What is Materialism or Coveting in 21st Century Terms? Do you remember the 10th of the Ten Commandments? Almost all of us at one time or another, have learned these words. Why not repeat the 10th commandment with me now: Exodus 20:17 (NKJV) “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.” In 21st Century terms, God is saying to watch out for six dangerous desires that can ruin your life, destroy your eternal legacy, and pierce you through with many pains: • “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house”. Don’t long for all the bigger, better, more beautiful, spacious, comfortable houses you’ve seen and don’t have. Don’t wish for it, or get a second job to earn more money for it, or spend all your time looking for it: because that is idolatry! Be content with the house you have; and use all your extra time to serve Me, says the Lord, instead of longing for a bigger and better house. • “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife”. Men that means don’t long for all the externally looking prettier, skinnier, younger women you’ve noticed in life. Women that means don’t long for the stronger, handsomer, kinder, more caring, more athletic, and in shape men that you have noticed along the way. Don’t wish you had one like the ones you see at work, or read about, and don’t wish you had one like you see on TV, in movies, or online. Don’t wish she looked like a gymnast, or a cheerleader, or an actress/model; or he looked like an athlete, or a movie star or a model: because that is idolatry! Be content with the husband or wife God has given you; and use your extra time to serve your wife or your husband, and children instead of longing for a better marriage partner. • “You shall not covet your neighbor’s male servant, nor his female servant”. Don’t long for a more comfortable life with less hard work, with fewer struggles and cares, and with more free time to do what you please, like all the rich and the famous you’ve watched, and heard about: because that is idolatry! Be content with the place in life where God has put you; and use your extra time to live more of each day for His glory, and surrender for His will to be done in your life. • “You shall not covet your neighbor’s ox” [his plow animal or job]. Don’t long for that dream job that everyone else has, with all the freedom, perks, security, and high pay like you’ve seen or heard about: because that is idolatry! Be content with what God has placed into your hands to do for Him, trust Him to guide your path, use your extra time to stay tuned into His Word, and follow God’s leading, and you will have the very best job in life that is possible to have. • “You shall not covet your neighbor’s donkey” [his transportation]. Saying no to Coveting Anything We must not find our joy in things, our satisfaction in things, our hope in things. Greed is an attitude that gets demonstrated in both an action: POSSESSIVENESS (selfishness with what we have); and an attitude: COVETOUSNESS (longing for what we don't have). So 2 Peter 3:11 (NKJV) gives us the first lesson from Peter on How to live for things in life that won’t ever get burned up and be forever lost. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, (ROK-03b) Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbmonline.org/all-video-courses/ Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://discoverthebook.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://discoverthebook.org/ https://youtu.be/jCU2xVSbfpQ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCU2xVSbfpQ

Isaiah 6 is God’s plan for His servants reaching each of their dying cultures for the past 2,700 years—including ours today. We live in a nation that is consumed with its grasping materialism. Has there ever been a society in the history of the world as materialistic as ours? Has there ever been a society more given over to pleasure, madness, partying, drunkenness, drugs? Has there ever been a society more defiant in its sinfulness, more quick to shake its fist in the face of God? Has there ever been a society more morally perverted where marriage is bad and living together is noble, where a relationship between a man and a woman is only one of many options? Telling the truth doesn’t matter, honesty doesn’t matter, virtue doesn’t matter; style matters. Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbma.com/Default.aspx Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/YPbNZ88i4XI ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPbNZ88i4XI

We each are part of the miracle of God called salvation that from the start began to turn the world upside down (Acts 17:6). SALVATION: THE MIRACLE FROM GOD Salvation is also the most amazing miracle that we get to see up close throughout our lives as believers. That we were even saved is in itself is a miracle of God’s grace; and those around us who are saved are also part of a constant stream of miracle we get to see and touch personally through life. Getting to disciple a miraculously saved individual is such an encouragement for our faith and walk. From God’s perspective all humans are born into this world infected with a blinding, crippling virus that left alone: leads to eternal death in darkness and endless pain. So as God looks down He sees us all sitting blindly in the dark on the edge of a deadly chasm. Salvation is when He opens our eyes and turns us from sinful darkness lovers: to God loving and following saints. God Himself has come down to this Earth from the start seeking out Adam and Eve in their sin. Then He sent a series of prophets and preachers, calling blind sinners to come to the light of God, who stretched from the Pre-Flood world through the birth of Christ. Followers of God always upset the followers of the darkness of sin and spiritual blindness. God’s salvation bringing to life the spiritually blind and dead always: TRAUMATIZES THE UNSAVED When the light of the Gospel shines into the hearts and minds on the blind and paralyzed lost sinners: they come alive, being released from both their paralysis and blindness. This is unsettling and shocking to all the blind and paralyzed sinners around them. We see this most clearly in Christ's ministry. At the perfect moment, God Himself stepped into this world again as God the Son, Jesus Christ. He came as the Light of the World. He healed, raised, fed, liberated, cleaned, and calmed multitudes of people. But, this astounding event of life, light, and love flooding into the land of Israel was so unsettling to the spiritually blind and paralyzed leaders: that they did everything they could to end Christ’s work by murdering Him. In the end, after His resurrection, Jesus Christ met with about 500: which may have been the bulk of the true converts from His ministry. They were to continue the spread of the light of Christ’s Gospel, which had begun in Israel: and take it into every corner of the sin-darkened world. That is what we call: THE GREAT COMMISSION At the end of the Gospels we find God the Son commissioning those who were His followers. They were all to go in His power and seek to share the life-transforming, sin-removing, blindness-ending Gospel of salvation to every person in the world. That moment is when God left us with work to do for Him. From that mountain in Galilee Christ launched the Gospel. There He promised to be going out with each who witnessed, and to empower and accompany them in this mission. That mission is what we have been tracing across the pages of Acts. First Peter proclaims the Gospel 4x in Jerusalem, then Peter & Phillip in Samaria, then Phillip to the Ethiopian (chapter 8), then Jesus Himself to Paul (chapter 9). Then the Gospel leaps the Jewish realm and Peter proclaims the Gospel to Gentiles (chapter 10), and believers fan out to share (chapter 11). The Gospel goes global with Paul in Acts 13 and never stops spreading. But the Gospel not only spread, in its wake so did the trauma, and the push back. In the wake of the Gospel, we see the growing confusion of those who couldn’t understand what happened to their friends. To a lost sinner, blinded and paralyzed by sin, to see a friend or relative start wanting to follow Christ, instead of what everyone else is wanting to do, is very upsetting. Please open with me to Acts 14:15 in your Bibles. We have arrived now at a juncture. Paul returns to Antioch after his 1st Missionary Journey (Acts 13:4-14:27), and reports. The amazing reports get back to Jerusalem and it raises questions, so a report in Jerusalem is needed after this report is given to the church at Antioch in Acts 14. What he reports is that: THE GOSPEL WENT GLOBAL (ESH-17; 140601AM) Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join https://youtu.be/yVZFPz0EmHI ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVZFPz0EmHI

How Does God Want Us to Respond to Pain & Struggles? Hour Two From BAR-2019-02a - Introduction to the Book of Revelation and Ephesus The Jealousy of Jesus (190830PM) - https://youtu.be/6BaGdI6-AVU Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul's Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul's Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John's two most loved books--David's Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/ DTBM Academy Courses: https://dtbmonline.org/all-video-courses/ Purchase John's Books, Mp3 & DVD resources: E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy Here are links to our Amazon Pages-- https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/ For more of Dr. John Barnett's Bible teaching messages go to: https://dtbm.org/ https://youtu.be/GlzQsIlB5Ok ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzQsIlB5Ok