Week 5 | Escaping Envy
From Psalm 73
What is Envy? (2 things)
1. Envy is someone else’s life.
2. Envy is our life because of someone else’s life.
The Effects of Envy:
1. Envy the out of life.
2. Envy .
3. Envy us.
📖 Psalm 73:16 (ESV) when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task…
📖 Proverbs 14:30 (ESV) envy makes the bones rot.
4. our .
📖 Psalm 73:2-3 (ESV) But I had almost stopped believing; I had almost lost my faith 3 because I was jealous of proud people. I saw wicked people doing well.
A Self-Examination for Envy (Four Questions)
1. Why am I ?
📖 Psalm 73:1-3 (ESV) Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped. 3 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
📖 1 Chronicles 16:37 (ESV) So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister regularly before the ark as each day required…
📖 1 Chronicles 25:2 (ESV) Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.
📖 1 Peter 2:4 (ESV) As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
📖 1 Peter 2:9 (ESV) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
2. What am I ?
📖 Psalm 73:4-7 (ESV) For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. 5 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. 6 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
📖 Psalm 73:13 (ESV) All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. 14 For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
Tell-tale sign of envy:
You compare someone’s to your .
📖 Isaiah 40:7 (ESV) The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.
📖 Isaiah 40:8 (ESV) The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
📖 Isaiah 40:30-31 (ESV) Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
📖 Psalm 92:12-14 (ESV) The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,
📖 Psalm 84:5, 7 (ESV) Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion… 7 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
Wickedness me. Righteousness me.
3. Am I from the ?
📖 Psalm 73:15-17 (ESV) If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children. 16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
📖 Ephesians 4:3 (ESV) Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.
📖 Hebrews 10:25 (ESV) let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
4. Am I fully of how God is to me?
📖 Psalm 73:21-22 (ESV) When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, 22 I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
📖 Psalm 73:23-24 (ESV) Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
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