WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.679 practical ways. Hey, welcome to the Bible Guys. I'm Chris. 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:16.920 This is Jeff and who. We are together together, but 5 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:20.800 in this place, not together doing this. Yes we're near, 6 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:21.800 Yes we're near. 7 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.600 We're close, and so we are about to tackle one 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:28.839 of the most famous couples in all of history, Samson 9 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:29.839 and Delilah. 10 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.159 Yeah, Samson and Delilah is not the same as Jeff 11 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:32.600 and Chris. 12 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:35.119 No, that's correct, very very different, very different. We're more 13 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:38.560 like Batman and Robbins, which we're more like. We're being 14 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:41.600 clear when I said we're together, we're more like sam 15 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.159 and Frodo, right, right, that's right. 16 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:44.560 That's right. 17 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:50.799 So before we jump into that, however, Desiree has a 18 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:53.840 which she is titling a passage question. I'm assuming she's 19 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:55.640 meaning the passage that we're about to talk about. Really, 20 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.119 she says, today we're talking about the story of Samson 21 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:03.159 and Delilah. So let's ask a fun related question. If 22 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.959 Samson's strength could be activated only by a specific, completely 23 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:11.120 random song, what song would you pick and why that's hilarious. 24 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:12.799 Yes, I didn't. 25 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:14.560 I didn't even read that until just now. 26 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:15.680 I had neither. 27 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:20.359 Okay, do you want to give it a shot? I 28 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:20.920 had one. 29 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:22.920 Best tough guy song. Okay, what's yours? 30 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.959 Okay, ready, see if you can guess the next line? Ready, 31 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:32.799 Romeo and Juliet, I don't know, Samson and Delilah. 32 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:37.359 Oh, there you go. There that's the idea. Yeah, well, 33 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.159 so that's how his strength is activated? Is that song? 34 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.560 That's what she sang, That's what she's saying. So we 35 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.120 have to pick a song. I was gonna say something 36 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.599 like Iya the Tiger or something cool. 37 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.640 Yeah, yeah done, yeah, don don yeah, all of a sudden, 38 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:54.519 all of a sudden he snaps the ropes. 39 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.760 Or or the beginning of Crazy Train might be good. 40 00:01:59.200 --> 00:01:59.760 There you go. 41 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:03.719 Yeah, Back in Black would be a good one. Yeah. Yeah, 42 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.000 I don't know. The beginning of Welcome to the Jungle, Yeah, 43 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:09.319 Welcome to the Jungle. Yeah. 44 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:11.520 Yeah, you know when we get to the ending part, 45 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:13.879 you know, the ending where he's you know, in the 46 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.800 in the in the day Gun's temple. Yeah, I can't imagine, 47 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:21.479 you know, you know, the tiger in that situation. 48 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.879 Yep, but uh yeah, I don't know. I can't think 49 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:25.719 of any other good themes. 50 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.719 I don't even know the song that I sang Roomy 51 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:30.800 You and Juliet. 52 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.840 You don't know the songs. I don't know it. I mean, 53 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:38.879 I'm like vaguely aware that those lyrics exist, but I 54 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:39.240 don't know. 55 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.520 I think it's the one where goes and then we 56 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:46.439 kis sou fire there you go late at night. 57 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:50.120 I don't know me, I don't know. 58 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:51.280 Yeah, that's that's the one. 59 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.000 Yeah, yeah, it's I think it's called fire, I think, yeah, 60 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:54.479 I don't know. 61 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:55.639 Yeah, that's what listen. 62 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:59.560 So well, that was an interesting segment. 63 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.120 It was very different, wasn't that very I got a 64 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.759 hand it to her for being different. Yes, She's like, hey, 65 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.759 if Sampson's strength can be activated by a song. 66 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:09.840 What kind of song? 67 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:10.280 Yeah? 68 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:12.560 Have you ever thought about that, like having a theme 69 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.080 song when you walk around and just when you walk 70 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:15.560 into a room. 71 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.960 I saw Emperor's New Groove when when Kronk was trying 72 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:22.080 to get rid of the Llama and he was running 73 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:24.319 through the city, and he was and then and then 74 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.199 all of a sudden, Dana Carvey says, or it wasn't 75 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:32.800 Dana Carvey who played David Spade, and he played the 76 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.560 voice of Emperor's new group, you know, Emperor Crusco. And 77 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.719 he goes who sings their own theme music? He says, 78 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.479 his own theme music? And I actually thought to myself, 79 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:45.400 if I have my own theme music, what. 80 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:45.759 Would it be? 81 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:46.719 Yeah, what would it be? 82 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:49.599 I honestly I like that at the bone. I know 83 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:51.879 it's so there you go, It's so typical. 84 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:54.520 That's such a good one though. I mean, that is cool. 85 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.479 They played it when I was walking up to receive 86 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.319 my award in college. 