Ten - Part 11 [Notes]

The Ten Commandments are probably the best-known list of "rules" ever recorded, but there is so much more to these commands than meets the eye; they provide a framework for understanding who God is and what it means to be a holy nation. Join us for "Ten," and together, we will discover just how amazing the gift of the Ten Commandments is!
Takeaway: Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Christ.
“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner” who moreover, was “hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.” Then: “The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Our natural disposition is to covet.
“To covet is to desire inordinately, to place the object of desire before love and devotion to God. That idea is conveyed in the New Testament by a Greek word literally meaning “inordinate desire to have more.” The apostle Paul listed that kind of covetousness among earthly attitudes of which Christians are to rid themselves. “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry” (Col 3:5; cf. Eph 5:3; 1 Cor 6:10).”
The Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
Our natural disposition is to covet.
  • What does it actually mean to “covet?”
  • What is the danger of coveting? 
  • What is the cure for our coveting hearts?
“Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
– Exodus 20:17 (CSB)
“That Israelites were not to long for, desire earnestly, or lust after what legitimately belonged to others.”
– John D. Hannah
  • What does it actually mean to “covet?”
  • What is the danger of coveting? 
“Coveting is a basic and pervasive evil, for it is the very root of so many forms of sin: ‘Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction’ (1 Tim. 6:9). It lies behind Biblical examples of theft, lying, domestic trouble, even murder. In Col. 3:5 it is termed ‘nothing less than idolatry.’”
– W. Evans
  • What does it actually mean to “covet?”
  • What is the danger of coveting? 
  • What is the cure for our covetous hearts
When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John, He left Judea and went again to Galilee. He had to travel through Samaria;
– John 4:1-4 (CSB)
So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
– John 4:5-7a (CSB) 
“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, because His disciples had gone into town to buy food. “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
– John 4:7b-9 (CSB)
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.” “Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.” Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well, of water springing up in him for eternal life.” “Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”
– John 4:10-15 (CSB)
“Go call your husband,” he told her, “and come back here.” “I don’t have a husband,” she answered. “You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ ” Jesus said. “For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
– John 4:16-18 (CSB)
Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Christ.

Discussion Questions // 

  1. Think of and share a fictional character who has a major coveting issue. Where does their coveting lead?
  2. Why do you think God might have ended the decalogue with this commandment as opposed to any of the others?
  3. Read John 4:1-26. In what ways can you relate to the woman in the story? 
  4. What are the things that your heart is prone to long for in place of Christ?
  5. What can you do to help your soul find rest in Christ each and every day so that you are no longer restless?

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