You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.
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… scripture addresses that issue, that feeling. In Exodus chapter 20, verse 17 says this, 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 is your neighbor's. Now, most of us would not say we own any donkey or any ox. Well, maybe, just maybe, at our Elasa Ranch campus in East Texas, maybe they have some, but I doubt anyone at Fort Worth, right here in Grapevine, Frisco, Dallas, we wouldn't own any ox or any donkey. So let's modernize this verse. It says this, you shall not crave your neighbor's house. You shall not desire your neighbor's spouse, their career, their staff, their income, their car, their success, or anything that belongs to someone else. This command has just moved from the visible to the invisible. Every command that we've studied over these past several weeks can be measured in behavior. This one, though, is measured in desire. …
… start focusing on what God has asked me to do. Exodus 20, you shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. Why would God put this into scriptures if he didn't think it was pliable to happen? No, he put this in, don't commit adultery. Why? Because you could commit adultery. Don't murder. Why? Because you could murder. Don't steal. Why? Because stealing could happen. Why does he say don't covet? Because he knows that our eyes go to what they got rather than to what we got. And so listen, if I get my eyes on them, wow, look at them, wow. Look at what they got in the South Bay. I'd love to walk on the beach. You know, down there in the South Bay, we're meeting at a high school. It's beautiful. And the high school that they got, the green room for the worship team is bigger than Highland Park Church. the green room is bigger than this whole church just i think pastor jeremy i think jeremy chose it just for the green room this morning the worship team in the castle had a spread of food i'm talking about fruit and cheese and crackers just a spread of food and the team from south bay sent a photo to the team at Highland Park. …
… family contentment. The Bible says there in the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. Now here in the Ten Commandments, the last of these ten is, Thou shalt not covet. It's a very interesting commandment. Before I look at that for just a moment, let me say this, that the Ten Commandments were given primarily to the family. Did you know that? God gave the Ten Commandments and He said, Now dads, teach these to your sons and grandsons that you'll have a happy family. And God gives all of these nine laws for living, and then God sums it up with the last one, Thou shalt not covet. Now why did God put that last? Because it sums up all of the others. All of the other commandments deal with actions. But this last one deals with attitude. Now all of the others deal with deeds. …