87 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.599 That's what they played, like that song. Yes, so you 88 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:04.960 won an award in college? So what is this story? 89 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:08.360 How is this never come up on this podcast? One 90 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.800 that you won an award? And two they paid bad 91 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.919 to the bone when you're oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 92 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.879 yeah yeah. So okay, so you didn't win an award 93 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.360 at college. That was the shock to me. Yes, you 94 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.360 want it while you were in college. Hilarious, while you 95 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:23.399 were in college. 96 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:27.000 You were shocked that I had a collegiate. 97 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:28.120 Well, no, just that I didn't know about it. I 98 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:31.079 thought you would have bragged about that by now, So 99 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:38.160 you know that is not award. No, now you're putting 100 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:39.000 words in my mind. 101 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.959 Well, because you know, were college I went to like, 102 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:42.519 how could that college honor you? 103 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.560 So no, no, I was, I was in college. 104 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.240 It was a job award job. 105 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:48.920 It was a job I was. 106 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:50.720 I was number one in the company in the whole 107 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.680 nation in that particular month, and I was there with 108 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.120 eight hundred of the top people across the country, and. 109 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:58.959 Uh, and it was. It was excellent. 110 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.480 So they were you know, they'd say, the whole crowd 111 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.279 would say number seven, and they'd say number seven is 112 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:07.160 you know, Jill Miller number six, and they counted down 113 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.959 and then finally they would say they would say he'd 114 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.879 say number one as in, and then the whole crowd 115 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:12.560 would say. 116 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:17.560 Nobody does it better. Nobody does it better than Chris Sarba. 117 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:20.360 So I stand up, all the lights go out, A 118 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.879 spotlight goes on me, and they go back to the 119 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:26.240 ball and I walk up as I'm walking up to 120 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.079 receive my award, and then they drew an eight or 121 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.120 a thousand dollars award. At the end of the night, 122 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:32.680 there was only one, and I was the guy who 123 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.160 made the most money in the place, and everybody at 124 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.720 one entry, and I won the thousand dollars. Everybody was 125 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:40.519 like boom because I had made the most money that day. 126 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:40.879 Wow. 127 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:42.800 But then they drop the lights again and play bad 128 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:43.399 to the bone. 129 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.480 So you've had bad to the bone twice walking up 130 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:48.800 on stay. Yes, so I just find almost a thousand 131 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.079 people and I thought, I thought to myself, felt so good. 132 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:53.879 That's my thing is here you are thirty years later, 133 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.199 going I want to relive that experience. Yes, if I 134 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.839 had a theme song, yes, it has to be okay, 135 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:03.040 Well now we know. So if you ever see Chris 136 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.439 and just pull up on iTunes bad to the bone 137 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:08.439 when you walk up to him, and it'll make him 138 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:11.839 feel like the man he's always wanted to be like 139 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:13.560 he's always wanted. Is that right? 140 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.519 Yes, the man that I am, jes the man I. 141 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:22.920 Am well good, well talking about tough guys. It's a 142 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:27.079 Segway physician segue, but totally bad to the bone people. Yes, 143 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.759 Samson now is a judge. Everything that we've read up 144 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.839 to this point, it was not while he was actually 145 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.079 the official judge of Israel verse twenty of the chapter 146 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.759 we read yesterday. He judges Israel for twenty years. And 147 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:43.279 then we moved to chapter sixteen and this is kind 148 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.639 of we're sprinting to the end now. 149 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:44.959 Yeah. 150 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:48.079 And in the first three versuses sort of stand alone 151 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:51.319 before we get into Samson and Delilah. There's like an 152 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:55.120 incident where Samson carries aways the gates of Gaza. 153 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:56.839 Yeah, and he seems to have a woman problem a 154 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:57.759 little bit, doesn't. 155 00:06:57.480 --> 00:06:58.399 He A little bit? 156 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.759 Yeah? So in the previous stories we've read this, But 157 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.160 then now it says one day Samson went to the 158 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:07.879 Philistine town of Gaza and spent the night with a prostitute. 159 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.079 Word soon spread that Samson was there. So the men 160 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:13.800 of Gaza gathered together and waited all night at the 161 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.240 town gates, and they kept quiet during the night, saying 162 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.959 to themselves, when the light of morning comes, will kill him. 163 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:21.800 But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he 164 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:23.399 got up, took hold of the doors of the town, 165 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.079 including the two posts, lifted them up, bar and all. 166 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.199 He put them on his shoulders and carried them all 167 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:29.639 the way to the top of the hill across from 168 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.839 hebron Right. 