SAMSON: A MIRROR OF REDEMPTION

SAMSON: A MIRROR OF REDEMPTION

SAMSON: A MIRROR OF REDEMPTION
Judges 16
We Need A Better Savior – Part 14

James 1.22–24 “… if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror … and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.” (esv)

OUR HEARTS ARE MADE WISE AS WE REALIZE …

Privilege CAN LEAD TO Presumption

v. 3 “… 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.” (niv)

Deuteronomy 8.14 “… be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God …” (csb) 

Presumption WILL REACH ITS Expiration

v. 7 “… then I shall become weak and be like any other man.” (esv) 

v. 17 “I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb.” (esv)

v. 4 “… he loved a woman …” (esv)

v. 15 “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me?” (esv)

Matthew 7.22–23 “On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not … do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me …’” (esv)

Our God LEAVES ROOM FOR Redemption

v. 22 “But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.” (esv)

v. 24 “Our god has given our enemy into our hand …” (esv)
v. 28 “O Lord GOD, please remember me …” (esv)  

Hebrews 11.32–34 “… time would fail me to tell of … Samson … who through faith … [was] made strong out of weakness …” (esv)

For Prayer Text: prayhfbc to 55498