Fact, Effects, Implications of the Emotions of Jesus

Driving home: For the Greek word literally means to have the viscera, one's deepest internal vital organs, disrupted and stirred and moved. And so I have called it an emotion. An emotion of a deep and disruptive compassion.

Explains the Greek word for compassion (splagchnizomai) by comparing it to the modern idiom 'that thing really got to my gut,' emphasizing the deep, visceral nature of Jesus's emotion.

Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send forth labors into his harvest. Now I have described this emotion as a deep and disruptive compassion because the Greek verb used literally means to have the love of God. To have the viscera stirred or drawn out. And we've come much closer to the Bible in our day when we say that thing really got to my gut.

2:11 - 2:41 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Now some people have taken that and said well that then was the dominant quality and since it's never recorded that he laughed Jesus must have had a fundamentally somber dark side to the overall hue of his personality. T…

Counters the argument from silence regarding Jesus's laughter by humorously stating there's no record of Him burping either, thus invalidating the premise that lack of record implies absence.

And it's nonsense for a number of reasons for though there is no record he ever laughed there's no record he ever burped either.

10:34 - 10:40 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Countering the misconception of Jesus as only a 'man of sorrows,' Martin demonstrates Jesus's deep joy, particularly in the Holy Spirit, and how this joy was a baseline for His…

Illustrates Jesus's joyful nature by noting that children feel at home around joyful people, not somber ones, and that Jesus's interactions with children show His inherent joy.

evidence is abundant did little children feel at home around our Lord obviously they did when he wanted to use one for an illustration all he had to say is hey little baby come on and come here kids don't feel at home around somber sour doer people I've heard of some of my dear Dutch friends that when the Domini used to come up the front steps they'd hide out in the bushes in the back they'd run out the back door because the Domini in his black suit and in his turned collar was the picture of austerity proper dignified serious religion scared the liver out of the kids the sorrows and acquainte...

17:17 - 18:45 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Countering the misconception of Jesus as only a 'man of sorrows,' Martin demonstrates Jesus's deep joy, particularly in the Holy Spirit, and how this joy was a baseline for His…

Uses Jesus's own illustration of children playing in the marketplace to show that He observed children, implying a joyful and observant nature that would lead to laughter and humor.

evidence is abundant did little children feel at home around our Lord obviously they did when he wanted to use one for an illustration all he had to say is hey little baby come on and come here kids don't feel at home around somber sour doer people I've heard of some of my dear Dutch friends that when the Domini used to come up the front steps they'd hide out in the bushes in the back they'd run out the back door because the Domini in his black suit and in his turned collar was the picture of austerity proper dignified serious religion scared the liver out of the kids the sorrows and acquainte...

17:17 - 18:45 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Countering the misconception of Jesus as only a 'man of sorrows,' Martin demonstrates Jesus's deep joy, particularly in the Holy Spirit, and how this joy was a baseline for His…

Martin shares his personal experience of always being around children (as one of ten, and now a grandfather and pastor) to underscore that studying children naturally develops a sense of humor, linking it to Jesus's character.

hey let's and some of them saying nah we don't feel like it we feel too happy we want to dance and someone says okay let's play the Cinderella and the ball nah we want to play funeral the Lord had seen kids doing this let's do this nah let's do that and he said you're just like children in the marketplace you think the Lord could have looked at kids like that and not laughed no he uses an illustration he said John the Baptist comes along wearing funny clothes and eating a funny diet and you say he's got a demon you can't listen to him son of man comes along wearing ordinary clothes going to yo...

18:45 - 20:13 Read in full sermon

Driving home: You men have been brought up in a society that is raked of the commodity of manifested grief and sorrow and don't let society continue to rape you. It is not unmanly to weep even to wail and to do so uncontrollable befor…

Martin recounts his uncontrollable wailing after his daughter left for Canada post-marriage, explaining the intensity of the Greek word 'clio' (wept bitterly/wailed) and validating deep, expressed grief as a human experience.

and our English translations are weak here and wept over it the Greek verb here is clio and the Greek verb and it does not refer to the more mild restrained sobbing or weeping but it's the same word used several times in the Gospels Luke 22 62 another parallel passage or a passage in which it is used of the professional wailers it's used of the word when Peter went out and it's translated there wept bitterly it speaks of uncontrollable sobbing we could translate it wailing you ever know what it is to wail when you cry from the soles of your feet to the top of your head and you're convulsed wit...

