Jealous over you with  Godly  jealousy   (Return to HOME PAGE)
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"Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him." (2Cor.11:1-4)

I. There is a natural jealousy and a Godly Jealousy

   A.  Natural (fleshly) Jealousy
        1.  Strong's
        2.  Examples
        
   B.  Godly (spiritual Jealousy
         I.  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table,   
             and of the table of devils.  Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?  All things are
             lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
             (1Corinthians 10:21-23 / Think of James.4:1-4)
        2.  With this would come a "greving of the Holy Spirit" (Eph.4)
































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