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Bible Study The story of Samson.

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reba

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This story has been on my mind/heart for a few days...
Judges chapters 13-16 Please re-read the story
How does this relate to our daily lives?
What in this story speaks to you?
Do you see redemption in the story?

Reading this story makes me ask my self how often do i flirt with sin, and how often does the sin win?
I see here the corruption that comes upon the church/leaders.
Yes i see redemption Samson gave his life for Israel.
 
Well it's pretty obvious that the life application for our daily lives here is...to not trust ones girlfriend or wife explicitly. You don't have to lie to her, just don't tell her everything.

To get more than that out of it, I'd have to chew on it for a few. The redemption is in that, even after we mess up and say too much, that the Lord will hear us and still be there at the crucial moment when we'll need Him.
 
Those 25 years...

Sampson gave up on chasing after the wrong women for 25 years...But those sins of his youth came back with a vengeance to be deep into Philistines territory. (Before he was in borderline area)

And he lost all strength because of those sins of his youth.
 
reba said:
:lol as expected Edward
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Now don't take that the wrong way. It shouldn't offend your womanly pride, because the man is the spiritual leader of the home.I love girls! What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it...but it stands to reason that some stuff they probably shouldn't be told, then they would be unable tp be beguiled or paid off to bring the man down. Love her, trust her, be loyal, treat her exceptionally well...but don't tell her absolutely everything. That's all. Loose lips sink ships and all like that...:nod
 
This was the plan of the Angel of the Lord (Jesus)....Judges 13:5 "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."

I feel very sure that Samson was to judge Israel a lot longer than just 20 short years. Had he married a woman of his parents choice instead of being a playboy, straying from the path that God had intended for him, his life would have turned out a lot different.
 
reba said:
This story has been on my mind/heart for a few days...
Judges chapters 13-16 Please re-read the story
How does this relate to our daily lives?
What in this story speaks to you?
Do you see redemption in the story?

Reading this story makes me ask my self how often do i flirt with sin, and how often does the sin win?
I see here the corruption that comes upon the church/leaders.
Yes i see redemption Samson gave his life for Israel.
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Always nice to re-read that story. :)

Daily life relation - Don't forget where the strength of the Lord is. Samson assumed he was powerful because of his hair and the vow.

What speaks to me - How God sends His Angels to deliver messages. Not only that, but they do so in very real ways - like on human level type ways. At the same time, you don't see where he is really rebuked for the 'wrong' things he did.

Do I see redemption - I think you find redemption in most all Bible stories. Very few have none.

How do we not know this is all apart of God's plan? Would all of the lords of the Philistines have gathered, to celebrate, had Samson not been captured? So they were all gathered, in one place, which happened to be the same place they were keeping Samson?

I find it interesting how the Angel told his parents that Samson would "begin" to save Israel.
 
reba said:
What in this story speaks to you?
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He did not realize that the power of God had departed from him and he thought God's power was still going to be there for him when he was attacked by his enemies.

20She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him." (Judges 16:20 NASB)

In this day and age of so many of the people of God entertaining sin in the dark at the secret shrine of their computer screens (Ezekiel 8:12 NASB) God is giving us the heads up that if we choose to live in sin we will eventually lose his covering and we will become helpless against our enemies, and we won't even realize we're helpless until it's too late and the enemy is upon us. God's long suffering is long, not never-ending. That's probably the biggest lesson I glean from the story of Samson.
 
reba said:
This story has been on my mind/heart for a few days...
Judges chapters 13-16 Please re-read the story
How does this relate to our daily lives?
What in this story speaks to you?
Do you see redemption in the story?

Reading this story makes me ask my self how often do i flirt with sin, and how often does the sin win?
I see here the corruption that comes upon the church/leaders.
Yes i see redemption Samson gave his life for Israel.
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Samson = Jonathan = Jonah-Than = Jesus
Jonah was swallowed by a great Than
 
Bible study. When I start with trans context situations, the trans time connection seems lost to some.

Sampson had physical enemies (within and without).

Today our enemies are supposed to not be flesh and blood but spiritual forces.
Ephesians 6:12 KJV
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Not to say that the principalities would not be happy to have us concentrate on physical enemies, then we would not battle them. If we fight and devour each other then the rulers of darkness rejoice.

The battle has a great helper in us. The Spirit strives against our flesh. Sampson did not have the word in his heart to confess his sins. Sampson also lacked the word in his mind to know the spiritual side.
II Chronicles 7:14 would be his only hope.

Today our lack of how to pray is handled by the Spirit. The kingdom has come into us. How much the principalities want us to revert to works of the law.

Sampson is the ox. Hidden in him is our death to self

eddif
 
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