Samson: Strong in Jehovah, Weak in the Flesh (5): Samson Removes Gaza's Gates (Judges 16:1-3) by Rev. Martyn McGeown
I. The Miraculous Event
II. The Significant Victory
III. The Moral Weakness
Michael Wilcock: “We, the readers, know what Samson does not know. We are aware of how the story will end. He went to Gaza; he could not resist a pretty woman; and when he realised his enemies were lying in wait for him, he seized the town gates bodily, uprooted them, and carried them off. All good fun, at the time. But there would be another woman, with more far-reaching intentions; and another seizing, not of the gates but of the man who took them away; and another visit to Gaza, from which there would be no return” (Judges, p. 146).
Kevin DeYoung: “Don’t reason with sexual sin, just run. Don’t dabble. Don’t peruse. Don’t experiment. Don’t ‘find yourself.’ Don’t test your resolve. Don’t mess around. Just flee. We are to avoid the mistakes of the foolish man in Proverbs 7 who hung around sexual immorality, listened to its siren song, followed it through town, and ended up losing his life. God doesn’t ask us to get familiar with sexual immorality on the big screen, TV screen or smart phone screen so that we can engage the culture. He commands us to get away” (The Hole in Our Holiness, p. 111).