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INTRO:
AG: It was the middle of the night.
Keith Richards, guitarist for the Rolling Stones, had a musical riff playing in his head.
He woke up, grabbed his guitar and a tape recorder, recorded the tune and then went back to sleep.
Satisfied Series
Contributed by Michael Luke on Dec 1, 2015 (message contributor)
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Scripture: (suggest scripture)
Tags: Covetousness, Satisfaction, Ten Commandments, Seek Kingdom Of God (suggest tag)
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Summary: The things of this world cannot satisfy.
Only the things of God can do so.
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Series: Big 10
“SATISFIED”
OPEN
It was the middle of the night.
Keith Richards, guitarist for the Rolling Stones, had a musical riff playing in his head.
He woke up, grabbed his guitar and a tape recorder, recorded the tune and then went back to sleep.
Their front man, Mick Jagger, wrote lyrics to go with the tune.
Three weeks later, the Stones recorded that song and it became their first number one hit, both in Britain and in the US.
It was the launching pad for their fame.
What was the song?
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.
Jagger said that when he penned the lyrics, it simply expressed his frustration with the consumerism and commercialism they found in the US.
That song was released in 1965.
Almost 50 years later, nothing has changed.
You could almost say that this song the national anthem of our nation.
TS: We have reached the 10th command tonight.
God winds up the commandments against violating other people by prohibiting covetousness.
RS:
Don’t Covet
Don’t Covet
We are commanded in general to not covet, and specific examples were given.
In General
There is a fine line between coveting and having a drive to do one’s best.
There is no passage in the Bible that condemns having this world’s goods, and neither is there a passage praising poverty.
IN fact:
Proverbs
The problem lies in obsessing over things.
Coveting: What does it mean to covet?
The Hebrew word for covet means “to have a deep desire for” or “to pant after.”
Covet means that you want something in an unhealthy way that you don’t already have.
desiring more than what is enough.
Specifically
Covetousness is a gateway sin.
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Mathew Henry: The tenth commandment strikes at the root; nine commands forbid all desire of doing what will be an injury to our neighbor; this forbids all wrong desire of having what will gratify ourselves.
Godliness and honesty must go together.
The true godliness consists in bringing “every thought into captivity to Christ” ().
It leads to so many others:
wife
We see and want and start coveting
Neighbor’s possessions:
house, ox, donkey
Neighbor’s People:
servants
wife, servants
We can’t get it legitimately so:
anger slips in… (sin of murder)
Theft creeps in… we take it!
We lie- to help us get it, or to take it from others
In many ways, our world is filled with this
We lie through our lifestyles
so many are in a mountain of debt due to borrowing to maintain a false image.
We want to appear like we have wealth, so we borrow to fake it!
We lust— adultery creeps in
Covetousness hurts our relationship to others
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James
Covetousness hurts our relationship with God
anything
We need to quit coveting, so with what do we fill that gap?
Be Content
Philippians 4:10-
Contentment is the polar opposite of covetousness.
Paul wrote of his gratitude to the believers in Philippi
They had sent care for him
they met his financial need and he was grateful
He takes the opportunity to share his contentment
He was satisfied whether he had much or little
full or hungry, abased or abounding, he was content.
HOW? Knowing that Christ would meet his need.
He can endure the temptation of having much and the trials of having little.
Stay Connected
Romans 12:15
Instead of coveting God’s blessings which He gave to others, rejoice with them!
In the body of Christ, we are made to be one.
He has joined us together and made us members of one another.
Rejoice when God blesses another part of the body
for He is blessing us as well.
Imagine this:
my hand gets an award, and my feet get jealous!
Sounds absurd!
That is what we do when we covet
The church in Acts shared with each other
we do the same
We meet each other’s needs
We minister to each other
Staying connected helps stave off coveteousness
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