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It's good to see everyone here. 
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and good to see people that have
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some time and our visitors as 
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We're glad that you're here and 
I hope and pray that be able to 

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say something this morning that 
will benefit us in some way. 

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You know, the world we live in 
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ever been. 
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lot of what goes on in the world
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How people react to certain 
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do is not based on really truth 
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feel about things? 
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definition of emotion is a 
mental state that arises 

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spontaneously rather than 
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And is often accompanied by 
physiological changes or a 

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feeling the emotions of Joy 
sorrow, reverence hate and love.

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We all understand that that we 
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God designed us, that way to 
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These emotions, we just 
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experienced all of these 
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maybe others. 
The emotionalism though Merriam 

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Webster says is a tendency to 
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Undo Indulgence in or display of
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expression or display of emotion
people, that react emotionally, 

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to whatever it is in life. 
Emotionalism is when a person 

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has an inclination to rely on or
place too much value on emotion 

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when dealing with issues or 
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resorting to reason, When 
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You ever been around someone, 
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Overreacted and things of that 
out of how they felt about 

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things emotionalism in the 
church is a reaction that's 

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based on a human sentiment or 
feeling it's void of true 

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worship. 
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substance when we dig a little 
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measure, for what is true or is 
real becomes how I feel about 

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it? 
And a lot of the religious world

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today. 
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their religion is not on truth, 
but it's based on feelings, it's

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based on how they feel about it 
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benefit them or benefit a 
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some religious entity. 
And so, they base their worship.

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They base their belief on 
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alone and leave scriptures. 
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So if I feel excited about a 
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then that thing becomes good to 
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it. 
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important to me, and so, this is
the way that the world sometimes

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does make their decisions when 
it comes to religion, is they 

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even make up their own Doctrine 
and their whole judgment is 

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based upon how this makes me 
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me feel when I read it. 
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And then judge its value to our 
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based on feeling. 
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we must it must be good. 
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be bad. 
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base their thought process on 
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Now, that doesn't mean that 
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emotional. 
But it's wrong. 

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That's not what we're saying. 
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When we read scripture, it 
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It should prick our hearts. 
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point of even bringing tears to 
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even obey, God the emotion of 
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fear, and trust, and faith. 
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about all the thought process 
within our minds that cause us 

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to to, to react upon the Ins 
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So emotions are very important 
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must not rule over our intellect
or our thought process and what 

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is true, and what is good and 
proper and make good and proper 

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choices based upon scriptural 
guidance, many talk about the 

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lack of emotion in our worship. 
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maybe experienced it, we see 
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what they would consider a 
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of excitement and a lot of Pomp 
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everything, just everything just
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why can't we have that? 
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Well, there's nothing wrong with
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Nothing. 
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emotionalism, that's when we 
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Can we have emotion without 
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I believe we must Emotions have 
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the Christian, but when emotions
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be careful. 
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emotionalism? 
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there are two extremes. 
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than told sort of religion or 
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feel in their art, rather than 
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something where worship is 
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outbreaks we seen pictures, we 
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something like that, where there
have been those that get done, 

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jump up and run around the room 
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roll over and this and that and 
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things. 
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And we have to be careful about 
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This emotionalism goes against 
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worship to be done. 
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Corinthians. 14 and verse 40 and
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Also for us to not trust in our 
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You see when we trust in our own

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We get it wrong. 
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that we were absolutely correct 
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There was no Shadow of Doubt. 
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about where we were going or 
what we are doing and then found

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out later that we were wrong. 
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feelings, sometimes we get it 
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truth, we can always know that 
we get it right. so, These folks

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that rely and base their life on
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ones that continue to make poor 
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Remember times when you've done 
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you've bought something and you 
did that out of emotion, instead

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of stopping and thinking it out 
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But we jump in with all feet. 
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mistake. 
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decisions, do we buy things that
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And then we get ourselves in 
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shouldn't have said, because 
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should have stopped and tasted 
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also have to be careful about 
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formalism is an emphasis on the 
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The thing, the way we do things 
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emphasis is only on the truth 
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traditional and staying with 
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things all this time. and then 
they'll all the spirit is gone 

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out of it but we make sure we 
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truth but we forget about the 
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our heart and our soul into our 
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I wonder if we were to hand out 
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How many of us could write down 
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We sang this morning and what 
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The Brethren selected, those 
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remembering our Lord and Savior.
Jesus Christ. 

