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00:04 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:14 >>YOU'RE THE PHILISTINES. YOU'RE RUNNING UPON 00:15 SAMSON TO ARREST HIM. HE'S BOUND UP WITH THESE ROPES 00:19 AND, AS YOU'RE RUNNING TOWARDS HIM, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD 00:22 COMES ON HIM AND HE GOES, 'POP!' 00:24 AND THEN HE THOUGHT, 'NOW WHAT WILL I DO?' 00:27 AND HE'S LOOKING AROUND; 00:29 AND THE LORD PROVIDED. 00:35 >>WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF A SERIES, RIGHT NOW, DEALING WITH 00:39 SOME LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF SAMSON. 00:42 LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT - PART 1 - SAMSON: HONEY FROM A LION . 00:47 THIS WEEK WE'RE IN PART 2 - THERE WILL PROBABLY BE THREE 00:49 PARTS - THIS WEEK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE JAWBONE OF A DONKEY . 00:54 IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT 00:59 WAS GOING ON IN THE NATION OF ISRAEL DURING THE TIMES OF 01:04 SAMSON. SAMSON, WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER, 01:09 HE LIVED DURING THE TIME OF ELI, WHEN ELI WAS PRIEST - IF YOU 01:13 KNOW, YOU READ 1 SAMUEL - THERE WAS A LOT OF COMPROMISE - 01:17 A LOT OF UNFAITHFULNESS. THE SONS OF ELI WERE 01:20 REAL SCOUNDRELS. THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF SCANDAL 01:23 AMONG MINISTRY DURING THAT TIME, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING. 01:27 DURING THIS TIME - YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 01:31 40, "SO THE PHILISTINES FOUGHT, AND ISRAEL WAS DEFEATED, 01:37 AND EVERY MAN FLED TO HIS TENT. 01:39 THERE WAS A VERY GREAT SLAUGHTER, AND THERE FELL OF 01:42 ISRAEL THIRTY THOUSAND FOOT SOLDIERS." 01:46 IN A BATTLE JUST A FEW DAYS EARLIER, FOUR THOUSAND HAD DIED. 01:49 "ALSO THE ARK OF GOD WAS CAPTURED;..." 01:52 THIS IS HAPPENING - THIS IS THE WORLD THAT SAMSON WAS BORN INTO. 01:56 THE PHILISTINES HAD SUBJUGATED THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. 02:00 NOW THE PHILISTINES DID NOT HAVE A KING. 02:03 THE PHILISTINES WERE DIVIDED INTO A CONFEDERACY OF FIVE 02:06 KINGDOMS AND THEY CALLED THEM THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES. 02:11 THE PHILISTINES ALSO HAD MASTERED THE MAKING OF IRON 02:15 WEAPONS. THE ISRAELITES DID NOT. 02:19 YOU READ IN THE STORY OF DAVID THAT, IN ONE BATTLE BETWEEN SAUL 02:22 AND JONATHAN AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, IT SAYS THE ONLY 02:25 PEOPLE IN THE KINGDOM THAT HAD IRON SWORDS WERE SAUL AND HIS 02:29 SON. THE PHILISTINES WERE VERY 02:31 CAREFUL THAT IF THE ISRAELITES WANTED TO SHARPEN THEIR WEAPONS, 02:34 THEY SAID, 'YOU COME TO US AND SHARPEN THEM. 02:36 YOU - IF YOU NEED TO SHARPEN A FARM TOOL, YOU COME TO US. 02:41 AND - BUT WE'RE NOT LETTING YOU HAVE ANY WEAPONS.' THEY ACTUALLY 02:44 DISARMED THEM. 'IF YOU HAVE ANY WEAPONS YOU'RE 02:46 IN BIG TROUBLE.' AND THEY WERE ABLE TO SUBJUGATE THEM 02:51 AND IT WAS A TIME OF GREAT DISCOURAGEMENT. 02:54 NOW, PEOPLE CAN'T FIGHT WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE COURAGE. 02:57 YOU KNOW WHAT GOD TOLD JOSHUA WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PROMISED 02:59 LAND? THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT 03:00 AGAINST SOME VERY WELL ARMED ENEMIES. 03:03 SOME OF THEM WERE GIANTS. AND GOD SAID - YOU GO TO JOSHUA 03:06 CHAPTER 1, VERSE 6 - IT'S A GREAT VERSE. 