Samson 1 - Set Apart For God

INTRODUCTION, REHASH

     The Spirit of the Lord

     Set Apart by God

BACKSTORY OF A PURPOSED BIRTH

    Rebellion and Retribution, 13:1

     A Set-Apart Savior, 13:2-5

         Nazirite?

    Meet the Parents, 13:6-24

    The Spirit Stirring, 13:25

Meet Samson

     Samson or God?, 14:1-4

          God is doing something, Samson doing something else

     In a Vineyard, 14:5-7

     With the Unclean, 14:8-11

     The Riddler, 14:12-20

Deliverance through Samson, Judges 15

     They didn’t know

     Salvation is of the Lord

COMMUNITY MEDITATION

KNOW

• Did Samson always act aware that he was set part and called to live out a mission from God? Did his unfaithfulness, erase God’s faithfulness?
• Notice all the secrets in this passage. The reader is granted information that the people living the story simply do not see. How is this like life?
• Discuss the following statement; God can work in, through and despite of the flawed actions of sinful people. Agree? Disagree? Troubling? Encouraging?

FEEL

• How does it make you feel to know God is at work in ways we may not immediately perceive. Does this frustrate you?
• What must we know in addition to the circumstances happening in our lives? About God? About ourselves? Let us confess together that we are not God.

LIVE

• Samson seemed unaware of his calling at points in his life. How could he forget? What do we forget?
• How can our own temptations, sins and weakness rob us in our spiritual life.
• Read 2 Timothy 2:8-21. Discuss the importance of God’s faithful calling and then our faithful obedience. If we are set apart by God, in what ways should we live?