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Anger and Envy: The Twin Destroyers
Proverbs 16:32 (CSB) Patience is better than power, and controlling one’s emotions, than capturing a city.
Soul Tattoo: Control your emotions or your emotions will control you.
Emotions make a tremendous servant but a terrible master.
1. Anger: A Dangerous Fire
Ephesians 4:26-27 (NKJV) “Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.”
James 3:14-16 (NKJV) “But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.”
2. Envy: A Poisonous Root
Proverbs 14:30 (NKJV)“A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” – Harold Coffin
You will never possess what you do not honor.
Galatians 5:19-21 (NKJV): “Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
3. The Call to Overcome Anger and Envy
•Recognize the Root – Proverbs 23:7a (NKJV) For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
•Seek Forgiveness – 1 John 1:9 (NKJV) If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
•Cultivate Gratitude – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NKJV) Rejoice always, [17] pray without ceasing, [18] in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
•Pursue Peace and Reconciliation – Matthew 5:44 (NKJV).
•Rely on the Holy Spirit – Galatians 5:22-23 (NKJV)