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I want to talk again to us from our series of sermons entitled Handling God's Dark Room.

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Tony Campolo in a book written around I think about 1984, the title of the book I have it on my

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shelf it's entitled it's Friday but Sunday is coming and in that book he tells a story of a man

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who broke into a department store but he did not break in to steal anything he went into this

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department store and spent all night switching price tags items that cost $500 he put a price tag

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on it for $50 items that were $380 he put a price tag of $38 he spent all night switching price

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tags got up the next morning went into the store and went out with a King's ransom of items because

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it was three hours before the store manager realized that price tags had been switched

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Satan has switched the price tags he's made us believe what is up is down what is right is wrong

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what is black is white what is good is evil and we spend sometimes an entire lifetime never

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realizing that the devil has switched the price tags this truth is underlined emboldened and

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italicized in the life of this man Samson a cursory reading of the text would make us think

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that Samson's problem was Delilah and that his sin was sexual immorality less we rushed to the

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wrong conclusions the aforementioned Delilah and sex are not the sin but rather sins offspring

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Samson sin your sin and my sin and the sin which turned Lucifer the bright son of the morning

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into Satan the deceiver is the sin of pride Satan has so switched the price tags that we like

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Samson expect advantage without adversity we expect power without pain we expect wisdom without

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weakness according to the author Steve Brown authenticity is possible only in the context of

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public shame forced honesty or Christian experience God delights in making some bodies into no

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bodies so he can make the no bodies into the some bodies he had in mind in the first place

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brothers and sisters hear me this morning the crown is yours you can have it but across comes

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with it Samson was a man with great potential but he never quite reached the level of life

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he was capable of living his name Samson means distinguished and strong but he was anything

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but what his name implied because of his rebellion and his sin Samson found himself in

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God's dark room and his life is telling and testimony listen to me his life is telling

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and testimony of how strong people are sometimes coaxed in the great imbecility what begins with

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reluctance to the truth soon moves to resistance to the truth and when you resist the truth long

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enough if you're not careful it soon becomes rebellion to the truth though strong as Samson

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brothers those strong as Samson Christian friends look out for Delilah's scissors physical

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development intellectual attainment social position financial accumulation can make one

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weak enough to fall asleep on Delilah's lap and the sin is not sexual as much as an evil

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association sudden success much can lull you into the false sense of security believing

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that you hit a triple when you were just born on third base brothers and sisters let's look

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this morning at Samson's life to take away some lessons of how to handle God's dark room

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I want you to look with me at the road to the dark room look at the road Samson takes

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to end up in prison when Samson's birth was announced his parents were told that he was

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to be a Nazarite a Nazarite not one from Nazareth but a Nazarite was devoted concentrated

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to God with some rules attached he was not to cut his hair he was to refrain from wine

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or strong drink and he was to avoid contact with all dead bodies like many prominent people

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who have fallen into public disgrace Samson's parents spoiled and indulged him consequently

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he never learned to delay gratification though he had potential as a judge of Israel he failed

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because of a selfishness and a feeling of entitlement Samson did not understand that

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his strength was not in the length of his hair his strength was not in his body but

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his strength was in his position chosen as a Nazarite by God and you and I have strength

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this morning not because of anything that we've done but we are a chosen generation

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a royal priesthood I wish I had a Bible reader you are not who you are because of where you

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came from you are who you are because God chose you you didn't choose him he chose you

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the spirit of God is the underlying force of Samson's character and the spirit of God

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alone secures for him his rank in the long line of mediators of divine truth and supernatural

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revelation Samson's passion overcame his reason and in spite of his physical strength he was

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powerless against his flesh Samson left the landscape of his life littered with the bodies

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of his enemies but his life was also one disaster after another his parents were left heartbroken

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his family humiliated his wife given to another man the name of God and the testimony of Israel

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were damaged in the eyes of heathens because Samson who was called by God to lead fell

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because he could not control his urges like many of us he walked away from God one bad choice at

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a time it's the picture of a frog in a kettle here's how you kill a frog in a kettle if the

