Jealousy
Part of Summer Baggage
August 29, 2024

Destructive emotions - Jealousy

Genesis 37:5-36

Thou shalt not (

) (Ex. 20:17).

Envy often (

) to more violence. (Gen. 4)

What was the brothers’ problem?

They were (

). (Gen 37:11)

Out of control emotions (

) have unintended consequences.

It was used dozens of times by Ahab in Moby Dick: mono-(

).

The truth is that there are (

) winners. (Gen. 37:21-22, Gen. 37:25-26)

Practice (“He must become greater; I must become less.” (John 3:30)) (

) and jealousy will ( )! (Acts 5:38-39)

The brothers are not the only ones with a response. Jacob concludes that Joseph is (

) (Gen. 37:10-11)

(

) or ( )

If I ever did anything wrong as a teenager my father would often say one word: “(

).”

It’s healthy to put what you don’t understand into God’s (

).


( ) in God.

Envy, Coventness, and Jealousy are not only robbing us of our happiness but, more importantly, it is robbing us of our (

).


It is only when we ( ) the knee to God will we find the shackles of covetousness broken.