BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
COVETOUSNESS AS OBSTACLES TO LIFE ETERNAL
BY
LUCKY EYIS AMIWERO
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MARK 4:19
AND THE DECEITFULNESS OF
RICHES AND LUST OF OTHER
THING CHOKE THE WORD
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19) And the care of this
world, and the deceitfulness
of riches, and the lust of
other things entering in
choke the word, and it be
cometh unfruitful
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AND THE CARE OF THE
WORLD AND DECEITFULNESS
OF RICHES CHOKE THE
WORD AND BECOME
UNFRUITFUL:
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LUKE 16:13-14
AND THE PHARISEES ALSO
WHO WERE COVETOUS
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20) A faithful man shall
abound with blessings; but
he that maketh Haste TO BE
RICH SHALL NOT BE
INNOCENT
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A FAITHFUL MAN: A man of
Truth who deals truly and
justly in all his bargains and
transaction with men are
bound with blessing
THAT MAKETH HASTE: But
the eager haste of
covetousness shall not be
innocent
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ACTS 20:33-35
I HAVE COVETED NO MAN’S
SILVER OVER OR GOLD OR
APPAREL
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33) I have coveted no man’s
silver, nor Gold or apparel
34) Yea, ye youselves know
that these hands have
ministered unto my
necessities, and to them that
were with me
35) I have showed you all
things, how that so laboring
ye ought to support the
weak, and to remember the
words of the LORD JESUS,
how he said, it is more
blessed to give than to
receive
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I HAVE COVETED NO MAN’S
SILVER: I have showed you
Elder and Bishop by my
example all things that so
laboring ye ought to support
the weak To assist and
support them
COVETOUSNESS
Not to be involved in t he sin
of covetousness
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1 THESSALONIAN 2:4-5
AS YE KNOW NOR A CLOAK
OF COVETOUSNESS
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4)But as we were allowed of
GOD to be put in trust with
the Gospel, even so we
speak; not as pleasing men,
but GOD, which trieth our
hearts
5) For neither at any time
used we flattering words, as
ye know nor a cloak of
covetousness; GOD is witness
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A CLOAK OF
COVETOUSNESS: Internal
and secret sin to hide under
deception
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ROMANS 1:28-29
AND THE REFUSE TO RETAIN
GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE
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28) And even as they did not
like to retain GOD in their
knowledge ,GOD gave them
over to a reprobate mind, to
do those things which are not
convenient
29) B eing filled with all
unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness, full of envy,
murder, debate, deceit,
malignity; whisperers
30) Backbiters, haters of
GOD, despiteful, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to
parents
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COVETOUSNESS Avarice, or
the desire of obtaining what
belong to others
1)Every insatiable lust, and
particularly the sin which is
the root of all evil
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2 CORINTHIANS 9:5
THAT THE SAME MIGHT BE
READY AS A MATER OF
BOUNTY AND NOT OF
COVETOUSNESS
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5) Therefore I thought it
necessary to exhort the
brethren, that they would go
before unto you and make up
beforehand your bounty,
whereof ye had notice
before, that the same might
be ready as a matter of
bounty, and not as of
covetousness
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AS A MATTER OF BOUNTY
AND NOT AS OF
COVETOUSNESS: let your gift
be worthy of what is call it, a
blessing express in act, not
grudgingly as he give, is
intent on gaining some
advantage through his giving
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1 TIMOTHY 6 :7-10
BUT THEY THAT WILL BE
RICH FALL INTO
TEMPTATION
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7) For we brought nothing
into this world, and it is
certain we can carry nothing
out
8) And having food and
raiment let us be therewith
content
9) But they that will be rich
fall into temptation and sane,
and into many foolish and
hurtful lusts, which drown
men in destruction and
perdition
10) For the love of money is
the root of all evil: which
while some coveted after,
they have erred from the
faith, and pierced themselves
through with many sorrow
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BUT THEY THAT WILL BE
RICH FALL INTO
TEMPTATION: To increase
wordily goods
INTO MANY FOOLISH AND
HURTFUL LUST : the lust or
desire into which those who
long to be rich
FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL :
attract covetousness and
erred from the faith
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2 TIMOTHY 3:2
FOR MEN WILL BE LOVER OF
THEIR OWN SELVES
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2) for men shall be lovers of
their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy
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COVETOUS lover of their
own self: lover of money
Disobedience to parents:
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PHILIPPIANS 3:18-19
WHOSE END IS
DESTRUCTION, WHOSE GOD
IS THEIR BELLY
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18) For many walk, of whom
I have told you often, and
now tell you even weeping,
that they are the enemies of
the cross of CHRIST
19) Whose end is
destruction, whose GOD is
their belly, and whose glory is
in their shame who mind
earthly things
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WHOSE GOD IS THEIR
BELLY: excessive greed
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COLOSSIANS 3:5
EVIL CONCUPISCENCE AND
COVETOUSNESS WHICH IS
IDOLATRY
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5) Mortify therefor your
members which are upon the
earth; fornication,
uncleanness inordinate
affection, evil concupiscence,
and covetousness, which is
idolatry
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SELFISH DESIRE
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EPHESIANS 4:19
TO WORK ALL
UNCLEANNESS WITH
GREEDINESS
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19)Who being past feeling
have given themselves over
unto lasciviousness, to work
all uncleanness with
greediness
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With greediness and unholy
act
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HEBREW 13:5
LET YOUR CONVERSATION
BE WITHOUT
COVETOUSNESS
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5) Let your conversation be
without covetousness; and
be content with such things
as ye have: for he hath said, I
will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee
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YOUR CONVERSATION NOT
TIED TO THE DESIRE TO
MAKE MONEY: T o be
content of what we have
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JAMES 2:2-4
AND YE HAVE R EJECT TO
HIM THAT WEARETH THE
GAY CLOTHING, AND SAY
UNTO HIM, SIT THOU HERE
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2) For if there come unto
your assembly a man with a
gold ring, in goodly apparel,
and there come in also a
poor man in vile raiment;
3) And ye have respect to
him that w eareth the gay
clothing, and say unto him,
sit thou here in a good place;
and say to the poor, stand
thou there, or sit here under
my footstool.
4) Are ye not then partial in
yourselves, and are become
judge of evil thoughts?
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PROOF THAT THEY WERE
GUILTY OF RESPECT OF
PERSONS: look at him that is
because of his fine
appearance undue respect
and consideration to sit in
the front seat and say to the
poor stand here
* Are you not partial of
yourself, and are become
judges of evil thought
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JAMES 4:2-4
YE LUST AND HAVE NOT YE
KILL, AND DESIRE TO HAVE
AND CANNOT OBTAIN
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2) Ye lust, and have not ye
kill, and desire to have, and
cannot obtain: ye fight and
war, yet ye have not, because
ye ask not
3) Ye ask, and receive not,
because ye ask amiss, that ye
may consume it upon your
lust
4) Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not
that the friendship of the
world is enmity with GOD?
Whosoever therefore will be
a friend of the world is the
enemy of GOD
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YE LUST: greedily desire
THAT YOU MAY CONSUME
IN YOUR LUST: That ye may
spend it in your pleasure
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JAMES 5:1-5
GO TO NOW, YE RICH MEN
WEEP AND HOWL FOR YOUR
MISERIES THAT SHALL COME
UPON YOU
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1)Go to now, ye rich men
weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come
upon you
2) Your riches are corrupted,
and your garments are moth-
eaten
3) Your gold and silver is
cankered; and the rust of
them shall be a witness
against you, and shall eat
your flesh as it were fire ye
have heaped treasure to
gather for the last days
4) Behold t he hire of the
laborers who have reaped
down your fields, which is of
you kept back bt fraud,
crieth; and the cries of them
which have reaped are
entered into the ears of the
lord of Sabaoth
5) Ye have lived in pleasure
on the earth, and been
wanton; ye have nourished
your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter
6) Ye have condemned and
kill the just; and he doth not
resist you
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(WOE) WEEPING TO THE
RICH: h owling for your
miseries coming upon you
*Deep distress
YOUR RICHES ARE
CORRUPTED: there hoarded
treasure and through
fraudulent act
*They accumulated more
than for their use instead to
distribute them to do good to
others, they keep them until
they spoiled
GARMENTS: gold and silver
the particular riches
consisted, and being
corrupted several kinds of
their riches
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1 PETER 5: 2
FEED THE FLOCK OF GOD
NOT FOR FILTHY LUCRE
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2) Feed the flock of GOD
which is among you, taking
the oversight thereof, not for
filthy lucre, but of a ready
mind
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BUT NOT FOR GREEDY
MIND: not out of
covetousness or design to
make gain
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2 PETER 2:3
AND THROUGH
COVETOUSNESS SHALL THEY
WITH FEIGNED WORDS
MAKE MERCHANDISE OF
YOU
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3) And through covetousness
shall they with feigned words
make merchandise of you;
whose judgment now of a
long time lingereth not, and
their damnation slumbereth
not
4) For if GOD spare not the
angels that sinned, but cast
them down to hell, and
delivered them into chains of
darkness, to be reserved
unto judgment i nto
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ALL TYPE OF GREED : vice of
false teaching, which are
always covetous or amass
riches for them self after their
insatiable desire
*Make merchandise of you:
make trade in souls
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