1 00:00:03,366 --> 00:00:03,600 Where we're 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,600 continuing in our study through the Book of Judges. 3 00:00:06,933 --> 00:00:09,900 We have a Bible and brought one with you and encourage you to turn there. 4 00:00:09,900 --> 00:00:12,033 It's also the Scripture will be on the screens. 5 00:00:12,033 --> 00:00:15,033 It's also on our app and follow along there. 6 00:00:15,033 --> 00:00:18,833 I want to introduce you to a man in the history of Israel as a judge. 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:22,300 And again, these judges weren't judges in the judicial sense. 8 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:25,200 They were more leaders in the military sense. 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,200 And I guess you to one of those judges name is Samson. 10 00:00:28,366 --> 00:00:32,300 He's probably the most well known judge of them all. 11 00:00:33,033 --> 00:00:36,200 Nearly 20% of the entire book of judges 12 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,200 is dedicated to him and his story. 13 00:00:39,566 --> 00:00:42,566 But before we get to Samson, 14 00:00:42,566 --> 00:00:45,866 which is starts in chapter 13, I want to finish 15 00:00:45,966 --> 00:00:49,766 chapter 12 just with a little just a little caveat for you 16 00:00:50,266 --> 00:00:54,200 at the end of chapter 12, the Bible gives us three names 17 00:00:54,366 --> 00:00:57,266 of three judges, and it really doesn't tell us anything about them at all. 18 00:00:58,200 --> 00:00:59,133 It reads 19 00:00:59,133 --> 00:01:02,600 like this after him, which is a a Amalek, the one that we 20 00:01:02,933 --> 00:01:05,933 that was came before the judges, that came before these three, 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,633 after a symbolic man of Bethlehem led Israel. 22 00:01:09,666 --> 00:01:12,600 Dot, dot, dot after him. 23 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,600 Elan of musk. No, it wasn't him. 24 00:01:15,966 --> 00:01:18,933 Elan. The Zebulun night. 25 00:01:18,933 --> 00:01:20,500 Have no idea. 26 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:22,166 Let Israel dot dot dot. 27 00:01:22,166 --> 00:01:25,166 And after him Abdon led Israel. 28 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:28,500 And it just gives us this this little couple verses 29 00:01:28,833 --> 00:01:33,166 that these men were also in this lineage of judges 30 00:01:33,466 --> 00:01:37,966 as leaders, as commanders, people who helped lead the nation. 31 00:01:38,833 --> 00:01:42,666 The interesting thing I find in that is that though 32 00:01:42,666 --> 00:01:47,400 the world really doesn't know their name and know much of their story at all. 33 00:01:48,733 --> 00:01:53,866 God knows those that no one remembers. 34 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:56,766 I want that to be a comfort to you. 35 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:01,433 God knows those that no one remembers. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 If you've ever felt invisible in this world, 37 00:02:06,066 --> 00:02:09,000 if you've ever felt that people just don't know. 38 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,200 You don't see. 39 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,966 You don't care. 40 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:15,966 God does. 41 00:02:16,333 --> 00:02:18,966 There's a verse in Malachi 42 00:02:18,966 --> 00:02:19,733 that says this. 43 00:02:19,733 --> 00:02:23,600 Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another, 44 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,666 those who talked about God, those who fear God, those who reverence God. 45 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:28,166 Those who spoke about God. 46 00:02:28,166 --> 00:02:31,633 The Lord paid attention and heard them 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,800 so no one else did. 48 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,033 And a book of remembrance was written before him, of those 49 00:02:38,033 --> 00:02:41,033 who fear the Lord and esteemed his name. 50 00:02:41,866 --> 00:02:44,333 I believe that God is recording 51 00:02:44,333 --> 00:02:47,666 all those of us who fear the Lord, who talk about him. 52 00:02:48,100 --> 00:02:50,966 Though the world might not know us, 53 00:02:50,966 --> 00:02:53,800 though we appear to be invisible to those around us. 54 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:58,066 One of God's names is the God who sees. 55 00:02:59,266 --> 00:02:59,966 He knows you. 56 00:02:59,966 --> 00:03:02,966 He remembers you. You're not lost to him. 57 00:03:03,366 --> 00:03:08,166 And especially in this culture, when this culture is so infatuated 58 00:03:08,333 --> 00:03:11,866 with self proclamation, so enamored 59 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:16,133 with self perpetuation, you have to 60 00:03:16,133 --> 00:03:20,566 so desiring someone, please notice and affirm me. 61 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,600 This is what drives social media. 62 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,200 Please notice me. 63 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,200 Please affirm who I am. 64 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,466 My desire for me and for us 65 00:03:35,666 --> 00:03:38,633 is rather than self-promote. 66 00:03:38,633 --> 00:03:41,066 Be willing to live in the shadows, 67 00:03:41,066 --> 00:03:46,166 not to be known by the world, but to hear one day from God. 68 00:03:46,166 --> 00:03:49,166 Well done, my good and faithful servant. 69 00:03:50,633 --> 00:03:53,633 That's a life well-lived. 70 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:58,500 I was talking to one of my football guys the other day, 71 00:03:59,033 --> 00:04:04,133 right before a football game, and he was so enamored with himself 72 00:04:05,466 --> 00:04:09,100 and just wanted to pump his chest and say, I got to get my name out there, going 73 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:10,033 to get my name out there. 74 00:04:10,033 --> 00:04:12,566 And I said, son, listen, 75 00:04:12,566 --> 00:04:15,433 you need to throttle it down. 76 00:04:15,433 --> 00:04:16,933 Here's why. 77 00:04:16,933 --> 00:04:19,933 So, because every one who was false 78 00:04:19,966 --> 00:04:23,366 and thin and fake has to self promote 79 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:28,300 the great ones of character. 80 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:31,366 You don't have to self-promote. 81 00:04:31,366 --> 00:04:33,566 So just understand what you're saying 82 00:04:33,566 --> 00:04:36,566 about yourself right now. 83 00:04:37,266 --> 00:04:40,266 And it has to be enough for us 84 00:04:40,366 --> 00:04:42,933 not to be known 85 00:04:42,933 --> 00:04:46,200 in this world, but to hear in eternity. 86 00:04:46,333 --> 00:04:49,200 Well done, my good and faithful servant. 87 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,833 Does that make sense? 88 00:04:51,833 --> 00:04:54,833 Though the world knows not these three. 89 00:04:56,066 --> 00:04:58,933 What they heard 90 00:04:58,933 --> 00:05:00,900 that validated their entire existence. 91 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:02,633 Well done. 92 00:05:02,633 --> 00:05:05,633 You served me well. 93 00:05:07,133 --> 00:05:09,300 Maybe that's the only thing you need to hear today. 94 00:05:10,866 --> 00:05:13,866 Hear it. 95 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:14,333 And then. 96 00:05:14,333 --> 00:05:15,233 Chapter 13. 97 00:05:15,233 --> 00:05:18,233 Samson. 98 00:05:19,333 --> 00:05:21,566 Again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 99 00:05:21,566 --> 00:05:24,500 So the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for 40 years. 100 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,733 This is a huge verse. 101 00:05:26,733 --> 00:05:29,866 There's so profound because we see the cycle of the judges 102 00:05:29,866 --> 00:05:32,866 over and honestly, we see a cycle of ourself 103 00:05:33,633 --> 00:05:37,200 like, I'm going to trust you, God and God, you're so good and you're so good. 104 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,300 Your goodness is going to lead me away from you, and I'm 105 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:43,300 going to ignore you and your principles in your ways. 106 00:05:43,433 --> 00:05:48,166 And I'm going to get I'm going to live in, in, in, in distant from you. 107 00:05:48,166 --> 00:05:50,066 And it's going to create pain. 108 00:05:50,066 --> 00:05:52,733 And in my pain I'm going to cry out to you. 109 00:05:52,733 --> 00:05:55,366 And because you're merciful and gracious, you're going to deliver me. 110 00:05:55,366 --> 00:05:56,866 This is how it works. 111 00:05:56,866 --> 00:05:58,233 And in God's deliverance. 112 00:05:58,233 --> 00:05:59,866 Thank you God, that was fantastic. 113 00:05:59,866 --> 00:06:02,866 And then we ignore him and we live counter to His Word 114 00:06:02,866 --> 00:06:06,166 and His way, and it's sin, and it leads us into great destruction of pain. 115 00:06:06,233 --> 00:06:07,200 And in our destruction of pain, 116 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,200 we cry out to God, and God in his mercy and grace delivers us. 117 00:06:10,633 --> 00:06:13,400 And again we walk away from him and live in sin. 118 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,400 And then in that sin it creates difficulty and pain and destruction. 