Title: The Emotional Life of Jesus: An Overview (Part 2) 
Meta: The Bible teaches that as a man Jesus possessed the essential elements of human nature. Jesus was not constricted in His emotions, or corrupted and controlled by His emotions. He was perfectly balanced in His emotions.
Tags: emotions,men,attitude,christian,Jesus,Life

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Brothers, I hope no one will be offended

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by the fact that I'm going to wear my hat.

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I don't have hair like Michael -

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close cropped -

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and I don't have much of it.

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And I think it would be more distracting

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to see my wispy hair blowing

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than it would for me to wear my hat.

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So, I trust nobody's offended by that.

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Brothers, something I wanted 
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but for the sake of time,

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chose not to do,

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but I'll take a few minutes now,

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is just to share my own personal testimony

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of God's grace.

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I've enjoyed getting to know some of you

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that I haven't known before.

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But still, I'm a stranger to many of you.

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And it's always good to hear from someone

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you know a little bit something about.

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So let me briefly just tell you my story.

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I was raised in northern New Jersey

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in a family that was 
nominally Roman Catholic.

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My father was raised Italian Catholic,

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and for him, it was enough

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that we made our first holy communion

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at about age 6,

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and after that, we were on our own

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to go to church.

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By my mid-teen years,

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I found myself asking some

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of the basic questions about life:

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Why am I here?

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Where am I going?

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What's going to happen to me

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when I die?

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And so I began going on my own

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to the Roman Catholic church

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about a mile away across

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our little mile square town.

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Walking to church in my mid-teens.

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Asking those questions.

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But I remember returning week after week

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as empty-headed as I went.

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The Catholic church was a lot of ceremony.

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It was sit, stand, kneel.

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Sit, stand, kneel.

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Some monotone, dull prayers.

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Some reading of Scripture 
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a far away world.

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And rather ironically,

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the Mass would end by the priest saying,

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"The Mass has ended. Go in peace."

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And the congregational response was,

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"Thanks be to God."

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And the way they all peeled out,

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took off for the parking 
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I interpreted that to be,

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the Mass has ended, go in 
peace, thank God it's over.

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I've done my 45 minutes 
of religion for the week

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and I'm done.

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And that's how people were viewing it.

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And that's how I was viewing it.

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No answers.

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But in the kind providence of God,

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in those mid-teen years,

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I met a couple of young men

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at a pond where my friend and I

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used to ice skate and play ice hockey.

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And these guys were about my age

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and I love to fish,

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and these guys were not only fisherman,

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they were fisherman, hunters, and trappers

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in suburban north Jersey.

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It was like these guys should have been

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born in another century.

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But they became my friends

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and we began fishing together.

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And through them, I was exposed

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to a Baptist youth group.

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And even though I'm sure it was

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a bunch of immature kids,

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many of them not even converted,

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but there was something real and genuine

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about their faith that I 
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When they prayed a simple prayer

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over a meal,

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it was as though God were a real person

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and that they knew Him.

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And that was different 
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in the Roman Catholic church.

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And I was intrigued by their lives.

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They had something that I didn't have

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and I wanted.

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Now they were friendly toward me,

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but somehow I had the sense

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that I'm on the outside looking in

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to something that I'm not a part of.

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And I knew it was all about Jesus.

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But God didn't put it 
together for me right away.

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I went off to college at 
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My freshman year went OK.

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I was majoring in psychology,

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simply because to me,

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people were more interesting than things.

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And so, let me major in psychology.

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I had no direction for my life.

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After that first year,

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we had taken a vacation up to Canada.

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I met a young French Canadian girl

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that I had an interest in,

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an infatuation with,

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and went up and visited her

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on my motorcycle.

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And then returned to college in Maryland

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for my second year of college.

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And that year was the 
worst year of my life.

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I began to spiral downward

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in a deeper and deeper depression.

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One reason was that relationship

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with this girl in Canada

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wasn't working out,

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but more than that,

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I had no purpose and meaning to my life.

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Francis Schaeffer once described my life

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as you take a woman's bead necklace,

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and you cut the string,

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and all the breads roll around

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with no string to tie them together.

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And that was my life.

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If you looked at each bead,

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I had loving parents,

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though not Christian.

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I was a good student.

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I played sports.

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I had friends.

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I joined a fraternity.

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My life was together

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from an external standpoint,

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but there was no string

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to tie my life together.

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Why was I here?

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What was the purpose of my life?

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What was going to happen when I die?

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And so I began to spiral downward

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in depression.

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I had been on the wrestling team.

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but that year, I had no motivation,

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no drive.

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And I started, but then I 
quit the wrestling team.

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And second semester, I actually

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failed a course.

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I had never come close 
to failing a course.

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I didn't even go to the final exam.

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And that was a sign that I was sinking

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into a deep depression.

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It was the hippie era.

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This was 1970.

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And people were running to California.

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I wasn't a hippie.

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I wasn't into drugs.

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But, I was so despairing

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that I was planning at 
the end of that year

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after the first week of May,

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to jump on my motorcycle,

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and run to California,

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which was unusual for me.

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I never did daring things.

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I didn't want to hurt my parents.

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I loved them.

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But I was so depressed,

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I just wanted to run away.

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May 1st, 1970 was a momentous day

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in my life.

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I was going down to the Chesapeake Bay

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in Maryland to study for a final exam.

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I had a fraternity brother on my back,

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on the back of my motorcycle.

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We were going to go to the beach,

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just catch some rays and study.

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There was a gully,

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and I asked him to hop off
and I'd meet him on the other side.

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And when I kickstarted the engine,
flames shot out of the carburetors

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for some unknown reason,

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and within seconds ignited

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that foam rubber seat.

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Perhaps I could have put it out

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if I had thought quickly,

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but I didn't.

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I dropped the motorcycle.

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We watched it go up in flames

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until we were bold enough to throw

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sand and dirt on it

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and put the fire out.

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By that time, the motorcycle was ruined.

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It was a mass of melted 
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Some friends came out from campus

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with a pickup truck,

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toted us back to campus.

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And I remember wheeling my motorcycle

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down to one of those do-it-yourself

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car washes to begin to clean it off

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and take it apart.

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It was so long ago, that 
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But I remember thinking,

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maybe the God of my Christian friends

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in New Jersey has the answer for me.

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And all I can tell you men

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is that some time in that next week,

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Jesus Christ came into my life.

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I never remember making a prayer,

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but I pieced together 
enough of the Gospel,

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I knew it was all about Jesus.

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And all I can say is that God must have

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regenerated me, given me faith.

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And in that first week, I was changed...

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forever.

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The depression lifted.

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The peace from God descended upon my life.

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I returned home to New Jersey

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a new creation in Christ

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47 and a half years ago.

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And three of the things that marked

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the change in my life were these:

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Number one,

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I had the assurance that 
my sins were forgiven.

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I can remember driving down

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the New Jersey Turnpike on my motorcycle

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with tractor trailers

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and making vows to God.

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And I remember thinking

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after I got my motorcycle rebuilt,

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I still don't want to wipe out

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on a patch of oil,

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but if I do, I'm going to heaven.

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I knew my sins were forgiven.

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Then, God gave me a hunger for the Bible.

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We didn't have a Bible in our home.

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We searched high and low,
and I found my first Bible

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in the glove compartment of 
a Mayflower moving truck

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that I used to drive 
during the summers.

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I still have that Bible.

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A King James Bible with John 5 missing.

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It was a couple years before

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I got to read John 5,

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because for some reason,

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that was ripped out.

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But a hunger for the Bible,

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and if you look at that first Bible,

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it's highlighted and underlined,

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asterisks and stars and notes...

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it was just the hunger 
of that newborn babe

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for the milk of the Word.

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And the third change was

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I became a witness for Jesus.

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I was never a bold, 
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about anything.

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I had no strong opinions about anything.

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I had no message for anybody.

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But the realization that Jesus Christ

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was the key to everybody's eternity

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turned even a somewhat quiet,

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to himself kind of person

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into a person who carried around

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a satchel of tracts wherever I went

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and witnessed to everybody I could find.

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And those were the things that marked,

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the evidence that God 
had given me new life.

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If anybody is here

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and you're in that same position,

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life may be good;

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life may be rough.

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But there's no purpose,

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no sense of meaning.

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Why am I here?

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Is there a God?

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Who is He?

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Where am I going when I die?

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My prayer is that you would

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call upon Jesus Christ,

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the One Who changed my life

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47 and a half years ago,

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and that you would know

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the same experience of having His peace

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that He gave to me.

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I cannot account for my life,

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except for the fact that

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Jesus is a risen and living Savior.

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None of this pulling yourself up

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by your religious bootstraps.

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I had no strength to pull myself up

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by any bootstraps.

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Jesus came and visited me

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in Middle Hall on the campus

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of Washington College

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in Chestertown, Maryland

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47 and a half years ago

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and changed me forever.

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And if you're not a Christian,

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He can change and save you.

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Call upon Him.

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Brothers, our subject this weekend

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is emotions.

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What did we see last night?

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We saw that our emotions originated

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with our creation.

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We were made in the image of God.

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We were made to think.

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We were made to choose.

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And we were made to feel.

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But we saw that sin

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has disrupted our emotions

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and I noted three ways

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that the fall of man into sin

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has disrupted our emotions.

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It has constricted our emotions

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so that they are 
restricted and restrained.

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In some cases, numbed and cauterized.

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And so they're not given expression,

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at least certain emotions,

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as they should.

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Sin has constricted our emotions.

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Sin has also corrupted our emotions.

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Turned them upside down

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so that we rejoice when we should mourn,

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we mourn when we should rejoice,

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we delight in evil

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and we despise good.

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Emotions turned upside down,

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perverted and corrupted by sin.

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And then sometimes,

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sin has affected our emotions

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in that our emotions come to control us.

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They grab the steering wheel away

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from our reason,

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and they lead our lives

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into destructive paths.

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But we saw that our 
emotions can be redeemed.

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They can be restored to something of what

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God intended in the first place.

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How so?

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By the saving work of Jesus Christ.

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That saving work begins

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with restoring our right standing

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before God,

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where we believe in Jesus,

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and God takes our sin,

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puts it on Jesus,

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takes the perfect righteousness

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earned by Jesus,

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credits it to us,

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and we are justified,

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declared righteous based on

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the righteousness of another.

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That's where salvation begins

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with the right standing with God.

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But it doesn't end there.

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It continues by restoring a right state.

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And God works in us by His Holy Spirit,

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beginning with regeneration,

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and then continuing the life-long process

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of sanctification -

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becoming more holy.

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And we noted that 
becoming more sanctified,

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becoming more holy is tantamount to saying

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becoming more like Jesus Christ.

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He is our perfect pattern of holiness.

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And specifically, He is 
our perfect pattern

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of holiness when it 
comes to the emotional life.

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He is the perfect representation

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of God the Father.

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He is the perfect embodiment of holiness

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which includes our emotional life.

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So as we are pressing on

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toward likeness to Christ,

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we should desire to think like Jesus,

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to act like Jesus,

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to react like Jesus,

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to interact with others like Jesus,

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and to feel like Jesus felt,

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to have the emotions that Jesus displayed.

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And what I plan to do in this hour

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is to give you an overview

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of Jesus' emotional life.

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An overview of the 
emotional life of Jesus.

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And then, in the two remaining messages

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we want to key in on four of the emotions

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which are prominent in the Gospel accounts

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concerning Jesus.

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So the first thing we want to see

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is what I call the propriety of Jesus

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as our emotional example.

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Is it proper to look at Jesus

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as the example for our emotional life?

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I'm going to argue that it is.

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Now in the history of the church,

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it's not surprising that the main attack

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of Satan and demonic doctrines

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has been against the person and work

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of Christ.

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The person and work of Christ

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is the jugular vein 
of Christianity, right?

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If you see programs about lions

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on the African plains,

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when they stalk and when they attack

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their prey - a gazelle or something else -

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they don't attack the rump.

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They go for the jugular vein.

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They go for the kill.

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And the person and work of Christ

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is the jugular vein of Christianity.

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And so Satan, who is a roaring lion,

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goes after the jugular vein.

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He's going to attack those doctrines

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which are the essence of Christianity.

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And so he seeks to pervert

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either the person or the work of Christ.

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Now the biblical doctrine of the

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Person of Christ

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is that He is fully man and fully God.

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Now we can say that,

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and we should,

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00:14:50,207 --> 00:14:52,059
but we can't begin to wrap our minds

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00:14:52,059 --> 00:14:52,803
around it,

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but if you deny either of those truths,

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it will be fatal to your soul.

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Now you know in biblical times,

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there were those who denied

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the humanity of Jesus.

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Remember what John writes?

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Dealing with Gnostic's who didn't believe

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Jesus had a real body.

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He had a phantom body.

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So John says whoever confesses

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Jesus Christ has come in the flesh

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is of God.

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Whoever denies that Jesus has come

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in the flesh is not of God.

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In our modern day,

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there's more of a tendency to deny

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the deity of Christ

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as many of the cults do,

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as Jehovah's Witnesses,

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denying that Jesus is fully God.

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But one preacher,

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Allen Dunn, says when it comes

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to the emotions,

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we will be more tempted to overemphasize

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Christ's deity

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and to minimize His humanity.

