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*GPS 10*
/Exodus 20:17/
Gods positioning system
For the hearer to look to God for a realignment
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ONE - GOD is ONE, there is NO OTHER.
“You shall have no other gods before Me .”
(Exodus 20:3)
TWO - TABOO.
What is taboo?
Idols.
Images.
False gods.
“You shall not make for yourself an idol.”
(Exodus 20:4)
THREE - VANITY.
From “vain,” i.e., “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, .”
(Exodus 20:7)
FOUR – CHURCH DOOR.
It’s what you should enter through every Sunday.
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy .”
(Exodus 20:8)
FIVE - ALIVE.
Only one commandment out of the ten has a promise connected to it.
The Fifth Commandment promises “long life” to those who obey it.
So, to stay alive longer, “Honor thy father and thy mother.”
(Exodus 20:12)
SIX-FEET UNDER.
Don’t put anybody six feet under, or in other words, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13)
SEVEN-YEAR-ITCH.
The old movie by that title illustrated a statistical fact; that after seven years of marriage many develop a wandering eye and are tempted to play musical beds.
“You shall not commit adultery.”
(Exodus 20:14)
EIGHT - GO STRAIGHT!
Picture yourself watching an old black-and-white Humphrey Bogart movie.
He’s the convict about to be released from prison, standing before the wardens desk.
The warden says, “Here are your release papers.
Now, don’t get in any more trouble.
No stealing.
From now on, go straight.”
Hence, Eight - Go Straight.
“You shall not steal.”
(Exodus 20:15)
NINE - MALIGN.
What does it mean to malign someone?
It means to falsely accuse them, to slander them, to do harm to their name, character, or reputation.
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
(Exodus 20:16)
TEN - A PERFECT TEN!
We often grade things on a scale of one to ten.
One being the least, and ten being the very best.
If a car is a 10 it is an amazing car.
If a man or a woman is said to be a 10, they are a real knockout.
We like and admire a 10.
But be careful, because what you admire, you might begin to lust after.
*Intro*
* *Decades ago the famed poet Mick Jagger described our plight with these words:
I can’t get no satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction
’Cause I try and I try and I try and I try...
When I’m drivin’ in my car, and the man come on the radio
He’s tellin’ me more and more about some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination...
When I’m watchin’ my TV and a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
But, he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarettes as me
I can’t get no satisfaction, no satisfaction...
Just as Mister Jagger recognized, we must come to understand that very few things in this life have a lasting ability to satisfy us.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Ex 20:17.
While breaking all the rest of the Commandments has its origin in the heart and mind of man,
they all find their ultimate expression in some type of physical activity.
This Commandment is different!
While there is evidence of lying, stealing, adultery, murder, disobedience to parents, taking God’s Name in vain, making idols and having other gods before God,
there is usually little or no evidence of covetousness.
As a result, this is a sin that is rarely, if ever confessed and owned up to.
Of all the Commandments listed, this is probably the one most often broken and the one that will most readily cause you to break the other nine.
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categories of things that we might be tempted to covet \\ \\ House – To some people, having the right house in the right neighborhood is the ultimate in satisfaction.
\\ \\ Wife – “Why can’t you be more like that!?” (This could go for husbands too!” \\ \\ Servants – Ok, so maybe you don’t covet servants as much these days.
But how about their dishwasher, or their microwave?
Or their car?
It’s the servant that gets them places – do you covet their Mercedes, or their Corvette?
\\ \\ Ox, donkey – To the people of Moses’ day, an ox, donkey or some other beast of burden was essential if one was going to make a living.
They were his source of income.
Without them, he could not bring in his crop.
It’s very easy to covet another man’s job – another man’s source of income.
\\ “My next door neighbor makes twice as much as I do, and he spends most of his time out on the golf course with his clients.
And I have to put up with a supervisor who cusses all day long and criticizes me even when I am not at fault!” \\ \\
*Coveting is defective desiring*.
Desiring things is not necessarily bad.
But when our wants arise purely from a dissatisfaction with what God has given us and envy of the way he’s blessed others it is a violation of the Tenth Commandment.
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The Consequences of Coveting *
*Covetousness is the first step to sin.
(it is at the heart of most sin) *
Think abut it this way: Why do people steal?
We steal when we want something that someone else has.
Adultery has its roots in coveting.
You want someone that is not yours to have.
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