Sermon #S024 - An
Inside Job - (Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath of Life
Television Ministries broadcast.
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In today's message, I will share
Part Two of the message “An
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Inside Job”. Now
let's go to the Word of God.
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Pastor Snell:  This, friends, is
where you got to recognize the
anointing that's over your life.
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See, the problem is, we believe
the lie that colleges make the
man, but it's the man or the
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woman that makes the college, so
that even if you're talking
about going to a secular HBCU, I
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need you to understand that when
you look at Joseph, when he went
to Egypt, that Egypt didn't make
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Joseph. Egypt prospered because
of Joseph. [ Congregation:
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Applauding] Daniel went to a
secular school in Babylon, but
Babylon didn't make Daniel.
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Babylon prospered because of
Daniel, so that even when
secular schools prosper is
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because the righteous get
blessed, the wicked get blessed
because of the presence of the
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righteous. But what would Israel
have been? Watch this? See,
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Israel had to go, borrow from
Egypt to get some of the surplus
of the green that Joseph helped
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them establish, but what if
Israel didn't send their kids to
Egypt? What if Israel kept
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Joseph back home? They wouldn't
have had to borrow from Egypt.
Are we all that? Egypt would
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have had to come to borrow
from them. [ Congregation:
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Applauding] What I'm saying to
somebody today is we've got to
stop with the idea that we've
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got to get validated from the
outside. Stop celebrating how
the devil has blessed them, and
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praise God for how God has
blessed our schools. Are you all
hearing me today, friends?
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Second thing the story teaches
quickly is that if you don't
break certain patterns, certain
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patterns are going to break you.
See young people, I need you to
hear me on this, in many ways,
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in these next 4, 5 to 7 years, I
need you to know, you are
becoming who you will become.
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I'm not saying you can't change,
not saying you won't grow. I'm
not saying maturity will not
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kick in, but I need somebody to
fundamentally understand that
right now you are like wet
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concrete, but in a few years,
you're going to be settled.
Because you're about to be
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settled, you got to be careful
who you are allowing to stir
you. [ Congregation: Applauding]
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So, the word says, that he goes
down to Sorek, and the Bible
says that he doesn't just hit it
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and quit it. The word says he
loves a woman named, Delilah, a
Philistine woman. Now, I need
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you to be clear friends, that
this is not a one-off for
Samson. This is a part of a
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pattern. Remember, we just read
in chapter 14 that he initially
marries a Philistine woman that
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actually breaks up with him, and
has given in marriage to his
best friend. Then earlier in
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chapter 16, the Bible says that
he bonds with a prostitute there
in Timnath who tells the
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Philistines that Samson is
there. The Bible says here, now
that he falls in love with a
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woman named Delilah, whose very
name means, 'the consumer'. Now,
the crazy thing I'm saying, and
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the reason I'm saying this, and
I'm not just talking to you from
this because what happens is we
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normally preach Samson on youth
day, The mistake we make is we
assume that this story is a
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story just about youthful lusts.
That's not true. This story is
actually about the decisions
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that we make as youth that shape
who we become as adults. What
are you talking about, Pastor?
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Do you realize that your boy,
Samson, is acting the fool with
Delilah, but the Bible says that
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Samson operated as a judge for
20 years over the land of
Israel. So, if he started
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between 17 and 20, by the time
he hooks up with Delilah, this
cat is almost 40 years old. In
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other words, this is not a young
boy that doesn't know any
better. This is an old man
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that's gotten ensnared, and got
an appetite for certain things
when he was a teenager and those
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things have shaped him all the
days of his life. In other
words, he's developed a pattern
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and I'm sure that God through
conscience and through warnings
and messages from loved ones,
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have tried to get him to turn
from the pattern. But the only
way God could allow the pattern
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to be broken was to let the
pattern break him. See, I need
to say to somebody that if
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you're going to turn from some
things in your life - hear me on
this - if you're going to turn
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from some things, the time to
turn is now. [ Congregation:
Applauding] Because when you let
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stuff get ingrained, and it
becomes second nature, and you
lose an appetite for natural
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affections of the right order
for things, you get to a place
where you can't break the
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pattern. God has to let the
pattern breaks you. So, if you
don't break the pattern of
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drinking, God is going to let
the pattern break you. If you
don't break the pattern of
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procrastination, oh you all
might be quiet. You all want me
to be done now. Yeah, I'm
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staying right here until I'm
fit. If you don't break the
pattern of procrastination, it's
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going to break you. If you don't
break the pattern of spiritual
indifference, guess what? That
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pattern is going to break you.
If you don't break the pattern
of being a people pleaser, guess
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what? That pattern is going to
break you? If you don't break
the pattern of needing other
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people's approval, guess what?
