Gellicy is often considered a secret sin.

Today on Truth For Life weekend, we'll find out what the book of Proverbs has to say about the destructive consequences of Gellicy.

Alistair Begg is continuing a series he's titled Wise Words.

Our text this evening is Proverbs 27 and verse 4. Proverbs 27 and verse 4.

Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming but who can stand before Gellicy?

It can decimate a friendship, it can dissolve the fledgling romance between a young man and his girl, it can destroy a marriage,

it can shoot tension all the way through the ranks of a business organization, it can very quickly nullify any sense of unity on a sports team,

it can foster bitterness and ugliness around the dining room table in a family, it can create total havoc in a university dorm.

In fact, there's virtually no place in which Gellicy is unable to do its dreadful work.

The Bible speaks very clearly concerning this on a number of occasions not only here in Proverbs but again as this morning,

throughout the pages of Scripture the Bible is very clear in warning against allowing Gellicy to gain any foothold in our lives.

Now obviously there is a positive kind of Gellicy because the Bible describes God as a jealous God and what does that mean?

Well it means that God has a zeal for the preservation or the well-being of that over which he has loving concerns so that he exercises a jealous love for those who are his people.

We understand that because we would exercise the same kind of jealous care over our children or in the context of our marriages.

But when we refer to Gellicy as here in verse 4 of chapter 27, we're thinking of it not in positive terms but in a negative way in which it is routinely addressed in Scripture.

I can give you all of the definition of Gellicy, it runs to a significant number of words but here is sufficient.

Gellicy is defined in the OED as zeal or vehement of feeling against some person or thing anger, wrath, indignation.

A definition number 4 is the state of mind arising from the suspicion, apprehension or knowledge of rivalry, fear of being supplanted in the affection or distrust of the fidelity of a beloved person, even the definitions almost need to find.

They're so good.

Resentment or ill will towards another on account of advantage or superiority, imagined or real.

It is that which expresses itself in envy or in a grudge.

Envy, which I thought was really jealousy but it is distinct. Listen to what envy is.

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