Latest / Rush Hour / Story Time with Brittany: Samson’s Blind Spot
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- 0:07SPEAKER_06: Welcome everyone.
- 0:10SPEAKER_06: All of you who are listening, this is the Rush Hour podcast.
- 0:14SPEAKER_06: Sponsored by Rush Church.
- 0:15SPEAKER_06: Not sponsored by, but well, I guess kind of sponsored by.
- 0:18SPEAKER_06: It's a Rush Church podcast.
- 0:20SPEAKER_06: And we call it Rush Hour.
- 0:21SPEAKER_06: So we've been doing this for a while.
- 0:24SPEAKER_06: We're here again.
- 0:25SPEAKER_06: It's November now.
- 0:26SPEAKER_06: How do you guys feel about November?
- 0:29SPEAKER_06: Good.
- 0:32SPEAKER_06: Perfect.
- 0:33SPEAKER_06: Seems nice.
- 0:34SPEAKER_06: Great time.
- 0:35SPEAKER_06: Do you like November?
- 0:37SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 0:37SPEAKER_06: Do you like fall?
- 0:39SPEAKER_06: Love it.
- 0:39SPEAKER_06: October is really nice.
- 0:41SPEAKER_01: I feel like October is fall.
- 0:43SPEAKER_01: And November is just in between.
- 0:46SPEAKER_06: Winter doesn't start until December 21st.
- 0:48SPEAKER_06: So November is all fall.
- 0:50SPEAKER_01: I know.
- 0:51SPEAKER_06: You got turkeys.
- 0:52SPEAKER_06: In my mind.
- 0:52SPEAKER_06: You got corporaco cornucopias.
- 0:57SPEAKER_06: All right.
- 0:58SPEAKER_01: Do you guys remember when I made John a cornucopia out of bread?
- 1:01SPEAKER_01: Yes.
- 1:02SPEAKER_01: We were like.
- 1:03SPEAKER_06: We do, not the people that listen.
- 1:05SPEAKER_06: You guys, as in me and Britney sitting here with you, but our listeners are probably like, tell us about it.
- 1:10SPEAKER_02: It was really nice.
- 1:11SPEAKER_02: It was very impressive.
- 1:12SPEAKER_06: No, no, it was an impressive cornucopia.
- 1:15SPEAKER_02: Like I would have like I've never seen one in real life.
- 1:18SPEAKER_06: But Ashley went all out with that one.
- 1:19SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 1:20SPEAKER_01: He'd been talking about it.
- 1:21SPEAKER_01: I think it was last year.
- 1:22SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 1:23SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he'd been talking about it forever.
- 1:24SPEAKER_06: Well, there's kind of an inside joke about cornucopias with her.
- 1:28SPEAKER_01: And last year I decided to make one out of what did I use?
- 1:31SPEAKER_06: I don't know, but it was unexpected to be a little bit more.
- 1:33SPEAKER_01: Crescent roll croissant.
- 1:34SPEAKER_01: Yeah, crescent roll.
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: You couldn't eat it, unfortunately.
- 1:37SPEAKER_02: No, I had to just look at it.
- 1:39SPEAKER_01: You can eat the things around it.
- 1:40SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was good.
- 1:41SPEAKER_01: I put it like in a charcuterie board type display.
- 1:45SPEAKER_06: Charcuterie boards are popular these days, aren't they?
- 1:48SPEAKER_01: They are.
- 1:48SPEAKER_06: I mean if you're in the right crowd, I guess.
- 1:51SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
- 1:52SPEAKER_01: Like I never probably not a room full of hunters.
- 1:55SPEAKER_01: They probably don't want that.
- 1:57SPEAKER_01: Well, you never know.
- 1:58SPEAKER_06: Full of stuff that they killed and cooked.
- 2:00SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 2:02SPEAKER_06: Right?
- 2:03SPEAKER_02: Charcuterie of meat.
- 2:05SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 2:05SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess.
- 2:07SPEAKER_06: That's what the kind of charcuterie board we need.
- 2:11SPEAKER_01: Have you seen those those different nights that you can celebrate with like friends where like you give them a color or you give them like an item?
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: And like they bring a board with that stuff.
- 2:20SPEAKER_01: So if you choose colors, like everything blue is what you would bring.
- 2:24SPEAKER_01: But if you choose like theme, everything Mexican would be what you bring.
- 2:28SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 2:28SPEAKER_01: We should totally have one of those do those kind of things.
- 2:31SPEAKER_06: So why?
- 2:33SPEAKER_01: He's boring.
- 2:34SPEAKER_06: Like parties with people?
- 2:37SPEAKER_01: Oh.
- 2:37SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 2:40SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 2:41SPEAKER_01: Okay, Brittany.
- 2:42SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll have a party.
- 2:43SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll have one.
- 2:44SPEAKER_06: Well, if you invite me, I'll come.
- 2:45SPEAKER_06: But I never get invited.
- 2:46SPEAKER_06: It's probably why I don't go.
- 2:47SPEAKER_02: Well, we'll invite you, but you're gonna have to do something.
- 2:50SPEAKER_02: You're gonna have to put some effort into this party.
- 2:54SPEAKER_06: Never mind.
- 2:55SPEAKER_06: All right.
- 2:56SPEAKER_06: I don't even know how we got all the way to this point, but it's fine.
- 3:00SPEAKER_06: This is how our intros go, I guess.
- 3:03SPEAKER_06: Announcements.
- 3:04SPEAKER_06: Do you have any announcements that you guys would like to talk about?
- 3:08SPEAKER_01: Thanksgiving dinner.
- 3:10SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
- 3:11SPEAKER_01: Tickets are going fast.
- 3:12SPEAKER_06: We got five o'clock tickets.
- 3:14SPEAKER_06: We got seven o'clock tickets.
- 3:16SPEAKER_06: Those are all free tickets that you can get just so we know the amount of people that are coming.
- 3:21SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 3:21SPEAKER_06: Favorite Thanksgiving things from the dinner?
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: Well, sweet potato casserole.
- 3:27SPEAKER_01: I know we don't provide that, but oh yeah.
- 3:29SPEAKER_01: I love sweet potatoes.
- 3:31SPEAKER_02: Charcuterie boards for Thanksgiving.
- 3:36SPEAKER_02: Yep.
- 3:36SPEAKER_06: All right.
- 3:37SPEAKER_06: So Thanksgiving dinner is the 22nd, right?
- 3:41SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 3:41SPEAKER_06: You can sign up, get your tickets.
- 3:43SPEAKER_06: No charcuterie boards for Thanksgiving.
- 3:45SPEAKER_06: I'm sorry.
- 3:46SPEAKER_01: No sweet potato cats.
- 3:47SPEAKER_01: No sweet potato.
- 3:52SPEAKER_01: The cranberry.
- 3:53SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's right.
- 3:54SPEAKER_01: There's no ham.
- 3:54SPEAKER_01: There's no ham this year.
- 3:55SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's what I heard rumors of no ham.
- 3:58SPEAKER_06: Am I wrong?
- 3:58SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 4:00SPEAKER_06: Okay, well, the ham is always delicious.
- 4:02SPEAKER_02: So how do you have the inside scoop?
- 4:05SPEAKER_06: I maybe I'm wrong.
- 4:08SPEAKER_02: You better hope you're wrong.
- 4:09SPEAKER_01: There might be a riot.
- 4:11SPEAKER_01: People are rioting as we speak.
- 4:12SPEAKER_06: No hams?
- 4:14SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 4:14SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know they were they're really expensive this year.
- 4:16SPEAKER_01: So you guys are saying no hammer.
- 4:17SPEAKER_01: We still need more turkey.
- 4:18SPEAKER_01: Oh, working.
- 4:21SPEAKER_01: We did not.
- 4:22SPEAKER_01: You did.
- 4:23SPEAKER_01: Oh my word.
- 4:24SPEAKER_01: But there is cranberry sauce.
- 4:25SPEAKER_01: There is.
- 4:26SPEAKER_01: Gross.
- 4:26SPEAKER_01: I think it's so good.
- 4:28SPEAKER_06: No, cranberries are gross.
- 4:29SPEAKER_01: Never ate it until here.
- 4:31SPEAKER_01: Same.
- 4:32SPEAKER_01: Same.
- 4:33SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 4:33SPEAKER_01: And now I love it.
- 4:35SPEAKER_01: So good.
- 4:36SPEAKER_06: Good.
- 4:36SPEAKER_06: So come to Thanksgiving dinner.
- 4:38SPEAKER_06: You can have all the things that you like, maybe, if we have it.
- 4:40SPEAKER_06: But it's a good night.
- 4:41SPEAKER_06: It's a lot of fun just hanging out, eating food, and then we had to play a game in between.
- 4:46SPEAKER_06: The entertainment.
- 4:46SPEAKER_06: Darren and Ashley are going to provide the entertainment in the sanctuary in between meals.
- 4:51SPEAKER_01: So let's be honest.
- 4:52SPEAKER_01: Darren will provide the entertainment.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: He's all right.
- 4:55SPEAKER_06: No credit for Ashley.
- 4:56SPEAKER_06: Just Darren.
- 4:58SPEAKER_06: So.
- 5:00SPEAKER_01: Yep.
- 5:00SPEAKER_01: So that's going on.
- 5:01SPEAKER_01: And then we just put out, you'll see the Sunday, the signups for Christmas women's tea.
