The Spiritual Man

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The Believer and Emotion
Although A Christian may have experienced
deliverance from sin, he shall continue to be soulish—
that is, powerless to overcome his natural life—if he
fails to experience additionally the deep work of the
cross wrought by the Holy Spirit. A limited description
of the life and work of soulish Christians has been given earlier.
Careful study of the soulish reveals that the conduct and action of
such ones stem principally from their emotion. While the soul
possesses three primary functions most soulish or carnal Christians
belong to the emotional category. Their whole life appears to revolve
largely around the impulses of emotion. In human affairs it seems to
occupy a greater area than mind and will: it apparently plays a bigger
role in daily life than do the other parts of the soul. Hence nearly all
the practices of the soulish originate with 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,