when emotions become sinful

WHEN EMOTIONS BECOME SINFUL

THE LEARNING CONNECTION

IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT GOD MADE US TO HAVE EMOTIONS, THEREFORE, HAVING EMOTIONS IN ITSELF, IS NOT A SIN. HOWEVER, IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL, SATAN CAN MANIPULATE OUR EMOTIONS, SUCH AS ANGER, AND CAUSE US TO HATE OR KILL ANOTHER PERSON! SATAN CAN LEAD ONE TO BELIEVE THAT THE LUST THEY HAVE IS REALLY “LOVE,” JUSTIFYING ACTS OF ADULTERY, FORNICATION AND SODOMY.

EMOTIONS: A NORMAL PART OF LIFE

EMOTIONS ARE A NORMAL PART OF LIVING.

GOD CREATED US TO HAVE EMOTIONS.

HE HAS EMOTIONS.

GOD LOVES, HATES, REJOICES, FEELS SORROW AND WRATH.

GOD HAS EMOTIONS

REMEMBER HOW CHRIST WEPT WHEN HE SAW MARY AND MARTHA WEEPING OVER LAZARUS

HE SHARED THEIR SORROW, HIS BODY EVEN FELT FEAR OR TREPIDATION FACING HIS DEATH

HE FELT FRUSTRATION OVER THE LACK OF FAITH OF HIS APOSTLES

ANGER WHEN THE MERCHANTS DEFILED THE TEMPLE WITH SELLING OF THEIR MERCHANDISE.

BUT GOD IS HOLY.

WE ARE SUBJECT TO SIN

WE ARE SUBJECT TO SIN AND THE EMOTIONS THAT ARE STIRRED UP IN US CAN LEAD US TO SIN;

THE PROBLEM WITH EMOTIONS IS THAT WHEN THE EMOTION IS HIGH IT INTERFERES WITH THE BRAIN’S ABILITY TO REASON OR THINK CLEARLY.

HOLY SPIRIT WORKS WITH REASON.....NOT EMOTIONS

THE HOLY GHOST WORKS WITHIN OUR ABILITY TO REASON,

NOT WITHIN OUR EMOTIONS.

“COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER SAITH THE LORD.”

LOVE IS BOTH FEELING & ACTION

IF WE GO ONLY WITH WHAT WE FEEL, SATAN CAN HAVE US COMMIT ADULTERY, FORNICATION OR SODOMY (THINK OF THE TIME OF LOT)

HE CAN HAVE US PUT FRIENDS OR FAMILY MEMBERS OVER GOD OR MAKE AN IDOL OF ANY PERSON, ACTIVITY OR THING BECAUSE WE LOVE IT SO MUCH.

LOVE IS BOTH FEELING & ACTION

#2WITHIN THE WORD

OF GOD LOVE IS

ALSO A FEELING

BUT IT IS MOST

IMPORTANT AS AN

ACTION

AS AN ACTION

LOVE HELPS US TO

DETERMINE HOW

TO LOVE IN THE

MOST

APPROPRIATE WAY.

#1LOVE IS DOING, LOVE IS OBEYING GOD’S WORD.

LOVE IS PUTTING GOD FIRST.

LOVE IS CHARITY.

ANY LESSER LOVE CAN LEAD YOU TO YOUR DESTRUCTION.

ANGER IN & OF ITSELF IS NOT A SIN

THERE ARE MANY JUSTIFIABLE REASONS TO BECOME ANGRY.

GOD BECOMES ANGRY BECAUSE OF SIN.

ANGER IN MAN CAN LEAD TO VIOLENCE, FEAR AND STRIFE. (THINK OF THE TIME OF NOAH...A TIME OF VIOLENCE)

PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY AND DO THINGS WHEN THEY ARE ANGRY THAT THEY WOULDN’T IF THEY WERE NOT ANGRY.

ANGER IN & OF ITSELF IS NOT A SIN

#2THE BIBLE SAYS

ANGER AND SIN

NOT.

IT PUTS A TIMELINE

ON IT; LET NOT THE

SUN GO DOWN ON

YOUR WRATH.

MOSES HIT THE

ROCK WHEN HE

WAS JUSTIFIABLY

ANGRY.

#1THE SPIRIT OF GOD DOES NOT WORK THROUGH ANGER IN A PERSON.

WHEN A PERSON BECOMES ANGRY HE/SHE TENDS TO LOSE CONTROL.

WE NEED TO KEEP CONTROL OF OUR ACTIONS TO KEEP FROM SINNING.

HATE: THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE

WE CAN HATE EVIL, BUT WE ARE TOLD TO LOVE OUR ENEMIES.

WE HATE THE EVIL BUT DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO DESPITEFULLY USE US.

WE CANNOT ACT ON OUR FEELINGS OF HATE FOR SIN. IT IS NOT TIME FOR THAT YET.

