It Was A Fatal Attraction

In this life I have discovered that everything that seems good to you, isn’t necessarily good for you. There are some things in this life that you may find yourself drawn to that which are not meant for your good. Even though they may seem enjoyable to you at the time, but in the end it could cause you ultimate destruction. I’ve learned that it does not matter who you are. It doesn’t matter what your stature is, no one is exempt from being caught up in compromising predicaments and some questionable circumstances.

As we examine this text, my mind ventured back to the late 1980’s where I’m reminded of a movie that had America and probably the rest of the world talking. This was a movie that changed the way we looked at both relationships and fidelity. This was a film that had married women daring their husbands to even think about being unfaithful. This was a film that had even the toughest, most masculine, manly men scared to even look at another woman.

It dealt with the danger, the act, and the consequences of becoming involved in an extra-marital affair. The movie was called Fatal Attraction. It explored just what can, and will often happen when a man or a woman decides to slip up and fall into another relationship.

Let me suggest to you, that likewise those of us, who are in the Household of Faith, if we’re not careful, we will have the proclivity, the tendencies, and the inclinations to end up in our own Spiritual Fatal Attraction. If we’re not careful, we can end up in the same predicament as the characters of our text.

Look at this, Samson illustrates to us a prime example of what can happen when we allow ourselves to be attracted to sin, he sows us the effects that a Fatal Attraction can have on our live. For James 1:15 emphatically informs us that when lust has been conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is finshed or is fully-grown, it produces death. So this lets us know that the attraction to sin is is deadly and it fatal.

The word fatal is defined as something causing or capable of causing death. Something, (or someone) causing ruin or destruction. It comes from the Latin word fatum, which means deadly, and destructive.

In other words, something fatal is something that is deadly, disastrous, destructive, and lethal to you. And the word attraction is the act or capability of attracting, or the power of attracting. Something that attracts you, lures you, charms you, it fascinates you, appeals you, it tempts, it entices, and it calls you by your name.

One thing that we have to understand is that the devil is crafty. He’s smart when it comes to the flesh. You see; he knows what turns you on. He knows what makes you tick. He knows how to turn your head. And he’ll put it right in your face and say, here It is take it, you know you want it. He offers you a Fatal Attraction and there are times when we fall short that we let him lead us like a lamb, to the slaughter.

Now, remember this wasn’t Samson’s first encounter with a Fatal Attraction, it was only by the Grace of God that he made it through before, but this time it would be fatal.

I said that simply to say this. We’ve got to stop letting the devil play us like puppets whenever he gets ready. We’ve got to stop falling for the same old tricks everytime.

We’ve got to stop giving in to the same old desires. We’ve got to stop cheating on God. We say we love the Lord, and we’re going to keep His commandments, but yet we’re having an affair on him. you might ask how is that pastor? Well, everytime we go against His Word, and operate out of His Will, we are having an affair with a Fatal Attraction, and that Fatal Attraction is sin.

And the bad part about it is that there are some conditions. There are some consequences. There are some situations. That will eventually manifest themselves as a result of our Fatal Attraction into sin and it will take you…

I. Farther than you wanted to go (v 4-17)

Now it seems to me, that in view of everything that Samson had been through in his previous relationships, he would have learned to leave well enough alone. After some of the things that we have been through, it seems like to me that we shouldn’t go back down the same alley again.

After experiencing two bad relationships, you think he would have been careful in his dealings with Delilah. But when you have your nose wide open. And you are attracted, allured, and enticed by something; you’ll do whatever it takes to get it. The text clearly shows us that Samson was willing to go all the way to be with Delilah. He was willing to do whatever it took to have her.