3 Hot Weeks | Bishop Walter Harvey
MESSAGE NOTES
Judges 16:19-22
19 After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.
20 Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”
He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.
21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison. 22 But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
Jesus is the chain-breaker / Satan is a slave master
Judges 16:23-25
23 Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.”
24 When the people saw him, 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.”
25 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.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Matthew 12:28-29
28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
29 “Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
People need freedom…
…from yesterday’s sins and today’s struggle.
Luke 8:26-39 - Jesus heals a demon possessed man
…from the lies of the enemy.
John 8:31-44 - the opponents of Jesus
…from compromise and procrastination.
Exodus 8:25 - “don’t go far away”
Exodus 10:11 - “only the men go”
Exodus 10:24 - “leave your flocks and herds behind”
The key to total freedom: “Wherever there is a sincere cry for freedom, there is also the sound of war!”
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
-What was your biggest takeaway from this weekend’s message?
-In the context of faith, what does it truly mean to have freedom?
-Of freedom from yesterday’s sins and today’s struggle, freedom from the lies of the enemy, and freedom from compromise and procrastination, which is most challenging to you?
-How do we apply this message content in our lives this week?