This document discusses envy and provides remedies. Envy is intense negative feelings over others' success or prosperity. It asks "Why them?" rather than being grateful with "Why me?". Envy causes conflict and bitterness. The remedies are to admit envy, apologize, cleanse through prayer and fasting, and replace envy with love and concern for others.

2. Envy
Intense negative feelings over the
success, achievement, and/or
prosperity of others.

3. Envy asks, “Why them?”
Gratitude asks, “Why me?”

4. Whenever you’re trying to look
better than others or get the better
of others, things fall apart and
everyone ends up at the others’
throats. (James 3:16 Message Bible)

5. Diagnostic Check:
1. Do you secretly get upset when others
succeed around you?
2. Do you belittle the accomplishment of
others?
3. Are you tempted to bad mouth a person to
whom you feel inferior?
4. Are you secretly pleased when a friend,
family member suffer a setback?

6. Bitterness, Resentment, and
Emptiness are best friends with
ENVY!

7. Biblical Illustrations of Bitterness, Resentment,
Emptiness, and ENVY.
1. Cain and Abel (Gen 4:3-8)
2. Jacob vs. Brothers (Gen 37:11,28)
3. Rachel envied Leah (Gen 30:1)
4. Saul envied David (1 Sam 19:9-10)
5. High Priest vs. Apostles (Acts 5:17-18)
6. Jews vs. Paul & Barnabas (Acts 13:45-50)

8. Aeschylus
“Few men have the
strength to honor
a friend’s success
without envy.”

9. Envy’s Strategy
1. Ostracism
2. Gossip & Slander
3. Litigation
4. The “Evil Eye”
5. Violence

10. Remedy for Envy
1. Admit it!
2. Apologize
3. Cleanse and Maintain
(prayer fasting)

11. Ignore this slide and the next slide

12. Other Agape features as seen in Jesus
1. Is not afraid to make itself vulnerable
2. Helps others and seeks their highest good.
3. Values others as worthy ends in themselves,
and does not merely use them as a means to an end.
4. Not merely emotional, but devotional

13. 3 Vision Points
1. Maturing
2. Soulwinning
3 . Expanding

14. Vision Point 1
Maturing
Christian maturity means to grow in Christ-likness
a. Attendance-general services & ancillary classes/programs
b. Timeliness
c. Commit to daily prayer & bible reading
d. Be a Covenant Keeper

15. Vision Point 2 Soulwinning
Luke 19:10; Matt 28:19-20
Statistics in church growth tendencies
3 out of 10 stick

16. Vision Point 3 Expanding
New Journey Expansion Project

18. LOVE