119 00:06:16,433 --> 00:06:20,400 And in that difficulty we cry out to him, and he delivers us this is the cycle. 120 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:25,366 And again, the Israelites and evil eyes and Lord, and it cause pain. 121 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,200 Only this time it was the Lord that delivered them 122 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,733 into the hands of the Philistines for 40 years. 123 00:06:30,733 --> 00:06:35,566 Sometimes God he knows his, sometimes he, he, he knows who we are, 124 00:06:35,566 --> 00:06:40,100 and sometimes he has to allow us and sometimes creepiness to get our attention. 125 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:41,633 Yeah, yeah. 126 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:45,866 Most of us 127 00:06:45,866 --> 00:06:50,900 in this room have come back to God because of the pain 128 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,900 we've been in previously. 129 00:06:54,666 --> 00:06:55,966 And this lasted 40 years. 130 00:06:55,966 --> 00:06:58,966 This is the longest recorded, 131 00:06:59,633 --> 00:07:01,833 time of difficulty, 132 00:07:01,833 --> 00:07:05,200 of occupation from a foreign country over the Hebrews up to this point. 133 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,166 40 years. 134 00:07:07,166 --> 00:07:10,433 And it's the Philistines that were harassing them. 135 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:14,933 Now, let me just give you some knowledge about the Philistines. 136 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,966 The Philistines were a prominent enemy 137 00:07:19,966 --> 00:07:22,966 of the of the Jewish people for generations. 138 00:07:24,033 --> 00:07:26,633 They weren't a part of the original land of Canaan 139 00:07:26,633 --> 00:07:29,833 that the Israelites moved into, and God gave them as a promised land. 140 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:33,566 They originally came from the Aegean Sea near, Greece. 141 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:37,366 They were a mighty seagoing people, 142 00:07:37,366 --> 00:07:40,866 and they were mighty fierce warriors. 143 00:07:42,366 --> 00:07:45,900 They, as a community in about 1200 144 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,900 BC, were attacked and thrown out of their country. 145 00:07:49,233 --> 00:07:52,166 So they went down to Egypt and landed in Egypt. 146 00:07:52,166 --> 00:07:55,166 And in Egypt they tried to overthrow the ruling powers of Egypt, 147 00:07:55,166 --> 00:07:55,900 and they got their tails. 148 00:07:57,266 --> 00:07:57,800 And so 149 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,800 because they were defeated in Egypt, they moved up the coast 150 00:08:01,766 --> 00:08:04,766 and settled in the Land of Israel. 151 00:08:06,333 --> 00:08:08,133 And when they settled, they settled five cities. 152 00:08:08,133 --> 00:08:09,400 Some of them you've heard of. 153 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,800 One was Ashkelon, one was Ashdod, one was Ekron, 154 00:08:15,333 --> 00:08:18,700 one was Gath, and one is Gaza. 155 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,200 You may have heard of the land of Gath. 156 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,933 Gath is where Goliath the giant was from. 157 00:08:26,866 --> 00:08:29,066 These were huge people. 158 00:08:29,066 --> 00:08:32,066 And you may have heard of the land of Gaza. 159 00:08:33,633 --> 00:08:36,633 This is where the Philistines settled. 160 00:08:37,366 --> 00:08:40,400 They were skilled in metallurgy or metal works, 161 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,233 and so they had very advanced tools for plowing, agriculture and weapons. 162 00:08:46,433 --> 00:08:48,900 Ten times in the Bible, 163 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:52,033 the southern part of Israel is called Philistine. 164 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:56,200 In the Greek translation of the Hebrew text 165 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,866 for Lycia means literally Palestine. 166 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:03,400 So Palestine 167 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,700 is a nomenclature for Philistines. 168 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,200 Palestine was never 169 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:13,200 a word for the for the area. 170 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,000 Palestine was a Greek word about the people in the area. 171 00:09:19,033 --> 00:09:20,300 And so for the Greeks 172 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:24,900 to talk about the Palestinians, what they meant 173 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,900 was the Philistines. 174 00:09:28,766 --> 00:09:31,766 Today there are no Philistine people 175 00:09:33,266 --> 00:09:35,633 left. 176 00:09:35,633 --> 00:09:38,633 There's no Philistine 177 00:09:38,766 --> 00:09:41,766 blood, pure blood left anymore. 178 00:09:42,133 --> 00:09:44,366 But there are people that are called 179 00:09:44,366 --> 00:09:47,366 Palestinians. 180 00:09:47,566 --> 00:09:48,600 The Romans eventually 181 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600 would take over the land of Israel in the New Testament. 182 00:09:51,933 --> 00:09:53,233 And in 70 A.D. 183 00:09:53,233 --> 00:09:55,633 they destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. 184 00:09:55,633 --> 00:09:58,266 And at about 135 A.D., the 185 00:09:58,266 --> 00:10:01,666 the Roman emperor Hadrian moved, took over, 186 00:10:02,166 --> 00:10:05,533 and in a way to shame the Israel, 187 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:08,666 the Jews, the Hebrew people in Israel, 188 00:10:08,666 --> 00:10:12,433 he renamed southern Israel and Judah Palestine, 189 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,800 because he knew that what he was doing 190 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,166 was calling that land the land of the Philistines, 191 00:10:20,133 --> 00:10:20,733 in order to 192 00:10:20,733 --> 00:10:24,866 shame Israel and to try to perpetuate 193 00:10:24,866 --> 00:10:29,400 the myth that the land is not theirs, it belongs to the Philistines. 194 00:10:30,133 --> 00:10:33,100 That's where the word Palestine comes from, 195 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:36,300 and that's where the nomenclature Palestinians come from. 196 00:10:36,433 --> 00:10:39,533 It's really a throwback from a dictator 197 00:10:39,833 --> 00:10:43,300 who wanted to shame Israel and remind him that 198 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:46,300 as far as they were concerned, they didn't belong in the land. 199 00:10:47,733 --> 00:10:50,733 So when people talk about the Palestinians, 200 00:10:51,066 --> 00:10:54,566 it's really an incorrect name, because what it refers 201 00:10:54,566 --> 00:10:58,333 to is the Philistines that don't exist anymore. 202 00:10:59,533 --> 00:11:01,933 No one in Israel will talk about that 203 00:11:01,933 --> 00:11:05,166 land, even in Gaza as Palestinian, 204 00:11:05,766 --> 00:11:09,100 you only want to talk about it as Palestinians are those 205 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:13,800 who live in Palestinian territories or those who hate Israel 206 00:11:15,366 --> 00:11:18,366 do understand. 207 00:11:20,666 --> 00:11:22,500 There is no nation of Palestine 208 00:11:24,133 --> 00:11:27,000 and there's no bred Palestinians. 209 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 It goes back to the Philistines. 210 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,333 Now, other people may believe 211 00:11:32,333 --> 00:11:35,333 news and propaganda from social media. 212 00:11:35,433 --> 00:11:38,433 I don't want you to be ignorant of this fact. 213 00:11:38,766 --> 00:11:40,366 That's that's this is the people and 214 00:11:40,366 --> 00:11:43,366 this is the land we're talking about. 215 00:11:43,566 --> 00:11:47,300 And so God gives them over for 40 years to 216 00:11:48,366 --> 00:11:51,766 a certain man of Zorah and named Manoah from 217 00:11:51,766 --> 00:11:55,800 the clan of Dana, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth, 218 00:11:56,266 --> 00:12:00,300 the angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, you are barren and childless, 219 00:12:00,466 --> 00:12:03,566 but you're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. 220 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:07,500 Now see to it that you drink no wine 221 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:11,000 or other fermented drink, and that you do not eat anything unclean. 222 00:12:11,333 --> 00:12:15,000 You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never 223 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,466 to be touched by a razor, because the boy will be a Nazarite. 