WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:32.460 Thanks for listening. 00:00:45.580 --> 00:00:46.600 Hey, good morning. 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:51.260 Glad that you guys are here with us, whether you're joining us online or whether you're 00:00:51.260 --> 00:00:53.360 here on campus with us. 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:57.520 I'll ask you if you've got your Bibles, go ahead and open them to Judges chapter 13. 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:02.280 As you turn there, a couple of things I want to go over before we dive into our scripture 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:02.820 this morning. 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.060 First, I just want to say it is good to be back. 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:11.800 Only missed a Sunday, but it feels like an eternity, and so it is good to be here with 00:01:11.800 --> 00:01:12.680 you guys this morning. 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:18.480 I want to thank all of the staff, Dave, Joel, Berger, Dawn, everybody else that kind of rallied 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.580 last week to continue on and everything that was going. 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:25.880 You know, as we got ready to roll back kids' ministry and make some changes around the 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:31.080 building, it was probably the worst Sunday, at least for me, to wrestle with being gone, 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:33.060 but God had great plans. 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:35.880 And Dave, man, thank you for stepping in and speaking last week. 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:39.560 You did an absolutely wonderful job, faithful to the scripture. 00:01:39.820 --> 00:01:45.800 That was, in all honesty, the most complicated passage to go through in Judges, but man, you 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:47.500 crushed it, and so thank you so much. 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:49.280 So I had a lot of people ask. 00:01:49.820 --> 00:01:51.220 Bradberries are doing good. 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:57.140 God is gracious to us through our little COVID situation that we had in our house. 00:01:57.940 --> 00:02:01.140 Relatively speaking, our symptoms were mild. 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:03.500 I had the mildest out of all of us. 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.840 So God knew that my wife, son, and daughter are tougher than I am. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.540 So he gave me the least amount, but we're still lacking a little energy with us, but we are 00:02:13.540 --> 00:02:15.340 back and going, and so it feels good. 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.620 This week, we are getting ready to head down the stretch of Judges. 00:02:19.880 --> 00:02:22.580 Beginning today, we've got this week and then three other weeks. 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:26.600 And so today's message is going to kind of do two things. 00:02:26.660 --> 00:02:31.540 It's going to recap a little bit thematically of what we've been talking about, but also be 00:02:31.540 --> 00:02:37.180 an introduction, as you'll see in just a little bit as we kind of move to this next season 00:02:37.180 --> 00:02:41.740 in our life and stages as we walk through Judges. 00:02:41.740 --> 00:02:46.940 Now, also, this morning's message is going to be a little bit shorter because of that, 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:53.480 but also we've got a special opportunity at the end of the service for you guys to get 00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:55.380 to be a part and experience something. 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.640 As many of you know, we are a Southern Baptist church, and being a Southern Baptist church, 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:04.660 we're part of the International Mission Board, which is the world's largest international 00:03:04.660 --> 00:03:07.520 Christian missions organization. 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:13.740 And with us this morning, we have an IMB missionary who's going to come up and share where he and 00:03:13.740 --> 00:03:19.040 his family, where they serve and what that's like, and thank us for being a part as we partner 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:20.340 together in the Great Commission. 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:22.300 Now, I do want to say this. 00:03:22.640 --> 00:03:25.900 If you're here on campus with us, you'll get to experience all of that. 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:30.900 If you're joining us online, I'm sorry because of where this family serves and because of the 00:03:30.900 --> 00:03:36.200 safety of those that they serve with, we will have to end our recording and end our online 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:40.580 stream during that time, and we will not be able to make it available. 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:45.540 But it is going to be a wonderful time that God's going to bless us and remind us of what 00:03:45.540 --> 00:03:47.840 all He is doing all over the world. 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:57.840 So, it's been an interesting couple weeks to be at home, to be there with the TV, with news, 00:03:58.860 --> 00:03:59.860 and with social media. 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:11.860 Getting on and reading about Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram. 00:04:13.820 --> 00:04:22.380 There's been stories, there's been comments that kind of define the culture and the situation 00:04:22.380 --> 00:04:23.900 where we find ourselves right now. 00:04:25.540 --> 00:04:32.340 And what I want to do in a moment of honesty, in a moment of transparency, for all of us in 00:04:32.340 --> 00:04:38.140 here and for all of us at home, I want to ask you a question based off of what I've been 00:04:38.140 --> 00:04:40.040 reading, based off of what I've been seeing. 00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:48.760 And it's a question that I want in here for you to be honest and transparent and public 00:04:48.760 --> 00:04:54.100 in a very controversial topic. 