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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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26. PROPER 13

Lk 12:13-21 · Col 3:1-11 · Ecc 1:2; 2:18-26 · 2 Ki 13:14-20a

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John R. Brokhoff

... "fool." He had physical but not spiritual wealth, and his physical wealth came to naught. One's security is not in the abundance of possessions but in being rich toward God, that is, being a child of God. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION Gospel: Luke 12:13-21 1. Covetousness (v. 15). It was a simple request. A younger brother asked Jesus to persuade his older brother to share the inheritance left by their father. Legally an inheritance want to the oldest son. The younger son(s) has no right nor claim to it. But, the ...

27. A Fool and his Money

Luke 12:13-21

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David E. Leininger

... as a result. In 1996, 5% of the "baby boom" generation reported practicing a strong form of voluntary simplicity. By the year 2000, some predict the number will rise to 15%. Jesus says, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed - no covetousness, no wanting more of what you already have enough of - for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." He made the statement in response to a request for help with an inheritance problem. He could have concluded with a story about ...

28. At War with Myself

Romans 7:15-25a

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William G. Carter

... his foot up on the desk. He would stand in front of a "No Smoking" sign and light up a hand-rolled cigarette. What was that all about? I think you know. Earlier in this chapter, Paul says, "I wouldn't have known what it is to covet, except the law said, 'Thou shalt not covet.' As soon as I heard that law, I started wanting what other people have." It's like the mother who says, "Now, kids, don't get dirty. Stay out of the mud." The kids look at one another. There's mud? Where's the mud? Next ...

29. Micah 1:2; 2:1-10

Micah 1:1-7; 2:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... decisively against injustice. Indeed Micah specifies in verse 7 that even such harsh words as he is being forced to recite are good words to those who walk uprightly - to those whose personal integrity has been uncompromised and unsullied by grasping, idolatrous, covetous greed. The damage done by the rapaciousness of these large-landholding Judeans is spelled out in verses 8-9. Micah clearly sides with the small rural population, whom he identifies as "my people" (v.8) when he reveals how they have been ...

30. A Guide to a Rich and a Joyous Life

Exodus 20:1-21

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King Duncan

... Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy . . . Honor your father and your mother . . . You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife . . . or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” [You may be seated.] I want to make a few observations about these commandments that are at the heart of the Judean-Christian faith. First of all, the ...

31. Achan's Sin

Joshua 7:1-26

Understanding Series

J. Gordon Harris

... and hence in his punishment. Executing the source of Israel’s sin disciplined and purged the people and enabled them to possess the land. A cancer is removed to preserve the body. Rocks remain piled over the bodies as a reminder “to this day” that coveting and disobedience have consequences (7:26). The name for the place of execution and rock pile, the valley of Achor (trouble), also reminds those who pass by that sin brings trouble but hope can come out of trouble (see Hos. 2:15). Ironically, the ...

32. Man's Plans and God's

Micah 2:1-5

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the property of their neighbors, verse 2. Thereby they violate God’s covenant law and the order that God has established by that law in his covenant community. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor,” reads the Decalogue, (Exod. 20:17)—that law that was absolutely basic to Israel’s life. Principally these energetic Jerusalemites want land, for land was ...

33. Freedom from the Law through Christ, Enslavement to the Law through Adam

Romans 7:7-25, Romans 7:1-6

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C. Marvin Pate

... 7:7–11 (v. 12 is a concluding statement qualifying vv. 1–11) I have chosen to use comparisons with the Adam narrative, especially Genesis 2–3. These comparisons are shown below. Romans 7:7–11 and the Adam Narrative in Genesis 2–3 7:7 – “You shall not covet.” 3:1-6 – Adam and Eve desired to be like God and broke God’s commandment not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 7:8 – Sin is personified 3:1-6 – The serpent personifies sin. 7:9a – “I was alive apart from the ...

34. Miscellaneous Laws

Deut 23:15–25:19

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Gary M. Burge

... the threat of preventing the man from having any future descendants. Another case deals with the use and the possession of dishonest weights (25:13–16). Some disregarded this teaching, as Amos 8:5 shows, but this is but another evidence of coveting what is not theirs. The concluding instructions regarding the treatment of the Amalekites (25:17–19) may be an appendix to the legislation concerning the treatment of foreigners given previously in Deuteronomy 23:3–6 or a transitional paragraph bridging the ...

35. Struggling With Sin

Romans 7:7-25

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Gary M. Burge

... 5—the sinful passions became effective when “I” became acquainted with the desire for what was forbidden. The commandment “You shall not covet!” (Exod. 20:17) is not only the tenth commandment; it also points to God’s prohibition of eating from the Tree ... sin to spring to life (7:9). The result of the encounter with the law, which was (mis)used by the sin of covetous self-absorption, was the death of the “I” (7:10). Human beings lost the life they had before this encounter. This result of the ...

36. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

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R. Curtis Fussell

... other than his wife or her husband, and saying, "Wow, now that's the one!" then the deadly sin of lust has entered the heart. We sometimes use the word "lust" for the word "covet." The basis for that is found in the Ten Commandments, where the tenth commandment tells us not to covet our neighbor's property or his wife. So covet and lust are sometimes interchanged. For instance, someone can say, "He's lusting after that red Corvette," or we hear the expression, she has "a lust for life" or "a lust for money ...

37. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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... , house, car, money, or anything else, then soon what we inordinately desire for ourselves takes us into the next step of evil. What we have cleverly kept in our imagination soon erupts in outward action against another. When, in the corners of the mind, we have covetous feelings for what is another's, soon we are dissatisfied with what God has given us, and we decide to take it as our own. The mind must be cleaned up, or this evil can never be defeated. Jesus' Two Commandments Jesus did not destroy the ...

