Hello Everyone,

The last price that Samson paid for low living that we are looking at this week is he deluded his power.
Now he's sitting in Delilah's hair salon, and she tries to learn the secret of his strength. He toys with her, telling her lies [tie me with fresh thongs/ new ropes / weave my hair] Notice he's getting closer to

the truth.

The devil just tries to get us to take small steps his direction.

Finally, he caves in and tells her the truth. He breaks the final part of his Nazarite vow. Now it's too late, the point of no return. And here is the saddest verse...

Judges 16:20 Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

He lost his power, and didn't even know it. Some reading this don't even know how cold they've grown, and how far away from God they have slowly become.

The great lesson of the book of Judges is that God would rather forgive than judge. Along the way Samson made mistakes, but could have made them right and been restored, but he went all the way with sin.

And sin binds, sin blinds, and then sin grinds, slowly, grinds away at you.

Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding in the prison.

I beg of you be careful you are paying a high price for a low standard of living. Ask Jesus to forgive you and restore you to a higher way of living for Him.

Oh HOW HE Loves Us!

Pastor Phil