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 If you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book of Judges chapter 13.

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 We're continuing our study about choices.

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 And today I want to preach about the consequences of our choices.

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 And we've chosen to use Samson as the life we're going to look at.

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 We're going to do a case study of his life and read about six, seven passages,

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 just real brief little passages,

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 and see what conclusions we can draw from what we've read about his life

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 because I think he's a wonderful example of what we're trying to say to you this morning.

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 Before I do that, I want to read just a single verse.

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 You don't have to even turn to it.

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 You may put it on the screen. I think you're going to.

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 It's in Proverbs 13, 15.

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 And this is what it says,

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 Good understanding gives favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard.

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 We had a fellow on our staff years ago who did counseling with a lot of different folks

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 who had addictions, all kinds of problems.

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 And he would often say to them as he would listen to them tell their story,

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 at the conclusion of a sentence or a paragraph,

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 they would look up and he would say,

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 Yeah, I'm sorry.

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 He said, The way of the transgressor is hard.

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 And they would talk a little bit more

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 and they would tell something else that had gone amiss in their life.

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 And he would again repeat that phrase, driving home that biblical idea

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 that the way of the transgressor is hard.

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 And that's something we all need to think about

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 and remember in our life when we make bad decisions.

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 And I want to tell you, I've made a host of them

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 and every one of us in this room have.

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 So don't think that you're being singled out this morning.

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 Everybody, if you live long, you're going to make some bad, bad choices.

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 But when we do, we shouldn't be surprised

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 to find that what the scripture tells us is true.

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 The way of the transgressor is hard.

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 Boy, it's tough living life.

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 But it's especially tough when you make bad, bad choices.

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 In Exodus chapter 20, we're given the Ten Commandments.

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 I'm sure most of you, if not all of you, are aware of that.

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 You get ten statements there, nine of them negative,

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 one of them positive.

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 And they're admonitions from God.

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 Don't do this.

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 And that one single one, do this.

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 Honor your father and mother.

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 Your days may be long upon the land.

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 The Lord thy God giveth thee.

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 If you read the scripture from Genesis to Revelation,

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 you find in the Old and the New Testament alike

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 that God continually uses men to tell us,

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 here's some things you want to avoid.

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 Don't do these things.

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 And then there are other things.

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 Paul, for instance, in Colossians 3,

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 admonishes us to do certain things,

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 to put on certain behaviors,

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 to reflect certain ideas and behaviors

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 in our walk and in our life.

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 Jesus does that in the Sermon on the Mount, you'll recall.

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 So, if you think about it,

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 what that indicates to us is this.

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 We have a choice in the life we live.

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 You ever thought about it that way?

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 The scripture would never tell us,

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 don't do this,

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 if it were impossible for you not to do that.

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 The scripture would never admonish us,

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 do this.

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 God would be rather mean in telling us,

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 do this,

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 if it weren't possible for us to do that.

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 You understand that?

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 So, we have a choice in the life we live.

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 And the choices we make in life

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 determine, in many respects,

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 the course our life takes.

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 Now, a lot of folk think that it's fate,

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 it's just God decides everything in our lives,

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 we don't have much voice in it,

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 circumstances determine,

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 this determines, that determines,

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 my parents determine,

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 but I don't have much say in the life I live.

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 I'll tell you something,

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 that is not true.

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 God certainly has predetermined

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 certain things about you

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 you're never going to change.

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 And there are certain circumstances

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 and environments we live in

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 that impact our choices.

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 They impact,

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 they don't make the choice,

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 but they impact that choice.

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 We've all seen folk in our lives

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 who you look at them and you think,

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 man, where this guy comes from

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 and the situation he finds himself in

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 and even just who he is as a person,

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 nothing he's done,

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 but just the life that's been put upon him,

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 he doesn't have much shot at making it.

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 And to our amazement, what happens?

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 Sometimes they just rise to the top

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 and just live incredible, incredible lives.

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 And I could give you a list of names of people

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 I've known personally who that's the case.

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 You look at them and on the outside you think,

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 they just don't have much of a chance.

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 But boy, they just soar in life.

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 One of my best friends in that category.

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 And I've also seen this so many times.

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 Here are people who are given every opportunity.

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 I mean, they just are blessed with everything.

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 They've got looks, they've got smarts,

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 they're athletic, they're that.

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 And you just think,

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 they're going to just knock the top out,

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 so to speak, in life.

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 But you look at them

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 and over the course of their life,

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 they're pretty much dismal failures.

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 Not in every case.

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 I don't mean to imply that

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 everybody who's born in that kind of situation

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 is always going to fail.

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 They're not.

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 Most of them are going to do well.

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 But sometimes you're surprised to think,

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 hey, is it this person ends up like this

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 when they seeming they had everything going for them?

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 Can I tell you what that's about?

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 It's about the choices we make in life.

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 You are not the victim of fate.

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 And secondly, a lot of people think,

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 well, okay, I have a choice,

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 but that choice just doesn't matter much.

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 It matters to a huge degree.

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 Every choice you make matters.

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 Which leads me to the third thing.

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 Choices always come with consequences.

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 Choices.

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 Choices always come with consequences.

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 When you act in a certain fashion,

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 make a certain decision,

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 there's a consequence that comes along with that.

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 Good or bad, right?

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 You make some choices that pays,

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 well, great dividends in your life.

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 You make other choices,

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 and boy, you just reap heartache over that.

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 Two quick things I'm going to say,

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 I'm going to jump in the message.

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 One is this.

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 If I were a parent or a grandparent,

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 and I am, and I've tried to do this,

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 and I'm admonishing you to do the same,

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 you instill in your children,

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 you have a choice.

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 Can I just be real honest with you?

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 I am sick to hear of hearing people talk,

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 and they've been doing it since I was a boy,

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 but it's grown more and more,

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 that voice is louder and louder,

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 peer pressure.

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 I want to tell you something.

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 Peer pressure is out there,

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 and it's real,

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 and I'm not denying that,

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 but I'm just telling you,

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 you have defaulted.

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 If you come to the place that you think

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 because of all this peer pressure,

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 you don't have a choice.

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 You do.

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 And I'm not just talking to teenagers.

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 I'm talking to young adults,

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 and middle-aged adults,

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 and older adults.

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 You get roped into believing,

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 I just don't have a choice

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 because here's how the whole world's going,

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 and here's what society's saying,

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 here's what my friends are doing,

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 and here's what they're telling me to do.

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 Here's what my family's counseling me to do.

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 Don't buy into that idea

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 that you don't have a choice

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 because you do.

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 And secondly,

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 teach your children

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 there are consequences that come

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 as a result of the choices you make.

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 I'm going to hit on this later

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 at the end of the message,

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 but let me just briefly

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 plant the idea in your mind now.

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 You are not doing your child,

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 your grandchild,

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 a favor when they make a bad decision,

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 and you rescue them

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 and bail them out.

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 You may think,

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 well, I'm just being loving.

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 No, you're not.

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 You're depriving them of learning

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 one of the lessons

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 God intends for them to learn

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 from the time

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 their little bitty children

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 own up through adulthood,

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 and that is,

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 with choices come consequences.

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 It's not that I'm pounding on them,

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 and I'm wanting them to see,

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 see what you did was so bad?

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 I'll stand there at their side

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 and walk with them through that crisis,

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 but I want to tell you something,

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 I don't want to be the one

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 who rescues them

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 from the heartache

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 that they have brought on themselves

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 by their bad decision,

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 because when I do that,

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 I'm telling you something.

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 Here's the lesson they learned.

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 Mom and Dad bail me out today.

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 They'll bail me out down the road.

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 When you start in the third grade,

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 bail in that little third grader out

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 because he doesn't do his homework,

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 and you send that crazy excuse

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 to the teacher,

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 says, well, he couldn't do it

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 because the cat ate it,

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 or he couldn't do it

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 because we were away,

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 and we were doing this

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 or doing that,

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 you're not doing him any favor.

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 When you finish that science project for him

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 rather than let him get an F,

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 you've not done him any favor at all.

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 Now, I want to show you

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 a good biblical example of that.

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 Go with me to the book of Judges.

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 We're going to look real hurriedly.

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 We've got to move fast.

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 Look at chapter 13

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 and verse 1 through 3,

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 and then here's what we're going to do.

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 I'm just going to let the cat out of the bag

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 before we get there.

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 Every one of these passages,

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 as I read them,

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 I want you to be surmising,

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 what does this tell me about Samson?

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 We're going to do a case study of his life.

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 What does this teach me about Samson?

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 Well, look at verses 1 to 3 in chapter 13.

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 The Israelites again did

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 what was evil in the Lord's sight,

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 so the Lord handed them over

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 to the Philistines 40 years.

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 They were always their nemesis.

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 Verse 2,

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 There was a certain man from Zorah

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 from the family of Dan

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 whose name was Manoah.

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 His wife was barren and had no children.

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 The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman

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 and said to her,

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 It is true that you are barren

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 and have no children,

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 but you will conceive

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 and give birth to a son.

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 Now please be careful

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 not to drink wine

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 or other alcoholic beverages

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 or to eat anything unclean.

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 For indeed you will conceive

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 and give birth to a son.

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 You must never cut his hair

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 because the boy will be a Nazarite

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 to God from birth

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 and he will begin to save Israel

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 from the power of the Philistines.

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 So what do we learn

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 from these three verses

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 we've just read?

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 Here's the first thing.

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 Here's this couple

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 who have always wanted a child.

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 Now, in all likelihood,

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 I don't know who all is here today,

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 but there's probably somebody

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 in this audience,

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 probably more than one or two couples,

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 who can identify with Manoah

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 and his wife.

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 You've wanted kids,

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 you've tried to have kids,

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 you can't have kids.

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 It's a pitiful situation.

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 But then suddenly,

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 something changes

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 and you now are expecting a baby.

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 Boy, those couples

00:10:06.539 --> 00:10:07.899
 who've tried and worked hard

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 to have a baby

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 and they can't

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 and suddenly they become pregnant.

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 There is a joy in their face

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 and in their life

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 that's just,

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 you've seen it before,

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 it's just incredible, right?

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 They're so thrilled.

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 At last, we're pregnant.

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 That's how this couple was.

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 Secondly, we know this.

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 Even before prenatal care

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 was a phrase,

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 she was already getting

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 good prenatal care.

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 This angel,

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 the Lord told her,

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 he said,

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 don't drink alcoholic beverages,

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 don't eat food

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 that will defile you,

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 and the reason is because

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 this is a special boy

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 you're going to bear.

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 So for her health,

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 the health of the baby,

00:10:42.680 --> 00:10:44.100
 for what the Spirit of God

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 has told her through this angel,

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 she just takes great care

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 of herself during this pregnancy.

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 Third thing I realize is this

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 when I read these three verses,

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 this boy is destined for greatness.

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 Now, every one of you,

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 when you first held your baby,

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 if you're like me,

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 you thought,

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 pro football player, right?

00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:04.440
 Smartest doctor right here

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 who's ever lived, right?

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 All those kind of things.

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 We see our children

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 as one day being great,

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 but listen,

00:11:11.760 --> 00:11:13.020
 God speaks to her

00:11:13.020 --> 00:11:14.060
 through this angel

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 and says,

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 your baby is destined

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 for greatness

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 and even says,

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 here's what it's going to be.

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 He's going to be

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 a great Savior of Israel.

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 These are the chosen people of God.

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 They brought them

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 in the promised land.

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 We know from reading this book,

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 he became a judge in Israel.

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 Not a judge

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 with a black judicial robe,

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 but a judge

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 in the biblical sense

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 who was a warrior.

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 He was a champion,

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 a war hero,

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 if you will.

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 He's going to rescue

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 his people physically

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 from the hands

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 of the Philistine.

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 So right off the bat,

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 man,

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 he's got good genes,

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 good parents.

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 He's destined for greatness.

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 Look at the second passage.

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 Look at chapter 14,

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 verses 1 to 3.

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 Samson went down to Timnah

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 and saw a young Philistine woman there.

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 He went back

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 and told his father and mother,

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 I have seen a young Philistine woman

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 in Timnah.

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 Now,

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 get her for me

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 as a wife.

