SAMSON SUFFERED THE LOSS OF HEAVENLY REWARDS & JESUS ASKS--WILL THAT HAPPEN TO YOU?
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- All of us in Christ's Church are called from darkness to light at salvation, and we are saved from the power of Satan and transformed into saints of God. That process is called consecration. Last week, as we looked at the Church at Thyatira (Revelation 2:18-29), we saw that their consecrated lives were slipping because of compromise with sin and false doctrine.
Jesus called them to repent, to have a change of mind that would lead to a change in behavior. The letter to Thyatira is a challenge from Christ for His children of faith to do what is needed: repent of compromising their lives of sanctification.
Paul describes the deadly result of a compromised life. Please open to I Corinthians 3:15, where Paul warns all believers about the danger of getting to Heaven empty-handed and what it means to suffer loss. In other words:
Don’t Get to Heaven
Empty Handed & Suffering Loss
I Corinthians 3:15
Please stand with me and listen to this one verse from God, through Paul, to each of us who will listen.
1 Corinthians 3:15 (NKJV): If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he will be saved, yet so as through fire.
This morning, God's Word uses a well-known person from the Bible to portray this description of being saved, yet so as by fire. This person is Samson, who powerfully illustrates Christ's warning to Thyatira. The Scriptural biography of Samson teaches believers about suffering the loss that comes from a compromised life,
First, Samson is a believer, a servant of God, but one who was saved by fire and suffered loss. The New Testament tells us so in Hebrews 11:32.
Next, we can classify Samson's struggles as chastening because the Lord always chastens those who are really His, as Hebrews 12:1-11 clearly teaches.
Finally, we know Samson suffered loss because Paul warns us so hauntingly in I Corinthians 3:15 that this happens to anyone who lives a compromised life like Samson.
Samson is a powerful reminder of God’s grace. Though he descended into the depths of a lust-filled life, wandering far from his calling and neglecting his consecration, the Lord never let go of him.
His soiled life is recorded. His defeats are unvarnished and clear for all to see. But against the backdrop of sin is the beauty of grace. God forgives, God restores, and God uses Samson one final time. But the warning from the Scriptures is:
Samson Shows Us How He Got to Heaven
Empty Handed & Suffering Loss
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Please pray for me to quit the smoking of cigarettes.. I do love the Lord so much but at the same time I am struggling with this horrible & deadly addiction. I don’t want it to make me question my Love for my Jesus but sadly there have been times that it does.😢 & I hate that feeling.. please also pray for my precious Grandchildren & children & sister to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ & His shedding of His precious blood for “ All” of us. Thank you Dr. Barnette for this wonderful teaching as they all are.. Thank you everyone..🙏❤️
Praying. I gave up cigarettes over 20 years ago after someone invited me to a healing service. I had multiple people laying hands on me while praying. I prayed, too, and felt warmth. The next day, I smoked 1 1/2 cigarettes and didn't smoke any more. I still had cravings but not the physical withdrawal symptoms I had from previous unsuccessful attempts. I was able to withstand those cravings until I had no desire to smoke another cigarette. Praise and thanks to God! Praying for you and your family.🙏❤
I struggled with a cigarrette addiction as well.
The Lord delivered me, and will deliver you as well.
I will pray fir you, as soon as I post this.
Blessings for you, in Jesus name.
🙏✝️🌬️☺️
Breath of life replace those chemicals and unwanted habits!
Thank you Holy Spirit!
I will pray right now. I quit smoking 38 years ago and it was a struggle. The Holy Spirit will give you power to overcome!
I've smoked for 43 years and have COPD and still struggle with it . I do the patch and sometimes a vape and then there's times I smoke . I know how hard this is and am praying for you and your family's salvation. Pray for me and my children and grandchildren too please . I know in my heart that God will get us through this . Amen .
Wow. This was a mighty message. I am convicted by all the compromises in my life. I am grateful that the Lord Jesus still intercedes for me and that the Father loves me enough to chasten me as a son. I pray to take my sin as seriously as God takes it. I'm overwhelmed by His grace and mercy and know I am unworthy of them.
Thank you Lord for every discipline makes me more closer to you. Don't ever let my hands go Lord Jesus. I will always claim on your promise. Till we meet again. MY Savior and God. Thank you for everything.
Thank you Pastor! Such a good message and so true! I was not raised in a Christian home as Samson was but was saved 8 years after marriage. Young women if you know Jesus do not even consider an unsaved mate! Do not look at them! I am 74, raised three children to know Jesus and God has helped so much so I know Pastor is right. Do not be knowingly unequally yoked with anyone!❤️
Thank you for being here to share the lords words to us that need it to make us understand what the lord is expecting from us , so we can enter heaven.
🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳🐠🐳Please pray for salvation for Chris, Pete and Nick.
In Jesus mighty name I join you in prayer
I've seen those names on another video.
God knows their needs.
I will pray again for Chris, Pete, and Nick.
I will also pray for Blessings, and Peace for you.
@@BassRocketwhy encourage this needless spamming?
@@davidgraham2673why?.. you have zero context, and only so much God given time to help other "actual" ppl in need.
I will pray for them every day. Please pray for my son, his name is Josh. Thank you, and my God bless you.
I think you just said my life
Is there still hope for me to change the ending and to do God’s work
I’m so heartbroken to know this
Thank you, Pastor Barnett. I needed this.
So convicting, i needed this.
Thank you for this video. I have off & on thoughts about Samson throughout my life even as a child wonderin about his final moments. Now I have the answer to read myself cant wait lord knws I wanted to knw & felt sad at the thought that he'll suffer hell bc of that moment thinkin its suicide or takin the lord's revenge. I'm at 36 mins in not finished yet this exciting!
Suicide is not the unpardonable sin! God knows our mind..
I married young and never bothered asking about her religion. I found out that she was a devil worshipper. Yes, im a Christian married to a devil worshipper. We are polar opposites in that sense but I dont let that get in the way of our marriage and it actually has made my faith stronger because im always trying to convert her to Christianity, and ive also seen first hand the power of her religion as well. I never believed that devil worship would yield anything before that but never once have I wanted to practice her faith because I know how that will end. I was scared that I would be damned to hell at first but the Bible says that if I follow God I wont go to hell. Im living proof it can work
God Bless you richly, Brother.
You are about as unequally yoked as can be.
I will pray for you, abd your wife as soon as I hit "post"
@@davidgraham2673 Thank you, I always pray for her too
You definitely serve a role in her life stay strong brother.
@@Cereal_Killer007 , I will continue to pray for you both.
We uphold each other when we pray for each other.
There’s a verse in the Bible that says if one person in the marriage is a believer then the unbelieving spouse and or the children are covered…or protected. 1 cor 7:13 I think…God bless you bro I couldn’t imagine how hard that has been for you…praying for you and your family
One fine sermon!
Thanks pastor for wonderful message 🙏 iam blessed with your teachings
The righteous dead “sleep” until Jesus’s second coming when He resurrects the righteous.
Their bodies sleep.
Their souls are with Jesus, and they are fully conscious, abd aware of where they are.
@@davidgraham2673 scripture says the dead know nothing.
Ecclesiastes 9:5. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Psalms 146:4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Isaiah 38:18-19 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
@@davidgraham2673 Ecc_9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Amen!
Samson father named Tobias, this is my family tree.
Amen and Amen 🙏
God the Father chastens out of love as a father. Disobedience can frequently be the reason but for sincere disciples such as the apostle Paul, it is to forge their souls to greater maturity, to be perfected in suffering as His Son was on the cross (Heb2:10).
Heb2:10
"For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
The apostle Paul says this suffering produces in the soul an eternal weight of glory in 2Cor4:16-17. And in Phil3 he declared his life goal is to suffer and die just like Christ.
Heb12:6 and Rev3:19 share a same theme: God love is a tough love.
Heb12:6
"For whom the Lord (God the Father) loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."
Rev3:19
"As many as I (Jesus) love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."
Love is blind and marriage is the eye opener. So many of us get married with the concept of living with the love of your life and assuming you are on an even basis with your partner. So the commitment is there , shared rent in the highest rent in Canada is there, love is not there in any real way. I look at other family units that are not believers and they actually love each other? So I envy / covet that kind of relationship but just do not attain it.
Same here. I know that feeling. I can so relate to this video.
What kind of rewards would be needed in Heaven?
I love these sermons, but always a TON of adds and the first first one only 5 mins in
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But how do you make so much in a month?mind sharing?
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Salvation by works ... that's so mean, Pastor
You didn't understand well. Salvation is free but reward in heaven is accordance with the work a saved person did here on earth.
@@gsnipernew3.070 okay, but would you please let my LORD judge that? and not only you, Barnett should also leave this job to the Lord, because he is very capable and able to complete the work he started in me ...
Can tell me when Sampson did the will of God during his life, will rewards for these acts be wipe out by the wrong that Sampson did.
