Seven Bible
Examples: Effects of the Devil's 'D's
I. Moses’ Defeat: Numbers 11:11-15
1. Moses' Depression/Despair (v.11-13)
Questioning the Will of God
2. Moses' Despondency/Desire for Death
(v.14, 15)
II. Saul’s Direct Demise: 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/Destruction…”Saul took a sword and fell upon it." (31)
III. Elijah’s Downward Direction: I
Kings 19
1.
Elijah's Defeat/Distress (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’s Dangerous Attitudes: Job
6:9, 10:1
1. Job’s Desire for Destruction “Even that
it would please God to destroy me”
2. Job's Distress/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’s Depression/Despondency Jonah 4:3
"Therefore now O Lord take, I
beseech Thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die…"
VII. Judas Death/Destruction-Matthew
27:4, 5
"I have sinned, I have betrayed
innocent blood...He departed and went and hanged himself"
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