21:40 - 23:08 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The man or woman who lacks the capacity to be angry at what he ought to be angry is ungodly he is not like God for no one can love with a love that has any significance who cannot have anger with that which is the opposi…

Explains that true love inherently includes anger and jealousy against anything that opposes it, using the example of a man's love for his wife, to justify God's and Jesus's righteous anger and jealousy.

yes the man or woman who lacks the capacity to be angry at what he ought to be angry is ungodly he is not like God for no one can love with a love that has any significance who cannot have anger with that which is the opposite to that love one of the inevitable accompaniments of true love on the one hand is anger and on the other is jealousy and that's why God is both an angry and a jealous as well as a loving God a guy who says yeah I think I'd like that woman for my wife but I don't care if everybody else dates her get off it buddy my heart said honor you keep your hands off and keep your di...

33:27 - 34:56 Read in full sermon

The point: Ask yourself if your strong emotions are rooted in unmortified sin or based on truth and reality, not hearsay or gossip.

Illustrates the danger of emotions based on misconception by telling a humorous story about a girlfriend misinterpreting a look from across the room, emphasizing the need to get facts before reacting emotionally.

a righteous emotion because it was not a selfish response to some wrong done to Jesus nor was it a reaction based upon misconception now you want to be like Christ in your emotional life then the minute you begin to feel anything strongly ask yourself oh lord search my heart am I responding this way out of some inbred unmortified sinful tendency in my heart oh lord am I responding as I am according to truth and reality or am I getting angry because of hearsay that's come into my ears am I getting angry based upon gossip am I getting upset because of something that is true and real and factual ...

42:21 - 43:50 Read in full sermon

The point: Allow noble, God-like emotions to take hold of your soul; do not batter them down or try to shove them out.

Uses the cultural stereotype 'men don't eat quiche' to represent false standards that suppress male emotions, contrasting it with Jesus who did not suppress His deep feelings.

when jesus began to feel his gut stir he didn't say men don't eat quiche men don't feel deeply that they may convulse with weeping jesus had no such false standard he perceived reality that began to stir a noble god-like emotion he let that emotion take hold of his soul he didn't batter it down he didn't try to shove it out he didn't try to stomp on it he let that emotion take hold of his soul now for some of you that will be nothing less than radical because you were brought up in a home where the whole climate of that home whether explicitly or implicitly was one in which emotions are never ...

45:19 - 46:48 Read in full sermon

The point: Be vulnerable in interpersonal relationships, willing to be known despite perceived 'ugliness'.

Describes people who are unwilling to be vulnerable as having 'plate steel' over their true selves, hindering interpersonal relationships, and contrasting this with Jesus's vulnerability.

always had his act together he said i'm experiencing a sorrow that's going to kill me please help me you talk about being vulnerable and that's the problem some of you don't want to be vulnerable you've got plate steel over what you really are and that's why some of you are getting nowhere in any kind of interpersonal relationship with those of the opposite sex because if there's anything true of a relationship that makes a sound basis for marriage it's the willingness to be vulnerable to know and to be known yeah but if someone really knows me what they'll see is ugly yes for the faith they'r...

46:48 - 48:15 Read in full sermon

The point: Cry to God to untie you from emotionally stifled upbringings so you can give appropriate expression to valid, sanctified emotions.

Uses David's dancing before the ark to illustrate appropriate, uninhibited expression of joy, contrasting it with Mikal's disapproval and God's subsequent judgment on her.

upon the emotion when it was registering at a place and in a way and at a level that they could discern it with their eyes so when they saw the flashing anger in the eye and saw the hardness of heart they realized being grieved for their hardness of heart he looked round about him with anger when he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion towards them and that's part of the problem many of us were not trained in our childhood the proper way to express god-given emotions when you were angry about something you had a right to be angry about what were you told to do go to your room bang y...

49:44 - 51:13 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not sit and soak in a hot tub of intense emotions; let emotions cut a channel of action.

Criticizes the tendency to passively indulge in intense emotions without letting them lead to action, using the metaphor of 'sitting in a hot tub of his intense emotions'.

in other words he never sat down and soaked in a hot tub of his intense emotions he let the emotions cut a channel of action when he was moved with compassion for the multitudes what did he do he knew he couldn't reach them all so he turned to his disciples and said pray lord of the harvest to send forth labors into the harvest when he was moved with compassion before the widow and her dead son what did he do he did what Messiah could do he had the power to raise the dead so he took the lad by the hand and raised him up and when the leper said if you will you can cleanse me he said I will be t...

52:42 - 54:11 Read in full sermon