00:04:56.260 --> 00:05:00.860 How many of you have started decorating for Christmas? 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:04.800 Y'all thought I was going to ask something else, didn't you? 00:05:05.300 --> 00:05:05.560 All right. 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.420 So, I don't know about at home, but in here, raise hands if you started decorating for Christmas 00:05:09.420 --> 00:05:09.920 so far. 00:05:10.640 --> 00:05:14.020 We've got one in here in the building with us, right? 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:18.580 Like, I know it's hard to believe because it's 85 degrees outside, right? 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.560 But, like, Christmas is approaching, right? 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.020 So, we're still in our shorts and t-shirts, some of you in your tank tops. 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:27.920 South Carolina fall, right? 00:05:27.940 --> 00:05:28.600 It'll be over. 00:05:28.780 --> 00:05:32.720 It'll be 20 degrees next week and then 85 by, like, 3 o'clock. 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:36.980 But we're starting to experience Christmas, right? 00:05:37.100 --> 00:05:42.400 One of the things, when Aaron and I, right before we had the code thing at the house, we'd 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:47.360 gone out grocery shopping, and we'd gone into one of these grocery stores, and part that 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:52.680 just helps me remind me that it is the Christmas season of what I love is there's a coffee that 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:57.840 I can only get around this time of year, and it's Starbucks Holiday Blend, and I know a 00:05:57.840 --> 00:05:59.420 lot of you don't like that, and I'm sorry. 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.280 I'll pray for you, but I deeply, deeply love it. 00:06:02.380 --> 00:06:04.380 And we walked into a grocery store. 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:09.400 I'm not sure if they mispriced it, but they had it priced at $4.98 a bag. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:16.140 And I looked at Aaron, and I said, we're buying everything they got. 00:06:16.460 --> 00:06:20.800 Cleared the shelves with it, got there, so then later on when we find out we've got to 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:24.980 quarantine for a while, she's like, do we have everything food-wise that we need? 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:26.660 Because we've got people asking what we can do. 00:06:26.900 --> 00:06:27.940 I opened up the pantry. 00:06:28.260 --> 00:06:30.900 I showed her the entire shelf at Starbucks, like, we're covered. 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:31.560 Like, we're good. 00:06:31.740 --> 00:06:32.660 We've got this. 00:06:32.860 --> 00:06:34.880 This can get us through two weeks, right? 00:06:34.900 --> 00:06:39.720 But it's Christmas season, and I love that people were decorating already. 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:45.420 Well, we're normally, we decorate our house the Saturday after Thanksgiving, but we've even 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:48.040 talked about doing it earlier, but we're real tree people, right? 00:06:48.080 --> 00:06:52.560 We couldn't get one, but as soon as we can, we're going to go ahead and decorate inflatables 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.400 for the front yard. 00:06:53.580 --> 00:06:54.320 I can't wait. 00:06:54.780 --> 00:06:57.000 I love the fact that it's Christmas season. 00:06:57.420 --> 00:07:01.180 I love the fact that it's what people are beginning to talk about. 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:07.800 And what I'm hoping that God is going to do is that in the other seasons of life that we 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:12.040 find ourselves in, and the other things that maybe you thought that I was going to talk 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:17.400 about just a second ago, and it got really awkward in the room, right, is the phrase that 00:07:17.400 --> 00:07:19.940 we use is the reason for the season. 00:07:20.140 --> 00:07:21.320 It's the catchphrase. 00:07:21.380 --> 00:07:23.380 It's been talked about for years. 00:07:23.880 --> 00:07:29.160 And what God's going to point us to in Judges, and what we're going to come through, I hope 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.020 it reminds us of that. 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.840 As we even look forward to our Christmas series, that will be what we start after this series 00:07:36.840 --> 00:07:37.580 is over with. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:44.140 And as we look at Judges 13 in the life of Samson, as we talk about the birth of Samson 00:07:44.140 --> 00:07:49.280 today, it's going to give us some foreshadowing into the Christmas season, some foreshadowing 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:55.360 into the birth and the life of Christ, and what God's trying to stir our hearts for as we 00:07:55.360 --> 00:08:00.760 look for this Savior, Redeemer, that's come to set us free from the sins of the world. 00:08:01.520 --> 00:08:07.800 And so I hope for you, where you find yourselves this morning, whether you've started decorating 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:17.200 your house or not, I hope what you find yourselves is getting into being reminded of this season 00:08:17.200 --> 00:08:23.200 that we will celebrate, but it won't be a season that is marked by dragging decorations out of 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:28.980 the attic and then one day putting them back up, but it's a season that resides in our heart. 00:08:30.620 --> 00:08:33.980 And it's who we are, and it's what we're about. 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:40.200 So in Judges 13 verse 1, it says, 00:08:41.380 --> 00:08:58.380 We find ourselves back at where we were before in almost every message as we've gone through. 00:08:58.380 --> 00:08:59.420 This is week 8. 00:09:00.260 --> 00:09:04.220 We begin and we find ourselves in the same pattern again. 00:09:04.660 --> 00:09:10.160 Israel finds herself where she has been so many times before, stuck in a pattern of sin. 00:09:12.660 --> 00:09:19.580 So many times in Judges, what we see is this pattern, and it's not, it's noted by the pattern 00:09:19.580 --> 00:09:20.440 of the pattern of again. 