1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,360 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,320 today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,440 healing or breakthrough, or to find out more about Omega, get 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,800 to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,880 So there is you can show some kind of power, but there is a 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,600 limit to how much a man can show the power. 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,120 There is only a limit. But in the case of Samson, that 11 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:43,120 exceeds all human imagination, exceeds all human imagination. 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:49,920 He was really, really powerful, but at the same time he also was 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,520 a man of weaknesses, lots of weakness. 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,920 He is one of those about whom his birth was foretold. 15 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,800 The parents were without children. 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,680 And an Angel appears to Manoa's wife. 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,560 Her name is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere. 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:07,800 Who is Samson's mother? We don't know. 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,320 But Angel, care to appear to her and tell you are going to have a 20 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:12,520 son? You will. 21 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,120 He will be a Nazarite. No razor should come on his 22 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,840 head. He should not drink anything, no 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,920 wine, nothing connected with grapes and he should not touch 24 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,280 any dead body. You know, he has to keep himself 25 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,880 pure. All the list he gave and she 26 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:33,360 says to the husband, huh, Somebody appeared to me a man of 27 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,280 God and he said we are going to have a son. 28 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,960 Oh, is it so? How did he look like? 29 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:41,360 What did he say? He was very excited and he 30 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,560 prayed. Oh God, if you are the one who 31 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,960 appeared to my wife, will you please appear again? 32 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,920 You can read all that in chapter 13. 33 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,840 Chapter 14 He goes to Timna because he liked the girl he 34 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,800 picked quarrel with the people there and he gave them a Riddle 35 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,080 to solve and they saw the Riddle with the help of the lady. 36 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,200 He got angry, went and killed 30 people and gave their close to 37 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,920 the 30 people who were there with the bride. 38 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,080 First slaughter 30 people and then he goes back again to take 39 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,400 the wife. And by then the father gives the 40 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,920 girl to his friend because he said, I thought you hated her, 41 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,720 so I gave her to your friend in marriage. 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,880 Here I will get even with you guys. 43 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:30,760 So he caught 300 foxes, tied them tail by tail, put a torch 44 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,200 in between and lose them into the wheat field. 45 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,840 There was ripe standing grain, completely burned down. 46 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,840 They said, who did this? Oh this is the team night his 47 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,120 son-in-law or supposed to be son-in-law. 48 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:49,080 Samson has done it so and he goes and hides in a in a cave or 49 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:54,920 somewhere on a hill. I think the hill is Etam 15 50 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:57,600 chapter. I cannot find it now. 51 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,240 The Philistines went up to camp in Judah, spreading out near 52 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,400 Lehigh. Men of Judah asked, why have you 53 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,040 come to fight us? So basically these people, 54 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,880 Philistines wanted to fight the Israelites. 55 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,520 So they came. They said, why do you want to 56 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,320 come and fight with us? Because we want to kill the guy 57 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,880 who who does a lot of harm to us. 58 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,360 He set fire to our fields. We want to do exactly what he 59 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:27,200 did to us. The 3000 men of Judah, they go 60 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,080 to Samson and say, hey, don't you know that Philistines are 61 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,760 rulers over us? How dare you do this? 62 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,560 Now how many of us think the devil has power? 63 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:45,240 Tell me this morning that is what they are affirming. 64 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,840 What are the what are the people of Judah affirming? 65 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,200 3000 men are going to Samson and telling, don't you know that 66 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:58,520 Philistines are allowed over us? Now one more question, how many 67 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:08,120 people did Gideon have to defeat 130000 soldiers of median just 68 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,360 300 people. You have got 10 times more 69 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:17,600 people wanting to tie up Samson handover to the Philistines. 70 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,600 Shame, shame on Israel for doing that. 71 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,600 So many times we surrender to the devil just like that. 72 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,880 We think they will has lot of power. 73 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,440 He has been defeated. Let's all say he has been 74 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,640 defeated. Pardon. 75 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,240 Oh, he wasn't there in those days, correct. 76 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,240 But it is about us now, about us now. 77 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,440 So Christians are still in that same mindset where we think the 78 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:54,560 devil has complete control over our life. 79 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,560 No, if you are a believer, you are set free from the dominion 80 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,520 of darkness and transferred into the Kingdom of the light of His 81 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,040 Son, Jesus Christ. So we have to have this change 82 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,680 in our mindset. The devil is defeated until we 83 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,320 believe it strongly. He is going to come and punch 84 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,400 you. You got to tell him every day, 85 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,120 every waking moment, you will have to tell the devil. 86 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,640 You will talk back to him and say hey, you are defeated. 87 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:22,920 You are defeated. You are defeated. 88 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,680 You have no power to touch me. You have no power to touch my 89 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,320 family, my children, grandchildren, any anything. 90 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,000 You have no power when you stand like that. 91 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:37,160 He knows that he you know and he retreats. 92 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,680 That is how to live. So these 3000 people bound him 93 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,280 with new ropes and he said you don't kill yourself. 94 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,040 You just promised me that you won't yourself kill me, said no, 95 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:51,000 no, we are not going to kill you. 96 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,600 We will just bind you with new ropes and hand you over. 97 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,640 So he hands them over. In chapter 15, you see that when 98 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,320 the people are all coming towards, rushing towards Samson, 99 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,760 the Spirit of the Lord came upon him with power. 100 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,720 And then Egypt one once, once he flexed his muzzles, all the new 101 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,120 ropes just broke. That's the power of the Holy 102 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,240 Spirit. And then this man is 103 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,760 disorganized, unorganized. The people like you know, those 104 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,720 who do not do their bed in the morning when they get up. 105 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,840 He is one of those guys. He does not want to be 106 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,480 disciplined in his life. So he had no weapon. 107 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,480 He is not prepared for it. So he had to not defend himself. 108 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,480 He finds a fresh job, owner of a donkey. 109 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,840 What is he supposed not to touch? 110 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:44,320 He is not supposed to touch a dead body. 111 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,480 Now here he is taking hold of a fresh jawbone of a donkey. 112 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,200 Why am I stressing on fresh jawbone? 113 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,040 If you drive to lose some of its weight, fresh jawbone is very 114 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:01,160 strong, heavy to the jawbone. Kill 1000 people, 1000 people. 115 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,160 You had to keep this in mind because in the next chapter, 116 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,560 sixteen 1000 people will be let go. 117 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,080 There's 1000 people like Gaza were not killed because he 118 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,080 pulled the gates and escaped from there. 119 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,240 If those people succeeded in surrounding him, you would have 120 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,600 want something he would have found and he would have beaten 121 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,440 to death the people of city of Gaza. 122 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:31,040 It is God's mercy that he allowed Samson to pull the gates 123 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:38,680 and escape. So this is Samson's life is very 124 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,280 important to me personally, very important to me. 125 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:48,920 Even though I have believed in Jesus in 1977, in 2010, God 126 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,640 spoke to me about life of Samson. 127 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,760 When I say God spoke to me, it is supernatural and not that I 128 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,240 am reading the Bible, not that I am listening to some message, 129 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,520 No, no, no, I was in prayer and the Lord spoke to me. 130 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,800 It's a self limiting behavior. I said to the Lord, Lord, what 131 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,600 is self limiting behavior? And he said it's like Samson. 132 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:11,680 He said what is like Samson and he rushed through my brain. 133 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,920 All the story of Samson supernaturally that happened 134 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,200 next day as well. And next day I am expecting the 135 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,680 Lord to speak to me. I put my hand on the bed. 136 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,160 I want to bend my knees and touch the ground. 137 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,040 Before that, the Holy Spirit said Samson became blind before 138 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:35,400 they removed his eyes. So I went on my knees and said, 139 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,720 please explain a second time the story of Samson rushed through 140 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,679 my brain by the Holy Spirit. Now this is very, very important 141 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,280 to me. The story is very important to 142 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,880 me. Why all of us? 143 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,320 I'm not excluding myself. All of us are like Samson. 144 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,120 We are a mixture of flesh and the Spirit. 145 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,480 If you are a believer, Holy Spirit is dwelling in you. 146 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,440 But we also are struggling with the sin. 147 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,640 The more we overcome sin, the more you become a powerful tool 148 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:09,120 in the hand of God. You have to overcome rest of the 149 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,000 flesh, rest of the eyes, pride of life. 150 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:15,480 Then you become very powerful tool in the hands of God. 151 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,000 There are no two ways of serving God. 152 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,600 Sometimes He allows human flesh to dominate in some places, but 153 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,680 only to pull down everything. You can build a Tower of Babel 154 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,080 that's only up to certain height, and then God will 155 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,080 confuse it. You can know you can. 156 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,760 You can do many things in human power, human power and strength, 157 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,680 but one day it has to come down. Why? 158 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,960 Anything that lifts itself against the knowledge of God, 159 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,120 God is going to destroy it and bring it down. 160 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,720 So here we have in chapter 16. What really happening in chapter 161 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:57,320 16 is that I also want you to observe in chapter 15 last 162 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:02,040 verses Samson LED Israel for 20 years in the days of the 163 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,880 Philistines. And again at the end of 16th 164 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:11,960 chapter it again says they brought him back and buried him 165 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,680 between Zorah and Estal in the tomba Manova, his father. 166 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,800 He had LED Israel 20 years 2 times. 167 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,840 Life of Samson is summarized as he led Israel for 20 years. 168 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,920 Why 2 times? They should say it only one 169 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,520 time. At the end of his story, At the 170 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,920 end of chapter 15, he summarized his life. 171 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,680 He led Israel for 20 years. That means the story already 172 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:44,520 ended there, story already ended there. 