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July 29, 2025 • 17 mins
Nobody can ruin your day, unless you have turned the responsibility over to them.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
So nobody can steal your peace without your permission. Nobody
can ruin your day unless you turn the responsibility over
to them. The Bible says, this is the day that
the Lord has made. So the one who gave you
the day, the one who put you in this moment

(00:26):
of your life, the one who gave it to you,
also expects you to guard it, to guard what you
have been given.

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Speaker 3 (01:29):
Spending every morning in quiet time, never know what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Story.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
We're growing hendricks, cheat making good choices.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's different when it's given.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
If we're just unified over some good ideas.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Ah, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
This is what is remarkable to me about the story
of Samson is that he represents a flawed figure who
was given at a specific time in history to deliver
a people from their sin. One of the interesting things
about Samson is that from his very birth he was different.

(02:37):
If you know this about Samson, because all we ever
talked about is Delila cut his hair off.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
And he was a dummy and he shouldn't have done that, just.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Like we do with everybody, by the way, we just
summarize their whole life down to one thing, either their
gift or their glitch.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Glitch one time, and we will write.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Your biography with one sentence on your one glitch. On
the other hand, we are just as good at deifying
people for what they do well.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
So that we will call you a singer.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
This student's instagram messaged me one time, and I.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just told y'all not to get caught up in this stuff,
but sometimes I do.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
I was singing a song that I wrote and he said,
preachers preach, singers sing stick to preaching, Stephen.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
And I wanted to tell him what he could.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Do with that comment, because you don't get to tell
me what to do with the song that God put
in my heart.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
It's different when it's given.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
But now I'm up here Carnal and I need to
pray just to reset the whole tone of the auditorium
for the Holy Spirit.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
But let me encourage you with this.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Never let anybody identify you with your gift or with
your glitch, because you are so much more than both
of those. You are so much more than both of those.
You are so much more than addict. You are so
much more than that. You are so much more than organist, guitarist.

(04:13):
You are so much more than mom. Don't even let
your kids narrow your life down to the one thing
that you do for them, because you are so much
more than that. Married couples quit be in your kid's
administrative assistant before you're each other spouses and you end
up without a marriage, and they left your house and
they don't even come see.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
You when they go. Don't let people shrink you down
to one thing. I am priging like doctor phil.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
I love Samson because he gives me hope to know
that God gives great callings to flawed people. He delivered
Israel from the Phyllis for twenty years, and he flirted
with the Philistines that he delivered them from. As a
matter of fact, when I read you the passage in Judges,

(05:10):
Chapter fifteen.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I didn't get to tell.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
You much of the background to flash back to all
of the things that led Samson here. But in fact,
it was his insistence to go get a Philistine.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Wife that caused this issue to begin with.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
His parents warned him against it, his parents tried to
dissuade him from it, but he had to have this
philistine girl. And the problem with it was that he
liked what God had given him to fight. He liked
the philistine, but the Philistines were the one that he
was called to fight against. So now I understand in

(05:49):
my life the complication of my desires that some of
the things that God has called me to do and
be effective in will be wrapped up in things that
I struggle with. Some of the things that God will
call me to make my contribution in will be wrapped
up in the things that I am in constant conflict with.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
This was the case with Samson.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
So he marries this woman who's a Philistine, who his
parents said, I'm telling you this is not going to
end well, and it didn't because she was given to
another man in marriage while Samson was away, and when
Samson found out about that, he was very angry. And
since Samson was very impulsive, and since Samson was very.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Innovative, Oh yeah, he was both. He was impulsive and innovative.
Tell your neighbor, I'm both. I can be both things
at once and innovative impulsive. Samson found three hundred foxes,
tied their tails together, found a match, and set their

(06:54):
tails on fire.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
This is in your Bible.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
The Bible that you say is boring, the Bible that
you don't read enough.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
This is the greatest.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Bible story that you've never heard before. He takes three
hundred fox tales, ties them together, lights the tales on fire,
sends them running through the fields of the Philistines, destroys
their fields. The Philistines hear about what Sampson did. They
send their army to Sampson's ex wife's house, burn the
house down. Sampson is mad about that. They're mad at him.

(07:26):
They're looking for Sampson. They come to the people of Judah.
They say we want Sampson. And they said, you want Samson,
we'll give you Samson. We'd rather you take Samson than
take us.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Because when it comes down to it, we're.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
All kind of selfish in our heart and so they
come to Sampson and they tie him up and they
turn him over, and as he's walking down to the Philistines,
we come upon verse fourteen, chapter fifteen that I read
to you a moment ago, where the Bible says that
suddenly the spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh, I feel like preaching to somebody today.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
And when the spirit of the Lord came on Samson,
the ropes that were holding him became weak. Because of
the spirit of the Lord. He was stronger than.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
What bound him.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Because of the spirit of the Lord, he was free
from what held him.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Because of the spirit of.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
The Lord, the thing that restrained him one moment had
to release him the next. When the spirit of the
Lord comes on your life, you might be surprised what
you can do that you couldn't do before you knew
to call on God. And the strength that Samson needed

(08:38):
to break the ropes in the passage was given to
him from God. He didn't break those strength those ropes
with muscles. He broke those ropes.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
With God. With God.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
You didn't break those ropes with muscles. You'll broke those
ropes with God. I mean, just to realize how much
God has done.