169 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.240 What a what a random series of events. 170 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:38.160 There, crazy yep. And then in verse four it says 171 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.639 sometime later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, 172 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.439 who lived in the valley of Sorek. The rulers of 173 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.079 the Philistines went to her and said, entice Samson to 174 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.720 tell you what makes him so strong and how he 175 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.439 can be overpowered and tied up securely. Then each of 176 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:55.920 us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver. So 177 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.959 Delilah said to Samson, please tell me what makes you 178 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.079 so strong and what it would take to tie you 179 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.959 up securely. Samson replied, if I were tied up with 180 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.439 seven new bow strings that have not yet been dried, 181 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.839 I'd become as weak as anyone else. So the Philistine 182 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.360 rulers brought Delilah seven new bow strings, and she tied 183 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.879 Samson up with them. She'd hidden some men in one 184 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.720 of the inner rooms of her house, and she cried out, Samson, 185 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.279 the Philistines have come to capture you. But Samson snapped 186 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.680 the bow strings as a piece of string snaps when 187 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:25.839 it's burned by a fire, so the secret of his 188 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:29.439 strength was not discovered. Afterward, Delilah said to him, you've 189 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.360 been making fun of me and telling me lies. Now 190 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.879 please tell me how you can be tied up securely. 191 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.519 Samson replied, if I were tied up with brand new 192 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.159 ropes that had never been used, I would become as 193 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:42.159 weak as anyone else. So Delilah took new ropes and 194 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:44.600 tied him up with them, and the men were hiding 195 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:47.679 in the inner room as before, and again Delilah cried out, Samson, 196 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.679 the Philistines have come to capture you. But Samson snapped 197 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.759 the ropes from his arms as if they were a thread. 198 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.240 Then Delilah said, you've been making fun of me and 199 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.039 telling me lies. Now tell me how you can be 200 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.159 tied up securely. Samson replied, if you were to weave 201 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.480 the seven braids of my hair into the fabric of 202 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.279 your loom and tighten it with the loom shuddle, I 203 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.679 would become as weak as anyone else. So, while he slept, 204 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.639 Delilah wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric, 205 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.360 and then she tightened it with the loom shuttle. Again, 206 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.559 she cried out, Samson, the Philistines have come to capture you. 207 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:21.120 But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and 208 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:23.080 yanked his hair away from the loom in the fabric. 209 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.759 Then Delilah pouted, how can you tell me I love 210 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.000 you when you don't share your secrets with me. You've 211 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:30.799 made fun of me three times now, and you still 212 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.919 haven't told me what makes you so strong. She tormented 213 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.240 him with her nagging day after day until he was 214 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.759 sick to death of it. Finally, Samson shared a secret 215 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.000 with her. My hair has never been cut, he confessed, 216 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.960 for I was dedicated to God as a Nazarite from birth. 217 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:47.720 If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me 218 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:50.759 and I would become as weak as anyone else. Delilah 219 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:53.039 realized he had finally told her the truth, so she 220 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.200 sent for the Philistine rulers. Come back one more time, 221 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:59.000 she said, for he has finally told me his secret. 222 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.480 Rules returned with the money in their hands, and Delilah 223 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:05.639 lulled Samson to sleep with her, his head in her lap, 224 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:07.879 and then she called in a man to shave off 225 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:10.399 the seven locks of his hair, and this way she 226 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.480 began to bring him down, and his strength left him. 227 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.399 Then she cried out, Samson, the Philistines have come to 228 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:18.919 capture you. When he woke up, he thought, I will 229 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.759 do as before and shake myself free, But he didn't 230 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.960 realize the Lord had left him. So the Philistines captured 231 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.440 him and gouged out his eyes, and they took to 232 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.759 him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains 233 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.480 and forced to grind grain in the prison. But before 234 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:36.639 long his hair began to grow back. Is that where 235 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:36.960 we end? 236 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:37.519 That? 237 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:37.879 Is it? 238 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.879 Yeah? Because the next week is uh no. 239 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:42.399 She pushed us all the way through to the end 240 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:42.879 of the chapter. 241 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.440 Uh no, no, we can. 242 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:49.840 Let's saving it for tomorrow. 243 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.879 Yeah, okay, so uh yeah, because there's plenty to talk 244 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:57.759 about here. Sure, right, So it doesn't say that Delilah 245 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:58.759 was a Philistine? 