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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>YOU'RE THE PHILISTINES. YOU'RE RUNNING UPON 01:13 SAMSON TO ARREST HIM. HE'S BOUND UP WITH THESE ROPES 01:17 AND, AS YOU'RE RUNNING TOWARDS HIM, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD 01:19 COMES ON HIM AND HE GOES, 'POP!' AND, I THINK, THEY 01:23 SLOWED DOWN RIGHT THERE. AND THEN HE THOUGHT, 01:25 'NOW WHAT WILL I DO?' AND HE'S LOOKING AROUND; 01:29 AND THE LORD PROVIDED. >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING 01:34 FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 01:37 THROUGH MEDIA. THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS 01:40 FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT 01:44 BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:53 >>WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A SERIES, RIGHT NOW, DEALING WITH 01:57 SOME LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF SAMSON. 02:00 LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT - PART 1 - SAMSON: HONEY FROM A LION . 02:05 THIS WEEK WE'RE IN PART 2 - THERE WILL PROBABLY BE THREE 02:07 PARTS - THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE JAWBONE OF A DONKEY . 02:13 IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT 02:17 WAS GOING ON IN THE NATION OF ISRAEL DURING THE TIMES OF 02:23 SAMSON. SAMSON, WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER, 02:27 HE LIVED DURING THE TIME OF ELI, WHEN ELI WAS PRIEST - IF YOU 02:31 KNOW, YOU READ 1 SAMUEL - THERE WAS A LOT OF COMPROMISE - 02:35 A LOT OF UNFAITHFULNESS. THE SONS OF ELI WERE 02:38 REAL SCOUNDRELS. THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF SCANDAL 02:42 AMONG MINISTRY DURING THAT TIME, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING. 02:45 DURING THIS TIME - YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 02:49 40, "SO THE PHILISTINES FOUGHT, AND ISRAEL WAS DEFEATED, 02:55 AND EVERY MAN FLED TO HIS TENT. 02:57 THERE WAS A VERY GREAT SLAUGHTER, AND THERE FELL OF 03:00 ISRAEL THIRTY THOUSAND FOOT SOLDIERS." 03:04 IN A BATTLE JUST A FEW DAYS EARLIER, FOUR THOUSAND HAD DIED. 03:07 "ALSO THE ARK OF GOD WAS CAPTURED;..." 03:11 THIS IS HAPPENING - THIS IS THE WORLD THAT SAMSON WAS BORN INTO. 03:14 THE PHILISTINES HAD SUBJUGATED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. 03:18 NOW THE PHILISTINES DID NOT HAVE A KING. 03:21 THE PHILISTINES WERE DIVIDED INTO A CONFEDERACY OF FIVE 03:24 KINGDOMS AND THEY CALLED THEM THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES. 03:29 THE PHILISTINES ALSO HAD MASTERED THE MAKING OF IRON 03:33 WEAPONS. THE ISRAELITES DID NOT. 03:37 YOU READ IN THE STORY OF DAVID THAT, IN ONE BATTLE BETWEEN SAUL 03:40 AND JONATHAN AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, IT SAYS THE ONLY 03:43 PEOPLE IN THE KINGDOM THAT HAD IRON SWORDS WERE SAUL AND HIS 03:47 SON. THE PHILISTINES WERE VERY 03:49 CAREFUL THAT IF THE ISRAELITES WANTED TO SHARPEN THEIR WEAPONS, 03:52 THEY SAID, 'YOU COME TO US AND SHARPEN THEM. 03:55 YOU - IF YOU NEED TO SHARPEN A FARM TOOL, YOU COME TO US. 03:59 AND - BUT WE'RE NOT LETTING YOU HAVE ANY WEAPONS.' THEY ACTUALLY 04:02 DISARMED THEM. 'IF YOU HAVE ANY WEAPONS YOU'RE 04:05 IN BIG TROUBLE.' AND THEY WERE ABLE TO SUBJUGATE THEM 04:09 AND IT WAS A TIME OF GREAT DISCOURAGEMENT. 04:12 NOW, PEOPLE CAN'T FIGHT WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE COURAGE. 04:16 YOU KNOW WHAT GOD TOLD JOSHUA WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED 04:18 LAND? THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT 04:19 AGAINST SOME VERY WELL ARMED ENEMIES. 04:21 SOME OF THEM WERE GIANTS. AND GOD SAID - YOU GO TO JOSHUA 04:25 CHAPTER 1, VERSE 6 - IT'S A GREAT VERSE. 04:29 "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE, FOR TO THIS PEOPLE YOU SHALL 04:34 DIVIDE AS AN INHERITANCE THE LAND WHICH I SWORE TO THEIR 04:37 FATHERS TO GIVE THEM." - VERSE 7 - "ONLY BE STRONG AND 04:39 VERY COURAGEOUS, THAT YOU MAY OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL 04:44 THE LAW WHICH MOSES MY SERVANT COMMANDED YOU;" - JUMP OVER TO 04:47 VERSE 9 - "HAVE I NOT COMMANDED YOU? 04:49 BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE; DO NOT BE AFRAID, NOR BE 04:54 DISMAYED, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO." 04:57 NOW, IF I'VE GOT THAT PART - IF I KNOW THAT GOD IS WITH ME, THEN 05:01 I DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID, DO I? >>AMEN. 05:04 >>AND YOU CAN BE, NOT ONLY DOES HE SAY 'COURAGEOUS, COURAGEOUS,' 05:06 HE SAYS, 'YOU CAN BE VERY COURAGEOUS.' BY THE WAY, MOSES 05:10 REPEATS THESE WORDS TO JOSHUA BEFORE HE DIES. 05:12 GOD THEN TELLS JOSHUA, IN PERSON. 05:15 JOSHUA WAS ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT EXPLOITS BECAUSE HE 05:18 BELIEVED GOD WAS WITH HIM. >>AMEN. 05:21 >>AND DO WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT'S PROMISED TO BE WITH US? 05:26 DID JESUS SAY, 'I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE 05:28 WORLD'? THEN SHOULD CHRISTIANS BE 05:29 COURAGEOUS EVEN THOUGH WE'RE LIVING IN ENEMY COUNTRY? 05:33 >>AMEN. >>SO, THE STORY OF SAMSON IS 05:35 REALLY VERY RELEVANT FOR US, EVEN TODAY. 05:38 SO, YOU GO TO JUDGES CHAPTER 15, IT SAYS, "NOW THE PHILISTINES 05:43 WENT UP, ENCAMPED IN JUDAH, AND DEPLOYED THEMSELVES AGAINST 05:48 LEHI." - NOW, THE WORD 'LEHI' 05:50 MEANS 'JAWBONE'. LEHI GOT ITS NAME FROM WHAT'S 05:54 ABOUT TO HAPPEN, BUT THE BIBLE WRITERS - USING THE NAME THAT 05:57 EVERYONE KNEW IT BY NOW - BUT THIS IS HOW IT GOT ITS NAME. 06:01 SO THEY ENCAMP IN THIS VALLEY THAT'S KNOWN AS LEHI AND - AND 06:06 THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH - THE LEADERS COME OUT AND THEY SEND, 06:10 YOU KNOW, SOME EMISSARIES TO - THIS BIG ARMY OF THOUSANDS OF 06:14 PHILISTINES HAVE COME AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM - THEY 06:16 SAY, 'WAIT, WAIT, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? 06:18 YOU'VE ALREADY CONQUERED US. WE'RE PAYING OUR TAXES. 06:21 WHAT'S GOING ON?' YOU KNOW, THEY MARCHED UP, A 06:23 BUNCH OF THEM, TREMBLING WITH A WHITE FLAG, AND THE PHILISTINES 06:27 TELL THEM, "WE'VE COME TO ARREST SAMSON, TO DO UNTO HIM 06:33 AS HE HAS DONE UNTO US." AND SO, INSTEAD OF THE MEN 06:39 OF JUDAH GOING TO SAMSON AND SAYING, 'LOOK, YOU GOT US 06:42 INTO THIS, YOU GET US OUT. WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT BEHIND YOU. 06:45 WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK.' THEY GO TO SAMSON AND THEY BASICALLY SAY, 06:49 'DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE PHILISTINES ARE OUR MASTERS?' 06:53 THEY HAD RESIGNED THEMSELVES TO BE SLAVES. 06:58 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD A 07:01 HARD TIME IN THE WILDERNESS THEY WOULD FREQUENTLY SAY, 'WASN'T IT 07:05 BETTER BACK IN EGYPT JUST BEING SLAVES? WHY DON'T WE GET ANOTHER 07:09 LEADER AND LET'S ALL GO BACK AND SERVE THE EGYPTIANS? 07:13 AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE MORE ONIONS THERE.' THEY WERE 07:17 COMPLAINING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST HAD MANNA EVERY DAY. 07:20 THEY SAID, 'WE MISS THE FISH AND THE ONIONS. 07:21 LET'S GO BACK AND BE SLAVES.' ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW, NO MATTER 07:24 HOW BAD TIMES MIGHT BE, IN LOOKING BACK, THEY SEEM TO BE 07:28 THE GOOD OLD DAYS? AND SO, THEY'RE 07:33 READY TO SURRENDER. SO THESE THREE THOUSAND MEN 07:37 OF JUDAH, THEY COME AND THEY APPROACH SAMSON UP ON THE ROCK. 07:42 THEY SAID, "WE HAVE COME DOWN TO ARREST YOU, THAT WE MAY DELIVER 07:45 YOU INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES." 07:48 - HIS OWN PEOPLE - "THEN SAMSON SAID TO THEM, 'SWEAR TO ME THAT 07:52 YOU WILL NOT KILL ME YOURSELVES.' SO THEY SPOKE TO 07:55 HIM, SAYING, 'NO, BUT WE WILL TIE YOU SECURELY AND DELIVER YOU 07:59 INTO THEIR HAND; BUT WE WILL SURELY NOT KILL YOU.'" NOW, 08:05 ISN'T THAT SAD THAT GOD'S PEOPLE WOULD BE THE VEHICLE OF TURNING 08:10 OVER THEIR CHAMPION? INSTEAD OF - I MEAN, LOOK AT 08:14 WHAT SAMSON DID ALONE; WHAT IF HE HAD THREE 08:16 THOUSAND BEHIND HIM? WHAT IF THE WHOLE - HE HAD BLOWN 08:18 THE TRUMPET AND THE WHOLE ARMY - THIS IS JUST THREE THOUSAND 08:20 LEADERS OF ONE TRIBE - WHAT IF HE HAD BLOWN THE TRUMPET AND ALL 08:24 OF ISRAEL HAD RALLIED BEHIND HIM? 08:25 HOW MUCH THEY COULD HAVE DONE - HOW MUCH MORE GOD WANTED TO DO 08:28 FOR THEM THAT NEVER HAPPENED BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID. 08:33 THEY WERE USED TO BEING OVERCOME. 08:36 NOW, YOU REALIZE THAT AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SAMSON AND THE 08:39 PHILISTINES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND SIN. 08:44 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOT - YOU'RE BEING ATTACKED BY A CANAANITE 08:48 NATION, BUT YOU'RE BEING ATTACKED BY THE DEVIL. 08:51 ARE YOU CONTENT AND DO YOU CONSENT TO JUST LETTING THE 08:56 DEVIL RULE OVER YOU? MY BIBLE SAYS 'GREATER IS HE WHO 09:00 IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.' AND JESUS SAID, 'I WILL 09:04 NEVER LEAVE YOU.' YOU KNOW, THE MIRACLES IN THE BIBLE - WE'RE 09:08 GETTING READY TO READ A COUPLE OF THEM - SEEM TO COME IN WAVES. 09:12 THERE ARE CLUSTERS OF MIRACLES AND THEN THERE ARE LONG PERIODS 09:15 WHERE NOTHING AMAZING HAPPENS. AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT 09:17 LEVELS OF MIRACLES. YOU SEE A GREAT CLUSTER OF 09:22 MIRACLES HAPPENING DURING THE TIME OF MOSES, WHEN THEY CAME 09:25 OUT OF EGYPT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND WHEN 09:28 THEY ENTERED EGYPT. YOU SEE A GREAT CLUSTER OF 09:31 MIRACLES DURING THE TIME OF ELIJAH AND ELISHA. 09:34 YOU SEE A GREAT CLUSTER OF MIRACLES HAPPENING DURING THE 09:37 TIME OF JESUS AND THE APOSTLES. AND SAMSON SORT OF STANDS OUT 09:42 AS A HIGH POINT OF JUST MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE. 09:45 NOT ALL THE JUDGES HAD MIRACLES. I MEAN, THEY HAD SOME AMAZING 09:49 VICTORIES, BUT YOU COULDN'T ALWAYS CALL THEM MIRACLES. 09:53 SAMSON'S POWER WAS A SUPERNATURAL POWER THAT WAS NOT 09:57 ATTRIBUTED TO SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN THE GYM. 10:00 IT SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME OVER HIM - NOT THAT YOU 10:03 SHOULD QUIT YOUR GYM MEMBERSHIP. AND SO THEY TIE HIM UP 10:07 AND THEY HAND HIM OVER. DIDN'T THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 10:09 WHO WERE CALLED JEWS, AND, YOU KNOW, JEWS ARE NOT HEBREWS. 10:16 YOU COULD BE AN ARAB AND BE A HEBREW, TECHNICALLY, BECAUSE 10:21 HEBREWS DESCENDED FROM ABRAHAM. PEOPLE DON'T USE IT THAT WAY. 10:26 NOT ALL ISRAELITES WERE JEWS. JEWS WERE LARGELY THE ONES WHO 10:30 CAME BACK FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY THAT WERE LARGELY FROM 10:33 THE TRIBE OF JUDAH - WITH SOME FROM LEVI AND BENJAMIN. 10:37 BUT THE OTHER TEN TRIBES WERE CONQUERED - THE NORTHERN KINGDOM 10:41 - SO JEWS SORT OF BECAME A SHORTENED WAY OF SAYING THE 10:43 TRIBE OF JUDAH. SO HERE, JESUS IS HANDED OVER, TIED UP, BY THE 10:47 JEWS, TO THE ROMANS - TO THE PAGANS - AND SO, YOU'RE SEEING 10:53 SOMETHING SIMILAR - HIS OWN PEOPLE. AND YEAH, ULTIMATELY, 10:57 THE NAILS WERE DRIVEN BY THE ROMANS AND THEIR SLAVES. 11:01 SO THEY SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, WE'LL JUST TIE YOU UP. 11:05 WE'LL HAND YOU OVER TO THEM. WE WON'T KILL YOU. 11:07 WE DON'T WANT YOUR BLOOD ON OUR HANDS.' AND SO, HE CONSENTS. 11:11 HE WILLINGLY - COULD THOSE THREE THOUSAND HAVE ARRESTED HIM WHEN 11:17 HE'S UP IN THIS FORTIFIED ROCKY RAVINE? 11:21 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE THREE HUNDRED SPARTANS THAT HELD 11:23 OFF OVER A MILLION PERSIANS BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE 11:27 BATTLE? IF YOU'RE A GOOD GENERAL YOU 11:28 WANT TO PICK YOUR GROUND VERY CAREFULLY. 11:32 AND, BECAUSE SAMSON HAD THE HIGH GROUND, IF HE DIDN'T WANT THE 11:35 PEOPLE OF JUDAH TO ARREST HIM, THEY COULDN'T HAVE ARRESTED HIM. 11:39 THEY COME TO HIM TIMIDLY AND SAY, 'PLEASE, PUT YOUR HANDS 11:42 BEHIND YOUR BACK. YOU KNOW, WORK WITH US HERE. 11:45 WE'RE NOT GOING TO HURT YOU, WE'RE JUST GOING TO TIE YOU 11:47 UP.' AND SO HE CONSENTS. 11:50 HE'S A WILLING SACRIFICE TO THEM. 11:52 HE OFFERS HIMSELF, YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 11:55 SO THEY - THESE THREE THOUSAND MEN WITH THEIR KNEES SMITING 11:59 TOGETHER - THEY COME OUT OF THE ROCKY RAVINE AND IT GOES INTO 12:02 THE VALLEY OF LEHI AND THEY SEE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF 12:07 PHILISTINES - THEY'VE GOT THEIR WHOLE ARMY PITCHED - AND THE 12:09 PHILISTINES SEE THEM COMING DOWN AND THERE, BEFORE THEM, THEY'RE 12:13 PRODDING SAMSON ON. AND IT SAYS, "WHEN HE CAME TO 12:18 LEHI, THE PHILISTINES CAME SHOUTING AGAINST HIM." 12:22 WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH THAT HAD 12:24 BROUGHT HIM DOWN? THEY DROPPED AND RAN. 12:29 THEY WENT AS FAST AS THEY COULD - THEY JUST LEFT SAMSON OUT 12:33 THERE IN THE FIELD BY HIMSELF. BUT SAMSON DID NOT RUN. 12:37 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THEY CAME SHOUTING AGAINST HIM. 12:40 THEY WERE SO EXCITED - 'OUR ENEMY! 12:42 WE'VE GOT HIM! WE'VE GOT WHAT WE CAME FOR. 12:45 SURELY THERE'S NOTHING WE COULD DO, WE'VE GOT THE WHOLE ARMY. 12:47 I MEAN, HE SNUCK UP ON US WHEN HE CAME THROUGH OUR TOWN AND 12:49 SMOTE US HIP AND THIGH. BUT NOW WE'RE 12:51 READY FOR A BATTLE. THERE'S NOTHING HE CAN DO." 12:54 AND THEY ALL CAME RUNNING UP TO HIM TO ARREST HIM AND THIS HAD 12:57 BEEN - SOMETHING MARVELOUS HAPPENED - IT SAID, "THEN THE 13:01 SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME MIGHTILY UPON HIM." 13:06 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, IN JUST A MOMENT WE'LL RETURN 13:09 TO CONTINUE TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 13:12 YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, 'THE SPIRIT IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH 13:15 IS WEAK.' THE BIBLE DESCRIBES AN ONGOING WAR THAT EVERY BELIEVER 13:20 EXPERIENCES BETWEEN THESE TWO INTERNAL FORCES. 13:24 BUT SOME SINCERE CHRISTIANS HAVE SURRENDERED THE BATTLE, 13:27 CLAIMING, 'WELL, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERCOME THE CARNAL NATURE IN 13:30 THIS SINFUL WORLD.' IS THAT REALLY TRUE? 13:33 IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO EXPERIENCE AN ONGOING VICTORY IN 13:38 THE BATTLE WITH TEMPTATION? WELL, WE HAVE A FREE GIFT FOR 13:41 YOU THAT WILL CLEARLY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FROM 13:43 THE WORD OF GOD. IT'S TITLED: THE 13:46 FLESH AND THE SPIRIT . DISCOVER THE ANSWERS THAT WILL 13:49 EMPOWER YOU TO EXPERIENCE A VICTORIOUS LIFE 13:53 WALKING WITH JESUS. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 13:56 PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #792 OR 14:01 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND, AFTER YOU READ THIS 14:04 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS. 14:08 WELL, LET'S GET BACK TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 14:10 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 14:14 >>NOW, I WANT A VOLUNTEER - I THINK JAMIE SAID HE'S GOING TO 14:16 COME UP HERE AND HELP ME REAL QUICK. 