Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast. My name is Kosti Hin and I have the pleasure of

being your host. For the Gospel is all about providing sound doctrine for everyday people.

And on today's episode, I want to look at what the Bible says about emotions and feelings.

We've been looking at what the Bible says about certain things. We started with gender and

sexuality last week. In the weeks ahead, we're going to touch on some more topics that the

Bible speaks to and can help us better understand. And on today's episode, I want to dig in to

emotions and feelings and help you put together a biblical framework for how to deal with,

channel, and manage your emotions. I think what you'll find in a lot of conversations about emotions

and feelings is that people like to get psychological. But we often miss what is biological,

certainly what is biblical, but what is biological is this? God has created our bodies to

manage and to feel and even process emotions. His word is not silent on what to do with emotions.

This could be grief, this could be anger, this could be fear, sorrow, this could be any range

of emotions that we experience in life. The Bible is not silent. But in the world we live in,

a world filled with scientific research, what can be helpful and psychologists trying to analyze

and scrutinize aspects of human behavior, we can sometimes forget that in all of the discoveries

man is making, the Bible discovers these things first and presents them to us first. All truth is

God's truth and the origin of all truth is God. And so you don't need to look out everywhere for

ways to process your emotions and you don't need to wonder in insecurity what should I do and

what chemicals are firing and how do I process this is there's going to be some secret sauce to

fixing the way you feel. The Bible has everything you need to understand feelings, emotions, and what

to do with them. To get you thinking about this I want you to listen to how scientific researchers

and psychologists talk about emotions and link them to behavior. Then I want to offer some

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