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How To Handle Victory
/Text: Judges 14:1-14/
Place Preached - (Mississauga International Baptist Church)
Date Preached - (03~/24~/02)
Introduction:
Last week we studied how a person may avoid wasting their life.
How can we make the most of the opportunities God gives us?
One of the best examples of this subject -- unfortunately from the negative perspective, is the man Samson.
*/By contrast we saw that a person who doesn't waste their life.../*
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Realizes the Seriousness of the Times
2).
Benefits from the spiritual influence of those God has placed in their life.
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Pays attention to the work of the Holy Spirit in their life.
/We could also say that person who will not waste their life learns how to make wise decisions./
Just like Samson didn't do when he chose his first wife.
(vs.1-4)
Samson went to the wrong place - he gave in to the lust of his eyes & - he didn't listen to the spiritual counsel of others.
He made a terrible decision---which led to the waste of the gifts and abilities and opportunities the Lord had given.
Can I ask you this tonight -- what kind of decisions have you made this week?
*/Now tonight, we're going to push ahead in this passage and see that…../*
A believer must also learn how to handle victory.
Often a person's weaknesses are revealed, not just when things are going badly, but when they are going well.
ILLUS: It’s surprising how many people fall into sin at a time when things in their ministry are going well.
When they are at the "peak of their ministry career" so to speak.
*/There are some biblical parallels to that./*
1) One is right here in Judges 14 in Samson's life.
We're going to see that God gives Samson a great victory.
But he handled it in exactly the opposite way of what the Lord would have desired.
2) Another example is the life of David
The Lord gave him tremendous military victories - Israel's kingdom was growing and growing and growing.
But in that context of victory---when David should have continue to press on and should have continued to work for God.
He sent the armies out with Joab -- and he stayed home.
It was that context in which things were going well that David sinned with Bathsheba.
*/These concepts should grab our spiritual attention./*
There's a lot of victory around here.
- God has blessed many in the auditorium tonight in tremendous ways.
I'm not saying that anyone here has a problem-free life -- thats not the point.
God has blessed most of us with many good things.
He has given us victory in many areas.
/Now, I realize that many of us might question the validity of that point./
The fact that any of us here tonight might question whether God has given us a measure of victory--or whether God has really been good - in and of itself illustrates how important it is to study the passage.
Part of Samson's problem was that He didn't recognize God had blessed him.
The truth of the matter is --- God has given each one of us a measure of goodness - a measure of blessing - a measure of victory.
Tonight, we'll all drive home in cars ~/ sleep in warm beds ~/ we’ll have full stomachs.
Many in the auditorium tonight have achieved some real successes at work.
Some are highly effective in God's service.
You've grown and matured.
God has blessed and given victory, in one way or another, to every person in the auditorium.
We must recognize that and respond to it properly.
With that in mind -- let's look at *Judges 14:5-14*
/We’ll find "Three things that should result when a believer has experienced victory--and (of course) three things that didn't result in the life of Samson."/
The Bible is selective -- what is here is here for a reason.
Its never the Scripture's purpose to simply tell a story, or give us every little detail.
If the Lord had done that, your Bible would be so big you'd have to carry it to church in a wheelbarrow.
/So it is also true in the text before us!!/
There are some applicational points that are just crying out from this text
Our goal is to find them tonight and to work hard at applying them to where we live.
You'll find there are three things that are especially highlighted: All - after Samson had this victory:
1) He forsook his Nazarite vow
2) He got proud as if he had accomplished it himself
3) He continued his wreckless life with the men of Timnath.
Those three truths are going to become the basis for our outline:-
*/Three things that should result when a believer has experienced victory./*
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I. Victory Should Make Us Holy
The lion that came roaring toward Samson was no accident.
God had a reason for allowing that lion to be in that vineyard at that time.
That’s simply recognizing the providential work of our sovereign God in the lives of His people.
(*Romans 8:28*)
God had a reason for allowing this particular event in Samson's life.
The shock of this event should have caused Samson to stop and evaluate what he was doing and where he was going.
Shocking situations have a way of doing that, don't they?
In fact, we even have a statement we use when we're shocked, or scared -- we say, "I saw my ________"?
(/whole life pass before my eyes/)
Have you had any situations like that recently.
(PERSONAL EXAMPLES)
Those kind of situations take your breath away.
~/ They make you stop and think.
~/ They make you stop and evaluate some things.
What if this had been my last day on earth?
~/ What about the course I've been taking?
/Shocking events cause us to evaluate some things./
The point of all of this is -- this shock of this event -- coupled with the incredible victory God gave - should have impacted Samson.
Now the impact it should have had was to make Samson a more holy man.
That’s what he was supposed to have been all along.
This passage emphasizes that that’s exactly what he wasn't---both before and after this event.
When the angel appeared to Samson's parents he told them that Samson was to take a Nazarite vow.
The word "Nazarite" means "/to separate, or consecrate/"
*/According to Numbers 6 there are three prohibitions included in the Nazarite vow…/*
1) Not to drink from the fruit of the vine
2) Can't have contact with anything that is dead
3) Can't cut their hair.
Those things were to be the outward manifestation of a person who had dedicated himself to God.
/That’s what separation (or holiness) always is./
It's first and foremost separation--to God.
And because we're separated to God -- the logical conclusion is that we're going to be separated from something.
Samson was supposed to be a holy man, a separated man in a day when the children of Israel were terribly "un-separated"
· They were intermarrying the pagan people around them.
· They were worshipping foreign people's gods
· They were being assimilated into the culture around them
The people around Samson desperately needed to see someone who was different because they knew the God of heaven.
Someone who was holy!
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