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Now why is that?

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It might be because we want to say,

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be like Jesus in our emotions?

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That's not possible.

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Jesus was God!

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Well, Jesus was God,

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but Jesus also was fully man.

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So let me just take a couple minutes

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just to establish what I trust

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you all believe,

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and that is the full humanity of Jesus

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so that He is the proper role model

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00:16:05,177 --> 00:16:07,391
and pattern for our emotional lives.

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Why do we believe that Jesus is fully man?

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Well, because the Bible makes some

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very plain statements to that effect.

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John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word,

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the Word was with God,

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the Word was God."

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Verse 14 - the Word became what?

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Flesh and dwelt among us.

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Hebrews 2:14 - "Therefore, 
since the children..."

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That would be us - believers.

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"...share in flesh and blood,

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He himself likewise also 
partook of the same."

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For our sake, He partook of the

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flesh and blood humanity

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of which we are made.

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And then, the Bible shows that

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He possessed the essential elements

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of human nature.

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As a child, Luke says,

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He increased in wisdom and stature

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and in favor with God and men.

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Jesus had to grow physically

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in the same way we grow.

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He had to drink milk 
from His mother's breast

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to be nourished and later take solid food.

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Jesus went through the 
years of adolescence

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emerging into teenage years.

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He may have had to wrestle with acne

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or zits on His face as a teenager.

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He may have been gangly

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as some teenagers are, right?

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As their body's kind of growing too fast,

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knocking over things.

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Those are things not part of depravity.

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Those are things pertaining to humanity.

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Jesus had to grow in physical stature.

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He grew in wisdom.

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He had to learn the carpentry trade

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from His father Joseph.

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He had to be trained as an apprentice.

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He didn't just come in the first day,

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carve some beautiful yoke, you know?

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And Joseph says, wow, 
where'd you learn that?

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Well, you know, I'm God...

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No, Joseph had to train Him

509
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as an apprentice to be a carpenter, right?

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Jesus had to study the Bible.

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He had to study the Hebrew Bible

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and learn it.

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He didn't get it by osmosis.

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You know, put the Hebrew 
Bible under my pillow

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and in the morning, 
I have it memorized.

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He had to study it.

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Now, as He read, as He learned,

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He always perfectly obeyed.

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But Jesus was fully man.

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We know that He became hungry

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after 40 days of fasting.

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On the cross, He said, "I thirst."

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He got tired and sat down by the well

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in Samaria.

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He got so bone tired,

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He was asleep in the back of a boat

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in the midst of a storm

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on the Sea of Galilee.

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And He died.

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So all the elements of human nature

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characterized Jesus.

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But then finally,

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I just want to note one passage

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from John 3:34-35

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that validates Jesus as our proper

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00:18:43,226 --> 00:18:46,626
role model for our emotional life.

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We read in John 3:34-35,

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"For He Whom God has sent

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speaks the words of God.

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For He gives the Spirit without measure.

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The Father loves the Son

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and has given all things into His hand."

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Commentators understand that to mean

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that God the Father has given

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00:19:05,932 --> 00:19:07,925
the Holy Spirit to Jesus

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00:19:07,925 --> 00:19:10,148
in an unlimited way,

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00:19:10,148 --> 00:19:12,800
so that the entire ministry of Jesus

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was conducted in the 
power of the Holy Spirit.

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That Spirit came upon Him in His baptism.

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It was in the power of that Spirit,

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He went out into the wilderness

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and faced temptation.

553
00:19:22,258 --> 00:19:24,256
It was in the power of that Spirit

554
00:19:24,256 --> 00:19:25,938
that He worked His miracles.

555
00:19:25,938 --> 00:19:29,090
In the power of that Spirit He preached.

556
00:19:29,090 --> 00:19:30,136
He says in Luke 4

557
00:19:30,136 --> 00:19:31,969
the Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,

558
00:19:31,969 --> 00:19:33,525
because He anointed Me to preach

559
00:19:33,525 --> 00:19:35,520
the Gospel to the poor.

560
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,223
It was by the power of the Spirit,

561
00:19:37,223 --> 00:19:39,180
He offered Himself up on the cross

562
00:19:39,180 --> 00:19:40,505
to God the Father,

563
00:19:40,505 --> 00:19:42,891
and by the Spirit, He was raised.

564
00:19:42,891 --> 00:19:44,142
And my point is,

565
00:19:44,142 --> 00:19:47,200
it was by the power of 
the Spirit filling Him

566
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,068
that He conducted His emotional life.

567
00:19:51,068 --> 00:19:52,840
Now, the point is this, brothers.

568
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:57,431
That same Holy Spirit lives in you and me.

569
00:19:57,431 --> 00:19:58,650
And so we can't say

570
00:19:58,650 --> 00:20:00,731
well, I can't be like Jesus in my emotions

571
00:20:00,731 --> 00:20:01,990
because He was God.

572
00:20:01,990 --> 00:20:03,273
Yes, He is God,

573
00:20:03,273 --> 00:20:05,229
but He was fully man,

574
00:20:05,229 --> 00:20:07,138
filled with the Holy Spirit.

575
00:20:07,138 --> 00:20:09,133
Our command is to be perpetually

576
00:20:09,133 --> 00:20:11,677
be being filled with the Holy Spirit.

577
00:20:11,677 --> 00:20:14,601
So while we'll never attain perfection

578
00:20:14,601 --> 00:20:17,542
in any realm in this life,

579
00:20:17,542 --> 00:20:23,385
Jesus is our valid pattern 
for our emotional lives.

580
00:20:23,385 --> 00:20:25,155
Well now, let's consider the purity

581
00:20:25,155 --> 00:20:27,149
of Jesus' emotional life.

582
00:20:27,149 --> 00:20:31,406
Although fully man, He 
was wholly without sin.

583
00:20:31,406 --> 00:20:35,386
His emotions were not tainted with sin.

584
00:20:35,386 --> 00:20:36,508
And let's look at Jesus

585
00:20:36,508 --> 00:20:37,906
through the lens of

586
00:20:37,906 --> 00:20:39,890
what has disrupted our emotional lives.

587
00:20:39,890 --> 00:20:41,285
Remember we said our emotions

588
00:20:41,285 --> 00:20:42,666
are constricted;

589
00:20:42,666 --> 00:20:44,157
our emotions are corrupted;

590
00:20:44,157 --> 00:20:46,093
our emotions are controlling.

591
00:20:46,093 --> 00:20:49,534
Let's look at Jesus in those regards.

592
00:20:49,534 --> 00:20:50,297
First of all,

593
00:20:50,297 --> 00:20:53,550
Jesus was not constricted or restrained

594
00:20:53,550 --> 00:20:55,616
in His emotions.

595
00:20:55,616 --> 00:20:57,939
I'm going to quote James Stalker,

596
00:20:57,939 --> 00:21:01,140
a Scotsman living in the 
late 1800's/early 1900's.

597
00:21:01,140 --> 00:21:02,917
And he makes a beautiful statement

598
00:21:02,917 --> 00:21:04,428
about Jesus.

599
00:21:04,428 --> 00:21:07,090
He says, "Jesus was as refined

600
00:21:07,090 --> 00:21:09,091
and delicate in feeling

601
00:21:09,091 --> 00:21:11,706
as He was wise in speech

602
00:21:11,706 --> 00:21:13,547
and mighty in act.

603
00:21:13,547 --> 00:21:16,269
He taught mankind to feel finally.

604
00:21:16,269 --> 00:21:18,290
And ever since He was in the world,

605
00:21:18,290 --> 00:21:20,090
there have been increasing numbers

606
00:21:20,090 --> 00:21:21,627
who have learned from Him

607
00:21:21,627 --> 00:21:24,446
to regard childhood, and women,

608
00:21:24,446 --> 00:21:26,644
poverty, and service,

609
00:21:26,644 --> 00:21:29,083
and many other objects with sentiments

610
00:21:29,083 --> 00:21:31,078
totally different from those with which

611
00:21:31,078 --> 00:21:33,981
they were regarded before His advent.

612
00:21:33,981 --> 00:21:35,673
Nor would it be difficult to trace

613
00:21:35,673 --> 00:21:37,439
the refining influence

614
00:21:37,439 --> 00:21:38,894
which intercourse with Him had

615
00:21:38,894 --> 00:21:40,571
on His disciples;

616
00:21:40,571 --> 00:21:43,139
how they learned to feel about things

617
00:21:43,139 --> 00:21:44,757
as He did."

618
00:21:44,757 --> 00:21:46,181
You know what He's saying.

619
00:21:46,181 --> 00:21:48,144
Nearly everybody agrees that

620
00:21:48,144 --> 00:21:49,674
the teaching of Jesus

621
00:21:49,674 --> 00:21:53,377
has had a profound effect 
on the human race, right?

622
00:21:53,377 --> 00:21:55,621
Even unbelievers will acknowledge that

623
00:21:55,621 --> 00:21:57,170
who don't regard His deity.

624
00:21:57,170 --> 00:21:58,778
But what Stalker is saying

625
00:21:58,778 --> 00:22:01,437
is that Jesus' emotional life

626
00:22:01,437 --> 00:22:05,108
has had a vast impact upon the world.

627
00:22:05,108 --> 00:22:07,276
The world has never been the same

628
00:22:07,276 --> 00:22:10,431
since Jesus Christ walked on its shores

629
00:22:10,431 --> 00:22:13,569
because of His emotional life.

630
00:22:13,569 --> 00:22:16,025
And the thing about Jesus' emotional life

631
00:22:16,025 --> 00:22:19,201
is He was not restrained and restricted.

632
00:22:19,201 --> 00:22:22,103
He was not bottled up and repressed

633
00:22:22,103 --> 00:22:23,970
in His emotional life.

634
00:22:23,970 --> 00:22:25,549
As we'll see in a few minutes,

635
00:22:25,549 --> 00:22:28,313
His emotional life was very expansive

636
00:22:28,313 --> 00:22:30,272
and very expressive.

637
00:22:30,272 --> 00:22:34,385
He displayed the full 
spectrum of human emotions.

638
00:22:34,385 --> 00:22:35,957
Whereas, our emotions are often

639
00:22:35,957 --> 00:22:37,777
constricted in certain areas

640
00:22:37,777 --> 00:22:38,884
and restrained -

641
00:22:38,884 --> 00:22:40,800
His were not.

642
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,683
Further, He gave appropriate expression

643
00:22:43,683 --> 00:22:45,536
to His emotions.

644
00:22:45,536 --> 00:22:46,697
Listen to B.B. Warfield

645
00:22:46,697 --> 00:22:48,207
who wrote an excellent article

646
00:22:48,207 --> 00:22:52,135
100 years ago on the 
emotional life of Jesus.

647
00:22:52,135 --> 00:22:54,471
He said, "But the bodily expression

648
00:22:54,471 --> 00:22:56,675
of the emotions (in Jesus)

649
00:22:56,675 --> 00:22:59,222
is also frequently expressly attested.

650
00:22:59,222 --> 00:23:01,713
Not only do we read that He wept

651
00:23:01,713 --> 00:23:04,323
and wailed, sighed and groaned,

652
00:23:04,323 --> 00:23:07,097
but we read also of His angry glare,

653
00:23:07,097 --> 00:23:08,330
His annoyed speech,

654
00:23:08,330 --> 00:23:10,293
His chiding words,

655
00:23:10,293 --> 00:23:12,960
the outbreaking ebullition of His rage,

656
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,995
of the agitation of His bearing

657
00:23:14,995 --> 00:23:16,514
when under strong feeling,

658
00:23:16,514 --> 00:23:19,122
the open exultation of His joy,

659
00:23:19,122 --> 00:23:20,913
the unrest of His movements

660
00:23:20,913 --> 00:23:22,824
in the face of anticipated evils,

661
00:23:22,824 --> 00:23:24,830
the loud cry which was wrung from Him

662
00:23:24,830 --> 00:23:26,844
in His moment of desolation.

663
00:23:26,844 --> 00:23:29,934
Nothing is lacking to make 
the impression strong

664
00:23:29,934 --> 00:23:31,928
that we have before us in Jesus,

665
00:23:31,928 --> 00:23:34,787
a human being like ourselves."

666
00:23:34,787 --> 00:23:36,515
You see, to be more fully

667
00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:38,616
and healthily human, as Jesus is,

668
00:23:38,616 --> 00:23:41,658
is not to be less emotional.

669
00:23:41,658 --> 00:23:44,841
It is generally to be more emotional.

670
00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:48,147
Jesus was not constricted in His emotions.

671
00:23:48,147 --> 00:23:51,291
Jesus was not corrupted in His emotions.

672
00:23:51,291 --> 00:23:53,576
We are told that He was 
tempted in all things

673
00:23:53,576 --> 00:23:55,604
as we are, yet without sin.

674
00:23:55,604 --> 00:23:58,129
It is appropriate to put before

675
00:23:58,129 --> 00:24:01,725
every emotion of Jesus the word "holy."

676
00:24:01,725 --> 00:24:03,166
Holy grief.

677
00:24:03,166 --> 00:24:04,353
Holy anger.

678
00:24:04,353 --> 00:24:05,550
Holy joy.

679
00:24:05,550 --> 00:24:06,951
Holy exasperation.

