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DEALING WITH YOUR SLIPS
TEXT: Judges 14:1-3
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
The path to the fall of Samson was not just a straightforward path as it seems. It was a path of several slips which can also affect anyone who is not careful
Such may include, slips of the feet, slips of the eyes, slips of our thoughts, slips of the tongue and over spirituality to mention the least
It is the bad habit that we innocently do that turns into ready tools in the devil’s hand.
SLIP 1: EASY ATTRACTION TO THE OPPOSITE SEX.
Judges 14:1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines
When you find yourself in a new location, what catches your attention first is a function of who you are.
For Samson it was the women.
This was a quiet weakness which he overlooked in his growing years that became a platform for the devil to orchestrate his downfall.
Judges 16:1 (Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her)
SLIP 2: ALWAYS IN A HASTE
Judges 14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
When you notice you are always in a haste in taking crucial decisions such as a career choice, frequent changing of jobs, employment, ministry or any other step in life, then know that you are already leaving the lifestyle of Samson
Brother Samson was a “Now! Now!!” Person
Judges 14:3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
SLIP 3: DESIRE FOR SELF-PLEASURE
Judges 14:3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father; Get her for me, for she pleaseth me well.
When a man does not set as priority things that pleases God but goes after what is right in his own eyes, he is on his way to destruction.
It is wrong to conclude that what pleases you must please God and that the desires of your heart will be acceptable in God sight.
2ndTim 2:3-4 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
SLIP 4: SLIP OF DESPISING GODLY COUNSEL
Judges 14:6-9 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion. And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
Ever since his parents argued against his marrying an ‘uncircumcised Philistine’, he stopped telling them things.
When a man is about to veer off into the bush, the devil makes him to cut away from fathers and elders in the faith who can call him to order.
SLIP 5: EVIDENCE OF THE POWER OF THE ANOINTING IN YOUR BACKSLIDING STAGE
The Bible says ‘The gift and the calling is without repentance’
II Tim 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
The manifestation of a spiritual gift is not a divine authentication of a good behaviour
This means that God’s gifts are gifts; they are not worked for but are imparted upon a man by the mercies of God.
Not because of the holiness of any man
PASTOR LANRE AREOLA
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