God has clearly laid out the design and purpose of marriage, and our goal is to live this purpose out to His praise and glory.

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Samson was a judge that showed great strength physically yet showed great weakness spiritually. He stands as a fitting picture of Israel as a whole.

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Believers must be ready to confront sin, doing so with a desire for restoration, and a readiness to forgive.

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Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured by childlike humility, a desire to root out sin, and a concern for the salvation of others.

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Jephthah is a seemingly unlikely candidate to become the leader of Israel. God loves to use the most unlikely, most unqualified people to accomplish His will.

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When applying faith in your own life, It’s not about you! It genuinely needs to be about Jesus. Jesus doesn’t expect us to have it all figured out. He wants us to have faith in Him

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Jesus wants us to count the cost of following Him. And we don’t follow Him to get our way or our wants met. We follow Him simply because He is the way!

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Our sin, though we might think can be handled and managed, will pose problems that go much further than we ever thought. It never pays to underestimate the harm of sin.

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God’s will for us is that we believe in His Son. That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and that by faith in Him, we are saved and forgiven of our sins.

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We’re living in exciting times where Biblical prophecy is unfolding before us. We need to be discerning of the signs of the times around us. However, we’re not to be seeking after signs in order to bolster our faith.

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