Campus Community – March 23rd, 2022— Dr. David Wheeler Sermon
“Judges 16. Our sermon series has been on the echoes of Christ, and the title of our message
tonight is simply this, “Pay Attention”, “Pay attention”, now that’s not the full title so I want you
to listen to this real quickly. One of my mentors, Dr. Ron Hawkins, he’s been one of my mentors
for the last 10-12 years. Every time I get with him, this is what he says and I want you to catch
this, write this down in your book. Write this down. This is what he says every time I leave him,
he says “David, you need to pay attention to what you’re paying attention to”. You need to pay
attention to what you’re paying attention to, you know why? Because what you’re paying
attention to will soon be what you worship and what you become. That’s the story basically of
Samson. Samson stopped paying attention to what he was paying attention to. Because of that it
destroyed his life. And I’ve seen so many other lives destroyed because they stopped paying
attention to what they were paying attention to. So lets begin at verse 21, chapter 16 of Judges
says “then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding
him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison. But the hair on his head
began to grow again after it had been shaved. Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer
a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, “Our god has delivered Samson, our
enemy, into our hands.” When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “our god has
delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain.”
When they were drunk, they shouted, “bring out Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson
out of the prison, and he performed for them. When they stood him among the pillars, Samson
said to the servant who held his hand, “put me where I can feel the pillars that support the
temple, so that I may lean against them.” Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all
the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and
women watching Samson perform. Then Samson
25:49/1:18:48
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2016%3A21-31&version=NIV
