Alliance Bible Church - Mequon, Wisconsin - What Do I Do With My Feelings?

"I am a woman trapped in a man's body." This is a statement heard often today. The underlying assumption is striking: my desires and feelings are right and my body is wrong. Why is that the case? Why couldn't the body be right and the feelings wrong? Welcome to the world of "expressive individualism," where personal desires are good and need to be listened to and satisfied. 1) Where Feelings Come From 2) How to Train Our Feelings Text: Mark 7:21-23; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:9b-18; Isaiah 26:...

Duration: 39m
Broadcast on: 22 Aug 2021
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"I am a woman trapped in a man's body." This is a statement heard often today. The underlying assumption is striking: my desires and feelings are right and my body is wrong. Why is that the case? Why couldn't the body be right and the feelings wrong? Welcome to the world of "expressive individualism," where personal desires are good and need to be listened to and satisfied.

1) Where Feelings Come From
2) How to Train Our Feelings

Text: Mark 7:21-23; Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 3:9b-18; Isaiah 26:3; Psalm 42:5-6; Luke 5:15-16

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Three vignettes to get started. It might be a grandpa you have to ask. Might be a father you have to ask. Might be a great grandfather you have to ask. Let's just say someone born before 1930, okay? And you're back in the '60s. You're talking to 'em. And you say, I'm gonna use my grandpa 'cause I know how this would work out with him. I say, grandpa, do you have job satisfaction? (audience laughing) Why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? If my grandfather understood the question, here's how he'd respond. He'd say, well, I mean, I've got food on the table. I've got clothes on my kids' backs and I've got a roof over their head. In his case, he'd say, I'm home at night and I'm in church on Sunday mornings. Yeah, I've got job satisfaction. Now, we asked that question today. What's the response going to be? And you're saying, well, not that. Not that. Well, I like what I do. I like what I do. I like the people I work with. The skills I have, I use during the day. When I wake up in the morning, I actually feel a twinge of excitement over what I get to do that day. That's vignette number one. Vignette number two, it's more for musical people. As a music major in college, we had a class called Literature and Styles in music and it was two years, four semesters. We studied, we went from ancient Greece all the way to modern day music and we studied the history, the composers, the styles of that kind of music and oftentimes we, as an assignment,

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