Jealousy
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Jealousy - Good? Bad?
Jealousy - Good? Bad?
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.
What is jealousy?
What is jealousy?
A greedy or prideful longing for something that belongs to another; even something intangible, such as a skill.
Jealous: as an adjective = Fiercely protective and unaccepting of disloyalty
Jealous: as a verb = To be or become desirous of exclusivity in relationship
3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions,
21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
Who are we to be like?
Who are we to be like?
27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
Can Jealousy be good?
Can Jealousy be good?
Jealousy: An appropriate desire for what a person has a right to; zealous vigilance
Desiring what is rightly yours and tolerating no rivals
Jealous: as an adjective = Fiercely protective and unaccepting of disloyalty
Jealous: as a verb = To be or become desirous of exclusivity in relationship
2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
What about God?
What about God?
14 —for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—
24 “For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
2 A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and wrathful. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies.
15 for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
9 ‘You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
What about Jesus?
What about Jesus?
14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.
15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”
17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house will consume me.”
What about you?
What about you?
21 ‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
Are you Jealous for The LORD God?
Are you Jealous for The LORD God?