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Sep 24, 2017

#10 - How to Find Lasting Contentment

Passage: Exodus 20:17

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: Ten Commandments - Ten Steps to the Good Life

Category: Exodus

Summary:

Main Text - Exodus 20:17; OT Reading - 1 Kings 21; WLC 146, 147, 148

Detail:

Ten Steps to the Good Life – 9/24/2017

#10 – How to Find Lasting Contentment

Exodus 20:17   “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.”

 

You Will Only find  Contentment When You Believe God Knows What He Is doing

 

  1. You Must Accept That God Knows What he Is doing In His Treatment of Others

 

  1. The heart of the 10th Comm = deals with your heart attitude toward…

                               

  1. This is based upon a false premise = All men are…

 

                              - True is one sense –  

 

                              - False in another sense –  

 

  1. You Must Accept That God Knows What He Is Doing In His Treatment of YOU

 

  1. This commandment implies an attitude toward what….

 

                               Joshua 7:20-21     1 Kings 21:4

 

  1. God’s standard of measure is not ours –

 

                              Mat 25:14-30

 

III.  To Be Able to Accept God’s Treatment of  You and Others, you need to accept God

       As HE Is

 

  1. Put Christ In Biblical Perspective

                               Phil 4:12 - 

                              Rom 7:7 –  

                               Luke 19:8

 

  1. Put God in Biblical Perspective

                               God is a God of P………..             Job 42:2

                              God is a God of W…………..        Dan 2:20

                              God is a God of L………… 1 John 4:8

                                              

                                             Rom 8:28 –  

 

  1. Put things in Biblical perspective

 

                              Luke 12:15 –  

 

  1. Covet the right thing 1 Cor 12:31

Westminster Larger Catechism

http://www.paullytle.com/WLC/index.html    with Scripture Proofs from the ESV

http://www.reformed.org/documents/wlc_w_proofs/

146 - 146. What is the tenth commandment?

  1. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shall not covet they neighbour’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

 

147 - 147. What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?

  1. The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition,1 and such a charitable frame of the whole soul toward our neighbour, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his.

 

148 - 148. What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?

  1. The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate;1 envying2 and grieving at the good of our neighbour,3 together with all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.