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 Well,

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 that sounds a little bit abrasive,

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 don't you think?

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 I mean,

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 get her for me

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 as a wife.

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 But his father and mother

00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:19.679
 came to him,

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 can't you find

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 a young woman

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 among your relatives

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 or among any of our people?

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 Must you go

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 to the uncircumcised Philistines

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 for a wife?

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 So,

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 again,

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 what do we discover?

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 Well,

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 we discover

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 as a young man,

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 he's wanting to date

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 a Philistine

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 and even marry

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 a Philistine girl.

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 Now,

00:12:40.059 --> 00:12:40.459
 to you,

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 that's just a word.

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 But in his society,

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 man,

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 that's a big deal.

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 Because you see,

00:12:46.819 --> 00:12:47.419
 when God

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 allowed them

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 to go in

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 and take possession

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 of the land,

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 he gave clear instructions.

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 This has been going on

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 for years and years

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 and years.

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 don't marry

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 outside the Hebrew race.

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 And there was

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 a track record

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 that proved

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 that was good advice.

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 Both before

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 and after this,

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 ask Israel

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 about King Ahab

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 who married

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 Jezebel,

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 a foreign woman,

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 and brought all

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 that religious garbage

00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:11.860
 with her

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 into that marriage.

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 And so God says,

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 keep the race pure.

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 Don't marry anybody

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 but a Hebrew.

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 He had parents

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 who told him,

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 advised him,

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 hey,

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 here's what the Scripture says.

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 Here's what God says.

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 Why do you want

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 to go marry

00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:24.879
 this philistine?

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 Don't do that.

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 Go get me

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 that woman.

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 I want to marry.

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 He's pretty strong-willed,

00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:32.580
 don't you think?

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 He doesn't heed

00:13:34.060 --> 00:13:34.860
 the advice

00:13:34.860 --> 00:13:36.080
 of his parents.

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 I want to ask

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 for a show of hands.

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 I wouldn't embarrass

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 anybody here,

00:13:39.299 --> 00:13:39.779
 but I want to tell you

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 something.

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 Every one of us

00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:41.539
 in this room

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 were parents.

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 There's been some

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 point in your life,

00:13:43.980 --> 00:13:44.399
 they may have

00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.399
 heeded 99%

00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:46.000
 of your advice,

00:13:46.419 --> 00:13:47.259
 but there's not

00:13:47.259 --> 00:13:48.120
 a parent in this room

00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:48.759
 at some time

00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:49.799
 you looked at your child

00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:50.279
 and you said,

00:13:50.379 --> 00:13:50.919
 don't do,

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 and they did,

00:13:51.979 --> 00:13:52.279
 right?

00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:53.699
 Or you said,

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 do this,

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 and they didn't,

00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:56.079
 right?

00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:58.319
 So sometimes

00:13:58.319 --> 00:13:59.479
 our words fall

00:13:59.479 --> 00:14:00.519
 on deaf ears.

00:14:01.179 --> 00:14:02.299
 I have a feeling

00:14:02.299 --> 00:14:03.179
 by looking at

00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:04.099
 his response,

00:14:04.259 --> 00:14:04.659
 I don't want to

00:14:04.659 --> 00:14:05.799
 wrongly judge him.

00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:07.240
 I have a feeling

00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:08.179
 this young man

00:14:08.179 --> 00:14:09.620
 who his parents

00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:10.699
 may have doted on him,

00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:12.459
 I get the feeling

00:14:12.459 --> 00:14:13.399
 here's a young guy

00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:14.699
 who he doesn't know

00:14:14.700 --> 00:14:15.920
 the word no.

00:14:16.920 --> 00:14:17.480
 I mean,

00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:19.360
 he's not used

00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:19.800
 to hearing

00:14:19.800 --> 00:14:21.080
 the word no.

00:14:21.680 --> 00:14:22.400
 He certainly

00:14:22.400 --> 00:14:23.200
 has not been

00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:23.759
 willing to

00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:25.280
 easily accept

00:14:25.280 --> 00:14:26.360
 the word no.

00:14:27.259 --> 00:14:27.920
 Look at the third

00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:28.420
 passage,

00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:29.820
 chapter 14,

00:14:29.940 --> 00:14:30.320
 this time

00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.280
 verses 5 through 7.

00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:33.860
 Samson went down

00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:34.259
 to Timnah

00:14:34.259 --> 00:14:34.840
 with his father

00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:35.180
 and mother

00:14:35.180 --> 00:14:35.660
 and came

00:14:35.660 --> 00:14:36.840
 to the vineyards

00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:37.460
 of Timnah.

00:14:37.920 --> 00:14:39.940
 Suddenly a young lion

00:14:39.940 --> 00:14:40.840
 came roaring

00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:41.540
 at him.

00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:42.259
 The spirit

00:14:42.259 --> 00:14:42.680
 of the Lord

00:14:42.680 --> 00:14:43.440
 took control

00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:43.960
 of him

00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:44.680
 and he tore

00:14:44.680 --> 00:14:45.440
 the lion apart

00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:46.260
 with his bare hands

00:14:46.260 --> 00:14:46.860
 as he might have

00:14:46.860 --> 00:14:47.700
 torn a young goat.

00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:48.520
 But he did not

00:14:48.520 --> 00:14:49.200
 tell his father

00:14:49.200 --> 00:14:49.580
 or mother

00:14:49.580 --> 00:14:50.340
 what he had done.

00:14:50.580 --> 00:14:51.140
 Then he went

00:14:51.140 --> 00:14:51.980
 and spoke to the woman

00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:52.840
 because Samson

00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:53.360
 wanted her.

00:14:53.640 --> 00:14:54.000
 Well,

00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:54.840
 what do we learn

00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:55.460
 from this?

00:14:55.820 --> 00:14:56.140
 A,

00:14:56.980 --> 00:14:57.820
 he still got it

00:14:57.820 --> 00:14:58.340
 bad for this

00:14:58.340 --> 00:14:59.100
 Philistine girl,

00:14:59.360 --> 00:14:59.800
 right?

00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:02.000
 Have you ever seen

00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:02.640
 your kids get

00:15:02.640 --> 00:15:03.260
 head over heels

00:15:03.260 --> 00:15:03.980
 in love with somebody

00:15:03.980 --> 00:15:04.940
 and they just

00:15:04.940 --> 00:15:05.720
 lose all reason?

00:15:06.020 --> 00:15:06.280
 I mean,

00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:07.160
 you can tell them

00:15:07.160 --> 00:15:07.800
 until you're blue

00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:08.260
 in the face,

00:15:08.380 --> 00:15:08.760
 don't do it,

00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:09.440
 and that's what,

00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:10.340
 they're going

00:15:10.340 --> 00:15:11.080
 in that direction.

00:15:11.500 --> 00:15:11.740
 Well,

00:15:11.780 --> 00:15:12.300
 we know that,

00:15:12.380 --> 00:15:12.820
 first of all.

00:15:12.820 --> 00:15:13.400
 But there's

00:15:13.400 --> 00:15:13.920
 something else

00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:14.980
 I see here too.

00:15:15.820 --> 00:15:16.340
 And the only way

00:15:16.340 --> 00:15:16.920
 I know to put it

00:15:16.920 --> 00:15:17.480
 is this.

00:15:18.340 --> 00:15:19.540
 He is freaky,

00:15:19.900 --> 00:15:20.879
 freaky strong,

00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:21.780
 right?

00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:23.400
 Any of you

00:15:23.400 --> 00:15:23.840
 ever been out

00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:24.240
 walking in the

00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:24.460
 neighborhood

00:15:24.460 --> 00:15:24.920
 and a dog

00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:25.540
 get after you?

00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:26.520
 Kind of scares you

00:15:26.520 --> 00:15:26.920
 a little bit,

00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:27.580
 big dog,

00:15:29.020 --> 00:15:29.920
 showing teeth,

00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:30.940
 driving,

00:15:32.060 --> 00:15:33.200
 snipping at your heels,

00:15:33.340 --> 00:15:33.620
 you're trying

00:15:33.620 --> 00:15:34.000
 to get away,

00:15:34.140 --> 00:15:34.660
 you're looking

00:15:34.660 --> 00:15:35.180
 for a stick

00:15:35.180 --> 00:15:35.680
 or a rock

00:15:35.680 --> 00:15:36.640
 and you're kicking

00:15:36.640 --> 00:15:37.340
 him or trying

00:15:37.340 --> 00:15:38.420
 to get away from him?

00:15:38.419 --> 00:15:39.679
 This isn't

00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:40.099
 a neighborhood

00:15:40.099 --> 00:15:40.559
 dog.

00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:42.959
 This is a lion.

00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:44.439
 I mean,

00:15:44.479 --> 00:15:45.059
 a lion.

00:15:46.099 --> 00:15:47.019
 Can you imagine

00:15:47.019 --> 00:15:47.360
 that?

00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:48.199
 I mean,

00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:49.159
 I just can't

00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:49.599
 get my head

00:15:49.599 --> 00:15:49.759
 around.

00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:50.799
 A lion

00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:52.179
 comes out

00:15:52.179 --> 00:15:53.019
 of these vineyards

00:15:53.019 --> 00:15:53.899
 and he attacks

00:15:53.899 --> 00:15:54.139
 him.

00:15:54.659 --> 00:15:55.319
 What does he do?

00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:56.919
 He grabs that

00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:57.819
 lion and he

00:15:57.819 --> 00:15:58.659
 rips it as

00:15:58.659 --> 00:15:59.259
 though it

00:15:59.259 --> 00:16:00.000
 were a baby

00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.459
 goat.

00:16:00.939 --> 00:16:01.579
 He just

00:16:01.579 --> 00:16:02.379
 tears it to

00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:02.740
 shreds.

00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:03.019
 I'm going

00:16:03.019 --> 00:16:03.279
 to tell you

00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:03.419
 something.

00:16:03.680 --> 00:16:04.259
 He's a bad

00:16:04.259 --> 00:16:04.580
 dude.

00:16:05.899 --> 00:16:06.539
 He is

00:16:06.539 --> 00:16:07.139
 freaky,

00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:08.500
 freaky strong.

00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:09.700
 He's

00:16:09.700 --> 00:16:10.860
 otherworldly

00:16:10.860 --> 00:16:11.460
 strong.

00:16:11.620 --> 00:16:12.159
 You know

00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:12.980
 somebody strong

00:16:12.980 --> 00:16:13.419
 and picking.

00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:13.879
 Some of you

00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:14.200
 right now

00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:14.680
 got an image

00:16:14.680 --> 00:16:14.919
 of somebody.

00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:15.580
 No,

00:16:15.680 --> 00:16:15.919
 you don't

00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:16.180
 know anybody

00:16:16.180 --> 00:16:16.940
 like Samson.

00:16:17.860 --> 00:16:18.139
 I mean,

00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:18.740
 he just

00:16:18.740 --> 00:16:19.539
 rips this

00:16:19.539 --> 00:16:21.299
 lion to

00:16:21.299 --> 00:16:21.860
 shreds.

00:16:22.100 --> 00:16:22.620
 He's freaky

00:16:22.620 --> 00:16:23.080
 strong.

00:16:24.180 --> 00:16:24.500
 Well,

00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:25.120
 what else

00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:25.600
 do we know?

00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:27.560
 Look,

00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:27.940
 you will,

00:16:28.060 --> 00:16:28.899
 at chapter

00:16:28.899 --> 00:16:29.799
 14 and

00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:30.200
 this time

00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:30.919
 verse 10.

00:16:32.259 --> 00:16:32.659
 His father

00:16:32.659 --> 00:16:33.019
 went to

00:16:33.019 --> 00:16:33.779
 visit the

00:16:33.779 --> 00:16:35.100
 woman and

00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:35.919
 Samson prepared

00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:36.639
 a feast there

00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:38.240
 as young men

00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:38.759
 were accustomed

00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:39.179
 to do.

00:16:39.439 --> 00:16:39.699
 When the

00:16:39.699 --> 00:16:40.339
 Philistine saw

00:16:40.339 --> 00:16:40.539
 him,

00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:40.980
 they brought

00:16:40.980 --> 00:16:41.719
 30 men to

00:16:41.719 --> 00:16:42.319
 accompany him.

00:16:42.699 --> 00:16:43.299
 Let me tell

00:16:43.299 --> 00:16:43.819
 you a riddle,

00:16:43.939 --> 00:16:44.500
 Samson said

00:16:44.500 --> 00:16:44.779
 to them.

00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:45.379
 If you can

00:16:45.379 --> 00:16:46.000
 explain it to

00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:46.539
 me during the

00:16:46.539 --> 00:16:47.159
 seven days of

00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:48.039
 the feast and

00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:48.579
 figure it out,

00:16:48.659 --> 00:16:49.120
 I will give

00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:49.860
 you 30 linen

00:16:49.860 --> 00:16:50.600
 garments and

00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:51.439
 30 exchanges

00:16:51.439 --> 00:16:52.120
 of clothes.

00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:53.019
 But if you

00:16:53.019 --> 00:16:53.939
 can't explain

00:16:53.939 --> 00:16:54.459
 it to me,

00:16:54.779 --> 00:16:55.379
 you must give

00:16:55.379 --> 00:16:56.299
 me 30 linen

00:16:56.299 --> 00:16:57.539
 garments and

00:16:57.539 --> 00:16:58.220
 30 changes

00:16:58.220 --> 00:16:58.699
 of clothes.

00:16:59.120 --> 00:16:59.679
 Tell us your

00:16:59.679 --> 00:16:59.899
 riddle,

00:16:59.959 --> 00:17:00.399
 they replied.

00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:00.939
 Let's hear it.

00:17:00.939 --> 00:17:01.179
 You know what

00:17:01.179 --> 00:17:01.620
 they're thinking?

00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:02.639
 He's all

00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:03.679
 muscle.

00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:04.799
 He doesn't

00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:05.259
 have anything

00:17:05.259 --> 00:17:05.819
 between his

00:17:05.819 --> 00:17:06.139
 ears.

00:17:07.019 --> 00:17:08.960
 He's one,

00:17:09.059 --> 00:17:09.680
 we're 30.

00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:10.980
 Give us your

00:17:10.980 --> 00:17:11.240
 riddle.

00:17:11.379 --> 00:17:12.039
 Give us seven

00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:12.579
 days.

00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:13.160
 We're going to

00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:13.500
 take your

00:17:13.500 --> 00:17:13.940
 clothes.

00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:15.519
 So he said

00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:15.900
 to them,

00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:17.019
 out of the

00:17:17.019 --> 00:17:17.599
 eater came

00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:18.200
 something to

00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:19.039
 eat and out

00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:19.579
 of the strong

00:17:19.579 --> 00:17:20.599
 came something

00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:21.639
 sweet.

00:17:22.639 --> 00:17:23.119
 Now,

00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:23.720
 most of you

00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:24.220
 here already

00:17:24.220 --> 00:17:24.599
 know this

00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:24.879
 story,

00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:25.740
 but some of

00:17:25.740 --> 00:17:26.000
 you maybe

00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:26.339
 don't.

00:17:26.339 --> 00:17:27.799
 if you

00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:28.859
 read between

00:17:28.859 --> 00:17:29.579
 the verses

00:17:29.579 --> 00:17:30.179
 we read

00:17:30.179 --> 00:17:30.859
 just prior

00:17:30.859 --> 00:17:31.379
 to this

00:17:31.379 --> 00:17:32.439
 and what

00:17:32.439 --> 00:17:32.839
 we've read

00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:33.359
 just here,

00:17:33.959 --> 00:17:34.639
 you find

00:17:34.639 --> 00:17:35.139
 that he

00:17:35.139 --> 00:17:35.720
 keeps going

00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:36.199
 back and

00:17:36.199 --> 00:17:36.659
 forth to

00:17:36.659 --> 00:17:37.159
 Timna to

00:17:37.159 --> 00:17:37.559
 see this

00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:37.839
 girl.

00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:39.159
 And on

00:17:39.159 --> 00:17:39.500
 the way

00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:40.000
 down there

00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:40.459
 to see

00:17:40.459 --> 00:17:40.919
 this girl

00:17:40.919 --> 00:17:41.439
 one day,

00:17:42.139 --> 00:17:42.879
 this lion

00:17:42.879 --> 00:17:43.639
 comes running

00:17:43.639 --> 00:17:44.759
 out and he

00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:45.539
 tears it apart

00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:46.240
 as we read

00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:46.639
 just a minute

00:17:46.639 --> 00:17:46.959
 ago.

00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:47.779
 Here's what

00:17:47.779 --> 00:17:48.099
 you didn't

00:17:48.099 --> 00:17:48.359
 read.

00:17:48.939 --> 00:17:49.619
 On a trip

00:17:49.619 --> 00:17:50.579
 back home,

00:17:51.459 --> 00:17:52.139
 he passes

00:17:52.139 --> 00:17:53.000
 by that same

00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:54.000
 lion's carcass

00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:54.599
 and guess

00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:54.980
 what?

00:17:56.099 --> 00:17:56.720
 Bees have

00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:57.079
 come,

00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:57.880
 honeybees,

00:17:58.420 --> 00:17:59.000
 and they

00:17:59.000 --> 00:17:59.339
 have built

00:17:59.339 --> 00:17:59.920
 a hive

00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:00.660
 inside the

00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:01.500
 carcass of

00:18:01.500 --> 00:18:01.900
 the lion.

00:18:03.140 --> 00:18:03.640
 And so

00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:04.759
 it puzzles

00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:04.980
 him.

00:18:05.059 --> 00:18:05.460
 He reaches

00:18:05.460 --> 00:18:06.000
 down and

00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:06.420
 he pulls

00:18:06.420 --> 00:18:06.880
 out some

00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:07.420
 honey and

00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:07.940
 tastes it.

00:18:08.579 --> 00:18:09.039
 And that's

00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:09.240
 when he

00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:09.619
 comes up

00:18:09.619 --> 00:18:09.880
 with this

00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:10.640
 idea about

00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:11.220
 this riddle.

00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:11.880
 Who would

00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:12.180
 have ever

00:18:12.180 --> 00:18:12.759
 thought you'd

00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:13.380
 get honey

00:18:13.380 --> 00:18:14.660
 out of a

00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:15.019
 lion?

00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:16.119
 Now,

00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:16.539
 I want to

00:18:16.539 --> 00:18:16.759
 tell you

00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:16.920
 something.

00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:17.539
 If I'm

00:18:17.539 --> 00:18:17.980
 looking at

00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:18.420
 this and

00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:18.759
 putting all

00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:19.099
 this together

00:18:19.099 --> 00:18:19.400
 and trying

00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:20.059
 to get good

00:18:20.059 --> 00:18:21.660
 info on

00:18:21.660 --> 00:18:22.279
 Samson,

00:18:22.420 --> 00:18:23.119
 do a profile

00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:23.700
 of Samson,

00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:24.380
 you know

00:18:24.380 --> 00:18:24.640
 what I

00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.019
 immediately

00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:25.460
 determine

00:18:25.460 --> 00:18:25.940
 from that?

00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:27.480
 If you've

00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:27.759
 got the

00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:28.039
 image,

00:18:28.099 --> 00:18:28.539
 here's this

00:18:28.539 --> 00:18:29.359
 big muscle

00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.000
 bound guy

00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:30.599
 and he's

00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:31.380
 just stupid,

00:18:32.099 --> 00:18:32.779
 you're wrong.

00:18:33.859 --> 00:18:34.619
 This guy

00:18:34.619 --> 00:18:35.019
 has got

00:18:35.019 --> 00:18:35.559
 not only

00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:36.279
 brawn,

00:18:36.940 --> 00:18:37.660
 he's got

00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:38.279
 brains.

00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:39.500
 I mean,

00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:39.920
 you read

00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:40.460
 this poem,

00:18:40.579 --> 00:18:40.819
 right?

00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:42.900
 That's pretty

00:18:42.900 --> 00:18:43.900
 smart writing.

00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:44.400
 I mean,

00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:44.980
 that's pretty

00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:46.019
 cool thinking.

00:18:46.980 --> 00:18:48.019
 He's a guy

00:18:48.019 --> 00:18:48.319
 with some

00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:49.059
 good ideas.

00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:49.819
 He's not

00:18:49.819 --> 00:18:50.519
 anybody's

00:18:50.519 --> 00:18:50.839
 dummy.

00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:52.439
 I think

00:18:52.439 --> 00:18:53.099
 God has

00:18:53.099 --> 00:18:53.819
 just positioned

00:18:53.819 --> 00:18:54.019
 him.

00:18:54.339 --> 00:18:54.659
 He's

00:18:54.659 --> 00:18:54.939
 given him

00:18:54.939 --> 00:18:55.339
 everything he

00:18:55.339 --> 00:18:55.740
 needs to be

00:18:55.740 --> 00:18:56.299
 successful in

00:18:56.299 --> 00:18:56.459
 life.

00:18:56.539 --> 00:18:56.939
 He's given

00:18:56.939 --> 00:18:57.480
 him physical

00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:57.859
 strength,

00:18:57.939 --> 00:18:58.279
 but listen,

00:18:58.919 --> 00:18:59.419
 he's given

00:18:59.419 --> 00:19:00.220
 him intellect

00:19:00.220 --> 00:19:00.899
 as well.

00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:01.720
 Now,

00:19:01.740 --> 00:19:02.019
 here's the

00:19:02.019 --> 00:19:02.539
 sad thing.

00:19:03.099 --> 00:19:03.799
 We often

00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:04.859
 mistakenly think

00:19:04.859 --> 00:19:05.399
 if you're

00:19:05.399 --> 00:19:05.859
 smart,

00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:06.159
 boy,

00:19:06.259 --> 00:19:06.500
 you can

00:19:06.500 --> 00:19:06.899
 just write

00:19:06.899 --> 00:19:07.279
 your own

00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:07.579
 ticket.

00:19:07.740 --> 00:19:07.959
 You're

00:19:07.959 --> 00:19:08.399
 smart.

00:19:08.899 --> 00:19:09.099
 You're

00:19:09.099 --> 00:19:09.319
 just going

00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:09.459
 to be

00:19:09.459 --> 00:19:09.859
 smart in

00:19:09.859 --> 00:19:10.220
 everything.

00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:10.740
 Can I

00:19:10.740 --> 00:19:10.959
 tell you

00:19:10.959 --> 00:19:11.079
 something?

00:19:11.339 --> 00:19:11.679
 I know

00:19:11.679 --> 00:19:12.119
 folk who

00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:12.539
 are real,

00:19:12.619 --> 00:19:12.759
 real,

00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:13.319
 real smart

00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:13.639
 in one

00:19:13.639 --> 00:19:14.039
 area of

00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:14.339
 life.

00:19:14.819 --> 00:19:15.119
 They don't

00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:15.500
 have the

00:19:15.500 --> 00:19:15.959
 sense to

00:19:15.959 --> 00:19:16.240
 get in

00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:16.539
 out of the

00:19:16.539 --> 00:19:16.879
 brain in

00:19:16.879 --> 00:19:17.079
 another

00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:17.420
 area of

00:19:17.420 --> 00:19:17.700
 life.

00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:19.759
 Common

00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:20.779
 sense just

00:19:20.779 --> 00:19:21.200
 isn't so

00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:21.599
 common

00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:22.079
 anymore.

00:19:22.619 --> 00:19:22.859
 Have you

00:19:22.859 --> 00:19:23.359
 found that?

00:19:24.500 --> 00:19:24.879
 I mean,

00:19:25.019 --> 00:19:25.579
 I know a

00:19:25.579 --> 00:19:25.920
 lot of

00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:26.259
 folk who

00:19:26.259 --> 00:19:26.539
 they're

00:19:26.539 --> 00:19:27.559
 brainiacs.

00:19:28.099 --> 00:19:28.359
 I mean,

00:19:28.399 --> 00:19:28.740
 they can

00:19:28.740 --> 00:19:29.139
 think about

00:19:29.139 --> 00:19:29.619
 things I

00:19:29.619 --> 00:19:30.240
 can't even

00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:31.099
 consider,

00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:33.759
 but it

00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:34.220
 doesn't mean

00:19:34.220 --> 00:19:34.740
 they're smart

00:19:34.740 --> 00:19:35.119
 in every

00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:35.519
 walk of

00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:35.659
 life.

