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 Good morning. How we doing? It's great to be with you this morning. If you are visiting

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 and you're not aware, just like SeaWorld has splash zones, we have fan zones. If you are

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 finding the heat distracting, you can move to one of the areas on the side where you

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 will feel a little more fan if that will help you stay awake during our time in the Word

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 together. I want to encourage you that. And there's always water in the back as well in

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 the water fountain. So just wanted to point that out to you. Thank you for your prayers

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 for our families. We were away for the last four weeks. We had a good and restful time

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 together and are glad to be back with you. My kids come back tomorrow. They've spent the

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 week with Nan and Pappy going to Dutch Wonderland. So it's been a good week. So it's good to be

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 back with you this morning. I'm going to go ahead and pray for us as we look into God's

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 Word. Lord, we thank you this morning for your Word and how rich it is. Lord, how it is useful

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 for teaching and training, for instruction, for guidance, for correction. Lord, how it is

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 like a sharp sword that pierces to the depths of our being. Lord, I pray this morning that

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 your Word would speak to us. Lord, I pray for your Spirit's power that I might speak your

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 words. Lord, that what I speak would be useful to all of us, that we might know your ways more

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 and know your Son, Jesus, and His salvation more in the midst of that. Lord, be with us, we pray,

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 in Jesus' name. Amen. Jesus was the most complete and healthy emotional human being who has ever lived.

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 What do you think of that statement? You think it's true?

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 Fascinatingly, almost 100 years ago, theologian B.B. Warfield wrote an essay published in 1912

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 called The Emotional Life of Our Lord, where he felt the need to explain and defend what the

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 Scriptures actually said about Jesus' emotional life. And as he lays out this argument, he actually

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 began by saying, this is the problem that we've seen all the way back from the early church to today.

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 in understanding what an emotional life looks like in God's creative world, and specifically in the

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 person of Jesus. So he said, on one hand, there was a school in the early church that believed that

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 moral perfection was found in the Greek word that we might translate apathy, the lack of feeling,

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 suppressing or denying or rejecting our feelings as being less than divine.

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 And the other one, as Warfield says it, is that so that Jesus could identify with us and redeem us,

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 there was a school in the church that would want to attribute to Jesus every human pathos,

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 every deep feeling of our heart. He goes on and says both tendencies are still operative.

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 In our thoughts about Jesus, there's a tendency to, in the interest of magnifying the dignity of Jesus

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 to minimize his emotional life, and in the interest of fully embracing his humanity,

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 to magnify his emotional life. And he goes on to say this,

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 The one tendency may run some risk of giving us a somewhat cold and remote Jesus,

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 whom we can scarcely believe to be able to sympathize with us in all our infirmities.

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 The other may possibly be in danger of offering us a Jesus so crassly human

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 as scarcely to command our highest reverence.

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 It's a fascinating article. I recommend you read it. You can find it on the internet.

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 B.B. Warfield, The Emotional Life of Our Lord. But it provoked me this week,

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 as we're thinking this week, about human emotions and what the Proverbs have to do with human emotions.

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 And in reflecting on this, I thought, not only has the church wrestled with this,

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 but maybe you, like me, have wrestled with it as well.

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 I don't always know what to do with my emotions and the place that they're supposed to take in my life.

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 There are times when I want desperately to stuff my emotions.

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 I remember distinctly somewhere in junior high, well, not distinctly because it was vague,

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 but somewhere in junior high or high school, realizing that when I wanted things

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 and I didn't get them, I was disappointed and that made me sad.

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 And I decided the best way to deal with that is to no longer want anything

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 because then I won't ever be dismayed at that loss.

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 I have found that to be a pattern that I continue to struggle with even in my life today.

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 Some of us just really desperately want to dismiss our emotions

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 because we find them highly inconvenient.

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 It's very inefficient to have to feel things and to process them and to deal with them.

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 And we just wish we didn't have to do that.

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 There are others of us who think feelings are insignificant.

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 The world is based on reality and reality is based on fact and feelings just get in the way.

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 And the funny thing is there's actually a Christian version of this as well.

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 The Christian version of it is in the church, the truth is paramount.

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 Okay?

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 That sounds right and good.

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 And God calls us to respond to Him in belief and faith.

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 That is, taking hold of that truth and believing that it's right and letting that define our reality.

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 Okay, this sounds good.

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 But then there can be this entailment of that which says feelings don't matter.

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 Feelings are unimportant.

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 As a matter of fact, feelings are an impediment to godliness and to actually growing in Christian maturity.

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 Maybe some of you have experienced that.

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 Maybe some of you still think that today.

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 Okay.

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 So that's one end, one side of the road that we fall off.

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 The other side of the road that we fall off is that, and maybe this is more common in our culture today,

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 but we think that emotions are everything.

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 We glorify them.

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 We absolutize them.

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 We love authenticity.

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 He's so authentic.

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 He just says whatever he feels.

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 I connect with him so deeply.

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 It's so great that I can do that.

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 And you know what?

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 There's something really good about that.

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 There's something good in that authenticity.

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 There's something right about people being human and being able to express their emotions.

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 But often it falls into this logic of if I feel it, then it must be true and real,

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 and then it defines my life.

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 And interestingly, again, there's a Christian version of this.

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 I know Jesus died on the cross for my sins, but I don't feel it today.

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 And so I don't think it's real.

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 I don't think it's true.

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 And I want to acknowledge there's a crisis there.

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 Some of you may be wrestling with deep waters in terms of what happens when our feelings and the truth that we see in God's Word don't match up.

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 But this tendency is to make ultimately our emotional state primary and determinative and controlling in our Christian lives.

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 And there are whole parts of the church that say, well, you don't love Jesus if you're not feeling it today.

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 And I think it overemphasizes the role of emotions in our lives.

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 And I say that partly because I think, as we'll see in the book of Proverbs, emotions are a part of how God has created human beings.

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 It is, in fact, a part of what it means to be made in God's image.

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 And as we've talked about before, the book of Proverbs is a book about wisdom.

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 Wisdom being how ought we as human beings live along the grain or with the grain of God's created order.