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.860 Again, again, Israel does what's evil. 00:09:24.100 --> 00:09:26.920 Again, Israel does what's evil. 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:31.500 And so what I want us to kind of look at as we, as we go through this, as we look back on what 00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:36.680 we've talked about and looking forward to what we will see, we hope that we find ourselves 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:39.400 right where Israel finds herself. 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.660 Are you and I again stuck in the pattern of sin? 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:48.000 Are you and I again find that we're doing evil in the sight of the Lord? 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:49.340 And this is what we are seeing. 00:09:49.560 --> 00:09:51.280 This pattern found in life. 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:52.800 We're God's people. 00:09:52.900 --> 00:09:57.320 In spite of all that they know, in spite of all that they've experienced, in spite of all 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:04.900 that they claim true, yet again, we find ourselves doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 00:10:05.900 --> 00:10:12.060 And I know that for me, as I navigate through this, it's so easy for me to pick up the stone 00:10:12.060 --> 00:10:14.400 of judgment and cast it at Israel. 00:10:14.580 --> 00:10:18.040 But I find that so many times, this is where I find myself as well. 00:10:18.140 --> 00:10:22.780 If I'm being honest and open and transparent, in spite of what I know, in spite of what I've 00:10:22.780 --> 00:10:28.500 experienced, in spite of what I've done, again, again, again. 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:31.800 And so here God does. 00:10:32.400 --> 00:10:33.940 He turns them over. 00:10:34.520 --> 00:10:39.980 He turns them over in the Philistines so that they can feel, they can experience and grow 00:10:39.980 --> 00:10:45.420 through and be redeemed from the bondage of their sin. 00:10:46.420 --> 00:10:51.440 And so it's again, it's again, it's again. 00:10:52.920 --> 00:10:54.620 Again, they need God. 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.060 Again, they need him to come rescue them. 00:10:59.340 --> 00:11:00.840 Again, they need the Lord. 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:03.700 Again, he must intervene. 00:11:04.520 --> 00:11:13.780 One of the things that I have noticed on social media over the last several days is the phrase 00:11:13.780 --> 00:11:20.780 being used by some to explain the feelings in which they feel when they say things like, 00:11:21.560 --> 00:11:25.020 we need Jesus like never before. 00:11:25.020 --> 00:11:33.400 I want to talk about that phrase because that phrase could be put on Israel. 00:11:35.020 --> 00:11:39.900 In chapter 13, again, they need the Lord like never before. 00:11:39.940 --> 00:11:44.960 I think when that phrase is used, the intent is okay. 00:11:46.040 --> 00:11:51.040 I think the heart of the heart of the individual of what they're trying to proclaim is the reminder 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:52.460 that we need Jesus. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.720 But the theology of it is incorrect. 00:11:57.100 --> 00:12:01.600 Because the truth of the statement is not, we need Jesus like never before. 00:12:02.300 --> 00:12:05.560 The truth of the statement is, we need Jesus. 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:17.200 That's where it's 20-20, 18-20, 17-20, no matter what point in time in which we find ourselves 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.680 post the fall, guess what? 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.200 We need Jesus. 00:12:24.560 --> 00:12:32.060 And it's where we find ourselves and it's where Israel finds itself in Judges 13. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:33.520 Why? 00:12:34.400 --> 00:12:41.240 Because the continual problem of man is the depravity of the heart of man. 00:12:42.660 --> 00:12:48.260 And so again, Israel does what's evil in the eyes of the Lord. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.660 Again, they live in their bondage of sin. 00:12:53.560 --> 00:12:59.580 And again, they need the Lord where we find ourselves. 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:05.900 And so the theme of Judges of what we've seen in the past, what we will see in Samson and 00:13:05.900 --> 00:13:12.040 continue to see as we close out this book over the next several weeks is God in the impossible. 00:13:12.660 --> 00:13:16.800 Now, I want to say this so that I'm equally correct theologically. 00:13:17.400 --> 00:13:22.420 God works in both the impossible and in the possible, all right? 00:13:22.780 --> 00:13:24.100 God works in both. 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:29.840 God doesn't just step in and say, oh, you can't do anything now, so watch what I can do, right? 00:13:29.940 --> 00:13:33.380 God works in the possible when we think that we're the ones achieving it. 00:13:33.380 --> 00:13:37.380 And God works in the impossible when we've given up and realized that it's got to come from Him. 00:13:37.660 --> 00:13:39.860 God is equally at work. 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:41.840 God is equally moving. 00:13:42.140 --> 00:13:47.900 God is equally working us in the path of His plan to redeem for Himself a people. 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:55.120 But oftentimes, what God graciously does is when we see these experiences of God working in the impossible, 00:13:55.500 --> 00:13:59.980 is it opens our eyes to acknowledge that it came from Him and Him alone. 00:14:00.540 --> 00:14:04.200 Two times in Scripture, Jesus is confronted with a problem. 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:14.100 And the problem that He's confronted with is that there are large thousands of people who have been listening to Him speak, watching Him heal. 00:14:14.260 --> 00:14:16.820 And in that moment, they are hungry. 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:18.540 A problem. 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:21.880 A problem that can be fixed in the possible. 