- 5:07SPEAKER_01: That is Thursday, December 3rd.
- 5:09SPEAKER_01: I know I have that date right.
- 5:11SPEAKER_01: You struggle with dates on this podcast.
- 5:13SPEAKER_01: I do.
- 5:13SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 5:14SPEAKER_06: Anytime Ashley tells you when something is on this podcast, make sure you double check out the channel.
- 5:17SPEAKER_06: Just check the website.
- 5:19SPEAKER_01: But I do know it is Thursday, December 3rd, 6 30 p.m.
- 5:23SPEAKER_01: here at Rush Church.
- 5:24SPEAKER_01: All women ages, I believe it's 12 and over.
- 5:28SPEAKER_01: And I'm sorry, 14.
- 5:30SPEAKER_01: Yep, 14 and over.
- 5:32SPEAKER_06: But there is trying to think of a 12-year-old just listening to this podcast.
- 5:34SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yay!
- 5:37SPEAKER_06: Like uh Ella Carpenter is probably like dang it.
- 5:42SPEAKER_01: But uh there is child care and provided.
- 5:44SPEAKER_01: So if you need child care, just sign up at the Welcome Center.
- 5:47SPEAKER_01: It's always a great time.
- 5:49SPEAKER_01: Just got done writing my lesson this week.
- 5:52SPEAKER_01: So I'm really excited.
- 5:54SPEAKER_01: Can't wait for it.
- 5:54SPEAKER_06: Awesome.
- 5:55SPEAKER_06: It'll be fun.
- 5:56SPEAKER_06: Oh, do I get to come?
- 5:57SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Cody will be there.
- 5:58SPEAKER_01: Cody will be there.
- 6:00SPEAKER_01: Yes.
- 6:00SPEAKER_01: Dressed up.
- 6:01SPEAKER_01: Oh, I didn't know dressing up.
- 6:03SPEAKER_01: Fancy cheese.
- 6:04SPEAKER_06: Fancy cheese.
- 6:05SPEAKER_06: Ooh, can I serve other fancy things?
- 6:07SPEAKER_01: Probably.
- 6:08SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 6:08SPEAKER_06: Oh, don't worry.
- 6:09SPEAKER_06: I got it covered.
- 6:10SPEAKER_02: Um I allowed to be like, Cody, go get me something from the chocolate fountain.
- 6:14SPEAKER_06: Yes.
- 6:15SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 6:15SPEAKER_02: Nice.
- 6:16SPEAKER_06: I'll bring it to your table.
- 6:17SPEAKER_05: The whole chocolate fountain?
- 6:19unknown: No.
- 6:20SPEAKER_01: Can you imagine carrying that?
- 6:22SPEAKER_05: Just look over it.
- 6:23SPEAKER_05: It's spilling all over me as I'm walking back to the table.
- 6:26SPEAKER_01: Oh my word.
- 6:27SPEAKER_01: So I don't know if you know this, but we have two chocolate fountains here at the church.
- 6:31SPEAKER_01: And I thought about doing one chocolate and one that caramel.
- 6:36SPEAKER_01: Will that work?
- 6:38SPEAKER_01: I think so.
- 6:39SPEAKER_01: It'd be all I mean if it's if it's thin enough, it will be thin.
- 6:44SPEAKER_01: You know, it wouldn't be as thick that we would do for caramel apples, but can you imagine that warm caramel drizzled over strawberries?
- 6:49SPEAKER_01: It'd be good.
- 6:52unknown: Really, Cody?
- 6:54SPEAKER_06: It might be good.
- 6:55SPEAKER_03: Cody's face says that it will not be good.
- 6:58SPEAKER_06: Caramel covered strawberries.
- 6:59SPEAKER_06: I don't I don't know.
- 7:00SPEAKER_06: Maybe it's good.
- 7:02SPEAKER_02: I think caramel's good on anything.
- 7:04SPEAKER_06: Are you sure?
- 7:05SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 7:05SPEAKER_06: Okay, we'll try it.
- 7:06SPEAKER_02: I'm over there with my teacup filling it up.
- 7:12SPEAKER_06: Holding your teacup under the caramel fountain, just drinking it.
- 7:15SPEAKER_06: What are you drinking there?
- 7:16SPEAKER_06: Caramel.
- 7:18SPEAKER_02: Mind your business.
- 7:21SPEAKER_06: You mean caramel latte?
- 7:22SPEAKER_06: No, no.
- 7:23SPEAKER_06: Nope.
- 7:23SPEAKER_06: Just caramel.
- 7:24SPEAKER_06: There's no coffee now.
- 7:25SPEAKER_06: Straight caramel.
- 7:26SPEAKER_06: Wonderful.
- 7:27SPEAKER_06: Goodness.
- 7:27SPEAKER_06: A lot of fun things coming up.
- 7:29SPEAKER_06: Getting ready to decorate the church for Christmas pretty soon.
- 7:33SPEAKER_06: So yeah, Friendsgiving for the youth.
- 7:36SPEAKER_06: But anybody can come to that.
- 7:37SPEAKER_06: Like open for everybody, but it's focused on youth groups coming together, building community, building unity, uh eating food together, games and worship.
- 7:48SPEAKER_06: And then my friend Drew is speaking that night to the to the youth.
- 7:52SPEAKER_06: I'm like, Drew, tell the youth something useful.
- 7:54SPEAKER_06: He'll be like, oh yeah.
- 7:55SPEAKER_06: He'll tell them.
- 7:56SPEAKER_06: So there you go.
- 7:58SPEAKER_06: There you have it.
- 7:58SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 7:59SPEAKER_06: We have a lot of things happening.
- 8:00SPEAKER_06: You can check the website, rushchurch.com.
- 8:03SPEAKER_06: You can follow us on Facebook.
- 8:05SPEAKER_06: I don't know where else you get your information.
- 8:08SPEAKER_06: Listen to Rush Hour Podcast.
- 8:09SPEAKER_06: But you're already doing that.
- 8:10SPEAKER_01: You can also come to church Sunday mornings, 9.30.
- 8:13SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
- 8:14SPEAKER_01: We have announced.
- 8:15SPEAKER_01: 9 30, 11.
- 8:16SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
- 8:16SPEAKER_01: I am getting my service.
- 8:18SPEAKER_01: Two services.
- 8:18SPEAKER_06: 9 30 and 11.
- 8:19SPEAKER_06: Not one service, 9 30 till 11.
- 8:23SPEAKER_02: That's fine.
- 8:24SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you heard me, but I said 9:30 and 10.
- 8:26SPEAKER_01: But that is incorrect.
- 8:27SPEAKER_01: It's 9.30.
- 8:28SPEAKER_01: And 11 o'clock.
- 8:30SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 8:30SPEAKER_01: No, I didn't hear that.
- 8:31SPEAKER_06: Show up Sunday morning, get some breakfast.
- 8:33SPEAKER_06: I think we have uh six today.
- 8:36SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 8:36SPEAKER_02: No, I don't think so.
- 8:37SPEAKER_02: Is that breakfast for you?
- 8:38SPEAKER_01: Last week was waffles.
- 8:42SPEAKER_01: Right?
- 8:43SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 8:44SPEAKER_06: Sometimes Brittany just chooses when she gets here on Sunday morning.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: No, that's not true.
- 8:47SPEAKER_01: I'll look at it before.
- 8:49SPEAKER_06: All right.
- 8:49SPEAKER_06: Tell us what's next on the episode of jokes for you first.
- 8:54SPEAKER_06: How many jokes do you have?
- 8:56SPEAKER_01: I got a I got a few.
- 8:57SPEAKER_06: Oh.
- 8:58SPEAKER_01: A few.
- 8:58SPEAKER_01: They're doing some research.
- 9:00SPEAKER_01: Jim Hoffman came in and did a joke today.
- 9:04SPEAKER_01: I about died.
- 9:05SPEAKER_01: Horrible joke.
- 9:06SPEAKER_01: I will not be sharing it.
- 9:07SPEAKER_01: It was very you can ask Jim personally that he could tell you.
- 9:10SPEAKER_06: He'll tell you too.
- 9:12SPEAKER_06: I was like, I didn't hear this joke.
- 9:14SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna call him afterwards.
- 9:15SPEAKER_06: Just call him right now.
- 9:16SPEAKER_06: Tell him to tell the joke to us.
- 9:18SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 9:19SPEAKER_01: All right.
- 9:20SPEAKER_01: What do you call a pig who does karaoke?
- 9:24SPEAKER_01: No, I messed that up.
- 9:28SPEAKER_06: How did you mess it up already?
- 9:29SPEAKER_01: Because it's not karaoke, it's karate.
- 9:32SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 9:33SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 9:35SPEAKER_01: Is the answer karaoke?
- 9:36SPEAKER_01: No.
- 9:39SPEAKER_01: Oh my goodness.
- 9:40SPEAKER_01: I can't read my handwriting.
- 9:42SPEAKER_01: It says, What do you call a pig who does karate?
- 9:46SPEAKER_06: A ham chop.
- 9:49SPEAKER_06: Is that right?
- 9:50SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 9:51SPEAKER_06: Oh, pork chop.
- 9:52SPEAKER_05: There you go.
- 9:54SPEAKER_01: Which is why does it put pork chop?
- 10:02SPEAKER_01: Pork chop.
