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\nto the subject Samson, fighting
\nhuman weakness in youth. <\/p>\n
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\nMy dearly beloved brethren and
\nsisters and our dear young <\/p>\n
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\npeople, we have this afternoon a
\ncharacter who forms a very great<\/p>\n
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\ncontrast to Joseph that we
\nconsidered last night in many <\/p>\n
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\nrespects.
\nAnd yet interestingly enough, <\/p>\n
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\nGod used both of them in you,
\nand both are mentioned in <\/p>\n
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\nHebrews Chapter 11.
\nAnd yet the the nature of their <\/p>\n
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\nlives, both from the start to
\nthe end were very, very <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent.
\nAnd God called upon both of <\/p>\n
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\nthose young men to do very
\ndifferent things with very <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent responses.
\nSee, Joseph grew up in a in a <\/p>\n
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\nhome that was anything but a
\nstable, good Christadelphian <\/p>\n
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\nhome.
\nSampson grew up in a model <\/p>\n
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\nChristadelphian home.
\nAnd yet when he got in company <\/p>\n
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\nwith the enemy, he was unable,
\nbecause of human weakness, to <\/p>\n
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\nmaintain the stand that Joseph
\nwas able to maintain. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen he arrived into Egypt.
\nWe’re probably very familiar <\/p>\n
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\nwith the background to to
\nSamson’s life, so there’s no <\/p>\n
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\nreal need for us to spend a lot
\nof time on that. <\/p>\n
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\nHe lived at the end of the
\nperiod of the judges and we know<\/p>\n
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\nwhat the period of the judges
\nwas characterised by. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, at the start of that
\nperiod, recorded in the appendix<\/p>\n
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\nat the end of the book of Judges
\nin Chapter 17 onwards, we have <\/p>\n
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\nthat phrase OFT repeated that
\nevery man did that which was <\/p>\n
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\nright in his own eyes.
\nIt’s characteristic of our <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration.
\nIt’s been characteristic of many<\/p>\n
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\ngenerations down through
\nhistory, but that was what it <\/p>\n
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\nwas like at the start of those
\n400 years, and it just got <\/p>\n
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\nworse.
\nAs if when men don’t do that, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich is right in their own
\neyes, it can get worse. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen it did get worse, it got
\nworse. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was a gradual
\ndeterioration over that period, <\/p>\n
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\nand God, we know, delivered
\nIsrael on many occasions, and <\/p>\n
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\nthere was.
\nThis cycle. <\/p>\n
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\nWhich we’re all familiar with,
\nwhen the children of Israel got <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves into great difficulty
\nthrough thin, which brought <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering as it always does.
\nAnd in their distress they cried<\/p>\n
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\nunto Yahweh, who raised up a
\ndeliverer and brought salvation.<\/p>\n
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\nOnly to find that some short
\ntime later the whole cycle of <\/p>\n
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\nhuman endeavour began again.
\nBut the interesting thing is by <\/p>\n
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\nthe time we get to the end of
\nthe period of the judges, while <\/p>\n
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\nthere was sin and suffering, we
\nget to the point, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters and young people, that
\nthere was no supplication. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that tells us the depths of
\nthe degradation of society. <\/p>\n
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\nBy the time we reached this man
\nSamson, he wasn’t living in an <\/p>\n
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\nin an easy time.
\nThere was on the part of Israel <\/p>\n
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\nat that time no repentance, no
\nrecognition of God, no crying <\/p>\n
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\nfor his help.
\nEven though the previous <\/p>\n
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\ngenerations had done that and at
\nthe peak of apostasy we find God<\/p>\n
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\ndoing something.
\nVerse one of Judges chapter 13. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the children of Israel did
\nevil again in the sight of <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh.
\nAnd Yahweh delivered them. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s different from every
\nother cycle in the judges. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause there is no recognition
\nof God by the people, there is <\/p>\n
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\nno crying unto Him now.
\nBut in Yahweh’s mercy He <\/p>\n
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\nprovided A deliverer, and Samson
\nwas to be that man. <\/p>\n
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\nThis was the longest period of
\noppression by Israel’s worst <\/p>\n
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\nenemy, and that’s what Samson
\nwas being raised up to do. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was flesh unrestrained.
\nThere was no moral influence <\/p>\n
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\nleft in Israel.
\nApostasy at its absolute peak <\/p>\n
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\nand at that point in history,
\nGod sent a deliverer. <\/p>\n
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\nIt echoes, does it not, in the?
\nFourth in the 6000. <\/p>\n
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\nYears of human.
\nHistory. <\/p>\n
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\nIt got to a point after 4. 1000
\nyears where no longer was Israel<\/p>\n
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\nor the Gentiles calling out for
\nGod, and at that point, at the <\/p>\n
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\npeak of human wickedness, God
\nsent his own Son. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd here he sends a deliverer,
\nand you know, he couldn’t find <\/p>\n
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\nanyone suitable in all of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nHe looked through all the tribes
\nand do you know what he had to <\/p>\n
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\ndo?
\nHe had to raise one up from <\/p>\n
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\nbirth.
\nAnd it so seems, as we commented<\/p>\n
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\nlast night, that at times when
\nthe people of Israel had got <\/p>\n
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\ninto such degradation, when
\nthings were so bad and the <\/p>\n
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\ndifficulties of the deliverance
\nwere so intense, that God had to<\/p>\n
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\nstart even earlier.
\nWith individuals whom he called <\/p>\n
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\nto his purpose.
\nAnd now we’re told that he’s <\/p>\n
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\nIn the womb, and we know he had <\/p>\n
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\nto do that with his own son
\nbecause of the wickedness in the<\/p>\n
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\nworld and because of the.
\nGreat need amongst humankind. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at verse. 2.
\nAnd there was a certain man of <\/p>\n
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\nZorah of the family of the
\nDanites, whose name was Manoah, <\/p>\n
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\nand his wife was Baron.
\nAnd bear not the Angel of Yahweh<\/p>\n
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\nappeared unto the woman, and
\nsaid unto her, Behold, now thou <\/p>\n
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\nart Baron, and bearest not, but
\nthou shalt conceive and bear a <\/p>\n
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\nson.
\nWe’ll have to read that <\/p>\n
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\ncasually, don’t we, to see the
\nemphasis? <\/p>\n
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\nOn her.
\nBarrenness 4 times in 2 verses <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re told there that she was
\nbarren and she bare not. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was no hope of that
\nhappening in her life but God. <\/p>\n
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\nCame and said there’s going to
\nbe a miracle here. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to work in Israel.
\nAnd a son is going to come <\/p>\n
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\nforth.
\nThere is a laboured. <\/p>\n
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\nEmphasis that this.
\nHad to be God’s work. <\/p>\n
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\nHad it not been for his
\nintervention, there would have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen no hope for Israel in that
\ngeneration. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is a miraculous birth
\nhere, and God is the prime <\/p>\n
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\nmover, and you’ll notice there
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\ncall Manoah’s wife.
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\nIt’s much more personal.
\nBut all through this chapter, 7 <\/p>\n
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\ntimes she’s called the woman
\nshe’s never ever named in the <\/p>\n
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\nrecord.
\nAnd here was typically God <\/p>\n
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\nWith a miraculous provision of a<\/p>\n
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\ndeliverer to the woman and
\nanyone’s mind who knows anything<\/p>\n
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\nabout the Bible should go back
\nto Genesis chapter 3 and verse <\/p>\n
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\n15, divine intervention.
\nAnd a woman is going to bring <\/p>\n
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\nforth a son who’s going to
\ndeliver God’s people. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, brothers and sisters,
\nthe parallels are all there. <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael had lost the dominion,
\njust like man had in the <\/p>\n
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\nbeginning.
\nHe’d lost. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’d lost dominion to the
\nPhilistines, who were now ruling<\/p>\n
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\nover them because of their own
\nwickedness. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were unable to deliver
\nthemselves out of that <\/p>\n
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\nsituation.
\nAnd God alone could work. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he had to move, and he works
\non a barren woman to bring forth<\/p>\n
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\na deliverer.
\nBut the tragedy is that that <\/p>\n
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\ndeliverer, miraculous though his
\nbirth was, never ever finished <\/p>\n
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\nthe work that he was called to
\ndo because of human weakness, He<\/p>\n
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\nwas in many respects a type of
\nthe great deliverer to come who <\/p>\n
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\nwould complete the work that
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\nhis own weakness.
\nAnd so in the Scriptures, <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and sisters, Samson
\ntypes no, not only the Lord, the<\/p>\n
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\nwork of the Lord Jesus Christ in
\nmany respects, but because also <\/p>\n
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\nof his human weakness, he types
\nIsrael’s behaviour and ours too.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd on the Bible marking sheet
\nfor today, you’ll find some of <\/p>\n
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\nthose parallels lifted which you
\nmight find useful. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we must see brethren and
\nsisters and young people in his <\/p>\n
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\nlife, not just a life that we
\ncan identify with because of his<\/p>\n
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\nweakness.
\nAnd very often you hear young <\/p>\n
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\npeople saying, well, Samson’s
\none of those people in the <\/p>\n
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\nScriptures that I can at least
\nidentify with. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s very difficult to identify
\nwith with. <\/p>\n
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\nAn.
\nAmazing examples like Joseph or <\/p>\n
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\nBaptist. <\/p>\n
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\nBut many people feel that they
\ncan identify with the weakness <\/p>\n
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\nof Samson.
\nBut you know, young people and <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters.
\nSamson’s life is not here in the<\/p>\n
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\ndivine record just so that we
\ncan identify with his weakness. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat it’s there for is to show
\nus the principles by which <\/p>\n
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\ndeliverance and dominion over
\nthe enemy can finally be <\/p>\n
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\nachieved.
\nThat’s what it’s actually there <\/p>\n
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\nfor.
\nIt’s not so much about his <\/p>\n
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\nstrengths or his weaknesses, and
\nhe had great strengths and great<\/p>\n
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\nweaknesses, but it’s about God’s
\nway to overcome sin and human <\/p>\n
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\nweakness, despite what we might
\nthink, that’s what. <\/p>\n
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\nSamson’s life is all about and
\nwe’ve all got to come to grips <\/p>\n
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\nwith that because we’re never,
\never going to overcome sin, <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and sisters, unless we
\ndo it God’s way. <\/p>\n
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\nSamson learnt that the hard way.
\nThe earlier we learn it, <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren, sisters and young
\npeople, particularly, the <\/p>\n
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\nearlier we learn God’s way to
\novercome sin. <\/p>\n
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\nThe better off we’ll be.
\nAnd the less pain and agony <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ll suffer all through our
\nlives as. <\/p>\n
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\nSamson’s life is witnessed.
\nYou know the Angel didn’t just <\/p>\n
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\ncome and promised a son.
\nIf we read our Bibles more <\/p>\n
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\ncarefully than that, we’ll see
\nsomething else. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 4 Because he said, You’re
\ngoing to conceive and bear a <\/p>\n
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\nson.
\nThis is what he said to Manoah’s<\/p>\n
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\nwife.
\nBut verse 4 continues Now. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore beware, I pray thee,
\nhe says, and drink not wine, nor<\/p>\n
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\nstrong drink, and eat not any
\nunclean thing. <\/p>\n
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\nFor lo, thou shalt conceive and
\nbear a son, and no razor shall <\/p>\n
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\ncome on his head.
\nFor the child shall be a <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite unto God from the womb,
\nand he shall begin. <\/p>\n
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\nIsn’t that interesting?
\nHe shall begin. <\/p>\n
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\nHe would never finish.
\nDelivering Israel out of the <\/p>\n
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\nhand of the Philistines.
\nBecause of his own limitations. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it would be left.
\nTo the greater Nazarite, the <\/p>\n
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\ngreater son of the woman who
\nwould later come. <\/p>\n
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\nBut that important message in
\nverses four and five are <\/p>\n
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\nrepeated twice by the Angel that
\nhe was to be a Nazarite from the<\/p>\n
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\nwomb and.
\nThere is the fundamental crux of<\/p>\n
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\nSamson’s life.
\nIt is the foundation principle <\/p>\n
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\nof deliverance, the deliverance
\nthat God can offer. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the foundation of it all.
\nHere right at the start. <\/p>\n
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\nOf his life.
\nGod is telling us that a <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite life from birth is
\nessential before deliverance can<\/p>\n
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\ncome.
\nWe. <\/p>\n
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\nCan’t overcome or have dominion
\nover the enemy until we have <\/p>\n
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\ndominion over ourselves.
\nAnd that, in a nutshell, is what<\/p>\n
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\nSamson’s life is about.
\nAnd his life, dramatically, in <\/p>\n
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\nfact tragically at times,
\nillustrates that principles. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know his failure to have
\ndominion were due to his lapses <\/p>\n
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\nin his in maintaining his
\nNazarite principles. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd He would only begin to
\ndeliver because of those lapses.<\/p>\n
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\nI’d like you to go back to
\nNumbers chapter 6 for a moment. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re probably all familiar
\nthat Numbers chapter 6 contains <\/p>\n
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\nthe details of the Nazarite law.
\nBut in Numbers chapter 6 and at <\/p>\n
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\nverse 2, Yahweh said to Moses,
\nSpeak unto the children of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, and say unto them, When
\neither man or woman shall <\/p>\n
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\nseparate themselves to vow vow
\nof a Nazarite to separate <\/p>\n
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\nthemselves unto Yahweh, He shall
\nseparate himself from wine and <\/p>\n
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\nstrong drink, and shall drink no
\nvinegar of the of the wine or <\/p>\n
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\nvinegar of strong drink.
\nNeither shall he drink any <\/p>\n
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\nliquor of the grapes, nor eat
\nmoist grapes or dried. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so it goes on listing all
\nthe details of that which was <\/p>\n
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\nexpected of a Nazarite.
\nBut what we notice first of all <\/p>\n
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\nis that.
\nIf a man. <\/p>\n
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\nOr a woman wanted to be a
\nNazarite. <\/p>\n
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\nThey could.
\nThere was no compulsion. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was a voluntary devotion to
\nGod for a chosen period of time.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s very clear the further
\nwe look into that and we haven’t<\/p>\n
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\ngot time to prove all this, this
\nafternoon, but it’s very clear <\/p>\n
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\nthat there was a an association
\nbetween the Nazarites in what he<\/p>\n
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\ndid and what he was commanded to
\ndo and that of the high priest. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so on the overhead here, it
\nsays that he was to be <\/p>\n
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\nidentified really with the high
\npriest because the priests were <\/p>\n
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\nto drink no wine.