14:19 I WANT TO DEMONSTRATE THIS. THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS THREE 14:21 TIMES IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES SO I THOUGHT I JUST WANT TO SHOW 14:23 YOU WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. IN ONE OF MY POCKETS, HERE, I'VE 14:25 GOT SOME BIBLE ROPE - BETTER KNOWN AS DENTAL FLOSS - PUT YOUR 14:32 HANDS APART JUST LIKE THAT. THAT'LL WORK. 14:34 YEAH, JUST LIKE THAT. I'M GOING TO PUT THAT - THAT ONE 14:36 AROUND HERE - KEEP THEM ABOUT THE SAME DISTANCE APART. 14:39 EVERY TIME I GO TO THE DENTIST HE GIVES ME SOME OF THIS AND 14:42 I'VE GOT BOXES OF IT AT HOME NOW AND I THOUGHT, 'I'M LOOKING FOR 14:45 A GOOD WAY TO GET RID OF IT.' GIVE IT A LITTLE TUG APART. 14:48 THAT'S PRETTY STRONG, ISN'T IT? 14:48 I'M PULLING IT - I CAN'T BREAK IT. OKAY. 14:53 AND SO - TURN HERE, LIKE - SO FOLKS CAN SEE YOU OVER HERE. 14:56 THIS WOULD NORMALLY BE PRETTY HARD. NOW, IMAGINE TWO NEW ROPES 14:59 - MINTY FRESH ROPES - AND THEY'VE GOT HIM TIED - THESE 15:04 THICK - YOU KNOW, JUST THINK - LIKE ANCHOR ROPES. 15:06 YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT THESE BIG ROPES - THEY DIDN'T WANT TO RISK 15:08 IT WITH ONE ROPE - THEY GOT TWO ROPES. 15:10 THEY GOT HIM ALL TIED UP - JUST BIG OLD PILE OF KNOTS - AND THE 15:13 BIBLE SAYS THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM AND HE 15:17 BROKE THOSE ROPES AS THOUGH IT WAS FLAX PUT TO THE FLAME. 15:24 YOU GOT A LITTLE TENSION ON THERE? JUST WENT LIKE THAT. 15:34 SO YOU'RE THE PHILISTINES, YOU'RE RUNNING UPON SAMSON TO 15:38 ARREST HIM, HE'S BOUND UP WITH THESE ROPES AND, AS YOU'RE 15:40 RUNNING TOWARDS HIM, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD COMES ON HIM AND HE 15:43 GOES, 'POP!' NOW, WOULD YOU SLOW DOWN? 15:48 THEY SAW THAT, THEY THOUGHT, 'HE'S BOUND!' 15:51 BUT HE BROKE THE BONDS THAT HELD HIM. 15:55 AND, I THINK, THEY SLOWED DOWN RIGHT THERE. 15:58 AND THEN HE THOUGHT, 'NOW WHAT WILL I DO?' 16:01 AND HE'S LOOKING AROUND AND THE LORD PROVIDED: "...AND THE ROPES 16:06 THAT WERE ON HIS ARMS BECAME LIKE FLAX THAT IS BURNED WITH 16:08 FIRE, AND HIS BONDS BROKE LOOSE FROM HIS HANDS." 16:12 HE FOUND A FRESH JAWBONE - AND THAT'S 'LEHI' - "OF A DONKEY, 16:17 REACHED OUT HIS HAND AND TOOK IT." 16:19 ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW GOD SUDDENLY PROVIDES WHAT YOU NEED 16:24 JUST AT THE RIGHT MOMENT? YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST INTERESTING 16:29 TO ME THAT, WHEN SOMETHING - DAVID NEEDS FIVE SMOOTH STONES, 16:35 THERE THEY ARE WHEN HE NEEDS THEM. THERE'S THOUSANDS THAT 16:38 NEED FOOD AND GOD - THEY SAY, 'WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?' 16:41 'WELL, THERE'S A BOY WITH FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISH.' AND IT 16:45 SEEMS LIKE JUST, WHENEVER THE MOMENT'S NEEDED - IT MAY NOT BE 16:47 WHAT YOU EXPECT - IT COULD BE VERY HUMBLE MEANS, BUT GOD 16:52 PROVIDES WHAT YOU NEED AT THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME. 16:55 HAVE YOU READ 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 13? 17:00 "NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN; 17:05 BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED 17:08 BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE ABLE, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION WILL ALSO 17:13 MAKE THE WAY" - AND THAT'S PROVIDE A WAY - "OF ESCAPE, 17:16 THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT." 17:19 SO, WHEN SAMSON'S THERE AND HE'S ALL TIED UP AND THERE'S A 17:22 THOUSAND PHILISTINES - OR SEVERAL THOUSAND PHILISTINES - 17:25 HE ONLY KILLED A THOUSAND - THERE WAS A WHOLE ARMY - THAT 17:27 WERE GOING TO ATTACK HIM, HE COULD HAVE SAID, 'I'M DONE FOR.' 17:32 HE COULD HAVE LOST COURAGE, BUT GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I AM GOING TO 17:36 USE YOU TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY. 17:38 I WILL PROVIDE A WAY OF ESCAPE.' HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU'VE 17:42 BEEN OVERWHELMED WITH A TSUNAMI OF TEMPTATION AND YOU THINK, 'I 17:48 DON'T KNOW HOW I CAN ESCAPE; THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO.'? 17:52 DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU PRAY, YOU WILL FIND A DONKEY BONE? 17:57 THE LORD IS GOING TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN USE TO 18:01 FIGHT THE TEMPTATION. DON'T EVER SAY THERE'S NO WAY. 18:03 IF YOU PRAY, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL COME UPON YOU AND GOD 18:06 WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO FIGHT THAT TEMPTATION BECAUSE HE WILL 18:11 EMPTY HEAVEN OF EVERY ANGEL RATHER THAN LET YOU BE 18:14 NEEDLESSLY OVERCOME IF YOU TRUST IN HIM. 18:18 >>AMEN. >>DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 18:19 >>YES. >>I DO. SO HE PROVIDED. 18:22 AND IT MAY NOT BE - HE MAY NOT GIVE YOU A BAZOOKA. 18:26 HE MAY NOT GIVE YOU, YOU KNOW, THE SWORD OF GOLIATH. 18:29 HE MAY ONLY GIVE YOU A DONKEY BONE, BUT DON'T UNDERESTIMATE 18:33 WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH SIMPLE MEANS. 18:40 SO, YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? >>JAWBONE. 18:44 >>THIS IS NOT JUST A JAWBONE. THIS IS THE JAWBONE OF A DONKEY. 18:49 SO IT WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND AND HE BREAKS HIS BONDS AND THE 18:54 ARMY IS STANDING THERE AND HE GOES, 'OH, PRAISE THE LORD. 18:58 I NEED SOMETHING.' NOW, YOU WOULD BE THINKING, YOU KNOW, 19:02 'CAN I HAVE A SPEAR? I'D LIKE A HELMET. 19:05 MAYBE A SWORD WOULD BE GOOD - A MACHINE GUN - SOMETHING.' AND 19:11 YOU'VE GOT THE PHILISTINE ARMY IS SURROUNDING YOU, BUT WHAT 19:14 DOES GOD GIVE HIM? JAWBONE - OF A WHAT? 19:18 >>A DONKEY. >>NOW, HAS GOD USED DONKEYS 19:23 BEFORE TO DO GREAT THINGS? DID THE LORD MIRACULOUSLY 19:29 PROVIDE A DONKEY FOR JESUS TO BE PROCLAIMED KING? 19:35 A FOAL OF A DONKEY. DID THE LORD MIRACULOUSLY ENABLE 19:40 A DONKEY TO REBUKE A WAYWARD PROPHET? 19:44 THE DONKEY REPRESENTS A HUMBLE MEANS. 19:47 AND SO, GOD OFTEN USES VERY HUMBLE MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT 19:53 THINGS. SO HE REACHES OUT AND HE TAKES 19:55 THIS AND I DON'T THINK THAT THEY CAME TO ATTACK HIM. 20:03 I THINK, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM - WHAT 20:05 HAPPENED WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID? 20:10 IT SAYS HE RAN OUT TO MEET GOLIATH. 20:13 WOULD YOU RUN TO FIGHT A GIANT? I THINK, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE 20:17 LORD CAME ON SAMSON - YOU'D THINK, 'WELL, LOOK, THERE'S FIVE 20:19 THOUSAND OF THEM; THERE'S ONLY ONE OF ME. 20:22 YOU KNOW, I'LL JUST FIND A ROCK FOR THE BACK, YOU KNOW, PROTECT 20:25 MYSELF AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO.' I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE FIRED 20:27 ARROWS AND THROWN SPEARS AT HIM AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A 20:30 DIFFERENT KIND OF BATTLE. I THINK HE PICKED IT UP AND HE 20:32 RAN IN AMONGST THEM WHERE THEY COULDN'T THROW SPEARS 20:35 WITHOUT HITTING EACH OTHER. I THINK HIS MIND WAS GOING 20:39 LIKE HIGH-SPEED FILM. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN, YOU KNOW, 20:42 LIKE WHEN THEY TAKE THESE NATURE PICTURES AND IT SHOWS THE SEED 20:45 SLOWLY BREAK AND IT COMES UP OUT OF THE GROUND, AND THEY 20:49 SOMETIMES USE SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY? 20:51 YOU EVER SEE WHEN THEY USE HIGH-SPEED FILM AND THEY SLOW 20:53 DOWN A BULLET WHEN IT STRIKES SOMETHING? 20:57 I THINK SAMSON SUDDENLY BEGAN TO LIVE IN A HIGH-SPEED REALM - 21:03 DIMENSION - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, ALL OF THE PHILISTINES - HE 21:06 LOOKED OUT THERE AND THEY WERE GOING, 'OOOH NOOO, IT'S 21:10 SAAAMSOOON. WHAAAT'S HEEE GONNA DOOO WITH THAAAT?' 