TENTH COMMANDMENT: Thou shalt not covet.
This is the last commandment and if you covet, you are open to breaking any one of the other nine commandments.
All of the commandments work together and complement each other and go side by side with the scriptures, and all of them come from God.
When we ignore the Ten Commandments or the Scriptures we are open to Satan’s influences because he seeks to destroy the Plan of Salvation and he is determined to gain control of the sons and daughters of God and bring each under his power. Do not take them lightly.
When it says “Thou shalt not covet” does not mean that we should not try to improve our situation and have a righteous desire for obtaining a better life.
We are here to enjoy life and family and to make life better for them also.
We may see our neighbor have some better things in life but it does not mean we cannot have an honest ambition to have some of those things and not to covet the things he has.
The Lord said the earth is full and has enough for all.
If we want those things, it is good for us acquire them by honest effort and lawful means.
When men set their hearts too much on obtaining the things of the world and his ambition gets to the point that to obtain them he places his allegiance to the Lord and the principles of the Gospel second in his life or discards them altogether, he has gone astray.
When the material things of the world become that important to that person where it is placed in the place of God, those things are being worshiped and that is idolatry in the eyes of God.
In modern revelation the Lord said this about Idol worship:
Doctrine and Covenants 1: 16
16 They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.
In the Old Testament, Samuel told King Saul that sin was also idolatry and the Lord has rejected Saul in being king because he had rejected Him:
1 Samuel 15: 23
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
IN SUMMARY:
The Ten Commandments were in operation before we left the spirit world. The prophets have taught that civilizations needed to use these laws as a foundation to build on.
Peace and happiness would come from obeying the Lord. These laws would help each individual to develop and live their lives in a peaceful and fulfilling way.
The first prophet of this, the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times and the Restoration of the Gospel, the Prophet Joseph Smith stated:
“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. But we cannot keep all the commandments without first knowing them, and we cannot expect to know all, or more than we now know unless we comply with or keep those we have already received. That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.” (Teachings, pp. 255–56.)
This sacred law has been reiterated though out the scriptures and the modern revelations we have received from the prophets the Lord has placed back on the earth in our day, to guide us to peace and happiness.
The Lord is not silent in our affairs today. Have Faith and Trust in Him.
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