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>>GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
AND WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR. A VERY
SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR
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FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF
OUR EXTENDED BIBLE STUDY GROUP
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TODAY. TO THE MEMBERS HERE AT
THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THE
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VISITORS, A VERY WARM WELCOME
TO YOU. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE
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TIME TO COME OUT THIS MORNING
AND STUDY GOD'S WORD TOGETHER.
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WE'RE WORKING ON OUR NEW LESSON
QUARTERLY DEALING WITH BIBLICAL
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MISSIONARIES AND TODAY WE
FIND OURSELVES IN LESSON #5 -
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ACTUALLY, IT'S LESSON #6, I
BELIEVE IT IS, DEALING WITH THE
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STORY OF ESTHER. SO IF
YOU'D LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG
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WITH US, YOU CAN TURN TO THAT -
ESTHER AND MORDECAI - LESSON #6.
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BRINGING PRAISE AND
GLORY TO GOD. THANK YOU.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, IT'S
NICE TO HAVE YOU AND PASTOR DOUG
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BACK FROM TEXAS. AND,
OF COURSE, IT'S NICE TO SEE
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EVERYONE HERE THIS MORNING AND
THOSE OF YOU AROUND THE WORLD.
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THEM AT HOME, AND JOIN WITH US -
#100 - GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS
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- WE WILL DO ALL
THREE STANZAS - #100.
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(MUSIC) >>GREAT IS THY
FAITHFULNESS, O GOD MY FATHER,
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THERE IS NO SHADOW OF TURNING
WITH THEE; THOU CHANGEST NOT,
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THY COMPASSIONS, THEY FAIL NOT;
AS THOU HAS BEEN THOU FOREVER
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WILT BE. GREAT
IS THY FAITHFULNESS!
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GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS!
MORNING BY MORNING NEW MERCIES I
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SEE; ALL I HAVE NEEDED THY
HAND HATH PROVIDED, GREAT IS THY
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FAITHFULNESS! LORD UNTO ME!
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SUMMER AND WINTER, AND
SPRINGTIME AND HARVEST, SUN,
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MOON, AND STARS IN THEIR COURSES
ABOVE, JOIN WITH ALL NATURE IN
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MANIFOLD WITNESS TO THY GREAT
FAITHFULNESS MERCY AND LOVE.
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GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS!
GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS!
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MORNING BY MORNING NEW MERCIES I
SEE; ALL I HAVE NEEDED THY HAND
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HATH PROVIDED, GREAT IS
THY FAITHFULNESS! LORD UNTO ME!
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PARDON FOR SIN AND A PEACE THAT
ENDURETH, THY OWN DEAR PRESENCE
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TO CHEER AND TO GUIDE; STRENGTH
FOR TODAY AND BRIGHT HOPE FOR
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TOMORROW, BLESSINGS ALL
MINE, WITH TEN THOUSAND BESIDE.
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>>ALL TOGETHER. >>GREAT IS
THY FAITHFULNESS! GREAT IS THY
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FAITHFULNESS! MORNING BY MORNING
NEW MERCIES I SEE; ALL I HAVE
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NEEDED THY HAND HATH PROVIDED,
GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS! LORD
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UNTO ME! >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING WITH US. AND NOW WE'RE
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GOING TO HAVE PASTOR ROSS BRING
US - LEAD US IN OUR OPENING
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PRAYER. >>WE'D LIKE TO INVITE
YOU JUST TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE
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ASK GOD'S BLESSING
UPON OUR TIME TOGETHER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK
YOU, ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE'RE ABLE
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TO GATHER TOGETHER
TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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WE WANT TO INVITE THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO COME AND FILL OUR
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HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AND GUIDE
US, LORD, AS WE LOOK AT THIS
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VERY INTERESTING STORY IN THE
SCRIPTURE THAT DEMONSTRATES A
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TRUE MISSIONARY SPIRIT. SO
BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER FOR
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WE ASK THIS IN
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG
BATCHELOR TO COME FORWARD AND
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LEAD US IN OUR
STUDY TODAY - LESSON #6.
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR
ROSS. MORNING EVERYBODY.
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>>MORNING.
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>>WELCOME TO THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH.
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IF YOU'RE VISITING, WE'RE GLAD
YOU'RE HERE. WE KNOW THAT THERE
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ARE MANY THAT MAY BE VISITING
VIA THE PROGRAMS ON SATELLITE
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OR THE INTERNET -
WATCHING FROM HITHER AND YON.
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WE ALWAYS SAY THE SAME THING
- WE ALWAYS SAY "ACROSS THE
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STREET AND AROUND THE
WORLD" SO I THOUGHT I'D THROW IN
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HITHER AND YON
JUST TO THROW YOU.
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WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO A VERY
GOOD LESSON TODAY - THE SUBJECT
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IS GOOD, I HOPE THE PRESENTATION
WILL BE GOOD - ON ESTHER - AND
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IT'S LESSON #6. WE
HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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THE MEMORY VERSE COMES FROM
ESTHER 4:14 - THOSE FAMOUS WORDS
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- AND I'M READING IT FROM
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION.
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I'D LIKE YOU TO SAY IT WITH
ME, THOSE WHO ARE IN OUR CLASS -
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ARE YOU READY?
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MORDECAI SENT A MESSAGE TO
ESTHER AND IT SAID, "FOR IF YOU
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REMAIN COMPLETELY SILENT AT THIS
TIME, RELIEF AND DELIVERANCE
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WILL ARISE FOR THE JEWS FROM
ANOTHER PLACE, BUT YOU AND YOUR
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FATHER'S HOUSE WILL PERISH.
YET WHO KNOWS WHETHER YOU HAVE
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COME TO THE KINGDOM
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS?"
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GOD, PROVIDENTIALLY, HAD
TAKEN ESTHER FROM A PLACE OF LOW
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ESTATE AND BROUGHT HER TO
PROMINENCE IN THE KINGDOM AND
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MORDECAI, HER UNCLE, WAS SAYING,
'YOU, PROVIDENTIALLY, HAVE BEEN
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PLACED IN A POSITION OF
INFLUENCE FOR GOD'S PURPOSES.'
