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    Green Is Not Your Color: How to Overcome Jealousy and Intimidation Within the Church
    Green Is Not Your Color: How to Overcome Jealousy and Intimidation Within the Church
    Green Is Not Your Color: How to Overcome Jealousy and Intimidation Within the Church
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    Green Is Not Your Color: How to Overcome Jealousy and Intimidation Within the Church

    By Jerea D. Jackson

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    Green Is Not Your Color is more than a book. Its a clarion call for saints to smash boundaries and walk in the true calling of the Lord. It not only challenges believers to examine themselves, it convicts and drives into the hearts of Gods people to be perfect before our heavenly Father. It addresses issues in the body that no one wants to discuss.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateApr 26, 2013
    ISBN9781449792701
    Green Is Not Your Color: How to Overcome Jealousy and Intimidation Within the Church
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    Jerea D. Jackson

    As a youth pastor, Jerea D. Jackson is a highly spirited and motivated individual called to preach the Gospel of Jesus. She charges believers to walk in the statutes of God. She’s ready to launch out into the deep as she addresses the hard issues that this generation is facing.

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      Green Is Not Your Color - Jerea D. Jackson

      Copyright © 2013 Jerea D. Jackson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9271-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9272-5 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-9270-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013907295

      WestBow Press rev. date: 04/24/2013

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction: What Is Love?

      Chapter 1: The Definition

      Chapter 2: Why?

      Chapter 3: Love

      Chapter 4: Hypocrisy

      Chapter 5: Competition

      Chapter 6: Jealousy

      Chapter 7: The Spirit of Intimidation

      Chapter 8: The Spirit of Rejection: Ouch!

      Chapter 9: Showcasing Your Blessings

      Chapter 10: Judge Ye Not!

      Chapter 11: Leaders

      Chapter 12: Laymen

      Chapter 13: Acknowledging v. Bragging Leaders, Beware!

      Chapter 14: False Humility

      Chapter 15: The Hidden Enemy: Pride!

      Chapter 16: Casting the First Stone

      Chapter 17: Just Be Real with God

      Chapter 18: Do the Love Thing!

      To Do or Not to Do

      About the Author

      Endnotes

      Foreword

      Jealousy is cruel as the grave.

      —Song of Solomon 8:6

      For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;

      but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

      —2 Timothy 1:7

      Jealousy and intimidation are two subjects that aren’t addressed much from the pulpit today; however, they are two subjects Jesus never backed down from addressing. Most often when we hear the story about the prodigal son, the emphasis is placed on the patience and love of the father or the impatience and riotous living of the youngest son once he’d obtained his inheritance and left his father’s house. The eldest son, however, is lurking in the shadows of this story. He was not happy to see his younger brother return. According to the Scriptures, the elder brother was angry and would not join in the celebration. Could it be possible that jealousy was at the heart of what was troubling him?

      What about intimidation? Fear can be a direct result of such actions. Is there intimidation or bullying in the church today? Acts 4 tells how the early church suffered persecution from the religious leaders of that day. Peter and John were perceived by the leaders as unlearned and ignorant; however, the leaders of the temple were the ones who lacked true knowledge and relationship with Jesus Christ. This is not to say that all church leaders operate with a spirit of intimidation, but when we find ourselves wanting to please men more than God, we must examine our motives.

      Green Is Not Your Color is a heart-compelling book meant to assist the church in preparing itself as the bride of Christ for His return. The Scriptures state in Ephesians 5:23-7 that Jesus wants to present the church to Himself as a glorious church, not having spot, blemish, wrinkle, or any such thing. First Peter 4:17 states, For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

      Whether it’s jealousy or bullying that pulls at our hearts today, these unclean spirits must be cast out and the door shut where there can be no return. Fasten your seatbelts as the author takes us from the symptoms to the diagnosis to the cure.

      Pastor Rodney Sanders

      The Voice of One Ministry

      Introduction: What Is Love?

      Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

      Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

      Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

      When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

      And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

      —1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV

      Chapter 1: The Definition

      According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, the word love¹ is defined as "strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties; an assurance of affection; the object of attachment, devotion,

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