Envy | Proverbs 14:30

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: Proverbs 14:30

1. DESCRIBING ENVY
   1. Envy of Another’s Good
   2. Envy Another’s Generosity
   3. Envy as the Fruit of Laziness
   4. Envy of Another Disciple
   5. Envy is displeasure
   6. Envy is displeasure at delight.
2. SACRIFICIAL LOVE
3. THE GOSPEL’S CURE FOR ENVY
   1. Love Beauty
   2. Count Your Mercies
   3. What should we do when we envy?

Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Matthew 6:22–23
The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Matthew 20:15–16
‘Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ So the last will be first, and the first last.

James Stalker
Instead of living laborious days, they have expected fortune to drop into their lap, and, instead of cultivating their minds by burning the midnight oil, they have calculated on winning the prize by genius or cleverness alone.

James Stalker
We cannot love the good cause very passionately if we do not welcome every talent consecrated to his service.
All of these above seek to take hold of the glory that belongs to Christ and leverage it for self.

Proverbs 3:31–32
Do not envy a man of violence
and do not choose any of his ways,
for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord,
but the upright are in his confidence.

Proverbs 12:12
Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers,
but the root of the righteous bears fruit.

Proverbs 24:1–2
Be not envious of evil men,
nor desire to be with them,
for their hearts devise violence,
and their lips talk of trouble.

Proverbs 24:19–20
Fret not yourself because of evildoers,
and be not envious of the wicked,
for the evil man has no future;
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

German Proverb
I love a thing that’s fine
Ev’n when it is not mine,
And, though it never mine can be,
Yet it delights and gladdens me.

1 Peter 1:3–5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.