00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:36.079
 It doesn't

00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:36.500
 mean they

00:19:36.500 --> 00:19:37.779
 make good

00:19:37.779 --> 00:19:38.680
 decisions.

00:19:39.379 --> 00:19:39.980
 There's a

00:19:39.980 --> 00:19:40.359
 difference in

00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:40.940
 being smart

00:19:40.940 --> 00:19:41.379
 and having

00:19:41.379 --> 00:19:42.099
 good judgment.

00:19:43.099 --> 00:19:43.319
 You know

00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:43.680
 what I mean?

00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:44.579
 You've

00:19:44.579 --> 00:19:45.000
 known folk

00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:45.379
 who didn't

00:19:45.379 --> 00:19:46.099
 have a lot

00:19:46.099 --> 00:19:46.659
 of education

00:19:46.659 --> 00:19:47.539
 who weren't

00:19:47.539 --> 00:19:48.379
 just the

00:19:48.379 --> 00:19:48.779
 sharpest

00:19:48.779 --> 00:19:49.179
 pencil in

00:19:49.179 --> 00:19:49.480
 the box,

00:19:49.859 --> 00:19:50.659
 but they

00:19:50.659 --> 00:19:51.439
 used what

00:19:51.439 --> 00:19:52.000
 they had

00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:52.319
 and they

00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:52.859
 had good

00:19:52.859 --> 00:19:53.259
 judgment.

00:19:53.459 --> 00:19:53.779
 They didn't

00:19:53.779 --> 00:19:54.459
 make bad

00:19:54.459 --> 00:19:54.919
 mistakes.

00:19:55.679 --> 00:19:56.299
 Samson is

00:19:56.299 --> 00:19:57.439
 lacking that.

00:19:57.959 --> 00:19:58.779
 Super smart,

00:19:59.399 --> 00:20:00.459
 not very good

00:20:00.459 --> 00:20:01.259
 judgment at

00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:01.579
 all.

00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:02.759
 Well,

00:20:03.859 --> 00:20:04.199
 I want you

00:20:04.199 --> 00:20:04.399
 to see

00:20:04.399 --> 00:20:04.939
 something else

00:20:04.939 --> 00:20:05.240
 about him.

00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:05.619
 Look at

00:20:05.619 --> 00:20:06.559
 verse 10

00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:07.339
 to 14.

00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:08.199
 We just

00:20:08.199 --> 00:20:08.539
 read that.

00:20:08.639 --> 00:20:09.179
 One last

00:20:09.179 --> 00:20:09.459
 thing I want

00:20:09.459 --> 00:20:09.799
 to say about

00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:10.079
 that before

00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:10.480
 we press

00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:10.779
 on.

00:20:12.139 --> 00:20:12.639
 One of

00:20:12.639 --> 00:20:12.899
 the things I

00:20:12.899 --> 00:20:13.240
 know about

00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:13.539
 him from

00:20:13.539 --> 00:20:13.899
 reading this

00:20:13.899 --> 00:20:14.259
 passage,

00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:15.019
 you probably

00:20:15.019 --> 00:20:15.299
 have already

00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:15.779
 guessed it,

00:20:16.099 --> 00:20:17.000
 he's a

00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:17.879
 risk taker.

00:20:19.379 --> 00:20:19.980
 He's a

00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:20.439
 gambler.

00:20:20.939 --> 00:20:21.279
 And I don't

00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:21.579
 mean in the

00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:22.059
 sense that he's

00:20:22.059 --> 00:20:22.439
 going around

00:20:22.439 --> 00:20:23.119
 gambling a lot.

00:20:23.179 --> 00:20:23.539
 I don't know if

00:20:23.539 --> 00:20:24.699
 he put down a lot

00:20:24.699 --> 00:20:25.539
 of money a lot

00:20:25.539 --> 00:20:26.119
 of times or not,

00:20:26.179 --> 00:20:26.779
 but I know this

00:20:26.779 --> 00:20:27.279
 from what he

00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:27.619
 did.

00:20:28.339 --> 00:20:29.159
 He likes

00:20:29.159 --> 00:20:30.079
 living on

00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:31.439
 the edge.

00:20:32.740 --> 00:20:33.579
 He likes

00:20:33.579 --> 00:20:34.500
 getting right up

00:20:34.500 --> 00:20:35.259
 to the edge

00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:35.719
 of life.

00:20:36.019 --> 00:20:36.759
 He likes

00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:37.599
 living on

00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:38.219
 the edge.

00:20:38.719 --> 00:20:39.659
 He pushes

00:20:39.659 --> 00:20:40.659
 the envelope.

00:20:40.659 --> 00:20:42.159
 When I use

00:20:42.159 --> 00:20:42.539
 those kind

00:20:42.539 --> 00:20:43.000
 of phrases,

00:20:43.539 --> 00:20:44.099
 does it bring

00:20:44.099 --> 00:20:45.000
 somebody to

00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:46.579
 mind in

00:20:46.579 --> 00:20:47.119
 your life?

00:20:47.719 --> 00:20:48.319
 A son,

00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:48.939
 a daughter,

00:20:49.339 --> 00:20:50.019
 maybe you,

00:20:50.619 --> 00:20:51.240
 maybe somebody

00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:51.959
 you work with,

00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:52.919
 they're just

00:20:52.919 --> 00:20:53.659
 always taking

00:20:53.659 --> 00:20:53.859
 risks.

00:20:53.959 --> 00:20:54.079
 You say,

00:20:54.139 --> 00:20:54.219
 well,

00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:54.419
 preacher,

00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:54.699
 how do you

00:20:54.699 --> 00:20:55.279
 get that out

00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:55.919
 of what we

00:20:55.919 --> 00:20:56.279
 just read?

00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:56.719
 Here's how I

00:20:56.719 --> 00:20:57.019
 get it.

00:20:57.719 --> 00:20:58.719
 I know because

00:20:58.719 --> 00:20:59.359
 I know the rest

00:20:59.359 --> 00:20:59.979
 of the story.

00:21:00.740 --> 00:21:01.299
 He doesn't

00:21:01.299 --> 00:21:01.779
 have the money

00:21:01.779 --> 00:21:02.339
 to cover this

00:21:02.339 --> 00:21:02.599
 bet.

00:21:03.579 --> 00:21:04.240
 He's just

00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:04.839
 bet 30

00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:05.599
 garments.

00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:06.359
 He doesn't

00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:06.659
 own.

00:21:07.459 --> 00:21:08.259
 He's bet

00:21:08.259 --> 00:21:10.439
 30 changes

00:21:10.439 --> 00:21:11.139
 of clothes.

00:21:11.740 --> 00:21:12.219
 He doesn't

00:21:12.219 --> 00:21:12.679
 have.

00:21:13.439 --> 00:21:14.159
 So he's

00:21:14.159 --> 00:21:15.019
 risking something.

00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:16.159
 He doesn't

00:21:16.159 --> 00:21:16.699
 have to pay

00:21:16.699 --> 00:21:17.240
 off if he

00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:17.559
 loses.

00:21:17.740 --> 00:21:17.919
 You know

00:21:17.919 --> 00:21:18.099
 why?

00:21:18.159 --> 00:21:18.599
 Because he's

00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:18.919
 arrogant,

00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:19.500
 because he's

00:21:19.500 --> 00:21:19.839
 confident,

00:21:19.979 --> 00:21:20.500
 because he's

00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:21.059
 impetuous.

00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:21.740
 He thinks

00:21:21.740 --> 00:21:22.359
 he's a sure

00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:23.099
 thing to win

00:21:23.099 --> 00:21:23.639
 this thing,

00:21:24.419 --> 00:21:25.439
 which is what

00:21:25.439 --> 00:21:26.179
 risk takers

00:21:26.179 --> 00:21:26.879
 often do.

00:21:27.439 --> 00:21:27.839
 They don't

00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:28.279
 consider,

00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:28.980
 what if this

00:21:28.980 --> 00:21:29.480
 thing goes

00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:29.980
 sour?

00:21:30.639 --> 00:21:31.359
 They just

00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:31.899
 want what

00:21:31.899 --> 00:21:32.359
 they want.

00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:32.920
 They're driven

00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:33.579
 by greed.

00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:34.460
 They're impetuous.

00:21:35.099 --> 00:21:35.819
 And they don't

00:21:35.819 --> 00:21:36.399
 see any way

00:21:36.399 --> 00:21:36.920
 this can go

00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:37.619
 bad when there

00:21:37.619 --> 00:21:38.039
 might be a

00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:38.619
 hundred ways

00:21:38.619 --> 00:21:39.119
 it could go

00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:39.539
 sideways.

00:21:40.460 --> 00:21:40.960
 But he

00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:41.420
 doesn't see

00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:41.700
 that.

00:21:41.779 --> 00:21:42.160
 You understand

00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:42.440
 that?

00:21:42.819 --> 00:21:43.539
 So he just

00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:44.339
 puts himself

00:21:44.339 --> 00:21:44.720
 out there.

00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:45.460
 Well, how in

00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:45.680
 the world

00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:45.899
 could they

00:21:45.899 --> 00:21:46.200
 figure out

00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:46.920
 this riddle?

00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:48.460
 Well, you're

00:21:48.460 --> 00:21:48.940
 about to find

00:21:48.940 --> 00:21:49.220
 out.

00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:50.839
 Look, if you

00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:51.259
 will, at the

00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:52.220
 fifth passage.

00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:53.099
 The fifth

00:21:53.099 --> 00:21:53.559
 passage.

00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:54.819
 Beginning in

00:21:54.819 --> 00:21:55.339
 the latter

00:21:55.339 --> 00:21:56.220
 portion of

00:21:56.220 --> 00:21:57.779
 verse 14,

00:21:58.279 --> 00:21:59.440
 we read

00:21:59.440 --> 00:21:59.960
 these words.

00:22:00.059 --> 00:22:00.579
 After three

00:22:00.579 --> 00:22:01.079
 days, they

00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:01.559
 were unable

00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:02.160
 to explain

00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:02.579
 the riddle.

00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:03.680
 On the

00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:04.160
 fourth day,

00:22:04.220 --> 00:22:04.680
 they said to

00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:05.339
 Samson's wife,

00:22:05.480 --> 00:22:06.039
 persuade your

00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:06.480
 husband to

00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:07.039
 explain the

00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:07.359
 riddle to

00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:08.359
 us, or we

00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:08.799
 will burn

00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:09.240
 you and your

00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:09.579
 father's

00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:10.119
 household to

00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:10.359
 death.

00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:10.920
 Did you

00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:12.980
 invite us

00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:13.619
 here to rob

00:22:13.619 --> 00:22:13.980
 us?

00:22:14.379 --> 00:22:15.180
 So Samson's

00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:15.799
 wife came to

00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:16.299
 him weeping

00:22:16.299 --> 00:22:16.720
 and said,

00:22:17.059 --> 00:22:17.639
 you hate me

00:22:17.639 --> 00:22:17.879
 and you

00:22:17.879 --> 00:22:18.460
 don't love

00:22:18.460 --> 00:22:18.879
 me.

00:22:20.259 --> 00:22:20.879
 You told

00:22:20.879 --> 00:22:21.579
 my people the

00:22:21.579 --> 00:22:21.940
 riddle but

00:22:21.940 --> 00:22:22.619
 haven't explained

00:22:22.619 --> 00:22:23.279
 it to me.

00:22:24.700 --> 00:22:25.460
 Look, he said,

00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:26.019
 I haven't even

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:26.700
 explained it to my

00:22:26.700 --> 00:22:27.140
 father and

00:22:27.140 --> 00:22:27.799
 mother, so why

00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:28.059
 should I

00:22:28.059 --> 00:22:28.660
 explain it to

00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:28.980
 you?

00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:30.440
 She wept the

00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:30.920
 whole seven

00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:31.559
 days of the

00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:32.180
 feast and at

00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:32.759
 last on the

00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:33.779
 seventh day, he

00:22:33.779 --> 00:22:34.500
 explained it to

00:22:34.500 --> 00:22:35.160
 her because she

00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:35.880
 had nagged him

00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:36.620
 so much.

