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Thou shalt not covet
Grateful:
Hello all ! :)
We (my husband and I) have over the past 40 years of marriage accumulated SO MANY, MANY "THINGS" until I'm BLUE in the face!!! More than once, my husband & I have exclaimed to each other, "We are POSSESSION-POOR !!!" Meaning that we just have too doggoned many THINGS!! I am currently in the slow process of GETTING RID OF as many of them as I can!!!!!!!!!!! As someone once said (I can't remember who), "Simplify, SIMPLIFY."
Right now I covet nearness to The Almighty and our Father in Heaven!! THEY make me SO HAPPY, I'm excited!!! YAY! I've found that the Holy Scriptures are the way-showers to THE Way-Shower Himself!! ( I feel a dance coming onnnnn!! Oh me, oh my!! Haha!)
Have a goood day, please !! :D :D
Linda
P.S. I dearly hope no one feels I'm "bragging"......I have found that Scripture to be so very true : "Draw nigh unto Me, and I will draw nigh unto you." Also, God IS "nearer than hands and feet" . O Hallelujah!!
acomplishedartis:
--- Quote from: Craig on October 16, 2007, 07:33:21 AM ---Stealing is only one manifestation of the sin you already committed. Iff your neighbor walks next door and gives you the keys and you accept, you still sinned.
Craig
--- End quote ---
Once we get the feeling or the desire of it, if nothing greater stop us or make us change, we just go for it, maybe this is how we a very similar to simple mashines.
we dont need much to be persuaded.
if jesus was never temted to do anything that satan told him, why is it called temtation? i think he never had the more minimum desire to do what he told him.
moises
Kat:
James 1:14 But, each one, is tempted, when, by his own coveting, he is drawn out and enticed,
v. 15 Then, the coveting, having conceived, giveth birth to sin, and, the sin, when full-grown, bringeth forth death. (Rotherham)
I do not think that temptation itself is sin, as with all the many things that can be presented before us as temptation. It is the way we look at the temptation with a wrong desire for it, with men it may be the beautiful woman or a shiny new sports car, with a woman maybe that special favorite chocolate dessert or a expensive pair of shoes. Regardless of what it is, it is our response to it, having a fleshly desire for something of the world. Is there lust that is not sin? I don't think so.
Gal 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
v. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
Only by Christ in us are we able to overcome the desires of the flesh.
Gal 5:24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
v. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
hillsbororiver:
Hi moises,
Jesus was certainly tempted but He did not contemplate or fantasize about giving in to temptation.
Mat 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
(The word "tempt" could be replaced by "enticed" or "tested" in this verse.)
Once we embrace a temptation, hold it dear, imagine how pleasurable it would be we are guilty of sin.
If we have jealousy, imagine revenge, take joy in another person suffering we are guilty in the eyes of the Lord.
His Peace and Wisdom to you,
Joe
hillsbororiver:
Hi Kat,
I see we were posting at the same time once again. ;)
Great response by the way,
Joe
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