Respectable Sins – “Envy, Jealousy, and Related Sins”

Respectable Sins – Chapter 18 – “Envy, Jealousy, and Related Sins”
Sins covered and defined:

•  Envy is the painful and oftentimes resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by someone else
• Jealousy is the intolerance of rivalry
•  Competitiveness – an expression of selfishness; to win at someone else’s expense [not a virtue]
•  Controlling – seeking to control others to our advantage or to get what we want

There are two conditions that tempt us to envy: We envy those we most identify with, and we envy in them the areas
we value most

•  Romans 1:29 &; Galatians 5:21

Jealousy

•  Envy is resent of a peer who has an advantage over us; jealousy is intolerance of rivalry
•  Not always a sin (God states that He is a jealous God ~ Explain)
• Biblical example – Saul with David
•  We need to learn to rejoice with those who rejoice
• Romans 12:5,10

Competitiveness

• The strong urge to always win or be the top person in whatever our field of endeavor
•  To win at someone else’s expense
• That being the best, winning, or #1 is what matters the most

Controlling

• The problem is that controllers most of the time don’t know that they are controllers
•  They think they are just making sure things get done right
• About getting your way
• All decisions of a group/committee/ organization have to go their way; compromise is not an option
• These people move from church to church
• Ephesians 5:21

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