Covert Deliverer: Judges 14

Introduction:

· Hook: One historian said of a late civil war battle in Virginia, “In what would prove to be the longest sustained hand-to-hand action of the war, the soldiers clawed, bit, and stabbed at each other in a fifteen-hundred-yard pit known variously as the, “Corner,” “the Death-angle,” or, later, the “Bloody Angle.” In that agonizingly small space, two entire corps piled in and stood facing each other at fifty yards. Large trees were cut in half, severed by musket fire coming from both sides. For twenty-three hours, from dark to dark, soldiers threw themselves at on another in a savage death dance during which communications were impossible, lines unformed, and men fighting desperately for their lives.”

· FCF: What do we need to know when circumstances are bewildering?

· Main Proposition: Yahweh is accomplishing His purposes.

· Transition: This is most clear in verses 1-4, but is pervasive throughout todays text.

Body

Scene 1: Yahweh is accomplishing His purposes in His Secret Scheme (1-4)

· Parental Dialogue: 1-3

· God’s scheme revealed: 4

· Illustration: Joseph’s Theology God’s Sovereignty

· Application: When a child is ill, a job is lost, or a relative passes away

Scene 2-3: Yahweh is accomplishing His purposes with His Super Strength (5-10)

· Journey to Timnah, the Lion, and the beautiful woman: 5-7

· Journey to Timnah, the carcass, the swarm of bees, and the honey: 8-10

· Illustraiton: David and Goliath, Movie Final Fight Scenes, and the End of Days

· Application: God’s power is more than enough to conquer our difficulties.

Scene 4: Yahweh is accomplishing His purposes through His Stupid Servant (10-18)

· The feast, the companions (guards), and the riddle (10-14)

· The threat, the seduction, and the mistake (15-18)

· Application: Know our weaknesses

Scene 5: Yahweh is accomplishing His purposes in through His Starting Salvation (19-20)

· The Spirit’s rushing, Samson’s going down and striking, and Samson’s angry return (19-20)

· Application: Treasure the small deliverances

Conclusion: