Deuteronomy 25:17-19 Bible Study | Episode 939

May 15,2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Deuteronomy 25:17-19  Bible Study | Episode #939

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to Hope Applying God's word to your daily life.

Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years.

I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life.

I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up.

His word to you and allow you.

To see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today in Jesus name.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study.

We are in Deuteronomy, chapter 25,

verse 17.

And it is. It is. It is one of those passages of scripture that is.

Well,

it's. It's not easy to figure out.

It is definitely what we would call an Old Testament passage. It's one of those passages where when you're.

When you're thinking about it, when you're looking at it, when you're struggling with it,

you.

When you're struggling with it, you.

You.

You figure out that. That it is a. It is a.

It is God telling his people to remember what the Amalekites did or remember what Amalek did.

And he is the leader of the Amalekites. Now,

let me give you a little bit of history.

The Amalekites are a. Are one of the children of Esau.

And so they are.

They are one of the people that. That Israel is going to have a lot of trouble with.

And they have a lot of trouble with them all the time,

from the time they leave Egypt till the time they get to the promised land.

In some ways, you could say that they're family,

but in a real way, they're not family because they're not part of the promises of God. In fact, their father, Esau,

he chose.

He chose not to walk in his inheritance. His. His promise, and he chose to trade it for little or nothing.

And really, that's what. That. Really what. That's what happened.

Esau chose to trade.

He viewed his inheritance. He viewed his.

His position in the family so little that he.

Well, he just. He.

He treated it as if it was something to be bartered or traded.

And that is a major problem.

And so when Jacob got his father's blessing and Esau felt like he'd been cheated,

it was a problem that was passed down from generation to generation. Now, did Jacob in some ways trick his father into giving him the blessing? Yes.

Did he, in some ways trick Esau into giving him the blessings?

Yes.

Did Esau willingly give his blessing up?

Absolutely. He did. Absolutely gave his blessing up. And so understanding that is an important.

It's important that we get that, that we, that we understand that in the heart of the people,

that Amalek,

the Amal, Amalekites,

in the heart of the people is this bitterness,

a true religious bitterness,

a bitterness over not receiving the promises of God because they decided to trade them.

Now,

understanding that is real important in the New Testament because you're going to run into people and you're going to be around people who for whatever reason have decided not to do what God has told them to do with their lives,

not to walk in it.

They want to do the religious thing. They want to have a form of godliness, meaning they won't have the look of being godly, but they want to deny its power.

They don't want to walk in that godliness. They don't want to be what God has made them to be. Now, that goes on all the time.

And it goes on all the time around us.

And when you, when you around people like that,

and I'm gonna be honest with you,

they're spiritually dangerous.

They're, they, they're. They're spiritually dangerous people because they have a bitter heart.

They do not have any keen insight into spiritual things, and yet they can talk the language well enough to make you think that the information they're giving you and the insights that they're laying on you are really good and really powerful.

But the truth is they're not.

Truth is they're,

they're weak.

Truth is, they,

they. They have very little understanding that goes with them.

The truth is, is that they,

they,

they. They. They talk about things that they've never really walked in or never really experienced.

And so when, when you're dealing with those type of people,

they can be very destructive in your progress toward the promised land. And remember,

that's what the Amalekites did,

is they attacked them in their progress toward God's best.

And so it says,

remember the Amalekite.

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,

how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks when they were marching. When they were walking toward the promised land,

he attacked the rear ranks. The people who were the weakest notice,

oftentimes they operate as a wolf would. Or when, when Paul Told the church at Ephesus that ravenous wolves would come in after him to try to destroy the flock. What do wolves do?

Well, they try to pick off the weakest.

The Amalekites are the Old Testament picture of the New Testament wolves.

They,

they come in sheep's clothing,

they know the language, they know the talk,

and they try to pick off the weakest in the flock.

They choose ones who've not walked in it as long,

not walked in it as well.

And they try to pick them off to follow them or really what they're doing is eating them.

Because what will happen is they'll pick them off,

they'll be with them for a while,

and then they'll leave them for dead. And there'll be nothing else left.

There'll be nothing else left for them to walk in.

And so when you're dealing with the Amalekites,

what did God say to them?

Well, he said that they, they met you on the way. They attacked the rear ranks, all the strugglers at the.

At your rear when you were tired and weary and did not fear God.

Therefore it shall be when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, meaning when God is gotten you into the promised land and you're strong and you're powerful,

he says,

which the Lord your God has given you to possess as an inheritance,

that you will not blot out the remembrance of AMC from under heaven you shall not forget.

What he's saying is that when they get strong to wipe out Amalek,

to not let them be around,

to not allow them to exist anymore.

Now that's a pretty strong statement in the New Testament context. Obviously,

we don't do that.

But in the Old Testament people group context,

they definitely did.

They were a group of people that could not be trusted to be friends.

They were always going to be a problem.

And they proved that because they attacked them when they were weakest.

And in the New Testament, what the Bible would say is have nothing to do with them.

And so when you have somebody who attacks the weak,

who goes after those who don't really know, don't really understand and try to lead them astray,

really what they're doing is spiritually trying to destroy them.

Well, what you do is you, you don't let them remain around you.

You, you have nothing to do with them. You get them out of the way. You get them away from what God's doing.

And so when you're dealing with weak folks and, and you see that someone is preying on them,

then you realize they might be in the New Testament context, a wolf or in the Old Testament contact context and Amalekite.

And God has some pretty harsh things to say about that.

As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you, and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus na