I want to invite your attention to the Old Testament to the Book
of Judges the 16th chapter and we want to begin reading there
in verse 18, Judges chapter, 16 beginning in verse 18, And when
Delilah saw that, he had told her all his heart, she sent and
called, for the Lords of the Philistines saying, come up,
this wants for, he has showed me all his heart.
Then the Lords of the Philistines came up onto her and
brought money in their hand, and she made him sleep upon her
knees and she called for a man and she calls him to shave off.
The Seven Locks of his head and she began to afflict him and his
strength went from him. And she said, the Philistines be
upon these Samson and he awoke out of his sleep and said I will
go out as at other times before and shake myself.
But notice this phrase, this is our sermon today and he Wist not
that the Lord was departed from him.
You know, in that story, very familiar Old Testament story.
I'm sure he thought that everything was going to be just
as it had been in times past. He thought that God would Grant
him the strength to rise up and Shake himself and have it be as
it was and all other times prior.
But that sobering phrase, he knew not that the Lord was
departed from him. Want to talk to you about that
today for a little while. Before we do we have a wonderful
privilege now of going. Go to the great God of heaven
and prayer. And we would invite all the wood
to humble yourself in a manner that you see fit, while our
brother directs our minds at this time, prior to the events
under consideration this morning for a little while.
You remember back in the 15th, chapter of the Book of Judges,
we find the account of when Samson came to Lehigh, the
Philistine shouted against him and the spirit of the Lord came
mightily upon him. And the Bible says that the Was
that whereupon, his arms became as Flex that was burnt with fire
and his band's. Loosed from Office hands and the
scripture says that Samson found a new job own of an ass and put
forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men there with
and Samson said with the Jawbone of an ass heaps upon heaps with
the job and ask have, I slain 1000, man after this was done or
after he was done speaking, the Bible says that he took that At
jaw bone and he cast it out of his hand and called the place
ramoth Lehigh. And the Bible says that the that
Samson was sore a thirst at that time and when he was he called
on the Lord. And he said, hast, thou given
this great Deliverance into the hand of my servant and now shall
I die for thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
And God clave, a hollow place that was in the jaw and there
came. Water they're out.
And when he had drunk, his Spirit came again and he was
revived. And the last verse of that
chapter says, and he judged Israel in the days of the
Philistines, 20 years. Well, then we find that Samson
went to Gaza and it was there that he saw a harlot and went in
unto her and word. Got to those gas sites, that
Samson had come there and they come past him and that walled
City and laid, wait for him all night.
Say, Saying we're going to wait for him and in the morning when
it is day we're going to rise up against him.
He will be defenseless as it were and we will kill him.
You know, we talked about various cities not too long ago.
You remember last Lord's day we talked about the the place of
Nineveh or the city of Nineveh and in Nineveh it had walls as
upwards to 100 feet tall. You remember, Jericho also
Jericho was a fenced or a walled City.
Ancient cities either fell into those two categories.
They were either fixed or wall, or they were open cities and
fenced or walled cities was built for the purpose of
protecting them against the attack of an enemy.
And here, it was that the gas sites, find out that Samson is
there and they said that in the morning that's the time that
he's going to leave. They just assumed that would be
so they compass that walled City and they laid in wait and they
purpose. Then when we see him in the
morning, he will be defenseless and we will rise up against him
and we will kill him. But notice what happens Sampson
at midnight. The Bible says came and Rose up.
And at midnight, he took the doors of the Gate of the city,
and the two posts and went away with them bar and all and put
them upon his shoulders and carried them up to the top of
the hill that was before Hebron Then the Bible says that there
was a woman in the valley of sorek named Delilah and Samson
loved her, you know, very interesting, this term loved it
was not as I understand from the scholars that tell me it was not
just simple attraction. It wasn't that she that he was
just attracted to her beauty on a physical sense.
Or from the outward show, he loved her deeply and dearly and
we're going to find out that there are two motives that are
set forth in the story of Samson and Delilah we're going to find
that his motive or the reason that he did what he did and said
what he said was out of his deep love that he had for her soul of
was a great motive in his life, but money was hers and notice
our story, The Lords of the Philistines came to her and said
this, they said entice him, they said, Find out what he could be
bound with that we might afflict in another words.
Let's find out this great man of strength.
Let's find out what we can wrap him up with bind him.
Tie him down that we as mortal men.