\nThere was to be no contact with <\/p>\n
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\ndeath, just as with the Nazarite
\nand the priests. <\/p>\n
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\nSorry.
\nThe Nazarite was to keep his <\/p>\n
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\nhair uncut and the High priest
\nwas to wear a crown which said <\/p>\n
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\nholiness to to Yahweh.
\nIn fact, the word for crown is <\/p>\n
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\nas used for the high priest
\noccurs in this chapter in <\/p>\n
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\nrelation to the Nazarite.
\nBut he was also. <\/p>\n
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\nIdentified with the the.
\nKing in some respects, and so in<\/p>\n
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\nprinciple what God was saying.
\nIs that a man? <\/p>\n
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\nThough he was not of the tribe
\nof Judah or of the tribe of <\/p>\n
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\nLevi, could in fact imitate the
\nbehaviour of the king priest for<\/p>\n
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\na short period of time of his
\nown choosing, he would volunteer<\/p>\n
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\nto devote himself to that.
\nBecause God had called. <\/p>\n
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\nThe nation as a Kingdom of
\npriests and an holy nation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so any individual in Israel
\ncould do that. <\/p>\n
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\nBut there are several
\nfundamental things, two in fact <\/p>\n
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\nfundamental principles upon
\nwhich the Nazarite vow was <\/p>\n
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\nbased.
\nThe first we’ve just read in <\/p>\n
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\nverse 3, and that is a
\nseparation from wine, a <\/p>\n
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\nseparation from all intoxicating
\ninfluences on the mind. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s really what what God was
\nconcerned. <\/p>\n
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\nAbout and from death, the
\navoiding. <\/p>\n
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\nAll corrupting and degrading
\ninfluences upon the mind because<\/p>\n
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\nGod is really concerned with the
\nmind more than anything else. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in verse 8 we find the other
\nprinciple. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the days of His separation,
\nHe is holy unto Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it wasn’t.
\nJust a matter of abstaining from<\/p>\n
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\nsome things.
\nThere was a positive side to <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite’s ship, and he was to
\nbe holy unto Yahweh all the days<\/p>\n
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\nthat he had chosen, and there
\nhis mind was to be elevated in <\/p>\n
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\ndivine things.
\nIt was to be seen in his life <\/p>\n
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\nand in his actions.
\nAnd so we have. <\/p>\n
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\nTwo fundamental principles,
\nseparation and holiness, or <\/p>\n
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\nseparation and consecration,
\ndedication to God and. <\/p>\n
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\nBoth of those were essential.
\nCharacteristics of a Nazarite <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you have a look in verse
\n5, the hair in fact, of the <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite really symbolized both
\nof those two foundation <\/p>\n
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\nprinciples.
\nVerse 5 says and all the days of<\/p>\n
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\nthe vow of his separation, there
\nshall no razor come upon his <\/p>\n
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\nhead until the days be fulfilled
\nin which he separated himself <\/p>\n
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\nunto Yahweh.
\nHe shall be holy and shall let <\/p>\n
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\nthe locks of his hair, head of
\nhis hair grow. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s got to separate all his
\ndays from those other things, <\/p>\n
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\nand he’s got to be holy unto
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in that context, we’re told
\nthat he must let the locks of <\/p>\n
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\nhis head grow to show that he is
\nseparate and consecrated in <\/p>\n
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\nholiness to God.
\nI want you to remember that that<\/p>\n
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\nthe hair was a symbol of.
\nBoth of those foundation <\/p>\n
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\nprinciples of Nazarite ship,
\nwell, that’s. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat the law said about Nazarite
\nship. <\/p>\n
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\nBut when we come back to
\nnumbers, Chapter 13. <\/p>\n
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\nSorry Judges.
\nChapter 13. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we look at Samson.
\nHe was an unusual Nazarite to <\/p>\n
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\nsay the least, because we’ll
\nnotice that there are at least <\/p>\n
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\nthree major departures from the
\nNazarite law. <\/p>\n
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\nThe 1st is that he was not a
\nvoluntary candidate for Nazarite<\/p>\n
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\nship.
\nGod said this lad will be a <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite before.
\nHe comes out of the womb. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had no choice.
\nNot only that, he had to be a <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite for life.
\nA Nazarite normally could choose<\/p>\n
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\nhow long he was going to be a
\nNazarite for. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the third thing is that his
\nmother. <\/p>\n
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\nActually shared that Nazarite
\nship with him, which is a very <\/p>\n
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\nunusual thing.
\nWell, there must must. <\/p>\n
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\nBe some reason for all of those
\nthings, brethren and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nand they’re very, very powerful.
\nGod is telling us this. <\/p>\n
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\nYoung people listen that if we
\nwant dominion over the <\/p>\n
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\nPhilistine influence, there’s
\nonly one way to get it. <\/p>\n
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\nNazarite ship.
\nIs not optional, it’s mandatory.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s got to be for life.
\nIt can’t just be when you feel <\/p>\n
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\nlike it, and it’s got to start
\nyoung if. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s going to be effective.
\nWhat an amazing thing, and <\/p>\n
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\nthey’re the principles of godly
\nlife and how do I overcome the <\/p>\n
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\nenemy I laid down in the life of
\nthis individual that God called.<\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, what God said about
\nthat Nazarite ship, unique as it<\/p>\n
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\nis here to Manoah’s wife, is the
\nmost important thing. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not just that he was going
\nto be a miraculous boy. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s what the Angel said he was
\ngoing to do. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what he was going to be
\nseparation from all the filing <\/p>\n
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\ninfluences of sin and its
\neffects and a consecration of a <\/p>\n
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\nlife to.
\nGod in holiness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the earlier the better.
\nGod says the earlier the better.<\/p>\n
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\nPerhaps we’re starting to get a
\nlittle. <\/p>\n
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\nCloser to our theme, which we’ll
\ncome back to tonight, you know <\/p>\n
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\nthe.
\nLesson is, young people, this <\/p>\n
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\nworld is screaming at you.
\nIf you’re still at school, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re getting this every day
\nand even in the workforce and <\/p>\n
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\nthe training courses, people are
\ngetting this thrust down their <\/p>\n
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\nthroat all the time.
\nExpand your horizons, broaden <\/p>\n
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\nyour outlook, fulfil your
\ndesires, be yourself, make your <\/p>\n
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\nmark.
\nInhibition is bad. <\/p>\n
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\nFor you and God says Nazarite,
\nship is the only way. <\/p>\n
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\nNarrow down the influences of
\nyour life, abstain from ungodly <\/p>\n
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\nand defiling ways and behaviour
\nand seek that which is good, <\/p>\n
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\ntrue, positive and honest.
\nIt’s the only way to have <\/p>\n
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\ndominion.
\nIt’s. <\/p>\n
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\nThe only way to have.
\nHappiness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd did you notice, young
\npeople, that the Angel did not <\/p>\n
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\nsay to Manoah’s wife?
\nThat when this. <\/p>\n
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\nLad grows up, he will be a
\nnazarite and learn that when he <\/p>\n
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\nlearns the truth.
\nDidn’t say that at all. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Angel said this Nazarite
\ninfluence will start in the <\/p>\n
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\nwomb, and those of you who’ve
\ngrown up in the. <\/p>\n
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\nTruth, Be thankful for that
\nmarvellous privilege. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s good to bear the yoking
\nyouth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a woman was to be involved
\nas a result in the Nazarite vow.<\/p>\n
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\nLook at verse 4.
\nWe read that a moment ago. <\/p>\n
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\nIt begins and says now therefore
\nbeware, I pray. <\/p>\n
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\nThee.
\nDrink not He’s talking to the <\/p>\n
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\nwoman and she repeats that to
\nher husband in verse 7. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then in verse 8, Manoah.
\nWho was a godly man? <\/p>\n
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\nPraise to God for direction they
\nthey saw the significance of of <\/p>\n
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\nthe marvel of what God was going
\nto do in Israel and and he is on<\/p>\n
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\nhis knees and praise to God and
\nsays in verse 80, please send <\/p>\n
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\nthe Angel to come and tell us
\nhow we should direct this child.<\/p>\n
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\nThis is such an important thing.
\nWe want to know how we should, <\/p>\n
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\nhow we should bring up this.
\nLad, if he’s going to deliver <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nBut in verse 9, God hearkened to<\/p>\n
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\nthe voice of Manoah, and the
\nAngel came again unto the woman <\/p>\n
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\nas she sat in the field, but
\nManoah, her husband, was not <\/p>\n
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\nthere.
\nThis is being very deliberate. <\/p>\n
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\nThis Angel is avoiding Manoah
\nfor some reason and is going <\/p>\n
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\nback to the woman all the time.
\nAnd the woman in verse 10, we <\/p>\n
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\nfind runs off and gets her
\nhusband and comes brings him <\/p>\n
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\nback and the angel’s still
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nWe find that Manoah in verse 12
\nasks the Angel directly the <\/p>\n
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\nquestion that he asked in
\nprayer. <\/p>\n
336
\n00:24:14,080 –> 00:24:16,600
\nHe’s very concerned to do the
\nright thing. <\/p>\n
337
\n00:24:17,280 –> 00:24:19,320
\nHe’s a very godly and honest
\nman. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:24:20,760 –> 00:24:24,040
\nAnd the answer comes back in
\nverse 13. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:24:24,440 –> 00:24:27,800
\nAnd the Angel said, The Angel of
\nYahweh said unto Manoah. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:29,000 –> 00:24:34,000
\nOf all that I.
\nSaid unto the woman, Let her <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:34,320 –> 00:24:39,240
\nbeware she.
\nMay not eat of anything that <\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:39,240 –> 00:24:42,080
\ncometh of the vine.
\nNeither let her drink wine or <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:42,080 –> 00:24:44,360
\nstrong drink, nor eat any
\nunclean thing. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:44,640 –> 00:24:50,000
\nOf all that I command her, let
\nher beware. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:50,160 –> 00:24:51,520
\nIt’s the same word.
\nFact. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:51,520 –> 00:24:55,320
\nIt’s probably better translated.
\nObserve in fact, three times in <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:55,320 –> 00:24:58,040
\nthat chapter you’ll find in
\nverse 4 the word beware. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:24:58,560 –> 00:25:02,440
\nIt’s occurs in verse 13 and in
\nverse 14 is all the same word <\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:02,440 –> 00:25:05,520
\nand it means to very carefully
\nguard or observe. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:07,240 –> 00:25:11,480
\nWhat an amazing answer that was
\nwhen Manoah had prayed to God <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:11,480 –> 00:25:14,600
\nand then asked the Angel, what
\nshould we do to bring up this <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:14,600 –> 00:25:16,960
\nyoung lad so that he’s a godly
\nyoung man? <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:17,440 –> 00:25:19,960
\nAnd the Angel just kept on
\nrepeating what he’d said before.<\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:20,520 –> 00:25:24,320
\nOf everything that I’ve said to
\nthe woman, let her beware. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:24,360 –> 00:25:28,760
\nShe shall not drink wine.
\nShe shall not blah blah. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:29,440 –> 00:25:31,560
\nWhat was he trying to tell
\nManoah? <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:36,880
\nWhat was he saying was saying
\nthis? <\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:39,400 –> 00:25:45,320
\nIt’s the divine influence on
\nthat child Manoa that’s going to<\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:45,320 –> 00:25:49,040
\nbe important.
\nThis is my work, said God. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:50,040 –> 00:25:54,640
\nIt’s not a matter of what you,
\nManoa, are going to do in your <\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:54,640 –> 00:25:57,880
\nown strength and how you will
\nbring him up, even though he was<\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:57,880 –> 00:25:59,440
\ndetermined to bring him up.
\nAs a godly. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:59,440 –> 00:26:03,720
\nYoung man, God’s not denying
\nthat he was a godly man. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:03,720 –> 00:26:06,640
\nYou know.
\nBut the way. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:07,320 –> 00:26:12,480
\nFor them to bring up this child
\nwas for the woman to be a <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:12,480 –> 00:26:17,560
\nNazarite.
\nWhat a powerful lesson that is <\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:17,560 –> 00:26:23,280
\nfor all parents the way.
\nTo bring up young Nazarites, <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:23,280 –> 00:26:31,400
\nbrethren and sisters, is to be a
\nNazarite, not in Word, but in <\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:31,400 –> 00:26:32,560
\ndeed.
\nAnd in truth. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:33,520 –> 00:26:37,600
\nIt was no good Samson’s mother
\nas he was growing up, saying. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:37,600 –> 00:26:40,480
\nNow, Samson, I’ve told you
\nbefore, the Angel said you’re <\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:40,480 –> 00:26:42,720
\nnot to drink wine.
\nGlug glug glug. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:43,160 –> 00:26:46,160
\nAnd she had some of her own.
\nWhat would that have taught <\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:46,160 –> 00:26:48,760
\nSamson?
\nNo good at all. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:49,520 –> 00:26:55,800
\nShe was also to live exactly the
\nsame life that she was going to <\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:55,800 –> 00:27:02,000
\nexpect in her son, who was God’s
\nson in a sense, for doing a very<\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:04,480
\ngreat work.
\nThe actions are much more <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:04,480 –> 00:27:05,840
\npowerful than words, aren’t
\nthey? <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:05,840 –> 00:27:09,240
\nWe all know, brothers and
\nsisters, that words don’t <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:09,240 –> 00:27:13,800
\ninfluence our children, but
\nactions do, You know, it’s no <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:13,800 –> 00:27:16,400
\ngood telling our children to do
\nthis or that and then doing it <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:16,400 –> 00:27:18,440
\nourselves.
\nIt’s no good telling them. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:18,480 –> 00:27:21,880
\nThey’ll be patient and getting
\nimpatient with them. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:28,240
\nThey will learn what they see.
\nThey won’t learn what they hear <\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:28,920 –> 00:27:32,600
\ntold them.
\nWell, not very often anyway. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:33,280 –> 00:27:36,160
\nChildren learn to become what
\nthey see lived. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:27:36,440 –> 00:27:38,960
\nWhat an enormous responsibility
\nthat places on us. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:38,960 –> 00:27:43,840
\nAll parents have a controlling
\ninfluence on the lives of their <\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:43,840 –> 00:27:46,040
\nchildren as to whether they are
\nNAD right. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:46,240 –> 00:27:48,840
\nAnd young people don’t think
\nyou’re exempt from that lesson <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:48,840 –> 00:27:52,400
\neither, because there’s a
\nfundamental principle that you <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:52,400 –> 00:27:56,160
\nought to come to grips with
\nbefore you get married. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:56,480 –> 00:28:01,120
\nAnd that is if you are ever, by
\nthe grace of God, blessed with <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:01,520 –> 00:28:05,600
\nan inheritance of his in seed
\nthat follows you. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:06,280 –> 00:28:10,520
\nIf you’re blessed with a family
\nin days to come, just make sure <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:10,520 –> 00:28:13,760
\nthat your life.
\nIs sorted out before they come <\/p>\n
397
\n00:28:13,760 –> 00:28:17,520
\ninto the world because it’s too
\nlate to sort it out afterwards, <\/p>\n
398
\n00:28:18,520 –> 00:28:21,440
\nbut Samson’s parents had their
\nlives sorted out. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:28:22,320 –> 00:28:25,160
\nAnd we have.
\nNothing in the record to to make<\/p>\n
400
\n00:28:25,160 –> 00:28:30,760
\nus think anything else that than
\nthat Samson’s mother or was a <\/p>\n
401
\n00:28:30,760 –> 00:28:32,800
\nNazarite the whole of their
\nlife. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:28:33,840 –> 00:28:36,000
\nThey were a faithful and godly
\ncouple. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:28:36,400 –> 00:28:40,200
\nThey’re portrayed very
\nfavourably in this record. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:40,480 –> 00:28:43,600
\nNot only chosen by.
\nGod for this miraculous birth of<\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:43,600 –> 00:28:47,760
\nthe Deliverer.
\nBut she herself appreciated <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:47,760 –> 00:28:51,120
\nthose principles of Nazarites.
\nShiban accepted. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:51,120 –> 00:28:53,400
\nIt we find that.
\nMenorah is a man of prayer. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:53,920 –> 00:28:57,320
\nWe find them endeavouring to
\nbring up Samson in godly. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:57,320 –> 00:29:00,640
\nWays day later in this chapter.
\nYou remember it was as it was <\/p>\n
410
\n00:29:00,640 –> 00:29:03,680
\nread in our hearing today, they
\nbrought a voluntary burnt <\/p>\n
411
\n00:29:03,680 –> 00:29:07,560
\noffering indicating their
\ndedication and it was accepted <\/p>\n
412
\n00:29:07,560 –> 00:29:12,120
\nmiraculously by God.
\nAnd the other thing we know <\/p>\n
413
\n00:29:12,120 –> 00:29:15,560
\nabout them is that they were
\nDanites. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:29:16,880 –> 00:29:40,560
\nDanites living in Zora.
\nSorry, I just lost the. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:29:40,560 –> 00:29:46,640
\nTransparency The tribe of Dan at
\nthe beginning of the period of <\/p>\n
416
\n00:29:46,640 –> 00:29:50,720
\nthe judges had tried for a very
\nshort time. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:50,840 –> 00:29:53,720
\nThe yellow area there is the is
\nthe territory that was allotted <\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:53,720 –> 00:29:57,960
\nto Dan not far from Jerusalem
\ndown towards the coastal plain <\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:57,960 –> 00:30:00,680
\nof the Philistines in Philistine
\ncountry largely. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:01,280 –> 00:30:03,560
\nThey were unable.
\nTo take that territory because <\/p>\n
421
\n00:30:03,560 –> 00:30:07,320
\nof the ferocity of the
\nPhilistines at the time, and <\/p>\n
422
\n00:30:07,320 –> 00:30:10,720
\nthey therefore looked for an
\neasier option and they went. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:30:10,720 –> 00:30:13,840
\nWay up north.
\nWhere the Zeidanians dwelt <\/p>\n
424
\n00:30:13,840 –> 00:30:16,800
\ncarelessly and were not in a
\nfighting mood. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:30:17,000 –> 00:30:19,640
\nAnd they killed them all and
\ntook their territory. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:30:20,800 –> 00:30:24,720
\nMarvelously brave and courageous
\nDanites, and the majority of the<\/p>\n
427
\n00:30:24,720 –> 00:30:27,920
\ntribe was up there.
\nBut there were a few tenaciously<\/p>\n
428
\n00:30:27,920 –> 00:30:30,320
\nhanging on to the original
\ninheritance because they knew <\/p>\n
429
\n00:30:30,320 –> 00:30:33,120
\nYahweh had promised it to them,
\nand they had enough faith to <\/p>\n
430
\n00:30:33,120 –> 00:30:35,680
\nstay there and to defend it
\nagainst the. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:30:35,680 –> 00:30:38,280
\nInroads of the Philistines and
\nof the world. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:30:38,280 –> 00:30:41,560
\nAnd Samson was born into a
\nhousehold in that circumstance <\/p>\n
433
\n00:30:41,560 –> 00:30:46,680
\nhere at Zorah, right on the
\nborder of the territory of Dan. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:30:46,680 –> 00:30:51,160
\nSo he’s born into a very
\nfavourable environment. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:51,920 –> 00:30:56,760
\nWhat a marvellous privilege that
\nwas for him, verse 24 tells us. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:30:58,280 –> 00:31:00,240
\nAnd the woman?
\nBare a son and called his name <\/p>\n
437
\n00:31:00,240 –> 00:31:03,520
\nSamson.
\nAnd the child grew, and Yahweh <\/p>\n
438
\n00:31:03,520 –> 00:31:07,520
\nblessed him.
\nHis name means brilliant <\/p>\n
439
\n00:31:07,520 –> 00:31:11,520
\nsunlight.
\nAnd finally, there would now be <\/p>\n
440
\n00:31:11,520 –> 00:31:17,360
\na ray of lights amidst the
\ndarkness of Israel’s sin, or so <\/p>\n
441
\n00:31:17,360 –> 00:31:20,880
\nit seems.
\nHis mother named him that way <\/p>\n
442
\n00:31:20,880 –> 00:31:24,480
\nfor.
\nAnd Yahweh blessed him. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:31:25,560 –> 00:31:28,520
\nWhat does that mean?
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
444
\n00:31:28,520 –> 00:31:31,760
\nCan it mean?
\nBrethren, sisters, except that <\/p>\n
445
\n00:31:32,040 –> 00:31:39,240
\nfrom an early age he began to to
\nappreciate divine things, and <\/p>\n
446
\n00:31:39,240 –> 00:31:42,480
\nCan you imagine anything else
\nwith a mother and a father like <\/p>\n
447
\n00:31:42,480 –> 00:31:45,320
\nthat?
\nHis mother would have taught him<\/p>\n
448
\n00:31:45,320 –> 00:31:49,720
\ncarefully about Nazarite
\nprinciples, what it meant, and <\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:49,720 –> 00:31:52,840
\nwho the enemy really was.
\nAnd God’s deliverance in the <\/p>\n
450
\n00:31:52,840 –> 00:31:57,240
\npast and all that had happened
\nto their forebears through the <\/p>\n
451
\n00:31:57,240 –> 00:32:00,680
\nperiod of the Judges and the
\ninheritance that God had given <\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:00,680 –> 00:32:04,520
\nthat was now overrun by these
\nenemies and the promises that <\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:04,520 –> 00:32:06,640
\nGod had given to the fathers of
\nthe nation. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:32:06,760 –> 00:32:08,320
\nAnd so and so, and so it went
\non. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:32:08,320 –> 00:32:10,000
\nAnd day after day, she would
\nhave. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:32:10,000 –> 00:32:13,520
\nDrummed that into that little
\nchild as he was growing up and <\/p>\n
457
\n00:32:13,520 –> 00:32:18,120
\nYahweh blessed him.
\nHe was a growing young mind that<\/p>\n
458
\n00:32:18,120 –> 00:32:23,680
\nwas appreciating divine things
\nand accepting and knowing what <\/p>\n
459
\n00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:26,520
\nYahweh really wanted in his
\nyouth. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:32:27,720 –> 00:32:30,320
\nVerse 25 Fill.
\nThen the Spirit of Yahweh began <\/p>\n
461
\n00:32:30,320 –> 00:32:32,880
\nto move.
\nHim, and so he now as he came. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:32:32,880 –> 00:32:34,480
\nBecame a little more
\nindependent. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:32:34,480 –> 00:32:37,880
\nBrothers and sisters and young
\npeople, the spirit of Yahweh <\/p>\n
464
\n00:32:38,360 –> 00:32:43,200
\nactually started to generate in
\nthis man, and he’s probably <\/p>\n
465
\n00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:47,880
\nstill a teenager.
\nIt’s very fitting that the <\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:47,880 –> 00:32:52,120
\nspirit of Yahweh was moving in
\nhim because it was God’s work. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:52,120 –> 00:32:56,840
\nRemember, Israel hadn’t cried.
\nGod was going to show his mercy <\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:56,840 –> 00:33:00,360
\nto the nation.
\nThrough a man that he had raised<\/p>\n
469
\n00:33:00,360 –> 00:33:02,600
\nup.
\nAnd we have here a picture of a <\/p>\n
470
\n00:33:03,000 –> 00:33:07,120
\nof a godly.
\nEnthusiastic young man who’s <\/p>\n
471
\n00:33:07,120 –> 00:33:11,480
\nmoved by the word of God and by
\ndivine things, and it began to <\/p>\n
472
\n00:33:11,480 –> 00:33:13,920
\nmove him the.
\nWord at times is not in the <\/p>\n
473
\n00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:17,240
\noriginal the the translators
\nhave translated move him at <\/p>\n
474
\n00:33:17,240 –> 00:33:21,880
\ntimes from one Hebrew word.
\nAnd that word really means to <\/p>\n
475
\n00:33:21,880 –> 00:33:25,440
\nimpale or to agitate.
\nIt’s it’s rendered to stir or to<\/p>\n
476
\n00:33:25,600 –> 00:33:30,280
\nurge on.
\nAnd he’s urged on in the camp of<\/p>\n
477
\n00:33:30,280 –> 00:33:34,280
\nDan.
\nAnd he wasn’t really a young man<\/p>\n
478
\n00:33:34,280 –> 00:33:36,440
\nwho was seeking his own
\ninterests. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:33:36,680 –> 00:33:39,040
\nThere was a camp and that was
\nall it was. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:33:39,040 –> 00:33:40,480
\nIt wasn’t the inheritance of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:33:40,480 –> 00:33:43,320
\nTribe, though it should have
\nbeen one of the biggest. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:44,360 –> 00:33:48,200
\nIt was a camp.
\nWith a few faithful tenaciously <\/p>\n
483
\n00:33:48,200 –> 00:33:50,160
\nhanging.
\nOn to the truth there and the <\/p>\n
484
\n00:33:50,160 –> 00:33:52,480
\nremnant.
\nHad forsaken it and gone to the <\/p>\n
485
\n00:33:52,480 –> 00:33:56,720
\nworld and he’s hanging on in the
\ncamp of Dad and the word of <\/p>\n
486
\n00:33:56,760 –> 00:33:59,760
\nYahweh is moving this young man.
\nTake the picture. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:34:00,400 –> 00:34:07,080
\nThere’s a young lad who’s fired
\nby the truth and he’s moved in <\/p>\n
488
\n00:34:07,080 –> 00:34:10,920
\nthe camp of Dan and we shouldn’t
\nhave the chapter break there. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:34:11,600 –> 00:34:14,560
\nHe’s under great pressure
\nbecause of the Philistines in <\/p>\n
490
\n00:34:14,560 –> 00:34:16,639
\nthere.
\nAnd we find in verse 1 of <\/p>\n
491
\n00:34:16,639 –> 00:34:22,320
\nchapter 14 and Samson went down
\nto Timnath, moved by the Spirit <\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:22,320 –> 00:34:24,639
\nof Yahweh.
\nYou know what Timnath means? <\/p>\n
493
\n00:34:25,520 –> 00:34:29,040
\nMeans the assigned portion.
\nAnd it should not have been into<\/p>\n
494
\n00:34:29,040 –> 00:34:31,920
\nthe hands of the Philistines.
\nIt should have been in the hands<\/p>\n
495
\n00:34:31,920 –> 00:34:35,560
\nof Danites.
\nAnd he goes down to the assigned<\/p>\n
496
\n00:34:35,560 –> 00:34:39,679
\nportion that Yahweh had given
\nhim, because Yahweh was moving <\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:39,679 –> 00:34:42,159
\nhim.
\nHe was fed up with the <\/p>\n
498
\n00:34:42,159 –> 00:34:44,880
\nPhilistines.
\nHe knew that God had. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:34:44,880 –> 00:34:48,040
\nPromised this to him, and he
\nmoved down into that territory <\/p>\n
500
\n00:34:48,040 –> 00:34:52,280
\nwhich was occupied.
\nVerse 4 tells us that his father<\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:52,280 –> 00:34:54,840
\nand mother knew not that it was
\nof Yahweh that he sought an <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:54,840 –> 00:34:57,320
\noccasion against the
\nPhilistines, for at that time <\/p>\n
503
\n00:34:57,320 –> 00:35:00,160
\nthe Philistines had dominion
\nover Israel. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:00,160 –> 00:35:05,280
\nOh, what an awful word that is.
\nComes straight out of Genesis 1 <\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:06,000 –> 00:35:08,800
\nwhen men lost dominion because
\nof sin. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:09,640 –> 00:35:12,840
\nIt was meant to have dominion
\nover all things, but lost it. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:35:13,120 –> 00:35:16,520
\nAnd now of all the people in the
\nworld that have got dominion <\/p>\n
508
\n00:35:16,680 –> 00:35:20,400
\nover Israel, it has to be the
\nfilthy Philistines. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:35:21,120 –> 00:35:25,000
\nThat’s why he was agitated.
\nHe could see God’s purpose <\/p>\n
510
\n00:35:25,000 –> 00:35:29,200
\nturned on its head and he went
\ndown to the assigned portion. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:35:30,080 –> 00:35:34,000
\nIsrael had never been at a lower
\npoint since they came out of <\/p>\n
512
\n00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:36,480
\nIsrael under the dominion of sin
\nof the. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:35:36,480 –> 00:35:39,200
\nLand of sin.
\nAnd they were. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:35:39,200 –> 00:35:43,480
\nContent for it to be so, because
\nin chapter 15 of Judges and <\/p>\n
515
\n00:35:43,480 –> 00:35:45,960
\nverse 11 they say that to
\nSamson. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:35:45,960 –> 00:35:47,680
\nThe men of Judas said that to
\nSamson. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:35:48,520 –> 00:35:51,800
\nBut he saw the situation.
\nSamson saw very clearly what the<\/p>\n
518
\n00:35:51,800 –> 00:35:53,600
\nsituation was and it.
\nOught. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:58,440
\nNever to have existed.
\nSo down he goes, and he. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:58,760 –> 00:36:04,440
\nSaw a woman in timnath of the
\ndaughters of. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:36:04,640 –> 00:36:11,160
\nThe Philistines.
