The strongest man in the Bible had to learn the reality of his own weakness and the true source of strength.

Today we learn spiritual truths from the life of Samson.

Let's join Scott Pauli now as we journey through the Word of God.

There's an old saying that every man is my teacher.

The idea behind it is that you learn something from everyone.

Some people tell you what to do and some people teach you what not to do.

When you come to the scriptures, God, by His Holy Spirit, chooses certain people to emphasize.

And I think when God emphasizes someone, there's great significance in that.

It means that the Lord wants us to more carefully examine their lives.

And so we're approaching one of those great Bible characters,

a man that's only mentioned one time in the New Testament,

but he's given four chapters in the Old Testament.

We learned from him many things not to do and one thing to do.

And by the time we're finished with this study, I hope you'll identify all of those and not only identify them.

I hope you'll have applied them to your own personal life.

I'm bringing you now to the life of the

strong man of the Bible, and that is Samson. It's interesting, but when you say a man's name,

typically he's associated with something. For example, when I say Samson, immediately, what comes

to your mind? For most people, one of two or three things, they either think he had great

hair, they think he was the strongest man that ever lived, or immediately they associate him with

Delilah. Isn't it interesting how people are remembered for their greatest successes and their

greatest failures? For example, on one hand, you have his hair and his strength. That's

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