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Yep.

Yes, no.

Sometimes it's just the small things in life.

Bring that satisfaction will praise the Lord.

Everyone good to be in church this morning.

Good to see everybody's faces this morning and let's go ahead and just love you.

And we praise you and we thank you for this time that we have again to come together and worship you.

And to lift you up God, Hallelujah to come together in one Accord and one mind Halliday.

We pray that you're not going to be up on the speaker God and upon the hearts to hear Lord and to receive your word in Jesus name.

Amen.

Praise God.

So today I'm going to do and we all are probably, I'm sure well familiar with the story of Samson, Samson, and Delilah normally has the two that go together.

All those Sampson had a few different Affairs, you know that.

But Delilah was really the one that did him in.

You know, there really was the bad side of that.

You know, which she was a Philistine in the first place and really, he should have probably married a fellow.

And was it, say if that had an issue with, we're going to go over a little bit about how, how, how his life was in and how that reflects in our life today and Judges, 13.

And see if this is going to work, it should.

And the children of Israel did Evil again in the sight of the Lord and the Lord, delivered them into the hand of the Philistines.

40 years or so.

Here, we see that we're talkin about in the time of the judges that Israel, once again, which they were doing all the time that they would fall away from God.

And that they would give themselves to worshipping idols and they would start taking up the, the gods that the natives of that area had.

And they would start participating that, why they would do that all the time.

I really don't know except for correlating it to today.

You know that people do kind of the same similar things.

The more, they're not close to God.

They more they have a tendency to stray, you know.

It's a ghost.

In two other things, we we think about idols and we think about something this made like a statue or something, but many things can be Idols, you know, doesn't just have to be a statue, you can set up your work as an idol, you could set up your computer as an idol.

You can set up any hobbies that you have as an idol.

And I would say that these Idols would be described as things that take precedent.

Over the things of God.

That's what we set up as Idols in our lives.

In the children of Israel did that they went against God and they start serving strange Gods once again.

So when this happens in the time where is real doesn't have Kings actually elected?

They have what they called judges, you know and Samson called Samson was called, and he was actually a judge of Israel.

It's a guy that I could judge is God called men to deliver the children of Israel from from their adversaries.

These men were judges and they were elected usually by the people.

Usually, on the tribes, the 12 tribes of Israel elect a different judges.

And those judges would would actually preside over many of the Affairs of Israel.

But more importantly, more accurately, the judges would be put in positions of military leadership.

and, Those judges were not always necessarily assigned per se.

I don't want to say not by God, but not from birth.

But Samson was a little bit different.

He was a man that was chosen by God from birth to be a judge of Israel.

The angel of the Lord came down to his wife and told her that she would bear a child and that he was going to be a Nazarite from birth and then he would have the Nazarite vow.

So he told her, don't let him drink.

Any strong drink, any anything that has anything to do with the grape, you know?

So they they, they judges were held to a higher standard, you know, than everybody else.

They were supposed to be men of God.

They were not only supposed to be military leadership that they were hired to deliver Israel from the bondage that they were in night.

Israel had done things wrong with God, in their band in God, and that's why God gave them over to the Philistines in the Philistines ruled over them for 40 years.

That was Samson to deliver them specifically to deliver them from the Philistines.

Harpercollins Bible dictionary says, the judge is a person who has the authority to settle disputes and to restore Justice.

Judges in Israel, always ruled with authority delegated to them by God, who was the judge of all the Earth.

So God was our ultimate judge and the judges were put in place by God to be really that.

Not only military leadership that Deliverance, but also to be a moral and ethical Guide to the children, Israel, but we find out that that didn't always happen.

You know, when it comes to mankind, unfortunately mankind gets to doing things and he forgets about God, he starts thinking that he's more than what he really is.

And that ain't, you know, that things start happening.

And you know what, I have a feeling and I will say that I don't think Samson was a man of big muscles and everything.

We think of Santa being a strong man and he was strong in the power of God but I don't think he was a muscular, just like a big guy, you know?

As we would think as a strong man, I don't think it was because when I read the Bible the Bible is always continuously telling us that God did things go so that man could not take credit, that God would receive the credit for what is going on.

So I think this Samsung myself was an ordinary man, the way that they lived in the Bible times, they were probably all pretty fit anyway, or I would say because they have to do a lot of physical labor, a lot of physical things.

So I think they were all probably pretty and pretty decent shape and pretty physically fit, but I don't think God used him because he was a big Burly strong guy.

I think he did, he used him, but he used his power through him, you know, to show the people that in and I think that God and in, like I said, a lot of times God does things to show his power.

So I don't think God would put a man, that could take credit up on himself.

I think he was just an ordinary man.

We don't know that for sure, but knowing the rest of the Bible, I just have a feeling that he was an ordinary man and a Nazarite ordained of God from birth.

So, like I said, the angel of the Lord Came Upon Monona which was the husband of a wife, and the wife saw the angel, the angel told him, so that she went and told her husband said, hey, the angel of the Lord came to me and she said and he prayed show yourself again so that I can see and he did again and he wasn't there.

So she went and got him.

Riding back in the angel of the Lord to explain to him about Samson and his name's would be Sampson.

So, this man, these judges were were rulers of Israel.

They wasn't rulers as.

Like I said, as in like a monarchy, you know, like a king like David and Solomon, but they were different.

They were really it's it's almost like we have today term limits.

They were put in there for a certain.

Of time to actually deliver Israel from whatever they were up against at the time so they were more so in a military position as a deliver You know, they were temporary leaders of Israel called of God to deliver the children of Israel from bondage and oppression we see in judges to 16 through 19, it says, never the last, the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hands of those that spoil them.

And yet they would not hearken unto their judges but they went off a whoring after other gods.

And by themselves unto them, they turned quickly out of the way.

Wish their fathers walked in obeying, the Commandments, obey the Commandments of the Lord, but they did not sell.

So, the typical case of Israel, then you wonder why Israel has so many problems.

Because any time they lost a king or didn't have somebody specific line charge, they went away and even sometimes the people that were in charge and we're not very good examples.

And when the Lord raise them up judges.

Sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm not used to doing this.

I wasn't clicking on that and when the Lord,

we'll see if that's an if I click again.

okay, so it's not going to

Hey, Josh.

Can you go back there and click on that?

Cuz usually should be, I should be able to cycle through those scriptures.

So, you can see the slide that it's on now.

And they just click on, I'm on verse 18. Adjust to 16 through 19.

So right on the one, you're on but Verse 18, which is 2 versus after that.

You see that?

They do, but it shows the first number next to the scripture.

So it's on 16 right now, to more slides, click to more slides.

Yep.

Right there.

Okay.