Jealousy Kills Love!

When the spirit of jealousy overtakes someone they refuse to see anything good about the person they have decided to despise. Often they make up ideas in their head that they choose to believe about their target and repeat it to others as though it were true. Jealousy always spawns gossip.

Genesis 37:4 (Pertaining to Joseph)

"4 And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms."

Joseph left and found his brothers in Dothan. 18 But before he got there, they saw him coming and made plans to kill him. 19 They said to one another, “Look, here comes the hero of those dreams! 20 Let's kill him and throw him into a pit and say that some wild animal ate him. Then we'll see what happens to those dreams.”

21 Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. “Let's not kill him,” he said.

22 “Don't murder him or even harm him. Just throw him into a well out here in the desert.” Reuben planned to rescue Joseph later and take him back to his father.

23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they pulled off his fancy coat 24 and threw him into a dry well."

Genesis 37:28

"28 When the Midianite merchants came by, Joseph's brothers took him out of the well, and for 20 pieces of silver they sold him to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt."

Notice where jealousy led Joseph's brothers? Jealousy always leads to severe actions, reactions, and gossip. When someone is jealous they have to interpret even the good acts as foolish or unnecessary in their target. Everything is misinterpreted as mean or selfish, in other words, those who are jealous assign to their target the evil traits of the jealous one.

When someone is jealous they cannot stand that the object of their jealousy is joyful, accomplished, or just satisfied with their own life. Jealous people must do something to ruin the reputation of their target. They must call good deeds foolish and innocent deeds as having wrong motives.

Joseph's brothers hated him because he was favored by his father but also because he was hearing from God through dreams. And, worse yet the dreams were indicting his brothers as inferior by demonstrating that one day his brothers would bow down to him. Joseph didn't know what all this meant but God prepared him ahead of time to accept all the bad things that happened to him as leading to the final blessing he would have when God's purpose for his life was fulfilled.

Those who honor and obey God will be hated by those who say they are Christian but have no interest in obeying His Word. They lie against the Bible claiming things God never said and oppressing others with their false beliefs. And, they lie against the truth-teller because they hate the truth.

If a Christ-follower will not give in to the intimidation of the pretenders, the pretenders will attempt to turn others against the one they cannot control.

Notice that Christ did nothing but good on this earth when He was here. He healed people, fed people, offered them paradise without having to work for it and they still found reasons to hate Him and abuse Him. They turned down every blessing Christ had to offer even assigning to Him the works of the devil. This is a sin that can never be forgiven, claiming that Christ's miracles were of the devil.

Matthew 12:24 "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons”

Mark 3:29

"29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—"

John 15:20 "

"Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they followed My word, they will follow yours also."

We know our authentic brethren who love Christ by the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

John 14:21 "The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me, and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

1 John 3:13-15 "…13 So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.…"

We know the one who loves Christ by how much they love the brethren and the commandments of Christ. Sharing the word of God with one another is the greatest joy believers have. They would rather sit on the front porch with a brother or sister and discuss the things of God than any adventure the world has to offer.

Matthew 16:26 "Jesus said: "For what is a man profit, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

God said, 1 Timothy 6:6 "But godliness with contentment is great gain"

I remember on a number of occasions I visited friends who were "Christians." When I brought up something from God's Word to support our discussion there was intense disinterest and changing of the subject quickly. Over the years I came to understand that when someone shows disinterest in the Bible and God's principles I am probably encountering a pretender.

Often with pretenders, I attempt to engage in Biblical discussion because I enjoy God's Word and His principles more than anything else. Nearly everything that comes up in discussion brings to mind what God would think, but the pretender is always silent or distracted without engaging with me in my joy about Christ. This is very strong evidence that someone is not born again but attends church gatherings for their own purposes.

Many people attend gatherings because they feel safe there, they have friends and they like the music or the flattering sermons. When they leave the gathering for the week they return right back to their old ways without any thought of their need for obedience or change in their lives. This too is a powerful clue. If there has been no change after becoming a Christian then it is likely the person who became a Christian decided they wanted to join the club but didn't want Christ. There was no repentance, no brokenness and no salvation because Christ will not change anyone who is not repentant and has no desire for His direction and the Word of God.

I have known more of these kinds of people than anything else, they want to be seen as good people but do not want their lives to be ruled by Christ. They have little knowledge of the Bible and worse they don't want to know anything that does not enhance their personal beliefs about God.

