Samson Part 1

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1 Samuel 17 Part 2

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The Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, Behold, now you are barren and have born no children, but you shall conceive and give birth to a son.
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Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean.
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For behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and a razor shall come upon his head.
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For the boy shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
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And then a woman came and told her husband saying, a man of God came to me and his appearance was like that, the appearance of the angel of God, he was very awesome.
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I did not ask him where he had came from, nor did he tell me his name.
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And he said to me, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink or eat anything unclean, for the boy shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
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And then Manoah entreated the Lord and he said, oh Lord, please let this man whom you have sent come to us again that he may teach us what we were to do for the boy who was to be born.
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And God listened to the voice of Manoah, the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.
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So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, behold, the man who came the other day has appeared to me.
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And then Manoah rose, he followed his wife.
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When he came to the man, he said to him, are you the man who spoke to the woman? And he said, I am.
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And Manoah said, now, when your word shall come to pass, what shall the boy's mode of life and what is his vocation? So the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, let the woman pay attention to all that I have said.
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She shall not eat anything that comes from the fruit of the vine nor drink any strong drink, any wine, nor eat anything unclean and let her observe all that I have commanded.
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Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, please let us detain you that we may prepare a young goat for you.
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And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, though you detain me, I will not eat your food.
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But if you will prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.
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For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.
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And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, what is your name? So that when your words do come to pass, we may honor you.
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But the angel of the Lord said to him, why do you ask my name, seeing that it is wonderful? So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, offered it on the rock to the Lord.
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He performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.
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For it came about that when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord ascended into the flame of the altar.
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And when Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.
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Now the angel of the Lord did not appear to Manoah or his wife again.
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And then Manoah knew that it was the angel of the Lord.
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So Manoah said to his wife, we will surely die for we have seen God.
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But his wife said to him, if the Lord had a desire to kill us, he would not have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor would he have shown us all these things, nor would he have let us hear the things like this at this time.
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Then the woman gave birth to the son, named him Samson.
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And the child grew up and the Lord blessed him.
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And the spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahadim between Zorah and Ashdod.
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We're coming to the last judge of this section.
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Samson is not the last judge of Israel, but he is the last judge of this.
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Actually, the last judge of Israel is Samuel.
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Andy was speaking yesterday.
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I was hoping our little gig was still up here from last week.
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It was here, we went to the judges, then we went to the prophets and we went to kings.
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I don't know if y'all remember what was right here.
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Well, Samuel actually fulfills all three of those prophets, as judge, prophet, and he works somewhat as a king, a prophet, priest, and king.
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But my understanding, and Andy may have a little different timeframe, I'm not sure, but I would, my assumption and based on the timeframe is that Samson takes place right before the time of Eli and Samuel.
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And reason being is because of Samuel is the last judge of Israel, this would be the one, his predecessor.
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So let's look at what the text says.
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It says, now the sons of Israel, again, did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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As Andy did a recap last week, that is the constant refrain that we hear.
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Israel constantly did in the book of judges, they constantly did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Then God would send a deliverer, and at this point he has sent 11 of them.
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God has used them to deliver them, but there's also a constant refrain also as he sends a deliverer, that normally it would say, now the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, so that he would give them over to the Philistines, and it would give a certain timeframe.
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And then you would hear shortly after that, just a couple of sentences later, that the people of God cried out to him, and he sent them a deliverer.
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Notice that is not what you see here.
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This is the only time that we see a judge risen up by God without the people crying out.
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And this is the longest time of oppression.
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Good morning, buddy.
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This is the longest time of oppression under the time of the judges, that we see them under the Philistine rule, which would be 40 years.
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So just a point of application to God being very gracious, they did not cry out to God in repentance, wanting someone to deliver them.
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And we're gonna see right here shortly that God is gonna raise up someone in spite of their sinful rebellion.
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And that is, this is the only time it takes place in the book of Judges.
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It says, so the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistine for 40 years.
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Now there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah.
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Now we don't know Manoah's wife's name, so we're just gonna say Mr.
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and Mrs.
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Manoah as we go through this.
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His wife was barren.
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So Mrs.
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Manoah was barren and she had no children.
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It says, the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, behold, now you are barren and have not born any child.
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You will conceive and give birth to a son.
