For the one righteous man falls seven times, he rises again.

All right.

Let's do this.

It's a week of the series called Samson.

If you have your Bibles with you, let's turn to Judges chapter 16.

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Let me wrap back to where we've been in case,

perhaps maybe you missed one or more of the previous weeks.

We are looking at one of the most frustrating characters in the Bible.

And this was a guy who was given so much by God.

From birth, Samson was actually called by God,

set apart by God, empowered with supernatural strength from God

to fulfill God's calling on his life,

which was to help deliver the Israelites from the oppressive hands

of the bad guys of the Philistines.

And even though he was given all of this power and this divine calling,

he like so many of us men messed up again and again.

And again, we said he was an incredibly strong man

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