{"id":1226,"date":"2011-11-13T01:46:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T01:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/november-qcoveteousness-the-universal-sinq\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T07:23:11","slug":"november-qcoveteousness-the-universal-sinq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/november-qcoveteousness-the-universal-sinq\/","title":{"rendered":"Coveteousness: The Universal Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Covetousness surely ranks as one of the great sins of our day.\u00a0 Its effects are seen in Christendom, our nation as a whole, and in an alarming display of selfishness around the whole world.\u00a0 Riots and protests, destruction of property, anger and resentment, all manifest themselves by some in every country where \u201cthings\u201d might be taken from them, even if insisting on keeping these things will topple the economy of the whole country or state or city.<\/span><\/p>\n

Has a whole life-time of getting everything we want finally come back to haunt us?\u00a0 Have we gotten so used to demanding \u201cthings\u201d from governments and unions and corporations, that we absolutely will not part with our \u201cthings\u201d for any reason?\u00a0 Why is it that one man would resent what another man has?\u00a0 Why is it that anyone feels it is his right to have whatever he wants?\u00a0 If I find my neighbor has earned a fortune, should I envy him or rejoice in his blessing?\u00a0 What does that say about me?<\/span><\/p>\n

The first nine commandments are pretty concrete.\u00a0 Israel could keep them or not, with a good attitude or not.\u00a0 But the tenth is not so easy.\u00a0 It goes to the heart and the desire within a person.\u00a0 It deals with the root of our sin.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t just keep us from stealing, it keeps us from wanting to steal.\u00a0 As Jesus pointed out, it doesn\u2019t just keep us from committing adultery, it keeps us from thinking about it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThou 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 any thing that is thy neighbor’s\u201d (Exodus 20:17).\u00a0 The New Testament does not let us off any easier.\u00a0 Covetousness is equal to idolatry (Col. 3:5, Eph. 5:5); we are to be content with such things as we have (Heb. 13:5); Since we brought nothing into this world and can carry nothing out, we should be content with food and clothing, because godliness with contentment is the greatest gain (1 Tim. 6:6-8).<\/span><\/p>\n

One theological dictionary defines covetousness as \u201cPrimarily inordinate desire.\u00a0 It has come to mean a desire for anything which is inordinate in degree, or a desire for that which rightfully belongs to another, especially in the realm of material things.\u00a0 In a general sense it means all inordinate desire for worldly possessions such as honors, gold, etc.\u00a0 In a more restricted sense, it is a desire for the increasing of one\u2019s substance by appropriating that of others.\u201d<\/span>1<\/sup><\/span> Unger reminds us that it has a sense of lawlessness, and is sinful because it is contrary to the command to be content with such things as we have, and it sets up wealth in the place of God.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The anointed cherub in God\u2019s presence began to covet the very things of God, \u201ctherefore,\u201d writes the prophet, \u201cI will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire\u201d (Ezek. 28:16).\u00a0 Yet immediately he tempted the man and woman into coveting things God had withheld from them.\u00a0 \u201cAnd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat\u201d (Gen. 3:6).<\/span><\/p>\n

No sooner had the ten commandments been given at Sinai and the Israelites crossed the Jordan and conquered Jericho, than Achan confessed, \u201cI saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them\u201d (Josh. 7:21).\u00a0 No sooner had the church begun in the early chapters of the book of Acts, than we read that Ananias and his wife Sapphira let Satan fill their hearts to keep back part of the price of their land sale for themselves, stifling the life of the new movement (Acts 5:1-11).<\/span><\/p>\n

