{"id":1567,"date":"2010-07-08T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:16","slug":"covetousness-and-idolatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Covetousness And Idolatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse one last time on Colossians 3:5 and<em><strong> sins to die to<\/strong><\/em>. The fifth\u00a0sin Paul mentions is<em><strong> covetousness, which he says is idolatry<\/strong><\/em>. The word means the sins of always wanting more. It often goes into wanting what others have, which turns to the worship of idolatry. Let us be careful of wanting what providence\u00a0 has not provided. If you get what providence has not provided for, you will be obligated for\u00a0its up keep\u00a0and outcome . Do not forget that this is the tenth\u00a0of God&#8217;s commandments, which is<em><strong> &#8221; THOU SHALT NOT COVET&#8221;.<\/strong><\/em> This commandment when broken, breaks all the other nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us\u00a0muse one last time on Colossians 3:5 and sins to die to. The fifth\u00a0sin Paul mentions is covetousness, which he says is idolatry. The word means the sins of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6148,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/6148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}