\nIt is Samson’s great and only <\/p>\n
522
\n00:36:11,160 –> 00:36:16,960
\nrecorded weakness, and at times
\nwe think, oh, what a fool. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:36:17,600 –> 00:36:23,000
\nHe went down there, fired by the
\nword of God to wrest back the <\/p>\n
524
\n00:36:23,000 –> 00:36:29,280
\ndominion that belonged to
\nIsrael, and he happened just to <\/p>\n
525
\n00:36:29,280 –> 00:36:34,760
\nsee a.
\nWoman and thought she looks <\/p>\n
526
\n00:36:34,800 –> 00:36:41,160
\npretty nice and his original
\nintention was waylaid. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:36:41,920 –> 00:36:46,240
\nWhat a tragic thing.
\nWe do think, don’t we, at times,<\/p>\n
528
\n00:36:46,240 –> 00:36:48,440
\nthat Samson was a fool, all he
\nwas. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:36:50,440 –> 00:36:53,560
\nBut let’s translate that into
\nour own experiences. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:36:54,080 –> 00:37:01,040
\nLet’s translate his weakness,
\nhis only recorded weakness, for <\/p>\n
531
\n00:37:01,040 –> 00:37:04,320
\none of ours, brothers and
\nsisters and young people. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:37:04,480 –> 00:37:06,560
\nGo on, do that in your own mind.
\nYou. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:37:06,560 –> 00:37:10,520
\nThink of a weakness that you
\nknow you have. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:16,440
\nAnd think of it from now on in
\nthe context of Samson’s life. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:37:17,240 –> 00:37:21,720
\nDo you know this woman?
\nShould never have been in <\/p>\n
536
\n00:37:21,720 –> 00:37:24,840
\nTimnath, and it was only because
\nof the failure of. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:37:24,840 –> 00:37:28,720
\nHis brethren in an earlier.
\nGeneration to uphold the truth <\/p>\n
538
\n00:37:28,720 –> 00:37:34,040
\nthat that woman was even there.
\nWhat a tragedy when he’s coming <\/p>\n
539
\n00:37:34,040 –> 00:37:36,920
\ndown there to fix what that they
\nhad failed to do before. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:37:37,080 –> 00:37:40,320
\nHe bumps into the remnant of
\nwhat was leftover. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:37:40,320 –> 00:37:42,240
\nBecause they hadn’t lived the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:37:44,120 –> 00:37:50,200
\nHe bumped into it nevertheless.
\nShe should have been gone along <\/p>\n
543
\n00:37:50,200 –> 00:37:52,640
\nwith all the Philistines 400
\nyears before. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:53,960 –> 00:38:00,400
\nBut the lusts of his eyes had
\nblinded his mind, derailed his <\/p>\n
545
\n00:38:00,400 –> 00:38:04,400
\noriginal objective.
\nAnd we’ve no longer got the <\/p>\n
546
\n00:38:04,400 –> 00:38:08,800
\nSamson of chapter 13 at verse
\n25. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:38:10,760 –> 00:38:15,200
\nYou see, in Philistine
\nterritory, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n
548
\n00:38:16,520 –> 00:38:21,280
\nthings always look a little.
\nDifferent than they do when <\/p>\n
549
\n00:38:21,280 –> 00:38:27,440
\nwe’re here or when we’re home.
\nThey’re always a little <\/p>\n
550
\n00:38:27,440 –> 00:38:31,280
\ndifferent.
\nYou know, we might be moved to <\/p>\n
551
\n00:38:31,280 –> 00:38:35,960
\ndo the right things when we’re
\nhome, when we’re comfortably <\/p>\n
552
\n00:38:35,960 –> 00:38:39,560
\nreading our Bibles, when we’re
\nthinking about the word of God <\/p>\n
553
\n00:38:39,760 –> 00:38:46,560
\nin a godly home environment.
\nBut beware, when we walk into <\/p>\n
554
\n00:38:46,560 –> 00:38:52,520
\nPhilistine territory, there are
\nmany, many casualties, young <\/p>\n
555
\n00:38:52,520 –> 00:38:58,920
\npeople, brethren and sisters of
\nexperience and age who’ve had to<\/p>\n
556
\n00:38:58,920 –> 00:39:03,160
\nlearn that lesson the hard way.
\nYou know, it’s much. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:39:03,160 –> 00:39:07,040
\nEasier for us to say no at a
\ndistance than when we’re face to<\/p>\n
558
\n00:39:07,040 –> 00:39:11,720
\nface with a human being who’s
\nattractive, who’s got <\/p>\n
559
\n00:39:11,720 –> 00:39:15,240
\npersonality, who’s got feelings
\nand emotions. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:39:15,520 –> 00:39:20,400
\nIt’s much, much more difficult
\nto say no, or to think is just <\/p>\n
561
\n00:39:20,600 –> 00:39:22,520
\nquite as clearly as we saw them
\nwhen we were. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:39:22,520 –> 00:39:26,920
\nHome and we’ve got to be very,
\nvery careful because we all <\/p>\n
563
\n00:39:26,920 –> 00:39:30,800
\npossess all of us.
\nIt’s not just denounce Samson, <\/p>\n
564
\n00:39:30,800 –> 00:39:36,240
\nbrothers and sisters, all of us
\npossess powerful emotions in our<\/p>\n
565
\n00:39:36,240 –> 00:39:40,200
\nbodies.
\nThe lust of the eyes, the lust <\/p>\n
566
\n00:39:40,200 –> 00:39:44,000
\nof the flesh, the pride of life.
\nWhich are not of the Father and <\/p>\n
567
\n00:39:44,000 –> 00:39:47,200
\nthat do influence us all at
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:51,520
\nAnd they pulled a blind down
\nover all. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:39:51,520 –> 00:39:57,040
\nThat he knew and he lost
\ncontrol. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:39:58,480 –> 00:40:01,080
\nAll he ever knew.
\nAbout the Philistines was <\/p>\n
571
\n00:40:01,080 –> 00:40:05,680
\ntemporarily blotted out and his
\nmind lost control of his <\/p>\n
572
\n00:40:05,680 –> 00:40:08,080
\nactions.
\nWhat of all his Nazarite <\/p>\n
573
\n00:40:08,080 –> 00:40:10,600
\nprinciples?
\nHe’d had them ground into his <\/p>\n
574
\n00:40:10,600 –> 00:40:13,120
\nmind since he was this high.
\nHe knew them backwards. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:40:13,240 –> 00:40:16,360
\nHe knew about separation.
\nHe knew about dedication to God.<\/p>\n
576
\n00:40:18,120 –> 00:40:22,760
\nThe spirit mind must control the
\nactions of the body. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:40:22,800 –> 00:40:28,760
\nAnd now it’s all back to front.
\nHe marches back up to his father<\/p>\n
578
\n00:40:28,760 –> 00:40:31,720
\nand mother.
\nIn verse 2 he came up and told <\/p>\n
579
\n00:40:31,720 –> 00:40:35,120
\nhis father and his mother and
\nsaid, I have seen a. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:40:35,120 –> 00:40:39,240
\nWoman out of the daughters of
\nthe Philistines now therefore <\/p>\n
581
\n00:40:39,720 –> 00:40:48,040
\nget her for me to wife.
\nWhat a terrible thing he’d <\/p>\n
582
\n00:40:48,040 –> 00:40:50,360
\nallowed.
\nHis lust to concede and instead.<\/p>\n
583
\n00:40:50,360 –> 00:40:54,560
\nOf bringing back 16 heads.
\nOf the Philistines, he came back<\/p>\n
584
\n00:40:55,360 –> 00:40:59,960
\nto tell his parents that he’d
\nseen a woman in Timnath. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:41:01,160 –> 00:41:03,160
\nHis spiritual vision had been
\nblinded. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:41:03,920 –> 00:41:08,280
\nConscience temporarily blocked
\nyoung people. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:41:08,280 –> 00:41:16,320
\nSin always has that effect.
\nIt’s the first effect A. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:41:16,320 –> 00:41:18,560
\nBlind and shutters will come
\ndown. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:41:18,560 –> 00:41:23,160
\nOver our eyes, over our moral.
\nFaculties so that we can’t. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:41:23,160 –> 00:41:28,080
\nAny longer see things as clearly
\nas we could see them before. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:41:28,600 –> 00:41:33,040
\nAnd there is a very important
\nreason for confining and <\/p>\n
592
\n00:41:33,040 –> 00:41:37,760
\nnarrowing the influences of our
\nlives, because once our lusts, <\/p>\n
593
\n00:41:37,760 –> 00:41:41,160
\nwhatever they are.
\nDon’t have to be in the same. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:41:41,160 –> 00:41:44,440
\nDirection as Samson’s whatever.
\nOur lusts are if they are. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:41:44,440 –> 00:41:46,400
\nInflamed brethren, sisters, it’s
\nalmost. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:41:46,400 –> 00:41:50,560
\nImpossible to take control of
\nthem and horrified parents Here <\/p>\n
597
\n00:41:51,400 –> 00:41:54,480
\nhis mother and father who had
\nbrought him up all this time and<\/p>\n
598
\n00:41:54,480 –> 00:41:57,840
\nare faced with a with an
\nunmitigated tragedy. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:59,040 –> 00:42:01,480
\nGod’s work was about to be
\nundone. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:42:02,160 –> 00:42:05,160
\nAll those years that they’d
\ncarefully nurtured and nourished<\/p>\n
601
\n00:42:05,160 –> 00:42:09,440
\nthis land, he’d grown up into a
\nfine young man, virile and <\/p>\n
602
\n00:42:09,440 –> 00:42:13,640
\nactive in the truth, determined
\nto take action. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:42:13,640 –> 00:42:16,240
\nAgainst the Philistines.
\nAnd now he. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:42:16,240 –> 00:42:21,440
\nWants to marry a philistine and
\nuncircumcised and unbaptised. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:26,400
\nWoman, that’s what it amounted
\nto absolutely unthinkable to <\/p>\n
606
\n00:42:26,400 –> 00:42:29,880
\nManoah’s wife and to Manoah
\nhimself and that his parents <\/p>\n
607
\n00:42:29,880 –> 00:42:34,280
\nmake a passionate appeal to him.
\nVery clearly reasoned in verse <\/p>\n
608
\n00:42:34,280 –> 00:42:36,200
\n3.
\nHis father and his mother said <\/p>\n
609
\n00:42:36,360 –> 00:42:38,720
\nis there.
\nNever a woman among the. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:42:38,720 –> 00:42:41,080
\nDaughters of thy brethren, that
\nis. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:42:41,080 –> 00:42:44,240
\nIsn’t there anyone?
\nIn the truth, or among all my <\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:44,240 –> 00:42:47,920
\npeople whom thou goest to that
\nthou goest to take a wife of the<\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:48,000 –> 00:42:54,240
\nuncircumcised Philistines.
\nIf only he’d heeded that, <\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:54,240 –> 00:42:57,600
\nbrothers and sisters and young
\npeople, if only he’d heeded that<\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:02,440
\nsound advice, it would have
\nsaved so much tragedy, so much <\/p>\n
616
\n00:43:02,440 –> 00:43:04,880
\nheartache for him and his
\nfamily. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:43:06,040 –> 00:43:07,440
\nBut he’s.
\nTotally. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:43:07,440 –> 00:43:15,320
\nIrrational Samson said unto his
\nfather, Get her for me. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:43:16,360 –> 00:43:21,040
\nFor as the margin says.
\nShe is right in mine eyes. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:43:21,880 –> 00:43:25,200
\nOh, he’s really gone.
\nShe is right. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:43:25,200 –> 00:43:27,720
\nWhat tragic.
\nWords out of the mouth of the <\/p>\n
622
\n00:43:27,720 –> 00:43:30,480
\npotential deliverer.
\nHe’s been raised up to deliver a<\/p>\n
623
\n00:43:30,480 –> 00:43:33,200
\npeople who could do nothing else
\nbut that which was right in <\/p>\n
624
\n00:43:33,200 –> 00:43:36,560
\ntheir own eyes.
\nAnd now he is saying that he <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:36,560 –> 00:43:39,720
\nwants to marry one of the enemy
\nbecause she’s right in mine <\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:39,720 –> 00:43:41,360
\neyes.
\nWhat a tragedy. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:44,880 –> 00:43:47,280
\nBack in Joshua, just make a note
\nof this, We won’t turn to it. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:48,000 –> 00:43:51,200
\nIn Joshua chapter 23 and verse
\n11 to 13 in. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:51,200 –> 00:43:54,280
\nJoshua’s last.
\nWords He warned the people and <\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:54,280 –> 00:43:57,160
\nsaid if you make marriages with
\nthe heathen, when you go into <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:57,160 –> 00:44:01,880
\nthat land, make sure you
\nunderstand that God will not <\/p>\n
632
\n00:44:02,280 –> 00:44:03,440
\ndeliver you.
\nOh. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:44:06,240 –> 00:44:09,200
\nPowerful things.
\nAnd he went on to say, there’ll <\/p>\n
634
\n00:44:09,200 –> 00:44:16,560
\nbe thorns in your eyes, thorns
\nin your eyes and that enemy <\/p>\n
635
\n00:44:16,560 –> 00:44:18,880
\neventually.
\nPoked his eyes out. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:44:21,240 –> 00:44:24,120
\nJust be careful.
\nJust be careful, young people <\/p>\n
637
\n00:44:24,160 –> 00:44:28,160
\nand brothers and sisters, where
\nwe let our eyes go and where? <\/p>\n
638
\n00:44:28,160 –> 00:44:30,920
\nWe let our feet wander, you
\nknow. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:44:30,920 –> 00:44:36,440
\nOver recent months.
\nI’ve heard of of young people <\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:37,400 –> 00:44:40,240
\nwho have.
\nTV’s in their own rooms, their <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:40,240 –> 00:44:45,600
\nown bedrooms.
\nWhat unmitigated folly. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:44:47,920 –> 00:44:54,160
\nTo bring philistine territory
\nright back home and young <\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:54,160 –> 00:44:59,280
\npeople.
\nWho will go out to discos or to <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:59,280 –> 00:45:05,640
\nnightclubs and think that they
\ncan wander into the meetings? <\/p>\n
645
\n00:45:06,160 –> 00:45:08,960
\nOr youth group on the next
\noccasion. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:18,520
\nWhat utter folly.
\nInflamed lusts infect the mind, <\/p>\n
647
\n00:45:18,920 –> 00:45:23,160
\ninevitably affect the mind, and
\nsin deteriorates. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:45:23,160 –> 00:45:26,600
\nIt always deteriorates the mind.
\nDo you know what happened to <\/p>\n
649
\n00:45:26,600 –> 00:45:28,320
\nSampson here?
