Thursday 14 June 2007

Greed

The dawn is beginning to break, and the birds are beginning to sing. Oh how ignorant and greedy we have all become.
Today it is want, want, want. We are all guilty of this. The Devil has ensured this by putting the desires of all things made by man into our faces, via television, radio, Internet, newspapers, technology and looking to what our neighbour has next door.
The final commandment given to Moses tells us it is a sin, a breaking of God's commandment if we are greedy. As it is written...
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbours.
And again in Romans 7:7...Thou shalt not covet.
How many of us actually talk to our neighbour, get to know our neighbours and love our neighbours. Not many people would say that they know their neighbour, let alone love them.
But because of greed we all strive to be better than our neighbour instead of loving our neighbour, and getting to know him or her.
It is written in Deuteronomy 10:17-19 KJV...
For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
He doth execute the judgement of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Love ye therefore the stranger: For ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
However our neighbours are our strangers, and God tells us to love them as we love God.
Deuteronomy 11:1 KJV...
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgements, and his commandments always.
John 15:12 KJV...
This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you.
Thus, let us talk to our neighbours, get to know them and love them. For this is what is commanded. Only the Devil wants you to be greedy and covet the neighbours house and all that he has. For the Devil wants to bind you into his thinking. Break the chains and come to God through his son Jesus Christ. Repent of your sins and accept him as your saviour if you have no already done so.
Yet for those who still do not believe, it is written in Mark 15:32-39 KJV...
Let Christ the King of Israel descent now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, E-lo'i, E-lo'i, la'ma, sa-bach'tha-ni?
Which is interpreted, My God, my God, Why hast thou forsaken me?
And some of them that stood by when they heart it, said, Behold, he calleth E-li'as.
And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, let alone; let us see whether E-li'as will come and take him down.
And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, truly this man was the son of God.