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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