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Todd Blansit
February 27, 2022
God made us emotional people.
2 Timothy 1.7
7for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love, and self-control.
Orthodoxy is correct doctrine/teaching. The content is right.
Orthopraxy is correct living. The lifestyle is right.
Orthopathy is right emotional and/or affections.
Matthew 23.27-28
27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
Romans 6.17-18
17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Our emotional lives are driven by what we think.
There is plenty of scripture instructing us how to think.
2 Cor 10.4-5
4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Declare who is in charge of your emotions.
If you wrestle with managing your emotions, declare who is in charge of your emotions. It’s important to hear yourself say aloud, God, I choose today, with your help, to take ownership for what I’m feeling. It is not anyone else’s fault. Whatever I choose to feel today, I’m declaring ownership of it. I am responsible for it.
Phil 4.8
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
To truly have emotional freedom we must allow the Spirit to be the leading voice in our lives.
2 Cor 3.17-18
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
We must be led by the Spirit and allow Him to redeem our emotions.
We can be passionate about something, but we can also be passionately wrong. No matter how strong your feelings are, start with the Word of God to validate or invalidate those emotions.
John 4.21-23
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
To worship God in spirit means it must originate from within, from the heart; it must be sincere, motivated by our love for God and gratitude for all He is and has done.
It can be a very emotional experience.
The apostle Paul said that believers worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh (Phil. 3:3).
It’s the Holy Spirit who awakens in us an understanding of God’s beauty and power. It’s the Holy Spirit who stirs us to celebrate and rejoice and give thanks. It’s the Holy Spirit who opens our eyes to see and savor all that God is for us in Jesus.
This worship must also be in truth.
This is how we live a life of worship and stay in control of our emotions.
Our worship and lives must conform to the revelation of God in Scripture. It must be informed by who God is and what he is like.
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