Then Came Amalek
Then Came Amalek
By Ian Thomas
October 24, 2004
"Then Came Amalek!" (summarized)
by W. Ian Thomas
God gave His people food and water--water from the smitten
rock, which is the gift of eternal life through the smitten Savior and poured out as living water through the Holy Spirit. But no sooner had God given the waters of salvation, the enemy came in!
Amalek represents the flesh, which always seeks to prevent believers from entering into the land of God's promise. The flesh resists the Holy Spirit impacting all facets of your being and redeeming your humanity to make you His temple. The flesh fights the Holy Spirit's every attempt to lead you into spiritual maturity. "Standing across your pathway from the very outset of your Christian life is Amalek!"
God gave the Israelites victory over the attacking Amalek--but only as Moses kept his hands and the rod of God raised. Victory over the flesh is never won, it is always given. Victory comes from walking by faith in the Spirit and assuming the victory that He has already won.
"To walk in the Spirit is not a reward--it is the means! It is to enjoy the saving Life of Christ!"
Amalek descended from Esau--the man who despised His birthright, the very promise of God to redeem man and restore him to dependence on God through Christ. "Why did God hate Esau? Because God can do absolutely nothing with a man who will not admit that he needs anything from God." But God could do great things through Jacob, as sneaky and deceitful as he was, because Jacob wanted everything he could get from God. God doesn't love you for what your flesh can make of yourself--He loves you for what Christ will make of you.
God says to forget what He forgets--our sins and iniquities.
Christ is your righteousness. Do not let Satan accuse you when the blood of Christ cleanses you. But God says to remember Amalek--know your enemy. For if you compromise with the flesh and make an unholy alliance with that which is opposed to God (and will perish in eternity), then you have forgotten. God says we must remember our enemy!
["I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Galatians 5:16]
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"Then Came Amalek!" is from a chapter in The Saving Life of Christ, by W. Ian Thomas. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1961. This article is from Christian Book Summaries, Volume 2, Number 28 at ChristianBookSummaries.com. Summarized by David and Renee Sanford.
Scriptural allusions in this article: 1 Cor. 10:4; Exodus 13:21,22; Exodus 17:8-16; Rom. 7:18; Gal. 5:16; Rom. 5:10; Gen 25:30-34; Malachi 1:2,3; Rom. 13:14
Major Ian Thomas is the founder of Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers, an international Christian missionary organization engaged in evangelism and Bible teaching. http://www.capernwray.org.uk. His video teaching is also available from http://www.GalleryoftheMaster.com
For further study on this topic see Grace Note: "Jekyll or Hyde?" and "Definition of Terms" at GraceNotebook.com.
Grace Notes: October 22, 2004.
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