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:31.440 God could have rallied His disciples and sent them into the market to explain what was going on and to get enough food to come back and take care of the needs, but He doesn't. 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:41.500 Instead, He's able to get His hands on an insufficient amount of food and then multiply the food to feed the masses. 00:14:42.220 --> 00:14:46.600 God could have worked through the possible of what made sense, but He chose not to. 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:56.660 He worked through the impossible, and in doing so, eyes are open to understand who He is as He explains and as He displays His divinity. 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:58.940 God working in the impossible. 00:14:59.820 --> 00:15:03.100 And so it's what we've been seeing in Judges time and time again. 00:15:03.100 --> 00:15:08.820 The impossible situation in which Israel finds itself and God says, 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:15.700 Watch what I'm going to do because I'm a God who works in the possible, but I'm also the God that works in the impossible. 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.900 As your eyes are aware, as your eyes are opened. 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:27.100 Well, the story of the impossible is going to be so filled into Samson's life. 00:15:27.780 --> 00:15:29.020 Let's keep reading verse 2. 00:15:29.940 --> 00:15:30.120 It says, 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:40.060 There was a certain man of Zorah of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren and had no children. 00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:44.900 And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, 00:15:45.460 --> 00:15:51.960 Behold, you are barren and have not born children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. 00:15:52.540 --> 00:15:58.980 Therefore, be careful and drink no wine or strong drink and eat nothing unclean. 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:02.180 For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:09.240 No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. 00:16:09.880 --> 00:16:11.720 And he shall begin. 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:12.820 I want you to focus that. 00:16:12.880 --> 00:16:17.280 If you're like me and you underline things in your Bible, underline he shall begin. 00:16:18.040 --> 00:16:23.040 To save Israel from the hand of the Philistines. 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:30.880 What we're going to see in this passage of Scripture are the similarities that we're going to find in the gospel narrative 00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:34.160 between the birth of Jesus and the birth of Samson. 00:16:34.160 --> 00:16:47.880 But the writer of the text gives us these three words, he shall begin, as a reminder so that we don't get confused that Samson and Jesus aren't on the same playing field. 00:16:47.880 --> 00:17:01.120 So that we understand what we are seeing is a foreshadowing of what took place, but that Samson in and of himself is an insufficient redeemer to do what needs to be done. 00:17:01.220 --> 00:17:06.400 Because in these three words, he shall begin, but he will not be able to complete. 00:17:07.660 --> 00:17:15.080 You see, found within the limitations of Samson, in all of these, it is a work that God is going to put in place. 00:17:15.520 --> 00:17:18.800 But it is not a work that is going to be done eternally. 00:17:19.760 --> 00:17:21.440 And so we begin to see and understand. 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:23.760 So let's look at the comparisons. 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:36.720 Here we see an angel of God appears to a woman who was without child and should not be able to have children based off of the condition in which the angel comes to her. 00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:38.920 We see that with Samson, right? 00:17:39.540 --> 00:17:42.220 For Samson's mom, she's barren. 00:17:42.300 --> 00:17:43.700 She's not able to have kids. 00:17:44.040 --> 00:17:49.340 She's tried for years to come to her elderly moment and says, this is what's going to happen. 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:51.540 This is what's going to take place in your life. 00:17:52.080 --> 00:17:53.800 In the story of Jesus, right? 00:17:54.140 --> 00:17:59.460 Appears to Mary at a different age, but finds that she's a virgin. 00:18:00.860 --> 00:18:06.460 Unable to have children based off of the conditions they find themselves in. 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:10.720 But the angel of the Lord comes and says, God has a different plan for you. 00:18:11.260 --> 00:18:23.040 With here, we see that from the very beginning, before life even exists in flesh, God has a plan for the deliverance of his people. 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:27.460 Every other judge that we look at, they're established. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:29.400 They have character. 00:18:29.820 --> 00:18:31.100 They have history. 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:32.600 They have a past. 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.220 People know who they are. 00:18:34.220 --> 00:18:43.700 But here in the life of Samson, it is declared before he is even conceived that he will deliver. 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.460 And the exact same thing. 00:18:46.900 --> 00:18:50.340 That God sends his son. 00:18:51.340 --> 00:18:57.840 The life of the two, even though they are different from each other, they will be different from the norm of what's there. 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:09.560 The life of Jesus will be a life marked by a sinless nature and action of who he is, unlike anyone who has ever lived and anyone who will ever live. 00:19:10.100 --> 00:19:19.340 But for Samson, while he doesn't have the sinless nature, he takes the Nazarite vow that he cannot drink from the vine, that even his mother cannot. 00:19:19.340 --> 00:19:32.780 That he cannot cut his hair, that he cannot become spiritually unclean, so that both of them, that when you see them, you'll be reminded of the fact that they were chosen for a purpose and for a reason. 00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:34.900 Now, Samson, we're going to see next week. 00:19:35.020 --> 00:19:35.720 He's got his struggles. 