Samson,The Super-boy Named Sunny Judges 13:1-25If you aren't very, very careful you will get so accustomed to sin that it will not disturb you anymore. The Children of Israel had become accustomed to slavery and now they find themselves in bondage to the Philistines. The Philistines were a people made up of a five-city confederacy on the coast. These are the ones that are used at this particular time to bring Israel down to its knees again.Now, the Philistines did it in two basic ways. They did it through trade and through intermarriage. The Philistines knew how to smelt iron and make plows and axes. So the if the Children of Israel wanted these kinds of things they had to go to them. So, commerce was one of the things that was used to pull them and suck them into the pagan culture.The other thing was inter marriage. Because of inter marrying with pagans, people who did not know the Lord but worshipped false gods, the Children of Israel are becoming assimilated to the culture around them.Rather than maintaining separation, rather than maintaining a total consecration and dedication to the Lord they find themselves engulfed by their culture.Young Samson had the benefit of every advantage and opportunity.Great beginnings are no guarantee of successful finishes.
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Coming from Arab, Alabama, and growing up in Tampa, Fla. I moved with my family to Georgia in 1969. I was saved by God’s marvelous Grace in September 1972 at Blue Springs Baptist Church located down the road from North Cobb High School in Acworth, Ga. Called to preach at 16...