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2. They will hopefully have realised the importance of keeping one day a week

special as a rest day, whatever that means to them in their situation.

3. They will have seen the example Jesus set for the Sabbath day and the
command God gives to us all to keep it.

SAMSON

Judges 13-16

1. Key events in his life

Birth: Visit of an angel to Manoah and his wife
Promise of a child
Conditions laid down; eat no unclean thing
Boy to be a Nazarite, set apart from birth

To begin the deliverance of Israel from the Philistines
Sacrifice made to the Lord, angel ascended in flame

Marriage: Chose Philistine woman
Used by God to confront Philistines
Tore lion apart with bare hands
Ate honey from carcass
Wife given to friend

Vengeance: Burned Philistines’ corn, they burned his wife and her father
Slaughtered many Philistines
Men of Judah tied him up and handed him to Philistines

Broke free of ropes by God’s power
Killed thousand men with donkey’s jaw bone

Delilah: Asked secret of Samson’s strength
Samson tricked her three times then told truth

Shaved his head and lost his strength
Eyes gouged out and went to prison
Hair began to grow

Death: Leaned on temple pillars
Asked God for strength

(Greek Grandeur, Hebrew Heart) 58