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What basis do we as human beings have for pride?
What do we have that we were not given?
Prov
pr 16
Judges
Last week it was Gideon and the Midianites.
Now we have moved to the Philistines.
God would raise up a deliverer through Manoah who was from the tribe of Dan.
I. Impulsiveness Leads to Living Carelessly
Judges 14:
Judges
Sin as Selfishness: When we sin, we are acting out of a selfish attitude and mind-set that assumes our action will lead us to more happiness than if we were to obey God.
This raises the question, “what makes us happy?”
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
Samson was in direct defiance of God’s commandment!
It does not matter that she is not right in God’s eyes, she is right in my eyes.
It does not matter that this does not please God, what matters is that it pleases ME!
What are some examples you have seen exactly this situation played out in the church?
Affairs
Unbiblical divorce
Homosexuality
Abortion
Rejecting certain claims of Scripture
Judges
Some suggest that Samson violated his Nazarite vow by touching the body of a dead animal.
There is clearly something wrong in Samson’s act because the author (Samuel?) points out that he kept that little detail from his parents.
Who among the NT disciples had a proclivity toward impulsiveness?
Peter earned a scathing rebuke from Christ because of his own impulsive behavior.
He was also the one who jumped out of the boat at the spur of the moment to walk on water.
What are some other problems with being impulsive?
Financial
Immediate gratification
Lack of disciple
What about the fact that impulsive tendencies can be antithetical to biblical submission?
Samson did not stop to ask if taking this pagan wife was honoring God or not.
She was the kind of woman that tripped his trigger and that is all that mattered to him.
God was not a consideration.
There is a serious matter with which Christians must grapple when we read and compare it to .
Samson is being moved by divine providence even though divine command forbids the marriage between Israelites and Philistines.
What are we to make of this?
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Pride Leads to Behaving Irresponsibly
Seven fresh cords: nope.
New ropes: nope.
The hair weave with web and pen: nope.
Why did Samson tell Delilah the truth?
It was a moment of weak faith!
Samson didn’t actually believe it at the moment either.
Samson may have thought 1) that he was doing this in his own strength; 2) that God wouldn’t really forsake him after all.
Weak faith often leads to arrogance.
God can’t or won’t do it, but I can and will.
REMEMBER, GOD HATES ARROGANCE.
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Humiliation Leads to Relying on God
it isn’t
What idea in American culture has done more than any other to convince us that we should think more highly of ourselves than we do?
There have been few ideas in American culture that are more antithetical and more detrimental to the faith and growth of believers than the self-esteem movement.
God loves me and wants me to be happy.
That’s the kind of God I will serve.
The Christianity that tells me I am a sinner, unworthy of God’s love is the product of mentally deranged people who have a psychological disorder and should be avoided.
Christian became Americanized and turned into little more than a spiritual self-help system laced with an external morality but inside is filled with millions of rotting corpses whose eternal damnation is inevitable.
What is a more biblical way for Christians to view themselves?
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
God made me and said that it was very good.
I have nothing that I have not been given by God.
I have sinned against my Creator in more ways than I can count.
I have earned every ounce of God’s wrath.
I can do nothing to earn God’s love and favor.
All that I have, I have because of Christ.
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