224 00:12:18,466 --> 00:12:20,700 Pay attention to that dedicated to God. 225 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:23,100 From the womb he will lead. 226 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:26,666 He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines. 227 00:12:26,966 --> 00:12:32,333 This is the prophecy to this lady about this boy who will be born, who is Samson, 228 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,400 the angel of the Lord. 229 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,466 Anytime we read that in the Old Testament, the angel of the Lord, we know 230 00:12:39,466 --> 00:12:43,533 from Scripture that this is a what we call a pre incarnate 231 00:12:43,866 --> 00:12:47,466 appearance of Jesus, the second person of the Trinity. 232 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:49,400 Before he took on human form. 233 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,500 I was born in a manger in Bethlehem, eternally existent. 234 00:12:54,133 --> 00:12:58,133 The Bible tells us that the world was created through Jesus and for him. 235 00:12:58,466 --> 00:13:02,533 This is his appearing before he took on bodily form in that child, 236 00:13:03,166 --> 00:13:05,533 he shows up to this woman and says, you're going to have a baby, 237 00:13:05,533 --> 00:13:08,533 but you're you have to set this course for this child, 238 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,100 and this child is to be a Nazarite. 239 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:13,900 Now, the Nazarite were those who took 240 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:16,900 a special vow of consecration to God. 241 00:13:17,066 --> 00:13:20,166 They said, God, I'm going to serve you for this amount of time. 242 00:13:20,166 --> 00:13:22,333 It's going to have a starting point and an ending point, 243 00:13:22,333 --> 00:13:24,533 but I am consecrated to you. 244 00:13:24,533 --> 00:13:27,766 Usually it was somewhere between 30 and 100 days long. 245 00:13:27,933 --> 00:13:29,100 Their commitment. 246 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:31,766 And when they started this commitment, they would shave their head. 247 00:13:31,766 --> 00:13:32,400 Praise God. 248 00:13:35,033 --> 00:13:35,533 And they would. 249 00:13:35,533 --> 00:13:37,133 Part of this vow was I would shave my head 250 00:13:37,133 --> 00:13:38,766 and then I wouldn't touch it again with a razor. 251 00:13:38,766 --> 00:13:40,700 Tell me if I was complete. 252 00:13:40,700 --> 00:13:43,700 The long hair. 253 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:47,700 As part of this vow, they would promise to not have any wine or fermented drink. 254 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:50,700 They couldn't even have grapes or raisins 255 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,766 and they would come make a commitment 256 00:13:52,766 --> 00:13:55,766 not to go near a dead body, be it human or animal. 257 00:13:56,133 --> 00:13:59,133 So even if their dear family member died, they couldn't go to the funeral 258 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,733 and if any time during their commitment they broke their vow. 259 00:14:03,066 --> 00:14:06,133 They had to start it all over again and shave their head. 260 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:09,166 The signaling 261 00:14:09,166 --> 00:14:12,166 I have entered into this consecration with God again. 262 00:14:12,633 --> 00:14:14,100 So you understand what never is. 263 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:17,033 Just as a side note, 264 00:14:17,033 --> 00:14:20,033 I'm going to tell you why shave my head for 265 00:14:20,033 --> 00:14:21,333 two reasons. 266 00:14:21,333 --> 00:14:24,533 When I was down in Southern California, there was a lady in our church, 267 00:14:24,533 --> 00:14:26,900 an older lady who had cancer, 268 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:29,266 and she had to go through chemotherapy, 269 00:14:29,266 --> 00:14:32,666 and she was so concerned about coming to church, 270 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,600 having going through chemotherapy because she was going to lose her hair. 271 00:14:37,833 --> 00:14:39,866 And she was just she was concerned about it. 272 00:14:39,866 --> 00:14:42,866 She was like, I don't want people looking at me and talking. 273 00:14:43,466 --> 00:14:45,866 I and I told her, I said, tell you what, 274 00:14:45,866 --> 00:14:48,866 before you lose your hair, I'm going to shave my head 275 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,900 because everybody's going to look at me 276 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:53,233 and they probably won't even pay attention. 277 00:14:53,233 --> 00:14:54,400 Even. 278 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,933 And you can sneak in with your scarf and sneak out. 279 00:14:56,933 --> 00:14:59,166 And that's one reason I shaved my head. 280 00:15:00,833 --> 00:15:01,500 The other reason 281 00:15:01,500 --> 00:15:04,500 was because of this Nazarite vow. 282 00:15:04,533 --> 00:15:08,000 Because this Nazarite vow says, when I'm consecrated a guy that will shave my head. 283 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,933 And when I break that vow and sin after shave my head again. 284 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,333 So every morning, like, yeah, I blew it yesterday. 285 00:15:15,333 --> 00:15:18,333 Now I got to make this commitment all over again. 286 00:15:20,233 --> 00:15:23,033 And every morning it reminds me, 287 00:15:23,033 --> 00:15:25,566 Carl, consecrate yourself 288 00:15:25,566 --> 00:15:28,566 a big screw up. 289 00:15:28,666 --> 00:15:31,200 So that's a Nazarite. 290 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,866 And Jesus comes. This woman says 291 00:15:32,866 --> 00:15:35,900 you're going to have this baby and this is who he is to be. 292 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:40,066 And this is what you must do, but you have to set the pace. Mom. 293 00:15:41,666 --> 00:15:45,466 You have to set the pace for your consecration 294 00:15:45,466 --> 00:15:50,766 to God will in part set up your son's consecration to God. 295 00:15:53,433 --> 00:15:56,433 Parents, you understand? 296 00:15:58,300 --> 00:16:02,200 And so she goes on and and the Bible says in verses six, seven and eight, 297 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,200 and I'll just read a little bit, you just kind of encapsulated, 298 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,100 the woman went to her husband. 299 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:10,966 She was like, hey, guess what? 300 00:16:10,966 --> 00:16:13,966 This the angel of the Lord came and said, we're going to have a baby. 301 00:16:14,966 --> 00:16:17,533 And she says, this is what you're the angel of God. 302 00:16:17,533 --> 00:16:19,066 Very awesome. 303 00:16:19,066 --> 00:16:22,066 I didn't ask him where he came from. 304 00:16:23,866 --> 00:16:25,200 When I was reading, I thought, you know what? 305 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,366 That's what a great lesson. 306 00:16:26,366 --> 00:16:29,500 Sometimes you have to remember just to keep our mouth shut and listen. 307 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:33,133 Don't talk so much. 308 00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:34,300 You don't have to ask questions. 309 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:35,266 You need clarification. 310 00:16:35,266 --> 00:16:37,433 Sometimes you just need to listen. 311 00:16:37,433 --> 00:16:38,800 Especially when God speaks. 312 00:16:39,900 --> 00:16:40,933 Just look. 313 00:16:40,933 --> 00:16:42,866 This is what it says. 314 00:16:42,866 --> 00:16:45,866 That's enough. 315 00:16:46,466 --> 00:16:47,700 She said I didn't ask him his name. 316 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:48,600 He didn't tell me. 317 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,333 He said, you're going to conceive. 318 00:16:50,333 --> 00:16:53,233 This baby has to be a Nazarite. 319 00:16:53,233 --> 00:16:55,933 And so she reports to her husband and her husband. 320 00:16:55,933 --> 00:16:57,266 Then this is his story. 321 00:16:57,266 --> 00:16:59,433 Then, Manoah, pray to the Lord. 322 00:16:59,433 --> 00:17:00,500 Pardon your servant. 323 00:17:00,500 --> 00:17:05,633 Lord, I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again and teach us. 324 00:17:05,633 --> 00:17:07,333 Look at us. Look at this question. 325 00:17:07,333 --> 00:17:10,566 How to bring up the boy who was to be born. 326 00:17:11,966 --> 00:17:13,766 He says, God, would you just allow that angel 327 00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:16,766 come back to tell us how to bring this child up? 328 00:17:17,033 --> 00:17:20,033 And if you read the next few verses nine, ten, 11, 329 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:25,066 you'll see that the angel that God heard his prayer and the angel of the Lord 330 00:17:25,066 --> 00:17:29,400 Jesus came back and appeared to the woman again, but not him. 331 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,566 She's just sitting. 332 00:17:33,566 --> 00:17:35,866 He's out working 333 00:17:35,866 --> 00:17:37,900 and she's just being. 334 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:41,200 There's something to be said about being able 335 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,200 to hear from God when you're not busy. 336 00:17:46,033 --> 00:17:47,000 He's busy. 337 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 He doesn't get to hear from God. 338 00:17:51,066 --> 00:17:54,066 God comes back to her. 339 00:17:54,233 --> 00:17:56,533 And and, and 340 00:17:56,533 --> 00:17:59,833 and she's like, oh my gosh, my husband's going to want to meet you. 341 00:18:01,366 --> 00:18:04,366 And and so as it goes, 342 00:18:05,633 --> 00:18:08,966 Manoah comes, she gets her husband and the know comes and ask him 343 00:18:10,266 --> 00:18:13,133 when your words are fulfilled, he is having a conversation with Jesus. 344 00:18:13,133 --> 00:18:14,233 When your words are fulfilled, 345 00:18:14,233 --> 00:18:17,366 what is to be the rule that governs this boy's life and work? 346 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:22,333 The angel Lord answered, your wife must do all that I have told her. 347 00:18:22,966 --> 00:18:25,433 She must not eat anything that comes from the grape vine, 348 00:18:25,433 --> 00:18:28,500 nor drink any wine or other fermented drink, nor eat anything unclean. 349 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:30,433 She must do everything I've commanded her. 350 00:18:30,433 --> 00:18:33,833 No, I applaud them for going to God. 351 00:18:33,833 --> 00:18:35,100 God, we're going to have this child. 352 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:36,800 How do you want us to to raise him? 353 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,300 I that's a great thing to do. However, 354 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,233 what did Jesus tell them? 355 00:18:43,233 --> 00:18:46,233 Anything new? 356 00:18:46,866 --> 00:18:47,333 Do you notice 357 00:18:47,333 --> 00:18:50,333 that he, in answering their prayer about how to raise her? 358 00:18:50,433 --> 00:18:53,800 They God gave them no new instruction. 359 00:18:54,966 --> 00:18:57,666 All God did was reiterate 360 00:18:57,666 --> 00:19:00,666 what he had already said. 361 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:03,700 You know why? 362 00:19:05,933 --> 00:19:08,933 Because we already know what we're supposed to do. 363 00:19:09,766 --> 00:19:14,633 God doesn't need to give us any more information, any more instruction. 364 00:19:15,300 --> 00:19:17,600 He's been pretty clear. 365 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,433 Yeah. 366 00:19:19,433 --> 00:19:23,233 And in essence, God says, listen, I don't need to tell you anything else to do. 367 00:19:23,266 --> 00:19:26,266 You need to do what I've already said. 368 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:32,533 And until we have done everything God has already told us to do, 369 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:35,700 don't ask him what else we're supposed to do. 370 00:19:36,833 --> 00:19:40,000 You know, I was thinking about this in the world of parenting, 371 00:19:41,333 --> 00:19:44,100 and I thought, how many of us parents 372 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:47,933 and I understand, and it's good, but how many of us parents 373 00:19:48,933 --> 00:19:51,400 pray over the future of our children? 374 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,566 That's what we do, right? 375 00:19:53,566 --> 00:19:54,733 There's nothing wrong with that. 376 00:19:54,733 --> 00:19:58,900 But just consider for a moment God has already told us 377 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:02,600 how we are to raise our children, 378 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,866 and he's given us examples of Scripture. 379 00:20:04,866 --> 00:20:05,633 Joshua 24. 380 00:20:05,633 --> 00:20:08,166 As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 381 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:10,666 This is the standard that dad sets. 382 00:20:10,666 --> 00:20:15,366 That mom set, and this is what we will do in this house is what we're going to do. 383 00:20:15,366 --> 00:20:18,366 And if you don't like it, you can move out and do your own thing. 384 00:20:18,966 --> 00:20:22,000 But as far as this house, it's not open for discussion. 385 00:20:23,833 --> 00:20:27,266 Ephesians six fathers, this is how you relate to your children. 386 00:20:28,233 --> 00:20:30,233 This is how you run your household. 387 00:20:30,233 --> 00:20:32,400 God has given us all this instruction. All right. 388 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,766 And I wonder, parents, 389 00:20:35,133 --> 00:20:37,500 I just wonder 390 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:40,066 if rather than praying over the future 391 00:20:40,066 --> 00:20:43,066 of our children so much, we spent more time frame 392 00:20:44,133 --> 00:20:47,600 for the ability and desire to do what God has told us to do 393 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,600 as parents first. 394 00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:54,600 Yes. And I'm saying. 395 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,600 Why don't we parents spend more time rather than God do this for my kids? 396 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,300 God watch everything against God, for my kids, for me, for the future. 397 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:04,200 Why don't we plead before God? 398 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,266 Father, please. 399 00:21:05,266 --> 00:21:07,666 You've already instructed me on how to be a good daddy. 400 00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:09,633 How to be a good mommy, 401 00:21:09,633 --> 00:21:12,066 how to lead my family, how to raise my children, 402 00:21:12,066 --> 00:21:13,666 how to set them up in the way they should go. 403 00:21:13,666 --> 00:21:16,900 So when they're older, they won't want to give me courage to do it. 404 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,700 Give me faithfulness to be obedient. 405 00:21:22,533 --> 00:21:24,900 You understand 406 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:26,866 it's not God's job to raise your kids. 407 00:21:26,866 --> 00:21:29,866 It's your job. 408 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,400 And he's told us enough on how to do it. 409 00:21:38,166 --> 00:21:40,166 Man, this ancient book is so relevant, 410 00:21:40,166 --> 00:21:43,166 isn't it? 411 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:45,733 So God our gives or else instruction. 412 00:21:45,733 --> 00:21:48,733 And then watch this. 413 00:21:48,733 --> 00:21:51,600 Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, would you like 414 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,366 we would like to you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you. 415 00:21:55,533 --> 00:21:58,033 I mean, they're super hospitable, 416 00:21:58,033 --> 00:22:00,533 in the Middle East, that the angel of the Lord replied, 417 00:22:00,533 --> 00:22:03,866 even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. 418 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,100 But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord. 419 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:09,300 I'm not. 420 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:12,300 I didn't realize he was talking to so true. 421 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:13,666 But I don't want to eat your food. 422 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 I want you to. 423 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,066 If you're going to give an offering, offer to the Lord. 424 00:22:18,066 --> 00:22:21,066 Here's here's what I want you to understand. 425 00:22:22,766 --> 00:22:25,266 Our highest priority is to worship God. 426 00:22:25,266 --> 00:22:25,966 Without a doubt. 427 00:22:25,966 --> 00:22:28,733 Love the Lord your God with our heart, soul, mind, strength. 428 00:22:28,733 --> 00:22:31,733 But worship always involves a sacrifice. 429 00:22:32,266 --> 00:22:33,700 And that's what Jesus tells him. 430 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:36,166 Look, look, I don't want to eat. 431 00:22:36,166 --> 00:22:37,000 I want you to. 432 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,566 I want your worship. 433 00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:41,033 But that worship has to be a sacrifice. 434 00:22:41,033 --> 00:22:42,733 It's going to be a burnt offering. 435 00:22:42,733 --> 00:22:45,833 Guys, our highest priority is to worship God. 436 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:48,333 Love the Lord of the greatest commandment. Love the Lord 437 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:51,333 your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength that is worship. 438 00:22:51,466 --> 00:22:53,800 But that worship always involves a sacrifice. 439 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,533 Whenever we worship, God enables either sacrifice of ourselves, 440 00:22:57,766 --> 00:23:02,900 of my time, of my agenda, of my desires, of my life, of my resources. 441 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:04,766 There's always a sacrifice. 442 00:23:04,766 --> 00:23:06,100 The Bible says, offer. 443 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:08,300 Enter his gates with a sacrifice of praise. 444 00:23:09,333 --> 00:23:09,600 There's 445 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,600 always a sacrifice involved with worship. 