Samson in his life was focused on one particular jewel, a woman. That’s what his story is ultimately about.
💜💜😓😓
Just be glad if you make it to heaven.. only a prideful Pharisee panicky over "extra rewards"
Fellowship with Jesus the Christ is our greatest "reward" ever
You make rewards in heaven sound like cheap knockoffs from the swap meet 😮 get behind me Satan….your rewards echo into eternity…has zero to do with pride and everything to do with your position in Gods kingdom💁🏽♂️ repent of that kind of wicked thinking….salvation is a free gift…everyone gets to go to heaven but not everyone will get the same kind of gifts…one is a special name between you and God that only God knows…it’s a high honor.
The BIBLE says we are in the grave sleeping waiting the return of Jesus to bring his Kingdom to earth when he will call his saints to hi, others stay in the grave,there is no heaven or hell
Whether or not you believe in an eternal soul or not, God can resurrect us and punish us however long He wants like in Revelation 9:5. They desired to die but weren't allowed to for 5 months .
Whether or not you believe in Heaven and Hell, God can resurrect your body and punish you as He sees fit as in Revelation 9:5 says they looked for death but couldn't for 5 months. Nothing is stopping Him from doing this to His enemies however long He wants.
Hilarious- please more never heard anything so ridiculous
So we have works to worry about in order to receive "rewards" Jesus has for us? Click bait?
Read Luke 13:6-9.
Sometimes it's not easy, but this Scripture is also a great example is Matthew 25: 42-46
So basically, turning a blind eye to people who need help, although one has faith, is certainly not a work. But you might know in your heart if you've helped someone, many times you won't.
For one thing no man has ascended to Heaven. The second thing is we don't get a bucket of goodies when we die. We have eternal life what more do you want?
John 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Acts 2:34
For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand
God makes deals within this life with mortals. And you need to grasp that said mortals given up many things in this life to do the duties assigned to them.
Those who conquered death and beat it don’t die they ascend. Google celestial prophecy about ppl disappearing off the face of the earth.
@@rahimi4762the scriptures say we “sleep” until Jesus calls us forth at His glorious second coming.
It's foolish to argue about what you do not know. Trust and rely on Jesus plain and simple.
@@JerrythePope yes, and Jesus gave us His pure word. Scripture references death to “sleep” 53 times in scripture including the time Jesus resurrected Lazarus. Jesus called His death a sleep. When the disciples thought He spoke of sleep in rest, Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.” Hence a RESURRECTION was necessary to bring Him back to life.
When anyone dies, they dont go to heaven nor do they go to hell.They are buried awaiting the resurrection.The living know that they will die, the dead know nothing.(Psalm 146:4) There is only one person that is alive today from the grave, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Hebrews 11:13) These all died having NOT recieved the promises. Also Acts 2:29 tells us that King David is still in his grave . Why would there need to be a resurection of the dead if they were already in heaven alive with God.? The word hell is from gehenna, a literal place in Jerusalem where they burnt refuse and dead criminalsin the New testament and hades , or the grave,the abode of the dead,the unseen and sheol in the old covenant is the place of the dead, the grave. Thje word hell is from mhythology in Pagan religions,where people were said to go to be tortured for being a bad person.Or to scare the hell out of them😏
Wrong, there is a waiting place in the earth for unbelievers and for old testament saints... those saints Jesus took up but the unbelievers are still there till the judgement. Jesus also talked about hell and the lake of fire. Death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire. Two different places, hell and the lake of fire.
@@christoprighteous8199have you been there?
@@lovealways2609 - You are saying, what atheist usually say, seeing is believing.
No, Samson did not go to heaven, the Bible clearly states he sleeps in the grave, and slept with his fathers.
Perfect teaching!! I'm humbled before you as a brother. We are slaves, he no longer calls us a servant but friends. We are also friends. Then after he arose from the dead he said " go tell my brethren I go to my Father and your Father my God and your God. So we are slave, friend and brethren (family). The rewards in heaven are stored up from our works of righteousness. Because there are no works for salvation!! Consecrated, as near sinless as possible!!romans 12 , presenting our bodies a living sacrifice, Holy and acceptable, pleasing unto God which is our reasonable SERVICE!! Very good brother❤❤ now if you can repent from the false pretrib rapture doctrine!! And start helping the rest of us get prepared!! Here's a subject for !!! What is and where else in scripture explains the MIDNIGHT CRY? Of matt25. Love you brother!!
YES THIS STORY BOOK HAS A PLACE FOR ALL> Which part do you want to play.