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For a woman to be under Middle Eastern culture in the Sinai Peninsula, the Mesopotamia Peninsula, all of those areas, for a woman to be barren was actually considered a curse by God because the role of the woman was to raise up seed for her husband.
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That was the goal.
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That's why we've been going through Genesis.
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You would see that the concubines were given to Jacob for the purpose of raising up seed because they thought they were cursed.
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So ultimately, the goal was to raise up a lineage of heritage.
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Well, Mr.
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and Mrs.
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Manoah obviously didn't have a child.
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So the angel of the Lord and the angel of the Lord, anytime the angel of the Lord is mentioned in scripture, in the Old Testament, the angel of the Lord, that is primarily looked at as being a manifestation of the pre-incarnate Christ.
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The, meaning a definite article.
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Now, you do have times in scripture where it says an angel appeared.
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Remember, an angel is not a definite article.
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It's an indefinite article.
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So it says here that the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, I know that you have been barren, you have no child, but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
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Samson, what did I do with it? What did I do with it? Samson is the only judge that we have a nativity with maybe the exception of Japheth when he was a deliverer.
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But all that we know about that dude is he was the son of a harlot.
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That's all we know.
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And that he was rejected by his family.
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This here, we're actually getting some information about Samson, that Samson's gonna be a deliverer from the womb.
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And this is actually a very good implication of how this points to Christ.
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There ain't much we can say about Samson that's good.
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He's a moral train wreck.
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But we will say this, just as Jesus from the time of his nativity and the proclamation that Mary was gonna be born, Mrs.
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Manoah knew from the time that she was gonna conceive that she was going to have the deliverer of Israel.
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So it says here in verse five, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son and no razor shall come upon his head and the boy shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
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Now, we don't have time to go back and look at the complete Nazarite vow, but if you wanna write this down, it's in Numbers chapter six, verses one through 21.
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And there's a number of things that are in there.
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Don't drink wine, strong drink, stay away from the fruit of the vine, don't touch courts.
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Those are kind of the major ones that are gonna manifest itself through the course of the narrative of Samson that he violates.
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But understand this, that the Nazarite vow was a voluntary vow.
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This is an involuntary vow.
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This is a command from God.
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And not only is a command from God for the child to be a Nazarite, but the mother now is gonna be under that Nazarite vow from the time that she conceives to the time that she's born.
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This is not a voluntary vow.
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This is a command from God.
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There's only one other person that this happened this way too, and that is Samuel.
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It says, and when the woman came and told her husband saying, a man of God came to me and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God.
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He was very awesome.
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I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name.
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But he said, and he gives it the same, she repeats it to him, same thing.
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Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son.
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And know that he shall not drink wine or strong drink.
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From the boy shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
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Now, the Nazarite vow normally had a timeframe.
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It was however that long that vow was, whether it be months, a time of completion for a goal.
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Well, this one's gonna be from the time that he's born to the time that he dies.
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And if you know anything about the Nazarite vow, the last thing you would go and read, because it'll help bring light over the next three to four weeks as we go through this, is the final breaking or completion of the Nazarite vow was the taking of the hair, the cutting of the locks off, and actually putting it into the fire of the altar.
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And this is the only sacrifice that you would offer under the Mosaic legislation, where you actually use a human body part or something from the human body that would go into the flame to be consumed.
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So just remember that, that's why the hair's significant.
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And that's why as we get to the end of it, that's when things really run amok, is when he gets his hair cut.
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And as we go through this, the power of Samson is not in his hair.
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It's in the power of the spirit.
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That was just the sign of the vow.
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It's always been the power of the spirit.
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Just look, every judge, what caused the judge to raise up and deliver someone? What was it? God's spirit, it would come upon him.
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I mean, just think about David when he was in the field and he says, hey, I tore a bear and a lion and grabbed him by his beard, tore him to pieces.
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What does it say happened? The spirit of the Lord came upon him and empowered him to do something.
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So we need to keep that in mind, that this is, the hair was just a sign of the covenant before God.
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So she says, hey, this dude came to me.
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He said, we're gonna have a son.
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Here's what we're supposed to do.
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And Mr.
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Manoah says, okay, let me talk to God about this.
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So in verse eight, Manoah says, he entreated the Lord and he said, oh Lord, please let the man whom you have sent to us, that you have sent, send to us again, that he may teach us what we're to do for the boy who is to be born.