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 How are we to live in line with how God has made us to be?

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 And interestingly, Proverbs has some very profound things to say about our emotional life.

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 And that's what we're going to look at this morning.

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 As we are continuing in this series, you may remember we're sort of in the topical part.

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 We're doing the second half of Proverbs.

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 And so there's no passage for you to turn to this morning.

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 You can turn to Proverbs 13.12 if you want to because that will be a good starting point for us.

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 But I want to affirm three things that Proverbs says about our emotional life.

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 And then at the end of those three things, I want to help us think about how do we move towards it in Christ.

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 The first thing that Proverbs tells us is that it affirms the emotional realities of human life.

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 It says these things are real.

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 So Proverbs 13.12, hope deferred makes a heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

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 Proverbs 12.25, anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

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 Proverbs 15.13, a glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow the heart of a spirit is crushed.

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 Proverbs 17.22, a joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

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 And Proverbs 14.30, a tranquil, or if you look at the footnote, a healthy, a healthy heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

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 This is a collection of Proverbs from this second half that is affirming the dynamics that human beings feel emotions.

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 We feel hope and desire.

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 We are weighed down or we are glad.

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 We are cheerful or we are crushed.

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 We are, again, joyful or crushed.

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 It uses these words over and over again.

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 And do you see how it doesn't just affirm that they happen, but that they affect us in the depth of our being?

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 He uses interchangeably our heart and our bones and our soul and our spirit as not technically as sometimes it's described in other parts of Scripture to try to divvy up exactly how human beings are made and that sort of thing.

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 But I think in the Proverbs, it's all talking about the inner life of our human existence that we all acknowledge and say, yes, that is real.

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 And what it says is not only do these emotions exist, but they affect us.

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 They make a difference at the very core of our being.

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 And this is why hope deferred, hope that you long for but you're not yet getting, can make your heart sick.

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 Do you know that longing?

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 Longing for a loved one to return from a trip?

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 Longing to hear the good news after the surgery?

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 Longing to get that promotion, that job that you've applied for?

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 The hopes deferred make our hearts sick.

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 We worry.

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 We're anxious.

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 We're weighed down.

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 We're unsettled.

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 But when a desire is fulfilled, it's a tree of life to our soul.

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 When things that we hope for actually become real, it puts a bounce in our step and a sparkle in our eye and a gladness as we interact with others, doesn't it?

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 This is what Proverbs is affirming.

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 And it's affirming that when we feel positive emotions, it generally does good to us.

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 When we feel negative emotions, it weighs upon us.

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 They're hard for us.

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 These Proverbs are all descriptive.

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 They're all in the category of the Proverbs that say, this is kind of how people generally work.

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 They're not promises, nor are they prescriptions.

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 But they're descriptive, saying this is how we usually work.

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 And at the end of it, it's saying, emotions are important.

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 God sees that emotions are an important part of the human life.

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 And the way of wisdom is thinking through what is it to walk in a way of wisdom in our emotional life.

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 As a thought exercise, let me post to you, what happens if we want to follow this side of the path, falling off the path, and we say, let's deny our emotions.

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 Have you ever been in a conflict with someone, and you said, I think you're mad.

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 And they say, I'm not mad.

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 You say, no, I think you are.

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 No, I'm not.

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 Don't tell me I'm mad.

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 Has that ever happened to you?

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 Have you ever done that to someone else?

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 And what happens?

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 Your inability to acknowledge it means that that anger gets expressed on the edges.

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 You can't actually sit on it and not have anger.

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 But rather than having it come out in a healthy way, in an intentional way, in a constructive way, that anger is expressed.

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 It leaks out the edges of our lives, doesn't it?

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 Passive aggressiveness.

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 Passive aggressiveness.

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 Criticism.

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 Withdrawal.

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 All sorts of ways that we get angry.

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 When we deny it, it does great harm to us.

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 Sometimes denial of emotions can crush the spirits of others.

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 Well, you shouldn't be depressed.

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 Why are you depressed?

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 Don't be sad.

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 Cheer up.

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 Buck up.

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 It's not that bad.

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 Come on.

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 When you're in the middle of grief.

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 When you're walking through loss.

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 Those words aren't helpful.

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 In fact, they can often be crushing.

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 They deny the reality of your heart.

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 Bearing the weight of the loss and the grief that you're walking through.

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 Can be very destructive in that way too.

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 Thirdly, denial of our emotional life will distance us from God.

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 Because we serve a God who has a rich, sinless, emotional life.

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 He is angry with our sin.

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 He is jealous for our singular devotion.

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 He rejoices at the return of a prodigal child.

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 He sings over his beloved children.

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 He is merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness.

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 And if we think that we, as beings created in the image of God,

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 can have a relationship with the creator God and deny emotions,

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 we will be very poor people indeed.

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 And our relationship with God will be very poor because of it.

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 So Proverbs, first of all, simply affirms the reality and importance of our emotional life.

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 But it does more than that.

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 Proverbs affirms our emotional complexity.

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 Let me give you some of the, these are some of the ones that you wade into

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 that are striking as you read through Proverbs.

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 Proverbs, first of all, just Proverbs 25, chapter 20, verse 5 says,

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 The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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 Proverbs 20, 27, the spirit or the breath of a man is the lamp of the Lord,

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 searching all his innermost parts.

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 Proverbs 27, 19, as water, as in water, face reflects face, so the heart of a man reflects the man.

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 These are pretty opaque Proverbs.

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 But I believe that what he's getting at in the core of them is to say,

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 human beings are deep.

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 We're deep people.

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 There's a lot going on in our emotional life is a critical part of it.

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 This life of our heart, the life of our soul is important and significant.

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 A part of us actually being created in the image of God.

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 Not only is our emotional life deep, but it's very personal.

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 Proverbs 14, 10 says,

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 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

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 Isn't that interesting?

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 Have you ever had someone come up to you and say,

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 I know how you feel?

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 This proverb says, no, no you don't.

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 And it's not just in sad things or hard things.

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 It's in good things too.

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 Both joy and bitterness.

