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201. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , overseeing ten other employees. He is now married and a father. God is opening more and more doors for him to go out and give his testimony. When he speaks, his words have a weight and an impact that many ordained ministers would covet. As Christians reach out to touch everyone, including the unlovely who are now everywhere in our society, God touches them, too – and revolutionizes their lives. Otherwise we would just be circling the wagons, busying ourselves with Bible studies among our own kind. There ...

202. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

203. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

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Phil Thrailkill

... .11 A man who seduced a single woman was considered immoral, but not adulterous. In its original context, the seventh commandment was a warning to one Jewish man not to violate another man’s property. This is confirmed in the last commandment which says that you shall not covet a neighbor’s wife, or any of the other things he owns: his slaves, his ox or his ass. In order to pass on property, men need to know who their children are, and in those days adultery was a capital offense. It may not seem very ...

204. A Fool and His Money

Luke 12:13-21

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Mark Trotter

... his sermon (I can tell you preachers don't like that), saying, "Make my brother shape up." Jesus' annoyance is obvious. He replies, "Who made me a divider over you?" Then instead of adjudicating the case, he lectures the plaintiff, "Beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." When he said that, you could hear a gasp over the thousands who were gathered there. For Jesus, with these words, has challenged a fundamental assumption of that society ...

205. Shalom Shattered

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

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Arley K. Fadness

... with others. People can be comparable in work, salary, status, looks, intelligence, and almost everything. Moliere in Tartuffe said, "The envious will die, but envy never." Envy is a sin against the ninth and tenth commandments. Exodus 20:17 says, "You shall not covet." Envy also appears as one of the seven deadly sins in Dante's Inferno. Of the seven deadly sins (lust, sloth, wrath, avarice, gluttony, envy, and pride), only pride was considered deadlier than envy. With envy such a curse, we try to repress ...

206. Look Who Is Standing at the Door

James 4:1-12; 5:1-12

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James L. Killen

... in the passage just before the one we read. "Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures. Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship ...

207. Sheep that Count

1 Peter 2:19-25

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Richard W. Ferris

... eye of his shepherd. Edgar never returned to his flock. Of course, he never got to see the rest of the world either, not even the inside of Destiny's den. Destiny had played a mean trick on Edgar, and Edgar became Destiny's victim. But the other lambs that coveted Edgar's freedom didn't know what really happened. They had visions of Edgar out in the world on one adventure after another, and a few of them followed Edgar's Destiny. We don't always want to follow our shepherd. It's tempting to want to go it on ...

208. Doing Well and Doing Good

Romans 13:8-14

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Jeff Wedge

... easier. The commandment says we should not murder, but that is fairly simple for most of us. The commandment says we should not commit adultery, which people seem to find more difficult, but it at least sounds attainable. The commandment says we should not covet, which is certainly more difficult, but something we can work on and at least make it seem as if we can manage it. In the time of Jesus, the commandments were often reduced to very achievable tasks. Honor your father and your mother, for example ...

209. A Tale of Two Dancers

Mark 6:14-29

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Mark Trotter

... chapter, "It happened, late one afternoon," when David went strolling onto the roof of his house, and saw Bathsheba on her roof, bathing. She was beautiful. And he sent for her. He violated then one commandment against adultery. He violated another commandment against covetousness. And he violated a third commandment against murder. That is the beginning of the tragic end of the house of David. Michal was not surprised. The story of David and the ark is a paradigm of how all nations want to claim divine ...

210. While You Are Waiting

Matthew 25:1-13

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Mark Trotter

... way Jesus is, so wait for that. What will it look like, this waiting? Most of us are willing to wait for something that we want. I am willing to be patient if, in the end, I am going to get what I am waiting for: the job that I covet, or the spouse that I long for, or the end to the pain, the end of suffering. I can be patient as long as I know that I am going to get what I want. So we are used to waiting for that. We are used to waiting to get ...

211. Proper 18

Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20, Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... which is based largely on debt - personal, corporate, and federal? The one thing we have over our fellow human is love, for love is the performance of the law. If you truly love your fellow human, you will not hurt him, steal from him, lie to him, or covet what he has. If we truly loved God, we would willingly obey God's laws. Love is the answer to our delinquency, crime, and moral corruption. The big problem is, where can we get such love: How can we get people to love each other? We must first experience ...

212. Show Me Your Passport

Philippians 1:12-30

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Leonard Sweet

... , literally be a citizen of the gospel, as he tries to convey the essence of a gospel-centered life to these first-century Christians. Certainly some of the Philippian Christians Paul was addressing were also Roman citizens, that is, holders of the most coveted political identity one could have in the first century. Rome was the super power. Rich. Powerful. Its ideals and lifestyles, its gods and its culture, were recognized as the best, the highest ideal, in all the civilized world. But not by Paul. Once ...

