Emotions To Feel or Not To Feel

							     Emotions
To feel or not to feel
• Our constant companions
• Our constant companions
• Take the driver’s seat
•   Anger     Can’t   control it
•   Love      Can’t   help it
•   Sadness   Can’t   shake it
•   Afraid    Can’t   stop it
•   Ashamed   Can’t   let it go
• Our constant companions
• Take the driver’s seat
• Advanced metaphysics
•   Our constant companions
•   Take the driver’s seat
•   Advanced metaphysics
•   What did Jesus feel?
When Jesus went ashore, He saw
 a large crowd, and He felt
 compassion for them because
 they were like sheep without a
 shepherd; and He began to
 teach them many things.
                     ~Mark 6.34
And He made a scourge of cords,
 and drove them all out of the
 temple, with the sheep and the
 oxen; and He poured out the
 coins of the money changers and
 overturned their tables;
and to those who were selling the
 doves He said, “Take these things
 away; stop making My Father’s
 house a place of business.” His
 disciples remembered that it was
 written, “Zeal for Your house will
 consume me.”
                      ~John 2.15-17
When Jesus therefore saw her
 weeping, and the Jews who came
 with her also weeping, He was
 deeply moved in spirit and was
 troubled, and said, “Where have
 you laid him?” They said to Him,
 “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept.
                     ~John 11.33-35
And He took with Him Peter and
 James and John, and began to be
 very distressed and troubled. And
 He said to them, “My soul is
 deeply grieved to the point of
 death; remain here and keep
 watch.”
                    ~Mark 14.33-34
•   Our constant companions
•   Take the driver’s seat
•   Advanced metaphysics
•   What did Jesus feel?
•   Matters of life and death
          Negative           Positive
Anger     Murder             Justice
Sadness   Suicide            Hope
Guilt     Self-Destruction   Repentance
Love      Self-Indulgence    Service
Fear      Isolation          Trust
Doubt     Denial             Faith
Shame     Self-Condemning    Endurance
          Death              Life
Anger     Murder             Justice
Sadness   Suicide            Hope
Guilt     Self-Destruction   Repentance
Love      Self-Indulgence    Service
Fear      Isolation          Trust
Doubt     Denial             Faith
Shame     Self-Condemning    Endurance
            Fear
They will be terrified, Pains and
anguish will take hold of them;
          ~Isaiah 13.8a
Jumpy              Uneasy
          Tense
    Nervous
                  Restless
Terrified Alarmed
Anxious Panicked
 Scared
              Apprehensive
Paralyzed     Worried
              Fear
• How significant is FEAR?
              Fear
• How significant is FEAR?
• Out of Control
Now on one of those days Jesus and
 His disciples got into a boat, and He
 said to them, “Let us go over to the
 other side of the lake.” So they
 launched out. But as they were sailing
 along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale
 of wind descended on the lake, and
 they began to be swamped and to be
 in danger.
                          ~Luke 8.22-23
They came to Jesus and woke Him up,
 saying, “Master, Master, we are
 perishing!” And He got up and
 rebuked the wind and the surging
 waves, and they stopped, and it
 became calm.
                           ~Luke 8.24
And He said to them, “Where is your
 faith?” They were fearful and amazed,
 saying to one another, “Who then is
 this, that He commands even the
 winds and the water, and they obey
 Him?”
                            ~Luke 8.25
              Fear
• How significant is FEAR?
• Out of Control
• Art of Manipulation
1 Samuel 13.5-14
Now the Philistines assembled to fight
 with Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000
 horsemen, and people like the sand
 which is on the seashore in
 abundance; and they came up and
 camped in Michmash, east of Beth-
 aven.
When the men of Israel saw that they
 were in a strait (for the people were
 hard-pressed), then the people hid
 themselves in caves, in thickets, in
 cliffs, in cellars, and in pits.
Also some of the Hebrews crossed the
 Jordan into the land of Gad and
 Gilead. But as for Saul, he was still in
 Gilgal, and all the people followed him
 trembling. Now he waited seven days,
 according to the appointed time set
 by Samuel, but Samuel did not come
 to Gilgal; and the people were
 scattering from him.
So Saul said, “Bring to me the burnt
 offering and the peace offerings.” And
 he offered the burnt offering. As soon
 as he finished offering the burnt
 offering, behold, Samuel came; and
 Saul went out to meet him and to
 greet him. But Samuel said, “What
 have you done?”
And Saul said, “Because I saw that the
 people were scattering from me, and
 that you did not come within the
 appointed days, and that the
 Philistines were assembling at
 Michmash, therefore I said, ‘Now the
 Philistines will come down against me
 at Gilgal, and I have not asked the
 favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself
 and offered the burnt offering.”
Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted
 foolishly; you have not kept the
 commandment of the Lord your God,
 which He commanded you, for now
 the Lord would have established your
 kingdom over Israel forever.
“But now your kingdom shall not
  endure. The Lord has sought out for
  Himself a man after His own heart,
  and the Lord has appointed him as
  ruler over His people, because you
  have not kept what the Lord
  commanded you.”
                Fear
•   How significant is FEAR?
•   Out of Control
•   Art of Manipulation
•   Right Fear, Wrong Fear
The conclusion, when all has been
 heard, is: fear God and keep His
 commandments, because this applies
 to every person. For God will bring
 every act to judgment, everything which
 is hidden, whether it is good or evil.
                 ~Ecclesiastes 12.13-14
                Fear
•   How significant is FEAR?
•   Out of Control
•   Art of Manipulation
•   Right Fear, Wrong Fear
•   Do I Trust?
“Have I not commanded you? Be
  strong and courageous! Do not
  tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord
  your God is with you wherever you
  go.”
                         ~Joshua 1.9
In peace I will both lie down and sleep,
  For You alone, O Lord, make me to
            dwell in safety.

               ~Psalm 4:8