 this same approach that I took with the others that I had been responsible for would be the same I do this morning. So the plan will be to look at what is the 10th commandment or which is the 10th commandment and then specifically what is required in it and what is forbidden in it. And your handout is broken up into those three major sections so on the empty lines under each section you could write these points and any text or illustrations that we discuss or notes you want to write you can put them underneath those points. Okay so on the handout or in your Bible preferably in your Bible let's turn to Exodus 20 and read verse 17. You shall not covet your neighbor's house you shall not covet your neighbor's wife nor his male servant nor his female servant nor his ox nor his donkey nor anything that is your neighbor's. With this first section what I want to do is knowing either the grammar or the definitions of these words hit on some major points through observing that commandment that verse and begin to explain what it means in its context or in in its place that we read it and then we'll actually get into after that what's required and what's forbidden. And before I begin to explain the the effect that this study and teaching should have on your heart is remember the purpose of the law. The law is meant to do multiple things for believers it is a rule of life it's not something that we gain our right standing with God with. It's something that comes to us in the hands of our mediator who has already satisfied the requirements to perfection and the judgments to perfection from what the law required of us. And as believers having been given life and title to heaven God uses the law to guide our steps to command our way. You can't remove the authority of the law any more than you can make God not God. So the gospel in no way undermines or frees us from the authority of the law. In fact it gives us motives and strength by the gospel to keep it. And also another purpose is to convict and expose our sin for by the law comes the knowledge of sin and through the law sin becomes exceedingly sinful. So it should have another effect to expose your heart before God. Not that you would as a believer believe yourself to be condemned. But that as a believer you would see rightly remaining sin and by the gospel be motivated to repent of it. Unbelievers this morning I beg you to listen and to examine yourself in the light of God's law and let's go into this verse. First of all like I had said with the first commandment and now with the tenth it is a command the mood is imperative it's not indicative. So God is commanding us to not covet. It is not a desire of God merely or like someone that's super exceeding the requirements of God that God commands our hearts to not covet. And I think of that way because when you either in your own life or in evangelism with unbelievers we all have a standard of righteousness that is too low. And when we think we have one that's superior to God's it's a man-made tradition and it's still too low. And many people when they hear about the commandment you shall not covet can think does God really require that in the heart? Yes and I want to go into it and just to remind you in Colossians 3 verse 5 and 6 therefore put to death your members which are on the earth fornication uncleanness passion evil desire and covetousness which is idolatry. Because of these things covetousness evil desire passion the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. It's right there in a list of fornication. We don't think of covetousness like often we think of fornication or murder but this is one of the ten commandments. So do not allow your heart by God's grace to be deceived into thinking that God's standard is lower than what it is. Okay and the next is it focuses on the heart. So when you look at the commandments Exodus 20 for example you shall not steal that's the deed that's being written there you shall not commit adultery that's the deed it does of course the commandment goes to the heart but the way that it's published in Mount from Mount Sinai with those other two I just read it's focusing on the deed this commandment doesn't even start downstream it just starts right at the the spring and says you shall not covet in the heart. The Hebrew word for covet in the Exodus verse is spelled C-H-A-M-A-D and I pronounce that kamad or shamad and as a verb it means to desire, desire greatly or set your desire upon. So you could translate it that way you shall not desire desire greatly or set your desire upon your neighbor's house and so forth. So there's qualifications and motives and goals and things coming into play with these desires towards others that's sinful particularly like with another man's wife her possessions it's very easy for us to understand how we shouldn't set our desire upon that because it's not ours but what about other things like let's say you're single and you desire to be married you know is it good to desire marriage yes but can you covet and have evil desire with reference to marriage yes you can so now in order to define the difference in that area we have to get into what are motives and what are the goals and other implications or factors but the word covet means desire desire greatly or set your desire upon it doesn't mean admire I could admire someone's car and that not be coveting but if I desire that car out of discontentment that's covetousness if I set my desire upon that one or one like it and I have no means to attain it the word often has a sense of pleasure or delight in its usage the word is used in scripture for good desires and evil desires I thought that was very interesting so the word covet come on can be used to reference a good desire so here in this text it's very clear it's evil and in fact in Psalm 68 16 it says why do you fume with envy you mountains of many peaks this is the mountain which God desires to dwell in covets God covets to dwell in so God has this same Hebrew word where he's referencing his desire to dwell there that shows you that there can be you can use this word to