213. The Purple Church

Acts 2:42-47

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Leonard Sweet

... color to the world's landscape. The Color Purple. Purple has a long, regal bloodline. The color has always been the mark of royalty. Purple dye was so difficult and costly to obtain that it was valued more highly than gold. The deep, true purple color coveted by the rich was created by extracting the colored fluid found in shellfish veins. To obtain enough dye for just one coat or dress could require as many as 12,000 shellfish - not to mention the extraordinary amounts of human labor needed to gather and ...

214. Life's Four Big 'Ds' and One Bigger 'D'

Galatians 2:11-21

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Leonard Sweet

... wonderful. It was for her and her family. But when they put in something that was meant for her life's meaning and her mission to help others in need, she knelt down and cried for joy. In the midst of your floods and struggles, when you're tempted to covet things you don't have, when you even have good excuses to succumb to life's Four D's . . . can you do the D.V.? Can you trust God with your future?

215. The Christian's Wild Card

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Leonard Sweet

... confidence and assurance on our hyper-sensitive, easily-offended, chippy . . . dem dry SHOULDER bones. Now hear the Word of the Lord: God's Back. Because Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life, he puts the flesh of generosity and giving on our greedy, grasping, covetous . . . dem dry HAND bones. Now hear the Word of the Lord: God's Back. Because Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life, he puts the flesh of surprise and startlement on our dull, limpy, apathetic . . . dem dry WRIST bones. Now hear the Word of ...

216. The Day of the Lord

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... nurse our grudges and hatreds, where our desires and lusts lie, where we fashion our self-will, heedless of the will of God. What comes out of a person, Jesus teaches, is what defiles him or her — “evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness” — thus does our Lord catalogue our sins (Mark 7:20-23). And so it is in our hearts that we need to repent of our waywardness and to direct our lives toward our God. Outward ...

217. Our Sin Against God

Genesis 2:4-25

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... serious. “You will not die” (v. 4). God is not really serious about his commandments — all of those instructions that he has given us in his love. You shall not kill, or commit adultery; you shall not steal or bear false witness; you shall not covet. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” “Take up your cross and follow me.” Nah. God is not serious about all those commandments. We won’t suffer any punishment or evil circumstances if we ignore what God has said. His threat is just a bunch of bluff ...

218. The Only One Who Is Number One

Exodus 20:1-3

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James Merritt

... substance. Some worship the god of fun. The Bible speaks of those who are "lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." (II Tim. 3:4) Many worship the god of finances the god of money. Paul declared this to be idle worship when he spoke of "covetousness, which is idolatry." (Col. 3:5) Our money bears the inscription "In God we Trust." Someone has suggested that we alter it to read "In this god we trust." Well, there is only one God, and that God alone is worthy of our worship, praise, commitment, glory ...

219. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... instructions. It is amazing to see how God feels about this problem of disobedience to parents. In Rom. 1:29-30 Paul lists all kinds of sin, and I want you to listen to this list: "unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents." Then he goes on to say "those who practice such things are deserving of ...

220. Confronting a Christless Culture

2 Timothy 3:1-17

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James Merritt

... called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and ...

221. Going For the Gold

Joshua 1:1-9

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James Merritt

... foundation. But the point I want to make is this. The same God who was with Joshua is with you. Fourteen hundred years after this book was written, the author of Hebrews quoted this same verse and applied it to you and me. He said, "Let your conduct be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.' So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?'" (Heb. 13:5-6) Get this down in ...

222. How to Handle the Mess of Stress

Exodus 18:23-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... ." That was Moses' problem. The anvils needed to be carried, but he could not carry them by himself. So listen to the advice his father-in-law gives him: "Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they ...

223. Hazardous to Your Wealth: Myths about Money

Malachi 3:7-12

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James Merritt

... with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase." (Eccl. 5:10) "But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition." (1 Tim. 6:9) "Let your conduct be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.' So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?'" (Heb. 13:5-6) Now I ...

224. No Fear

Psalm 23:4

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James Merritt

... you have to do is turn your back on the shadow and look to the light, and when you do guess what happens. When you look to the light beyond you, the shadow falls behind you. There is a magnificent passage in Hebrews that says, “Let your conduct be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you. So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” (Heb. 13:5-6) Did you know that ...

225. I Believe In The Holy Spirit

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... willing to do that, then when you shake my hand as you leave today, just look me in the eyes and say, “Bill, I will.” I’ll know what you mean. Let me conclude with a nautical story. For 132 consecutive years, Americans won the coveted “America’s Cup” given to the best sailing yacht in the world. But in 1983 the Australians threatened to take the cup. After six races that year, the two yachts were deadlocked with three wins each. Thousands were watching the seventh and deciding race. Additional ...

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