Join Josh Raine & Scott Lanigan as we return to The Story and hear about the story of Samson from Judges 13-16.

BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

- These stories can be hard to understand, with changing names & places.  How should we approach these stories?

CYCLICAL

Israel is in a cycle of "do what they want", suffer and then cry out to God. This time, God begins to move, to deliver them BEFORE they ask Israel to deliver them. So is “history doomed to repeat itself”? Why is it important to understand the book of Judges?

CHARACTER

Super strong in muscles but super weak in character.

How do we understand spiritual privilege in life? 

TEMPTATION

James 1 says 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

How do we understand temptation as a follower of Jesus?  I thought Satan and his temptations were defeated?

GOD IS WITH ME

Samson was under the delusion that he could do whatever he wanted and God would be with him.  

- Does this ever happen to us?

3 KEYS

Why did you key in on...

Put God First

Choose Relationships Carefully

Failure is never final

Failure is only final when you refuse to get back up?

Final prayer from Paul David Tripp:

One of the stunning realities of the Christian life is that in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They're never ill-timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never ever fail because they really are new every morning.