to all who follow this topic, consider this.
Spiritual Emotions VS Natural (Soulish), the mind, or Fleshly Emotions.
Follow me close, The Lord demands that you give up the life of your emotion. What do I mean? If you do love the Lord and are filled with his Spirit, you will be very emotional.... LIKE HIM. A man or woman who is not emotional can never be spiritual. A spiritual man or woman is a very emotional person in the Lord. If you never know how to love, (agape, here), and if you never know how to be sorry, or if you never know how to weep, (like our Lord did) you just might missed the proper criteria to be a Christian after Christ (in the Spirit) and not after men, or of the flesh. For the flesh hold the same emotions, but which one will you obey?
Let’s be clear. Like the Lord Jesus who wept, Paul the apostle was the same (after his conversion). The apostle Paul was very emotional, scripture, Phil 3:18 "(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ". Paul was tender in feeling, in love, in mercy, and in compassion, really just read some of his epistles, I mean take your time and read some of his epistles. The bible is full of spiritual emotionally men and women. and on top of that God will not allow you to be without "HIS" emotions.
A spiritual person is one who is dedicated in the understanding of the mind (via wisdom), remember Proverb 2:10. also a spiritual person is not a thoughtless person, the more spiritual you are, the more thoughtful you are in the spirit, and will mind the things of the Spirit. for our wills are another function of the soul as well as the spirit.
Let’s just get to the chase. We must realize that it is not the mind, emotion, and will that have to be destroyed. It is the life, the life, the life, of the soul that we must give up. This natural life, (blood), understand the soul life, has been put to death on the cross already, Gal 2:20 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”. and Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. (what did the deceiver say? "you want surely die", what a lie)
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now that you and I have died, (according to the flesh), we can now take our husband, Christ, As with the apostle Paul using the “LAW” as an example for and to the Jews, Likewise we will used the example “Sin” as a substitute in the following verses to show clarity, supportive scripture,
Rom 7:1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law ("sin") hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Rom 7:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law (our "sin") to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law (our sin) of her husband.
Rom 7:3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law (our sin); so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Now you and I, (we), have taken Christ, as our Husband (2 Cor. 11:2), we must also take the divine life as our life, but the faculties of the soul still remain as organs to be used by your spirit to express the Lord Himself.
hence the reason why a HUSBAND and WIFE is ONE, supportive scripture,
John 17:22 "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one".
that old man goes to the GRAVE, and that fleshly mind is destroyed.
a re-read of this post might be necessary.