Sunday March 7th Teaching

Greetings all:

This week we are in chapters 14 and 15 of Judges. The little baby Samson who was born to the humble Mr. and Mrs. Manoah has grown up into a big hairy young man with an attitude. He doesn't listen to his parents and marries a Philistine woman. This marriage causes him trouble right from the start. But when he Spirit of the Lord comes on him someone is going to die. First a lion, then 30 Philistines, then 1000 men of Judah.

I don't think that I would like Samson but I think that I would be very afraid of him. Samson was surely an awesome individual to behold but I am seeing nothing attractive about him spiritually in these two Chapters. He was raised by godly parents to be a man of God, separated from birth for a special purpose. But he seems to be using the gifts that God has given him to kill anyone who ticks him off. He also appears to be a prideful young man. When he kills 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass he does not praise God but credits his own strength only.

But God is still going to use him and 1000 years later he will be listed in Hebrews with the men of faith from the Old Testament. What can we learn from the life of Samson?

Dave Morris