Exodus - 47 - lesson 17 - Exod. 20:17 - Lo Tachmod - Do Not Covet

About this episode

This episode explores the 10th Commandment, focusing on the concept of coveting and its implications in Christian teachings.

We now focus on the 10th Commandment … "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor." (Exo 20:17) Some say “covet” is the same as lust or craving or desire. It can’t be since there is no law against craving, desire, or lust. In this podcast Bible study we will find that COVET (the Hebrew is תחמד or Tachmod) is an obsessive mental focus on getting by whatever means something that belongs to one’s neighbor. COVET or coveting is “forbidden thought” that if followed through results in an evil action. There are two operatives here – thought and action. When you take this definition it is seemingly the cause for murder, committing adultery, stealing and lying. Jesus seems to teach this when He said … "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. "These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man." (Mat 15:19-20) In Jesus’ day the word “heart” was used as a picture to represent the mind. Jesus is saying our mind gives rise to “evil…

People in this episode

Host: Rev John Ferret

Topics covered

• 10th Commandment
• coveting
• evil thoughts
• Bible study
• spirituality
• Christian teachings

Keywords

• covet
• commandments
• Bible study
• spirituality
• Christianity
• evil thoughts
• desire

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Exo 20:17, Mat 15:19-20

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