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AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK
THAT'S TRUE OF EVERYBODY.
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IF GOD HAS PLACED YOU IN A
POSITION OF INFLUENCE - WELL,
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WHATEVER POSITION HE PLACES YOU
IN, IT'S FOR HIS PURPOSES - BUT
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ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CAN
BE A MISSIONARY FOR HIM.
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AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS SAYS
THAT IN THE LAST DAYS WE WILL BE
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BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS
TO BEAR TESTIMONY FOR HIS SAKE.
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I THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.
IT'S HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES IN
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HISTORY AND IT
HAPPENED IN THE STORY OF ESTHER.
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AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO
DIVE RIGHT IN AND DO A LITTLE
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STUDYING ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
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FIRST OF ALL, THE
NAME ESTHER MEANS STAR .
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THE BOOK OF ESTHER IS A UNIQUE
BOOK IN THE BIBLE IN, FOR ONE
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THING, IT'S WRITTEN FROM THE
PERSIAN PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE THE
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CHILDREN OF GOD ARE CAPTIVES.
THE KINGDOM HAS TRANSFERRED FROM
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BABYLON TO PERSIA -
IT'S A PERSIAN INFLUENCE.
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AMONG THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS,
PART OF EVERY OLD TESTAMENT BOOK
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WAS FOUND EXCEPT
THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
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AND IT COULD BE BECAUSE THE
ESSENES, THIS EXTREMELY ZEALOUS
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RELIGIOUS SECT THAT WAS DOWN
THERE PROTECTING THE SCROLLS,
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THEY HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
BOOK OF ESTHER BECAUSE THE WORD
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GOD OR JEHOVAH APPEARS
NOWHERE IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
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THE TERM PRAY DOES NOT
APPEAR IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
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I THINK THERE ARE A
FEW GOOD REASONS FOR THAT,
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THAT THE
SCHOLARS HAVE EXPLAINED.
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THE BOOK OF ESTHER BEING WRITTEN
FROM PERSIA - THEY HAD TO BE
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VERY CAREFUL WHAT THEY
SAID ABOUT OTHER GODS AND PRAYER
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BECAUSE THEY WERE A CONQUERED
PEOPLE AT THAT TIME AND SO IT
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WAS WRITTEN IN A VERY
DIPLOMATICALLY, TACTFUL WAY.
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IT TALKS ABOUT PRAYER - IT
DOESN'T USE THE WORD PRAYER - IT
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SAYS, "GATHER ALL THE PEOPLE
AND TELL THEM TO FAST FOR ME."
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WELL, WHAT WHERE THEY DOING?
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THEY'RE FASTING AND PRAYING,
OBVIOUSLY, AND THE PROVIDENCE OF
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GOD IS SO CLEARLY SEEN THROUGH
THE BOOK OF ESTHER THAT, YOU
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KNOW, WRITERS BEFORE AND
AFTER HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT ITS
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AUTHENTICITY AS SCRIPTURE. I
THINK, WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK
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OF ESTHER, WHILE IT IS A TRUE
ACCOUNT OF HISTORY, YOU NEED TO
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PUT ON YOUR
SPIRITUAL SPECTACLES.
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READ THE BOOK OF ESTHER
WITH A PROPHETIC MIND SET -
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AND THERE'S A
NUMBER OF REASONS FOR THAT.
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FIRST OF ALL, WHY DON'T YOU JUST
START - GO TO ESTHER CHAPTER 1,
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VERSE 3 AND YOU CAN READ, "IN
THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS REIGN" -
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THE REIGN OF KING AHASUERUS -
"IN THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS REIGN
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HE MADE A FEAST FOR ALL HIS
OFFICIALS AND SERVANTS - THE
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POWERS OF PERSIA AND MEDIA,"
- SO IT WAS THE MEDO-PERSIAN
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KINGDOM, JUST AS DANIEL HAD
FORETOLD - LATER KNOWN MORE AS
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JUST THE PERSIAN KINGDOM - AND
"WHEN HE SHOWED THE RICHES OF
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HIS GLORIOUS KINGDOM AND
THE SPLENDOR OF HIS EXCELLENT
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MAJESTY FOR MANY DAYS, ONE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DAYS IN ALL."
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FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE
BOOK OF ESTHER THAT OUGHT TO GET
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YOUR ATTENTION, IN THE THIRD
YEAR OF HIS REIGN HE HAS A FEAST
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LASTING 180 DAYS. HOW
MUCH TIME IS IN A JEWISH YEAR?
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HOW MANY DAYS IN A JEWISH YEAR?
A LUNAR CALENDAR - THEY HAD 360
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IN A YEAR. ONE
REASON WE KNOW THIS IS
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BECAUSE THREE AND A HALF YEARS
WAS 42 MONTHS FOR THE JEWS.
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30 DAYS TO THE MONTH - THEY USED
TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL MONTH EVERY
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13 YEARS, I THINK, TO COMPENSATE
FOR WHAT WE USE FOR LEAP YEAR
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AND OUR SOLAR CALENDAR, BUT IT'S
ACTUALLY, MATHEMATICALLY, A GOOD
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NUMBER - 360 - IF YOU'RE A
PILOT YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S 360
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DEGREES IN THE CIRCLE.
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SO THE JEWS HAD A LUNAR CALENDAR
360 DAYS. WHAT IS HALF OF 360?
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>>180. >>180.
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THAT'S WHY YOU GET THE
EXPRESSION "HE TURNED 180."
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THAT MEANS A COMPLETE
TURNAROUND. SO YOU BEGIN THE
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BOOK OF ESTHER WITH A
THREE AND A HALF-YEAR NUMBER.
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IN THE THIRD YEAR OF HIS
REIGN A FEAST LASTING 180 DAYS.