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 Each human heart experiences emotions in a unique way,

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 according to this proverb.

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 And it points to the complexity of the emotional life that God has given us.

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 Now the good news is that we do have a Lord who knows all things.

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 And we have a Lord who has this infinite emotional capacity.

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 And so he is able to know what we feel,

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 even when no one else does.

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 And so I have often found it better to say,

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 I don't know all that you're feeling,

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 but I care about you.

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 That's usually enough.

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 Sometimes there's shared loss,

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 and there's a deep understanding.

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 But you know, that takes us back to the first ones,

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 about how deep our emotional life is.

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 You often don't have to say it,

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 because there's just an understanding.

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 It's fascinating to me that the scriptures tell us

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 to mourn with those who mourn,

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 and rejoice with those who rejoice.

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 What a wonderful thing it is.

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 Maybe you've had people who come.

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 Without words, they well up with tears

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 as they look at you in your pain,

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 in your loss and sorrow.

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 Or on the other side,

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 something good happens,

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 and your friend breaks out with the widest grin you've ever seen,

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 and gives whoops of joy.

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 Because of the good thing that's happened to you.

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 It is a wonderful thing

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 that we have this depth of ability to connect,

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 and yet we always need to be dangerous.

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 We have to be aware of the danger

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 that we don't always understand,

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 and we don't always know

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 the complexity of what someone else is feeling.

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 And so we have Proverbs 25, 20.

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 Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart

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 is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day,

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 and like vinegar on soda.

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 When you have a friend who has a heavy heart that day,

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 to sing them songs of joy

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 is like taking off their winter parka

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 when it's 25 degrees out.

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 It makes them colder.

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 Or, like vinegar and soda,

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 it creates a reaction that explodes.

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 Maybe you've stepped on that landmine.

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 Maybe you've been the landmine.

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 Proverbs affirms,

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 it's complicated.

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 It's difficult.

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 And with great compassion and care,

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 and probably with imperfection,

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 we need to recognize

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 how complex our emotional life is.

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 And this leads us to the last proverb

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 in this section.

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 Proverbs 14, 13.

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 Even in laughter the heart may ache,

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 and the end of joy may be grief.

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 So even when you think you're seeing

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 what someone is feeling,

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 according to this proverb,

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 there may be something else alongside of it

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 that's actually the opposite.

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 Maybe you've experienced that.

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 Joy and sorrow mixed together.

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 It's far more common than we tend to want or think.

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 So our emotional life is complex and multilayered.

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 Joy can include sorrow.

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 Grief can include laughter.

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 So what do we do with this?

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 How do we understand?

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 How do we respond to this?

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 Well, I think one of the things to recognize

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 is that our emotional life is shaped

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 just like all of the rest of our created world

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 and order is shaped.

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 It's shaped by a framework

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 that I hope you guys have in your mind

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 of sort of the created redemption,

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 the redemptive history arc of the Bible, right?

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 So we have creation, fall, redemption, and glory.

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 And everything we experience in life

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 maps onto this huge arc

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 of what God is doing in the world.

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 And our emotions are like that too.

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 When God created the world,

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 He had an emotional life.

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 He created us with an emotional life.

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 Yet there was no sin.

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 And I will venture to say

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 that we really don't understand

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 what that looks like very well.

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 That that is far, far, far further

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 from our experience than we ever dare admit.

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 And then the fall came in.

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 And with the fall came two things.

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 One, the emotions that we have become corrupted.

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 And secondly, there are new kinds of emotions

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 like sorrow.

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 I haven't quite worked this out biblically.

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 Did God grieve before the fall?

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 If He's outside of time, He did.

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 But did Adam and Eve grieve before the fall?

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 Doesn't seem like it.

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 There are some right emotions

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 that came after the fall

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 that are part of a fallen world.

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 In redemption, then,

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 God comes and gives us a new life in Christ

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 whereby our emotions can be redeemed

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 out of the sinful patterns

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 that we tend to express them in.

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 And glory promises us a day

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 where our emotions will find

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 their greatest fulfillment and expression

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 without sin.

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 And interestingly,

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 there will be no more tears.

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 God will wipe away every tear.

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 And there will be no more sickness

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 or sorrow.

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 So run this through something like jealousy.

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 If I asked you if jealousy was a good emotion,

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 would you say it was good or bad?

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 Bad, right?

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 Commonly, it's bad.

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 You know why?

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 Because humanly, it's almost always bad.

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 It's almost always selfish.

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 I am jealous because you have something

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 that I want

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 or you are taking something

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 that I think is mine

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 and I didn't choose to share it.

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 And so I am jealous.

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 I am jealous.

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 I am jealous that you have something

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 that I want

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 or you have taken something

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 that I want.

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 And it's all about us.

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 Right?

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 So that's how we often experience

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 in our fallen reality.

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 But then Deuteronomy 4 comes in

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 and says to us

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 that God is a jealous God.

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 And we think,

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 because we've read Greek mythology,

00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:51.160
 what, is the God of the Bible

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 just like all like Zeus and Hera

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 who just, you know,

00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:56.740
 really were no better

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 than the rest of us

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 and weren't really worth our worship?

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 Is that what the God of the Bible is like?

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 And we realize,

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 no, that's not true at all.

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 That God has a right jealousy.

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 That He has a jealousy

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 that His creation

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 would respond to Him properly

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 as their creator.

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 That we, as His creation,

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 would respond to Him

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 with love and devotion and worship.

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 Because that is the,

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 that is the reality

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 of our relationship with Him.

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 And He is jealous

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 out of His love for us

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 to relate to us rightly.

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 He is jealous

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 that we might not run

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 and give that love and devotion

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 to anything else.

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 It is a right,

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 by analogy,

00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:43.980
 in the human life,

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 it is a right analogy

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 for a husband

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 to be jealous

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 for his wife's affection.

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 For a wife to be jealous

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 for her husband's affection.

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 That they don't run off

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 and go sleep with other people

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 and have,

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 and run off

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 and spend their emotional loyalties

00:27:03.259 --> 00:27:04.059
 and energies

00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:05.099
 in other directions.