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How much were we into those 
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We got we sang them, right? 
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We got him on the right key. 
We said all the words correctly,

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we got all the rest's, right? 
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notes, right? 
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formalism, but did we have 
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Was there any spirit and reading
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caused us to be emotional about 
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So the result of that is 
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worship, almost no spirit in it.
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heartfelt religion. 
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to what Jesus taught us. 
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which a person's heart, is far 
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Matthew 15 verse 7, through 8 
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Well did Isaiah prophesy about 
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near to me with their mouth. 
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but their heart is far from me. 
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All right, and therefore it's 
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that all that matters that we 
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All right and left all the 
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Jesus also said, Matthew, 22. 
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You shall love the Lord. 
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with all your soul, with all 
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This is the first and great 
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I hope we did. 
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in our service so far this 
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There's a tendency for us to go 
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If it's if we get too close to, 
to being emotional than we 

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sometimes want to back away from
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classified as he emotionalism 
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understand that. 
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emotional and spirit as well as 
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Emotion has a proper place. 
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Christian Life. 
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1st, Peter 4, and verse 8. 
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fervent love for one another for
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sins. 
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Love is also a behavior, but the
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to obey causes us to do things 
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teach us. 
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well. 
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Romans 12 and verse 12 rejoice 
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Rejoice Joy is And hope is an 
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continuing. 
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emotion, enjoy Philippians 4, 
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always, again, I say rejoice, 
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and honor him and worship him 
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to Him. 
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hearts Be Joyful. 
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Use act like we're just going to
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sit-down. 
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Can we get through the prayer? 
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Can we get through all this? 
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Is that the way we're living our
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joy whatsoever in our worship to
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Something's wrong. 
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There's something wrong. 
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this morning, Rejoice. in the 
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emotion of Sorrow, second 
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Godly sorrow, produces 
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Salvation, not to be regretted, 
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produces death, Emotional sorrow
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There's nothing wrong with 
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It's nothing wrong with being 
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There's also the emotion of hate
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The fear of the Lord is to hate 
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I hate Do we hate evil and 
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Joy and rejoice, and things that
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There's the emotion of fear, 
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not fear Those Who Kill the 
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But rather fear Him, who is able
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hell. 
So there's a place for emotion 

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in the life of the Christian 
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Must be a product of the word of
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Scripturally motion must be 
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And faith, faith causes us. 
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hearing the word of God. 
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So we will read our Bible. 
It takes intellect to read it 

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and understand what the word is,
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emotional. 
Absolutely, When read about 

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God's love, we should be moved 
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Notice first, John four and 
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And this the love of God was 
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God has sent his only begotten 
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might live through him in. 
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God, but that he loved us and 
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propitiation for our sins. 
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So, loved us, we also Also ought
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So our love Is a product of the 
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commanded to love one another 
and treat. 