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DOES THAT NUMBER APPEAR
OTHER PLACES IN PROPHECY?
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IT APPEARS IN DANIEL.
IT APPEARS IN REVELATION.
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AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS AT THE
END OF THAT PERIOD? HE HAS THIS
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BANQUET, THIS FEAST, AND HE
ASKS FOR HIS BEAUTIFUL QUEEN -
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A PAGAN QUEEN - BY THE NAME
OF VASHTI - TO PUT ON HER ROYAL
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APPAREL AND CROWN AND COME, THAT
ALL MIGHT BEHOLD HER BEAUTY.
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NOW, FRANKLY, I'M DISAPPOINTED
SOMETIMES THAT PEOPLE READ THE
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BOOK OF ESTHER AS THOUGH IT'S
SOME KIND OF A SOCIAL STATEMENT
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OR IT'S TO BE WRITTEN IN
PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
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AND I'M NOT SAYING THERE WERE
NOT PROBLEMS IN PERSIA IN THOSE
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AREAS, BUT THAT'S NOT THE
WAY - THE BOOK IS WRITTEN AS A
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SPIRITUAL BOOK. YOU
NEED TO LOOK AT IT AS THE
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KING GIVES A COMMAND THAT OTHERS
MAY BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF HIS
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WIFE AND SHE SPURNS HIS
COMMAND AND DOES NOT COME.
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VASHTI IS DE-THRONED AND A
JEWISH QUEEN NAMED ESTHER COMES.
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IT IS A CHANGE BETWEEN TWO
WOMEN: ONE WHO BECOMES THE BRIDE
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OF THE KING AND HER NAME MEANS
STAR - IN REVELATION 12 YOU'VE
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GOT A WOMAN WHO IS BEAUTIFUL,
CLOTHED WITH THE SON AND THE
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MOON AND THE WHAT? >>STARS.
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>>THE STARS -
SHE'S GOD'S CHURCH.
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ESTHER IS A TYPE FOR THE CHURCH.
SHE INTERCEDES FOR HER PEOPLE
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WITH THE KING AND SHE FINDS
GRACE AND IT'S THE WHOLE BOOK.
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IT'S A TRUE STORY. IT'S
A TRUE PLACE IN HISTORY.
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AND ONE THING IS THE HISTORIANS
- WHEN THEY READ ESTHER THEY'RE
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AMAZED BY THE BOOK BECAUSE
THE LITTLE DETAILS ARE GIVEN OF
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PERSIAN COURT THAT THEY KNOW ARE
VERY ACCURATE - AND PERSIAN LAW
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AND PERSIAN COMMUNICATIONS
AND HOW THEY - 127 PROVINCES.
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BUT IT IS AN AMAZINGLY SPIRITUAL
BOOK ABOUT THE BATTLE BETWEEN
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GOOD AND EVIL AND YOU'LL FIND,
AS WE PROCEED, MORE ABOUT THAT.
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SO WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK
OF ESTHER, READ IT FOR ITS
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FASCINATING HISTORY.
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THERE ARE PRACTICAL LESSONS THAT
ARE IN THERE, BUT PLEASE DON'T
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MISS THE PROPHETIC
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BOOK.
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I'LL READ YOU A SPIRIT OF
PROPHECY QUOTE AT THE END OF OUR
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STUDY TODAY, WHERE ELLEN WHITE
SAYS THE SAME, THAT THE BOOK
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MUST BE READ WITH AT LEAST -
MAKE SURE - DON'T FORGET TO READ
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IT AT LEAST ONCE, PUTTING ON
YOUR SPIRITUAL SPECTACLES, AND
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SAY, 'WHAT IS THE PROPHETIC
IMPLICATION OF THIS BOOK?'
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BECAUSE WHAT GOD'S PEOPLE GO
THROUGH IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER
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WILL BE REPEATED IN THE HISTORY.
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AND THEN YOU NOTICE ALSO,
IN VERSE 10 - ESTHER CHAPTER 1,
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VERSE 10, "ON THE SEVENTH DAY,
WHEN THE HEART OF THE KING WAS
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MERRY" - THAT'S WHEN HE GIVES
THE COMMAND FOR VASHTI TO COME.
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SO YOU'VE GOT A THREE AND A
HALF AND YOU'VE GOT A SEVEN.
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DO YOU HAVE THOSE
NUMBERS IN REVELATION?
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AND THEN YOU GET TO THE END OF
THE BOOK OF ESTHER IT SAID THAT
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IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF
HIS REIGN THIS DECREE HAPPENS.
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YOU'VE GOT THREE AND A HALF,
YOU'VE GOT SEVEN, YOU'VE GOT
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TWELVE. DO THOSE
NUMBERS APPEAR IN REVELATION?
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THOSE ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT
BIBLICAL NUMBERS THAT HAVE
00:15:28.96\00:15:31.59
MEANING, SO JUST - JUST KEEP
THAT ON A SHELF IN YOUR MIND, SO
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AS YOU'RE READING
IT YOU MEET ALL THAT.
00:15:35.86\00:15:39.30
NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE
PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE.
00:15:39.33\00:15:41.10
IT SAYS THAT - OF COURSE,
EVERYONE KNOWS - I DON'T HAVE
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TIME TO GO THROUGH EVERY CHAPTER
OF ESTHER IN DETAIL DURING OUR
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SABBATH SCHOOL TIME
HERE - VASHTI DOES NOT COME.
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THE KING TAKES COUNSEL
AND SAYS, 'WHAT DO WE DO?'
00:15:53.55\00:15:56.52
HIS ADVISORS SAY, 'THIS IS NOT
GOING TO BE GOOD FOR HUSBANDS IN
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THE KINGDOM AND IT
DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR THE KING.
00:15:59.42\00:16:03.56
YOU NEED TO DE-THRONE HER.' SHE
WAS NOT EXECUTED, SHE WAS JUST -
00:16:03.59\00:16:06.83
LOST HER POSITION. SHE
LIVED OUT WITH - ONE OF -
00:16:06.86\00:16:09.80
HER LIFE AS ONE OF THE
KING'S CONCUBINES, NO DOUBT.
