING AND
00:50:35.43\00:50:38.43
A SACRIFICE TO GOD FOR
A SWEET-SMELLING AROMA.
00:50:38.43\00:50:42.37
BUT FORNICATION AND ALL
UNCLEANNESS OR COVETOUSNESS,
00:50:42.37\00:50:47.18
LET IT NOT EVEN BE NAMED AMONG
YOU, AS IS FITTING THE SAINTS;
00:50:47.18\00:50:51.75
NEITHER FILTHINESS, NOR
FOOLISH TALKING, NOR COARSE
00:50:51.75\00:50:54.35
JESTING, WHICH ARE NOT FITTING,
BUT RATHER GIVING OF THANKS.
00:50:54.35\00:50:57.92
FOR THIS YOU KNOW, THAT NO
FORNICATOR, UNCLEAN PERSON,
00:50:57.92\00:51:01.59
NOR COVETOUS MAN," - HE MENTIONS
IT TWICE THERE - "WHO IS AN
00:51:01.59\00:51:04.89
IDOLATER," - THERE IT
IS WITH IDOLATRY AGAIN.
00:51:04.89\00:51:08.90
YOU MAKE AN IDOL OUT OF
YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE OR HIS CAR
00:51:08.90\00:51:11.20
OR HIS SPOUSE,
IT'S A FORM OF IDOLATRY.
00:51:11.20\00:51:15.77
- "HAS ANY INHERITANCE IN
THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND GOD."
00:51:15.77\00:51:18.71
WELL, THIS IS A TOUGH
COMMANDMENT, YOU KNOW,
00:51:18.71\00:51:20.48
BECAUSE I CAN PROBABLY SIT ON MY
HANDS ALL DAY LONG AND SAY, 'I'M
00:51:20.48\00:51:23.85
NOT WORKING ON THE SABBATH,
I'M KEEPING THE SABBATH - I'M
00:51:23.85\00:51:25.95
NOT WORKING.' WE'D BE TWITCHING
- BUT HOW DO YOU KEEP THE
00:51:25.95\00:51:30.85
COMMANDMENT ABOUT COVETOUSNESS?
IT'S REALLY A CHANGE OF HEART.
00:51:30.85\00:51:35.62
IT'S REALLY SAYING,
'LORD, CHANGE MY ATTITUDES.
00:51:35.62\00:51:39.63
HELP ME TO BE SATISFIED WITH
JESUS AND WHAT HE'S DONE FOR
00:51:39.63\00:51:42.66
US, AMEN. IT BOILS
DOWN, IN LOVING YOUR
00:51:42.66\00:51:46.90
NEIGHBOR, LOVING THE
LORD. ROMANS 13:8, "OWE NO ONE
00:51:46.90\00:51:52.61
ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LOVE
ONE ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO LOVES
00:51:52.61\00:51:55.98
ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW.
00:51:55.98\00:51:58.95
FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU
SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU
00:51:58.95\00:52:01.85
SHALL NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR
00:52:01.85\00:52:03.65
FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL
NOT COVET'" - HE ENDS WITH THAT
00:52:03.65\00:52:06.99
AND HE SAYS, "IF THERE IS
ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, ALL ARE
00:52:06.99\00:52:08.82
SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING,
NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR
00:52:08.82\00:52:11.56
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'"
WHEN YOU REALIZE HOW POISONOUS
00:52:11.56\00:52:16.83
COVETOUSNESS CAN BE, WE NEED
TO BE ON OUR GUARD ALL THE TIME
00:52:16.83\00:52:20.20
BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A CHANGE
OF ATTITUDE - MIND OF HEART.
00:52:20.20\00:52:23.77
NOT BEING JEALOUS FOR
WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS AND JUST
00:52:23.77\00:52:28.51
ASKING THE LORD TO BLESS OTHERS,
BEING THANKFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE,
00:52:28.51\00:52:32.65
PRAYING GOD WILL GIVE US
SATISFACTION, ASKING GOD TO
00:52:32.65\00:52:36.85
HELP US BE CONTENT AND
REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS
00:52:36.85\00:52:41.22
COVETOUSNESS THAT
PUT JESUS ON THE CROSS.
00:52:41.22\00:52:45.36
JUDAS COVETED SILVER AND HE
WAS WILLING TO SELL THE SAVIOR.
00:52:45.36\00:52:52.17
HE COVETED A HIGHER
POSITION IN THE KINGDOM.
