Good morning
friends. Good morning.
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That was beautiful.
And we sure appreciate,
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there we go.
Sure appreciate that
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music also those
inspiring mission stories.
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I have the privilege of
teaching you the Sabbath
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school lessons this morning,
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which I normally do
from our home church in
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Sacramento. And from
Sacramento I usually greet
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the rest of the
world. So this morning I want
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to greet Sacramento
worth about 6:50 in the
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morning. And so
they told me to quit.
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And about oh, 10:20
but I wasn't sure if that's
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California time
or Louisville time,
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so we'll just play it
by the ear and see what
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happens here. But I am
very thankful I can teach
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this lesson with you. I
think when the organizers
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saw what the subject
was today they may have
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been little nervous
because we are going
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through our study
guide dealing with old
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testament couples
for better or for worst.
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And it's my happy
task to talk to you about,
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Samson and his
women: The Folly of Passion.
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And actually it is
very spiritual lesson.
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And I am going to see
if I can highlight some of
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the spiritual aspect of this.
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You know someone could
probably take this in a
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more salacious
direction but I don't want to
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do that. I think
that there are a lot of
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analogies in the
life of Samson between him
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believe it or not in
Jesus. So listen carefully
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as we study this. Now
we have a memory verse.
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It's lesson number
6 in your quarterly.
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The memory verse is
from first John chapter 2
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verse 16. And I
think many of you know this
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by heart. It says for
all that is in the world
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the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes and
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the pride of life is
not of the Father it is of
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the world and the
world pass it the way in the
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lust thereof, but He
that does the will of God
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will abide forever.
I had one of the verse,
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you know Samson
had unusual privileges.
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If you begin by going
to judges chapter 13 like
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Jesus, his birth is
fore told through an
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angelic visit. And like
Jesus his mother is told
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that her child and the
father is told there is
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a great mission for
his life. And the matter of
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fact the name Samson
means sunny and or bright.
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And it could be
because of this bright angel
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that came and brought
this message to them that
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they gave him that name
it could be because they
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saw that he had a bright future.
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Now most of us know
the story of Samson and he
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made a lot of
mistakes. And it makes me think
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sometimes that even
though he was several
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generations in the
church when he was born,
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and even though he was
prepared with all those
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opportunity that
doesn't automatically mean a
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person doesn't have
a freedom of choice.
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God would have
all men to be saved.
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He is not willing that
any one should perish but
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we all have free
choice. And Samson certainly
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exercised his freedom of choice.
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Well, I am getting
ahead of myself a little bit.
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We'll get into our study here.
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I told you the
word Samson means sunny,
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Mininova his
father's name means rest.
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And they were hoping
that he was going to bring
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rest to his people.
And then he was told
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in Judges chapter 13 verse 5,
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"He shall begin to
deliver Israel and the word
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deliver is from the
Hebrew word it's Yasha
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which means to defend.
And it's very similar to
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the word of Jesus
Yeshua. In the same way the
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angel said to Mary to
call his name Jesus or
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Yeshua for He will
save His from their sins.
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The angel is telling
them until this have the
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promised child. And He says,
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He will begin to
deliver, He'll begin to save
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God's people. So even
there Samson is supposed
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to be a type of Christ
and that He was destined
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to be a savior of the people.
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As he began to mature
and he saw the oppression
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of his own people
under the Philistines,
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it tells us and you
can read Judges chapter
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13 verse 25, "And the
spirit of the Lord began
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to move him at times,
and that word is it began
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to stir him at times
between the camp of Dan,
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between Zorah and
Eshtaol. Now Samson is the only
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hero that comes
from the tribe of Dan,
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you got King Soul
and you probably have
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others who come from
the tribe of Benjamin like
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Saul of Tarsus.
You got Mathew from
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the tribe of Mathew
Levi, you've got different
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judges that came
from different tribes but
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Samson is the only one
who becomes a hero from
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the tribe of Dan. And by the way
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a great deal of the
book of Judges of about a
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dozen different judges,
a great deal of the book
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of Judges is
dedicated to Samson.
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So I think we need
to recognize some of the
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spiritual lessons that are then.
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Somebody said one
time great men are born in
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times of great oppression.
This was the time when
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the children of
Israel were being greatly
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oppressed by the Philistines.
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Moses was born during
that the oppression of
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Egypt, Samson
during the oppression
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of Philistine, Jesus
during the oppression
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of Rome. God raises
these people up to deliver
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and Christ of course
is supposed to deliver us
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from our sins. Now even
during the time of Samson
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gestation within his mother.
