Confronting Evil Lesson 4 Read Judges 13 14 and Numbers 6: 1 21 Lesson Questions: 1. What is the cultural significant of the region known as Shephelah? _____________________ 2. What is the spiritual significance of Shephelah? _____________________________________ 3. What is the Shephelah of our culture? ______________________________________________ 4. How were the Philistines viewed? _________________________________________________ 5. How were the Israelites viewed? __________________________________________________ 6. What were the effects of the Israelites inability to control the coastal plain? ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. How does that relate to the Christian community today? ______________________________ 8. In what specific ways was a Nazirite separate from others? ____________________________ 9. What was the purpose of the Nazirites unique lifestyle? ______________________________ 10. How might this uniqueness, this concept of separation relate to our call as Christians today? __________________________________________________________________________ 11. What was Samsons failure? ______________________________________________________ 12. In what ways can God use human failure and weakness to His glory? ________________________________________________________________________________ 13. List the times in your life when God worked through your weakness. a. ________________________________________________________ b. ________________________________________________________ 14. Are you living a life today that exhibits Gods blessings and power? _____ 15. Or are you powerless and suffering? _____ *It is not too late to turn back to God and regain His blessings and power in your life. Will you pray asking God to forgive you of turning away from Him and to accept you back again?