00:52:52.17\00:52:55.27
THAT WHOLE SPIRIT OF NOT BEING
SATISFIED - WAS HE HAPPY IN
00:52:55.27\00:52:59.84
THE END OR DID HE
THROW IT ALL DOWN?
00:52:59.84\00:53:03.51
HE WENT OUT AND HUNG HIMSELF.
SATISFACTION, HAPPINESS, WILL
00:53:03.51\00:53:07.45
NEVER COME FROM THESE THINGS.
IT'S GOING TO COME FROM A
00:53:07.45\00:53:10.55
LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.
GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS
00:53:10.55\00:53:14.32
GREAT GAIN. YOU BELIEVE THAT,
FRIENDS? AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO,
00:53:14.32\00:53:19.06
BY GOD'S GRACE, PRACTICE
THAT IN YOUR LIVES? (MUSIC)
00:53:19.06\00:53:32.94
>>HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
A MOUSE HOWL LIKE A WOLF?
00:53:32.94\00:53:36.71
WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT
WOULD HAPPEN WHEN A CREATURE
00:53:36.71\00:53:39.15
CHANGES ITS DESTINY FROM
THE HAPLESS PREY TO THE MIGHTY
00:53:39.15\00:53:42.58
PREDATOR? FROM THE
OUTSIDE THEY LOOK VERY
00:53:42.58\00:53:45.62
MUCH LIKE AN OVERSIZED FIELD
MOUSE - CUTE BROWN FUR, WHITE
00:53:45.62\00:53:49.86
ON THE UNDERBELLY, NICE
LITTLE BEADY EYES - BUT THAT'S
00:53:49.86\00:53:53.16
WHERE THE SIMILARITIES
STOP. GRASSHOPPER MICE ARE VERY
00:53:53.16\00:53:56.46
UNUSUAL, MAKING THEM THE
OBJECTS OF GREAT INTEREST FOR
00:53:56.46\00:53:59.63
ANIMAL RESEARCHERS. THESE
FURRY LITTLE CREATURES ARE
00:53:59.63\00:54:04.07
FOUND IN THE HARSH
DESERTS OF NORTH AMERICA.
00:54:04.07\00:54:06.88
THEY'RE VERY TERRITORIAL IN
NATURE AND THEY WILL MONOPOLIZE
00:54:06.88\00:54:09.64
AND FEND OFF 25 ACRES.
THEY DON'T BUILD THEIR OWN
00:54:09.64\00:54:13.15
HOMES, BUT SORT OF
CONFISCATE THE BURROWS AND THE
00:54:13.15\00:54:15.52
HOMES OF OTHER CREATURES.
THEY'RE NOT CALLED GRASSHOPPER
00:54:15.52\00:54:19.25
MICE BECAUSE THEY HOP AROUND,
BUT IT'S BECAUSE THEY EAT
00:54:19.25\00:54:21.66
A LOT OF GRASSHOPPERS.
IN FACT, SCIENTISTS HAVE
00:54:21.66\00:54:24.09
DISCOVERED THAT GRASSHOPPER
MICE ARE THE ONLY MICE THAT
00:54:24.09\00:54:26.90
ARE PURELY CARNIVOROUS.
THEY HUNT MUCH LIKE CATS OR
00:54:26.90\00:54:31.77
WEASELS, STALKING THEIR PREY
IN A PREDATORY FASHION AND WHEN
00:54:31.77\00:54:35.40
THEY POUNCE, THEY ARE FEROCIOUS,
SOMETIMES EVEN TAKING ON SNAKES
00:54:35.40\00:54:39.54
AND SCORPIONS AND CENTIPEDES.
WHEN A GRASSHOPPER MOUSE GETS
00:54:39.54\00:54:44.31
INTO A FIERCE BATTLE WITH
A SNAKE OR A SCORPION OR A
00:54:44.31\00:54:46.75
CENTIPEDE, THEY MAY BE
BIT OR STUNG SEVERAL TIMES.
00:54:46.75\00:54:50.32
BUT WHAT IS AMAZING TO
RESEARCHERS IS THEY'VE NOTICED
00:54:50.32\00:54:53.19
WHEN THEY ARE BITTEN, THEY
SOMEHOW SHAKE IT OFF BECAUSE
00:54:53.19\00:54:57.06
THEY CONVERT THE TOXIN
AND THE VENOM TO PAIN KILLER.