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His mother has given
very careful guidelines that
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she should not eat
anything unclean or drink
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anything
fermented from the wine.
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She is given very
strict guidelines regarding
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her personal health
habits because God is going
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to use this young
man in a special way.
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Now if ever there was
a scripture in the Bible
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that would be a good
catalyst to talk about the
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health message. You
haven't heard too many
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people talk about
the book of Samson in the
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context of
health. We usually use
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Daniel chapter one.
But here the strongest
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man whoever lived
physical strength God
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makes a connection
between the eating and
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living habits of
the mother and his life.
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And so there's something to be
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said for that I wanna
read a quote for you from
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the book Patriots
and Prophets page 562.
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There are few who
realize as they should how much
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there habits of diet
have to do with their health
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their character, their
usefulness in this world
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and their eternal
destiny. You mean there is a
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connection between
our health and our living
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habits and our eternal destiny?
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The appetite, now the
word appetite there it
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can mean the physical
passions whether it's a
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passion for
food or other things.
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The appetite should
ever be in subjection to the
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moral and intellectual powers.
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We all have those
animalistic desires in our
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natures but we are not
just an animal we are a
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spiritual creature
in the image of God.
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We are an animal as
usually governed by its
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passions people are
to be governed by their
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intellect and the
passions are to be
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subject to that. Now
you'll see why this is an
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important point as we
study on in this lesson.
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The body should be
servant to the mind and not
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the mind to the body.
You know there is the man
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who was brought to
Jesus one day he was paralyzed
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and he was carried on his bed,
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after he was forgiven
and healed he left Jesus,
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he still had his bed
but instead of the bed
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carrying him
he's carrying the bed.
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And the bed in the
Bible represents sort of the
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carnal side of the
nature we all have that,
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the question is, is
the bed carrying you or you
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carrying the bed?
And after we've been
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delivered by the Lord,
we still have temptation,
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we still have
desires. But they are to be in
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subjections to the
higher powers of the mind.
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Amen. Amen. That's one
of the things I think that
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distinguishes a
victorious Christian from those
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who are just lead by
the lust of the flesh and
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the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life.
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Now was also set
aside to be a Nazarite.
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Nazarite would take this vow,
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and the word Nazarite
means they were separates.
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Our Christians
supposed to be separate from the
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world. Amen. Was Christ
separate from the world?
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And Samson was
called aside to be separate,
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to be unique. You know one thing
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you have discovered
about Samson after he begins
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his ministry if you
will is that he doesn't
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really have an army,
I mean Gideon had his
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300 even Jonathan
had an amour bear,
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David had his mighty
men. Many of the great
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people of God had
their partners and their
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comrades, or their
army. Samson seemed to always
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be alone. And I want
to really emphasis that
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point that I think
Samson was a lonely man.
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And let me go on
you'll understand that better
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in a moment. It is possible,
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now who else was a
Nazarite in the Bible
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that was filled
with the Holy Spirit?
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John the Baptist, were
guidelines given to John?
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Was John filled
with the Holy Spirit?
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In the same way that
Samson was the mightiest
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of the judges physically
John the Baptist was the
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greatest of the
Prophets spiritually, right?
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Was Jesus a Nazarite?
Well, the jury may still
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be out on that. You
know a lot of paintings paint
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pictures of Jesus with
long hair typically right?
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You'll notice all the
Jehovah witness paintings
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of Jesus' hair
short because it says,
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how could he have long
hair when that verse says
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it's a shame for
man to have long hair.
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And, but if you are a Nazarite,
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it was okay to have
long hair you wont cut your
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hair. Well, it was
possible to have the vow of
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the Nazarite for a
specific period of time.
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It did not mean to
be a life long vow.
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Samson was told you
are a Nazarite for life.
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it could be that Jesus
lived as a Nazarite until
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He began His
ministry at 30 years of age.
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And like I said, the
scholars don't agree on
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this. But there is a
verse you need to consider,
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Mathew chapter 2 verse 23,
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"And he came and he
dwelled in a city called
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Nazareth that it
might be fulfilled that was
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spoken up by the
Prophets he shall
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be called a
Nazarene". Now they are quoting
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from Judges speaking of Samson.
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And so Mathew saying
that there is a spiritual
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connection here
between the fact that he grew
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up in the city
Nazareth which is drawn from the
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same route as a Nazarite
or as a Nazarene because
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he was going to be separate.
