Life Hurts …God Heals
Feb 16 th 2025 Page 1
Scripture: Luke 6:27-28, Job 42:10-12
Introduction – Resentment is holding on to a hurt, letting a hurt turn
into a hate. Job is a good example of someone who struggled with and who
recovered from resentment.
“If my anguish could be weighted and all my misery were placed on scales,
it would surely outweigh the sand of the seas…” (Job 6:1-3)
“He has filled me with bitter sorrows” (Job 9:18, LB)
I. The Causes of Resentment
A. What people say about us
- “Men of ease have contempt for misfortune…[They don’t even
understand] the fate of those whose feet are slipping.”(Job 12:5) - “Reckless words pierce like a sword” (Proverbs 12:18)
B. What people think about us (Job 12:3-4)
C. What people do to us - “My intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned
against me.” (Job 19:19) - The people we resent, we usually love the most.
II. The Consequences of Resentment
A. Resentment makes us unreasonable. - “Resentment kills a fool…” (Job 5:2)
- Moses is a classic example (Psalm 106:33)
B. Resentment is not helpful. - “Job, you tear yourself to pieces in your anger…”
Bildad, (Job 18:4)
C. Resentment is unhealthy.
- “One man dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease…
Another man dies in bitterness of soul.” (Job 21:23,25) - “Resentment kills…” (Job 5:2)
III. The Cures for Resentment
A. Reveal- Disclose your hurt. - “No, I can’t be quiet. I’m angry and bitter and I have
to speak.” (Job 7:11, GN) - “Listen to my bitter complaint, don’t condemn me, God.”
(Job 10:2, GN) - “Why do you put me under guard?…I lie down, I try to rest. I
look for relief from my pain, but you terrify me with dreams.
You send me nightmares. I’d rather be strangled than live in
this miserable body.” (Job 7:12-15, GN) - “I give up. I’m tired of living. Leave me alone. My life has
no meaning. Why is man so important to you? Why do you
pay attention to what man does?” (Job 7:16-17, GN) - “You inspect man every morning and test him every minute…
What have I done, you inspector!” (Job 7:18,20, GN) - There are 3 Alternatives. [repress it, express it or confess it]
“Confess your sins to one another and pray for each other, so
that you may be healed.” (James 5:16)
** Revealing your feeling, is the beginning of healing!
B. Release Your Offender. - “After Job prayed for his 3 friends, the Lord made him
prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had
before!” (Job 42:10) - “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless
those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”
(Luke 6:27) - “Do not repay anyone evil for evil…” (Romans 12:17-21)
- “The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the
first.” (Job 42:12)
PART 2: “PRIDE”
Life Hurts …God Heals
Feb 23 RD 2025 Page 1
Scripture: Luke 18:9-14
Introduction – PRIDE is one of the top destroyers of relationships- community.
This is how we know if we have PRIDE?
- When you get easily offended. 2. When you are easily Hurt. 3. When you are easily
disappointed. 4. When you are easily Discouraged.
Lets think about few things why we get trapped into this trap called pride. - We think that we are great: (arrogance) We think that we really are the best of best of
everyone. - It gives self satisfaction: It feels good to know that I possess things that no one has.
But today let us understand what Bible says about pride.
I. PRIDE OPENS THE DOOR TO A HOST OF OTHER SINS Luke (18: 9-14)
9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus
told this parable: 10″Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax
collector. 11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about [a] himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other
men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a
tenth of all I get.’
13″But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his
breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ 14″I tell you that this man, rather than the
other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he
who humbles himself will be exalted.”
** This is an excellent example of person filled with pride and person filled with humility.
Jesus says that man with humility will be exalted.
I will say this to you today that “there is probably no greater spiritual danger we face as God’s
people than the temptation to pride,” in all its various forms.”
Bible tells us that in proverbs, “Before honor is humility” (15:33, 18:12). Peter wrote, “Be
‘clothed’ with humility” (1 Peter 5:5), Lets guard ourselves against pride.
