Fighting the Four Evils

We live in a world full of people who love to make others envious or jealous of them. Such people cannot rest until they makes others envious or jealous of them. Whenever they fall to make others envious or jealous of them, they are full of anger, and hate the person who they seek to stir up envy or jealousy in, all the more. Such is the perversion of envy and jealousy. Advertising is the most obvious example. It feeds on the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life (1 John 2:16), seeking to promise fulfillment of such things, but yet being only too delighted to show that one cannot. That is exactly how envy and jealousy work. They not only thrive on, but love to only show people seeking to fulfill their lusts and pride, how they cannot find such fulfillment, whereas another can. Jealous and envy make a person spiritually weak because just as death and destruction are never satisfied, the same is with the lust of the eyes: Hell and destruction are never full; so the ey...

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. (Proverbs 26:4-5)  The Bible teaches the godly wise person how to 'answer the fool'. This refers to how to address foolishness from those the Bible calls 'fools', that is, evil people who reject the counsel of God and seek after their own wisdom, thinking they are so wise. How does the godly person answer such foolishness, according to Proverbs 26:4-5? By understanding his foolishness and attacking it accordingly. Rebuke him in accordance to the wisdom of God and principles of righteousness, and he will fall. The wisdom of God exposes his foolishness, his futile thoughts, manifesting in his works of darkness: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened (Romans 1:21). This I say therefore, a...