KJV Sermon Outlines

Picking Up The Pieces

Text: Judges 13:1 – 5

Introduction: A message of Hope...Restoration...Coming Back...
About – Regrets... Failure...Mistakes...

Begins with…

I. Realizing Your Mistakes – Judges 16:28
A. Conviction – Holy Spirit
B. Emotions – Broken Heart
C. Waking Up – See your life more clearly

II. Repentance – Acts 8:22 “Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.”
A. Crying Out to God
B. From the Heart – Heart felt
C. Turning Away 180 degrees
D. Repentance is an attitude rather than a single act.

III. Reaction
A. Going Forward
B. Acting Upon
C. Getting Right
D. Eph. 6:6 “Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;”

IV. Return – True Revival
2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
A. To God
B. To God’s Way
C. To God’s Plan

Conclusion: Picking up the pieces and going on is not hard when you include God in it for strength.

Let’s Talk About Samson

4 Commitments were Common to the Nazarite
1 – To Abstain for All Intoxicating Drink & Grape Products
2 – To Not Cut the Hair
3 – To Avoid Contact with the dead
4 – To Refuse to eat Food Regarded as Unclean

The Vow Could be Taken BY Any Jew for a Period of Time to COMMIT to God & Serve Him & Humanity Typically 30 days...100 Days...

ONLY 3 in the Bible were thought or Known to be LIFE LONG Nazarites –
Samuel...John Baptist...SAMSON

Meaning that They were Born with the INTENT of Serving God their Entire LIFE = Priesthood...
AND Refraining from Worldly Influences...

Samson Had it Made in many Respects - Parents were Godly... His Purpose was Revealed Clearly to Him... Spiritual Heritage... Path was Carved Out...

ALL he had to Do was WALK in it!

His Greatest Challenge and Ours – Living Up to his Divine Potential...Calling...Expectations...
To Become the Person HE KNEW He was Supposed to be...

All HE had to Do was Keep His Nose Clean!

III. A Life of Failures

1 – He Sees a Woman he wants to Marry – a Woman he was not Supposed to Marry - "She pleased him well" = did what was right in his own eyes

2 – He kills a lion with his bare hands... - (He didn’t tell his parents)

3 – Honey from the Carcass - He fed some to his parents - (He didn’t tell his parents)

4 – Marries her – Poses a Riddle to her family - Bets 30 Garments to the Winner - She Betrays him & tells them the Answer

5 – He Kills 30 men & takes their Garments - His wife goes to the Best man at his wedding - He Comes back to get her later - Her father "no – Take her Sister"

6 – Takes 300 Foxes – Sets Fire to them & Sets them free into their fields...
Philistines – Go & Burn his wife & her father

7 – He goes & Slaughters many - Philistines Come after him - 3000 Men of Judah Come & Arrest him & Turns Him over to them

8 – Jawbone of an Ass – Kills 1000 of them...Tosses it to the Side -

9 – Gaza – Harlot - Surrounded the place - He takes the gates of the City to the top of a Hill

10 – Delilah - Philistines Enticed her with 1100 Pieces of Silver
"She Lulled Him to Sleep" - Cut his Hair off

"I will go as before & Shake myself free – BUT He Didn’t Know that The Lord Had Departed from him"

Philistines Took Him - PUT his Eyes Out - HOT IRON - Bronze Fetters
Grinder in Prison

He HAD HIT BOTTOM! - PRISON!

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