Overcoming Envy: Embracing Peace in Christ

1. "So God knows that if we turn from him and go off into our own way, we would be doing damage to ourselves, ruining the relationship and the fellowship we have with him. His jealousy is caring. He has a loving desire to keep our relationship intact and to see us as full of joy as possible. And that care for us doesn't cease. It's an attribute of his." [48:32] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Envy is different. Envy is in wanting what's not yours. And it usually produces results. Dismay, hatred, malice usually accompany envy. Getting that something else is what the envious wants, but that's not enough. Grieve or want usually can acquire the prize, but with envy, it's different. Envy wants to have what's not yours. Envy is in wanting what's not yours. wants to acquire and make sure that the person that has what you want loses it. That's how envy works. It's evil." [50:24] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Envy is a heavy, heavy sin. The self that you know now can be gone tomorrow, right? That's the effect of a bone-rotting sin. It's destructive and it's been described as spiritual bone cancer. Unfortunately, we're sinners and this sin runs deep in all of us. It's destructive, leading to a life of bitterness, of discontent. The world outside of Christ has an excuse, but for us, discontent is a sin." [51:10] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Envy is a sin that gets things done, right? Envy destroys either a person from like the inside, like Eli, or on the outside, like Cain, right? Cain killed Abel because he was envious. Saul lost his kingdom because of envy for David. David wanted what he couldn't have and paid dearly for his sin. So pride is the ultimate sin, right? Pride is like football, right? All football like you know it, right? Football. Envy is like Tom Brady, right? Envy is like Tom Brady. He gets things done, right? He scores. He knows how to win." [55:57] (65 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Envy is what makes the world, the worldly world go around, okay? Ecclesiastes 4.4 says this. I saw that all toil and all skill and work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This is vanity and a striving after wind. Now, the world is discontent. Envy all over the place. All of the work, all the hard work that's done is done in vain. It's done out of envy. Envy of what the neighbor has, of his car, his house, his good looks, her shiny ring, their kids, or their no kids. The fool will sit back and he'll rot in that envy. He'll be paralyzed. It'll eat him up." [57:56] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "So, we're born wanting, right? We're born like this. We want to eat. We want to go to sleep. We want to wake up early. We want good grades. We want things to change. We want things to stay the same. The point is that we want, some wants are good and healthy. Some are evil. Some are lustful. Some turn evil. Envious. And some wants are fulfilled. And some wants are just forgotten. So it's appropriate for a Christian to keep an eye on the stuff that's coming out of his heart. Our wants, our desires, are no exception. Keeping them in check and under the rule of Christ is necessary." [01:20:33] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "So envy handed Jesus over to Pilate and the Romans nailed him to the tree and our sins were laid upon him for us by God Almighty. Our sin is what killed Christ and Christ now dominates sin so it's good for us right it's good for us that he would take us and our envy to the cross with him it's good for us all that he would take us and our lives with him into the grave and it's glorious for us that we would become without we would come out alive on the other side of that tomb without our sin and raised to life with him for all eternity in a world of no without end." [01:14:48] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "So let's think about it because we have such a hard time grasping the concept of grace we fall back into the place of trying to earn our forgiveness and earn some mercy or earn God's love looking across from us and wanting the blessing that God has for our brother or our sister in the Lord we kind of look at them as they you know how can they get that right give them that little look like they're so blessed and I'm over here struggling in my house and my bills aren't paid and I'm doing all this stuff and why isn't God taking care of me right that's that's the tendency but that's not the truth right so in the gospel story we find a perfect work right that was done that was finished accomplished by Christ and so we as a zone keep telling the story of how Jesus overcame the way the world is run by his perfect work so that we can live in response to that story knowing that we'll receive what he earned for us the wages we couldn't earn even if we worked a million days on that vineyard no one could buy that no one could buy what Christ bought with his blood right no work." [01:11:04] (88 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "So God has saved many of us at different points in our lives. Some of us can't remember a time when we weren't a Christian. Some of us have been doing it for a couple years. Some of us were brought into the kingdom as teenagers. Some of us as adults. Some as Christians will be brought in at the end of their lives. But no matter the time of our calling, God has promised and guaranteed that we will receive the fullness of his love. His mercy. And his forgiveness. And resulting, right, in eternal life." [01:22:29] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "So the kingdom of God is like an extremely wealthy master employee. Right? Who went calling us all the work. At different points in our life. Getting us out of the murder, envy, and lies business. And putting us under contract that we might, at the end of the pay period, receive the ultimate of paychecks. And what that pay looks like? No one has seen, heard, or imagined. And as we abide in his employment, we understand that we have all of God's love. All we need. Though things outside may seem bleak. And even though our old boss is calling us and making empty promises. So we'll return. And though we may sometimes want to return to that old dead end job we had before. We're reminded by the land owner's best friend of the pay we're all looking forward to. And the promises he's made to give us everything he owns." [01:23:23] (61 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)