08.05.2018: SAMSON & DELILAH (STRENGTH & POWER)

PASTOR FERNANDO

JUDGES 16

SAMSON

• NAME MEANS SUNSHINE
• ANNOUNCED BIRTH BY AN ANGEL/ IT WAS PROPHESIED
• HE IS A NAZARITE.

DELILAH

• NAME MEANS TEMPTRESS
• A PHILISTINE
• LOVED BY SAMSON

JUDGES 13

• MANOAH – A DANITE FATHER OF SAMSON
• ANGEL PROPHESIED THE BIRTH AND PURPOSE OF SAMSON
• WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A NAZARITE

JUDGES 13:25

HOLY SPIRIT IS WORKING

JUDGES 14

• JUDGES 14:1-3 – STANDARD OF CHOICE: APPEARANCE
• JUDGES 14:4 – THE LORD’S OVERARCHING SOVEREIGNTY / RIGHT TO INTERVENTION
• THE RIDDLE: BOURNE OUT OF A VIOLATION

JUDGES 15

• FAILED MARRIAGE
• SAMSON’S REVENGE
• SAMSON’S LEGENDARY STRENGTH

JUDGES 16

• JUDGES 16:1 - SAMSON’S SENSUALITY
• JUDGES 16: 5-21 – DELILAH’S CONSPIRACY AND TREACHERY
• EMOTIONAL/SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL BLINDNESS

“ABOVE ALL THE HEART IS DECEITFUL”

JEREMIAH 17:9

“LOVE IS BLIND”

JUDGEMENT ON THE JUDGE

• FROM SAVIOR TO SLAVE
• CRISIS PRAYER
• ENTERTAINER TO DESTROYER

**HEBREWS 11:32

LESSONS LEARNED

• PARENTAL AUTHORITY / CHILDREN’S RESPONSIBILITY
• CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES

LORD’S SOVEREIGNTY / MAN’S RESPONSIBILITY