If I Had Just Listen To Momma And Daddy........

You see Samson problem was that he allowed his lust get the best of his judgment which caused him to get involved with the wrong type of woman. But this would have not been the case if he had just listen to his momma and daddy in Judges 14. We learn this much about Samson in Judges 14; he was hardheaded and rebellious. One day in Judges 14, Samson came home to his parents and told them that he had found woman in a place called Timnah that he wanted to marry. But the problem was this woman was a Philistine, who were enemies of Israel and they were people who did not worship the true and living God as Samson did. When Samson told his parents that he wanted to marry this Philistine woman that he had seen in the Philistine city called Timnah, they responded by saying, Why did you have to go to Timanh to find a woman to marry? There are some available woman right here in your own city to marry. Don’t you know the Philistine women don’t worship the same God you worship? Don’t you know that woman in Timnah do not have a covenant relationship with God, and that they worship idol gods? Why do you have to look for a woman to marry from Timnah? There are some good woman to for you to chose to marry right in your own town. Why don’t you pick someone within your city to marry?

But Samson said, “I want that woman in Timnah because she pleases me. She looks good. She smells good. She wears her clothes well. I want her and only her. And because Samson did not want to follow the advice of his parents, notice what Judges 14:5 says. It say that Samson went down and his father and his father to Timnah. Notice it says that “Samson went down.” .Then in Judges 16:4 it says that Samson loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, and in order to go to the Valley of Sorek or any valley for that matter, you will find yourself going in a downward direction. And notice the direction that Samsom took when he disregarded the advice of his parents. He went down. He went down to Timnah, and when he went to the Valley of Sorek and met Delilah, he went down. And there is a lesson to be learned right here. And anytime, you decide to that you are not going to do what your momma and daddy tell you to do, you will find yourself going down, down, and down. Not only that, anytime you find yourself not wanting to do what the Lord says, you will find yourself going down, down, and down.

Now notice something. When Samson tells his parents that he has found some woman in Timnah that he wants to marry in Judges 14, there is at least four things that Samson fails to do. First of all, when he tells his parents that he wants to marry this woman he saw in Timnah, he doesn’t even know the woman’s name. Fellas, before you get serious about dating or marrying someone, at least know the woman’s name. The same goes with the ladies…..at least know the man’s name before you even think about going out and marrying someone.

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Second thing that Samson’s doesn’t do with the woman in Timnah is that he doesn’t take time to get to know her real well. He doesn’t take time to get to know her family real well. He doesn’t take time to get to know her friends real well. And the result of Samson not taking his time to know this woman and her background real well and not following the advice of his parents , this marriage to the woman of Timnah only lasted seven days. The marriage was so bad that Samson left his wife in anger and went home to live with his parents. Now check this out. Samson leaves his wife, and goes back home to live with his parents. Now that also tells me that Samson was not ready for marriage in the first place because when a man gets married, he ought to be living in his own place, and paying his own bills. The bible does say in Genesis:2:24 that when a man decides to get married, “he is to leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.” But Samson could have avoided this heartbreak and this messy marraige with the woman in Timnah if he had just listen to his momma and daddy.