{"id":878,"date":"2011-11-25T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"o-lord-god-remember-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"O Lord God, Remember Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Judges 16:21-31, Luke 23:39-45<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Context: Samson played with sin until it became his Master.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Three things sin did to Samson.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sin blinded him.<br \/>\na. His eyes were burned out.<br \/>\nb. Physical darkness came after spiritual darkness.<!--more--><br \/>\nc. &#8220;If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. Sin &#8220;bound him with fetters of brass.&#8221;<br \/>\na. Sin binds men stronger than chains.<br \/>\nb. The demon possessed man could brake the chains of men, but it took Jesus to break the chains of sin.<br \/>\nc. For 18 yrs. a woman was bound by sin, but Jesus set her free.<br \/>\n3. Sin made him a slave and a prisoner.<br \/>\na. &#8220;He did grind in the prison house.&#8221;<br \/>\nb. He made money for his captors.<br \/>\nc. Sin will demand that men become its slave. (Somber shadows).<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Samson cultivated his curls with care.<br \/>\n2. His hair grew, but his physical eyes remained blind.<br \/>\n3. Samson had time to think of his past and plan his future.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;O Lord, God, remember me &#8230; only this once.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges 16:21-31, Luke 23:39-45 Context: Samson played with sin until it became his Master. I: Three things sin did to Samson. 1. Sin blinded him. a. His eyes were burned out. b. Physical darkness came after spiritual darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}