00:22:37.380 --> 00:22:37.900
 And all the

00:22:37.900 --> 00:22:38.440
 men said,

00:22:38.740 --> 00:22:39.180
 amen.

00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:42.100
 Then she

00:22:42.100 --> 00:22:43.019
 explained it to

00:22:43.019 --> 00:22:43.360
 her.

00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:44.480
 Then she

00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:45.259
 explained it to

00:22:45.259 --> 00:22:45.759
 her people.

00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:46.539
 On the

00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:47.100
 seventh day

00:22:47.100 --> 00:22:47.819
 before sunset,

00:22:48.019 --> 00:22:48.500
 the men of

00:22:48.500 --> 00:22:49.279
 the city said

00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:49.740
 to him,

00:22:50.100 --> 00:22:50.860
 what is sweeter

00:22:50.860 --> 00:22:51.900
 than honey and

00:22:51.900 --> 00:22:52.680
 what is stronger

00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:54.620
 than a lion?

00:22:54.619 --> 00:22:56.399
 Well, she

00:22:56.399 --> 00:22:57.000
 did him in.

00:22:58.139 --> 00:22:59.439
 Now, let's

00:22:59.439 --> 00:23:00.039
 just be honest

00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:00.539
 a minute because

00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:01.159
 we always see

00:23:01.159 --> 00:23:01.539
 this from

00:23:01.539 --> 00:23:02.199
 Samson's

00:23:02.199 --> 00:23:03.959
 perspective, but

00:23:03.959 --> 00:23:04.479
 if you're that

00:23:04.479 --> 00:23:06.299
 girl, you

00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:06.739
 haven't known

00:23:06.739 --> 00:23:07.359
 him long.

00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:09.139
 You don't

00:23:09.139 --> 00:23:09.539
 know him

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:09.959
 well.

00:23:11.199 --> 00:23:11.779
 This is an

00:23:11.779 --> 00:23:12.779
 arranged marriage.

00:23:13.739 --> 00:23:14.239
 They've come

00:23:14.239 --> 00:23:15.000
 threatening to

00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:15.959
 kill you and

00:23:15.959 --> 00:23:16.979
 your family if

00:23:16.979 --> 00:23:17.579
 you don't tell

00:23:17.579 --> 00:23:18.639
 them the answer

00:23:18.639 --> 00:23:19.299
 to the riddle.

00:23:20.539 --> 00:23:20.839
 I'm going to

00:23:20.839 --> 00:23:21.079
 tell you

00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:21.279
 something.

00:23:22.019 --> 00:23:22.619
 I understand

00:23:22.619 --> 00:23:23.559
 exactly why she

00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:24.099
 did what she

00:23:24.099 --> 00:23:24.259
 did.

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:24.579
 I'm not

00:23:24.579 --> 00:23:25.379
 excusing it.

00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:26.480
 She should

00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:26.779
 have found

00:23:26.779 --> 00:23:27.500
 another way.

00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:28.539
 He shouldn't

00:23:28.539 --> 00:23:29.160
 have put her

00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:30.460
 though under

00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:30.940
 that kind of

00:23:30.940 --> 00:23:31.500
 circumstance.

00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:31.839
 Wouldn't you

00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:32.079
 agree?

00:23:33.059 --> 00:23:33.859
 So, it's

00:23:33.859 --> 00:23:34.700
 just a mess.

00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:36.119
 And what I

00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:37.039
 realize is

00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:38.480
 this, this

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.039
 guy cannot

00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:40.059
 say no to

00:23:40.059 --> 00:23:41.019
 a pretty face.

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:42.759
 And I'm

00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:43.019
 going to tell

00:23:43.019 --> 00:23:43.319
 you something.

00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:44.359
 There are a

00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:45.019
 lot of guys

00:23:45.019 --> 00:23:45.700
 out there and

00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:46.720
 gals like that,

00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:47.859
 but more guys

00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:48.480
 than gals, if

00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:49.059
 I'm honest about

00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:49.460
 this morning,

00:23:49.539 --> 00:23:50.099
 my experience

00:23:50.099 --> 00:23:50.480
 has been,

00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:52.319
 who they just

00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:53.059
 have such an

00:23:53.059 --> 00:23:53.940
 attraction to the

00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:54.680
 opposite sex,

00:23:55.100 --> 00:23:56.000
 they lose their

00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:56.500
 mind.

00:23:57.980 --> 00:23:58.500
 You know what

00:23:58.500 --> 00:23:58.880
 I'm saying?

00:23:59.700 --> 00:24:01.440
 They just so

00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:02.759
 want this other

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.059
 person, they

00:24:04.059 --> 00:24:05.299
 just lose their

00:24:05.299 --> 00:24:05.740
 mind.

00:24:06.660 --> 00:24:07.460
 Well, look at a

00:24:07.460 --> 00:24:08.519
 sixth passage

00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:09.840
 found in verses

00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:10.920
 19 and 20 of

00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:11.940
 chapter 14, the

00:24:11.940 --> 00:24:12.720
 last two verses.

00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:14.120
 The Spirit of the

00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:14.900
 Lord took control

00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:15.480
 of him and he

00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:16.080
 went down to

00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:16.759
 Ashkelon and

00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:17.580
 killed 30 of

00:24:17.580 --> 00:24:18.120
 their men.

00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:20.519
 Did you just

00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:21.179
 hear what I

00:24:21.179 --> 00:24:21.439
 said?

00:24:22.479 --> 00:24:23.539
 He killed 30

00:24:23.539 --> 00:24:24.219
 other men.

00:24:25.619 --> 00:24:26.439
 I want to ask

00:24:26.439 --> 00:24:26.799
 you to raise

00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:27.239
 your hand if

00:24:27.239 --> 00:24:27.539
 you know

00:24:27.539 --> 00:24:28.059
 somebody in

00:24:28.059 --> 00:24:28.579
 your lifetime

00:24:28.579 --> 00:24:29.159
 who's been a

00:24:29.159 --> 00:24:29.439
 murderer.

00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:31.459
 But I know

00:24:31.459 --> 00:24:32.319
 this, you

00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:32.619
 don't know

00:24:32.619 --> 00:24:33.239
 anybody who's

00:24:33.239 --> 00:24:34.619
 murdered 30

00:24:34.619 --> 00:24:35.019
 people.

00:24:36.659 --> 00:24:37.439
 I mean, when

00:24:37.439 --> 00:24:37.939
 you start talking

00:24:37.939 --> 00:24:38.500
 about people who

00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:39.239
 killed 30

00:24:39.239 --> 00:24:41.659
 people, that's a

00:24:41.659 --> 00:24:42.319
 lot of folk.

00:24:43.559 --> 00:24:44.439
 That's a lot of

00:24:44.439 --> 00:24:44.639
 people.

00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.320
 This is a man

00:24:46.320 --> 00:24:47.060
 with a bad,

00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:48.400
 bad, uncontrollable

00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:49.280
 temper who has

00:24:49.280 --> 00:24:50.440
 put himself in

00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:51.740
 between a rock and

00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:52.500
 a hard place and

00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:53.740
 now he kills 30

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.700
 people in order to

00:24:54.700 --> 00:24:55.640
 capture their

00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:55.980
 clothes.

00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:57.000
 He stripped them

00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:57.480
 and gave their

00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:58.240
 clothes to those

00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:58.920
 who had explained

00:24:58.920 --> 00:24:59.800
 the riddle in a

00:24:59.800 --> 00:25:00.080
 rage.

00:25:00.340 --> 00:25:00.980
 Samson turned to

00:25:00.980 --> 00:25:02.000
 his father's house,

00:25:02.380 --> 00:25:02.980
 returned to his

00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.500
 father's house,

00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:04.740
 and his wife was

00:25:04.740 --> 00:25:05.480
 given to one of the

00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:06.500
 men who had

00:25:06.500 --> 00:25:08.100
 accompanied him.

00:25:09.820 --> 00:25:11.560
 Boy, here's the

00:25:11.560 --> 00:25:12.220
 final thing I see

00:25:12.220 --> 00:25:13.000
 about Samson I'm

00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:13.320
 going to tell you

00:25:13.320 --> 00:25:13.620
 today.

00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:16.460
 He is bad with

00:25:16.460 --> 00:25:16.740
 women.

00:25:18.740 --> 00:25:19.600
 He's lost his

00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:20.180
 marriage and is

00:25:20.180 --> 00:25:21.160
 only seven days

00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:21.660
 old.

00:25:23.360 --> 00:25:24.400
 He's bad with

00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:24.680
 women.

00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:26.820
 And this isn't the

00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:27.759
 only episode he has

00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:28.500
 with women, he has

00:25:28.500 --> 00:25:30.740
 others, but the

00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:32.460
 climactic ending

00:25:32.460 --> 00:25:33.940
 relationship is with

00:25:33.940 --> 00:25:34.720
 a woman by the

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.500
 name of Delilah,

00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:36.780
 another Philistine

00:25:36.780 --> 00:25:37.560
 woman, and you

00:25:37.560 --> 00:25:38.300
 know that story.

00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:39.020
 That's the one that

00:25:39.020 --> 00:25:40.700
 makes Samson famous.

00:25:41.080 --> 00:25:41.880
 It's found in

00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.000
 chapter 16, so I'm

00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:43.560
 not going to read

00:25:43.560 --> 00:25:43.780
 it.

00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:45.640
 Let's just rehearse

00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:46.600
 it together for a

00:25:46.600 --> 00:25:46.840
 moment.

00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:48.240
 Remember how that

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:49.320
 story goes down?

00:25:50.500 --> 00:25:51.380
 He goes to her

00:25:51.380 --> 00:25:51.820
 house.

00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:53.700
 They're talking.

00:25:54.080 --> 00:25:54.759
 He's wanting to be

00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:55.340
 with Delilah.

00:25:56.500 --> 00:25:57.420
 He's sweet-talking

00:25:57.420 --> 00:25:57.560
 her.

00:25:57.620 --> 00:25:58.400
 She's sweet-talking

00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:58.660
 him.

00:25:59.740 --> 00:26:00.600
 The Philistines have

00:26:00.600 --> 00:26:03.340
 come unbeknownst to

00:26:03.340 --> 00:26:04.920
 Samson, and they say

00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:07.800
 to Delilah, find out

00:26:07.800 --> 00:26:09.780
 the source of his

00:26:09.780 --> 00:26:10.160
 strength.

00:26:10.360 --> 00:26:10.940
 There's got to be

00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:11.720
 something that makes

00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:12.720
 this guy so strong.

00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:14.579
 If you can discover

00:26:14.579 --> 00:26:15.600
 that, here's how we'll

00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:16.299
 reward you.

00:26:17.299 --> 00:26:18.539
 So she plays him.

00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:20.299
 He's got his head in

00:26:20.299 --> 00:26:21.500
 her lap, and she says,

00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:23.339
 Samson, you're so

00:26:23.339 --> 00:26:23.720
 good-looking.

00:26:23.819 --> 00:26:24.620
 You're so strong.

00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:26.700
 Would you tell me the

00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:27.860
 secret of your strength?

00:26:29.860 --> 00:26:31.259
 He probably tries to put

00:26:31.259 --> 00:26:32.120
 her off at first.

00:26:32.980 --> 00:26:34.079
 Then he just makes up

00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:35.220
 this cockamamie tale.

00:26:35.220 --> 00:26:38.360
 And so, to his

00:26:38.360 --> 00:26:40.059
 amazement, when he goes

00:26:40.059 --> 00:26:41.940
 to sleep finally, she

00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:43.400
 does exactly what he

00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:44.880
 says would rob him of

00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:45.480
 his strength.

00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:47.500
 And says, Samson, the

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:48.400
 Philistines are upon

00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:48.579
 you.

00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:50.180
 And he jumps up, and

00:26:50.180 --> 00:26:51.339
 it's obvious that was

00:26:51.339 --> 00:26:52.620
 not the truth.

00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:57.180
 Well, she allows him

00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:58.000
 to lay back down in

00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.799
 her lap, and I can see

00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:00.759
 her brushing his hair.

