EFFECTS OF COVETOUSNESS

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EFFECTS OF COVETOUSNESS
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What Is Covetousness?

• "Covet after" "to stretch ones self, reach
  after a thing, with special reference to the
  thing or object desired, hence, to long after,
  try to gain."
• "Covetousness" - "a having more the will to
  have more (e.g. a larger portion, advantage,
  superiority.) In plural, covetous thoughts, plans
  of fraud and extortion."

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Exodus 2017

• "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."

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Romans 138

• Owe no one anything except to love one another,
  for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

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Romans 139

• For the commandments, "You shall not commit
  adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not
  steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You
  shall not covet," and if there is any other
  commandment, are all summed up in this saying,
  namely, "You shall love your neighbor as
  yourself."

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Colossians 35

• Therefore put to death your members which are on
  the earth fornication, uncleanness, passion,
  evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love

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Jude 10-11

• But these speak evil of whatever they do not
  know and whatever they know naturally, like
  brute beasts, in these things they corrupt
  themselves.
• Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of
  Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam
  for profit, and perished in the rebellion of
  Korah.

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Jude 12-13

• These are spots in your love feasts, while they
  feast with you without fear, serving only
  themselves. They are clouds without water,
  carried about by the winds late autumn trees
  without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the
  roots raging waves of the sea, foaming up their
  own shame wandering stars for whom is reserved
  the blackness of darkness forever.

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love
• It Blurs the Picture of Life

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2 Timothy 410

• Be diligent to come to me quickly for Demas has
  forsaken me, having loved this present world, and
  has departed for Thessalonica--Crescens for
  Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.

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1 John 215-17

• Do not love the world or the things in the world.
  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father
  is not in him. For all that is in the world--the
  lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the
  pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the
  world. And the world is passing away, and the
  lust of it but he who does the will of God
  abides forever.

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love
• It Blurs the Picture of Life
• It Banishes the Fruit of Generosity

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Matthew 1322

• "Now he who received seed among the thorns is he
  who hears the word, and the cares of this world
  and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
  and he becomes unfruitful."

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Luke 814

• "Now the ones that fell among thorns are those
  who, when they have heard, go out and are choked
  with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and
  bring no fruit to maturity."

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love
• It Blurs the Picture of Life
• It Banishes the Fruit of Generosity
• It Breeds the Worm of Discontent

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1 Timothy 63

• If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent
  to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords
  with godliness,

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1 Timothy 64-5

• he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed
  with disputes and arguments over words, from
  which come envy, strife, reviling, evil
  suspicions, useless wranglings of men of corrupt
  minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose
  that godliness is a means of gain. From such
  withdraw yourself.

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1 Timothy 66-8

• Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For
  we brought nothing into this world, and it is
  certain we can carry nothing out. And having food
  and clothing, with these we shall be content.

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love
• It Blurs the Picture of Life
• It Banishes the Fruit of Generosity
• It Breeds the Worm of Discontent
• It Burdens the Spirit with Sorrow

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1 Timothy 610

• For the love of money is a root of all kinds of
  evil, for which some have strayed from the faith
  in their greediness, and pierced themselves
  through with many sorrows.

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love
• It Blurs the Picture of Life
• It Banishes the Fruit of Generosity
• It Breeds the Worm of Discontent
• It Burdens the Spirit with Sorrow
• It Blinds One to the True Meaning of Life

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Luke 1818

• Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, "Good
  Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

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Luke 1819-20

• So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good?
  No one is good but One, that is, God. You know
  the commandments 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do
  not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false
  witness,' 'Honor your father and your mother.' "

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Luke 1821-22

• And he said, "All these things I have kept from
  my youth."
• So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him,
  "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have
  and distribute to the poor, and you will have
  treasure in heaven and come, follow Me."

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Luke 1823-24

• But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful,
  for he was very rich.
• And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful,
  He said, "How hard it is for those who have
  riches to enter the kingdom of God!"

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Effects of Covetousness

• It Blunts the Sensitive Nerve of Love
• It Blurs the Picture of Life
• It Banishes the Fruit of Generosity
• It Breeds the Worm of Discontent
• It Burdens the Spirit with Sorrow
• It Blinds One to the True Meaning of Life
• It Blasts the Devotee with Misery

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1 Timothy 69

• But those who desire to be rich fall into
  temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
  harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and
  perdition.