03:11 "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE, FOR TO THIS PEOPLE YOU SHALL 03:16 DIVIDE AS AN INHERITANCE THE LAND WHICH I SWORE TO THEIR 03:18 FATHERS TO GIVE THEM." - VERSE 7 - "ONLY BE STRONG AND 03:21 VERY COURAGEOUS, THAT YOU MAY OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL 03:25 THE LAW WHICH MOSES MY SERVANT COMMANDED YOU;" - JUMP OVER TO 03:29 VERSE 9 - "HAVE I NOT COMMANDED YOU? 03:31 BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE; DO NOT BE AFRAID, NOR BE 03:35 DISMAYED, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO." 03:39 NOW, IF I'VE GOT THAT PART - IF I KNOW THAT GOD IS WITH ME, THEN 03:43 I DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID, DO I? >>AMEN. 03:45 >>AND YOU CAN BE, NOT ONLY DOES HE SAY 'COURAGEOUS, COURAGEOUS,' 03:48 HE SAYS, 'YOU CAN BE VERY COURAGEOUS.' BY THE WAY, MOSES 03:51 REPEATS THESE WORDS TO JOSHUA BEFORE HE DIES. 03:54 GOD THEN TELLS JOSHUA, IN PERSON. 03:56 JOSHUA WAS ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT EXPLOITS BECAUSE HE 03:59 BELIEVED GOD WAS WITH HIM. >>AMEN. 04:03 >>AND DO WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT'S PROMISED TO BE WITH US? 04:07 DID JESUS SAY, 'I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE 04:10 WORLD'? THEN SHOULD CHRISTIANS BE 04:11 COURAGEOUS EVEN THOUGH WE'RE LIVING IN ENEMY COUNTRY? 04:14 >>AMEN. >>SO, THE STORY OF SAMSON IS 04:17 REALLY VERY RELEVANT FOR US, EVEN TODAY. 04:20 SO, YOU GO TO JUDGES CHAPTER 15, IT SAYS, "NOW THE PHILISTINES 04:25 WENT UP, ENCAMPED IN JUDAH, AND DEPLOYED THEMSELVES AGAINST 04:30 LEHI." - NOW, THE WORD 'LEHI' 04:31 MEANS 'JAWBONE'. LEHI GOT ITS NAME FROM WHAT'S 04:36 ABOUT TO HAPPEN, BUT THE BIBLE WRITERS - USING THE NAME THAT 04:39 EVERYONE KNEW IT BY NOW - BUT THIS IS HOW IT GOT ITS NAME. 04:42 SO THEY ENCAMP IN THIS VALLEY THAT'S KNOWN AS LEHI AND - AND 04:48 THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH - THE LEADERS COME OUT AND THEY SEND, 04:52 YOU KNOW, SOME EMISSARIES TO - THIS BIG ARMY OF THOUSANDS OF 04:56 PHILISTINES HAVE COME AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THEM - THEY 04:58 SAY, 'WAIT, WAIT, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? 05:00 YOU'VE ALREADY CONQUERED US. WE'RE PAYING OUR TAXES. 05:03 WHAT'S GOING ON?' YOU KNOW, THEY MARCHED UP, A 05:05 BUNCH OF THEM, TREMBLING WITH A WHITE FLAG, AND THE PHILISTINES 05:09 TELL THEM, "WE'VE COME TO ARREST SAMSON, TO DO UNTO HIM 05:14 AS HE HAS DONE UNTO US." AND SO, INSTEAD OF THE MEN 05:20 OF JUDAH GOING TO SAMSON AND SAYING, 'LOOK, YOU GOT US 05:23 INTO THIS, YOU GET US OUT. WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT BEHIND YOU. 05:26 WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK.' THEY GO TO SAMSON AND THEY BASICALLY SAY, 05:31 'DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE PHILISTINES ARE OUR MASTERS?' 05:35 THEY HAD RESIGNED THEMSELVES TO BE SLAVES. 05:40 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD A 05:42 HARD TIME IN THE WILDERNESS THEY WOULD FREQUENTLY SAY, 'WASN'T IT 05:46 BETTER BACK IN EGYPT JUST BEING SLAVES? WHY DON'T WE GET ANOTHER 05:50 LEADER AND LET'S ALL GO BACK AND SERVE THE EGYPTIANS? 05:54 AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE MORE ONIONS THERE.' THEY WERE 05:58 COMPLAINING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST HAD MANNA EVERY DAY. 06:01 THEY SAID, 'WE MISS THE FISH AND THE ONIONS. 06:03 LET'S GO BACK AND BE SLAVES.' ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW, NO MATTER 06:06 HOW BAD TIMES MIGHT BE, IN LOOKING BACK, THEY SEEM TO BE 06:09 THE GOOD OLD DAYS? AND SO, THEY'RE 06:15 READY TO SURRENDER. SO THESE THREE THOUSAND MEN 06:19 OF JUDAH, THEY COME AND THEY APPROACH SAMSON UP ON THE ROCK. 06:23 THEY SAID, "WE HAVE COME DOWN TO ARREST YOU, THAT WE MAY DELIVER 06:26 YOU INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES." 06:29 - HIS OWN PEOPLE - "THEN SAMSON SAID TO THEM, 'SWEAR TO ME THAT 06:34 YOU WILL NOT KILL ME YOURSELVES.' SO THEY SPOKE TO 06:37 HIM, SAYING, 'NO, BUT WE WILL TIE YOU SECURELY AND DELIVER YOU 06:41 INTO THEIR HAND; BUT WE WILL SURELY NOT KILL YOU.'" NOW, 06:46 ISN'T THAT SAD THAT GOD'S PEOPLE WOULD BE THE VEHICLE OF TURNING 06:52 OVER THEIR CHAMPION? INSTEAD OF - I MEAN, LOOK AT 06:55 WHAT SAMSON DID ALONE; WHAT IF HE HAD THREE 06:57 THOUSAND BEHIND HIM? WHAT IF THE WHOLE - HE HAD BLOWN 06:59 THE TRUMPET AND THE WHOLE ARMY - THIS IS JUST THREE THOUSAND 07:01 LEADERS OF ONE TRIBE - WHAT IF HE HAD BLOWN THE TRUMPET AND ALL 07:05 OF ISRAEL HAD RALLIED BEHIND HIM? 07:07 HOW MUCH THEY COULD HAVE DONE - HOW MUCH MORE GOD WANTED TO DO 07:10 FOR THEM THAT NEVER HAPPENED BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID. 07:14 THEY WERE USED TO BEING OVERCOME. 07:17 NOW, YOU REALIZE THAT AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SAMSON AND THE 07:20 PHILISTINES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND SIN. 07:25 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOT - YOU'RE BEING ATTACKED BY A CANAANITE 07:29 NATION, BUT YOU'RE BEING ATTACKED BY THE DEVIL. 07:33 ARE YOU CONTENT AND DO YOU CONSENT TO JUST LETTING THE 07:37 DEVIL RULE OVER YOU? MY BIBLE SAYS 'GREATER IS HE WHO 07:41 IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD.' AND JESUS SAID, 'I WILL 07:45 NEVER LEAVE YOU.' YOU KNOW, THE MIRACLES IN THE BIBLE - WE'RE 07:50 GETTING READY TO READ A COUPLE OF THEM - SEEM TO COME IN WAVES. 07:53 THERE ARE CLUSTERS OF MIRACLES AND THEN THERE ARE LONG PERIODS 07:56 WHERE NOTHING AMAZING HAPPENS. AND THERE ARE DIFFERENT 07:58 LEVELS OF MIRACLES. YOU SEE A GREAT CLUSTER OF 08:03 MIRACLES HAPPENING DURING THE TIME OF MOSES, WHEN THEY CAME 08:07 OUT OF EGYPT THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND WHEN 08:09 THEY ENTERED EGYPT. YOU SEE A GREAT CLUSTER OF 08:12 MIRACLES DURING THE TIME OF ELIJAH AND ELISHA. 08:16 YOU SEE A GREAT CLUSTER OF MIRACLES HAPPENING DURING THE 08:18 TIME OF JESUS AND THE APOSTLES. AND SAMSON SORT OF STANDS OUT 08:24 AS A HIGH POINT OF JUST MIRACLE AFTER MIRACLE. 08:26 NOT ALL THE JUDGES HAD MIRACLES. I MEAN, THEY HAD SOME AMAZING 08:30 VICTORIES, BUT YOU COULDN'T ALWAYS CALL THEM MIRACLES. 08:34 SAMSON'S POWER WAS A SUPERNATURAL POWER THAT WAS NOT 08:38 ATTRIBUTED TO SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN THE GYM. 08:42 IT SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME OVER HIM - NOT THAT YOU 08:44 SHOULD QUIT YOUR GYM MEMBERSHIP. AND SO THEY TIE HIM UP 08:48 AND THEY HAND HIM OVER. DIDN'T THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS, 08:51 WHO WERE CALLED JEWS, AND, YOU KNOW, JEWS ARE NOT HEBREWS. 08:58 YOU COULD BE AN ARAB AND BE A HEBREW, TECHNICALLY, BECAUSE 09:02 HEBREWS DESCENDED FROM ABRAHAM. PEOPLE DON'T USE IT THAT WAY. 09:08 NOT ALL ISRAELITES WERE JEWS. JEWS WERE LARGELY THE ONES WHO 09:12 CAME BACK FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY THAT WERE LARGELY FROM 09:15 THE TRIBE OF JUDAH - WITH SOME FROM LEVI AND BENJAMIN. 09:19 BUT THE OTHER TEN TRIBES WERE CONQUERED - THE NORTHERN KINGDOM 09:22 - SO JEWS SORT OF BECAME A SHORTENED WAY OF SAYING THE 09:24 TRIBE OF JUDAH. SO HERE, JESUS IS HANDED OVER, TIED UP, BY THE 09:29 JEWS, TO THE ROMANS - TO THE PAGANS - AND SO, YOU'RE SEEING 09:34 SOMETHING SIMILAR - HIS OWN PEOPLE. AND YEAH, ULTIMATELY, 09:39 THE NAILS WERE DRIVEN BY THE ROMANS AND THEIR SLAVES. 