21:15 BUT HIS MIND - I KNOW, THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION, BUT REALLY, I 21:17 THINK THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS HAPPENING. 21:19 BUT HIS MIND WAS GOING SO FAST THAT HE JUST RAN IN AMONG THEM 21:24 BEFORE THEY COULD EVEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO. 21:27 AND, NOT ONLY DID THEY SAY IT WAS A JAWBONE - THIS IS A DRY 21:29 ONE - YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, THIS IS ONLY HALF OF ONE; THERE'S 21:31 ANOTHER JAW PIECE THAT COMES UP HERE THAT MAKES A REALLY GOOD 21:34 HANDLE - BUT IT WAS A FRESH JAWBONE, WHICH MEANT THAT IT WAS 21:38 VERY HARD. SO HE WENT AMONG THEM AND IT SAYS - HAVE YOU READ 21:43 THAT? IT SAYS HE SLAYS A THOU - I'M GOING TO PUT THAT THERE 21:46 WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT - HE SLAYS A THOUSAND MEN. 21:51 HE SAID, "WITH THE JAWBONE OF A DONKEY, HEAPS UPON HEAPS. 21:55 AND SO IT WAS, WHEN HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING, THAT HE THREW 21:59 THE JAWBONE FROM HIS HAND, AND CALLED THAT PLACE RAMATH LEHI." 22:06 NOW, ONE THING I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER: WHAT DOES SAMSON LOOK 22:10 LIKE? WHAT STANDS OUT ABOUT SAMSON? 22:14 >>HIS HAIR. >>HIS MUSCLES? 22:15 >>HIS HAIR. >>DOES IT SAY - SHOW ME THE 22:17 VERSE THAT SAMSON HAD BIG BICEPS. 22:20 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT. HE DID HAVE LONG HAIR. 22:24 WHY? HE'S A NAZARITE. 22:26 WE TALKED ABOUT NAZARITES AND THERE'S TWO OR THREE THINGS 22:29 THEY'RE KNOWN FOR. ONE IS NOTHING FROM THE GRAPE. 22:34 WELL, IT SAYS THAT SAMSON HAD ALREADY GONE TO BANQUETS WITH 22:37 GRAPES AND HE ENDS UP HANGING OUT IN A VALLEY OF GRAPES. 22:43 HE KILLED A LION IN A VINEYARD. HE'S NOT SUPPOSED 22:45 TO BE NEAR RAISINS. HE'S NOT FOLLOWING IT. 22:49 THE OTHER THING IS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH A DEAD BODY. 22:52 NOT ONLY HAD HE KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE, HE WENT AND TOOK HONEY 22:55 OUT OF THE CARCASS OF A LION AND, NOW, HE'S HANGING ONTO AN 22:59 UNCLEAN JAWBONE. SO WHEN HE THROWS THAT FROM HIS 23:04 HAND, IT'S LIKE HE WENT, 'HERE I GO AGAIN.' BUT IN SPITE OF HIS 23:09 WEAKNESS, GOD WAS ABLE TO USE HIM. 23:12 NOW THAT, I THINK, IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT. 23:15 HOW MANY OF YOU SOMETIMES THINK, 'I'D LIKE TO WORK FOR THE LORD 23:17 BUT I'M JUST NOT WORTHY.' 'I'D LIKE TO GIVE BIBLE STUDIES BUT 23:21 THERE'S SO MUCH I DON'T KNOW.' 'I'D LIKE TO REACH OTHERS BUT, 23:24 YOU KNOW, I DOUBT HOW THOROUGHLY CONVERTED I AM.' HAVE YOU EVER 23:28 THOUGHT THAT BEFORE? I'M A PASTOR, I'VE THOUGHT IT. 23:31 AND THEN I'M ENCOURAGED WHEN I READ WHERE JESUS SENT THE TWELVE 23:35 APOSTLES OUT PREACHING AND THEY CAME BACK FROM PREACHING AND 23:39 THEY SAID, 'LORD, EVEN THE DEVILS WERE SUBJECT UNTO US AND 23:42 WE SAW GREAT MIRACLES HAPPENING. 23:45 AND THE, YOU KNOW, SICK WERE HEALED AND THE DEAD WERE RAISED 23:49 AND' - IT TELLS ABOUT ALL KINDS OF THINGS THE APOSTLES DID. 23:52 AND THEN JESUS SAYS, TO PEOPLE LIKE PETER, "...SATAN HAS 23:57 DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: BUT I HAVE 24:00 PRAYED FOR THEE, THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT: AND WHEN THOU ART 24:02 CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN THY BRETHREN." 24:05 WHEN YOU'RE CONVERTED? YOU MEAN GOD IS ABLE TO USE 24:09 SOMEBODY THAT MAY NOT BE A HUNDRED PERCENT CONVERTED? 24:13 HUH? WERE THE DISCIPLES ARGUING AMONG 24:16 THEMSELVES WHICH OF THEM WAS THE GREATEST? CAN I SUBMIT TO YOU 24:21 THAT FIGHTING IN GOD'S BATTLES WITH THE TOOLS THAT YOU HAVE MAY 24:25 BE PART OF YOUR CONVERSION PROCESS? DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU 24:29 FEEL LIKE YOU'RE PERFECTLY CLEAN AND YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING RIGHT 24:33 OR YOU MAY NEVER DO ANYTHING. WHEN YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS GOD'S 24:37 WILL, YOU STEP OUT IN FAITH AND YOU DO WHAT YOU DO KNOW. 24:40 THE DEVIL WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT WORTHY. 