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 It is right for a parent

00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:08.660
 to be jealous

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 for the protection of their kids

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 and to not simply entrust them

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 to others

00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:14.680
 who may harm them.

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 There are places

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 in human emotion

00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:19.160
 where there is a right jealousy.

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 Then we can taste it

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 and see

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 what a redeemed jealousy

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 might look like

00:27:24.820 --> 00:27:26.860
 in our human life.

00:27:30.460 --> 00:27:31.800
 So all that to say,

00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:32.880
 this framework

00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:34.140
 can be very helpful

00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.920
 as we run other things through it.

00:27:36.180 --> 00:27:37.060
 What about anger?

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:38.680
 Is anger good or bad?

00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:41.080
 What about love?

00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:42.500
 Is love good or bad?

00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:44.600
 What about joy and pleasure?

00:27:44.740 --> 00:27:45.920
 Is that good or bad?

00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:47.180
 If you think about it,

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:49.019
 it is complex

00:27:49.019 --> 00:27:50.759
 and in all of these things

00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:52.080
 there is potential

00:27:52.080 --> 00:27:53.420
 for both good and bad

00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:54.200
 in the way

00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:55.759
 that we humanly express it.

00:27:58.880 --> 00:27:59.960
 So let's make sure

00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:01.240
 that we embrace that

00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:02.560
 in our lives

00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:04.220
 and in our understanding of it.

00:28:06.860 --> 00:28:08.440
 Christianity is not

00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:10.100
 a flat,

00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:11.320
 happy, happy,

00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:11.960
 Pollyanna,

00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:13.799
 we should all be happy

00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:14.460
 every day

00:28:14.460 --> 00:28:16.400
 because Jesus loves us

00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:17.259
 and died for our sins.

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:19.059
 The truth is true

00:28:19.059 --> 00:28:20.320
 but the response

00:28:20.320 --> 00:28:21.799
 is insufficient

00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:25.620
 to reflect our human reality

00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:28.000
 and the dynamics of redemption.

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:33.279
 So Proverbs affirms

00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.940
 the reality of our emotional life.

00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:36.779
 It affirms the complexity

00:28:36.779 --> 00:28:39.400
 of our emotional life

00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.880
 and then thirdly,

00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:44.119
 Proverbs highly values

00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:45.339
 self-control

00:28:45.339 --> 00:28:47.500
 in our emotional life.

00:28:47.819 --> 00:28:48.940
 I know when Pastor Nick

00:28:48.940 --> 00:28:49.880
 preached on anger

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:50.940
 a couple of weeks ago,

00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:52.339
 he touched on this

00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:56.000
 but it's such a strong theme

00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:56.559
 in Proverbs

00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:57.500
 I thought it was worth

00:28:57.500 --> 00:28:58.680
 coming back to again.

00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:00.480
 There are great Proverbs

00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:01.240
 about this.

00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:05.339
 Proverbs 16, 32

00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:07.019
 Whoever is slow to anger

00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:08.200
 is better than the mighty

00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:10.099
 and he who rules his spirit

00:29:10.099 --> 00:29:11.900
 than he who takes a city.

00:29:15.099 --> 00:29:17.019
 Proverbs 17, 27

00:29:17.019 --> 00:29:18.759
 Whoever restrains his words

00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.460
 have knowledge

00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:21.299
 and he who has a cool spirit

00:29:21.299 --> 00:29:23.160
 is a man of understanding.

00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:25.900
 This one I think

00:29:25.900 --> 00:29:28.080
 is profound and scary to us.

00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:28.960
 A man without

00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:30.680
 Proverbs 25, 28

00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:32.680
 A man without self-control

00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.500
 is like a city broken into

00:29:35.500 --> 00:29:37.220
 and left without walls.

00:29:38.380 --> 00:29:39.740
 What means by that is

00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:42.180
 he is defenseless and vulnerable

00:29:42.180 --> 00:29:45.720
 because he lacks self-control.

00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:48.640
 Proverbs 29, 11

00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:50.420
 probably summarizes

00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:52.280
 the proverbial viewpoint

00:29:52.280 --> 00:29:54.460
 on control and spirits

00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:56.580
 and our emotions

00:29:56.580 --> 00:29:57.700
 by saying this

00:29:57.700 --> 00:29:58.660
 29, 11

00:29:58.660 --> 00:30:00.780
 A fool gives full vent

00:30:00.780 --> 00:30:01.980
 to his spirit

00:30:01.980 --> 00:30:03.460
 but a wise man

00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:05.200
 quietly holds it back.

00:30:08.280 --> 00:30:09.280
 The other week

00:30:09.280 --> 00:30:10.700
 I confess I was watching

00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:11.700
 You've Got Mail.

00:30:12.580 --> 00:30:13.820
 If you haven't seen

00:30:13.820 --> 00:30:14.700
 You've Got Mail

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:15.480
 it's an oldie

00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:17.140
 but it's a decent goodie.

00:30:17.140 --> 00:30:19.180
 Tom Hanks

00:30:19.180 --> 00:30:19.940
 and Meg Ryan

00:30:19.940 --> 00:30:22.380
 and one of the interesting

00:30:22.380 --> 00:30:23.320
 things is

00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:24.320
 so Tom Hanks

00:30:24.320 --> 00:30:25.100
 is this powerful

00:30:25.100 --> 00:30:26.100
 book broker

00:30:26.100 --> 00:30:27.200
 and she's this little

00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:27.800
 shop owner

00:30:27.800 --> 00:30:29.160
 and they have this

00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:30.520
 complex relationship

00:30:30.520 --> 00:30:32.180
 but when she first

00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:32.640
 meets him

00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:33.120
 and finds out

00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:33.860
 who he is

00:30:33.860 --> 00:30:34.600
 she hates him

00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:35.780
 and she wants

00:30:35.780 --> 00:30:36.940
 and she watches him

00:30:36.940 --> 00:30:37.960
 be really arrogant

00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:39.380
 at a dinner party

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 and she so much

00:30:41.280 --> 00:30:42.320
 wants to zing him.

