Coveting 1 and 2

1 - Beginning of Sin

Have you ever wondered what it is like in the biggest house on the street? Ever asked what kind of TV do they have? Said to yourself, look at the nice car they Drive… I wonder how much Money they make…I would like to live his or her life. Well this is what Eve did when she looked at the fruit on the tree, She asked her self…”I wonder what God knows? I bet to know what he knows would be amazing….”

Coveting was the beginning of sin in the world

Ge 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Her imagination and feelings were completely won over be the serpant; and the fall of Eve was soon followed by that of Adam. The history of every temptation, and of every sin, is the same; the outward object of attraction, the inward commotion of mind, the increase and triumph of passionate desire; ending in the degradation, slavery, and ruin of the soul www.biblestudytools.net/Commentaries/JamiesonFaussetBrown/jfb.cgi?book=ge&chapter=3#Ge3_6

If coveting is the beginning of Sin.. Can it lead us to other sin?

2 - Coveting leads to other sin

In what ways can covetness lead us to break the other commandments?

David, the man with the heart of God, his coveting leads to… Here is a man with a heart for the Lord…And the Devil got…

2 Sam 11: 2-3 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her.

(1) Do not commit Adultery….4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. Then [a] she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."

(2) Do not give false witness…6 So David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.

12 Then David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.

(3) Do not Murder…14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."

(4) Do not Steal…Nathan to David… 4 "Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him."