Did I lead him to Christ? No, not at that time, but he's got relationships there. He will eventually come to Christ, no doubt about it. But one thing you could see was, he walked away having had an experience of God that was good, and so here it is, a Buddhist serving some other God, yet God was good to him, so he walks away - God was good to me. Sometimes this is what we do. We mentally judge people, you're not a Christian. God can't bless you. I've got to lead you to Christ before God can bless you. It doesn't work like that. God's good to the just and the unjust, so many times the best miracles happen for unsaved people [laughs], because God is so good. We just need reminding He's so good, isn't that great? God is good. Tell someone God is good. [God is good.]
Okay then, so now the interesting thing about these people is that they were not in a territorial battle, not trying to steal someone's territory. They just hated Israel! No cause, just hated them. They were totally agin them. In fact when you look down the Bible, Haman, who had a plot to get rid of all Jews, he was one of these guys. He was a descendant of the Amaleks; and you look down to Herod, who killed all the children. He also was a descendant of these Amaleks, so everywhere you see this Amalek spirit, it hates God's blessed people, so it tries to come in all kinds of ways to destroy God's people, or to put them under such labour and toil they give up their spirit life, and they're no longer walking in blessing. You've got to keep your spirit life, got to keep in a place of faith. We've got to fight this fight and win it, so we walk in light no matter what we're facing! No matter what struggle you have, God wants you to walk through it, with peace and joy and life - and you can do it! You can do it! You can do it if you choose to. That's wonderful!
So what else do we find? Read in Deuteronomy 25 we find the strategy. So how did Amalek attack? Well it's helpful to know how he did it. It's interesting how He's recorded it all; write it all down, so no one ever forgets. In Deuteronomy 25 Verse 17, Moses says: remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way, attacked your stragglers or the people at the rear, and all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary, and he didn't fear the Lord. It shall be when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies, in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you will blot out remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Don't forget.
So God's quite important - tell them don't forget. Listen, these guys, they've got to go. Anything that comes against your inheritance, your blessing, the vision God's given you, it's got to be dealt with. God has put vision in your heart, and destiny in your heart, something in your heart. Believe me, this is what Amalek comes to steal - your destiny, steal your vision, steal your hope, steal your dreams. Why? Getting out of the realm of the spirit, getting into just caught up naturally, trying to just live a good life and get by. The Lord wants us to have a strong life, a powerful life in the Holy Ghost inside! So what did they do? They came up and they attacked. Now that's interesting, they come up unexpected. They come up from behind. They didn't sort of line up like a normal battle was; you declared war, you stood out the front, this one lined up here and this one lined up here. They stared one another down, and shouted and argued and whatever, like did the haka to one another and that kind of stuff, and then they took one another on. It was always like that.
But this group were different. They just sneaked up behind, when no one suspected; so the nature of Amalek, it's a sneak attack. It's a terrorist attack comes up on you when you're not aware of it. Notice where it came, the rear ranks. The rear ranks were the people furthest away from leadership, that had the most distance relationally. We can be separated in all kinds of ways from one another. We can lag behind, we can have all kinds of struggles. See offence will make you tired and weary, offences. If you harbour offences, you'll get tired and weary, and you'll straggle a bit, spiritually, see? Distrust will cause you to straggle, doubts will cause you to straggle, negative thinking will cause you to straggle a fair bit. You lag behind. You can't make movement when you're, you know? See the stragglers were the ones who were lagging behind, so they were sort of slowed down and burdened and weary, and so in a sense what happened was, they were sort of lagging back, and the enemy whip in and take them all out.