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Bible Passage – Joshua 1:1-9 | 1 Sam 17:32-37 | I Sam 30:1-20 | 1 Kgs 19:1-18
DISCOURAGEMENT – A DANGEROUS ENEMY OF THE BELIEVER
Types, Effects and Results of Discouragement, And Their Solutions
There Are Different Types, Levels and Categories of Discouragement
1. Gradual – King Saul – by disobedience- 1 Sam 13:12-14 | 1 Sam 15 | 1 Sam 17
2. In and Out of Discouragement – the disciples of Jesus before and during death, before and after his resurrection – Jh 14 | Jh 18
3. Manifest and Accepted Discouragement – Joshua – Joshua 1:1-9
4. Denied Discouragement – The disciples on the way to Emmaus – Lk 24:18-24
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
5. Masked Discouragement – Peter – Jh 21:3-5
6. Relapsed Back Into Discouragement – King Saul
Saul in stopping and then continue to pursue David to kill him: 1 Sam 18 – 31
7. Suppressed By and Oppressed Into Discouragement – Prophet Elijah; the Man by Pool of Bethesda 1 Kgs 19:9 | 1 Kings 19:10 | 1 Kings 19:14 | John 5:7
8. Crushed and Destroyed by Discouragement- Ahitophel – 2 Samuel 17:23
