Thursday, July 3, 2014

Seven Bible Examples: Effects of the Devil's 'D's



Seven Bible Examples: Effects of the Devil's 'D's

I. Moses: Numbers 11:11-15 
    1. Moses' Defeat/Depression/Despair (v.11-13) Questioning the Will of God 
    2. Moses' Despondency/Desire for Death (v.14, 15)

II. Saul: I Samuel 28-31 
1.       Saul's Defeat/Distress/Despair-(28) "I am sore distressed...Saul was sore afraid...
there was no  strength in him...
2.       Saul’s Death…”Saul took a sword and fell upon it." (31)

III. Elijah: I Kings 19 
    1.    Elijah's Defeat (v.3) "He arose and went for his life..." 
 2.         Elijah's Depression/Despair/Despondency/Desire for Death (v.4)
       "He requested for himself that he might die..."

IV. Job: Job 10:1
 .   Job's Affliction/Weariness/Despondency "My soul is weary of my life..."

V. Jeremiah's Defeat/Distress/Despondency: Lamentations 3:18
     "My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord"

VI. Jonah 4:3
      "Therefore now O Lord take, I beseech Thee, my life from me, for it is better for me
        to die than to live."

VII. Judas-Matthew 27:4, 5
       "I have sinned, I have betrayed innocent blood...He departed and went and
         hanged himself"

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