What Is Your Price?

Judges 16:15-19, “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. And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; 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. 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. 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. And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.”

Samson went one step too far; just one time too many in playing with sin; just one time too many to the gates of temptation. This time he didn’t come back in victory.

The sad thing is that he was so blinded, so deceived and so in love with the world that he never even realized that God had left him. That’s where nearly all backsliders are today.

Sadly, there are many, even sitting on the pews in the very House of God, who don’t realize that God has left them.

Dead churches, with dead preachers, preaching dead messages, to dead congregations are literally all over the land today. They don’t even know that they have compromised one time too many and that the Spirit of God has left them. When it comes time to shake loose from the bondages of this world and go in the Rapture, they will suddenly realize how low they have sunk and how far from God they have gone. The same holds true for many who are in a backslidden condition right now. Many will be “left behind” while sitting on the pew when Jesus comes again.

Judges 16:21, “But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.”

Notice now that the bondages that hold Samson are not bondages of green limbs, new ropes, or braided hair. They are bondages of brass.

Brass is a symbol of judgment in a number of places through the Bible.

In Daniel 10:6 Jesus appeared in a vision and Daniel describes Him like this, "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude."

John also saw Jesus in a vision and this is his description found in Revelation 1:13-15, "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters."