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Real Life presents the Jack Kibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Do you see your life right now for such a time as this?

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Don't think for a moment that you're living and breathing right now by accident or by

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some sort of fiat, it's by the plan of God you're here right now, by the plan of God

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you're watching right now and I believe that's so much that even if you don't believe

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in Jesus Christ, the plan of God that you hear this message because God's going to plan

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for your life.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kibb's.

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Esther, no stranger to some of the most romantic writing.

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Esther, her name actually in Hebrew is Hadessa.

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Her name Esther is the Babylonian name given to her by her captives.

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Esther was one of those tens of thousands of Jews who were taken captive by the invading

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Babylonian forces and was raised up and born into a culture that had departed from God.

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And she is now in the palace, she's been elevated.

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She thinks by the powers of the empire because she's beautiful.

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Esther was very attractive to the Bible says that she was beautiful and we know that she

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was very bright.

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We know that Esther was young.

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We know that she was pleasant to look at.

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And the Bible tells us that when King Ahazarus, the pagan king, was hosting a bank, what

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if you remember, him and his governors in generals got a little drunk and he wanted

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to show off the beauty of his wife, Queen Vashti.

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And so he called for Queen Vashti to come in, probably the word means dance in front of

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all these drunk guys.

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That's not a good scenario.

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And so when the edict went out, hey, Queen, come and dance for my guys, we're having a

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great time.

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Queen Vashti said, nope, not going to come.

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And no, go go ask her again, Esther was still, I'm not coming.

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And so boy did that start a scandal.

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And so put the king in a very uncomfortable situation, plus he's probably a little bit

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off in his judgment, but he became angry.

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And he banished Queen Vashti from the throne and fast-forwarding throughout all of the realm,

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men were tapped to find the most beautiful candidate to take her place.

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And out of all the women of the kingdom, this one was found by the name of Hadesa and her

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name given Esther.

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Esther Babylonian name, Eshtar, there's the Eshtar Gate in Babylon, which now you have

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to go to England to see the Eshtar Gate, part of it, by the way, is in Berlin, the Eshtar

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Gate.

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We get the word Easter from Eshtar, do you know the Easter is a pagan thing, the bunny,

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the chocolate, the eggs, you know that, right?

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That it's paganism, it's ancient paganism, it's actually a fertility worship service.

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That's why the bunnies are involved.

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No, really, I'm not kidding, they are a picture of fertility.

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And Easter is that pagan worship, but you think, oh, no, no, no, Easter is awesome, it's

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a resurrection of Jesus, no, that's the resurrection of Jesus.

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It happens to fall at the same time as the pagan worship season of Eshtar.

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And that actually plays into our challenge this morning in our study about how we look

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at things.

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For such a time as this, you either believe that in the Bible for you in your life or

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you don't.

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And happier those who do, that your life's existence is not a drudgery that is pre-programmed

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for you to experience boredom.

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No, that's you doing that to you.

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God's plan for your life is to bring you now, if you can hear me, it means you're breathing.

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If you're breathing your heart's beating.

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It means that God is a plan for your life right now for such a time as this as a believer

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that God wants to use you.

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And so when we think about the events of our life, this harrowing woman who became the

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Savior in some ways of Israel, because as we'll see today, her people were destined to

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destruction.

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The fact that Eshtar was brought in, she was invited, she was allowed to come in, she

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made petition, she goes to see the king, the Bible tells us that for 30 days they had

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not taught.

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She had been distanced from the king, we don't know why.

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She knows that if I go in to speak to the king unannounced, even though I am the queen,

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without invitation, he has the power and the authority to kill me because I'm not allowed

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to be there.

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So she takes her life into her own hands for her people.

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She steps into the chamber and if you were not going to die, in other words, if he wanted

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to talk to you, he would raise his scepter.

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And by submission, you would come and you would tap the edge of the scepter and then you

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can speak to the king.

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She had to do all that.

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She didn't know how it was going to go, but God had a plan.

