Examining the Scriptures Friday February 26, 2021

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Examining the Scriptures to day Friday February, Twenty six, twenty twenty one.

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Pursue the things making for peace and
the things that build one another up,

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Romans Fourteen nineteen. Peace cannot survive
if envy is allowed to thrive. We

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need to weed out envy from our
own heart and avoid planting feelings of envy

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in others. What specifically can we
do to help others fight envy and how

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can we promote peace? Our attitude
and actions can have a big influence on

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others. The world wants us to
make a showy display of the things we

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own, first John to sixteen,
but that attitude promotes envy. We can

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avoid nurturing envy in others if we
choose not to talk constantly about the things

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we own or plan to buy.
Another way we can avoid promoting envy is

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by being modest about the privileges we
have in the congregation. If we draw

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attention to the privileges that we have, we create fertile ground in which envy

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can grow. By contrast, when
we show genuine personal interest in others and

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acknowledge the good that they do,
we help them feel content and we promote

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unity and peace in the congregation,