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And God listened to the voice of Manoah and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field.
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I think it's, so obviously y'all may be more sanctified than me, but as I'm reading this, I go, he asked him to come to him.
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And who does he go to? He goes back to the woman.
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So he goes back to Mrs.
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Manoah and she is sitting in the field as Mr.
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Manoah was not with her.
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So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, hey, hurry up, dude's back.
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So Manoah arose doing whatever he was doing, followed his wife.
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I'm at verse 11 and he came to where the man was.
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He said, are you the man who spoke? Basically, are you the man, are you the dude who spoke to my wife? And he said, I am.
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Manoah said, now when these words come to pass, what shall the vocation of the boy's life be and what shall his mode? And it is funny, look at what he says.
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I already told the woman.
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He doesn't tell him again.
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He says, hey man, I've already told her.
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I just think it's interesting that he didn't tell the man that because who's the primary person that takes care of the kids in the house? Yeah, where's the man at? He's out chasing something to eat, plowing the field.
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I mean, look, he wasn't even with his wife when he was asking for him to come back.
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I just think it's interesting.
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He goes, don't worry about it, I already told her.
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Ma'am? We take the kids for haircuts.
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Well, she don't take this one to get the haircut.
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I'm careful.
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Yeah, so he basically says, hey, check it out.
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I gave her the instruction manual.
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She's got it.
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She's gonna handle it.
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She knows what to do.
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And Mr.
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Manoah really ain't taking it.
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He's like, look, I got enough.
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So we get to verse 13.
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So the angel of the Lord again said to Manoah, let the woman pay attention again to all that I have said.
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She should not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or strong drink.
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Hey, what's the reason in scripture for the, at times, abstaining from wine or strong drink? First of all, is anybody in here think it's prohibited in scripture? Okay, so we've got that part handled.
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What's the warning for wine and strong drink? That's it, that's the warning.
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Actually, the warning to not become drunk, yes.
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But what does, anytime someone drinks or drinks too much or in excess, what does it do? It lowers their judgment.
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So if you look in under the Mosaic legislation, even in Andy's teaching through the Proverbs with Keith, you'll get to places where it talks about the dangers of drinking too much.
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Look, Bible's very clear.
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I think it's Psalm 104.
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God made wine for the man to be merry, okay? It's a gift, but it's not a gift to be abused.
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It's a gift to be enjoyed, and there's a difference, okay? But the reason here under this is they don't want any impurity put into this person, none.
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You can also go back and say when, and look in, I think it's in Leviticus either 10 or 11.
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No, it has to be 10, because it's right after Nadab and Abihu get torched.
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He said, do not drink wine or strong drink when you come to the tabernacle.
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Why? Because God does not want you any type of judgment to be impeded into doing his work.
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My personal opinion is I think that it's a good possibility that Nadab and Abihu had been drinking a little too much and thought that they could offer strange fire up to God in their own way, and the reason why I've come to that conclusion is because immediately when they get smoked by the fire, what's the next thing that comes out of God's mouth? Hey, don't come into my tabernacle drinking, being drunk.
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So it's just my opinion.
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You can disagree with me, and that's fine.
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So he doesn't want this man to, or this woman before the child comes to be doing anything that's gonna impede the judgment.
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It's going to bring any type of impurity to the body or into the mind.
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And then in verse 15, then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, let us detain you that we may prepare a young goat for you.
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Hey, does anybody have another word other than detain? That almost sounds like, hey, we want to arrest you.
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What does yours say? Does it? It's like, man, they want to take the angel of the Lord and lock him down.
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But it says, let us detain you to prepare a young goat for you.
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Under ancient Middle Eastern culture, this was hospitality.
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So here it is, they have a visitor come in, and it was common for them to, hey, stick around long enough for us to make you something to eat.
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You got to remember, this takes a little bit of time.
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This isn't like Miss Rosanna going in there and heating up something in the microwave.
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This means they're going to have to go out to the field.
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They're going to have to bring a goat in.
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They're going to have to gut it.
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They're going to have to clean it, skin it, and get it ready to eat along with making some bread.
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So we're talking probably hours.
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And he says, verse 16, it says, the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, though you detain me, I will not eat your food.
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But if you prepare it as a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.
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So for Manoah did not know that this was the angel of the Lord.