00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:01.799
 You're so good-looking,

00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:02.240
 Samson.

00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:03.100
 You're so strong.

00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:04.240
 Man, I'm so lucky to

00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:04.779
 have you.

00:27:05.420 --> 00:27:06.240
 But you know what?

00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.900
 You and I, we're not as

00:27:08.900 --> 00:27:09.940
 intimate as we need to

00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:11.180
 be because you just

00:27:11.180 --> 00:27:12.039
 won't tell me the source

00:27:12.039 --> 00:27:12.539
 of your strength.

00:27:12.660 --> 00:27:13.740
 You lied to me while I

00:27:13.740 --> 00:27:13.819
 go.

00:27:14.059 --> 00:27:15.019
 Tell me what the real

00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:15.960
 source of your strength

00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:16.319
 is.

00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:19.099
 Now, I'm not a very

00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:20.160
 smart guy at all.

00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:22.120
 But you know what

00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:22.559
 should have been going

00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:23.259
 off in his head?

00:27:23.620 --> 00:27:24.299
 Wait a second.

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:26.180
 I just told you how I

00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:27.640
 go lie, but you used

00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:29.039
 that lie against me, and

00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:29.920
 if it had been the

00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:30.839
 source of my strength,

00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:33.059
 well, I'd be in big-time

00:27:33.059 --> 00:27:33.880
 trouble right now.

00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:35.920
 But that never

00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:37.160
 registers, apparently,

00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:38.299
 with Samson.

00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:40.400
 So he spins another

00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:41.480
 tale, but this time,

00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:42.579
 get this, this time,

00:27:43.700 --> 00:27:45.900
 it involves one aspect

00:27:45.900 --> 00:27:46.380
 of the story.

00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:47.279
 It involves his hair.

00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:50.039
 Sure enough, it's not

00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:50.539
 the truth.

00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:51.640
 She does the same

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:53.599
 thing, tries to use

00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:54.799
 his strategy to make

00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:55.299
 him helpless.

00:27:56.019 --> 00:27:56.680
 They're upon you.

00:27:57.079 --> 00:27:58.059
 They rush in the room.

00:27:58.420 --> 00:27:59.460
 He's as strong as ever.

00:27:59.620 --> 00:28:00.620
 He causes them to

00:28:00.620 --> 00:28:00.900
 flee.

00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:03.340
 Third time, he's in

00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:03.720
 her lap.

00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:05.180
 Samson, you just

00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:06.100
 won't be honest with

00:28:06.100 --> 00:28:06.240
 me.

00:28:06.300 --> 00:28:06.960
 You won't tell me.

00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:07.660
 You don't love me.

00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:08.640
 If you loved me, you'd

00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:09.160
 tell me.

00:28:11.060 --> 00:28:12.700
 Like the goofball he

00:28:12.700 --> 00:28:15.920
 was, he tells her a

00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:16.600
 third story.

00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:17.720
 Again, not the truth,

00:28:18.100 --> 00:28:18.700
 but watch what's

00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:18.960
 happening.

00:28:20.259 --> 00:28:20.900
 Remember what I said

00:28:20.900 --> 00:28:21.740
 about he liked living

00:28:21.740 --> 00:28:22.340
 on the edge?

00:28:23.080 --> 00:28:24.080
 He tells another story

00:28:24.080 --> 00:28:24.680
 about his hair, but

00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:25.360
 this time he's getting

00:28:25.360 --> 00:28:27.300
 closer and closer to

00:28:27.300 --> 00:28:27.880
 telling him the real

00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:28.240
 secret.

00:28:29.260 --> 00:28:31.100
 She does that, again,

00:28:31.280 --> 00:28:31.940
 to no avail.

00:28:32.420 --> 00:28:34.220
 Fourth time, he's fed

00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:34.460
 up.

00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:35.120
 He's tired.

00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:36.420
 And he just says,

00:28:36.540 --> 00:28:37.480
 okay, here it is.

00:28:37.820 --> 00:28:38.620
 I'm a Nazirite.

00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:39.380
 I've been a Nazirite

00:28:39.380 --> 00:28:40.000
 since the day I was

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:40.180
 born.

00:28:40.260 --> 00:28:40.840
 I've never drank

00:28:40.840 --> 00:28:41.260
 alcohol.

00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:42.120
 I've never done this.

00:28:42.500 --> 00:28:44.200
 I've never shaved my

00:28:44.200 --> 00:28:44.480
 head.

00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:45.900
 If I cut my head, I'd

00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:46.940
 be like anybody else.

00:28:49.740 --> 00:28:51.160
 He falls asleep.

00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:53.040
 She does just that.

00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.000
 They rush in, and his

00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:57.180
 strength is gone.

00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:02.380
 They power him down

00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:05.100
 and gouge out his

00:29:05.100 --> 00:29:06.180
 eyes.

00:29:07.540 --> 00:29:08.880
 Can you imagine the

00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:10.080
 inhumanity of that?

00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:11.980
 Can you imagine

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:12.980
 taking your fingers and

00:29:12.980 --> 00:29:13.840
 ripping out somebody's

00:29:13.840 --> 00:29:14.980
 eyes right out of the

00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:15.240
 socket?

00:29:15.340 --> 00:29:16.060
 That's what they do.

00:29:17.060 --> 00:29:18.160
 They hate him.

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:19.260
 He's public enemy,

00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:19.860
 number one.

00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:21.300
 You go to a Philistine

00:29:21.300 --> 00:29:22.560
 post office, and there's

00:29:22.560 --> 00:29:23.340
 Samson's picture.

00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:26.840
 I mean, they hate him.

00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:28.459
 They hate him.

00:29:28.699 --> 00:29:29.779
 He's killed so many of

00:29:29.779 --> 00:29:30.059
 their folks.

00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:32.579
 He's taken 300 foxes,

00:29:32.659 --> 00:29:33.779
 tied them tail to tail,

00:29:33.859 --> 00:29:35.579
 and put fire on their

00:29:35.579 --> 00:29:36.659
 tails, and had them run

00:29:36.659 --> 00:29:37.720
 through their fields and

00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:38.779
 destroyed their landscape,

00:29:38.919 --> 00:29:39.500
 their economy.

00:29:39.939 --> 00:29:41.379
 They hate his guts.

00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:43.339
 And finally, they got the

00:29:43.339 --> 00:29:43.899
 upper hand.

00:29:44.459 --> 00:29:45.240
 His strength is gone.

00:29:45.339 --> 00:29:46.220
 They gouge out his eyes.

00:29:46.639 --> 00:29:47.619
 I want to show you a

00:29:47.619 --> 00:29:48.699
 pitiful, pitiful picture,

00:29:49.179 --> 00:29:50.039
 and then I'm going to make

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:50.919
 some summary statements,

00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:51.579
 and we'll close.

00:29:51.579 --> 00:29:53.159
 Go with me, if you will,

00:29:54.059 --> 00:29:57.220
 to chapter 16, and I want

00:29:57.220 --> 00:29:58.339
 you to look at verse 21.

00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:01.679
 The Philistines seized him

00:30:01.679 --> 00:30:02.779
 and gouged out his eyes.

00:30:02.859 --> 00:30:03.799
 They brought him down to

00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:05.659
 Gaza and bound him with

00:30:05.659 --> 00:30:07.220
 bronze shackles, and he was

00:30:07.220 --> 00:30:10.019
 forced to grind grain in the

00:30:10.019 --> 00:30:10.379
 prison.

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.079
 Here's this superhero,

00:30:15.019 --> 00:30:17.279
 superhero in the minds of the

00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.079
 little boys and girls in

00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:19.399
 Israel.

00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:20.780
 Can you imagine a little boy

00:30:20.780 --> 00:30:22.240
 or girl passing Samson?

00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:22.820
 Hey, y'all.

00:30:24.500 --> 00:30:24.940
 Samson.

00:30:26.620 --> 00:30:28.100
 Strongest guy in the world.

00:30:29.380 --> 00:30:30.740
 Philistines run from him.

00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:32.980
 And I want you to look at him

00:30:32.980 --> 00:30:33.259
 now.

00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:36.360
 Here he is in the basement of

00:30:36.360 --> 00:30:38.800
 this prison, and he's pushing

00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:41.540
 a lever around and around this

00:30:41.540 --> 00:30:43.940
 mill, grinding their grain.

00:30:44.980 --> 00:30:46.700
 And his eyes, I don't mean to be

00:30:46.700 --> 00:30:48.540
 grotesque, but his eyes are

00:30:48.539 --> 00:30:49.259
 gouged out.

00:30:49.339 --> 00:30:50.500
 It's not that he's blind.

00:30:50.619 --> 00:30:51.740
 We just kind of think blind.

00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:52.059
 No.

00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:54.879
 There's no replacements in these

00:30:54.879 --> 00:30:55.339
 sockets.

00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:57.119
 They're just empty.

00:30:57.799 --> 00:30:59.460
 It's hard to look at him in the

00:30:59.460 --> 00:30:59.879
 face.

00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:03.220
 They're just empty sockets.

00:31:04.099 --> 00:31:06.200
 And he is a shell of the man he

00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:06.960
 once was.

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:08.420
 And here's what I want to ask you.

00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:10.899
 Who would have ever, ever, ever

00:31:10.899 --> 00:31:12.039
 guessed it?

00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.920
 Who would have ever envisioned

00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:19.259
 that's how he'll end up one day?

00:31:21.259 --> 00:31:22.440
 So we go to him.

00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:27.060
 And we say, Mr. Samson, do we have

00:31:27.060 --> 00:31:27.740
 a word with you?

00:31:28.779 --> 00:31:29.800
 We've been your fans.

00:31:30.120 --> 00:31:32.779
 We've seen you in Israel.

00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:34.660
 And man, you're so highly regarded

00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:35.220
 over there.

00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:38.079
 But we look at you now and,

00:31:39.339 --> 00:31:40.160
 well, you're a mess.

00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:42.420
 Your strength is gone.

00:31:42.799 --> 00:31:43.900
 You're used to being a slave.

00:31:44.019 --> 00:31:44.799
 You're in shackles.

00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:46.140
 You're not free to go and come as

00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:46.700
 you please.

00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.480
 You can't get around unless somebody

00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:50.500
 leads you by the hand.

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:53.640
 How did it get like this?

00:31:54.579 --> 00:31:56.100
 How did it end up like this?

00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:59.400
 You know what experience as a

00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:00.460
 counselor tells me he would

00:32:00.460 --> 00:32:01.980
 probably have said, if we're being

00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:02.880
 honest about it this morning?

00:32:03.860 --> 00:32:04.800
 He'd have probably turned,

00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:06.040
 especially in the early going,

00:32:06.140 --> 00:32:07.280
 a day or two after it happened,

00:32:07.900 --> 00:32:09.120
 in the early going, he'd have

00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:10.260
 turned and he'd have looked at you

00:32:10.260 --> 00:32:11.440
 and he said, it was that

00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:12.480
 stinking Delilah.

00:32:12.620 --> 00:32:13.440
 She did this.

00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.380
 I trusted her.

00:32:15.500 --> 00:32:16.260
 She nagged me.

00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:17.300
 She begged me to tell.

00:32:17.840 --> 00:32:19.460
 And I put my faith and trust in

00:32:19.460 --> 00:32:20.920
 her because I loved her and wanted

00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:21.520
 to be with her.

00:32:21.600 --> 00:32:22.240
 I wanted to be her husband.

00:32:22.780 --> 00:32:23.720
 And she did this.

00:32:23.800 --> 00:32:24.780
 It's her fault.

00:32:26.500 --> 00:32:27.580
 Well, those Philistines,

00:32:27.580 --> 00:32:29.380
 they're barbarians.

00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:31.580
 Who would do this to a man?

00:32:31.579 --> 00:32:32.799
 Who would belittle?

00:32:32.899 --> 00:32:34.039
 Why didn't they just kill me?

00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:35.539
 Why didn't they just kill me

00:32:35.539 --> 00:32:36.500
 instead of make me a prisoner

00:32:36.500 --> 00:32:37.639
 and subject me to this kind

00:32:37.639 --> 00:32:37.939
 of lifestyle?

00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:39.919
 It's those barbaric Philistines.

00:32:40.059 --> 00:32:40.699
 They're to blame.

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:44.099
 Boy, if you'd had a lot of courage,

00:32:44.919 --> 00:32:45.839
 you'd have really been tempted

00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:46.419
 to have said,

00:32:47.379 --> 00:32:49.460
 Mrs. Sampson, with all due respect,

00:32:51.059 --> 00:32:52.299
 didn't you do this to yourself?

00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.379
 Isn't this kind of about the bad

00:32:55.379 --> 00:32:56.879
 choices you made?

00:32:56.980 --> 00:32:58.119
 Do you bear any of the

00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.000
 responsibility for this?

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:02.279
 You say, well, certainly you had to.

00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:02.959
 I want to tell you something.

00:33:03.679 --> 00:33:05.479
 I meet a lot of people in life,

00:33:05.619 --> 00:33:07.000
 have met a lot of people in life

00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:08.179
 over the course of 50 years

00:33:08.179 --> 00:33:08.839
 of being a pastor.

00:33:10.679 --> 00:33:12.319
 They never take any responsibility

00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:12.879
 at all.

00:33:14.239 --> 00:33:15.000
 It's their mama.

00:33:15.199 --> 00:33:16.000
 It's their daddy.

00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:17.359
 It's their grandparents.

00:33:17.679 --> 00:33:19.199
 It's the house they lived in.

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:21.419
 It's the job they didn't get

00:33:21.419 --> 00:33:23.219
 or the job they were forced to do.

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:25.399
 It's their bad spouse.

00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:26.920
 It's their rotten children.

00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:29.100
 It's their rotten parents.

00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:31.220
 It's the breaks.

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:32.700
 It's God's fault.

00:33:33.340 --> 00:33:35.900
 And they never come to grips

00:33:35.900 --> 00:33:37.519
 with, you know what?

00:33:37.580 --> 00:33:40.420
 You made some real, real bad choices.

00:33:40.580 --> 00:33:41.480
 Three things I'm going to say

00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:42.019
 and I close.

00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.620
 One, no one is responsible

00:33:44.620 --> 00:33:47.960
 for your choice but you.

00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:50.780
 Just as no one is responsible

00:33:50.780 --> 00:33:53.280
 for my choice but me.

00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:55.759
 Have I been pressured at times?

00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:56.279
 Oh yeah.

00:33:56.420 --> 00:33:57.319
 You can't be a pastor

00:33:57.319 --> 00:33:58.720
 and not get pressure

00:33:58.720 --> 00:33:59.460
 from the outside

00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:00.619
 and the inside and everywhere

00:34:00.619 --> 00:34:03.680
 to do something that you know

00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:04.879
 is not the right thing to do.

00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:07.160
 But I'm going to tell you something.

00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:07.879
 At the end of the day,

00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:10.279
 when I make a decision,

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.139
 when I make a choice

00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:12.239
 about anything in my life,

00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:14.000
 it's mine.

00:34:15.019 --> 00:34:16.559
 I may not want to own it

00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:18.539
 but it's mine.

00:34:18.619 --> 00:34:20.099
 It's only mine.

00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:21.480
 And you can say,

00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:22.880
 well my boss made me do that.

00:34:23.220 --> 00:34:24.480
 That's how this company operates.

00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:25.320
 I wouldn't have a job.

00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:25.640
 No.

00:34:26.380 --> 00:34:27.119
 It was your decision.

00:34:28.420 --> 00:34:29.160
 Were they wrong?

00:34:29.260 --> 00:34:30.039
 Yeah, they were wrong.

00:34:31.240 --> 00:34:32.500
 But that was their decision.

00:34:33.539 --> 00:34:35.539
 You're responsible for your decision.

00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:37.000
 So I'm going to tell you right now,

00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:38.300
 whatever bad thing

00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:39.480
 you may have ever done in your life,

00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:40.760
 whatever bad decision you made,

00:34:40.980 --> 00:34:42.559
 the best thing you can do right now

00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:43.440
 is to own up to it

00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:43.880
 and say, you know what?

00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:44.860
 That was my decision.

00:34:46.140 --> 00:34:47.900
 I know the circumstances were bad.

00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:49.300
 I know the situation was bad.

00:34:49.380 --> 00:34:50.300
 The environment was bad.

00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:51.260
 A lot of pressure.

00:34:51.260 --> 00:34:52.860
 But at the end of the day,

00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:54.340
 I got to own that decision

00:34:54.340 --> 00:34:55.040
 because I want to tell you something.

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:56.760
 I can never put it behind me.

00:34:56.820 --> 00:34:57.960
 I can never repent of it.

00:34:57.980 --> 00:34:58.860
 I can never move on

00:34:58.860 --> 00:35:00.260
 until I come to own it.

00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.540
 And you've made some bad decisions

00:35:03.540 --> 00:35:04.280
 in your life.

00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:05.820
 I've made a lot of bad decisions

00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:06.340
 in my life.

00:35:06.580 --> 00:35:07.120
 The question is,

00:35:07.240 --> 00:35:08.340
 have you ever owned them?

00:35:09.600 --> 00:35:10.720
 Have you ever just stepped up

00:35:10.720 --> 00:35:11.160
 to the plate

00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:12.280
 and put on your big boy pants

00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:12.600
 and said,

00:35:13.180 --> 00:35:13.760
 I own this.

00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:14.460
 This is mine.

00:35:15.140 --> 00:35:15.900
 I did this.

00:35:15.900 --> 00:35:17.200
 It's not anybody else's fault

00:35:17.200 --> 00:35:18.280
 but mine.

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:20.360
 Secondly,

00:35:21.780 --> 00:35:23.820
 our choices,

00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:24.700
 as I said earlier,

00:35:24.780 --> 00:35:25.639
 have consequences.

00:35:26.660 --> 00:35:27.780
 They always do.

00:35:28.820 --> 00:35:30.660
 It's called the law of the harvest.

00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:33.639
 Galatians 6-7 says this.

00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:34.119
 Listen.

00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:36.460
 Paul writes,

00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:38.680
 God is not mocked.

00:35:38.740 --> 00:35:39.400
 Be not deceived.

00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:40.500
 God is not mocked.

00:35:40.500 --> 00:35:42.780
 For whatsoever man sows,

00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:45.380
 that shall he also reap.

00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:48.119
 So if I do this good thing,

00:35:48.260 --> 00:35:49.679
 I can expect something good

00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:50.539
 to come out of it.

00:35:51.219 --> 00:35:52.579
 But if I do a bad thing,

00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:54.099
 I should expect to reap

00:35:54.099 --> 00:35:56.019
 a bad harvest.

00:35:56.699 --> 00:35:57.360
 You understand that?

00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.119
 Good decisions bring blessing.

00:36:01.219 --> 00:36:03.920
 Bad decisions bring heartache.

00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.460
 And I know as parents

00:36:07.460 --> 00:36:08.320
 and grandparents,

00:36:08.820 --> 00:36:10.440
 we want to do it on our children

00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:11.159
 and love our children

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:12.019
 and give them every opportunity

00:36:12.019 --> 00:36:13.539
 to help them to rise to the top.

00:36:13.700 --> 00:36:14.079
 I want to tell you something.

00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:15.240
 The way you do that

00:36:15.240 --> 00:36:17.099
 is not by doting on them

00:36:17.099 --> 00:36:19.599
 and erasing their mistakes

00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:21.240
 and saving them

00:36:21.240 --> 00:36:21.920
 and rushing in,

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:22.720
 saving the day

00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:24.059
 and being the savior

00:36:24.059 --> 00:36:24.679
 and the hero

00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:26.380
 and bailing them out.

00:36:26.740 --> 00:36:27.700
 The way you do that

00:36:27.700 --> 00:36:28.720
 is let them learn

00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:30.760
 as a little bitty child

00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.900
 and all the way through life,

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:33.800
 I'm here for you.

00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:34.760
 I'll stand beside you

00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:35.840
 but I'll not pay the penalty

00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:36.420
 for you.

00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.340
 I'll not bail you out

00:36:39.340 --> 00:36:41.400
 because I want to tell you,

00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:42.700
 it's in their best interest

00:36:42.700 --> 00:36:43.380
 to learn

00:36:43.380 --> 00:36:44.420
 there are consequences

00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:45.720
 to our decisions.

00:36:46.680 --> 00:36:47.640
 I didn't plan to say this

00:36:47.640 --> 00:36:48.079
 and the service

00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:48.960
 didn't say it in the last

00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:50.460
 but I know our time's late

00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:52.240
 but I just feel so compelled

00:36:52.240 --> 00:36:52.940
 to tell you this.

00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:54.120
 I'm watching TV

00:36:54.120 --> 00:36:55.240
 in about the year 2000

00:36:55.240 --> 00:36:58.680
 and a news flash comes up.

00:36:58.780 --> 00:36:59.519
 There's been a shooting

00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:00.559
 in a middle school

00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:01.320
 in Alabama.

00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:03.360
 The cameras show

00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:04.539
 a little 14-year-old boy

00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:05.239
 he's being arrested

00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:05.820
 he's being put

00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:06.739
 into a squad car

00:37:06.739 --> 00:37:08.920
 he's taking his grandfather's shotgun

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:09.679
 who he lives with

00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:10.199
 his grandfather

00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:11.360
 to school

00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:12.579
 and he shot

00:37:12.579 --> 00:37:13.739
 a schoolmate.

00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:14.920
 They're putting him

00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:15.800
 into the squad car

00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:16.840
 they're beating him over

00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:17.420
 you know how they do

00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:18.159
 to keep him from

00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:18.820
 bumping their heads

00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:19.539
 and they're putting him

00:37:19.539 --> 00:37:20.219
 in the squad car

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:21.119
 and he looks back

00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:21.659
 out the door

00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:22.500
 and there's a guy

00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:23.460
 with a camera there

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:24.719
 and the guy's asking him

00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:25.860
 what were you thinking?

00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:27.820
 And this is what he said

00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:28.659
 I'll never forget

00:37:28.659 --> 00:37:29.659
 he looks in the face

00:37:29.659 --> 00:37:30.099
 of the camera

00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:30.639
 and he says

00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.400
 I just want to go home.

00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:34.639
 I just want to go home

00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:35.220
 to my grandpa

00:37:35.220 --> 00:37:36.320
 I just want somebody

00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:36.900
 to take me home

00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:37.579
 to my grandpa

00:37:37.579 --> 00:37:39.940
 and as a parent

00:37:39.940 --> 00:37:40.480
 and a grandparent

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:41.599
 he just broke my heart

00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:42.500
 because I thought to myself

00:37:42.500 --> 00:37:44.440
 son you're never going home.

00:37:46.019 --> 00:37:46.420
 You're not

00:37:46.420 --> 00:37:47.780
 have your folks

00:37:47.780 --> 00:37:48.720
 not taught you?

00:37:49.660 --> 00:37:50.619
 There are consequences

00:37:50.619 --> 00:37:51.519
 to your actions

00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:52.720
 and your world

00:37:52.720 --> 00:37:54.200
 has just changed forever.

00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:56.099
 Forever.

00:37:57.579 --> 00:37:58.460
 And I'm telling you

00:37:58.460 --> 00:37:59.360
 and not just kids

00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:00.000
 and teenagers

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.840
 and young adults

00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:02.340
 but middle-aged

00:38:02.340 --> 00:38:02.660
 adults

00:38:02.660 --> 00:38:03.579
 and older adults

00:38:03.579 --> 00:38:04.820
 boy you better think

00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:05.500
 before you act

00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:07.420
 because every action

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:08.740
 has a consequence

00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:09.860
 and there's some

00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:11.160
 actions you take

00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:13.000
 they're not very significant

00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:13.980
 where I eat lunch

00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:14.579
 they don't matter

00:38:14.579 --> 00:38:15.280
 a whole lot

00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:16.700
 but I'm going to tell you

00:38:16.700 --> 00:38:16.860
 something

00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:17.600
 if I'm unfaithful

00:38:17.600 --> 00:38:18.079
 to my wife

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:19.440
 that can wreck

00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:20.940
 my whole life

00:38:20.940 --> 00:38:24.140
 if I take something

00:38:24.140 --> 00:38:25.100
 that's not mine

00:38:25.100 --> 00:38:26.840
 if I deal under the table

00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:28.200
 if I'm not honest

00:38:28.200 --> 00:38:30.880
 boy that can have

00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:31.599
 the implications

00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:32.280
 that just

00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:33.160
 devastate

00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:34.300
 my whole life

00:38:34.300 --> 00:38:35.280
 do you understand that?

