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Virtues and Vices, Part 9: Covetousness: Good vs. Bad

// April 12th, 2010 // View Comments // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

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By David Watson

Benchley, April 4, 2010

• Applications, continued:
  • Don’t (inordinately) covet material good.
    • Acts 20:33-35; I Timothy 6:6; Colossians 3:5; Luke 12:15-21,23,31
  • Fix your mind.
    • Micah 2:1-2; Mark 7:21-23; Romans 1:28-32
• Edification vs. being a stumbling block
  • Definitions
    • Romans 9:30-33; I Peter 2:8; Matthew 16:23
  • Applications
    • Edify through worship
      • I Corinthians 14:2; Hebrews 10:23-25
      • Hypocrisy:  Mark 12:38
    • Don’t make yourself stumble.
      • Matthew 5:29

Virtues and Vices, Part 8: Covetousness: Good vs. Bad

// March 20th, 2010 // View Comments // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

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By David Watson

Benchley, March 14, 2010

• Applications, continued:
  • Covet God’s Word
    • Create interest in God’s Word
    • Ask for help.  Acts 8:26-40
    • Consider the value.  Romans 2:16
  • Covet good works.
    • I Timothy 3:1; Matthew 22:37
  • Don’t covet one who’s not your spouse.
    • Matthew 5:27-28; Exodus 20:14,17; Genesis 12:11; Esther 2:2-4,12-13; II Samuel 11:2; 13:3-4,14; Mark 6:22-23; Proverbs 6:25; I Corinthians 7:8-9 – Warnings and consequences of coveting women.
  • Don’t (inordinately) covet material goods.
    • Deuteronomy 7:25; Joshua 6:16-19; 7:20-21

Virtues and Vices, Part 7: Humility vs. Pride

// March 15th, 2010 // View Comments // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

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By David Watson

Benchley, March 7, 2010

• Applications, continued:
  • Address the causes of pride.
    • Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4) – accomplishments
    • Heritage/ancestry
    • Saul (I Samuel 9:19-10:24; 15:17-19) – power
    • Personality
  • Use strategies to achieve humility.
    • Admit our own pride and be honest with ourselves.  I John 1:8-9
    • Remember and search out our own faults.
    • Remember that we are merely human.
    • Matthew 6:1-4 – Hide your good deeds.
    • Philippians 2:3-4 – Focus on others.
    • Luke 15:15-19 – Let circumstances humble us.  II Corinthians 10:17-18
• Covetousness: good vs. bad
  • Epithumeo:  Luke 15:16; 16:20-21; 22:15
  • Applications
    • Covet God’s Word. – Matthew 13:17; Hebrews 11:13; I Peter 1:10-12; I Peter 2:2

2009-01-11 – Jesse Jenkins – The Ten Commandments

// February 2nd, 2009 // View Comments // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

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The Ten Commandments

By Jesse Jenkins

Benchley, January 11, 2009

• Exodus 20:1-17
• The first four relate to man’s relationship with God.
• The next five relate to man’s relationship with man.
  • Respect the center of life – the family.? “Honor thy father and thy mother.”
  • Respect for life itself:? “Thou shalt not kill.”
    • Leviticus 17:11; Romans 13:4?- Capitol punishment
    • There were different words in Hebrews for kill and murder.? This commandment uses the word for murder.
  • Respect for the sanctity of the marriage relationship:? “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
  • Respect for property:? “Thou shalt not steal.”
  • Respect for name and honor:? “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
• The tenth commandment looks inward.
  • Respect for self:? “Thou shalt not covet.”
    • One may covet his his neighbor’s wife and never make a perverse move.
    • One may covet his neighbor’s property and never steal.
    • Covetousness is intense desire, a feeling within.? Colossians 3:5
    • The covetous man sets up idols in his heart and sins against himself and God.

2008-06-08-b – George Slover – I Have Enough!

// June 10th, 2008 // View Comments // Bible Study, Mark's stuff

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