\nYou count them later. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:45:29,080 –> 00:45:35,360
\nBut 10 * 10 times God tried to
\nintervene providentially to stop<\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:35,400 –> 00:45:39,440
\nthis marriage that Sampson
\nwanted to contract from going <\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:39,440 –> 00:45:41,800
\nahead 10 times.
\nGod wanted that. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:42,080 –> 00:45:47,240
\nAnd a tragedy is that Samson
\nbecame increasingly unresponsive<\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:48,160 –> 00:45:52,200
\nbecause the further he dabbled
\nwith sin and fiddled around with<\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:52,200 –> 00:45:56,320
\nthe Philistines, the more locked
\nin he got. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:57,360 –> 00:46:00,360
\nAnd it was only all finished
\nwhen she was a pile of ashes. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:46:01,640 –> 00:46:03,880
\nGod had tried 10 times to stop
\nthat. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:46:05,320 –> 00:46:09,600
\nAnd he wouldn’t listen because
\nonce sin has started it. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:46:09,680 –> 00:46:13,080
\nIt affects our minds.
\nYoung people learn that lesson <\/p>\n
660
\n00:46:13,120 –> 00:46:16,760
\nearly.
\nSin affects the mind. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:46:17,040 –> 00:46:20,640
\nIt affects the thinking process.
\nIt affects the judgement. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:21,480 –> 00:46:24,440
\nAnd we might think that we would
\nnever marry outside the tree. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:24,440 –> 00:46:26,920
\nWe’d never do what anything,
\nanything that Samson did. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:27,120 –> 00:46:29,000
\nWell, Samson didn’t think he
\nwould either. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:29,120 –> 00:46:32,000
\nHe went down there to get the
\nPhilistines, and look what he <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:35,400
\nbumped into.
\nHe didn’t know it was there. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:38,120 –> 00:46:39,720
\nSamson didn’t think he would
\neither. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:46:39,880 –> 00:46:42,720
\nHe went down there to keep the
\nPhilistines and look what he <\/p>\n
669
\n00:46:42,720 –> 00:46:46,120
\nbumped into.
\nHe didn’t know it was there. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:47,240 –> 00:46:48,160
\nHe didn’t.
\nKnow what to? <\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:48,160 –> 00:46:52,840
\nExpect and it brought absolute
\nheartache to his parents, <\/p>\n
672
\n00:46:53,080 –> 00:46:56,360
\nanguish and frustration,
\nbitterness and suffering to him <\/p>\n
673
\n00:46:56,800 –> 00:46:59,920
\nthat never ever left him for the
\nrest of his days. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:47:00,280 –> 00:47:06,360
\nIt it scars on his.
\nMind that he could never ever <\/p>\n
675
\n00:47:06,360 –> 00:47:10,440
\narise, young people.
\nAnd it gave great pain to Yahweh<\/p>\n
676
\n00:47:10,440 –> 00:47:12,520
\nand the heavens who’d raised him
\nup to be a deliverer. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:47:12,520 –> 00:47:16,960
\nIt gave opportunity enemy to to
\nblasphemy. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:47:26,810 –> 00:47:29,370
\nI’d like you to turn to that
\npassage, Second of Corinthians, <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:29,370 –> 00:47:34,370
\nchapter 6.
\nWe all know it well. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:47:36,970 –> 00:47:40,490
\nWe hardly need it to be
\nreinforced that marriage is only<\/p>\n
681
\n00:47:40,490 –> 00:47:46,880
\nin the Lord.
\nYoung people, keep reinforcing <\/p>\n
682
\n00:47:46,880 –> 00:47:52,560
\nthat idea in your minds and be.
\nCareful where you let your feet.<\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:52,640 –> 00:47:58,480
\nAnd your eyes wander because
\nthere the apostle says in verse <\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:58,480 –> 00:48:01,880
\n14 be you’re not unequally yoked
\ntogether with unbelievers. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:48:03,440 –> 00:48:05,800
\nFor what fellowship are the
\nrighteousness with <\/p>\n
686
\n00:48:05,800 –> 00:48:07,480
\nunrighteousness?
\nIt’s that serious? <\/p>\n
687
\n00:48:08,680 –> 00:48:10,800
\nWhat Communion?
\nHath light with darkness, What <\/p>\n
688
\n00:48:10,800 –> 00:48:14,840
\nconcord hath Christ with Belial
\nare he that believeth, Or what <\/p>\n
689
\n00:48:14,840 –> 00:48:16,680
\npart hath he that believeth with
\nan infidel? <\/p>\n
690
\n00:48:16,800 –> 00:48:19,400
\nAnd what agreement hath the
\ntemple of God with idols? <\/p>\n
691
\n00:48:20,040 –> 00:48:24,400
\nFor ye are the temple of the
\nliving God, as God hath said. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:48:24,400 –> 00:48:26,920
\nI will dwell in them, and walk
\nin them, and they shall be my, <\/p>\n
693
\n00:48:27,200 –> 00:48:29,400
\nand I will be their God, and
\nthey shall be my people. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:48:30,720 –> 00:48:36,120
\nAnd Samson accepted the yoke of
\nthe truth early in age. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:48:36,960 –> 00:48:41,800
\nNow he wants to be unequally
\nyoked together with an <\/p>\n
696
\n00:48:41,800 –> 00:48:45,120
\nunbeliever.
\nThat unequal yoking, as can be <\/p>\n
697
\n00:48:45,120 –> 00:48:49,160
\nseen from that that illustration
\nwill cause chafing and pain and <\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:49,160 –> 00:48:51,920
\naggravation.
\nNow, but the real. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:51,920 –> 00:48:57,360
\nIssue is really in verse 17
\nbecause there Paul goes on to <\/p>\n
700
\n00:48:57,360 –> 00:49:05,440
\nsay wherefore come out from
\namong them and be ye separate. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:49:06,320 –> 00:49:08,040
\nNow where have you heard that
\nword? <\/p>\n
702
\n00:49:08,920 –> 00:49:13,800
\nSaith the Lord.
\nAnd touch not the unclean thing,<\/p>\n
703
\n00:49:14,280 –> 00:49:18,560
\nand I will receive you.
\nYou see what God is saying, <\/p>\n
704
\n00:49:19,000 –> 00:49:23,080
\nMarriage out of the truth is a
\ndenial of Nazarite ship. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:49:24,400 –> 00:49:29,960
\nBe separate and touch not the
\nunclean thing and I will receive<\/p>\n
706
\n00:49:29,960 –> 00:49:32,640
\nyou.
\nThe corollary of that is if we <\/p>\n
707
\n00:49:32,640 –> 00:49:37,200
\ndon’t, God won’t.
\nYou know that’s not the end. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:49:37,280 –> 00:49:41,160
\nRead verse 18 and I’ll be a
\nfather unto you, and ye shall be<\/p>\n
709
\n00:49:41,160 –> 00:49:43,440
\nmy sons and daughters, saith the
\nLord Almighty. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:49:43,920 –> 00:49:46,840
\nHaving therefore, he goes on to
\nsay in Chapter 7, verse one, <\/p>\n
711
\n00:49:46,840 –> 00:49:50,320
\nthese promises.
\nDearly beloved, let us cleanse <\/p>\n
712
\n00:49:50,400 –> 00:49:56,720
\nourselves from all filthiness of
\nthe flesh and spirit, perfecting<\/p>\n
713
\n00:49:57,520 –> 00:50:06,120
\nholiness in the fear of God, and
\nthere in the context of marrying<\/p>\n
714
\n00:50:06,120 –> 00:50:10,280
\nout the truth.
\nI believe the Apostle Paul, <\/p>\n
715
\n00:50:10,280 –> 00:50:15,200
\nwithout any question of a doubt,
\nhad the Nazarite principle in <\/p>\n
716
\n00:50:15,200 –> 00:50:20,200
\nmind.
\nSeparate verse 17 and perfect <\/p>\n
717
\n00:50:20,880 –> 00:50:24,360
\nholiness.
\nThe two foundation principles of<\/p>\n
718
\n00:50:24,360 –> 00:50:28,840
\nNazarite ship and you will be my
\nsons and daughters, said the <\/p>\n
719
\n00:50:28,840 –> 00:50:31,840
\nliving God.
\nWhat a marvellous. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:50:31,840 –> 00:50:36,000
\nPrinciple, that is, you know,
\ntrue Prince, true Nazarites have<\/p>\n
721
\n00:50:36,000 –> 00:50:38,720
\ntheir bodies in subjection to
\ntheir minds. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:50:39,320 –> 00:50:41,840
\nAnd they will take very great.
\nCare where they go and what they<\/p>\n
723
\n00:50:41,840 –> 00:50:42,800
\ndo.
\nTake. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:50:42,800 –> 00:50:45,080
\nCare young people with whom you
\nassociate at. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:50:45,080 –> 00:50:49,760
\nSchool or at work?
\nThe apostle said in First of <\/p>\n
726
\n00:50:49,760 –> 00:50:53,880
\nCorinthians 15.
\nBad company ruins good morals. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:50:54,720 –> 00:50:56,880
\nThat is a very.
\nImportant principle. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:50:57,960 –> 00:51:03,560
\nDon’t learn it the hard way.
\nBad company ruins good morals. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:51:04,520 –> 00:51:07,920
\nIf we think we can socially join
\nwith those at work or at school,<\/p>\n
730
\n00:51:08,240 –> 00:51:10,960
\nin whatever activity or
\nwhatever, without being <\/p>\n
731
\n00:51:10,960 –> 00:51:14,160
\naffected, let’s think again,
\nbecause we’ve already been <\/p>\n
732
\n00:51:14,160 –> 00:51:17,840
\ndeceived by sin and by its
\neffects. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:51:20,440 –> 00:51:23,800
\nWe must live in this evil world,
\nyoung people and brothers and <\/p>\n
734
\n00:51:23,800 –> 00:51:31,120
\nsisters, but not be part of it.
\nCome back to Judges chapter 14 <\/p>\n
735
\n00:51:33,360 –> 00:51:35,960
\nand see Samson’s response to his
\nparents. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:51:36,600 –> 00:51:43,560
\nHis parents pleading in verse 5
\nand Samson went down. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:51:43,920 –> 00:51:46,960
\nThat’s how much notice he took
\nof his parents. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:51:48,960 –> 00:51:54,600
\nHe went down, and his father and
\nmother went to Tim. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:51:55,960 –> 00:51:59,520
\nSorry, let’s read that again.
\nThen went Samson down, and his <\/p>\n
740
\n00:51:59,520 –> 00:52:03,480
\nfather and mother to Timnath,
\nand came to the vineyards of <\/p>\n
741
\n00:52:03,480 –> 00:52:05,400
\nTimnath.
\nAnd behold, a young lion roared <\/p>\n
742
\n00:52:05,400 –> 00:52:09,960
\nagainst him, and the spirit of
\nYahweh came mightily upon him, <\/p>\n
743
\n00:52:11,320 –> 00:52:14,240
\nand he rent him as he would have
\na kid, and he had nothing in his<\/p>\n
744
\n00:52:14,240 –> 00:52:17,240
\nhands.
\nBut he told not his father or <\/p>\n
745
\n00:52:17,240 –> 00:52:19,640
\nhis mother what he’d done.
\nSo it’s evident that they <\/p>\n
746
\n00:52:19,640 –> 00:52:22,800
\nweren’t with Him when that
\nhappened, and it’s intriguing <\/p>\n
747
\n00:52:22,800 –> 00:52:25,440
\nthat the Spirit of Yahweh should
\ncome upon him when he’s going <\/p>\n
748
\n00:52:25,440 –> 00:52:27,760
\ndown to Timnath to see this
\nwoman. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:52:28,040 –> 00:52:31,080
\nWhy, when he is going down there
\ndid the spirit of Yahweh come? <\/p>\n
750
\n00:52:31,280 –> 00:52:33,080
\nAnd why did His mother and
\nfather go down there in the <\/p>\n
751
\n00:52:33,080 –> 00:52:34,840
\nfirst place?
\nAnd what’s he doing? <\/p>\n
752
\n00:52:34,840 –> 00:52:38,760
\nIn a vineyard, of all places.
\nHis mother was evidently not in <\/p>\n
753
\n00:52:38,760 –> 00:52:42,680
\na vineyard.
\nBut we’re told in that in that <\/p>\n
754
\n00:52:42,680 –> 00:52:45,080
\nstory.
\nThere that he had nothing in his<\/p>\n
755
\n00:52:45,080 –> 00:52:47,520
\nhand and he just ripped.
\nThe line apart. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:52:48,040 –> 00:52:51,080
\nBecause the Spirit of Yahweh
\ncame upon him, and when he must <\/p>\n
757
\n00:52:51,080 –> 00:52:53,040
\nhave looked at that line.
\nAfterwards all over. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:52:53,240 –> 00:52:55,720
\nHe must have been.
\nAbsolutely staggered. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:52:56,080 –> 00:52:59,560
\nIt wasn’t in his strength.
\nHe wasn’t such a powerful man <\/p>\n
760
\n00:52:59,560 –> 00:53:01,880
\nthat he could just get a line
\nand just RIP it apart. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:53:01,880 –> 00:53:05,000
\nOut of His natural strength, the
\nspirit of Yahweh came upon him, <\/p>\n
762
\n00:53:05,200 –> 00:53:09,480
\nand he must have known that in
\nfact He did know it, and it <\/p>\n
763
\n00:53:09,480 –> 00:53:13,000
\nplayed on his conscience.
\nNow what God was? <\/p>\n
764
\n00:53:13,000 –> 00:53:17,440
\nSaying to him, Samson, you’re
\ngoing down to Timnath and the <\/p>\n
765
\n00:53:17,440 –> 00:53:19,320
\nPhilistines are going to roar
\nupon. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:53:19,320 –> 00:53:24,280
\nYou as a lion.
\nIf you’re prepared, I’ll RIP <\/p>\n
767
\n00:53:24,280 –> 00:53:29,000
\nthem apart in your hands, the
\nspirit which comes from me. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:53:29,000 –> 00:53:31,200
\nSaid God is.
\nGoing to RIP. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:53:31,360 –> 00:53:37,840
\nThem apart, Samson, but you
\ncan’t lay around with lions. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:53:39,360 –> 00:53:43,080
\nYou have to grab them by the
\njaws and RIP them apart. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:53:44,200 –> 00:53:46,720
\nYou can’t hat them and say nice
\nPussycat. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:53:47,880 –> 00:53:51,160
\nWhich is what he was.