680
00:24:06,951 --> 00:24:08,754
Because in all of His emotions,

681
00:24:08,754 --> 00:24:10,042
He was without sin.

682
00:24:10,042 --> 00:24:12,454
That's why He's such a perfect guide.

683
00:24:12,454 --> 00:24:14,075
We can look at one another,

684
00:24:14,075 --> 00:24:16,569
some of us are more 
or less mature emotionally,

685
00:24:16,569 --> 00:24:18,749
but none of us is a perfect example.

686
00:24:18,749 --> 00:24:20,220
We all have to say imitate me

687
00:24:20,220 --> 00:24:22,101
only insofar as I imitate Christ.

688
00:24:22,101 --> 00:24:23,544
But when we look at Christ,

689
00:24:23,544 --> 00:24:24,951
there's no qualification.

690
00:24:24,951 --> 00:24:26,598
Imitate Christ.

691
00:24:26,598 --> 00:24:30,336
Because He was not 
corrupted in His emotions.

692
00:24:30,336 --> 00:24:33,448
And He was not controlled by His emotions.

693
00:24:33,448 --> 00:24:35,980
As we view the life and ministry of Jesus,

694
00:24:35,980 --> 00:24:38,505
we never see Him out of control.

695
00:24:38,505 --> 00:24:41,044
His emotions were strong.

696
00:24:41,044 --> 00:24:44,158
But they were under control of His reason.

697
00:24:44,158 --> 00:24:45,933
They never took center stage.

698
00:24:45,933 --> 00:24:47,154
And think about it,

699
00:24:47,154 --> 00:24:49,202
Jesus was under tremendous pressure

700
00:24:49,202 --> 00:24:50,896
during His ministry, wasn't He?

701
00:24:50,896 --> 00:24:52,568
Can you imagine having your enemy

702
00:24:52,568 --> 00:24:53,923
stalking you?

703
00:24:53,923 --> 00:24:55,981
Always waiting in the wings for you

704
00:24:55,981 --> 00:24:57,745
to say or do something amiss

705
00:24:57,745 --> 00:24:59,864
so they could go out and plot your death?

706
00:24:59,864 --> 00:25:02,034
Can you imagine living 
with the realization

707
00:25:02,034 --> 00:25:05,183
that one of your close band of twelve

708
00:25:05,183 --> 00:25:07,229
would be a treacherous traitor

709
00:25:07,229 --> 00:25:08,617
and would betray you?

710
00:25:08,617 --> 00:25:10,241
But John 6:64 says,

711
00:25:10,241 --> 00:25:12,212
"Jesus knew from the beginning

712
00:25:12,212 --> 00:25:14,828
who it was that would betray Him."

713
00:25:14,828 --> 00:25:16,350
And He had to love this man

714
00:25:16,350 --> 00:25:19,658
like He loved the other eleven.

715
00:25:19,658 --> 00:25:21,247
Jesus had the constant demand

716
00:25:21,247 --> 00:25:24,348
of the multitudes pressing in upon Him

717
00:25:24,348 --> 00:25:26,614
to heal and to cast out demons.

718
00:25:26,614 --> 00:25:30,451
He had to deal with 
the thick-headed disciples

719
00:25:30,451 --> 00:25:32,084
who just weren't getting it.

720
00:25:32,084 --> 00:25:33,911
All of these things to bring

721
00:25:33,911 --> 00:25:35,886
pressure upon Jesus,

722
00:25:35,886 --> 00:25:39,491
to provoke Him in His emotions.

723
00:25:39,491 --> 00:25:42,653
But His emotions were 
never out of control.

724
00:25:42,653 --> 00:25:44,919
You see His holy anger in the temple.

725
00:25:44,919 --> 00:25:46,656
Turning over tables, making a whip,

726
00:25:46,656 --> 00:25:47,976
driving out the animals,

727
00:25:47,976 --> 00:25:50,703
clanging the coins on the floor.

728
00:25:50,703 --> 00:25:52,276
But He never lost it

729
00:25:52,276 --> 00:25:53,497
in an irrational rage.

730
00:25:53,497 --> 00:25:56,412
He didn't turn and start punching 
the Pharisees out, right?

731
00:25:56,412 --> 00:25:58,218
Even that was under control.

732
00:25:58,218 --> 00:26:00,243
Perhaps the greatest physical display

733
00:26:00,243 --> 00:26:02,332
of His anger that we see in the Scripture,

734
00:26:02,332 --> 00:26:03,820
but it was controlled.

735
00:26:03,820 --> 00:26:05,764
His compassion.

736
00:26:05,764 --> 00:26:08,175
Oh, when we study His compassion

737
00:26:08,175 --> 00:26:09,159
in the next message.

738
00:26:09,159 --> 00:26:11,619
How the heart of Jesus was drawn out

739
00:26:11,619 --> 00:26:13,940
in willing service to meet the needs

740
00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:16,505
and relieve the misery of people.

741
00:26:16,505 --> 00:26:18,781
There's an incident 
where He's in Capernaum,

742
00:26:18,781 --> 00:26:20,865
and He's up late, casting out demons,

743
00:26:20,865 --> 00:26:21,905
healing people.

744
00:26:21,905 --> 00:26:23,831
He goes off to be with His Father.

745
00:26:23,831 --> 00:26:25,967
And it's in Luke 4:42-43,

746
00:26:25,967 --> 00:26:27,535
and the people come after Him

747
00:26:27,535 --> 00:26:29,312
to try to pull Him back.

748
00:26:29,312 --> 00:26:31,110
And He's been in prayer.

749
00:26:31,110 --> 00:26:32,986
And He says, no, we must go

750
00:26:32,986 --> 00:26:35,154
to other cities and preach there also,

751
00:26:35,154 --> 00:26:38,181
because that's why I came out.

752
00:26:38,181 --> 00:26:39,916
He never let His emotions,

753
00:26:39,916 --> 00:26:41,121
even of compassion,

754
00:26:41,121 --> 00:26:45,510
rule Him and override the Father's agenda

755
00:26:45,510 --> 00:26:46,914
for Him.

756
00:26:46,914 --> 00:26:48,457
No, I know there are people

757
00:26:48,457 --> 00:26:49,651
I haven't healed,

758
00:26:49,651 --> 00:26:51,015
but My Father's agenda

759
00:26:51,015 --> 00:26:52,559
is that I go to other cities

760
00:26:52,559 --> 00:26:54,089
and preach to them.

761
00:26:54,089 --> 00:26:55,453
So even in His compassion,

762
00:26:55,453 --> 00:26:56,912
it didn't so overwhelm Him,

763
00:26:56,912 --> 00:27:00,303
that it overrode His apprehension

764
00:27:00,303 --> 00:27:02,374
of His Father's will for Him.

765
00:27:02,374 --> 00:27:07,313
And we see Him in John 12,

766
00:27:07,313 --> 00:27:09,330
before Gethsemane.

767
00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:13,533
Certain Greeks are asking to see Jesus.

768
00:27:13,533 --> 00:27:14,745
Greeks.

769
00:27:14,745 --> 00:27:16,284
And the mention of these Greeks

770
00:27:16,284 --> 00:27:17,948
reminds Him that He's come to die

771
00:27:17,948 --> 00:27:19,783
for the sins of the whole world -

772
00:27:19,783 --> 00:27:21,394
not only Jews.

773
00:27:21,394 --> 00:27:24,830
And He says now is My soul troubled.

774
00:27:24,830 --> 00:27:26,080
What shall I say?

775
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,703
A little precursor to the garden.

776
00:27:27,703 --> 00:27:28,715
What shall I say?

777
00:27:28,715 --> 00:27:30,814
Father, save Me from this hour?

778
00:27:30,814 --> 00:27:33,756
No. For this purpose, 
I have come to this hour.

779
00:27:33,756 --> 00:27:35,625
Father, glorify Your name.

780
00:27:35,625 --> 00:27:37,433
And the Father answers from Heaven:

781
00:27:37,433 --> 00:27:38,957
I have glorified it,

782
00:27:38,957 --> 00:27:41,316
and I will glorify it again.

783
00:27:41,316 --> 00:27:43,172
You know the emotion of fear,

784
00:27:43,172 --> 00:27:46,356
trepidation - I want to 
get out of this thing.

785
00:27:46,356 --> 00:27:48,430
But, no. No.

786
00:27:48,430 --> 00:27:50,046
I've come for this purpose.

787
00:27:50,046 --> 00:27:51,457
Father, glorify Your name.

788
00:27:51,457 --> 00:27:53,033
And the Father from Heaven says,

789
00:27:53,033 --> 00:27:55,188
even at the expense 
of the death of His Son,

790
00:27:55,188 --> 00:27:56,415
I have glorified it,

791
00:27:56,415 --> 00:27:57,991
and I will glorify it again.

792
00:27:57,991 --> 00:28:02,020
I will glorify My name in 
the death of You, My Son.

793
00:28:02,020 --> 00:28:03,170
But you see again,

794
00:28:03,170 --> 00:28:05,127
where the emotions of Jesus

795
00:28:05,127 --> 00:28:07,358
did not control Him

796
00:28:07,358 --> 00:28:09,791
as they sometimes control us.

797
00:28:09,791 --> 00:28:11,482
Men, let's look next

798
00:28:11,482 --> 00:28:14,114
at what I'm calling the perfect symmetry

799
00:28:14,114 --> 00:28:16,725
of Jesus' emotional life.

800
00:28:16,725 --> 00:28:20,506
He had perfectly balanced emotions.

801
00:28:20,506 --> 00:28:23,146
There's a picture of perfect balance

802
00:28:23,146 --> 00:28:26,307
in His humanity and in His emotions.

803
00:28:26,307 --> 00:28:29,697
You know, we are all so imbalanced

804
00:28:29,697 --> 00:28:31,986
that the psychologists can label us

805
00:28:31,986 --> 00:28:34,108
according to certain temperaments.

806
00:28:34,108 --> 00:28:35,662
You know how psychologists

807
00:28:35,662 --> 00:28:37,117
and even sometimes Christians

808
00:28:37,117 --> 00:28:38,233
try to do this?

809
00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:41,010
One of the classifications is according to

810
00:28:41,010 --> 00:28:43,166
the ancient bodily humors?

811
00:28:43,166 --> 00:28:44,506
Have you heard of this?

812
00:28:44,506 --> 00:28:46,144
The sanguine temperament,

813
00:28:46,144 --> 00:28:48,350
the phlegmatic, the choleric,

814
00:28:48,350 --> 00:28:50,012
and the melancholic?

815
00:28:50,012 --> 00:28:51,997
Well, let me give you a little rundown

816
00:28:51,997 --> 00:28:54,614
on what each one represents.

817
00:28:54,614 --> 00:28:57,183
The sanguine personality:

818
00:28:57,183 --> 00:28:59,574
extroverted, lively, fun-loving,

819
00:28:59,574 --> 00:29:01,886
activity-prone, impulsive, entertaining,

820
00:29:01,886 --> 00:29:07,225
persuasive, optimistic - sanguine.

821
00:29:07,225 --> 00:29:09,607
The phlegmatic personality:

822
00:29:09,607 --> 00:29:11,774
introverted, calm, unemotional,

823
00:29:11,774 --> 00:29:13,186
easy-going, laid back,

824
00:29:13,186 --> 00:29:15,528
never get upset person.

825
00:29:15,528 --> 00:29:18,048
Choleric: extroverted, hot-tempered,

826
00:29:18,048 --> 00:29:19,787
quick-thinking, active, practical,

827
00:29:19,787 --> 00:29:22,190
strong-willed, easily annoyed,

828
00:29:22,190 --> 00:29:25,704
self-confident, 
self-sufficient - choleric.

829
00:29:25,704 --> 00:29:29,295
Melancholic - introverted, logical,

830
00:29:29,295 --> 00:29:32,641
analytical, factual, private,

831
00:29:32,641 --> 00:29:34,150
reserved, suspicious,

832
00:29:34,150 --> 00:29:36,125
skeptical about most things,

833
00:29:36,125 --> 00:29:39,930
prone to negativity and depression.

834
00:29:39,930 --> 00:29:42,577
And then you have 
the Type A personalities.

835
00:29:42,577 --> 00:29:43,432
You hear that?

836
00:29:43,432 --> 00:29:45,228
He's a Type A personality.

837
00:29:45,228 --> 00:29:46,144
He's competitive.

838
00:29:46,144 --> 00:29:46,997
He's an achiever.

839
00:29:46,997 --> 00:29:48,013
He's a multi-tasker,

840
00:29:48,013 --> 00:29:48,800
success driven;

841
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:49,881
he needs to win.

842
00:29:49,881 --> 00:29:51,987
The Type B personality,

843
00:29:51,987 --> 00:29:53,518
like the phlegmatic,

844
00:29:53,518 --> 00:29:54,401
more relaxed,

845
00:29:54,401 --> 00:29:56,764
they don't take stressful 
situations personally.

846
00:29:56,764 --> 00:29:59,185
They could be highly competitive,
but they don't have the same urgency

847
00:29:59,185 --> 00:30:01,248
to see a successful outcome.

848
00:30:01,248 --> 00:30:03,760
Type A, Type B, Type C, Type D.