38. When Ten Equals Two

Exodus 20:1-21

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Larry Powell

... ?" Antiquated? Consider the morning newspaper, the ten o’clock news, and the testimony of human experience. Christ has fulfilled the Law for us already? It is nowhere implied in the scriptures that we are personally exempt from idolatry, swearing, stealing, coveting; in short, reverence and morality have not been rescinded. The South American three-toed sloth is not concerned with such matters as reverence and morality, nor incidentally, is a "sloth" wherever he is found; but thinking people are concerned ...

39. Now Stand Up Straight!

Luke 13:10-17

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Mark Trotter

... ! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead it away to water it." It is an unmistakable reference to the tenth commandment. According to the tenth commandment, woman are the property of men. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property." Women, according to the priority scale in the tenth commandment, are above the servants and the animals, but below the house. So when Jesus says, "You will water your ox or your ass on the sabbath, but not heal a woman," he says ...

40. Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

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Leonard Sweet

... legitimacy to the social catastrophes brought about by lying, cheating, stealing and murdering, God's commands weave a strong and stable cloth for the Israelites' new culture. But one more commandment is still added. This final commandment once again requires explanatory sidebars. The command not to "covet" seeks once again to measure and judge what is in the human heart. Desire is not necessarily a discernable quality or an obvious act. The commandment itself gives specific examples of what should not be ...

41. Stewards of Power

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22

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Stan Purdum

... you have the power to affect that person's life. "You shall not bear false witness." Imagine how you exert power over someone's life when you lie about that person. "You shall not covet ... anything that belongs to your neighbor." You may not have power to make everything you covet come your way, but insofar as you do, coveting is a doorway to the abuse of power. What I am getting at is that almost every temptation that comes our way involves the opportunity to abuse power. Consider the temptations of Jesus ...

42. A Guide for Growth

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... men of transparent character.” See how that fits into Paul’s description of the Christian walk as he shared that description with the Ephesians. Listen to him in verses 5 through 7 of Chapter 9: “For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolator, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not be partakers with them ...

43. Heart Religion

Mark 7:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... deeds and guile and wanton wickedness, and envy and slander and pride and folly. We don’t have time to look at that entire list. Let’s glance at a couple of them, though, In order that we will not escape the fact that they apply to us. Coveting is one of the defilements of the heart that Paul mentions. It comes from two Greek words meaning “to have more”. It has been defined as “the accursed love of having.” It also has been defined as “the spirit which snatches at that which is not right to ...

44. How to Hug

Romans 13:8-14

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King Duncan

... world. There is a clear determination on the part of many people, even some in the church to say that the old moral code is obsolete. Paul lists some of the commandments that Moses gave us: “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet.” Jesus didn’t come to do away with these but to set them in the context of God’s love. Christ was not a legalist. He didn’t keep rules just for the sake of keeping rules. In fact he did away with petty rules, like an obsession ...

45. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... . 3:1–5). The next two verses set out four factors about the false teachers and their activity and influence. 2:2–3 The motive of the false teachers is greed, an unlawful desire to grasp more than one’s due. The Greek word can involve coveting other people’s money or goods, engaging in illicit sexual indulgence, or lusting for power, all of which speak of going after selfish gain at the expense of others and of a reckless disregard of the moral order. These men have become “experts in greed” (2 ...

46. Struggling with Sin

Romans 7:7-25

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... carry it away. We took away an enormous quantity of pears, not to eat them ourselves, but simply to throw them to the pigs. For of what I stole I already had plenty, and much better at that, and I had no wish to enjoy the things I coveted by stealing, but only to enjoy the theft itself and the sin (Confessions 2.4). 7:9–12 These provocative verses allude to the Edenic beginnings of the race. The dramatic use of I—for the first time in Romans—identifies Paul (and all humanity) with Adam, the archetypal ...

47. Nathan's Wise Parable

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... and might, to love the neighbor as self. And most especially, Israel was chosen to uphold the cause of the powerless, the fragile, the forgotten, to take the poor little lambs into their close keeping. Nathan does not tell a parable about coveting, though David has coveted. Nathan does not tell a parable about adultery, though clearly David has committed it. Nathan doesn't even tell a parable about murder, though David was responsible for Uriah's death. No, when Nathan holds the mirror up to David, David ...

48. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... the next five commandments with a foot-beat pause after each.) All: You shall not murder. All: You shall not commit adultery. All: You shall not steal. All: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. All: You shall not covet your neighbor's house; 2: you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 1: When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were ...

49. God’s Ultimate Concern

Exodus 20:1-21

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Walter Kimbrough

... the name of the Lord. 4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it Holy. 5. Honor your father and mother. 6. You shall not murder. 7. You shall not commit adultery. 8. You shall not steal. 9. You shall not give false testimony. 10. You shall not covet.” These 10 laws, commandments, rules and regulations, a guide to live by -- call them what you may, they represent God’s ultimate concern for the people of the world. Jesus said it succinctly, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son ...

50. How To Hear A Sermon

Micah 1:1-7

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Richard Hasler

... the large landowners and public officials. He pictured them lying awake at night thinking up schemes to swindle the unsuspecting small farmers. Then, when daybreak came they put their plans into action. Their sin was covetousness. They had enough for themselves already, but they were not satisfied. They wanted more. They coveted houses and fields, the very inheritance of other people. Micah promised that the Lord had set aside a day, not too far off, when what they have done to others will be done to them ...

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