Welcome back. We're talking
today about the jealous heart,
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or the jealous spirit, and
how God wants to work in us
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And how God wants to
work in us His spirit
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of contentment as we surrender.
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And how God wants us
to learn to give thanks,
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to practice
thanks, to speak thanks.
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And how that will
change our emotions;
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that changes our hearts.
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Now I don't know
if you can see here.
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I have some plants right
in front of me on the table;
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different types of weeds.
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If you were to grow a
garden, what do you want to
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grow in your garden?
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In our garden we
want tomatoes, broccoli.
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Corn would be good, although
we don't usually grow corn.
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You would want maybe asparagus,
maybe squash, maybe watermelon.
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I don't know,
maybe peppers, or onions.
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In your garden though you
don't want a lot of weeds.
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Greg is a very good gardener,
and in our garden he hoes.
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He gets rid of those weeds.
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Our garden looks very nice.
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He does a great job.
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If these weeds grow you say,
I've got to get rid of them.
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I don't want the weeds anymore.
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I don't like them in there.
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I want to get rid of them.
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What if you went
out and you just yanked?
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Now I've done that
many times in trying to weed
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in my flower beds.
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Maybe, you see we've got
some weeds right over here,
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I go out and I yank.
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It kind of looks
like a dandelion maybe.
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If I yank on
that, look at the roots.
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Did you see?
There's no roots here.
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Do you see that? none.
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I ripped it off at the top.
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Now what about
this one over here?
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It has a little
bit of a root system.
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For this one I might
have reached my fingers in
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and dug up a little bit.
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Maybe I used one of
those cloths and tried to
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get in and dig some up.
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You can see this one over here.
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It has a little bit of a
root system, but not as much
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as the one at the far end.
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Now this is the Grand
Daddy of root systems.
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That's a pretty
good sized root system.
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You can see there's
the root here at the end,
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and then it comes
all the way up here.
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There's a lot of
roots going on here.
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To dig that out of the
ground probably you would have
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to dig a long ways.
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What if I used this?
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You see what it says
on the front? weed killer.
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Now this could be
any type of weed killer.
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If I were to spray weed
killer what's going to happen?
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Is it just going to kill
the top of the plant right here?
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Is it going to leave
the root system? uh uh.
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If you actually use a weed
killer, it's going to get all
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of the way down to
the root system as well.
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I like to think about the
experience of practicing thanks.
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Of speaking thanks as
being like that weed killer.
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It's the God given antidote.
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It works immediately,
going deep into my jealousy,
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deep into what's in my heart.
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And it starts to
break up those roots.
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God doesn't want to pull
out the jealousy and leave
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all of the roots inside.
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That happens when I
try to do it myself.
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When I try to get
rid of jealousy myself
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I leave the roots inside,
and pretty soon they spring up
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and they trouble me again.
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Or even we might dig a little
deeper and leave some roots.
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God says, I want to eradicate
that jealousy from your life.
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I've got to go all the
way down to the root tip
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in order to get that.
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So this week identify
who you're jealous of.
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It could be a neighbor,
it could be a coworker,
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it could be someone who
sings great, and you wish
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you could sing like them.
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For me it might be someone
who plays the piano fabulously,
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and I think, Boy I
wish I could play the piano
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a little bit better than I do.
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Whatever it is,
identify who the person is
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that you're jealous of.
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Next write down what
you're jealous of them for.
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It might be, like I
mentioned with the piano,
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or it might be singing.
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It might be
something totally different.
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You might be jealous of
their house, or their car,
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or their money,
or their position.
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Whatever it is, identify what
it is, and then find something
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that you can be thankful for
in the midst of your jealousy.
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The group, Greater Vision,
the trio, Greater Vision,
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they wrote a song.
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Rodney Griffin is
part of Greater Vision.
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He's the one who wrote the song.
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And I love this song.
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It's about Paul and
Silas being in jail.
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Their chains were fastened tight
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down at the jail that night.
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Still Paul and Silas
would not be dismayed.
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They said, It's time to lift our
voice, sing praises to the Lord.
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Let's prove that we
will trust Him come what may.
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God wants to hear you sing
when the waves are crashing
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round you, when the
fiery darts surround you,
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when despair is all you see.
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God wants to hear your voice.
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When the wisest man has spoken,
and your circumstances are as
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hopeless as can be.
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That's when God
wants to hear you sing.
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God says, I want
to hear you sing.
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As you give thanks, as
you praise, He's going to work
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to eradicate, not the
tops, not the semi roots,
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He's going to eradicate
that jealousy from your life
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all the way down to the tip.
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Only God can do a job like that.
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Our next program we're going
to discuss the fearful heart.
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And you want to stay
with us for that program.
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In conclusion is our Scripture
as always, Romans 15:13.
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Now may the God of hope
fill you with all joy and peace
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in believing, that
you may abound in hope,
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by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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