849
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,201
As you hear those,

850
00:30:05,201 --> 00:30:06,254
most of us can say,

851
00:30:06,254 --> 00:30:09,118
yeah, that sounds like me, right?

852
00:30:09,118 --> 00:30:11,566
Yeah, I'm more like that.

853
00:30:11,566 --> 00:30:13,758
But you know why we can say that?

854
00:30:13,758 --> 00:30:16,922
Because we are so imbalanced.

855
00:30:16,922 --> 00:30:19,082
I'm strong in this,

856
00:30:19,082 --> 00:30:22,800
but it's because I'm weak in this.

857
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,922
You know, I may be an aggressive achiever,

858
00:30:26,922 --> 00:30:28,002
but in the process,

859
00:30:28,002 --> 00:30:29,979
I run roughshod over people

860
00:30:29,979 --> 00:30:32,262
with insensitivity.

861
00:30:32,262 --> 00:30:34,103
Or, I may be sensitive,

862
00:30:34,103 --> 00:30:37,039
but too prone to 
negativity and depression.

863
00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:39,338
Or, I might be 
lighthearted and fun-loving,

864
00:30:39,338 --> 00:30:40,943
but run the risk of levity

865
00:30:40,943 --> 00:30:42,334
and not being reverent.

866
00:30:42,334 --> 00:30:44,527
You see, we can be characterized

867
00:30:44,527 --> 00:30:47,064
by those psychological temperaments

868
00:30:47,064 --> 00:30:51,053
because we are sinfully imbalanced, right?

869
00:30:51,053 --> 00:30:53,450
Not so Jesus.

870
00:30:53,450 --> 00:30:57,289
Jesus would confound the 
temperament analysts

871
00:30:57,289 --> 00:31:00,165
and the personality gurus.

872
00:31:00,165 --> 00:31:01,978
You can't pin Jesus down

873
00:31:01,978 --> 00:31:04,691
to a personality type.

874
00:31:04,691 --> 00:31:07,160
One author, Otto Borchard,

875
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,830
in his book, "The Orginal Jesus,"

876
00:31:08,830 --> 00:31:12,356
cited by Pastor Allen Dunn,

877
00:31:12,356 --> 00:31:14,446
and I'm just going to paraphrase here.

878
00:31:14,446 --> 00:31:15,562
He says this,

879
00:31:15,562 --> 00:31:16,778
you know you see Jesus

880
00:31:16,778 --> 00:31:18,110
cleansing the temple

881
00:31:18,110 --> 00:31:19,553
with great fervor and you say

882
00:31:19,553 --> 00:31:22,065
He's a choleric temperament.

883
00:31:22,065 --> 00:31:23,737
But then you see Him sleeping

884
00:31:23,737 --> 00:31:25,679
in the back of the boat during a storm,

885
00:31:25,679 --> 00:31:29,157
and you say well, He's 
a laid back phlegmatic.

886
00:31:29,157 --> 00:31:31,747
Or then you see Jesus in contrast to John.

887
00:31:31,747 --> 00:31:33,049
John comes with austerity.

888
00:31:33,049 --> 00:31:34,642
Jesus comes eating and drinking.

889
00:31:34,642 --> 00:31:36,296
He's making wine at a wedding,

890
00:31:36,296 --> 00:31:38,397
and He's mixing it up with people socially

891
00:31:38,397 --> 00:31:39,837
and you say surely Jesus has

892
00:31:39,837 --> 00:31:41,971
a sanguine personality.

893
00:31:41,971 --> 00:31:43,988
And then you see Him weeping at the tomb

894
00:31:43,988 --> 00:31:45,238
of Lazarus and you say,

895
00:31:45,238 --> 00:31:47,026
He's a melancholic.

896
00:31:47,026 --> 00:31:48,452
He's none of those.

897
00:31:48,452 --> 00:31:50,529
You see, you can't pin Jesus down

898
00:31:50,529 --> 00:31:52,722
to a personality type

899
00:31:52,722 --> 00:31:55,133
because He had a perfectly balanced

900
00:31:55,133 --> 00:31:57,467
emotional life.

901
00:31:57,467 --> 00:32:00,134
Another author, Clifford Pond,

902
00:32:00,134 --> 00:32:02,153
also quoted by Pastor Dunn,

903
00:32:02,153 --> 00:32:06,730
shows the amazing clash 
of contrasts in Jesus.

904
00:32:06,730 --> 00:32:09,844
He says this, "He is 
frank and communicative,

905
00:32:09,844 --> 00:32:11,232
open about His need,

906
00:32:11,232 --> 00:32:12,886
His fear, His joy,

907
00:32:12,886 --> 00:32:15,326
and yet He can be reclusive,

908
00:32:15,326 --> 00:32:18,095
walking alone, spending nights alone

909
00:32:18,095 --> 00:32:19,975
in prayer to God.

910
00:32:19,975 --> 00:32:21,839
He can treat His disciples as friends

911
00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:23,972
because everything He 
hears from the Father

912
00:32:23,972 --> 00:32:24,992
He divulges to them.

913
00:32:24,992 --> 00:32:26,660
But He holds back certain things

914
00:32:26,660 --> 00:32:28,944
because they cannot bear them.

915
00:32:28,944 --> 00:32:30,833
He can be so serene at times,

916
00:32:30,833 --> 00:32:32,050
and yet at other times,

917
00:32:32,050 --> 00:32:33,825
be moved to the depths of His being

918
00:32:33,825 --> 00:32:36,481
with great upheavals in His inner man.

919
00:32:36,481 --> 00:32:39,601
He is mild yet intensely earnest.

920
00:32:39,601 --> 00:32:42,761
He is heroic yet full of tenderness.

921
00:32:42,761 --> 00:32:45,255
His words are wonderfully profound,

922
00:32:45,255 --> 00:32:47,933
and yet transparently clear."

923
00:32:47,933 --> 00:32:49,175
And then he says this -

924
00:32:49,175 --> 00:32:50,740
this is a beautiful statement.

925
00:32:50,740 --> 00:32:55,278
"His business is to conquer the world.

926
00:32:55,278 --> 00:32:57,113
Yet He can talk to an ordinary,

927
00:32:57,113 --> 00:33:00,479
common woman so searchingly

928
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:02,151
that one might almost think

929
00:33:02,151 --> 00:33:03,653
the salvation of her soul

930
00:33:03,653 --> 00:33:05,532
was His only concern."

931
00:33:05,532 --> 00:33:06,780
Isn't that beautiful?

932
00:33:06,780 --> 00:33:08,214
His job is to save the world!

933
00:33:08,214 --> 00:33:09,662
But He's talking to that woman

934
00:33:09,662 --> 00:33:12,328
as though she is the only one 
that needs to be saved.

935
00:33:12,328 --> 00:33:15,003
Oh, our Lord is so beautiful

936
00:33:15,003 --> 00:33:21,651
in His emotional life.

937
00:33:21,651 --> 00:33:27,364
Perfect purity yields perfect symmetry.

938
00:33:27,364 --> 00:33:28,788
We need to ask ourselves,

939
00:33:28,788 --> 00:33:31,071
where are we imbalanced

940
00:33:31,071 --> 00:33:32,722
in our emotional life?

941
00:33:32,722 --> 00:33:35,863
Maybe you're very 
compassionate and tender,

942
00:33:35,863 --> 00:33:38,184
but you never get angry about anything.

943
00:33:38,184 --> 00:33:41,422
Jesus got angry about certain things.

944
00:33:41,422 --> 00:33:43,726
Maybe you have no problem with anger,

945
00:33:43,726 --> 00:33:46,382
but your problem is being compassionate

946
00:33:46,382 --> 00:33:48,333
and tender.

947
00:33:48,333 --> 00:33:51,597
Maybe you have sorrow like Jesus,

948
00:33:51,597 --> 00:33:54,081
but you don't have a lot of joy.

949
00:33:54,081 --> 00:33:56,865
Or maybe you have joy,

950
00:33:56,865 --> 00:33:58,966
but you don't know how to weep

951
00:33:58,966 --> 00:34:01,311
over the things that made Jesus weep.

952
00:34:01,311 --> 00:34:03,635
We are so sinfully imbalanced,

953
00:34:03,635 --> 00:34:06,294
but men, behold your Lord.

954
00:34:06,294 --> 00:34:10,711
Perfect symmetry in His emotional life.

955
00:34:10,711 --> 00:34:12,476
The next thing we look at:

956
00:34:12,476 --> 00:34:16,078
the absence of sentimentality

957
00:34:16,078 --> 00:34:18,840
in Jesus' emotional life.

958
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,309
Now what's the difference

959
00:34:20,309 --> 00:34:23,437
between sentiment and sentimentality

960
00:34:23,437 --> 00:34:25,388
or sentimentalism?

961
00:34:25,388 --> 00:34:27,132
I had to do a little study on this

962
00:34:27,132 --> 00:34:28,261
to understand,

963
00:34:28,261 --> 00:34:29,487
but there's a difference.

964
00:34:29,487 --> 00:34:31,954
Sentiment is simply feeling.

965
00:34:31,954 --> 00:34:38,114
Sentimentality is kind 
of excessive feeling,

966
00:34:38,114 --> 00:34:40,471
or feeling that is disproportionate

967
00:34:40,471 --> 00:34:42,203
to the situation.

968
00:34:42,203 --> 00:34:44,926
For example, if you weep over the death

969
00:34:44,926 --> 00:34:46,804
of a child,

970
00:34:46,804 --> 00:34:50,524
that is very, very appropriate.

971
00:34:50,524 --> 00:34:52,524
But if you weep over a mouse

972
00:34:52,524 --> 00:34:54,440
caught in a mouse trap,

973
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,679
there's something out 
of balance with that.

974
00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:58,371
I don't care if his big brown eyes

975
00:34:58,371 --> 00:34:59,619
are looking up at you...

976
00:34:59,619 --> 00:35:02,719
You don't weep over a mouse.

977
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,498
He's a rodent!

978
00:35:05,498 --> 00:35:07,315
That's a sentimentality,

979
00:35:07,315 --> 00:35:08,895
that's an excessive emotion

980
00:35:08,895 --> 00:35:12,053
that doesn't fit the situation.

981
00:35:12,053 --> 00:35:13,701
And sometimes we associate

982
00:35:13,701 --> 00:35:16,094
sentimentality, which is out of balance

983
00:35:16,094 --> 00:35:18,096
with reason, with words like gushy,

984
00:35:18,096 --> 00:35:20,946
mushy, maudlin, schmaltzy, drippy,

985
00:35:20,946 --> 00:35:24,420
over-emotional and tear-jerking.

986
00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:26,358
You know, people can get sentimental

987
00:35:26,358 --> 00:35:29,180
about a number of things.

988
00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:32,779
People get sentimental about the past.

989
00:35:32,779 --> 00:35:35,998
You know what would make me sentimental -

990
00:35:35,998 --> 00:35:38,272
listening to oldies.

991
00:35:38,272 --> 00:35:40,634
Now, I know what oldies means for you.

992
00:35:40,634 --> 00:35:42,381
Does "oldies" mean different things

993
00:35:42,381 --> 00:35:43,749
for different people?

994
00:35:43,749 --> 00:35:45,904
Or is "oldies" - my oldies.

995
00:35:45,904 --> 00:35:48,528
My oldies are music from 
the 60's and the 70's.

996
00:35:48,528 --> 00:35:49,665
If you're a young guy,

997
00:35:49,665 --> 00:35:51,407
are your oldies the 90's?

998
00:35:51,407 --> 00:35:53,763
I don't know if that's a 
moving target or not,

999
00:35:53,763 --> 00:35:56,701
but all I know is when 
there's an oldies station,

1000
00:35:56,701 --> 00:36:00,113
they're playing my music 
from the 60's and 70's.

1001
00:36:00,113 --> 00:36:02,153
Now sometimes I need to listen to oldies.

1002
00:36:02,153 --> 00:36:03,357
When I was traveling back

1003
00:36:03,357 --> 00:36:05,240
from Jeremy's soccer games

1004
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:07,856
at 1 or 2 in the morning,

1005
00:36:07,856 --> 00:36:11,410
driving home and the 
coffee wasn't doing it.

1006
00:36:11,410 --> 00:36:12,848
to keep myself alive,

1007
00:36:12,848 --> 00:36:14,662
I'd find myself an oldies station.

1008
00:36:14,662 --> 00:36:15,945
Man, it would perk me up

1009
00:36:15,945 --> 00:36:17,605
and I'd be able to drive for hours

1010
00:36:17,605 --> 00:36:19,287
listening to those oldies.

1011
00:36:19,287 --> 00:36:21,662
Because it had such a nostalgic effect -

1012
00:36:21,662 --> 00:36:23,152
a powerful effect upon me.

1013
00:36:23,152 --> 00:36:25,684
But otherwise, unless it's to 
keep me alive driving,

1014
00:36:25,684 --> 00:36:28,846
I shouldn't listen to those oldies.

1015
00:36:28,846 --> 00:36:31,148
Because it's a sentimental nostalgia.

1016
00:36:31,148 --> 00:36:32,624
You know what I think?

1017
00:36:32,624 --> 00:36:35,414
I think man, oh to be 
back in my teen years.

1018
00:36:35,414 --> 00:36:36,959
Oh, to be back in my twenties.

