When we are beginning to envy, when we're starting to look at somebody and resent that

they have something and we don't, and we're beginning to lose our peace and contentment

in God because of envy, the issue is faith.

So how do we fight envy when it begins to rise within our hearts?

That's the question John Piper answers from Psalm 37 in this episode of Light and Truth.

The sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 14, 1988.

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 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's just, it

just naws 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 trying to flesh it out, some from

my own life and just with 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 wrote, see if you can find yourself somewhere

in this, a friend gets married, you don't get married.

You've known this friend long time perhaps and now that person's getting married and you're

not getting married and you could start to feel kind of resentful that it happened to

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