Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 That’s the definition. Now the next issue is SO WHAT? Why is this a big deal? Isn’t sexual sin, especially when it’s just a desire and not an act, sin with a little “s”? Shouldn’t we get on with the big issues like nuclear arms and social justice? You’ve known people [...]
Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 Let’s begin with a biblical definition of lust. Lust is a sexual desire that dishonors its object and disregards God. Let me show you where I get that definition from today’s text. Verse 4 in the RSV addresses the men at Thessalonica and says, that each one of you know how [...]
Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 5. In the End Covetousness Destroys the Soul 1 Timothy 6:9 says, “Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.” In the end covetousness destroys the soul in hell. The reason I am sure that this [...]
Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 1. Covetousness Never Brings Satisfaction Ecclesiastes 5:11, “He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.” This is God’s word on money: it does not satisfy those who love it. If we believe him, we will turn away from the [...]
Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 Now what Paul is doing in 1 Timothy 6:6-12 is trying to persuade people not to be covetous. But let’s be real sure that we see how Paul understands this battle against covetousness. He gives his reasons for not being covetous in verses 6-10 (which we will come back to), and then in [...]
Scripture: I Tim. 6:6-12 Today we focus on battling the unbelief of covetousness. I think our text in 1 Timothy makes clear what covetousness is and that the battle against it is a battle against unbelief or a fight for faith in the promises of God. The word “covetousness” isn’t used here but the reality [...]
“When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2 Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipes a dish and turns it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam ends like a vessel mastered by the storm. [...]
Psalm 149:2 “Let Israel rejoice in him.” Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care that your gladness has its spring in the Lord. Thou hast much cause for gladness in thy God, for thou canst sing with David, “God, my exceeding joy.” Be glad that the Lord reigns, that Jehovah is King! Rejoice that [...]
For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? 1 Corinthians 4:7 (NASB) Let me begin by defining belief and unbelief. Jesus said in John 6:35, “I am the bread of life; he who comes [...]
Psalm 26:9 ” Do not take my soul away along with sinners” Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, “Perhaps, after all, you may be gathered with the wicked.” That fear, although marred by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the recollection of past sin. Even the pardoned man will enquire, [...]