00:19:35.820 --> 00:19:36.700 He's going to have his issues. 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:38.180 He's going to have his failures. 00:19:39.560 --> 00:19:51.360 Unlike Jesus, who's sinless and perfect, but both marked from the beginning, we see in their similarity the fact that they were set apart. 00:19:52.500 --> 00:19:57.060 Samson set apart from the womb, but Jesus set apart from the beginning. 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:06.640 Jesus set apart not in the moment where the angel declared it to Mary, but Jesus set apart before time began. 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:16.440 So that in Genesis 3, when sin enters into the world, that God speaks and declares the deliverer who will set him free. 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:24.800 We begin to see the similarities that begin to link through in the birth of Samson, in the life of Samson, 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:30.580 and it foreshadows to the future of what we can see in the person and the life of Jesus. 00:20:30.760 --> 00:20:32.760 But there is a difference. 00:20:32.760 --> 00:20:40.540 What we will find is that in Samson, it is a beginning, it is a process because of the imperfection that is in him. 00:20:40.760 --> 00:20:49.540 But in Jesus, we'll see the perfecting work that doesn't just reach for a generation, but as we just sang, 00:20:50.380 --> 00:20:55.060 from generation to generation to generation to generation. 00:20:56.140 --> 00:21:01.600 In the book of Judges, there's been a theme that we're going to see, and we're going to see in the life of Samson's parents. 00:21:02.360 --> 00:21:07.640 We're going to see that of obedient faith, of what we've talked about and what we will continue to work through. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:14.700 That an obedient faith that these two words combine bring us to what we are called to be in our lives. 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:21.520 Obedience, what we do, faith in what we believe, and when we put these things together, it doesn't just define what we do, 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:26.140 but it's an explanation of who we are, of what God is calling us to. 00:21:27.040 --> 00:21:27.820 Oh, I'm obedient. 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:29.780 Oh, I've got faith. 00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:38.360 But are they together working in your life so that in obedient faith, you're walking and doing what God has told you to do, 00:21:38.360 --> 00:21:42.720 because you've put your faith and trust in Him and who He is. 00:21:43.560 --> 00:21:48.420 So let's see what this begins to look like in the life of Samson's parents. 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:50.020 Start verse 6. 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:53.220 And the woman came and told her husband, 00:21:54.500 --> 00:22:00.860 A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God. 00:22:01.520 --> 00:22:02.380 Very awesome. 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:07.500 I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name. 00:22:08.360 --> 00:22:09.300 But he said to me, 00:22:10.040 --> 00:22:13.620 Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. 00:22:14.320 --> 00:22:19.100 So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean. 00:22:19.560 --> 00:22:24.400 For the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. 00:22:25.320 --> 00:22:28.080 And Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, 00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:37.420 O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born. 00:22:38.360 --> 00:22:43.100 So Samson's mom, whose name is never given, comes to her husband and says, 00:22:43.320 --> 00:22:44.800 Hey, here's what's going to happen. 00:22:45.620 --> 00:22:47.620 Here's what's going to take place. 00:22:48.540 --> 00:22:50.220 I know that I've been barren. 00:22:50.300 --> 00:22:53.140 I know that I haven't been able to have a child. 00:22:53.300 --> 00:22:57.160 Like, what every family would have worked for and pushed for. 00:22:57.360 --> 00:22:59.880 This was what was going to take care of them. 00:22:59.880 --> 00:23:06.840 This is give their mark and culture and society what we've longed for and kind of surrendered that this isn't for us. 00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:09.180 God came to me, and God said, 00:23:09.520 --> 00:23:13.140 This is what is going to happen and what is going to take place. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:16.960 And God is setting him aside for a purpose. 00:23:17.280 --> 00:23:17.380 Right? 00:23:17.420 --> 00:23:18.800 We see the faith in this woman. 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:20.920 We see the obedience in this woman. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:23.200 And then Manoah begins to pray. 00:23:24.220 --> 00:23:26.020 And here's what he responds with. 00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:32.860 I mean, imagine your whole life, you've come to the realization that this won't happen for me. 00:23:33.600 --> 00:23:37.780 You've gone through the struggles when it happens in other people, those closest to you, 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.520 with times where you think this may could, and then it's taken away from you. 00:23:42.820 --> 00:23:46.140 And his response is, Lord, what do we do with this? 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:49.640 Lord, how do we respond with this? 00:23:51.060 --> 00:23:53.640 Lord, what is required from us? 00:23:54.760 --> 00:24:01.240 I remember when Aaron and I found out that we were going to be parents for the first time. 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:06.160 What we needed the most was help. 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:07.180 You know? 00:24:07.600 --> 00:24:08.640 Like, help me. 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:09.660 I don't know. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:10.260 Right? 00:24:10.560 --> 00:24:13.200 I've barely been able to keep our dog alive. 00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:14.700 And now we're going to have kids. 00:24:14.780 --> 00:24:14.920 Right? 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:15.860 Help us. 