That pattern is inevitably going
to break you. I need you to
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understand that there are times
where we think God is punishing
us or is judging us, when the
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truth is God allows certain
things to happen because there
is no other way for deliverance.
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Friends, you know what? One of
the saddest things for me is
when we got cats, that you know
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how it is because like how many
of us are at least 40 years old
in the room? When you see your
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folks from homecoming or alumni
weekend, the folks you knew back
in the day are crazy. How you
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run up on them and you walk away
saying, "Man, they ain't changed
at all." Why? Because they
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literally begin some stuff in
youth that literally defined who
they became as adults. It's
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crazy, friends of mine, that
there are some of us that are
doing the same stuff that we did
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as kids, making the same
mistakes we made in our 20s, in
our 30s, and early 40s. What it
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teaches is that wisdom doesn't
come with age. Do I have a
witness to that? The Bible says
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that the fear of God is the
beginning of wisdom? That wisdom
is not the result of gray hair.
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It's not the result of the birth
certificate. Wisdom is the
result of being in communion
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with God. In fact, you don't get
more spiritual the older you
get. In fact, if you don't get
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converted now, you just become a
more skillful sinner. [
Congregation: Applauding] Pastor
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Snell: See, what an old fool has
learned how to do is simply
nullify some of the consequences
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of sin. In other words, an old
sinner just knows how not to get
pregnant, where to go for the
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abortion? What to take for the
hangover? How not to get caught?
I need you to know God says, "If
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they don't break that pattern,
I'm going to let the pattern
break them." I need somebody to
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open up your eyes today and get
to a place older brother, or
sister. Is there anybody in this
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room that's like me? You've just
got to a place where you can
admit I ain't got no more time
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to waste. Am I preaching to
anybody today? Like anybody ever
took inventory of your life, and
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you can say, "Man, I got to buy
as many years behind me as I got
in front of me, and I'm tired of
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praying the same prayers. I'm
tired of asking God to forgive
me for the same sins. I'm just
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ready for God to break the
cycle. I need God to do a new
thing in my life. Is there
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anybody that's out of place
where you're saying, "God, take
away the heart of stone? Give me
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a heart of flesh and give me a
clean slate?" Are you all
hearing me today, friends? The
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third thing that teaches is that
if the enemy cannot overcome
you. He's just going to try to
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infiltrate you. Listen, stay
with me. See, all right,see I'm
editing in my head See, the
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issue is, with Samson's
narrative, the problem is that,
in too many ways, we have kind
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of framed Samson as this dumb
jock that has no intellect or
judgment. Are you all hearing
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me, saints? But I need you to
know that Samson is not some
dumb jock. Look at the
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assignment God appointed him to.
God assigned Samson to be judge.
He is judged over Israel. In
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other words, what that means
about Samson is that Samson has
to be wise in matters of the
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law. That Samson has to be keen
in issues of government. That
Samson is the one that has to be
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the arbiter in disputes. That
Samson is the one that has to
make decisions and choices with
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foreign nations and trade. In
other words, Samson's job is not
to fight. Samson's job is to
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make judgments. See, the enemy
knows that he cannot just come
in and overtake Samson. He's got
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to get somebody that can affect
Samson's decision-making. You
all know why the Philistines
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keep coming and trying to figure
out the secret of his strength.
The reason they keep asking the
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secret of his strength is
because the secret is not
obvious. The secret cannot be
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detected through empirical
means. Are you all hearing what
I'm saying? Like, in our minds,
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we always saw Samson to be 8
feet tall, with 46 inch biceps,
and triceps and all that stuff,
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but did you all ever notice
friends that the Bible is
actually very detailed and
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giving physical descriptions
when it informs the plotline of
the story? Did you all ever
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notice, friends of mine, that
the Bible described Joseph as
good-looking, and God goodly
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informs? Has the Bible described
Goliath as a giant, and how it
describes Saul as being head and
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shoulders tall above everybody
else? It describes Rachel's
Beauty, and Leah's cross or weak
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eyes. It is clear to talk about
how short Zacchaeus is, and he
talks about how handsome Absalom
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was, and how David was rooted
and small, but did you notice
that even though we see Samsung
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as this big cat, that the Bible
doesn't describe him that way.
In other words, friends of mine,
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I need you to know that the
secret of his strength had
nothing to do with his
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physicality. In other words, if
he was just bigger than
everybody else, then they
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wouldn't know the secret of his
strength. It wasn't because he
lifted more. It wasn't because
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he squatted more. There were
other men that were taller.
There were other men that were
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bigger. There were other men
that had their hair in locks. In
fact, the one thing they know
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about him is that the secret of
his strength is spiritual, and
that it has something to do with
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his God. As secular idol
worshippers, they see Samson
more as a wit than a wrestler.
