Conflict begins out of a heart that is filled with envy.

The richest man in the world may not be satisfied with his prosperity and still covet

something that somebody else has.

The world is filled with warfare.

Such as global war or national conflict of armaments clashing with one another.

But there's warfare in the church, there's warfare in the community, there's warfare in

the state house, there's conflict all around us.

Quarrels, fights, disputes, contensions.

And James says, where do these things come from?

He said practically speaking, they all come from something that's wrong deeply within

our hearts.

And the one motivating factor that creates these wars and conflicts is envy.

One of the deadly sins of the Old Testament and one that we hardly ever speak of in our

own day.

And interesting that in Israel, when God created a nation and gave to that nation their

constitution, their bill of rights, the ten overarching laws that would govern all of

their interaction and all of their culture and all of their legal structure that he included

in the top ten of those laws in the ten commandments.

The commandment thou shalt not covet.

Sometimes we think that covetousness is something that is only found among the poor, that

they covet or envy the possessions, the wealth, the prosperity, or the position and status

of the wealthy.

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