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BY FAITH SAMSON. It is really difficult to understand why a person like Samson would be included in God’s Hall of Fame. His mother’s faith in God was pure. His faith was one of contradictions. At times he asked God to work in his life and at times he lived a life of evil. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
It is really difficult to understand why a person like Samson would be included in
God’s Hall of Fame.
He was religious and would not shave his hair, but at the same time his daily life was one of total ungodliness.
He seemed to have no fear of God’s judgment but assumed that he could do whatever he wanted, and then call on God to get him out of the trouble.
Judges 16:28-30: “Then Samson prayed to the LORD,
‘O Sovereign LORD, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more.
Let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for
my two eyes.’
Then Samson reached toward the two central
pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself
against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, Samson said,
‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ Then he
pushed with all his might, and down came the
temple on the rulers and all the people in it. With this he killed many more when he died than while
he lived.”
If we allow sin to stay in our life and participate in the sinful
things of the world our lives will be destroyed too!
You have to think, “What could God have done with Samson and his great giftedness if he had made God sovereign in
his life sooner?”