Human Sexuality, Gender, and God's Creation with Owen Strachan Day 2 Afternoon | Live Conference

Opening Song and Session Transition

Okay, now that everybody has eaten we're going to begin the next session with a round of calisthenics. Just kidding, but we will sing. So if you would please stand with us as we begin this session with praise to the Lord the Almighty.

Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of creation.

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My soul praise him for he is my help and salvation. To his temple draw near Praise him in glad adoration. So one Shelters me under his wings. He so gently sustains us. How the desires.

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Planted in Praise to the Lord who doth prosper thy work and defense goodness and mercy here daily attend thee. Ponder What the Almighty can do to the Lord. Oh let all that is in me adore.

Him.

All that hath life and breath amazes me Every blessing to my heart to sing thy grace streams of mercy Never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious Sonnet sung by flaming tongues above Praise the mount I'm fixed up on it mount of thy Redeeming love I love has blessed me thou hast brought me to this place And I know thy head will bring me safely home by thy good grace.

Jesus sought me when a stranger Wandering from the fold of God he to rescue me from Danger bought me with his precious love great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be Let thy goodness like a fetter Bind my wandering heart to thee prone to Wonder.

Lord, I feel it prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart. Oh take and seal it seal it for thy courts above. Oh that day when freed from sinning I shall see Thy lovely face full of rain in blood-washed linen How I'll sing by Sovereign grace Come my lord.

No longer Terry bring thy promises to pass For I know thy power will keep me till I'm home with the.

Thank you so much for that Great song by Josh the man with the best goatee in evangelicalism. Okay. So what we're gonna do now is we are going to Consider four types of men from Scripture in this session and then in the last session as I said to you this morning I've switched a few things around and we're gonna end on a high point with David we're gonna end with King David as an example of godly manhood and as a type of Christ, okay.

So that is what remains before us in terms of my material then we have a Q &A. To close out our time together. What I want to do first then with you in this session are four deficient types of manhood and before we dive into those four types, I Want us to understand the context of toxic?

Masculinity men are said as I alluded to last night to be toxic today and I reject the idea out of hand that there is something toxic about manhood. So I don't affirm that I I think it is very dangerous for us.

Example to tell our young men our boys that they are toxic. You know in a special and unique way. I I think that is tremendously Damaging to boys and young men and men for them to hear that and that's why the book you received graciously From pastor Jim and the elders for this conference is the war on men the war on Men because men are said to be toxic and I would encourage you hearing the sound of my voice to know that men are hearing that message today and Young men are hearing that message today and they're internalizing it and it's not having good effects.

So I really do believe there is a war on men and on manhood more generally. But that doesn't mean as we've already talked about that men don't have sin to face because men Definitely do and as we're going to now talk about there are four major ways, I think that men fail or if you will there are four major types of Deficient manhood that I want to cover with you in our brief session.

The Lost Man and Adam in Genesis 3

Now the first of them is the lost man the lost man. This is the kind of man we see in Genesis 3 verses 1 through 7. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden and the woman said to the serpent We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. But God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden.

Neither shall you touch it. She added that lest you die, but the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree Was to be desired to make one wise. She took of its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was With her and he ate then the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves Together and made themselves Loin cloths, let's pray father as we embark in this discovery this session this time I pray that you will bless us and you will strengthen us and I pray that you will help us to help men.

I pray that the men in the room will identify sin and you will help us to kill it and I pray father for your blessing. On men in this church that you would remake them by the power of your gospel in Jesus name.

We pray amen. The reason by the way, we focus on these four types is because the stakes are so high with men. Because if you do not train men, well, you're you're setting yourself up for disaster. You can't avoid it and when men struggle by the way very quickly when men struggle.

It's not only men who are affected right? It's women who are affected and it's children who are affected. So you can't simply say men are struggling. Well, whatever that that's that's on men in. Feminists will argue it's not a bad thing that men are struggling nowadays it's kind of good that men would get to wear the struggle hat for a while because men have had it so good for.

So long in the world now, it's their turn to be in the cultural penalty box again. That's not a sound way to think that's not a gospel driven way to think and furthermore when men struggle I'm at pains to say that everyone else will be struggling as well.

