The Need for Samson
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
During a period of spiritual decline, Israel needed a leader who would be set apart and strong. Today, W. Robert Godfrey depicts the expectation surrounding Samson’s rise to the office of judge.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California. He is the featured teacher for many Ligonier teaching series, including the six-part series A Survey of Church History. He is author of many books, including God’s Pattern for Creation, Reformation Sketches, and An Unexpected Journey.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | The judges have become progressively weaker and the judges themselves have become progressively more sinful |
| 0:06.5 | and the fruitfulness of their deliverance has become shorter term and so we can almost anticipate |
| 0:12.3 | what's going to happen with this next judge who's about to come. Progressively weaker, progressively more sinful. |
| 0:25.0 | That's the pattern of the judges and makes for a compelling narrative. |
| 0:29.0 | I think why many of us are at least somewhat familiar with the story of Samson, the last judge. |
| 0:36.2 | Welcome to the Friday edition of renewing your mind as we turn our attention today to Samson. These messages are from W Robert Godfrey's series The Life of |
| 0:46.6 | Samson. Over 10 messages, Dr Godfrey highlights vital theological lessons from Samson's life and explores what this |
| 0:55.1 | judge tells us about Christian living. We'll send you this series when you give a |
| 1:00.0 | donation of any amount at renewing your mind dot org but don't delay as this |
| 1:05.2 | offer ends at midnight so who was Samson and specifically who were his parents? We're going to turn to the need for Sampson himself as it's presented to us |
| 1:20.0 | in the book of judges beginning at judges 13 verse one the Samson story |
| 1:25.7 | takes up four chapters in the book chapters 13 through 16 of course we know these |
| 1:31.5 | chapters are all added later but still they're helpful for us today |
| 1:34.9 | to find out where we are and orient ourselves. |
| 1:38.3 | And there we find the book of judges declaring in verse one and the people of Israel again and that certainly is case it's again |
| 1:46.0 | this is the fourth or fifth or sixth time this is said in the book of judges and the people |
| 1:51.6 | of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the |
| 1:56.0 | Lord. Now that's a perfectly good translation, but in light of what's going to |
| 2:01.4 | happen in this story and happens in other stories in the book of judges, |
| 2:05.5 | we might have left it just a little more literally because literally what it says is, |
| 2:09.5 | and the people of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord. Now that's important |
| 2:15.3 | because eyes are very important in this story. It's going to very much revolve around |
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