What happens when temptation knocks and nobody's watching?

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall uncovers a forgotten biblical character whose name you may not have heard, but whose story speaks powerfully to modern desires.

Ghahazi stood in the shadow of a miracle-working prophet.

In his support role, he was trusted completely and given access to everything.

Then came a moment of choice that would alter his life forever.

From his series called Fascinating Stories of stories of forgotten lives, Chuck exposes

the subtle monster of secret greed and reveals how rationalization can make wrong choices feel

perfectly justified.

I want you to look at a story that appears at the end of 2nd Kings Chapter 5.

It is an account of a helper who got greedy.

The early part of the chapter is the story of a man who was cleansed of leprosy.

His name is Neiman. In fact, you will see in verse 14,

he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan according to the word of the man of God.

That's a reference to Elisha, the prophet, the man of God. And Neiman's flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.

He came and stood before Eelisha and he said,

Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel.

So please take a present from your servant now.

Look at Elisha's answer.

Verse 16.

He said, as the Lord lives before whom I stand,

I will take nothing.

Verse 20.

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