THE HOUR OF DISCOURAGEMENT

                      

2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-9                                                    

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. WHO GETS DISCOURAGED?

1. Lost People Get Discouraged Ephesians 2:12]

2. God's People Get Discouraged (the nation of Israel, Christians) [2 Thessalonians 2:2]

3. God's Servants Get Discouraged (Elijah, Jonah, Jeremiah) Isaiah 37:3

II. HOW DOES DISCOURAGEMENT COME?

1. It Comes from Others [Deuteronomy 1:28]                                                     

2. It Comes Continuously

3. It Comes Confusingly                                                                                                

4. It Comes Caustically "persecuted"

5. It Comes Powerfully "we are cast down"                                                          

6. It Comes Deservedly [Lamentations 1:18]

7. It Comes Through Circumstances [Numbers 21:4]

III. WHAT CAN WE DO IN THE HOUR OF DISCOURAGEMENT?

1. COME BACK TO GOD [Isaiah 44:22]

2. COME BACK TO CHRIST [John 14:1]

3. COME BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD [Matthew 7:24-25]