You know something as a God when you look to it as your ultimate source.

And Dr. Tony Evans says there's a price for flirting with a substitute God.

What many people don't know is they're canceling out the true God because of their insistence

on holding on to an idol.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Sometimes we can drift so far from God that it feels like he's left us altogether.

But as Dr. Evans explains, even when we've lost our strength, our sight, or our way,

it's never too late to turn back to the Lord.

Today, he draws powerful principles from Samson's fall, repentance, and ultimate restoration,

reminding us that God's grace can still write the final chapter.

His story is powerful, profound, and also sad. He is a Nazarite who has been set aside for a specific

purpose of God. And so there were certain commitments that Nazarites had in order to be set

apart for their special purpose.

Samson was set apart to be Israel's deliverer against the Philistines,

and we left him in Chapter 16 at Jabone Hill.

Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there,

and he is reflecting Israel in chapter 2, verse 17, chapter 8, verse 27, chapter 8, verse 33.

All those verses says, and Israel played the herlet on God.

So we have Samson now going into a harlot. So this theme of forsaking God to an

idolatrous culture. They took the gods of the culture. So when Samson goes into this prostitute,

this Philistine prostitute, he is interfacing,

compromising with the culture, which is what Israel did, which is why that same term is used in

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