446 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,400 And so as you read this in menos interaction with Jesus 447 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,733 is it says that they offer this burnt offering, 448 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:26,300 and they prepare it and they offer it, and. 449 00:23:28,966 --> 00:23:31,566 Manoah says, he says, 450 00:23:31,566 --> 00:23:34,566 look, what will will worship you, but what is your name? 451 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,366 And in verse 18 he replied, why do you ask my name? 452 00:23:38,966 --> 00:23:42,900 It's beyond your understanding that the Hebrew word there is wonderful. 453 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:44,133 He says, my name is wonderful. 454 00:23:44,133 --> 00:23:47,133 I am Mr. Wonderful. 455 00:23:47,633 --> 00:23:48,600 Which is interesting 456 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:54,366 because over in Isaiah nine, chapter nine, verse six, we learn the name 457 00:23:54,366 --> 00:23:58,500 of the wonderful counselor, Mighty God, 458 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:02,300 Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 459 00:24:03,166 --> 00:24:05,666 This is Christ 460 00:24:05,666 --> 00:24:08,666 that that is standing before. 461 00:24:08,866 --> 00:24:10,500 And they offer this burnt offering. 462 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:11,100 The Bible says, 463 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:15,500 this flame started from this altar and consumed it and sent it up to heaven. 464 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:18,866 And the angel of God, that Jesus went up into heaven as well. 465 00:24:19,233 --> 00:24:22,133 And they realize, they realize then 466 00:24:24,033 --> 00:24:25,800 this is God. 467 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,866 And the Bible says, and in verse 20, seeing this, Manoah 468 00:24:28,866 --> 00:24:31,866 and his wife fell with their faces to the ground 469 00:24:31,966 --> 00:24:35,066 like they realized they had been in the presence of Christ. 470 00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:39,966 And their response is to follow with their faces to the ground and worship, having 471 00:24:41,133 --> 00:24:43,433 offered the sacrifice here, 472 00:24:43,433 --> 00:24:46,433 here's, here's what we got to stand. 473 00:24:46,633 --> 00:24:48,833 Uninhibited worship is one. 474 00:24:48,833 --> 00:24:51,833 The posture of the body reflects the position of the heart. 475 00:24:52,733 --> 00:24:56,433 When you come in contact with God, when you come in contact with Christ 476 00:24:57,100 --> 00:25:00,100 and you realize whose presence you've been in. 477 00:25:01,933 --> 00:25:05,333 Now I realize that, you know we're a pretty proper church. 478 00:25:05,333 --> 00:25:07,433 Unfortunately, 479 00:25:07,433 --> 00:25:10,433 and we come from churches that are kind of proper and 480 00:25:11,133 --> 00:25:14,133 don't get real boisterous or expressive. 481 00:25:14,766 --> 00:25:17,433 I wish we were expressive in church as we were at a football game, 482 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,400 you know, or your kids soccer game. 483 00:25:23,733 --> 00:25:26,100 But all through scripture, you see people who realize 484 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:28,200 they've come in contact with God and they can't help. 485 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,200 But like the position of their body reflects 486 00:25:31,366 --> 00:25:33,600 the partnership, postures their heart. 487 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,233 Like you fall down in worship, you raise your hands, you clap, you shout. 488 00:25:37,233 --> 00:25:40,233 You're like, I can't, I can't sit still, 489 00:25:40,466 --> 00:25:44,400 David said when he danced before the Lord, I'll become even more undignified 490 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,400 if I can just worship God. 491 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,233 So they follow their faces 492 00:25:51,233 --> 00:25:54,233 to the ground and worship. 493 00:25:54,433 --> 00:25:57,433 And look at verses 22 through 25. 494 00:25:57,933 --> 00:26:00,833 But Noah says, we're doomed to die. 495 00:26:00,833 --> 00:26:03,333 We've seen God. 496 00:26:03,333 --> 00:26:06,333 I mean, he understood the Old Testament, 497 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,600 God's words that no one can see the face of God and live. 498 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,066 And so he's like, we are dead. 499 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,333 And I love his wife. 500 00:26:14,333 --> 00:26:17,100 She's so wise, 501 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:19,800 honey, 502 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,200 if the Lord meant to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted a burnt offering 503 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,900 and a grain offering from our hands, nor showing us all these things. 504 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:30,800 He just told us about. 505 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,366 So let me gives birth to a boy named Samson. 506 00:26:33,366 --> 00:26:36,100 He grew in the Lord, and the Lord blessed him. 507 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:38,100 And the the Lord began to stir him. 508 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:41,000 Now I love this woman 509 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,000 because her husband is freaking out, 510 00:26:44,966 --> 00:26:47,900 losing his mind. 511 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:51,033 He's so worried he doesn't have control of the situation. 512 00:26:51,033 --> 00:26:52,666 He's worried about the outcome. 513 00:26:52,666 --> 00:26:55,666 And I love the fact that she's gonna say, honey, 514 00:26:56,566 --> 00:26:58,700 why do you do that? 515 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,533 Relax. 516 00:27:00,533 --> 00:27:02,100 Quit trying to. 517 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:04,766 What is the matter with you? 518 00:27:04,766 --> 00:27:07,766 I told my parents I wanted to marry a spiritual leader, and I got you. 519 00:27:08,333 --> 00:27:09,833 You know, she doesn't do that. 520 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,266 Rather than. 521 00:27:14,266 --> 00:27:15,566 Shame him. 522 00:27:15,566 --> 00:27:17,800 She encourages him. 523 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,233 He says, I mean, God is so good. 524 00:27:20,233 --> 00:27:21,700 Why would he tell us all this? 525 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:24,333 And then office. It doesn't make sense. 526 00:27:24,333 --> 00:27:26,266 Let's just trust him. 527 00:27:26,266 --> 00:27:28,600 Right? 528 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,233 What a good woman. 529 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:34,066 Oh, so then we get to chapter 14. 530 00:27:34,066 --> 00:27:37,066 We start seeing Samson's life. 531 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,600 That was all set up to get us to Samson. 532 00:27:40,966 --> 00:27:42,566 And in Samson's life. Look. 533 00:27:42,566 --> 00:27:43,833 Look at this guy. 534 00:27:43,833 --> 00:27:46,833 Samson went down to Timna and 535 00:27:47,066 --> 00:27:50,133 and saw there a young Philistine woman. 536 00:27:50,733 --> 00:27:53,733 When he returned, he said to his father and mother, 537 00:27:54,166 --> 00:27:57,166 who saw a girl. 538 00:27:58,866 --> 00:28:01,866 I have seen a Philistine woman in Timna. 539 00:28:02,133 --> 00:28:05,133 Now go get her for me, for my wife. 540 00:28:06,433 --> 00:28:09,066 This guy man, 541 00:28:09,066 --> 00:28:10,466 if you read chapter 14, 542 00:28:10,466 --> 00:28:13,566 you will see five times where it says of Samson. 543 00:28:13,566 --> 00:28:16,700 He went down, he went down, he went down. 544 00:28:16,866 --> 00:28:18,666 He turned aside and he went down. 545 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:22,700 Don't miss that. 546 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:25,700 He is called heavenward, but he goes 547 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:29,700 downward. 548 00:28:30,266 --> 00:28:33,266 You and I are called heavenward. 549 00:28:34,500 --> 00:28:37,500 But oftentimes we live downward. 550 00:28:38,233 --> 00:28:39,833 Here's what we have to understand. 551 00:28:39,833 --> 00:28:42,966 The trajectory of our life will determine the outcome of our life. 552 00:28:51,066 --> 00:28:52,166 He says, I've seen this woman. 553 00:28:52,166 --> 00:28:54,833 Now go get her. 554 00:28:54,833 --> 00:28:57,500 This guy is supposed to be consecrated to God, 555 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:00,500 but he has no communion with the father at all. 556 00:29:00,966 --> 00:29:04,366 He's supposed to be consecrated, his life given to God and the work of the kingdom. 557 00:29:04,433 --> 00:29:07,433 Yet he has no communion with Christ. 558 00:29:08,633 --> 00:29:10,000 He sees a Philistine woman. 559 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,300 God says, I don't want you to marry an Philistine people. 560 00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:15,300 They're going to lead you away from worship of me. 561 00:29:18,166 --> 00:29:21,100 And he's living in complete 562 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:24,100 objection to God's instruction. 