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And so we'll glean a lot out of this, but the challenge today is for you and I to realize

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that God has you right now in the kingdom for such a time as this.

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I hope you're not defeated by the days in which we're living in.

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I hope you're not discouraged.

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You need to realize that the overriding divine plan for your life is not thwarted in any

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way, shape or form.

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That what you're living right now is the fact that God has brought you to this moment

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for such a time as this.

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And for that, you should be emboldened.

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But it's an amazing movie or Hollywood scene.

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You've got Esther.

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She's beautiful.

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She's the damsel as it were in distress.

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You've got her being raised and adopted by her uncle, her sweet uncle by the name of

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Mordecai.

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And he's an older man.

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He's a man of great conviction.

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You've got King Ahazarus, which is his title.

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His name is Xerxes.

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And he's the ruler of a vast empire, one of the great empires of the world in that day.

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In fact, Esther chapter one, verse one says, now it came to pass in the days of Ahazarus.

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This is the Ahazarus who reigned over 127 provinces from, listen to this, from India to

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Ethiopia.

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And in those days, when King Ahazar set on the throne of his kingdom, this man is a massive

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power and power broker.

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He's a man of extreme wealth and influence, and he's part of the players.

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And then there's this guy by the name of Heyman.

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And oh, let me hear that again.

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Very good.

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I mention Heyman, they all hissed.

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Because in Israel, if you're Jewish, you always hiss when you hear the name Heyman.

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Because Heyman, okay, I got it.

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Anyway.

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So Heyman was the one who desired, engineered the eradication and the extermination of the

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Jewish people, beginning with Mordekai.

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He was going to have Mordekai killed and then commence a purge, a genocide of the Jews

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off the face of the earth.

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Heyman is his name, and he's a type of antichrist.

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He is a type of satan in the storyline, and God has got a plan for his life, too, frankly.

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It's going to end not the way he planned, that is Heyman, but it's pretty cool for us

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the way it ends.

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What else?

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In Esther, chapter 3, verse 2, the Bible tells us that Mordekai, the Jew, would not bow

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or pay homage to Heyman.

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That's a good one.

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And it said, I don't want everybody, as I am second in command, I want everybody to listen

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to what the king said, I'm supposed to be worshipped and bowed down to.

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And everybody bows down in the kingdom to Heyman, except one guy.

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Mordekai would walk by, can you imagine?

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Everybody's bowing, and listen, this sick type of thinking, these Heyman types of people,

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they think that it's really exciting to have people bowing down and worshipping them,

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even though it's all forced, because if you don't, you get your head cut off.

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But somehow, they're so sick and they're in their megalomania that they like it, look,

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they're bowing.

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Well, you've forced them to bow, it doesn't matter, they're bowing.

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And then you can see this guy with everybody bowing, there's this old man, I think you

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have like a squeaky walker, too, you know, it's just like, and Heyman looks at him and

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he's just furious at this Jew that won't bow.

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And that's part of the problem in the kingdom, those Jews that won't bow.

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They've got this God in heaven that he's the only one that's supposed to bow to.

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And it just began to eat him up.

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The man's a narcissist, it's on steroids and he sees one guy that won't bow.

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And what do you think?

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That's the guy that he's got to deal with.

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But from that venture of hatred and envy and all of that comes one of the greatest stories

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ever told.

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But it's all to communicate that you and I, like Esther, have been brought into the kingdom

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for such a time as this.

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And we read it a moment ago, one more verse before we get ready to go into this and that

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is Esther 4 verse 14.

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Mordecai says, for if you remain completely silent at this time, Esther, if you don't

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step up, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place.

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That old man knows his stuff.

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But you and your father's house will perish, yet who knows whether you have come to the

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kingdom for such a time as this.

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And I believe that you and I are living in the opening throes of a very similar time.

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Christianity is being targeted.

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Christianity is being marked out just this week in Washington, D.C. in the house.

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The Bible was addressed and looked at and being considered a book of bigotry.

