One of the barriers to being concerned for other people is that we envy them.

We're going to talk tonight about battling the unbelief of envy.

Let's define it. I don't think it's too hard to do that.

As I analyze envy, as I tried to do this afternoon, and then after I'd analyze it and written it down I looked it up in

Webster's just to see if this was a common ordinary definition. The very two things that I had

picked out were right there. So I think it's a pretty common thing. that I thought of two things and I thought of

two things and I thought of envy I thought of a desire it has an element of

desire in it that somebody either has experienced an advantage in life has an

advantage in life or a benefit, something's going well for them,

and you want that to happen to you.

But that's not enough to make it envy because that could be okay in certain

circumstances we're supposed to imitate saintly people. The other element that makes envy bad is that there's, that desire is

tinged with resentment. That it's going that well for them and not for me.

That's what makes it envy.

So in a sentence, it's a feeling of desire that you have the benefit that someone else does mingled with resentment

that they have it and you don't.

So a mingling of desire for something and resentment that another is enjoying it and you're not.

Things aren't going so well for you, things are going well for them and it just it just gnaws away at you sometimes that

why does it go so well for that person when it doesn't go so well for me and then the

next thing I did this afternoon was just try to flesh it out.

Something from my own life and just in my imagination from other people's lives and things I've read.

What are some illustrations of envy? And so let me just go down the list that I

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