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ME: Intro - Jealous of the Bengals
As was mentioned earlier, we are having a super bowl party here tonight.
It will be a fun time watching the game or playing games or just eating some good food!
I look forward to seeing you again tonight!
If you did not know, the teams in the Super Bowl are the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.
Who here is pulling for the Rams?
Who here is pulling for the Bengals?
And who could not care less and is just looking forward to playing some games or eating some food?
If it were up to me, the Chiefs would be playing tonight,
Not the Bengals!
If you did not know, I am a Chiefs fan.
I have been since the early 2000s.
Through high school and college, I use to watch the games by myself most often.
Because I would be deeply invested in every play.
I would shout at things I disagreed with,
I would get red in the face, yell into pillows, and things like that.
Well, while in college, I met this beautiful girl, Stephanie,
And she was actually into me.
Until she watched a Chiefs game with me.
Rather, I should say, until she watched me watch a Chiefs game, in utter terror at what she was seeing.
That is how I came to realize how foolish my passion for the Chiefs was.
Fast forward to two Sundays ago as I watched the Chiefs fall apart in the second half of the AFC Championship and eventually lose to the Bengals.
By God’s grace, I did not shout once, I did not get red faced, I did not injure myself by taking out any frustration or disappointment.
But I did notice that my immediate reaction was to cheer against the Bengals in the Super Bowl!
As I thought through it, I realized it was because I was jealous that the Bengals would be in the Super Bowl instead of the Chiefs.
So, God spent the last 2 weeks dealing with my foolish envy related to tonight’s game,
Bringing me to the point where I now can actually root for the Bengals in the Super Bowl tonight.
I realize this is a relatively light-hearted example of envy,
But the Bible teaches that envy does not help me,
In fact, envy hurts me more than it helps.
We see this in all sorts of other pop-culture examples.
Think of the original Toy Story movie.
Woody gets jealous that he seems to be getting replaced by Buzz Lightyear as Andy’s favorite toy.
And his jealousy is what ends up hurting him, Buzz, the other toys, and even Andy.
In our own lives,
Jealousy leads to depression, self-esteem issues, anger, or bitterness.
Jealousy does not help us, it only hurts.
So, this morning we are piecing together what Proverbs says on this subject,
To have a Word on Envy.
Slide
Our outline shows:
Envy Hurts Me (Proverbs 14:30)
Envy Hurts Others (Proverbs 27:3-4)
Envy Fosters Sin (Proverbs 24:1-2)
Envy Ends You (Proverbs 24:19-20)
Jesus Saves Us (Proverbs 23:17-18)
He is jealous for us, so that we would be satisfied in Him.
Sticking with football for a moment,
I remember in middle school,
I had the opportunity to jump from peewee football to modified.
But if I did, I would not get as much playing time because the older, 2nd year modified players would start.
I was jealous of the playing time they would get.
At the time, I thought of myself as this peewee football all star,
I believed I was better than those older kids who would start over me on modified!
So, I decided to stay an extra year in peewee just to get myself more playing time,
And prove that I was a better player.
What I did not realize was that it set me back a year in modified.
So, when I eventually made the jump to modified, everyone else on the team already played a year together,
And already spent a year learning the plays.
One of the ways modified football gave more opportunities to play was with a half time scrimmage against the other team’s backups.
The coach wanted me to play during one of those halftime scrimmages with the first year kids who were all a year younger than me,
Still jealous of the kids my age who got to play in the actual game,
I refused and I quit.
I thought my peewee success would prove that I was better and that I deserved to play on modified.
But Proverbs is right,
My jealousy never helped me,
In fact, I continued to be jealous of the kids my age on the football team,
So, I stopped wanting to be around them,
And I became very lonely and sad throughout middle school.
It really took two years and me getting saved to finally let go of that and rejoin the football team.
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Envy Hurts Me (Prov.
14:30)
So, I experienced first hand what Proverbs 14:30 teaches,
That Envy Hurts Me.
Now, I am certain that I am not the only one who has had envy hurt me.
And it does not only hurt in one way.
Envy hurts emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and physically.
There are harmful consequences to envy.
But Proverbs 14:30 begins with the antithesis to envy, peace and tranquility.
Specifically, tranquility in the heart.
This speaks to the link between mental or spiritual peace and physical health.
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Proverbs 3:7-8 explains further:
If we think about it, this is a recognizable truth, isn’t it?
Stress, anxiety, anger, and other internal stressors cause physical ailments.
High blood pressure, nausea, heart attack, and more.
But when my heart is at peace,
When I am content,
It gives life to my physical body,
It leads to mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
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14:30 is alluding to the curse brought into this world by our sin.
The Bible teaches that our bodies go through physical decay because we have broken God’s law,
The very first people, Adam and Eve, first disobeyed God,
But every person since has disobeyed God’s Word, except Jesus.
So, this means you have disobeyed God, I have disobeyed God,
We all have disobeyed God.
Envy is one way we have broken God’s law.
Proverbs is saying when envy is present in my heart,
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