So that's you can't just say women are doing great women have leaned in. Women have leaned forward women are leaders now and men have stepped back. Yay feminism. This is going to be great. This is going to be golden hour in America.

No, it's not if Men aren't men if men are not strong men again. Disaster is coming for you this very week as some of you have seen on social media. The pictures in the videos numerous veterans of D-day on the 80th anniversary of D-day were flown over to Normandy France and walked the beaches.

There was there were a number of reporters who were embedded with this group of veterans. Basically all of whom now are in wheelchairs very much in wheelchairs a number of them a hundred years old. And it was a great week for us as a civilization to reflect on the state of men.

Because I'm not sure if a D-day was needed today in cultural terms. I Don't know that we could pull it off. I Honestly don't and I don't say that, you know ripping the the rising generation. A lot of in a lot of cases young men haven't been trained in manhood haven't been discipled haven't been helped.

Haven't been fathered and so on. But that's just a little picture of where we are that there was something in past generations not that they were all a Christian. They weren't but there was instruction in manhood and I fear a lot of this is lost today.

Well. This is a problem as old as the earth because Adam is our first lost man in this scene in Genesis 3. Remember how important it is that the Lord God said that Adam's charge was to work Eden and what?

Keep Eden right guard Eden. That's the whole call to protection that we've talked about earlier today. It turns out that Adam didn't heed and respond to that call at all he had the Lord God say to protect Eden to Adam directly and Adam failed in the mission the serpent came to the woman the woman stepped into the man's place and Engaged the serpent and got numerous things about the command of God wrong.

Didn't identify the tree of the knowledge of good and evil by that term. Called the tree the tree that is in the midst of the garden added a prohibition to not touch it. And so the woman was not doing well in this conversation this real historical conversation.

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Genesis 3 then the serpent rounds on the woman and tells her you will not surely die. If you do what God has forbidden you to do, that's the voice that we were talking about in our previous session. That's the voice of paganism talking because paganism is a dummy animated by the devil the the lie.

That our culture that pagan cultures believe is exactly that that you can live according to the flesh and you will not die. But remember that Paul in Romans 1 said that people who live in that way know That they deserve to die for their sin and yet they live that way.

Anyway, this is a chilling passage because it Disabuses us of the notion that if God would just show up and do our evangelism and apologetics for us. Everybody would obey. That's a very common way for you and me to think the reality is.

The human heart can be so proud and so slow to hear that God himself. This is a weird thing to say, but it's true. God himself can give you divine instruction and Then you can have an opportunity to put that instruction into practice and you can completely disregard What God just said?

That's what Adam does here that's what Eve does here they they don't at all Obey God, they don't listen to God and that shows us the capacity of the human heart. For pride talk about pride month. It's been pride history for all of human history since this moment.

We're living in a pride world not in a happy way. Don't have a ticker tape parade about it. That's the reality though that our hearts can hear divine instruction. Don't think that your discipleship and your Christian faith would necessarily be all the better if Jesus had just personally discipled you because Jesus can personally disciple you and you can reject what he has taught you to do.

The Lord God himself can give you instruction and you cannot hear it. That's what happens with Adam. Adam had a threat come into the garden. Adam had the devil target his wife and he did basically nothing.

All he did was stand there passively and eat the fruit that she gave him to eat. And this is a sign of one way we men fail. In a place where we need to step forward and we need to show God given God Identified strength we instead shrink back we disappear and we allow ourselves To get lost and that is happening with men all around us.

We still have men in our midst, but we have men who in many cases Have abandoned their calling and as a result many are suffering in our time. That is one kind of deficient manhood that we see in the Bible.

The Angry Man and Cain in Genesis 4

The second type is this the angry man the angry man. We've talked about this some. But we meet an angry man in Genesis 4 in One of the sons of Adam now Abel verse 1 was a keeper of sheep and Cain a worker of the ground in the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions and The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering but for Cain and his offering he had no regard so Cain was very.

Angry and.

His face fell. The Lord said to Cain. Why are you angry and why has your face fallen if you do? Well, will you not be accepted and if you do not do well sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.

In this passage we see that Cain is rebuked by the Lord and Cain does not respond in faith. Cain does not handle reproof. Well. And I think a lot of us man and woman alike Can see a scene like this and know that this isn't necessarily our favorite moment on the monthly calendar.