\nWanting to do at this stage and <\/p>\n
773
\n00:53:51,160 –> 00:53:54,640
\nthe longer he played around and
\nthought about that. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:53:54,640 –> 00:53:58,760
\nWoman that he wanted to marry,
\nthe harder it became to turn <\/p>\n
775
\n00:53:58,760 –> 00:54:02,480
\nback and the less impact it had
\non him. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:54:02,760 –> 00:54:08,840
\nYou know he did not tell his
\nmother and father why he told <\/p>\n
777
\n00:54:08,840 –> 00:54:11,080
\nthem a lot of other he.
\nWent back and said I want to <\/p>\n
778
\n00:54:11,080 –> 00:54:13,040
\nmarry this, this Philistine
\nwoman. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:54:13,200 –> 00:54:14,800
\nWhy didn’t he now tell him about
\nthe line? <\/p>\n
780
\n00:54:14,960 –> 00:54:18,240
\nBecause he knew there was
\nsomething in that and God was <\/p>\n
781
\n00:54:18,240 –> 00:54:21,120
\ntrying to teach him a lesson.
\nHe knew that there was something<\/p>\n
782
\n00:54:21,120 –> 00:54:22,960
\nthere, and it was.
\nPlaying on his mind and he <\/p>\n
783
\n00:54:22,960 –> 00:54:25,120
\ndidn’t.
\nWant to tell them because they <\/p>\n
784
\n00:54:25,120 –> 00:54:28,080
\nwould have immediately picked up
\nthe issue and said, Samson, <\/p>\n
785
\n00:54:28,120 –> 00:54:30,400
\ncan’t you see what that’s doing
\nin your life? <\/p>\n
786
\n00:54:31,440 –> 00:54:34,320
\nHe knew God was doing something,
\nbut he wanted to go that way, <\/p>\n
787
\n00:54:34,320 –> 00:54:38,040
\nand he procrastinated for so
\nlong that he didn’t know where <\/p>\n
788
\n00:54:38,040 –> 00:54:40,120
\nhe was going to go, and he just
\nkept on leaning. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:54:40,120 –> 00:54:43,520
\nBack over towards Timnath to see
\nthis woman all the time. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:54:43,760 –> 00:54:49,240
\nHere’s a graphic picture of the
\ndeteriorating effect of sin and <\/p>\n
791
\n00:54:49,240 –> 00:54:54,280
\nof indecision in our lives,
\nyoung people. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:54:55,880 –> 00:55:01,040
\nAnd he went back in verse 7 to
\nsee the woman, and he went and <\/p>\n
793
\n00:55:01,040 –> 00:55:03,840
\ntalked to the woman, he told and
\nshe. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:55:03,840 –> 00:55:05,880
\nPleased Sensing.
\nWell, I don’t know why he went <\/p>\n
795
\n00:55:05,880 –> 00:55:07,720
\nback.
\nYou know, I think he went back <\/p>\n
796
\n00:55:08,080 –> 00:55:10,240
\nwell.
\nThis incident of the line was <\/p>\n
797
\n00:55:10,240 –> 00:55:13,760
\nworrying him and and he really
\nbelieved he probably shouldn’t <\/p>\n
798
\n00:55:13,760 –> 00:55:15,280
\ngo.
\nBut then he thought. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:55:15,280 –> 00:55:17,960
\nWell, I’ll just go back once and
\nit’ll convince me once and for <\/p>\n
800
\n00:55:17,960 –> 00:55:19,800
\nall.
\nWhether I should be there or <\/p>\n
801
\n00:55:19,800 –> 00:55:22,880
\nnot.
\nAnd he went, what a stupid thing<\/p>\n
802
\n00:55:22,880 –> 00:55:26,520
\nit was, because when he got
\ntalking to her, of course he <\/p>\n
803
\n00:55:26,520 –> 00:55:30,440
\nliked it.
\nShe pleased him well and he’s <\/p>\n
804
\n00:55:30,440 –> 00:55:33,320
\ndecided to keep on going with
\nthe relationship. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:55:33,600 –> 00:55:37,120
\nBut he should have stayed.
\nAway and that interaction <\/p>\n
806
\n00:55:37,120 –> 00:55:40,480
\ndestroyed any growing doubts
\nthat there were in his mind that<\/p>\n
807
\n00:55:40,480 –> 00:55:41,920
\nso it made it.
\nEasier for him to. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:55:41,920 –> 00:55:46,520
\nRationalize and the impact of
\nthat lesson that God was driving<\/p>\n
809
\n00:55:46,520 –> 00:55:49,160
\nhome with a lion was lost.
\nIt was a God-given. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:55:49,160 –> 00:55:52,560
\nOpportunity, and he’d thrown it
\naway. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:55:53,520 –> 00:56:00,200
\nThe more we capitulate, the more
\nwe oscillate with sin and making<\/p>\n
812
\n00:56:00,200 –> 00:56:05,720
\ndecisions, young people, the
\nmore likely we are to give in. <\/p>\n
813
\n00:56:08,160 –> 00:56:11,640
\nThe more quickly, the more
\ndecisively we make a decision <\/p>\n
814
\n00:56:11,640 –> 00:56:16,080
\nfor what is right, the easier it
\nwill be to to do it again. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:56:17,400 –> 00:56:19,320
\nBut there’s further degradation
\nof his thinking. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:56:19,320 –> 00:56:21,600
\nLook at verse 8.
\nAnd after a time he returned to <\/p>\n
817
\n00:56:21,600 –> 00:56:25,120
\ntake her, and he turned the side
\nto see the carcass of the lion. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:56:26,280 –> 00:56:29,520
\nAnd behold, there was a swarm of
\nbees and honey in the carcass of<\/p>\n
819
\n00:56:29,520 –> 00:56:33,800
\nthe lion.
\nNow that first word carcass <\/p>\n
820
\n00:56:33,800 –> 00:56:36,480
\nthere is different to the word
\nin the end of verse 8 and in <\/p>\n
821
\n00:56:36,480 –> 00:56:40,240
\nverse 9, and it really means the
\nruin or the fall of that lion. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:56:41,200 –> 00:56:44,760
\nIt’s an unusual word.
\nBut he goes down and and <\/p>\n
823
\n00:56:44,760 –> 00:56:47,520
\ninterestingly, he digresses
\nacross to see this line. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:56:47,560 –> 00:56:49,640
\nIt was still.
\nPlaguing it was still niggling <\/p>\n
825
\n00:56:49,640 –> 00:56:55,000
\nat his conscience.
\nYoung people Never, ever ignore <\/p>\n
826
\n00:56:55,000 –> 00:57:02,680
\nthe twinges of conscience.
\nGod is telling us something and <\/p>\n
827
\n00:57:02,680 –> 00:57:05,920
\nsome practical advice about
\novercoming weakness and problems<\/p>\n
828
\n00:57:05,920 –> 00:57:07,560
\nin our.
\nIf you know that you have a <\/p>\n
829
\n00:57:07,560 –> 00:57:13,080
\nweakness or a problem.
\nWhen you’re in a saner moment <\/p>\n
830
\n00:57:13,080 –> 00:57:15,120
\nand it’s not, the problem is not
\nthere. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:57:15,320 –> 00:57:18,080
\nSit.
\nDown with your Bible and <\/p>\n
832
\n00:57:18,080 –> 00:57:21,160
\ndetermine the course of action
\nas to what you would do if that <\/p>\n
833
\n00:57:21,160 –> 00:57:24,720
\nproblem faces.
\nYou again determined that when <\/p>\n
834
\n00:57:24,720 –> 00:57:28,960
\nyou’re not in the prompt.
\nOr that weakness and. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:57:29,000 –> 00:57:30,280
\nI could rest.
\nYou can rest. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:57:30,280 –> 00:57:33,680
\nAssured that when that.
\nRears its head again in your <\/p>\n
837
\n00:57:33,680 –> 00:57:37,320
\nlife.
\nThe first thing that will come <\/p>\n
838
\n00:57:37,320 –> 00:57:41,120
\ninto your mind is what you
\ndetermined was the right thing <\/p>\n
839
\n00:57:41,120 –> 00:57:43,640
\nto do.
\nAnd if you have. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:57:43,640 –> 00:57:46,960
\nA plan of action to follow.
\nYou’ve got something to rest on <\/p>\n
841
\n00:57:46,960 –> 00:57:50,920
\nand to hold and to walk straight
\nout of that temptation or of <\/p>\n
842
\n00:57:50,920 –> 00:57:53,040
\nthat weakness and take that
\ncourse of action. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:57:53,920 –> 00:57:56,360
\n‘Cause there’s no guarantee that
\nwe’re going to necessarily take <\/p>\n
844
\n00:57:56,360 –> 00:57:59,160
\nit, but it will come back to our
\nmind. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:57:59,560 –> 00:58:03,280
\nIf we’ve made a determined
\neffort to to determine. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:58:03,280 –> 00:58:05,520
\nHow we might overcome what we.
\nWill do. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:58:05,520 –> 00:58:08,400
\nWhat we will do in those
\ncircumstances is very important.<\/p>\n
848
\n00:58:08,400 –> 00:58:09,800
\nTo be.
\nDon’t leave it to chance. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:58:11,560 –> 00:58:16,960
\nBut now Samson looks at the ruin
\nof the Philistines, because <\/p>\n
850
\n00:58:16,960 –> 00:58:20,560
\nthat’s what it represented, and
\nhe’s amazed at the whole <\/p>\n
851
\n00:58:20,560 –> 00:58:22,320
\ninstant.
\nHe stands back and thinks about <\/p>\n
852
\n00:58:22,520 –> 00:58:24,760
\nwhen it happened.
\nAnd now there’s something even <\/p>\n
853
\n00:58:24,760 –> 00:58:26,680
\nmore unusual.
\nThere’s bees in a carcass, and <\/p>\n
854
\n00:58:26,680 –> 00:58:29,200
\nbees never, never build, carc
\nbuild. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:58:29,200 –> 00:58:32,760
\nThey’re hives in carcasses or in
\nputrefying remains. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:58:33,200 –> 00:58:35,840
\nAnd there’s something strange,
\nthere’s something awfully <\/p>\n
857
\n00:58:35,840 –> 00:58:39,520
\nstrange about this whole thing.
\nAnd he took the honey. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:58:40,840 –> 00:58:45,800
\nNow what that word means in
\nverse 9, He took thereof in his <\/p>\n
859
\n00:58:45,800 –> 00:58:50,040
\nhands, and went on eating, and
\nhe told them not at the end of <\/p>\n
860
\n00:58:50,040 –> 00:58:54,480
\nverse 9 that He had taken the
\nhoney out of the carcass of the <\/p>\n
861
\n00:58:54,480 –> 00:58:58,200
\nlion.
\nThat is exactly the same word in<\/p>\n
862
\n00:58:58,200 –> 00:59:04,680
\nthe Hebrew that is rendered in
\nverse 4, Dominion He. <\/p>\n
863
\n00:59:05,040 –> 00:59:11,280
\nOut of the carcass of that lion.
\nTook Dominion and went back home<\/p>\n
864
\n00:59:12,520 –> 00:59:14,640
\nand he gave to his mother.
\nHe didn’t tell them where it <\/p>\n
865
\n00:59:14,640 –> 00:59:16,960
\ncame from, he just gave them
\nsome of this honey. <\/p>\n
866
\n00:59:18,200 –> 00:59:19,360
\nOr what was it?
\nWhat was it? <\/p>\n
867
\n00:59:19,360 –> 00:59:22,280
\nTelling him brothers and
\nsisters, he didn’t tell them <\/p>\n
868
\n00:59:22,280 –> 00:59:26,000
\nabout that line, but God was
\ntrying to teach Samson a lesson.<\/p>\n
869
\n00:59:26,480 –> 00:59:29,640
\nHe was saying to him that
\nSamson, it’s only the Spirit of <\/p>\n
870
\n00:59:29,640 –> 00:59:33,160
\nYahweh that can ruin the
\noppressor and bring dominion. <\/p>\n
871
\n00:59:34,160 –> 00:59:38,280
\nAnd it will only be.
\nThen that sweetness and <\/p>\n
872
\n00:59:38,280 –> 00:59:41,600
\nblessing, which is what Honey
\nrepresents, would come. <\/p>\n
873
\n00:59:42,400 –> 00:59:47,080
\nSamson, while you’re playing
\naround with a live lion, there <\/p>\n
874
\n00:59:47,080 –> 00:59:53,160
\ncan be no sweetness.
\nStop dabbling with Philistine. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:59:53,160 –> 00:59:59,480
\nWomen RIP the Philistines apart
\nand sweetness will come out of <\/p>\n
876
\n00:59:59,480 –> 01:00:04,800
\nthat ruin.
\nIt’s powerful, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
877
\n01:00:07,120 –> 01:00:10,240
\nThat Samson by this stage has
\noscillated for so long that <\/p>\n
878
\n01:00:10,240 –> 01:00:13,040
\nthough he sees there’s something
\nthere, he doesn’t want to listen<\/p>\n
879
\n01:00:13,040 –> 01:00:14,720
\nto that little voice in his
\nhead. <\/p>\n
880
\n01:00:15,520 –> 01:00:19,520
\nUnless we make decisive action,
\nwe’ll always be in trouble, <\/p>\n
881
\n01:00:19,520 –> 01:00:23,000
\nbrothers and sisters, in the
\nface of the providential hand of<\/p>\n
882
\n01:00:23,000 –> 01:00:25,880
\nGod.
\nThere seen in his life in verse <\/p>\n
883
\n01:00:25,880 –> 01:00:28,560
\n10.
\nSo his father went down under <\/p>\n
884
\n01:00:28,560 –> 01:00:30,520
\nthe woman, and Samson there made
\na feast. <\/p>\n
885
\n01:00:31,080 –> 01:00:36,560
\nFor so the young men used to do,
\nand in the face of God’s <\/p>\n
886
\n01:00:36,560 –> 01:00:40,680
\nProverbs, he goes down.
\nNotice his mother didn’t go. <\/p>\n
887
\n01:00:52,960 –> 01:01:00,160
\nBut the wise man in Proverbs
\nchapter 3 said Trust in Yahweh, <\/p>\n
888
\n01:01:01,920 –> 01:01:05,360
\nand leaned with all thine heart,
\nand leaned not unto thine own <\/p>\n
889
\n01:01:05,360 –> 01:01:09,840
\nunderstanding.
\nIn all thy ways, acknowledge <\/p>\n
890
\n01:01:09,840 –> 01:01:16,440
\nhim, and he will direct thy
\npaths, underlined the words all,<\/p>\n
891
\n01:01:17,080 –> 01:01:23,400
\nin all thy way acknowledge.
