1. “Nazirite” means someone _____________, separated or dedicated.               
2. Samson didn‘t make this _________ personally! _______________.

See Judges 14:6; 14:19; and 15:14-15

3. Samson _________________________vow after vow after vow.

Judges 16:4-5, ”Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. ⁵ The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, ‘See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.’”

See Judges 16:6-9; 10-12; 13-14; 15-16; 17

4. So why was Samson so foolish? Because Samson didn’t think  _____________________. He had lived his whole life in complete disregard of his __________________, and his strength had never left him. So why care now?

See Judges 16:18-30

5. What’s the take away? 

1. _________________ of sin, by letting ______________in!

1 John 5:14 ¹⁴ This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us.

Hebrews 3:13 ¹³ Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Romans 8:26 ²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

2. You purposely ________________ God ___________ life.

1. The single most important question: Who is ____________?           The second most important question: What is the ___________              ________?

Mark 3:28-29, ”Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, ²⁹ but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”

Matthew 12:31-32, ”And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. ³² Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”

Luke 12:10, “And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”

See John 16:8-9; John 15:26; and John 3:3-7

2. To blasphemy the Holy Spirit, means that you show the Holy Spirit and His work __________. You ___________ Him.
3. The person who repeatedly, continually, without repentance  rejects ________________ in their life, (Who is) promoting Jesus and testifying to Jesus… that person blasphemes the Holy Spirit.

1. God’s not going _______________ and His _______________ for              you is not going _______________. There’s nothing you can do that will make Him love you less. But ________________________ you?

Hosea 14:1-4, “Return, Israel, to the Lord your God, Your sins have been your downfall! ² Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him: ‘Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips. Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say “Our gods” to what our own hands have made, for in You the fatherless find compassion.’ ‘I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for My anger has turned away from them.’”

2. God goes after us at our ______________, He keeps after us throughout our life, and if we turn to Him, makes us into lovers even when we knew _________________ of love.

1. God called Hosea to marry a woman who was a known prostitute, and then to be ______________ to her no matter what. To stay true to her, no matter how __________ she might be to him.

Hosea 1:2-4, ”When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ‘Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.’ ³ So he married Gomer     daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.    ⁴ Then the Lord said to Hosea, ‘Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.’”

Hosea 1:6,8-9, ”Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to Hosea, ‘Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”), for I will no longer show love to Israel, that I should at all forgive them.’… ⁸ After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, Gomer had another son. ⁹ Then the Lord said, ‘Call him Lo-Ammi (which means “not my people”), for you are not My people, and I am not your God.’”

2. Jezreel means ______________ or __________________, but here, it is referring to a place, a town named Jezreel.

See 2 Kings 9:6-10

3. Lo-Ruhamah means ______________ or ________________.
4. Lo-Ammi means ___________________________________.
5. This is something we don’t often think about. There are                  ___________________ for our decisions, our choices, in relation to _____________.

1. You ___________ it for your life.

Matthew 28:18-20, ”Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’”

2. You go _____________ for God.

Matthew 10:32-33, “Whoever acknowledges Me before others, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. ³³ But whoever disowns Me before others, I will disown him before My Father in heaven.”

3. You experience in, and participate with, what some churches call a  ________________________.          

See 1 Corinthians 11:27-31.

John 3:3-5, “Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ ⁴ Nicodemus said to Him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?’ ⁵ Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, He cannot enter the kingdom of God.’”

2 Kings 5:13-14, ”But his servants came near and said to him, ‘My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, “Wash, and be clean”?’ ¹⁴ So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”

4. You ________, you get baptized for the sake of ________________. 

1. The word “baptize” means to ____________, or __________ ,  or _____________ someone in water.

Psalm 51:7, “Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”

2. John the Baptist’s baptism was not about ritual purity, but                        ________________ purity.

Matthew 3:11, “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”

Matthew 3:13-15, ”Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. ¹⁴ But John tried to deter Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?’ ¹⁵ Jesus replied, ‘Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then John consented.”

Matthew 28:19-20, ”Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

3. Baptism is a reflection of the life you are ________________              _____________, not the one you have lived, or are living now.
4. All examples of baptism in the New Testament followed an   individual’s  _____________to trust Christ alone for their salvation.

1. This life is __________________________; or,   
2. You are _________________________; or,   
3. The Christian faith is right; it contends that when we die, we remain ___________ and, in a non-physical sense, _________.

See Ecclesiastes 12:7

1 Peter 3:18-20, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. ¹⁹ After being made alive, He went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— ²⁰ to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water…”

4. Who were the spirits? The consensus is Peter was not talking about _____________________, but ___________________.

2 Peter 2:4, ”For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment.”

Jude 1:6, ”And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.” 

5. “Tartarus”: a Greek term used to describe the place where the ______________________________ were sent to be punished.
6. What did Jesus “preach to them?” The Greek word used simply means that Jesus made an ______________________.

So, What Happens When We Die?