Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021326A
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00:14 >>WELL HAPPY SABBATH, FRIENDS. AGAIN, I WANT TO ISSUE A 00:18 SPECIAL WELCOME TO ANY VISITORS THAT WE MAY HAVE HERE TODAY. 00:22 AND IF YOU HAVE BEEN COMING LATELY, OR IF YOU'RE ONE 00:25 OF OUR REGULAR MEMBERS, YOU'LL KNOW THAT WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF 00:28 A SERIES WHERE WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THOSE LAWS OF 00:33 LOVE - THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - AND THEY'RE ALSO LAWS OF 00:37 LIBERTY. AND THERE'S REALLY TWELVE 00:42 PARTS TO THIS PRESENTATION. WE STARTED WITH - I CALLED IT 00:47 'ZERO' BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT IT TO CONFUSE WITH 00:49 ANOTHER COMMANDMENT - THE INTRODUCTION. 00:52 AND THEN WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE COMMANDMENTS. 00:54 TODAY WE'RE ON THE TENTH COMMANDMENT. 00:56 WE WILL CONCLUDE NEXT SABBATH BECAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT 00:59 FAIR FOR ME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE LAW AND MAKE THIS EMPHASIS 01:03 ON THE LAW WITHOUT REALLY TALKING ABOUT, 'NOW HOW DO WE 01:07 OBEY? WHAT DOES GOD EXPECT? 01:10 WHAT'S THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEW AND THE OLD COVENANT?' 01:13 AND SO HOW DO WE MAKE THESE THINGS PRACTICAL IN OUR LIVES? 01:16 AND SO WE'LL DEDICATE OUR FINAL PRESENTATION TO THAT 01:19 VERY IMPORTANT TRUTH. BUT TODAY WE ARE DEALING 01:22 WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE TENTH COMMANDMENT AND I'VE ENTITLED 01:26 IT 'A GREEDY HEART' - IT'S THE MYTH OF MORE, YOU MIGHT SAY. 01:34 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH THE SUPERMARKET 01:38 BEFORE, OR IT MIGHT BE A DEPARTMENT STORE OF SOME SORT 01:43 AND YOU'VE HEARD THIS SCREAM AND IT'S SOME TODDLER AND THEIR 01:51 SHOPPING CART IS BEING PUSHED PAST THE CANDY AISLE OR THE TOY 01:57 SECTION - SOMETIMES THEY'VE BEEN TRAILING ALONG ON THE GROUND AND 02:01 THEY LATCH ON TO SOMETHING THEY THINK THEY OUGHT TO HAVE AND YOU 02:05 CAN HEAR THE MOTHER OR THE FATHER TRYING TO GET IT OUT OF 02:10 THEIR LITTLE FISTS AND THEY WON'T LET GO AND THEN THEY FALL 02:13 DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE HAVING A SEIZURE 02:20 AND THEY THRASH AND THEY SCREAM AND THEY WHINE AND THE MOTHER - 02:26 GRANDMOTHER - WHOEVER IS TRYING TO FIND SOME DIGNIFIED 02:28 WAY TO JUST LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE AND ACT LIKE YOU REALLY 02:31 DON'T KNOW THEM. AND THE OTHER SHOPPERS ARE 02:37 THINKING ALL KINDS OF THINGS ABOUT HOW THE SITUATION SHOULD 02:45 BE DEALT WITH - REMEMBERING THAT THERE ARE VIDEO CAMERAS 02:49 IN MOST OF THOSE STORES. AS WE GET OLDER, WE BECOME 02:57 MORE SOPHISTICATED IN OUR TANTRUMS. 03:01 CHILDREN ARE UNINHIBITED. THEY SEE SOMETHING THEY WANT 03:06 AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT, THEY'LL LET YOU KNOW 'I 03:09 REALLY WANTED THAT AND I WON'T BE HAPPY UNLESS I GET IT.' AND 03:16 I KNOW, WITH MOST OF OUR KIDS, THAT SOMETIMES WE'D GIVE IN TO 03:19 THOSE DESIRES - NOT EVERY TIME, BUT SOMETIMES. 03:21 YOUR KID SAYS, 'OH REALLY, IF I HAD THAT MATCHBOX CAR I WOULD 03:25 REACH FULL BLISS AND ETERNAL SATISFACTION - THAT 03:29 STATE OF WELL-BEING WE ALL LONG FOR, CALLED HAPPINESS. 03:32 IF I JUST HAD THAT ONE THING.' AND SO YOU GIVE IN. 03:36 YOU KNOW, PARENTS ARE LOVING - SOMETIMES WE INDULGE - AND YOU 03:38 BUY IT FOR THEM. HOW LONG DOES THEIR 03:41 HAPPINESS LAST? WE DON'T ALWAYS OUTGROW 03:46 THOSE EMOTIONS, WE JUST COVER THEM UP A LITTLE BETTER. 03:51 A LOT OF US, IN OUR HEARTS, ARE DISSATISFIED. 03:55 STORY OF ONE SUCH PERSON IN THE BIBLE - YOU WOULD THINK IF 03:58 YOU WERE KING FOR A DAY YOU'D BE HAPPY, BUT SOMETIMES EVEN 04:01 KINGS AREN'T HAPPY. THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH. 04:05 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO 1 KINGS, CHAPTER 21 AND WE READ 04:14 THERE ABOUT A KING BY THE NAME OF AHAB. 04:21 1 KINGS CHAPTER 21, YOU START WITH THE FIRST VERSE, "AND 04:26 IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS THAT NABOTH THE 04:29 JEZREELITE HAD A VINEYARD WHICH WAS IN JEZREEL, NEXT TO THE 04:35 PALACE OF AHAB KING OF SAMARIA." - SO ADJACENT TO THE PALACE, 04:40 NABOTH, WHO WAS ONE OF THE CITIZENS - HE WAS - PROBABLY 04:43 HAD A LARGE FAMILY - AN OLDER GENTLEMAN - HE HAD A FIELD 04:48 WHERE HE HAD A NICE VINEYARD. VINEYARDS WERE THE PRIZE. 04:50 THAT WAS THE BEST THING, IF YOU HAD A GOOD VINEYARD. 04:55 AND AHAB, HE LOOKED OVER THE WALL AND SAID, 'BOY, 04:57 NABOTH'S A PRETTY GOOD VINEKEEPER. 04:59 EVERYTHING'S SO MANICURED AND BEAUTIFUL.' YOU KNOW, PEOPLE 05:02 - JUST THIS WEEK KAREN AND I WENT TO A WORKERS' MEETING - HAD 05:05 TO DRIVE THROUGH NAPA - SOME BEAUTIFUL WINE COUNTRY. 05:07 AND WHILE WE DON'T DRINK WINE, WE DO APPRECIATE THE 05:10 MANICURED HILLS AND THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSES THAT THEY HAD 05:13 THERE ADJOINING THEM AND IT'S LOVELY TO LOOK UPON. 05:17 AND SO AHAB'S LOOKING OVER HIS WALL THINKING, 05:20 'WELL, I MIGHT HAVE A PALACE AND I MIGHT HAVE MY OWN BARNS AND 05:23 VINEYARDS, BUT I DON'T HAVE THAT ONE. 05:28 I'M JUST NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY UNTIL I DO HAVE THAT ONE. 05:33 "SO AHAB SPOKE TO NABOTH SAYING, "GIVE ME YOUR VINEYARD 05:36 THAT I MIGHT HAVE IT FOR A VEGETABLE GARDEN." - WHAT A 05:38 SHAME TO PLUCK UP VINES THAT TAKE FOREVER TO GROW AND PUT 05:41 TURNIPS IN - "GIVE ME YOUR VINEYARD THAT I MIGHT HAVE 05:45 IT FOR A VEGETABLE GARDEN BECAUSE IT IS NEAR, NEXT TO MY 05:48 HOUSE;" - IT'LL BE CONVENIENT - "AND FOR IT I WILL GIVE YOU A 05:50 VINEYARD BETTER THAN IT. OR, IF IT SEEMS GOOD TO YOU, 05:52 I WILL GIVE YOU ITS WORTH IN MONEY." - WHAT DO YOU WANT? 05:54 I NEED TO HAVE IT. BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM. 05:57 ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH LAW, YOU'RE NOT TO SELL YOUR 06:00 FAMILY'S INHERITANCE FROM YOUR TRIBE TO A DIFFERENT TRIBE. 06:05 "BUT NABOTH SAID TO AHAB, 'THE LORD FORBID THAT I SHOULD GIVE 06:09 THE INHERITANCE OF MY FATHERS TO YOU!'" 06:11 WELL, WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? 06:14 SO AHAB WENT TO HIS HOUSE SULLEN" - HE WAS DEPRESSED 06:20 THAT MEANS - "AND DISPLEASED BECAUSE OF THE WORD WHICH NABOTH 06:23 THE JEZREELITE HAD SPOKEN TO HIM; FOR HE HAD SAID, 'I WILL 06:26 NOT GIVE YOU THE INHERITANCE OF MY FATHERS.' AND HE LAY DOWN ON 06:29 HIS BED AND HE TURNED AWAY HIS FACE AND WOULDN'T EAT ANY 06:32 FOOD.'" - THAT'S CALLED A FULL-GROWN TANTRUM. 06:38 NOW, I KNOW THAT WAS PECULIAR WITH HIM, BUT NO OTHER 06:40 ADULTS DO THAT WHEN THEY CAN'T GET WHAT THEY WANT. 06:47 SO JEZEBEL COMES HOME. SHE'S WONDERING 'WHY IS 06:49 YOUR SPIRIT SO DEPRESSED? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?' 06:52 'I SPOKE TO NABOTH THE JEZREELITE, AND SAID TO HIM, 06:55 'GIVE ME YOUR VINEYARD FOR MONEY; OR ELSE I'LL TRADE YOU. 06:58 AND HE WON'T GIVE IT TO ME.' THEN SHE SAID TO HIM, 07:02 'YOU NOW EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER ISRAEL! 07:05 ARISE, EAT FOOD, AND LET YOUR HEART BE CHEERFUL; I'LL GET 07:08 YOU THE VINEYARD.'' HE HAD A TANTRUM AND HIS LITTLE WIFEY WAS 07:12 GOING TO HELP HIM GET WHAT HE WANTED. 07:14 WELL, WHAT THAT MEANT WAS SHE PROCLAIMED A FEAST AND HIRED 07:20 TWO FALSE WITNESSES TO SAY THAT NABOTH WAS GUILTY OF 07:23 CURSING GOD AND CURSING THE GOVERNMENT AND ON BOTH FRONTS - 07:28 BY THE WAY, THAT'S WHAT THEY DID WITH JESUS, THEY SAID THAT HE 07:32 WASN'T OBEYING THE LAWS OF GOD OR THE LAWS OF CAESAR. 07:35 AND THEN THEY IMMEDIATELY TOOK HIM OUT BEFORE THEY COULD 07:38 HAVE MUCH OF A TRIAL - OUT OF THE CITY - AND THEY STONED 07:40 NABOTH. THIS INNOCENT MAN DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. 