\nAnd Samson wasn’t doing that at <\/p>\n
892
\n01:01:23,400 –> 01:01:27,400
\nthe moment.
\nAnd so he was allowed by God to <\/p>\n
893
\n01:01:27,400 –> 01:01:32,720
\ngo down, tragic as that was.
\nIf we will not acknowledge him <\/p>\n
894
\n01:01:32,720 –> 01:01:36,920
\nin all our ways, young people,
\nHe will allow us to go our way. <\/p>\n
895
\n01:01:38,320 –> 01:01:40,840
\nAnd what a tragedy that is.
\nAnd Samson. <\/p>\n
896
\n01:01:40,840 –> 01:01:45,720
\nThrew a drinking party with his
\nphilistine uncircumcised <\/p>\n
897
\n01:01:45,800 –> 01:01:50,880
\nphilistine mates.
\nThat’s how far sin and its <\/p>\n
898
\n01:01:50,880 –> 01:01:54,120
\neffects had deteriorated.
\nAnd now he himself is under <\/p>\n
899
\n01:01:54,120 –> 01:01:58,960
\ndemeaning of the Philistines.
\nHe’s following their customs and<\/p>\n
900
\n01:01:59,160 –> 01:02:02,640
\nwhat was the enemy and now his
\nfriends. <\/p>\n
901
\n01:02:03,560 –> 01:02:06,200
\nWhat an amazing thing and don’t
\nthink. <\/p>\n
902
\n01:02:06,200 –> 01:02:09,760
\nThat that won’t happen to us.
\nDon’t think that the enemy out <\/p>\n
903
\n01:02:09,760 –> 01:02:12,960
\nthere and those who think
\ndiametrically opposed to all <\/p>\n
904
\n01:02:12,960 –> 01:02:17,160
\nthat God upholds us right and
\ntrue, can’t become our friends <\/p>\n
905
\n01:02:17,360 –> 01:02:19,160
\nbecause they can become our
\nfriends. <\/p>\n
906
\n01:02:19,160 –> 01:02:25,320
\nAs soon as we let down our guard
\nand we sell ourselves out and <\/p>\n
907
\n01:02:25,320 –> 01:02:29,240
\nfollow their customs, we’ll be
\ntheir friends. <\/p>\n
908
\n01:02:29,720 –> 01:02:32,840
\nIf we stand up for what’s right,
\nwe’ll be their enemies and they <\/p>\n
909
\n01:02:32,840 –> 01:02:37,720
\nwon’t have a bar of us.
\nBecause he didn’t make a firm <\/p>\n
910
\n01:02:37,720 –> 01:02:40,000
\nstand.
\nHe just went down and down. <\/p>\n
911
\n01:02:40,000 –> 01:02:41,560
\nHis mind just got worse and
\nworse. <\/p>\n
912
\n01:02:41,560 –> 01:02:43,240
\nAnd Singh defiled his
\nconscience. <\/p>\n
913
\n01:02:43,440 –> 01:02:45,000
\nIt became.
\nEasy and easy, and in fact, we <\/p>\n
914
\n01:02:45,720 –> 01:02:47,600
\ngot to the point.
\nWhere he could make a joke. <\/p>\n
915
\n01:02:47,720 –> 01:02:50,960
\nOut of the Providence of God
\nNever Riddle about the line a <\/p>\n
916
\n01:02:51,080 –> 01:02:53,280
\njoke out of the Providence of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
917
\n01:02:54,040 –> 01:02:58,280
\nWe can’t be involved in the
\nworld’s activities and it have <\/p>\n
918
\n01:02:58,280 –> 01:03:00,720
\nno effect on us.
\nWe can’t. <\/p>\n
919
\n01:03:01,400 –> 01:03:04,920
\nIt will have an effect.
\nAnd Samson’s party goes on and <\/p>\n
920
\n01:03:04,920 –> 01:03:08,920
\nhe only comes to his senses when
\nhe’s so deceived, betrayed and <\/p>\n
921
\n01:03:08,920 –> 01:03:15,360
\nhurt because they found out he’s
\nreal by pressing his wife to be <\/p>\n
922
\n01:03:15,640 –> 01:03:20,680
\nthat he storms out in disgust.
\nAnd verse 19 says and the <\/p>\n
923
\n01:03:20,680 –> 01:03:23,840
\nSpirit.
\nOf Yahweh came upon him, and he <\/p>\n
924
\n01:03:23,840 –> 01:03:26,200
\nwent down to Ascol and he.
\nSlew 30 men. <\/p>\n
925
\n01:03:26,480 –> 01:03:29,640
\nThat’s why the spirit of Yahweh
\ncame back to him, because he was<\/p>\n
926
\n01:03:29,640 –> 01:03:35,480
\nready to RIP the lion He put
\nturned his back on all the <\/p>\n
927
\n01:03:35,480 –> 01:03:38,760
\nPhilistine ways and walked out
\nto do. <\/p>\n
928
\n01:03:38,760 –> 01:03:43,400
\nDamage to them and to uphold the
\nprinciples of Yahweh and Yahweh <\/p>\n
929
\n01:03:43,440 –> 01:03:46,160
\nwas with Him.
\nWhat a powerful lesson that is. <\/p>\n
930
\n01:03:47,520 –> 01:03:50,520
\nEvery time he turns his back on
\nthe Philistines in the record, <\/p>\n
931
\n01:03:50,520 –> 01:03:53,720
\nYahweh comes, comes back, isn’t.
\nIsn’t that what? <\/p>\n
932
\n01:03:53,880 –> 01:03:56,840
\nKong said in in that to verse in
\nSecond of Corinthians that we <\/p>\n
933
\n01:03:56,840 –> 01:03:59,120
\nsaw.
\nBe ye separate and touch, not <\/p>\n
934
\n01:03:59,120 –> 01:04:02,880
\nthe unclean thing, and I will
\nreceive you while you’re <\/p>\n
935
\n01:04:02,880 –> 01:04:08,120
\ndabbling, Samson, Don’t think.
\nThat the Almighty can be close <\/p>\n
936
\n01:04:08,120 –> 01:04:10,920
\nto you and He.
\nWent up interestingly, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
937
\n01:04:10,920 –> 01:04:13,960
\nHe went.
\nUp to his father’s house. <\/p>\n
938
\n01:04:14,280 –> 01:04:19,080
\nEnd of verse 19.
\nAnd you’d think, well, Samson, <\/p>\n
939
\n01:04:19,080 –> 01:04:23,160
\nthank goodness you’ve learnt
\nyour lesson after all that. <\/p>\n
940
\n01:04:23,160 –> 01:04:26,520
\nIt took an awful lot.
\nBut chapter 15 verse one says, <\/p>\n
941
\n01:04:26,520 –> 01:04:31,720
\nbut it came to pass within a
\nwhile after, in the time of the <\/p>\n
942
\n01:04:31,720 –> 01:04:34,560
\nwheat harvest, that Samson
\nvisited his wife. <\/p>\n
943
\n01:04:34,560 –> 01:04:38,680
\nWith a kid.
\nAnd said I’ll go into my wife, <\/p>\n
944
\n01:04:39,120 –> 01:04:41,440
\ninto the chamber to consummate
\nthe marriage. <\/p>\n
945
\n01:04:42,760 –> 01:04:48,720
\nWhat an amazing thing.
\nSurely he had learnt his lesson.<\/p>\n
946
\n01:04:50,040 –> 01:04:53,360
\nWell, young people, this is the
\nlesson. <\/p>\n
947
\n01:04:54,280 –> 01:04:58,560
\nSin permanently affects the
\nmind. <\/p>\n
948
\n01:04:59,600 –> 01:05:07,360
\nThat’s why he went back.
\nHe had paths cut into his mind <\/p>\n
949
\n01:05:07,360 –> 01:05:12,120
\nthat he couldn’t eradicate, and
\nhe kept on coming back to that <\/p>\n
950
\n01:05:12,120 –> 01:05:15,640
\nwoman because he dabbled around
\nwith it for too long. <\/p>\n
951
\n01:05:16,400 –> 01:05:20,800
\nAnd now he comes back.
\nSin degrades. <\/p>\n
952
\n01:05:21,400 –> 01:05:24,840
\nBut you know young people, the
\nreverse is also very true. <\/p>\n
953
\n01:05:26,240 –> 01:05:30,240
\nThe experience or practice of
\nwhat is right, of righteousness,<\/p>\n
954
\n01:05:30,800 –> 01:05:34,560
\nof godliness, of truthful
\nthings, of holiness, has a <\/p>\n
955
\n01:05:34,560 –> 01:05:39,720
\npowerful effect on our minds if
\nwe make conscious decisions. <\/p>\n
956
\n01:05:39,880 –> 01:05:42,040
\nPositive decisions to do what is
\nright. <\/p>\n
957
\n01:05:42,040 –> 01:05:45,080
\nIt will become easier to do what
\nis right. <\/p>\n
958
\n01:05:45,760 –> 01:05:48,000
\nYou know, It’s the analogy of
\npracticing any skill. <\/p>\n
959
\n01:05:48,160 –> 01:05:50,360
\nIf you want to be able to play
\ntennis well, you’ve got to get <\/p>\n
960
\n01:05:50,360 –> 01:05:52,120
\nout of there at court and you’ve
\ngot to practice. <\/p>\n
961
\n01:05:52,280 –> 01:05:54,040
\nYou don’t just hit 2 balls or
\nknow. <\/p>\n
962
\n01:05:54,040 –> 01:05:57,120
\nHow to do?
\nIt and then you can play tennis,<\/p>\n
963
\n01:05:57,800 –> 01:06:01,520
\nnot well anyway.
\nAnd with the expression of <\/p>\n
964
\n01:06:01,520 –> 01:06:05,080
\nrighteousness in our lives,
\nyoung people, we have to have <\/p>\n
965
\n01:06:05,080 –> 01:06:08,000
\npractice.
\nIt’s the analogy. <\/p>\n
966
\n01:06:08,400 –> 01:06:11,000
\nThat we are very familiar with
\nin everyday life, and the <\/p>\n
967
\n01:06:11,000 –> 01:06:13,000
\napostle Paul says this in
\nHebrews 5. <\/p>\n
968
\n01:06:17,960 –> 01:06:21,520
\nSolid food and this is taken
\nfrom Weymouth translation Solid.<\/p>\n
969
\n01:06:21,520 –> 01:06:24,040
\nFood is for adults, that is,
\nthose who through. <\/p>\n
970
\n01:06:24,040 –> 01:06:30,920
\nConstant practice have their
\nspiritual faculties carefully <\/p>\n
971
\n01:06:30,920 –> 01:06:33,720
\ntrained.
\nTo distinguish between good and <\/p>\n
972
\n01:06:33,720 –> 01:06:34,680
\nevil, you.
\nKnow what that’s? <\/p>\n
973
\n01:06:34,680 –> 01:06:40,360
\nSaying when we practice doing
\nwhat is right, our moral <\/p>\n
974
\n01:06:40,360 –> 01:06:44,720
\nfaculties will become sharper
\nand sharper and we’ll be able to<\/p>\n
975
\n01:06:47,520 –> 01:06:50,400
\nwhat is right and wrong.
\nBut if we have practice of <\/p>\n
976
\n01:06:50,400 –> 01:06:53,520
\nunrighteousness and you’re in
\nthat environment all the time, <\/p>\n
977
\n01:06:54,120 –> 01:06:58,360
\nour senses will become duller
\nand duller and duller and we <\/p>\n
978
\n01:06:58,360 –> 01:07:00,360
\nwon’t be able to see what we’re
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
979
\n01:07:00,880 –> 01:07:03,240
\nThen Samson’s.
\nSaga goes on and on. <\/p>\n
980
\n01:07:03,320 –> 01:07:05,320
\nWe don’t.
\nWe’re not going to look at any <\/p>\n
981
\n01:07:05,320 –> 01:07:07,720
\nmore.
\nOf Samson’s life today, apart <\/p>\n
982
\n01:07:07,720 –> 01:07:09,320
\nfrom right at the very end of
\nhis. <\/p>\n
983
\n01:07:09,320 –> 01:07:13,040
\nLife he afflicted great.
\nLosses on the Philistines. <\/p>\n
984
\n01:07:13,600 –> 01:07:17,840
\nAnd then they burned his wife.
\nHe brought great slaughter on <\/p>\n
985
\n01:07:17,840 –> 01:07:22,440
\nanother occasion when his mind
\nwas focused on his on what God <\/p>\n
986
\n01:07:22,440 –> 01:07:24,760
\nhad actually called him for.
\nHis life is. <\/p>\n
987
\n01:07:24,760 –> 01:07:29,440
\nCharacterized by great highs,
\ngreat courage, great space for <\/p>\n
988
\n01:07:29,440 –> 01:07:32,760
\nwhich he.
\nStands in Hebrews Chapter 11. <\/p>\n
989
\n01:07:33,560 –> 01:07:37,400
\nBut there is also great troughs
\nof personal weakness. <\/p>\n
990
\n01:07:38,360 –> 01:07:42,520
\nAnd it was that weakness that
\nhindered God’s ability to work <\/p>\n
991
\n01:07:42,560 –> 01:07:47,520
\nthrough him.
\nAnd he never, ever resolved that<\/p>\n
992
\n01:07:47,520 –> 01:07:51,040
\nproblem, brethren and sisters,
\nto start with the problem that <\/p>\n
993
\n01:07:51,840 –> 01:07:55,160
\nthat was a problem at the
\nbeginning of his life. <\/p>\n
994
\n01:07:57,000 –> 01:08:00,800
\nAnd we find, as we know in
\nChapter 16, the end of his life.<\/p>\n
995
\n01:08:04,440 –> 01:08:10,200
\nHe loved a woman again.
\nAnd the problem, the problem <\/p>\n
996
\n01:08:10,200 –> 01:08:14,200
\nthat he had not effectively
\ndealt with, came back. <\/p>\n
997
\n01:08:16,720 –> 01:08:21,560
\nAnd it’s again in the territory
\nof Dan, in the valley of Soric <\/p>\n
998
\n01:08:21,560 –> 01:08:25,560
\nthat belonged to Dan, but is.
\nPossessed by Philistines. <\/p>\n
999
\n01:08:25,760 –> 01:08:31,520
\nAnd there in that place, he sold
\nhis heart, soul, and. <\/p>\n
1000
\n01:08:31,520 –> 01:08:40,760
\nStrength into the lap of a
\nPhilistine woman and the scars. <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:08:40,760 –> 01:08:43,040
\nOf his previous.
\nExperiences had led him to <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:08:43,040 –> 01:08:45,279
\nignore his conscience.
