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<div class="SSN_title">"UTTERLY DESTROY"</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Sa',15,1);">1SA 15:1</a> Samuel said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel: now therefore listen unto the word of the LORD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Sa',15,2);">1SA 15:2</a> Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he sought to ambush him when he came up from Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('1Sa',15,3);">1SA 15:3</a> Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. SOME WHEN THEY READ THIS COMMAND CHALLENGE THE JUSTICE OF GOD, HOW COULD GOD COMMAND THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF A NATION, INCLUDING WOMEN, CHILDREN AND ANIMALS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. History tells us how exceedingly wicked and vile the Amalekites were.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They were a cunning and cruel race of people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Their religious and moral practices were so vile that in time they would have self destructed with venereal diseases.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Evil has a way of proliferating very rapidly, they could soon infect God's children.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In the scripture Amalek became a type of that man who is ruled by his flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Thus the command to utterly destroy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God has only one sentence for the flesh. Kill it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Paul said that if we lived after the flesh we would die, but if through the Spirit we would mortify the deeds of the flesh that we would live.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He commanded the Colossians to put to death whatever belonged to the earthly nature such as sexual immorality impurity, lusts and evil desires. These are the very things that are bringing the wrath of God upon the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. He told the Galatians that they who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with it's lusts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. He told the Ephesians that we know that no whoremonger or those who were sexually impure, or covetous has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God, Let no man deceive you with vain words, for it is for these things that the wrath of God is coming upon the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. To understand Amalek a little better we have to go back to the book of Exodus and read a little of their treachery.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The children of Israel were coming fresh out of Egypt. They had been slaves and God has finally set them free and is leading them to the land that he promised Abraham that He would give to his descendants.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. This is the battle that is remembered because of the fact that when Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed, and when his hands dropped the Amalekites prevailed. So Aaron and Hur got on either side of Moses and held up his hands until the Amalekites were defeated.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This is where God swore that He would have war with Amalek from generation to generation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Later on the Lord said to Moses,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Deu',25,17);">DEU 25:17</a> Remember what Amalek did to you by the way when you were coming out of Egypt; How he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you where the feeble were weary and fainting, and they feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as a possession, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget [it].</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. HERE IN OUR CHAPTER THAT TIME HAS COME, THEY ARE DWELLING IN THE LAND AND THEY HAVE DEFEATED THE NEIGHBORING NATIONS, SO THE LORD IS NOW COMMANDING SAUL TO GO DOWN AND TAKE CARE OF AMALEK. UTTERLY DESTROY THEM.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We see here in the story Saul's reluctance to obey the command of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He does not utterly destroy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There were some of the things that he thought were too good to be utterly wiped out.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. There are always those today who object to the utter denial of the flesh life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They feel that there are certain things of the flesh that are worth holding on to.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They rebel against the idea of having to give up everything of the flesh life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Why can't I indulge in social drinking?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. What is wrong with going to the movies?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. Why can't we have dances at our High School?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The words of Jesus offend them when He said to come after Him you must deny yourself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Jesus gave an interesting rational in respect to denying yourself. He asked, What would if profit you if you gained the whole world and lost your own soul?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He then asked, "What will a man give in exchange for his soul?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In reality when you look honestly at life, where do most of our woes and problems come from?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. James asked,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Jam',4,1,2);">JAM 4:1,2</a> Where do the wars and fighting come from? Do they not come from your lusts that war inside you? You lust and you have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Is this not true in our society today?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Is not the self centered life at the base of most of our social problems?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Paul wrote to the Galatians about this warfare that goes on inside of the believer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gal',5,17);">GAL 5:17</a> For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Paul said, "I know that in me, that is in my flesh dwells no good thing."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. IN OUR STORY WE FIND SAUL LYING ABOUT HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. When Samuel came to Saul, Saul declared to Him, "I have performed the commandment of the Lord" vs 13.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Samuel responded if you have performed the commandment of the Lord how come I hear sheep and cattle?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Saul said that he sought to bring the best back to offer it to God as a sacrifice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sometimes we feel that we can please God with some of our best fleshly efforts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is amazing how many people are offering to God their fleshly efforts in an endeavor to atone for their sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul in <a onClick="return mV('Rom',8,8);">Romans 8:8</a> flatly declares, that they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Samuel responded "To obey is better than to sacrifice, and to listen to God is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from [being] king.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. That Saul was lying about utterly destroying the Amalekites is found in chapter 30 for David and his men had gone from their city of Ziglag to fight with the Philistines in whose territory they were living to escape from Saul who was attempting to kill David.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The Philistines refused the help of David and sent him back to Ziglag, and David found that the Amalekites had plundered the city of Ziglag, knowing that the men were gone and they took the women and children as hostages to make slaves of them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. These dirty tactics are so typical of the flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. THERE IS AN INTERESTING POST SCRIPT TO THIS STORY.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Saul was defeated in the battle against the Philistines and in the battle he was hit by an arrow, he asked his armor bearer to thrust him through with a sword for he knew that if the Philistines found him still alive they would torture him, his armor bearer was reluctant to do so, so Saul sought to commit suicide by falling on his own sword.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In <a onClick="return mV('2Sa',1,1);">2 Samuel 1</a> David is waiting to hear of the results of the battle when a young man came to him with torn clothing. David asked how the battle was going and he told him of the death of Jonathan and Saul. David asked how do you know that Jonathan and Saul are dead and the young man told him this story. As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him. And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here [am] I. And he said unto me, Who are you? And I answered him, I [am] an Amalekite. He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me. So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that [was] upon his head, and the bracelet that [was] on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Saul was slain by an Amalekite who through disobedience to God had not slain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. What is the moral of the story? If you to not utterly kill the flesh that part that you save will ultimately kill you.</div>
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