Do you like murder mysteries?
If so, what do you like about them?
It really isn’t a mystery why people murder one another.
PURPOSE: To help listeners see the damage that covetousness can do.
Do you like murder mysteries?
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The Fifth Commandment And The Tenth
It is a truism in politics that people do not vote their principles; they vote their pocketbooks.
PURPOSE: To help listeners see that covetousness may be disguised as religion in order to keep us from doing what God has told us to do.
It is a truism in politics that people do not vote their principles; they vote their pocketbooks.
The Third Commandment And The Tenth
Do you think there are many people in our society who want to cheat other people?
Have you ever been cheated by someone with whom you have done business?
PURPOSE: To help listeners examine the motives behind the promises before you believe the promises.
Do you think there are many people in our society who want to cheat other people?
The Second Commandment And The Tenth
We’re trying to make the case that covetousness, the tenth commandment, really is a desire strong enough to cause people to break all the other commandments.
PURPOSE: To help listeners see how covetousness can cause us in spirit to break the second commandment.
We’re trying to make the case that covetousness, the tenth commandment, really is a desire strong enough to cause people to break all the other commandments.
The First Commandment And The Tenth
If you have five reasons for something, you put your best one first and your second best one last.
Why do you think the first and last positions would have greater importance than other positions?
PURPOSE: To help listeners see how covetousness motivates us to other sins.
In communication there is the law of primacy and the law of recency. The first thing you say has great importance, and recency, the last thing you say has great importance in a talk.
The Cost Of Loving Money
When you were growing up, did you feel that your parents ever overstated bad consequences for whatever you were doing?
PURPOSE: To help listeners take seriously the danger of loving money.
When you were growing up, did you feel that your parents ever overstated bad consequences for whatever you were doing?
Does The Bible Exaggerate The Danger Of Loving Money?
When you were growing up, did you feel that your parents ever overstated bad consequences for whatever you were doing?
Have you ever felt that the Bible does what parents sometimes do in exaggerating consequences to get you to behave?
PURPOSE: To help listeners take seriously the danger of loving money.
When you were growing up, did you feel that your parents ever overstated bad consequences for whatever you were doing?
The Love Of Money Is A Root Of All Evil
Imagine that you’re a fly and you landed on some flypaper. When the fly lands on the flypaper, what do you think is going through its head? Can you imagine the fly saying, “My flypaper!” Does it make much difference if the flypaper says, “My fly”?
PURPOSE: To help listeners realize that a desire for riches can make them spiritually poor.
Imagine that you’re a fly and you landed on some flypaper. When the fly lands on the flypaper, what do you think is going through its head? Can you imagine the fly saying, “My flypaper!” Does it make much difference if the flypaper says, “My fly”?
The Tempter Behind The Temptation
Imagine that you’re a fly and you landed on some flypaper. When the fly lands on the flypaper, what do you think is going through its head? Can you imagine the fly saying, “My flypaper!” Does it make much difference if the flypaper says, “My fly”?
PURPOSE: To help listeners realize that a desire for riches can make them spiritually poor.
Imagine that you’re a fly and you landed on some flypaper. When the fly lands on the flypaper, what do you think is going through its head? Can you imagine the fly saying, “My flypaper!” Does it make much difference if the flypaper says, “My fly”?
How Covetousness Affects Our World
Can you imagine if we had only nine commandments, and we lacked the one about covetousness because covetousness just simply did not exist?
What would our world be like without covetousness?
PURPOSE: To help listeners realize that covetousness is not trivial.
Can you imagine if we had only nine commandments, and we lacked the one about covetousness because covetousness just simply did not exist?
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