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.

Now we're studying the life of Samson, but we have to take a slight detour on our journey today through his life to understand one of the great missteps, one of the great mistakes of Samson's life. One of the great failures was that he made small compromises on a big vow. We're talking about

how Samson arrived at such tragedy. And in Judges Chapter 14, we began by learning that he started

living by sight instead of by faith, but there's another terrible step that he takes, and that

is he begins to make compromises on his Nazarite vow.

You remember in Judges Chapter 14, he was called to live as a Nazirite all the days of his life.

The word Nazirite literally means consecrated or separated.

And it was a vow that was taken by choice. There are some people in Scripture,

their entire life was given to it. There are three Nazarites identified by name in Scripture,

Samson, Samuel, and John the Baptist. That's quite a crew, isn't it? Imagine Samson's life

should have lived up to a life like Samuel the prophet or John the Baptist,

but he doesn't because he begins making small compromises on a big vow.

You know, the Bible says it's better not to make a vow than to break it.

Well, Samson broke it, and he broke not only one part of it,

he eventually broke all three parts of it.

What were the three parts

of the Nazarite vow? Here's our detour. I need you to go with me to Numbers chapter 6 today.

Because number six is the story of God's outlining the Nazarite vow. We read in number six,

verse 1, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying, speak into the children of Israel and say into them, when

either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the

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