1019
00:36:36,959 --> 00:36:38,101
But here I am in my 60's

1020
00:36:38,101 --> 00:36:40,092
and life is passing me by...

1021
00:36:40,092 --> 00:36:41,479
that's not good.

1022
00:36:41,479 --> 00:36:43,804
I need to press on toward 
the mark forward -

1023
00:36:43,804 --> 00:36:45,320
not look back.

1024
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,584
That's not productive.

1025
00:36:46,584 --> 00:36:48,411
That's not edifying for me.

1026
00:36:48,411 --> 00:36:51,067
So the oldies have a sentimental effect

1027
00:36:51,067 --> 00:36:54,463
upon me which is not a good emotion.

1028
00:36:54,463 --> 00:36:56,766
So the past - music -

1029
00:36:56,766 --> 00:36:59,130
can be sentimental.

1030
00:36:59,130 --> 00:37:01,007
Sentiment is good.

1031
00:37:01,007 --> 00:37:03,250
Sentimentality is not good.

1032
00:37:03,250 --> 00:37:05,911
People get sentimental over paraphernalia.

1033
00:37:05,911 --> 00:37:07,880
Parents sentimental over their children's

1034
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:09,215
first baby shoes.

1035
00:37:09,215 --> 00:37:10,958
And they keep their childhood toy.

1036
00:37:10,958 --> 00:37:12,837
And this was the little stuffed animal

1037
00:37:12,837 --> 00:37:14,717
that he had when he was three.

1038
00:37:14,717 --> 00:37:18,442
You get sentimental over 
paraphernalia and things.

1039
00:37:18,442 --> 00:37:21,570
People get sentimental about pets.

1040
00:37:21,570 --> 00:37:24,327
Some people get so attached to pets

1041
00:37:24,327 --> 00:37:26,690
that you would think the pet is a child.

1042
00:37:26,690 --> 00:37:30,651
They get overly sentimental about a bird.

1043
00:37:30,651 --> 00:37:34,091
Dogs now? Dogs are man's best friend.

1044
00:37:34,091 --> 00:37:36,130
It's hard to lose a dog, isn't it?

1045
00:37:36,130 --> 00:37:38,231
God made dogs in a special way.

1046
00:37:38,231 --> 00:37:40,642
But still, you have to say 
at the end of the day,

1047
00:37:40,642 --> 00:37:42,295
it's an animal right?

1048
00:37:42,295 --> 00:37:44,094
It's an animal.

1049
00:37:44,094 --> 00:37:45,389
I'll tell you a story about

1050
00:37:45,389 --> 00:37:46,974
sentimentality and animals.

1051
00:37:46,974 --> 00:37:51,059
Years ago, my children were 7, 5, and 3.

1052
00:37:51,059 --> 00:37:52,269
Jeremy was 3.

1053
00:37:52,269 --> 00:37:54,393
I was running around 
the high school track -

1054
00:37:54,393 --> 00:37:55,852
Downingtown High School track,

1055
00:37:55,852 --> 00:37:57,919
and it was a cinder track at the time.

1056
00:37:57,919 --> 00:37:59,809
And I'm running 
and all of a sudden

1057
00:37:59,809 --> 00:38:02,103
I look down and there's 
a baby snapping turtle

1058
00:38:02,103 --> 00:38:03,293
in my path.

1059
00:38:03,293 --> 00:38:04,933
And I'm glad I didn't step on it.

1060
00:38:04,933 --> 00:38:06,532
Now I know that snapping turtles

1061
00:38:06,532 --> 00:38:07,837
lay their eggs on land,

1062
00:38:07,837 --> 00:38:09,327
but they live in the water,

1063
00:38:09,327 --> 00:38:11,060
and there was not a body of water

1064
00:38:11,060 --> 00:38:12,481
anywhere to be seen.

1065
00:38:12,481 --> 00:38:14,240
But anyway, I thought, I'm going to

1066
00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:16,165
take this little snapping turtle home

1067
00:38:16,165 --> 00:38:18,221
and give it to the kids as a pet.

1068
00:38:18,221 --> 00:38:19,318
And so we take it home

1069
00:38:19,318 --> 00:38:21,158
and I say, now kids you can keep this

1070
00:38:21,158 --> 00:38:22,210
for a couple of weeks

1071
00:38:22,210 --> 00:38:24,338
and then we're going to have to let it go.

1072
00:38:24,338 --> 00:38:25,536
We got a little terrarium

1073
00:38:25,536 --> 00:38:27,611
and they played with 
the snapping turtle.

1074
00:38:27,611 --> 00:38:29,323
And they named him Roger.

1075
00:38:29,323 --> 00:38:30,519
And then the time came

1076
00:38:30,519 --> 00:38:32,613
to let the snapping turtle go back

1077
00:38:32,613 --> 00:38:33,432
into the wild,

1078
00:38:33,432 --> 00:38:35,302
so we went down to 
the local duck pond,

1079
00:38:35,302 --> 00:38:38,177
and I was thinking, boy, how's this
going to be for my kids?

1080
00:38:38,177 --> 00:38:39,862
Is this going to be hard for them

1081
00:38:39,862 --> 00:38:41,389
to let their pet Roger go?

1082
00:38:41,389 --> 00:38:42,770
We no sooner got to the bank

1083
00:38:42,770 --> 00:38:44,642
when my son Chuck reached into bucket

1084
00:38:44,642 --> 00:38:46,691
and throws him as far as his 5 year old

1085
00:38:46,691 --> 00:38:47,917
arm can throw.

1086
00:38:47,917 --> 00:38:50,057
"Bye, Roger!"

1087
00:38:50,057 --> 00:38:51,449
And that was it.

1088
00:38:51,449 --> 00:38:53,512
Alright, that was easy.

1089
00:38:53,512 --> 00:38:56,853
"Bye, Roger!" Roger's gone.

1090
00:38:56,853 --> 00:39:01,393
And I thought, so much for sentimentality.

1091
00:39:01,393 --> 00:39:02,557
Another story though,

1092
00:39:02,557 --> 00:39:04,095
about my son Jeremy.

1093
00:39:04,095 --> 00:39:05,769
And you'll appreciate this

1094
00:39:05,769 --> 00:39:07,924
if you're under his pastoral care.

1095
00:39:07,924 --> 00:39:10,052
When my daughter was about that same age,

1096
00:39:10,052 --> 00:39:11,877
we had gotten her a parakeet,

1097
00:39:11,877 --> 00:39:13,549
and sometimes the kids would

1098
00:39:13,549 --> 00:39:14,933
let the parakeet fly around

1099
00:39:14,933 --> 00:39:16,156
and get some exercise.

1100
00:39:16,156 --> 00:39:17,816
And it was Christmas-time,

1101
00:39:17,816 --> 00:39:19,495
and the kids had the parakeet out,

1102
00:39:19,495 --> 00:39:20,761
and we had some visitors,

1103
00:39:20,761 --> 00:39:22,332
and when they came in the door,

1104
00:39:22,332 --> 00:39:23,925
the parakeet flew out the door.

1105
00:39:23,925 --> 00:39:25,104
It was about 32 degrees.

1106
00:39:25,104 --> 00:39:26,754
So we go out, we bring the cage,

1107
00:39:26,754 --> 00:39:28,468
we try to coax the parakeet back.

1108
00:39:28,468 --> 00:39:30,666
No do. The parakeet's gone.

1109
00:39:30,666 --> 00:39:33,369
So we come back in and my daughter's sad.

1110
00:39:33,369 --> 00:39:35,093
And Jeremy comforts her.

1111
00:39:35,093 --> 00:39:37,563
"Valerie, I'm going to get you a bird

1112
00:39:37,563 --> 00:39:41,207
with no wings that can't fly."

1113
00:39:41,207 --> 00:39:43,022
So you see, from the very beginning,

1114
00:39:43,022 --> 00:39:49,536
he was a sensitive guy.

1115
00:39:49,536 --> 00:39:52,448
But brothers, Jesus was not sentimental.

1116
00:39:52,448 --> 00:39:54,418
Again, let me give you a few instances.

1117
00:39:54,418 --> 00:39:55,991
Rather than take the time to turn

1118
00:39:55,991 --> 00:39:56,864
to the passage,

1119
00:39:56,864 --> 00:39:57,830
I'll reference it.

1120
00:39:57,830 --> 00:39:58,735
You can look it up.

1121
00:39:58,735 --> 00:40:01,505
In Mark 3, Jesus is teaching

1122
00:40:01,505 --> 00:40:03,185
a multitude of people.

1123
00:40:03,185 --> 00:40:04,969
His family - not believing in Him -

1124
00:40:04,969 --> 00:40:06,172
come looking for Him.

1125
00:40:06,172 --> 00:40:08,141
They think He's working too hard.

1126
00:40:08,141 --> 00:40:09,859
You know, we need to relieve Him.

1127
00:40:09,859 --> 00:40:10,851
And they come.

1128
00:40:10,851 --> 00:40:12,218
And it's reported to Jesus,

1129
00:40:12,218 --> 00:40:14,718
Your mother and brothers are here.

1130
00:40:14,718 --> 00:40:15,685
What does Jesus do?

1131
00:40:15,685 --> 00:40:16,533
Oh, pardon Me,

1132
00:40:16,533 --> 00:40:18,148
My mother and brothers are here.

1133
00:40:18,148 --> 00:40:19,735
No. You know what He says?

1134
00:40:19,735 --> 00:40:20,534
You remember.

1135
00:40:20,534 --> 00:40:23,042
Who is My mother and My brother

1136
00:40:23,042 --> 00:40:24,033
and My sisters?

1137
00:40:24,033 --> 00:40:26,497
He who does the will of God.

1138
00:40:26,497 --> 00:40:29,814
Now, it's not that He 
didn't love His family,

1139
00:40:29,814 --> 00:40:32,353
but there was not a sentimental attachment

1140
00:40:32,353 --> 00:40:34,771
to His family that overrode His duty

1141
00:40:34,771 --> 00:40:37,123
to teach the people of God.

1142
00:40:37,123 --> 00:40:40,809
When Peter, after giving 
the great confession:

1143
00:40:40,809 --> 00:40:43,175
You are the Christ, the 
Son of the living God,

1144
00:40:43,175 --> 00:40:44,763
and being affirmed by Jesus:

1145
00:40:44,763 --> 00:40:46,343
Blessed are you, Simon.

1146
00:40:46,343 --> 00:40:47,389
A few minutes later,

1147
00:40:47,389 --> 00:40:49,489
Jesus is saying I need 
to go to Jerusalem,

1148
00:40:49,489 --> 00:40:52,046
suffer under the chief 
priests and elders and die.

1149
00:40:52,046 --> 00:40:54,187
And Peter said, "God forbid, Lord!"

1150
00:40:54,187 --> 00:40:55,340
And what did Jesus say?

1151
00:40:55,340 --> 00:40:56,849
Now Jesus loved Peter.

1152
00:40:56,849 --> 00:41:00,851
Jesus knew that Peter 
was well-intentioned.

1153
00:41:00,851 --> 00:41:02,384
But without any sentimentality,

1154
00:41:02,384 --> 00:41:04,771
He said, "Get behind me, Satan!"

1155
00:41:04,771 --> 00:41:06,465
I love you Peter, but that thought

1156
00:41:06,465 --> 00:41:07,844
is a devilish thought.

1157
00:41:07,844 --> 00:41:09,393
I've got to go to the cross.

1158
00:41:09,393 --> 00:41:14,173
And so, Jesus was not sentimental.

1159
00:41:14,173 --> 00:41:16,187
In Luke 9, a would-be follower,

1160
00:41:16,187 --> 00:41:18,644
in v. 59-60, I think it's on your handout,

1161
00:41:18,644 --> 00:41:20,221
a follower comes to Jesus,

1162
00:41:20,221 --> 00:41:21,639
Jesus, I want to follow You,

1163
00:41:21,639 --> 00:41:24,355
but let me first bury my father.

1164
00:41:24,355 --> 00:41:27,152
Let the dead bury the dead.

1165
00:41:27,152 --> 00:41:31,139
Come, follow Me.

1166
00:41:31,139 --> 00:41:33,374
Jesus does not allow 
sentimental attachment

1167
00:41:33,374 --> 00:41:35,760
to family interfere with the urgency

1168
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,092
of following Him

1169
00:41:37,092 --> 00:41:40,266
and making the 
spiritual life the priority.

1170
00:41:40,266 --> 00:41:42,248
And remember how He says in Matthew 10,

1171
00:41:42,248 --> 00:41:43,768
He who loves father or mother,

1172
00:41:43,768 --> 00:41:44,630
son or daughter,

1173
00:41:44,630 --> 00:41:47,044
more than Me is not worthy of Me.

1174
00:41:47,044 --> 00:41:50,903
So Jesus was not sentimental.

1175
00:41:50,903 --> 00:41:54,838
Let me make some 
applications of this, brothers.

1176
00:41:54,838 --> 00:41:56,248
In His emotional life,

1177
00:41:56,248 --> 00:41:58,774
He was not given to sentimentality.

1178
00:41:58,774 --> 00:42:00,371
I say first of all, if you are

1179
00:42:00,371 --> 00:42:04,882
especially a deeply emotional person,

1180
00:42:04,882 --> 00:42:07,688
beware of sentimentality.

