God will keep you: You Keep God's Word

Intro: God’s choice of people in Bible do not have the same resume. God has shown in completing his will he has used the rich, the poor, the mighty and the weak. God has used those who were great examples of faithfulness, and used some who showed great flaws in their character. One thing that is common in all of these is that God is sovereign to do his will as he pleases. So I want to encourage us to do what God instructs us to do and see how God will do what he always does. Be God and good in our lives.

Aim - Worship the Lord in faithful obedience.

DT: God can use us how he wants, and we need to faithfully follow him.

Our obedience and faith in God.

Manoah wife shows her faith in the word of the Lord.

First, she held on to the word of the Lord as instructed.

She told her husband of the promise of their son and how they are to raise him.

Manoah show faith in seeking Lord to have the man come again.

Judges 13:8–9 NLT

8 Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, saying, “Lord, please let the man of God come back to us again and give us more instructions about this son who is to be born.” 9 God answered Manoah’s prayer, and the angel of God appeared once again to his wife as she was sitting in the field. But her husband, Manoah, was not with her.

God answers his prayer and sends the angel of the Lord again to his wife.

Notice the Lord answered his prayer, but the Angel Lord did not appear directly to him but to his wife as he was not present.

Judges 13:10–11 NLT

10 So she quickly ran and told her husband, “The man who appeared to me the other day is here again!” 11 Manoah ran back with his wife and asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife the other day?” “Yes,” he replied, “I am.”

Manoah can now ask his question directly to the man of God.

Judges 13:12 NLT

12 So Manoah asked him, “When your words come true, what kind of rules should govern the boy’s life and work?”

The angel shows that his message to the wife is good and what they are to follow.

Judges 13:13 NLT

13 The angel of the Lord replied, “Be sure your wife follows the instructions I gave her.

The angel of the Lord quotes the Nazarite vow from Numbers 6:4

Numbers 6:4 NASB95

4 ‘All the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.

Note the similarities

Judges 13:14 NASB95

14 “She should not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her observe all that I commanded.”

The vows gives the father that the son is to be devoted to the Lord all his life.

The obedience of the this vow demonstrates the persons intense focus of God’s special help in a crucial time.

The not touching a dead body shows the observance of the ceremonial cleanliness call for priests.

This vows is a constant call to walk before the presence of God every day.

Manoah is grateful for the instruction.

Manoah still thought the angel of the Lord was a man of God.

So he seeks to offer food to the man of God...

Judges 13:15 NLT

15 Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please stay here until we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”

The angel of the Lord declines to eat and directs Manoah to present a burnt offering to the Lord.

Judges 13:16 NLT

16 “I will stay,” the angel of the Lord replied, “but I will not eat anything. However, you may prepare a burnt offering as a sacrifice to the Lord.” (Manoah didn’t realize it was the angel of the Lord.)

Now Manoah looks to know the name of their visitor.

Judges 13:17 NLT

17 Then Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, “What is your name? For when all this comes true, we want to honor you.”

But the name is to wonderful to know

Judges 13:18 NLT

18 “Why do you ask my name?” the angel of the Lord replied. “It is too wonderful for you to understand.”

God shows how wonderful he is in our life.

The joy to know that God desires to be in our life as sinful as we are in our life. The great love of our God for us in our life is shown that his love toward us is not depending on our goodness. His love is for us because he loves us. God’s sovereignty is shown in his choice to use Manoah and his wife to give birth to a son to begin the delivery of Israel.

God is just too wonderful in how he shows up in our life in out time of need.

God is all to wonderful

The angel of the Lord names is too wonderful to know. Is the Angel of the Lord the Son of God? There is some ways to see the Son of God pre incarnation. The title of wonderful being described to the Messiah.

Isaiah 9:6 NLT

6 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

The angel of the Lord shows up to speak of the intercession o God to deliver his people. The angel of the Lord’s presence represents God’s desire to minister to the family and his grace toward them. The presence of God and the call to deliverance. This call for deliverance those to begin the deliverance as the Son of God will complete our deliverance from sin.

We see the wondrous work of God...

Manoah gives the burnt offering

Judges 13:19–20 NLT

19 Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a rock as a sacrifice to the Lord. And as Manoah and his wife watched, the Lord did an amazing thing. 20 As the flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the fire. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces to the ground.

In awe of the Lord

From the wondrous event of the burnt offering in the presence of the Lord.

Judges 13:21–23 NLT

21 The angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Manoah finally realized it was the angel of the Lord, 22 and he said to his wife, “We will certainly die, for we have seen God!” 23 But his wife said, “If the Lord were going to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn’t have appeared to us and told us this wonderful thing and done these miracles.”

The Lord blesses them with child...

Judges 13:24–25 NLT

24 When her son was born, she named him Samson. And the Lord blessed him as he grew up. 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him while he lived in Mahaneh-dan, which is located between the towns of Zorah and Eshtaol.

The son named Samson

Samson - little sun; or the son sun,

Samas is the sun god

influence of the idolatry of Israel.

God blessed the Samson with the Spirit to stir in him.