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water is boiling hot and you put a frog in it it'll immediately jump out but if you put a cold

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kettle of water on the stove put a frog in it and turn up the heat gradually the frog will stay in

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the pot and die because the heat is imperceptible we walk away from God like frogs in the kettle we

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surround ourselves with things that don't matter we pay attention to things that will not bring us

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any success we surround ourselves with people who don't mean us any good and before you know it you

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walked away from God one step at a time brothers and sisters get this this morning we are born

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looking like our parents and we died looking like our decisions good or bad now this this this man

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who was who was born for destiny born for greatness born to give God glory never wanted what God put

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on him Samson was crazy about women he married outside his tribe and then it was not bad enough

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that he married a canine night he started messing with canine night prostitutes the liner was not

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the first of the prostitutes he was with two other prostitutes before the liner and the liner was

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the one who caused him to fall asleep because she kept nagging him tell me your secrets tell me

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your secret where does your great strength come from because he killed a thousand men with the

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jawbone of an ass he killed 30,000 men just to win a bet he was the strongest man that ever

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lived but the liner kept asking where does your strength come from it obviously did not come from

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his physical appearance because if he had muscles like Hercules she could have known where his strength

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came from so he lied to her like men do and she kept nagging him like women do

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somebody ought to help me preach it if you love me you would tell me what your secret is

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you say oh god just put some spider webs around me and I'll be weak as any other man she tried

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that and it didn't work she said if you really love me you tell me what your strength is he

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said tie me with some ropes and and and that'll do it I'll lose my strength she tried that and

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it didn't work she said if you're gonna get in this bed with me forget all this talking sweet

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and all that because listen she had already made a price with the Philistines she had already

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bargained with the Philistines she she was she was thinking about getting paid

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she wanted to make this relationship matter financially see how quiet y'all getting right

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baby mama drama ain't just started last week the Bible is full of cheating women cheating

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men rape murder lives gossip the scripture is full and what I love most about the Old

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Testament is its rawness the liler said if you go if you're gonna get with me I'm gonna ask you

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one more time what is your secret Samson said Lord this girl gonna drive me to drinking he said

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all right if my head is shaved my strength will be gone she calls the Philistines and says come

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now because I know his secret but before the Philistines come she makes him fall asleep on her lap

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be careful my grandmother would say like this everything that shine yeah y'all was raised

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like I was raised be careful where you take a nap be careful how you let your guard down

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take heed when you think you're standing lest you fall and when you see somebody in

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trouble don't gloat over that because the Bible says if a man be overtaken in a fault I wish I

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had a Bible reader ye who are spiritual restore him in the spirit of meekness here it is considering

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yourself let's you be overtaken in the same fault because the only reason you are not in prison is

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because we ain't been caught we've done some of the same stuff somebody else has done but messy

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grace the blood of Jesus covers us what can wash away my sin I wish I had a witness here I'm not

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talking to you good at two shoes people in here I'm not talking to y'all here who got your clothes

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on but your wings are underneath your dress or underneath your jacket I'm talking to some crooks

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like me in here this morning who seemed enough just yesterday that you ought to be dead and in your

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grave and that's why we can sing with authority amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a

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wretch like me I once was lost but now I'm found I was blind but now I can see through many dangers

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toils and snaz I have already come I need somebody here today who's got a shot left in you because

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God brought you through some stuff that you could have lost your mind God opened the door that

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somebody had clothes in your face somebody lied on you and tried to bring you down but God made

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your enemy your foot stew won't he do it here I'm trying to hurry here is the is the scariest

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most frightening verse I think in all of the scripture Samson shook himself and got up like

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he had done before but the Bible says he did not know that the spirit of God left

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I don't want to show up to work on Sunday and God has fired me I don't want to stand up to

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pray or to teach or to preach and God takes his power from me I wish I had a witness here I need

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somebody here who knows that you stand up in the power of the living God it's not because you've

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been so holy it's not because you've been so righteous it's because he looks beyond your fault

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I'm I'm known I'm known in my life preachers whose gospel used to flash with fire