1181
00:42:07,688 --> 00:42:09,107
It is false emotion.

1182
00:42:09,107 --> 00:42:10,736
It is unprincipled emotion.

1183
00:42:10,736 --> 00:42:13,976
Make sure that what you feel

1184
00:42:13,976 --> 00:42:18,006
fits with the reality of the situation.

1185
00:42:18,006 --> 00:42:20,675
Secondly, be alert to sentimentality

1186
00:42:20,675 --> 00:42:22,544
as it is used in churches

1187
00:42:22,544 --> 00:42:25,187
to manipulate decisions for Jesus.

1188
00:42:25,187 --> 00:42:26,601
You're aware that there are

1189
00:42:26,601 --> 00:42:28,850
countless people in countless churches

1190
00:42:28,850 --> 00:42:30,602
who think they're Christians because

1191
00:42:30,602 --> 00:42:33,078
they were manipulated emotionally

1192
00:42:33,078 --> 00:42:34,868
by tear-jerking music

1193
00:42:34,868 --> 00:42:39,245
and appeals that run around the mind

1194
00:42:39,245 --> 00:42:40,716
and appeal to their emotions

1195
00:42:40,716 --> 00:42:42,173
and tug on their emotions,

1196
00:42:42,173 --> 00:42:43,879
and they make an emotional decision

1197
00:42:43,879 --> 00:42:44,826
for Jesus,

1198
00:42:44,826 --> 00:42:46,099
and they're not converted.

1199
00:42:46,099 --> 00:42:48,035
They've not come to terms with their sin

1200
00:42:48,035 --> 00:42:49,285
and alienation from God.

1201
00:42:49,285 --> 00:42:50,355
They've not repented.

1202
00:42:50,355 --> 00:42:51,891
But they're told 
they're in the kingdom

1203
00:42:51,891 --> 00:42:53,622
because they made 
a decision for Jesus

1204
00:42:53,622 --> 00:42:54,963
and they were just moved

1205
00:42:54,963 --> 00:42:57,110
by a manipulative, emotional,

1206
00:42:57,110 --> 00:42:59,062
sentimental appeal.

1207
00:42:59,062 --> 00:43:00,081
Beware of that.

1208
00:43:00,081 --> 00:43:01,625
Certainly, don't practice that

1209
00:43:01,625 --> 00:43:03,104
in your churches.

1210
00:43:03,104 --> 00:43:05,548
You do a great disservice to sinners.

1211
00:43:05,548 --> 00:43:10,602
And then, in light of 
Jesus's unsentimental rebuke

1212
00:43:10,602 --> 00:43:11,953
to Peter...

1213
00:43:11,953 --> 00:43:14,023
I was talking to a brother just today

1214
00:43:14,023 --> 00:43:16,810
and I added this application.

1215
00:43:16,810 --> 00:43:18,753
If you think, well, I know

1216
00:43:18,753 --> 00:43:20,319
this person needs the Gospel,

1217
00:43:20,319 --> 00:43:22,552
but it's going to be offensive to them,

1218
00:43:22,552 --> 00:43:24,676
and it's going to hurt them.

1219
00:43:24,676 --> 00:43:26,564
Don't for sentimental reasons

1220
00:43:26,564 --> 00:43:29,900
withhold the hard truth 
that they need to hear

1221
00:43:29,900 --> 00:43:33,803
even if they turn on you upon hearing it.

1222
00:43:33,803 --> 00:43:35,485
Sometimes, we have a brother,

1223
00:43:35,485 --> 00:43:38,522
a sister that needs to be corrected.

1224
00:43:38,522 --> 00:43:40,166
And we think, well, I don't want

1225
00:43:40,166 --> 00:43:41,478
to hurt their feelings.

1226
00:43:41,478 --> 00:43:42,730
Well, wait a minute,

1227
00:43:42,730 --> 00:43:45,001
if they're sinning, they're 
hurting themselves.

1228
00:43:45,001 --> 00:43:47,330
They're hurting others.
They're hurting the cause of Christ.

1229
00:43:47,330 --> 00:43:48,891
Now, you go graciously.

1230
00:43:48,891 --> 00:43:49,952
You go humbly.

1231
00:43:49,952 --> 00:43:50,895
You go gently.

1232
00:43:50,895 --> 00:43:52,166
But go!

1233
00:43:52,166 --> 00:43:53,952
And speak that word to them.

1234
00:43:53,952 --> 00:43:55,997
And don't not go for the sake of

1235
00:43:55,997 --> 00:43:59,112
maudlin sentimentality.

1236
00:43:59,112 --> 00:44:02,516
And then beware of being a manipulator

1237
00:44:02,516 --> 00:44:05,022
if you are a fast-talking, smooth

1238
00:44:05,022 --> 00:44:06,574
kind of person,

1239
00:44:06,574 --> 00:44:10,108
beware of using sentimentality

1240
00:44:10,108 --> 00:44:13,538
to manipulate the emotions of others

1241
00:44:13,538 --> 00:44:17,039
and prey upon them to get what you want.

1242
00:44:17,039 --> 00:44:19,774
Brothers, next, let's consider

1243
00:44:19,774 --> 00:44:22,334
the variety of Jesus' emotional life.

1244
00:44:22,334 --> 00:44:24,682
I don't have time in these messages

1245
00:44:24,682 --> 00:44:26,773
to cover all of the emotions of Jesus.

1246
00:44:26,773 --> 00:44:28,699
We're only going to key in on four.

1247
00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:30,452
But I want to give you a spectrum

1248
00:44:30,452 --> 00:44:31,766
of the emotions of Jesus.

1249
00:44:31,766 --> 00:44:33,537
One of the things that I enjoy doing

1250
00:44:33,537 --> 00:44:34,634
in preparation for this

1251
00:44:34,634 --> 00:44:36,408
is just going through the Gospels,

1252
00:44:36,408 --> 00:44:38,999
looking for the emotions of Jesus,

1253
00:44:38,999 --> 00:44:41,026
and taking pages and pages of notes

1254
00:44:41,026 --> 00:44:42,714
where I saw the emotions of Jesus.

1255
00:44:42,714 --> 00:44:44,794
And I invite you,

1256
00:44:44,794 --> 00:44:46,235
if I don't cover an emotion

1257
00:44:46,235 --> 00:44:47,233
that you're aware of,

1258
00:44:47,233 --> 00:44:48,263
would you tell me?

1259
00:44:48,263 --> 00:44:49,856
I would love to expand this list.

1260
00:44:49,856 --> 00:44:51,437
No doubt I have missed some.

1261
00:44:51,437 --> 00:44:54,140
So I'm open to add to this list.

1262
00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:56,665
But let me just run through a spectrum

1263
00:44:56,665 --> 00:44:58,371
of the emotions of Jesus

1264
00:44:58,371 --> 00:45:00,398
as I found them in the Gospels.

1265
00:45:00,398 --> 00:45:02,168
The compassion of Jesus -

1266
00:45:02,168 --> 00:45:04,546
we're going to focus on that tonight.

1267
00:45:04,546 --> 00:45:06,914
When He went ashore, He saw large crowds

1268
00:45:06,914 --> 00:45:08,366
and felt compassion for them

1269
00:45:08,366 --> 00:45:10,777
and healed their sick.

1270
00:45:10,777 --> 00:45:13,382
The amazement of Jesus.

1271
00:45:13,382 --> 00:45:15,449
Are you aware that there 
were two occasions

1272
00:45:15,449 --> 00:45:17,227
when Jesus was amazed?

1273
00:45:17,227 --> 00:45:19,114
Now that's amazing to me,

1274
00:45:19,114 --> 00:45:21,680
because He's the One that amazes us.

1275
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,047
But on two occasions, Jesus was amazed.

1276
00:45:25,047 --> 00:45:27,106
He was amazed at the great faith

1277
00:45:27,106 --> 00:45:29,103
of the Centurion.

1278
00:45:29,103 --> 00:45:30,615
It says He was amazed.

1279
00:45:30,615 --> 00:45:32,513
Never have I seen such faith in Israel.

1280
00:45:32,513 --> 00:45:34,911
And He was amazed - wondered -

1281
00:45:34,911 --> 00:45:38,466
at the great unbelief in Nazareth.

1282
00:45:38,466 --> 00:45:40,756
That's intriguing to me.

1283
00:45:40,756 --> 00:45:43,804
The One at Whom we marvel,

1284
00:45:43,804 --> 00:45:47,273
actually marveled at great faith

1285
00:45:47,273 --> 00:45:48,266
and great unbelief.

1286
00:45:48,266 --> 00:45:49,513
The amazement of Jesus.

1287
00:45:49,513 --> 00:45:51,325
The wariness, the suspicion,

1288
00:45:51,325 --> 00:45:53,373
the skepticism of Jesus.

1289
00:45:53,373 --> 00:45:55,041
Jesus was not gullible.

1290
00:45:55,041 --> 00:45:56,890
In John 2, it says He wasn't

1291
00:45:56,890 --> 00:45:58,617
entrusting Himself to them

1292
00:45:58,617 --> 00:46:00,967
because He knew what was in men.

1293
00:46:00,967 --> 00:46:04,514
He had emotions of skepticism about them.

1294
00:46:04,514 --> 00:46:06,612
He didn't just entrust 
Himself to everybody,

1295
00:46:06,612 --> 00:46:09,493
and neither should we.

1296
00:46:09,493 --> 00:46:10,937
The serenity of Jesus.

1297
00:46:10,937 --> 00:46:13,452
The storm whips up on the Sea of Galilee,

1298
00:46:13,452 --> 00:46:15,031
and He's sleeping peacefully

1299
00:46:15,031 --> 00:46:17,620
like a baby in the back of the boat.

1300
00:46:17,620 --> 00:46:19,580
The sensitivity of Jesus.

1301
00:46:19,580 --> 00:46:21,492
Let me park here for a minute,

1302
00:46:21,492 --> 00:46:23,039
because this impacted me.

1303
00:46:23,039 --> 00:46:26,328
How sensitive Jesus Christ was.

1304
00:46:26,328 --> 00:46:29,486
He was sensitive to the 
emotions of other people.

1305
00:46:29,486 --> 00:46:32,874
Over and over, I read how sensitive He was

1306
00:46:32,874 --> 00:46:34,512
to human fears.

1307
00:46:34,512 --> 00:46:35,916
To Jairus He says,

1308
00:46:35,916 --> 00:46:37,899
"Do not be afraid any longer."

1309
00:46:37,899 --> 00:46:39,376
When the men are trembling

1310
00:46:39,376 --> 00:46:41,023
on the Mount of Transfiguration,

1311
00:46:41,023 --> 00:46:43,230
He says, "Do not be afraid."

1312
00:46:43,230 --> 00:46:45,559
When He's walking to them on the water

1313
00:46:45,559 --> 00:46:46,780
and they're in the boat

1314
00:46:46,780 --> 00:46:48,206
and they think it's a ghost,

1315
00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:49,647
"Don't be afraid."

1316
00:46:49,647 --> 00:46:53,155
I see the perpetual sensitivity of Jesus

1317
00:46:53,155 --> 00:46:55,010
to allay human fears.

1318
00:46:55,010 --> 00:46:56,351
Don't be afraid.

1319
00:46:56,351 --> 00:46:57,871
I'm not here to frighten you.

1320
00:46:57,871 --> 00:46:59,270
I'm not here to alarm you.

1321
00:46:59,270 --> 00:47:01,899
Beautiful display of 
the sensitivity of Jesus.

1322
00:47:01,899 --> 00:47:06,138
He was sensitive to practical needs.

1323
00:47:06,138 --> 00:47:08,431
James Stalker talks about how

1324
00:47:08,431 --> 00:47:12,979
when Jesus raised the daughter of Jairus,

1325
00:47:12,979 --> 00:47:15,015
He took her by the hand,

1326
00:47:15,015 --> 00:47:16,324
so that when she awoke,

1327
00:47:16,324 --> 00:47:18,149
she would have some human contact,

1328
00:47:18,149 --> 00:47:19,416
and then of all things,

1329
00:47:19,416 --> 00:47:22,544
He says, "give her something to eat."

1330
00:47:22,544 --> 00:47:23,800
She's been dead, you know.

1331
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,176
She hasn't eaten in awhile.

1332
00:47:25,176 --> 00:47:26,919
But who would have thought of that?

1333
00:47:26,919 --> 00:47:29,097
Jesus is sensitive to 
this very practical need.

1334
00:47:29,097 --> 00:47:30,668
She's going to need 
something to eat now,

1335
00:47:30,668 --> 00:47:32,354
now that she's alive from the dead.

1336
00:47:32,354 --> 00:47:33,604
Give her some food.

1337
00:47:33,604 --> 00:47:36,154
Sensitivity of Jesus.

1338
00:47:36,154 --> 00:47:39,738
Sensitive to His disciples' need for rest.

1339
00:47:39,738 --> 00:47:41,050
You've been working hard.

1340
00:47:41,050 --> 00:47:43,190
Come apart and rest for awhile.

1341
00:47:43,190 --> 00:47:46,587
His sensitivity to social propriety.