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:20.780 And now in the weight of this, Manoah comes and he asks God for help. 00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:22.720 And look down at verse 18. 00:24:24.120 --> 00:24:26.220 And the angel of the Lord said to him, 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.600 Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful? 00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:36.140 And so Manoah took the goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the Lord, 00:24:37.100 --> 00:24:38.840 and to the one who works wonders. 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.140 And Manoah and his wife were watching. 00:24:41.800 --> 00:24:46.880 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:51.980 Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground. 00:24:52.820 --> 00:24:53.480 Verse 21. 00:24:54.320 --> 00:25:01.420 The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, and then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord. 00:25:02.060 --> 00:25:11.020 But Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, get this, for we have seen God. 00:25:11.020 --> 00:25:20.080 But his wife said to him, If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would have not accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:25.940 or shown us all these things, or announced to us such things as these. 00:25:27.340 --> 00:25:29.180 So Manoah here in this moment, right? 00:25:30.100 --> 00:25:35.260 He understands what we see happen so many times in the Old Testament. 00:25:36.220 --> 00:25:38.300 This wasn't just an angel of the Lord. 00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:40.120 This was God. 00:25:41.280 --> 00:25:44.500 That God appeared before us. 00:25:45.380 --> 00:25:53.180 And he knows that when human eyes see the Lord, that what should come is death. 00:25:54.100 --> 00:25:57.900 But God had a different plan of what was going to happen. 00:25:58.520 --> 00:26:06.000 God had a different plan as we begin to see the pieces of the gospel woven through this Old Testament scripture. 00:26:06.780 --> 00:26:09.580 That as Manoah came and he said, Look, Lord, I need help. 00:26:10.260 --> 00:26:11.900 Look, Lord, I need to know what to do. 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:17.860 Lord, help me follow the rules that needs to be done so that I don't mess this up. 00:26:18.340 --> 00:26:23.280 And instead of doing that, God reveals to them something more important than the rules. 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:25.900 Something more important than a behavior modification. 00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:29.600 Something more important than getting their act together. 00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:32.640 Instead, God says, Look, this is me. 00:26:33.600 --> 00:26:38.980 And he doesn't point them to anything else other than God's glory. 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:42.480 And so Manoah is concerned. 00:26:43.520 --> 00:26:44.640 Now, don't miss this. 00:26:46.100 --> 00:26:51.420 That by seeing God, by God revealing himself to him, 00:26:52.420 --> 00:26:55.740 Manoah's concern is that he'll receive death. 00:26:56.660 --> 00:26:58.660 But instead, what does he gain? 00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:00.320 Life. 00:27:01.800 --> 00:27:02.280 Life. 00:27:03.540 --> 00:27:10.800 That when people see and experience and are introduced to God, 00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:13.440 God doesn't give them death. 00:27:14.300 --> 00:27:17.380 What God does is he gives them life. 00:27:18.820 --> 00:27:20.700 And this is the narrative that we're going to see in Scripture. 00:27:21.560 --> 00:27:25.320 This is the hope that we're reminded of for where we find ourselves. 00:27:26.320 --> 00:27:30.920 Is that what we deserved as we do what's evil in our own eyes. 00:27:31.520 --> 00:27:36.340 What we deserve as we're confronted with the truth of who God is and the truth of who we are. 00:27:37.080 --> 00:27:39.360 What we deserve is death. 00:27:40.360 --> 00:27:43.340 But what God gives is life. 00:27:44.860 --> 00:27:48.900 And so for them, a deliverer is born. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:51.080 Verse 24. 00:27:52.360 --> 00:27:55.680 And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. 00:27:56.520 --> 00:27:59.980 And the young man grew and the Lord blessed him. 00:28:00.660 --> 00:28:08.000 And the spirit of the Lord began to stir him and Manadan between Zorah and Eshtol. 00:28:09.360 --> 00:28:10.680 So Samson will be born. 00:28:11.520 --> 00:28:13.380 And we're going to look at his life next week, right? 00:28:14.060 --> 00:28:16.100 And his life is going to have some ups and his downs. 00:28:16.840 --> 00:28:20.180 Some moments of obedience and some moments of failure. 00:28:20.980 --> 00:28:22.200 But Samson will be born. 00:28:23.340 --> 00:28:25.440 And we'll see this as it's gone through the judges. 00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:31.240 And we know that before the judges, we saw the lineage of God's deliverers that he sent his people. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.480 He sent them Moses and he sent them Joshua. 00:28:35.540 --> 00:28:39.720 And then after the judges, we'll go through the period where God sends them kings. 00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:44.380 And the kings will lead God's people and the kings will lead them into battle. 00:28:44.580 --> 00:28:47.100 And we'll see the victories that take place from the kings. 00:28:47.100 --> 00:28:51.600 And we'll be introduced to men of faith a lot like David. 00:28:52.820 --> 00:28:54.940 And after the kings, there will come the prophets. 00:28:55.980 --> 00:29:02.200 The people who speak for God and declare the truth and call God's people to repentance and point them. 00:29:03.300 --> 00:29:08.000 But we see this cycle that goes on and goes on and goes on. 00:29:08.780 --> 00:29:11.720 And people look at these as they're sent. 00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:14.120 They look at Moses. 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:15.800 They look at Joshua. 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:16.860 They look at the judges. 00:29:17.080 --> 00:29:18.180 They'll look at the kings. 00:29:18.360 --> 00:29:19.580 They'll look at the prophets. 