God Ruled Emotions.

1Co_1:18  For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

The preaching of the CROSS is the POWER OF GOD.  Power of God.  Why have power if you don't use the power? Seriously.  Power is useless when it isn't wielded. You might as well not have power if you don't use the power you possess. There is POWER in the CROSS of our Savior. It's a REAL power, a LIFE GIVING power. It has the power to give new life, it has the power to forgive all our sins, it has the power to give us all we need to live for our Savior and it's a REAL power not a supposed power, not a fictional power, not a hidden power but a very real power.  We need to recognize the power, believe in the reality of the power our Savior and the cross He died on, possesses. When we preach the cross we are preaching the truth of SALVATION found in our SAVIOR.  The POWER TO SAVE.

Gal_6:14  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

2Pe_1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue

When Watchman Nee talks about the CROSS dealing with our natural life in our emotion he truly isn't saying that our emotions have died, he's saying they've been changed by the power of God.  We are changed! The Holy Spirit works with our spirit through the cross!

A Spiritual man's emotions will REFLECT the divine life in us.

Col_1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Christ in US!  There is divine life in us and it's only Christ in us through the power of the Holy Spirit that can change us, we cannot change ourselves, we yield to the Spirit. 

Our emotions are evil things in and of themselves. Controlled by our Savior, controlled by the Holy Spirit our emotions can be used by Him for His glory!

All through His love, now and forever! Amen.

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(The Proper Use of Emotion

 If God’s children permit the cross to operate deeply upon their emotion they shall find afterwards that it no longer obstructs, but rather cooperates with, their spirit.

The cross has dealt with the natural life in the emotion, has renewed it, and has made it a channel for the spirit. A spiritual man we have said before is not a spirit, but neither is he a person devoid of emotion; on the contrary, the spiritual man will use his feeling to express the divine life in him. )  Excerpt from The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee