book of Judges chapter 14 and verse five so Samson went down to Timna with his father and mother and
came to vineyards of Timna now to his surprise at the young lion came roaring against him and
the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he toured the lion apart as he would torn apart a
young goat though he had nothing in his hand but he did not tell his father or his mother what he
has done then he went down and talked with a woman and she pleased Samson well this is the story
about Samson than most of us are aware of and story about the mighty powers that God did through
him and the story that we read right now this was actually his first official miracle his first
official fight his first official victory and you always have to look at how somebody started you
always have to look how did they begin like the Bible talks about the miracle the first miracle
Jesus did when he turned water into wine and the Scriptures goes into a detail how he did it why
because it was the first miracle the foundational miracle of what Jesus was about to do and we see
same thing about Samson we see the first thing that got us through his life and that is that
comes in a defeat of a lion now if we study the life of Samson we see the God that annoying him
to kill lions God anointed him to kill Philistines God anointed him to overcome Philistines but the
first challenge Samson faces was not with the Philistine with the lion he doesn't go fight he
is going to his own wedding and the scripture says on his way mother and his father are none with him
a lion comes against him and the scripture says he wanted to attack him but Samson the Spirit of
God came up on Samson and the Samson attacked the lion and tore him apart I want to see that in HD
in heaven I mean this is just amazing he tears it apart the lion and God gives him the first victory
he was not anointed to kill lions but the lion came against him God has a calling and a purpose
for each one of us but before we start moving in our calling you have to meet a lion in your path
before David could face a Goliath he had to face a lion first amen before Jesus had to face demons
cast them out and do all other things he had to face a lion in the wilderness and we see Samson
he has a battle and the first battle he faces a lion in it before he would face Philistines he
had to face a lion and God gives him the victory over the lion and then God begins to give him
victories over other things that he begins to fight I want to encourage you today that you and
I we all will face a lion in our life we all will face a private issue a private attack a private
demon or private temptation or private just an attack something in the life that will cause us
to go back and could actually potentially destroy your life and Samson would not destroy this lion
this lion would have destroyed his future amen if Samson would not destroy this lion we would
never hear about this Samson if the lion would have conquered Samson we would have never heard
about the future conquest the future victories of Samson it's interesting that Samson wasn't
called by God to kill Lions but the lion came against him the scripture says in Peter that
there is a lion there is a devil that's roaring like a lion and he's seeking whom he may devour
and we have to resist against him with our stat fest faith and then he will flee from
us and Satan will three from us amen when we resist against him with our steadfast faith I
want to encourage you this morning that before God gives public victories God gives private
challenges before God gives public victories God allows private demons God allows private Lions
when you are on your way to school when you are on your way to your work when you are on your way to
your career to your college when you are under way to church doing your normal day activities
doing your normal things daily life things and there comes a problem there comes a challenge
and you were not even equipped to face with that you did not have the calling to deal with that or
education or knowledge or information but I want to tell you something that when you meet something
the scripture says to his surprise when something comes against you by surprise remember it did not
come against you by surprise to god god is that caught by surprise by your lions your lions do
not catch god by surprise somebody same in my issues do not catch god by surprise my poverty
does not catch god by surprise your sickness is not catching god by surprise because God
is the God who knows everything and he's aware of everything and he equips us for every single
battle that we face even if we feel completely unequipped somebody say men by his surprise
but nothing comes a surprise to God God gives victories we have to learn to get victories in
a private life so that we can live in victories in our public life we have to learn like David
overcame alliance in our private life so we can overcome giants in the public life we have to
learn now to sham away from there temptation in our private life so we can become victorious like
Jesus in our public life amen God has victory and God has promises for us God has blessing
for us and God has things for us that we need to achieve today but he starts again in a private
life it starts again with not shining away with not running away from the Lions and we see that
with Samson I love Samson and Samson has a lot of positive traits in his life but he also has many
negative traits and one of the negative / positive trait and his life is that he always fought alone