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They see Samson, not as Hulk,
but Dr. Strange. So, they spend
their whole life trying to
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figure out the secret of his
strength. Are you all hearing
me? So, they're like, "Man, we
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can't see, they keep coming for
Samson because they like me, he
ain't no bigger than me. I done
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take down some cats in the
street about this size before,
but there is something on him.
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There is something about him
that there is this fence. There
is a hedge around the fence.
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See, I need you to know that God
is so good. That the hedge
stayed around Samson. It didn't
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leave with his first act of
rebellion. That the hedge stayed
around Samson when he got
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married outside of Covenant.
That the hedge stayed around
Samson when he broke Covenant
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touching dead carcasses and
eating from them. That this
hedge stayed around Samson when
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he lived a life with harlots and
prostitutes. His hedge stayed
around Samson. when he lay up
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with Delilah every day. I need
you to know that the hedge does
not depart at the first sign of
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trouble. Is there anybody that
is glad to dispel the lie that
God leaves you as soon as you go
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into the wrong kind of place?
But is there anybody that can
testify that I'm still here
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today because God kept this
hedge around me? [ Congregation:
Applauding] Oh, don't act boujie
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here with me today. Go ahead and
testify that the hedge should
have been taken when you were in
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the club, when you were in the
streets, when you were stuck on
stupid, when you didn't pray,
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but is there anybody that can
praise God that in all your
years of rebellion that when
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you're living at the bottom of a
bottle, when you are smoking
your brains out, can you praise
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him that the hedge didn't leave?
[ Congregation: Applauding] But
that God kept his hedge around
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you so the enemy can't just come
and over take your defense
system. If it's going to happen,
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it's got to be an inside job.
So, they go get Delilah, and
understanding that Delilah's job
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is not just to satisfy him
sexually. Delilah's job is to
make herself necessary. No, no.
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This is not just youthful us
because you remember that he
bonded with the harlot, but
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guess what? She just sexually,
that couldn't get him to give up
the secret. Are you all with me
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today, friends? See, the Bible
says that this thing has gone to
a whole nother level deeper. The
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whole purpose of Delilah is to
create an intimacy with Samson
that he cannot live without. No,
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no. No. Are you all hearing me?
I mean, I need you to know that
this is his girl. She is not
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just somebody that he sees every
now and then. But the Bible says
that the only way they could get
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to Samson is they had to attach
themselves to the portal of his
heart. Are you all with me
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today, friends? So Delilah, man,
she bad. I ain't seen her, I
just... [ Congregation:
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Applauding] I just assumed,
right? But when Samson talks,
she finishes his sentences, She
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speaks Sampson's love language.
So, if he's words of affirmation
she's telling him how good that
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hair looks every day. If he's a
gift man, then she is bringing a
man a soul glow with ribbons on
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top of it. If it's love
language, it's quality time, she
sits at the foot of the bed and
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listens to him tell stories
until he can't talk anymore. You
see, I need you to understand
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who Delilah is, that her goal is
not necessarily just to get to
him physically, but it is
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literally to get on the inside
of his soul. See, I need you to
understand, she's playing this
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cat like Roblox and her words
are the remote control. So, I
need you to get man, that this
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thing has become so necessary
that for Samson, she Is like
oxygen. She is like food. She is
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his daily bread. She is
everything that God is supposed
to be in his life. See, because
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he is assimilated so deeply into
Philistine culture, his friends
are Philistine. His woman is
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Philistine. His associates are
Philistines. They have told them
in so deep that he has separated
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himself from everything that he
knows and everything that is
God, so that when she threatens
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to withdraw her love, it is like
his whole world crumbles because
he's connected himself to the
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wrong person. I'm still talking
about Oakwood. So, not only do
you need to come and to see, I'm
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going to age myself on this one.
Not only should you come in
order to get a good education to
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grow spiritually. You need to
come so you can be a part of a
network. [ Congregation:
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Applauding] You all are not
going to receive this today, but
you will receive it in 10 years
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where there is a network of
potential Godly Adventist
spouses that can help you get
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into the kingdom of God. Okay.
See, I knew you all were going
to receive this, but I need you
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all to understand this about
greatness and tragedy. Neither
one function in a vacuum. So,
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wherever you see a great man; a
Leslie Pollard, there is
Prudence Pollard. Come on and
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say, amen, "Amen". [
Congregation: Amen] That
somewhere praying and speaking
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the word of faith that's on her
face that same word can be.
There's a woman that sees the
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best...are you all hearing what
I'm saying? For every Barack,
there's no Barack without
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Michelle. Are you all hearing
what I'm saying? [ Congregation:
Yes] Wherever there is tragedy
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or the abortion of potential,
there is a man or a woman that
had great potential who
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partnered themselves with
somebody whose vision was not
aligned with theirs. listen I
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want to be clear, I'm not going
to fake the funk with you.
