Jealousy
The Jewish leaders, the high priests and the
Sadducees who were with him,
were so jealous of the apostles that they
arrested them and imprisoned them.
Eventually, they also became jealous of Jesus
and handed him over to the Roman governor Pilate
to crucify him
(Matthew 27:18; Acts 5:17-18).
We must not be jealous.
We should not be jealous of those who practice
injustice
(Psalms 37:1).
We should not have jealousy and quarrels among us
like people in the world who do not believe in Jesus
(1 Corinthians 3:3).
Where there is envy and strife, there is
confusion and every evil work
(James 3:16).
God even uses jealousy
to save us.
God had told Abraham that his descendants would
be foreigners in a land not their own,
where they would be enslaved and mistreated for
400 years.
In the process of fulfilling this promise,
God also used the jealousy of Joseph's ten
brothers,
which eventually led Joseph to be sold into
slavery in Egypt.
God's primary purpose in sending Joseph ahead to
Egypt
was to
save Joseph's brothers and ensure the survival of their descendants
(Genesis 45:5, 7; Acts 7:8-15).
Ultimately, God preserved and rescued the
descendants of Jacob's sons
through Joseph during a severe famine.
Our God is the God of salvation!
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