Summary
And today, and we're gonna do just various people in the Bible, if there is someone that you would really like for me to touch on, because I'm not telling you who we're doing each week, if there's someone, and I don't already have it in my list, let me know because I may add it into my list, and I may not because that's just gonna be how I am. So something that we need to understand is that time period that takes place in judges, it's just depraved, it's gross, it's sinful, and there's a long time where just consistently, sin, sin, sin abounds, I know that today, we don't know anything about sin abounding, but sin was abounding during this time. So, God raises these judges to lead Israel, and Israel, they will moan and they will groan because they are reaping the consequence of turning from the Lord and worshipping false gods, and so God allowed for the consequences to happen just as he said they would, and they cried out to him, and he would provide a judge, provide someone to rescue Israel, to save Israel out of the hand of their enemies, and the Israelites would turn, and then as soon as that judge would die, they would go into a period again of abandoning the Lord. Samson, and I was thinking, oh, I have this nice thing, I don't know, I don't, last time I had something to draw this time, I all I'm thinking is like a stick figure of like strong man, Samson, but I don't think I'm gonna do that to you all. Chapter 14, right at that first case, we were building against Samson, when he is going to take that first Philistine woman as his wife and his parents ask, well, isn't there someone of our own kin that you could have of our own people, of Israel that you could have for a wife and they didn't understand what was going on. And Christ, you know, Samson saved Israel or God saved Israel through Samson's death, but God saved all of us and gives us each a new beginning, a new life through the death and resurrection of Christ, of himself.
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