00:16:09.83\00:16:12.47
AND THEY HAVE A ROYAL BEAUTY
PAGEANT THAT IS VERY ELABORATE
00:16:12.50\00:16:17.11
AND THEY GO AND THEY FIND - OUT
OF 127 PROVINCES THEY GET, WHO
00:16:17.14\00:16:20.91
KNOWS HOW MANY, OF THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE KINGDOM.
00:16:20.94\00:16:24.58
AND THEN THOSE WOMEN MUST
GO THROUGH THIS BEAUTIFICATION
00:16:24.61\00:16:28.75
PROCESS. YOU KNOW,
TRAINING TO COME AND
00:16:28.78\00:16:31.49
FINALLY BE PREPARED
TO MEET BEFORE THE KING.
00:16:31.52\00:16:34.62
IT WAS A BIG THING TO COME
AND BE - GET A PERSONAL INTIMATE
00:16:34.66\00:16:40.16
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KING.
00:16:40.20\00:16:42.03
DON'T WE ALL LONG TO HAVE THAT
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR
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KING - TO KNOW THE
LORD, AS THE BIBLE SAYS?
00:16:45.77\00:16:49.30
NOT ANYONE CAN JUST WALK, YOU
KNOW, AS MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD
00:16:49.34\00:16:54.64
SAY, 'YOU CAN'T JUST
SCHLEP IN' BEFORE THE KING.
00:16:54.68\00:16:57.68
THERE WAS
PREPARATION THAT WAS MADE.
00:16:57.71\00:17:00.28
AND SO THERE WAS ALL THIS
BEAUTIFICATION AND THESE OILS
00:17:00.32\00:17:04.02
AND THESE FRAGRANCES AND THE
CLOTHING THAT SHE WEARS AND IT'S
00:17:04.05\00:17:06.72
VERY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU'RE GOING
TO COME IN BEFORE THE KING.
00:17:06.76\00:17:10.76
AND ESTHER IS CHOSEN BECAUSE
OF THE GRACEFUL HUMBLE WAY - ALL
00:17:10.79\00:17:15.10
THE OTHER GIRLS IN THE BEAUTY
PAGEANT, THEY'RE - YOU KNOW,
00:17:15.13\00:17:19.93
THEY'RE JUST LOOKING FOR THE
BEST AND THEY'RE TRYING TO BE
00:17:19.97\00:17:22.47
THE BEST AND THEY'RE ELBOWING
EACH OTHER AND ESTHER SAYS TO
00:17:22.50\00:17:26.74
THE CHIEF OF THE EUNUCHS,
'WHATEVER YOU SUGGEST, THAT'S
00:17:26.78\00:17:29.61
WHAT I'LL DO.' SHE HAS A
VERY HUMBLE ATTITUDE THROUGH THE
00:17:29.64\00:17:32.15
TRAINING PROCESS - AS
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WOULD.
00:17:32.18\00:17:35.92
THE KING, OF COURSE, IS A SYMBOL
HERE, IN THIS STORY ANYWAY, OF
00:17:35.95\00:17:39.19
OUR KING. AND SO
SHE'S CHOSEN BUT SHE
00:17:39.22\00:17:42.59
NEVER MENTIONS THAT
SHE IS A JEWISH CAPTIVE.
00:17:42.62\00:17:48.60
DOESN'T MENTION HER - THE MEAN
ESTATE - AS THE OLD HYMN WRITERS
00:17:48.63\00:17:53.34
WOULD SAY - HER HUMBLE ORIGINS.
HER PEOPLE ARE A CAPTIVE PEOPLE.
00:17:53.37\00:17:58.37
NOW THERE IS A TIME WHEN YOU ARE
MINGLING AMONG THE SONS OF MEN,
00:17:58.41\00:18:03.55
TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WHO
YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE.
00:18:03.58\00:18:06.48
AND THERE IS A TIME THAT PAUL
SAYS THAT YOU NEED TO, AS FAR AS
00:18:06.51\00:18:09.98
POSSIBLE, WITHOUT SACRIFICING
CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, BE AS MUCH
00:18:10.02\00:18:18.23
LIKE YOUR SOCIETY AS YOU
CAN, TO REACH THE PEOPLE.
00:18:18.26\00:18:21.83
LET ME GIVE YOU A VERSE HERE.
NOW SOMEBODY, IN A MINUTE, IS
00:18:21.86\00:18:25.97
GOING TO READ
FOR ME, ESTHER 2:20.
00:18:26.00\00:18:27.94
WHO HAS THAT? I'LL JUST SEE.
00:18:27.97\00:18:29.87
OKAY, JORDAN, YOU'LL BE - IN
JUST A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO THAT.
00:18:29.90\00:18:31.67
BUT FIRST LET'S LOOK
AT 1 CORINTHIANS 9:19.
00:18:31.71\00:18:34.74
PAUL SAID, "FOR THOUGH I AM FREE
FROM ALL MEN, I HAVE MADE MYSELF
00:18:34.78\00:18:39.38
A SERVANT TO ALL,
THAT I MIGHT WIN THE MORE;"
00:18:39.41\00:18:41.35
WHAT DOES HE MEAN
"WIN"? WIN TO CHRIST.
00:18:41.38\00:18:44.02
HE SAYS, 'I'M FREE OF ALL MEN
BUT I WANT TO BE A SERVANT TO
00:18:44.05\00:18:47.39
ALL THAT I MIGHT WIN MORE.'
"...TO THE JEWS I BECAME AS A
00:18:47.42\00:18:49.82
JEW, THAT I MIGHT WIN JEWS; TO
THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW, AS
00:18:49.86\00:18:54.23
UNDER THE LAW, THAT I MIGHT WIN
THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE LAW;"
00:18:54.30\00:18:57.60
YOU KNOW, FRIENDS, I MIGHT
JUST LET YOU KNOW, I DO THE SAME
00:18:57.63\00:18:59.47
THING - I'M HALF JEWISH.