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.720
 She so much

00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:44.500
 wants to just

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.940
 give full vent

00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:47.140
 to what she's feeling

00:30:47.140 --> 00:30:48.160
 about what a terrible

00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:49.500
 human being he is

00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:51.620
 and then later on

00:30:51.620 --> 00:30:52.700
 she actually

00:30:52.700 --> 00:30:54.580
 is able to do that

00:30:54.580 --> 00:30:55.740
 and she's actually

00:30:55.740 --> 00:30:56.799
 able to do it

00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:59.080
 and she regrets it

00:30:59.080 --> 00:30:59.660
 immediately.

00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:01.559
 She finds out

00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:02.440
 that being able

00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.039
 to just let it go

00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.920
 is actually destructive

00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:09.380
 which brings me to

00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:10.180
 the other thing

00:31:10.180 --> 00:31:10.920
 I want to talk about

00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:11.640
 let it go

00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:12.320
 let it go

00:31:12.320 --> 00:31:13.240
 can't hold it back

00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:13.779
 anymore

00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:14.980
 let it go

00:31:14.980 --> 00:31:15.859
 let it go

00:31:15.859 --> 00:31:16.960
 turn away

00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:18.200
 and slam the door

00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:19.339
 I don't care

00:31:19.339 --> 00:31:20.299
 what they're going

00:31:20.299 --> 00:31:21.139
 to say

00:31:21.139 --> 00:31:22.059
 let the storm

00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:22.839
 range on

00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:23.319
 the cold

00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:24.139
 never bothered me

00:31:24.139 --> 00:31:24.660
 anyway.

00:31:29.059 --> 00:31:30.359
 The song

00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.139
 is often sung

00:31:33.139 --> 00:31:34.940
 on YouTube

00:31:34.940 --> 00:31:35.440
 at least

00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.559
 by preteen girls

00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:37.180
 as a song

00:31:37.180 --> 00:31:37.799
 of empowerment

00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:38.859
 and a song

00:31:38.859 --> 00:31:40.379
 of feeling

00:31:40.380 --> 00:31:41.820
 finally free

00:31:41.820 --> 00:31:42.360
 to be

00:31:42.360 --> 00:31:42.820
 to be

00:31:42.820 --> 00:31:43.440
 who I really

00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:43.880
 am

00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:46.060
 but the interesting

00:31:46.060 --> 00:31:46.900
 thing about it

00:31:46.900 --> 00:31:48.160
 is that in the story

00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:50.280
 all she does

00:31:50.280 --> 00:31:51.080
 is destruction

00:31:51.080 --> 00:31:52.580
 when she lets it go

00:31:52.580 --> 00:31:54.540
 she destroys

00:31:54.540 --> 00:31:55.140
 her family

00:31:55.140 --> 00:31:55.960
 she destroys

00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:56.540
 her kingdom

00:31:56.540 --> 00:31:58.760
 and

00:31:58.760 --> 00:31:59.900
 interestingly

00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:01.060
 and surprisingly

00:32:01.060 --> 00:32:01.760
 for Disney

00:32:01.760 --> 00:32:02.700
 there's actually

00:32:02.700 --> 00:32:03.660
 a redemptive theme

00:32:03.660 --> 00:32:04.000
 where

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.700
 she is saved

00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:06.860
 by the self-sacrifice

00:32:06.860 --> 00:32:07.560
 of her sister

00:32:07.560 --> 00:32:08.780
 that's another story

00:32:08.780 --> 00:32:09.360
 it's a cool thing

00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:12.099
 but the point

00:32:12.099 --> 00:32:13.099
 here is that

00:32:13.099 --> 00:32:14.779
 we live in a culture

00:32:14.779 --> 00:32:15.399
 today

00:32:15.399 --> 00:32:16.599
 where we think

00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:17.599
 that self-control

00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:18.579
 is repression

00:32:18.579 --> 00:32:21.319
 where we think

00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:22.379
 that self-control

00:32:22.379 --> 00:32:23.859
 is lacking

00:32:23.859 --> 00:32:24.799
 authenticity

00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.179
 and the Bible

00:32:27.179 --> 00:32:28.359
 is very clear

00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:29.279
 that that is not

00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:29.679
 true

00:32:29.679 --> 00:32:31.379
 because we are

00:32:31.379 --> 00:32:32.479
 human beings

00:32:32.479 --> 00:32:33.439
 made in the image

00:32:33.439 --> 00:32:33.879
 of God

00:32:33.879 --> 00:32:34.919
 and yet corrupted

00:32:34.919 --> 00:32:35.859
 by the fall

00:32:35.859 --> 00:32:37.359
 and even for Christians

00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:38.759
 as we have the Holy Spirit

00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:39.219
 in us

00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:40.759
 we are not able

00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:41.660
 to express

00:32:41.660 --> 00:32:42.640
 our emotions

00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:43.600
 perfectly

00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:45.180
 in every circumstance

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:48.600
 that's not a newsflash

00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:50.160
 I'm sure you're surprised about

00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:54.380
 and so

00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:56.059
 the Apostle Paul

00:32:56.059 --> 00:32:56.579
 tells us

00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:57.480
 that one of the fruit

00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:58.059
 of the Spirit

00:32:58.059 --> 00:32:59.160
 is self-control

00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:00.100
 it is something

00:33:00.100 --> 00:33:00.920
 that we are able

00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:02.380
 to grow in

00:33:02.380 --> 00:33:04.980
 so that we can

00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:06.279
 feel the emotions

00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:07.380
 that are real

00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:08.240
 in our heart

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:09.300
 and in our circumstances

00:33:09.300 --> 00:33:10.380
 and yet

00:33:10.380 --> 00:33:11.440
 at the end of the day

00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:12.420
 let the truth

00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:13.380
 of God's Word

00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:14.420
 and the power

00:33:14.420 --> 00:33:15.460
 of the Holy Spirit

00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:17.180
 shape and control

00:33:17.180 --> 00:33:18.600
 how we respond

00:33:18.600 --> 00:33:22.080
 so that our feelings

00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:23.560
 are driven by truth

