I HAVE A DEVIL TO FIGHT
Text: Judges 16:1-5
Intro: We all have an enemy who wants to keep us in bondage and or to kill us. This enemy started in the Garden of Eden whit Adam. Because Adam fell into sin we all have to fight this enemy.
Satan will use the thing you love the most to get you. EVE
1. DELILAH WAS SENT TO DESTROY SAMSON. (5)
A) He loved her.
Satan will not attack you with things you don’t care for.
**If sex is not your weakness Satan will not attack you that way.
**If money is not your weakness...
**Power, Anger,
James 1
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
B) Jg 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him,
Entice him-pathah, paw-thaw’ (in a sinister way) delude:--allure, deceive, enlarge, entice, flatter, persuade, silly (one).
SHE WAS SENT TO HIM
SHE WAS TO LURE HIM AWAY
C) Why? To see where his great strength was.
2. THE ENEMY WANTED TO PREVAIL AGAINST SAMSON. (5)
Jg 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him,
A) If one way doesn’t work Satan will try again.
** He tempted Jesus three different times.
B) They wanted to prevail against Samson
Prevail-yakol, yaw-kole’ a primitive root; to be able, literally or morally any at all (ways), attain,overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
** Satan wants to find out your weakness.
** And when he does he will open all doors against you.
3. THE ENEMY WANTED TO BIND SAMSON.
Jg 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him
A) Satan wants to bind all Christians.
Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
**When Satan finds out your weakness he will bind you in that weakness.
LUST- If Satan finds out this is your weakness he will make sure you are tempted every day with it.
ANGER- He will send someone to get on your nerves every day.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin:
4. THE ENEMY WANTED TO AFFLICT SAMSON.
Jg 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him:
AFFLICT HIM-`anah, aw-naw’ the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, hurt, ravish, weaken in any wise.
** Every time we fall we get weaker. Look at King David
THIS IS WHAT THE ENEMY WANTS TO DO TO US!
EVERYONE IN THE BUILDING KNOWS THIS ABOUT SATAN.
1Pe 5:8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
WE ALL KNOW THIS VERSE, MOST BY HEART
Lu 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
WE KNOW SATAN IS OUT TO GET US! AMEN!!
BUT MOST OF THE TIME WE DO THE SAME THING SAMSON DID.
5. SAMSON PLAYED WITH THE ENEMY. (7)
A) She came out and asked him where does your strength come from.
Jg 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
THE LIGHT SHOULD HAVE COME ON IN HIS HEAD.
B) But he plays with her. (Just like some of us plays with the Devil)
1. If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
** She tried this and it did not work.
** Like Satan she did not give up.
2. If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
** She tried this but it did not work.
Jg 16:12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
HE STILL DID NOT SEE WHAT WAS HAPPINING JUST LIKE SOME OF US.
3. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.
** She did not stop even if this did not work.
Jg 16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
Jg 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
SHE DID NOT LET UP AND YOU CAN KNOW SATAN WILL NOT LET UP ON YOU.
6. HE TOLD HER ALL HIS HEART.
Jg 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
A) Time she found out she called for the ones to take him down.
Jg 16:18 ¶ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
B) She called for some on else to cut his hair.
Jg 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head;
EVERY OTHER TIME SHE DID THE EVIL DEED BUT KNOW SHE CALLS ANOTHER.
SATAN WILL NOT COME IN THE FLESH TO TEMPT YOU AND I BUT HE WILL SEND SOMEBODY.
C) She started to mock him.
Jg 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
WHEN SATAN FIND OUT YOUR WEAKNESS AND YOU TELL HIM ALL YOUR HEART YOU WILL LOSE YOUR STRENGTH.
** Time we do wrong Satan tells us NOW WHAT KIND OF A CHRISTIAN ARE YOU.
D) Every time we give into Satan we lose something. ( Eyes, freedom etc.
7. HIS HAIR GREW BACK, HE DID NOT LOSE EVERYTHING.
Jg 16:22 ¶ Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. {after...: or, as when he was shaven}
A) His hair was as long as it was when it was cut.
** Most people’s hair will grow at the most 1 inch a month.
SAMSON WAS IN THE JAIL FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.
** IT MIGHT TAKE A WHILE BUT YOU CAN GET BACK WHAT SATAN TOOK FROM YOU.
B) He never got his power back until he called on God.
Jg 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
WHEN GOD KNEW HE WAS REALLY SORRY FOR HIS SIN HE GOT HIS POWER BACK.
Ps 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Ps 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
IT IS INDEPENDENCE DAY TOMORROW AND WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE.
I GOT A DEVIL TO FIGHT I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR FOOLISHNESS.
I DON’T ALWAYS COME OUT ON TOP. I DON’T ALWAYS WIN MY BATTLES.
1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in