talk about good desires and also the same word gets used though with aching who confessed that he coveted and they're very clear he sinned because it was forbidden that he should desire the the things that he desired like the wedge of gold if you think about like a water water and creation it starts at a spring and then it goes all the way out to the mouth of a river some commandments when they're given in their published form focus on the mouth of the river and God expects you to go upstream from his word and learn how that commandment is disobeyed at its source but when he publishes this commandment he he goes right to the spring okay next it focuses on your neighbor's possessions so in the commandment we read that again part of it your neighbor's wife his male servant nor his female servant nor his ox nor his donkey nor anything that is your neighbors a neighbor is anyone made in the image of God there was a man that came and tested Jesus and said who is my neighbor and he gave him the parable of the good Samaritan because the man sought to justify himself by categorically saying certain people were disqualified from being his neighbor so you didn't have to love them it's everyone including your enemies and it's looking at it focuses on your neighbor's possessions so somebody might say well what about a wife or a husband how can you say that's a possession well that in one sense they're not property but in another sense that is her husband that is his wife so there is a possessive there because of the union that they have in the covenant of marriage and next it is exhaustive it isn't exhaustive in this published form in all ways but it's exhaustive in the sense that it it says at the end nor anything that is your neighbors so as we look at what God forbids us to set our desire upon with our neighbor he doesn't just give us a representative list and expects us to broaden that he just he just broadens it himself nothing I want you to be real clear about that I don't want to even you have to even draw that implication out from a representative list I'm gonna tell you outright nothing and it is rooted in discontentment I spelled that wrong it is rooted in discontentment this is not a direct observation from this verse it's an inference that I'm making and I want to illustrate that but covetousness finds its root in discontentment you have to first take where you are in life what you've been given in life and first be discontent with that before you can look elsewhere to find value in something else that you ought not and to give you an illustration we could go to Eve Adam and Eve had everything upright innocent fellowship with God and all of creation and it wasn't till she doubted God and became discontent through the devil's lies with what God's provision was in his not only in what his bounty was but in his restriction of that tree his wisdom she became discontent with God's wisdom and then set her desire upon the forbidden fruit if you look at Ephesians 5 and I'm gonna read verses 3 to 7 and what I'm hoping you'll see here is the relationship between discontentment and covetousness so they read this but fornication all uncleanness or covetousness let it not even be named among you as is fitting for saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor course justing which are not fitting but rather giving of thanks for this you know that no fornicator unclean person or covetous man who is an idol at earth has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God let no one deceive you with empty words for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience therefore do not be partakers with them in this text you see a list at the beginning fornication uncleanness or covetousness and then it goes further and talks about filthiness foolish talking ingesting and then after he says but rather giving of thanks so put off these put on this he says because you know this that fornicator unclean covetous side who's an idolatry he repeats the same list but no one deceive you so in this text you have a list I know that there's an expansion of even foolish talking and getting into more specifics but you can see clearly that pattern fornication uncleanness covetousness in the middle there there's what God desires giving thanks and then after it fornication uncleanness covetousness it's like a sandwich and buried at the heart of this is thanks the only way that you're going to grow in righteousness in this area by God's grace through faith is by putting on thanksgiving and contentment putting on the joy of the Lord if you refuse to heed God's word by faith and renew your mind with his goodness with his bounty with his salvation with his son with his promises with his forgiveness his justification his satisfaction for your sin it goes on if you refuse to prize that and grow in thanksgiving for who God is and what he has done for you and will do for you you're already not going to put off covetousness so I get the relationship between discontentment and covetousness here by looking at the opposite of contentment which is thanksgiving or contentment opposite of discontentment which is contentment and that's manifested in thanksgiving someone who's content biblically is a thankful person they're overjoyed and that is the vivification the putting on of righteousness that equips us to put off these sins also 1st Timothy 6 6 now godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and clothing with these we shall be content but those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men and destruction and perdition if you can see that relationship between contentment and covetousness covetousness is not expressed explicitly here but if you desire to be rich that's the essence of covetousness and looking at it from the angle of money if that person would be content with the food and the clothing that God has given them the fact that God is with them in his salvation Timothy in this case he would be preserved from falling into this desire to be rich okay any questions in the first section is that clear okay amen let's go to the next section