Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Tuesday, June 8,

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 John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

John 15:11 Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 4

Doctrine of Joy D. Joy and Emotions

2 Cor 7:4, “Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.”

Psa 30:5, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”

Neh 8:10, “Do not be grieved for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

1. Emotion has no strength and is totally self-centered. For example, guilt is all emotion and is full of sin. It has no strength.

2. How you feel is never the issue in the spiritual life. Phil 3:18-19 (appetite = emotions)

a. When a person is motivated to perform works by their emotions and how they feel, they produce dead works (wood, hay and straw). 1 Cor 3:12

b. When a person is motivated to perform works by Bible Doctrine circulating in their souls, they produce Divine good works.

3. Emotions were designed by God and transmitted to man, Gen 1:26, along with volition, self-consciousness, mentality, and conscience. Therefore, mankind would have personality and be a moral, rational being.

Good emotion was added by God as an appreciator of the things in the soul.

Emotion is what is experienced as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.

Emotion has two functions in life; a normal and an abnormal function. The emotions of the soul are designed to respond to what is in the mentality of the soul.

As a result of PMA of BD through the filling of the Holy Spirit, the believer responds in appreciation to God. That is good emotion.

4. Emotion is not a part of the spiritual life. It is the result of the spiritual life where in animation we express what is in our soul.

5. As a system of response and feeling, emotion does not contain the following:

a. Thought.

a. Thought. b. The ability to reason.

a. Thought. b. The ability to reason. c. Common sense.

a. Thought. b. The ability to reason. c. Common sense. d. Vocabulary as a tool for mental function.

a. Thought. b. The ability to reason. c. Common sense. d. Vocabulary as a tool for mental function. e. Doctrinal content.

6. Etymology of Emotions.

a. KOILIA, a part of the central nervous system, translated “stomach, inner most or appetite” in scripture.

Phil 3:19, “Whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.” See also Prov 13:25; 18:8; 26:22; Rom 16:17-18.

b. SPLAGCHNON represents the sympathetic effects of emotion. “Intestines, heart, liver, or lungs”, “bowels, guts or entrails” in the KJV.

SPLAGCHNON means feelings and affections as correctly translated in 2 Cor 6:12; Phil 1:8; 2:1, etc., in the NASB. See also 1 Kings 3:26; Jer 4:19; 31:20; Lam 1:20; 2:11; and Philemon 1:20.

c. NEPHROS = “minds” in Rev 2:23 in the NASB and “reins” in the KJV refers to kidneys or the fat pads of the kidneys used to designate emotions. See also Psa 139:13; Prov 23:16; Jer 12:2; 20:12.

7. The heart contains all thought and standards. The emotion, KOILIA, contains nothing, is empty, or hollow.

Emotion is something empty and waiting to respond. Emotion contains no doctrine, no thought, no common sense, and no ability to reason.

Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Tape # Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 4 Joy and Emotion Upper Room Discourse, Part 379 John 15:11; Phil 1:8; 2:1; 3:19; 2 Cor 7:4 Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, June 8, 2010 Tape # Having the Joy of Jesus Christ, Part 4 Joy and Emotion Upper Room Discourse, Part 379 John 15:11; Phil 1:8; 2:1; 3:19; 2 Cor 7:4 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2010