1342
00:47:46,587 --> 00:47:48,174
He comes into the home

1343
00:47:48,174 --> 00:47:49,433
of the Pharisee Simon,

1344
00:47:49,433 --> 00:47:50,982
who's grumbling about the woman

1345
00:47:50,982 --> 00:47:53,274
who wets His feet with her tears,

1346
00:47:53,274 --> 00:47:54,818
and He says, "Simon, you gave Me

1347
00:47:54,818 --> 00:47:56,862
no water for My feet.

1348
00:47:56,862 --> 00:47:58,135
You didn't give Me a kiss.

1349
00:47:58,135 --> 00:48:00,274
You didn't anoint My head."

1350
00:48:00,274 --> 00:48:03,570
He was sensitive to the social amenities

1351
00:48:03,570 --> 00:48:05,809
of His day.

1352
00:48:05,809 --> 00:48:09,002
Jesus was sensitive to 
His peoples' suffering.

1353
00:48:09,002 --> 00:48:10,458
How much time does He take

1354
00:48:10,458 --> 00:48:11,834
in the Sermon on the Mount

1355
00:48:11,834 --> 00:48:14,183
to prep them for what's coming down.

1356
00:48:14,183 --> 00:48:15,911
I'm going away.
You're going to suffer,

1357
00:48:15,911 --> 00:48:17,626
but in this world,
you're going to have tribulation,

1358
00:48:17,626 --> 00:48:19,196
but cheer up -
I've overcome the world.

1359
00:48:19,196 --> 00:48:21,028
He takes chapters in our Bibles

1360
00:48:21,028 --> 00:48:24,609
to comfort them about 
the upcoming suffering

1361
00:48:24,609 --> 00:48:26,257
because He is sensitive.

1362
00:48:26,257 --> 00:48:30,724
The sensitivity of Jesus Christ.

1363
00:48:30,724 --> 00:48:33,017
The exasperation of Jesus.

1364
00:48:33,017 --> 00:48:34,472
Have you been so long with Me?

1365
00:48:34,472 --> 00:48:36,125
We'll study that in more detail.

1366
00:48:36,125 --> 00:48:37,816
He got exasperated.

1367
00:48:37,816 --> 00:48:39,923
The fearlessness of Jesus.

1368
00:48:39,923 --> 00:48:41,163
In Mark 3, there's a man

1369
00:48:41,163 --> 00:48:42,370
with a withered hand.

1370
00:48:42,370 --> 00:48:43,844
He knows that if He heals him,

1371
00:48:43,844 --> 00:48:46,105
His enemies are going 
to plot to destroy Him.

1372
00:48:46,105 --> 00:48:48,846
And He says stretch forth your hand.

1373
00:48:48,846 --> 00:48:50,291
And He makes it whole.

1374
00:48:50,291 --> 00:48:51,234
Fearlessness.

1375
00:48:51,234 --> 00:48:52,919
Knowing His enemies would go out,

1376
00:48:52,919 --> 00:48:54,800
as they did, to plot to destroy Him.

1377
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,742
He healed the man.

1378
00:48:56,742 --> 00:48:58,252
The anger of Jesus:

1379
00:48:58,252 --> 00:48:59,527
with sin, with death,

1380
00:48:59,527 --> 00:49:00,530
with His enemies.

1381
00:49:00,530 --> 00:49:01,350
The joy of Jesus.

1382
00:49:01,350 --> 00:49:02,924
We're going to end, God-willing,

1383
00:49:02,924 --> 00:49:03,996
with that tomorrow.

1384
00:49:03,996 --> 00:49:06,067
I want you to see, as I've seen more fully

1385
00:49:06,067 --> 00:49:08,146
the joy of Jesus.

1386
00:49:08,146 --> 00:49:09,287
The zeal of Jesus.

1387
00:49:09,287 --> 00:49:10,483
He cleanses the temple.

1388
00:49:10,483 --> 00:49:12,959
Zeal for His Father's house consumed Him.

1389
00:49:12,959 --> 00:49:15,723
The grief and sorrow of Jesus.

1390
00:49:15,723 --> 00:49:17,916
The fear of Jesus in the garden.

1391
00:49:17,916 --> 00:49:19,563
Father, if it be possible,

1392
00:49:19,563 --> 00:49:20,857
let this cup pass from Me.

1393
00:49:20,857 --> 00:49:22,570
The loneliness of Jesus.

1394
00:49:22,570 --> 00:49:23,975
Could you watch with Me

1395
00:49:23,975 --> 00:49:25,689
for even an hour?

1396
00:49:25,689 --> 00:49:27,889
I'm human. I need friends.

1397
00:49:27,889 --> 00:49:29,256
This is My hour of trial.

1398
00:49:29,256 --> 00:49:30,453
You guys are sleeping!

1399
00:49:30,453 --> 00:49:32,734
Couldn't you watch with Me for an hour?

1400
00:49:32,734 --> 00:49:34,868
He felt loneliness.

1401
00:49:34,868 --> 00:49:36,421
The alarm of Jesus.

1402
00:49:36,421 --> 00:49:39,853
Beware! Watch out!

1403
00:49:39,853 --> 00:49:41,993
One more, the love of Jesus.

1404
00:49:41,993 --> 00:49:43,400
And by the love of Jesus,

1405
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,395
I don't mean the electing love of Jesus.

1406
00:49:46,395 --> 00:49:48,371
I mean the human love of Jesus.

1407
00:49:48,371 --> 00:49:49,915
Let me open this up.

1408
00:49:49,915 --> 00:49:51,857
There were three individuals or groups

1409
00:49:51,857 --> 00:49:53,587
that it says Jesus loved,

1410
00:49:53,587 --> 00:49:55,602
and it's not talking about His eternal,

1411
00:49:55,602 --> 00:49:56,770
electing love,

1412
00:49:56,770 --> 00:49:58,342
but His human affection.

1413
00:49:58,342 --> 00:49:59,328
Who were they?

1414
00:49:59,328 --> 00:50:00,592
Give me one.

1415
00:50:00,592 --> 00:50:02,008
The rich, young ruler.

1416
00:50:02,008 --> 00:50:03,889
The man went away sorrowful.

1417
00:50:03,889 --> 00:50:06,834
And it says Jesus felt love for him.

1418
00:50:06,834 --> 00:50:08,063
He let him go.

1419
00:50:08,063 --> 00:50:09,421
He didn't give him plan B.

1420
00:50:09,421 --> 00:50:10,930
He didn't compromise the terms.

1421
00:50:10,930 --> 00:50:12,427
But He felt a love for him.

1422
00:50:12,427 --> 00:50:13,481
Who else?

1423
00:50:13,481 --> 00:50:16,798
Lazarus. He whom You love is sick.

1424
00:50:16,798 --> 00:50:18,894
Jesus loved Lazarus, Martha, and Mary.

1425
00:50:18,894 --> 00:50:21,165
Not talking about 
His electing love as God.

1426
00:50:21,165 --> 00:50:23,305
It's talking about His human affection.

1427
00:50:23,305 --> 00:50:24,150
And who else?

1428
00:50:24,150 --> 00:50:25,795
John - five times.

1429
00:50:25,795 --> 00:50:28,155
John says "the disciple whom Jesus loved."

1430
00:50:28,155 --> 00:50:29,275
Isn't that intriguing?

1431
00:50:29,275 --> 00:50:30,149
He loved them all,

1432
00:50:30,149 --> 00:50:32,538
but there was a special bond of affection

1433
00:50:32,538 --> 00:50:34,956
for John.

1434
00:50:34,956 --> 00:50:37,186
Brothers, now, final thing.

1435
00:50:37,186 --> 00:50:39,397
The key to Jesus' emotional life.

1436
00:50:39,397 --> 00:50:41,785
I hope you see something of the beauty

1437
00:50:41,785 --> 00:50:43,986
of the emotional life of our Lord.

1438
00:50:43,986 --> 00:50:45,750
It is so expansive.

1439
00:50:45,750 --> 00:50:48,367
It is expressive.

1440
00:50:48,367 --> 00:50:50,969
But how do we attain

1441
00:50:50,969 --> 00:50:55,580
to that kind of emotional life?

1442
00:50:55,580 --> 00:50:57,722
The key to Jesus' emotional life

1443
00:50:57,722 --> 00:50:59,663
is communion with His Father

1444
00:50:59,663 --> 00:51:02,956
in His Word and prayer.

1445
00:51:02,956 --> 00:51:05,690
There's no easy formula, brothers.

1446
00:51:05,690 --> 00:51:09,311
Jesus had the emotional life He had

1447
00:51:09,311 --> 00:51:12,302
because of His communion with His Father

1448
00:51:12,302 --> 00:51:14,958
in Word and prayer.

1449
00:51:14,958 --> 00:51:18,651
Jesus was committed to the Father's Word.

1450
00:51:18,651 --> 00:51:21,491
Emotions are never intended to lead.

1451
00:51:21,491 --> 00:51:23,188
They're always intended to follow

1452
00:51:23,188 --> 00:51:24,272
our rational thinking,

1453
00:51:24,272 --> 00:51:26,218
and our thinking is always to be subject

1454
00:51:26,218 --> 00:51:27,320
to the Word of God.

1455
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,157
We're to take every thought captive

1456
00:51:29,157 --> 00:51:31,023
to the Word of God.

1457
00:51:31,023 --> 00:51:33,820
And Jesus did that with His Father's Word.

1458
00:51:33,820 --> 00:51:36,376
John 5:30, "I do not seek My own will,

1459
00:51:36,376 --> 00:51:37,987
but the will of Him Who sent Me."

1460
00:51:37,987 --> 00:51:40,288
John 7:16, "My teaching is not Mine,

1461
00:51:40,288 --> 00:51:42,234
but His Who sent Me."

1462
00:51:42,234 --> 00:51:44,223
Matthew 4:4, "Man shall not live

1463
00:51:44,223 --> 00:51:45,052
by bread alone,

1464
00:51:45,052 --> 00:51:46,546
but by every word that proceeds

1465
00:51:46,546 --> 00:51:47,763
out of the mouth of God."

1466
00:51:47,763 --> 00:51:48,976
Jesus did that perfectly.

1467
00:51:48,976 --> 00:51:50,321
He lived by every word

1468
00:51:50,321 --> 00:51:52,662
out of the mouth of His Father.

1469
00:51:52,662 --> 00:51:54,730
And how would Jesus' commitment

1470
00:51:54,730 --> 00:51:57,724
to His Father to live by His Father's Word

1471
00:51:57,724 --> 00:52:01,492
affect and govern His emotional life?

1472
00:52:01,492 --> 00:52:02,305
I would say this,

1473
00:52:02,305 --> 00:52:04,081
His emotions were under the influence

1474
00:52:04,081 --> 00:52:07,298
and control of His 
Father's revealed purposes

1475
00:52:07,298 --> 00:52:09,599
and promises and provisions.

1476
00:52:09,599 --> 00:52:11,290
For example, we're going to see

1477
00:52:11,290 --> 00:52:13,969
that His holy joy was based on

1478
00:52:13,969 --> 00:52:16,485
His Father's purpose.

1479
00:52:16,485 --> 00:52:18,477
He says I praise You Father,

1480
00:52:18,477 --> 00:52:19,723
Lord of Heaven and earth,

1481
00:52:19,723 --> 00:52:22,512
that You've hidden these things
from the wise and prudent

1482
00:52:22,512 --> 00:52:23,984
and revealed them unto babes.

1483
00:52:23,984 --> 00:52:25,306
His joy was based on

1484
00:52:25,306 --> 00:52:27,853
His commitment to His Father's purpose

1485
00:52:27,853 --> 00:52:29,625
to reveal Himself to those

1486
00:52:29,625 --> 00:52:32,062
who were dependent babes.

1487
00:52:32,062 --> 00:52:34,090
His holy anger

1488
00:52:34,090 --> 00:52:35,495
was born of the fact that

1489
00:52:35,495 --> 00:52:38,079
He was jealous for His Father's purpose.

1490
00:52:38,079 --> 00:52:39,594
The Father had made that temple

1491
00:52:39,594 --> 00:52:40,958
a place of prayer,

1492
00:52:40,958 --> 00:52:42,486
and they were perverting it.

1493
00:52:42,486 --> 00:52:44,209
And because they were perverting

1494
00:52:44,209 --> 00:52:45,631
the Father's purpose,

1495
00:52:45,631 --> 00:52:50,981
it evoked anger from Jesus.

1496
00:52:50,981 --> 00:52:53,699
His holy submission in the garden

1497
00:52:53,699 --> 00:52:57,435
was based on His trust

1498
00:52:57,435 --> 00:53:00,642
in the Father's promise and provision.

1499
00:53:00,642 --> 00:53:02,530
He will see the travail of His soul

1500
00:53:02,530 --> 00:53:03,551
and be satisfied.

1501
00:53:03,551 --> 00:53:05,261
Though it was agonizing to Him,

1502
00:53:05,261 --> 00:53:06,445
what made Him say,

1503
00:53:06,445 --> 00:53:09,433
Father, not My will but Yours be done -

1504
00:53:09,433 --> 00:53:11,658
because He trusted the Father's promise

1505
00:53:11,658 --> 00:53:13,953
that He would have a seed as a result

1506
00:53:13,953 --> 00:53:16,244
of His work.