- 10:03SPEAKER_01: Nice.
- 10:03SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 10:04SPEAKER_01: Next joke.
- 10:05SPEAKER_01: What do you call it when a cow grows facial hair?
- 10:11SPEAKER_06: Oh man.
- 10:16SPEAKER_02: Ready?
- 10:17SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 10:18SPEAKER_02: Moustache.
- 10:22SPEAKER_03: Moustache.
- 10:26SPEAKER_03: Wait, was that good?
- 10:27SPEAKER_03: It was real good.
- 10:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 10:28SPEAKER_03: I've been practicing.
- 10:30SPEAKER_06: I want you to do it again.
- 10:34SPEAKER_06: Well, these jokes are fantastic.
- 10:38SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 10:39SPEAKER_06: My mom loves these jokes.
- 10:40SPEAKER_06: She says she has something to send to you, by the way.
- 10:42SPEAKER_01: She doesn't need to.
- 10:43SPEAKER_01: She's trying to help.
- 10:44SPEAKER_01: She's trying to help, honey.
- 10:46SPEAKER_01: She's like, let me help you.
- 10:47SPEAKER_01: All right, last joke.
- 10:49SPEAKER_01: Where do you take someone who has been in a peekaboo accident?
- 11:00SPEAKER_05: There you are.
- 11:04SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
- 11:04SPEAKER_05: What do you do when you play peekaboo?
- 11:06SPEAKER_03: Where did it go?
- 11:07SPEAKER_01: Where do you take someone who's been hurt in a peekaboo accident?
- 11:10SPEAKER_05: How do you get a number?
- 11:12SPEAKER_01: The I see you.
- 11:18SPEAKER_05: Get it?
- 11:20SPEAKER_03: I see you.
- 11:21SPEAKER_03: Peekaboo, I see you.
- 11:24SPEAKER_05: Wow.
- 11:25SPEAKER_05: She likes that one.
- 11:26SPEAKER_05: She does.
- 11:27SPEAKER_05: I like when Ashley gives the one that she likes the most.
- 11:31SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 11:32SPEAKER_01: Let me breathe.
- 11:33SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 11:35SPEAKER_01: Icebreaker.
- 11:36SPEAKER_01: Oh shoot.
- 11:37SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 11:38SPEAKER_01: First one.
- 11:39SPEAKER_01: What is something that you think everyone should experience at least once?
- 11:49SPEAKER_06: What?
- 11:51SPEAKER_06: Something they should experience at least once?
- 11:53SPEAKER_01: Yep.
- 11:57SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 12:00SPEAKER_01: I'll let you think.
- 12:01SPEAKER_01: I'll answer mine.
- 12:02SPEAKER_01: Maybe it'll maybe.
- 12:03SPEAKER_01: It's not more, like it's it's just, it's easy, simple, okay?
- 12:06SPEAKER_01: I think personally, my point of view, everybody should experience at least one cruise in their lifetime.
- 12:14SPEAKER_01: Oh.
- 12:14SPEAKER_01: Because they are absolutely amazing.
- 12:17SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 12:18SPEAKER_02: No.
- 12:19SPEAKER_02: The ocean is a scary place.
- 12:22SPEAKER_02: You are on a safe ship.
- 12:24SPEAKER_02: It looks like it's going to tip over.
- 12:26SPEAKER_06: You ever been on a cruise?
- 12:27SPEAKER_02: No.
- 12:27SPEAKER_01: It's not.
- 12:28SPEAKER_06: Well then you can't talk.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: It is the most I'm not going to.
- 12:31SPEAKER_01: I have never been forced me to.
- 12:33SPEAKER_01: I'm going to drag her on there kicking and screaming.
- 12:36SPEAKER_01: I have never been more relaxed in my life.
- 12:38SPEAKER_02: Rush cruise?
- 12:39SPEAKER_01: Seriously.
- 12:40SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 12:41SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
- 12:41SPEAKER_02: I just feel like we're going to get, I don't know, attacked by the Kraken.
- 12:47SPEAKER_02: Pirates?
- 12:49SPEAKER_02: The Kraken.
- 12:53SPEAKER_01: Oh, Brittany.
- 12:54SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
- 12:55SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 12:56SPEAKER_02: Cody knows.
- 12:58SPEAKER_01: No, we're not getting attacked by the Kraken.
- 13:00SPEAKER_01: But yes, that's my answer.
- 13:02SPEAKER_01: Cruise.
- 13:05SPEAKER_02: Cody, did that help you with your answer?
- 13:07SPEAKER_06: No.
- 13:11SPEAKER_02: Everyone should experience.
- 13:18SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
- 13:19SPEAKER_02: I can think of some things that are appropriate.
- 13:25SPEAKER_02: Like if I'm like Rush Church podcast, everyone should experience baptism once.
- 13:32SPEAKER_06: That's where my mind went too.
- 13:33SPEAKER_06: I was like, is this like a church answer?
- 13:35SPEAKER_01: We're supposed to like it doesn't have to be, but I mean that's a good answer.
- 13:38SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 13:40SPEAKER_02: But also, everyone should experience the pain of childbirth once.
- 13:45SPEAKER_02: Amen.
- 13:46SPEAKER_04: Amen.
- 13:49SPEAKER_02: Everyone.
- 13:50SPEAKER_02: Whether you're like, I don't want to have kids or I'm a boy.
- 13:56SPEAKER_03: Everyone should have to feel it.
- 13:58SPEAKER_05: Born again baptismed enough.
- 14:00SPEAKER_05: Physically.
- 14:01SPEAKER_03: Just physically, you should all work.
- 14:04SPEAKER_02: Physically.
- 14:05SPEAKER_02: Everybody needs to know where this pain scale is.
- 14:08SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
- 14:11SPEAKER_02: I'm serious.
- 14:12SPEAKER_05: I know you are, and that makes me laugh even more.
- 14:14SPEAKER_03: I guarantee you, Angel Payne is losing it right now.
- 14:17SPEAKER_03: I know I'm gonna be in trouble.
- 14:19SPEAKER_06: I tried to guess what Brittany was gonna say, and I could never I had to know.
- 14:24SPEAKER_02: I actually don't know if that was very appropriate for me to sure it is.
- 14:27SPEAKER_06: We've already said it now.
- 14:28SPEAKER_06: We've already okay.
- 14:29SPEAKER_01: All right, Cody, pick something.
- 14:31SPEAKER_06: Pick something?
- 14:32SPEAKER_01: Yeah, anything can't be any worse than mine.
- 14:36SPEAKER_06: Cruises and giving birth.
- 14:39SPEAKER_06: What if we just went simple?
- 14:41SPEAKER_06: Like this experience of like a coney dog.
- 14:45SPEAKER_03: That's crazy.
- 14:47SPEAKER_03: Everyone should experience a hot fudge Sunday.
- 14:50SPEAKER_03: Okay, there we go.
- 14:52SPEAKER_06: Um yeah.
- 14:54SPEAKER_06: I'll go with Coney Dog.
- 14:59SPEAKER_00: With or without onions.
- 15:01SPEAKER_05: With, you gotta live life.
- 15:04SPEAKER_05: Live a little bit.
- 15:05SPEAKER_05: Put some mustard on there too.
- 15:07SPEAKER_00: Price it up.
- 15:08SPEAKER_00: Oh my word.
- 15:09SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 15:09SPEAKER_00: Oh shoot.
- 15:10SPEAKER_00: Let's see if this one will help you.
- 15:12unknown: Okay.
- 15:18SPEAKER_01: If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, not money, for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- 15:30SPEAKER_01: A limited supply unlimited supply for the rest of your life.
- 15:35SPEAKER_01: And it can't be Coney Dogs.
- 15:45SPEAKER_06: Unlimited supply of coffee?
- 15:51SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 15:53SPEAKER_02: Mated socks.
- 15:56SPEAKER_02: What?
- 15:56SPEAKER_02: Mated socks.
- 15:57SPEAKER_02: I'd never have to mate socks again.
- 15:58SPEAKER_06: They call them matching socks.
- 16:01SPEAKER_06: Mated.
- 16:02SPEAKER_06: She means matching socks.
- 16:03SPEAKER_03: No, you mate socks.
- 16:05SPEAKER_03: No one mates socks.
- 16:08SPEAKER_00: That's a real thing.
- 16:10SPEAKER_00: No.
- 16:11SPEAKER_00: Are you talking about the two the same socks?
- 16:13SPEAKER_06: Matching socks.
- 16:15SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 16:17SPEAKER_06: What are you gonna mate the socks for me?
- 16:20SPEAKER_03: Swodges matching socks.
- 16:23SPEAKER_03: I thought that was what you say.
- 16:26SPEAKER_03: Oh, you match socks.
- 16:30SPEAKER_03: My mother right now is going, she's right.
- 16:32SPEAKER_03: That's what you do.
- 16:34SPEAKER_03: Oh, we're you can do that at your own house.
- 16:37SPEAKER_06: My house we match socks.
- 16:39SPEAKER_03: So I still get that.
- 16:47SPEAKER_03: She's moving.
- 16:48SPEAKER_03: Well, what was the question?
- 16:55SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 16:57SPEAKER_03: Somebody else has to do that.
- 16:59SPEAKER_03: Like, say that.
- 17:00SPEAKER_03: That's a real saying.
- 17:03SPEAKER_06: I'm sure they do.
- 17:04SPEAKER_06: Like, the fact that I knew what you meant means somebody probably uses it.
- 17:08SPEAKER_06: Like, you know.
- 17:09SPEAKER_00: I thought it was like a style of a sock.
- 17:11SPEAKER_00: Like, I thought she like really liked this kind of sock and she wanted an unlimited supply of them.
- 17:16SPEAKER_06: Oh, unlimited supply of matched socks for Brittany.
- 17:19SPEAKER_06: What would you say?
- 17:20SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
- 17:27SPEAKER_01: Laundry detergent.
- 17:30SPEAKER_01: I'm serious.
- 17:32SPEAKER_01: Me too.
- 17:32SPEAKER_01: I love laundry detergent.
- 17:36SPEAKER_01: I would totally love an unlimited supply of a high laundry detergent.
- 17:44SPEAKER_01: With the boosters.
- 17:47unknown: Yep.
- 17:48SPEAKER_01: That sounds nice.
- 17:50SPEAKER_06: Boosters?
- 17:50SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 17:51SPEAKER_06: Okay.
- 17:52SPEAKER_01: I love clean laundry.
- 17:55SPEAKER_06: Socks and laundry.
- 17:57SPEAKER_06: Why?
- 17:58SPEAKER_06: Why would you say these things?
- 18:00SPEAKER_06: You could have anything forever, unlimited.
- 18:02SPEAKER_06: You could have chocolate pudding cups, as many as you want.
- 18:05SPEAKER_06: Or you could have, you know.
- 18:08SPEAKER_06: You don't have to eat them all.
- 18:10SPEAKER_06: You can give them away.
- 18:11SPEAKER_06: You can feed people.
- 18:13SPEAKER_03: It's like there's Ashley.
- 18:16SPEAKER_03: She needs 600 pounds.
- 18:30SPEAKER_03: I knew her before.
- 18:33SPEAKER_03: She used to do so.
- 18:41SPEAKER_06: And we're back after a quick pause.
- 18:44SPEAKER_01: Stop laughing.
- 18:46SPEAKER_06: We're gonna move on from our jokes and icebreakers.
- 18:48SPEAKER_06: We might not ever do them again, but today we have another episode of our new series called Story Time with Brittany.
- 18:56SPEAKER_06: Good.
- 18:57SPEAKER_04: We are great.
- 18:58SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 18:59SPEAKER_06: Great timing.
- 19:00SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 19:00SPEAKER_06: Britney likes to tell stories, and she does a good job of retelling Bible stories, especially.
- 19:04SPEAKER_06: It's something she does really well.
- 19:06SPEAKER_06: So when you see her Sunday, ask her to tell you a Bible story.
- 19:10SPEAKER_06: And she will.
- 19:13SPEAKER_06: But uh we thought we would just uh do some stories kind of like Sunday school stories or Bible stories that a lot of people know or have heard about.
- 19:22SPEAKER_06: Like the one last week, Jonah and the big fish.
- 19:25SPEAKER_06: Like even people that don't know the Bible that well or don't go to church, like Jonah and the big fish, something like, oh, I think I've heard about that.
- 19:32SPEAKER_06: Guy gets eaten by a fish.
- 19:33SPEAKER_04: Right.
- 19:33SPEAKER_06: Or, you know, whatever.
- 19:35SPEAKER_06: But today, Samson and Delilah is our story from the Old Testament.
- 19:39SPEAKER_06: Keeping it in the Old Testament this week.
- 19:42SPEAKER_06: From the book of Judges.
- 19:44SPEAKER_06: And Samson and Delilah is a story that kind of is a Sunday school story.
- 19:49SPEAKER_06: Everybody kind of knows it for Samson.
- 19:51SPEAKER_06: What's what's his main thing?
- 19:53SPEAKER_02: Strength.
- 19:54SPEAKER_06: Strength because he has long hair.
- 19:56SPEAKER_06: Long hair.
- 19:57SPEAKER_06: His long flowing locks, and he's really strong.
- 19:59SPEAKER_06: He's like some kind of like Old Testament superhero almost.
- 20:03SPEAKER_06: Kind of like when you hear about it in Sunday school.
- 20:04SPEAKER_06: And like I remember my Bible I had growing up as a kid and had pictures in it.
- 20:09SPEAKER_06: I just remember seeing Samson.
- 20:10SPEAKER_06: He was like ripped.
- 20:12SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 20:12SPEAKER_06: Long hair, and he was like this, you know, superhero type guy in the old testament.
- 20:17SPEAKER_06: And then, you know, his downfall was Delilah?
- 20:20SPEAKER_06: Delilah, this lady.
- 20:22SPEAKER_06: And, you know, we kind of tell the story and we hear the story, and we kind of think, oh, they were this nice couple in the Old Testament.
- 20:28SPEAKER_06: And then oh, she like got in the way and all this good stuff.
- 20:32SPEAKER_06: But I figured we would just talk about it, kind of go behind the scenes of Samson and Delilah.
- 20:37SPEAKER_06: And to start off, Brittany's gonna tell us the story in her own words.
- 20:42SPEAKER_02: In my own words.
- 20:43SPEAKER_06: In your own words.
- 20:44SPEAKER_06: And this calls for the story time with Brittany's sound effect.
- 20:48SPEAKER_02: Oh, I like it.
- 20:49SPEAKER_02: Nice.
- 20:50SPEAKER_06: There we go.
- 20:50SPEAKER_06: So if you want to sound so official.
- 20:52SPEAKER_06: Just tell us a little bit about Samson and Delilah.
- 20:54SPEAKER_06: A recap, if you will.
- 20:55SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 20:56SPEAKER_02: So first off, right before Samson meets Delilah.
- 21:02SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 21:02SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 21:03SPEAKER_06: Pick it up there.
- 21:03SPEAKER_02: The scene is set to where Samson's like kind of bored.
- 21:09SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 21:10SPEAKER_02: And he decides to go get with a prostitute.
- 21:14SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 21:15SPEAKER_02: So he does.
- 21:18SPEAKER_06: He's going to pick up women that he shouldn't be.
- 21:20SPEAKER_02: He's going to go do things he should not be doing.
- 21:22SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 21:23SPEAKER_02: And while he's there in Gaza, okay, that's where he goes to meet this lady.
- 21:30SPEAKER_02: Then he goes to sleep.
- 21:32SPEAKER_02: And the men of Gaza are like, you know what?
- 21:36SPEAKER_02: We actually don't like this guy.
- 21:38SPEAKER_02: And this would be a perfect time to kill him because he's slightly distracted.
- 21:43SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 21:44SPEAKER_02: So as soon as morning comes, we're going to we're going to attack this guy and kill him.
- 21:50SPEAKER_02: So Samson ends up getting up in the middle of the night and he, I think to prove a point almost, goes out to the front of the village.
- 22:00SPEAKER_02: And rips the gate off.
- 22:02SPEAKER_02: Like these giant doors, rips off these doors, carries them up, and sticks them on top of a mountain.
- 22:08SPEAKER_02: Like, you can't kill me.
- 22:10SPEAKER_02: You know, because he he is really strong.
- 22:13SPEAKER_02: So that was just like to set the stage of like how strong he actually is.
- 22:19SPEAKER_06: Show off.
- 22:20SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 22:21SPEAKER_02: So next we find out that he has now found fell in love with this woman, Delilah.
- 22:31SPEAKER_02: Instantly, the Philistine men, like I picture like these guys in the corner, like rubbing their hands together, like, hey there, Delilah.
- 22:40SPEAKER_00: Just like the song.
- 22:41SPEAKER_01: Hey there, Delilah.
- 22:43SPEAKER_02: Right?
- 22:43SPEAKER_02: Hey there, Delilah.
- 22:45SPEAKER_02: Come over here.
- 22:46SPEAKER_02: This guy is very much in love with you.
- 22:49SPEAKER_02: And we want you to help us kill him.
- 22:53SPEAKER_02: And she says, sure, why not?
- 22:56SPEAKER_02: But you have to pay me.
- 22:57SPEAKER_02: And they're like, Well, we'll pay you.
- 22:58SPEAKER_02: Don't worry.
- 23:00SPEAKER_04: We'll pay you.
- 23:00SPEAKER_02: So she goes to Samson and she's like, Samson, I love you so much.
- 23:05SPEAKER_02: You're so strong.
- 23:06SPEAKER_02: What makes you so strong?
- 23:08SPEAKER_02: And he's like, Well, it's because I've never been tied up with bowstrings.
- 23:13SPEAKER_02: And if you tied me up with these bowstrings, I would be like every other dude you come across.
- 23:18SPEAKER_02: So she waits for him to go to sleep and she ties him up.
- 23:21SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 23:22SPEAKER_02: And then she wakes him up in the middle of the night.
- 23:24SPEAKER_02: And these Philistines dudes are like, perfect.
- 23:26SPEAKER_02: You know, we're gonna get to kill him now.
- 23:28SPEAKER_02: Wakes him up in the middle of the night, like, Samson, the Philistines.
- 23:33SPEAKER_02: And he was lying to her.
- 23:35SPEAKER_02: So he beats the crap out all these dudes.
- 23:37SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 23:38SPEAKER_02: And he's like, what?
- 23:39SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 23:40SPEAKER_02: This is nothing.
- 23:41SPEAKER_02: And so instantly you find out that Delilah is like really toxic.