what is required in the 10th commandment and I'm gonna read the the catechism answer it's on the handout the 10th commandment requires full contentment with our own condition with a right and charitable frame of spirit toward our neighbor and all that is his so I taken that catechism answer and broken it up into three parts so contentment with what we have our spirit towards our neighbor and our spirit towards the neighbor stuff and the catechism uses the the word condition with our own condition that means our state like in what state we're in in life I'm divorced I'm single I'm lost my job I'm rich and doing well at my job I'm you name it like say you're discontent with certain life like you know you want to progress or how would you be able to yeah well again there are good desires so the answer to what is God commanding us in this isn't the absence of desire it's forbidding covetousness which is evil desire and since it's forbidding that we know that whatever the commandment forbids it commands the opposite in the positive way so he commands us to have holy desires good desires and if I have a holy desire to do something I wouldn't call that discontentment so if someone did and they explained to me their definition of this contentment and I recognize it to be actually a holy desire that they have I wouldn't condemn them in a sense like say that that's sinful brother you shouldn't covet or be discontent I would say you probably would be better off using a different word for your your longing for knowledge of the Lord your longing for growth and grace your longing for a way to provide for your family in a righteous way discontentment by definition here I'll read a dictionary discontent dissatisfaction a relentless desire for something more or different so we should never say we're dissatisfied with what God has given us you know what I'm saying okay I hope that helps let's look at oh I wanted to explain condition so condition is the state it's not just like your current disposition in life or your current place it it includes everything like your estate your possessions not only like what you possess physically and materially or virtually like in a bank account but also what you possess in your skills talents size shape appearance everything about who you are is included in that word condition and they also use right and charitable frame of spirit right means upright honoring to the Lord lawful evangelical lawful and charitable means having this this disposition to help others to serve them and then frame of spirit so when you have a framework or you frame out something what that's saying is frame your spirit construct your spirit in such a way that you are focused on your neighbor with rightness and charitableness so frame your spirit and take to the point where you have a disposition towards your neighbor to be upright with him and charitable to him so let's look at that now that I've kind of given some explanation of the catechism first of all contentment with our own condition let's look at Hebrews 13 Hebrews 13 5 through 6 let your conduct be without covetousness be content such things as you have for he himself has said I will never leave you nor forsake you so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper I will not fear what can man do to me so in the context remember that the audience of the Hebrews were growing dull and sluggish and they were retreating from new covenant practice and theology likely because of incoming or upcoming persecution so where were they finding shelter in the old covenant ways because it had been established to the diaspora many people respected synagogues and you could find protection so to speak from persecution in Judaism and the author recognizes that this is the path to apostasy because not because the old covenant was evil in and of itself it's because it's now been made obsolete and the new covenant has come why return to the shadow when you have the fullness and in the midst of there he gives these strong warnings and then here in this practical side of the letter he's giving them moral directions and with covetousness I think this is helpful I think that context helps give why he might bring out that text the Lord is my helper I will not fear what can man do to me if you're expecting and faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ and being a disciple in that age to be persecuted to great degrees to have this attitude and to be able to boldly say what can man do to me because of contentment and joy in the Lord is modeling for them what kind of spirit they ought to have but it doesn't leave us out this is scripture all scriptures God breath and profitable so it's intended not just for them but for us since it has been inscripturated so let us look at it first of all he says let your cut your conduct be without covetousness this is a narrow use of the word it's not playonexia it's another Greek word and I fee I can't remember how to pronounce it I feel lyrgos but the it's focused on love of money particularly love of silver so he's saying do not be that way command you to be without covetousness but instead do the opposite be content with what with such things as you have that's the commandment what's the ground or the reason he gives that commandment it's the next part but let's look at that it's because of what God has said what has God said to his people he says I will never leave you nor forsake you I was listening to a preacher and he was just walking through how God was with Joseph you know the way that Joseph is treated by his brothers by Potiphar's wife he's thrown into prison and the I think it was the baker forgets his promise to him the Lord was with him through every part of it and promoted him according to his providence and did good to his promised people of the seat of Abraham try not to miss that you know it's like you read a book or you watch a movie or something and there's the climax of this glorious truth or this glorious heroic thing this is the glorious part of this text is God is with us that is much cause for you to be joyful and content