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Each other treat each other with
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Brotherly love. 
And Care concern, all of those 

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things. 
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waiting for us, it should cause 
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promises 1st. 
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verse 13, blessed. 
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our Lord. 
Jesus Christ who according to 

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His, abundant Mercy, has 
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Hope through the resurrection of
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From the dead to an inheritance 
Incorruptible and undefiled and 

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that does not fade away, 
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What did I do? 
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Sorry, therefore gird up the 
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rest. 
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that is to be brought to you in 
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Our reading the scriptures 
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that gets us looking towards 
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than what we have in this world.
Well I'll tell you the longer 

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its life goes on, alright, hope 
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I hope you do, too. 
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I'm concerned about what our 
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putting up with in 10 15 years 
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What kind of world will be here 
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but we have a hope. 
That set for us, we have a hope 

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that's beyond what this world is
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I'm joyful about that. 
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something's wrong. 
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of Hope and Faith In Your Heart,
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If we're always complaining 
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we can't find anything good 
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promise US. 
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That has everything good about 
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Put our hope and our faith and 
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To look to that. 
Heavenly hope and forget about 

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the stuff here. 
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It doesn't last. 
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And we should be able to rejoice
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through 11 for if when the end 
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We were reconciled to God 
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much more having been 
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We shall be saved by his life 
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rejoice in God through our Lord,
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have now received the 
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When we rebuke by the word of 
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Paul speaking to the Corinthian 
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7 verse 8 for even if I made you
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regret it though. 
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I perceive that the same epistle
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a while. 
You know, we're sorry, sometimes

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about the choices that we make 
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Fix it. 
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it. 
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fix it. 
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life and that hope back to your 
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all the time. 
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moved to fear. 
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the Lord is the beginning of 
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wisdom and instruction. 
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teachers have stood here in this
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out to the audience. 
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you bring brought, maybe even to
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being taught? 
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I sometimes get emotional 
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I've heard people criticized for
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It's nothing wrong with it. 
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our service. 
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our worship. 
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Christian Life. 
But that doesn't, that isn't the

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main point? 
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Christian Living On Emotion. 
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With people. 
A word is said something said in

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the sermon and they're gone. 
They're gone, they're not coming

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back. 
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emotion, not the truth. 
Somebody got their feelings hurt

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or whatever and they leave and 
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Basin or life. 
I'll be motion. 

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They know the services that the 
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Sometimes good judgment isn't 
using used by, and I've done it 

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as well. 
Not use good judgment in the 

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way. 
I've said things in the Pulpit, 

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sometimes not intending to hurt 
people, but sometimes things are

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said, and it might hurt our 
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That's not the reason to give up
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One way is to remember that 
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when it becomes the main goal 
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see it on the television. 
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churches and things of that 
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To stir the audience up. 
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emotion within the last year, or
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is, we see this herd mentality, 
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people would not do certain 
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emotionally involved and get so 
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the capital. 
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Mob mentality, that they'll burn
buildings down and root Riot and

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loot. 
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wouldn't. 
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It's not based on truth. 
It's not bracelet watch, right? 

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So, we have to be careful that 
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the main goal of our service to 
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When people stress, emotion for 
emotion sake, when people forget

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that, God gave us emotions for a
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produce the proper fruit. 
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the fruit that is intended to be
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repenting confessing and being 
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Also motion emotional emotion 
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becomes is not. 
It's not based on God's word 

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when one is led by, how they 
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What is truth? 
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28:26 about trusting in our own 
heart, it becomes emotionalism 

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when emotion is the basis of 
your faith. 

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When we follow feelings to 
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Such as when a person refuses to
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Because it feels we feel 
different about it than what the

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scripture says. 
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meaning of a scripture because 
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about it. 
It's a little too close to home.

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Doesn't make me feel good and, 
you know, we're living in a 

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world of feel good all the time.
Because we have to feel good 

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about everything in life. 
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God and it doesn't make us feel 
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word of God. 
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There's a problem. 
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ability to feel and express 
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God. 
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Absolutely. 
It allows us to respond to the 

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truth. 
Found in God's word. 

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And hopefully, when we read 
God's word, it causes us to 

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react to that word. 
And motivates us to grow in 

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Christ and motivates us to grow 
in our service. 

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It motivates us to grow in our 
worship. 

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It motivates us to do all kinds 
of things to add to our faith. 

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But we need to avoid both 
extremes formalism as well as 

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emotionalism, the lesson is 
yours. 

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