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INTRO: Regrets // “Whopperito”
Reintroduce theme - Samson - the incomplete life.
How do we live with fewer regrets?
What derailed Samson?
In spite of how strong Samson was, physically, when it came to his desires, he was weak.
Samson had everything you could want - strength, potential, anointing, the calling - yet he lived an incomplete life.
Why?
Rather than mastering his desire, Samson’s desire mastered him.
Samson was controlled by his:
Lust of the Flesh
LUST OF THE EYES
PRIDE OF LIFE
What is “lust”?
“epithumia” - “epi” = upon // “thumos” = heat // “heat upon heat”//hot after
Animals in heat // Uncontrolled Desire
Lust = Uncontrolled Desire
Anything wrong with desire?
NO!
Augustine
Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God.
Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us.
All these good things, and all our security, are rightly found only and completely in him.
LUST OF THE EYES (VS.
1-3)
Let’s just say - if you know Samson’s story, you know he had a weakness for and an insatiable desire for women.
The text says he “saw a daughter of the Philistines.”
He was completely awestruck by her beauty.
That desire to be with her sexually overcame him/consumed him.
Do you see the issue, here?
SHE’S A PHILISTINE!!! AN ENEMY!!!
His eyes saw, he lusted - he would do whatever it took!
God forbade it…his father, Manoah, forbade it (cultural standard of father choosing bride).
Samson disobeyed God & disrespected his father?
Why?
He was overcome by uncontrollable desire.
Look what Samson says in vs. 3 - “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
Just like Eve - I’m going to provide for myself!
LUST OF THE FLESH (VS.
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Samson - going down a road he had NO BUSINESS going down chasing something he had NO BUSINESS chasing.
Vineyards - he’s a Nazarite!
He wasn’t supposed to touch anything dead - he dragged his family into sin, too!
PRIDE OF LIFE (VS.
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Samson goes down to Timnah and puts on a show - he’s arrogant, he’s prideful - he’s going to get what he can - he’s going to exploit people, he’s going to pompously use his wits and smarts to get the most out of people regardless of what he’s got to do.
The riddle - “I’m smarter & craftier than you and I’ll exploit you for all you’ve got!”
{TURN}
“Sin always takes you further than you ever wanted to go, keeps you longer than you wanted to stay, and costs you more than you wanted to pay.”
It is a heartbreaking thing when you realize that sin has mastered you…when you’re no longer in control.
Uncontrolled desire leads to unstoppable rebellion.
Samson rebelled against every authority in his life because he was so blinded by lust & desire.
He didn’t care what anyone said or thought.
SAMSON CARED MORE ABOUT PLEASING HIMSELF THAN HE CARED ABOUT PLEASING GOD OR HIS PARENTS.
Uncontrolled desire leads to undesired results.
Uncontrolled desire leads to unpredictable reactions.
Samson - anger - being mastered by sin & desire affects every one of my relationships.
So, how do I live in freedom?
With fewer regrets?
In Jesus, I have a new life.
Romans 6:
In Jesus, I have a new love.
In Jesus, I have a new Master.
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