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Introduction
6019 What Makes A Thief?
In 1947 a prison inmate by the name of Willard Wright consented to an experimental operation involving the cutting of nerve pathways in the forebrain.
It was an attempt to discover a cure for his urge to steal.…
He behaved so well that he was paroled after two-and-a-half years.
He secured a job, got married, and gave every evidence of going straight.
Five years later, in Pittsburgh, Wright was identified as the man who had passed some stolen goods.
Police found thousands of dollars’ worth stored in his home.
Back in prison, Wright simply said, “With me, it just didn’t work.”
exodus 20 15
Dr. Edward E. Mayer, Allegheny County court behavior expert, said that in his opinion there never was any reason to believe it would work, because a lobotomy reduces self-control.
When detectives asked Wright why he had gone back to crime, he shrugged and said, “You fellows know the questions, so you ought to know the answers.”
In commenting on this story, Time magazine said, “The truth was that neither the detective nor the neurosurgeons were any nearer to knowing what makes an incurable thief, let alone how to cure one.”
The Bible has the answers to both problems.
—Albert Mygatt
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996), 1350.
It’s about stewardship
We are stewards of God provisions and His creation
psalm 24
If we are stewards then we are managing the resources of another.
If we are about making the most of what we have been given charge over, we won’t worry about taking from someone else.
We won’t steal from God
our offerings
our service
our service
We won’t steal from our families
Spending money on other vices
Allowing other vices to steal our time
We won’t steal from others
not paying our bills.
taking on more debt than we can carry
borrowing and never returning.
Even stealing from the rich to give to the poor
If we start from this point.
It makes perfect sense that we don’t have to have look to others in getting what we need and want.
It’s about being content
1 tim 6 6-10
Contentment is one of the greatest blessings we can receive in this life.
That’s one of the main problems in this society.
No one is content.
We always are looking for something else.
Rare is the individual that doesn’t fall under the spell of this siren.
That lures us to our deaths on the rocks of greed, discontent and consumption.
The source of contentment is God.
We only find true contentment in God, and therefore in Christ.
It’s about loving others
roman
romans 13
Love doesn’t seek to hurt.
injure or deplete others, on the contrary love looks for ways to heal, restore, or build up
If we are trying to fulfill the law (that’s the 2nd most important law)
Look to Christ and His example..........
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