Spir Dynamics 518 11/13/94; Eph 1201, 5/17/90; Israel 44, 7/21/91; James 2
A. Definition.
1. Since jealousy is defined as unpleasant fear, suspicion, resentment from mistrust of another, it is obvious that the state of envy is a part of the arrogance complex of sins and the emotional complex of sins. Envy is always an attitude or feeling of discontent. It is envy with regard to another’s advantages or successes or possessions or how they have mistreated you in your imagination or in reality.
a. Jealousy is a part of the arrogance complex of sins related to bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, inordinate ambition and competition, revenge motivation, the function of vilification. Jealousy, as an emotional sin, has two directions.
(1) Arrogance toward self, which is subjective arrogance.
(2) Possessiveness of others, which is objective arrogance.
b. Jealousy is related to the categories of the emotional complex of sins. As a sin of arrogance, jealousy motivates sins of emotion. As a sin of emotion, jealousy becomes irrational.
(1) The hysterical category of sins includes fear—fear of rivalry, fear of losing someone’s affection, fear of unfaithfulness in some form—worry, anxiety, panic, consternation, irrationality, dissociation. Jealousy is irrational in its resentment and hatred of others.
(2) The hatred category includes uncontrollable anger, implacable hatred, bitter resentment, implacable vindictiveness, loathing, animosity, tantrums, violence, murder.
(3) The self-centered category includes self-pity, egotistical irrationality, certain expressions of dissatisfaction including gossip, slander, maligning, and other forms of vilification. This is arrogant preoccupation with self, irrationality, and the implacable attitude toward the object of jealousy.
(4) The reaction category includes combining the emotional sins with the arrogance complex of sins. Jealousy is related to both complex of sins. Jealousy has a reaction factor called guilt. Jealousy is a part of revenge motivation.
(5) The guilt category. Jealousy results in irrationality which the person often regrets and feels guilty about the things he has done. Guilt is failure to recognize your own sins and failures in the right perspective. The right perspective is that Jesus Christ was judged for your sins on the Cross and that you are responsible to acknowledge or name those sins to God the Father for forgiveness. As a sin of arrogance, jealousy motivates sins of emotion. As a sin of emotion, jealousy is irrational.
c. Jealousy is a major factor in the function of self- righteousness and crusader arrogance, and therefore, a producer of legalism and Christian moral degeneracy. Therefore, jealousy becomes both legalism and tyranny though possessiveness. Jealousy causes the believer to develop a facade of self-righteousness which he uses as a system of legalism. He has a pseudo self-identity. Then he says that what he does is spirituality. He makes himself a role model for what Christianity should be. Then he tries to get others to accept his role model pseudo self-identity.
d. Jealousy is a major factor in the failure to execute the protocol plan of God for the Church, and therefore, does not glorify God.
e. Jealousy is a self-justification system, and you cannot solve your problems as long as you are justifying yourself.
f. Jealousy and the filling of the Holy Spirit are mutually exclusive. Jealousy keeps you from glorifying God.
g. Eventually jealousy becomes a part of Christian psychosis.
2. Jealousy is related to many things.
a. Jealousy is related to fear of losing another’s affection or love, fear of rivalry, fear of unfaithfulness. This is why jealousy is anti-freedom; for jealousy does not permit people to love you from their own volition. Jealousy intrudes into the privacy of others and becomes destructive of human freedom. Jealousy demands love and attention based on its own volition, not on the volition of another. Jealousy is a possessiveness which stifles the volition of another person; hence, jealousy is tyranny. Jealousy is anti-freedom, and does not permit people to love you from their own volition. Jealousy wants to be loved based on its volition. Jealousy is a tyranny in its simplest form.
b. Jealousy is related to hatred. Jealousy is irrational in its hatred and resentment of others. Jealousy is mood arrogance; hence, troubled by suspicion that a person’s love has been diverted to a rival. Jealousy becomes the motivator of hatred, anger, revenge, gossip, slander, maligning, judging, revenge.
c. Jealousy is the basis for inordinate competition in love, in family relationships, business relationships, social life, athletics, professional life, and in your religious life. Jealousy plus power and approbation lust produces strife, conspiracy, revolt, and revolution.
3. Jealousy is more than a mental attitude sin which demands exclusive devotion and is intolerant of rivalry; it is a complex of sins. It is total preoccupation with self.
4. Jealousy is discontent with the blessings, successes, or status symbols of other people. It is resentment of the attractiveness or approbation that a person receives. It is total selfishness and is incapable of love. It is pseudo-love arrogance.
