Lesson 11: Demoralized or Delighted
Questions 4, 5, and 6
This pattern of unthankfulness is repeated daily at Setting Captives Free as people come fixated on their problems, focused inwardly, unable to appreciate the time you have spent ministering gospel grace to them. They do not consider that you are taking your time to pray for them, search the Scriptures for them, apply the gospel to their situation, etc.
This lack of response on the student’s part can have a deadening and discouraging impact on a mentor. Indeed, through the years, many mentors with Setting Captives Free have become very discouraged, and some came to feel as though they were wasting their time, and they, too, drifted away and left.
So, we want you to carefully consider the following three Scriptures before you join us as a mentor:
First: Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matthew 7:13-14
Question 4. How will you feel when you see “many” leaving and “few” finding freedom?
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Second: “Where can we go up? Our brothers (spies) have made our hearts melt [in fear] and demoralized us by saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified [all the way up] to heaven. And besides, we saw the [giant-like] sons of the Anakim there.”’ Deuteronomy 1:28 AMP
Question 6. According to Deuteronomy 1:28 AMP, how did the negative report of the spies affect the people of Israel and their willingness to take the Promised Land?
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