Sermon

Yesterday Aaron preached on Samson and Delilah. Judges 16.

He was a Nazirite. "Anyone can take a vow, but sometimes the vows don't take"

Why Samson? What went wrong?

Two answers:

1. "was tired to death" -- Samson gave up; let down his guard; tired and not thinking clearly.

2. "did not know the Lord had left him" -- Samson suffered from minimalist thinking; had taken many small steps away from God without any visible consequences; didn't think this next small step -- cutting his hair -- would be the one that then separated him from God.

Ending. "but hair began to grow" -- God can restore us or as Aaron said "God can regrow hair" -- Samson in his death did more than in his life.