The time when we get reproved. Is this making sense to anyone the time when your spouse has a word of slight tweaking in your behavior. The thought that there could be something that you are not necessarily doing perfectly in all respects and someone around you Suggests that to you.

We all fail in this regard some of us more than others and it can be hard For us all of us men and women alike boys and girls to hear reproof to hear just critique. And Cain gives us a picture of how to handle criticism abysmally.

The way to handle criticism Abysmally is to reject it out of hand and to get very Angry at it. That's exactly what Cain does. We know this instinct. Well, all of us do we don't all have the same personality.

We don't all respond sinfully in the same ways. But we at least know what it is to have our blood run hot. When someone says to us, I don't know that you want to keep going that way I think you might have hurt their feelings.

Maybe we should do this a different way. The Lord has no regard for Cain's offering and Cain doesn't handle this with humility and graciousness and Listening a listening spirit instead Cain Handles God's disregard for his offering here again.

This is God's verdict, right? You and I can think well if God corrected me it would be done. So well that then I would just handle it great. But instead my spouse doesn't know how to say these words to me.

And so it it hurts me and it ticks me off because they don't they don't say it the right way and they may not Say it the right way, but even if God said it to you himself You still who you still could get very?

That is what happens precisely with this man. Cain did not rule anger. Anger ruled Cain in Fact it basically took him over. He lived his life angry. It's not hard to do this man and woman alike. It's not hard to do this as a man.

Men have that much greater Capacity for strength right 50 to 60 percent more upper body strength on average men have on average 2 ,000 to 3 ,000 percent more testosterone than women which is why we relax as boys or men by forming sports that allow us to hit one another and Collide into one another for fun and why when it is time to relax.

We turn on a war movie which is somewhat ironic if you think about it or even a Western Like tombstone where people shoot at each other for fun. Okay. This is what we do as men. It's it's not though because we're toxic.

It's because we are wired for action and we have this capacity in us. That a little bit like catnip can make us a little bit crazy on the outer edges of it. Let's be honest. We have this inner drive and that can be used for tremendous good.

And that can be used for real evil and we have to know that we have these capacities as men. We don't all look the same. We don't all bench press the same but we have as we become an adult man we have some physical strength at least a lot of us do and we have that energy that Testosterone in us and if those instincts and those capacities aren't channeled for the glory of God.

Specifically if we are not born again. Those can do tremendous damage to the people around us just as they can be used for amazing good. Cain then is a warning to us. He's the angry man. He kills Abel.

He goes on to do this in verse 8 Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him when the Lord shows up in a kind of reprise of Genesis 3 to ask Cain where Abel was. Cain denied being his brother's keeper.

But but Abel's blood righteous. Abel's blood shouted from the ground verse 10 in poetic Language, let's learn then men. From the image of the angry man here in Genesis 4. There's other images. There's other examples of this found throughout the Bible, but this is a directly biblical example.

Very early in the scripture of the way of the angry man, and I would just encourage us all sometimes we're angrier than we know sometimes we don't even realize how disgruntlement or grumpiness or Challenges are affecting us and we're bringing that home again we may not even be aware of it and that can have an effect on our wife and our children around us and.

So our challenge here is not to is not to hate ourselves or see ourselves as worse than women or something like that. But our challenge is to think in a gospel driven way. Our challenge is not to be proud like Cain.

But our challenge is to pursue humility. We want to be strong men in God that's a very good instinct. It's right that little boys want to grow up to be strong it's right that boys look up to soldiers.

Policemen firefighters men who put their lives on the line for others. We want that. I love that my son when he sees a policeman. This isn't you know, I'm not telling a story to praise my wife and me.

My son has always done this. He looks up to men in uniform as so many boys Innately do and he'll go up to them and ask them all these questions about their line of work and that sort of thing. We want that.

But we've got to recognize that it is not only our calling to be strong. It is also our calling to be humble to be humble men. Cain is not humble when someone is not humble. They literally don't Hear that's the mark of pride.

You don't hear and Christian discipleship is many things at base. It is hearing it's listening. It's paying attention. How many times do dads and moms say that over the course of years zero to twelve pay attention?

Can you pay attention? Are you paying attention? Are you did you pay attention that did you hear that? I just said that did you not hear that right? It's we say to our kids our parents said it to us. It will continue down the generations until Jesus returns and everyone is paying attention.

Okay, isn't it significant that you hear the trumpet and he returns pay attention you get you get my point. It's a it's a congenital defect of humanity that we don't pay attention, but that's what humility that's what the spirit works in us.

It's not just pay more attention Christian. Be more humble Christian man or woman alike. It's the spirit working in us to produce humility. It's a fruit of the spirit. And so let's embrace this. Let's go hard for humility.

Let's take opportunities to listen. It's not that's not the easy button of the Christian life. This is not the fun part. When you get critique when somebody's speaking into your life when somebody's speaking into your marriage when somebody's speaking into your fatherhood.

When someone's speaking into your singleness not the fun part, but this is the part where we grow. This is a part where we grow like crazy when we are humble and we listen. So we need to pray that God would Keep us from being a cane and God would make us one who listens who pays attention.

Tomorrow's sermon is on David hearing Abigail when David is about to slaughter people and Abigail barely barely shows up in time and on the spot David and his warriors with their Their swords strapped onto their thigh ready to cut throats.

Stopping their tracks and listen to this one woman David and 400 warriors and not, you know toy soldiers men who have killed many others in the past and instead of acting foolishly David.

Listens.

That's the power of humility.

Everybody.

Everybody wants political power today and understandably we can. We can know why people want to put things to rights. It's actually a good instinct in many respects, but the Bible concentrates power in such surprising places.

It's not the guy who's yelling at everybody and forcing them to go his way. Who's the powerful man you want to know. Who's powerful. The man who has the spirit working in him and who is self-controlled and humble.

That's Spiritual power. That's when you're powerful not in yourself, but by the working of God in you you're under control. You're not a city without walls to quote Proverbs, but you're a man who's disciplined.

You're a man who listens and you're a man who can grow because you can actually hear what someone's saying to you. Cain couldn't hear a word even with Almighty God. Talking to him. What a place to be.

What a powerful thing. The natural fallen heart is God himself speaking to you and you. Gritting your teeth and making excuses. It's a dangerous reality. Third type. The soft man. The soft man. We find this figure not in the book of Genesis, but we find this figure in Judges.

We find an example of the soft man. The wavering man. The fearful man in Gideon. The the figure of Gideon. We find Gideon in.

Judges.

Six we find Gideon in Judges seven and so Gideon is a crucial player in the strange surprising weirdly encouraging and troubling book of Judges. Two of the examples we're covering here are from the book of Judges Gideon and next Samson.

Gideon's the soft man. He's the opposite of Samson. Who's the out-of-control man? Gideon had a father who openly worshiped the false God Bale. This is a hard situation from the outset. Gideon Was afraid of his dad.

His dad led many men in Gideon's town to worship Bale. Gideon lived a fearful life. He harvested wheat at night. Because there were evil tribes around him namely the Midianites Who wanted to destroy Gideon and his family and so Gideon? harvested wheat.

At night when he could be safer in Judges 612 the Lord came to Gideon and an angel addressed Gideon as a mighty man of valor. This is not actually what Gideon had shown himself to be. But this is what God was calling Gideon to be by his own grace.

This is very similar to what we were talking about with Proverbs 31 it is not that Proverbs 31 is a list that you're supposed to Throw at women and say you're failing at this. It is supposed to be Aspirational and a beautiful picture of what a woman can be by God's power.

Similarly God addressed Gideon as a mighty man of valor. Even though Gideon was actually a very fearful man, but what God was signaling is that Gideon? This is what you're going to become. This is what I'm going to make you and that should be very encouraging.

To us God takes weak soft Passive fearful men and he changes them. He changes us into something much greater. The Lord's call to Gideon was a very easy one. It was to destroy his father. Joe ashes idolatrous altars to demonic false.

Gods.

Wow you tracking that anybody ever had some inter-family dynamics. You ever felt how hard it is to go against a dad or mom who you disagree with? You tried to witness to family members who aren't Christian and don't want to hear it.