regardless of what condition or estate you have this is the one true in living God all things that exist are kept by the word of his power he is the chiefest of beings there's no one more worthy than him none should be worshipped but God alone and he stooped and condescends and love and grace and he promises to never leave you and you only have to look at Christ to see it do you see why this contentment is so wicked it's it's very evil and I know that I'm not innocent and I don't want to sound harmful but I do want to bring the force of the law as God would have it to be heard so look at this text if you will the cause for contentment and not being covetous is that God will never leave us and then in verse 6 he says so that's like a therefore therefore because God said I will never leave you nor forsake you because he said that therefore we may boldly say the Lord is my helper I will not fear what can man do to me what can happen to me if this happens what's gonna really happen to me if I lose that or I don't get that I will not fear what's the worst that can happen you die that Bible talks about our death as asleep as putting off a tent death where is your stink and I think it's interesting to see how he he's this promises I will never leave you nor forsake you that was the cause of be content and do not covet and then it becomes the inference for the I will boldly say really that one promise serves as a ground for both things it's a ground for being content and not covetous and it's a ground for saying the Lord is my helper what is the what's why why would I say the Lord is my helper the Lord is my helper why would I say that because he said I will never leave you nor forsake you what that being the double ground actually helps connect the two content you know what contentment looks like it's not like this hum drum desirous person that's just kind of practicing formality it's a joyful person a person that that uses scripture and says the Lord is my helper it looks like someone that that would be bold okay I hope that helps let's look at the next one contentment with our own condition and we have a reason there why but next the commandment requires us to have a right and charitable spirit toward our neighbor if you'll turn to Romans 12 15 rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep what's required in a tenth commandment that you have a right and upright lawful and charitable spirit towards your neighbor toward his person so when he's rejoicing and I have an upright and charitable spirit towards him my disposition and I frame my spirit towards him in such a way by God's grace through faith that I want him to be treated uprightly and I want him's good and if he's in need I want to help him if he's rejoicing I want to rejoice with him so this commandment is a commandment that helps us see that aspect of the tenth commandment if you were discontent and you didn't have the opposite of covetousness which is a right and charitable spirit towards your neighbor when he rejoiced you're not going to rejoice you're going to see his good and know that it's good see his joy and thanksgiving and you yourself will not be able to partake with him in that because your spirit is framed towards him not as a commandment would require but coming from a position of discontentment you find it impossible or hard to partake in his joy and think about it practically you know like what if you have a more children than someone else and you're joyful about your children and somebody else can't have that many children are you able to rejoice with them somebody gets a promotion and it's a good thing are you able to rejoice with them if you're covetous and discontent in your heart you're going to find that hard to do so the commandment requires us to have a right and charitable spirit toward our neighbor it goes with weeping to because a charitable spirit seeks to help someone in need to desire that person's good in the Lord and if they're in trouble and anguish and suffering and weeping because of your disposition and your contentment in the Lord your outward focus your others focus and you're able to have compassion and have this charitable spirit of weeping with them then the next one is a right and charitable spirit toward all that it's our neighbors and I thought we could look at Genesis 39 1 through 9 and I think I'm I'm gonna hope that you're familiar enough with Joseph and Potiphar that I'm going to skip part of it and start at verse 3 and his master saw that the Lord was with him remember we said that and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand so Joseph found favor in his side and served him and then he made him overseer of his house and all that he had he put under his authority so it was from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had that the Lord blessed the Egyptians house for Joseph's sake and the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field thus he left all that he had in Joseph's hand and he did not know what he had he had except for the bread which he ate now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance and it came to pass after these things that his master's wife cast longing eyes on Joseph and said lie with me but he refused and said to his master's wife look my master does not know what is with me in the house and he is committed all that he has to my hand there's no one greater in this house than I nor has he kept back anything from me but you because you were his wife how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God so this is a narrative but what you can see here is the commandment being modeled or exemplified in Joseph and the fact that he is content he has been given much he's blessed by the Lord he's been given great position he has authority over everything his Potiphar's wife seeks to tempt him to sin and when he enters into that temptation he comes into it with a heart of thankfulness and a heart of contentment and because of God's work of grace and his heart and life when he enters into that temptation by faith he thinks clearly and he recognizes this is a great