What if the sin that gets you into the most trouble is the one nobody else can see?
📖 IN THIS EPISODE, WE EXPLORE:
🔟 The Commandment That Goes Deeper: Why the Tenth Commandment reaches beyond outward behavior and confronts the desires of the heart.
🔍 What Covetousness Really Means: The biblical meaning of desire, when wanting becomes sin, and why the commandment doesn't wait for your hands to act.
🧩 Why It's Number Ten: How covetousness can become the root of other sins, and how this final commandment leaves none of us with a hiding place.
🌳 Before Sinai: How the pattern of coveting appears throughout the earliest biblical narratives, long before God formally gave the Ten Commandments.
🐍 The Subterranean Pathway: From the serpent's deception in Eden to Eve's desire and eventual disobedience, discover the five stages of the progression: distrust, gaze, desire, grasp, and cover.
⚠️ The Warning Jesus Gave: Why Jesus told the crowd to guard against every form of greed and why the abundance of possessions has nothing to do with the abundance of life.
💔 The Machinery of Sin: How James describes desire becoming sin and sin eventually producing death.
💰 The Cost of Wanting More: Paul's warning to Timothy about the traps of pursuing wealth, and the extraordinary value of godliness with contentment.
✝️ The Cure: Why the answer to covetousness isn't simply stronger willpower, but learning to rest in the presence and promises of God.
📖 SCRIPTURES EXPLORED
Exodus 20:17 • Deuteronomy 5:21 • Psalm 19 • Joshua 7 • Micah 2 • Romans 7 • Genesis 3:1–6 • Colossians 3:5 • Luke 12:15 • James 1:14–15 • James 4:2 • 1 Timothy 6:6–10 • Hebrews 13:5
💡 SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
You can commit covetousness in a crowded room without anyone knowing.
🔥 COMING NEXT:
This is just the beginning. Over the next eight episodes, we're going to dig into covetousness, expose its many disguises, and discover what it takes to reclaim a heart that is satisfied with God.
🎧 LISTEN. THINK. GROW.
If this episode encourages you, share it with someone who could use a little encouragement, 🔗, Listen, subscribe, and leave a review to help others find Jesus Company
You need more than information for the days ahead. You need the Word, the encouragement of Christ, and the spiritual strength to stand firm.
https://shows.acast.com/jesus-company
Jesus Company on 🎧 Apple Podcasts
Jesus Company on 🎵 Spotify
Jesus Comany on 🎙️ Amazon Music
Jesus Company on 🎼 Deezer
iHeart Jesus Company Podcast 📻 iHeartRadio
📱 @JesusCoOfficial on X | Search "Jesus Company" on your podcast app
📱 Connect with Us:
🔗 Resources
All Scripture quotations are taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2016 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® is a federally registered trademark of Holman Bible Publishers.
","author_name":"Kenny Price"}