246 00:10:59.039 --> 00:10:59.320 Does it? 247 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.759 At the very beginning? It says she lived in the 248 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.080 valley of Sorek. So are we to assume because she 249 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.879 lived in the Valley of Sorek that because you know 250 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.480 that was Philistine territory, right right? 251 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:16.600 So you know it was right near the coast near Canaan, 252 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:21.720 you know. Yeah, it says here in the Life Application 253 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:23.159 and Study Bible. I was looking for it. 254 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:26.120 But it doesn't say that Delilah was actually a Philistine. 255 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.039 I'm assuming she was, But it does say this, This 256 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:33.000 is insightful. The Philistines were ruled by five rulers, not 257 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:39.480 just one. Each ruler ruled from a different city. Ashdod Ashkalon, Akron, 258 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.799 Gath or Gaza. Each of these cities were important a 259 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.679 center of trade and commerce. Given Delilah's character, is little 260 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.399 wonder that she betrayed Samson when these rich and powerful 261 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.559 men paid her a personal visit. So when they each 262 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:56.120 promised her eleven hundred pieces of silver, we're talking about 263 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.919 fifty five hundred pieces of silver, right, which is a fortune. 264 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.000 Yeah. I don't even know how much that would be. Well, 265 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:07.600 I mean twenty eight pounds is eleven hundred shekels? 266 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.039 I mean, are we to assume that this is the 267 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:14.039 same amount of money that you know, Judas betrayed Jesus 268 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:15.080 for thirty pieces of silver? 269 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:16.360 Is this the same, you. 270 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.919 Know, except this is eleven hundred. 271 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.639 Yeah, that's quite difference, right, that's quite a big difference. 272 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.720 They had to be in different weights, because that's crazy. 273 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:27.519 Let me look it up while you're doing this. 274 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So we're assuming that I've always believed 275 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.960 that Delilah was a Philistine, but I really can't find 276 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.840 any it's likely. 277 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:38.879 I mean, she lives in the Philistine Yeah. 278 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.039 Yeah. 279 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:44.279 A person's greatest accomplishment will be helping others accomplish great things. 280 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:48.759 Likewise a person's greatest failure, maybe preventing others from achieving greatness. 281 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.399 Delilah played a mirror role in Samson's life, but her 282 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.759 effect was devastating, for she influenced him to betray his 283 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:02.799 calling from God. So Alilah is uh, you know, a 284 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:07.200 person who valued money more than relationships betrayed people who 285 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:12.639 trusted her. You know, she was definitely persistent, you know. Uh, 286 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.320 she tormented him and nagged him all day long. I mean, 287 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.360 that's that's that's something here we can learn from. 288 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.039 Just that one he wanted to die, yes, or nagging 289 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.279 made him want to die. So I just looked it up. 290 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.919 With today's prices of silver, it would have been roughly 291 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 fifty fifty one thousand dollars. That's what they offered her. 292 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.000 Oh yeah, oh that's not as much as I would 293 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.639 have thought. But still, if somebody offered you fifty grand 294 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:43.679 today and you were. 295 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.440 To portray you, well, you discover what your strength was. 296 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:47.480 A man of more. 297 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:49.519 It wouldn't take fifty grand. 298 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:51.720 You do for fun. 299 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.120 Oh, I'm going to see you take this guy down. 300 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.639 But here's here's the most confusing thing about this entire passage, 301 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:04.679 and that is why did Samson continue to toy with her? 302 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:07.480 And I think the reason is is because of his character. 303 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:10.600 He was arrogant. Oh but he absolutely thought that he 304 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:11.320 was invincible. 305 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:15.559 Yeah, right, But to have a moment of weakness and 306 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:19.159 actually break down and tell her his secret meant that 307 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:21.519 he really thought that Either either he really thought that 308 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.240 she was trustworthy or he was just so stricken with 309 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.039 love that he just couldn't help himself. 310 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.480 Yeah, or lust, Yeah, or lust. 311 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:31.200 It did say he fell in love with her. 312 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.600 Yeah, so he Yeah, but his version of love is 313 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.840 could be Okay, I see that pretty girl getter for me. 314 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:38.879 I want to marry her. That get her for me? 315 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:42.120 I demand it, right. That's and then he gets mad 316 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.200 and he leaves for an extended period of time. He's 317 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.399 gone for quite a while. When he comes back, her 318 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:49.480 father's married her off to somebody else and. 319 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:52.039 Then says, I'm going in to see my wife right right. 320 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.679 So just incredibly self centered. I'm not sure that this 321 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.039 is love, like the kind of love that makes a 322 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:03.200 marriage last, right right, selfless love. I think this is 323 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:07.360 self centered stuff. But yeah, he's he's not a good guy. 324 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.600 He clearly has a woman problem. You know, he's with 325 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:14.919 a hooker in Gaza. Just so, oh, that's what it says, right, 326 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.000 she's a prostitute. 