Normal normal, fellas can rise up against him and the flicked
in and the Lords of the Philistines told Delilah that if
you do this, each one of us will give you an 1,100 pieces of
silver And so, here it is. I would imagine with, just the
sweetest tone, you can possibly fathom and your mind's eye at
Delilah's Den, dis Samson, Samson.
How come you're so strong? I would imagine.
She did it with a Sweetness in her voice and she did it from
her heart as she came to him. And wanted to inquire what it
is, exactly that would afflict him.
And she says, we're in does thy strength lie and where with
could you be afflicted and Samson said this, he said well
I'll tell you if you take seven green whims or courts that have
never been dried and you take seven brainwaves and you buy me
I shall be as weak as any other man.
Now I understand context really this Corridor these with that
Samson was referring to was so strong that you could put one on
somebody and it would be so strong.
It would be virtually impossible for human strength to Brave
Samsung says though you multiply that seven times and you put
seven brain waves that have never been withered or never
I've never been dried. And I shall be as all other men
are The Bible says that the Lords of the Philistines laid in
wait in her chamber, they didn't trust what he had said.
They knew about the strength of this great, man, she rose up.
And she said after she had bound him with those seven green with.
She said, this the Samson, the Philistines be upon thee and
when he rose up he broke those seven green with.
Like they were thread thrown in a fire.
And she comes to him again. And she says Samson, Samson,
you've betrayed me Samson, why have you done this?
Why have you told me lies? Tell me, where, in by strength
lies, I pray thee. So At first she says that ever
so sweetly. Then when he doesn't tell her
now she beseeches or begs him to tell her and Samson said this,
He said if you take a brand new rope that has never been used
and you bind me with that brand new rope I shall be as all other
men are I shall be as weak as any human being and I shall be
overtaken. And the scripture says that she
took a brand new rope and bound him, but she tested him once
more and there were those that were still lying weight in her
chamber. They were afraid to rise up
against Sampson before they knew that this would work And she
cries out like she had done any time prior.
And she said Samson, the Philistines be upon thee, and he
rose up in the Bible says he broke that rope, like it was
thread. Well, now her tone is about to
change. Now, she demands, she says,
Samson. How can you do this to me?
How could you say these things to me and lie to me?
Tell me where in thy strength, lies.
Samson said, if you shall take and bind the Seven Locks of my
hair or the Seven Locks on my head and shall bind it to a web
and app. In, I shall be like all other
men. That's it right there.
That is the Great equalizer with regards to my strength, you take
a web and you bind, the Seven, Locks of my hair and you put a
pin in it and you bind it to the wall.
I will be as all other men are incidentally, Have you ever in
looking at this story, wondered what he meant by the Seven Locks
of his head. I'll tell you what to different
Scholars said, Just for information, I guess one scholar
said that it didn't represent anything but a symbol of all of
his hair. For example, you can look in
many places in God's word and you can find the number 7 is
used in reference to completeness one.
Scholar said, all it means is, is that Samson said, if you take
Take all of my hair and you put it in a web and you pin it to
the wall, I shall be as all other men are, but another
scholar said he probably bound his hair in seven different
locks really, doesn't matter though.
Because what he tells Delilah, is you take my hair, you put a
web on it, you bind it to the wall.
I shall be as all other men are And here it was.
She does just that. And as she had done on two prior
times, she said Samson, the Philistines be upon thee.
Now, you picture this in your mind's eye, he raises up now
picture this with your hair, he raises up.
And the Bible says, when he stood up all, that was fastened
to his hair was still there, but his hair was so strong that it
pulled the pin right out of the wall and he was not Afflicted.
what the line is about to get smart, she knows how much that
he loves her and she says this to him, How can you say that?
How can you say that you love me and lie to me, like this?
Please tell me where in thy strength, lies.
The Bible says that all daily day after day.
She kept asking an inquiring of him.
What is it? That makes you so strong.
We'll finally, she wore him down and he commits treason against
himself and against the great God of heaven.
And he finally tells her that no razor has come to my head.
I've been a Nazarite from the time that I was born.
And no razor has ever come to my head.
But if a razor came to my head, in the seven locks of hair,
that's on my head shall be cut off.
Oh, I shall be as all other men are.
And the Bible says that she Called for the Lords of the
Philistines and she said to them.
Come now for he has now told me all of his heart and the Bible
says that the Lords of the Philistines came to Delilah.
And each one bearing 1,100 pieces of silver, they give
those to Delilah his. Now, she has done just exactly
what they have inquired, or they've asked her to do.
She has upheld her side of the deal, her part of the bargain.
And notice what happens now. She entices him to sleep on her
knees and as he slept, and as his head laid there on her lap,
she called in for a man to come in, while he slept and took a
razor. And the Bible says, he shaved
off the Seven Locks from his head.
But as she had done now, three times prior, she said Samson,
the Philistines be upon thee. I want you to notice what he
does. This is the entire point, he
rises up out of his sleep and he says this, he said it shall be
as it's always been in essence as I paraphrase.
He says I will stand and I will shake myself and my strength
will come upon me because the great God Of Heaven We'll give
me the strength that he's given me each and every time.
Now this was a man that was able with God's help to rise up
against a thousand Philistine men and slayed them with the
Jawbone of an ass. This was that man this was that
man that was mighty in strength that had served had passed the
test that Delilah had given him on three times prior.
He says I will rise and I will shake myself.
And it shall be as all other times, but here's the phrase.
How sobering it is. But he knew not.
That the Lord was departed from him.
You know, the Bible then says that they took Samson they lay
hold on him. And you know what they did.
They took him and they purposed we're going to pluck his eyes
out. They took his eyes from him
because they said we're going to find out.
We're going to make sure that he will never ever be able to plot
against us ever again, then to add further insult to injury as
it were and to give him even greater shame, they gave him a
job that the women had and that was grinding grain.
So here's this blind, man with no eyes.
Grinding grain. The Bible says that in that
house to house was full and the Lords of the Philistines were
present and all men and women were present there, too.
And the Bible says that in this structure, there were 3,000 men
and women on the roof. And you know what they were
doing? They were rejoicing, they were
cheering, they were celebrating because of his great Victory
against this man of God and notice what happens.
They're going to now. Make A sacrifice under their
idolatrous, God and that being day gone and they're going to
offer up a sacrifice to him because after all he must have
been the one that delivered Samson into our hands.
Well, after they do that, that's not enough.
They said get him out. Bring him out that we might make
sport of him. In other words, we want to laugh
at him. It's not enough that he has no
eyes that he's grinding grain and he'll never be able to plot
against us ever again. Let's make fun of me.
The Bible says that they brought him out and I would imagine that
all eyes were on him laughing at him.
I would imagine that all eyes were on him, like he was the
Grand Champion South at the county fair.
Every single I was looking upon Samson.
Now listen there was a young lad that brought him out to those to
the porch area where there were these two great columns and not
just Columns of any sort. These were the ones that bore
the weight. Eight of this great structure.
So we ask something of the lab that is very reasonable.
He said let me touch the columns, let me touch the
pillars that I might be able to lean myself on them.
Surely this was not an unreasonable request for a blind
man. And so this young lad, the Bible
says bring Samson before those two columns and he's standing
there by those pillars and the Bible says, and he reaches out
with his right hand Touches one and they reaches out on the
other hand and touches the other.
And he cries out to the Lord in prayer, one more time and he
says, oh Lord God, he says, give me strength.
Just one more time. He wasn't, asking for
deliverance from this time, he wasn't asking to have his
eyesight back. He just said this, he said,
grant me the strength. Just one more time that I might
be offended of the Philistines for my two eyes and the bye.
Bible says and he stood there and he had his hand on each one
of those pillars. And he cries out these words let
me die with the Philistines and then it says that he bowed
himself with all of his might and when he did that, great
structure Came Crashing Down and all that were in the house were
destroyed. Well. the scripture says, That
the dead which he slew in his death.
Was far greater and far, more than the things that he had done
or the people. He had slewed in his life.
But you know, just prior to this and that's because of the events
that transpired here in this occasion.
It's because He came to the find the fact that he was going to
give. Him Delilah and tell her
something that was not hers to know.
And he knew not. That the Lord was departed from
me. I wonder today.
I just wondered today as we live in this Christian Life, I wonder
how it is with us. I wonder, could it be said that
Frank thought that everything was just as it has always been?
But he knew not that the Lord was departed from.
What an awful thought it would be for the Lord to depart from
us. Did you know, the Bible does
declare that the Bible speaks of such a thing?
Let me just say this to you. There are four things that we
can look at for very brief and very specific things and very
simple things in God's word that we can do each and every day.
To make sure that the Lord will not depart from us.
Let me just say this though, before we progress on with
number one. It is true that it is a great
blessing to be a Christian. You know, our blessings in this
life are far greater than even the spiritual blessings that we
find through. Jesus Christ God's son and our
savior, oh, there's tremendous blessings of a spiritual nature
and they are greater than any temporal blessing in this life.
That is true, you and I live our life in such a way able to
handle all the challenges that come before us day by day
because you And I know that are Christians, we've been baptized
for the remission of our sins and we're trying to serve the
great God Of Heaven in accordance with the scriptures.
Those of us that have done that, we live by a different standard
governed by the word of God and it doesn't matter.
What comes our way. If we have that faith, that is
deep within us. We've perfected that Faith by
are obedient works. We have something that not
everybody has. We have hope.
We have hope of Heaven, all the greatest blessings of all
because what Jesus did for our sins so long ago and no Calgary
but you know, something else I am assured and God's word that
God knows me. So well that even the very hairs
of my head are numbered. Jesus would say and perhaps the
greatest sermon ever preached on The Sermon on the Mount.
He said if God so clothes the Lilies of the Field shall he not
closed? You O ye of little faith.
Oh Jesus. Didn't say that if we are
serving God and we are living the Christian Life that we are
going to be blessed with riches Untold to become Millionaires,
and wealthy, and have all of these temporal things that are
far greater than anyone else. No Jesus says that.
If you live the Christian Life In accordance with God's word,
even the necessities of life will be taken care of, and you
don't have to worry about any of those.
Now listen, that's a great blessing.
But Jesus says that there's a condition.
And here it is. Here's number one.
What can I do to make sure that God will not depart for me?
Simply put, I must seek first, the kingdom of heaven.
I must seek first God. I must put God first in my life
and the kingdom is the church. That means that the church needs
to be the most important thing that I am a part of In all the
decisions that I make and it all the things that I do that's got
to be first and foremost in my life in order to have the
connects the condition to have the blessing.
That Jesus said, you're going to have and your Necessities will
be taken care of. Let me just say this.
You know, it doesn't matter what I say to you right now.
It doesn't matter what I say with my lips when I leave this
place all week long. It doesn't make any difference.
What I say to anyone about how important the Lord is in my
life. if my actions don't support what I say, You know,
something else, that's very sobering to me.
I might be deceived and I might even deceive my brethren family,
friends, and whoever But God is Not deceived and God knows
what's most important to me today.
You know, there's ways we show Our importance or things that
are important to us. You know, how we show that the
Lord's important to us. You've done it today.
You've gathered here, on time side of Eternity, this is the
Lord's day. This is the day that the Lord
said, you're going to come together and you're going to
worship God. This day is a special day and
nothing could be more important than doing this in our life.
We are not the first take this assembly.
We're to come together and worship God and you have done
that today. Because you have an appointment
with your lord today, and you didn't break it.
But, you know, more than just worship, there are other ways.
How about my lifestyle, how about the things that I do?
How about the folks that I hang out with, how about the friends
that I choose. Also.
What about the daily decisions? Remember, sermon, I preached to
you about a year ago on decisions Remember that
decisions and choices. Sometimes we think that the only
thing that God is concerned with are the big decisions in our
life, the ones we consider life-changing and huge make no
mistake. God is concerned with every
little daily decision that I make because when I make those
decisions, I am showing God how important he is to me and how
important living the Christian Life.
It is to me, too. So we ask ourself is the Lord
number one. If I were to ask you this
question today because listen I need those blessings at Matthew
6 and 33 talked about. I need the blessings that Jesus
spoke of and I don't want the Lord to depart from me ever in
my life. So I asked us all.
The question is the Lord, number one in your life.
Your daily decisions, and I mean every day.
Determine the answer. Number two, though.
Something else that we must do in order for the Lord not to
depart from us. You remember in Paul's second
letter to the young evangelist Timothy and second Timothy
Chapter 2. All he talked about some things
prior to verse 5, he talks about some things that are very
important for the Evangelist to know about.
He talks about a man that's going to go to war.
He's not going to be worried about the things in life that
his eyes going to. Be single and so on and so
forth. After he goes through all of
those things though, you know, what else he says?
He says, in verse 5, I believe he says that a man that's going
to strive for masteries yet. Is he not crowned unless what?
Unless he strives lawful me Now that's sobering isn't it.
That means that if I have good intentions but it's not lawful
it's not going to work, it's not good enough.
Let me illustrate it. This way I gave you this
illustration over seven years ago.
If you remember it, you got a great memory but it's been over
seven years on give to you again.
When I was in high school, I used to run track.
One of the events that I ran in. Was the 400 meters or 440 yards.
400 meters is a metric quarter-mile, very grueling
event, very grueling race. Here's the rules though.
If you have seven people on a track, you have to stay in your
lane the entire time. And the way that it's set is
that they lined up every single contestant on along that line
straight out from the beginning of inside of that track all the
way to the Side of the track. It wouldn't be fair because the
offside guys better run farther than the inside guy.
So they staggered the lanes, they have the fella and laying
one at the starting position, then in lane two, they move them
out ever. So slightly and moving forward,
laying three does the same thing.
He goes out a little further and he goes up forward all the way
until laying seven, that fellow's, way out in front on
the outer part of the track, but everybody runs the same
distance. Here's what happened.
If guns sound in there was a fella in length 7.
He had never run in a track meet in his life and man, he was just
pumped up. And when the gun sounded here,
he comes, he shot out of there like a scared rabbit and he came
around that track and he was leading the pack leading all of
us by a great distance. When he came across around that
final turn though, he just decides, I no longer like number
seven, I think I'll go to number one.
So he's in laying 7 and he shoots in all the way to the
inside of the track and he runs in Lane one for a little while.
Well, there's laughter and cheers by those that are
watching and he decides I no longer like number one, they got
bounced out to three or four and he does.
And so that last 50 yards, this fella is weaving like this on
the Track, he looks dead, straight at that Finish Line at
that tape and here he comes. When he crosses the finish line
up, his hands went all. He thinks he has won the race.
Until he turned around. And the judge said, you are
disqualified. For leaving your leg.
Another words, like Paul said, it doesn't matter how you
strive. If you do not strive with in
accordance to the rules, Folks, that's living the Christian
Life. Today, I don't get to wake up
and decide how I'm going to serve God.
We do things specifically in this assembly today not because
we've chosen it to be so, but we do things in this assembly
because that's what the word of God tells us.
We must do and we cannot deviate from it.
If we were to add a musical instrument in our assembly
today, we might think that in our ears, it's greater it sounds
better. And after all, we're doing it
for the Lord. Right?
So we're just adding to the worship, something that will
help us along. Doesn't matter our intentions,
it doesn't matter any of that, it's not striving to lawfully.
Therefore that worth it is not acceptable in the eyes of God.
We have before us one loaf of unleavened bread.
We cannot have several loads. We cannot break the lope and
send one down, one side, and the other down the other side
because it would change the meaning that it is, and it would
change the way Jesus instituted it.
Therefore, we can't do that. We have one cup on the Lord's
table, not because we decided that that would be the very best
thing to do. No, we have one cup on the
Lord's table because that's what Jesus did.
When he instituted the Lord's. Supper he took One cup, and one
cup is representative of the New Testament or New Covenant by
which we are bound. And the fruit of the vine
therein is the grape juice. And it represents the blood of
Jesus. These things are the communion
of the body and blood of the lord.
We can't change it, or we change what it means.
And it doesn't matter how we mean, well, It doesn't matter
how we really feel about it. What matters is, oh, you've got
to strive but you have to strive lawfully in all that, you do,
that's sobering to me to think that the way and the manner that
I do, everything in my service to God is in question.
I need to do what God has instructed me to do and strive
all the days of my life, but I must make certain that I would
do so lawfully. Thirdly, though, in verse 6 of
second, Timothy 2, very interesting passage of
scripture. And Paul is keeping the same
thought as he's going down verse by verse and now he has another
example, another thing, you can compare the Christian Life too.
He says the husband made the farmer, the landowner, whatever
you want to call him. He is not going notice exactly
what Paul says, he says this, the husbandman that labor Earth
must be first partaker of the fruits.
Is that me, it means this, according to the Greek text, the
husbandman must labor before partaking of the fruits.
That tells me this. Yes, indeed.
We are saved by grace in that. It is not my works of Merit,
that's going to earn or deserve me a spot into heaven.
That's true. But we must demonstrate or
perfect our faith by our obedient works.