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So as you and I are reading this, we're reading it, obviously, a couple of millennia reserved for three.
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We're reading this knowing that this angel of the Lord is a manifestation of God himself.
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Well, Manoah doesn't know this.
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That's why it says, he did not know that this was the angel of the Lord.
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And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, what is your name? So that when your words do come to pass, we may honor you.
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But the angel of the Lord said to him, why do you ask my name, seeing that it is wonderful? It's interesting that he says, seeing that it is wonderful.
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How do we recognize Jesus when he comes on? I think it's in Isaiah as a prophecy.
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Wonderful.
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And we often see that as wonderful counselor, but that's really not how it's phrased.
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It's wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting father.
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And it's interesting that this is what he says here, is seeing that it is wonderful.
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He is awesome.
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And then in verse 19, it says, so Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock before the Lord.
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And he performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.
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I've often wondered in reading through this passage, and what was he doing? What kind of wonders was that? I mean, he was obviously doing some type of visual manifestation.
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I mean, I don't wanna say a tricks or something, but I mean, he was doing something that put them in awe of the power of this person that was standing in front of them.
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What that is, we have no idea, but we know this, it put them in awe.
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It says, and as he performed those wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on, for it came about that when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended into the flame of the altar.
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When the flame was consuming the sacrifice, that sacrifice was consumed.
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That was a manifestation as an offering to the Lord that that sacrifice was acceptable.
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And as we see this sacrifice, as a commander, he said, hey, we're gonna make you something to eat.
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And he says, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not gonna eat what you're making me, but if you take this very goat that you're gonna make me to eat and you make it a sacrifice, offer it to the Lord, but we see at this point that when they do what God commanded them to do through the angel of the Lord, then that sacrifice is now acceptable.
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As that smoke goes up, who goes up with it? God himself, yeah, God himself showing that this was acceptable.
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And when Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.
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Now, this is a common scene you see through scripture is when someone sees a manifestation of God, they fall on their face.
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I just, it's interesting as you get to the New Testament, when the manifestation of God or the messenger of God comes on the scene, he goes, hold on, don't fear.
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Here, these people constantly falling on the ground.
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Well, maybe angels got smarter as time went on and said, all right, no need to fall on your face.
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It's not God, it's just an angel.
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And he, they fall down to worship.
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And verse 21 says, now the angel of the Lord did not appear to Manoah or Mrs.
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Manoah again.
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And when Manoah knew that he was the, and this is when Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
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So Manoah said to his wife, we shall surely die for we have seen God.
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Now here is where we go, okay, Mr.
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Manoah was theologically correct, but his wife was a better theologian because he says here, we will surely die, we have seen God.
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But listen to her, she corrects him.
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But his wife said to him, hold on a second.
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If he had desired to kill us, but he hadn't accepted our burnt offering and our grain offering from our own hands, nor if he had a desire for us to kill us in his presence, would he have shown us all of these things? Nor would he have let us hear things like this at this time.
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It's just interesting that in all, and the being in the presence of God, Mr.
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Manoah thinks we're gonna die, but his short-term memory has completely gone away because God had already given them instructions that I'm gonna send you through your wife, the deliverer of Israel.
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And he's having a theological seizure in his mind and his wife has to correct him.
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No, no, no, no, we're gonna be fine.
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And in verse 24, it says that the woman gave birth to the son named him Samson, the child grew up and the Lord blessed him.
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And the spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahadim between Zorah and Ashton.
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Okay, so through that narrative, let's name some things that were paralleled to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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One, we put the first one here, the pronouncement of a son.
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Isn't it interesting? Who pronounces the coming of the deliverer? The pre-incarnate Christ, do you hear the words that he was using? It's gonna be some of the very same words that are used when Gabriel comes to Mary and says, behold, you're going to conceive and give a son and he will be the deliverer of Israel.
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That's exactly what it says right here.
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Back up in verse five, behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son.
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And you get to the end, and he shall begin to deliver Israel from their enemies or in some translations, it may say Philistines.
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So we have the pronouncement being somewhat like Jesus.
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What else? It's the Lord receiving the offering as a sign that it was ascended up.
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And that was a sign that the Lord had received the offering.
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And as Christ was resurrected from the dead, the Lord received him back up.
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Okay, yeah, the receipt of the sacrifice.
