GET (IT) OUT: The Reason BEHIND the Reason

Get (IT) Out: Learning from internally locked up things

Judges 16:4-21 – 4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 5 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.”  6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” 7 Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.” 8 Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. 9 With men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered. 10 Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.”  16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. 17 So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.” 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. 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.  

The Reason BEHIND the Reason

#1 – Samson needed to “get out” that… 

He was with Delilah.

Judges 16:7, 9 – Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll become as weak as any other man.” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

Judges 16:19 – And his strength left him…

Judges 16:20 – …The Lord  had left him. 

Judges 16:21 – 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.  

What shackles are we in because of the games we have played?

Matthew 5:37 – All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’;  anything beyond this comes from the evil one. 

#2 – Delilah needed to “get out” that… 

She had .  

Judges 16:5-6 –  5 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.” 6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” 

“Come, come now. Miss Haines. Surely you know that everybody’s got a little larceny operating in them.”

Judges 16:15 – “How can you say, ‘I love you, when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time  you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” 

Judges 16:16-17 – With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. 17  So he told her everything.  

Proverbs 27:15-16 [MSG] – A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet; You can’t turn it off, and you can’t get away from it.

Colossians 3:21 – Fathers, do not antagonize your children, or they will become discouraged.