SUPERMAN AND HIS KRYPTONITE (3 OF 3)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Judges 16:1-31
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Superman and His Kryptonite (3 of 3)
Series: The Superman
Jeff Strite
Judges 16:1-16:31
OPEN: My wife and I have always enjoyed doing jig saw puzzles. We'll put them out on a folding table and work on it for days, enjoying the experience as we successfully put in piece after piece. I recently ran across another person's experience with a jig saw puzzle. She wrote: "After toiling over a 1000 piece puzzle, I was unable to finish it because there was one piece missing. I returned the box to the store and explained why.
The clerk was obviously not a puzzle aficionado. As she refunded my money, she asked pleasantly, 'How far did you get before you realized that there was a piece missing?'"
APPLY: When do you realize a piece is missing from a jig saw puzzle? (when the puzzle's almost done). You've spent all that time working on the puzzle, but it isn't until "too late" that you notice that a piece is gone.
Samson was a man who had lost something as well. And he didn't notice it was missing until it was too late. His strength had been taken from him and he faced bondage and blindness because it was now gone.
How did Samson lose his strength? How was this part of his life that was so special to him taken from him? (pause)
I. Delilah asks Samson an interesting question: What's the source of your strength?
Actually her question wasn't an attempt to discover the source of his strength, but to find out where his weakness lay.
"So Delilah said to Samson, 'Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.'" (Judges 16:6)
In her backhanded way this girl was asking Samson "what would makes you weak?"
She's asking Samson, "where's the Kryptonite? Where's the magic stone, the poisonous element that can bring you to your knees? What the source of your weakness, Samson?"
What was it that caused Samson's weakness? Was it when he lost his hair? Well, yeah, partly.
REREAD: vs. 15-19
Samson's hair was the symbol of a very spec ...
Series: The Superman
Jeff Strite
Judges 16:1-16:31
OPEN: My wife and I have always enjoyed doing jig saw puzzles. We'll put them out on a folding table and work on it for days, enjoying the experience as we successfully put in piece after piece. I recently ran across another person's experience with a jig saw puzzle. She wrote: "After toiling over a 1000 piece puzzle, I was unable to finish it because there was one piece missing. I returned the box to the store and explained why.
The clerk was obviously not a puzzle aficionado. As she refunded my money, she asked pleasantly, 'How far did you get before you realized that there was a piece missing?'"
APPLY: When do you realize a piece is missing from a jig saw puzzle? (when the puzzle's almost done). You've spent all that time working on the puzzle, but it isn't until "too late" that you notice that a piece is gone.
Samson was a man who had lost something as well. And he didn't notice it was missing until it was too late. His strength had been taken from him and he faced bondage and blindness because it was now gone.
How did Samson lose his strength? How was this part of his life that was so special to him taken from him? (pause)
I. Delilah asks Samson an interesting question: What's the source of your strength?
Actually her question wasn't an attempt to discover the source of his strength, but to find out where his weakness lay.
"So Delilah said to Samson, 'Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.'" (Judges 16:6)
In her backhanded way this girl was asking Samson "what would makes you weak?"
She's asking Samson, "where's the Kryptonite? Where's the magic stone, the poisonous element that can bring you to your knees? What the source of your weakness, Samson?"
What was it that caused Samson's weakness? Was it when he lost his hair? Well, yeah, partly.
REREAD: vs. 15-19
Samson's hair was the symbol of a very spec ...
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