07:44 IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE MAFIA - YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY 07:47 WANT, THEY HAVE WAYS OF GETTING WHAT THEY WANT. 07:51 AND JEZEBEL, THAT'S HOW SHE OPERATED. 07:54 SO NOW AHAB IS FINALLY GOING TO BE HAPPY. 07:57 JEZEBEL COMES HOME AND SAYS, 'I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS. 08:00 GO TAKE POSSESSION. THE VINEYARD IS YOURS. 08:03 YOU'RE GOING TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. 08:05 NOW YOU'LL BE HAPPY.' SO AHAB DOESN'T WANT TO ASK ANY 08:09 QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW SHE WORKED THAT OUT. 08:12 HE SUSPECTS THERE WAS FOUL PLAY, BUT AS LONG AS HE GETS 08:15 WHAT HE WANTS - SO WHILE HE'S WALKING AROUND AND SURVEYING 08:19 NABOTH'S VINEYARD AND THINKING, 'I'LL CUT THAT DOWN HERE AND 08:21 I'LL PUT THE VEGETABLES HERE AND I'LL HAVE THE FOUNTAIN...' 08:25 GUESS WHO SHOWS UP AND SPOILS HIS PARTY? 08:28 HIS OLD NEMESIS, ELIJAH THE PROPHET. 08:32 AND ELIJAH CAME DOWN - HE SAID AS SOON AS AHAB SEES HIM HE 08:38 SAYS, 'OH, HAVE YOU FOUND ME MY ENEMY?' 08:41 HE SAID, 'I'M YOUR ENEMY BECAUSE YOU SOLD YOURSELF TO 08:43 WORK WICKEDNESS AND YOU KILLED AN INNOCENT MAN AND TOOK HIS 08:46 VINEYARD. AND HE SAYS, 'NOW BECAUSE 08:48 YOU'VE DONE THIS' - WELL LET ME READ IT TO YOU OUT OF THE BIBLE. 08:52 IT SAYS HERE THAT - "BEHOLD" - VERSE 21 - THIS IS 1 KINGS 09:02 CHAPTER 21, VERSE 21, "BEHOLD, I WILL BRING CALAMITY ON YOU. 09:07 I WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR POSTERITY, AND WILL CUT OFF FROM 09:09 AHAB EVERY MALE IN ISRAEL, BOTH BOND AND FREE. 09:13 I WILL MAKE YOUR HOUSE LIKE THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM THE SON OF 09:15 NEBAT, AND LIKE THE HOUSE OF BAASHA THE SON OF AHIJAH,'" - 09:18 THEY WERE WIPED OUT - THEY WERE TOTALLY ELIMINATED - 09:22 "'BECAUSE OF THE PROVOCATION WITH WHICH YOU HAVE PROVOKED ME 09:24 TO ANGER, AND MADE ISRAEL SIN.'" IT SAYS THERE WAS NO ONE 09:28 LIKE AHAB, VERSE 25, "...WHO SOLD HIMSELF TO DO WICKEDNESS IN 09:31 THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, BECAUSE JEZEBEL HIS WIFE STIRRED 09:33 HIM UP." - VERSE 27 - "SO WHEN AHAB HEARD THOSE WORDS," - OF 09:38 ELIJAH - "HE TORE HIS CLOTHES AND PUT SACKCLOTH ON HIS BODY, 09:42 AND FASTED AND LAY IN SACKCLOTH, AND WENT ABOUT MOURNING." 09:45 NOTICE, THE CHAPTER BEGINS BY HIM THINKING, 'I'LL NEVER BE 09:48 HAPPY UNLESS I GET NABOTH'S VINEYARD.' - HE WAS 09:51 COVETING ANOTHER MAN'S FIELD - AND WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE 09:57 COULDN'T HAVE IT HE THOUGHT, 'I'M GOING TO TAKE IT BY HOOK OR 09:59 CROOK. I'VE GOT TO HAVE IT.' 10:01 WHEN HE FINALLY GOT IT, NOW HE'S HAPPY. 10:04 IS HE HAPPY? NOW HE'S MORE UNHAPPY. 10:07 HE TEARS HIS CLOTHES AND GOES ABOUT MOURNING. 10:11 WHEN YOU COVET WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT COVET, SHOULD YOU 10:15 EVER GET IT, THE LORD WILL NOT BLESS AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE 10:19 HAPPINESS. A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST 10:23 IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS HE POSSESSES. 10:26 WE ARE BOMBARDED IN OUR DAY AND AGE WITH MATERIALISM 10:32 - HYPERMATERIALISM. IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE JUST 10:36 SNIFFING IT, WE'RE MAINLINING MATERIALISM. 10:40 THERE IS NO TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD - NEVER 10:42 BEFORE HAS THERE BEEN A CULTURE THAT HAS HAD TO INGEST SO MUCH 10:49 ADVERTISING THAT IS DESIGNED - THE BRIGHTEST AND THE BEST AND 10:55 THE MOST POWERFUL MINDS IN THE WORLD ON MADISON AVENUE 10:59 INVEST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS - APPROXIMATELY 500 BILLION 11:02 DOLLARS EVERY YEAR IS SPENT ON MARKETING IN NORTH AMERICA - 11:07 ENCOURAGING YOU TO BE DISSATISFIED WITH WHAT YOU 11:12 HAVE OR THE BRAND THAT YOU HAVE OR HOW MUCH YOU HAVE, OR WHO YOU 11:18 HAVE. AND YOU ONLY THINK HAPPINESS 11:22 WILL COME FROM GETTING MORE OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 11:25 YOU'RE BEING TOLD OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN 'THE GRASS 11:29 IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE.' PSALMS 119, VERSES 11:33 36 AND 37, "INCLINE MY HEART TO YOUR TESTIMONIES, AND NOT 11:40 TO COVETOUSNESS. TURN AWAY MY EYES FROM LOOKING 11:44 AT WORTHLESS THINGS, AND REVIVE ME IN YOUR WAY." WE MAY 11:50 NOT THROW OURSELVES ON THE GROUND AND HAVE A TANTRUM BUT, 11:53 IN OUR OWN WAY, MANY HAVE GREEDY HEARTS AND WE'RE NOT SATISFIED. 11:59 NOW, THE TENTH COMMANDMENT - I'M ASSUMING THAT YOU KNOW WHAT 12:02 THE TENTH COMMANDMENT IS, BUT LET ME READ IT TO YOU. 12:05 AND YOU'LL FIND IT NOT ONLY IN EXODUS 20, VERSE 17, YOU'LL 12:08 FIND IT AGAIN IN DEUTERONOMY 5, VERSE 21 AND IN VARIOUS AND 12:12 SUNDRY PLACES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND OTHER PARTS OF THE 12:15 BIBLE. AND WE READ EXODUS 20:17 - THESE WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE - 12:21 "YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE; YOU SHALL NOT 12:25 COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, NOR HIS MALE SERVANT, NOR HIS FEMALE 12:30 SERVANT, NOR HIS OX, NOR HIS DONKEY, NOR ANYTHING THAT IS 12:34 YOUR NEIGHBOR'S." NOW SOME PEOPLE - I THINK I SHARED WITH 12:39 YOU IN AN EARLIER PRESENTATION DURING THIS SERIES - SOME 12:43 CHURCHES DIVIDE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS DIFFERENTLY 12:47 THAN THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTING THEM. 12:49 THEY WANT TO ELIMINATE THE COMMANDMENT ON IDOLATRY. 12:52 AND I ACTUALLY SHOWED YOU A PHOTOGRAPH IN FRONT OF A LOCAL 12:54 CATHOLIC CHURCH WHERE IT GOES FROM COMMANDMENT 1 TO 12:59 COMMANDMENT 2 ABOUT DON'T - TAKING THE NAME OF THE LORD IN 13:03 VAIN - LEAVES OUT THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT IDOLATRY - 13:06 COMMANDMENT 3 IS THE SABBATH. YOU GO, 'WAIT A MINUTE. 13:08 SOMETHING'S GOING TO BE WRONG WITH THE MATH HERE. 13:10 YOU'RE GOING TO BE SHORT.' WELL, WHAT THEY DO IS THEY TAKE THE 13:14 COVETOUSNESS COMMANDMENT AND THEY DIVIDE IT IN TWO - AS 13:18 THOUGH COVETING YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE AND COVETING HIS HOUSE IS, 13:20 YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT. THE COMMANDMENT'S JUST ON NOT 13:23 COVETING. PROOF FOR THAT IS DEUTERONOMY 5:21, WHEN MOSES 13:28 REPEATS THE COMMANDMENT ON COVETING HERE, HE MIXES IT UP. 13:32 SO YOU CAN'T DIVIDE IT AND SAY IT'S REALLY TWO 13:34 COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE MOSES VIEWED IT AS ONE COMMANDMENT. 13:38 NOTICE DEUTERONOMY 5:21, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET YOUR 13:40 NEIGHBOR'S WIFE;" - WHAT CAME FIRST HERE? 13:42 WIFE. IN THE OTHER ONE, WHAT CAME FIRST? HOUSE. 13:46 AND SOME HAVE TRIED TO MAKE A CASE SAYING, 'WELL, THAT'S 13:49 BECAUSE THEY TREATED THEIR WIVES JUST LIKE PROPERTY.' NO, 13:54 IT'S NOT AT ALL LIKE THAT. IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER 13:55 SACRED RELATIONSHIPS, AS WELL AS THEIR POSSESSIONS. 13:58 BY THE WAY, THIS COMMANDMENT ABOUT COVETOUSNESS 14:02 CAN BE SUMMED UP IN 'YOU ARE NOT TO HAVE AN ILLICIT DESIRE FOR 14:07 YOUR NEIGHBOR'S POSSESSIONS, POSITIONS, OR 14:12 PERSONS' - AND THE WIFE IS A PERSON, NOT A POSSESSION. 14:17 THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT IN THE BIBLE, THAT'S WHY IT SAID, 14:18 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER' - WASN'T PROPERTY. 14:23 SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO SAY, 'WELL, WE CAN DO AWAY WITH 14:25 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BECAUSE THEY JUST WERE, YOU KNOW, 14:27 TREATING WIVES LIKE PROPERTY.' THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANT. 14:30 IT CAN ALSO BE SAID, 'THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S 14:32 HUSBAND.' IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE'S PROPERTY. 14:37 SO, 'DO NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, DO NOT COVET 14:40 YOUR NEIGHBOR'S' - I'M IN DEUTERONOMY 5:21 - 14:42 'YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE OR HIS FIELD.' - 14:45 YOU SEE, IT MENTIONS FIELD HERE. IT DOESN'T MENTION FIELD 14:47 IN EXODUS 20 - 'HIS MALE SERVANT, HIS FEMALE SERVANT, HIS 14:50 OX, HIS DONKEY' - THAT MEANS THE CAR IN HIS GARAGE OR HIS 14:53 ROTOTILLER - 'OR ANYTHING THAT IS YOUR NEIGHBOR'S.' 14:58 YEAH, I KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE AN OX AND A DONKEY? 15:01 YOU SEE, LET'S JUST MAKE IT RELEVANT FOR US TODAY. 15:06 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT PAUL MAKES IT CLEAR IT'S ONE 15:08 COMMANDMENT - ROMANS 7:7, "WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? 15:11 IS THE LAW SIN? CERTAINLY NOT! 15:13 ON THE CONTRARY, I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN SIN EXCEPT 15:16 THROUGH THE LAW. FOR I WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN 15:18 COVETOUSNESS UNLESS THE LAW HAD SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT 15:21 COVET.'" YOU NOTICE, HE STATES IT AS ONE COMPREHENSIVE 15:25 COMPLETE COMMANDMENT THERE. YOU CANNOT DIVIDE IT IN TWO. 15:28 I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT THE CHURCH IS TRYING TO GET RID 15:31 OF THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT IDOLATRY - WERE WORKING SOME 15:34 HANKY PANKY ON THE BIBLE THERE - IT'S NOT - THAT'S NOT 15:37 APPROPRIATE TO DO IT THAT WAY. SO THIS IS THE TENTH 15:39 COMMANDMENT: 'DO NOT COVET ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE NOT 15:45 SUPPOSED TO BE DESIRING.' IT IS PROBABLY THE MOST UNIQUE 15:50 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND I SAY THAT FOR SEVERAL REASONS. 15:53 FIRST OF ALL, MOST OF THE COMMANDMENTS HAVE TO DO 15:55 WITH OUTWARD BEHAVIOR OR CONDUCT. 15:59 THE LAST COMMANDMENT POINTS BACK TOWARD THE SOURCE OF ALL 16:02 SIN. IT'S SOMETHING ON THE INSIDE. 16:05 IT'S SOMETHING GOING ON HERE. YOU CAN BE COVETOUS. 16:10 YOU CAN BE JUST A RANK, COVETOUS PERSON AND OUTWARDLY 16:14 YOU CAN LOOK LIKE THE FINEST CHRISTIAN. 16:17 JESUS TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE WHO PRAYED LONG PRAYERS AND THEY 16:20 WENT TO CHURCH BUT THEY DEVOURED WIDOWS' HOUSES. 16:23 THEY WERE COVETOUS. BUT THEY WERE VERY RELIGIOUS 16:27 - BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING ON THE DESIRES OF THE HEART. 16:29 IT'LL EVENTUALLY PLAY OUT IN THE LIFE. 16:32 EXODUS 18:21 - WHEN THEY WERE TO PICK JUDGES - "MOREOVER YOU 16:38 SHALL SELECT FROM ALL THE PEOPLE ABLE MEN, SUCH AS FEAR 16:41 GOD, MEN OF TRUTH, HATING COVETOUSNESS; AND PLACE SUCH 16:46 OVER THEM TO BE RULERS..." THAT WAS THE CRITERIA THAT THEY WERE 16:49 TO HATE COVETOUSNESS. THAT GREED FOR WHAT OTHERS 16:53 HAD - IF THEY HAD THAT IN THEIR HEARTS THEY'LL BE 16:55 VERY SUSCEPTIBLE TO BRIBES AND TWISTING JUDGMENT. 17:00 SO THE LORD WANTS US TO HAVE HONEST HEARTS. 17:02 THIS COMMANDMENT IS REALLY KEPT IN THE HEART. 17:06 JAMES 1:14 - IT REALLY REPRESENTS A SUMMARY OF 17:11 THE WHOLE LAW, BECAUSE IF YOU GET THE TENTH COMMANDMENT RIGHT 17:15 YOU'LL GET THE REST RIGHT. AND EVERY COMMANDMENT YOU 17:20 COULD BREAK COULD START WITH COVETOUSNESS. 17:25 BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, IT BEGINS WITH 17:28 COVETING YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE. BEFORE YOU STEAL YOUR 17:31 NEIGHBOR'S ORBITAL BUFFER - I MEAN, WON'T YOU JUST PICK 17:36 SOMETHING - YOU'VE GOT TO COVET IT. 17:40 AND SO COVETOUSNESS HAPPENS IN THE HEART FIRST BEFORE IT 17:42 IS PLAYED OUT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING 17:45 HAPPENING UNDERGROUND BEFORE YOU EVER SEE THE FRUIT. 17:48 THERE'S A GERMINATION THAT HAPPENS BELOW THE SURFACE 17:50 THAT YOU DON'T SEE. AND SOMETHING OFTEN HAPPENS IN 17:54 THE HEART - BEFORE SOMEONE'S MURDERED, THEY'RE USUALLY 17:56 THINKING HOMICIDAL THOUGHTS IN THEIR HEART. 17:59 AND SO COVETOUSNESS IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING A HEART 18:02 THAT'S RIGHT. BEFORE NABOTH WAS 18:04 MURDERED WHAT HAPPENED? AHAB WANTED WHAT HE HAD. 18:10 SO IT STARTED WITH COVETOUSNESS. 18:12 JAMES 1:14, "BUT EACH ONE IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY 18:16 BY HIS OWN DESIRES" - IT'S ON THE INSIDE - "AND ENTICED. 18:20 THEN, WHEN DESIRE HAS CONCEIVED," - IT SPROUTS - "IT 18:23 GIVES BIRTH TO SIN; AND SIN, WHEN IT IS FULL-GROWN, BRINGS 18:26 FORTH DEATH." VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER VIOLATION OF GOD'S LAW CAN 18:31 BE TRACED BACK, IN SOME WAY, TO STARTING WITH COVETOUS FEELINGS 18:36 IN THE HEART. NOW, AS WE DEFINE COVETOUSNESS, I WANT TO MAKE IT 18:42 CLEAR THAT IT IS NOT WRONG TO DESIRE SOMETHING OR SOMEONE. 18:47 YOU WOULD BE HOMELESS AND SINGLE RIGHT NOW - ALL OF YOU - 18:52 IF YOU DIDN'T, AT SOME POINT, DESIRE OR COVET SOMETHING OR 18:56 SOMEONE. IT IS NOT WRONG TO WANT A 18:58 HOUSE, IT IS NOT WRONG TO WANT A FIELD, IT IS NOT WRONG TO WANT 19:02 AN OX OR A DONKEY OR A CAR OR A SPOUSE. 19:06 MATTER OF FACT, IT IS RIGHT TO WANT THOSE THINGS. 19:08 GOD PLACED THOSE DESIRES IN YOUR HEART. 19:10 THE BIBLE EVEN TELLS US THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE ARE 19:13 COMMANDED TO COVET. SO IT'S NOT THAT 19:15 COVETING IS WRONG. SOMETIMES YOU TAKE HALF A 19:20 COMMANDMENT AND YOU GET THINGS ALL MIXED UP. 19:23 THE COMMANDMENT SAYS, 'DO NOT MAKE UNTO THEE A LIKENESS 19:26 OF ANYTHING IN THE HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THE 19:30 WATER UNDER THE EARTH' AND PEOPLE STOP RIGHT THERE. 19:33 THEY SAY, 'DON'T HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH - IT'S A LIKENESS 19:34 OF SOMETHING. DON'T HAVE A PAINTING OF 19:36 FLOWERS ON YOUR WALL - IT'S A LIKENESS OF SOMETHING. 19:38 DON'T HAVE -' AND PEOPLE HAVE NO ART, THEY HAVE NO PHOTOGRAPHS 19:41 OF THEIR KIDS BECAUSE IT'S IDOLATRY. 19:43 THEY DON'T READ THE REST OF THE COMMANDMENT THAT SAYS, 19:46 'AND BOW DOWN TO THEM.' RIGHT? 19:49 SAME THING WITH THE COVET COMMANDMENT. 19:50 IT DOESN'T JUST SAY 'DON'T COVET ANYTHING.' IT SAYS, 'DON'T 19:53 COVET THINGS THAT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DESIRE.' YOU SEE WHAT 19:58 I'M SAYING? SO, WHAT IS COVETOUSNESS? 20:02 OH, BY THE WAY, I WAS GOING TO GIVE YOU A VERSE. 20:05 1 CORINTHIANS 12:31 - WHAT CAN YOU COVET? 20:07 HE SAYS, "BUT COVET EARNESTLY" - WE'RE COMMANDED TO COVET 20:11 EARNESTLY - "THE BEST GIFTS: AND YET SHEW I UNTO YOU A 20:15 MORE EXCELLENT WAY." IF YOU'RE GOING TO COVET SOMETHING, THE 20:17 BEST THING TO COVET - TO LONG AFTER - TO CRAVE - IS THE 20:20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS - THE BEST GIFTS - THE GIFT OF LOVE IS WHAT HE 20:23 MENTIONS. WHAT IS COVETOUSNESS? 20:26 IT IS A FORBIDDEN DESIRE, AN ENVIOUS EAGERNESS TO POSSESS 20:31 WHAT IS NOT LAWFULLY OBTAINABLE; EXCESSIVELY AND 20:34 CULPABLY DESIROUS OF THE POSSESSIONS OF ANOTHER; 20:37 INAPPROPRIATE OR INORDINATE DESIRE FOR THE 20:40 POSSESSIONS, POSITIONS, OR PERSONS THAT BELONG TO SOMEONE 20:44 ELSE. SOMETIMES WE COVET A PERSON'S POSITION. 20:51 SOMETIMES WE'RE COVETOUS BY COMPARISON. 20:56 IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 20, VERSE 1 - REMEMBER THE PARABLE 21:01 WHERE A CERTAIN MAN HAD SERVANTS WORKING IN HIS FIELD? 21:05 MATTER OF FACT, WE BETTER GO AHEAD - WHY DON'T WE GO 21:08 THERE? MATTHEW CHAPTER 20, VERSE 1 AND 21:20 - "FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A LANDOWNER WHO WENT 21:23 OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING TO HIRE LABORERS FOR HIS VINEYARD. 21:26 NOW WHEN HE HAD AGREED WITH THE LABORERS FOR A DENARIUS" - A 21:29 PENNY - WHAT WE WOULD CALL - THAT WAS A FAIR DAY'S WAGE - "A 21:32 DAY, HE SENT THEM INTO HIS VINEYARD...AND HE WENT OUT 21:35 ABOUT THE THIRD HOUR AND SAW OTHERS STANDING IDLE IN 21:39 THE MARKETPLACE, AND SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ALSO GO INTO THE 21:42 VINEYARD, AND WHATEVER IS RIGHT I WILL GIVE YOU.' SO THEY WENT. 21:46 AGAIN HE WENT OUT ABOUT THE SIXTH AND THE NINTH HOURS, AND 21:48 DID LIKEWISE. AND ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR" 21:51 - ONLY ONE MORE HOUR OF WORK - "HE WENT OUT AND FOUND OTHERS 21:53 STANDING IDLE, AND SAID TO THEM, 'WHY HAVE YOU BEEN 21:54 STANDING HERE IDLE ALL DAY?' THEY SAID TO HIM, 'BECAUSE 21:57 NO ONE HIRED US.' HE SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ALSO GO INTO THE 21:58 VINEYARD, AND WHATEVER IS RIGHT YOU WILL RECEIVE.'" - 'I'LL BE 22:00 FAIR WITH YOU.' SO THEY TRUST HIM AND THEY GO. 22:03 - "SO WHEN EVENING HAD COME, THE OWNER OF THE VINEYARD SAID 22:05 TO HIS STEWARD, 'CALL THE LABORERS AND GIVE THEM THEIR 22:07 WAGES, BEGINNING WITH THE LAST TO THE FIRST.' AND WHEN THOSE 22:12 CAME WHO WERE HIRED ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR, THEY EACH 22:14 RECEIVED A DENARIUS." - NOW YOU GOT THE PICTURE HERE? 22:17 ALL THESE MEN HAVE BEEN OUT WORKING IN THIS LARGE 22:19 VINEYARD THIS LANDOWNER HAS - HE'S RECRUITING PEOPLE - 22:22 HE'S GOT TO GET THE HARVEST IN. THE WEATHER'S GOING TO TURN BAD. 22:25 AND SOME START IN THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY AND THEY'RE 22:27 WORKING ALL DAY LONG THROUGH THE HEAT OF THE DAY AND THEY SEE 22:29 OTHER WORKERS ARE JOINING THEM - THE LABOR FORCE INCREASES 22:32 THROUGH THE DAY - AND EVEN ONE HOUR LEFT IN THE DAY SOME NEW 22:35 PEOPLE SHOW UP TO WORK AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN SWEATY OR 22:37 BURNT AND THEY GO WORK ONE HOUR. 22:40 NOW, WHISTLE BLOWS, THEY CALL EVERYONE TOGETHER, THEY 22:44 LINE THEM ALL UP AND THEY SAY, 'OKAY, LET'S START WITH THE ONES 22:47 WHO CAME LAST AND WE'LL PAY THEM.' AND SO THEY GO, 'ONE 22:50 PENNY, ONE PENNY, ONE PENNY.' NOW THE ONES WHO ARE AT THE 22:54 END OF THE LINE ARE SAYING, 'WOW! 22:56 HEY, WAIT 'TIL HE GETS TO US. HE GAVE THEM A PENNY. 22:58 WE SHOULD BE GETTING MORE.' AND HE GOES TO THE ONES WHO WORKED 23:01 HALF THE DAY, 'ONE PENNY, ONE PENNY, ONE PENNY.' THEN ONE WHO 23:04 WORKED, YOU KNOW, THREE-QUARTERS OF THE DAY, 'ONE PENNY, ONE 23:06 PENNY.' AND THEY GO, 'WHAT'S WITH THIS?' 23:09 AND FINALLY, IT GETS TO THE ONES WHO WORKED ALL DAY LONG, 23:11 'ONE PENNY, ONE PENNY.' AND THEY'RE MAD. 23:15 WOULD YOU BE MAD? ONLY IF YOU'VE GOT A COVETOUS HEART. 23:22 ARE YOU GETTING WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GET? 23:25 ARE YOU GETTING WHAT YOU AGREED TO? 23:27 IF YOU THOUGHT THAT THE LANDOWNER WAS UNFAIR YOU 23:29 SHOULD HAVE SAID, 'I'M WORKING SOMEWHERE ELSE.' NOW 23:31 YOU'RE GOING TO GO JOIN A UNION AND PICKET, RIGHT? 23:39 HE CALLED THEM ALL "AND WHEN THOSE CAME WHO WERE HIRED 23:41 ABOUT THE ELEVENTH HOUR, THEY EACH RECEIVED A DENARIUS. 23:43 BUT WHEN THE FIRST CAME, THEY SUPPOSED THAT THEY WOULD 23:45 RECEIVE MORE; AND THEY LIKEWISE RECEIVED EACH A DENARIUS. 23:48 AND WHEN THEY HAD RECEIVED IT, THEY COMPLAINED AGAINST THE 23:50 LANDOWNER." THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY IF NO ONE ELSE HAD 23:53 RECEIVED ANYTHING, BUT WHY ARE THEY UNHAPPY? BECAUSE SOMEONE 23:57 WHO WORKED LESS SEEMED TO GET THE SAME AS THEM. 24:02 THEY DIDN'T GET MORE, THEY GOT THE SAME. 24:04 'IT'S NOT FAIR.' WE'VE ALL SEEN IT. 24:08 TAKE THE KIDS OUT FOR ICE CREAM FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY AND 24:10 BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT A BIG GAGGLE OF KIDS YOU BUY EACH OF THEM A 24:13 SINGLE SCOOP AND THEY'RE ALL DELIGHTED, THEY'RE HAVING A 24:16 GREAT TIME UNTIL SOME MOM COMES IN WITH HER KID ABOUT THE SAME 24:19 AGE AND HE GETS A TRIPLE SCOOP. AND THEY SEE HIM WALK OUT OF 24:24 THE STORE WITH THREE SCOOPS STACKED ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER 24:29 AND ALL THEY GOT IS THEIR ONE LITTLE HALF-EATEN SCOOP OF 24:31 VANILLA - THEY'RE NOT HAPPY ANYMORE. WHY? 24:37 WE'VE GOT GREEDY HEARTS. A MILLIONAIRE IS HAPPY WITH 24:40 HIS MILLIONS UNTIL HE FINDS OUT THERE'S BILLIONAIRES 24:42 OUT THERE SOMEWHERE. THEY'RE NOT HAPPY ANYMORE. 24:46 SO SOMETIMES WE LOSE OUR HAPPINESS BY COMPARISON. 24:51 YOU KNOW, ONE REASON THAT WE OWN A LOT THAT WE OWN IS BECAUSE 24:54 WE LOOK AROUND US - YOU MIGHT EVEN DO IT SUBCONSCIOUSLY - ALL 24:56 THE TIME, WE SEE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DRIVING, WHAT EVERYONE 24:59 ELSE IS WEARING, WHAT KIND OF HOUSE THEY'RE ALL LIVING IN AND 25:01 WE DON'T WANT TO BE LABELED AS BEHIND THE TIMES OR ARCHAIC. 25:06 AND SO, WE SAY, 'I PROBABLY OUGHT TO GO SHOPPING.' 25:10 MATTER OF FACT, EVERY NOW AND THEN, THE WOMAN IN MY LIFE 25:18 WILL SAY, 'DOUG, YOU'VE BEEN WEARING THAT SUIT FOR TEN 25:20 YEARS.' AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A TIME WHEN YOU NEED TO GO, BUT IF 25:24 YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AROUND YOU DON'T REALIZE IT. 25:27 WHAT I DO IS, I'LL BE WATCHING A PROGRAM THAT'S TWELVE YEARS 25:30 OLD AND I THINK, 'I'VE STILL GOT THAT SAME SUIT AND TIE.' BUT 25:36 IT STILL FITS - PRAISE THE LORD! AND SO I'D RATHER HAVE THAT 25:41 PROBLEM THAN THE OTHER ONE. SO, BUT WE ARE CONSTANTLY 25:46 UNDER PRESSURE BY THE CHANGING STYLES AND THE FADS AND THE 25:50 DESIGNS AND WE'RE THINKING WE'VE GOT TO BUY, BUY, BUY TO KEEP UP. 25:53 BECAUSE, BY COMPARISON, WE THINK WE'RE FINE UNTIL SOMEBODY 25:57 DRIVES UP - OUR NEIGHBOR PULLS INTO HIS YARD WITH A BRAND-NEW 26:01 SHINY CAR AND OURS SUDDENLY LOOKS OLD AND WE'RE NOT HAPPY 26:04 ANYMORE. SO WE GO KICK A DENT IN HIS 26:11 CAR AND WE FEEL BETTER, RIGHT? COLOSSIANS 3:5, "THEREFORE, 26:19 PUT TO DEATH YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE ON EARTH:" - AND HE'S 26:23 TALKING ABOUT THESE FLESHLY, SELFISH DESIRES - 26:25 "FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, PASSION, EVIL DESIRE, AND 26:29 COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY." HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT 26:33 THAT COVETOUSNESS IS IDOLATRY? YOU'D NEVER BOW DOWN TO AN IDOL, 26:38 BUT SOME OF US BOW TO THE IDOLS OF FASHION. 26:44 SOMEONE SAID, I THINK IT WAS A PASTOR, HADDEN R.W. 26:49 ROBINSON, "COVETOUSNESS IS SIMPLY CRAVING MORE OF WHAT 26:52 YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH OF." COVETOUSNESS IS SIMPLY 26:57 CRAVING MORE OF WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH OF. 27:00 BUT WE'RE NOT HAPPY. I'M NOT DONE WITH MY VERSE IN 27:04 COLOSSIANS 3, "...COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY. 27:08 BECAUSE OF THESE THINGS THE WRATH OF GOD IS COMING UPON 27:10 THE SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE." IT'S - IT REPRESENTS AN UNCONVERTED 27:15 HEART WHEN WE'RE CONSTANTLY DISSATISFIED. 27:19 IT'S NOT ONLY COVETING POSITION AND POSSESSIONS, IT'S PERSONS. 27:29 I'M NOT HAPPY WITH WHO I HAVE. 27:33 THE GRASS IS OFTEN GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE. 27:37 HAVE YOU READ THE STORY ABOUT DAVID AND BATHSHEBA? 27:41 I DON'T THINK I NEED TO READ THE WHOLE SORDID TALE RIGHT NOW, 27:44 I THINK MOST OF US, UNFORTUNATELY, KNOW IT. 27:47 DAVID - HOW MANY WIVES DOES HE HAVE? 27:51 TEN - BEFORE BATHSHEBA - AND NUMBERLESS CONCUBINES, I THINK. 28:00 HE'S GOT A NUMBER OF CONCUBINES AS WELL. HE'S GOT ABOUT A DOZEN 28:02 CONCUBINES AT THIS TIME. HE WALKS ON THE ROOF OF HIS 28:06 HOUSE ONE DAY WHILE THE ARMY'S OFF FIGHTING AND SPIES 28:10 BATHSHEBA - SEES THIS BEAUTIFUL LADY - WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH 28:16 SHE WAS PARTICIPATING IN ALL THAT HAPPENED. 28:18 SHE MAY HAVE KNOWN DAVID WALKED THAT TIME OF DAY. 28:21 THERE'S NOT MUCH RECORD ABOUT HOW SHE REACTED TO ALL OF 28:23 THIS, BUT HE INQUIRES FROM HIS SERVANTS - HE SAID, 'YOU 28:28 KNOW THAT HOUSE AROUND THE CORNER THAT'S GOT THE BIG 28:31 COURTYARD WITH THE BATH IN THE BACK AND - WHO IS THAT WOMAN?' 28:36 THEY SAID, 'OH, THAT'S BATHSHEBA, THE WIFE, 28:39 DAVID, WIFE OF URIAH - YOUR MIGHTY MAN - THAT'S BATHSHEBA, 28:42 URIAH'S WIFE.' DAVID STARTS TO THINK, 'I MIGHT HAVE A HALF 28:50 DOZEN WIVES - OR A DOZEN WIVES, BUT I DON'T THINK ANY OF THEM 28:53 LOOK LIKE HER.' THE BIBLE SAYS HIS WIVES WERE BEAUTIFUL. 28:57 ONE OF THEM WAS THE MOTHER OF ABSALOM - BEAUTIFUL SON - THE 28:59 OTHER ONE WAS ABIGAIL, THE BIBLE SAYS SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL. 29:06 BUT THIS ONE WAS JUST SUDDENLY LOOKING A LITTLE MORE 29:09 BEAUTIFUL AND SO HE JUST COULDN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. 29:15 HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, SOMETHING'S BEEN MISSING 29:17 IN MY LIFE AND I BET THIS IS IT. 29:20 AND I THINK - GOD PROBABLY DESIGNED THAT I SHOULD WALK 29:22 ON MY ROOF AT THAT VERY TIME OF THE DAY.' I MEAN, WHO KNOWS WHAT 29:25 KIND OF CRAZY RATIONALIZATION HE WAS THINKING, BUT I'VE HEARD 29:28 PEOPLE RATIONALIZE COVETOUSNESS A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS 29:34 AND WHATEVER - HE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, 'I WON'T DO ANYTHING BUT I 29:40 WOULD LIKE TO JUST - SHE'S PROBABLY LONELY - JUST TALK TO 29:42 HER A LITTLE BIT. I'M LONELY, SHE'S LONELY. LET'S JUST VISIT. 29:45 BRING HER TO THE HOUSE.' YOU KNOW - AND ONCE YOU OPEN THE 29:49 DOOR LIKE THAT IT'S USUALLY NOT GOING TO END WELL. 29:54 THEY SAID, 'WE'LL JUST BE FRIENDS.' HAVE YOU HEARD THAT 29:57 BEFORE? BY THE WAY, LADIES, IT'S NOT 30:00 JUST MEN COVETING WOMEN, IT'S WOMEN BEING DISSATISFIED 30:04 WITH THEIR HUSBANDS TOO - WANTING A BETTER ONE. 30:06 YOU'RE WATCHING SOAP OPERAS ALL DAY LONG AND THOSE, YOU 30:11 KNOW, DASHING CHARACTERS THAT THEY'VE GOT ACTING IN HOLLYWOOD 30:14 WITH THEIR MAKE-UP ON AND THEY'RE ALWAYS TRIM AND FIT AND 30:16 POLITE AND LOVING AND SENSITIVE AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT YOUR 30:18 HUSBAND'S NOT. AND YOU'RE THINKING, 'YOU KNOW, 30:24 THERE'S THIS OTHER GUY I SEE AT WORK AND HE JUST SEEMS SO 30:27 NICE AND HE'S WILLING TO LISTEN AND...' YOUR HUSBAND 30:32 BURPS AND HE'S JUST GOT THESE PROBLEMS AND - NOTHING LIKE THE 30:37 GUYS ON TELEVISION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. 30:41 "AND I THINK I'M NEVER GOING TO BE HAPPY UNTIL I GET THAT 30:44 OTHER MAN.' THE DEVIL'S GOT A LOT OF WAYS OF 30:48 FRAMING THAT, BUT LET ME ASK YOU, DID DAVID GET BATHSHEBA? 30:56 WAS HE HAPPY OR DID THAT END VERY BADLY? IT WENT FROM 31:03 ADULTERY TO MURDERING A FRIEND TO HAVING FOUR OF HIS SONS DIE, 31:09 LOSING THE RESPECT OF HIS PEOPLE. COVETING WHAT YOU SHOULD 31:12 NOT WANT NEVER BRINGS SATISFACTION. 31:18 AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A VERY RELEVANT MESSAGE IN OUR DAY 31:20 AND AGE BECAUSE THERE IS A WHOLE BRANCH - IT'S MUCH BIGGER 31:26 THAN ANY ONE DENOMINATION - THERE IS A WHOLE BRANCH OF 31:29 CHRISTIANITY IN NORTH AMERICA THAT'S CALLED 'PROSPERITY 31:33 PREACHING' - 'THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL'. 31:35 HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT? 31:37 LAST NIGHT KAREN AND I TURNED ON 3ABN AND THERE'S OTHER 31:41 CHRISTIAN CHANNELS AND SO WE WERE SCROLLING BETWEEN, YOU 31:44 KNOW, AS YOU CHANNEL SURF BETWEEN 3ABN AND HOPE CHANNEL, 31:47 AMAZING FACTS AND SOME OF THE OTHER CHANNELS, YOU ALSO 31:50 ENCOUNTER SOME VARIOUS EVANGELICAL CHANNELS ALONG 31:54 THE WAY AND I STOPPED AT THIS ONE AND I TOLD KAREN, 31:57 I SAID, 'THAT'S A PROSPERITY PREACHER THERE.' JUST - I HADN'T 32:01 EVEN HEARD ANYTHING YET. AND SURE ENOUGH, BEFORE TEN 32:04 MINUTES WENT BY, HE SAID THE WORD PROSPERITY AND TALKED ABOUT 32:07 MONEY ABOUT HALF A DOZEN TIMES OR MORE. 32:10 AND HE WAS SAYING WE DON'T NEED TO OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS OF 32:13 GOD BECAUSE THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT. 'GOD WANTS TO BLESS 32:16 YOU NOT BECAUSE OF YOUR OBEDIENCE, HE JUST WANTS TO 32:19 BLESS YOU BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN HIM AND HE'S GOING TO MAKE YOU 32:21 PROSPER.' AND, FRANKLY, IT WAS A DOCTRINE OF DEVILS. 32:27 BUT THERE'S A WHOLE CADRE OF PASTORS AND EVEN 32:31 DENOMINATIONS OUT THERE THAT HAVE BOUGHT INTO THIS IDEA THAT 32:36 YOU FOLLOW JESUS, YOU TAKE UP A GOLDEN CROSS AND YOU FOLLOW 32:41 JESUS AND HE WANTS YOU TO BE HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE AND IF 32:43 YOU'RE NOT HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE, AND IF YOU'RE NOT BLESSED 32:46 IN EVERY WAY, THEN YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. 32:49 BUT IS THAT WHAT JESUS TOLD US? IT SAYS IN LUKE 5:11 - 32:58 CHRIST CALLED THEM TO FOLLOW HIM, "AND WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT 33:01 THEIR BOATS TO LAND, THEY FORSOOK ALL AND FOLLOWED 33:05 HIM." HOW CAN YOU MARKET A GOSPEL LIKE THAT IN SUCH 33:09 A MATERIALISTIC CULTURE? FORSAKE EVERYTHING AND FOLLOW 33:12 JESUS, WHEN WE'RE BEING PROGRAMMED TO BE DISSATISFIED? 33:18 AND ONE MORE, PAUL SAID, IN 1 TIMOTHY 6:9 AND 10, "BUT THOSE 33:23 WHO DESIRE TO BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION" - WHAT ENDS UP 33:27 HAPPENING IF WE NURTURE - IF WE FEED THIS DESIRE TO BE RICH? 33:34 YOU KNOW, IN THE INVESTMENT WORLD, EVERY NOW AND 33:36 THEN YOU HEAR ABOUT SOME PONZI SCHEME WHERE ALL THESE DEAR 33:40 PEOPLE PUT THEIR RETIREMENT INTO SOME FUND - WE ALL HEARD ABOUT 33:44 MADOFF AND OTHERS LIKE HIM - THERE'S A LOT OF THEM AROUND - 33:48 AND THEY'LL GO AROUND AND MEET WITH PEOPLE AND THEY'LL TALK 33:50 ABOUT, 'LOOK, IF YOU INVEST WITH THIS NEW CORPORATION THAT WE'VE 33:52 FORMED, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU DOUBLE YOUR MONEY IN TWO YEARS. 33:56 NO INTEREST - ANYTHING LIKE THAT.' AND THEY CREATE THIS 33:59 SCENARIO AND THEY SELL IT AND THEY'VE GOT THE PAPERWORK AND IT 34:01 SOUNDS SO AUTHENTIC AND THEY SHOW THESE STORIES - THEY'VE 34:04 GOT TESTIMONIALS AND THESE DEAR, SINCERE PEOPLE, WHO KNOW 34:08 IN THEIR HEART OF HEARTS, 'BOY, YOU KNOW, YOU GET RICH THAT 34:10 QUICK AND SOMETHING CAN'T BE RIGHT.' BUT THEIR REASON IS 34:15 SMOTHERED AND SUFFOCATED BY THEIR GREED AND EVEN GOOD PEOPLE 34:20 HAVE INVESTED THEIR LIFE SAVINGS AND THEIR RETIREMENT IN 34:22 THESE SCHEMES AND THEN ONE DAY THEY FIND OUT - THEY SAY, 'LOOK, 34:26 I NEED TO MAKE A WITHDRAWAL.' AND THEY DON'T HEAR ANY 34:28 MORE FROM THEIR INVESTOR AND HE SKIPS TOWN AND YOU FIND OUT HE 34:31 SKIPS TOWN WITH ALL THE MONEY OF ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE THAT 34:33 HAVE LOST EVERYTHING. OR THEY GO TO JAIL - THEY'RE 34:37 PROSECUTED - BUT THEY SPENT IT ALL AND THE GOVERNMENT 34:40 SAYS, 'WE'RE SO SORRY. THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO. 34:42 WE'RE GOING TO PUT THEM IN JAIL BUT YOUR MONEY'S GONE.' 34:45 AND YOU KNOW WHAT USUALLY WAS AT THE FOUNDATION OF THAT? 34:49 THEY WANTED TO GET TOO MUCH TOO FAST AND THEY "PIERCED 34:54 THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS." I HAD AN 34:58 INVESTMENT ADVISOR TELL ME ONE TIME - I SAID, 'OH, I HEARD 35:00 ABOUT THIS INVESTMENT OVER HERE AND, BOY, YOU CAN GET, YOU KNOW, 35:03 TWELVE PERCENT.' AND SHE SAID, 'HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED.' 35:10 HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED. PEOPLE THAT WANT TO MAKE TOO 35:13 MUCH TOO FAST, IT DOESN'T END WELL. 35:15 AND THAT'S ALSO TRUE IN THE CHRISTIAN REALM. 35:18 THIS IDEA THAT 'I'M GOING TO COME TO JESUS BECAUSE THE 35:20 PREACHER TELLS ME IF I ACCEPT JESUS AND IF I MAKE THIS 35:22 BIG DONATION, ALL OF A SUDDEN WINDOWS IN HEAVEN ARE 35:25 GOING TO OPEN AND I'M GOING TO HAVE ALL THIS PROSPERITY AND 35:28 I'M GOING TO BE DRIVING' - AND A LOT OF PREACHERS HAVE TURNED 35:32 INTO POSITIVE THINKING MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS THAT TELL 35:35 PEOPLE ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU'RE GOING TO GET IF YOU FOLLOW JESUS 35:39 IN THE WORLD. IF THAT'S YOUR REASON FOR 35:42 FOLLOWING JESUS THEN YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE WRONG GROUP 35:45 BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO FOLLOW JESUS BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM AND 35:48 YOU WANT YOUR SINS FORGIVEN AND YOU WANT TO BE WITH HIM FOREVER. 35:50 GOD CAN BLESS PEOPLE, DON'T MISUNDERSTAND. 35:54 BUT PLEASE GET THE PERCENTAGES RIGHT. 35:59 HERE'S THE PERCENTAGE: 'IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO 36:02 THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM 36:05 OF HEAVEN.' CAN IT BE DONE? YEAH, IS IT THE RULE 36:09 OR THE EXCEPTION? JESUS SAID IT'S THE EXCEPTION. 36:13 IT IS HARD FOR A RICH MAN TO BE SAVED. 36:17 THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS. TAKE THAT UP WITH HIM. 36:19 THAT'S NOT WHAT THESE PASTORS ARE TEACHING PEOPLE. 36:22 THEY'RE TEACHING PEOPLE THAT JESUS WANTS YOU ALL TO BE RICH. 36:26 WHY WOULD HE SAY IT'S SO HARD FOR YOU TO BE SAVED IF 36:27 YOU'RE RICH AND TELL EVERYBODY HE WANTS THEM TO BE RICH? 36:32 THAT COULD BE WHY THE GOSPEL IS SPREADING THE FASTEST IN THE 36:34 POOREST COUNTRIES AND IT COULD BE WHY, SPIRITUALLY, WE'RE 36:38 SO LUKEWARM IN THE PROSPEROUS COUNTRIES - WHERE THERE'S SO 36:41 MUCH MATERIALISM IT BECOMES A GOD. PROSPERITY PREACHING. 36:48 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL'S CROSSING INTO THE PROMISED 36:51 LAND WAS INHIBITED BY COVETOUSNESS. 36:56 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN JOSHUA CROSSED OVER AND 36:57 THEY CONQUERED JERICHO AND HE SAID, 'DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING IN 37:02 JERICHO, IT'S ALL CONSECRATED TO THE LORD. 37:04 YOU'LL BE CURSED IF YOU TOUCH IT. 37:06 GOD'LL BLESS YOU - YOU'VE GOT PLENTY. 37:08 DON'T REACH OUT FOR THAT FORBIDDEN CURSED THING. 37:13 BUT AIKEN, THE SON OF CARMI, WHEN HE WAS WITH THE 37:17 SOLDIERS AND THEY WERE GOING FROM ROOM TO ROOM IN JERICHO 37:19 AND CONQUERING THE CITY, HE FOUND THIS ONE HOUSE WHERE HE 37:24 SAW THE WARDROBE HAD JUST SOME BEAUTIFUL, VERY 37:27 EXPENSIVE BABYLONIAN CLOTHES. HE THOUGHT, 'WHAT A SHAME TO 37:30 BURN UP THAT ROBE.' AND HE ALSO FOUND, IN A DRAWER 37:33 SOMEWHERE, THERE WAS SOME SILVER AND A BAR OF GOLD. 37:37 AND HE KNEW HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO DO IT, BUT, WELL, LET ME 37:40 GIVE IT TO YOU IN HIS OWN WORDS. 37:41 FINALLY, WHEN THEY CAST LOTS AND THEY FOUND OUT WHAT HE HAD 37:43 DONE, THEY HAD LOST THE BATTLE WITH AI AND ABOUT 32 PEOPLE WERE 37:48 KILLED BECAUSE GOD COULD NOT BLESS THEM IN THEIR FUTURE 37:51 BATTLES BECAUSE OF AIKEN'S COVETOUSNESS. 37:53 YOUR COVETOUSNESS WILL NOT ONLY AFFECT YOU, YOUR 37:56 COVETOUSNESS WILL AFFECT THE ARMY. 38:00 SO IF YOU THINK WHETHER OR NOT YOUR COVETOUSNESS IS JUST 38:02 BETWEEN YOU AND GOD, IT AFFECTS THE BATTLES THE CHURCH 38:05 WINS, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE. 38:08 ALL OF ISRAEL LOST A BATTLE BECAUSE OF THE 38:09 COVETOUSNESS IN ONE MAN'S TENT - WHICH STARTED IN HIS HEART. 38:17 AND, FINALLY, AIKEN ANSWERED JOSHUA AND SAID, 38:19 'INDEED, I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AND THIS 38:22 IS WHAT I'VE DONE: WHEN I SAW AMONG THE SPOILS OF JERICHO A 38:27 BEAUTIFUL BABYLONIAN GARMENT AND 200 SHEKELS OF SILVER AND A 38:30 WEDGE OF GOLD WEIGHING 50 SHEKELS, I COVETED THEM AND I 38:35 TOOK THEM. THERE THEY ARE HIDDEN IN 38:38 THE EARTH IN THE MIDST OF MY TENT WITH THE SILVER UNDER IT.' 38:42 COVETOUSNESS CAN BE FATAL. WHAT HAPPENED TO AIKEN? 38:47 HE WAS STONED AND THEN BURNED. WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS FAMILY? 38:51 THEY ALL KNEW ABOUT DAD'S SECRET STASH. 38:53 THEY BECAME ACCESSORIES - THEY WERE STONED AND THEY WERE 38:56 KILLED TOO. YOUR COVETOUSNESS WILL PLAY 39:00 ITSELF OUT AND YOUR KIDS WILL TYPICALLY PRIORITIZE 39:03 THE WAY YOU DO. IF YOU GIVE AND YOU'RE 39:07 GENEROUS, THEY'LL OFTEN SEE YOU MODEL THAT - THEY'LL DO THAT. 39:10 IF YOU'RE GRASPING AND IF YOU THINK EVERY TIME YOU'RE 39:12 DEPRESSED THE ANSWER IS TO GO SHOPPING, THEY'LL THINK THAT 39:15 TOO - THAT HAPPINESS COMES, SOMEHOW, THROUGH MATERIALISM. 39:19 AND IT PERPETUATES ITSELF. WE KNOW THE STORY OF GEHAZI. 39:25 YOU FIND THIS IN 2 KINGS CHAPTER 5. 39:28 WE ALL KNOW ABOUT NAAMAN, THE LEPER WHO WAS HEALED, RIGHT? 39:32 AND AFTER HE'S HEALED HE'S SO THANKFUL - HE'S CLEANSED FROM 39:36 HIS LEPROSY IN THE JORDAN RIVER AND HE JUST WANTS TO GO 39:40 BACK AND HE WANTS TO BLESS THE LORD. 39:42 HE SAID, 'OH, GOD'S GIVEN ME SO MUCH.' YOU KNOW, HE 39:43 TOOK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS' WORTH OF GOLD AND SILVER AND CLOTHES 39:47 TO PAY FOR HIS PROPHET - THE PROPHET HEALING HIM - AND WHEN 39:53 HE COMES TO ELISHA AND SAYS, 'TAKE A BLESSING. 39:54 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HEALING ME.' ELISHA SAYS, 'NO, 39:57 THIS IS ON THE HOUSE.' 'OH NO, NO, NO, NO!' 40:00 NOW GEHAZI, THE SERVANT OF ELISHA'S STANDING THERE AND 40:04 HE'S THINKING, 'ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? 40:06 THIS GUY - LOOK AT ALL HE'S GOT! 40:08 LOOK AT WHAT - WE COULD HAVE A BETTER HOUSE. 40:10 WE COULD HAVE A BETTER CHARIOT, WE COULD HAVE A BETTER 40:11 EVERYTHING. WE COULD HAVE SERVANTS - IF YOU'D JUST TAKE 40:13 HALF OF WHAT HE'S OFFERING. YOU'RE SENDING HIM AWAY?' 40:17 HE DOESN'T SAY THAT, BUT HE'S THINKING IT IN HIS HEART. 40:22 ELISHA KNEW THAT YOU COULDN'T CHARGE NAAMAN BECAUSE HE'S 40:25 GOING BACK TO SYRIA - HE WANTED HIM TO KNOW THAT THE GIFTS OF 40:28 GOD ARE FREE - THAT YOU DON'T PAY FOR THE HEALINGS THAT GOD 40:32 AND THE MIRACLES THAT GOD - DID ANYONE EVER PAY JESUS FOR A 40:34 MIRACLE? AND ELISHA WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 40:37 IT WAS SO IMPORTANT NOT TO TAKE NAAMAN'S MONEY - AND THAT 40:41 HE TOOK THAT MESSAGE BACK TO HIS PEOPLE. 40:43 AND AFTER NAAMAN RODE AWAY WITH ALL OF HIS MONEY, THE BIBLE 40:46 SAYS GEHAZI SAID WITHIN HIS HEART, 'I'M GOING AFTER HIM.' 40:51 AND AS HE RAN TO HEAD HIM OFF ON THE ROAD, HE FORMULATED AND 40:56 CONCOCTED SOME STORY AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, RIGHT AFTER 40:59 YOU LEFT SOME POOR PROPHETS CAME TO VISIT US AND THEY'RE SONS OF 41:02 PROPHETS AND THEY HAVE NOTHING AND ELISHA SENT ME HE 41:04 SAID, YOU KNOW, 'IF YOU DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF CLOTHES AND GOLD 41:08 OR SILVER WE CAN GIVE THEM, THAT'D BE GREAT.' NAAMAN SAID, 41:11 'SURE!' - HE'S HAPPY. HE'S GOT A LIFE. HE WAS DYING OF LEPROSY. 41:14 HE SAYS, 'I'LL GIVE WHATEVER YOU WANT. 41:16 HERE, TAKE TWO.' WHICH ALSO SHOWS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE 41:19 SALVATION YOU'RE GENEROUS. YOU WANT TO GIVE. 41:23 AND SO GEHAZI, HE TAKES THIS STUFF AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW 41:26 HOW HE CARRIED IT ALL. HE SLINKS BACK TO ELISHA'S HOUSE. 41:30 HE SQUIRRELS IT AWAY IN BARNS SOMEWHERE AND COMES IN TO 41:33 SEE ELISHA AND - CAN YOU HIDE ANYTHING FROM A PROPHET? 41:39 AND ELISHA SAYS, 'GEHAZI, WHERE WERE YOU?' 41:42 'OH, I WASN'T ANYWHERE.' 'OH' - HE SAID, - 'DID NOT MY HEART GO 41:47 OUT AFTER YOU WHEN YOU FOLLOWED AFTER THE MAN AND HE CAME DOWN 41:50 FROM HIS CHARIOT TO MEET YOU?' 41:52 HE SAID, 'IS IT A TIME TO GET OLIVE YARDS AND VINEYARDS 41:55 AND MAIDSERVANTS AND MANSERVANTS?' 41:57 HE - ELISHA - BEGAN TO RECITE EXACTLY THE THINGS THAT 42:01 GEHAZI WAS THINKING HE WAS GOING TO BUY WITH THAT MONEY. 42:04 HE SAID, 'NOW, BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE THIS THING, THE LEPROSY 42:07 OF NAAMAN WILL CLING TO YOU AND YOUR SEED FOREVER.' AND HE WENT 42:12 OUT OF ELISHA'S PRESENCE A LEPER WHITE AS SNOW. 42:16 DID HE STILL HAVE THE GOLD AND SILVER? 42:19 YEAH. WAS HE HAPPY? NO. DIDN'T END WELL, DID IT? 42:26 A MAN'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THINGS HE 42:29 POSSESSES. WHAT SHALL I MORE SAY? 42:34 ISAIAH 57:17, "FOR THE INIQUITY OF HIS COVETOUSNESS I 42:38 WAS ANGRY AND STRUCK HIM;" WHAT WAS BALAAM'S PROBLEM? 42:45 HE WAS A RELIGIOUS LEADER - PROPHET - COVETED. 42:49 HE WAS WILLING TO CURSE GOD'S PEOPLE IF YOU PAID HIM RIGHT. 42:52 AND THERE ARE STILL PASTORS OUT THERE THAT WILL PREACH WHAT 42:54 PEOPLE ARE ITCHING TO HEAR IF THEY MAKE AN OFFERING TO HIS 42:56 PERSONAL ACCOUNT. WHAT ABOUT DELILAH? 43:02 SHE HAD THE STRONGEST, BEST LOOKING MAN IN THE WORLD, 43:04 BUT SHE WAS WILLING TO SELL HIM FOR SILVER, WASN'T SHE? 43:08 BECAUSE SHE COVETED THE MONEY. HEBREWS 13, VERSE 5, "LET 43:15 YOUR CONDUCT BE WITHOUT COVETOUSNESS; BE CONTENT WITH 43:19 SUCH THINGS AS YOU HAVE. FOR HE HIMSELF HAS SAID, 'I 43:22 WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.'" YOU KNOW, THE ESSENCE OF 43:28 THE MESSAGE ABOUT COVETOUSNESS IS: BE CONTENT. 43:34 UNBIBLICAL OR, WHEN I SAY 'UNBIBLICAL', COVETING 43:39 THINGS THAT ARE FORBIDDEN IS REALLY DISSATISFACTION. 43:44 AND THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT HAPPY AND 43:45 THEY THINK THAT GETTING SOMETHING OR SOMEONE ELSE IS 43:48 GOING TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. IF THEY GET THAT PROMOTION 43:51 - THAT POSITION, THOSE POSSESSIONS, THAT PERSON 43:53 - EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE BETTER. 43:59 WHAT BROUGHT SIN INTO OUR WORLD? THE DEVIL SAID TO EVE, 'OH, 44:06 YOU'RE NOT AS SMART AS YOU COULD BE. 44:09 YOU THINK EVERYTHING'S OKAY, BUT IF YOU EAT THIS FRUIT YOU 44:11 WOULD BE MUCH BETTER OFF. YOU'LL BE LIKE GOD.' 44:15 HE PLANTED THE SEED OF DISCONTENT IN HER 44:18 HEART AND WHEN SHE WAS DISCONTENT SHE THEN COVETED THE 44:22 FORBIDDEN FRUIT. ISN'T THAT WHAT HAPPENED? 44:26 1 TIMOTHY 6, VERSE 6, "NOW GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT 44:32 IS GREAT GAIN." THAT'S A GOOD VERSE FOR US TO REMEMBER. 44:35 "GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS GREAT GAIN. 44:39 FOR WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THIS WORLD, AND IT IS CERTAIN WE 44:41 CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT." WHAT DID JOB SAY? 44:43 'NAKED I CAME INTO THIS WORLD, NAKED I'M GOING OUT.' 44:45 "AND HAVING FOOD AND CLOTHING, WITH THESE WE SHALL BE 44:48 CONTENT." IF YOU HAVE THE BASICS THEN BE SATISFIED BECAUSE IF 44:54 YOU'RE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE BASICS... 44:55 SOMEONE WAS ASKING - WAS IT NELSON ROCKEFELLER - 45:00 VERY WEALTHY FAMILY THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY. 45:03 HOW MUCH MONEY DOES IT TAKE FOR A PERSON TO BE CONTENT? 45:07 HE SAID, 'A LITTLE MORE.' IT'S ALWAYS A LITTLE MORE. 45:12 PEOPLE ARE NEVER SATISFIED. PHILIPPIANS 4:11, "NOT THAT I 45:17 SPEAK IN REGARD TO NEED, FOR I HAVE LEARNED IN WHATEVER STATE I 45:21 AM, TO BE CONTENT." IT'S OKAY, YOU KNOW, GOD'S BLESSED YOU 45:26 AND YOU'RE CONTENT, GREAT. IF YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH AND 45:30 YOU LEARN TO BE CONTENT. "I KNOW HOW TO BE FULL AND HOW 45:36 TO BE HUNGRY, BOTH TO ABOUND AND TO SUFFER NEED. 45:38 I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME." YOU 45:42 KNOW, I THINK THAT'S THE KEY RIGHT HERE IS LEARNING TO 45:44 BE CONTENT. I HEARD THIS STORY ONE TIME 45:46 - LET'S SEE IF I CAN GET IT RIGHT - IT WASN'T IN MY NOTES SO 45:48 I'M - IT'S JUST COMING BACK TO ME. THIS WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN 45:53 WENT DOWN TO MEXICO TO GO ON A FISHING TRIP. 45:55 HE HAD SAVED UP FOR A WHILE AND HE BROUGHT SOME BUDDIES AND THEY 45:59 WENT DOWN TO BAJA CALIFORNIA AND THEY WENT OUT AND HE WAS TALKING 46:03 TO THE MAN HE RENTED THE FISHING BOAT FROM - ONE OF THE LOCAL 46:06 VILLAGERS - AND HE'S TAKEN OFF FISHING AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, 46:10 THIS BOAT'S OKAY, BUT YOU CAN GET A LOT BETTER BOAT, YOU KNOW, 46:14 IF YOU'D GO OUT MORE THAN ONCE A DAY - YOU COULD TAKE OUT MORE 46:18 CUSTOMERS - YOU COULD DOUBLE YOUR INCOME. 46:20 YOU COULD GET A BIGGER BOAT. EVENTUALLY, YOU COULD EVEN 46:22 HAVE OTHER PEOPLE THAT WERE WORKING FOR YOU - YOU COULD 46:27 RETIRE - THEY COULD GO OUT AND DO THE FISHING AND YOU COULD 46:30 THEN GET ANOTHER BOAT AND YOU COULD OWN THE FLEET OF BOATS.' 46:33 AND HE SAID, 'LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT BUSINESS PRINCIPLES 46:36 SO THAT YOU COULD GROW THIS INDUSTRY. DAY AFTER DAY YOU'VE 46:39 BEEN DOING THIS' HE SAID. AND THE MEXICAN FISHERMAN 46:44 SAID TO HIM, HE SAID, 'OKAY. THAT'S VERY SMART.' 46:47 HE SAID, 'LET ME ASK YOU, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN I HAVE 46:52 ALL THAT MONEY AND ALL THESE PEOPLE WORKING FOR ME?' 46:54 HE SAID, 'YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.' HE SAID, 'WELL, I'LL 46:57 PROBABLY TAKE A LITTLE BOAT AND GO OUT WITH FRIENDS FISHING.' HE 47:03 SAID, 'I'M DOING WHAT I WANT NOW.' JUST A LITTLE MORE. 47:13 LUKE CHAPTER 12, YOU KNOW THE PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL. 47:18 LUKE 12:13, "THEN ONE FROM THE CROWD SAID, 'TEACHER, TELL 47:23 MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE THE INHERITANCE WITH ME.'" BOY, 47:27 YOU KNOW, I'VE - FAMILIES THAT HAVE GOT ALONG TOGETHER FOR 47:31 YEARS - SOMEBODY DIES AND THERE'S A DISPUTE OVER A 47:34 WILL OR PROPERTY AND FOLKS YOU NEVER THOUGHT WOULD BE UGLY CAN 47:40 GET VERY UGLY. AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S AT THE HEART OF IT? 47:44 THEY'LL SAY, 'IT'S THE PRINCIPLE. 47:46 IT'S NOT THE MONEY, IT'S THE PRINCIPLE.' USUALLY WHEN PEOPLE 47:49 SAY THAT, IT'S THE MONEY. NOT ALWAYS, BUT USUALLY. 47:56 "'TELL MY BROTHER TO DIVIDE THE INHERITANCE WITH ME.' BUT 48:00 JESUS SAID, "MAN, WHO MADE ME A JUDGE OR AN ARBITRATOR OVER 48:04 YOU?'" - HE SAID, 'I DIDN'T COME INTO THE WORLD TO HELP SETTLE 48:08 THESE FINANCIAL DISPUTES.' - AND THEN HE TOLD THEM, 'TAKE HEED'" 48:13 - THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS - "'AND BEWARE OF COVETOUSNESS'" - 48:19 WHAT DOES 'BEWARE' MEAN? IT'S LIKE HE SAID, 'REMEMBER 48:21 LOT'S WIFE.' HE SAID, 'SIT UP. PAY ATTENTION. 48:23 I'M WAVING A FLAG HERE BEWARE.' BECAUSE IT'S EVERYWHERE. 48:29 "'FOR ONE'S LIFE DOES NOT CONSIST IN THE ABUNDANCE OF 48:31 THE THINGS HE POSSESSES.' THEN HE SPOKE A PARABLE TO THEM, 48:35 SAYING: 'THE GROUND OF A CERTAIN RICH MAN'" - HE'S 48:37 ALREADY RICH - "'YIELDED PLENTIFULLY.'" - AND, YOU KNOW A 48:41 RICH PERSON - HAS A LITTLE MORE - HE SAID, 'IF I HAD A LITTLE 48:43 MORE THEN I'D GIVE MORE.' THAT'S TYPICALLY NOT TRUE. 48:45 YOU KNOW, PERCENTAGE-WISE POOR PEOPLE GIVE A HIGHER 48:47 PERCENTAGE OF THEIR INCOME THAN RICH PEOPLE DO. 48:50 THE IDEA OF 'LORD, IF YOU JUST BLESS ME WITH RICHES I'LL BE 48:52 MORE GENEROUS.' THAT, STATISTICALLY, IS NOT 48:55 PROVEN TRUE. IT SEEMS LIKE THE MORE 48:57 PEOPLE HAVE, THE SMALLER THE PERCENT OF WHAT THEY GIVE 48:59 - WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS. THERE ARE SOME VERY 49:01 GENEROUS WEALTHY PEOPLE OUT THERE, BUT BY AND LARGE - THIS 49:06 RICH MAN HAD A GREAT BUMPER CROP "AND HE THOUGHT WITHIN HIMSELF 49:10 SAYING, 'WHAT SHALL I DO SINCE I HAVE NO ROOM TO STORE MY CROPS?' 49:14 - IT NEVER EVEN OCCURRED TO HIM, 'MAYBE I SHOULD GIVE HALF 49:16 OF IT AWAY SINCE I DON'T HAVE ROOM.' NO, HE SAID, "I WILL DO 49:22 THIS: I WILL PULL DOWN MY BARNS AND BUILD GREATER, AND THERE I 49:25 WILL STORE ALL MY CROPS AND MY GOODS. 49:27 AND I WILL SAY TO MY SOUL, 'SOUL, YOU HAVE MANY GOODS 49:30 LAID UP FOR MANY YEARS; TAKE YOUR EASE; EAT, DRINK, AND BE 49:34 MERRY.' BUT GOD SAID TO HIM, 'FOOL! 49:38 THIS NIGHT YOUR SOUL WILL BE REQUIRED OF YOU; THEN WHOSE 49:42 WILL THOSE THINGS BE WHICH YOU HAVE PROVIDED?' 49:46 SO IS HE WHO LAYS UP TREASURE FOR HIMSELF, AND IS NOT 49:48 RICH TOWARD GOD.'" AND BEING RICH TOWARD GOD HERE 49:51 DOES NOT MEAN JUST MAKING GOOD OFFERINGS. 49:53 BEING RICH TOWARD GOD MEANS GIVING YOUR LIFE TO GOD - 49:59 NOT SPENDING YOUR LIFE JUST FOR YOURSELF, BUT SPENDING YOUR 50:01 LIFE FOR GOD. WAS HE HAPPY IN THE END? 50:09 A LOT OF PEOPLE COME TO THE END OF THEIR LIVES AND THEY'VE 50:11 GOT LOTS OF THINGS AND LOTS OF STUFF AND IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE 50:15 LORD AND IF THEY'VE NOT BEEN SHARING AND GENEROUS WITH OTHERS 50:19 OF THEIR TIME AND THEIR MEANS, THEY END UP EMPTY AND 50:23 UNSATISFIED. WRAPPING IT UP HERE, EPHESIANS 50:28 5, VERSE 1, "THEREFORE BE IMITATORS OF GOD 50:32 AS DEAR CHILDREN. AND WALK IN LOVE, AS CHRIST ALSO 50:35 HAS LOVED US AND GIVEN HIMSELF FOR US, AN OFFERING AND 50:38 A SACRIFICE TO GOD FOR A SWEET-SMELLING AROMA. 50:42 BUT FORNICATION AND ALL UNCLEANNESS OR COVETOUSNESS, 50:47 LET IT NOT EVEN BE NAMED AMONG YOU, AS IS FITTING THE SAINTS; 50:51 NEITHER FILTHINESS, NOR FOOLISH TALKING, NOR COARSE 50:54 JESTING, WHICH ARE NOT FITTING, BUT RATHER GIVING OF THANKS. 50:57 FOR THIS YOU KNOW, THAT NO FORNICATOR, UNCLEAN PERSON, 51:01 NOR COVETOUS MAN," - HE MENTIONS IT TWICE THERE - "WHO IS AN 51:04 IDOLATER," - THERE IT IS WITH IDOLATRY AGAIN. 51:08 YOU MAKE AN IDOL OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE OR HIS CAR 51:11 OR HIS SPOUSE, IT'S A FORM OF IDOLATRY. 51:15 - "HAS ANY INHERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND GOD." 51:18 WELL, THIS IS A TOUGH COMMANDMENT, YOU KNOW, 51:20 BECAUSE I CAN PROBABLY SIT ON MY HANDS ALL DAY LONG AND SAY, 'I'M 51:23 NOT WORKING ON THE SABBATH, I'M KEEPING THE SABBATH - I'M 51:25 NOT WORKING.' WE'D BE TWITCHING - BUT HOW DO YOU KEEP THE 51:30 COMMANDMENT ABOUT COVETOUSNESS? IT'S REALLY A CHANGE OF HEART. 51:35 IT'S REALLY SAYING, 'LORD, CHANGE MY ATTITUDES. 51:39 HELP ME TO BE SATISFIED WITH JESUS AND WHAT HE'S DONE FOR 51:42 US, AMEN. IT BOILS DOWN, IN LOVING YOUR 51:46 NEIGHBOR, LOVING THE LORD. ROMANS 13:8, "OWE NO ONE 51:52 ANYTHING EXCEPT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR HE WHO LOVES 51:55 ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. 51:58 FOR THE COMMANDMENTS, 'YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,' 'YOU 52:01 SHALL NOT MURDER,' 'YOU SHALL NOT STEAL,' 'YOU SHALL NOT BEAR 52:03 FALSE WITNESS,' 'YOU SHALL NOT COVET'" - HE ENDS WITH THAT 52:06 AND HE SAYS, "IF THERE IS ANY OTHER COMMANDMENT, ALL ARE 52:08 SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING, NAMELY, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR 52:11 NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'" WHEN YOU REALIZE HOW POISONOUS 52:16 COVETOUSNESS CAN BE, WE NEED TO BE ON OUR GUARD ALL THE TIME 52:20 BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE - MIND OF HEART. 52:23 NOT BEING JEALOUS FOR WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS AND JUST 52:28 ASKING THE LORD TO BLESS OTHERS, BEING THANKFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE, 52:32 PRAYING GOD WILL GIVE US SATISFACTION, ASKING GOD TO 52:36 HELP US BE CONTENT AND REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS 52:41 COVETOUSNESS THAT PUT JESUS ON THE CROSS. 52:45 JUDAS COVETED SILVER AND HE WAS WILLING TO SELL THE SAVIOR. 52:52 HE COVETED A HIGHER POSITION IN THE KINGDOM. 52:55 THAT WHOLE SPIRIT OF NOT BEING SATISFIED - WAS HE HAPPY IN 52:59 THE END OR DID HE THROW IT ALL DOWN? 53:03 HE WENT OUT AND HUNG HIMSELF. SATISFACTION, HAPPINESS, WILL 53:07 NEVER COME FROM THESE THINGS. IT'S GOING TO COME FROM A 53:10 LOVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS. GODLINESS WITH CONTENTMENT IS 53:14 GREAT GAIN. YOU BELIEVE THAT, FRIENDS? AND WOULD YOU LIKE TO, 53:19 BY GOD'S GRACE, PRACTICE THAT IN YOUR LIVES? (MUSIC) 53:32 >>HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A MOUSE HOWL LIKE A WOLF? 53:36 WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN A CREATURE 53:39 CHANGES ITS DESTINY FROM THE HAPLESS PREY TO THE MIGHTY 53:42 PREDATOR? FROM THE OUTSIDE THEY LOOK VERY 53:45 MUCH LIKE AN OVERSIZED FIELD MOUSE - CUTE BROWN FUR, WHITE 53:49 ON THE UNDERBELLY, NICE LITTLE BEADY EYES - BUT THAT'S 53:53 WHERE THE SIMILARITIES STOP. GRASSHOPPER MICE ARE VERY 53:56 UNUSUAL, MAKING THEM THE OBJECTS OF GREAT INTEREST FOR 53:59 ANIMAL RESEARCHERS. THESE FURRY LITTLE CREATURES ARE 54:04 FOUND IN THE HARSH DESERTS OF NORTH AMERICA. 54:06 THEY'RE VERY TERRITORIAL IN NATURE AND THEY WILL MONOPOLIZE 54:09 AND FEND OFF 25 ACRES. THEY DON'T BUILD THEIR OWN 54:13 HOMES, BUT SORT OF CONFISCATE THE BURROWS AND THE 54:15 HOMES OF OTHER CREATURES. THEY'RE NOT CALLED GRASSHOPPER 54:19 MICE BECAUSE THEY HOP AROUND, BUT IT'S BECAUSE THEY EAT 54:21 A LOT OF GRASSHOPPERS. IN FACT, SCIENTISTS HAVE 54:24 DISCOVERED THAT GRASSHOPPER MICE ARE THE ONLY MICE THAT 54:26 ARE PURELY CARNIVOROUS. THEY HUNT MUCH LIKE CATS OR 54:31 WEASELS, STALKING THEIR PREY IN A PREDATORY FASHION AND WHEN 54:35 THEY POUNCE, THEY ARE FEROCIOUS, SOMETIMES EVEN TAKING ON SNAKES 54:39 AND SCORPIONS AND CENTIPEDES. WHEN A GRASSHOPPER MOUSE GETS 54:44 INTO A FIERCE BATTLE WITH A SNAKE OR A SCORPION OR A 54:46 CENTIPEDE, THEY MAY BE BIT OR STUNG SEVERAL TIMES. 54:50 BUT WHAT IS AMAZING TO RESEARCHERS IS THEY'VE NOTICED 54:53 WHEN THEY ARE BITTEN, THEY SOMEHOW SHAKE IT OFF BECAUSE 54:57 THEY CONVERT THE TOXIN AND THE VENOM TO PAIN KILLER. 55:00 I THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THIS INFORMATION WOULD BE OF 55:04 SPECIAL INTEREST TO SCIENTISTS THAT ARE TRYING TO DISCOVER NEW 55:07 WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO DEAL WITH CHRONIC PAIN. 55:11 ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE LITTLE 55:14 CREATURES IS, WHEN THEY'RE DEFENDING THEIR TERRITORY OR 55:17 CELEBRATING A VICTORY OVER SOME ADVERSARY, THEY'LL THROW BACK 55:21 THEIR HEAD AND LET OUT THIS EARTH-SHAKING HOWL - 55:25 IT'S A MOUSEY HOWL - CHECK IT OUT. (HOWLING CRY) 55:34 THE GRASSHOPPER MOUSE IS NOT THE ONLY MEMBER OF CREATION THAT CAN 55:37 SURVIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH VENOMOUS PREDATORS. 55:40 IN LUKE 10:19 IT SAYS, "BEHOLD, I GIVE YOU THE AUTHORITY TO 55:45 TRAMPLE ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS, AND OVER THE POWER OF 55:49 THE ENEMY, AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU. 55:52 WE DON'T HAVE TO BE THE BIGGEST AND THE STRONGEST TO DEFEAT OUR 55:55 ENEMY AND LET OUT THAT VICTORY ROAR. WHEN GOD CALLED DAVID TO 55:59 BE KING, NO HUMAN WOULD HAVE GUESSED THAT HE HAD IT IN HIM. 56:02 HE WAS YOUNG AND INSIGNIFICANT. FROM THE OUTSIDE HE LOOKED LIKE 56:06 THERE WAS NO GREATNESS IN HIM, BUT WHEN GOD LOOKED AT HIS 56:09 HEART, HE SAW COURAGE, HUMILITY, COMPASSION, AND LOVE. DAVID 56:13 WASN'T PERFECT, AND HE MADE MISTAKES, BUT THROUGH GOD'S 56:21 POWER HE WAS ABLE TO CONQUER GIANTS. 56:22 FRIEND, GOD DOES NOT INTEND THAT YOU LIVE OUT THE REST OF YOUR 56:23 LIFE COWERING AND TREMBLING LIKE A LITTLE FIELD MOUSE. 56:26 IF GOD CAN TAKE THE GRASSHOPPER MOUSE AND GIVE HIM COURAGE SO 56:29 THAT HE FIGHTS SNAKES AND SCORPIONS AND CENTIPEDES, IF GOD 56:33 CAN PUT IN THE HEART OF DAVID THE COURAGE TO FIGHT GIANTS LIKE 56:36 GOLIATH, THEN HE CAN GIVE YOU THAT SAME COURAGE. 56:40 THE SCRIPTURES SAY GOD HAS NOT GIVEN YOU THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, 56:43 BUT OF POWER, LOVE, AND A SOUND MIND - AND YOU CAN HAVE THAT 56:48 PEACE IN YOUR HEART WHEN YOU INVITE THE PRINCE OF PEACE INTO 56:50 YOUR HEART. WHY DON'T YOU DO THAT RIGHT NOW? 56:53 (MUSIC) 57:03 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 57:05 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH- 57:08 FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 57:12 'AFTV.ORG'. 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