563 00:29:26,866 --> 00:29:27,766 Second, princesses, 564 00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:30,766 don't be yoked together with, with unbelievers. 565 00:29:31,166 --> 00:29:32,133 What for? 566 00:29:32,133 --> 00:29:35,000 What do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what? 567 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,166 What fellowship can light and darkness have with each other? 568 00:29:38,166 --> 00:29:38,700 They can. 569 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:42,500 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? 570 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:45,800 Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 571 00:29:47,266 --> 00:29:48,566 Don't get yoked. 572 00:29:48,566 --> 00:29:50,100 Death 573 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:53,100 in serious, intimate relationships with people. 574 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,000 If you're a Christ follower with people who are. 575 00:29:58,266 --> 00:29:58,933 I tell young people 576 00:29:58,933 --> 00:30:01,933 this all the time evangelistic dating doesn't usually work, 577 00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:05,133 creates more problems. 578 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:07,833 Motion. 579 00:30:07,833 --> 00:30:10,833 There are three things that make a great, really great marriage. 580 00:30:11,366 --> 00:30:14,300 There's there's the physical, the fun, and the faith. 581 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:17,300 There's got to be a physical like hello, 582 00:30:17,466 --> 00:30:19,766 there has to be, 583 00:30:19,766 --> 00:30:20,866 but there's got to be fun. 584 00:30:20,866 --> 00:30:23,400 Like, we like being together. 585 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,766 If you like being with somebody. 586 00:30:24,766 --> 00:30:26,266 But there's no, like, spark. 587 00:30:26,266 --> 00:30:29,033 You're just going to be good friends. 588 00:30:29,033 --> 00:30:30,166 If they're like, who? 589 00:30:30,166 --> 00:30:32,200 There's a spark, but you hate being around each other. 590 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:36,500 So there's those two. 591 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,500 But the most important is the faith issue. 592 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,000 They can be hot 593 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000 and you have fun, but not a person of faith. 594 00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:47,200 And that marriage might work 595 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,200 for a little while, but it's going to be work. 596 00:30:51,533 --> 00:30:53,700 And at some point, if you continue to follow 597 00:30:53,700 --> 00:30:56,700 Jesus, it's going to implode. 598 00:30:58,700 --> 00:30:59,233 All right. 599 00:30:59,233 --> 00:31:01,033 That's my advice to young people all the time. 600 00:31:01,033 --> 00:31:03,500 Look, you are drawn to the Woo-Hoo! 601 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:06,666 And the fun, but if you don't pay attention to the faith, 602 00:31:08,033 --> 00:31:11,033 that's got to be priority one. 603 00:31:11,433 --> 00:31:14,233 That's the way you make a marriage work. 604 00:31:14,233 --> 00:31:16,500 Because the one who is going to be like 605 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,500 after a while. 606 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:24,500 And the fun doesn't stay fun forever. 607 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,600 But the faith keeps growing. 608 00:31:29,966 --> 00:31:32,733 All Samson cared about, he was a he man with a sheep problem. 609 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:36,533 All he cared about was the look. 610 00:31:36,533 --> 00:31:38,500 I've seen a girl, I like her. 611 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:41,366 Go get her. 612 00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:45,700 See, Samson was called and chosen by God. 613 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:48,700 But living independently from him. 614 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,200 And God allows us that freedom 615 00:31:54,333 --> 00:31:56,533 to be called and chosen by him, 616 00:31:56,533 --> 00:31:59,100 and to make our choices, to live independently from him. 617 00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:03,000 And when we do, our trajectory will be to go down 618 00:32:03,133 --> 00:32:06,133 and to go down and to go down. 619 00:32:06,266 --> 00:32:09,266 Follow me. 620 00:32:12,033 --> 00:32:12,466 Now verses 621 00:32:12,466 --> 00:32:15,900 three and four, his dad comes and his mom goes like, look, son, why? 622 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:19,966 Why do you go down to Tim off to a Philistine woman? 623 00:32:19,966 --> 00:32:23,233 There's plenty of there's plenty of girls at church. 624 00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:26,233 Like, why do you. 625 00:32:26,933 --> 00:32:29,933 Samson's parents. 626 00:32:30,866 --> 00:32:32,900 They were at this point in his life. 627 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:35,400 They were the ultimate helicopter and bulldozer. Parents, 628 00:32:36,533 --> 00:32:37,566 like the helicopter was 629 00:32:37,566 --> 00:32:40,500 just always around and always around and always around. 630 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:42,600 And he cannot do it. Always on. Always. 631 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,600 And both of those are parents that kind of prepare the road 632 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,600 for their child, bring up their child for the road, you know what I'm saying? 633 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:50,633 Very dangerous. 634 00:32:50,633 --> 00:32:53,466 Parents. 635 00:32:53,466 --> 00:32:56,466 And the parents never learn to tell their kid no, 636 00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:58,733 you will not. 637 00:32:58,733 --> 00:33:00,600 This is the line in the sand. 638 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,600 Don't you dare cross it. 639 00:33:03,833 --> 00:33:06,833 Weak, limp wristed parents 640 00:33:08,366 --> 00:33:10,866 raised, spoiled, entitled children 641 00:33:10,866 --> 00:33:13,866 like Samson. 642 00:33:14,366 --> 00:33:16,100 And he digs his feet and says no, 643 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:19,066 I want her. 644 00:33:19,066 --> 00:33:22,066 Watch what happens. 645 00:33:22,366 --> 00:33:25,133 Samson, what are those words 646 00:33:25,133 --> 00:33:26,033 for them? 647 00:33:26,033 --> 00:33:27,200 Yeah. Say it with your mouths open. 648 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,133 What do those words. 649 00:33:29,133 --> 00:33:29,633 Yeah. See? 650 00:33:29,633 --> 00:33:30,600 The trajectory of life 651 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,000 went down to Timna, together with his father and mother in tow. 652 00:33:37,933 --> 00:33:40,733 As they approached a what? 653 00:33:40,733 --> 00:33:41,733 A vineyard. 654 00:33:41,733 --> 00:33:43,866 Anybody see a problem? 655 00:33:43,866 --> 00:33:44,866 And that's right. Vouch. 656 00:33:44,866 --> 00:33:47,433 Can't even go near it. 657 00:33:47,433 --> 00:33:50,433 Getting close, flirting with sin. 658 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:51,400 Selling. 659 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,833 A young lion came roaring toward him. 660 00:33:53,833 --> 00:33:57,266 The spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, so that he tore the lion apart 661 00:33:57,266 --> 00:34:00,266 with his bare hands, as he might have torn a young goat. 662 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,900 But he told neither his father nor his mother, one 663 00:34:05,133 --> 00:34:08,133 then he went, what? 664 00:34:09,066 --> 00:34:11,300 So you're never not going to see that now. 665 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,666 And then he went down and talked with the woman. 666 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:16,433 He didn't just see her. 667 00:34:16,433 --> 00:34:18,566 Now he's engaging her. 668 00:34:18,566 --> 00:34:21,566 We're not just flirting with sin now we're engaged. 669 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,800 In the electric. 670 00:34:27,233 --> 00:34:29,233 Eye the so interesting to me. 671 00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:33,033 And it's almost refreshing that he's going down and he's turning 672 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:34,500 and he's going down. 673 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:36,400 Yet the Spirit of God came on him. 674 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,500 I love the father. 675 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,100 And so I appreciate this about my God, 676 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:42,033 that even in those times when I am going down, 677 00:34:43,033 --> 00:34:44,533 God, in his mercy and grace, 678 00:34:44,533 --> 00:34:47,533 still chooses to empower, to use. 679 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,966 He doesn't ask me to be perfect. 680 00:34:49,966 --> 00:34:52,333 He does ask me to repent. 681 00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:54,500 You understand? I love that about God. 682 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:58,966 That even when Samson is turning away from God at times God still says, no, no, 683 00:34:59,066 --> 00:35:01,500 I can still use you. You don't have to be perfect. 684 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,133 I love that about God. 685 00:35:04,133 --> 00:35:06,600 And the verse six says, The Spirit of the Lord came on him, 686 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,800 and the power of the Lord came upon him. 687 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,266 And he told the latter part, like you would have. 688 00:35:10,266 --> 00:35:13,800 And so let me just say, here's how they would dispatch of goats. 689 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,733 Back then, they were really easy to dispatch that you took both hind legs 690 00:35:18,733 --> 00:35:21,933 and they just pull the goat apart and it split the goat right up the middle. 691 00:35:22,266 --> 00:35:25,100 There really weak creatures. 692 00:35:25,100 --> 00:35:26,700 And that's how you just take care of a goat. 693 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:27,500 You get when you. 694 00:35:29,333 --> 00:35:31,833 And he did that to a lion 695 00:35:31,833 --> 00:35:34,833 because the Spirit of God came on him. 696 00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:37,266 That's pretty bad. 697 00:35:37,266 --> 00:35:40,000 But here I'm going to throw something out to you just because 698 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000 there's I can't prove it, but I think I can support it. 699 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,000 This is our view of Samson, 700 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,000 right? 701 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Because he's a dude. 702 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,066 You going to tear a lion apart? 703 00:35:52,066 --> 00:35:54,666 You gotta look like that, right? 704 00:35:54,666 --> 00:35:56,033 He's going to tear. 705 00:35:56,033 --> 00:35:57,866 He's going to tear a city gates off 706 00:35:57,866 --> 00:36:00,866 and put him on his back and walk like 30 miles with them. 707 00:36:01,166 --> 00:36:04,166 You got to look like that right? 708 00:36:05,433 --> 00:36:07,266 I don't think so. 709 00:36:07,266 --> 00:36:10,266 I think this is what Samson looked like in real life. 710 00:36:14,433 --> 00:36:16,566 I think that Samson, 711 00:36:16,566 --> 00:36:18,000 I really do. 712 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,533 You know why? 713 00:36:20,533 --> 00:36:24,600 Because if that is Samson, you're like, well, of course he can beat up a lion. 714 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:25,366 Look at him. 715 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,533 I know if God's going to use someone for that type stuff. 716 00:36:29,533 --> 00:36:32,166 It's got to be someone like that. 717 00:36:32,166 --> 00:36:34,766 And there's a problem because I don't look like that. 718 00:36:34,766 --> 00:36:37,733 Use me. 719 00:36:37,733 --> 00:36:40,733 And so we start to elevate the vessel, 720 00:36:41,733 --> 00:36:44,333 not the god behind it. 721 00:36:44,333 --> 00:36:47,333 And if Samson looked like that 722 00:36:48,066 --> 00:36:51,300 and tore a lion apart with his bare hands, you be like, how? 723 00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:55,300 How did that. 724 00:36:55,833 --> 00:36:58,233 If that guy tore off city gates, put him on his back 725 00:36:58,233 --> 00:37:01,266 and walk 30 miles, you be like, oh, 726 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:04,500 what's behind that guy 727 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:07,500 that allows that to happen? 728 00:37:07,933 --> 00:37:10,000 We get so enamored with the vessel 729 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 that we lose the awe of God. 730 00:37:15,866 --> 00:37:17,966 It wouldn't make sense 731 00:37:17,966 --> 00:37:20,966 if God did mighty acts through that. 732 00:37:21,166 --> 00:37:24,733 It doesn't make sense for God to do mighty acts through that. 733 00:37:25,433 --> 00:37:28,566 And that is the way of Scripture. 734 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:31,866 First Corinthians 127 God has 735 00:37:31,866 --> 00:37:34,900 chose the weak things of the world to confound the strong. 736 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,533 Where in the Bible does God ever say, okay, 737 00:37:42,533 --> 00:37:45,533 finally I got a specimen I can use. 738 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,200 Never. 739 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,133 Every one that God uses in these mighty ways starts with God. 740 00:37:53,133 --> 00:37:54,100 I can't do that. 741 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,100 You. You got the wrong person. 742 00:37:58,066 --> 00:38:01,066 And God says, Will you just trust me? 743 00:38:01,166 --> 00:38:04,166 I want the high like me, not you. 744 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:07,666 Right? 745 00:38:07,666 --> 00:38:09,900 Right. 746 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,900 Yeah. 747 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000 Samson. 748 00:38:21,100 --> 00:38:24,100 Makes everybody in awe of God. 749 00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:29,700 Not self. 750 00:38:30,933 --> 00:38:31,200 Some. 751 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,233 Sometime later, when he went back to marry her. 752 00:38:33,233 --> 00:38:33,833 What did he do? 753 00:38:33,833 --> 00:38:36,833 He turned aside. 754 00:38:38,666 --> 00:38:40,800 I wonder how many times in this life we have turned aside 755 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,233 from the things of God, 756 00:38:43,233 --> 00:38:45,633 the things we should not be giving our attention to, 757 00:38:47,233 --> 00:38:50,233 to look at the lion's carcass. 758 00:38:50,433 --> 00:38:52,933 And in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. 759 00:38:52,933 --> 00:38:57,433 He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along 760 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,100 in order to scoop out honey from a carcass of a lion, 761 00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:04,866 you have to get very close to a deadline. 762 00:39:09,066 --> 00:39:09,700 When he rejoined 763 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:12,700 his parents, he gave them some and they too ate it. 764 00:39:12,833 --> 00:39:15,400 But he didn't tell them he had taken it from the honey 765 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,400 from the lion's carcass. 766 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,666 Do you notice what's happened, Samson? 767 00:39:21,666 --> 00:39:23,800 You knows what's happening. 768 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,700 He's called him God. 769 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,700 He's acting as if he's consecrated to God. 770 00:39:29,133 --> 00:39:32,133 But he has no communion with God. 771 00:39:32,166 --> 00:39:34,633 He's on a downward trajectory, 772 00:39:34,633 --> 00:39:37,800 all the while claiming God's identity. 773 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,333 The progression 774 00:39:46,333 --> 00:39:48,166 turned aside, 775 00:39:48,166 --> 00:39:50,566 looked at, acted against. 776 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:55,266 It's the story of my life. 777 00:39:55,266 --> 00:39:57,766 Probably the story of yours. 778 00:39:57,766 --> 00:40:00,766 When we turn aside from the things that God 779 00:40:01,366 --> 00:40:03,366 and we look at 780 00:40:03,366 --> 00:40:05,400 the things of the world, 781 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,400 and we act against the way of God. 782 00:40:12,066 --> 00:40:14,833 See, Samson had the appearance of consecration 783 00:40:14,833 --> 00:40:17,733 to God without communion with God. 784 00:40:17,733 --> 00:40:20,166 He looked the part, 785 00:40:20,166 --> 00:40:23,733 but there was no internal communion with the Savior, 786 00:40:25,133 --> 00:40:28,133 with the father. 787 00:40:28,166 --> 00:40:30,433 We have to be very careful 788 00:40:30,433 --> 00:40:33,433 that we don't get so caught up in looking the part 789 00:40:33,633 --> 00:40:35,800 outward. Consecration 790 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,100 without paying attention to continual communion with. 791 00:40:41,233 --> 00:40:44,866 See, the appearance of consecration 792 00:40:45,133 --> 00:40:48,466 without continual communion will result in compromise 793 00:40:48,466 --> 00:40:51,466 and destruction. 794 00:40:52,433 --> 00:40:55,433 This is the life of religion. 795 00:40:55,766 --> 00:40:58,766 Religion says, do these things 796 00:40:58,933 --> 00:41:03,033 look the part, act the part, be these things. 797 00:41:04,233 --> 00:41:06,800 But unless that is prompted 798 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,800 and propelled by an inward communion with God, 799 00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:14,433 all of the external 800 00:41:14,433 --> 00:41:18,500 signs of consecration will lead to burnout, 801 00:41:19,466 --> 00:41:22,466 religious exhaustion, and spiritual defeat. 