Judges 16:4-31 | Samson's Revival

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Samson is most famous for his strength, but the greatest lessons in his life come from his failures. The greatest lesson, however, comes from chapter 16; your past doesn’t have to define your future.

Perhaps up to this point your life has been a series of failures, mistakes, or of sins and disappointments. But the final chapter has not yet been written. Your past doesn’t have to define your future. Before God can redefine your future, however, He must bring you to the end of yourself. God wants you to come to the end of self-sufficiency.

In John 15, Jesus spoke a deep truth, “Without Me, you can do nothing.” The problem is that verse is easy to read and easy to say, but it’s a whole different thing to live that way.

When you consider the story of Samson’s life and read of his epic failures, it could lead one to wonder how this man ever made it into Hebrews 11, that famous chapter that lists the great heroes of faith.

This much is certain, Samson didn’t make it into Hebrews 11 because of his failures, he made it into that chapter because his failures didn’t define his life.

Samson began well; he had everything going for him at the first. God called him and set him apart for His purpose even while he was in the womb.

His mother was barren, but the angel of the Lord met her and said, “Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”

The Nazirite vow is found in Numbers chapter 6. It is a special vow of dedication to the Lord. It’s the vow of being set apart, of being dedicated to God and His purpose.

When a man or woman takes this vow of the Nazir, they are to separate themselves unto the Lord. During the time of their dedication, they are to abstain from wine, and strong drink, and anything to do with grapes. They must keep themselves separate from anything that is dead, and they must not cut their hair.

No razor coming upon his head would be the secret to Samson’s uniqueness. He would have the strength of many men. If he lived in our modern age, he would be a celebrity; a man’s man in every way; and the desire of women.

But God set him apart for His purpose; a unique calling, a divine assignment; he would begin to deliver Israel from the oppression of the Philistines.

I imagine his mother explaining to Samson when he was young; how she was barren, how the angel of the Lord met her and promised that her son that would begin to deliver Israel, that he would be set apart, dedicated for a divine purpose and that even while he was in the womb, she lived set apart for God.

In our modern, New Testament times, we don’t have such a thing as a Nazirite vow, but we do have people that are set apart unto God. It’s you; you are a set apart people. That’s what it means to be sanctified in Christ Jesus.

And if you have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, you have been set apart for a unique purpose and a unique calling on your life.

We have a saying, “Where God guides, He provides.” It means that when God sets you apart for His purpose, He will equip you and sustain you in that purpose.

In the case of Samson, it meant the Spirit of the Lord coming upon him mightily so that he had the strength and power to accomplish that purpose. He had power against his enemies because the Spirit of God came upon him.

I suggest that when you live sanctified, or in other words, set apart, and you walk in the purpose for which God called you, the same Holy Spirit that came upon Samson resides in you and will equip you for God’s purpose and calling.

However, if you are not set apart, if you lose your set apart-ness, in other words, if there’s no difference, you live just like everyone else in the world, I suggest you will not have the Holy Spirit power to accomplish God’s purpose in your life.
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