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but the spirit of God left him and they became an empty echo a proverb of a bygone era I'm

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knowing people who could sing until the hairs on the back of your neck would rise but they

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thought they were the one in whose place they had been called to praise and God stripped them of

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their power because God is not going to let you get glory that belonged to him I don't care how

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good you think you look I don't care how well you think you preach I don't care how smart you

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think you are God will get the last word you don't have to take my word for that ass never

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kidding as he stood on the roof of his palace and he admired the great gardens of Babylon the

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one of the seven wonders of the ancient world he stood up on his palace roof and said all

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Babylon the great how wonderful how great have I made you old Babylon and the Bible says in the

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same hour he grew feathers like a bird he grew claws like an eagle he ate grass like cattle and

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it was not until he raised his head and realized who God was that his reasoning returned if you

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think you're more than you really are you are fooled you have lost your mind if you think you

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in here this morning because you such a good Christian if you think you in here this morning

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because you so righteous and holy you are crazy and then you look the only one worthy of praise

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this morning is the Lord Jesus Christ he's the fountain from which all else flows he's the root

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out of which all else grows I wish I had one or two witnesses here I'm trying to close this

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little sermon but he's a rock in a weary land a shelter in a time of storm I don't know anybody

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in here like that he's the root of David he's the stump of Jesse I don't know anybody in here

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like that he's the ancient of days he's the day spring of Israel he's a bright and the morning

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star I don't know anybody around here like that he's God's only son there's nobody

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like him Samson got up to fight spirit of God had lifted them they bind them bring him in

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the prison and the road to the dark room leads to the realities in the dark room the road to the

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dark room leads to the realities in the dark room he forfeited his fellowship he fell from

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his position from his power and from his purpose and his fall was public

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there are some folks you can't recover from because God has to publicly shame you so that

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he can again publicly own you because it is not until God empties you of you that he can

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feel you with him and then you can sing I am dying oh Lord I've heard your voice and they

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told you love to me and I long to rise in the arms of faith and be closer drawn to the

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consecrate me now to your service Lord by the power of grace divine let my soul look up with

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a steadfast hope and my will be lost in dying he forfeited his fellowship he forfeited his

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faculties not only did he lose his physical sight but worse he lost his spiritual sight

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because it is possible brothers and sisters to have your eyes and can see it is possible

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to lose your vision before you lose your sight I wish I had somebody to help me God has

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destiny written all over your life God wants to use you God wants to bless you God has

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a consecrated space for you but you want out on it because you want to be like everybody

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else you want everybody to like you you want them to like your posts on Facebook talk back

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to me if you can you want to you want to you want to go viral on Facebook you want to do

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something spectacular and grand and great something nobody else has ever done so that

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you can get acclaimed and public attention and God will let you get it only for you to

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discover that what you are running after is not gonna last because soon people move on

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you remember when James Brown was the man I feel good like I knew that I would so good

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I got you hit me one time baby baby baby

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but then MC Hammer came along and then Michael Jackson came along and then Jay Z came along

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the people stars fade somebody else comes to take their place because people are fickle

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they like you on your Facebook page for a minute and it fades away because their attention

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span is not long but when you know who you are and who you belong to and what your purpose

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is and what your destiny is you can just run your race put some blinders on you don't

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pay attention to who's on the right or who's on the left you just live your life if they

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like your good that they don't like you to hell with them I got Jesus and I don't need

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nobody he walks with me I'm through the realities of the prison is he he forwarded his fellowship

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he forwarded his faculties and then he forfeited his freedom he's blind bound and grinding

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he's blind his eyes have been gouged out he's in chains bound and the ladies man is doing

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ladies work look at the irony of that the women who swooned when he passed by he's

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now doing work that ladies have to do grinding corn that doesn't even belong to him the strongest

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man who ever lived can be bound now by change your strength my strength is not in our academic

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excellence it's not in our rhetorical prowess it's not in our field centric piety my strength

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your strength comes from God not by power nor by might but by my spirit says the lord you

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don't want to sing god will take some woman dancing on a pole and put it in this trek