Samson was not a patriot you will never see Samson killing a Philistine for his country
you never see Samson going to war to protect Israel you always see him fighting either for
his eyes for his wife ex-wife or something else they did to him he always had a personal reason to
kill Philistines it is no Samson never cared about his country it's as though he never cared about
his family he only cared about himself and so you can come to the conclusion that Samson was a lone
ranger Samson never fought with the team he never fought with an army he never had 12 disciples like
Jesus he never had 300 men like Gideon he never had 30 mighty men like David Samson was always
by himself and always killing Phyllis's by himself and always killing them because they did something
bad to him while this is bad this is also very good because Samson did not let enemy get away
with anything samsa saying you know what I know Israel I know they're letting you enemy destroy
them impoverished them oppress them and they're letting you get away with it but Samson said as
about me I will not let you get away for anything you take my eyes he says you gonna pay for it and
Samson was one of those guys that if you attack him personally he says even if the whole country
doesn't care about it he says I'm gonna fight I am gonna attack and I'm not gonna let the enemy get
away with anything the spiritual warfare is not just a mass of warfare it's when you fight against
the enemy when you come against the enemy even if nobody else is doing it even if the enemy's be
showing everybody's life and it's okay with them and they're saying it's a norm it's the culture
it's the way of life it's the statistic but you say like sensing no no no that's not like that
with me God has fueled me with the Holy Spirit and I will not let the enemy get away with anything in
my family if he takes the memory on my previous generations listen that might happen there and
they may said it's okay but it's not going to happen with me why I will not let the enemy
get away with anything why because the greater is He that is in me than the one who's in the world
come on somebody I think most of us are guilty of letting the enemy get away with stuff most of us
are guilty with letting the enemy get away with things the first victory Samson had he wasn't
protecting kids from a lion it wasn't a line at acting a village and Samson went in as a hero
Savior the Superman and save the city no he was saving his own life the second victory Samson
had was with 30 men he goes in and he kills 30 men just so he can go pay for the 30 guys that
solve his riddle by manipulating his wife he wasn't doing anything for his nation the third
time we see is that Samson comes to his wife and his father in law gives his wife to his best man
which is a really bad thing and the scripture says Samson was so mad he decided to revenge
Philistines he took 300 foxes filled them with fire and send them into the thing he did not
let one thing the enemy did to him to get away with it he did never once he let the enemy get
away with anything he did to his life I wonder how many times will let the enemy get away with stuff
I wonder how many times years have been taken from our life and we let him get away with it and when
it comes to prayer time we put her hands in our pockets and we just stand there chewing gum why
because we want to let him get away with it see a Samson spirit it's not just the Lone Ranger
spirit it's a spirit that says you know what not even a small time I will let the enemy get away
with anything we see the third that the next time the Samson attacks the enemy it's again 1,000 men
get killed and you know why they get killed because they burned his wife the one that he
didn't even like now because you she was married to another man samster did not let the enemy get
away for anything you know what the last victory that he had 3,000 men died and you know what his
prayer was before he killed those men he said lord please give him his give me the strength so I can
avenge them for my two eyes his whole purpose was like God because of my eyes sometimes I read it
I feel like this is completely and you know in one way it is negative thing because he didn't
care about the nation he had a personal revenge but there is also a positive thing he did not
let nothing get away he did not let nothing get away I want to encourage you today to rise up I
won't encourage you today stop let the enemy get away with something stop let the Bible
says if you catch a thief he will be required to return Sevenfold but he will never be required to
return seven fault if he is not caught if you let him get away with stuff if you let him get away
and you actually open him the door and say yes you can go and yes you can take everything you
took from my house he will go and he will take even come back for some more but if the enemy
comes in one way and you chase him out and you begin to declare war and you begin to declared
against the thing you begin to pray you begin to fast you begin to watch videos if we get to
fill yourself with faith and say you know what no this is not how it's going to be with my life why
because i had the same tenacious spirit sampson head the enemy will not get away with anything
from my life somebody say men have the spirit today when you pray when we pray when we watch
the clips when we watch the testimonies when you read the scripture do not let the enemy get away
for anything he stole your childhood stole your innocence maybe through sin you've lost so many
years maybe even right now he occupied your mind listen your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
there is not one part of your life that belongs to him you have redeemed child of God do not let
the enemy get away with anything do not let him get away with the fact that he lives in you I
may be torments you or attacks you in a dream or maybe attacks shooting your physical body do not
let him get away with anything because if God could bless Samson and give him the victory for
the times that he fought for his own battles God can give you the victory to somebody's amen amen
but we see in this scripture that we read tonight is the Sampson kills a lion and the scripture says
that after that he comes back and he takes from the lion he takes some things from the lion and
they realizes there's honey there in the lion now the theologians and all the doctors they did they
say that there was the first time the Samson committed sin because he touched something as
dead which he was not allowed to as a Nazarite but I will not get into that but I want you to
know one thing is that when Samson gets a victory from that victory he takes something sweet anytime
you have victory in your life it brings sweetness into your life you get a breakthrough there is a
certain sweetness that comes into your life amen you get married there are certain sweetness that
comes into your life you get divorce that sweetness is gone it's only bitterness that
begins to fill your pocket begins to fill your mind begins to fill your life when God begins
to bring a breakthrough in sir maybe addiction that you had there comes a sweetness anytime
there is victory that is sweetness somebody say Amen there is no sweetness and alcohol there is
no sweetness in pornography there's no sweetness in cigarettes there's no sweetness in drinking
at the club there is a sweetness in victory that is sweetness in the victor listen there
is no sweetness and being in the hands of some stupid boyfriend no there's sweetness being in
the victory of Jesus Christ he is the sweetest and the victory is the sweetest somebody say
Amen God has the victory for us and then God wants us to live in that because that's when
our life is at its sweetest that's our when our life has its greatest purpose when we have that
victory but one thing that I seen Samson is that every victory the Samson had it increased first
victory was he fought one lion then 30 people then 300 foxes then 1000 men then T 3,000 men so we see
every victory Samson progressed it wasn't a normal victory it was always bigger bigger bigger bigger
bigger his victories were bigger his battles were bigger but he devised devotion with time decreased
decreased decreased while God's victories were going higher Samson's commitment was going lower
and that's what brought broke his life and I want to encourage you today when God begins to open up
the doors for bigger challenges in your life it requires for bigger commitment when the Lions
become bigger that means that your devotion has to be bigger when the branches of the tree become
bigger the roots have to get deeper when God allows you to experience better promotion when
God allows you to experience better blessing it has to challenge you for a deeper devotion
the moment the weight of your public life begins become bigger than your private devotion sooner or
later your life will crumble in Matthew chapter 7 it says a man who built his house on the sand
very soon that house crumble why because he has something bigger than the outside then
he had on the inside I want to challenge you today let's dig a roots deep in God if you
have a bigger battle today then you had yesterday that means it requires for a bigger and a deeper
commitment to the Holy Spirit it requires for a deeper commitment to holiness deeper commitment
to prayer deeper commitment to the Word of God and only then your victory is secure somebody say Amen
it requires deeper walking with God and we see in Samson his last battle we saw his first battle and
God gives him victory over a lion but his last battle quickly and I want to finish in this is
the Sampson fights for the first time in his life as blind men before then every battle he thought
he had two of his eyes he had two of his hands and two of his feet and you know that no man who
is blind is guaranteed of a victory and Samson his first battle he was outmatched because he was the
man and he fought a fierce lion and God gave him victory but his last battle he was outmatched as
well because he was a man who was blind and he had 3,000 people to sit and set in a room and
there was no way he could win a battle and in the beginning he had good eyes everything was
good but he had no experience but God was with him and God gave him the victory and at the end
Samson has no lies but he has great experience he's completely outnumbered and he is no match
to any enemy because he is not capable of fighting and the scripture says in his last day God gives
him such a victory at the Bible says more people were conquered in his last victory than all of his
life put together it's interesting that when he was the weakest God was the strongest it's
interesting that when he was the most incapable God said I will now grant you the greatest victory
in your life not when you were the strongest not when you were the less experienced but when you
are most incapable God says that's when I am most capable that's when I most powerful