SAMSON SUFFERED THE LOSS OF HEAVENLY REWARDS & JESUS ASKS--WILL THAT HAPPEN TO YOU?

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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