Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued

 Judges 16:1-14

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

Sometime later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.”

Again she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.

Samson being among the few who remained in the territory the tribe was originally given. The Philistines were advancing by infiltration rather than outright war. Samson, by marrying a Philistine woman, seems to go along with this. But his subsequent exploits bring the danger into the open and the enmity to ahead.

Why?

Samson put himself in danger for he fell in love with a Philistine woman.

Samson hasn't mission of the Lord but with his feeling and do what he wants to do.

Three times Delilah said to Samson, the Philistines are upon you, but all of these are the woman Delilah wants to kill him. But Samson doesn't sense this danger has come upon him.  The most dangerous is this woman. But Samson loves her.

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參孫敗在女人手上，也是敗在自己的私慾！

參孫大有能力，卻不能控制自己的情慾。表面有能力，內心卻是軟弱無法約束自己的私慾。

我們重視人的能力，但是更重要是否有神聖潔的能力?

為什麼參孫總是親近非利士女人?因為社會上與非利士人也是接觸密切。

參孫連續三次輕看敵人，當他對於大利拉催到煩，表示他無法勝過了，最重要是他無法勝過私慾，罪惡。每個人都無法勝過。不要有侍無恐！貪財、貪心，私慾是人很難勝過的。

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How?

Sometimes we love something is dangerous to us, but we might keep loving it and induces damage to us.