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I
00:18:59.50\00:19:01.47
EXPLOIT THAT AS
OFTEN AS I CAN FOR CHRIST.
00:19:01.50\00:19:05.34
AND WHEN I'M TALKING TO MY
JEWISH FRIENDS, I LET THEM KNOW
00:19:05.37\00:19:07.61
RIGHT AWAY - THEY KNOW I'M A
CHRISTIAN - I SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
00:19:07.64\00:19:09.98
I'M JEWISH.' 'OH, YOU ARE?'
IT KIND OF OPENS THE DOOR WHERE
00:19:10.01\00:19:11.85
YOU CAN THEN TALK. 'HOW CAN
YOU BE A JEW AND A CHRISTIAN?'
00:19:11.88\00:19:14.92
I SAID, 'OH, THEY MAKE THE BEST
CHRISTIANS - JEWS.' I SAID, 'BY
00:19:14.95\00:19:18.45
THE WAY, DID YOU
KNOW JESUS WAS A JEW?
00:19:18.49\00:19:20.26
AND HE WAS A
CHRISTIAN.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:19:20.29\00:19:24.03
AND SO I SAY, 'IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT - CHRISTIAN BOOK -
00:19:24.06\00:19:28.06
WRITTEN BY
JEWS.' AND SO I USE IT.
00:19:28.10\00:19:31.43
SO PAUL SAYS 'TO REACH THE JEWS
I BECAME A JEW.' NOW IF YOU'RE
00:19:31.47\00:19:37.21
SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST YOU CAN DO THAT TOO.
00:19:37.24\00:19:39.04
IF YOU MEET JEWS YOU CAN
SAY, 'OH, I'M KOSHER.' RIGHT?
00:19:39.07\00:19:41.94
'I'M A SABBATH KEEPER.' FIND ALL
THE THINGS IN COMMON THAT YOU
00:19:41.98\00:19:45.81
CAN TO REACH PEOPLE. I'VE
GOT A FRIEND WHO'S MUSLIM.
00:19:45.85\00:19:49.92
I SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T
EAT ANY UNCLEAN FOOD.' 'REALLY?'
00:19:49.95\00:19:53.39
'YEAH.' I SAY, 'I DON'T
PRAY TO IDOLS.' 'I THOUGHT ALL
00:19:53.42\00:19:56.59
CHRISTIANS PRAY TO IDOLS.'
'NO, THAT'S NOT TRUE.' AND SO
00:19:56.62\00:19:59.59
WHENEVER YOU FIND ANY COMMON
GROUND WHERE YOU CAN REACH
00:19:59.63\00:20:03.26
THESE PEOPLE,
USE IT TO REACH THEM.
00:20:03.30\00:20:05.57
AND THIS IS WHAT PAUL WAS SAYING
- 'AS THOSE UNDER THE LAW, THAT
00:20:05.60\00:20:08.67
I MIGHT REACH
THOSE UNDER THE LAW.
00:20:08.70\00:20:10.34
TO THOSE THAT ARE WITHOUT LAW,'
- SPEAKING ABOUT THE PAGANS -
00:20:10.37\00:20:12.91
'AS WITHOUT LAW' - NOT BEING
WITHOUT LAW TOWARDS GOD - IN
00:20:12.94\00:20:15.98
OTHER WORDS, WE'RE ALWAYS
FOLLOWING THE LAW OF GOD - "BUT
00:20:16.01\00:20:18.65
UNDER LAW TOWARDS CHRIST THAT I
MIGHT WIN THOSE WHO ARE WITHOUT
00:20:18.68\00:20:20.92
THE LAW; TO THE WEAK I BECAME
WEAK THAT I MIGHT WIN THE WEAK.
00:20:20.95\00:20:23.22
I HAVE BECOME ALL THINGS TO ALL
MEN, THAT I MIGHT BY ALL MEANS
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.35
SAVE SOME." BEAUTIFUL STATEMENT.
00:20:25.39\00:20:28.59
AS FAR AS POSSIBLE HE RELATED TO
EVERYBODY ON THEIR GROUND SO HE
00:20:28.62\00:20:31.89
COULD REACH THEM.
ISN'T THAT WHAT JESUS DID?
00:20:31.93\00:20:35.73
WHEN HE CAME TO OUR WORLD
HE BECAME A MAN TO REACH MEN.
00:20:35.76\00:20:38.50
MANKIND. SO THIS IS
A BEAUTIFUL STATEMENT.
00:20:38.53\00:20:44.51
ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO
READ - LET ME READ FOR YOU FIRST
00:20:44.54\00:20:49.18
ESTHER 2:10, THEN
JORDAN'LL READ ESTHER 2:20.
00:20:49.21\00:20:53.75
IT SAYS, "ESTHER HAD NOT
REVEALED HER PEOPLE OR FAMILY,
00:20:53.78\00:20:57.82
FOR MORDECAI HAD
CHARGED HER NOT TO REVEAL IT."
00:20:57.85\00:21:02.09
THE HOLY SPIRIT SOMEHOW REVEALED
TO HIM TO KEEP THIS QUIET.
00:21:02.12\00:21:07.40
AND A SIMILAR VERSE - ESTHER
2:20 - WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT?
00:21:07.46\00:21:11.90
>>"NOW ESTHER HAD NOT REVEALED
HER FAMILY AND HER PEOPLE, JUST
00:21:11.93\00:21:15.77
AS MORDECAI HAD CHARGED HER,
FOR ESTHER OBEYED THE COMMAND OF
00:21:15.80\00:21:19.51
MORDECAI AS WHEN SHE
WAS BROUGHT UP BY HIM."
00:21:19.54\00:21:22.28
>>YOU KNOW, THIS IS IMPORTANT IN
THAT IT'S TELLING US THAT ESTHER
00:21:22.31\00:21:26.18
WAS HUMBLE AND
ESTHER WAS OBEDIENT.
