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Tag Archives: covetousness
One Woman’s Perceptive Garden Sign: Free Weeds, Pick Your Own
Proverbs 24:30-32; Luke 6:44; Song of Solomon 1:6 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the … Continue reading
Posted in Sanctification & Holiness
Tagged covetousness, gardening, hypocrisy, lusts, pride, sanctification, self-examination, sin, unbelief, weeds, worldliness
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The Insidious Deceptiveness of Modern Idolatry
Exodus 20:3; 1 John 5:21 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. D. L. MOODY (1837-1899): You don’t have to go to heathen lands today to find false gods. America is full … Continue reading
Posted in Sin & Unbelief
Tagged America, covetousness, idol, idolater, idolatry, idols, money, worship
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Lesson 1 From the Life of Lot: Lot’s Worldly Choices
Genesis 13:10-13 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons from the Life of Lot
Tagged Abram, choices, covetousness, Lot, lust of the eyes, separation from the world, Sodom, worldliness
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Gambling
Proverbs 13:11; 28:22; 28:20; 1 Timothy 6:10; Ephesians 4:28 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase…He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come … Continue reading
Posted in Sin & Unbelief
Tagged covetousness, gambling, lotteries, lottery, sin
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A Christian Monetary Policy for the New Year
Luke 12:15-21 Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Life
Tagged charity, covetousness, generosity, money, riches, wealth, worldly prosperity
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Covetousness
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no…covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. WILLIAM JAY (1769-1853): What do you think of the man whose thoughts and affections daily … Continue reading