BUT SATAN WANTS US TO HATE, HE WANTS TO CAUSE US TO FEEL OTHER EMOTIONS THAT LEAD TO HATE SUCH AS ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, ENVY AND COVETOUSNESS.

MALICE, ENVY AND COVETOUSNESS DO NOT WORK ON THE SIDE OF GOD AT ALL; THEY ARE ALIEN EMOTIONS DIRECTLY FROM THE DEVIL.

SORROW IS UNAVOIDABLE

#2SATAN WANTS TO

TAKE SORROW

AND TURN IT INTO

DESPAIR;

THE LOSS OF HOPE

CAN LEAD YOU TO

EMOTIONAL HELL

AND TORMENT.

MANY PEOPLE

LOSE THEIR MINDS

IN EMOTIONAL

HELL AND

TORMENT.

#1GODLY SORROW LEADS US TO REPENTANCE

BUT SORROWING AFTER THINGS OF THIS WORLD LEADS TO DEATH (II COR. 7: 10).

CHRIST WAS A MAN OF SORROW AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF.

SORROW IS UNAVOIDABLE

SATAN CAUSES PEOPLE TO DESPAIR AS THEY ARE GETTING OLDER, BECAUSE THEY CAN’T DO THE WORLDLY THINGS THEY WANT TO OR BECAUSE OF VANITY.

HE CAN CAUSE PEOPLE TO SIN IN MIDLIFE CRISIS.

HE CAN CAUSE DEPRESSION THAT CAN MAKE PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE.

WE DO NOT DESPAIR EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE SORROW BECAUSE WE HAVE FAITH IN THE HOPE OF THE PROMISE.

FEELING OF JOY!

JOY IS A WONDERFUL EMOTION AND FLEETING AND FAR APART FOR US NOW IN THIS FLESH.

GOD PROMISES US EVERLASTING JOY.

HOW DOES SATAN WORK WITH THIS EMOTION?

HE GIVES PEOPLE JOY AND PLEASURE IN SIN. THEY REJOICE TO DO EVIL.

THEY CAN’T WAIT TO PARTY, TO DRINK, TO HAVE REVELRY. FEMALE PREPARING TO TAKE OFF

SHIRT DURING MARDI GRAS

MALE CELEBRATING SODOMY

FEAR CAN BE GOOD & BAD

WE ARE TAUGHT TO FEAR GOD AND TREMBLE AT HIS WORD.

BUT FEAR IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING.

IT IS GOOD IN THE SINCE THAT IT KEEPS PEOPLE FROM ENDANGERING THEMSELVES.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT CHILDREN LEARN FEAR.

POWERFUL HORMONES ENGAGE US TO MAKE US WANT TO GET AWAY FROM DANGER.


FEAR TORMENTS AND PARALYZES. FEARS CAN BECOME IRRATIONAL.

THESE FEARS ARE CALLED PHOBIAS. BUT EVEN FEARS IN A LESSER EXTENT CAN NEGATIVELY IMPACT YOUR LIFE.

JUST AS YOU SHOULD NOT BE FEARLESS IN ALL SITUATIONS (YOU WOULDN’T COME UP TO PET A LION) YOU SHOULDN’T BE SO FEARFUL THAT YOU COULDN’T BE ON THE SAME BLOCK WITH A HOUSE CAT.

OVER AND OVER THE BIBLE SAYS TO FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS (REV. 21: 7-8)


“HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON. BUT THE FEARFUL AND UNBELIEVING, AND THE ABOMINABLE, AND MURDERERS AND WHOREMONGERS

AND SORCERERS AND IDOLATERS AND ALL LIARS, SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE AND

BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH.”

(REVELATIONS 21: 7-8)


(MATTHEW 1: 8) SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GODLY FEAR AND SATAN’S

FEAR.

“AND FEAR NOT THEY WHICH KILL THE BODY, BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE

SOUL; BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHICH IS ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY

IN HELL.”

THE PLEASURE CENTER

THE PLEASURE CENTER REFERS TO AREAS OF THE BRAIN THAT WHEN STIMULATED CAUSES A FEELING OF PLEASURE IN PEOPLE AND ANIMALS.

THE WORD PLEASURE MEANS DESIRE, GRATIFICATION, DELIGHT AND JOY.

THE PLEASURE CENTER IS A NORMAL AND HEALTHY PART OF THE FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAIN.

THE PLEASURE CENTER

IT ALLOWS US TO TAKE PLEASURE IN THINGS LIKE FOOD AND DRINK, AFFECTION, PRAISE, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OUR BABIES, INTIMACY AND THE BLESSINGS GOD HAS GIVEN US.

THE PLEASURE CENTER IS THEREFORE VITAL IN THE NORMAL ACTIVITIES OF LIFE AND ALSO FOR THE CONTINUATION OF LIFE.