evil it's not a minor thing what you're saying you're you're you're speaking very wickedly if you're discontent and covetous it might manifest itself in particular areas but you'll enter into temptations and you will not be ready but he said I cannot do this great wickedness or sin against God so he was living in the fear of the Lord and was a content man and he had the right upright and charitable spirit towards Potiphar and Potiphar's wife but I'm thinking about Potiphar because Potiphar isn't there he trusts Joseph and now in the privacy of this conversation and temptation he has a right upright and charitable spirit towards Potiphar Mr. Pete if you think about it covetous and discontent can also give rise to other sins like jealousy bitterness hatred all sorts of things yes yes amen I think in that you know that first Timothy 6 chapter which we didn't read but it says you know selfish these selfish desires let me just read that real quick first time at these six those who desire to be rich following the temptation and a snare into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil brothers and sisters allow me to warn you against covetousness be aware of it and repent repent of what God convicts you today in that you see as covetous trust the Lord and remember who God is in Christ and who Christ is and when he's done for you put your hope in him and see the glory of the Lord and let your heart and mind be renewed through the word of God namely the gospel and put on contentment and joy thank God for what you have thank God for what you know and particularly this fellowship where he will never leave you see it in its darkest corners and don't exonerate it stop do let's stop doing that let's move to the last point what is forbidden in the 10th commandment the 10th commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate envying and grieving at the good of our neighbor and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his so again I broke that up into three parts first of all with ourself do not be discontent with your own condition it says a state I'm combining it because I want to go beyond possession I want to go to and one of the definitions for the word of state is condition so I think they're meaning it broadly and we know the Bible teaches it broadly so our own condition anything about who you are you know someone has an appearance that you believe is more attractive than you someone has more popularity than you do somebody has a higher position than you do somebody appears to have influence over others more than you appear they go to her or they go to him with questions they don't come to you whatever you are and wherever you are be content and do not be discontent let's turn to Luke 12 this is the the rich man the I was I guess I should call him the fool because God says fool the parable of the rich full verse 13 then one from the crowd said to him teacher tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me but he said to him man who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you and he said to them take heed and beware of covetousness for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses then he spoke a parable to them the same and what I want you to see in here is how the logic of this rich fool is grounded on his discontentment the certain the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully and he thought within himself saying what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops so he said I will do this I will pull down my barns and build greater and there I will store all my crops and my goods and I will say to my soul soul you have many goods laid up for many years take your ease eat drink and be merry but God said to him fool this night your soul be required of you then those then who will those who's will those things be which you have provided so as he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God in order for him to come to this logical conclusion that the best way to to take advantage of this situation is to build bigger barns a story is because he's laying up treasure on earth he has this desire that is very great and and causes him to act in accordance with it to build treasure on earth and he is disregarding treasure in heaven and because he has this discontent insatiable unfulfillable desire for things in this life the moment he gets more he thinks how can I keep it and store it also he has the framework of thinking of self so the pride is a root of this sin I will I will do this I will store I will pull down I will say to my soul it all came because he's about to lose an inheritance he thinks he has a right to and whether he's being mistreated or not he's handling it sinfully by trying to get Christ and leverage Christ's pull and influence to get what he thinks is do him and Christ makes it clear that's not my role there are civil authorities in place for such a thing the fact that you're coming to me about this and not salvation or other things reveals that you're covetous alright and then he goes on into worry he says therefore I say to you to the disciples do not worry worry is a form of coveting don't think that you know someone don't think to yourself when you're anxious and worried about something and I'm not talking about certain pressures that life brings on you and the the the weight that you feel in expressing the weight of that that's not bad the psalmist does that but somebody who worries about the unknown and does not seek first the kingdom of God but wonders if they're going to be provided for is practicing a form of covetousness and they need to return to the Lord and be joyful and thankful for this state that God has put them in and if you'll turn to Esther chapter 5 I want to read about Haman chapter 5 verses 9 to 14 so Haman this is still this contentment with our own condition so Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate and that he did not stand or tremble before him he was filled with indignation against Mordecai nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh then Haman told them of his great riches the