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DOWN BUT NOT OUT
Robert Robinson, the author of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" - "lost the happy communion with the Savior he had once enjoyed, and in his declining years he wandered into the by-ways of sin.
As a result, he became deeply troubled in spirit.
Hoping to relieve his mind, he decided to travel.
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
In the course of his journeys, he became acquainted with a young woman on spiritual matters, and so she asked him what he thought of a hymn she had just been reading.
To his astonishment he found it to be none other than his own composition.
He tried to evade her question, but she continued to press him for a response.
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
Suddenly he began to weep.
With tears streaming down his cheeks, he said, “I am the man who wrote that hymn many years ago.
I’d give anything to experience again the joy I knew then.”
Although greatly surprised, she reassured him that the “streams of mercy” mentioned in his song still flowed.
Mr. Robinson was deeply touched.
Turning his “wandering heart” to the Lord, he was restored to full fellowship."
THE STORY OF SAMSON REMINDS US THAT NO MATTER HOW DEEP WE GO INTO SIN GRACE GOES DEEPER STILL.
Judges 14:5 (ESV)
Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah.
And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU END UP IN THE WRONG PLACE.
|DOWN|HE WENT DOWN PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY.
|TO TIMNAH | THE LORD HAD ESTABLISHED GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSES.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU END UP IN THE WRONG PLACE.
|AT TIMNAH |HE WAS 4 MILES INSIDE OF ENEMY TERRITORY
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU END UP IN THE WRONG PLACE.
|HE SAW| HE IS WALKING BY SIGHT NOT FAITH.
|ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS| HE IS DOMINATED BY HIS APPETITES.
HE THINKS OF WOMEN AS DISPOSABLE PLEASURES, RATHER THAN MEANINGFUL PURSUITS.
THIS IS NOT LOVE BUT LUST AT FIRST SIGHT.
HE IS CONTROLLED BY LUST RATHER THAN THE LAW OF THE LORD.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU END UP WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE.
|OF THE PHILISTINES| HE LEFT HIS FRIENDS TO VISIT HIS ENEMIES.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU END UP WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE.
|NOW GET HER FOR ME AS MY WIFE|SAMSON SHOULD BE PREPARING FOR WAR NOT PLANNING A WEDDING.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU WILL GO DOWN THE WRONG PATH.
|HE TOLD HIS FATHER AND MOTHER| FATHERS NOT SONS DECIDED WHO THEY WOULD MARRY.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU WILL GO DOWN THE WRONG PATH.
|I SAW| WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SAMSON NEVER SPOKE TO HER.
HIS DECISION WAS ON PHYSICALITY NOT SPIRITUALITY.
WHEN GOD IS NOT KING YOU WILL GO DOWN THE WRONG PATH.
|NOW GET| INSTEAD OF COMPLETE SUBMISSION TO GOD’S WILL SAMSON IS COMMANDING HIS WILL.
THESE ARE SAMSON’S FIRST RECORDED WORDS.
IN EVERY CHRISTIAN’S HEART THERE IS A CROSS AND A THRONE, AND THE CHRISTIANS IS ON THE THRONE TILL HE PUTS HIMSELF ON THE CROSS; IF HE REFUSES THE CROSS, HE REMAINS ON THE THRONE.
PERHAPS THIS IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLDLINESS AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY.
WE WANT TO BE SAVED, BUT INSIST THAT CHRIST DO ALL THE DYING.
NO CROSS FOR US, NO DETHRONEMENT, NO DYING.
WE REAMIN KING WITHIN OUR LITTLE KINGDOM AND WEAR OUR TINSEL CROWN WITH ALL THE PRIDE OF A KING; BUT WE DOOM OURSELVES TO SHADOWS, WEAKNESS, AND SPIRITUAL STERILITY.
- A.W. TOZER
THE GREAT BATTLEGROUND OF OUR TIME IS AUTHORITY.
GOD CAUSES SAMSON’S SIN TO WORK FOR GOD’S GOALS.
GOD PERMITS WHAT HE HATES TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE LOVES.
We clearly see the mystery of God's sovereign purpose being worked out even in the midst of man's waywardness.
Human freedom, including our poor sinful choices does not undermine or derail the sovereign workings of God.
GOD PERMITS WHAT HE HATES TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE LOVES.
In this case His ultimate purpose was to begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
This verse does not suggest that God condoned Samson's rebellion.
The writer is saying that God was going to overrule in this situation for a good purpose.
God never condoned the sins Samson.
When God isn’t permitted to rule in our lives, He overrules and works out His will in spite of our decision!
"When God isn’t permitted to rule in our lives, He overrules and works out His will in spite of our decisions.
Of course, we’re the losers for rebelling against Him.
Samson should have been going to a war instead of to a wedding, but God used this event to give Samson occasion to attack the enemy.
When God isn’t permitted to rule in our lives, He overrules and works out His will in spite of our decision!
Because of this event, Samson killed thirty men (Jdg 14:19), burned up the enemy crops (Jdg 15:1-5), slaughtered a great number of Philistines (Jdg 15:7,8), and slew 1,000 men (Jdg 15:15).
Samson hadn’t planned these things, but God worked them out just the same.
The sin of Samson must not be attributed to the Lord, but the deliverance of the Israelites by Samson was from the Lord.
Remember, scriptural language frequently attributes directly to God what he merely permits.
My conclusion is that Samson was neither directed nor tempted by God to do what God had specifically prohibited in his Word.
The sin of Samson must not be attributed to the Lord, but the deliverance of the Israelites by Samson was from the Lord.
Remember, scriptural language frequently attributes directly to God what he merely permits.
God wanted the defeat of the Philistines, but that did not give Samson carte blanche.
Moreover, God’s blessing on one or more aspects of a person’s life is no indication that everything that person does is approved.
Samson was plain bullheaded about this decision, and he refused to listen to his parents or to God.
But neither Samson’s foolishness nor his stubbornness would prevent the design of God from being fulfilled.
MANOAH AND HIS WIFE
Many Christian parents have stood in the sandals of Manoah and his wife.
They have, though realizing their own sinful inadequacies, faithfully taught, prayed for, disciplined, and loved a son or a daughter only to see that child willfully turn from the way of the Lord.
No one can deny it is anything but devastating.
Yet one should not forget verse 4: ‘But his father and mother did not realize it was from Yahweh.’
What we don’t know may yet prove to be our deepest comfort.
Now, what was the Lord trying to teach him?
WHEN GOD IS KING WE HAVE ADEQUATE POWER TO LIVE IN VICTORY OVER SIN.
His desires, his drives, were not beyond his control.
In the Spirit of God there was available to him adequate authority and power to live in victory over every area of life, whatever it might be.
There is a lion in our life, as well.
Peter writes in his first letter that our adversary, the devil, goes about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
THOUGH HE IS A FORMITABLE FOE JOHN TELLS US HIS TRUE STATUS.
HE HAS ALREADY BEEN TORN ASUNDER.
When we chose Jesus Christ, we chose a complete victory in him.
The cross has already dealt with the lion in our life.
He has been put away; he is no longer a threat.
We have everything we need to stand against his pressures and the temptations that he throws against us.
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
In John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" there is an incident recorded in which Christian is walking down the road toward the Celestial City.
As he is going through a mountain pass he sees a pair of lions crouched beside the path.
He is frightened and intimidated by them, immobilized, unable to continue his journey.
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
Standing there in fear he hears a man calling to him from farther down the trail.
The man tells him that the lions have been chained.
At first it is hard for him to believe, but as he ventures closer to them he sees for himself that this is true.
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