YOUR GAUGE IS BROKEN

•    pumped to see book release do well
•    comparison like using candy thermometer to measure finger
•    King Saul’s jealousy of David proved destructive, needless

SINFUL SIBLINGS AND THE REGAL RAT

•    Joseph’s mixed bag of brothers - and unfavourable report
•    Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah – character failings
•    richly ornamented robe: token of promotion to head of tribe
•    dreams aggravated hate, jealousy
•    jealousy not always bad: God has right to be jealous of our worship
•    NT warns against selfishly-motivated jealousy/envy

THE JEALOUSY JALOPY HITS THE JUNK HEAP

•    plot to kill the “Dream Expert”
•    Ishmaelite trader solution: merely sold into lifelong slavery, for profit
•    deceptive cover-up results in lasting grief for Joseph’s father

REDEEMING JEALOUS INCLINATIONS

•    easy to be jealous of those who can impress others
•    God’s time-span plan greater than just 23 years of Joseph’s slavery
•    promise to Abraham will multiply and rescue descendants over 635 years later
•    grace: our misdeeds don’t prevent God’s sovereign, mysterious, saving action
•    Andy Stanley, Enemies of the Heart: Jealousy says “God owes me”
•    antidote: celebration - say a kind word, rejoice with them