My family back in Maine sadly largely unsaved one time I tried to witness to my grandfather and. The conversation started going into church life. And I tried to witness to my grandparents before and my grandfather who was a strong man.

Not a Christian, but a strong man looked me in the eye without blinking and said stop. Like that and that was it. That was the end of the conversation.

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Know how hard it is as some of you do to have family members who are not walking with the Lord and you try to Be a witness and you feel so weak and It's hard. Well Gideon knew this firsthand and God didn't just say Have a dinnertime conversation over the decaf about you know, how things are going with Joe ash.

God said take a hammer and destroy your dad's idols. This is quite a calling. Gideon did so Gideon in the middle of the night as was his custom destroyed his dad's idolatrous altars and Joe ash found out the next day.

And in Judges 6 28 to 32 We see that Gideon's God inspired courage Actually turned the tide in his surroundings. Gideon feared that Joe ash was going to probably attack him and kill him which was not an unreasonable fear and instead Joe ash the dad stood up for his son and things changed in the town.

And so we're getting a picture here as we will in our next session with David of this equation. Cowardice begets cowardice but courage begets courage and Oftentimes, it's one man one person Who will stand up to evil?

It's not usually in the Bible lots of people it's often one person.

It's often.

One person standing in the gap who will say No, and God uses so.

Frequently one.

Person. Isn't that the opposite of the way many of us are thinking about America right now? Turning America around whatever that would look like how we want that. Guessing many of you want that I want that.

Don't you don't you think?

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Don't know. Maybe we're outnumbered and outgunned. I think we might need a revival I think we might need you know tons and tons and tons and and tons and tons and tons of people to To turn this around and I just think that's impossible.

Oh, really? Do you know about a book called the Bible? Where over and over again? There's not an army. There's no army or Excuse me. There's an army of one. There's one person. This is what happens with Gideon one man Turns the tide of a town and not an impressive man an afraid Passive timid man and yet God works in him and Everything turns around.

Could it be that way in America? Is God weak? It's the gospel not powerful anymore.

Christian.

Whatever happens in days ahead. Don't live in fear. Stop living in fear. Live in hope. Live in God-centered trust. Your God is invincible. Your God is not Cowed or worried by the opposite side. Your God is strong.

He'll choose to do. Whatever he chooses to do. He gives people up doesn't he. He gives societies over. He lets civilizations crash. He does whatever he pleases. Whatever he does is right. Yet know this he's not outmatched.

He's not outmatched by paganism. He's not outgunned. He's very strong and frequently in history and in the church and with unsound doctrines and unsound movements and Wokeness in the church and government's closing the church down and terrible things happening among the people of God.

You think oh, no. We don't have the numbers anymore. No, you may not have the numbers, but you know who you have.

You have God.

You've got and as Knox said to requote it one man with God is in the majority. Do you believe that? Is that in your bones? Let that sink into your bones. It's true God lets Gideon experience this principle Keenly and judges seven very quickly.

Gideon amasses an army of 32 ,000 men. Yay. Strengthen numbers. Here we go. 32 ,000, right? Does Gideon go into battle with 32 ,000? You learn that in BBS you learn that on the flannel graph right you remember that The Lord makes a cut.

He has Gideon do a test with the with the 10 ,000 he initially pairs the army down from 32 ,000 to 10 ,000 and Then this next major cut is with a test where The men are to lap water. They're to go to a stream and see who drinks water in what way and The Lord God tells Gideon and judges seven six that he is to keep for his army only those who kneel down to Lap water and put their hand to their mouth.

I've been told I'm ranging outside of the camera. Sorry I'm so sorry, but I I'm Reaching the point in the preaching and teaching. There's a lot of preaching and teaching and I'm needing to testosterone.

Speaking to me move around a little bit. Okay, but anyway near it near the stream and and the only ones Gideon can keep are the ones who do this. They they they lap water. Uh-uh. It's not just that they lap water.

It's that they scan the horizon. You see actually the only ones Gideon is to keep are the ones who have a warrior mindset. It's the true warriors not necessarily in the terms of the the bigness of their biceps, but the ones who are Protectors the ones who even when they're drinking water are scanning the horizon.

