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well. After having been singled out for his theft, Joshua asked him to confess what he
had done:
Joshua 7:1, 20-21, 25 And Achan answered Joshua and said, “Indeed I have
sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I have done. When I
SAW among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred
shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I COVETED
them and took them. And there they are hidden in the earth in the midst of
my tent, with the silver under it.” . . . So all Israel stoned him with stones . . .
No One Excluded From Satan’s Nature
The human nature within mankind is more correctly defined as Satan the devil’s nature.
And because he is the prince of the airwaves (
like radio or television signals, Ephesians
2:2
), Satan affects the attitude and thereby influences people to presumptuously act, or
with deliberately planning sin, in many different ways unless they are resisted.
True Christians are also attracted and tempted by some strong desire from the inherit
nature of Satan within them to be influenced by him at one time or another and yield to
some form of evil; a problem to struggle with throughout human life.
The Apostle Paul wrote of it as being a law that he continually struggled with and
exhorted all others to do the same and not give in to it:
Romans 7:12-25 “. . . For I know that in me (that is in my flesh –
the law of sin,
verses 21, 23
) nothing good dwells . . . For I delight in the law of God
according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members,
warring against the law of my mind . . . O wretched man that I am! Who will
deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our
Lord [
that He will by His mercy and grace, Ephesians 2: 1-10
]!
The daily prayers of a Christian should reflect the heart’s desire to obey God’s holy
righteous laws— as did the Psalmist:
Psalm 119:36 “Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to
covetousness.”
There is another part of the Tenth Commandment that has to do with the law of
coveting:
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