“God is Jealous” Sermon Quotes Exodus 20:2-6

“God is Jealous” Sermon Quotes
Exodus 20:2-6
September 9, 2012
An attribute of God is any term that adequately completes the sentence:
• “God is…”
“An attribute is something which God has declared to be true of himself.”
-AW Tozer, The Attributes of God Vol. 2, 282
“We speak truly of God when we speak about him as he has spoken about himself. And
he has told us that he is a jealous God.”
-K. Erik Thoennes, Godly Jealousy: A Theology of Intolerant Love 21
“Envy is the desire to gain possession of something that is not currently possessed.
Jealousy is the desire to maintain exclusive devotion within a relationship in the face of a
challenge to that exclusive devotion.”
- K. Erik Thoennes, Godly Jealousy: A Theology of Intolerant Love 13-14
Requirements for Jealousy:
1. A Lover
2. A Beloved
3. A Rival
“God is not jealous like an insecure employer who fears that his employees might get
lured away by a better salary elsewhere. God’s jealousy is not the reflex of weakness or
fear. Instead God is jealous like a powerful and merciful king who takes a peasant girl
from a life of shame, forgives her, marries her, and gives her not the chores of a slave,
but the privileges of a wife—a queen. His jealousy does not rise from fear or weakness
but from a holy indignation at having his honor and power and mercy scorned by the
faithlessness of a fickle spouse.”
-John Piper, The Lord Whose Name Is Jealous, October 28, 1984
“At its core jealousy is an emotion based on a perceived infidelity to covenant
exclusivity.”
-K. Erik Thoennes, Godly Jealousy: A Theology of Intolerant Love 12