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3 Nazirite vows: don't drink alcohol, don't touch dead things, and don't cut your hair.

Samson was an incredibly strong man with a dangerously weak will.

Samson was emotion driven, not Spirit led.

Men don't ruin their lives all at once, they ruin them one step at a time.

What do you do when you realize you've blown it?

The problem is for us men is that we take this kind of failure very, very personally, because men and women typically find value in different ways.

Ladies typically receive value in relationships.

Men get value, not as much from relationships but from accomplishments.

A man's greatest fear is failure and his greatest pain is regret.

A failure is an event, never a person.

Judges 16:23

Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, "Our god Dagon has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands."...

When the people saw Samson, they praised their god, saying, "Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who....

....laid waste our land...

...and multiplied our slain."

...While they were in high spirits, they shouted, "Bring out Samson to entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.

There are two responses to failure:

The natural response is remorse: "I feel bad about what I did, I shouldn't have done it, i'm a bad person."

A better response is: Repentance - "I own it, my fault, I blew it."

You cannot change your past, but GOD can change your future.

Who does God say you are? Ephesians 1

"Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple so I can lean against them"...

Samson prayed to the Lord, "O Sovereign Lord, remember me. O God, please strengthen me just once more..."

Even in our failures, God can still accomplish His purposes.

Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other....

Them Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

You are not what you did; you are who God said you are.

God is not finished with you yet!

It's time to push some pillars down.

If you want a different result, you've got to do something different.

Samson gave his life one time, but real men of God give their lives daily.

The world is yet to see what God can do through one man wholly surrendered unto Him.