Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Tuesday, February 22,

Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

Memory Verse 1 Tim 1:5, “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.”

John 16:6 Emotional Revolt of the Soul.

John 16:5, “But now I (Jesus) am going to Him (God the Father) who sent Me, and yet not one of you (the disciples) asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’”

John 16:6, “But because I have said (taught) to you all these things, sorrow (inward stress) has completely filled your heart (right lobe of the soul).”

The Doctrine of Emotional Revolt of the Soul.

A. Introduction - Emotions: 1. Emotions were designed by God for good.

2. Bad emotion began at the original sin, Gen 3:6, and has continued throughout human history. After the fall it came in the form of tremendous guilt, Gen 3:10.

3. As a system of response and feeling, emotion does not contain: Thought; The ability to reason; Common sense; Vocabulary; Doctrinal content.

4. The heart contains all thought and standards. The emotion contains nothing. KOILIA, “the belly or womb” (Rom 16:18; Phil 3:19 - appetite), something that is empty or hollow.

5. The emotions are the appreciator of the soul. By function, the emotions respond to the heart. Emotion is strictly a responder. It contains feelings.

6. Negative response to the heart produces the spectrum of misery: (mental attitude sins piling up in your soul, revolt of the emotions, psychosis, and instability of wide emotional swings), …

… because the emotions take over control, become the aggressor, and dictate to the right lobe.

a. This cuts off doctrine from circulating in your soul with mental attitude sins and emotions controlling every area of the soul: (self- consciousness, mentality, volition, conscience).

b. As a result of emotional overload there is the spectrum of misery in your soul: mental attitude sins, lust patterns, and human good.

c. Since the emotions of the soul were never designed to dominate the soul, wide emotional swings demonstrate the inability of emotion to dominate!

7. The believer must distinguish between normal function of emotion as a good responder to the values of life and the sinful function of emotion as a reaction to life.

8. As a responder emotion enhances appreciation for what is noble and honorable in life.

But as a reactor produces sin, dead works, evil, the emotional revolt of the soul.

9. The disciples demonstrated bad emotion by having sorrow in their hearts caused by fear, worry and anxiety due to preoccupation with self.

A good emotional response would have been joy at the prospect of suffering as Christ suffered, and ….. John 15:20; Rom 8:17; Phil 1:29: 2 Tim 3:12

… encouraging Jesus in His final hours as His friends rather than leaving Him alone to pray and suffer. Compare with Mat 26:31, 40-45; Mark 14:27; 37-41; Luke 22:45-46.

B. Emotional Revolt of the Soul.

B. Emotional Revolt of the Soul. 1. Emotion can be a hindrance to the plan of God and a distraction to the perception of doctrine. 2 Cor 6:11-12

“Affections” = SPLAGCHON - inward parts, (heart, liver, lungs, etc.). Like KOILIA is used for “the emotions”. See use for good emotion in 2 Cor 7:15; Phil 1:8; 2:1; Col 3:12.

2. When people allow their emotions to rule their lives they are like intestines filled with waste. Rom 16:17-18

3. The emotional revolt, backed by the OSN causes emotion to become the aggressor instead of the responder.

This causes emotion to become the criterion rather than God’s Word in the heart of your soul.

4. Therefore, emotional revolution against the establishment of the soul causes the total failure or malfunction of the GAP.

5. Instead of responding to doctrine in the soul, emotion takes command of the soul with the result that all capacity, love, and happiness is gone.

a. Instead of responding to doctrine, emotion responds to mental attitude sins, approbation and power lust, and human good; cutting off any doctrine in the right lobe.

b. Once emotion revolts against the heart, it loses all capacity for life and comes under the influence and domination of the OSN.

Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Tape # Emotional Revolt of the Soul Upper Room Discourse, Part 474 John 16:6; Rom 8:28 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011