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Sunday morning and she'll sing rings around you you don't want to teach your class stay home

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God will sober up some alcoholic and put him in your Sunday school class Sunday morning

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and he'll teach circles around you because the power doesn't come from you God can use whoever

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he wants to you i'm through but samson comes to the end of his life in a dark room

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our brothers and sisters listen to me there's there's a road that led him to the dark room

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there's a harsh reality he has to face in the dark room but if you stay that long enough

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there's restoration in the dark room

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i'm through preaching the choir took all my time i'm through

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the only door that leads out of the dark room is the door of repentance

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here it is samson called on the lord

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i want you to see this restoration and i'm through god knows i wish i had more time to

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stay right there but i want you to see this restoration while he's blinded

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while he's blinded while he's grinding his hair is growing

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because remember his strength was in his hair

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and the enemy wasn't paying attention

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because if the enemy had been paying attention then never would have let his hair come back

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but while his enemy hadn't blinded and blinded and grinding god was letting his hair come out

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and while your enemy is at work lying on you

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you god is letting your hair grow back

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while that negro who walked out on you talking about you ain't gonna be nothing without me

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god is letting your hair grow back

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some people who thought that by now you'd be dead or independent you're it god is letting your

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hair and you know how your hair keeps growing keep coming to church keep praising god keep telling

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god thank you for another day keep thanking god for letting you see a brand new sunrise keep on

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waving your hands in the sanctuary and god will let your hair grow back

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here it is

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samson samson said lord

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i know i've been a disappointment

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lord i know i have not done what i was born to do

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you lord i know that i have not lived up to my full potential

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they got me blind they've taken my eyes out i'm a public embarrassment

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i've brought dishonor to your name i'm ashamed even to call myself your child

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heathens are laughing at me and in turn they're laughing at you because i was supposed to honor you

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i was supposed to make your name great in israel and i have been a public embarrassment

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i have brought shame and dishonor to israel my nation and to god my father but listen to his

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prayer he said to the servant who was leading him by the hand because he's blind he said bring me

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to the pillars that's holding up this building bring me to the middle of this palace and just

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let me stand there because they are making sport of me that's what the king james says they want me

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to entertain them so bring me to the middle of the building that i might be made sport of

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by my enemies and the man leads him to the center of the building and they began to ridicule him

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they began to mock him they began to laugh at him but samson ha is growing

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you're gonna help me close this won't you while they are laughing at him his hair is coming back

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while they are mocking him god is letting his hair come back while they are making fun of him

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god is letting his long locks flow again and i want you to hear samson's prayer and i'm going

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to be through he says lord i know i've shamed you lord i know i have not lived up to my full

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potential but lord i want to ask you one more time give me my strength back restore unto me

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the joy of my salvation give me back what the devil stole from me and i will bring honor and

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glory to your name he tells the man bring me in the middle and put me between the pillars

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that's holding up this building and the bible says when he prayed god gave him his strength back

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and he pushed with all his might and the walls came tumbling down and he killed more people in death

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than he ever killed in his life there's another champion i want you to look at this moment

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he came to a hill called calvary they mocked him they ridiculed him they criticized them

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they talked bad about him they gambled for his garments they put him in the middle

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of two fees one on the right hand and one on the left hand he didn't pray the prayer samson prayed

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he said father forgive them for they know not what they do you're gonna help me close this won't you

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and then he bible says they hung him on the cross he died he didn't kill more in death than he did

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in life he saved more in death than he did in life there is a fountain filled with blood

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drawn from in manuals veins sin is plod beneath that flood lose all that guilty stain is there

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anybody here been saved by his blood is there anybody here know you're been washed is there

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anybody here know your name is written in the land's book of life if you're saved and you're

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not ashamed to testify if he kept you and you don't care who's looking at you why don't you

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tell somebody he saved me he saved me he saved me he saved me he washed me he redeemed me by the

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blood of the land he's washed me why that's smooth figure for your blood figure that he died but

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brother you're gonna help me please this won't you Sunday morning he got up with all power i know he's all right