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Reception of sacrifice.
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All right, what else? It was a miraculous conception for both because Manoah's life was barren, unable to conceive, and Mary had never been with a man.
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Yes, we'd have to be careful.
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I agree with you.
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We just have to be careful.
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The hers was done by the Holy Spirit.
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This one was actual intercourse.
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I agree with you.
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It was still an act of God.
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Okay, I do agree with you, yeah.
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The conception commissioned by God.
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How's that sound? You gotta remember this one.
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He will be the deliverer.
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He will be the deliverer.
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He is going to deliver God's people from their enemies.
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That's what Samson's gonna do.
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And I'm gonna tell you, there's nothing morally good about this man.
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Nothing.
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Good to see you, buddy.
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Nothing morally good about this man.
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I have tried to go through there and tried to pick out some things that we could say, okay, what about his character was good? There ain't.
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I don't often look at commentaries.
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Mine are more, I like exegetical and lexiconical stuff.
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But I was looking at some commentaries and it's amazing how many commentaries try to sanitize Samson by saying, you know what, we'll just have a timeframe of his life when he was unfaithful.
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But then what you're doing by saying that is you're reading into the scripture something that God has not revealed.
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What has God revealed to us about Samson? He was a worldly man.
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He was a worldly man.
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But if all we had from, it was just verse 13, I mean, chapter 13, man, this is gonna be good.
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This is gonna be awesome.
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God has finally sent somebody that's going to crush his enemies.
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And not only is he going to crush his enemies, he's gonna do it from the time that he's born to the time that he dies because that's when the Nazarite vow was to take place.
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It wasn't a temporary vow.
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The thing that broke this vow was gonna be the death of the man.
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That's what it says.
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I think, does anybody's translation say from all of his life or I think it's in verse seven.
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Mine says from the womb to the tomb, basically.
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Does anybody else say all the days of his life? Day of his death, that's what mine says too.
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And it's interesting that it would say not all the days of his life.
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Not all the days of his life.
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So if we read any of that, we know that, hey, something's gonna happen at his death.
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And obviously that will be the greatest deliverance in which he takes place under Samson.
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Samson comes from a tribe of the Danites.
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What could the Danites not do? I think Andy said this last week.
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What could they not do? Remember when he drew his big old Hershey's kiss up here? I didn't think it looked like Africa, Andy.
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I thought it looked like a Hershey's kiss.
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Maybe I wanted some chocolate.
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What was wrong with the Danites when they crossed the Jordan? Them jokers couldn't hold on to their land.
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So God raises up now a deliverer from a group of people that couldn't even protect their own land.
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God's gonna raise up a deliverer of Israel from a very unlikely group of people.
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And it's the Danites.
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We got five minutes.
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I have a question.
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On the whole call from the womb thing, so obviously this is kind of the same as like John the Baptist.
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Sure.
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So how does that fit into like a redemption thing? Because like, so these people were literally like sanctified to God from the womb.
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So they never, the whole indwelling sin thing.
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How does that? Well, indwelling sin and God commissioning somebody to be for a specific purpose all the days of their life.
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Samuel was the same way.
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But Samuel obviously failed too.
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If you read anything about his sons, they weren't exactly the best of all.
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So you would say that these guys were redeemed from the womb and that they never had a...
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Sure.
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Certainly John the Baptist.
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I mean, he's the only one we know that was filled with the Holy Spirit from the time he was conceived.
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And, but understand that's not normative.
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It's not normative.
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That's why when we have these proclamations, we need to look at them and look at them closely because that's not normative.
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Nobody in this room is saved at birth.
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Now, I know to headstone, that's the lightning flash when you come into the world.
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Okay.
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Back here somewhere where God elects to save.
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Okay.
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I don't know when you're gonna get saved in your life.
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So understand, just because you're called in eternity past, okay, does not mean you're justified in eternity past.
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Your justification takes somewhere, whoever, however old you are.
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But some, mine took place at 28.
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Go on.
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Huh? Yeah, mine was down here.
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Mine took place at 28 years old.
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Okay.
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This is the one, this is John the Baptist.
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This is Samuel.
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This is Samson, but that's not likely.
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And once again, I don't wanna get off into the whole band.
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That right there drops the hammer on a person that believes in free will.
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I mean, what are you gonna do? Well, God's a gentleman.
