1. The 9th and 10thCommandments:
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife,
or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or
donkey, or anything that belongs to your
neighbor.
1 Tim 6:8-10 If we have food…
1 Tim 6:6 Godliness with…
Phil 2:4 Each of you…
Ps 37:4 Delight yourself…
Memorization Verses:

2. If I had a million dollars…

3. I want….
I need…

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1. What is the world to me
With all its vaunted pleasure
When you, and you alone,
Lord Jesus, are my treasure!
You only, dearest Lord,
My soul’s delight shall be;
You are my peace, my rest
What is the world to me!
2. The world seeks to be praised
And honored by the mighty
Yet never once reflects
That they are frail and flighty.
But what I truly prize
Above all things is he,
My Jesus, he alone.
What is the world to me!
3. The world seek after wealth
And all that mammon offers
Yet never is content
Though gold should fill its coffers.
I have a higher good,
Content with it I’ll be:
My Jesus is my wealth.
What is the world to me!
4. What is the world to me!
My Jesus is my treasure,
My life, my health, my wealth,
My friend, my love, my pleasure,
My joy, my crown, my all,
My bliss eternally.
Once more, then, I declare:
What is the world to me!

5.  The poverty of our century is unlike
that of any other. It is not, as poverty
was before, the result of natural
scarcity, but of a set of priorities
imposed upon the rest of the world
by the rich. Consequently, the
modern poor are not pitied... but
written off as trash. The twentieth-
century consumer economy has
produced the first culture for which a
beggar is a reminder of
nothing. ~John Berger

6.  U.S. consumers and industry
dispose of enough aluminum to
rebuild the commercial air fleet
every three months; enough iron
and steel to continuously supply
all automakers; enough glass to
fill New York's World Trade
Center every two
weeks. ~Environmental Defense
Fund advertisement, Christian
Science Monitor, 1990

7.  Advertising has us chasing cars and
clothes, working jobs we hate so we
can buy garbage we don't need.
 Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck
Palahniuk

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 You shall not covet the house of your neighbor.
You shall not covet the wife of your neighbor and
his male servant and his female servant and his
ox and his donkey and anything which [is] to
your neighbor. (Ex. 20:17)
 Dmox (Chamad): Strong Desire
 can be used in either a good or bad sense, like
the Greek epiqumhsei or the Latin concupio.

9.  Deuteronomy 5 uses two different verbs,
the qal of dmax.
 The repetition of the verb seems to justify
our division of the prohibition on coveting
into two commandments, but Deuteronomy
raises doubt on this point, because it
changes the order of the items to read, “Do
not covet your neighbor’s wife. Do not
desire his house etc.”
 If this commandment is divided into two,
the 9th commandment is different in
Exodus than it is in Deuteronomy. See the
further discussion below in the appendix.

10.  It is fitting that the commandments should
conclude by emphasizing the motivation
and thoughts of the heart
 Just as they began with a “word” which
emphasized motivation.
 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts
and the beginning of sin.
 Out of the heart comes the motivation of
faith, which moves one to keep the
commandments.
 And all the people were seeing the
thunders and the lightnings and the sound
of the horn and the mountain [in] smoke,
and the people saw [or feared in some
versions] and they shook and they stood
far off. (Ex. 20:18)

11.  Indeed I would not have known what sin was except
through the law. For I would not have known what it was
to covet if the law had not said, ‘Do not covet,’ But sin,
seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,
produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart
from Law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from Law;
but when the commandment came sin sprang to life and I
died ...Did that which is good, then, become death to
me? By no means! But in order that sin might be
recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what
was good, so that through the commandment sin might
become utterly sinful. (Romans 7:7)

12. Old Testament
 Coveting is both the beginning of worship, and the beginning
of the fall (compare Gen 2:9 and 3:6)
 Augustine suggests that it is this innate desire in man, when
misplaced, that brings about sin.
 Coveting is not punishable, but is often typified as a desire that
results in great tragedy/sin (consider David and Baathsheba)
 New Testament
 Coveting is used as an example of the external law defining an
inward rebellion (Jesus and the rich ruler)
 Disciples went with little, and shared assets based on a
common brotherhood (built on Christ, discipline, and charity)

13. Satan Desires:
 We live in constant insatiability
 We live under an oppressive law to
save ourselves
 We ignore the contented peace of
God
 God the Father, Son and Spirt want:
 Fellowship and true belief
 To purge our sin and grief
 To discipline us and build us into
creatures of right desire

14.  I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have
learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I
know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to
have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content
in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry,
whether living in plenty or in want. (Philippians 4:11-12)
 When God’s word, His grace and
salvation is sufficient and our
sole desire, we will lack
nothing.