1507
00:53:16,244 --> 00:53:18,833
In short, Jesus' emotional life

1508
00:53:18,833 --> 00:53:21,081
was grounded in His knowledge of

1509
00:53:21,081 --> 00:53:25,048
and obedience to His Father's Word.

1510
00:53:25,048 --> 00:53:26,778
And so it must be with us, brothers.

1511
00:53:26,778 --> 00:53:28,778
If we're going to be further sanctified

1512
00:53:28,778 --> 00:53:30,359
in our emotional life,

1513
00:53:30,359 --> 00:53:31,711
there's no shortcut.

1514
00:53:31,711 --> 00:53:32,923
We need to drink deeply

1515
00:53:32,923 --> 00:53:34,333
of the Word of God.

1516
00:53:34,333 --> 00:53:35,936
We need to imbibe the plans,

1517
00:53:35,936 --> 00:53:38,990
the purposes, the precepts, 
the promises of God.

1518
00:53:38,990 --> 00:53:41,125
And we need to obey them

1519
00:53:41,125 --> 00:53:44,599
and our emotions will 
fall into line with them.

1520
00:53:44,599 --> 00:53:46,471
Listen to a lengthy quote

1521
00:53:46,471 --> 00:53:49,119
from Pastor Allen Dunn.

1522
00:53:49,119 --> 00:53:51,681
He says, "We are to 
relate to God as our Father

1523
00:53:51,681 --> 00:53:55,479
and by faith, regulate our 
emotional reactions to life,

1524
00:53:55,479 --> 00:53:57,752
not according to our situation

1525
00:53:57,752 --> 00:53:59,981
or the dictates of other people,

1526
00:53:59,981 --> 00:54:02,784
but according to our Father's Word.

1527
00:54:02,784 --> 00:54:04,702
His words which abide forever

1528
00:54:04,702 --> 00:54:06,177
must regulate our emotions.

1529
00:54:06,177 --> 00:54:08,714
Not the things which are passing away.

1530
00:54:08,714 --> 00:54:10,872
When we are emotionally disobedient

1531
00:54:10,872 --> 00:54:12,403
it is because our hearts are

1532
00:54:12,403 --> 00:54:14,210
not fastened to the Word.

1533
00:54:14,210 --> 00:54:15,775
We allow fleeting feelings

1534
00:54:15,775 --> 00:54:17,130
or passing pressures -

1535
00:54:17,130 --> 00:54:18,279
something other than God

1536
00:54:18,279 --> 00:54:19,781
to define who we are.

1537
00:54:19,781 --> 00:54:21,195
We doubt His promises.

1538
00:54:21,195 --> 00:54:22,588
We get our eyes off of Christ

1539
00:54:22,588 --> 00:54:24,138
and stare fearfully at the water

1540
00:54:24,138 --> 00:54:25,134
and begin to sink,

1541
00:54:25,134 --> 00:54:26,317
and wave after wave

1542
00:54:26,317 --> 00:54:27,768
of emotional turmoil -

1543
00:54:27,768 --> 00:54:29,443
up, down, bobbing around -

1544
00:54:29,443 --> 00:54:31,034
not steadfast of mind,

1545
00:54:31,034 --> 00:54:31,940
but blown about,

1546
00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:33,045
impulsive,

1547
00:54:33,045 --> 00:54:35,196
seeking to gratify the emotional demand

1548
00:54:35,196 --> 00:54:36,911
to worry, pout, blow up in anger,

1549
00:54:36,911 --> 00:54:38,765
be silly and self-indulgent,

1550
00:54:38,765 --> 00:54:40,861
rather than seeking to please God

1551
00:54:40,861 --> 00:54:42,584
and satisfy the Scriptural demand

1552
00:54:42,584 --> 00:54:44,167
to trust God.

1553
00:54:44,167 --> 00:54:46,689
If you are emotionally disfigured,

1554
00:54:46,689 --> 00:54:48,422
temperamentally extreme

1555
00:54:48,422 --> 00:54:49,644
and imbalanced,

1556
00:54:49,644 --> 00:54:50,927
then I invite you to study

1557
00:54:50,927 --> 00:54:53,221
the emotionally symmetric Jesus.

1558
00:54:53,221 --> 00:54:54,459
And I submit to you

1559
00:54:54,459 --> 00:54:56,480
that the fundamental reason

1560
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:57,648
why He was able to keep

1561
00:54:57,648 --> 00:54:59,515
such emotional equilibrium,

1562
00:54:59,515 --> 00:55:01,753
was because He was in perfect obedience

1563
00:55:01,753 --> 00:55:06,257
to the Word as the man of faith."

1564
00:55:06,257 --> 00:55:09,405
What gave ballast to Jesus' emotional life

1565
00:55:09,405 --> 00:55:11,997
was an unwavering commitment

1566
00:55:11,997 --> 00:55:14,159
to the Word of His Father.

1567
00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:16,809
And that's going to be 
the case with us, brothers.

1568
00:55:16,809 --> 00:55:21,291
We need to be faithful to 
obey the Word of God.

1569
00:55:21,291 --> 00:55:22,951
And in the path of that obedience,

1570
00:55:22,951 --> 00:55:24,833
our emotions will follow along

1571
00:55:24,833 --> 00:55:26,779
and be righteous emotions.

1572
00:55:26,779 --> 00:55:28,677
But not only that,

1573
00:55:28,677 --> 00:55:31,703
but also prayer.

1574
00:55:31,703 --> 00:55:34,599
Jesus was committed 
to the habit of prayer.

1575
00:55:34,599 --> 00:55:35,842
We read in Luke 5:16,

1576
00:55:35,842 --> 00:55:37,812
"But Jesus Himself would often slip away

1577
00:55:37,812 --> 00:55:39,957
to the wilderness and pray."

1578
00:55:39,957 --> 00:55:41,806
And at times that would have been

1579
00:55:41,806 --> 00:55:44,395
emotionally tempting for Jesus,

1580
00:55:44,395 --> 00:55:46,015
we find Him praying.

1581
00:55:46,015 --> 00:55:48,069
He prayed at His baptism

1582
00:55:48,069 --> 00:55:50,024
when the Spirit came upon Him.

1583
00:55:50,024 --> 00:55:52,118
When He needed to choose 12 disciples,

1584
00:55:52,118 --> 00:55:53,940
He prayed all night.

1585
00:55:53,940 --> 00:55:56,556
After that exhausting evening of ministry

1586
00:55:56,556 --> 00:55:57,729
with the crowd,

1587
00:55:57,729 --> 00:55:59,452
and knowing they would pressure Him

1588
00:55:59,452 --> 00:56:00,714
to continue on,

1589
00:56:00,714 --> 00:56:02,311
He was alone with His Father

1590
00:56:02,311 --> 00:56:05,585
to have restored the Father's agenda.

1591
00:56:05,585 --> 00:56:08,471
So He's not bullied by the agendas of man.

1592
00:56:08,471 --> 00:56:10,750
When He hears about the death

1593
00:56:10,750 --> 00:56:12,656
of John the Baptist,

1594
00:56:12,656 --> 00:56:14,455
what's He going to think?

1595
00:56:14,455 --> 00:56:15,895
I'm next.

1596
00:56:15,895 --> 00:56:16,932
They're out for Me.

1597
00:56:16,932 --> 00:56:18,008
He was the forerunner.

1598
00:56:18,008 --> 00:56:19,459
I'm the real target.

1599
00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:21,253
And so, we read that He goes off

1600
00:56:21,253 --> 00:56:24,826
to Himself to pray.

1601
00:56:24,826 --> 00:56:27,450
When He's healing a man in the synagogue,

1602
00:56:27,450 --> 00:56:29,178
and provoking the Pharisees to plot

1603
00:56:29,178 --> 00:56:30,637
how to destroy Him,

1604
00:56:30,637 --> 00:56:31,671
He prays.

1605
00:56:31,671 --> 00:56:33,689
When they want to 
make Him an earthly king

1606
00:56:33,689 --> 00:56:35,654
because He feeds multiplied thousands,

1607
00:56:35,654 --> 00:56:37,609
He withdraws to Himself.

1608
00:56:37,609 --> 00:56:39,313
There's an emotional temptation.

1609
00:56:39,313 --> 00:56:42,756
And Jesus withdraws to be alone

1610
00:56:42,756 --> 00:56:45,075
with His Father and pray.

1611
00:56:45,075 --> 00:56:47,533
And it will be the same with us.

1612
00:56:47,533 --> 00:56:49,747
If we are to have emotional maturity,

1613
00:56:49,747 --> 00:56:50,938
emotional equilibrium,

1614
00:56:50,938 --> 00:56:52,599
not only do we need to be obedient

1615
00:56:52,599 --> 00:56:53,884
to the Word,

1616
00:56:53,884 --> 00:56:56,715
we need to draw near to God our Father

1617
00:56:56,715 --> 00:56:59,153
in prayer.

1618
00:56:59,153 --> 00:57:01,328
Casting our care upon Him.

1619
00:57:01,328 --> 00:57:04,151
Repenting of our sinful emotions.

1620
00:57:04,151 --> 00:57:06,560
Calling on Him to draw near.

1621
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,827
To calm or settle our emotions,

1622
00:57:08,827 --> 00:57:09,917
at one point -

1623
00:57:09,917 --> 00:57:10,753
at another time,

1624
00:57:10,753 --> 00:57:12,674
to awaken and inflame our emotions.

1625
00:57:12,674 --> 00:57:14,288
Lord, this ought to make me angry

1626
00:57:14,288 --> 00:57:15,679
and I'm not angry.

1627
00:57:15,679 --> 00:57:18,919
Lord, help me to feel as You feel.

1628
00:57:18,919 --> 00:57:21,122
Or Lord, I'm worried, I'm fearful,

1629
00:57:21,122 --> 00:57:24,004
please calm my heart.

1630
00:57:24,004 --> 00:57:25,707
You see, there's no silver bullet.

1631
00:57:25,707 --> 00:57:27,397
There's no easy formula

1632
00:57:27,397 --> 00:57:29,612
to instant sanctification.

1633
00:57:29,612 --> 00:57:32,346
And that applies to our emotional lives.

1634
00:57:32,346 --> 00:57:33,981
The usual means of grace:

1635
00:57:33,981 --> 00:57:35,907
soaking our minds in God's Word,

1636
00:57:35,907 --> 00:57:38,765
spending much time in 
His presence in prayer,

1637
00:57:38,765 --> 00:57:40,490
will help us to grow

1638
00:57:40,490 --> 00:57:43,131
in our emotional likeness to Jesus.

1639
00:57:43,131 --> 00:57:46,284
And then let me add 
another means of grace.

1640
00:57:46,284 --> 00:57:48,696
Fellowship with other brothers.

1641
00:57:48,696 --> 00:57:50,360
He who walks with wise men

1642
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:51,927
will be wise.

1643
00:57:51,927 --> 00:57:54,647
The companion of fools will suffer harm.

1644
00:57:54,647 --> 00:57:55,362
Right?

1645
00:57:55,362 --> 00:57:56,753
And there are some brothers

1646
00:57:56,753 --> 00:57:59,722
who better represent the emotions of Jesus

1647
00:57:59,722 --> 00:58:01,456
than we do.

1648
00:58:01,456 --> 00:58:02,891
And we will be rewarded for

1649
00:58:02,891 --> 00:58:04,993
fellowshipping with them,

1650
00:58:04,993 --> 00:58:05,943
observing them,

1651
00:58:05,943 --> 00:58:07,182
and learning from them.

1652
00:58:07,182 --> 00:58:08,802
And imitating them

1653
00:58:08,802 --> 00:58:12,773
as they imitate our Lord Christ.

1654
00:58:12,773 --> 00:58:15,917
Let's pray.

1655
00:58:15,917 --> 00:58:17,659
Lord Jesus, we thank You

1656
00:58:17,659 --> 00:58:19,802
for the beauty of Your Person.

1657
00:58:19,802 --> 00:58:23,608
And as we have surveyed very briefly

1658
00:58:23,608 --> 00:58:24,791
Your emotional life,

1659
00:58:24,791 --> 00:58:26,898
we thank You for the beautiful symmetry

1660
00:58:26,898 --> 00:58:30,522
and equilibrium of Your emotional life.

1661
00:58:30,522 --> 00:58:31,901
Lord, You know us.

1662
00:58:31,901 --> 00:58:33,786
You know our imbalances.

1663
00:58:33,786 --> 00:58:35,635
Thank You that Your blood cleanses us

1664
00:58:35,635 --> 00:58:38,453
from all of our emotional 
sins and sinning.

1665
00:58:38,453 --> 00:58:40,762
But do work in us

1666
00:58:40,762 --> 00:58:42,498
to conform us more fully

1667
00:58:42,498 --> 00:58:44,086
to Your emotions,

1668
00:58:44,086 --> 00:58:45,191
that we would not only

1669
00:58:45,191 --> 00:58:46,104
do as You do,

1670
00:58:46,104 --> 00:58:47,296
and think as You think,

1671
00:58:47,296 --> 00:58:49,371
but we would feel as You feel,

1672
00:58:49,371 --> 00:58:50,953
Lord Jesus.

1673
00:58:50,953 --> 00:58:52,355
We ask in Your name,

1674
00:58:52,355 --> 00:58:54,331
Amen.