00:29:19.760 --> 00:29:28.140 And the failure comes when they remove their eyes off of the Lord and they place their eyes on the men. 00:29:29.460 --> 00:29:31.680 They place their eyes on their circumstances. 00:29:32.820 --> 00:29:35.160 They place their eyes on themselves. 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:42.320 They place their eyes on the false gods that they've held up. 00:29:44.320 --> 00:29:51.340 And what we see, what God gives us an opportunity right now as we roll into this season of time, 00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:57.860 as we look at the story of Samson, which points us to a greater story, 00:29:58.740 --> 00:30:00.480 is that a deliverer is born. 00:30:02.260 --> 00:30:03.700 We want to focus. 00:30:04.360 --> 00:30:08.220 What we want to see is the deliverer who doesn't begin, 00:30:09.220 --> 00:30:12.560 but the deliverer who began and who completed. 00:30:13.840 --> 00:30:15.020 I want to tell y'all a story. 00:30:16.740 --> 00:30:21.720 And it's a story that I hope can speak some life, 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.360 maybe into where you find yourself in life right now. 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:29.600 Like I said, you know, the last two weeks, 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:34.280 we've been stuck at home with time for lots of conversation, 00:30:34.580 --> 00:30:37.920 lots of prayer, lots of reflecting, and just talking and looking. 00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:41.200 It reminded me of a story from my childhood. 00:30:42.420 --> 00:30:45.180 My best friend growing up was a guy named Joe Timmerman. 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:48.900 And Joe lived like three houses down. 00:30:49.060 --> 00:30:50.260 We lived on the same street. 00:30:51.300 --> 00:30:55.360 And Joe had the best driveway in the neighborhood. 00:30:56.020 --> 00:30:57.780 Here's why his driveway was really impressive. 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:01.560 It started off like a normal driveway, 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:05.000 but his driveway then turned for his parents to be able to go in the garage. 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:11.640 And so it opened up into a flat and a wide level of concrete. 00:31:12.100 --> 00:31:17.960 And very quickly, we learned where the exact spot was in the driveway 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.280 to place a basketball goal, 00:31:20.900 --> 00:31:24.060 where we could have a full three-point line 00:31:24.060 --> 00:31:26.220 so that when we would go to play, 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:28.240 this was the place that we could play, 00:31:28.380 --> 00:31:32.080 and we could get five-on-five in Joe Timmerman's driveway 00:31:32.080 --> 00:31:33.460 to play basketball. 00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:36.180 And so almost every single day, 00:31:36.340 --> 00:31:38.600 the poor Timmermans, even when they wanted to nap, 00:31:38.800 --> 00:31:40.800 had to hear the thump, the thump, the thump, 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.520 with basketballs constantly at their house, right? 00:31:44.060 --> 00:31:47.380 Well, we love playing basketball there. 00:31:48.100 --> 00:31:50.320 Well, Mr. Timmerman one day, 00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:53.880 I don't know who he thought he was as the owner of the house, right? 00:31:54.060 --> 00:31:59.080 But decided on the side of the driveway to plant some crepe myrtles. 00:32:00.060 --> 00:32:01.540 Well, at first, they didn't bother us. 00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:03.900 But over the years, they got bigger. 00:32:04.840 --> 00:32:08.720 And the branches began to hang over into the driveway, 00:32:09.040 --> 00:32:11.760 which greatly inconvenienced us 00:32:11.760 --> 00:32:14.060 if you wanted to take a three-point shot 00:32:14.060 --> 00:32:15.760 from the left-hand side of the court. 00:32:16.500 --> 00:32:18.120 And so some days, it was all right, 00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:19.600 and you could work through, 00:32:19.760 --> 00:32:21.220 and you could get a shot. 00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:23.760 But then occasionally, right, 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.720 you'd work your way over there, 00:32:25.800 --> 00:32:27.060 and you'd take a shot, 00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:30.680 and the ball would just graze one of the branches. 00:32:30.940 --> 00:32:32.340 Now, if it went in, 00:32:32.420 --> 00:32:34.040 you acted like everything was fine. 00:32:34.100 --> 00:32:35.600 But if it didn't, right, 00:32:36.320 --> 00:32:37.340 you'd go, no, no, no, redo. 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:38.600 Redo, interference. 00:32:39.380 --> 00:32:40.320 Interference, the branch. 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:42.140 Show your dad shit and planted that there. 00:32:42.340 --> 00:32:42.760 We get a redo. 00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:45.720 And so what would happen is you didn't get the ball 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.240 right where you found yourself before, right? 00:32:48.420 --> 00:32:50.580 You got the ball back at the top of the key. 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:52.840 And so it wasn't necessarily a redo. 00:32:53.740 --> 00:32:54.480 It was a reset. 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.540 It was like what just happened didn't happen. 00:32:59.260 --> 00:33:00.620 And now you find yourself, 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.280 in spite of missing the shot, 00:33:02.860 --> 00:33:04.420 you find yourself in a reset 00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:07.840 where you can go back and do anything that you want to do, 00:33:08.700 --> 00:33:10.840 anything that needs to be done. 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:14.760 As we go into this season, 00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:20.040 2020 has been marked by so many of us, 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:22.020 by myself, as different seasons. 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:25.320 We've had everything that's gone on with politics 00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:27.920 and going on with politics. 