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And so whether Jesus
lived as a Nazarite for
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the first 30 years
before He began His ministry
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we don't know, we do
know after His ministry
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that must have been
over because He was drinking
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grape juice which a
Nazarite could not do.
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So like I said, the,
this not a total agreement
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in that but I
thought I was sharing.
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As we now look
through Samson and his women.
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And I'll be delicate
and how I share this with
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you. There are three
women that are involved in
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his life in some form.
All three of them betray
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him. Now if Samson is
a type of Christ and if a
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women represents a
church and if you study
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the history of God's
people especially in the
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Old Testament; do we
see a pattern where God's
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people often forsake
the Lord and they go after
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other lovers that
there is betrayal?
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So I think that there
maybe a lesson there if
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you want to use
the spiritual analogy.
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Here I will go to the
Judges chapter 14 verse 1,
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"we have talked about the birth,
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they call his Samson
the spirit of the Lord is
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moving on him".
Now they are constantly
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involved in the
business with the Philistines,
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they are
subjugated by the Philistines.
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They understand
their language fairly well.
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And it says in
Judges 14 verse 1,
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"Now Samson
went down to Timnah",
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I looked up that
word this morning.
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The word Timnah
means forbidding image,
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something forbidden
like an idolatry or something
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you look at and that
tells about something about
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what was happening
here. And he saw a women in
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Timnah of the
daughter of the Philistines,
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doesn't say she
had a great character.
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She probably had a
good appearance he saw,
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and he said to his parents,
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his father and his
mother, I have seen a woman in
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Timnah of the
daughters of the philistines now
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therefore get
her for me as a wife.
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And the father and
mother could grieve that their
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son was, pardon me,
son was great calling is
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now about to throw
away his ministry by a bad
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marriage they're really worried.
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And you and I have seen
cases before where there
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is perhaps a young
man who has tremendous
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opportunity for
ministry. I have seen some young
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people who had tremendous
powers for Evangelism.
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And then they get into
a marriage with somebody
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who is up the world
and it often unravels this
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is very, very sad and
it's like that they were
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looking on the outside
and they said all such a
00:18:53.62\00:18:55.26
beautiful person
I'll convert them later.
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And they fall for that
famous line and your God
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and His mercy sometimes
people marry outside of
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their faith and God
and His mercy sometimes it
00:19:05.18\00:19:07.36
works out. Don't
use as an excuse to go
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against the word of
God, the Bible says you
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should not be
unequally yoked together.
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Amen. Amen. And I saw what her,
00:19:15.99\00:19:21.22
she pleased me it
well. And her parents say as
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you can understand,
is there no women among
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the daughters of your brethren?
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Or among all of my
people? In other words if it's
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not even going to be
from the tribe of Dan
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at least from the
children of Israel that you
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must go and get a
wife from the uncircumcised
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Philistines. And the
parents emphasized that
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because some of the
other neighboring nations
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namely the
Edomites, the Moabites,
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the Ammonites, they
were still enemies of Israel
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but they all
believed in circumcision.
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They were loosely
related to the Jews but not to
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the Philistines.
They were total foreign
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pageants,
idolaters. And it was a great
00:19:58.23\00:20:02.93
sorrow of heart to the
parents that Samson would
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do this. But you know
they could have said no.
00:20:06.69\00:20:09.00
He did ask his parents
permission but he probably
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began to whine maybe
their only son the mother
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had been barren.
Or by the way I don't
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want to rush past that point.
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There are seven
examples in the Bible of miracle
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births. Six examples
of which seven examples of
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babies that are born
to mothers that are barren
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all of those babies
are types of Christ.
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Real quick, you've
got Sarah was barren,
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Isaac is born.
Isaac is type of Christ
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he goes up the
mountain as a sacrifice, right?
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Rebecca was barren.
Isaac praised for Rebecca
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she has Jacob and Esau.
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Jacob is a type of
Christ; he is the father of
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Israel, the twelve
patriots the twelve
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Apostles a lot
of analogies there.
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Rachel was barren,
prayer first born son
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Joseph
tremendous type of Christ.
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Saves His people sold
by His brothers, right?
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You've got
Shunammite woman who was barren.
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Elijah prayed she has
baby boy dies while working
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in the field and
he's resurrected a type
00:21:08.69\00:21:10.48
of Christ. This
miracle baby boy dies he's
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resurrected. You've
got Hannah who was barren,
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Samuel comes along.