00:21:26.21\00:21:29.88
SHE IS IN THE
PALACE OF THE KING.
00:21:29.92\00:21:33.86
GOD HAS PLACED HER
THERE TO SAVE HER PEOPLE.
00:21:33.89\00:21:38.03
THE ONLY WAY SHE WAS GOING TO BE
SUCCESSFUL IN SAVING HER PEOPLE
00:21:38.06\00:21:42.06
IN THE PALACE OF THE
KING, IS BY OBEYING MORDECAI.
00:21:42.10\00:21:46.53
NOW, YOU CAN ALSO FIND AS
WE READ ON IN THIS STORY, THAT
00:21:46.57\00:21:50.44
MORDECAI REALLY
BECOMES A TYPE OF CHRIST.
00:21:50.47\00:21:54.64
AND MORDECAI - YOU KNOW, ESTHER
MEANS STAR - MORDECAI MEANS
00:21:54.68\00:21:58.98
'LITTLE MAN.' COULD BE THAT
HE WAS OF A DIMINUTIVE SIZE, BUT
00:21:59.01\00:22:06.19
THAT'S WHAT HIS NAME MEANT.
IT COULD ALSO REFER TO SOMEONE
00:22:06.22\00:22:09.79
WHO IS SMALL IN THEIR OWN EYES
AND A SIGN OF THEIR HUMILITY.
00:22:09.82\00:22:14.96
THERE WAS NO ONE MEEKER THAN
JESUS - NO ONE MORE HUMBLE THAN
00:22:15.00\00:22:17.87
CHRIST. NOW YOU
CAN'T RUN THROUGH THIS
00:22:17.90\00:22:23.07
STORY OF ESTHER WITHOUT AT
LEAST MAKING NOTE OF ANOTHER
00:22:23.10\00:22:26.21
PRINCIPLE. SOMEONE
IS GOING TO READ FOR ME
00:22:26.24\00:22:28.81
ECCLESIASTES 4:14
- WHO HAS THAT? SAM?
00:22:28.84\00:22:32.05
>>"ONE CAN INDEED COME OUT
OF PRISON TO REIGN; EVEN THOUGH
00:22:32.08\00:22:36.58
BEING POOR IN THE KINGDOM."
>>SOMEONE CAN COME OUT OF PRISON
00:22:36.62\00:22:41.16
TO REIGN EVEN THOUGH
BORN POOR IN THE KINGDOM.
00:22:41.19\00:22:45.53
THAT'S A
PROMISE. ARE WE IN PRISON?
00:22:45.56\00:22:49.93
CAN WE COME OUT OF PRISON TO
REIGN EVEN THOUGH WE MIGHT BE
00:22:49.96\00:22:54.54
POOR IN SPIRIT?
"BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT;
00:22:54.57\00:22:57.44
THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM."
CAN YOU SEE EXAMPLES OF THIS IN
00:22:57.47\00:23:01.94
THE BIBLE? WHAT
HAPPENED TO JOSEPH?
00:23:01.98\00:23:04.18
DID JOSEPH HAVE AN EXPERIENCE
WHERE HE WENT FROM THE PRISON TO
00:23:04.21\00:23:07.55
THE PALACE? YEAH.
00:23:07.58\00:23:10.55
HE'S A, YOU KNOW,
SON OF A SHEPHERD.
00:23:10.59\00:23:13.59
ALL OF A SUDDEN HE'S
THE PRIME MINISTER OF EGYPT.
00:23:13.62\00:23:16.69
BY THE WAY, THERE'S ANOTHER
VERSE IN THE BIBLE - PSALM 142,
00:23:16.73\00:23:20.53
VERSE 7, "BRING MY SOUL OUT OF
PRISON, THAT I MAY PRAISE YOUR
00:23:20.56\00:23:24.10
NAME;" DID DAVID GO FROM THE
LOW ESTEEM, LOW ESTATE TO THE
00:23:24.13\00:23:30.14
PALACE? PEOPLE
LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
00:23:30.17\00:23:33.78
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BECAUSE HE'S,
SORT OF, OUR AMERICAN EXAMPLE OF
00:23:33.81\00:23:36.48
THAT - OF SOMEBODY WHO IS,
YOU KNOW, JUST DIRT POOR FAMILY,
00:23:36.51\00:23:40.08
COULDN'T EVEN READ, LIVING
IN A LOG CABIN AND WENT TO THE
00:23:40.12\00:23:42.52
HIGHEST OFFICE. IT
HAPPENED WITH DANIEL.
00:23:42.55\00:23:47.02
DANIEL WENT FROM THE STATUS OF
BEING A CAPTIVE IN BABYLON - YOU
00:23:47.06\00:23:52.43
READ IN DANIEL 2, VERSE 48,
"THEN THE KING PROMOTED DANIEL
00:23:52.46\00:23:56.46
AND GAVE HIM MANY GREAT GIFTS;
AND HE MADE HIM RULER OVER THE
00:23:56.50\00:23:58.80
WHOLE PROVINCE OF BABYLON, AND
CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OVER ALL THE
00:23:58.83\00:24:03.17
WISE MEN OF BABYLON."
AND BEFORE HE INTERPRETED THE
00:24:03.20\00:24:06.74
KING'S DREAM, HE WAS A
CAPTIVE IN THE KINGDOM.
00:24:06.78\00:24:10.18
HAVE YOU READ THE LAST
VERSES IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH?
00:24:10.21\00:24:14.15
IT TALKS ABOUT THE
LAST KING OF JUDAH.
00:24:14.18\00:24:18.39
HE WAS THE SON OF KING
JOSIAH. HE WAS IMPRISONED BY
00:24:18.42\00:24:20.82
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HE
WAS IN PRISON FOR 37 YEARS.