00:33:23.560 --> 00:33:25.500
 so that

00:33:25.500 --> 00:33:27.520
 we need to seek

00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:29.120
 to know the Word of God

00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:31.040
 so that they can shape

00:33:31.040 --> 00:33:32.060
 how we understand

00:33:32.060 --> 00:33:32.840
 our emotions

00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:34.839
 our emotions

00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:35.619
 should be governed

00:33:35.619 --> 00:33:36.699
 by love

00:33:36.699 --> 00:33:37.299
 so that

00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:38.379
 as we express

00:33:38.379 --> 00:33:39.000
 our emotions

00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:39.959
 we are not simply

00:33:39.959 --> 00:33:40.579
 thinking of

00:33:40.579 --> 00:33:42.419
 how do I express myself

00:33:42.419 --> 00:33:43.779
 but how do I care

00:33:43.779 --> 00:33:45.079
 about the other person

00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:46.299
 in the process

00:33:46.299 --> 00:33:47.879
 of my expression

00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.320
 my emotions

00:33:52.320 --> 00:33:53.240
 need to be

00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:53.980
 expressed

00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:55.200
 most fundamentally

00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:56.500
 with a view

00:33:56.500 --> 00:33:58.340
 towards pleasing God

00:33:58.340 --> 00:33:59.540
 and governed

00:33:59.540 --> 00:34:00.580
 by a desire

00:34:00.580 --> 00:34:01.800
 for godliness

00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:02.880
 God

00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:04.640
 may my emotional life

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:05.160
 grow

00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:06.160
 in increasingly

00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.200
 in increasing way

00:34:08.200 --> 00:34:08.960
 to reflect

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:09.599
 you

00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:10.840
 and your emotions

00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:14.599
 so joy

00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.440
 in a godly pattern

00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:16.860
 of this

00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:17.860
 a godly expression

00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:19.960
 is not selfish

00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:20.820
 pleasure seeking

00:34:20.820 --> 00:34:21.780
 but enjoying

00:34:21.780 --> 00:34:22.700
 but receiving

00:34:22.700 --> 00:34:23.519
 from God

00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:24.500
 good things

00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:25.599
 and responding right

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.440
 sorrow

00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:27.940
 is not self-pity

00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:29.260
 but an honest

00:34:29.260 --> 00:34:29.880
 recognition

00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:30.579
 of loss

00:34:30.579 --> 00:34:31.200
 in the world

00:34:31.200 --> 00:34:31.880
 anger

00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:32.500
 is not an

00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:33.160
 uncontrolled

00:34:33.160 --> 00:34:33.920
 outburst

00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:35.340
 but a focused

00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:36.059
 rejection

00:34:36.059 --> 00:34:37.220
 of evil

00:34:37.220 --> 00:34:37.960
 and wrong

00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:38.980
 hope

00:34:38.980 --> 00:34:39.880
 is not wishful

00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:40.599
 optimism

00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:41.820
 but trust

00:34:41.820 --> 00:34:42.599
 in the future

00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:43.559
 work of a good

00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:44.039
 God

00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.480
 and so on

00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:47.400
 and so forth

00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.059
 temper long

00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:51.240
 man

00:34:51.240 --> 00:34:51.519
 whose

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.480
 commentary

00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:52.880
 on

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:54.240
 proverbs

00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:54.440
 is

00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:54.980
 I highly

00:34:54.980 --> 00:34:55.400
 recommend

00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:55.860
 to you

00:34:55.860 --> 00:34:56.860
 says this

00:34:56.860 --> 00:34:57.220
 about

00:34:57.220 --> 00:34:58.760
 this topic

00:34:58.760 --> 00:34:59.680
 it is not

00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:00.280
 that the wise

00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:01.300
 are emotionless

00:35:01.300 --> 00:35:02.180
 or that they

00:35:02.180 --> 00:35:02.900
 don't express

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:03.300
 anger

00:35:03.300 --> 00:35:03.980
 or disappointment

00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:05.220
 but they do

00:35:05.220 --> 00:35:05.940
 so in a way

00:35:05.940 --> 00:35:06.800
 that is appropriate

00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:07.880
 to the context

00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:09.139
 they don't blow up

00:35:09.139 --> 00:35:09.599
 in anger

00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:10.200
 though they may

00:35:10.200 --> 00:35:11.380
 get very angry

00:35:11.380 --> 00:35:13.119
 moderate expressions

00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:13.780
 of emotions

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:15.320
 allow the wise

00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:15.940
 to think

00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:17.019
 and strategize

00:35:17.019 --> 00:35:17.880
 emotions

00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:18.740
 don't cloud

00:35:18.740 --> 00:35:19.440
 their thinking

00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.620
 another way

00:35:20.620 --> 00:35:21.180
 to put this

00:35:21.180 --> 00:35:22.039
 is that the wise

00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:22.960
 are patient

00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:24.500
 whereas fools

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:26.019
 are impatient

00:35:26.019 --> 00:35:29.140
 I found that

00:35:29.140 --> 00:35:30.220
 a very insightful

00:35:30.220 --> 00:35:31.500
 quote

00:35:31.500 --> 00:35:32.480
 to think through

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:37.920
 so proverbs

00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:38.760
 says these things

00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:39.160
 it doesn't

00:35:39.160 --> 00:35:39.960
 we haven't covered

00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:40.700
 everything about

00:35:40.700 --> 00:35:41.559
 our emotional life

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:42.120
 this morning

00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:44.500
 about what it means

00:35:44.500 --> 00:35:45.079
 to be a Christian

00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:46.059
 in our emotional life

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:46.599
 but proverbs

00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:47.400
 says these things

