A Spiteful Person
Author: Rev. Esther Holmes
May 10, 2018
Think about it! Provoke: To arouse anger, to instigate trouble, and to do it
deliberately. Gal 5:26 Phil 2:1-3 Eph 4:31-32 Col
3:8-10
A spiteful person will always
provoke.
Spiteful: A malicious desire to hurt or annoy or humiliate
another person.
A spiteful person is mean and wants
to get even.
Malice: Is condemned in the Word. I Cor 5:8, 14:20 Eph
4:31 Col 3:8 I Peter 2:1
Examples – Est 3:6 Ps
140:3 Prov 30:14 Isa 59:5 Matt 27:23 John 12:10
Acts 7:54
Hatred grows from spite. Gen
27:41
Joseph’s brothers – Gen 37:4
Haman jealous and spiteful – Est
3:5-6; 9:1
Envy births spite and spite births
retaliation.
Retaliation is forbidden – Lev 19:18
Prov 20:22 “Say not thou, I will recompense
evil, but wait on the Lord, and He shall save thee.”
Examples –
Philistines toward Israel. Eze
25:15 “Thus saith the Lord God; because the Philistines have dealt by revenge,
and have taken vengeance with a spiteful heart, to destroy it for the old
hatred; Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold I will stretch out Mine Hand
upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast.”
Nazarenes toward Christ – Luke 4:29
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