Well, I'm so glad to have all of you with us at all of our live churches, our network

churches, those of you from places around the world joining us at church online. We're in the

middle of a four-week series called Samson. This one is primarily for the men, and I thank God

that I'm hearing again and again that God is doing a significant work in the hearts of so many men.

I'm also thrilled to hear that there are some chicks in the house that are getting something out

of this as well. So next week we'll wrap this up with my very favorite of all four weeks,

we'll be next week. In case you're just joining us, let me give you a little bit of the backstory

on this very frustrating character named Samson. If you don't know his story, Samson was actually

called by God and set apart from birth to help deliver the Israelites from the oppressive hands of

the Philistines. Samson was given a supernatural strength in order to do what God called him to do,

but we're going to watch as is so common with men that have so much potential, Samson again and

again makes bad decisions. In the first week we looked at three attitudes that make strong men

weak. The first attitude is lost. I won it as he pursued a Philistine woman something he was

forbidden to do. The second attitude is entitlement. I deserve it as he went and touched something

unclean as was forbidden in his Nazarite vows. The third problem we see is pride as he put

himself around alcohol. Again something he wasn't supposed to do as he says, I can handle it. I

want it. I deserve it and I can handle it. We saw that our spiritual enemy Satan loves to make

strong men weak. The good news is though we serve a God who loves to make weak men strong. Could

somebody say amen to that. The second week we watched as one of the common problems with men,

Samson was emotion driven, not spirit led. We watched him give in to the common emotions that

will hurt men so often the emotion of anger and of pride. We saw Samson as with many men we want

to be the main character of the story but we found out God is always the main character. In the end

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