He's the type of the Christ.
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He's a Prophet, he's a priest.
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He is a judge of Israel
as Jesus is our Prophet,
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our priest, our
judge. Then you got
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John the Baptist,
miracle birth greatest
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of the prophets and Samson.
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So don't miss the
point he has to be a type of
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Christ because he's
among the miracle births
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that you find in the Bible.
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So he now begins to
want this pageant woman.
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And the parents are saying why,
00:21:41.53\00:21:43.07
why would you go after her?
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She's unclean. You
know, you wonder what the
00:21:44.86\00:21:48.30
angels might have
thought when Jesus said I am
00:21:48.31\00:21:49.96
going to this world
because my bride is down
00:21:49.97\00:21:52.38
there in this unclean world.
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Are you listening to
me? If a woman is the type
00:21:53.79\00:21:57.62
of the church and if
Samson is a type of Christ
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there may even be a
spiritual analogy here
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that He sees something
in us even though we are
00:22:03.07\00:22:06.08
unclean. Now don't mix
up the principles of being
00:22:06.09\00:22:09.91
unequally yoked. I
am going back and forth
00:22:09.92\00:22:11.85
between the literal and
the spiritual analogies;
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is everyone clear on
that. And they said can't
00:22:13.98\00:22:17.74
you find one in your people in,
00:22:17.75\00:22:19.29
you know he really
sounds like a muscle
00:22:19.30\00:22:21.08
head here. I got
that from John Lomacang.
00:22:21.09\00:22:24.56
I am not calling him
that I mean John usually
00:22:27.08\00:22:28.67
use that term. He
sounds like someone you find in
00:22:28.68\00:22:33.00
a gym. Get her for
me. She pleases me well.
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I want her. But that
doesn't it sound like he's
00:22:39.26\00:22:42.11
little spoiled? I
want her, you know and so
00:22:42.12\00:22:45.47
they finally relent.
They could have put their
00:22:45.48\00:22:47.62
foot down so they,
they arranged a marriage
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and something interesting
happens in the context
00:22:50.75\00:22:52.81
of this marriage.
In working of the terms
00:22:52.82\00:22:55.29
of the dowry they are
going back and forth from
00:22:55.30\00:22:57.74
Dan to Timnah. And on the way
00:22:57.75\00:23:00.61
Samson goes off the
trail and he sees a lion that
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roars against him.
And this is when he's
00:23:04.56\00:23:06.19
really feeling his
oats and the Holy Spirit
00:23:06.20\00:23:07.95
moving up on him.
And the lion leaps
00:23:07.96\00:23:11.11
at him and he takes
the line and he tears it
00:23:11.12\00:23:13.06
to pieces. Now let me
emphasis something I don't
00:23:13.07\00:23:15.70
think he does that
because he is muscle bound.
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It says the spirit of
the Lord came up on him.
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Are you aware, no one
in the Bible does it says
00:23:20.72\00:23:23.59
Samson had big biceps?
Are you aware that same
00:23:23.60\00:23:28.57
spirit came up on
David? And David killed the
00:23:28.58\00:23:31.88
lion and it doesn't
say he killed the lion with
00:23:31.89\00:23:33.81
a sling. It says he
took it by the beard and
00:23:33.82\00:23:36.65
the bear. The Holy
Spirit came upon him.
00:23:36.66\00:23:40.57
And he tore the lion
to smithereens and it says
00:23:41.63\00:23:43.89
like it was a
goat threw it aside.
00:23:43.90\00:23:45.61
Well few weeks later
he was on his way back
00:23:45.62\00:23:47.53
down the lion's
carcasses decomposing,
00:23:47.54\00:23:50.36
he wonders it if it
still there, he remembers the
00:23:50.37\00:23:52.00
memory. And he
steps aside to see.
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And lo and behold
there is a nest of bees.
00:23:53.52\00:23:56.49
They are probably not
your regular tree bees
00:23:56.50\00:23:58.31
closer to yellow jack
it's but they used to eat
00:23:58.32\00:24:00.45
that honey and it's
made the nest in the chest
00:24:00.46\00:24:05.58
cavity of this
lion. And Samson looks at
00:24:05.59\00:24:09.72
the right and he looks
to the left and he thought
00:24:09.73\00:24:11.36
boy honey and
that's sound pretty good.
00:24:11.37\00:24:13.19
But you are not
suppose to touch anything
00:24:13.20\00:24:15.32
unclean, if you are
a Nazarite especially
00:24:15.33\00:24:18.05
anything at carcass
of our, an animal that is
00:24:18.06\00:24:20.76
already unclean. So
he takes some honey out
00:24:20.77\00:24:23.79
he brings to his
parents, he doesn't tell his
00:24:23.80\00:24:25.46
parents he got it
from the carcass of a lion.
00:24:25.47\00:24:28.08
And give it to
them and they eat it.
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Now then he goes to the wedding.
00:24:34.55\00:24:36.06
Now there are some
spiritual lessons here
00:24:36.07\00:24:38.13
I think they are important.
00:24:38.14\00:24:39.11
At the wedding he
thinks boy that was really a
00:24:39.63\00:24:41.66
unique experience.
And maybe he's trying
00:24:41.67\00:24:44.58
to defer the cost of
the dowry for the wedding,
00:24:44.59\00:24:47.26
I don't know but he
says make a deal with you,
00:24:47.27\00:24:49.22
you Philistine men. He
says, I'll pose a riddle
00:24:49.23\00:24:51.89
to you and if you
can tell me my riddle,
00:24:51.90\00:24:54.92
he says then I am
going to give you thirty
00:24:54.93\00:24:56.71
garments and changes of Raymond.
00:24:56.72\00:24:58.22
And if you can't
then you give it to me.
00:24:58.99\00:25:01.11
And so you know
gambling men maybe he waited
00:25:02.21\00:25:04.26
till they had a few
drinks before they took him
00:25:04.27\00:25:06.70
up on this. And so
they said go for it,
00:25:06.71\00:25:10.84
what's the riddle? Judges 14:14,
00:25:10.85\00:25:13.43
"He said to them out
of the eater came forth
00:25:14.37\00:25:16.94
meat, and out of
the strong came forth
00:25:16.95\00:25:20.13
sweetness. And they
could not in three days
00:25:20.14\00:25:24.03
expound the riddle.
"So here he got three
00:25:24.04\00:25:26.18
and half days.
Then they begin to
00:25:26.19\00:25:28.84
go after his fiancée,
his bride to be and say
00:25:28.85\00:25:33.45
look you got a, did you
bring us to this wedding
00:25:33.46\00:25:35.58
to take what's
ours? You better tell us,
00:25:35.59\00:25:38.03
you better find
out from your husband.
00:25:38.04\00:25:39.69
I mean after
all your Philistine,
00:25:39.70\00:25:41.25
we are Philistine,
he's a foreigner whose
00:25:41.26\00:25:42.70
side are you anyway?
If you don't help us out
00:25:42.71\00:25:45.00
we are gonna burn you with fire.
00:25:45.01\00:25:46.36
My question for
you, where should her
00:25:46.88\00:25:49.38
allegiance have
been? With her nation first
00:25:49.39\00:25:53.33
or with her husband?
It should have been with
00:25:53.34\00:25:56.57
her husband, but they
threatened her and what
00:25:56.58\00:25:59.84
she should have done is
that she should have said,
00:25:59.85\00:26:02.01
oh my husband is
the strongest man in
00:26:02.02\00:26:03.60
the world. Maybe she
didn't know that yet.
00:26:03.61\00:26:06.38
And told her husband
what was happening Samson
00:26:07.43\00:26:09.60
would have took care of them.
00:26:09.61\00:26:10.61
But instead she
betrayed him, and she whined and
00:26:12.89\00:26:18.20
she cried and she plead
with Samson and she just
00:26:18.21\00:26:20.90
nagged him until why
he despaired of life.
00:26:20.91\00:26:23.62
I am sure nobody
here has ever had that
00:26:25.28\00:26:26.64
experience before,
on dangerous ground.
00:26:26.65\00:26:29.95
And he said
alright, alright here's what
00:26:32.52\00:26:35.22
the riddle means.
And before the sun goes
00:26:35.23\00:26:38.29
down on the seventh
day, timings is very
00:26:38.30\00:26:41.20
interested in this
story. They said that what's
00:26:41.21\00:26:44.78
stronger than a lion
and what's sweeter than
00:26:44.79\00:26:46.54
the honey? And Samson said
00:26:46.55\00:26:48.48
if you had not knew
how they had found out,
00:26:48.49\00:26:50.59
if you had not ploughed
with my hair for you had
00:26:50.60\00:26:52.28
not found out my
riddle. And he was infuriated
00:26:52.29\00:26:57.87
by the betrayal.
