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8 Principles to Understand Emotions- A Biblical Guide to Mental and Emotional Health 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Eight basic observations about emotions 02:49 1. Emotions are built into all people in all cultures by God’s design. 03:39 Core Emotions Chart 05:31 2. Emotions are physiological experiences that move us to action. 06:02 3. Emotions provide some of the greatest pleasures in life. 06:33 4. Emotions are also tied to our greatest struggles and agonies in life. 06:57 5. Emotions are not inherently sinful. 07:29 6. Human emotions are often twisted by sin. 08:16 7. Through the gospel, God has redeemed us from the curse of sin. 08:43 8. The key step in redeeming our emotions is to bring them to God in humility, faith, and prayer. 09:49 Join our Membership/Group Coaching Program
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In this video, we discuss the 8 principles for understanding emotions from a Biblical perspective. Founded on Scripture and drawing from the latest research, join us as we discuss how to better understand and manage our mental and emotional health. https://jameslongjr.org/memberships/
8 Principles to Understand Emotions- A Biblical Guide to Mental and Emotional Health 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Eight basic observations about emotions 02:49 1. Emotions are built into all people in all cultures by God’s design. 03:39 Core Emotions Chart 05:31 2. Emotions are physiological experiences that move us to action. 06:02 3. Emotions provide some of the greatest pleasures in life. 06:33 4. Emotions are also tied to our greatest struggles and agonies in life. 06:57 5. Emotions are not inherently sinful. 07:29 6. Human emotions are often twisted by sin. 08:16 7. Through the gospel, God has redeemed us from the curse of sin. 08:43 8. The key step in redeeming our emotions is to bring them to God in humility, faith, and prayer. 09:49 Join our Membership/Group Coaching Program
ABOUT JAMES AND LESSONS FOR LIFE
Are you longing to find answers to the deeper issues of life? Join Dr. James Long, Jr., a pastor, counselor, and university professor with over 30 years of experience. Hear James as he tackles some of life’s biggest questions and helps us find God’s solutions to life’s struggles. Learn the power of living by God’s grace and for His glory. Experience the joy of forgiveness and freedom found in Jesus Christ alone. If you are in search of freedom, you will love being part of this conversation. Subscribe, and enjoy the show!
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Hello everyone, it's James Long Jr. And I wanna talk to you about emotions today. And emotions were designed by God, and some of these principles come from actually all of the principles come from a study called Relational Wisdom. Relational Wisdom 360. It is a study created by Ken Sandy. He's the author of The Peacemaker and Resolving Everyday Conflict, plus many more studies. I am one of his advanced instructors of the Relational Wisdom Program, and today I wanna talk to you about emotions. Maybe you struggle with emotions. And today what we want to do is to identify ways that God can teach us about emotions and what he can do through them. Well, my name is James Long Jr. And this is Lessons for Life. I am a pastor, board certified professional counselor, a certified biblical counselor, and a university professor. I have over 30 years of experience helping people find God's solutions to life's problems. I make these educational videos on the topics of mental, emotional, and relational health, and we do it. Biblical perspective and today, as I said, we're gonna talk about emotions. Passage I wanted you to consider is from Psalm 32 and it says, be glad in the Lord and rejoice all righteous and shall for joy. All you upright in heart, great passage. Now I want you to think about all the emotions that are behind that passage. It talked about the fact that it's being glad in the Lord. It talks about rejoicing, it talks about shouting for joy. It talks about upright in heart, all of the emotions that are filled. I love the Psalms and you'll hear a number of studies that I will do are videos I will do on the Psalms cause I just love them. But let's talk about emotions itself. Emotions move our relationships and they can move our relationships either positively or negatively. And you, you know that you can have great emotions that can move you to do good things and positive things in relationships. And then you can also have emotions that will. Hinder things in your relationships. Emotions influence most of what goes on in the world, and whether it's the romantic attraction that draws a couple together, or the sacrificial love of a parent for a child, or the desire to build a successful ministry or business, or maybe even the bitterness that corrodes a relationship. Or how about the anger that tends to fragment a family or a church? Emotions play a powerful role in every aspect of life yet. The problem is most of us know far too little about the source and the dynamics of our emotions, and what I wanna do today is I want to give you eight basic facts about emotion. Eight basic facts about emotion will help you to understand what emotions are and how they were designed by God and how they can help us. Well, number one, I want you to consider this, then emotions are built. All people in all cultures by God's design. So all people have this, they are hardwired into our brains and our bodies through neurological issues, hormonal issues, but it's also connected to our, our spirit, our, our heart. And he designed them at creation and it weaves into every baby as he forms them in the womb in Genesis. It tells us that in his psalm and says that God has crafted us in his very, in our, in our mom's very womb. Thus human vocabulary when you think about it, is filled with emotion. There are so many different