00:54:57.06\00:55:00.90
I THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND
WHY THIS INFORMATION WOULD BE OF
00:55:00.90\00:55:04.27
SPECIAL INTEREST TO SCIENTISTS
THAT ARE TRYING TO DISCOVER NEW
00:55:04.27\00:55:07.90
WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO
DEAL WITH CHRONIC PAIN.
00:55:07.90\00:55:11.71
ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING
CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE LITTLE
00:55:11.71\00:55:14.41
CREATURES IS, WHEN THEY'RE
DEFENDING THEIR TERRITORY OR
00:55:14.41\00:55:17.98
CELEBRATING A VICTORY OVER SOME
ADVERSARY, THEY'LL THROW BACK
00:55:17.98\00:55:21.72
THEIR HEAD AND LET OUT
THIS EARTH-SHAKING HOWL -
00:55:21.72\00:55:25.95
IT'S A MOUSEY HOWL -
CHECK IT OUT. (HOWLING CRY)
00:55:25.95\00:55:34.40
THE GRASSHOPPER MOUSE IS NOT THE
ONLY MEMBER OF CREATION THAT CAN
00:55:34.40\00:55:37.87
SURVIVE ENCOUNTERS
WITH VENOMOUS PREDATORS.
00:55:37.87\00:55:40.90
IN LUKE 10:19 IT SAYS, "BEHOLD,
I GIVE YOU THE AUTHORITY TO
00:55:40.90\00:55:45.37
TRAMPLE ON SERPENTS AND
SCORPIONS, AND OVER THE POWER OF
00:55:45.37\00:55:49.04
THE ENEMY, AND NOTHING
SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.
00:55:49.04\00:55:52.91
WE DON'T HAVE TO BE THE BIGGEST
AND THE STRONGEST TO DEFEAT OUR
00:55:52.91\00:55:55.62
ENEMY AND LET OUT THAT VICTORY
ROAR. WHEN GOD CALLED DAVID TO
00:55:55.62\00:55:59.25
BE KING, NO HUMAN WOULD HAVE
GUESSED THAT HE HAD IT IN HIM.
00:55:59.25\00:56:02.96
HE WAS YOUNG AND INSIGNIFICANT.
FROM THE OUTSIDE HE LOOKED LIKE
00:56:02.96\00:56:06.46
THERE WAS NO GREATNESS IN
HIM, BUT WHEN GOD LOOKED AT HIS
00:56:06.46\00:56:09.56
HEART, HE SAW COURAGE, HUMILITY,
COMPASSION, AND LOVE. DAVID
00:56:09.56\00:56:13.97
WASN'T PERFECT, AND HE
MADE MISTAKES, BUT THROUGH GOD'S
00:56:13.97\00:56:21.08
POWER HE WAS ABLE
TO CONQUER GIANTS.
00:56:21.08\00:56:22.31
FRIEND, GOD DOES NOT INTEND THAT
YOU LIVE OUT THE REST OF YOUR
00:56:22.31\00:56:23.45
LIFE COWERING AND TREMBLING
LIKE A LITTLE FIELD MOUSE.
00:56:23.45\00:56:26.55
IF GOD CAN TAKE THE GRASSHOPPER
MOUSE AND GIVE HIM COURAGE SO
00:56:26.55\00:56:29.75
THAT HE FIGHTS SNAKES AND
SCORPIONS AND CENTIPEDES, IF GOD
00:56:29.75\00:56:33.59
CAN PUT IN THE HEART OF DAVID
THE COURAGE TO FIGHT GIANTS LIKE
00:56:33.59\00:56:36.86
GOLIATH, THEN HE CAN
GIVE YOU THAT SAME COURAGE.
00:56:36.86\00:56:40.43
THE SCRIPTURES SAY GOD HAS NOT
GIVEN YOU THE SPIRIT OF FEAR,
00:56:40.43\00:56:43.80
BUT OF POWER, LOVE, AND A SOUND
MIND - AND YOU CAN HAVE THAT
00:56:43.80\00:56:48.10
PEACE IN YOUR HEART WHEN YOU
INVITE THE PRINCE OF PEACE INTO
00:56:48.10\00:56:50.97
YOUR HEART. WHY DON'T
YOU DO THAT RIGHT NOW?
00:56:50.97\00:56:53.51
(MUSIC)
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OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
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