Some emotions of our Savior.

The Emotions of Jesus -

Mar 1:41  And Jesus, moved with COMPASSION, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. 

Jesus- MOVED with compassion.   (Compassion Definition- sympathy for the suffering of others, often including a desire to help)  (Sympathy Definition- the ability to enter into, understand, or share somebody else's feelings)

Luk 7:13  And when the Lord saw her, he had COMPASSION on her, and said unto her, Weep not. 

Mat 20:34  So Jesus had COMPASSION on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him. 

Mat 9:36  But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with COMPASSION on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 

Mar 1:41  And Jesus, moved with COMPASSION, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. 

Mat 14:14  And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with COMPASSION toward them, and he healed their sick. 

Mar 3:5  And when he had looked round about on them with ANGER, being GRIEVED for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. 

Anger (Definition - a strong feeling of grievance and displeasure)

Mar 10:14  But when Jesus saw it, he was much DISPLEASED, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 

Joh 11:33  When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was TROUBLED

Joh 13:21  When Jesus had thus said, he was TROUBLED in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 

Mat 26:38  Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding SORROWFUL, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 

Emotions have their rightful place, without them we couldn't claim such a things as happiness, pleasure, joy, etc. 

Without emotion does the following verse make sense?

Rev_21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

What about these verses?

Rev 19:6  And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 

Jud_1:24  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy

Emotions are not something that will ever be done away with, not ever.

I don't know if any of you have ever watched the tv show Star Trek, but on this show there is portrayed an alien race called- Vulcans. These Vulcans are a people that have learned to CONTROL their emotions. Throughout the various movies and shows in this Star Trek franchise there has come up time and again people who mistake the Vulcans control of emotion for having no emotions, and time and again people are reminded that they do have them, they've just learned to control them because their distant ancestors were so violent they almost destroyed themselves. The reason I bring this up is because we are not to rid ourselves of emotions, the Bible doesn't tell us to never feel joy again. Jesus does not tell us to get rid of all our anger, but rather to have it controlled.

Eph_4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath

Mat_5:22  But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment…

Yes, we are to put away anger and malice and such and all that would harm others or us, but we aren't to deny we have emotions.

The Vulcans on the show do come across as cold and emotionless, but that isn't what our Savior would have us be. Yes, we need to have control over our emotions having them all in moderation, and in subjection to the will of God. But we are not to do away with our emotions.  Let's read what Watchman Nee says about the 'Function of Emotion.'

'The Function of Emotion

Our emotion emits joy, happiness, cheerfulness , excitement, elation, stimulation, despondency, sorrow, grief, melancholy, misery, moaning, dejection, confusion, anxiety, zeal, coldness, affection, aspiration, covetousness, compassion, kindness, preference, interest, expectation, pride, fear, remorse, hate, et al. The mind is the organ of our thinking and reasoning and the will, of our choices and decisions. Aside from our thought and intent and their related works, all other operations issue from emotion.

Our thousand and one diverse feelings manifest its function. Feeling comprises such a vast area of our existence that most carnal Christians belong to the emotional type. Man’s sensational life is most comprehensive, hence highly complicated; to help believers understand it, we can gather all its various expressions into the three groups of

(1) affection,

(2) desire, and

(3) feeling.

These groups cover the three aspects of the function of emotion. Should a saint overcome all three, he is well on the way to entering upon a pure spiritual path. To be sure, man’s emotion is nothing but the manifold feelings he naturally has. He may be loving or hateful, joyful or sorrowful, excited or dejected, interested or uninterested, yet all are but the ways he feels. Should we take the trouble to observe ourselves we will easily perceive how changeful are our feelings.

 Few matters in the world are as changeable as emotion.

We can be one way one minute and feel quite opposite the next.

Emotion changes as feeling changes, and how rapidly the latter can change. He therefore who lives by emotion lives without principle.

The emotion of man often displays a reactionary motion: a time of activity in one direction will sometimes produce an opposite reaction. For example, unspeakable sorrow usually follows upon hilarious joy, great depression after high excitement, deep withdrawal after burning fervor. Even  in the matter of love, it may commence as such but due to some emotional alteration it may end up with a hatred whose intensity far exceeds the earlier love'

More tomorrow by the grace and will of our Lord, Jesus Christ!  Amen.