Our word \u201ccovetousness\u201d covers a wide range of meaning in the Scripture.\u00a0 The three most common in the New Testament are 1) <\/span>Pleonexia<\/span>, meaning \u201cto have more.\u201d\u00a0 This is the most common word and is used in places like Col. 3:5 where covetousness is called idolatry.\u00a0 2) <\/span>Philarguros<\/span>, meaning the love of money or treasure is used in 1 Tim. 6:10 as \u201cthe love of money\u201d and also in 1 Tim. 3:3 where a pastor is not to be covetous.\u00a0 3) We commonly have <\/span>Epithumia<\/span>, \u201clust\u201d, or \u201cshort desire.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saul of Tarsus (later converted and called Paul) admitted that he wouldn\u2019t have thought of himself as a sinner without the 10th commandment.\u00a0 \u201cNay, I had not known sin, but by the law:\u00a0 for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet\u201d (Rom. 7:7).\u00a0 Interestingly, the words \u201clust\u201d and \u201ccovet\u201d in this verse both translate <\/span>epithumia<\/span>.\u00a0 Saul realized that his lust for earthly things was a direct breaking of the commandment not to covet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are a number of things the believer can do to combat covetousness in his\/her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Be heavenly minded<\/span><\/h2>\n

The common canard that one can be too heavenly minded to be any earthly good is not only wrong, it is exactly backwards.\u00a0 Leonard Ravenhill once wrote, \u201cSomeone now warns us lest we become so heavenly minded that we are of no earthly use.\u00a0 Brother, this generation of believers is not, by and large, suffering from such a complex!\u00a0 The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.\u201d<\/span>3<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Read again Luke chapter 12.\u00a0 God feeds the unclean ravens and clothes the helpless lilies.\u00a0 How much more will He do the same with us, O we of little faith?\u00a0 Let us not seek the things of this world, \u201cFor all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.\u00a0 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you\u201d (Lk. 12:30-31).\u00a0 Place your treasures in heaven, \u201cFor where your treasure is, there will your heart be also\u201d (vs. 34). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Follow Jesus\u2019 example<\/span><\/h2>\n

It is true that we cannot (and for salvation need not) be all that Jesus was.\u00a0 Praise the Lord that He accomplished in this life what no other could ever accomplish!\u00a0 By faith we can be made the righteousness of God in Him.\u00a0 Yet He said \u201cThe disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord\u201d (Matt. 10:24).\u00a0 When approached by a seeking man who was sure he had the wherewithal to follow Jesus, He responded, \u201cFoxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head\u201d (Lk. 9:58).\u00a0 The man had not bargained to pay that price.<\/span><\/p>\n

Persecution, in any degree, comes to the believer because it came to Jesus.\u00a0 \u201cIf they have persecuted me, they will persecute you\u201d (Jn. 15:20).\u00a0 He was in this world to accomplish a mission and then go back to His heavenly home.\u00a0 So are we (in our human way).\u00a0 \u201cWho for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God\u201d (Heb. 12:2).\u00a0 We can do the same, but not if we hang on to the things of this world too tightly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Be glued to your faith<\/span><\/h2>\n

Paul admonished Timothy about those who \u201cwould be rich\u201d (1 Tim. 6:9), and those \u201cwho are rich\u201d (vs. 17).\u00a0 Those who desire to be rich \u201cfall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition\u201d (vs. 9).\u00a0 But \u201cthe love of money\u201d (vs. 10) is so strong that \u201cwhile some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.\u201d\u00a0 Why do we go on choosing to stick ourselves with those sorrows?<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Paul\u2019s picturesque point is that covetousness causes some to stray away from their faith, to\u00a0 \u201cErr\u201d (<\/span>plana<\/span>?<\/span>) or wander away like a planet out of orbit or a wandering star.\u00a0 This was the sin of Ananias and Sapphira. \u00a0 \u00a0They coveted the very thing they had promised to God and Satan immediately filled their hearts, causing them to stray away even within their new found faith.\u00a0 This is why covetousness is idolatry and why a lost man has no inheritance in the kingdom of God (Eph. 5:5).\u00a0 As Jesus warned, \u201cVerily, they have their reward\u201d (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16).\u00a0 A believer in such a case is saved \u201cso as by fire\u201d (1 Cor. 3:15) or having his flesh destroyed, the spirit remains saved in the day of the Lord Jesus (1 Cor. 5:5), or \u201cscarcely saved\u201d as Peter says (1 Pet. 4:18).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Be mission minded<\/span><\/h2>\n

