Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Envy always assumes if all I have is what God gives to me.

If I rely solely on God, it's not going to be enough.

My soul's going to dry up.

I'm going to miss out on something.

But that is always a lie.

And tragically, it keeps you from enjoying what God has given to you for your enjoyment in the present.

Welcome to another week of trusted biblical teaching here on Summit Life with J.D. Greer,

pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. Here's perhaps an obvious statement, but isn't it true?

Envy surrounds us everywhere. And sadly, most of us don't realize the deadly poison that it can be.

We think of it as a kind of petty jealousy that

just comes from wanting a little more, but the Bible treats it as far more serious. We're discovering

what God's word really says about some deeper, perhaps sometimes darker emotions as we continue

our teaching series called Smoke from a Fire. If you missed any of the

previous messages, you can always find them at jadiegrier.com. But for now, let's join Pastor

Jadie in the Old Testament as we tackle this emotion of envy. All right, you got your

Bibles this weekend, and I hope that you brought them. If you'll take them out and open them to Numbers Chapter 11.

The idea behind this series that we're in, and this is the fourth week of that series, it's called Smoke from a Fire.

And the idea is that our emotions function like smoke from a fire. And just like you can follow the trail of smoke to figure out what is on fire in your house,

well, you can also follow the trail of your emotions to figure out what is on fire in your heart.

Or to change the analogy a little bit, each of these emotions that we've looked at,

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