Feelings

What is the absolute hottest take that you have?

How can relying on feelings be a good thing? When could they be a bad thing?

Introduction

Session Recap

An Idol is anything you view as more important than God

Your Image can’t save you

You are who Jesus says you are

The Idol of feelings

“Follow your heart”

Can we trust our hearts?

Tension

You heart is an idol factory

Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Not this one

Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV)

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

This is Jesus talking to Ananias about Paul

Acts 9:16 (ESV)

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

Even when reading scripture we pick favorites

How are we supposed to know the way we can go if we can’t always trust our own opinions and feelings what are we supposed to do?

Scripture

Genesis 3:1–6 (ESV)

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

The fruit was a delight, to take pleasure in

That’s what’s so hard about sin for fallen humans, we love it.

When we rely on our feelings rather than what God actually says, it becomes and idol.

Application

You were made to Glorify God

How are you spending your time?

Practice Listening to God

Gospel

This is all impossible without the Holy Spirit

We recieved the Holy Spirit and a new heart to be able to obey

Conclusion

We are called to pursue and desire things that glorify God

The Super Power of Self Control