Get as many of you as possible to the mission field and to help as many of you as possible to stay on the mission field and to be as satisfied in God on the field as you can be so that the infinite worth and value of God will be plain in your life and that people will look at him and love him,

believe in him through His Son, Jesus Christ.

So, Father, I pray now that these goals which are not possible for a human being to produce

would be done by you through your word.

Open it, I pray, and shape a kind of people, a kind of layman and pastor here at home

and a kind of missionary that is so ravished, is so full of delight and joy and satisfaction, deep, deep, broken-hearted satisfaction

in you, that it will be plain that their treasure is not upon the earth but in heaven

so that people are moved to ask a reason for the

hope that is in them and that a door would be open for the word and that they would speak the

mystery of the gospel openly and clearly as they ought to speak and model the kind of radical

loving, sacrificing, joyful, lay down your life kind of

style of living that would show you are real.

I pray this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So I want to take up covetousness finally and finish off my list of sample sins that we triumph over by means of future grace.

That is faith in future grace.

That is a being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus such that we are weaned off the breast of the world and thus break

the power of sin, which only has power through its compelling promises, because we have

discovered a superior promise. I think that's the simple way to live the supernatural life called Christianity.

And after sex and anger, probably money is the big Christianity killer on the mission field

and to keep people from the mission field. And so we need to just look at a few passages of scripture where God shows us how to destroy

this Christianity killing thing called greed and covetousness and the love of money.

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