THE AFFECTIONS (3)

1. The Affections

a) Should be zealously engaged for God.

Psalm 69:9 
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Psalm 119:139 
My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

Galatians 4:18 
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

b) Christ claims the first place in.

Matthew 10:37 
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Luke 14:26 
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

c) Enkindled by communion with Christ.

Luke 24:32 
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?