<TITLE>06. Par 35-41</TITLE>L-35 So this is Samson, a man that was an--an outstanding servant of God, now he stands there, humiliated, blind, weakened, a disgrace. It's a picture of a--of a demoralized, sunken generation. It's a picture of--of a--of a nation that has lost its hold with God. It's a picture of a church that's lost its hold on God's Word, 'cause that's what Samson represented here. Humiliated, broken, he was in a terrible condition as he sat there, or stood there, rather. So could you imagine him standing, this great man that, one time, what he could do; and here he is standing here in that condition, humiliated, as I said, broken, a symbol that I want to declare tonight. This symbol represents the very hour that we're now living, the condition of the church now; broken, out of the Word of the Lord; humiliated, out of its place. And the question is coming, today, the handwriting is on the wall and who can read it? They know nothing about it.

L-36   Let's take and search the minds of those Philistines. This man's very name, Samson, at one time, caused the whole nation to tremble, just mention Samson, 'cause God was with him. And the nations trembled because of his very name.

L-37 That's the same way it used to be, the Name of Jesus Christ, but now It's used as a curse word, jokes. There don't seem to be anymore reverence to It. When, that Name is above every name that was ever named on mortal tongues. It's a Name that even It's so high exalted above every name that's in Heaven, every name upon the earth, and all the family in Heaven and earth is Named It. And yet man take It in curse words, church members use It in jokes, and many religious leaders blaspheme It with their creeds. That's the reason that we're humiliated, in the face of communism, Romanism, and Protestantism, and the things that's rising in the earth today. And that's the reason that we're humiliated. We ought to know these answers. God has got it in His Book, for this day, but we have went to something else, forget about It.

L-38   Many of these Philistines, as they stood there, of them great warriors, no doubt... Somebody announced, that, "The next event is Samson." Many of those warriors, with their fine jeweled and polished-up women, looked over the banister and remembered seeing Samson stand in a different way, one time when the Spirit of the Lord was upon him; standing with a jawbone of a mule, in his hands, with a thousand Philistines laying around him. And they had run to a rock somewhere, to take refuge.

L-39 When a man picked up the jawbone of a mule that had been laying on the desert, anyone knows that one hit on a rock or anything, with that bone, would shatter it to pieces. And those helmets, some of them was an inch, to an inch and a half, thick, of brass. And this man was not a soldier, and he wasn't a trained man for--for the spear. And Philistines with a coat of mail, mail that is laced over, lap over like a jalousie window, with the metal that keeps spears and things from hitting them; and also with helmets, and with shields, and with spears. And they surrounded this man, Samson, and thought, "The great cream of the army would be able to take this man."

L-40   And he had nothing in his hand. And he found an old dry jawbone of the mule, and he begin to hit, right and left, until he beat down a thousand Philistines. Why? The Bible said, "The Spirit of the Lord was upon him."

L-41 Here he stood, different now. He had give away his secret. And they plainly could remember him.


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