09:42 SO THEY SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, WE'LL JUST TIE YOU UP. 09:46 WE'LL HAND YOU OVER TO THEM. WE WON'T KILL YOU. 09:48 WE DON'T WANT YOUR BLOOD ON OUR HANDS.' AND SO, HE CONSENTS. 09:53 HE WILLINGLY - COULD THOSE THREE THOUSAND HAVE ARRESTED HIM WHEN 09:58 HE'S UP IN THIS FORTIFIED ROCKY RAVINE? 10:02 YOU KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE THREE HUNDRED SPARTANS THAT HELD 10:05 OFF OVER A MILLION PERSIANS BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE 10:08 BATTLE? IF YOU'RE A GOOD GENERAL YOU 10:10 WANT TO PICK YOUR GROUND VERY CAREFULLY. 10:13 AND, BECAUSE SAMSON HAD THE HIGH GROUND, IF HE DIDN'T WANT THE 10:16 PEOPLE OF JUDAH TO ARREST HIM, THEY COULDN'T HAVE ARRESTED HIM. 10:21 THEY COME TO HIM TIMIDLY AND SAY, 'PLEASE, PUT YOUR HANDS 10:23 BEHIND YOUR BACK. YOU KNOW, WORK WITH US HERE. 10:27 WE'RE NOT GOING TO HURT YOU, WE'RE JUST GOING TO TIE YOU 10:28 UP.' AND SO HE CONSENTS. 10:31 HE'S A WILLING SACRIFICE TO THEM. 10:33 HE OFFERS HIMSELF, YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 10:37 SO THEY - THESE THREE THOUSAND MEN WITH THEIR KNEES SMITING 10:40 TOGETHER - THEY COME OUT OF THE ROCKY RAVINE AND IT GOES INTO 10:44 THE VALLEY OF LEHI AND THEY SEE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF 10:48 PHILISTINES - THEY'VE GOT THEIR WHOLE ARMY PITCHED - AND THE 10:51 PHILISTINES SEE THEM COMING DOWN AND THERE, BEFORE THEM, THEY'RE 10:54 PRODDING SAMSON ON. AND IT SAYS, "WHEN HE CAME TO 10:59 LEHI, THE PHILISTINES CAME SHOUTING AGAINST HIM." 11:03 WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH THAT HAD 11:05 BROUGHT HIM DOWN? THEY DROPPED AND RAN. 11:11 THEY WENT AS FAST AS THEY COULD - THEY JUST LEFT SAMSON OUT 11:14 THERE IN THE FIELD BY HIMSELF. BUT SAMSON DID NOT RUN. 11:18 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THEY CAME SHOUTING AGAINST HIM. 11:22 THEY WERE SO EXCITED - 'OUR ENEMY! 11:23 WE'VE GOT HIM! WE'VE GOT WHAT WE CAME FOR. 11:26 SURELY THERE'S NOTHING WE COULD DO, WE'VE GOT THE WHOLE ARMY. 11:28 I MEAN, HE SNUCK UP ON US WHEN HE CAME THROUGH OUR TOWN AND 11:30 SMOTE US HIP AND THIGH. BUT NOW WE'RE 11:32 READY FOR A BATTLE. THERE'S NOTHING HE CAN DO." 11:35 AND THEY ALL CAME RUNNING UP TO HIM TO ARREST HIM AND THIS HAD 11:38 BEEN - SOMETHING MARVELOUS HAPPENED - IT SAID, "THEN THE 11:42 SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME MIGHTILY UPON HIM." 11:48 DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 11:51 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, 11:53 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR 11:56 COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 11:58 TO GET YOUR COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT, 12:00 SIMPLY CALL US AND ASK FOR THE OFFER NUMBER SHOWN ON YOUR 12:03 SCREEN OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS AND DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY, 12:07 AND BE SURE TO SELECT THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD 12:09 OPTION ON THE REQUEST PAGE. 12:11 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH 12:14 AMAZING FACTS WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT. 12:17 AND MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 12:22 >>NOW, I WANT A VOLUNTEER - I THINK JAMIE SAID HE'S GOING TO 12:24 COME UP HERE AND HELP ME REAL QUICK. 