Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen.

When you go and you begin to compare yourself with other people,

what about people who are richer than we are?

What about people that are better looking than we are?

What about people that are smarter than we are? What about people that are better looking than we are? What about people that are just happier than we are? They have a better marriage. They just, everything's better.

Listen, if you're not careful, what happens is not only does it create a barrier between you and that person and how you think about that person or relate to that person.

If you're not careful, there's a seed of mistrust in a fence that comes with God. In other words, God, do you love them more? Oh, comparison is something that we're given to as human beings. It's just simply something that all of us do.

But the kind of comparison

I'm talking about this morning is the type of comparison that the devil uses.

To implant within us thoughts about God and ourselves and others that are negative

and to cause us to do things that keep us from being the people that God wants

that want us to be. It wants us to be and I'm saying it's very very common we're

going to read this story

in John 21 now

Jesus has died and been resurrected

and this is the third time after Jesus resurrection that he has appeared to his disciples.

He's about to ascend into heaven.

So just remember as we're reading this, he's already died, he's already been resurrected,

he's about to send into heaven.

John 21, verse 15.

When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus and the disciples,

Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah,

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