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The Meaning of Amalek

From: Samuel: God's Emergency Man By: William Woldridge Fereday

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Amalek is a type of the flesh, and with flesh God can make no terms. In it dwells no good thing (Rom. 7:18¹⁸For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. (Romans 7:18)); the sin that is inherent in it was divinely condemned in the sacrifice of Christ (Rom. 8:3³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: (Romans 8:3)); and Christians are viewed as having for themselves, “crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts” (Gal. 5: 24), which means that they have accepted the sentence of God against the evil thing. Nothing remains but to be unsparing with all its workings day by day (Col. 3:5-9⁵Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: ⁶For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: ⁷In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. ⁸But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. ⁹Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (Colossians 3:5‑9)).

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• Man After God's Heart, The

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• Inconsistency

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• No Substitute for Obedience

• No Repentance

• Righteous Rejection

• Man After God's Own Heart, The

• Heart for God, A

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• God's Choice

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