SAMSON: RAISING THE PRICE OF COMPROMISE
Judges 15
We Need A Better Savior – Part 13
v. 4 “His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD …” (esv)
TO CREATE CULTURAL SEPARATION GOD WILL …
MAKE US Uncomfortable
v. 11b “I merely did to them what they did to me.” (niv)
v. 11a “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us?” (niv)
James 4.4 “Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” (niv)
MAKE US Immovable
v. 14 “… the Philistines came shouting to meet him.” (esv)
v. 15 “He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey … and killed a thousand men with it.” (csb)
Ephesians 6.13 “… take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” (esv)
MAKE US Humble
1 Peter 5.5 “Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’” (esv)
John 19.15 “Pilate said to them, ‘Shall I crucify your King?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’” (esv)
Matthew 26.53–54 “Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?” (niv)
1 John 3.8 “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” (esv)