He was deeply hurt by
00:26:57.88\00:27:02.98
the betrayal. How
does it make Jesus feel?
00:27:02.99\00:27:08.50
When we betray the
truth, we betray Him,
00:27:10.01\00:27:15.58
Jesus is the truth.
We betray Him because
00:27:15.59\00:27:19.05
we cast our vote with the world.
00:27:19.06\00:27:21.36
We are more interested
with acceptance with the
00:27:21.37\00:27:24.18
world than being
accepted by our groom. Amen.
00:27:24.19\00:27:28.26
And you know from this
point he never recovers
00:27:29.37\00:27:31.58
from that rejection.
He never marries again
00:27:31.59\00:27:34.67
Samson has no children.
It broke his heart that
00:27:35.74\00:27:39.51
he would be betrayed like that.
00:27:39.52\00:27:40.73
The other women in
his life were just there.
00:27:41.23\00:27:43.34
He never marries,
he's afraid of the hurt.
00:27:44.56\00:27:47.03
What happens now, oh by the way,
00:27:47.51\00:27:49.08
you know there is so
much here and I am looking
00:27:50.06\00:27:51.15
at the clock and what
is it mean honey out of
00:27:51.16\00:27:55.70
the lion? Well there
is three meanings that I
00:27:55.71\00:27:59.43
think that you can
understand from this.
00:27:59.44\00:28:00.81
First of all honey he
takes something that is
00:28:00.82\00:28:04.46
good, something that
is sweet from something
00:28:04.47\00:28:06.25
that is unclean.
Marriage is good,
00:28:06.26\00:28:08.30
marriage is of God,
it's not good that a man
00:28:08.31\00:28:10.72
should be alone, it is sweet,
00:28:10.73\00:28:12.43
it's a blessing, he
defines wife finds it
00:28:12.44\00:28:14.89
a good thing, right?
But if you take it out
00:28:14.90\00:28:18.32
of a deadline taking
it from something that
00:28:18.33\00:28:20.46
is unclean. Marrying
out of your faith it is bad.
00:28:20.47\00:28:24.35
And what he did as he
took something that was
00:28:24.36\00:28:25.74
inherently good but
he got out of something
00:28:25.75\00:28:27.50
that was bad and
that makes it all bad.
00:28:27.51\00:28:29.39
So that's one lesson.
Secondly honey out of a
00:28:30.53\00:28:34.58
slain lion is the
symbol of Samson's life.
00:28:34.59\00:28:36.94
Even though the Lord
had given him all of these
00:28:38.22\00:28:41.34
gifts that were good
gifts he misapplied the good
00:28:41.35\00:28:43.77
gifts. Some people
they have the gift in
00:28:43.78\00:28:47.22
music and just
tremendous talent.
00:28:47.23\00:28:50.29
And God will let
you misapply your talent
00:28:50.97\00:28:53.44
and a lot of people
with gifts of music they
00:28:53.45\00:28:55.33
start off singing for the Lord,
00:28:55.34\00:28:56.43
they end up singing
for the world and Samson
00:28:56.44\00:28:59.54
did that. But the
good news is that before it
00:28:59.55\00:29:01.14
was all over, he gave
his gift back to the Lord.
00:29:01.15\00:29:03.73
Thirdly, honey
out of a slain lion,
00:29:05.11\00:29:07.21
spiritual analogy
here. A lion is also a type
00:29:07.22\00:29:11.82
of Christ. He's the
lion of the tribe of Judah.
00:29:11.83\00:29:14.98
A slain lion and a
slain lamb they are in the
00:29:15.86\00:29:18.72
Revelation chapter 5, he says,
00:29:18.73\00:29:20.64
do not weep
behold, this is the lion of
00:29:20.65\00:29:23.35
the tribe of Judah
the root of Jessie.
00:29:23.36\00:29:25.93
We find salvation
honey is the word of God
00:29:26.60\00:29:29.74
Psalms 119:103 how
sweet are thy words to my
00:29:30.25\00:29:33.33
taste sweeter than
honey to my mouth the lot of
00:29:33.34\00:29:35.25
the word is
like honeycomb right?
00:29:35.26\00:29:36.96
What did Jesus eat
when he rose from the dead?
00:29:36.97\00:29:38.87
Honeycomb! What did
John the Baptist eat?
