The Ninth and Tenth
Commandments
What is God impressing on us
by telling us not to covet?
Question #1
What is coveting?
Psalm 10:2-3
A craving or sinful desire for something
God doesn’t want us to have
James 4:2
James 1:14-15
Romans 7:18
Genesis 6:5
Matthew 5:28-29
leads us to sinful thoughts,
words, and actions
is inclined only towards evil
will never submit to God’s law
deserves God’s punishment
was given to me by God
through faith in Jesus
knows and loves God’s will
enables me to have holy
desires
Ezekiel 11:19-20
Romans 7:22
Galatians 5:17
Romans 7:23-25
Key Point #1
Key Point #2
Key Point #3
Key Point #4
By growing in faith in Jesus, my new heart wins
more of the battles.
Psalm 10:2-3
In his arrogance the wicked man
hunts down the weak, who are
caught in the schemes he
devises. He boasts of the
cravings of his heart; he blesses
the greedy and reviles the LORD .
James 4:2
You want something but don't
get it. You kill and covet, but
you cannot have what you
want. You quarrel and fight.
You do not have, because you
do not ask God.
James 1:14-15
but each one is tempted when,
by his own evil desire, he is
dragged away and enticed.
Then, after desire has
conceived, it gives birth to sin;
and sin, when it is full grown,
gives birth to death.
Key Point #1
Coveting is a ______
craving or
sinful _____
desire for something
God doesn’t want us to
have, which may ____
lead us
to sinful _____
words and
______.
actions
Question #2
What does God
teach me about the
coveting that goes
on in my heart?
Romans 7:18
I know that nothing good
lives in me, that is, in my
sinful nature. For I have the
desire to do what is good,
but I cannot carry it out.
Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw how great
man's wickedness on the
earth had become, and that
every inclination of the
thoughts of his heart was
only evil all the time.
Matthew 5:28-29
But I tell you that anyone who looks at
a woman lustfully has already
committed adultery with her in his
heart. If your right eye causes you to
sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It
is better for you to lose one part of
your body than for your whole body
to be thrown into hell.
Key Point #2
I deserve _____
___
death and hell
because since ____
birth I
have had a rebellious
________
sinful nature – one that
fills my heart
____ with sinful
______.
desires
Question #3
What does God teach
me about the holy
desires I have in my
heart?
Ezekiel 11:19-20
I will give them an undivided heart and
put a new spirit in them; I will remove
from them their heart of stone and
give them a heart of flesh. Then they
will follow my decrees and be careful
to keep my laws. They will be my
people, and I will be their God.
Romans 7:22
For in my inner being I
delight in God's law;
Key Point #3
faith
By bringing me to ____
God has given me a new
____ that loves God’s
heart
___
will and enables me to
desires
have holy
___ ______.
Question #4
What is the result of
my having both a
sinful nature and a
new heart?
Galatians 5:17
For the sinful nature desires what
is contrary to the Spirit, and the
Spirit what is contrary to the
sinful nature. They are in conflict
with each other, so that you do
not do what you want.
Romans 7:23-25
but I see another law at work in the members
of my body, waging war against the law of
my mind and making me a prisoner of the
law of sin at work within my members.
What a wretched man I am! Who will
rescue me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God–through Jesus Christ
our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am
a slave to God's law, but in the sinful
nature a slave to the law of sin.
Key Point #4
As a result of my having a
____ _____
sinful
nature and a new
_____,
heart constant battles go
on in me between the two.
Only as I grow in ____
faith in
_____
Jesus will my new _____
heart
win more and more of the
______.
battles
What I’ve Learned
God wants me not to
covet, warning me
about my sinful heart
and its desires. He also
gives me a new heart to
fight these desires.