Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair by Otis Moss III

Author:Otis Moss III [Moss, Otis III]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality, Religion, Christian
ISBN: 9780664261603
Amazon: 0664261604
Goodreads: 26370877
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2015-11-24T07:00:00+00:00

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Sermon 1

LOVING YOU IS KILLING ME

Judges 16

(This sermon was preached at Trinity United Church of Christ on August 24, 2014, as part of a series of sermons on scandals in the Bible.)

I want to read from the NIV version and the OM3 (the Otis Moss III) translation of this sacred text beginning with verse 1. The NIV version, verses 1–21, goes this way:

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. The people of Gaza were told “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate.

They made no move during the night, saying, “At dawn we’ll kill him.”

But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.

Some time later he fell in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. 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 that we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Samson answered her, “If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I’ll be weak as any other man.” Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. With men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.”

He said, “If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I’ll become as weak as any other man.”

So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!” But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.

Delilah then said to Samson, “All this time you have been making a fool of me, baby, and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.”

He replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I’ll be as weak as any other man.

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