00:29:39.49\00:29:41.08
It is similar for the
word of God in our mouths
00:29:41.76\00:29:44.18
often the prophets
would eat a scroll that would
00:29:44.19\00:29:46.00
be like the
honey in their mouths;
00:29:46.01\00:29:47.66
and so that honey from
a slain lion is telling us
00:29:48.27\00:29:51.57
how our King Jesus,
the lion through His
00:29:51.58\00:29:55.81
death that's
how we get the word.
00:29:55.82\00:29:57.99
So there's some
beautiful analogy is there and
00:29:58.67\00:30:00.37
I just don't have
time for that all.
00:30:00.38\00:30:01.81
Anyway he later comes back to,
00:30:02.13\00:30:03.49
he wants to see his
wife, he starts to feel
00:30:03.50\00:30:06.34
regret and, father in
law gives his wife away to
00:30:06.35\00:30:10.30
his best man, betrayed again.
00:30:10.31\00:30:13.06
Now he's mad and
now he launches a ramble
00:30:14.12\00:30:16.38
campaign
against the Philistines.
00:30:16.39\00:30:18.40
Ties up 300 foxes and
sets them loose and he gets
00:30:18.75\00:30:22.52
into an all out war
with the Philistines,
00:30:22.53\00:30:25.21
pretty soon he's
hiding out the rock Etam.
00:30:26.03\00:30:29.23
The Philistine say we
are gonna attack Israel
00:30:29.61\00:30:31.37
unless you turn over Samson.
00:30:31.38\00:30:32.67
Samson is in tied up
by his own people and
00:30:33.07\00:30:35.58
handed over to the Gentiles.
00:30:35.59\00:30:37.83
Did that happened to Jesus?
00:30:37.84\00:30:39.10
Was Jesus betrayed by
His own people and handed
00:30:40.18\00:30:42.34
over to the Gentiles?
And it says Samson dwelt
00:30:42.35\00:30:46.08
in the rock is in
Christ like the rock.
00:30:46.09\00:30:48.84
That's said the story
where Samson breaks the
00:30:50.02\00:30:51.84
bonds and he kills the
thousand men with the jaw
00:30:51.85\00:30:54.31
bone of the donkey and
I don't have a lot of time
00:30:54.32\00:30:56.80
to talk about some
of those adventures.
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You know it tells us
in Deuteronomy that one
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will chase a
thousand, Deuteronomy 32:30
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it says Samson
slew a thousand men.
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Moses prophesized
that would happen,
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how should one chase a
thousand unless the Lord
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is with them? Betrayal
number two Judges 16:1,
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Samson goes to Gaza
that means strength the goat
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and he's been kind
like stubborn goat now.
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And he find there a
woman at the night there
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harlot and why
he is there it says,
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the men of the city
the guards of the city
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are told. Who do
you think told them?
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You know how opposite
Ray have protected God's
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people when they came to her,
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this Harlot
betrays Samson to the
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people of the
gate. And so they try to
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capture him.
And what does he do?
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He rips the gates right
out of their sockets puts
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them on his shoulders
he says you think you gonna
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keep me and with these
gates, tears them right
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after off the wall may
seen flying every where,
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hoists them up on his shoulders,
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carries them for miles
up to the hills of Hebron.
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Jesus says that the
gates of Hades will not
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prevail against the
church and against Him.
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Amen. Amen. Mathew
chapter 16 verse 18
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upon this rock I'll
built my church and the gates
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of Hades shall not
prevent against Him.
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So he is betrayed
again, now we get to the last
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and the most famous betrayal,
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what's your
name? Delilah. Delilah,
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well I remember that,
anyone who named their
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daughter Delilah?
So it's like nobody
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names their sons Nero
or daughter Jezebel they
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are sort of infamous names.
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I actually know
somebody named Delilah hope
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they are not
watching right now sorry.
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Afterward it happened
that he loved the women
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of the valley of Sorek
whose name was Delilah.
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Sorek means red
grapes, Delilah means the
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consumer. This
woman is the epidemy of
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Revelation 17.
She's something like the
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Scarlet Harlot that
betrays God's people
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cup full of the
blood of the saints.
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And she develops this
relationship with Samson
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the Lord of the Philistines say,
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how much do you want
in order to betray the
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secret of his strength?
I mean we don't let you
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to take him down he's
got some secret weapon
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we need to know
what the secret is?
