{"id":1231,"date":"2015-02-24T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:43:35","slug":"covetousness-scriptural-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Covetousness: Scriptural Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCovetousness ruled the stony, ashen heart of Judas,\u201d writes Samuel Logan Brengle, \u201cand for thirty pieces of silver he betrayed the Master!
\n\u201cCovetousness,\u201d he continues, \u201cpossessed the selfish hearts of Ananias and Sapphira; they wanted the praise and honor of utmost sacrifice and generosity while secretly holding on to their gold. And God smote them dead!


\n\u201cAs we study the history and Biblical examples of this sin of covetousness, we see the deep meaning and truth of Paul\u2019s words to Timothy, \u2018They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.\u2019
\n\u201cThis sin led to ingratitude toward his uncle, and neighborly association with vile sinners in Lot; to envy and jealousy and sacrilege in Nadab and Abihu; to disobedience in Saul; to sacrilege and licentiousness in Eli\u2019s sons; to adultery and murder in David; to brazen robbery in Ahab; to greed and lying in Gehazi; to the betrayal of the innocent Christ with an impudent kiss in Judas; to bold lying to the Holy Ghost in Ananias and Sapphira.
\n\u201cTruly, from its poisonous root has sprung up the deadly upas tree of all evil, and upon it in manifold ways has been outpoured the wrath of God, showing His holy hatred and abhorrence of it.\u201d
\nThe above quotation was taken from the book, Covetousness, written and compiled by Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. It is also available in their online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCovetousness ruled the stony, ashen heart of Judas,\u201d writes Samuel Logan Brengle, \u201cand for thirty pieces of silver he betrayed the Master! \u201cCovetousness,\u201d he continues, \u201cpossessed the selfish hearts of Ananias and Sapphira; they wanted the praise and honor of utmost sacrifice and generosity while secretly holding on to their gold. And God smote them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[492,493,494,495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}