Holy Competitiveness: Week 2

Mark Estepp - 6/26/2022

Philippians 2:3–4 
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Genesis 39:6–20 
So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. 

Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 

7 and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!” 

8 But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. 

9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” 

10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. 

11 One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. 

12 She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. 

13 When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, 

14 she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. 

15 When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.” 

16 She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. 

17 Then she told him this story: “That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. 

18 But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.” 

19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger. 

20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.

Holy Competitiveness is winning the interior battle before the exterior ones.

Losing interior battles blows up the exterior of your life.

Losing interior battles creates a lot of exterior conflict.

To win the interior battle:

• Depend on God.
• See yourself as set apart by God.
• Ask yourself, “What is shaping and forming my interior life?”
• Ask yourself, “Who am I becoming by the habits that I’m doing?”
• Win one window at a time. 

The interior battle is all about becoming more like Jesus.