And that's what Paul is telling Timothy.
He says if you'll want the prize first of all, he's got through
saying you're not going to strive and let's just drive off.
Leave, you're not getting the prize no matter how hard you
try. Now we sang, you're not going to
get the prize at the end. You're not going to get the
fruit of the land and until you roll up your sleeves and go to
work. And what's something that I can
do so that the Lord will not depart from me.
That is I would demonstrate and perfect my faith by my daily
obedient works. That's a responsibility.
We all have books. We got to work.
For the Lord. Fourthly though.
I know this is not a pleasant one, but we have to say it.
There's something else that we can do.
So that the Lord will not depart from us and that is, we must
stay away from things that are sinful.
We must avoid at all cost sin in James 1 and beginning.
In verse 14, you remember on our Wednesday evening studies, we
studied this, when we study the Book of James James had just got
through saying that. Let no man say when he is
tempted that he's tempted of God.
Listen, don't ever think that God has thrown a stumbling block
in your path in your way that causes you to stumble.
He will not do that. God is our refuge.
He's the one that we turn to what happens when a man sins.
How many times have we heard people say?
Yes I did. Yes, I said but let me just
explain it to you. It wasn't my fault.
Because this, that for the other, you know what James says
about that, James puts it right in my lap.
If I am going to stand in my life, he says, it's my fault.
What happens. First of all, he says, that God
does not tempt any man and then he says, this of what happens
when you are tempted, every man is tempted, when what he's drawn
away of his own lust and enticed, that tells To me, this,
I am going to be tempted to sin when I am drawn away by my own
lust and enticed notice what else he says.
Then when lust is conceived. Moved it brings forth.
What it brings forth, sin. Sin is what's born.
Of lust being conceived. And sin when it is finished,
brings forth, death. We need to do all that we can to
depart from things that are causing us to stumble.
If there are things in your life that make you weak, stop doing
them. If there are people in
associations, in your life that are bad company.
Bad influences in your life, stop hanging out with them.
If you cannot live the Christian Life and your current
surroundings, change your surroundings Don't let something
be thrown in front of you that will cause you to be led Away by
your own lust. Here's the point though.
This is the great God Of Heaven. This is the merciful god of
Heaven, though. Listen.
If I don't get away from the lust and I Stumble and I sin,
you know, what's great? What's great is if I'm a
Christian, I can be forgiven of all of that, like it never
happened. Remember the story in Acts
chapter 8, when Philip was preaching to those that Samaria
all he was preaching to some folks including signing the
sorcerer that was as against God and every way shape or form,
before he heard the word of God, and notice what happens, here
comes a preacher on the scene, he preached Has two things,
which shows me by the way that you cannot have one without the
other. He preaches Christ, and he
preaches the kingdom. He preaches Christ and he
preaches the church. Those to run hand in hand.
You can't have one without the other notice what happens.
They received the word with gladness.
They received the word readily, and they received the word
willingly, and what happened? They were baptized including
son. You remember back in that time
and not today, but back in that time, they didn't have Bibles
and written forms that they had to do something to confirm the
word of God. That was Priest favorite.
So they had to pass on spiritual gifts of the holy spirit, given
to those new converts, but Philip was just a preacher.
He was not an apostle and only an apostle could do that.
So they call for Peter and John and here comes Peter and John
and all of a sudden Simon backslides.
He looks at this This idea and he sees Peter and John laid
their hands on people and receiving the miraculous gifts
of the Holy Spirit to confirm the word of God.
And he says this, let me have that gift and he offers them
money that he could have the gift that whoever he laid his
hands on, they would receive this miraculous measure of the
Holy Spirit. Peter said this though, thy
money. Perish with thee.
He Said, repent of this vile wickedness and pray God, that
the thoughts of Mine Heart may be forgiven thee.
There's a second law of Pardon. That means if I'm a Christian
but I stumbled I get to make it right.
What do I do? Peter says you repent of this by
wickedness, you confess these things and pray to God that
those things would be forgiven. You remember that?
Simon says to Peter. He says, please pray for me.
Pray for me that the things that you've just said.
Said that are going to happen to me, as a result of my sin will
not come upon me, and he did. So, Sin is something we got to
keep out of our life folks. It really is.
I know that Sins Not Pleasant. I know those aren't Pleasant
things to talk about, but listen, it's the quickest way
for God to depart from us. We thank you for listening to
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