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The Broken Victor: Samson
Judges 16:1-31 | 12/01/2024

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THE TROUBLE WITH SAMSON (AND US)
• Samson’s heart used God’s

as a reason to

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God.

• In

, God takes even our weaknesses and failures and uses them for us…but in

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, we take even his gifts and strengths and use them against him.

• Samson was unable to see how dependent he was on God’s grace, seeing his strength as an inalienable

, not a

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from God.

WHO’S GOT THE POWER?
• Magic is a matter of following the steps to the letter, attempting to manipulate a power to work in your favor. But God’s power is different. It depends on internal conditions; on a

relationship.

SAMSON BEGINS TO SEE (DO YOU?)
• Samson recognizes that the God of Israel is

.

• Samson knows that this is

God – the saving, covenantal, relational God.

• Samson exercises

.

• Becoming a Christian, and growing as a Christian follows roughly the same pattern – we become

to become

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.

A Few Next Steps

 Reflect: What good things do you have in your life, that you take too much credit for, that are really from God? (see James 1:17)

 Write down one or two things that are required for you to admit weakness.

 Do something this week that you are not particularly good at, or that you don’t like doing, in the service of another, or in the service of God. (Don’t worry, it won’t kill you.)