Although it may not appear so at first, this tenth commandment is perhaps the most difficult of all the commandments to keep. It is probably the one we break the most in the course of a day, and has the capacity also to be the most destructive – for the violation of this commandment naturally leads to the violation of others.
The great difficulty behind this commandment is that to desire is natural, you were created by God to desire things. In the garden, in his state of innocence Adam initially had right desires directed to right objects in the right manner.
However after the Fall of Man, the original equation regarding desire: right desires directed to right objects in the right manner has been shattered. Now man frequently has wrong desires directed to the wrong objects in the wrong manner. Sometimes he can even have right desires, as for instance the desire for worship, for love, and so on are all right desires put in his heart, but these right desires are no longer directed solely to the right objects in the right manner – they are more frequently be directed to the wrong objects in the wrong manner.
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“ I needed to hear this ” I was totally blessed by this message. I was in a relationship with a non-believer. I thought I could help him and bring him to the Lord. It didn't work out that way. I started compromising with him and sinning with him. I tried to get away many times but kept coming back. I thought he needed me. I was being dragged down by him. Things were getting worse. I finally realized that I can't save him and that I can't expect him to be the kind of person that I would like to have a relationship with. Like this message said, how can we as believers expect a secular person to have any clue as how to truly love someone and to treat them as God wants them to be treated? They can't do it! We can't make them. We need to let go of the secular boyfriend/girlfriend...let God help them.
I was converted out of paganism and the occult in 1993 and while I was initially Charismatic/Arminian in my theology, I became Reformed and Presbyterian through bible study and the influence of ministries like Ligonier. After teaching in local bible studies, and taking seminary...
