Simon Wallace - I went through Confirmation classes to "confirm my faith in God" and become a member of the church. I don't remember the Bible being opened during these classes to have God's way of salvation explained. I had been baptised as a child and after these sessions was now a member of the church, and yet I remained ignorant as to the very reason for which Christ came into the world...
Memory Verse: Prov. 1:10 Memory Verse Text: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Point 1: Samson became the thirteenth judge. Moved by his own selfishness and lust, he told his parents to get him a wife from his own people's enemy. He told them, "I have seen...get her for me; for she pleaseth me well" (Judges 14:2,3). God planned to use this to bring about His own purposes. Application: It is sad that God has to use us in spite of ourselves at times! Point 2: As Samson and his parents went down to Timnath, a lion attacked and he easily tore the lion apart with his bare hand. Coming back to Timnath the second time, Samson saw that bees had made honey in the unclean lion carcase. He gave the honey to his parents to eat and didn't tell them where it had come from. Samson's actions showed how little regard he had for God's requirement for the Nazarite, for his people, and for himself that they would be rendered ceremonially unclean by touching the dead. Point 3: Samson told the Philistines a riddle and offered them a large reward if they could solve it. He did this to create an offense and to provoke an attack on the Philistines. When they could not solve it, they used Samson's wife to make him reveal the answer. She triumphed over Samson by getting the answer out of him, and then told his enemies. Application: Our families or loved ones can become points of attack that the Adversary may use to bring us down. Point 4: Samson went to Ashkelon and killed thirty of the men's own people, Philistines, to pay the reward he had promised. In addition, due to his further actions, there was more death and defilement, including the death of his wife.
Notes: Make sure you know something about the Nazarite; the Nazarite is described in Numbers 6.
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