THE PLEASURE CENTER

#2 SATAN ENTERS IN

AND CAUSES MAN TO

TAKE PLEASURE IN

EVIL THINGS, THINGS

AGAINST THE LAW

OF GOD,

THINGS THAT WE

SHOULD BE

REPELLED BY.

IT CAUSES MAN TO

LOSE CONTROL OF

HIS APPETITES FOR

PLEASURE....IT

CONTROLS HIM

#1 ANOTHER WORD FOR THIS IS LUST.

LUST MEANS PLEASURE, DELIGHT, INTENSE OR UNBRIDLED DESIRE OR LONGING.

ANYTHING THAT YOU DO THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD;

THAT IS AGAINST THE LAW OF GOD OR THAT CAUSES YOU TO STRAY OR FALTER FROM THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW IS LUST (JAMES 1: 13-15, 1 JOHN 2: 15-17).

#3

THE PLEASURE CENTER

THE MOST COMMON USE OF THE WORD LUST REFERS TO FORNICATION OR ADULTERY.

SATAN TAKES IT EVEN FARTHER BY STIMULATING THE PLEASURE CENTER IN THE DAMAGED BRAIN OF SOME PEOPLE SO THAT THEY LUST AFTER STRANGE FLESH AND COMMIT ACTS OF SODOMY (ROMANS 1: 24, 28 & 32).

COVETOUSNESS IS LUSTING AFTER SOMETHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS.

VERY COMMONLY PEOPLE SEEK AFTER THE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD AND THIS IS HIGHLY PRAISED AS BEING AMBITIOUS (LUKE 8: 14).

THE PLEASURE CENTER

THE PLEASURE CENTER STIMULATED BY FOOD CAN LEAD PEOPLE TO EXTREME EVEN LIFE THREATENING OBESITY.

WHEN STIMULATED WITH ALCOHOL IT CAN LEAD PEOPLE TO BECOME ALCOHOLICS.

ADDICTION IS A SEVER MALFUNCTION OF THE PLEASURE CENTER.

WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT A PERSON CONTINUALLY STIMULATES IT WITH DRUGS, ALCOHOL, GAMBLING, FORNICATION, SHOPPING OR WHATEVER UNTIL IT BECOMES DESENSITIZED.

THE PLEASURE CENTER

NORMAL ACTIVITIES NO LONGER ARE ABLE TO GIVE THEM PLEASURE.

THEY HAVE TO DO MORE AND MORE OF THEIR DESIRE IN ORDER TO GET THE “HIGH” OR INTENSE FEELING OF PLEASURE THAT THEY CRAVE.

MAYBE SNORTING COCAINE ON WEEKENDS USED TO BE ENOUGH, NOW THEY HAVE TO DO IT DAILY.

ADDICTION IS WHEN A PERSON CONTINUES TO GO AFTER THEIR APPETITE EVEN THOUGH IT IS DESTROYING THEM.

THE PLEASURE CENTER

#2WHEN WE GIVE

OUR LIVES TO GOD,

WE SEEK FOR HIM.

WE HUNGER AND

THIRST AFTER

RIGHTEOUSNESS.

OUR APPETITE IS

FOR GOD AND WE

DELIGHT IN HIS

LAW AND IN HIS

WORD.

#1WE TAKE PLEASURE IN SERVING HIM AND LEARNING ABOUT HIM IN THE SCRIPTURES

(PS. 37:4, 40: 7-8, 119: 35, & IS. 58: 13-14).

THE PLEASURE CENTER

#2SATAN WANTS US

TO NOT TO HAVE

PLEASURE N

SERVING GOD.

HE TELLS US THAT

THE WORSHIP OF

GOD IS BORING.

HE DISTRACTS US

WITH FLASHIER,

MORE FUN AND

COMMON

ACTIVITIES.

#1HE MAKES US FEEL IT IS A WEARINESS TO SERVE THE LORD (MALACHI 1: 12-13).

AND THAT WE WANT THE SABBATH WORSHIP TO HURRY UP AND BE OVER BECAUSE WE HAVE COMMON THINGS WE’D RATHER DO (AMOS 8: 5).

GOD DELIGHTS IN HIS CHILDREN

GOD ALSO FEELS PLEASURE AND DELIGHT.

HE DELIGHTS IN HIS OBEDIENT CHILDREN AND IT IS HIS GOOD PLEASURE TO BLESS US AND TAKE CARE OF US.

HE CREATED US FOR HIS OWN PLEASURE.

JUST LIKE WE FEEL PLEASURE, LOVE AND AFFECTION FOR OUR NEWBORNS, WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN,

HE HAS PLEASURE AND HIS DELIGHT IN US IF WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.

GOD DOES NOT DELIGHT IN THE WICKED, HE HATES THEM. HE WILL DESTROY THEM EVEN THOUGH IT DOES NOT GIVE HIM PLEASURE TO DO SO

(REVELATIONS 4: 11, LUKE 12:32 & EZEKIEL 18: 23).

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