Jessica Tanoesoedibjo

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[Jessica Tanoesoedibjo @jessicatanoe]

Calvin points to the emotional life of Jesus, not merely as a proof of his humanity but as an incitement to his followers to a holy life accordant with the will of God. We are not to be content to gaze upon him: we must become imitators of him… - Warfield, 105

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It was, in a word, only the manifestation in him of the mind that looks not on its own things but the things of others (Phil. 2:4), and therefore spells "mission," not "temperament." - Warfield, 101

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Meekness in our Lord was not a weak bearing of evils but a strong forbearance in the presence of evil. It was not so much a fundamental characteristic of a nature constitutionally averse to asserting itself as a voluntary submission of a strong person bent on an end…

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It did not, therefore, so much give way before indignation when the tension became too great for it to bear up against it, as coexist with a burning indignation at all that was evil, in a perfect equipoise that knew no wavering to this side or that…

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“the horror of death and the ardor of obedience met (Luke 22:44)…the cup must needs be drained to its dregs, and the final drop was not drunk until that cry of desertion and desolation was uttered, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" (Matt.
27:46). - Warfield, 89

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Jesus burned with anger against the wrongs he met with in his journey through human life as truly as he melted with pity at the sight of the world's misery: and it was out of these two emotions that his actual mercy proceeded. - Warfield, 76

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Thus— so the reasoning runs "the man who cannot be angry cannot be merciful," and it was therefore precisely the anger of Christ that proved that the unbounded compassion he manifested to sinners was really mercy and not mere tolerance. - Warfield, 75

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The paradox is that true mercy is no less the product of anger than of pity: that what differentiates the divine virtue of mercy from "the vice of insensibility" that is called "tolerance" is just the underlying presence of indignation…

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He has not only saved us from the evils that oppress us; he has felt for and with us in our oppression, and under the impulse of these feelings has wrought out our redemption. - Warfield, 67

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What John does for us in this particular statement [in the raising of Lazarus] is to uncover to us the heart of Jesus as he wins for us our salvation. Not in cold unconcern but in flaming wrath against the foe, Jesus smites in our behalf…

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A moral being is perceptive of the difference between right and wrong and reacting appropriately to them. The emotions of indignation and anger belong, therefore, to the very self-expression of a moral being and cannot be lacking to him in the presence of wrong. - Warfield, 50

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Self sacrificing love is thus made the essence of the Christian life, and is referred for its incentive to the self-sacrificing love of Christ himself: Christ's followers are to "have the same mind in them which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5). - Warfield, 44-45

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“We are told that Jesus, looking upon the rich young ruler, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack." It is not the "love of complacency" that is intended, but the "love of benevolence" that is: the love not so much that finds good, as that intends good,” - Warfield, p.40

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The emotion that we should naturally expect to find most frequently attributed to Jesus whose whole life was a mission of mercy, whose ministry was marked as a going through the land "doing good" (Acts
10:38), is no doubt compassion. - The Emotional Life of Our Lord, BB Warfield

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[Jessica Tanoesoedibjo @jessicatanoe]

"Guilt alerts a healthy conscience to wrongdoing and leads us to repentance... Shame typically comes to the foreground when guilt hasn't gotten the job done." - Groves & Smith, p.200

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"Guilt and shame both come into play. Guilt awakens the son to his sin... Shame isn't always so optimistic. But the Father's love promises that there is always a way home." - Groves & Smith, p.198

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"Grief over any good thing, including any good relationship, points us Godward. Grief hurts deeply because we are so aware of just how good a gift God had given us...grief then, can become the cry 'Maranatha', come Lord Jesus, make this broken world whole." Groves & Smith, p.184

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"Our God ultimately poured out his wrath on Christ...so that those with whom he is angry might be restored. True love attacks evil with vigor, and yet the attack is always a rescue mission." - Groves & Smith, p.180

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"Ultimately the best thing you can do about anger in your life is to cultivate humility." - Groves & Smith, p.181