327 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:16.120 Yeah. 328 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.279 So, so he's with a prostitute in Gaza just before 329 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:22.240 the story of Delilah and right after the story of 330 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.200 you know, them burning up his wife. So now all 331 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.080 of these things, this is over spread over a long, 332 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.279 long period of time. It's not just all you know, 333 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:31.600 bang bang bang back to back to back. But still 334 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:33.559 this seems to be his pattern, is that women are 335 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:38.159 his weakness. His fiance got him to spill the beans 336 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.200 on his little story the same exact way Delilah did. Yeah, 337 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.200 and he would have learned yeah, yeah, right, so he 338 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.559 had he has this real weakness of giving. But when 339 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:52.519 you read the story of Samson and Delilah, it almost 340 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.399 seems like, well, if you tie me up with the 341 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:57.320 bow strings and she ties him up, that doesn't work. 342 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.639 And then immediately she ties him up with ropes and 343 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.080 that doesn't work, and then she weaves his hair into 344 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:03.759 a loom and that doesn't work. But that's not how 345 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.600 it would have been days right, days in between. And 346 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.879 the way that you know that is she tormented him 347 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.720 with her nagging day after day until he was sick 348 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:16.679 to death of it. Right, So these are days or 349 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.120 weeks in between, and he's just toying with her. He's 350 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:22.840 just fooling around with her. He's just playing with her. 351 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:27.519 And but there's a progression, right, Well, if you use 352 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.159 bow strings, well that's silly. Then well, if you use ropes, 353 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:35.039 that's that's silly. But then he gets really close when 354 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.440 he goes, well if you tie up my hair and 355 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:42.159 a loom, right, and all of a sudden, now you're thinking, ooh, 356 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.559 you know he started off far away. I mean, ropes 357 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:46.639 can't do anything. He's already busted ropes in front of 358 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.360 people time after time after time. Every time they tie 359 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.080 him up, it doesn't work. So he's playing around at 360 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:54.080 the beginning with something that has nothing to do with 361 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.279 his strength that he's already demonstrated. But all he's doing 362 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:58.919 is hinting, well, if you use a different kind of rope, 363 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:01.919 I've used strings, Oh, if you use you know, ropes 364 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.720 that have never been used before, whatever, And he's playing 365 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.400 with stuff that's not even close. And then but this 366 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:09.759 is how sin works. As you get closer and closer 367 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:15.319 and closer to the devastating thing. So it's not fun anymore. Right, 368 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.480 it's not the intrigue, the fun. It's not quite as 369 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.519 dangerous as it felt before. And so now he's hinting 370 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.079 at his hair, and that is he's one step away 371 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.079 from total failure. Right. I think we do that a lot, 372 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.119 that we get more and more and more dangerous. The 373 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.720 longer we flirt with a sin, the more dangerous we get. 374 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.640 With That's exactly how sin works. It's a snowball down 375 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.440 the hill, just slowly growing. And people actually talk about that. 376 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.440 And you and I have had a history of people 377 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:49.160 coming into our offices over the years, separately and you know, 378 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.680 telling us stories of exactly that. You know, it started 379 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.640 out as conversation, then it turned into harmless flirting, and 380 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.200 then it was a casual drink and all of a sudden, 381 00:17:59.319 --> 00:17:59.920 now my. 382 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.000 Entire life is ruined right right, and and and it's. 383 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.680 Because you get closer, and you're closer and closer, and 384 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.480 and yeah, that's the way the sin works. And you know, 385 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:10.480 it reminds me of what is it the Book of 386 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.720 Psalms when it says, uh, you know, you're you're walking 387 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:16.720 in the way of sinners, and then you sit in 388 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:20.079 the seaton scornful somewhat and and all of a sudden, 389 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.000 you know, you're you're walking by then you're standing. 390 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:23.799 All that, that's what of this. 391 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:26.920 You're walking, then you're standing, then you're sitting, then you're sitting. 392 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.799 And so it's a progression of what it means to 393 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:32.119 get closer and closer to sin. 394 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.720 So yeah, and then what is it? Is it James 395 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:38.319 that talks about the progression of sin too? Right? That 396 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.880 that you you desire a thing and then you begin 397 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.119 to do the thing right and it eventually leads to death. 398 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:46.559 There's that you think about it, you start wanting it, 399 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.519 and you start wanting it, then you start trying to 400 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.440 find ways to get it, you get it, and eventually 401 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:52.440