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That what the Bible says is absolutely outdated.

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That what the Bible says is now no longer applicable.

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That we have advanced beyond that silly stuff.

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And that the Bible is not gender sensitive.

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This has been a wild week in Washington for this nation and for your faith and your freedoms.

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So I believe we're living at a time that is somewhat similar.

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And here's where we begin.

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For such a time as this, we want to make note of it.

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For such a time as this, here you are.

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Here you are.

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Esther's life was a life that had been brought up in a way, in captivity, being a Jew,

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in a strange land and she's being raised in a world that is foreign to her belief system.

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She doesn't recognize so to speak anything that what she's been taught of as a good Jew,

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that what she would have learned at home and what form of synagogue if any that they

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had in Shushan, that now she is living this life and from her looks, listen, from her looks

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to her place of becoming an orphan who she's adopted by Mordekai, her bringing up to the fact

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that Vashdie's dethroned and now there are those working for the king that selectively

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go through the kingdom to pick out attractive women that they think the king might be attracted

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to.

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She's one of them and ladies, listen up, this is amazing, is the fact that she, I think it

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was a year or so, she, with the other women in the harem that are being prepared to be picked

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by the king, they're bathed, they're fed certain diet, their skin is oiled, they are perfumed,

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I mean it is the spa of spas, there's probably soft music playing in the corner, I don't know,

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I'm making that up, just kidding.

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But all this stuff is going on and they just do everything they can cosmetically to prepare

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women who are already beautiful to present before the king, they've got to pick one to be

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the queen of the empire and she gets picked and she's the one, but listen, nobody knows

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she's a Jew, they don't know she's a Jew.

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And while she's living large, Mordecai is living this life that is humble and meek, but

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he's a man of convictions and he's a man who has a reputation and Heyman is derailed

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by all this.

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Now here's what's cool too, Heyman does not know Esther is a Jew, but he does know Mordecai

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is and so he begins to ring his hands about how he can kill Mordecai and the Jewish people.

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Listen up ladies and gentlemen, anybody who wants to kill the Jews and erratic them from

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off the face of the earth is from the spirit of Heyman and the spirit of Heyman, you can

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read about in 1 John is the spirit of Antichrist, beware of that, can a Jew drive you crazy?

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Yeah, are Jews hard to talk to, yep, are they stubborn, yep, just know something, God

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chose them.

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What do you do that, I have no idea except that he gives us a clue, he says in the book

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of Deuteronomy, don't think I picked you because you guys are cool, he said I picked you guys

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because you're the most stubborn people on earth, so what does that mean?

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I don't know, but if God can save a Jew, he can save a Jew, right?

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It's encouraging, by the way, when a Jew does get saved, give it or hang on because

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man, they just take off, they're amazing, but when God came to earth, he decided to come

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as a Jew, isn't that wild?

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I don't know, I would have come, I would have come as a Southern Californian, he could

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have come as a Canadian, he could have come as a Peruvian, God comes as a Jew to earth,

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put him in Bethlehem, born to the house of David, all by the plan of God, quite remarkable,

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but here you are, God has not caught this strange time unaware, the Bible tells us in

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Psalm 91, verse 15, when you call on me, I will answer, I will be with them in trouble,

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I will rescue and honor them, God's speaking about his people, not under the Jews, but

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that's for us.

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So in God's greatness, this very moment in the 21st century, you're here today and you

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are a believer and you're a follower of Christ for such a time as this, and I want that

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truth that just galvanize you into your everyday working life, in your marriage, in your

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singleness, in your parenting, in your business, 24-7, God says of you, the believer, for such

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a time as this, I've brought you into this world.

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Right now, the day of your birthday and the age that you are right now, that's not a,

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that wasn't left up to your parents, God was in that.

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And the more you understand and believe that, I think the more destined you'll be to

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be like a Mordakai, but maybe for some of us today we need to be awake into that reality

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like an Esther.