00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:48.559
 they are real

00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:49.500
 they are deep

00:35:49.500 --> 00:35:50.179
 and complex

00:35:50.179 --> 00:35:51.559
 and they ought

00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:52.279
 to be subject

00:35:52.279 --> 00:35:53.539
 to healthy

00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:54.539
 self-control

00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:55.839
 so that their

00:35:55.839 --> 00:35:56.619
 expressions

00:35:56.619 --> 00:35:57.639
 are

00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:59.199
 constructive

00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:00.119
 and positive

00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:00.779
 rather than

00:36:00.779 --> 00:36:01.339
 destructive

00:36:01.339 --> 00:36:02.500
 and negative

00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:05.359
 and so

00:36:05.359 --> 00:36:06.119
 the writer

00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:06.699
 of proverbs

00:36:06.699 --> 00:36:09.039
 says this

00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:10.239
 I found this

00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:11.119
 if you remember

00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:12.259
 proverbs is a series

00:36:12.259 --> 00:36:13.880
 of one of the

00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:14.400
 frameworks

00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:15.219
 and the literary

00:36:15.219 --> 00:36:16.079
 forms that they use

00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:16.699
 is a father

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:17.679
 talking to his son

00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:18.900
 about how to walk

00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:19.759
 in the way of wisdom

00:36:19.759 --> 00:36:20.699
 and he says this

00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:21.719
 my son

00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:22.259
 if your heart

00:36:22.259 --> 00:36:22.779
 is wise

00:36:22.779 --> 00:36:23.679
 my heart

00:36:23.679 --> 00:36:24.099
 too

00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:24.980
 will be glad

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:26.199
 my innermost

00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:27.179
 being will exult

00:36:27.179 --> 00:36:28.019
 when your lips

00:36:28.019 --> 00:36:29.139
 speak what is right

00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:30.920
 let not your heart

00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:31.799
 envy sinners

00:36:31.799 --> 00:36:32.839
 but continue

00:36:32.839 --> 00:36:33.639
 in the fear

00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:34.380
 of the Lord

00:36:34.380 --> 00:36:35.940
 all the day

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:38.500
 and I just thought

00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:39.219
 it was interesting

00:36:39.219 --> 00:36:40.039
 because in this

00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:40.759
 little passage

00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:41.340
 you see

00:36:41.340 --> 00:36:42.400
 the complexity

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:43.019
 of emotions

00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:44.279
 he's exhorting

00:36:44.279 --> 00:36:44.820
 his son

00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:45.940
 follow the way

00:36:45.940 --> 00:36:46.320
 of wisdom

00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:46.820
 because it will

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:47.320
 be good

00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:47.940
 don't fall

00:36:47.940 --> 00:36:48.639
 into envy

00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.259
 but fear

00:36:49.259 --> 00:36:49.900
 the Lord

00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:51.219
 affirming

00:36:51.219 --> 00:36:51.880
 even in that

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:52.400
 this is how

00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:52.900
 the emotions

00:36:52.900 --> 00:36:53.259
 are going to

00:36:53.259 --> 00:36:54.000
 affect your life

00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:54.539
 in pursuing

00:36:54.539 --> 00:36:55.000
 godliness

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:56.079
 but then he also

00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:56.880
 says but your

00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:57.759
 godliness is going

00:36:57.759 --> 00:36:58.440
 to affect me

00:36:58.440 --> 00:36:59.579
 your response

00:36:59.579 --> 00:37:01.099
 is going to

00:37:01.099 --> 00:37:01.739
 do things

00:37:01.739 --> 00:37:02.739
 in my emotional

00:37:02.739 --> 00:37:03.239
 life

00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:03.900
 it's going to

00:37:03.900 --> 00:37:04.759
 bring me joy

00:37:04.759 --> 00:37:06.579
 my innermost

00:37:06.579 --> 00:37:07.420
 being will exult

00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:08.360
 when I see you

00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:09.519
 doing these

00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:10.019
 things

00:37:10.019 --> 00:37:11.059
 and so it

00:37:11.059 --> 00:37:11.480
 leaves us

00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:12.019
 with the final

00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:12.380
 question

00:37:12.380 --> 00:37:12.880
 which is how

00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:13.240
 do we

00:37:13.240 --> 00:37:14.280
 pursue this

00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:15.220
 what is it

00:37:15.220 --> 00:37:16.700
 what is it

00:37:16.700 --> 00:37:17.320
 that we can

00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:18.440
 do to pursue

00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:19.200
 growth and

00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:19.920
 understanding

00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.860
 a healthy

00:37:20.860 --> 00:37:21.440
 emotional

00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.000
 life

00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:24.180
 and friends

00:37:24.180 --> 00:37:25.019
 it is not

00:37:25.019 --> 00:37:25.900
 rocket science

00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:27.400
 it is the

00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:28.039
 answer we have

00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:28.840
 seen over and

00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:29.340
 over again

00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:30.059
 in Proverbs

00:37:30.059 --> 00:37:30.980
 and in fact

00:37:30.980 --> 00:37:31.660
 is the answer

00:37:31.660 --> 00:37:32.440
 over and over

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:33.099
 again in the

00:37:33.099 --> 00:37:33.440
 scriptures

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:34.680
 we need to

00:37:34.680 --> 00:37:35.340
 look to Jesus

00:37:35.340 --> 00:37:35.920
 Christ

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:37.620
 because Jesus

00:37:37.620 --> 00:37:38.300
 Christ

00:37:38.300 --> 00:37:42.180
 embodied the

00:37:42.180 --> 00:37:43.120
 fullness of

00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:44.240
 perfect humanity

00:37:44.240 --> 00:37:46.340
 and so when we

00:37:46.340 --> 00:37:47.220
 look to Jesus

00:37:47.220 --> 00:37:48.300
 what do we find

00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:49.579
 we find one

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:50.320
 who looked with

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:51.000
 compassion

00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:52.320
 said woman

00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:53.700
 does no one

00:37:53.700 --> 00:37:54.360
 condemn you

00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:57.660
 we see him

00:37:57.660 --> 00:37:59.079
 who with holy

00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:00.100
 rage made a

00:38:00.100 --> 00:38:01.500
 whip and drove

00:38:01.500 --> 00:38:02.260
 the merchants

00:38:02.260 --> 00:38:02.880
 out of the

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:03.220
 temple

00:38:03.219 --> 00:38:06.259
 we see him

00:38:06.259 --> 00:38:08.359
 wearily lamenting

00:38:08.359 --> 00:38:09.379
 about his best

00:38:09.379 --> 00:38:10.199
 friends have I

00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:10.759
 been with you

00:38:10.759 --> 00:38:11.439
 so long

00:38:11.439 --> 00:38:14.279
 we still don't

00:38:14.279 --> 00:38:14.980
 understand

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:17.659
 he who wept

00:38:17.659 --> 00:38:18.659
 with his friends

00:38:18.659 --> 00:38:19.339
 at the tomb

00:38:19.339 --> 00:38:20.079
 of their brother

00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:21.339
 and shook

00:38:21.339 --> 00:38:22.139
 with anger

00:38:22.139 --> 00:38:23.939
 against the

00:38:23.939 --> 00:38:24.659
 ravages of

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 death

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 he who was a

00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:29.439
 man of sorrows

00:38:29.439 --> 00:38:30.219
 acquainted with

00:38:30.219 --> 00:38:30.679
 grief

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 who for the

00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:33.579
 joy set before

00:38:33.579 --> 00:38:34.000
 him

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:35.500
 endured the

00:38:35.500 --> 00:38:36.000
 cross

00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.300
 despising the

00:38:38.300 --> 00:38:38.679
 shame

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 if we want

00:38:41.699 --> 00:38:42.280
 to know how

00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:42.960
 we walk in

00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:43.800
 wisdom we look

00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:44.440
 to Jesus

00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:45.320
 who is the

00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:46.119
 embodiment of

00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:47.079
 wisdom himself

00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:48.800
 we look to him

00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:49.639
 to see his

00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:51.059
 complexity and the

00:38:51.059 --> 00:38:52.079
 reality of his

00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:52.659
 emotions

00:38:52.659 --> 00:38:54.559
 we see that in his

00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.400
 humanity he

00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:56.599
 identified with us

00:38:56.599 --> 00:38:57.599
 we see in his

00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:58.860
 perfection an

00:38:58.860 --> 00:39:00.019
 example of how to

00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:00.840
 do it well

00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:02.759
 and most

00:39:02.759 --> 00:39:03.980
 amazingly we see

00:39:03.980 --> 00:39:05.440
 that in him

00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:06.400
 doing these

00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:07.380
 things for us

00:39:07.380 --> 00:39:09.320
 we see his

00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:10.380
 emotions expressed

00:39:10.380 --> 00:39:11.739
 uniquely at

00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:14.119
 times in his

00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:14.920
 redemptive work

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:15.559
 for us

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 my God

00:39:17.099 --> 00:39:21.039
 my God my

00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:22.559
 God why have

00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:23.199
 you forsaken

00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:23.579
 me

00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:27.039
 father forgive

00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:28.019
 them they don't

00:39:28.019 --> 00:39:28.579
 know what they're

00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:29.099
 doing

00:39:29.099 --> 00:39:36.179
 the God of the

00:39:36.179 --> 00:39:37.259
 Bible shows us

00:39:37.259 --> 00:39:38.280
 what emotions look

00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:40.019
 like because he's

00:39:40.019 --> 00:39:41.239
 created us to know

00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:42.480
 him and that our

00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:43.440
 emotions would be a

00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:44.599
 part of our of our

00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:45.460
 life and our

00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:46.579
 glorifying of him

00:39:46.579 --> 00:39:48.079
 and when we behold

00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:49.440
 Jesus and when we

00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:51.119
 believe that what

00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:52.519
 Jesus has done can

00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:54.920
 redeem us out of all

00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:55.820
 of our petty and

00:39:55.820 --> 00:39:57.500
 broken and fallen and

00:39:57.500 --> 00:39:58.720
 foolish emotion

00:39:58.720 --> 00:40:01.880
 all of our denial of

00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:02.940
 it all of our

00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:05.140
 selfish expression of

00:40:05.140 --> 00:40:05.360
 it

00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:09.200
 when we behold him

00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:10.120
 and when we believe

00:40:10.120 --> 00:40:11.160
 and trust in him

00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:13.920
 this is where we find

00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:15.860
 then the life that God

00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:16.800
 has for us

00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:18.120
 the way of wisdom

00:40:18.120 --> 00:40:19.980
 the way of

00:40:19.980 --> 00:40:20.440
 godliness

00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:23.860
 let's pray together

00:40:23.860 --> 00:40:28.660
 lord we have touched

00:40:28.660 --> 00:40:29.860
 on many things this

00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:31.920
 morning and lord we

00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:33.599
 acknowledge that we

00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:34.480
 are fearfully and

00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:35.460
 wonderfully made and

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:36.360
 that you have knit us

00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:36.820
 together

00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:39.079
 lord we pray that you

00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:40.440
 will help us to grow

00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:43.019
 mind and body and

00:40:43.019 --> 00:40:44.820
 soul and emotion and

00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:46.840
 will and affection

00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.599
 and knowledge and

00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:50.340
 understanding

00:40:50.340 --> 00:40:52.539
 lord in all of the

00:40:52.539 --> 00:40:53.759
 complexity of how you

00:40:53.759 --> 00:40:54.699
 have made us as human

00:40:54.699 --> 00:40:55.880
 beings lord may we

00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:57.460
 reflect and know you

00:40:57.460 --> 00:40:58.579
 more and specifically

00:40:58.579 --> 00:41:00.880
 lord may we know how

00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.179
 to lord live out our

00:41:05.179 --> 00:41:06.579
 emotional life in a way

00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:08.219
 that brings glory to you

00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:10.980
 lord help us to be more

00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:12.880
 like Jesus help us to

00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:14.980
 reflect Jesus in how we

00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:17.039
 live and lord help us to

00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.699
 depend on Jesus to exercise

00:41:20.699 --> 00:41:22.439
 self-control and see

00:41:22.439 --> 00:41:23.859
 transformation where we

00:41:23.859 --> 00:41:25.159
 cannot do it ourselves

00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:28.139
 we pray all these things

00:41:28.139 --> 00:41:29.699
 in Jesus name

00:41:29.699 --> 00:41:30.759
 amen

00:41:30.759 --> 00:41:31.699
 amen