multitude of his children everything in which the king had promoted him and how he had had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king more over more over Haman said besides Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared and tomorrow I am again invited by her along with the king yet all this avails me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him let a gallows be made fifty cubits high and in the morning suggested the king that Mordecai be hanged on it then go merrily with the king to the banquet and the thing pleased Haman so he had the gallows made this is an illustration of someone who is discontent with their own condition it leads to them they're utterly blind to the bounty of God and his goodness and generosity utterly blind ensnared and in bondage to this sin and the moment they see something or think of something that they believe they ought to have and you see there's the pride they think they're worth it you can only see something that's not yours and say I deserve that if you and of yourself think you're deserving of it and worthy the pride proceeds there too but you see it and then you say I gotta have it I want Mordecai to fear me I don't want him to have this position where he doesn't fear me like he ought to I'm not respected enough and it's proven by the way he speaks and then his wife and friends consort with him that's another thing we need to like I heard a pastor say this you know you've got some toddlers and toddlers in a room and you've got one toddler over here that's just been given some toys and playing contently and you got another toddler over here playing with some toys they could even be their favorites and one toddler looks over his shoulder and sees the other one happy and throws down his toy and walks over there appears over his shoulder and then just reaches in and snatches out the toy and runs the other side of the room and y'all is crying and fighting that is a manifestation of covetousness that is sin in our children I thought that was very helpful because you know as I think about even though I'm not a father I think about a father like how is how will I love my children how will I minister to them justice and mercy and one of the things that you would do a great disservice I'm convinced of biblically is to perceive your children with unbiblical glasses and to try to justify the sins of their heart based on their age everybody's child you know I don't want to be I think we have a tendency to want to quickly say I see it in others but not me I see it in their kids but not my kids but we need to be have biblical glasses and minister in the fear of the Lord to our children and their wife approved here of Haman Zirash approved and I can't remember the other example that I had but there was another wife it just made me think as a spouse or a friend or a co-worker the relation you have to others spouses employees brother sisters if you see covetousness in your brother or your sister you are not to help vent that and say not seek to discern whether or not a desire is covetous and correct and help warn comfort rebuke as needed but instead automatically undissurbingly say I will justify that desire and say it's good now I want to help you and even if they're wanting something good but they're coveting it it doesn't mean forbid them from pursuing what is good but it will mean help them in pursuing it in a biblical way and then dealing with their heart along the way and just because you're an inferior in some authoritative not authoritative but authority relationship doesn't mean that you aren't ultimately submitted to God's authority and when they step outside of God's authority and covetousness you have a responsibility as a believer or just a person made in the image of God to to help them with that to rebuke them of that to correct them we can be approvers of covetousness by not saying anything and actually helping people facilitate it and it goes on to wrap up you know envying and grieving at your neighbor's good there's I'll just read the text to you it would have been James 3 14 through 16 the word jealousy there is it's when someone makes war upon the good it sees in another and it troubles that good and seeks to diminish it so when you when we practice jealousy God forbids us to be jealous and envious forbids us to make war upon the good of another that we see and forbids us to trouble that good and to diminish it and there you see God's name and his commandments you know I was thinking about it like what are the commandments revealed about God this commandment when you're discontent with some hard providence one of the things that you will disregard and you will not be thankful for and you will not remember as you are discontent and covetous is the wisdom of God God is wiser than you he's wiser than men he's given to you what you need like don't be discontent thinking you know better than God and think about how good he is another thing is we deny the bounty and goodness of God and he's powerful it's like it's saying that God's not powerful to control this this happened to slip outside of God's control he didn't bring this to me for my good in this providence therefore I'm discontent but see how in his commandment he's saying listen I'm good I'm wise see my name in this commandment what you have need of is not consistent the abundance of the things which one possesses it's in me I'll leave it there anybody want to add any questions or add any statements amen let's pray and Father in heaven Lord thank you for your law I know that it helps us to see your good name for it is good and it helps us to see our sin that we might repent and we praise you Lord that there's forgiveness with you that you might be feared in your son alone Jesus Christ we praise you for him thank you Lord for satisfying the law and no longer condemning us but justifying us in him I pray that you would help us Lord in thanksgiving and in remembrance of Christ and faith upon Christ to repent of covetousness in our lives and to grow in contentment and joy and thanksgiving here in Christ's name I pray amen