00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:37.059
 Teach your children

00:38:37.059 --> 00:38:38.240
 and by teach them

00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:38.579
 I don't mean

00:38:38.579 --> 00:38:39.200
 just verbally

00:38:39.200 --> 00:38:39.820
 tell them

00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:41.140
 you got to let them

00:38:41.140 --> 00:38:42.000
 experience it

00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:42.440
 you got to be

00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:42.980
 standing there with them

00:38:42.980 --> 00:38:43.119
 and say

00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:43.940
 boy I'm sorry

00:38:43.940 --> 00:38:45.059
 and like my friend

00:38:45.059 --> 00:38:46.260
 put your arm around

00:38:46.260 --> 00:38:46.520
 and say

00:38:46.520 --> 00:38:48.420
 the way of the transgressor

00:38:48.420 --> 00:38:49.460
 is hard isn't it?

00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:52.460
 boy I'm sorry son

00:38:52.460 --> 00:38:53.300
 I'm sorry daughter

00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:54.520
 boy when you mess up

00:38:54.520 --> 00:38:55.660
 there's a price

00:38:55.660 --> 00:38:56.340
 to be paid in

00:38:56.340 --> 00:38:56.900
 and I'm sorry

00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:57.560
 I'm sorry you didn't

00:38:57.560 --> 00:38:58.700
 get to go to Disney World

00:38:58.700 --> 00:38:59.940
 I'm sorry you didn't

00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:01.020
 get to be on that

00:39:01.020 --> 00:39:01.580
 ball team

00:39:01.580 --> 00:39:02.800
 I'm sorry you didn't

00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:03.860
 get that scholarship

00:39:03.860 --> 00:39:05.580
 but we'll learn

00:39:05.580 --> 00:39:05.920
 from this

00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:06.820
 when we're going forward

00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:08.980
 way better thing

00:39:08.980 --> 00:39:09.820
 to do than to rescue

00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:10.340
 them every time

00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:10.820
 they fail

00:39:10.820 --> 00:39:11.720
 thirdly

00:39:11.720 --> 00:39:12.280
 good choices

00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:13.220
 lead to a good life

00:39:13.220 --> 00:39:13.940
 and poor choices

00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:15.620
 lead to a bad life

00:39:15.619 --> 00:39:16.779
 of undue heartache

00:39:16.779 --> 00:39:17.779
 well if you spill

00:39:17.779 --> 00:39:18.619
 enough heartache

00:39:18.619 --> 00:39:20.339
 we don't need to make

00:39:20.339 --> 00:39:21.519
 it harder on ourselves

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.819
 I close by telling you this

00:39:23.819 --> 00:39:26.359
 the book of

00:39:26.359 --> 00:39:27.579
 Proverbs

00:39:27.579 --> 00:39:28.639
 is about wisdom

00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:29.819
 it's called wisdom literature

00:39:29.819 --> 00:39:32.039
 that word wisdom

00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:33.519
 people think of this

00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:34.639
 white sage

00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:35.759
 long beard

00:39:35.759 --> 00:39:37.679
 he's like a contestant

00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:38.159
 on Jeopardy

00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:39.179
 who knows all the answers

00:39:39.179 --> 00:39:39.880
 no

00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.779
 the word wisdom

00:39:41.779 --> 00:39:42.679
 actually means

00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:43.699
 skillful

00:39:43.699 --> 00:39:45.759
 and he was used

00:39:45.759 --> 00:39:46.439
 in a variety

00:39:46.439 --> 00:39:47.259
 of circumstances

00:39:47.259 --> 00:39:48.439
 but let me just tell you

00:39:48.439 --> 00:39:49.059
 three of them

00:39:49.059 --> 00:39:50.779
 they used that word

00:39:50.779 --> 00:39:51.299
 wisdom

00:39:51.299 --> 00:39:52.359
 about skillful

00:39:52.359 --> 00:39:53.480
 of a surgeon

00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:54.519
 who could take a scalpel

00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:56.179
 and cut somebody's body

00:39:56.179 --> 00:39:57.239
 and instead of doing

00:39:57.239 --> 00:39:57.799
 them harm

00:39:57.799 --> 00:39:59.099
 relieve them

00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:00.879
 of a bad

00:40:00.879 --> 00:40:02.000
 organ

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:02.899
 or bad tissue

00:40:02.899 --> 00:40:04.179
 right

00:40:04.179 --> 00:40:04.839
 take skill

00:40:04.839 --> 00:40:05.339
 to do that

00:40:05.339 --> 00:40:07.279
 they used it

00:40:07.279 --> 00:40:08.599
 of a gem cutter

00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:09.599
 who would take a stone

00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:10.299
 and carefully

00:40:10.299 --> 00:40:11.039
 take a hammer

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:12.619
 examine that rock

00:40:12.619 --> 00:40:13.059
 carefully

00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:14.219
 and put that hammer

00:40:14.219 --> 00:40:15.039
 in exact place

00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:15.799
 and strike that

00:40:15.799 --> 00:40:16.139
 with a

00:40:16.139 --> 00:40:17.099
 that chisel

00:40:17.099 --> 00:40:17.679
 with a hammer

00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:18.799
 in exactly the right spot

00:40:18.799 --> 00:40:19.400
 and you'd have

00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:20.960
 multiple good diamonds

00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:22.400
 instead of just ruining it

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:24.299
 they used it

00:40:24.299 --> 00:40:25.500
 of the navigator

00:40:25.500 --> 00:40:26.259
 at sea

00:40:26.259 --> 00:40:27.480
 in ancient days

00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:28.699
 who could take a ship

00:40:28.699 --> 00:40:29.599
 and in the middle of the night

00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:30.719
 without any of the

00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:32.440
 modern scientific methods

00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:33.019
 we have

00:40:33.019 --> 00:40:34.799
 take just a sectant

00:40:34.799 --> 00:40:36.239
 and just a few tools

00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:37.839
 and a knowledge

00:40:37.839 --> 00:40:38.400
 of the stars

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:39.559
 and he could guide

00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:40.099
 that ship

00:40:40.099 --> 00:40:40.940
 to its destination

00:40:40.940 --> 00:40:41.840
 that's skill

00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:43.880
 and that's what

00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:45.380
 the writer of Proverbs

00:40:45.380 --> 00:40:45.720
 is saying

00:40:45.720 --> 00:40:46.440
 leave your life

00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:46.960
 skillfully

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:47.840
 so that you do this

00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.720
 you're walking

00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:49.220
 through life

00:40:49.220 --> 00:40:50.119
 and here's this obstacle

00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:50.639
 and you just

00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:51.720
 step around that

00:40:51.720 --> 00:40:53.360
 and you move over here

00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:54.260
 and here's another obstacle

00:40:54.260 --> 00:40:55.659
 and you find a way

00:40:55.659 --> 00:40:56.380
 to get around it

00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:57.559
 and you just skillfully

00:40:57.559 --> 00:40:58.860
 walk through life

00:40:58.860 --> 00:40:59.559
 versus

00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:01.139
 you've seen those folk

00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:03.000
 who every day

00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:03.720
 they live

00:41:03.720 --> 00:41:05.760
 it's like a bull

00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:06.800
 in a china shop

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.660
 they're just

00:41:08.660 --> 00:41:09.440
 wreaking havoc

00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:10.580
 and breaking things

00:41:10.580 --> 00:41:11.200
 and you just

00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:12.340
 kind of shake your head

00:41:12.340 --> 00:41:12.840
 and say boy

00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:14.960
 it's just one disaster

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:16.019
 after another

00:41:16.019 --> 00:41:16.900
 after another

00:41:16.900 --> 00:41:18.420
 you know what that's from

00:41:18.420 --> 00:41:20.680
 a lifetime of making

00:41:20.680 --> 00:41:22.300
 bad bad bad choices

00:41:22.300 --> 00:41:24.240
 so in the closing moments

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 of this sermon

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 here's what I want you to do

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 I want you to take a good

00:41:27.260 --> 00:41:28.380
 hard look at yourself

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 forget the past

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 you can't do anything

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 about that

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 but right now

00:41:32.660 --> 00:41:33.019
 today

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 are you in the midst

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:36.220
 of making some bad decisions

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 some good decisions

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 some godly decisions

00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:41.899
 some ungodly decisions

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 some decisions

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 that will

00:41:43.759 --> 00:41:45.219
 help your family

00:41:45.219 --> 00:41:46.919
 some decisions

00:41:46.919 --> 00:41:47.480
 that could

00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:48.559
 train wreck

00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:49.099
 your family

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 what kind of decision

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:51.959
 are you making

00:41:51.959 --> 00:41:52.539
 right now

00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:53.559
 today

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 financial decisions

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 social decisions

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 some of you

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 have friends

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 I want to be honest

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 with you

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 you ought to lose them

00:42:00.819 --> 00:42:02.699
 because they've got

00:42:02.699 --> 00:42:03.359
 your ear

00:42:03.359 --> 00:42:05.159
 they're speaking

00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:06.139
 things into your ear

00:42:06.139 --> 00:42:07.079
 that's influencing you

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 you're not even aware

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 at times they are

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 but they're influencing

00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:11.500
 you down a path

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 and you're going to

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 wake up one day

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 and say you know what

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 I didn't really want this

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 but I guess this is

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 a choice I've made

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 I'm asking you right now

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 to do inventory

00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:21.879
 in your life

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 and say

00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:23.359
 what about my choices

00:42:23.359 --> 00:42:24.579
 young

00:42:24.579 --> 00:42:24.960
 old

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 in between

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 what about my choices

00:42:26.980 --> 00:42:27.440
 right now

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 am I making choices

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 that a year from now

00:42:29.839 --> 00:42:30.519
 I'll be glad I made

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 or am I making

00:42:31.059 --> 00:42:31.639
 some choices

00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:32.359
 a year from now

00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:33.780
 my whole family

00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:34.660
 could have blown apart

00:42:34.660 --> 00:42:36.079
 because of my stupidity

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 let's bow together

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 in prayer

00:42:38.180 --> 00:42:38.599
 father

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 lead us and guide us

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 today

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 in this time

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 of invitation

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 time of reflection

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 more than anything

00:42:45.019 --> 00:42:47.039
 to think about

00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:47.599
 the choices

00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:48.220
 we're making

00:42:48.220 --> 00:42:49.079
 every one of us

00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:49.660
 young and old

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 in this room

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 if we're making

00:42:51.940 --> 00:42:53.220
 God honoring choices

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 lord I'm so grateful

00:42:54.740 --> 00:42:55.200
 for that

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 and I know many are

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 but there's some of us

00:42:57.880 --> 00:42:58.579
 who are being careless

00:42:58.579 --> 00:42:59.120
 and reckless

00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:00.280
 in our decision making

00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:02.420
 and I pray God

00:43:02.420 --> 00:43:03.440
 that you bear to mind

00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:03.740
 today

00:43:03.740 --> 00:43:04.660
 give us a warning

00:43:04.660 --> 00:43:05.840
 signal today

00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:07.340
 awaken us

00:43:07.340 --> 00:43:08.360
 from a stupor

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:10.180
 that would allow us

00:43:10.180 --> 00:43:10.480
 to see

00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:10.960
 you know what

00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:11.980
 I'm headed down

00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:12.780
 a road that leads

00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:13.320
 to disaster

00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:15.080
 and teach us

00:43:15.080 --> 00:43:15.280
 Lord

00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:16.600
 it's never too late

00:43:16.600 --> 00:43:17.620
 never too late

00:43:17.620 --> 00:43:18.800
 to do the right thing

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 we ask this

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 in your name

00:43:21.180 --> 00:43:21.920
 for your sake

00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:22.340
 amen