Samson’s story is a trail of sadness and regret. So favored by the Lord, yet, he failed the Lord. His failures are lessons for us, even warnings, of the need to keep our spiritual guards up in two areas.
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Judges
JUDGES 8:4-5 – And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing. 5 So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.” THEME…
JUDGES 17:6 – In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” We were created to be under authority, God’s authority. No human being is exempt from this truth. No one was created to live independent, self-willed, self-made, and absent from being under authority. When a nation, church, family, and life refuse this…
JUDGES 2:11-17 – And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to…
JUDGES 2:6-10 – When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel. And Joshua the son…
JUDGES 3:1-2 – Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. THEME OF THE DAY.…