Opening
Scripture comes from Judges 16: 1-21
“1 One day Samson
went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with
her. 2 The people of Gaza were told, “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the
place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move
during the night, saying, “At dawn we’ll kill him.”
3 But Samson lay
there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the
doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar
and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the
hill that faces Hebron.
4 Some time later,
he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5
The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him
into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him
so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven
hundred shekels[a] of silver.”
6 So Delilah said
to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied
up and subdued.”
7 Samson answered
her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried,
I’ll become as weak as any other man.”
8 Then the rulers
of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried,
and she tied him with them. 9 With men hidden in the room, she called to him,
“Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily
as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his
strength was not discovered.
10 Then Delilah
said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me
how you can be tied.”
11 He said, “If
anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I’ll become
as weak as any other man.”
12 So Delilah took
new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called
to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the ropes off
his arms as if they were threads.
13 Delilah then
said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to
me. Tell me how you can be tied.”
He replied, “If you
weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it
with the pin, I’ll become as weak as any other man.” So while he was sleeping, Delilah
took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric 14 and[b]
tightened it with the pin.
Again she called to
him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled
up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.
15 Then she said to
him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the
third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your
great strength.” 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he
was sick to death of it.
17 So he told her
everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have
been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved,
my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”
18 When Delilah saw
that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the
Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of
the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. 19 After putting him
to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of
his hair, and so began to subdue him.[c] And his strength left him.
20 Then she called,
“Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”
He awoke from his
sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did
not know that the Lord had left him.
21 Then the
Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding
him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.”
We
are living in a world where there is a big chance to sin
The
opportunity to sin is more now than ever before
The
things that seen as development or success are the one misused to do sin for
example mobile phones, internet
The
devil is using attractive invention to attract people to sin
Roman
3: 23 “ for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God ”
Temptation
is not Sin but when you allow yourself to dwell in that temptation then it
become a Sin
Men
are tempted by what they see but what follow after seeing is Sin the
fantasizing
The
example of Samson as we read portrayed what we are doing as believers
You
should decide Now where do you what to live after your death
Do
you choose Heaven or Hell
Samson
was set apart by God for a special assignment in such a way a razor was not
allowed to touch his hair
Judges
13: 5, Even though Samson was powerful he has a weakness to women
Sin
has negative effects to life of Samson
Three
things to learn from Samson