12:26 I WANT TO DEMONSTRATE THIS. THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS THREE 12:28 TIMES IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES SO I THOUGHT I JUST WANT TO SHOW 12:31 YOU WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. IN ONE OF MY POCKETS, HERE, I'VE 12:33 GOT SOME BIBLE ROPE - BETTER KNOWN AS DENTAL FLOSS - PUT YOUR 12:40 HANDS APART JUST LIKE THAT. THAT'LL WORK. 12:42 YEAH, JUST LIKE THAT. I'M GOING TO PUT THAT - THAT ONE 12:43 AROUND HERE - KEEP THEM ABOUT THE SAME DISTANCE APART. 12:47 EVERY TIME I GO TO THE DENTIST HE GIVES ME SOME OF THIS AND 12:50 I'VE GOT BOXES OF IT AT HOME NOW AND I THOUGHT, 'I'M LOOKING FOR 12:52 A GOOD WAY TO GET RID OF IT.' GIVE IT A LITTLE TUG APART. 12:55 THAT'S PRETTY STRONG, ISN'T IT? 12:56 I'M PULLING IT - I CAN'T BREAK IT. OKAY. 13:00 AND SO - TURN HERE, LIKE - SO FOLKS CAN SEE YOU OVER HERE. 13:04 THIS WOULD NORMALLY BE PRETTY HARD. NOW, IMAGINE TWO NEW ROPES 13:07 - MINTY FRESH ROPES - AND THEY'VE GOT HIM TIED - THESE 13:12 THICK - YOU KNOW, JUST THINK - LIKE ANCHOR ROPES. 13:14 YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT THESE BIG ROPES - THEY DIDN'T WANT TO RISK 13:16 IT WITH ONE ROPE - THEY GOT TWO ROPES. 13:18 THEY GOT HIM ALL TIED UP - JUST BIG OLD PILE OF KNOTS - AND THE 13:21 BIBLE SAYS THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM AND HE 13:25 BROKE THOSE ROPES AS THOUGH IT WAS FLAX PUT TO THE FLAME. 13:31 YOU GOT A LITTLE TENSION ON THERE? JUST WENT LIKE THAT. 13:41 SO YOU'RE THE PHILISTINES, YOU'RE RUNNING UPON SAMSON TO 13:45 ARREST HIM, HE'S BOUND UP WITH THESE ROPES AND, AS YOU'RE 13:48 RUNNING TOWARDS HIM, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD COMES ON HIM AND HE 13:51 GOES, 'POP!' NOW, WOULD YOU SLOW DOWN? 13:56 THEY SAW THAT, THEY THOUGHT, 'HE'S BOUND!' 13:58 BUT HE BROKE THE BONDS THAT HELD HIM. 14:03 AND, I THINK, THEY SLOWED DOWN RIGHT THERE. 14:06 AND THEN HE THOUGHT, 'NOW WHAT WILL I DO?' 14:08 AND HE'S LOOKING AROUND AND THE LORD PROVIDED: "...AND THE ROPES 14:13 THAT WERE ON HIS ARMS BECAME LIKE FLAX THAT IS BURNED WITH 14:16 FIRE, AND HIS BONDS BROKE LOOSE FROM HIS HANDS." 14:19 HE FOUND A FRESH JAWBONE - AND THAT'S 'LEHI' - "OF A DONKEY, 14:24 REACHED OUT HIS HAND AND TOOK IT." 14:27 ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW GOD SUDDENLY PROVIDES WHAT YOU NEED 14:31 JUST AT THE RIGHT MOMENT? YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST INTERESTING 14:36 TO ME THAT, WHEN SOMETHING - DAVID NEEDS FIVE SMOOTH STONES, 14:43 THERE THEY ARE WHEN HE NEEDS THEM. THERE'S THOUSANDS THAT 14:46 NEED FOOD AND GOD - THEY SAY, 'WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?' 14:49 'WELL, THERE'S A BOY WITH FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISH.' AND IT 14:52 SEEMS LIKE JUST, WHENEVER THE MOMENT'S NEEDED - IT MAY NOT BE 14:55 WHAT YOU EXPECT - IT COULD BE VERY HUMBLE MEANS, BUT GOD 14:59 PROVIDES WHAT YOU NEED AT THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME. 15:02 HAVE YOU READ 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 13? 