Samson

Question: Can we as parents and preachers in admonishing our young people in seeking their helpmate rightfully use Samson as an illustration against seeking one from the world? Answer: The reference is, I take it, to Samson’s love of strange women, definitely to his marrying into a Philistine family. The doing was wrong, sinful in the sight of God. Yet Samson was a true believer. The Scriptures make this unmistakably clear. First, of his mother it is stated, “And the woman bare a son, and...