Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Thursday, February 24,

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 16:5, “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.

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. When emotions rule they are like intestines filled with waste.

3. Emotional revolt backed by the OSN causes emotion to become the aggressor instead of the responder.

4. It causes total failure or malfunction of the GAP.

5. It results in loss of all capacity, love, and happiness.

6. It results in – V. toward B.D. plus recession of thought, replaced by the frantic search for happiness and total dependence on feeling rather than on common sense.

7. Emotion then becomes inflexible regarding the non-essentials. 1 Tim 6:3-4; 2 Tim 2:14; 2 Peter 2:1-3a; 18-19; cf. Rev 2:23

8. We are commanded to separate from those in E.R.S. Rom 16:17-18

9. Emotions working in conjunction with your OSN deceive the heart. The OSN motivates the emotion to revolt against the right lobe of your soul.

OldSinNature

Strength OldSinNature

Strength Weakness OldSinNature

Strength Weakness OldSinNature

Immoraldegeneracy OldSinNature Strength Weakness Lasciviousness

Immoraldegeneracy OldSinNature Strength Weakness Moraldegeneracy LasciviousnessAsceticism

Lasciviousness OldSinNature Strength Weakness Asceticism

a. The threefold essence of the Old Sin Nature includes:

1) The area of strength that produces human good, resulting in moral degeneracy. Isa 64:6; Rom 8:8

2) The area of weakness that produces personal sins and eventuates in consequent evil in the form of moral or immoral degeneration. Heb 12:1

3) The lust pattern motivates sin and evil, lasciviousness and asceticism, moral and immoral degeneration. Rom 7:7; Eph 2:3

OldSinNature Strength Weakness Lasciviousness Asceticism

Asceticism Lasciviousness OldSinNature Strength Weakness Immoral Human Good “ends justify the means” Moral Human Good “means justify the ends” Immoral Sin and Evil Approbation Sin and Evil “going along with the crowd”

b. “Old Man” or “Old Self” are terms that speak to the Old Sin Nature. Rom 6:6; Eph 4:22; Col 3:9

The flesh or fleshly are other predominate terms used in the New Testament regarding the Sin Nature. Rom 7:14; 1 Cor 3:1 ‑ 3

c. In Eph 4:22 the “lusts of deceit” include power lust, money lust, approbation lust, sexual lust, chemical lust, and emotional lust (fear, worry, anxiety, anger, hatred, violence, and murder).

d. No one sins apart from his own consent. The sin nature is the source of temptation. Human volition is the source of sin.

e. Once you commit a sin, the sin nature controls your soul and is a stronger power than it was when merely residing in your body.

f. Emotions that lead your soul, open the door for temptations from your sin nature.

g. E.R.S., (minus a sin nature), was the cause of sin and the sin nature coming into the world.

10. Emotion becomes the god of the believer in E.R.S. Phil 3:18-19

Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, February 24, 2011 Tape # Emotional Revolt of the Soul The Emotions Upper Room Discourse, Part 475 John 16:6; Gen 1:26-27; 3:6-10; Rom 16:17-20; Phil 3:15-21 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011