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Barnabas, Son of Encouragement

Barnabas, Son of Encouragement . Discouragement: “to cause someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm.”. Those Who Struggled With Discouragement:. The Jews: Numbers 21:4 (NKJV) 4 …the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way . Those Who Struggled With Discouragement:.

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Barnabas, Son of Encouragement

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  1. Barnabas, Son of Encouragement

  2. Discouragement: “to cause someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm.”

  3. Those Who Struggled With Discouragement: • The Jews: • Numbers 21:4 (NKJV) 4 …the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way.

  4. Those Who Struggled With Discouragement: • Christians: • Hebrews 12:3 (NKJV) 3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

  5. Those Who Struggled With Discouragement: • Even Jesus: • Matthew 17:17 (NKJV) 17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.”

  6. Those Who Struggled With Discouragement: • Even Jesus: • Luke 13:34 (NKJV) 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

  7. Be cautious not to complain. • Numbers 11:1 (NKJV) 1 Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.

  8. Be cautious not to complain. • Complaining Forbidden: • 1 Corinthians 10:10 (NKJV) 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

  9. Be cautious not to complain. • Complaining Forbidden: • Philippians 2:14 (NKJV) 14 Do all things without complaining and disputing,

  10. Be cautious not to complain. • Complaining Forbidden: • Lamentations 3:39 (NKJV) 39 Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?

  11. Be cautious not to complain. • Complaining Discourages Others! • Numbers 11:11–15 (NKJV) 11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me? 12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers? 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”

  12. Be cautious not to complain. • Be an Encourager! • 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NKJV) 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

  13. Be cautious not to complain. • Help someone when you have the ability & opportunity. • Acts 4:36–37 (NKJV) 36 And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus, 37 having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

  14. Be cautious not to complain. • Reach out to someone when no one else will! • Acts 9:26 (NKJV) 26 And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple. 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

  15. Be cautious not to complain. • Share the gospel with someone who needs to hear it. • Acts 11:22, 24 (NKJV) 22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch…24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.

  16. Be cautious not to complain. • Take someone under your wing. • Acts 11:25–26 (NKJV) 25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul. 26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

  17. Be cautious not to complain. • Be a Faithful Example to Others. • Acts 15:25–26 (NKJV) 25 …Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. • 1 Thessalonians 3:7 (NKJV) 7 therefore, brethren, in all our affliction and distress we were comforted concerning you by your faith.

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