“I Want That” - We have been working out way through the ten commandments; believe it or not, we are up to number ten. Don't be too optimistic I have another eleven in mind, but that's for another day. And, instead of re-reading all of the ten commandments, I simply want to read for you today, the tenth commandment, because, in my opinion, it's one of the commandments that we understand the least. And, that our culture struggles with the most. Exodus 20 beginning with the seventeenth verse: "You shall not covet your neighbors house, you shall not covet your neighbors wife, or his male servant or his female servant, his ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." That ends our scripture for today. My dictionary offers two basic definitions for the word 'covet.' I looked at various dictionaries, and they're pretty much in agreement. The first definition of covet is 'to wish for earnestly.' I covet for something so I wish for it earnestly. And, the second is 'to desire what belongs to another inordinately or culpably.'
Decades ago when I lived in North Dakota. I lived just down the block from the local newspaper, The Turtle Mountain Star. Now, don't laugh at that, it was wonderful. The editor at that time was a man named Roger Baily. He was a very good and faithful man. Who, in our private conversations, would frequently take me to task when I was critical of some forms of advertising. Suggesting that much of the advertising in our day and age preyed upon people's propensity to envy or become covetous of what others had. Now, mind you, I respect the fact that the editor of an independent small-town newspaper makes his or her living by selling advertising. It's the way it works. Roger gave very honest coverage of important controversial events in our community, and he lived a very reasonable and less-than-extravagant lifestyle. Roger's view was that advertising was...Worship Video HERE.


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