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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today we are talking about the most miserable, the most destructive sin that oftentimes gets confused with another. We are talking about envy today. If you have your Bibles, we're going to be all over the place. We're going to be talking about envy.
Now, a lot of the times people put envy and jealousy kind of together because they're kind of similar a little bit, but we're going to define envy, what that looks like, and how to avoid it. Envy at the core is the sadness at the blessings of another. So if you are envious, you are sad at the blessings of another person.
For example, to be envious would be like, I am sad because you are happy, or vice versa would be, I'm happy because you're sad. Thomas Aquinas wants to find envy as sorrow for another's good. And you see, the reason why this is the most destructive and the most miserable sin is because you can't see it. It's just like pride. It's actually kind of coincidence.
Isn't it kind of crazy how the seven deadly sins, according to Proverbs 6, you got lust, pride, greed, envy, all of these things oftentimes tend to be sins that you don't see upon yourself. but it's easy to spot in other people. And I believe that's why, one of the reasons why this one is the most miserable, but another reason why envy is so miserable is because it actually hurts and harms you.
What does Proverbs 14.30 say about envy? Proverbs 14.30 says that envy rots the bones.
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Chapter 2: How do envy and jealousy differ in meaning?
Envy affects your soul. It affects your heart. It affects your friendships. It affects the people around you and ultimately affects you mentally and physically and emotionally. Envy has none of your best interests at heart, although it may seem so because you're like sad because someone has something that you don't. Oh, I'm sad because this person is blessed in this area.
Now there's a difference between like admiration and envy, right? You can admire someone. You know, that's one of the reasons why we pray for things, right? Because there are things that we necessarily want. So is all ambition bad? Not necessarily. But what envy is saying is saying, I am sad because God has blessed you or I'm happy because because you're sad and you're affected and harmful.
So what does this look like? Well, we know that envy rots the bones. It brings decay. It brings destruction. It brings disorder. It brings harm. It brings all of these different things. But when you read Mark 7, what does Jesus say about envy, amongst other things? He talks about envy. He talks about a lot of other different things in Mark chapter 7.
This is what Jesus says in Mark chapter 7, verses 21 through 23. For from within, out of the heart of man, comes evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, covening, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and they defile a person. Envy is a heart issue. You know what envy reveals about you?
It reveals that you're not content with God, so you're trying to find contentment in other things. And let me tell you something. Isn't that exactly what sin is? Sin is trying to find contentment in other things than in Jesus.
And where are you left off when you try to find satisfaction, significance, and security everywhere else, but in Jesus you're left hopeless, despair, and rotting, just like Proverbs 14 says envy does. So envy is a hard issue. There's not a logical mathematical formula you can conjure up that's going to conquer envy in your life.
When's the last time that you thought to yourself, man, am I being envious right now? Am I happy at someone else's demise? Am I sad at someone else's exaltation? What does the Bible say about honor? First, you must be humbled. Then you will be exalted. Yet we want the exaltation, the honor, the respect, and the blessings without being crushed. We want things that other people have. You know what?
Instead of being envious of other people, the number one way, the number one way you can fight envy is gratitude. 1 Corinthians 13 defines love as being patient, kind, and love does not envy or boast. So if you want to fight envy, be grateful for the blessings that you have. Be grateful that God trusts you with certain things and trusts other people with other things.
Because you might be envious for the very thing that would crush you if God allowed that thing in your life. And you're envious of another person's blessings thinking that that thing is what's best for your life.
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Chapter 3: What does Proverbs say about the effects of envy?
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I genuinely believe this is going to be a night people carry with them for a long time. I would love to see you there. All right, back to the episode. Look at what happened to King Saul. King David, he defeats Goliath, is anointed king, and he goes into the street. And what do the women say about King Saul?
They're like, King Saul slayed the armies in the thousands, but King David in the ten thousands. What has taken Saul decades, the Lord put his hand on David, and David did in a moment. And it said from that moment, Saul had envy in his heart. He was sad at the blessings of David. And what did that lead to? That led to trying to kill David. That led to a lot of struggle.
That led to a lot of strife. That led to a lot of hatred. All because he was envious of where God wanted to put his hand. You know, one of the hardest things about ministry that I've seen ever since I became a believer at 17ā I kind of started being a part of ministry when I was 17ā
were a lot of older leaders that were afraid of gen z coming alongside and being risen up by god and god using gen z they were afraid of it so instead of passing the baton they would hold on to the baton and die with the baton and it was like they didn't want to see the next generation run harder
You see, what gratitude will do and contentment with the Lord will do will make all your hardships and all your revelations be the foundations of the next generation coming up so that the people after you don't have to make the same mistakes and take just as long or longer that it took you to accomplish certain things because you're content with God and God's will and God's plan and what God wants to do in the world and through people's lives rather than what you want to do.
Envy is about building your kingdom. Contentment in God is about building his. Where are you at? And we see that with Moses. Moses is getting ready to die. Did he make a mistake? Yeah, he got frustrated with God and hit a rock. And God was like, all right, you're not entering the promised land.
But Moses looked at Joshua and passes the baton to Joshua and says, Joshua, you're going to lead them into the promised land. And he does. And so we need to be willing not to grow an envious heart. but to pass the baton to people next to us, to friends, to loved ones, to generations that are coming after us to say, no, I'm believing in what God has trusted you with.
I'm believing in what God has put in your heart. I'm trusting in that. Envy created the first sin. You know what happened? You can be in paradise. And still have envy. I love what Gavin Ortland says about envy. He says that envy can turn heaven into a worse hell. And what I mean by that, Adam and Eve are in paradise. And yet Satan's like, yeah, but you still aren't God.
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