All right, we're going to be in Judges Chapter 13.

Judges 13.

Judges is an interesting and complex book of the Bible.

And the Lord, put this on my heart, I wanted to study the life of one of the most famous judges.

And one of the most famous characters in all the Bible is the character Samson.

And I want to look at the life of Samson in a way that was very immoral,

kind of wicked and filled with compromise kind of lifestyle. But in a way, when you dig

down deeper into this interesting character of the Bible, and he only covers four chapters in

judges, when you dig down deep, it's very interesting to see not only is he a picture of

those that just get tangled up in the lifestyle of sin and,

you know, at the end of his life, there is this, I think, a glimpse of some repentance and

mercy from the Lord. We're going to look into that. But also, you see, in a way, if you dig down

deeper, there are some foreshadowings or types of christ obviously

jesus was a sinless man we all know that and samson was not he was pretty sinful he lived it up

and yet the holy spirit was moving in this man's life and it's not a a cop out to say, you know, because Paul would say this in Romans.

He said, look, you can't just say we can keep on sinning all we want because grace keeps abounding.

He says, now that's not how the Christian life works.

Sam's his unique character.

And God still worked in him in spite of his sin.

And isn't that what God does for us?

God works in us and uses us for his glory and his kingdom in spite of our sin.

And we're still sinful human beings.

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