Christ Covenant Church

Coveting happens whenever we choose to indulge the temptation to pleasure our minds with thoughts of possessing or experiencing what God says is presently prohibited or forever forbidden (Jos 7:21 = pleasured/afflicting himself thinking about the forbidden fame and fortune, power and prestige of those things could bring; e.g. Exo 20:17/Deu 5:21 = pleasuring/afflicting ourselves thinking about us living in someone’s house, sleeping w/their wife or having their life). *when you choose to pleasure your mind w/thoughts of something/someone, you are (now in a very real way) desiring that something/someone (that is how God sees it)Examples:1.1. choosing to pleasure myself by thinking about my life as some pagan movie star or rock star;1.2. choosing to pleasure myself by thinking/looking at someone sexually that is not my God-given spouse;1.3. choosing to pleasure myself by imagining myself in a career that God will never give me;1.4. choosing to pleasure myself by imagining life as something other than what the tru