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But you are here and it's for a purpose, and I love this because every day of every hour

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according to God's word, he says to us, I'll rescue you, church, I believe that.

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I'll be with you.

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God's moving.

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In fact, we know from Psalm 91, 15, we read it a moment ago that what appears to be throughout

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the history of the Bible, when God works with His people, the prerequisite is you got

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to get in trouble to see God move.

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You ever think about that?

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Oh, I just love this, the amazing events of the Bible.

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I do too, but remember how they happened.

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People got in trouble.

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When God calls you to stand for Him and when God calls you to walk as it were before the

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King and say, listen, I've got some news and here it is.

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The God of Heaven says, thus and so, church, we all love that moment and we want to be part

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of that moment, but you got to get in trouble before that moment comes.

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That's why God says, I will rescue you.

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You've got to need rescuing before He can rescue you.

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He's not going to ride up on a white horse with a white hat if you're sitting around eating

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cheetos and watching TV.

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But if you're out on the front line and you're terrified and the bombs and missiles and

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rockets are flying by, He says, I'll be there to protect you.

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Oh, I want to see God move.

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You get on the front line, oh, I want to see miracles then get up and get out and watch

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what He does.

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You've got to be willing to get into trouble with the fact of the matter is for such a

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time as this, you are here and here you are and God wants to commission you and God wants

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to use you.

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He has called you, ordained you and appointed you to this very time.

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God's moving and He wants to establish His truth.

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God moves throughout the Bible with these divine appointments.

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We call them divine appointments.

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Divine appointments, I believe, happen to us all the time if we're looking.

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If we're looking through think of Franklin's bifocals, bifocals are funny, right?

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I mean, they're kind of a pain, but I guess it's worse if you don't have them.

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But in fact, that's what the invented those progressive lenses, right?

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But you can tell when somebody is wearing bifocal glasses because if they want to look at

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something close, they'll go like this and they look funny.

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If you don't know they're wearing glasses, it's like, what's wrong with that person?

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And they'll go like this, hang on a minute.

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And they're reading through the lens because it brings it all up close.

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And then you say, did you get the answer?

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And they go like this, yeah, I got it.

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Can you check again?

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Sure, hang on.

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What is it again?

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Yeah, it's this.

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And life's like that.

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We either look like that or we look like that.

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One thing brings everything in clarity and focus.

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The other one is a broad view, not so clear, but it expands.

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It's thin, but it's wide.

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The closer look is narrow, but it's exact.

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That's how God moves in our lives.

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When we open the Word of God, it takes life in its broad view.

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We open up the Bible and it brings it right into the exact in the moment.

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That's why we can come away from an ancient book that's written 2,500 years ago and be

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able to read it and say, man, you know what?

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As I look at it through the bifocal, lower part, I see this is applicable in my life today.

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God wants to move.

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God wants to work.

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Even Jesus says to us that when you're called before kings and rulers, don't worry about

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what you're going to say.

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For in that moment, your Father will give you what to say.

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That's going from looking broad to the thick lens of exactness.

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Acts chapter 2, verse 22, the Bible says there, Peter is speaking.

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Now, Rimmer, Jesus has been crucified, Jesus has been resurrected, Jesus has ascended

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back to heaven.

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Now, Peter is fully spirit and he's not the same Peter.

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Acts chapter 2, verse 22, Peter says, man of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth

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a man attested by God to you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did through

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him.

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In your midst, as you yourselves also know, him being delivered by the determined purpose

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and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by your lawless hands and have crucified and

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put to death.

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Listen to the lens.

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Watch the lens.

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Broad speaking, Peter is saying, you guys crucified Jesus.

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Narrow bullet point focus, but God in his predetermined counsel and foreknowledge appointed

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Christ to this divine appointment, and that is, he was to die in the cross.

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Somebody say him into that.

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God's word said, Messiah will die in the cross.

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Man looks and says, let's kill him.

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They think they're doing their will and they think they're doing what needs to be done

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and God says, my plans being worked out perfectly.

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