Speaker 6 (09:09):
In your life is reason enough to come to church
every Sunday, Because a whole week passes, and you don't
remember what he released you from.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
A whole week passes, and you don't remember what he
redeemed you from. A whole week passes, and you are
so consumed by the next struggle that you didn't even
give credit for the last blessing. And so Simpson is
now free to fight, and there's a thousand Philistines coming

(09:40):
at him, and he's.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Got two hands, but he's only one man.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
So he needs a weapon, and we all need weapons
from time to time. And I just want to ask
a question Elevation Church. I'll want to ask a question
to everybody online.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Of all of the weapons that.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
God could have put in Sampson's path, if Sampson had
been given the option to select a weapon, do you
think he would have chosen this one? Read again in Judges,
chapter fifteen, verse fifteen. I love how the Bible says
it just like it makes sense, But it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Make any sense. Finding a fresh.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down
a thousand.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
Men, with no explanation of how one jawbone.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
In the hands of one hot tempered man.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Killed one thousand men. There is no nuance given to it.
There is no mention of his prowess or his skill.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
There is no talk of his training that when he
was a little boy he used to practice with jawbones
of donkeys. He always had a thing for donkeys, ever
since he was little. When they would talk about donkeys
in elementary school, he was drawn to.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Donkeys, says he was a little boy.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
He always had a thing for donkey's, a fascination with donkeys,
the curvature of their jawbones, specifically the density of their jawbones.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
It was absolutely incredible. So if Simpson would have been.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Able to select a weapon, don't you think he would
have selected a better one than the jawbone of a donkey.
Let's just name a few, just off the top of
your head. I know you didn't study Judge fifteen this week,
but just work with me for a moment. What would
be a better weapon that existed in this time? Okay,

(11:28):
I gotta clarify. You'll be shouting out all kinds of
illegal stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
But something that was.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Existing in this time, Yeah, spear would have been better.
Definitely I'd rather stab them with a spear than hit
them with a jawbone of a donkey.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
A sword, Yeah, yeah, I'd rather have a sword.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
If I gotta fight a thousand Philistines.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I'd rather fight them with the sword. Yeah. What else?
A slingshot? Yeah, I kind of like that too.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Because then you can keep your distance right that way,
you can know they're coming that way. There's no I mean,
the jawbone of a donkey.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
This is bloody, you said. The Bible doesn't say it
was bloody. Yes, it does.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Look at verse fifteen again, did you see it? It
said he found the jawbone of a donkey, but not
just any jawbone. Yeah, it's a fresh jawbone of a donkey.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh well, that makes it better. Think about this.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
It's a thousand of them and one of me, and
I've got the jawbone of a donkey.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
But at least it's fresh. At least it's a fresh one.
At least it's not a dry one. At least it's
not brittle. If it was a dry one, it would
be brittle, and if it was brittle, it would break.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
But the Bible says that Sampson with a.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Thousand Philistines shouting at him and running toward him and
his life on the line. He needs something in this moment,
and his hands are free, but he has no weapon
for the fight that he didn't expect. Who am I.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Preaching to today? You have no weapon in your hand
for the fight that you didn't expect.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
And added to this, the one that you found is
not the one that you would have chosen if you
had been asked about what weapon.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
To fight with.

Speaker 7 (13:33):
But God says, and I don't care about what they say,
but God says, and I don't care about what your
mind says, but God says, And I don't care what
the economy says, but God says, and I don't care
what your background is, But God says, and I don't
know how big they are. God says that the worst

(13:54):
weapon with him is better than the best one without him.
So I'd rather have a jawbone of a donkey than
a semi automatic weapon. If God is with the donkey,
I'll take the donkey every time.

Speaker 8 (14:12):
Give me that jaw bone, Give me that jaw bone.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
You know you got to touch your neighbor and tell them.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
That give me that jawbone.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
It's not the best weapon, but it's a fresh weapon.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
It's not the.

Speaker 8 (14:28):
Best weapon, but it's the one I've got. I used
to come home telling Holly all the time. I don't
know if I'm a quip to be a pastor. I
don't know if I'm good at being a pastor. I
don't know if I know enough to be a pastor.
I don't know if I've experienced enough to be a pastor.
I just don't know if I'm the pastor the people need.
And she would say, well, you're the one we've got.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Which weapon is the best?

Speaker 3 (14:53):
The one you got?

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(15:24):
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you with your gift or your glitch. Nobody should narrow

(15:46):
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last one is that God gives great things to flawed people.
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