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*Title: *“he loved a woman… whose name was Delilah”
*FCF: *blindness of soul and spirit
*D-Theme: *God’s Spirit is the answer
*M-Thrust: *seek the Spirit of the Lord
*App:* we must seek the Spirit of the Lord because the Spirit is the answer
*Comment: *no comments to speak of and you know that is a good thing – because I don’t want to be preaching for favorable comments.
I want to preach for the Spirit's power to be displayed!
I did sense that a few @ Melrose Church were touched – perhaps it is so.
*Subject: *life in the Spirit - II
*Date: *07-02-11.01
*Text:* Judges 16:1-22; 2nd Corinthians 3:16-4:4
• Introduction
• Last week as we began to delve into Samson’s story…
• We saw that Samson had a spiritual dullness about him…
• Seemingly unable to discern…
• …the fine line between flesh and Spirit…
• That much of what Samson did was motivated by flesh…
• …and his desire for revenge against the Philistines…
• God used it for his glory… but it wasn’t his best for Israel…
• This week we continue to look @ the life of Samson…
• Showing us the progression in a person’s life…
• Beginning with spiritual dullness leading to…
• …blindness of soul and spirit…
• After all, what thing does Samson do after his victory…?
1[he…] went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.
• There was a blindness of soul and spirit that gripped him…
• Perhaps thinking that since he was God’s man…
• He was above the law of God for sexual purity…
• In fact you could say that Samson was blinded…
• Long before the Philistines gouged out his eyes…
…whose minds the god of this age has blinded…
• Last week we looked @ what it means to walk in the Spirit…
• Rather than walking after the flesh…
• Our great need to crucify the flesh – passions & desires…
• We see in our text this week that Samson was unaware…
• The Spirit of the Lord had left him when his hair was cut…
• Blind to the fact that disregarding his vow and purpose…
• And disobedience to the commands of God…
• Caused God’s presence to depart from him…
• Along with his sight, strength, freedom, & hope…
• What was the answer for Samson…?
What is our answer…?
• God’s Spirit is the answer…!
• For everything we need in life – for every aspect of life…
• The presence of God by his Spirit is the answer…
• So then we must seek the Spirit of the Lord…
2nd Chronicles 15:2
2“…The Lord /is/ with you while you are with Him.
If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• And we must seek Him with all of our heart…
1st Chronicles 16:9-11
9Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; Talk of all His wondrous works!
10Glory in His holy name; Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord! 11Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face evermore!
Psalm 63:1-2
1O God, You /are/ my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
2So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.
Isaiah 55:6
6Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.
Jeremiah 29:13
13And you will seek Me and find /Me,/ when you search for Me with all your heart.
• We must seek the Spirit of the Lord…
• …because the Spirit gives sight
• As I said, before the Philistines gouged out Samson’s eyes…
• He was blind – living with serious blind spots in character…
• I mean, how is it possible for a man – any man…
• To have the experience Samson had with his first wife…
• When she tormented him in order to betray him…
• To come again to a similar if not identical circumstance…
• Where Delilah torments him in order to betray him…
• How could he not recognize what was happening…?
• And surely he was blind to the fact that if you play with fire…
• You will most certainly get burned…
• Going into women that were not his wives…
• Who were representatives of the enemy…
• The time always comes when our strength to resist fails…
• If we are repeatedly exposed to the wiles of the enemy…
• This man of great natural strength…
• Had absolutely no strength to resist this woman Delilah…
• …blind to the reality that he could not resist forever…
• And as Samson is blind so too are we apart from the Lord…
• We seek the Spirit of the Lord in order to receive sight…
2nd Corinthians 3:18
18But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
• To have the veil of blindness of the god of this age…
• Removed from our eyes so that we behold him…!
• You cannot come into the presence of the Lord…
• To see his face and go away unchanged…!
• Every time we say, “I believe in the Holy Spirit,” we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
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• If we are to have the strength to resist the devil…
• To recognize his schemes and turn away from them…
• To preserve holiness and remain steadfast…
• Then we must seek the Lord because the Spirit gives sight…
• We must seek the Spirit of the Lord…
• …because the Spirit gives strength
• What was the source of Samson’s great strength…?
• Was it the length of his hair…?
• Was it the purity of his life…?
• Abstaining from the fruit of the vine…
• Avoiding contact with death and corruption…
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