types of emotion that are talked about in God's word and so many emotions that we deal with. There's a chart and I'm gonna attach one down below, and it's called the core emotion chart. And that chart is really helpful. And what you're gonna see is a series of core emotions. Eight of them across the top, you'll see shame and sadness, shame, fear. Then we have enjoyment and love, and then we have surprise, disgusted, and anger. So those are the eight core emotions, and what you'll see on the left hand side is the low, medium, and high the intensity. So let's just take the shame category. It's, let's say you have a low level of shame that would be kind of like regretful or uncomfortable, embarrassed. But if you have a medium level, it would be like humiliated dishonored. but you could also have a high level where you feel sorrowful or guilty, and so it kind of goes that way. This chart, I keep in, I tell my people to keep in their bibles or keep in their journal, and when they struggle with a particular emotion, they can just pull out this core emotion chart. Now down at the bottom, you will see the three. Key types of emotion that the Bible often talks about, fear, love, and anger. And it talks about God has not given us a spirit of fear. So those level, those three at the end here, shame sadness and fear tend to be under the category of fear. Then in the middle, enjoyment and love, it says, but a power, love, and sound mind, a self-control. That's from second Timothy chapter one. Seven and then the ones off to the right, you'll see surprise discussed in anger that is based on the umbrella of anger. Surprise discussed in anger comes under the anger category. So if you think about it, eight core emotions, three primary biblical emotions, fear, love, and anger, and the intensity tho those are really helpful and they can be beneficial. But let's keep going. And so now what we see is this, we find ourselves. Moving to the next step is this next principle that emotions are physiological experiences that they involve measurable, neural muscular, respiratory, hormonal cardiovascular changes that impact our thoughts. They move us into action, and those can be moving us into action either positively or negative. In fact, the word emotion comes from the Latin word, which actually means to move. It means to move forward. It's kind of like blowing you in a particular way. So first principle, second principle. Now we move to the third emotions, provide some of the greatest pleasures in life. And, and I want you to think about the joys, the love, the delight, the acceptance, the compassion, the belonging, the peace. All of these emotions, they are emotions that will move you in a positive way and, and so whether you're saved or unsaved, whether you believe in Christ or not, whether you're a Bible believer or not, it doesn't matter. You can have these emotions and they're noble and they're constructive. But emotions on the other level are also tied to some of the greatest struggles we have, uh, some of the agonies in life. And they involve things like sadness, embarrassment, anger, bitterness, jealousy, self-pity and regret. All of those are these more negative viewpoints. So emotions can draw the most positive things within the negative things. Well, that moves us to our fifth principle, that emotions are not inherently sinful. Jesus felt a wide range of emotions, including love and compassion and joy and pity. And anger and sorrow and agony, and he had all of those emotions, yet he never sinned. His emotions, never surprised him, never overwhelmed him, and never moved him in into move in a way that was contrary to God. So emotions, even positive or negative emotions. Don't necessarily mean that they're sinful yet, but that is not necessarily true for us. Well, that moves us to point number six, that human emotions are often twisted by sin because of the fall. Sin is so corrupted our whole being. That includes our thoughts, our our emotions, our will, and sometimes theologians call that the NOIC effects of sin, though, that sin affects the way we think. And therefore, like a computer with a defective motherboard, we're unable to consistently understand or control our emotions and are triggered. And when we're triggered, we could be triggered by other people in events in our lives. And therefore, while positive emotions usually move us to do good things, negative emotions oftentimes will move us to sin against God and one. Well, that moves us to point number seven. This is an important point that Jesus had emotions didn't sin. We often sin our emotions, but through the gospel, God has redeemed us from the curse of sin and he's made us new creations and that impacts our thoughts, that can impact our emotions, that will impact our will, and it's, it's pouring his. In us and into our lives, and he's given us the ability to understand our emotions and then to progressively bring them under the submission of the Holy Spirit and under the Lordship of Christ. That leads us to our last principle. I want you to consider that the key step in redeeming our emotions is to bring them in humility, faith, and prayer. These are so important. Humble yourself, trust God in faith, and pray and examine our emotions in light of God's truth, and ask God to give us the grace and the wisdom and the strength that we. Harness the power of those emotions so that they will ultimately impact us to move us to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love others as we love ourselves. And so as we do that, we, we learn about what God is doing in us and then, then what God is going to do through us. All right, so those are some quick principles on emotion. I hope that help you. I'll give you a number of passages as well that you can look up. Be blessed. Reach out if you have any questions. 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I think that's all we'll do today. Be blessed. Hope to see you next time.