THE FATALITY OF A “LITTLE” COMPROMISE II
DECEMBER 8, 2025
TEXT: Judges 16
KEY VERSE: “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 we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.’” Judges 16:5
Yesterday, we examined the meaning of compromise, with a case study of Samson.
Today, we shall proceed to talk about the dangers and effects of small compromises here and there in the life of a believer.
- A person who sees occasional compromises as normalcy may eventually lose his vision. A man who feels he can compromise to let a girl sleep over in his room, acting under the guise that nothing ungodly will happen, may later understand—too late—that these things are sometimes not within a person’s control or power. When we act carelessly with sin, we are already on the pathway of vision loss.
- One ultimately becomes a full slave to sin in the long run. Samson thought he was merely testing the waters until he became a renowned sinner and was wallowing freely in fornication, despite the kind of power and unusual anointing that he possessed.
- Compromise can keep you in sin until you lose your destiny completely. Samson was born to be a deliverer and a great judge in Israel, after the order of the likes of Othniel, Ehud, Gideon, Deborah, Barak, Jephthah, etc. He was meant to fully rescue the Israelites from the Philistines, but unfortunately, he only scratched the surface.
- The power one possesses eventually gets taken away. Power without discipline may lead to emptiness and spiritual uselessness unless proper steps are taken to retrace your steps. He lost his power to such an extent that he didn’t even know when the Spirit of God departed from his life (Judges 16:20). Compromise is a silent emptier. You continue thinking the power is still there until you wake up one day and discover that you are just an empty vessel simply whirling away time.
SEARCHLIGHT: Just a little sin, a little slumber, a little compromise, and your destruction may be unquantifiable at the end of it all.
PRAYERS: My Father, give me self-control and discipline over my life, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
BIBLE READING: Genesis 8–10, Acts 3
PASTOR MICHAEL OMOLE
