Reverence over being "cool"

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You can be victorios yet have no victory.

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Reverence over Cool

I am cool if …

If cool is all about you, who was the coolest person in the Bible:

Samson

So, here is a guy who was given a unique gift. No one else in the history of our world was ever given the gift of Samson!
Nazarite
Separated from others and consecrated to God
Abstinence of wine and strong drink
refraining from cutting the hear off the head
avoidance of contact with the dead
Miraculous birth.
o As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. vs 20 The story you can tell about your birth -- coolest story
o The story you can tell about your birth -- coolest story
What was Samson’s Purpose
13:20
So life began …
he sees a philistines girl and wants her
Defiles his body...
verses 8 and 9
o He makes up a riddle and makes a bet. Gives them 7 days to guess. 30 garment clothes.
§ Strikes down 30 of their men and takes their clothes to pay off his debt.
§ Being angry of betrayal he goes back home to his mama and as a result his Wife (that HE LIKED because she’s good for me) was given to one of the companions who attended the party)
o He visits his wife
§ Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.” But her father would not let him go in.

15 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.” But her father would not let him go in.

2 “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”

§ 2 “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”
Revenge

This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.” 4 So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails, 5 lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.

In return, the philistines went and burned her and her father to death.

7 Samson said to them, “Since you’ve acted like this, I swear that I won’t stop until I get my revenge on you.” 8 He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

Samsung stayed in a cave rock

9 The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi. 10 The people of Judah asked, “Why have you come to fight us?”

“We have come to take Samson prisoner,” they answered, “to do to him as he did to us.”

11 Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?”

He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”

Turned in by his own people
Samson finds “love” again

4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.

5 The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

Life of Samson at a glance
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