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Intro
Judges is a book that doesn’t have an author named but tells the story of God’s people after the death of Joshua.
There is no clear leader for the Israelites and they have a task set before them to clear the land of the foreign people who could and will pervert who they are spiritually.
There is an interesting cycle that begins to happen with the people of God in Judges and that is that the people, due to lack of leadership, forget God, fall into worldly practices, become subject to evil nations, realize their faults, cry out to God, God saves them, they become righteous again, and then repeat the same process.
This book outlines the different Judges or governors who God uses to be deliverer or saviors of His people.
Today we will examine the life of one Incredible judge Samson who will face off with a familiar foe the Philisitines.
The Incredible Nazarite Judge
A Brief History of Who Samson Was
Israelites are evil, God punishes them.
Samson’s Mother is visited by angels
Samson is born and is INCREDIBLY Strong!
Samson is to be two things in the eyes of God.
Nazarite
Judge
Zorah is given a strict diet at the announcement of her upcoming pregnancy.
She is to follow a strict Nazarite diet.
What is a Nazarite?
Nazarite: Comes from the word nazir which means “to separate”.
A Nazarite was to separate himself unto God.
He was to put the WILL of God first.
And there were rules that followed.
Abstinence from wine and strong drink.
A Nazarite HAD to be in their RIGHT mind!
And you had to have your desires under control!
You cannot be about God’s will if you cannot control your own will.
A Nazarite was someone who would be someone who was in their RIGHT mind!
No haircuts
Abstinence from wine and strong drink.
This one may seem a bit silly and the practice of having haircuts was not something normally practiced by Jews.
But the internal appearance of the heart and the external appearance mattered.
How you are perceived by others outside of God matters.
They shall not come into contact with the dead.
No haircuts
Coming in contact with dead people would sever his relationship with God.
He could not approach God if he was unclean.
They shall not come into contact with the dead.
A Nazarite who took the vow or were lifelong Nazarites like Samson had to be concerned with being internally righteous, externally righteous, and have a living relationship with God.
This recipe of attributes and character was just right in order for Samson to be an INCREDIBLE man!
If Samson would hold onto this standard set by God it would take him from being an ordinary singular man and propel him to be a leader of mankind!
As Judge/Governor it would be his task to overcome the Philistines in order to free God’s from the spiritual cancer which was the Philistine influence and oppression.
He being God’s Incredible man would help to bring God’s people back into relationship with God!
BUT
Samson fails at being a Judge and Nazarite...
Control of desires/self?
Sever Relationship with God by touching the dead?
Cut his hair?
We look at the responsibility that was given to Samson to be a leader of God’s people for the sake of humanity and we see his failures and we shake our heads and may even call him names.
But we as men of God have been called to be Incredible as well.
We has men, husbands, fathers, and males in general have been called by God to be incredible in order to lead our families to salvation.
We have been called by God to lead our families and mold them in a way so that when the world sees our families they see God!
Mr. Incredible
eph 5
Through Paul we see a letter written to a church in which he is explaining what it means to be lead and controlled by the Spirit.
Being controlled by the Spirit is not something that just happens to your family on Sundays and Wednesdays, it begins in the home!
It begins with the leadership of the Incredible men.
You are not exempt if you don’t have an Incredible man at home because God provides Incredible men within the body.
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The husband makes the rest of the body parts productive & functional
Jesus Christ set the example for what how the church would prove to be obedient to the father.
The husband must do the same for the family.
The husband sets an example of love through sacrificial action
Jesus gave His life so that the church could have what it NEEDED.
The head sets an example of love through sacrificial action
The husband cares for the body tenderly because the body is his own
The husband must feed the wife
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The head cares for the body tenderly because the body is his own
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The husband cares about the presentation of the body, especially to God
The head cares about the presentation of the body, especially to God
The husband will make sure the wife is sanctified or set apart for the purposes of God.
Paul gives husbands and fathers a great set of responsibilities to live by but one that IS possible with the Holy Spirit.
If you have the Holy Spirit then it is possible to be Mr Incredible!
But what happens is that we choose often times to follow the path of Samson.
Samson in Reality
We don’t protect our hearts or control our desires.
The only way to safeguard your heart from finite things we desire is to fill it with the infinite.
Study and Obey starting at 19
We must commit to not feeding our humanity
We don’t commit to God externally for the world to see.
The world cannot see that we are committed to worship or Bible study
The world cannot hear God in our speech
We allow dead things to sever our relationship with God.
We allow the nonliving to become our god
drugs/alchol
jobs
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We have the ability to be Mr Incredible!
But it is whether or not we want to be obedient to God’s plan.
Just He did with Samson God shows us how to be Incredible.
When Samson disobeyed God he soon realized that his greatness came from God.
We who taste and see how good God is and the benefits that come with that obedience will think that we did it all by ourselves.
Samson lost his freedom and his eyes.
Husbands are losing their families...
An Incredible Man’s Sobering Truth
Samson had to lose his eyes in order to see what made him Incredible in the first place.
He was not incredible for his own purpose or design.
He was Incredible so that others could see and Incredible God!
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