- 23:48SPEAKER_02: She starts complaining to Samson, like, hey, you lied to me.
- 23:54SPEAKER_02: And Samson doesn't even like acknowledge that she's trying to kill him.
- 23:59SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 24:00SPEAKER_02: At least in scripture, he doesn't.
- 24:02SPEAKER_02: But he turns around, he's like, Yeah, sorry, I lied.
- 24:04SPEAKER_02: It's actually new ropes.
- 24:06SPEAKER_02: I think it's new ropes next.
- 24:08SPEAKER_02: Ties him up with new ropes.
- 24:10SPEAKER_02: Same thing.
- 24:11SPEAKER_02: She wakes him up, she does the thing, she wakes him up in the middle of the night.
- 24:15SPEAKER_02: Philistine guy's like, sweet, we're gonna get to kill him.
- 24:17SPEAKER_02: And he beats him up.
- 24:19SPEAKER_02: And she goes and starts complaining to him.
- 24:23SPEAKER_02: And then he gives her something about like sewing his hair into fabric or something like that.
- 24:30SPEAKER_02: Yeah, sew him to a board or a I don't know.
- 24:34SPEAKER_02: Anyway, she does it.
- 24:36SPEAKER_02: And same thing happens before.
- 24:38SPEAKER_02: Now Delilah is like, Samson, you don't even love me.
- 24:42SPEAKER_02: Like it's like really bad.
- 24:44SPEAKER_02: Like you don't even love me.
- 24:45SPEAKER_02: If you loved me, you would tell me how to how to kill you, which is like weird, but whatever.
- 24:55SPEAKER_02: To each their own.
- 24:58SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 24:59SPEAKER_02: He's like real hooked.
- 25:01SPEAKER_02: So she he tells her that it's because a razor has never touched his head, which is true.
- 25:09SPEAKER_02: And I'm pretty sure, which I know Cody's gonna go more into detail with it, but I'm pretty sure at this point God's like, dude, listen, like I've given you this gift and you play too much.
- 25:20SPEAKER_02: Like you're playing with Delilah way too much.
- 25:23SPEAKER_02: So he lost his strength when she did this.
- 25:27SPEAKER_02: And the guys come out of the woodwork, you know, and they go to beat him up and they succeed.
- 25:33SPEAKER_02: And they pop his eyeballs out of his head and tie him up and take him to the city.
- 25:40SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 25:41SPEAKER_06: Ashley, do you agree with the story?
- 25:44SPEAKER_01: Like the way like Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
- 25:46SPEAKER_05: Pretty much.
- 25:47SPEAKER_05: Actually, it's like this.
- 25:48SPEAKER_05: She's actually on the edge of her seat.
- 25:49SPEAKER_05: She's like, what's this?
- 25:51SPEAKER_01: I kept thinking, man, I'm thinking, you idiot.
- 25:53SPEAKER_01: Why in the world would you oh no?
- 25:56SPEAKER_01: Why are you so lustful over her that you gotta tell your tell her your secret?
- 26:01SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
- 26:03SPEAKER_02: He had a bad though.
- 26:06SPEAKER_02: Maybe it was love.
- 26:09SPEAKER_03: What is love?
- 26:11SPEAKER_03: Baby, don't hurt me.
- 26:13SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh, perfect.
- 26:14SPEAKER_03: Don't hurt me.
- 26:15SPEAKER_06: No more.
- 26:16SPEAKER_06: All right, Cody.
- 26:17SPEAKER_06: So tell anyone right, Cody.
- 26:18SPEAKER_06: That's everything.
- 26:19SPEAKER_06: I mean, that's the that's the story.
- 26:21SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 26:21SPEAKER_06: Like that's kind of a story.
- 26:22SPEAKER_06: But a lot of people kind of forget about the intense details sometimes.
- 26:27SPEAKER_02: I did forget about the popping out of the eyes.
- 26:29SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah.
- 26:30SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
- 26:30SPEAKER_02: Can't forget about that.
- 26:31SPEAKER_02: In the Bible.
- 26:32SPEAKER_06: I don't know what you're gonna do.
- 26:33SPEAKER_06: Just reading it.
- 26:36SPEAKER_06: Samson and Delilah, the story.
- 26:38SPEAKER_06: It's kind of remembered as like this ultimate tale of a tragic romance and betrayal and like blind trust.
- 26:45SPEAKER_06: And so we see this.
- 26:47SPEAKER_06: Ask almost anyone to summarize Samson, and they'll give you the version of an invincible strong man raised up by God, supernatural power, who fell head over heels in love with a temptress named Delilah.
- 27:00SPEAKER_06: And so we had that story.
- 27:02SPEAKER_06: So we have this Timtress, nice Timtress.
- 27:06SPEAKER_06: And but a little bit on Samson, like before this point, he is called by God to be a judge over Israel.
- 27:14SPEAKER_06: And he is, you know, supposed to be what is Samson supposed to be?
- 27:20SPEAKER_06: Supposed to be a leader, supposed to be a Nazirite.
- 27:23SPEAKER_06: He took vows of things that he's not allowed to do.
- 27:26SPEAKER_06: He wasn't allowed to touch anything dead, be near anything that was dead.
- 27:30SPEAKER_06: He was supposed to have his hair grown out real long, which he did.
- 27:32SPEAKER_06: He was not supposed to be with random women.
- 27:35SPEAKER_06: We saw that he was doing that anyway.
- 27:37SPEAKER_06: And so let's get a little bit of background on Samson.
- 27:41SPEAKER_06: He was kind of like a rogue kind of guy, a lone wolf, kind of did whatever the heck he wanted to, whenever he wanted to, and didn't really care about the consequences, I guess.
- 27:52SPEAKER_06: But we see in the story he meets Delilah finally, and she kind of nags him and nags him and he into giving up the secret of his strength.
- 28:00SPEAKER_06: Like what makes you so strong, Samson?
- 28:02SPEAKER_06: Like Brittany told us that he lied about all these different things, and eventually he caves and gives her gives her that it was his long hair.
- 28:08SPEAKER_06: No razor blade has never touched my hair.
- 28:10SPEAKER_06: And so they do that, hand it over to the enemies.
- 28:13SPEAKER_06: He was blinded and sent to his death by the Philistines to be captured where we left off.
- 28:19SPEAKER_06: And so it's kind of always framed as this story as a caution against bad relationships.
- 28:25SPEAKER_06: A story about a hero brought down by a sly, cunning woman, you know?
- 28:30SPEAKER_06: Kind of like this idea of like you hear the story and you're like, oh, Delilah.
- 28:33SPEAKER_06: It's just stupid Delilah, get in the way.
- 28:36SPEAKER_06: Like that's how I remembered Samson and Lila for a long time.
- 28:39SPEAKER_06: Like Samson's the hero, and I let this lady get in the way.
- 28:43SPEAKER_06: I don't I'm I don't know about you guys, but like is that how you always think of the story?
- 28:47SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 28:47SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 28:47SPEAKER_06: At least I did for a long time.
- 28:49SPEAKER_06: Maybe anyway.
- 28:51SPEAKER_06: But if you go back and read Judges chapter 16, then you kind of see a different narrative play out.
- 28:59SPEAKER_06: Delilah wasn't a secret spy hiding her intentions.
- 29:02SPEAKER_06: It wasn't, it was pretty obvious what she was doing, as Brittany told us in the story.
- 29:07SPEAKER_06: Like she wasn't like being sneaky or like trying to do all these things.
- 29:10SPEAKER_06: She was like, What's your what's your weakness?
- 29:13SPEAKER_06: Tell me what it is.
- 29:15SPEAKER_06: And she asked Samson how many times?
- 29:18SPEAKER_06: Three three?
- 29:19SPEAKER_06: Four times, actually.
- 29:21SPEAKER_06: Four.
- 29:21SPEAKER_06: Four times how to drain his strength so he could be bound and subdued.
- 29:25SPEAKER_06: The first time Samson says a fresh bowstrings.
- 29:30SPEAKER_06: And we see that he broke out of those pretty easily and beat up the Philistine guys.
- 29:34SPEAKER_06: I like how Brittany was like, these guys come in, he just beats them up, crushes them.
- 29:38SPEAKER_06: Crushes them, goes back to bed.
- 29:40SPEAKER_06: New ropes, we see that.
- 29:42SPEAKER_06: The third time he told her to weave his hair into a loom, so she did.
- 29:46unknown: Yeah.
- 29:46SPEAKER_01: And that didn't work.
- 29:47SPEAKER_01: I don't know what that is.
- 29:49SPEAKER_01: What's a loom?
- 29:52SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 29:52SPEAKER_06: Is that like a way of saying like braided his hair a certain way or turned his hair into a certain fashion style?
- 29:58SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 30:01SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 30:03SPEAKER_06: I didn't think about that.
- 30:04SPEAKER_06: I thought it was a good one.
- 30:04SPEAKER_06: Wait, hold on.
- 30:05SPEAKER_02: I think there was something that I remember reading about braiding or yeah.
- 30:09SPEAKER_06: I think it's just kind of the way she put his hair up into a like literally a style of hair, I guess.
- 30:13SPEAKER_02: Probably.
- 30:14SPEAKER_02: Or it was it probably means like man bun.
- 30:19unknown: Nights.
- 30:21SPEAKER_06: Okay, beating the crap out of Phil States with a man bun.
- 30:24SPEAKER_06: Wonderful.
- 30:26SPEAKER_06: And then so we have that, those three times.
- 30:29SPEAKER_06: It didn't work.
- 30:29SPEAKER_06: Delilah literally tied him up in his sleep three three separate times, called an armed enemy soldiers to capture him, and Samson went along with it every time.
- 30:38SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 30:39SPEAKER_06: That's the part that really you like kind of look over, you're like, oh, she's tricking him.
- 30:43SPEAKER_06: She's tricking him.
- 30:43SPEAKER_06: But we never stopped to be like, Samson, what the heck are you doing?
- 30:46SPEAKER_06: I think that's what Ashley's point was when she said, What is what is he doing?
- 30:50SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 30:51SPEAKER_06: Like, I don't understand.
- 30:53SPEAKER_06: I feel like we're like calling these guys out, Neil Ted.
- 30:55SPEAKER_06: Like last week it was Jonah.
- 30:56SPEAKER_06: We're like, this guy, Jonah, what are you doing?
- 30:57SPEAKER_06: Now we're talking to Samson.
- 30:58SPEAKER_06: We're like, Samson, really, dude.
- 31:00SPEAKER_03: Really?
- 31:01SPEAKER_06: Four times.
- 31:02SPEAKER_03: Four times.
- 31:04SPEAKER_06: And Samson still didn't leave.
- 31:06SPEAKER_06: He still stayed with Delilah.
- 31:08SPEAKER_06: He still even went along with it a few more times.
- 31:12SPEAKER_06: He didn't drop his, he didn't drop his guard.
- 31:14SPEAKER_06: He wasn't tricked.
- 31:15SPEAKER_06: He literally just said, okay.
- 31:18SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 31:18SPEAKER_06: Like growing up, I was always like Delilah was a tricky person, and she was like trying to get it out of him.
- 31:24SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 31:24SPEAKER_06: Get his secrets.
- 31:25SPEAKER_06: But no, Samson's like, okay, I'll tell you.
- 31:28SPEAKER_06: I made it up.
- 31:28SPEAKER_06: We'll try again.
- 31:29SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 31:30SPEAKER_06: Why did he finally tell her the truth on the fourth attempt?
- 31:36SPEAKER_02: Exhaustion.
- 31:36SPEAKER_06: Exhaustion.
- 31:40SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
- 31:41SPEAKER_02: Um, I think it's I think it has something to do with him literally being over her asking so much.
- 31:50SPEAKER_02: It literally says she nagged him so much that he says nag in the in scripture.
- 31:57SPEAKER_02: I do remember that.
- 31:58SPEAKER_06: But why after the fourth time like all this time?
- 32:00SPEAKER_06: Like I think it's Samson's flaw wasn't that he was naive, it was that he believed he was unbreakable.
- 32:06SPEAKER_06: He believed he could do whatever he wanted to, whenever he wanted to, and he finally got to the point he's like, I made all this stuff up, but I'll give you the real one this time, and I'm still gonna come out on top.
- 32:16SPEAKER_06: I'm still gonna be who I am.
- 32:17SPEAKER_06: And so his pride and his arrogance and his idea that he was unstoppable finally just let him go and he caved, and he was like, It won't matter.
- 32:26SPEAKER_06: I'll be able to do it anyway, still, or whatever, I think.
- 32:29SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 32:31SPEAKER_02: Definitely a sense of arrogance.
- 32:32SPEAKER_06: But that's the way he lived his entire life.
- 32:34SPEAKER_06: And so when we look at the character of Samson, sometimes we think of him as like the hero or the like this amazing person.
- 32:40SPEAKER_06: But if you go back and read Judges, you read about Samson.
- 32:42SPEAKER_06: Was he the hero?
- 32:46SPEAKER_06: Was he this amazing person for God?
- 32:51SPEAKER_02: Well, I think he was very flawed.
- 32:57SPEAKER_02: But I I do think he did some good.
- 33:00SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 33:01SPEAKER_01: But in a sense, I wonder if he thought that because he was so strong that maybe he didn't need God.
- 33:07SPEAKER_06: Well, I think that's where we're getting to, or the point where, like, I think he, you know, he's chosen by God.
- 33:14SPEAKER_06: God was with him through all these things.
- 33:16SPEAKER_06: And let's rewind and look at the first part of Samson's story before Delilah.
- 33:20SPEAKER_06: Samson had lived his entire life breaking every vow and every rule set before him.
- 33:26unknown: Yep.
- 33:26SPEAKER_06: Yet the power always remained.
- 33:28SPEAKER_06: He touched dead bodies.
- 33:30SPEAKER_06: He found a lion that was dead and honey was in it, and he took some of the honey out of the lion for that story.
- 33:35SPEAKER_06: He threw some wild parties.
- 33:37SPEAKER_06: He was always involved in some of the crazy living styles of people around him.
- 33:42SPEAKER_06: He met prostitutes, like we said before.
- 33:44SPEAKER_06: Like he was doing all these things and treated his divine calling like a game almost.
- 33:49SPEAKER_06: He could do whatever he wanted to, and God was still with him.
- 33:53SPEAKER_06: How do we how do we interpret that, do you think?
- 33:56SPEAKER_06: Any thoughts on, you know, we see Samson and he's he's he's doing things his way and God's still using him throughout the story, we see.
- 34:06SPEAKER_01: He's playing with fire, because like I'm like, oh my word, I wouldn't want to chance God's hand being removed off of me, you know, or or the calling being taken away because of my actions.
- 34:19SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know.
- 34:20SPEAKER_01: I just think he's tempting fate there.
- 34:24SPEAKER_06: So his hair wasn't a magic, it wasn't like a magic thing.
- 34:29SPEAKER_06: It wasn't like he was his hair didn't I don't know how to put it.
- 34:38SPEAKER_02: His hair Yes, that was a vow.
- 34:41SPEAKER_02: The long hair was simply the Yeah, it didn't have anything to do with his strength, I don't think.
- 34:47SPEAKER_06: So I always think it's like his long hair had some kind of magical quality to it, or or some kind of like supernatural hair, like or whatever.
- 34:54SPEAKER_06: But the long hair was just part of his vow that he took to and like to be a Nazirite and be set apart by God.
- 35:04SPEAKER_06: The long hair was simply the outer marker of uh inner vow that he had taken, like of who he was supposed to be, a sign of his covenant with God.
- 35:12SPEAKER_06: Samson believed the gift belonged to him rather than the God who gave it to him.
- 35:17SPEAKER_06: He thought he was in control, I guess you could say.
- 35:20SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 35:20SPEAKER_06: He forgot who was behind the power.
- 35:22SPEAKER_06: I think he thought he could flirt with his own destruction indefinitely without ever facing the consequences because it seemed like Samson was going along and he did this thing that he shouldn't do, but God was still with him.
- 35:35SPEAKER_06: He did this thing that he shouldn't do, and he was with these people they shouldn't be with, and he was doing these things, and it seems like God was still with him, you know.
- 35:42SPEAKER_06: We go through this and we're like, well, what's God doing here?
- 35:45SPEAKER_06: What's what's the point of the story?
- 35:46SPEAKER_06: And so that's what kind of what I want to end with as we finish up the story.
- 35:51SPEAKER_06: But when Delilah shaved his head and called the soldiers in for the fourth time, scripture gives us this verse, and I think this is the thing to remember and the thing that we can talk about to finish the episode, but it's kind of uh anyway, I'll just I'll just tell you when Delilah comes in and they shave his head in the fourth time, and it says, He awoke from his sleep and thought, I will go out as before and shake myself free, but he did not know that the Lord had left him.
- 36:21SPEAKER_06: So the fourth time he realizes he gave up his hair, which was another vow that he wasn't supposed to do, and he thought the strength came from his hair and all this stuff, and so he's like, That's my weakness.
- 36:33SPEAKER_06: I told her the truth, and so she wakes him up and he thinks to himself, I'll go out as I always do, and I'll shake myself free.
- 36:40SPEAKER_06: But he did not know that the Lord had left him.
- 36:44SPEAKER_06: Anything interesting in that verse, do you think?
- 36:48SPEAKER_06: A couple things stand out to me, but I don't know.
- 36:51SPEAKER_06: What do you think?
- 36:52SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it kind of debunks the whole childhood thought process of the hair, was what was the magic.
- 36:58SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
- 36:59SPEAKER_01: You know, it the strength wasn't in the hair, the strength was within God.
- 37:03SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know.
- 37:05SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 37:07SPEAKER_06: Samson didn't lose his strength because his hair was cut.
- 37:09SPEAKER_06: He lost his strength because he had slowly, proudly pushed God out of his life until he didn't even notice the presence was gone.
- 37:16SPEAKER_06: He didn't even know that God had left him.
- 37:18SPEAKER_06: That's how far he had moved away from God.
- 37:20SPEAKER_06: Wow.
- 37:21SPEAKER_06: That's the part that stands out to me is and he didn't know that the Lord had left him.
- 37:25SPEAKER_06: So he goes out and it's still he thinks he's about to go do what he always does and beat the crap out of the guys.
- 37:31SPEAKER_06: And he goes out and it's different this time.
- 37:33SPEAKER_06: The Lord had left him.
- 37:34SPEAKER_06: It wasn't about the hair, it wasn't a lot all the vows, all the things that he was supposed to do.
- 37:38SPEAKER_06: It was it was about him and how he relates to God, how he handles his own relationship with God, and it had gotten so far that you know he didn't even realize that God wasn't there anymore.
- 37:49SPEAKER_06: And so that kind of that's the part that always stands out to me when I read that part of the story.
- 37:54SPEAKER_06: It took being captured, getting his eyeballs popped out, like Britney said.
- 37:58SPEAKER_06: The Bible doesn't say it that way, but um wait, what does it say?
- 38:01SPEAKER_02: Gouged gouged out.
- 38:04SPEAKER_06: And they took losing his eyes, losing his freedom, and losing his pride for Samson to finally look back to God, and he's tied up between two posts.
- 38:15SPEAKER_06: The Philistines are mocking him, they're they have him captured, they've got him blinded, and he's just waiting there.
- 38:23SPEAKER_06: And this is when Samson finally comes back to God, and like we see actually the first prayer of you know, I need you, God, I need your help if you just give me, you know, talking to God in this way.
- 38:35SPEAKER_06: Standing chained between the pillars of the Philistine temple, stripped of everything, he prayed his very first sincere prayer, asking God for strength, not to boast, but to fulfill his purpose.
- 38:46SPEAKER_06: And Samson's purpose was always to help Israel rid them of the Philistines.
- 38:51SPEAKER_06: That's why he was brought up, that's why he was given strength, that's why God was with him because he wanted him to drive out the Philistines and get rid of them.
- 38:58SPEAKER_06: And he finally accomplishes that here.
- 39:00SPEAKER_06: The tragedy of Samson isn't that a strong man got tricked by a woman, the tragedy is that a man given everything by God was blinded by his own invincibility long before the Philistines ever touched his eyeballs, and you know, and blinded him and captured him.
- 39:16SPEAKER_06: And so he asked God for strength one more time, and the Bible says that his hair began to grow back on his head, which is a symbolism of God's spirit coming back to within Samson, and he pushes the pillars apart and crushes the however many thousands of Philistines were in the temple then, and basically accomplishes his goal of destroying the Philistines that God wanted to do.
- 39:38SPEAKER_06: It just took going to the extreme lengths, I think, of realizing it's not about me, it's about God.
- 39:46SPEAKER_06: And so that's the story of Samson and Deliel.
- 39:50SPEAKER_06: It's a story of it's focused on Samson and how he let his life slip and slip and slip and didn't even realize it until he was so far from God that he ended up in this place of you know, being captured, chained up, blinded, and finally realized that God was ultimately in control and that he was supposed to do what God was asking him to do.
- 40:12SPEAKER_06: So, how do we apply this to our lives today?
- 40:15SPEAKER_06: We'll finish the episode with a few questions and a discussion.
- 40:18SPEAKER_06: Delilah set the trap right in front of Samson three times before he gave in.
- 40:22SPEAKER_06: It wasn't a secret, it wasn't like some kind of behind-the-scenes like trickery or anything.
- 40:27SPEAKER_06: No, it was just, hey, tell me about it.
- 40:30SPEAKER_06: And Samson's like, okay, why do we so often stay in situations or keep habits or relationships even when the warning signs are right in front of us?
- 40:40SPEAKER_03: Good question.
- 40:42SPEAKER_06: I mean, we don't have to answer that question, but we have to think about it like because we all have, I think, been in that situation where we've stayed somewhere too long or we've had a situation come up where there was warning signs, and we were like, no, I got this.
- 40:55SPEAKER_06: I can handle this.
- 40:56SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, it'll be fine.
- 40:57SPEAKER_06: It'll be fine.
- 40:58SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be fine.
- 40:59SPEAKER_06: And that's what Samson did.
- 41:00SPEAKER_06: He did he broke the things all the all along the way, and it was still good.
- 41:04SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's okay, and you're like, I'll be fine.
- 41:07SPEAKER_06: I'll be fine.
- 41:07SPEAKER_06: I can handle this.
- 41:08SPEAKER_02: Like, I get it, this lady's toxic, but I'm able to overcome it.
- 41:12SPEAKER_02: So it's not a big deal.
- 41:14SPEAKER_06: I think the reason we do this is because we're prideful, yeah, and we think I can handle this, I can take care of the situation.
- 41:22SPEAKER_01: Even we don't want to look like a failure.
- 41:26SPEAKER_06: I mean, that's the pride part too, where if we do say, I have to leave this situation or I can't be like it look makes you look weak, makes you look like a failure, and and really no, we're trying to avoid getting to those, you know, getting to the failing part, I think, sometimes.
- 41:43SPEAKER_06: So, yeah, we often stay in situations or or find ourselves with habits and we let it go too long because of whatever reason, even when there's signs.
- 41:53SPEAKER_06: And in Samson's case, there was blaring signs, it was obvious.
- 41:56SPEAKER_06: And sometimes it's even obvious to us.
- 41:58SPEAKER_06: We're like, we know, but I can handle it.
- 41:59SPEAKER_06: I can just just this one time, or I can deal with it in the situation, or whatever.
- 42:04SPEAKER_06: And so I think that's a problem.
- 42:06SPEAKER_06: Samson assumed God's power would always be there, regardless of how he acted.
- 42:11SPEAKER_06: Have you ever caught yourself taking grace for granted or assuming that you're immune to consequences?
- 42:18SPEAKER_06: You're taking God's grace for granted.
- 42:22SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
- 42:23SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I can lie and say no, but nope, never.
- 42:27SPEAKER_02: Nope.
- 42:28SPEAKER_06: Well, then we have nothing to talk about.
- 42:30SPEAKER_02: Okay, good.
- 42:31SPEAKER_06: But assuming you're immune to consequences, and like I don't know.
- 42:36SPEAKER_06: You feel like I'm on God's side, so I'm good.
- 42:39SPEAKER_02: And like, you know, I don't know if you've ever felt like that before, but I remember Yeah, like you feel when you first especially when you first feel like you have, you know, like the spirit of the Lord is on my side.
- 42:49SPEAKER_02: You know, you're like, you get that.
- 42:51SPEAKER_02: I don't think there's any way to check it other than consequences.
- 42:57SPEAKER_02: Like I don't really know if there's any I mean, when you first get it, especially, and you feel so strong and so invincible, consequence is probably the only way to keep it in keep it in check.
- 43:14SPEAKER_06: I think God allows consequences and allows these kind of things to keep us in check, to remind us that it's not about us, it's about him.
- 43:23SPEAKER_06: And like if it wasn't for him and our lives, then you know, we wouldn't have anything.
- 43:29SPEAKER_06: And so Samson forgot where his strength really came from.
- 43:34SPEAKER_06: We often talk about people falling into big mistakes suddenly, like, oh, that person really really messed up, or they really like a sudden fall, like, oh, they ended up there, but it's usually not all of a sudden a sudden fall.
- 43:47SPEAKER_06: Usually Samson's story shows a slow erosion of boundary after boundary.
- 43:54SPEAKER_06: Uh, how do small compromises set us up for major crashes?
- 43:57SPEAKER_06: If you keep compromising, if you keep saying, oh Just this one time.
- 44:00SPEAKER_06: Or it's just a small little thing that I, you know, nobody knows about that part, or you know, I can say this or do this and get away with it this time.
- 44:08SPEAKER_06: But if you keep doing that, you keep doing that, you can see where you're pushing the boundaries and you're pushing like Samson did.
- 44:13SPEAKER_06: Oh, I could do this and I got away with it once.
- 44:15SPEAKER_06: I could keep doing this.
- 44:16SPEAKER_06: And eventually came to the point where he did it and everything kind of collapsed all at once.
- 44:21SPEAKER_06: And so I think, yeah, sometimes we do accidentally make big mistakes all of a sudden, but usually there's a progress.
- 44:27SPEAKER_06: It's like a you know snowball effect.
- 44:31SPEAKER_06: Snowball effect.
- 44:32SPEAKER_06: And then by the time you realize, oh, we're gonna this thing's gonna crash or this thing's going down, like it's too late because, well, that's how it goes.
- 44:41SPEAKER_06: So all the little things add up.
- 44:44SPEAKER_06: You know, the line of he did not know that the Lord had left him.
- 44:48SPEAKER_06: We don't want to get to that point in our lives where it's just the spiritual numbness, and we don't even realize that we're not on the right path that God's with us anymore or not.
- 44:58SPEAKER_06: And so that's kind of a a warning line in this story.
- 45:02SPEAKER_06: He did not know that the Lord had left him, and I don't want us to get to that point where we just kind of go through the motions of church and and Christian living and doing all the things that we do, and then but not actually living it out and just doing them because it's what you're supposed to do.
- 45:19SPEAKER_06: When over here you're just doing whatever you want all the time.
- 45:22SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 45:23SPEAKER_06: I don't know if I'm saying that right or not.
- 45:25SPEAKER_06: Kind of talking.
- 45:28SPEAKER_06: But Samson was strongest when he relied on his own strength, but spiritually he was the weakest when he did that.
- 45:37SPEAKER_06: He only became spiritually reliant when he was blinded and chained up and helpless, and then he was the strongest in his spiritual life, which I think is a good lesson.
- 45:46SPEAKER_06: Like he was he was physically strong and beating the crap out of everybody, but spiritually that's when he was the weakest.
- 45:52SPEAKER_06: He was the farthest from God.