15:08 "NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN; 15:13 BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED 15:16 BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE ABLE, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION WILL ALSO 15:20 MAKE THE WAY" - AND THAT'S PROVIDE A WAY - "OF ESCAPE, 15:24 THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT." 15:27 SO, WHEN SAMSON'S THERE AND HE'S ALL TIED UP AND THERE'S A 15:29 THOUSAND PHILISTINES - OR SEVERAL THOUSAND PHILISTINES - 15:33 HE ONLY KILLED A THOUSAND - THERE WAS A WHOLE ARMY - THAT 15:35 WERE GOING TO ATTACK HIM, HE COULD HAVE SAID, 'I'M DONE FOR.' 15:39 HE COULD HAVE LOST COURAGE, BUT GOD SAID, 'LOOK, I AM GOING TO 15:43 USE YOU TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY. 15:46 I WILL PROVIDE A WAY OF ESCAPE.' HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU'VE 15:50 BEEN OVERWHELMED WITH A TSUNAMI OF TEMPTATION AND YOU THINK, 'I 15:55 DON'T KNOW HOW I CAN ESCAPE; THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO.'? 16:00 DO YOU KNOW, IF YOU PRAY, YOU WILL FIND A DONKEY BONE? 16:04 THE LORD IS GOING TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN USE TO 16:08 FIGHT THE TEMPTATION. DON'T EVER SAY THERE'S NO WAY. 16:11 IF YOU PRAY, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL COME UPON YOU AND GOD 16:14 WILL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO FIGHT THAT TEMPTATION BECAUSE HE WILL 16:18 EMPTY HEAVEN OF EVERY ANGEL RATHER THAN LET YOU BE 16:22 NEEDLESSLY OVERCOME IF YOU TRUST IN HIM. 16:25 >>AMEN. >>DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 16:27 >>YES. >>I DO. SO HE PROVIDED. 16:30 AND IT MAY NOT BE - HE MAY NOT GIVE YOU A BAZOOKA. 16:33 HE MAY NOT GIVE YOU, YOU KNOW, THE SWORD OF GOLIATH. 16:37 HE MAY ONLY GIVE YOU A DONKEY BONE, BUT DON'T UNDERESTIMATE 16:40 WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH SIMPLE MEANS. 16:47 SO, YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS? >>JAWBONE. 16:52 >>THIS IS NOT JUST A JAWBONE. THIS IS THE JAWBONE OF A DONKEY. 16:56 SO IT WAS LAYING ON THE GROUND AND HE BREAKS HIS BONDS AND THE 17:01 ARMY IS STANDING THERE AND HE GOES, 'OH, PRAISE THE LORD. 17:05 I NEED SOMETHING.' NOW, YOU WOULD BE THINKING, YOU KNOW, 17:09 'CAN I HAVE A SPEAR? I'D LIKE A HELMET. 17:12 MAYBE A SWORD WOULD BE GOOD - A MACHINE GUN - SOMETHING.' AND 17:19 YOU'VE GOT THE PHILISTINE ARMY IS SURROUNDING YOU, BUT WHAT 17:22 DOES GOD GIVE HIM? JAWBONE - OF A WHAT? 17:26 >>A DONKEY. >>NOW, HAS GOD USED DONKEYS 17:30 BEFORE TO DO GREAT THINGS? DID THE LORD MIRACULOUSLY 17:37 PROVIDE A DONKEY FOR JESUS TO BE PROCLAIMED KING? 17:42 A FOAL OF A DONKEY. DID THE LORD MIRACULOUSLY ENABLE 17:47 A DONKEY TO REBUKE A WAYWARD PROPHET? 17:52 THE DONKEY REPRESENTS A HUMBLE MEANS. 17:55 AND SO, GOD OFTEN USES VERY HUMBLE MEANS TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT 18:00 THINGS. SO HE REACHES OUT AND HE TAKES 18:02 THIS AND I DON'T THINK THAT THEY CAME TO ATTACK HIM. 18:10 I THINK, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON HIM - WHAT 18:13 HAPPENED WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID? 18:18 IT SAYS HE RAN OUT TO MEET GOLIATH. 18:20 WOULD YOU RUN TO FIGHT A GIANT? I THINK, WHEN THE SPIRIT OF THE 18:24 LORD CAME ON SAMSON - YOU'D THINK, 'WELL, LOOK, THERE'S FIVE 18:27 THOUSAND OF THEM; THERE'S ONLY ONE OF ME. 18:29 YOU KNOW, I'LL JUST FIND A ROCK FOR THE BACK, YOU KNOW, PROTECT 18:32 MYSELF AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO.' I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE FIRED 18:35 ARROWS AND THROWN SPEARS AT HIM AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A 18:37 DIFFERENT KIND OF BATTLE. I THINK HE PICKED IT UP AND HE 18:40 RAN IN AMONGST THEM WHERE THEY COULDN'T THROW SPEARS 18:43 WITHOUT HITTING EACH OTHER. I THINK HIS MIND WAS GOING 18:46 LIKE HIGH-SPEED FILM. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN, YOU KNOW, 18:49 LIKE WHEN THEY TAKE THESE NATURE PICTURES AND IT SHOWS THE SEED 18:52 SLOWLY BREAK AND IT COMES UP OUT OF THE GROUND, AND THEY 18:56 SOMETIMES USE SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHY? 18:58 YOU EVER SEE WHEN THEY USE HIGH-SPEED FILM AND THEY SLOW 19:00 DOWN A BULLET WHEN IT STRIKES SOMETHING? 19:04 I THINK SAMSON SUDDENLY BEGAN TO LIVE IN A HIGH-SPEED REALM - 19:10 DIMENSION - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, ALL OF THE PHILISTINES - HE 19:14 LOOKED OUT THERE AND THEY WERE GOING, 'OOOH NOOO, IT'S 19:17 SAAAMSOOON. WHAAAT'S HEEE GONNA DOOO WITH THAAAT?' 19:22 BUT HIS MIND - I KNOW, THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION, BUT REALLY, I 19:25 THINK THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS HAPPENING. 19:27 BUT HIS MIND WAS GOING SO FAST THAT HE JUST RAN IN AMONG THEM 19:31 BEFORE THEY COULD EVEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO DO. 19:34 AND, NOT ONLY DID THEY SAY IT WAS A JAWBONE - THIS IS A DRY 19:36 ONE - YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY, THIS IS ONLY HALF OF ONE; THERE'S 19:39 ANOTHER JAW PIECE THAT COMES UP HERE THAT MAKES A REALLY GOOD 19:42 HANDLE - BUT IT WAS A FRESH JAWBONE, WHICH MEANT THAT IT WAS 19:45 VERY HARD. SO HE WENT AMONG THEM AND IT SAYS - HAVE YOU READ 19:50 THAT? IT SAYS HE SLAYS A THOU - I'M GOING TO PUT THAT THERE 19:53 WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT - HE SLAYS A THOUSAND MEN. 19:58 HE SAID, "WITH THE JAWBONE OF A DONKEY, HEAPS UPON HEAPS. 20:02 AND SO IT WAS, WHEN HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING, THAT HE THREW 20:06 THE JAWBONE FROM HIS HAND, AND CALLED THAT PLACE RAMATH LEHI." 20:13 NOW, ONE THING I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER: WHAT DOES SAMSON LOOK 20:17 LIKE? WHAT STANDS OUT ABOUT SAMSON? 20:21 >>HIS HAIR. >>HIS MUSCLES? 20:22 >>HIS HAIR. >>DOES IT SAY - SHOW ME THE 20:24 VERSE THAT SAMSON HAD BIG BICEPS. 20:27 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT. HE DID HAVE LONG HAIR. 20:31 WHY? HE'S A NAZARITE. 20:33 WE TALKED ABOUT NAZARITES AND THERE'S TWO OR THREE THINGS 20:36 THEY'RE KNOWN FOR. ONE IS NOTHING FROM THE GRAPE. 20:41 WELL, IT SAYS THAT SAMSON HAD ALREADY GONE TO BANQUETS WITH 20:44 GRAPES AND HE ENDS UP HANGING OUT IN A VALLEY OF GRAPES. 20:50 HE KILLED A LION IN A VINEYARD. HE'S NOT SUPPOSED 20:52 TO BE NEAR RAISINS. HE'S NOT FOLLOWING IT. 20:56 THE OTHER THING IS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH A DEAD BODY. 20:59 NOT ONLY HAD HE KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE, HE WENT AND TOOK HONEY 21:02 OUT OF THE CARCASS OF A LION AND, NOW, HE'S HANGING ONTO AN 21:07 UNCLEAN JAWBONE. SO WHEN HE THROWS THAT FROM HIS 21:11 HAND, IT'S LIKE HE WENT, 'HERE I GO AGAIN.' BUT IN SPITE OF HIS 21:17 WEAKNESS, GOD WAS ABLE TO USE HIM. 21:19 NOW THAT, I THINK, IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT. 21:22 HOW MANY OF YOU SOMETIMES THINK, 'I'D LIKE TO WORK FOR THE LORD 21:24 BUT I'M JUST NOT WORTHY.' 'I'D LIKE TO GIVE BIBLE STUDIES BUT 21:28 THERE'S SO MUCH I DON'T KNOW.' 'I'D LIKE TO REACH OTHERS BUT, 21:31 YOU KNOW, I DOUBT HOW THOROUGHLY CONVERTED I AM.' HAVE YOU EVER 21:35 THOUGHT THAT BEFORE? I'M A PASTOR, I'VE THOUGHT IT. 21:38 AND THEN I'M ENCOURAGED WHEN I READ WHERE JESUS SENT THE TWELVE 21:42 APOSTLES OUT PREACHING AND THEY CAME BACK FROM PREACHING AND 21:46 THEY SAID, 'LORD, EVEN THE DEVILS WERE SUBJECT UNTO US AND 21:49 WE SAW GREAT MIRACLES HAPPENING. 