The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy

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Envy
Sec­ond mes­sage in the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Length: 34:33
Size: 12 MB
For­mat MP3
Speaker: Glen Davis — 2/2/2005

Here’s this week’s hand­out:

Envy: A Sin-opsis
The Sin Clus­ter: Envy, Cov­etous­ness, Enti­tle­ment
The Virtues They Dis­tort: Emu­la­tion, Jus­tice
Bib­li­cal Sto­ries About:

  • Cain: wanted to best Abel rather than please God (Gen 4:3–12)
  • Saul: could not tol­er­ate David’s suc­cess (1 Sam 18–26)
  • Korah: could not abide Moses & Aaron’s author­ity (Num­bers 16)
  • Joseph’s Broth­ers: dri­ven to a mur­der­ous rage by their father’s bias towards Joseph (Gen 37)
  • The False Mother: would rather see the child dead than with another (1 Kings 3:16–28)
  • The Chief Priests: handed Jesus to the Romans because of his pop­u­lar­ity (Mark 5:9–10)

Accord­ing to the Bible, Pride

  • poi­sons relationships—James 4:1–2, James 3:16, Titus 3:3
  • harms us physically—Prov 14:30
  • pol­lutes our souls—Mark 7:20–23
  • is opposed to love—1 Cor 13:4
  • is a byprod­uct of not keep­ing God in focus—Rom 1:29, Gala­tians 5:16–26
  • is a big enough deal to make it into the Ten Commandments—Deut 5:21

Some ques­tions
Is jeal­ousy the same thing as envy? If so, what’s up with God being jealous?

Does this mean it’s wrong to want things?

How is envy dif­fer­ent from greed or lust?