Avoid Covetousness and Be Content with What You Have Hebrews 135

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Hebrews 13:5 says, Avoid covetousness and be content with what you have, for He has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' This verse instructs us to put off covetousness and put on contentment. We do so, not physically, but spiritually by focusing on Christ's promise to always be with us. • Here's the accompanying blog post: https://www.scottlapierre.org/be-cont... • View all of Pastor Scott LaPierre's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/48LqRpT • Receive a free copy of Pastor Scott's book, Seven Biblical Insights for Healthy, Joyful, Christ-Centered Marriages : https://www.scottlapierre.org/subscribe/ • #expositionalbibleteaching #bibleteachingsermons #christiansermonsonfaith #biblepreachingsermons #christianpreachingsermons #biblepreaching #christiansermons #expositionalbiblestudy #sermon #bible #christian #jesus #scottlapierre #expositorypreachingsermons • For Scott LaPierre's conference and speaking information, including testimonies, endorsements, and contact info, please visit: https://www.scottlapierre.org/christi... • If invited for a speaking engagement, you can expect: • • Professionally prepared and delivered messages • • A handout with lessons and discussion questions • • Copies of Pastor Scott's books to offer as gifts to increase registrations (if you desire) • • Advertising of your event on Scott's website and social media (if you desire) • • Facebook ads and/or a Facebook event page so the event can serve as an outreach (if you desire) • • Prompt responses to any communication • • Prompt replies to phone calls, emails, and/or text messages • 00:00 Sermon Lessons for Avoid Covetousness and Be Content with What You Have • 02:22 Lesson 1: Repentance involves stopping and starting (Luke 3:8, Ephesians 4:25-32). • 08:43 Lesson 2: Put off covetousness and put on contentment. • 14:32 Lesson 3: Contentment can’t be found from wealth. • 28:45 Lesson 4: Contentment comes from God (2 Corinthians 3:5, 9:8; Hebrews 13:5). • Contentment Is a Spiritual Issue • Since contentment is a spiritual issue, trying to find contentment through the physical is akin to trying to satisfy your appetite by consuming the wind. You can eat as much wind as you want, but you’re still hungry. If we want to be content, our hearts must be rooted in the spiritual and eternal, versus the physical and temporal. • When we pursue contentment through the physical, what we’re really trying to do is fill a need in our lives: • A need to be somebody, because when we have whatever we covet then we think we’ll feel good about ourselves • A need to feel cared for, because when we have whatever we covet it will give us the security we crave • A need to have excitement in our lives, because when we have whatever we covet it will give us the newness we desire • We covet things such as money, power, position, or possessions, thinking they’ll satisfy us, but that’s the deception. This is why people in the wealthiest nation in the world struggle with so much discontentment. It’s not to say that possessions don’t provide some degree of temporary contentment. They do, but it doesn’t last. • Your Relationship with Christ Allows You to Be Content with What You Have • Lasting contentment can’t be obtained through any amount of human effort. It can only be found in a relationship with God, because He created us, loves us, and knows what’s best for us. Thus, the ultimate cause of contentment is pursuing God as our source of joy and meaning in life, while the cause of discontentment is our failure to do so. • The Greek word for content is autarkeia, which means, “A condition of life in which no aid or support is needed; sufficient.” Content and sufficient are both translated with autarkeia and used interchangeably because they’re synonyms. For example: • Philippians 4:11—Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content (autarkeia). • 1 Timothy 6:6—But godliness with contentment (autarkeia) is great gain, • 2 Corinthians 9:8—God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency (autarkeia) in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. • The ESV has a footnote that “all sufficiency” can be translated as “all contentment.” Contentment and sufficiency are translated with the same word, because they’re synonymous. If you’re content, you’re sufficient; in both cases you have what you need. As Christians we’re content because we’re sufficient in Christ, hence the Amplified Bible’s translation: “Not that I speak from [any personal] need, for I have learned to be content [and self-sufficient through Christ, satisfied to the point where I am not disturbed or uneasy] regardless of my circumstances” (Philippians 4:11). With Christ we can be sufficient and content, because He gives us what we need. • If you’re content or sufficient, you have what you need. You don’t need anything else... • Read the rest of the blog post: https://www.scottlapierre.org/be-cont...

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