05.30.21 NOTES

Our Mission: Leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus

SAMSON – The Weak Superhero
Judges 13-16

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have – right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start – comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.” 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (The Message)

Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.2 Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. 3 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. 4 Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. 5 For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” Judges 13:1-5 (NKJV)

A prudent person with insight foresees danger coming and prepares himself for it. But the senseless rush blindly forward and suffer the consequences. Proverbs 22:3 (TPT)

1. RECOGNIZE THE DANGER SIGNS

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Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Judges 14:1 (NKJV)

You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice

There’s a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again it leads straight to hell. Sure, those people appear to be having a good time, but all that laughter will end in heartbreak. Proverbs 14:12-13 (MSG)

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You cannot be desire controlled and spirit led at the same time.

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.” Proverbs 25:28 (NLT)

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First pride, then the crash – the bigger the ego, the harder the fall. Proverbs 16:18 (MSG)

For all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world. 1 John 2:16 (NKJV)

MY NEXT STEP:
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2. Accept God’s forgiveness

But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. 1 John 1:9 (NLT)
3. Be ____________________

4. Trust God that you __________ in the League of Least Likely