Called to Contentment

Rev. Bruce Brown

Exodus 20:1-2, 17

October 4, 2020

I.    How Do We Break This Command?  (verse 17: Romans 7:7-11)                                                   

      II.   What Does This Command Require?   (verse 17; Phil. 4:10-13; I Timothy 6:6) 

     III.   Enjoying God Forever.   (verse 17; Psalm 73; Rev. 4:11)

“We are all, of course, creatures of desire; God made us so… But desire that is sinfully disordered needs redirecting, so that we stop coveting others’ goods and long instead for their good, and God’s glory through it.  When Thomas Chalmers spoke of “the expulsive power of a new affection,” he was thinking of the way in which knowledge of my Savior’s love diverts me from the barren ways of covetous self-service, to put God first, others second, and self-gratification last in my concerns.  How much do we know in experience of this divine transforming power?” ~ J.I. Packer