15.  Questions:
 What is coveting?
 What is for bidden?
 What is required?
 Teams:
 SS: Coveting is…
 M: Forbidden 9th
 T: Required 9th
 W: Forbidden 10th
 Th: Required 10th

16.  We believe coveting is having a sinful
desire for anyone or anything that
belongs to our neighbor. God forbids
every sinful desire to get our neighbor's
possessions openly or by trickery. He
calls us to use our wealth for the good of
others and His glory.
 Rom. 7:8 Sin ... produced in me every
kind of covetous desire.
 Matt. 15:19 Out of the heart come evil
thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual
immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
 Micah 2:1-2 Woe to those who plan
iniquity.... They covet fields and seize
them, and houses, and take them. They
defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of
his inheritance.
 1 Tim. 6:8-10 If we have food and
clothing, we will be content with that.
People who want to get rich fall into
temptation and a trap and into many
foolish and harmful desires that plunge
men into ruin and destruction. For the love
of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some
people, eager for money, have wandered
from the faith and pierced themselves with
many griefs.
 Ahab coveted Naboth's vineyard and got it
in a way which only seemed right (I Kings
2:11-16).
 Pray: Dear Father, here You teach us
how we shall not use deception to
release, drain, or extort our neighbor’s
property, but help him keep it, as we
ourselves desire help to keep our
property. You are also a protection
against the sly tricks and schemes of the
worldly minded. They will receive their
punishment in the end. Lord, teach us
to pray: Our Father who art in
heaven…Amen. (Luther)

17.  We should be content with what
God has given us and assist our
neighbor in keeping what God has
given that person. We should
strive for success in a way that
pleases God and serves our
neighbors.
 Phil. 4:11 I am not saying this
because I am in need, for I have
learned to be content whatever the
circumstances.
 1 Tim. 6:6 Godliness with
contentment is great gain.
 Heb. 13:5 Keep your lives free from
the love of money and be content
with what you have, because God
has said, "Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.“
 Paul overcame coveting (Acts 20:32-
35).
 Pray: Come, O Lord, in much
mercy down into my soul, and take
possession and dwell there. A
homely mansion, I confess, for so
glorious a Majesty. Enter then,
and adorn, and make it what You
can inhabit, since it is the work of
your hands. Give me Your own
self, without which, though You
should give me all that You have
ever made, yet my desires could
not be satisfied. Let my soul ever
seek You, and let me persist in
seeking, till I have found, and am
in full possession of You.
(Augustine 354)

18.  God forbids every sinful desire to take
from our neighbor that person's
spouse or workers. We should be
content with the helpers God has given
us and encourage our neighbor's
helpers to be faithful to our neighbor.
 Luke 12:15 He said to them, "Watch
out! Be on your guard against all kinds
of greed; a man‘s life does not consist in
the abundance of his possessions.“
 Col. 3:5 Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly nature:
sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil
desires and greed, which is idolatry.
 David coveted Uriah's wife and took her
(2 Sam. 11:2-4).
 Absalom estranged the hearts of the
people from David (2 Sam. 15:1-6).
 Phil. 2:4 Each of you should look not
only to your own interests, but also to the
interests of others.
 Paul returned a runaway slave to his
master Philemon (Philemon).
 Pray: O our Lord and God, restrain
our thoughts, that they wander not
amid the vanities of this world. O
Lord our God, grant that I may be
united to the affection of Your love,
unworthy though I be. Glory be to
You, O Christ. Ascend into the
chamber of Your renowned light, O
Lord; sow in me the good seed of
humility; and under the wings of Your
grace hide me through Your mercy.
Amen. (Liturgy of Addai and Mari c.
200).

19.  We believe in God's sight evil desire,
coveting, is indeed sin and deserves
condemnation. God wants us to love
Him and to have holy desires.
 Gen. 3:6 When the woman saw that
the fruit of the tree was good for food
and pleasing to the eye, and also
desirable for gaining wisdom, she took
some and ate it.
 James 1:14-15 Each one is tempted
when by his own evil desire, he is
dragged away and enticed. Then, after
desire has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and sin, when it is full-grown,
gives birth to death.
 Ps. 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of
your heart.
 Ps. 119:35-36 Direct me in the path of
Your commands, for there I find
delight. Turn my heart toward Your
statutes and not toward selfish gain.
 Phil. 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is
true, whatever is noble, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is
lovely,
 Pray: Almighty God, you are the
only and supreme happiness of the
soul of man, without the enjoyment
of whom the soul must ever dwell in
disquietude and trouble. Fix all the
thoughts and affections of my soul
upon You, who alone can satisfy all
its desires, and give it a peace that
passes all understanding. You shall
be all in all and the sight of You and
Your glory be her great and endless
happiness to all eternity. Amen.

20. Questions:
What is coveting?
What is for bidden?
What is required?
We believe coveting is having a sinful desire
for anyone or anything that belongs to our
neighbor. God forbids every sinful desire to
get our neighbor's possessions openly or by
trickery. He calls us to use our wealth for
the good of others and His glory.
We should be content with what God has
given us and assist our neighbor in keeping
what God has given that person. We should
strive for success in a way that pleases God
and serves our neighbors.
God forbids every sinful desire to take from
our neighbor that person's spouse or
workers. We should be content with the
helpers God has given us and encourage our
neighbor's helpers to be faithful to our
neighbor.
We believe in God's sight evil desire,
coveting, is indeed sin and deserves
condemnation. God wants us to love Him
and to have holy desires.

21.  The Close of the
Commands