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:31.100 We've had everything that's gone on with COVID 00:33:31.100 --> 00:33:32.460 and that will go on with COVID. 00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:36.660 We've seen so many things stop and shut down. 00:33:38.180 --> 00:33:39.660 We've seen it be phrased, 00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:42.280 and I've used this myself more times 00:33:42.280 --> 00:33:43.860 than I could even remember 00:33:43.860 --> 00:33:46.340 as just the year that we got to get through 00:33:46.340 --> 00:33:47.100 and got to get over. 00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:50.660 But I'm hoping that as we look at this, 00:33:51.540 --> 00:33:54.480 I'm hoping that as we conclude this time 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:57.760 and judges this season of life, 00:33:58.760 --> 00:34:01.160 that what we can see is not a redo. 00:34:02.220 --> 00:34:05.720 What we can see is a reset. 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:08.940 That God, as we move forward, 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:14.060 remind me that a deliverer is born, 00:34:15.040 --> 00:34:18.600 a deliverer that begins and that sees through, 00:34:19.600 --> 00:34:22.160 where my hope is found. 00:34:23.160 --> 00:34:26.980 That if my life is like a grain of sand 00:34:26.980 --> 00:34:31.580 compared to all of the beaches of the world, 00:34:32.720 --> 00:34:35.160 that I understand that this moment in time 00:34:35.160 --> 00:34:41.020 is so brief compared to the greatness 00:34:41.020 --> 00:34:42.560 and majesty of who you are. 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.340 So right now with what we're trying to figure out 00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:51.180 what to do, maybe our obedience says, 00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:55.100 God, just let me rest and let me focus 00:34:55.100 --> 00:34:58.200 and let me point people towards your glory. 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.320 Would you pray with me? 00:35:04.660 --> 00:35:05.980 God, I thank you so much 00:35:05.980 --> 00:35:07.820 for this opportunity that you give us. 00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:12.860 Lord, this journey that we found ourselves on, 00:35:13.020 --> 00:35:14.800 this what we're walking ourselves, 00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:16.060 what we're going through, Lord, 00:35:17.080 --> 00:35:18.000 this season, 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.780 it may have surprised us. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:24.700 But it did not surprise you. 00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:28.180 Lord, for some of us, for so many, 00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:30.140 our hearts are unsettled. 00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:34.700 We're struggling through. 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.280 We feel like we have a loss of hope 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.560 in our life. 00:35:41.560 --> 00:35:43.480 Lord, I pray that we could remember 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:47.880 not just the scripture that we've read 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:48.540 and the message, 00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:50.920 but Lord, even the songs that we proclaim. 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.080 Lord, as we sang before the message 00:35:54.080 --> 00:35:57.820 that the Spirit of God is with us 00:35:57.820 --> 00:35:59.500 and is within us. 00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:04.140 Lord, that we could be reminded of the fact 00:36:04.140 --> 00:36:08.900 that we have access to 00:36:08.900 --> 00:36:12.100 a relationship with 00:36:12.100 --> 00:36:15.540 an audience of one, 00:36:15.660 --> 00:36:16.640 of the King of Kings 00:36:16.640 --> 00:36:17.660 and the Lord of Lords. 00:36:21.180 --> 00:36:23.100 Lord, that as we pull 00:36:23.100 --> 00:36:25.240 our decorations out, 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:26.980 as we put our trees up, 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:32.000 as we prepare our list for Santa 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:36.540 or that we could be reminded 00:36:36.540 --> 00:36:40.240 during this season 00:36:40.240 --> 00:36:43.760 that a Deliverer was born 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.380 and that this Deliverer 00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:49.500 was born, 00:36:51.140 --> 00:36:51.860 lived, 00:36:53.380 --> 00:36:54.180 died, 00:36:54.580 --> 00:36:56.680 and rose again. 00:36:59.040 --> 00:37:00.660 And so that in Him 00:37:00.660 --> 00:37:03.540 we find life 00:37:03.540 --> 00:37:05.080 and a hope 00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:06.620 and meaning 00:37:06.620 --> 00:37:08.260 and purpose. 00:37:11.200 --> 00:37:12.760 Lord, may so many times 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:14.020 when the narrative of our life 00:37:14.020 --> 00:37:16.200 reflects the narrative of Israel 00:37:16.200 --> 00:37:17.360 in Judges 13, 00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:19.560 that again, 00:37:19.680 --> 00:37:20.520 your people did 00:37:20.520 --> 00:37:21.320 what was evil 00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:23.260 in the sight of the Lord. 00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:27.620 Lord, that we could be reminded of, 00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:29.500 that our hearts could be drawn to 00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:32.440 the faithful obedience 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.300 that you've called us, 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:36.820 that you've chosen us for, 00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:38.060 that you've saved us for. 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:41.420 For your name, 00:37:42.200 --> 00:37:43.140 for your glory. 00:37:47.140 --> 00:37:48.300 Jesus, we love you. 00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:49.080 We praise you. 00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:51.120 It's your name we pray. 00:37:52.060 --> 00:37:52.360 Amen. 00:37:59.680 --> 00:38:05.580 Thanks 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