00:24:20.86\00:24:25.09
AND YOU CAN READ HERE IN
JEREMIAH 52:31: IT COMES TO PASS
00:24:25.13\00:24:29.96
"IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF
THE CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN KING
00:24:30.00\00:24:33.30
OF JUDAH, IN THE TWELFTH MONTH,
ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF THE
00:24:33.34\00:24:36.67
MONTH, THAT EVIL-MERODACH KING
OF BABYLON, IN THE FIRST YEAR OF
00:24:36.71\00:24:38.47
HIS REIGN, LIFTED UP THE HEAD
OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH AND
00:24:38.51\00:24:41.64
BROUGHT HIM OUT OF PRISON.
00:24:41.68\00:24:44.28
AND HE SPOKE KINDLY TO HIM AND
GAVE HIM A MORE PROMINENT SEAT
00:24:44.31\00:24:47.38
THAN THOSE OF THE KINGS
WHO WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON.
00:24:47.42\00:24:49.85
SO JEHOIACHIN CHANGED FROM
HIS PRISON GARMENTS, AND HE ATE
00:24:49.88\00:24:53.66
BREAD REGULARLY BEFORE THE
KING ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
00:24:53.69\00:24:58.63
AND AS FOR HIS PROVISIONS, THERE
WAS A REGULAR RATION" - THE KING
00:24:58.66\00:25:01.90
GAVE HIM AN ALLOWANCE - A
CREDIT CARD - FROM "THE KING OF
00:25:01.93\00:25:05.83
BABYLON, A PORTION FOR EACH DAY
UNTIL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, ALL
00:25:05.87\00:25:08.47
THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE." AND
SO HERE, JEHOIACHIN, WHO HAD
00:25:08.50\00:25:11.01
BEEN IN PRISON 37 YEARS IS
BROUGHT FROM THE PRISON, NEW
00:25:11.04\00:25:15.34
CLOTHES - NOT WEARING RAGS
ANYMORE, HE'S WEARING ROYAL
00:25:15.38\00:25:19.71
APPAREL - NEW SEAT, HE'S NOT
IN PRISON ANYMORE WITH A BUCKET,
00:25:19.75\00:25:24.52
HE'S NOW AT THE KINGS
TABLE. HE'S GOT NEW FINANCES.
00:25:24.55\00:25:28.99
HE'S GOT NEW STATUS - NEW BREAD
- EVERYTHING CHANGES BECAUSE THE
00:25:29.02\00:25:34.03
KING SHOWS HIM MERCY -
FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
00:25:34.10\00:25:40.24
DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE WAS A
TIME ALSO WHERE KING MANASSEH -
00:25:40.27\00:25:44.54
HE WAS IN PRISON - HE WAS A
WICKED KING - HE WAS IN PRISON.
00:25:44.57\00:25:47.38
HE PRAYED IN PRISON.
GOD FORGAVE HIM, BROUGHT HIM
00:25:47.41\00:25:49.84
FROM THE PRISON
BACK TO THE PALACE.
00:25:49.88\00:25:51.48
THERE'S MANY, MANY STORIES LIKE
THIS AND ESTHER IS EXHIBIT A OF
00:25:51.51\00:25:54.32
A PERSON WHO GOES FROM THE -
JUST THE VERY LOWEST - FIRST OF
00:25:54.35\00:25:58.65
ALL, WOMEN WERE NOT TREATED
VERY HIGHLY IN THE KINGDOM.
00:25:58.69\00:26:02.06
YOU CAN READ THAT IN THE
BEGINNING OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER.
00:26:02.09\00:26:04.39
SECONDLY, SHE'S A CAPTIVE WOMAN.
00:26:04.43\00:26:08.00
THIRDLY, SHE DOESN'T EVEN
HAVE PARENTS - SHE'S AN ORPHANED
00:26:08.03\00:26:11.13
CAPTIVE WOMAN.
FIFTHLY, SHE'S YOUNG.
00:26:11.17\00:26:14.87
THE YOUNG WERE NOT
RESPECTED AS THE AGED.
00:26:14.90\00:26:17.14
SO ESTHER IS GOING FROM THE
BOTTOM OF THE BOTTOM TO BEING
00:26:17.17\00:26:21.74
THE QUEEN OF PERSIA AND SHE
BECOMES THE FULCRUM ON WHICH THE
00:26:21.78\00:26:26.55
DESTINY OF THE ENTIRE
JEWISH NATION IS GOING TO PIVOT.
00:26:26.58\00:26:30.35
DOES GOD OFTEN USE WOMEN TO MAKE
A BIG DIFFERENCE WITH BIG NEWS?
00:26:30.39\00:26:36.06
WHO DOES THE LORD JESUS CHOOSE
WHEN HE RAISES, TO GIVE THE
00:26:36.09\00:26:39.66
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
THE RESURRECTION?
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.86
MARY MAGDALENE WHO THEY THOUGHT
WAS THE LOWEST, WHO KNELT AT
00:26:41.90\00:26:45.07
JESUS FEET, WHO THEY SAID,
'DON'T LET HER TOUCH YOU.' AND
00:26:45.10\00:26:47.74
SHE'S THE
INSTRUMENT THAT GOD USES.
00:26:47.77\00:26:50.81
GOD USES HUMBLE INSTRUMENTS
TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS.
00:26:50.84\00:26:54.31
ALRIGHT, SO BACK TO OUR STUDY OF
ESTHER. OH, WHO DOES JESUS USE
00:26:54.34\00:27:03.35
AS A MISSIONARY TO
THE PEOPLE OF SAMARIA?
00:27:03.39\00:27:06.89
HE WAITS UNTIL ALL THE OTHER
WOMEN WHO HAVE COME AS A GROUP
00:27:06.92\00:27:11.06
HAVE LEFT, AND THERE'S THIS ONE
WOMAN WHO COMES ALONE BECAUSE
00:27:11.09\00:27:13.96
SHE'S GOT A BAD REPUTATION, AND
HE TELLS THE WOMAN AT THE WELL -
00:27:14.00\00:27:17.53
WE DON'T KNOW HER NAME, IT'S
JUST A CERTAIN SAMARITAN WOMAN -
00:27:17.57\00:27:21.30
THAT'S HE'S THE MESSIAH.
