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Podcast 125: Purchasing With Discernment

“You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” (James 4:3)

Many older translations use the word ‘lusts’ in place of ‘passions.’ Another word which can replace lusts or passions, is ‘desire,’ or ‘strong desire.’ We all are familiar with strongly desiring things or objects. One of the ten commandments, which reflects this universal temptation, is to not covet.