today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Are you desire led or spirit led because you cannot be both?

And if you were going to follow Jesus, you were going to learn to say no to what you want

because you always say yes to what he wants and where it conflicts with what you want,

you put his or yours.

And some of you are being ravaged by the enemy because you cannot control your angry impulses.

You cannot control your lust impulses.

You cannot control your pride impulses, you cannot control your lust impulses, you cannot control your pride impulses. It just speaks and you move and you're like a city that's broken down without walls.

Welcome to Summit Life with pastor and author J.D. Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich, and we're so glad that you're back with us today.

We're continuing our teaching series titled Broken Saviors by looking at the life of one of the most well-known Old Testament figures.

Samson's incredible strength made him seem larger than life and therefore hard to relate to. But we're finding

out we've got a lot more in common with him than we think. Just like Samson, we've all fallen

into the trap of our own desires. So what's the answer? Let's find out today. Now, if you missed any of

the messages in this study called Broken Saviors, be sure to catch up right

away at jd.gere.com. But right now, let's rejoin Pastor J.D. in Judges chapter 14.

I want to show you that every morning when you wake up and you look in the mirror, you are looking

at the greatest enemy of both yourself and what God wants to do

through you and your family. The problem is not that God's power is not abundant and available to you.

The problem is that you and I are our own worst enemy. The first week, we looked at Samson's birth.

This week we're going to look at his life and his death. So if you haven't done so already,

take out your Bible, turn it on,

scroll down to judges. Chapter 16. Then Samson went to Gaza, Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute,

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