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He would never impose his will on anyone.
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We just talked about three that he did, you know? So yes, was he set apart? Yep, yep, yep.
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Which one first? Ladies first.
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Jeremiah, but when Jeremiah was caught, he says, in your womb, he knew him, but he was not commissioned as from the time that he was born.
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Yeah, did God say, hey, I formed you in your womb, I knew you, and I had a purpose for you, but when did Jeremiah start, his work begin? I think it was 30, 17, something like that.
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He was young.
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He was young, but it didn't start from the day that he was born.
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I mean, in that sense, everybody- Well, you're set apart in that, and if you take sanctified, being sanctified has three ways of looking at it.
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Sanctified means set apart.
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Sanctified means to be made holy, and it actually is actually being holy.
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So if we're gonna look at them just like salvation, your salvation has three parts.
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You were saved in time.
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In my case, it was here.
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I was saved in time, but I'm being saved here, but I wait for this day here when they put me in the grave, and my redemption is then complete when God resurrects me, and he saves this and redeems this old body to a new body.
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So yes, are we set apart in eternity past, the believer set apart in eternity past by the call of God? Yes.
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Yeah.
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But theirs happened in the actual physical sense.
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Yes, sir, physical.
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Yep, that's why we have to be very clear that that's not how God does everybody.
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Now, do we all come into the world with a purpose and all that? Yes, but hey, is anybody in here coming into the world to save the country from their enemies? Nobody.
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Nobody.
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As we look at Samson, if you got any little kids' books you're showing your kids at home that talk about Samson being a great guy, pull those pages out, literally.
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Pull them out.
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Samson's not a role model.
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I mean, we could just go on, as we start this next section, we're going to, between chapter 13 to the end of the book, we're going to see rape, murder, homosexual rape, we're going to see the chopping up of a prostitute, we're going to see deception, war, genocide, this is what we're fixing to get into.
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We're getting into the darkest chapters of this book.
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Just remember, this is, God put these here for a reason.
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And ultimately is to point to the fact that Jesus Christ would be that perfect judge that would deliver his people completely from their sin.
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All these judges were all temporary.
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And that constant reframe, as soon as that delivers done doing whatever he was doing, what happens? They again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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They again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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They again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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They again did evil in the sight of the Lord.
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That's the constant refrain.
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All right, disagreements? Minute and a half.
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Yes, sir.
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The three people are Samson, John the Baptist.
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And Samuel.
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Samuel was called from the womb.
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Some believe that all three of those men may know something different.
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Certainly Samuel and Samson, Nazarite vow.
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Some believe that so did John the Baptist.
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Some believe he did.
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We don't have any proof of that, but some believe that that was the case.
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Extra biblical writings.
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What was the reference from Numbers? 6, 1 through 21.
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And as he violates those, we'll point those out what he did.
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I mean, because each one of those, it's just interesting that as he violates, whether it's violating the drinking party or going and getting drunk or touching a dead corpse or marrying outside the covenant, all these other things that could have, that were breaking the Nazarite vow.
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It's the cutting of the hair that did it.
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It was the cutting of the hair that did it.
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And if you read, that is the end of the vow.
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I said, we don't know if some of you weren't here, that if you go back and you read, at the end of the vow was the cutting of the hair and that was to be thrown into the fire as the finale of that particular type vow.
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So the power was not in the hair though.
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Power was in the spirit of God as it would come upon him.
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All right, let's pray.
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Father God, thank you for your word.
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Thank you for Samson.
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And thank you, Father, that what we do know about him is not just right here in these next four chapters, but Father, we know that he ends up in the book of Hebrews and says he was a man of faith.
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And Father, we don't understand all of that, but we know this, he sent armies to flight.
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He delivered your people from their enemy and he crushed them.
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Father, he did carry out the purpose by which you sent him to do.
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Father, I pray that you would be with us as we walk through these texts, help us to deal with these difficult subjects, these difficult things, and Father, help us to look at them in light of how you have redeemed us, and Father, and how they point to Christ.
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Father, I pray that you'd be with teeth as he preaches this morning, that God, you would strengthen his body, strengthen his voice.
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I pray that you would anoint him with the power of your spirit, that he would preach the power of your word with clarity.
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And Father, that as it leaves his mouth, that Father, lives will be changed, hearts will be transformed, and that the believer would be more conformed in the image of your Son, that we would more love you more today than when we came.