- 45:53SPEAKER_06: And then when all that left, he had to rely on God.
- 45:56SPEAKER_06: It's kind of like the rock bottom situation, like rock bottom often becomes the only place where genuine surrender can happen.
- 46:03SPEAKER_06: So sometimes God lets us hit rock bottom, he'll let people go all the way until there's nothing left, and then that's when they realize that they need him the most.
- 46:13SPEAKER_06: I think.
- 46:13SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 46:14SPEAKER_06: Which is why I think it's when people go through really difficult times and really hard times or they hit rock bottom, it's easier for them to reach out to God or come experience him in a way that others can't.
- 46:28SPEAKER_06: Because if your life's going really good and you got nothing to worry about, you're like, wow, why do I need God?
- 46:33SPEAKER_06: My life's my life's going really good.
- 46:35SPEAKER_06: I got all this stuff, I got this, I got this.
- 46:37SPEAKER_06: Why do I need to worry about God?
- 46:39SPEAKER_06: But when it's hard and you hit rock and tragedy happens or really rough spots happen, forces you to look deeper, forces you to go outside of yourself and look for something greater, I think.
- 46:49SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
- 46:49SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 46:52SPEAKER_06: Any thoughts?
- 46:55SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I I can I remember even as an older teenager, like 18 years old.
- 47:02SPEAKER_01: Like I was kind of playing with church, you know, one, you know, one side church, one side partying and stuff.
- 47:08SPEAKER_01: And I'll never forget the night that I feel like I would say is when I hit rock bottom and I was like at the lowest of low that I'd ever been.
- 47:16SPEAKER_01: And I was like, what am I doing?
- 47:19SPEAKER_01: And that's when I finally turned to God and you know, sincerely apologized and sincerely was like, This is not who I am, it's not what you want from me, and finally turned from from all that garbage.
- 47:34SPEAKER_01: Went to church the next morning, went to a friend's house after that, and she prayed with me and you know, shared how God forgives, and my life has never been the same.
- 47:46SPEAKER_01: But it took me hitting rock bottom.
- 47:48SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't wish that on anybody, you know, I don't wish that people would would have to go to that, but sometimes God does certain things to wake you up.
- 47:58SPEAKER_02: I think like experiencing things like that and going through like when you when you have actually experienced the highs and lows, even even though you have hit those lows, you still have that almost forgetfulness, you know, to where you get I don't know if arrogant is a word, but you're like, oh, I'm good now.
- 48:27SPEAKER_02: And then we get a little check.
- 48:30SPEAKER_02: So it makes it to where, which I'm sure you're I know you're the same way.
- 48:34SPEAKER_02: I'm pointing to Ashley.
- 48:36SPEAKER_02: I think you know Cody is too, but uh Ashley and I have had many conversations over this, but it makes it to where when things are going really well and things are going really good and we don't feel like we're in a a suffering point of our lives, that gratitude and obedience is still really, really important to just kind of check it and make sure that God knows that we're grateful for it.
- 48:59SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 49:02SPEAKER_06: Good job.
- 49:04SPEAKER_01: Look at us, learning and growing stuff.
- 49:06SPEAKER_01: Look at it.
- 49:07SPEAKER_06: Um, little things to make help our listeners take this with them this week.
- 49:13SPEAKER_06: Sometimes we gotta step step back and take a look at our lives.
- 49:16SPEAKER_06: Look at a habit or an environment or relationship that repeatedly pulls you away from your values or your integrity.
- 49:23SPEAKER_06: Don't assume you can handle it forever without getting burned.
- 49:27SPEAKER_06: Like if you notice signs or you notice like in your head or your heart, you're like, I know I shouldn't be here in this place or with this person or doing this thing, yeah.
- 49:36SPEAKER_06: That's probably your sign to kind of work your way out of it now until and before it's too late.
- 49:43SPEAKER_06: And then so there are all those things, different, all different kinds of things that people deal with and struggle with temptations and stuff.
- 49:49SPEAKER_06: And if you if you feel like God wouldn't want me to do this, or this is something that you know I wouldn't want it people to know, or it's just kind of like things like that.
- 49:59SPEAKER_06: You're you're getting away with something that feels like you're probably not getting away with it, it's just doing you more harm than it is good.
- 50:05SPEAKER_06: Does that make sense?
- 50:07SPEAKER_06: Don't mistake God's patience for approval.
- 50:10SPEAKER_06: In this story of Samson, it looks like God's like, oh, that's okay.
- 50:14SPEAKER_06: I'm still with you.
- 50:15SPEAKER_06: The law, that's okay.
- 50:16SPEAKER_06: Don't mistake his patience for his approval because God did not approve all those things Samson was doing, but he was patient with him until his patience ran out.
- 50:26SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 50:26SPEAKER_06: And then, you know, he went through the art the hard way.
- 50:29SPEAKER_06: And eventually, when he pushed the pillars and killed the fill scenes, he that killed himself too.
- 50:34SPEAKER_06: Right.
- 50:34SPEAKER_06: He was done.
- 50:35SPEAKER_06: I don't know if I mentioned that before, but that's how that's how the story ended, I think.
- 50:38SPEAKER_06: So Samson broke his vows repeatedly, still had his physical strength, leading him to think he was above the rules.
- 50:45SPEAKER_06: You're not above the rules.
- 50:46SPEAKER_06: You might, you know, get away with something here or there, you might push the boundaries, but just because you get away with it doesn't mean God approves of it.
- 50:54SPEAKER_06: Doesn't mean it's okay to do it still.
- 50:56SPEAKER_06: Just because there's no immediate consequences sometimes.
- 50:59SPEAKER_06: Just because you have haven't faced immediate negative consequences for a bad decision doesn't mean it's safe or that it's right.
- 51:05SPEAKER_06: So my my whole thing of this story, I think, is good to finish on is you know, God is patient.
- 51:11SPEAKER_06: It doesn't mean that he's approving.
- 51:13SPEAKER_06: Don't confuse God's mercy and his patience with endorsement of your toxic behavior.
- 51:18SPEAKER_06: So I think that's always a thing to remember from this story.
- 51:21SPEAKER_05: That's good.
- 51:22SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
- 51:24SPEAKER_06: So I think we can feel like we're getting away with things, or feel like oh, it's not that bad, or it's okay, and there's no negative consequences right away.
- 51:34SPEAKER_06: So I feel like it's okay, but just because you get away with it doesn't mean God approves of it, and eventually it'll catch up with you one way or the other.
- 51:42SPEAKER_06: Hopefully, not getting caught by Philistines and your eyes gouged out and chained up.
- 51:46SPEAKER_02: But preferably not.
- 51:47SPEAKER_06: Preferably not.
- 51:48SPEAKER_06: Samson was so distracted and arrogant that he didn't even notice the spiritual connection was gone between him and God.
- 51:54SPEAKER_06: So you don't want to get to that point.
- 51:56SPEAKER_06: So I would encourage us and our listeners to always build in intentional check-ins or self-reflection.
- 52:04SPEAKER_06: Where are you at this week or this day, or where are you at with God in your relationship with him?
- 52:10SPEAKER_06: Are you continuing to seek him in all things?
- 52:12SPEAKER_06: Are you studying scripture?
- 52:14SPEAKER_06: Are you having a prayer life?
- 52:16SPEAKER_06: Are you talking about your faith with other people and having conversations?
- 52:19SPEAKER_06: And that that's the stuff that you should do so you're not drifting farther and farther away.
- 52:24SPEAKER_06: Easy to drift and not realize it.
- 52:26SPEAKER_06: If you're just drifting, you like look up and then you're so far away, you didn't realize it.
- 52:31SPEAKER_06: So that's what happens in the Samson.
- 52:33SPEAKER_06: But I think that's good for today.
- 52:36SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
- 52:36SPEAKER_06: Good story.
- 52:37SPEAKER_06: Yeah, learn a lot from these things.
- 52:39SPEAKER_06: Good job, Britney.
- 52:40SPEAKER_06: Good job, Brittany.
- 52:41SPEAKER_06: Story time with Brittany.
- 52:43SPEAKER_06: But I'll pray and then what are we gonna do next time?
- 52:46SPEAKER_06: What's a story?
- 52:48SPEAKER_06: Should we go New Testament, maybe?
- 52:49SPEAKER_06: We've done two Old Testaments, probably go to the New Testament.
- 52:52SPEAKER_01: Sure.
- 52:54SPEAKER_01: The prodigal son.
- 52:55SPEAKER_06: Okay, prodigal son it does.
- 52:56SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 52:58SPEAKER_06: That was easy.
- 52:59SPEAKER_06: Lord, thank you so much for this day.
- 53:00SPEAKER_06: Thank you for letting us do this podcast and talk and have a good time and laugh together and say weird stuff sometimes, but that's okay.
- 53:08SPEAKER_06: Thanks for your word, thanks for scripture and and leaving us these stories and these events and helping us to take them and apply them for us our lives today and always see who you are, your character, and how we can be closer to you.
- 53:22SPEAKER_06: And so help us this week as we go out.
- 53:24SPEAKER_06: And in Jesus' name, pray.
- 53:26SPEAKER_06: Amen.
- 53:26SPEAKER_06: Amen.
- 53:27SPEAKER_06: All right.
- 53:27SPEAKER_06: Good job, everybody.
- 53:29SPEAKER_06: We'll see you next time on Rush Hour.