10 | The Decalogue [Part 10]

Pastor Daniel Cormier shares Part 10 of our current 2023 series examining the 10 commandments with a message entitled "Cultivate Contentment".

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Warm-up. What colour best describes your week? Why?

Read Exodus 20:17 Ask God to bless your study.

1. Define coveting. How does it differ from desire?
2. Discuss the link between coveting and discontentment.

3. Why is coveting idolatrous? Where are you tempted to such idolatry in your life? How can you change the perspective of your heart (Ecclesiastes 5:10; John 6:35; 1 Timothy 6:6)?

4. Read Philippians 4:11-13. When is Paul content (vv. 11-12)? Why is Paul content (v. 13)? What do you think “all things” (or “all this” NIV) means (and does not mean) in this context?

5. How do times of poverty or times of plenty, as opposed to the moderate, in-between times, help to expose the deception that we can find full contentment in things or in circumstances?

6. Twice Paul says that he ‘learned’ the secret of contentment. In what ways has God been teaching you about contentment?

7. We are to learn to be content with where we are and what we have, but discuss how Paul also models for us in Phil 3:10-15 that we should not be content with who we are - so far?

8. Define in your own words the secret of contentment. Paul tells us to practice what he says (4:9). How might you put into practice one thing he says in 4:11-13 during the coming week?