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And they coven it
with her for eleven hundred
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pieces of silver. He's sold,
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he's betrayed
for silver does that
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sound familiar? Joseph
was betrayed by his own
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for silver, total of
five thousand five hundred
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pieces of silver and she agrees.
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Well they go through this game.
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She says tell me what
the secret of your strength
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is in? He knew he got
to were he didn't trust
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anybody because
he had been betrayed.
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You know he get
betrayed enough times he gets
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words very hard to trust people.
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And he keeps making
these things up, and she says
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the Philistines are
upon me, and he jumps up and
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he tears them apart
and finally she just starts
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begging him and nagging him.
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And he realizes you
know there, there is nobody
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in life and I think
that when Samson finally be
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divulged the secret of
secrets that he had been
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consecrated to God
his hair was his symbol of
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his vow, he probably
did that knowing that it
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was going to cost him
life but he felt what good
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is it, you know I
cant trust anybody.
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And finally she says
to the Philistines bring
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down your guards.
He's told me everything
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puts him to sleep on his knees,
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stroking his head as
though she loves him.
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And it calls for the
barber cuts off his hair,
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shouts Samson the
Philistines are upon me.
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And he gets up to
shake himself as other times
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and this is a tragic verse.
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He did not know that
the spirit of the Lord had
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departed from him.
You wonder if there can
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be some among the God's
people among in the last
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days raised in the
church just assume because you
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are raised in
the church that means
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God is with
you. But you can hang
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around with the
pageant so long that you lose
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the spirit of the
Lord. And they put out his
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eyes, they bound him,
they put him in the house
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to grind their
flour. And we don't know how
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long it was he
probably mingled a lot of tears
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with his toes as he
went round and round
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repenting for
his squandered life.
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And they would come
by and mock him as he
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ground. You know I
heard someone say one time
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and I wrote it
down. Sin will find you,
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numbers chapter twenty three,
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thirty two rather
twenty three be sure your sin
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will find you
out. Sin will bind you,
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sin will blind you
and sin will grind you.
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Samson was found out by
his neglect of his gift,
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it blinded him, he was
bound and they made him
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grind and he
reached the very bottom.
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And at that point he
repented little by little,
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they didn't notice
as he was repenting and
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crying. I'll tell you
what that some people sin
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like Samson but they
don't repent like he did.
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They sin like David
but they don't repent like
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David. David
spent days on his face.
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He repented so long
and it was long enough for
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his hair to go
back. Now I'd be repenting
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a long time
before that happened.
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And as his hair grew
they finally brought him
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into the temple of
Dagon to offer him as a
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sacrifice to their
pageant Gods, don't miss this.
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And in amidst of all
that he knew that they were
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sporting with him,
they were mocking him,
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it says they were
making sport of him,
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mocking him,
did they mock Jesus?
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That he says the
young man that bore,
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that guarded him and
he says where are the
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pillars. Unfortunately
Samson knew about the lay
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out of the temple of Dagon.
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And they brought him to
the borders there and he
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felt the pillars and he prayed,
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Lord I am ready to lay
down my life forgive me
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fill me one more
time with the spirit.
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Do you think
Samson would be in heaven?
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He's mentioned in
Hebrews is one of the faithful,
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Hebrew's chapter 11.
And he bowed himself,
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the temple came
down and the testimony,
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the end of his life as
he slew more by his death
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then he did by his
life. The last act of his life
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was he brought down
the temple of the pageant
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God. Jehovah wins
over Dagon which happened
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later when the
Philistines stole the ark.
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There are many types
I wanna close with his
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thought, how was
Samson like Jesus?
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Jesus was
delivered by the Heathen,
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delivered by his own
people to the Heathen.
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Jesus was never
married like Samson betrayed
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for silver, he lost his
strength for you and me,
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protection was
withdrawn. Jesus was blinded,
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they put a hood over
his head and they beat him,
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they mocked him.
He was bound that
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we might be loose. He
was mocked and tortured
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when helpless, and
Christ sets us free through
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sacrifice. Lot of
beautiful lessons there,
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amen. Amen. And he did
it that he might redeem
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a bride that is
pure. I want to be part of
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the bride, don't you friends?
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Lets' pray together
as we close our lessons.
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Father we thank you
for the lessons in your
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word that teaches
us self control and
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faithfulness, and redemption
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and if any listening
that have wondered from
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their great calling I
pray that they'll return
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now and commit
their gifts to you we ask
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in Christ name. Amen. Amen.
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