Charity doesn't Envy
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Text: I Corinthians 13:4
In the very first book of the Bible, Moses tells us the account of a young boy who is favored of his father Jacob. As a result his ten older brothers hate him.
It is here we find the topic of Envy introduced into Scripture
There is no better example of jealousy than Joseph’s brothers, but there’s also no better picture of how destructive jealousy can be, and it all began when
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
but his brothers were outraged and said,
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Part of the problem was that Joseph was Jacob’s favorite son as Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, symbolic of his prominence in Jacob’s eyes, so as Joseph
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Instead, Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers, but much later, they would discover their jealousy, which was clearly sinful, turned out to do much good
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
The Brother’s envy
Because of his position
Because of his coat
Because of his dreams.
Dreams that told of his family bowing down in worship to Joseph. Dreams that unbeknown to all of them would come true in the land of Egypt.
As you can imagine all of those
Envy keeps score.
Envy wants what another has.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Envy steals the soul.
For wrath killeth the foolish man,
And envy slayeth the silly one.
Envy pushes farther than we thought possible.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Here is the issue…
Envy destroys everything for which Love stands.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh:
But envy the rottenness of the bones.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
