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However, if we look at the Biblical definition of covetousness, we will soon see that we easily commit this sin and often. I looked in a secular dictionary and their definition of covet was “to want greedily something belonging to another.” This is a very comfortable definition for most of us. How
It is an evil that adults in the church are prone to. I refer to covetousness, the craving for things as the main purpose of life. Because money gets all things, covetousness is the craving for money, lots of money. More than anything else, this is characteristic of our society, of our world. It is
Each year the godlessness of Americans is shamefully displayed to the world by the long season of crass covetousness that follows our national day of thanksgiving. After stuffing their bellies and perhaps muttering a few words of thanks, greedy hoards then race off to the merchants to claw, shove,
Another term for this is covetousness, which Scripture describes as the root of all evil. We were created to seek after God and to covet fellowship with the living God as our only good. Through the fall this natural inclination to covet turns in animosity against God to crave sin with all its lusts
The word “covet” can be used in a good or bad sense, and Scripture often uses the term in both ways. In this concluding commandment of the Decalogue we are told to refrain from desiring selfishly that which rightfully belongs to our neighbor. This commandment deals with our inner life, our thoughts
Covetousness is a deadly sin against which every child of God must guard against, or it will envelop him in its tentacles. This is true, in the first place, because we live in a world which has ungodly mammon as its god. Its motto is eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. It is extremely diff
Being covetous is to break any and all of the commandments within our spiritual hearts. We become discontented with whatever God has given to us and we begin to want something different. We want to be a different person with different physical characteristics. So we see that because keeping the comm
One thing have I desired! That will I seek after! That I may consciously dwell in the presence of my God all my days! To keep my eye focused upon His glorious majesty, His infinite perfections, virtues, praises! And to extend needy hands to Him, the Fountain of every good and perfect gift, that out
Essentially, covetousness is idolatry. It is fixing our heart on something other than God. The burning desire and lust for something becomes supreme in our lives. The thing we crave for happiness becomes bigger than God. It becomes our Baal. The larger the object of our desires becomes, the smaller