Later in the Old Testament this type of man is going to be called. It's one of my favorite terms in the Bible a watchman a watchman on the wall. That's this type of man. Everybody wants a warm bed at night right then and now.

But there's a certain type you find them all through the Bible. They're also called mighty men with David and these are the types who yes. They like a warm bed just like the rest of us, but they have other priorities on their mind.

Specifically they have the good of other people on their mind even when they would love to relax. That's what this type of warrior is. He's always scanning the horizon. That's the type of man we need.

We need men who are watchmen on the wall we need men who are Protecting and defending when they would rather not be on the wall. They'd rather be down there where everyone else is sleeping but instead They're watching we need these kind of men.

Young.

Middle-aged and Elderly, we need these men single and we need these men married. We need to train our boys to be these kind of men by the grace of God. We need men you see returning to this concept who pay.

Attention.

Few things are more deadly than a man who doesn't pay attention. Think about your phone for a minute. Mines on the table. One. One stratagem of Satan. I'm not against smartphones. Mine is right there.

But one stratagem of Satan is to get us just lured into not paying attention. Because of a smartphone which sounds silly when I say it. But we all battle this now, don't we so many of us battle this not paying attention because of a phone.

Just think about how silly that is, but that's the temptation. Yes. So again considerations of smartphones aside. We need men who even when they're drinking water. Pay attention. We need men who are protectors.

We need men who understand themselves as warriors. People laugh at that when you say that now. If people laugh at warrior manhood, there's nothing funny about it. I don't mean that you necessarily carry around a Braveheart broadsword with you, you know all through life or something.

You know one of those seven-foot Scottish swords. You can try that by the way, you can try carrying a Scottish broadsword like William Wallace at all through life. That's a joke. Okay. Anyway, I don't know how that's gonna go for you, especially with TSA, but.

What you really need to do is not is not carry a sword. You can pack heat depending on your state. But what you really need to do is be a spiritual watchman and think of yourself as a warrior in the mold of the greater David King Jesus.

Well, we don't have much time to talk about this story. I have to conclude Gideon's narrative very quickly. Long story short with just 300 men remaining. The Lord gives the victory to Gideon and his forces.

The Lord routes the Midianites. Thousands of them die and God shows up for this weak man. Brothers and sisters the Bible is trying to get our attention and The Bible is trying to teach us that the kingdom of God doesn't work according to human metrics.

Doesn't work that way. The power of God is not determined by man's statistical patterns. Because there's no reason Gideon's army should have won but Gideon's army routed the enemy forces. Are we reading our Bibles?

Are we hearing the Old Testament? Are we knowing that God is loading us up with? Encouragement and stories like this and and the the message to conclude this little disquisition on Gideon is this. God takes those of us who are weak men and he makes us strong and he uses us for good.

So be encouraged by that. That's an encouragement. That's a very encouraging biblical reality. Fourth and finally the exaggerated man for this session. Samson. Ah so much to say about Samson. The figures in the Bible are more interesting than anything Hollywood's ever come out with.

Our Bibles are so engrossing. Samson's real. Samson's real because of the Nazarite vow. Samson has. The greatest strength any human being has ever had. Samson's the strongest human who has ever lived.

He's a fascinating figure and character. Samson is the exaggerated man. Samson is the man that many men want to be. Unregenerate men. Samson is who in our natural strength as men. We crave to be. Samson is Andrew Tate.

But actually a lot stronger. Samson is red pill manhood with no gospel. That's Samson. He can defeat anyone. Samson's exploits. Seem like someone has fictionalized them. No one is fictionalized them. Samson is threatened by a roaring lion and judges 14 6.

What does Samson do? Well, we read this. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. Although he had nothing in his hand. He tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. Samson is attacked by a lion the alpha predator of the natural world.

And Samson rips its jaws apart. This is strength. This is incredible strength from the Spirit of the Lord. This is in your Bibles by the way. You can read this men can find this interesting. It's true.

Yes. There's a lot there to study and It's not made up. Samson goes to Lehi and he's in Philistine territory and the Philistines come shouting to meet him. This is judges 15 14 and 15. Guess what happened.

The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him and the ropes that were on his arms. He's tied down. Became his flax that has caught fire and his bonds melted off his hands and he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey.