ARE YOU A JEALOUS PERSON?

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: ARE YOU A JEALOUS PERSON?

John 3:22-36

Do you consider yourself a
jealous person? I know that most of us would respond immediately and say, "Oh no, not me...I am not a jealous person at all.

Let's see for a moment if you are a jealous person:

Are you bothered when someone else receives more attention than you?
Do you rejoice in the successes of other people?
Do you struggle with being second, rather than being first?

See what happen here (Vs. 22-26)
We are in the first year of the public
ministry of JesusThe Calm Year of His Life. Many converts were coming to Him, following Him in baptism.

(John 4:2 teaches us Jesus did not baptize them, but His disciples did the baptizing.)
Not far from them John the Baptist and his disciples were also baptizing some converts. At this time John had not been thrown into prison, but the time is drawing near to his beheading.

(Vs. 25-26) John's disciples began to raise a question about purification or about the value of their baptism since more people
are now going to Jesus. Notice: "He is baptizing and all are coming to Him." What was the problem? Was it baptism or something else?

John the Baptist's disciples were truly Baptists but the bottom-line problem was jealousy,
but they attempted to cover it up with spiritual talk.
John's disciples were jealous that more people were going to Jesus than to John the Baptist. They had missed the entire role of John the Baptistto be a forerunner of Jesus Christ.

WHAT IS JEALOUSY?
Jealousy is a painful or resentful desire for another's advantages. It means to envy or covet what someone else has.

*In this story they were jealous of the attention Jesus received.

The problem of jealousy is so prevalent among people in our day,
especially in the church.

For example:
"Why don't I get to sing as much as so-and-so sings...?"
"Why didn't they ask me to teach in that class... Etc

If you find yourself in this act, you are a jealous person and it's not bad to want good things in the life of others but should not be envious.

All you need now is to come out of the envious jealousy and accept what God has done for you because you too are great in your own way,

Join us in WONDER HOUR Lagos this Saturday September 16th 2017. At D God father lodge No 22 adegbola St, Ikeja along.

LET US PRAY
EVERY SPIRIT THAT WANT TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE IS CAST INTO FIRE IN JESUS NAME.

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