Well, and also I think this gives us kind of a theological context to understand what's going on in Samson's life, and particularly in this last chapter.

This is ultimately, as we see with David and Goliath, as we see with, you know, 1st Samuel 4 to 7, and when the Ark of the Covenant is brought into

Daegon's temple this is about a battle between the gods is Yahweh stronger or

is Daegon stronger?

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exist to help pastors build healthy churches. My name is Alex Duke. And with me are my two friends.

Swami Sam.

Swami Sam. What's your name, Jim? Do you remember what I called him that like two years ago?

It was like in Genesis, wasn't it? With genealogy? Yeah.

Swami Sam. Well, Swami Sam and, you know. Jim Hamilton. Just Jim. I couldn't come up with something on the fly. There you go. All right. So guys, last week, believe it or not, Jim made a movie

reference. It was amazing. Several of them. Yeah, several of them. Star Wars and... Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter.

I have this vague recollection of these films that I've seen in the distant past.

Yeah, it was amazing.

A long time ago and a galaxy far, far away.

So Jim made a movie reference.

There's another one.

Look at that.

Well, that's the same movie, to be fair.

We also talked about the saddest wedding of all time. And we talked about-

And we talked about how bad of a preacher I was back in 2017, although you guys were nice.

In other words, we started the story of Samson.

This week we're going to close the loop on Samson.

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