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The story of Samson and Delilah presents to us an anatomy of the flesh or sin-prone fallen nature as it viewed by the eyes of G-d in a believer (Ro 7:18) and also an unbeliever (Ro 7:5). When we read the story in Judges chapter 13 through 16, the first question we ask is, Who is more blind, the unsaved damsel who meets a Spirit-filled Deliverer or Savior (Moshia) and remains unsaved, knowing him only after the flesh (2C 5:16), not seeing him according to the wisdom of the Ruach Hakodesh, stupidly using her womanly wiles to trade off a man of destiny, a prototype of Moshiach Goeleinu, a hero of the faith fated to be recorded in Holy Writ, whom she exchanges (along with her eternal salvation) for a money payoff and thereby stupidly and blindly misses all that Boaz gave Ruth, to say nothing of Chayei Olam? Who is more blind? Delilah? Or is Samson more blind, because he does not see her as a spiritual test that will also become a punishment (Jer 2:19) because, after breaking the FIFTH COMMANDMENT (and not honoring his father Manoah, who wanted to arrange a Torah-sanctioned marriage (Dt 7:3-4), Samson then finds out all too horribly the disastrous consequences of partial obedience (avoiding barbershops was not all that G-d required of Samson!) and therefore Samson has to suffer in the flesh to cease from the besetting sin of the lust of the eyes which could all have been avoided if he would have simply obeyed G-d fully and cut forbidden soul ties.



Since Scripture is the mirror of the soul, you look at Samson and see yourself. All we like sheep have gone astray, each has gone his own Philistine way. And now, Samson, your life is filled with Philistines, and what the heathen most fear (14:15) will come upon them (15:6). And, if you continue to harden your heart, Samson, against the L-rd (for Hashem has laid on Moshiach Adoneinu the iniquity of us all, and G-d's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance, Samson), then what you most fear will also come upon you. It is not so much Delilah but rather your lack of moral discernment (Prov 11:22 and Prov 30:20) that has betrayed you (you do what is right in your own eyes, but you do not think about what is right in the eyes of the L-rd), and so, Samson, here is the question of all questions: will you betray your calling, for which you were set apart from birth (RO 1:1)? Or will you be true to your calling unto death (13:7)? G-d desires to deliver many through a stirring of the Ruach Hakodesh in your life (14:6). But you are not only Samson, you are also Delilah. Your charm could mesmerize vipers (and you are quite wiley [Prov 7:10] in using your charm and then covering your tracks [but the L-rd is watching, Jer 16:17]) though your charm can fell men like trees, but where your flesh succeeds, the Holy Spirit departs (16:20). Your sin, Samson, is that you want the forbidden BECAUSE (Prov 9:17) it is forbidden (RO 7:7), and Satan (Eph 4:27) will see your flesh (RO 13:14) and roar like a lion to devour you (14:5), but the Ruach Hashem will come mightily upon you (14:6) and then it will be that the L-rd will once again use you (Lk 22:32), after you have suffered in the flesh and ceased from sin (1K 4:1).

Many besetting sins begin in childhood or when a teen-age Samson, very gifted with a titanic self-will, rebels from the parental figure and escapes into the drug of forbidden sexuality. Then when the minister shows up, it is like Mother Teresa entering an opium parlour or a crack house where everyone has given himself over to an orgy of sexual unreality. Sometimes there is great anger and hurt beneath the surface of such a Samson's sex drug lifestyle. Sometimes, after all other means fail, the L-rd may have to deal with such a rebellious, escapist teenage Samson when he is in his fifties or sixties, allowing his sinful life-long emotional indulgence to hit a brick wall of ill-health, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. This is the L-rd's mercy. For the chastening of the L-rd also brings repentance and healing.

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