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In Christ's name, amen.
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I'm just going to stop.
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Thank you, God.
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Thank you, God.
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you know, their life isn't going to be any different.
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Sure, I mean, you should be able to talk to them.
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I mean, they're not going to know what you're talking about.
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They're not going to know what you're talking about.
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They're not going to know what you're talking about.
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They're not going to know what you're talking about.
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They're not going to know what you're talking about.
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How would you evaluate your ideas as you raise them? I assume you're a Christian, right? Yeah, well...
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So if you raise them as a Christian, how would you feel? Do you still approach them as, like, you're a Christian? Okay, I'm just saying, sometimes people in that...
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That's what the whole thing is about.
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Sometimes people are like, oh, you're such a heathen.
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It's like, no, when you're seeking honor, you're not seeking honor from your parents.
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We're not saying you're fake, but you are trying, not trying, but you are seeking to live.
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Sure, now, when you're dealing with your child, what are you trying to do? Go sit down.
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See, that's what I was talking about.
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When you're dealing with your child, you're like, well, I'm a Christian, I'm not a fake.
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I grew up...
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Okay.
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They're not saved.
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They're not saved, but they do have some blessings from being raised.
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Thank you for your lessons.
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Oh, that's wonderful.
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How would you feel? Would you feel like Christ was real to you? That's me talking about it.
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Oh, actually, I'm sorry.
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Absolutely.
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See you later.
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Run as quick as you can.
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He says, hey, I formed you in the womb, and you have the roots in the womb, but he didn't commission him to start doing his prophetic work until he was old enough.
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The parents knew from the time that he is born, this is what he's going to do.
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It's like Samuel.
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From the time Samuel was born, they knew that he was going to be the man.
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Right.
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Like you said, those are both supernatural.
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Sure.
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It was so clear.
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From the time he was born, he was the man.
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They knew if he came into the world, they knew this person was going to be born.
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Yes.
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I didn't say anything wrong.
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I didn't say anything wrong.
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Absolutely.
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He's going to be the first.
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He is the last judge.
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Samuel is not the last judge.
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The last judge is Samuel.
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Samuel has to have that kingdom.
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He'll give it to him.
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He has to have that kingdom.
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Then it ends up happening to him.
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He has to have a kingdom.
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He has to be able to really want a kingdom.
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Kind of back to what you were saying, though, on the thing, because some parents will say, oh, you're a heathen, but the kid is trying to honor the parent.
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So they're trying to live according to the Bible, even though it's just a heathen.
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You're dealing with a child.
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Again, that's what people want to say.
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That should come apart from the world.
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There's nothing to fight over.
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There is plenty to fight over.
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Can they honor God? No.
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It's possible.
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Now, can they honor God? I'm sorry.
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So if I'm a child, do a lot of kids honor God? Yeah.
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You want to fight about it? Would they do what I asked them to do? Was that honoring to me? Yeah.
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I'm the leader of the home.
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They do what I asked them to do.
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They're doing it.
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It hurts.
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And it pleases.
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And there should be a desire as a child for God.
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As long as I'm a child.
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Until you cross that line.
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It's a natural thing that can be accomplished outside of the organization.
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A child should want the acceptance and admiration of their parents.
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Should.
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Now, can they honor the Lord in obeying their parents? Impossible.
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Apart from the Spirit of God in their heart.
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Impossible.
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I got you.
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It doesn't make sense.
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The works that they're doing are still unrighteous.
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In the sense that they're not righteous works.
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They're not done to God.
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Correct.
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I think it's in Ephesians or Colossians.
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It makes a specific statement.
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It says, children obey your parents in the Lord.
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For this is good.
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This is good.
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We're not saying it's bad outside the Lord.
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We're just saying it doesn't please the Lord.
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But should a child obey their parents? Right.
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Yeah.
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Even when what they think what the parent has done is wrong.
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Look, man.
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We knew it all when we were 17.
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I'm 25 and still think I have a little bit of time.
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A child's desire should be to please the parent.
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Yeah.
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It's just as that can be accomplished outside of the work of the Spirit.
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Yeah.
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In other words, it can't please the Lord.
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Right.
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A child honoring their parents is not all the time pleasing the Lord.
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Yeah.
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That makes sense.