173 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,280 He, whatever he could do in a right way, he has done the end 174 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:52,680 of the matter. In Chapter 16 onwards, it is 175 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:56,160 going to be a different story where he is going to see defeat, 176 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,680 where he is going to lose his eyes, where he is going to be 177 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,920 imprisoned, where he is going to be mocked and where he is going 178 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,000 to be made fun of and he is going to die with the 179 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,640 Philistines. And again the story ends with he 180 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:15,680 led Israel for 20 years. The two parts, one part is 181 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,160 living for God, another part is consequence of sin. 182 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,240 So in this chapter we see one day Samson went to Gaza where he 183 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:31,720 saw a prostitute. That is a that is a bombshell 184 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,360 point. That is the beginning of fall 185 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:42,920 for Samson before when he saw the young girl from Timna and he 186 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,920 tells the father get me for for me, get her for me because she 187 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,040 pleases me. Father says don't we have people 188 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,440 here in our country Don't have your own people to look at and 189 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,000 marry. Why do you look at the 190 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,560 uncircumcised? And there it's written they did 191 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:01,480 not know that it is a Lord who is stirring him up to give him 192 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,320 seek an opportunity to fight the Philistines. 193 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:12,520 But here it is not that. Here it is he wanting to fall in 194 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:18,080 sin, deliberate sin, deliberate sin. 195 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,760 To marry is not wrong, but to go to prostitute is wrong. 196 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,960 That is how the Holy Spirit is enlightening. 197 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,920 Here He went, he saw a prostitute, He went in to spend 198 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,600 the night with her. The people of Gaza were told 199 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,880 Samson is here, so they surrounded the place and lay in 200 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,680 wait for him all night at the city gate. 201 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:44,760 So they are waiting, but they said, OK, it is very, very dark 202 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:47,960 in this night. Let's not attack him. 203 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,680 We will wait for him to come through the city gate in the 204 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:53,160 morning. Once the gates are open, he is 205 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,640 going to go out. We will fight him and we will 206 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,400 kill him. Here they are waiting in all 207 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,880 night. They did not sleep, but this 208 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,280 man, he got up in the middle of the night. 209 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,560 What does it say here? They made no mood in the night, 210 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:13,120 saying at dawn will kill him. Verse 3 But Samson lay there 211 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,760 only until the middle of the night, say middle of the night. 212 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,080 This is living life in the flesh. 213 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,640 He was wanting to be secure. He want to enjoy life. 214 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,360 At the same time he want to be safe. 215 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:31,320 He said OK, they may plan to attack me in the morning, but I 216 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:32,800 am going to get up in the night and go. 217 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,400 So he got up in the middle of the night and came and what does 218 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:41,280 he see there? This huge doors, 2 massive 219 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:46,680 pillars on the two sides and bolted by iron or bronze, 220 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:50,920 whatever it was into the thing. And the whole structure is kept 221 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,520 to keep the city safe, the Gaza safe, so that enemy cannot enter 222 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,600 straight into it. And nobody can go out also until 223 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,560 it is open to keep the people of the city safe. 224 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:08,240 And he is now imprisoned already. 225 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,360 He is imprisoned already by the gates. 226 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,320 But this man, he looks at it and the Spirit of the Lord came upon 227 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,040 him. This is mercy. 228 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:23,440 Is not Holy Spirit saying Samson, you are well done, you 229 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,160 have gone to a prostitute is really good. 230 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,280 No, no, no, it's not that. He's not approving it. 231 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,880 There is more to be done through this life of this man. 232 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,600 So the Spirit of God was overlooking at that point in his 233 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,760 mercy. He didn't touch him, he didn't 234 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,560 kill him. He said he used him, he used 235 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,960 him. That's a act of mercy. 236 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,480 And he goes and pulls the pillars out, the 2 doors along 237 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,600 with the pillars, side pillars. Now how heavy are these gates? 238 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,200 Ask me the question, how heavy is the gate? 239 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:04,280 These massive doors, the two pillars, they are made out of 240 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,320 probably cedar wood, massive tree. 241 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,720 And then the whole pillar must be about 90 centimeters 242 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,880 perimeter round massive pillars and they will be weighing at 243 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:23,920 least 750 kilos each pillar. Just an estimate, these are 244 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,600 based on the excavations at Lakish and other places where 245 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,600 they found other gates for the city. 246 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,600 Based on that, we are able to conclude that this could be 247 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,920 similar. This could be similar and the 248 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:42,160 doors will very thick, very thick wood and then it will be 2 249 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,720 doors, 2 leaves closing on together and bolted with metal 250 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,200 so nobody can easily open it and go out. 251 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,960 And the whole weight could be coming anywhere between 3000 to 252 00:15:54,120 --> 00:16:00,480 4000 to 5000 kilos. Let's go moderately 4000 kilos, 253 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,080 OK, anywhere between 3000 to 5000, let's go middle 4000 254 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,600 kilos. How does he lift? 255 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:14,000 Because the two beams are put into a limestone and locked in 256 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,600 so that they cannot be shaken by any enemy, and it requires more 257 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,800 than one person to put them in the place. 258 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:25,480 Now here he doesn't have a team, he doesn't have a big machine, 259 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,520 nothing. He just goes, grabs it and pulls 260 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,640 it. Whole thing up, puts on the 261 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,240 shoulder. Can we see the picture here? 262 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:36,760 Anusha, can we see the picture here? 263 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,600 Is it may not be very clear, but there is one more next one. 264 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,400 This I liked for some reasons. This is more true to the Bible 265 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,240 story because you see long hair. He did not cut his hair in the 266 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,960 previous one, the short hair. So I think that is not the right 267 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:00,960 picture. This is the right 1 S You can 268 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,319 see the hair and you can see him completely carrying the whole 269 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,040 gates, 4000 kilos on his shoulders. 270 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,880 And then what does he do? He walks up. 271 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,480 Gaza is on the seashore. So when you measure the height 272 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:20,119 of something, you will say how high is it from the seashore? 273 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,720 So now he is walking towards Hebron. 274 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,480 I think I did not put the map there. 275 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:31,680 When you put the map there, you see Gaza on the, the on the 276 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,960 coast. And then Hebron is about 90 277 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:40,520 kilometers, No, no, 9060 kilometers, 60 kilometers to the 278 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,920 east. And in order to go, you have to 279 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,200 go up. The road is always up, not down, 280 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,280 not flat. So he goes up to the nearby 281 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,600 hill. And when you climb the hill from 282 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:58,160 there, you can see Hebron. So where did he go? 283 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,320 What is a hill? We don't know. 284 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,320 The Bible is silent about it. But when you geographically, 285 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,960 geography, when you go and study it, there is one hill that is 286 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:11,320 nearest is about 30 to 35 kilometers and farther that if 287 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:12,920 you go, you are entering into Hebron. 288 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:21,640 So he goes up and that hill is nearly 450 to 470 meters high 289 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:27,120 from the sea level, from Gaza to the top of the hill, 450 to 470 290 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:33,880 meters. That is about 60 to 70 Storey 291 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:39,120 building. Now you carry the doors and the 292 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,840 pillars and the pores, everything all, and it goes up 293 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,680 for 3035 kilometers all night. He must have walked into the 294 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,600 daylight and must have gone up the hill and dumped it there. 295 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,960 How much power is that? Tell me, how much power is that? 296 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:02,880 Why am I putting so much of time on explaining how strong is 297 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,800 Samson? Because I want you to look at 298 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,200 one more Samson, like Saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who 299 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,160 carried the cross. He carried the cross. 300 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:21,640 That may be just 70 or 80 kilos at the most. 190 lbs. 301 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:28,360 No, no, no, 100, 4150 lbs to 75 kilos roughly. 302 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,320 So he is carried the wooden cross and he went up the hill. 303 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:35,880 He carried the cross up the hill. 304 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:42,800 Compared to Samson, you may think that's not a big deal, 305 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:48,920 it's just 75 kilos. But what he carried, Samson 306 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,080 cannot carry. He carried the sin of the whole 307 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,880 world. He carries, you know, the whole 308 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,400 world. How much power does Jesus have? 309 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,560 He is the Creator. In the beginning was the Word, 310 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,040 The Word was God, and the Word was God, and the Word became 311 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,480 flesh and dwelt among us. We behold his glory full of 312 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:11,680 grace and truth, and that Jesus is God Himself. 313 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,680 But he put it aside. All that is God. 314 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,560 He put it aside. That's what Paul says in 315 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,080 Philippians chapter 2. Put all that is God. 316 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,480 He put it aside. And then He is carrying the 317 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,760 cross. But more than that, He was 318 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,920 carrying the weight of the sin of the whole world. 319 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,560 He was carrying the weight of the sin of the whole world, and 320 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,760 he went up the hill for you and me. 321 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,040 Samson carried the gate because he wanted to save himself. 322 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:43,160 But Jesus carried the cross so He can save the whole world, you 323 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:47,240 and me. Do you see the difference? 324 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:52,400 And Jesus has done so much, so much he accomplished. 325 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:58,400 And Jesus says, if I ask the Father, will you not give me 12 326 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:04,680 legends of angels? How many 12 legends of angels? 327 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:09,240 One legend in the Roman army is about 4000 soldier to 6000 328 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,200 soldiers. Let us again go in the medial 329 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:19,040 #5000 soldiers per one legion. That will be 60,000 angels in 330 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,800 the Old Testament. You have a story of Hezekiah 331 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,120 facing the army of Nebuchadnezzar and there were 332 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,800 180 thousand soldiers who came to attack the city of Jerusalem 333 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:34,080 and 1 Angel came and killed. How many people? 334 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,840 180 thousand soldiers overnight. In the morning you look only 335 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:42,440 dead bodies everywhere. One Angel killed how many 336 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,600 people? 180 thousand people. 337 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,320 If you have six, oh, oh, oh, oh, angels, how many people will 338 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,760 die? Nearly 11 billion people. 339 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,840 You got 8 billion people in the living in the world. 340 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:58,120 If Jesus asked today, Father, give me 12 religions of people, 341 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:03,240 angels, everybody will be killed and you still have 3 billion to 342 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:08,840 take care. Did Jesus do that? 343 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,840 That is the power, say, that is the power. 344 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:21,960 He did not use his privilege. He did not use His power to ask 345 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:25,200 the Father to send the religions of angels. 346 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:31,000 And that is the power. And compared to Samson's 347 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,680 physical strength, how how strong is Jesus? 348 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,560 The more you understand what Jesus did for you on the cross, 349 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,080 the more you will be able to worship him, the more you will 350 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:51,040 be able to love him. That is how we have to love. 351 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,960 That is how we have to worship him because we need to know who 352 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,440 is this Jesus? You know, sometimes we are 353 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,880 Christians for a long time, even when I was reading this portion, 354 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,880 16th chapter verses 1 to 3, I went into I was sitting in my 355 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,760 chair and praying. God teach me what does the 356 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,960 scripture mean? And then Jesus the Holy Spirit 357 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:15,040 put the thoughts into my mind about Jesus carrying the cross. 358 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,560 Oh, that was glorious because you know, like you chase a 359 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:21,760 rabbit hole. We call it. 360 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,600 So you chase a rabbit hole when when the Holy Spirit puts that 361 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,920 shows the rabbit hole, you follow it and then you see the 362 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,080 revelation just bursts out and then you go with it. 363 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,600 Your spirit is lifted up, your faith is becoming very strong 364 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,000 and you see light and the darkness leaves you and the 365 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,280 weakness goes. That is the work of the Holy 366 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,040 Spirit when there's a revelation happening in your spirit when 367 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:48,040 you read the Bible. So let's continue to see what 368 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,280 are the other things that he has done. 369 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:54,040 So he has carried it halfway, let's say a bit up to Hebron and 370 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,400 go up the hill and he dumps it there. 371 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,760 And that is the amount of power he had. 372 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,680 What is he declaring to the Philistines? 373 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:07,800 City gates stand for protection. City gates stands for control. 374 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:13,000 City gates stand for power. City gates stands for authority. 375 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,600 And they were trying to trap him with their authority, trap him 376 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,960 with their strength, trap him, limit him, finish him. 377 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:25,200 But when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, devils power will not 378 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,840 be able to stop you. The power of the devil will be 379 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,280 cancelled because the power of the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 380 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,080 But how many of us are wanting this power? 381 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,080 Do you want this Holy Spirit power so that the enemy can be 382 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,000 trodden down under your feet? That is who you are. 383 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,160 Jesus has carried the cross so that you can become a devil 384 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,560 Slayer. You can become master of the 385 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,760 devil. You can become one who can put 386 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,360 the Saturn and all the Kingdom of darkness to flight. 1 Man 387 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,120 with the help of the with the help of God can chase 1000 388 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:11,080 people. So if you can chase 1000 demons, 389 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,680 glory to God. That's what God wants to do 390 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,560 through you. He carried the gates to save 391 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,720 himself, but Jesus carried the cross so that you can become a 392 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:30,080 Samson, so that you can become a Samson. 393 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:35,440 But the church is sleeping. Church is sleeping. 394 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,440 When I say church is sleeping, I am not excluding myself. 395 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:44,880 I am also challenged to believe more, to believe more, to have 396 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,600 faith, more faith. That's what I'm trying to do, 397 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,480 have more faith, have more faith. 398 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,400 And I think I have arrived at some point only when I begin to 399 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,200 pray for somebody and I'm trying to cast out the demon and the 400 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,760 demon is looks like it is gone. And next day they say the demon 401 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,640 is back. I say what did I do yesterday? 402 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,680 So we are growing in the Lord. We need to have that hunger to 403 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,920 be more of the Holy Spirit. We feel the more of the power of 404 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:17,000 the Holy Spirit and I tell you we should become like Samson who 405 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,160 whose name you know we have. We have a saying in in our 406 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,160 Indian language that when elephant dreams of a lion, it 407 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:32,200 dies, his heart stops. If the elephant gets a dream of 408 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,080 a lion, it is heart stops, it dies. 409 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,920 They will should dream of you and die. 410 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:46,720 One second He close his eyes and he sees in the dream who is 411 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:54,720 coming, how woman is coming die. What a glorious thing that Jesus 412 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,200 has done for us. He wants everyone of us to 413 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,280 become like a Samson. That's why he went to the cross. 414 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:08,320 And then, Oh my goodness, thank you, Lord. 415 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:15,720 So when, when he's carrying the curve, when he's carrying the 416 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,000 gates to up the hill, what is he trying to tell him? 417 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,560 Tell the Philistines. He's telling the Philistines. 418 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,640 What is your strength? I am declaring it as weakness. 419 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,880 What is your power? I am declaring it as useless for 420 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,720 you because I have carried your whatever you put your faith in. 421 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,520 I am carrying them on my shoulders and dumping 35 422 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,440 kilometers away up the hill, not just on the plane ground. 423 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:44,200 What you're saying is my God is greater than your strength, your 424 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,120 God, my God is greater than your God. 425 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,920 They put their trust in their God, Dagan. 426 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,280 And during the in the book of Judges you see how Philistines 427 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,640 carried the ark of God during the Elis time and how Dagan got 428 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,520 the put and the dragon God fell down. 429 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,560 He was defeated already, and Samson is proving to them again 430 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,120 that the same God is alive and living and he will defeat them 431 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:15,440 again. And today Jesus Christ is 432 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,640 dreaming of only one thing, that you will defeat Satan. 433 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,480 You will defeat Satan. That's his plan and purpose. 434 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,680 When Jesus carried the cross, He laid down his life there. 435 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,040 When they crucified him on the cross, that blood that dropped 436 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,840 from his hands, from his brow, from his feet, from the side on 437 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,640 that rock of Golgotha. He has bought this earth with 438 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,160 his blood. He bought it. 439 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,920 Say he bought it. He bought it with his blood. 440 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,120 So you can be free and you will become a Samson. 441 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:58,320 The rights that Adam sold by eating the fruit to devil. 442 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,840 Jesus has cancelled it and took it back again. 443 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,000 And He is the King. He is the Lord when we are 444 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,360 worshipping Him, When you're singing to Him, there's no power 445 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,600 in our singing. Why? 446 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,560 There may be something in our mind that does not believe that 447 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,840 He is the King, is king of the kings. 448 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,880 When you believe it, that will show in your singing. 449 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,640 When you believe it, that show in our life, it will be seen. 450 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,640 You cannot hide it. Your faith will be seen by the 451 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:30,000 people around you. When they look at your life, 452 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,800 what do they see? Fear or confidence? 453 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,560 Do they see anxiety or courage? Do they see hopelessness or 454 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:47,160 faith? That will show your belief. 455 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,400 Your faith, what you believe about Jesus will be seen by the 456 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,640 things that happen in your life. When trouble comes, how do you 457 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,920 react? Sickness comes, how do you 458 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,760 react? The world is watching you, devil 459 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,320 is watching you, and we have to tell them. 460 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,320 The whole world will tell that we are not afraid. 461 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,560 So Samson humiliates Gaza, basically. 462 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,280 He has humiliating Gaza. The Philistines, he was 463 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,280 humiliating them. There are five cities, Gaza is 464 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,880 one of them. Ashkelon and other cities were 465 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,520 there. So he was humiliating them. 466 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:32,120 He was taunting the security. He was showing the identity of a 467 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,440 child of God who is a child of God. 468 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,200 He's showing them, hey Yahweh, most powerful one, I am his 469 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:45,520 servant. By ripping them out, Samson 470 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,040 symbolically says your strength cannot contain me. 471 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,320 What do we tell the devil in the morning? 472 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,640 Do we tell him you cannot touch me? 473 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,360 Do we tell him that you are defeated? 474 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,480 Do we tell him that he is useless? 475 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,000 Or are we going to say, oh, today, just don't touch me 476 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:12,680 today, Let me have a nice day. No, we are not bargaining with 477 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,400 the devil. One of the times we were, we 478 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,200 were trying to cast out a spirit and the demon was speaking 479 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,400 through saying let us make a deal. 480 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,120 And Sima was there and said you are not in a position to make a 481 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:23,160 deal. You are defeated. 482 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,160 We had to know who we are. We are the children of the most 483 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,720 high guard, King of Kings, Lord of Lord. 484 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,080 He's our father. And we don't bargain with the 485 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,640 devil. We kick him out. 486 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,920 We don't bargain with him, we don't bargain with him. 487 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,840 To possess the gate means what? In the Old Testament you have a 488 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,360 promise given to Abraham. Your children will possess the 489 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:55,520 gates of your enemies. That seed. 490 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,760 Your seed shall possess the gates of your enemy. 491 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:05,360 The word seed is referring to one seed Jesus Christ, One seed 492 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,480 Jesus Christ. And that's what Paul interprets 493 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,560 in the book of Corinthians. The seed is Jesus Christ. 494 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,360 So he is when he was carrying the cross up the hill and he was 495 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,920 crucified upon the cross. He was destroying the gates of 496 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,080 hell. He was destroyed the gates of 497 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,400 hell. He was buried and he rose again 498 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,200 during through three days that he was in the in that grave, his 499 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,240 body was in the grave. He went down into the depths and 500 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,240 he fought with the devil and he destroyed the Kingdom of 501 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,600 darkness and he rose up victoriously with the keys of 502 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,440 death and Hades. He is the king. 503 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,240 He is the king. The more you believe in Jesus, 504 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,320 the more your faith is strong. What is your idea of Jesus? 505 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,520 We have to change. Every day. 506 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,280 It should be better every day. The more it becomes better. 507 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,720 The devil becomes lesser and lesser and lesser significant in 508 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,280 your life. If he is trying to put his 509 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,960 finger and trouble you, that means you are not shown him who 510 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,200 you are. It is very simple like that. 511 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,440 There was a lady, a rich lady who wanted to go by bus long 512 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,600 time ago when there were not cars and everything. 513 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,920 She was stopping and standing at the bus stop and the dog 514 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,960 followed her and she saw after some time the bus is coming and 515 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:37,400 she said honey go home. The dog will it was wagging his 516 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,160 tail going round and round licking her feet. 517 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:45,320 After some time he said you go home now and it puts his tail in 518 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,680 his legs behind and ran to the house. 