What deep significant hope to offer people to our teaching? Isn't

that better than here try hard to be like this gy who would not like younow in any respect. So

sampson does present us a picture at the very end doesn't he? Of the person and work of christ. We've talked about how there's not parallels, but there is that sense in which he is there and he a, he accomplishes judgment and salvation. Couldn't we say? Or what do you think?

A, he he set some questions to which jesus is the answer. I'd put it like that. Expos me. I said earlyr all the judges are like israel, but none of them so much like samson. Samson is called to be a nazarite, to be set a apart to the lord from before his birth, yet he has no intention of being holy. The bumper sticker on sampson's chariot reads, my body, my choice. A, he is convinced that he needs to have what he wants, and he has no respect for his calling to be holy. That's who isral is. The question is, where does that end you up? Well, it ends him up. I in bondage. I end a, you know, with all the marks of his separation taken away. And then in that situation, his hair starts to go again, anda, and his strength starts to return. And he's able to use that strength to bring the house down, to take out more philistines in his death than he hid in his life? Oh, and yet, and yet, and yet, by sampson s we are not healed. Nobody is delivered. There's no rest for israel. As a result, you just get plummeted. Then into the civil war of 17 21. Oh, is that going to be the end of israel's story? Are they just going to end up in exile, in bondage, destroyed, accomplishing god's purposes? Because we always do. But it's actually the the story? Or is it possible that even through and after that, there can be a new hope, and you return? And that's where i think this this repeated theme. In those days, there was no king in israel. Well, what if we have a king? Maybe that can give us a different outcome from our judges.