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Jealousy & Gratitude

Jealousy & Gratitude

Jealousy & Gratitude Romans 13: 13 -14 [NASB]: “Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. ”

Jealousy & Gratitude Romans 13: 13 -14: jealousy is lust. 1 Corinthians 3: 3 [NASB]: “For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men? ”

Jealousy & Gratitude Romans 13: 13 -14: jealousy is lust. 1 Corinthians 3: 3: jealousy is a symptom of underdeveloped spirituality. Romans 1: 28 -2: 1: jealousy is characteristic of the depraved and unregenerate.

Jealousy & Gratitude

Jealousy & Gratitude

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Jealousy & Gratitude Mark 7: 21 -23 [NET]: “For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly. All these evils come from within and defile a person. ”

Jealousy & Gratitude James 3: 14 -16 [NIV]: “But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such ‘wisdom’ does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. ”

Jealousy & Gratitude Mark 7: 21 -23: jealousy is evil and a defilement. James 3: 14 -16: jealousy is fleshly or even demonic. 2 Corinthians 12: 20 -21: jealousy is a sin.

Jealousy & Gratitude 1 Corinthians 13: 4 [NASB]: “Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous…; ”

Jealousy & Gratitude 1 John 1: 9: Confess to God and ask for help. James 4: 7: Trust and submit to God’s will, even when he does not give us what we desire. James 5: 16: Confess to and seek prayer from trustworthy friends. Exodus 22: 5 -7: Make restitution to those we have hurt with our jealousy.

Jealousy & Gratitude Galatians 5: 24 -26 [NASB]: “Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another. ”

Jealousy & Gratitude Crucifying our flesh or sinful nature is “an astonishing metaphor. For crucifixion was a horrible, brutal form of execution. Yet it illustrates graphically what our attitude to our fallen nature is to be. We are not to coddle or cuddle it, not to pamper or spoil it, not to give it any encouragement or even toleration. Instead, we are to be ruthlessly fierce in rejecting it, together with its desires. ” – John Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 339

Jealousy & Gratitude

Jealousy & Gratitude “It is when we believe in Jesus Christ that our values change. We no longer conform to the world’s values but find instead that we are being transformed by our renewed mind which grasps and approves the will of God. And nothing weans us from worldliness like the cross of Christ. ” – John Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 238

Jealousy & Gratitude 1 Thessalonians 5: 16 -18 [NASB]: “Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. ”

Jealousy & Gratitude Philippians 4: 6 -8 [NASB]: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. ”

Jealousy & Gratitude Colossians 2: 6 -7 [NIV]: “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. ” Hebrews 12: 28 -29 [NIV]: “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our ‘God is a consuming fire. ’”