\nCompare that with Joseph. <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:08:46,800 –> 01:08:50,040
\nThe practice of righteousness,
\nwhen it came to a difficult <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:08:50,040 –> 01:08:53,120
\ndecision, made the right stand
\nbecause his faculties were <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:08:53,120 –> 01:08:56,560
\nsharpened.
\nBut Samson’s mind has been <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:08:56,560 –> 01:08:58,120
\naffected by sin.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:08:59,040 –> 01:09:03,120
\nHe can’t see as clearly and he
\nhadn’t worked strongly enough to<\/p>\n
1008
\n01:09:03,120 –> 01:09:07,920
\novercome.
\nThat and now the symbol of his, <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:09:08,800 –> 01:09:10,960
\nof his separation and his
\nconsecration. <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:09:10,960 –> 01:09:15,399
\nHis hair drops into the lap of a
\nwoman and the source of his <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:09:15,399 –> 01:09:19,960
\npower to gain dominion is
\nsnuffed out. <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:09:21,080 –> 01:09:26,479
\nThat power lay in his separation
\nof thinking and his devotion to <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:09:26,479 –> 01:09:30,680
\nholiness.
\nThat’s where our power lays, <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:09:30,680 –> 01:09:34,600
\nyoung people and brethren and
\nsisters, in the separation of <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:09:34,600 –> 01:09:38,200
\nour thinking and a devotion to
\nholiness. <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:09:39,040 –> 01:09:45,200
\nThere is power that can match
\nnothing on earth in that but a <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:09:45,399 –> 01:09:51,000
\nwoman, a Philistine woman,
\nrobbed him of the greatest power<\/p>\n
1018
\n01:09:51,000 –> 01:09:55,160
\non earth and bound him in
\nchains. <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:09:56,960 –> 01:10:01,880
\nWhat a powerful lesson.
\nThe world with its the lust of <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:10:01,880 –> 01:10:03,960
\nthe flesh, the lust of the eyes,
\nand the pride of life. <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:10:04,480 –> 01:10:06,040
\nAll the ways.
\nAnd activities that are <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:10:06,040 –> 01:10:11,600
\nassociated with its philosophies
\ncan SAP the vital power that we <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:10:11,600 –> 01:10:16,920
\nhave and take dominion.
\nIf we allow. <\/p>\n
1024
\n01:10:16,920 –> 01:10:20,960
\nToo close a contact and allow
\nthe distinctions to blur. <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:10:21,440 –> 01:10:24,280
\nBut that wasn’t even the
\ngreatest tragedy in Samson’s <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:10:24,280 –> 01:10:28,600
\nlife.
\nThe greatest tragedy is in verse<\/p>\n
1027
\n01:10:28,760 –> 01:10:36,720
\n6, verse 20 of chapter 16.
\nAnd she said the Philistines are<\/p>\n
1028
\n01:10:36,720 –> 01:10:38,360
\nupon the Samson and he woke out
\nof sleep. <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:10:38,360 –> 01:10:40,400
\nAnd he said I will go out of
\nthat other times and shake <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:10:40,400 –> 01:10:48,040
\nmyself.
\nAnd he whisked, not that Yahweh <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:10:48,600 –> 01:10:56,200
\nwas departed, he just thought he
\ncould dabble. <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:10:56,200 –> 01:11:00,760
\nAround.
\nWith the worldly things play, <\/p>\n
1033
\n01:11:01,000 –> 01:11:07,800
\nloosen light and still go back
\nand have all the benefits of <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:11:07,960 –> 01:11:15,200
\nYahweh’s association.
\nAnd he was deceived, sadly <\/p>\n
1035
\n01:11:15,200 –> 01:11:20,080
\ndeceived, and he didn’t even
\nknow that Yahweh had left him, <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:11:22,160 –> 01:11:26,040
\ndeceived by sin and his
\ninvolvement in worldly things. <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:11:27,160 –> 01:11:29,560
\nAnd it put him in bondage with
\nno power. <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:11:30,080 –> 01:11:35,040
\nAbsolute bondage and sin will do
\nthe same, Young people, it’ll do<\/p>\n
1039
\n01:11:35,040 –> 01:11:37,920
\nthe same.
\nSamson was in a prison. <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:11:37,920 –> 01:11:40,920
\nHouse.
\nHis hair shaved, his eyes gouged<\/p>\n
1041
\n01:11:40,920 –> 01:11:43,840
\nout chains in darkness, in
\nsolitude. <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:11:43,840 –> 01:11:48,640
\nIn agony, day after day, month
\nafter month, year after year. <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:11:50,280 –> 01:11:57,600
\nAnd in that circumstance, with
\nnothing else, what he’d learned <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:11:57,720 –> 01:12:06,040
\nin youth began to come back.
\nHe heard his mother’s voice in <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:12:06,040 –> 01:12:12,800
\nthat prison.
\nYoung people Samson Nazarite <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:12:12,800 –> 01:12:16,680
\nship is the only way to overcome
\nthe Philistines. <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:12:20,520 –> 01:12:25,920
\nAnd all the events of his life
\nfluttered back, and with no eyes<\/p>\n
1048
\n01:12:26,880 –> 01:12:32,240
\nhe began to see with the clarity
\nhe’d never ever appreciated <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:12:32,240 –> 01:12:35,400
\nbefore.
\nThe true issues of life, <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:12:37,240 –> 01:12:44,000
\nseparation from ungodly
\ninfluences, and consecration in <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:12:44,000 –> 01:12:48,760
\nholiness are the only things
\nworth striving after. <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:12:50,280 –> 01:12:54,480
\nLook at verse 22.
\nHowbeit, the record tells us the<\/p>\n
1053
\n01:12:54,480 –> 01:13:00,720
\nhair of his head began to grow
\nagain margin as when he was <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:13:00,720 –> 01:13:03,640
\nshaved.
\nThis had taken some considerable<\/p>\n
1055
\n01:13:03,640 –> 01:13:06,440
\ntime.
\nAnd it’s not just saying his <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:13:06,440 –> 01:13:08,680
\nhair grew.
\nHis hair was a symbol of the <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:13:08,680 –> 01:13:12,960
\nconsecration and the separation
\nthat bespoke the Nazarite. <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:13:13,720 –> 01:13:16,880
\nHis hair was taken away because
\nhe wasn’t consecrated and he <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:13:16,880 –> 01:13:18,920
\nwasn’t separate.
\nBut now it was growing again. <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:13:18,920 –> 01:13:21,600
\nIt was telling us that his
\nseparation of mind and the <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:13:21,600 –> 01:13:24,720
\nconsecration in holiness, though
\nhe was in a prison and could do <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:13:24,720 –> 01:13:27,440
\nnothing much.
\nWas beginning to return. <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:13:27,640 –> 01:13:32,360
\nAnd they took him out at that
\ntime, after all this had gone <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:13:32,360 –> 01:13:35,240
\nround in his mind, and he’d seen
\nthe folly of his whole life. <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:13:35,640 –> 01:13:39,200
\nThey took him out amidst the
\nmocking and humiliation and <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:13:39,200 –> 01:13:43,440
\nribald laughter of the cruelest
\nand filthiest people on earth, <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:13:45,160 –> 01:13:48,200
\nand they joined with their God
\nto despise him. <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:13:51,880 –> 01:13:56,720
\nAnd he couldn’t see them.
\nHe could only hear them, but he <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:13:56,720 –> 01:13:59,960
\nhated.
\nWhat he heard, he despised it. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:14:01,960 –> 01:14:11,480
\nAnd he whispered a prayer, O
\nYahweh, Remember Me I pray thee,<\/p>\n
1071
\n01:14:13,200 –> 01:14:20,720
\nand strengthen me.
\nI pray thee only this once, and <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:14:20,720 –> 01:14:28,160
\nlet me die with the Philistines,
\nbecause I’m no better than they <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:14:28,160 –> 01:14:34,320
\nare.
\nAnd he bowed himself with might <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:14:35,640 –> 01:14:43,720
\nnot his own, and in his death
\nbrought the greatest victory of <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:14:43,720 –> 01:14:49,720
\nhis life, a victory that’s
\ntypical now, which would be <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:14:49,760 –> 01:14:51,760
\nlater carried out by the
\ngreatest. <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:14:51,760 –> 01:14:54,440
\nSeed of the woman.
\nWho all his life would have the <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:14:54,440 –> 01:14:57,680
\nminion over himself?
\nSo that in death he might <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:14:57,680 –> 01:15:00,280
\ndeliver those who all their
\nlifetime had been subject to <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:15:00,280 –> 01:15:03,160
\nbondage.
\nSamson’s life, brethren, sisters<\/p>\n
1081
\n01:15:03,160 –> 01:15:07,880
\nand young people, shows that
\ndespite human weakness, <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:15:09,760 –> 01:15:12,400
\npressures that he himself
\nbrought to bear because of his <\/p>\n
1083
\n01:15:12,400 –> 01:15:18,600
\nown folly, we can, through the
\nmercy and grace of God, be <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:15:18,600 –> 01:15:28,160
\nvictorious.
\nBut not until we recognize the <\/p>\n
1085
\n01:15:28,160 –> 01:15:35,240
\nNazarite principles in our life.
\nIn conclusion, I’d like you to <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:15:35,240 –> 01:15:38,080
\ncome with me through Paul’s
\nwords in Second of Corinthians <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:15:38,080 –> 01:15:47,680
\nchapter 10, 2nd of Corinthians
\nchapter 10. <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:15:50,160 –> 01:15:52,600
\nHere’s the issue.
\nYoung people and brother and. <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:15:52,600 –> 01:15:57,600
\nSisters for our lives and the
\napostle says in second of <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:15:57,600 –> 01:16:01,240
\nCorinthians 10 and verse 3.
\nFor though we. <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:16:01,240 –> 01:16:05,920
\nWalk in the flesh.
\nWe do not war after the flesh, <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:16:05,920 –> 01:16:09,520
\nas Samson didn’t.
\nHe ought to have been fighting <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:16:09,520 –> 01:16:11,680
\nwith a power that they knew
\nnothing of. <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:16:12,600 –> 01:16:17,920
\nFor the weapons of our warfare
\nare not carnal, but mighty. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:16:17,920 –> 01:16:21,920
\nThrough God to the pulling down
\nof strongholds, we can do <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:16:22,040 –> 01:16:24,000
\nanything.
\nThrough God’s power. <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:16:25,760 –> 01:16:31,480
\nBut verse 5 says, casting down
\nimaginations, and every high <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:16:31,480 –> 01:16:34,000
\nthing that exalteth itself
\nagainst the knowledge of God, <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:16:34,560 –> 01:16:39,240
\nand bringing into captivity
\nevery thought to the obedience <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:16:39,240 –> 01:16:40,920
\nof Christ.
\nLet me read you that verse from <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:16:40,920 –> 01:16:46,040
\nthe RSV.
\nWe destroy, Paul says, arguments<\/p>\n
1102
\n01:16:46,040 –> 01:16:50,760
\nand every proud obstacle to the
\nknowledge of God, and take every<\/p>\n
1103
\n01:16:50,840 –> 01:16:58,000
\nthought captive to obey Christ.
\nDominion is not won or lost in <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:16:58,000 –> 01:17:00,760
\nthe world.
\nIt’s won or lost in the mind. <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:17:04,640 –> 01:17:07,120
\nThe world is out.
\nTo control and to influence our <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:17:07,120 –> 01:17:09,480
\nthinking.
\nBut our greatest enemy is <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:17:09,480 –> 01:17:13,000
\nwithin, and God has given us the
\nweapons to deal with it. <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:17:13,800 –> 01:17:17,120
\nIt’s no good being in a book,
\nyoung people, because it. <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:17:17,240 –> 01:17:19,160
\nWon’t do us any good when we
\nneed it. <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:17:19,720 –> 01:17:24,080
\nIt must be in our minds.
\nWe’ve got to spend time <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:17:24,080 –> 01:17:29,880
\nexercising our minds on godly
\nthings so that when high and <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:17:29,880 –> 01:17:32,720
\nlofty things, arguments, proud
\nobstacles to the knowledge of <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:17:32,720 –> 01:17:37,240
\nGod, whatever it might be,
\nweaknesses raise their heads. <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:17:37,560 –> 01:17:41,360
\nWe can destroy and take active
\nthe thoughts. <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:17:43,480 –> 01:17:47,080
\nWhich if not taken captive, will
\nlead to hideous monsters in our <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:17:47,080 –> 01:17:49,680
\nlives.
\nBefore they come out, that’s <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:17:49,680 –> 01:17:52,600
\nwhat the apostle is saying and
\nthe Proverbs said. <\/p>\n
1118
\n01:17:53,080 –> 01:17:55,920
\nBetter is he that ruleth his own
\nspirit than he that taketh the <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:17:55,920 –> 01:17:59,200
\ncity.
\nSamson could take a city, but he<\/p>\n
1120
\n01:17:59,200 –> 01:18:02,400
\ncouldn’t rule his own spirit
\nduring part of his life. <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:18:02,720 –> 01:18:09,600
\nAnd the challenge of his life is
\nthat dominion will only come by <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:18:09,600 –> 01:18:14,520
\nseparation of our thinking from
\ndefiling influences and devotion<\/p>\n
1123
\n01:18:14,520 –> 01:18:18,280
\nof our minds and our lives to
\nholiness. <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:18:27,080 –> 01:18:28,720
\nIn summary, then, what have we
\nseen? <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:18:31,040 –> 01:18:36,360
\nThat only Nazarites will have
\ndominion, which involves <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:18:36,360 –> 01:18:40,760
\nseparation from all defiling
\ninfluences and consecration and <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:18:40,760 –> 01:18:46,400
\ndedication to God in holiness.
\nThat parents too, need to be <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:18:46,400 –> 01:18:49,120
\nNazarites if their children are
\nto be. <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:18:49,960 –> 01:18:54,120
\nWe need to narrow the sphere of
\nour lives to marry only in the <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:18:54,120 –> 01:18:58,160
\nLord.
\nAnd take notice of this, young <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:18:58,160 –> 01:19:04,240
\npeople, before sin has made deep
\ntracks in your mind. <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:19:05,320 –> 01:19:12,760
\nSin deceives, it deteriorates
\nthe mind, and because the mind <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:19:12,760 –> 01:19:17,040
\nis the area where the battle
\nwill be lost or won, take <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:19:17,320 –> 01:19:23,200
\nthoughts and practice
\nrighteousness, being aware <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:19:23,200 –> 01:19:28,960
\nalways of God’s providential
\nhand that we might in the age to<\/p>\n
1136
\n01:19:28,960 –> 01:19:32,720
\ncome have dominion over all
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