A PREVIEW OF COMING DISTRACTIONS (33 OF 42)
by Mike Stone
Scripture: Judges 14:1-20
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A Preview of Coming Distractions (33 of 42)
Series: The Coming King: Finding Jesus in Judges
Mike Stone
Judges 14
In those days there was no king in Israel and every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Our study of Judges is the story of Israel's rebellion and their longing for a king. But this book, like the whole of Scripture, is ultimately about the Lord Jesus.
Judges is preparing us for a coming king, the Lord Jesus. In our last lesson, we saw, in the birth of Samson, a beautiful foreshadowing. Tonight, in the opening scene of his adult life, we see an ominous foreboding.
The seeds of a life full of contradictions and consequences are sown in this 14th chapter. It's a lengthy text but I want to take it on the whole tonight in a brief bit of a preview of the rest of his life. As we watch this scene unfold, we definitely get a Preview of Coming Distractions. (Judges 14)
If you've ever gone to the movies, you've had to sit through trailers. These are the little snippets of the movies that will be released in the days ahead. One website says these previews average nearly 20 minutes per movie. So your 7:30 movie will usually start about 7:50, right after all the commercials about future movies, $7 popcorn boxes, and $5 Cokes.
Often, the "new" movie isn't even finished when they producers release the trailer. And in some cases, the scenes from the preview don't even end up in the eventual movie when it is released.
In fact, Buzzfeed.com even has an entire article labeled, "31 movie trailers that straight up lied to us about the movie."
But in the inspired trailer we have in Judges 14, we see a preview of a devastated life and it's a preview that will unfortunately be played out in living color and high definition.
And in this "preview of coming distractions," I simply want to say that if you do the things Samson does and refuse to change, then you will always get what Samson got. And the final scene will look much the same.
Hea ...
Series: The Coming King: Finding Jesus in Judges
Mike Stone
Judges 14
In those days there was no king in Israel and every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Our study of Judges is the story of Israel's rebellion and their longing for a king. But this book, like the whole of Scripture, is ultimately about the Lord Jesus.
Judges is preparing us for a coming king, the Lord Jesus. In our last lesson, we saw, in the birth of Samson, a beautiful foreshadowing. Tonight, in the opening scene of his adult life, we see an ominous foreboding.
The seeds of a life full of contradictions and consequences are sown in this 14th chapter. It's a lengthy text but I want to take it on the whole tonight in a brief bit of a preview of the rest of his life. As we watch this scene unfold, we definitely get a Preview of Coming Distractions. (Judges 14)
If you've ever gone to the movies, you've had to sit through trailers. These are the little snippets of the movies that will be released in the days ahead. One website says these previews average nearly 20 minutes per movie. So your 7:30 movie will usually start about 7:50, right after all the commercials about future movies, $7 popcorn boxes, and $5 Cokes.
Often, the "new" movie isn't even finished when they producers release the trailer. And in some cases, the scenes from the preview don't even end up in the eventual movie when it is released.
In fact, Buzzfeed.com even has an entire article labeled, "31 movie trailers that straight up lied to us about the movie."
But in the inspired trailer we have in Judges 14, we see a preview of a devastated life and it's a preview that will unfortunately be played out in living color and high definition.
And in this "preview of coming distractions," I simply want to say that if you do the things Samson does and refuse to change, then you will always get what Samson got. And the final scene will look much the same.
Hea ...
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