519 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,440 They will also will follow you like that. 520 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,840 You need to show him your power. You need to show him who you are 521 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,640 until he knows it. Unless you show it to him, he 522 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,560 will not know it. He will be around you all the 523 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,480 time, wagging the tail, licking your feet, jumping on your 524 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,719 dress. No, no, you don't want that, do 525 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,840 you? Do you want the devil to jump 526 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,239 around you all the time, playing with you? 527 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:20,840 No, show him who you are, stamp the feet and then he will run. 528 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:28,320 Cool. And then we see when he's taking 529 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,400 the gates and walking up the hill, what is he telling? 530 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:37,040 The Philistine says, my Lord has promised to Abraham and he is 531 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,400 the king. And we this land has been given 532 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,360 to us. He led us through the Red Sea. 533 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,040 He helped us to cross the Jordan. 534 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,520 He gave us the land. And we are going to rule here. 535 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,199 We are going to rule here. You are not the rulers. 536 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,080 We are the rulers. We are the ones who are supposed 537 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,120 to possess. But you know what? 538 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,760 Samson belonged to the tribe of Dan. 539 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,440 Everybody said Dan, tribe of Dan. 540 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:13,080 But he was a one man army. He had no followers. 541 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,480 The 3000 men who came with that day to tie him up and hand him 542 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,440 over to the Philistines, if they said OK, Gideon had only 300. 543 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,680 We are 10 times more bigger. You be our leader. 544 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,640 Let's fight the Philistines. Philistines would have been 545 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:31,520 finished that day, but the people surrendered to the 546 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,920 Philistines, 3000 people. That's what I said. 547 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:39,520 It's a shame on them and that is what happened there is because 548 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,840 of that, they could not have ruled. 549 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,160 And after the life of Samson, it's only for 20 years. 550 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:49,120 He ruled. He led Israel for 20 years. 551 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:54,400 That's a very small time span of time, but Jesus is reigning from 552 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,200 the right hand side of the Father until eternity. 553 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,280 He shall be there until the conservation of the all 554 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,720 creation. He is King and He is waiting for 555 00:36:03,720 --> 00:36:08,160 you to rise up like a Samson. He accomplished the victory for 556 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,360 you. He fought the enemy for you. 557 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,120 He defeated the devil. He defeated the principalities, 558 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,680 powers, rules of darkness, wickedness in high places. 559 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,560 He defeated them snakes, coffin, all the powers enemy. 560 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,040 He defeated the dragon, the old serpent. 561 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:26,120 He defeated the devil or Satan so that you can walk like Samson 562 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,600 and let the whole world know that you are a child of Jesus. 563 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,840 So our identity should change. Our identity should change. 564 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,640 So when he carried the gates, he was telling them you are 565 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,160 finished, we are going to but what happened after the life of 566 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:48,000 Daniel Samson is the Dynates did not have a place of their own. 567 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:51,680 Joshua allotted the places he said now go fight and occupy the 568 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,360 place. They did not do it, so they 569 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:58,240 didn't have a place. The life of Samson is not a 570 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:03,720 success in that sense. If he helped his own tribe to 571 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:08,520 possess the land that Robin a story of success, but he failed, 572 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,800 but yet because of his faith in Yahweh. 573 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,560 His name is included in the book of the heroes of faith in 574 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,520 Hebrews 11. Because of his faith, even when 575 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,280 he was thinking that everything is hopeless, everything is gone. 576 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,080 Even then he believed the last last thing he did was when he 577 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,640 was his eyes were removed. He was making a spot of him. 578 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,800 They brought him into the Dagas temple. 579 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,600 He tells the boy who was leading him, please help me to feel the 580 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,760 pillars on which this temple is resting. 581 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,880 So I want to rest a little bit. So the boy, he was blind, he 582 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,560 took his hand, put on the pillar and another pillar. 583 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,760 And he said, God, Remember Me one more last time. 584 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,200 I want to take revenge for my two eyes. 585 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,240 And he pushed with all his strength, and those two pillars 586 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,040 were moved and the whole roof came down. 587 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,440 There are 3000 people on the roof, and how many were inside? 588 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:14,120 Maybe another 2000. So let me die with the 589 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:15,960 Philistines. That was his last words. 590 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,480 Should that be your goal or my goal? 591 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,120 No. We are here to conquer. 592 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,280 We are here to rule. We are here to demonstrate the 593 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,440 power of Jesus, the power of resurrection. 594 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,400 We have to demonstrate the power of resurrection. 595 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,560 I have not even started the message yet. 596 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:44,440 Already my time is finished. That is funny, isn't it? 597 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,840 So you can look at it from the angle of spiritual warfare. 598 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,240 You can look at it angle of how it can be. 599 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,960 He lifted what was meant to limit him. 600 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,720 He broke the limit. What are containing him. 601 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,200 He broke it, He carried on the shoulders. 602 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,080 That's what you are supposed to know. 603 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,120 What is limiting you and break it or uproot it. 604 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,600 Know what is limiting you, break it or uproot it. 605 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,000 And then the gates that tried to hold him became the proof of his 606 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,120 calling. Your trouble, that health, that 607 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:27,160 challenge that the devil is throwing at you is to prove who 608 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,640 you are to the world and to the devil. 609 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,760 You are not to crumble under the weight of your problem, that 610 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,480 financial challenge, that relationship challenge. 611 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:42,200 It is not to put you down. God wants to see you shine or 612 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,600 rise up in his power of resurrection and walk in victory 613 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,320 so the world will know that you are a child of God. 614 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,240 When God says walk out, no gate can hold you. 615 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,360 I want to give a very small testimony before I finish it. 616 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,560 There's a book called Heavenly Man that's about a Chinese man 617 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,000 who was put in prison for preaching the gospel and he was 618 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,640 in the jail but refusing to eat the food. 619 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,040 He said he would give the food to other people who are in the 620 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,160 inmates. Hey, you can have my lunch, you 621 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,720 can have my breakfast, you can have my dinner. 622 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,960 And he was fasting and praying 7080 days or something like 623 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,400 that. And one of the days, after many 624 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,280 long years of being in the prison, one day the Holy Spirit 625 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,520 says to him. Get up, go. 626 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,600 So he came out of the cell and he finds the guards and 627 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,880 everybody. He just walks. 628 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,760 He just walks. Everybody will be looking at 629 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,200 him. Do nothing about it. 630 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,600 And he came out of the jail and he came onto the road and he 631 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,560 took the help of some taxi and he went to his friend's house 632 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,200 and from there he was hiding and they were looking for him. 633 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,200 They couldn't find him. He took some different identity, 634 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,600 he flew to another place and then he saved himself. 635 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,280 Ultimately reached America, I suppose. 636 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:06,720 But what I am trying to say is when God says walk, devil cannot 637 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:13,080 hold you, he cannot hold you, He cannot put you down, He cannot 638 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,360 have the last laugh. No, it is you who will have the 639 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:22,320 last laugh. In the name of Jesus, shall we 640 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,040 pray? There's much to say, but I will 641 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,880 finish it there. Thank you, Lord. 642 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,360 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 643 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,720 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for taking up 644 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:35,640 the cross for us. Thank you for carrying the whole 645 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,400 burden of the sin of the whole world. 646 00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,920 Thank you for you made a provision for our sin to be 647 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,040 forgiven and to wash in your blood and to become clean. 648 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,880 And we thank you because we are becoming carriers of the 649 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,280 presence of God. We are becoming the temple of 650 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,440 the Holy Spirit. We thank you Father, we are your 651 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,520 children. Thank you. 652 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,840 That is our identity. Oh, we praise you. 653 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,920 We praise you for setting your love upon us. 654 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,120 We deserve nothing but your wrath, but you set your love 655 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,760 upon us to save us. Be worship of Jesus. 656 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,360 If the Lord is challenging you to walk like Samson, if you are 657 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,800 saying, I want to overcome the lust of the flesh, lust of the 658 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,480 high spread of life, I want to be full of the Holy Spirit. 659 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,640 I want to be full of the power of resurrection. 660 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,520 I want to demonstrate the power to the world. 661 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,480 I want to see the blind eyes open. 662 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,160 I want to see the deaf ears open. 663 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,360 I want to see the lame walk dead raised. 664 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,840 It's your opportunity to pray that prayer right now. 665 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,760 Stand where you are and say to the Holy Spirit, come. 666 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,640 And when you walk around the church, don't say I didn't 667 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,840 receive the Holy Spirit. Believe that He has come. 668 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,640 He's a gentleman. You say come, he will not shall 669 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:51,800 think about it. You say, Holy Spirit, come, fill 670 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:56,440 me now, fill me now, fill me now, fill me now. 671 00:42:56,560 --> 00:43:01,120 Believe that He is coming into your heart right now, not 672 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:06,840 tomorrow when you go home, when you see the Facebook, you see 673 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,960 the another thing, something on the TV. 674 00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,800 Don't say I'm defeated, say I am victorious. 675 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,440 I shall trample down every temptation. 676 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,480 Father God, I thank you for the children who want to be like 677 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,800 you, full of the power of resurrection. 678 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:28,440 I want to visit them right now. In the name of the Father and 679 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,080 the Son, Jesus Christ of another, the Holy Spirit, I call 680 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,240 upon you, my Lord Holy Ghost, blow on your children right now 681 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,400 as you did on the day of Pentecost. 682 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,760 Let the cloven tongues of fire I light up on the head right now. 683 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,880 Come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost. 684 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,560 Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost, Come Holy Ghost. 685 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,400 Let a glory come, let a glory come. 686 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,520 Let a glory come. Let a glory come, let a glory 687 00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,280 come. Touch your children now. 688 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,440 Fall upon them now in the mighty name of Jesus. 689 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,880 Power release Holy Spirit and power be filled with the Holy 690 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,160 Spirit and power now in the mighty name of Jesus. 691 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,880 Thank you Father for failing us. Help us not to disbelieve it. 692 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,840 Help us to believe that it has happened. 693 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,600 Help us to walk in the light of the truth that we are your 694 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,040 children indwelled by the Holy Spirit. 695 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,600 We worship you, we praise you God. 696 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,880 Thank you again for visiting us this morning in Jesus mighty 697 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:27,320 name and everybody says Amen. 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