Listen, you come to Oakwood it
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ain't going to work out for
everybody. Come on. Can I tell
the truth and shame the devil?
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Ain't going to work out for
everybody, especially my
graduation, but guess what?
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You're a part of a network of
people that 5 years after
graduation, 7 years after
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graduation, you might still be
able to connect with the right
one. Are you all hearing what
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I'm saying? Yall going to
believe, so he opens up. It's
crazy. She is, literally. He is
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participating in practice to
kill him. Seven bowstrings and
they just show up. Who has new
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ropes to their house? [
Congregation: Laughing] Pastor
Snell: Unless... [ Congregation:
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Applauding] I'm not a 50 Shades
believer. Come on and say, amen.
Are you all....? Don't put that
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on me. I mean, who else has new
ropes in their house that had
never been used? What woman has
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that in her apartment? Which
shows that God, when you partner
with the wrong one, God will
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always make the serpent show its
fangs. What you do with that
information is up to you. So, he
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tells her his whole heart. The
word says that she rocks him to
sleep. It says, watch this, she
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rocks him to sleep. See, the
problem is we think that the
strength left when the hair got
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cut off. But notice the word
says that she began to afflict
him before the Philistines ever
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showed up. It's crazy because
I'm going to tell you something
that's important in just a
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minute. So, he says, "Man, I
already got away with this so
long. No matter what I've done
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before, man, I can eat from a
lion's belly. I can break the
Covenant. I've been laying up
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with prostitutes for 20 years.
I'm just going to go shake
myself, like I did last time.
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This is how you know the holy
spirit is not a feeling because
the word says, he didn't even
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know. He felt like he felt the
day before. He didn't even know
that the Lord had departed from
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him. So, what's the tragedy in
the story? Is the tragedy really
Client that he told her the
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secrets? Or maybe friends, the
tragedy of the story is that he
didn't even know the secret
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himself. Read your Bibles today,
friends. The Bible says that
when he struck down 30 men and
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took their clothes, the Bible
says, "The Spirit of the Lord...
it says the Spirit of the Lord
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came upon me." The Bible says,
when he killed the thousand men
with the jawbone of an ass, it's
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because the spirit of the Lord
came upon him. The Bible says
when he took the city Gates and
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walked with him down the street
it's because the spirit of the
Lord had been upon him. In other
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words, The secret of his
strength was not long hair. The
long hair was just the sign of
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the Covenant. It was just an
outward demonstration of
obedience, but the secret of
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strength was not in the locks.
It was not in the lenght. The
secret of his strength was the
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presence of the Holy Spirit at
work in his life. [
Congregation: Applauding] How
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many of us know that the secret
of your strength, it is not in
your last name. It is not in
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your heritage. It is not in your
upbringing. It is not what your
parents do. The Bible makes it
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clear that is not by might, and
it's not by power, but it is by
His Spirit. Is there anybody
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that knows that it is the
anointing that destroys the
Yoke? It is the spirit that
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makes the difference, that I am
who I am not because of my
degree, not because of my frat,
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not because of my friends, not
because I know somebody that
knows somebody. It's because
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I've got the Holy Ghost at work,
and living inside of me. So,
this is my hypothesis. The
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spirit doesn't leave because he
told the secret. The Spirit
leaves because he didn't tell
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them the secret. [ Congregation:
Applauding] See, the problem is,
we think God hates the
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Philistines. When God wants to
save the Philistines. He says,
"In you, shall all the nations
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of the earth be blessed." See,
the reason he loses his strength
is when they'd been asking the
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question, if he had just said,
God is the joy, and the strength
of my life. He moves all pain,
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misery and strife, he promised
to lead me. Never perceive me.
I'll never draw short of His
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word. If he had said, God is the
reason. Is there anybody that
knows God is the reason? His
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curse is because he refused to
testify about where the strength
came from? So, when they ask you
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how you got the car, when they
ask you how you got the house,
when they ask you, how you raise
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good kids, when they ask you why
you never get sick? When they
ask you how you can do in 6
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days, what it takes them 7 days
to do. Don't you talk about your
diet? Don't you talk about your
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school, don't you talk about
your grades, but you better open
up your mouth, and bless and
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acknowledge and say, "That if it
had not been for the Lord on my
side, I'm not ashamed of the
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Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it
is a power of God unto
salvation. If he's your
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strength, praise the name of the
Lord who did it. Praise God
because he's the one that
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brought it to pass in your life.
Hi. I'm Debleaire Snell. Have
you ever been in a place where
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as soon as you start believing
big, praying big and thinking
big, someone told you that you
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need to be more realistic. It
was unrealistic for Jesus to
say, I'm going to lay down my
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life and in three days I'm going
to pick it up again. I would
encourage you to put down your
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