21:52 AND THE, YOU KNOW, SICK WERE HEALED AND THE DEAD WERE RAISED 21:56 AND' - IT TELLS ABOUT ALL KINDS OF THINGS THE APOSTLES DID. 21:59 AND THEN JESUS SAYS, TO PEOPLE LIKE PETER, "...SATAN HAS 22:04 DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: BUT I HAVE 22:07 PRAYED FOR THEE, THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT: AND WHEN THOU ART 22:10 CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN THY BRETHREN." 22:12 WHEN YOU'RE CONVERTED? YOU MEAN GOD IS ABLE TO USE 22:16 SOMEBODY THAT MAY NOT BE A HUNDRED PERCENT CONVERTED? 22:20 HUH? WERE THE DISCIPLES ARGUING AMONG 22:23 THEMSELVES WHICH OF THEM WAS THE GREATEST? CAN I SUBMIT TO YOU 22:28 THAT FIGHTING IN GOD'S BATTLES WITH THE TOOLS THAT YOU HAVE MAY 22:32 BE PART OF YOUR CONVERSION PROCESS? DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU 22:36 FEEL LIKE YOU'RE PERFECTLY CLEAN AND YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING RIGHT 22:40 OR YOU MAY NEVER DO ANYTHING. WHEN YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS GOD'S 22:44 WILL, YOU STEP OUT IN FAITH AND YOU DO WHAT YOU DO KNOW. 22:48 THE DEVIL WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT WORTHY. 22:53 SO, HE THROWS THE JAWBONE FROM HIM. 22:57 FINALLY, AFTER HE WINS THIS BATTLE - SAMUEL IS STILL YOUNG - 23:01 HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS AND ELI HAD DIED, BUT SAMUEL WAS STILL 23:06 PRETTY YOUNG WHEN THAT HAPPENED, SO THEY SORT OF LOOKED TO SAMSON 23:09 TO BE THEIR GENERAL. HE HELD OFF - FOR TWENTY YEARS 23:13 HE WAS ABLE TO STAVE OFF THE ATTACKS OF THE PHILISTINES. 23:16 THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY TAXES DURING THAT TIME, THEY HAD 23:19 SOME FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE, BUT AFTER TWENTY YEARS WENT BY, 23:23 THEY BEGAN TO, SORT OF, TRADE AGAIN WITH THE PHILISTINES AND 23:26 THEY STARTED TO GET INVOLVED WITH THEM AGAIN. 23:28 YOU KNOW, I EXPECT TO SEE SAMSON IN THE KINGDOM. 23:32 HAVE YOU READ, IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, IN SPITE OF HIS 23:35 WEAKNESS, "AND WHAT MORE SHALL I SAY?" 23:38 - HEBREWS 11:32 - "FOR THE TIME WOULD FAIL ME TO TELL OF GIDEON 23:42 AND BARAK AND SAMSON AND JEPHTHAH, ALSO OF DAVID AND 23:46 SAMUEL AND THE PROPHETS: WHO THROUGH FAITH SUBDUED KINGDOMS, 23:52 WORKED RIGHTEOUSNESS, OBTAINED PROMISES, STOPPED THE MOUTHS OF 23:56 LIONS," - NOT ONLY DID DANIEL AND DAVID DO THAT, SAMSON DID IT 23:59 TOO - "QUENCHED THE VIOLENCE OF FIRE," - LIKE SHADRACH, 24:03 MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO - "OUT OF WEAKNESS WERE MADE STRONG, 24:08 BECAME VALIANT IN BATTLE, TURNED TO FLIGHT THE ARMIES OF THE 24:12 ALIENS." YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS MOSES 24:18 SAID, 'HOW CAN ONE OF YOU CHASE A THOUSAND?' 24:22 IT'S INTERESTING HE USED THE NUMBER ONE AGAINST A THOUSAND. 24:24 DID SAMSON CHASE A THOUSAND? WHY? BECAUSE GOD'S SPIRIT CAME 24:29 UPON HIM. THE BIBLE SAYS, IN THE LAST 24:32 DAYS, MANY PLAGUES ARE GOING TO BE AROUND, BUT IT SAYS, 'NO 24:38 PLAGUE WILL COME NIGH UNTO YOUR DWELLING. 24:41 A THOUSAND MAY FALL AT YOUR SIDE AND TEN THOUSAND AT YOUR RIGHT 24:44 HAND, BUT IT WILL NOT COME NIGH UNTO THEE. 24:47 ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU SEE AND BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF 24:50 THE WICKED.' I WANT TO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, DON'T YOU? 24:55 >>YES. >>I WANT TO LEARN FROM THE STORY 24:56 OF SAMSON AND NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES. GOD WANTED SO MUCH TO 25:00 GIVE HIS PEOPLE VICTORY - THEY WERE JUST FIGHTING AGAINST HIM 25:02 ALL ALONG THE WAY. 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