Jealousy often emanates from those who are pretenders. They are jealous of those who have the fruit of the Spirit, those who walk their walk without being intimidated by the rules of men who disregard God. Confidence in Christ is intimidating to pretenders. They want everyone to be unsure of what they believe so they will accept anything the pretender desires to believe without challenge.

Confronting sin and Biblical error is the new hate speech in the minds of those who only care about being seen as a good person but have no desire to be changed by Christ. Appearances mean more to the pretender than substance. Feelings have more priority with the pretender than truth does.

In these last days of apostasy, believers are going to have to be strong in their walk with Christ. They will have to accept and be content with rejection, aloneness, and even persecution. We must learn to ingore our feelings. Did you know the more you ignore feelings about how you are being treated the less you have the feelings? Feelings are reactions to stimuli, if we know the stimuli are coming we will not be caught off guard leaning into feelings.

Feelings come and go but they do not have to control us and they do not have to guide us into reactions and then actions that may dishonor God or escalate matters.

We have feelings and we admit to them but they must not be the reason we do anything, truth must be our reason.

May each of us be under the control of the Holy Spirit all the time that He would be the One to speak through us. We do not have to figure anything out, we can trust the Holy Spirit to give us what we need when we need it. He speaks through His Word the Bible and will never contradict it.

John 16:13

"13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."

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I totally agree which is why we do not attend a gathering here in our region. The churches here are apostate making social issues and politics more important than Christ. The name of Jesus Christ does not roll off of anyone's lips and they act embarrassed and irritated when we mention Him and His principles. There is no love in our gatherings and worse hostility toward the principles of God. Divorce and remarriage is common even on the part of the one-man-paid-pastor system.

These people are what is described in Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

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2 Peter 2:12-15

"12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they feast with you,

14 having eyes full of adultery that never ceases from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;

15 abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;"

Matthew 5:10-12

"10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you."

2 Chronicles 36:16

"But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy."

Don't worry about any of this, God's got this, no one will go unpunished for their abuse of the born-again believers except and unless they repent and become born-again.

When a persecutor is repentant and is born-again they become our brothers and sisters, their sin is forgiven if they desire forgiveness and we can carry on together as though the mocking never happened.

We pray for those who hate us so that they can realize the same joy and peace that we have, which only comes from being changed into a new creation by Christ.

When a persecutor becomes born-again they are no longer the same person, we no longer see the old person, we are looking at a brand new person who does not persecute others anymore. They are so different that those who knew them in the past are astonished at the change, its' authentic and humble, something the friends of this new person never saw before. That all by itself is a witness to their friends and family that Christ did a miracle and lives in the new person.

There are those who claim to be Christians who do not like the new person because this miracle never happened to them. They are jealous of the new nature of the born-again believer. Those who do not like the change have never been changed themselves. They thought they would decide to be Christians and do the best they can to be a better person so as to be seen as good by others but in their heart they had no desire to be changed by Christ.

How do we recognize the pretenders who do not have the power of the Holy Spirit living in them?

Those who are pretenders begin hot and heavy about Christ and then over time they burn out, tired of having to keep up the pretense they slide back into their anger and disobedience, but only so far so as to be able to hide the real self inside. As these people grow older they become more like the old man again and never come back from it, they no longer see a need to hide what they are, they thunder along in resentment without any of the fruit of the Spirit to guide them.

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. "

All born-again believers have this fruit and all born-again believers get better as they grow older.

Those who seem to lose their Christianity as they grow older and closer to their eternity were never born again.

Hebrews 12:6-12

"6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,

And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”

7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."

God will not allow a born-again believer to be in sin without a spanking to bring them back to obedience. Those who have been changed by Christ are growing in holiness, changing all the time little by little over time becoming better.

I do not believe a born-again believer backslides permanently growing worse as the years go by. Another evidence that a pretender was never born again is their hostility toward correction with the Word of God. Those who fight against the word of God hate Him.

Proverbs 15:31-33 "…31 He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. 32 He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding. 33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.…"

Proverbs 13:18

"Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored."

Proverbs 15:5

"A fool rejects his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent."

A pretender has lots of feelings but only for himself. Pretenders lack empathy toward anyone else, they also lack compassion when others are in trials. This is another evidence of a pretenders.

Proverbs 29:11

"A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back."

Proverbs 1:7

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."

Proverbs 1:5

"Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,"

Proverbs 12:15

"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice."

There are pretenders in the churches who seem to have many right words but mix those words with the devil's lies. These are the ones who are hostile when confronted. Confront them anyway, watch what comes out, and prove to which ilk they belong, authentic or pretender, it won't be hard to discern.

1 John 4:1

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."

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