5. In the old English it had the connotation of ardent devotion, “I [God] am jealous for My people.” This doctrine is confined to the mental attitude sins of jealousy.
6. Scriptural illustrations.
a. Prov 14:30, “A tranquil right lobe is life to the body, but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.”
b. Prov 27:4, “Wrath is fierce; anger is a flood; but who can stand against jealousy.”
c. Mk 15:10, “For He was aware that the chief priests had delivered Him over to the Romans because of jealousy.”
d. Acts 13:45, “But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the doctrines spoken by Paul, and they began to revile him.”
e. 1 Cor 3:3, “For you are still carnal; for since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not carnal? In fact, are you not walking on the basis of the standards of men [unbelievers]?”
f. 1 Cor 13:4, “Virtue-love is not jealous.”
g. 2 Cor 12:20, “For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and I may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, anger, flared tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, confusion.”
g. 1 Tim 6:3-4, “If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and does not concur with sound doctrine, he is arrogant, understanding nothing, but he has a morbid obsession about controversies and verbal conflicts from which originate jealousy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions.”
h. Jam 3:14, 16, “But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your right lobes, do not become arrogant and lie against the truth; for where jealousy and strife exist, there is unruliness and evil obsession.”
i. Jam 4:2,5, “You continue to lust but do not have; you murder and you are jealous and so you are not able to obtain; instead you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask. Or do you presume that the Scripture speaks in vain against jealousy.”
j. Gal 5:25-26, “If we live by means of the Spirit, let us advance by means of the Spirit. Let us not become arrogant, challenging each other, being jealous of each other.” Jealousy and the filling of the Spirit are mutually exclusive.
B. The source of jealousy is sin and evil.
1. The first source of jealousy is the old sin nature’s area of weakness which produces sin.
2. The second source is the evil of the interlock between the mental attitude sins and pseudo-love arrogance of cosmic one, 1 Tim 6:3-4. All reversionists are jealous. Reversionism inflames jealousy.
3. Jealousy is not just a sin, it is moving toward insanity, becoming a psycho believer.
C. Jealousy is a sin related to the negative volition of gate two of cosmic two.
1. This is seen in the unbeliever’s arrogance of Rom 1:28-29, “full of jealousy.”
2. It is also seen in the believer’s arrogance of James 3:14-16. If you are jealous, you will be contentious. When a person is jealous, he is contentious on the one hand and builds up self on the other hand. To do so, this person must lie against Bible doctrine. Where jealousy exists, there is every evil function.
D. Jealousy rejects Bible doctrine. It is characteristic of the cosmic system, Acts 13:45, 17:5.
E. Jealousy motivates religion, Mk 15:10. Jesus Christ was delivered over to death because of the religious jealousy of the leaders of the Jews.
F. The jealousy of the authority of Joseph motivated his brothers to sell him into slavery, Acts 7:9. When you resent anyone because of their authority, you are arrogant and will be motivated by jealousy.
G. Jealousy split the nation Israel, Isa 11:13. The jealous person always attacks the object of their jealousy. The Northern Kingdom was jealous of Judah.
H. So great was the sin of jealousy in Israel that a special offering was made for it, Num 5:11-31. It is very difficult to get over jealousy.
I. Jealousy is the basis for the destruction of category two love (personal love of a member of the opposite sex), Song of Solomon 8:6-7. No one with pride or jealousy has capacity for love. Jealousy has great power just as the fear of death has power.
J. Jealousy is self-destructive, Job 5:2; Prov 14:30. As goes your mental attitude, so goes your health. Jealousy kills the foolish person.
K. Jealousy is the strongest mental attitude sin, Prov 27:3-4. Pride is the worst sin, and is the other side of the coin from jealousy. The “rock” in this passage is overt jealousy and anger; the “sand” is subtle jealousy.
L. Jealousy is related to the suppression of pride, which is part of a trigger mechanism producing both false motivation and discord, Phil 1:15a. Here we have a right action, witnessing, with wrong motivation, jealousy. Arrogance creates hang-ups of the soul. These hang-ups are the source of false motivation in life. These people are petty, jealous, and have inordinate competition. Pettiness is the little sister of jealousy; they are closely related.
M. Jealousy is related to the three categories of love.
1. Jealousy, as an anthropopathism, is legitimate only by God, who demands all your attention and concentration when you reach maturity.
2. In category two love toward a member of the opposite sex, the jealous person can be so possessive they smother the other person’s love and destroy it.
3. In category three love toward friends, the jealous person wants you to be friends only with them. They get upset when you associate with other people. _
© 1989, by R. B. Thieme, Jr. All rights reserved.
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