Commandment 10 episode 11

"You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s."  Exodus 20:17

In this final commandment episode, we discuss the following questions...

What is the link between this Commandment and with Commandment Nine, which says ‘do not bear false witness against your neighbor? And also what is the link between this one and Commandment One  -‘I am The Lord your God have no other gods before me?

Many people seem to have a ‘the world owes me a living mentality’.  Is there a resentful kind of coveting in this attitude?   What about in people protesting for their special identity demands in society?  Is this attitude linked to coveting?

In Romans 7, did Paul discuss a unique struggle with coveting specific to him, or is there a general principle? And how did the Commandment come alive to him and kill him? 

What do you see as the transformational aspect of this Commandment in the New Testament Scriptures?

Paul tells us about his breakthrough in Philippians where he says he learned to be content…

Philippians 4 :11 I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content (safeguarded like a walled city). I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

God makes available a revelation of His grace, and the contentment that can be ours by accepting the godliness of our true self instead of an image we have constructed for our fulfilment.

The answer is taking hold of Commandment One which is always available and always the answer. It is always being at home with God where things work out okay just as they should because he runs that home and we are part of it.