A Lethal Weapon Named Delilah

Understand Delilah does not have to be a woman, she could be a man. She could be an attitude, a weakness, she could be that thing that causes you to cross that line of decency and morality and cause you to do that thing that you said you would never do. Delilah can be a spirit that causes you to feel depression, hopelessness, discouraged, lonely, frustrated, and suicidal. Delilah is dangerous. “A Lethal Weapon named Delilah.”

Understand that the Bible doesn’t give a description of Delilah. It doesn’t mention how beautiful she was. It doesn’t say that she was fat or skinny, bucked toothed, or ugly. It doesn’t say that she was chocolate brown, with hazel eyes, with an hour glass shape, and legs as long as I-95, it doesn’t give any description of her at all. Therefore she can become whatever she needs to be or what you want her to be or what you think you need her to be in your life in order to destroy you.

She can be money, power, prestige, she can be position, she can be drugs, or sex she can be whatever she needs to be in order to get you to fall for her. She may look like Hallie Berry, Denzel Washington, she may have 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, and a 3 car garage. Whatever she needs to be in order to cause your destruction she can be. She is dangerous, she is toxic, she is lethal, she is a spirit, she is a lethal weapon named Delilah.

We find that this chapter begins with Samson in a sexual dilemma with a prostitute in Gaza, whom he spent the night with and at midnight jumped up out of her bed, ran out of the city carrying the gates of the city to the top of a hill facing Hebron which was some 40 miles away, escaping the Gazites that were laying in wait to kill him in the morning time, right into a discussion about this woman named Delilah.

Nevertheless don’t believe that just because there are two women that it is dealing with the same thing, don’t be lulled into believing that because sexual activity is involved in both that it’s dealing with the unfaithfulness and fornication of Samson, don’t think that this part of history with these two different women involve the same thing, WHY, because he was able to jump out of the bed of the prostitute and run away but when he got to messing around with Delilah he wasn’t able to get away from her, she is toxic, treacherous, perilous, lethal, she is not just an experience, but a spirit, she is Delilah.

There is an important fact about Delilah that you need to understand and that is that Delilah didn’t come on her own, but she was sent. Just like a hunter that looks through the scope of his shot-gun, sees the deer perfectly in his cross-hairs, squeezes the trigger, sending the slug penetrating into the heart of the deer and killing him, Delilah was sent to Samson with the same aspiration and intention to kill him. She was sent by those that served the idol god Dagon. 5 Philistine lords came to her and gave her about $8000.00 for the sole-purpose to destroy Samson.

For the Bible says in the 5th verse: - “And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and everyone of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Realize that we are dealing with a group of men that wanted to destroy the man of God. Eventhough he got caught up in many different situations he was in fact a man of God, that God had chosen to deliver the children of Israel out of the hands of the Philistines. He was the promise of the Angel of the Lord to his mother who had been barren and his father Manoah, Samson was a man of God in a natural and spiritual battle.