II. NOT ONLY DOES PRIDE OPEN THE DOOR FOR OTHER SINS, IT TENDS TO
DESTROY OUR GOOD QUALITIES
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PRIDE DESTROYS ALL VIRTUES” and there for all relationships. And creates pain in our
life. When we think of the list of things which build relationships “fruits of the Spirit” “Love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control” ( Gal. 5:22-
23).
Pride destroys all these things.
It destroys LOVE—We don’t have to look far to understand what pride can do to love.
It destroys JOY—Because pride is so easily offended, joy departs when pride is upset.
PEACE—Pride leaves us with little or no inner peace with ourselves, and certainly none with
others.
LONGSUFFERING—Far from being forgiving, pride says, “I don’t have to put up with this!”
GENTLENESS—Pride is just the opposite, with all sorts of rough edges.
GOODNESS—When we are filled with pride, we tend to be good only to self.
FAITHFULNESS—Pride may often deny even the very Word of God,
MEEKNESS—The effect is obvious here, as we have already noted.
SELF-CONTROL—Self-limiting is always challenged by pride: “Why can’t I have/do this if
I want to?”
Pride will destroy fruit of the Spirit in our lives. Fruits which will build relationships. Just
wanted to draw your attention to this scripture. “Let us not become CONCEITED, provoking one
another, ENVYING one another. . . . For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is
nothing, he deceives himself” (Gal. 5:26, 6:3,)
III. HOW TO AVOID THE TRAP OF PRIDE
ASK for cleansing, David wrote, “Cleanse me from my SECRET faults” (Psa. 19:12).
Confess and repent. This ought to be the most obvious lesson from the parable.
Don’t take yourself too seriously, as the Pharisee obviously did. We are not to think too
highly of ourselves (Rom. 12:3). “For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you: Do not
think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober
judgment…..”
Compare yourself upwards, and not downwards. “consider others better than (our)selves”
(Phil. 2:3).
Remember the example of Christ, who “took the form of a servant,” even washing the
disciples’ feet.
DAY 3: “Trap of Comparison- Envy” Life Hurts …God Heals March 2nd 2025
Dwight L. Moody once told the story of an eagle who was envious of another that could fly better than he could. One day the bird saw a sportsman with a bow and arrow and said to him,
“I wish you would bring down …… God dose not like Envy, to be present in our life. God is so serious about envy that he prohibited coveting as the tenth commandment. Exodus 20:17 says, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
TR: Just to make sure what Envy is: ### Betsy Cowen writes that: we encourage everyone to look better, to do better, to learn more, to have more. Our society creates comparison and dissatisfaction. Advertising is one of the primary catalysts for envy. In the United States alone, the advertising industry spends six billion dollars a day. As a result far too many of us live in a perpetual state ENVY and longing.
Let me turn your attention to scripture 2 Corinthians 10:12 says (New Contemporary Version) “We do not dare to compare ourselves with those who think they are very important. They use themselves to measure themselves, and they judge themselves by what they themselves are. This shows that they know nothing” But the reality is we Envy and compare.
And I want to talk to you about: Three areas of Comparison and Envy We envy talents and Abilities. We Envy Image and appearances.
We envy possessions and positions
1. Number one thing is this. First, Realize that God has made you Special, (unique).
Look at what scripture says in Psalms 139:13-14 (NIV)
“13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; …….15 My frame was not hidden from you”
2. Second, Recognize the Lordship of Christ As we deal with Envy in our life, the way we do is by Recognizing the Lordship of Christ in our life.
Bible says in Romans 12:2 (N Living Tran) “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”
3. Remember the Golden rule. Remember the Golden rule.
Which is given in Luke 6:31 (NLT) which says,
“31 Do to others as you would like them to do to you.” 4. Reassess God’s standards for your life. Bible says this in Galatians 6:4-5 (Mes)
“4-5Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, (Reassess) and then sink yourself into that.
Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.”
Conclusion: 1. Realize that God has made you unique. 2. Recognize the Lordship of Christ. 3. Remember the Golden rule. 4. Reassess God’s standards for your life.