Deep Dive Bible Study, Season 6 | S6•E18 | Deep Dive Bible Study | Kings of Compromise pt18: “Are you Dealing or getting healing for Depression?"

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Do you ever feel isolated, confused, exhausted, or have repeated thoughts running through your head?
Should Christians experience depression?

If you’re going to do great things for God, you will be susceptible to great depths of despair.

Depression is real.
BUT
Healing is real.

As a pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian I will give you the answers from Scripture regarding depression because it’s real– and hear me, many people have struggled with it. In fact, great people have struggled with it.

Tonight, we dive deep into Elijah’s life and the depression he experiences after the battle on Mount Horab as well as the lives of many great leaders in the Bible.

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Start [0:00]
▶ Should a Christian experience Depression? [2:05]
▶ Elijah recap of battle on Mount Carmel? [3:18]
▶ How can depression sometimes begin? [4:10]
▶ A sign of depression is confusion [4:50]
▶ A sign of depression is exhaustion [7:30]
▶ Why does Elijah go to Mount Horab or Mount Sinai? [10:16]
▶ What is the “Law” or Torah in the Bible? [11:25]
▶ What is the difference between laws and rules? [11:50]
▶ Why does God save you? [14:00]
▶ When you’re depressed watch your pronouns [15:37]
▶ How does God deal with depressed saints or Christians? [18:05]
▶ What will heaven be like? [19:05]
▶ What do you do when you have repeated negative thoughts? [19:53]
▶ What is the heavenly treatment for depression? [21:57]
▶ Who should you go to first for depression doctors or God? [24:57]
▶ Is depression real? [28:10]
▶ A Scriptural diagnosis of depression: a desire for the end of life [28:54]
▶ Who was depressed in the Bible? [29:00]
▶ A Scriptural diagnosis of depression: deep sorrow [30:03]
▶ A Scriptural diagnosis of depression: loneliness [30:22]
▶ A Scriptural diagnosis of depression: confusion [30:36]
▶ A Scriptural diagnosis of depression: escapism [30:43]
▶ Will a Christian always feel great? [31:11]
▶ What physical things can help depression? [31:50]
▶ What are some causes of depression? [33:00]
▶ Causes of depression: social causes [33:15]
▶ Causes of depression: emotional causes [33:48]
▶ Causes of depression: vocational causes [34:26]
▶ Causes of depression: mental causes [36:03]
▶ Is healing real? [36:22]
▶ How can we find healing for depression? [36:44]
▶ Healing for depression: nearness to God [36:50]
▶ What is the difference between Isolation vs Solitude [38:00]
▶ Healing for depression: the knowledge of God? [40:50]
▶ Healing for depression: mission re-engagement with others [42:06]
▶ 7 Simple solutions for depression [42:43]
▶ Healing for depression: prayer [43:50]

Scriptures Studied: 1 Kings 18; 1 Kings 19; Numbers 11:15; Job 10:1; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Jeremiah 20:15-18; Genesis 21:16; Psalm 42:3; Numbers 11:14; Psalm 42:5; Psalm 55:6-7; 2 Corinthians 1:8; Psalm 34:18; 2 Corinthians 1:9-11; Romans 8:28-30; James 4:8

Kings 1 & 2 Facts:

Author: Unkown
Genre: Narrative History (400 years).

Theological History of Kings 1 & 2:

Begins with David’s end (970 bc), Solomon’s building and ends with national devastation – exile to Babylon (561 bc).
Good and Evil kings.
Each king has an epitaph… did they follow the Lord or not?
True and False Prophets abound.
God rules all nations, not just Israel.
The Main Theme: There is ONE God in Israel.

Points:

A Scriptural Diagnosis of Depression:

A Desire for the End of Life:

MOSES: Numbers 11:15 (ESV) If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
JOB: Job 10:1 (ESV) “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
SOLOMON: Ecclesiastes 2:17 (ESV) So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
JEREMIAH: Jeremiah 20:15–18 (ESV)Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you,” making him very glad. 16 Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, 17 because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great. 18 Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

A Scriptural Diagnosis of Depression:

Deep Sorrow: Genesis 21:16 (ESV) Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. Psalm 42:3 (ESV) My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
Loneliness: Numbers 11:14 (ESV) I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
Confusion: Psalm 42:5 (ESV) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
Escapism: Psalm 55:6–7 (ESV) “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would y away and be at rest; 7 yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness

Causes of Depression:

Social Causes:

Animosity from others.
Rejection by others.
Isolation of yourself.

Emotional Causes:

Fear
Anger
Disappointment with results in your life.

Vocational Causes:

Exhaustion.
Sense of uselessness.
Loss of purpose / disappointing results in your work.
Powerlessness.

Mental Causes:

Repeating the same words to yourself.
Believing falsehoods/half-truths about yourself.

DEPRESSION IS REAL. HEALING IS REAL.

Healing for Depression:

Nearness to God: We have to choose to get alone with Him.
Knowledge of God: Still small voice. In knowing Him we know ourselves.
Mission Re-engagement with others: Anoint others for the cause.

Solitude VS Isolation.
Solitude:

Biblical,
Open to God
Strengthening

Isolation:

Enemy’s plan
Open to Temptation
Weakening

Solitude is purposeful detachment from others to be better for them.

Isolation is detachment from others out of resentment of them.

Pastoral Thought:

If you’re going to do great things for God, you will be susceptible to great depths of despair.
Depression is real.
Isolation is the enemy’s plan.

Questions to Consider:

Have you ever been depressed?
What are the things you keep telling yourself that are not true?
Do you have seeds of bitterness in your life?
Are you wearing yourself out for something or someone other than God?
Are you isolating yourself from others?
How can you practice solitude in your life this week?

Challenge:

Read the Word of God daily, seek Him, and pray for revival.

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