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Have you ever wanted something so bad it made you sick?
Tell the story of Amnon and Tamar from .
David had a daughter named Tamar who was very beautiful.
Her step-brother Amnon started to desire her and want to be with her.
It says he “was so tormented that he made himself ill” because of her.
He and his cousin Jonadab came up with a crafty plan
Amnon would act like he was sick.
He would lay in bed and ask David to send Tamar in to take care of him.
Tamar came to him and made cakes, but Amnon refused to eat them.
He forced everyone out of the room and asked Tamar to feed him the cakes.
When she came to him he demanded that she lie with him.
She begs for him not to do this, “how could I carry my shame?”
But Amnon did not relent
2 sam 13:
The next verse is appalling
Have you ever wanted something so bad that it made you sick?
Have you ever wanted something so bad that it made you lie, cheat, steal, hurt or take advantage of others...
The story of Amnon is a graphic but real illustration of the 10th commandment.
It is a word picture of COVETOUSNESS.
COVETOUSNESS is the HEART of the Law.
“Covetousness is desiring something so much that you lose your contentment in God.” John Piper
“Coveting relentlessly craves more of this world; and a person’s thoughts, affections, and heart occupied with the world will cease seeking heaven.
It forsakes love for God and disposes one to hate their neighbor.
Coveting pulls the heart down into the pit of self-seeking and the muck and mire of envy, slander, adultery, pride, dishonor, murder, thievery, and idolatry.
It has rightly been said that when we break any of the first nine commandments, we also break the tenth commandment.”
Kevin DeYoung
It is not accident that the this commandment comes last.
It represents the heart of the rest of the commandments.
It is not accident that the this commandment comes last.
It represents the heart of the rest of the commandments.
Paul uses it as the example of how the law convicts not just our actions, but the heart behind our actions.
Jesus said “Out of the heart the mouth speaks”
Our actions are always motivated by our the motives of our heart.
And our heart is driven by our desires.
The 10th commandment speaks to the heart of EACH of the other commandments.
1st Commandment
Define Covetousness
That which we desire becomes the god we worship.
“Coveting relentlessly craves more of this world; and a person’s thoughts, affections, and heart occupied with the world will cease seeking heaven.
It forsakes love for God and disposes one to hate their neighbor.
Coveting pulls the heart down into the pit of self-seeking and the muck and mire of envy, slander, adultery, pride, dishonor, murder, thievery, and idolatry.
It has rightly been said that when we break any of the first nine commandments, we also break the tenth commandment.”
Kevin DeYoung
2nd Commandment
The motivation of our worship is to attain what we desire.
“If I do this for God then He will give me __________.”
3rd Commandment
We will redefine who God is based on whatever it is we desire.
“God wants me to be happy so He must support my decisions and desires.”
We will also put words in the mouth of God in order to get what we desire.
We use God’s name in vain by taking advantage of the authority of His name.
4th Commandment
We strive, stress, and strain for what we desire, never able to rest until we get it.
We are anxious, overly busy, frustrated because we never seem to be getting anywhere we want to go.
Always chasing the next thing, but always realizing that wasn’t it.
5th Commandment
We use and abuse relationships in order to get what we desire.
We don’t honor people unless we are able to get something from them.
We do not serve unless it is a benefit to ourselves...
Our desires drive us to dishonor.
6th Commandment
We seeth with anger, harbour bitterness, argue, fight, and even kill to get what we desire.
Maybe you have never killed anyone, but the anger and bitterness we feel toward someone is often rooted in our desire for something we do not have and they do.
7th Commandment
We are driven to unfaithfulness, adultery, and destruction of our families pursuing what we desire.
We often ask the question “What would drive someone to destroy their family like that?”
The overwhelming desire for what they do not have...
For many here today, the roots of discontentment and covetousness are starting to grow.
Don’t ever say “That will never be me...”
8th Commandment
We steal and hoard our stuff in order to get what we desire.
Greed is motivated by desire for something we do not have but want very badly.
9th Commandment
We lie, we hide, and we spread lies about others to get what we desire.
The 10 commandments are an avenue to freedom and the 1st and 10th commandments together are the on-ramp.
10th Commandment
Reveals that God is ENOUGH.
I cannot preach this into you.
I cannot make you desire God more than anything else.
But God can and He will, and in some He is doing just that today.
Listen to the words of David in :
Ps 42
We often see this Psalm printed on a nice, peaceful image of a deer standing in a meadow next to a quiet stream.
But that is not how David is writing this, he is painting the picture of a deer in pain, panting and weakened by thirst.
He is talking about his soul’s deep and painful longing to experience God, to know God...
“The psalmist says we need to become aware of our deep thirst for the living God.
God is to the soul what water is to the body, and our thirst bears witness to our need."
“When we tire of the aridity of our culture, when we despair over our own dryness, when we grow discouraged over the seeming distance of God, all we can do is cry out to God.
That's a good place to begin, for God is the one who puts that thirst in us.”
No relationship, job, position, amount of money, car or truck, child, family, experience, or any hope or longing outside of God will ever satisfy you.
Oh how I pray that each of us here today would feel the reality of our souls thirsting for the living God!
Confronts our CORRUPT DESIRES.
But most of us have a deep longing and commanding desire for something or someone or somethings… that are ultimately corrupt.
They are infected, tainted, meaningless and void.
We are like Amnon, overwhelmed by a desire that will never fulfill us.
Our hearts lie to us...
jer 17
Our hearts are ruled by desires for things that will never satisfy.
The 10th commandment is confronting the corruption of our desirous hearts.
Instructs us to THIRST FOR GOD.
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