"The Secret of Contentment"
Building Life on God's Values - Part 10
Exodus 20:17
March 15, 2020
"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." Exodus 20:17 ESV
The definition of "covet": the _____________ desire to acquire.
A. The effect of always wanting more....
1. __________. Prov. 23:4
2. __________. Eccl. 5:11
3. __________. Eccl. 5:12
4. __________. James 4:1
5. ________________. Eccl. 5:10
The antidote to covetousness is _________________.
Phil 4:12
B. The secret to contentment.....
1. _____________ comparing myself to others.
2 Cor. 10:12; 1 Tim. 6:9
2. __________ in what I do have. Eccl. 5:19; Eccl. 6:9
3. ___________ what I have to help others.
1 Tim. 6:17-19
Don't become _________ of your wealth.
Don't put your trust in your __________.
Use your money to do __________.
Give ___________.
Acts 20:35
4. ___________ on what's going to last. 2 Cor. 4:18
LIFE APPLICATION
Luke 12:15
Why in the world did God make me?
Why am I here?
What does He want to do with my life?
Where am I going when I die?
1 John 5:11-12
"Defining The Church" (Matthew 16:13-20)
"Get Little Again" Romans 8:14-16
"The Success of Esau" (Genesis 36)
Jacob's Journey (Genesis 35)
"Lingering With the Lawless" (Genesis 34)
"Forgiveness" (Genesis 33)
"God's Purpose In the Pain" (Genesis 32)
"Jacob's Exodus from Laban" (Genesis 31)
"Multiplying Sons and Multiplying Flocks" (Genesis 29:31-30:34)
"Jacob Gets Jacobed" (Genesis 29:1-30)
God's Grace to a Work In Progress (Genesis 28:1-22)
Family Fued (Genesis 26:34-27:46)
Like Father, Like Son (Genesis 26)
Grace Makes All The Difference (Genesis 25)
The Bachelor: Genesis Edition (Genesis 24)
The Death of Sarah (Genesis 22:20-23:20)
Jehovah Jireh (Genesis 22:1-19)
Two Natures, One Roof (Genesis 21)
Same Song, Different Verse (Genesis 20:1-18)
Lot and His Daughters (Genesis 19:30-38)
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