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When Your Discontentment Becomes Sinful
Jude; Exodus 17

Jude 14b–15 says, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Jude 16 says, 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires;

I. Discontentment is a Hellish Sin Because it Leads to Hell

II. Discontentment is a Hellish Sin Because it Comes from Hell

A. Discontentment is an Expression of Pride
Jude 16, 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Discontent people are living out the manifestation of a heart filled with pride. It flows from a heart that says, “I deserve more from God than what I got.”

1 Timothy 3:6, 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Jude 6, 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

B. Discontentment is an Expression of Rebellion

Job 1:21b, The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

C. Discontentment is a Fruit of Unbelief

Exodus 17:7b says, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

III. Discontentment is a Hellish Sin Because Tastes of Hell

Discontentment is a way in which a person becomes his or her own tormentor.

A. Discontentment Causes You to Lose Time

B. Discontentment Causes You to Lose Discernment

Numbers 16:13 says, 13 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?

C. Discontentment Causes You to Lose Joy

Discontentment results in you not enjoying what you have because you’re too focused and what is not there.

D. Discontentment Causes You to Have More Sorrows

Genesis 30:1 says, When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”