802 00:41:25,666 --> 00:41:26,400 The outward 803 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,400 acts of consecration must be in place 804 00:41:29,766 --> 00:41:34,566 only as they are reflections of an inward communion 805 00:41:35,066 --> 00:41:38,066 with God. 806 00:41:40,266 --> 00:41:43,266 This was the downfall of Psalms. 807 00:41:47,233 --> 00:41:49,333 You know, we didn't do communion earlier 808 00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:52,333 in the service because I was saving it for this point. 809 00:41:53,833 --> 00:41:56,733 I told Jeff, I said, Jeff, I want to I want to do communion together. 810 00:41:56,733 --> 00:41:57,466 I want to lead it. 811 00:41:57,466 --> 00:41:57,900 I want to lead. 812 00:41:57,900 --> 00:42:00,900 At the end of my message. 813 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,133 Because I want our church 814 00:42:04,133 --> 00:42:07,133 not just to look good on the outside. 815 00:42:09,066 --> 00:42:12,066 But to be consecrated to God 816 00:42:12,766 --> 00:42:15,766 because of the internal communion with him. 817 00:42:17,933 --> 00:42:22,066 And so if you call yourself a Christ follower, 818 00:42:23,466 --> 00:42:25,600 good, 819 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:26,500 your life ought to be. 820 00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:29,533 Our lives ought to be consecrated to God, set apart for Him 821 00:42:29,533 --> 00:42:30,500 and His work in his kingdom. 822 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,466 But I want us to be very careful 823 00:42:34,466 --> 00:42:37,733 that we don't neglect the internal communion 824 00:42:37,733 --> 00:42:40,733 with him. 825 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:44,433 If you've never accepted 826 00:42:44,433 --> 00:42:47,433 Jesus as your Savior 827 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:50,400 and be set apart, consecrated to God, 828 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,400 today is your day. 829 00:42:53,666 --> 00:42:56,100 And before we take this, I just want to lead us 830 00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:59,833 all in the opportunity to set ourselves apart 831 00:42:59,833 --> 00:43:02,833 for God again, 832 00:43:02,866 --> 00:43:06,133 like a Nazarite wreath, establishing our vow 833 00:43:07,166 --> 00:43:10,166 to be consecrated to God, set apart for him. 834 00:43:13,033 --> 00:43:14,466 So I want you to join me in prayer, father. 835 00:43:14,466 --> 00:43:17,466 Thank you. 836 00:43:17,666 --> 00:43:20,666 That you love us so much so that you ask your son 837 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,000 to come to this world 838 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:28,300 to be innocent, yet to die on the cross. 839 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,600 Because I was guilty. 840 00:43:37,066 --> 00:43:38,066 Father, this morning 841 00:43:38,066 --> 00:43:41,066 I consecrate myself again to you. 842 00:43:42,833 --> 00:43:44,566 I want to be set apart for you and your kingdom. 843 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:48,933 Friends, in this 844 00:43:48,933 --> 00:43:52,300 moment, if you've never consecrated yourself to God, 845 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,800 I want to invite you in this moment. 846 00:43:57,233 --> 00:43:58,166 In your own words. 847 00:43:58,166 --> 00:44:02,266 But to come to God and say, God, thank you that you love me. 848 00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:04,033 Jesus. 849 00:44:04,033 --> 00:44:07,166 I believe that you died on the cross 850 00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:11,100 so I could be forgiven of my sin 851 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:15,100 and be right with the father. 852 00:44:16,133 --> 00:44:19,200 Today I give myself to you. 853 00:44:21,033 --> 00:44:24,033 I choose to be consecrated, 854 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,400 set apart to you 855 00:44:28,266 --> 00:44:31,266 and for you. 856 00:44:31,466 --> 00:44:32,700 Today I accept you 857 00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:35,700 as the leader of my life, my Savior 858 00:44:36,166 --> 00:44:39,166 and my Lord. 859 00:44:42,933 --> 00:44:45,066 Amen. 860 00:44:45,066 --> 00:44:48,366 Whether you've done that for the first time or many times over, 861 00:44:49,833 --> 00:44:52,833 as an act of outward consecration, 862 00:44:53,533 --> 00:44:55,633 I want to invite you 863 00:44:55,633 --> 00:44:58,966 to participate in an inward communion. 864 00:45:00,233 --> 00:45:03,133 This is easier for those who have a relationship with Jesus. 865 00:45:06,066 --> 00:45:08,466 And it's in communion with the father 866 00:45:08,466 --> 00:45:11,466 that remember what these elements represent. 867 00:45:12,433 --> 00:45:15,400 Jesus with his disciples 868 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,733 took the bread 869 00:45:17,733 --> 00:45:20,733 and he told them, this is my body 870 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000 given for you. 871 00:45:25,533 --> 00:45:26,933 He said, whenever you do this, 872 00:45:26,933 --> 00:45:30,500 I want you to eat this in communion with me, 873 00:45:31,733 --> 00:45:35,466 consecrating your life to me, but communing with me 874 00:45:35,466 --> 00:45:38,466 and remembering what I did for you on the cross. 875 00:45:39,966 --> 00:45:41,233 You have a relationship with Jesus. 876 00:45:41,233 --> 00:45:43,233 Commune with him. 877 00:45:43,233 --> 00:45:46,100 So the element of bread that reminds us 878 00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:49,100 of what he did. 879 00:45:59,266 --> 00:46:02,266 In a very similar way, 880 00:46:02,333 --> 00:46:04,100 Jesus said, I want you to commune 881 00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:07,900 with me in remembering that it wasn't 882 00:46:07,900 --> 00:46:11,166 just my body that I gave, it was my blood that I shared. 883 00:46:12,533 --> 00:46:17,200 And this blood is the new covenant of my blood, shed for the forgiveness of sin. 884 00:46:20,333 --> 00:46:23,300 You say you're consecrated to me. 885 00:46:23,300 --> 00:46:26,300 Commune with. 886 00:46:26,333 --> 00:46:28,200 By remembering my blood 887 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,200 that was shed for your forgiveness. 888 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,400 And take the cup. 889 00:46:42,666 --> 00:46:45,666 Jesus, we remember you. 890 00:46:45,666 --> 00:46:48,600 We want to be consecrated to you. 891 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,733 Help us to live in communion with you. 892 00:46:50,733 --> 00:46:53,733 And you remember in your body, your blood. 893 00:46:55,266 --> 00:46:58,266 As we walk through this strange world, 894 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,600 looking forward to a better home. 895 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,933 We love you, Jesus. 896 00:47:03,933 --> 00:47:06,500 In the name of bread. 897 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:08,066 Listen 898 00:47:08,066 --> 00:47:09,300 as you go about your week. 899 00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:14,200 If you claim the name of Christ, you walk in communion with him 900 00:47:15,666 --> 00:47:18,433 that every day you remember 901 00:47:18,433 --> 00:47:21,466 the forgiveness that's been provided because of his body on the cross, 902 00:47:21,466 --> 00:47:23,433 the blood that was shed. 903 00:47:23,433 --> 00:47:24,866 So sin can be forgiven. 904 00:47:24,866 --> 00:47:28,900 Walk in knowledge of that in communion with him. 905 00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:30,633 As you go through your day, 906 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,833 and you'll find yourself walking in 907 00:47:33,833 --> 00:47:36,833 step with the Holy Spirit within you. 908 00:47:38,700 --> 00:47:40,200 And you will be able to be empowered 909 00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:44,566 to live a consecrated life for him, not out of duty, 910 00:47:45,466 --> 00:47:48,466 but out of communion in relation. 911 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,200 And it's a beautiful. 912 00:47:52,333 --> 00:47:52,533 Church. 913 00:47:52,533 --> 00:47:54,866 Are we good? 914 00:47:54,866 --> 00:47:56,100 Is. And I want you to finish. 915 00:47:56,100 --> 00:47:58,700 Read chapter 14 of Psalms 916 00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:00,966 and 15 as well. 917 00:48:00,966 --> 00:48:03,033 We're going to take a deep dive into this guy's life. 918 00:48:03,033 --> 00:48:06,033 It's it's amazing. It's remarkable. 919 00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:09,300 God's going to redeem it fully one day, 920 00:48:09,533 --> 00:48:11,533 and we're going to see it. 921 00:48:11,533 --> 00:48:14,533 We're going to see his recommitment to God to be beautiful 922 00:48:14,766 --> 00:48:17,233 and tragic at the same time. 923 00:48:17,233 --> 00:48:20,200 And it reminds me of. 924 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:21,566 Even in my debauchery, 925 00:48:21,566 --> 00:48:24,800 God is so good and so gracious and so merciful 926 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,800 that he uses frail little nerds like me 927 00:48:30,233 --> 00:48:32,800 and like. 928 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,366 He's a good guy. 929 00:48:34,366 --> 00:48:36,733 Yeah, this.