24:46 SO, HE THROWS THE JAWBONE FROM HIM. 24:50 FINALLY, AFTER HE WINS THIS BATTLE - SAMUEL IS STILL YOUNG - 24:54 HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS AND ELI HAD DIED, BUT SAMUEL WAS STILL 24:58 PRETTY YOUNG WHEN THAT HAPPENED, SO THEY SORT OF LOOKED TO SAMSON 25:02 TO BE THEIR GENERAL. HE HELD OFF - FOR TWENTY YEARS 25:06 HE WAS ABLE TO STAVE OFF THE ATTACKS OF THE PHILISTINES. 25:09 THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY TAXES DURING THAT TIME, THEY HAD 25:12 SOME FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE, BUT AFTER TWENTY YEARS WENT BY, 25:16 THEY BEGAN TO, SORT OF, TRADE AGAIN WITH THE PHILISTINES AND 25:19 THEY STARTED TO GET INVOLVED WITH THEM AGAIN. 25:21 YOU KNOW, I EXPECT TO SEE SAMSON IN THE KINGDOM. 25:25 HAVE YOU READ, IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, IN SPITE OF HIS 25:28 WEAKNESS, "AND WHAT MORE SHALL I SAY?" 25:31 - HEBREWS 11:32 - "FOR THE TIME WOULD FAIL ME TO TELL OF GIDEON 25:35 AND BARAK AND SAMSON AND JEPHTHAH, ALSO OF DAVID AND 25:39 SAMUEL AND THE PROPHETS: WHO THROUGH FAITH SUBDUED KINGDOMS, 25:45 WORKED RIGHTEOUSNESS, OBTAINED PROMISES, STOPPED THE MOUTHS OF 25:49 LIONS," - NOT ONLY DID DANIEL AND DAVID DO THAT, SAMSON DID IT 25:52 TOO - "QUENCHED THE VIOLENCE OF FIRE," - LIKE SHADRACH, 25:56 MESCHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - "OUT OF WEAKNESS WERE MADE STRONG, 26:01 BECAME VALIANT IN BATTLE, TURNED TO FLIGHT THE ARMIES OF THE 26:05 ALIENS." YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS MOSES 26:11 SAID, 'HOW CAN ONE OF YOU CHASE A THOUSAND?' 26:15 IT'S INTERESTING HE USED THE NUMBER ONE AGAINST A THOUSAND. 26:17 DID SAMSON CHASE A THOUSAND? WHY? BECAUSE GOD'S SPIRIT CAME 26:22 UPON HIM. THE BIBLE SAYS, IN THE LAST 26:25 DAYS, MANY PLAGUES ARE GOING TO BE AROUND, BUT IT SAYS, 'NO 26:31 PLAGUE WILL COME NIGH UNTO YOUR DWELLING. 26:34 A THOUSAND MAY FALL AT YOUR SIDE AND TEN THOUSAND AT YOUR RIGHT 26:38 HAND, BUT IT WILL NOT COME NIGH UNTO THEE. 26:40 ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU SEE AND BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF 26:43 THE WICKED.' I WANT TO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, DON'T YOU? 26:48 >>YES. >>I WANT TO LEARN FROM THE STORY 26:49 OF SAMSON AND NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES. GOD WANTED SO MUCH TO 26:53 GIVE HIS PEOPLE VICTORY - THEY WERE JUST FIGHTING AGAINST HIM 26:55 ALL ALONG THE WAY. HE WANTS YOU TO HAVE THOSE 26:57 VICTORIES, FRIENDS - AND BY TRUSTING IN HIM - AND JESUS 27:02 CARRIED HIS CROSS UP THE HILL SO THAT HE COULD DESTROY THE GATES 27:06 THAT KEEP US IN SO WE COULD BE FREE. 27:11 (SOUND OF RAIN) (PIANO MUSIC) (SIRENS) >>(PASTOR DOUG) THE 27:51 HEAVENS WERE PARTED FOR HIM. THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN. 27:54 THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO EXPERIENCE. 27:57 YOU COME TO CHRIST, YOUR SINS ARE WASHED AWAY. 28:00 YOU BECOME A NEW CREATURE. IT'S A LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN 28:03 AND HOW MANY OF YOU WISH YOU COULD GET A NEW START? 28:07 >>(NARRATOR) FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO 28:10 EAT. INASMUCH AS YOU DO IT TO ONE OF 28:13 THE LEAST OF THESE, MY BRETHREN, YOU DID IT TO ME. 28:18 (MUSIC) 28:27 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 28:30 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 28:33 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY 28:37 AT 'AFTV.ORG'. 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