To evangelize is to risk something.\u00a0 It may be your image among your peers, or your status or job, or perhaps your personal safety.\u00a0 It is safe to say that most missionaries do not surrender to the mission field out of covetousness.\u00a0 Perhaps some covet the praise of others for their personal surrender, but hardly for material gain in this world.\u00a0 Worldwide missions has been a sacrificing work for the church of Jesus Christ in this dispensation of grace.\u00a0 Millions upon millions of dollars have been voluntarily given by God\u2019s people to take the gospel to the lost world. <\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite mission song ends with this verse,<\/span><\/p>\n

Give of thy sons, to bear the message glorious; <\/span><\/p>\n

Give of thy wealth to speed them on their way; <\/span><\/p>\n

Pour out thy soul for them in prayer victorious; <\/span><\/p>\n

And all thou spendest Jesus will repay<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When Paul wrote to the great Philippian church, he thanked them for their sacrificial mission giving.\u00a0 For himself, he had learned \u201cin whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content\u201d (Phil. 4:11).\u00a0 He knew how to abound and how to be abased.\u00a0 In either circumstance he knew, \u201cI can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me\u201d (4:13).\u00a0 Because of his great example (\u201cThose things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do\u201d) the church gave sacrificially to his ministry, \u201can odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God\u201d (4:18). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Don\u2019t love the world<\/span><\/h2>\n

Jesus warned that you cannot serve God and mammon (Matt. 6:24).\u00a0 It is a \u201cserve\u201d or \u201cdespise\u201d relationship.\u00a0 John said it plainly, \u201cIf any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him\u201d (1 Jn. 2:15).\u00a0 The church of the twenty-first century needs to take a long and hard look at that truth.\u00a0 We imitate the world, we use the world to lure people to church, we offer the world to keep people in church, and we are irritated when we\u2019re reminded of it.\u00a0 Then we preach to our people not to be covetous. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus asked, \u201cFor what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?\u201d (Lk. 9:25).\u00a0 A man may build bigger barns to house his worldly possessions and take life easy, but if his soul is required of him in a night, then what profit will those things be? (Lk. 12:16-21).\u00a0 Rather, Jesus said, \u201csell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not . . . For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also\u201d (Lk. 12:33-34).\u00a0 This is heavenly luggage!\u00a0 And it won\u2019t get lost by the baggage handler when it\u2019s your time to make that trip!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

And So . . . .<\/span><\/h2>\n

A person refuses to accept Christ because of covetousness.\u00a0 After Paul had preached in Thessalonica many believed his message.\u00a0 \u201cBut,\u201d the text continues, \u201cthe Jews which believed not, moved with envy . . .\u201d (Acts 17:5).\u00a0 Their jealousy kept them from believing.\u00a0 Paul had taken away their status with their peers and they wanted it back.\u00a0 When a person says no to Christ he is opting for some more time in the world, some more time to have his own way before he surrenders his will to God.\u00a0 The covetousness of a self-centered life keeps sinners from coming to Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus warned, \u201ca man\u2019s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth\u201d (Lk. 12:15).\u00a0 Alexander Maclaren observed, \u201cCovetousness is folly because it grasps at worldly good, under the false belief that thereby it will secure the true good of life, but when it has made its pile, it finds that it is no nearer peace of heart, rest, nobleness, or joy than before, and has probably lost much of both in the process of making it.\u00a0 The mad race after wealth, which is the sin of this luxurious, greedy, commercial age, is the consequence of a lie\u2014that life does consist in the abundance of possessions\u201d<\/span>4<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

1. Lewis Corlett, \u201cCovetousness,\u201d <\/span>Baker\u2019s Dictionary of Theology<\/span> (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Book House, 1978) 145.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Merrill Unger, \u201cCovetousness,\u201d <\/span>Unger\u2019s Bible Dictionary <\/span>(Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1966) 225.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Leonard Ravenhill, <\/span>Why Revival Tarries<\/span> (Minneapolis:\u00a0 Bethany House, 1990) 28.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Alexander Maclaren, <\/span>The Gospel of Luke<\/span> (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Eerdmans, 1938) 340.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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