Welcome to the Feminine podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today. As I warned you last week, this week's podcast is on covetousness. Jesus says in Luke 1215, and he said to them, this is how it begins, 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.

Now remember, just a refresher, to beware is to be wary, cautious, paying attention, watching out for danger.

Covetousness is dangerous. It lurks. So we must be ever diligent and wary. And what is covetousness?

It is forbidden in the 10th commandment. 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 neighbors. That's Exodus 20,

verse 17. Now I have a quote from Matthew Henry, and it's so good. I'm

just going to read you the whole chunk of it. This forbids all inordinate desire of having that which

will be a gratification to ourselves. Oh, that such a man's house were mine, such a man's wife mine,

such a man's estate mine. This is certainly the

language of discontent at our own lot and envy at our neighbors, and these are the sins principally

forgiven here. St. Paul, when the grace of God caused the scales to fall from his eyes,

perceived that this law, thou shalt not covet, forbade all those irregular

appetites and desires, which are the firstborn of the corrupt nature, the first risings of the sin

that dwelleth in us, and the beginnings of all the sin that is committed by us. This is that lust, which he says he had not known the

evil of, if this commandment when it came to his conscience in the power of it, had not shown it to

him. God give us all to see our face in the glass of this law and to lay our hearts under the

government of it. Okay, I know that was a mouthful,

but irregular appetites and desires, first risings of sin, inordinate desire of things that will

be gratification to ourselves. This is all what covetousness is. It's wanting what you don't have,

and it grows in the ground of discontent with what you do have. So whether it's houses,

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