SHE GOES AND TELLS THE TOWN AND
00:27:21.34\00:27:24.31
THEY ALL COME AND HEAR JESUS
AND ACCEPT HIM BECAUSE OF HER
00:27:24.34\00:27:27.41
MESSAGE. GOD
DELIGHTS TO USE HUMBLE MEANS
00:27:27.44\00:27:33.15
THAT SOMETIMES
WOULD NOT BE EXPECTED.
00:27:33.18\00:27:35.45
I WANT TO READ A QUOTE FROM
THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES , P.
00:27:35.48\00:27:38.09
190, "CHRIST WAS FAR MORE
RESERVED WHEN HE SPOKE TO THEM"
00:27:38.12\00:27:42.82
- THE JEWISH PEOPLE - "THAT
WHICH HAD BEEN WITHHELD FROM THE
00:27:42.86\00:27:46.36
JEWS AND WHICH THE DISCIPLES
WERE AFTERWARD ENJOINED TO KEEP
00:27:46.39\00:27:48.73
SECRET, WAS REVEALED
TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL.
00:27:48.76\00:27:51.90
JESUS SAW THAT SHE COULD MAKE
USE OF HER KNOWLEDGE IN BRINGING
00:27:51.93\00:27:55.20
OTHERS TO SHARE HIS GRACE.
SHE DOES IT VERY TACTFULLY.
00:27:55.24\00:27:58.81
SHE DOESN'T RUN THROUGH TOWN
SAYING, 'I KNOW THE TRUTH AND
00:27:58.84\00:28:01.28
YOU DON'T.' SHE SAYS, 'COME SEE
A MAN THAT SHOWED ME EVERYTHING
00:28:01.31\00:28:03.81
I DID.' IN OTHER WORDS, 'COME
AND SEE.' WHICH WAS THE SAME
00:28:03.85\00:28:07.62
THING THAT JESUS SAID WHEN
HE FIRST BEGAN HIS MISSION WORK.
00:28:07.65\00:28:09.88
THE DISCIPLES SAID,
'MASTER, WHERE ARE YOU STAYING?'
00:28:09.92\00:28:13.02
AND JESUS SAID, 'COME AND SEE.'
AND THEN AFTER HE REVEALED HE
00:28:13.05\00:28:16.69
WAS THE MESSIAH, PHILIP AND
NATHANIEL, THEY GO AND THEY FIND
00:28:16.73\00:28:19.36
PETER AND - OR PHILIP FINDS
NATHANIEL AND HE SAID, 'CAN
00:28:19.39\00:28:26.43
ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF
NAZARETH?' AND WHAT DOES HE SAY?
00:28:26.47\00:28:28.54
'COME AND SEE.' AND
SO CAN ALL OF US DO THAT
00:28:28.57\00:28:31.94
KIND OF MISSION
WORK? JUST COME AND SEE.
00:28:31.97\00:28:34.54
ALRIGHT, SO BACK TO
THE PALACE OF PERSIA HERE.
00:28:34.58\00:28:36.75
SO NOW IT GETS VERY INTERESTING.
ESTHER'S IN THE THRONE, SHE'S
00:28:36.78\00:28:42.98
ESTABLISHED, THINGS
- LIFE IS WONDERFUL.
00:28:43.02\00:28:44.85
MORDECAI IS - HE'S
SITTING IN THE KING'S GATE.
00:28:44.89\00:28:47.26
THERE'S AN ATTEMPT MADE
TO ASSASSINATE THE KING.
00:28:47.29\00:28:51.23
MORDECAI SOMEHOW LEARNS OF
THIS. HE REVEALS IT TO THE KING.
00:28:51.26\00:28:55.93
NOW, WHY WOULD A JEWISH
CAPTIVE WANT TO SAVE THE KING?
00:28:55.96\00:29:01.00
MAYBE HE SHOULD THINK, 'WELL,
MAYBE, YOU KNOW, GET RID OF THIS
00:29:01.04\00:29:03.54
KING AND HE'LL SEND US ALL BACK
TO ISRAEL OR SOMETHING, BUT HE
00:29:03.57\00:29:09.21
OBEYS THE LAWS OF THE
LAND. HE TAKES CARE OF THE KING.
00:29:09.24\00:29:13.38
HE PROTECTS THE KING. HE
EXPOSES THIS ILLEGAL PLOT AND
00:29:13.42\00:29:16.28
THE KING IS SAVED. BUT
NOTHING'S EVER DONE FOR
00:29:16.32\00:29:20.29
MORDECAI TO HONOR HIM FOR DOING
THIS. NO REWARD IS EVER GIVEN.
00:29:20.32\00:29:24.29
THEN YOU READ ON - GO TO ESTHER
CHAPTER 3, VERSE 1 - "AFTER
00:29:24.33\00:29:29.16
THESE THINGS KING AHASUERUS
PROMOTED HAMAN, THE SON OF
00:29:29.20\00:29:35.07
HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE," -
THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTICE.
00:29:35.10\00:29:39.67
DO YOU REMEMBER THE
NAME 'AGAG' IN THE BIBLE?
00:29:39.71\00:29:43.45
DO YOU REMEMBER THERE'S A PEOPLE
THAT WERE FOREVER AT WAR - THEY
00:29:43.48\00:29:48.02
WERE THE ARCHENEMIES OF ISRAEL.
THEY WERE MORE AT WAR WITH
00:29:48.05\00:29:52.05
ISRAEL THAN THE PHILISTINES.
THEY WERE MORE AT WAR WITH
00:29:52.09\00:29:55.12
ISRAEL THAN THE EDOMITES,
THE MOABITES, THE AMMONITES.
00:29:55.16\00:29:59.86
THEY WERE MORE AT WAR THAN
THE BABYLONIANS OR ASSYRIANS.
00:29:59.89\00:30:04.03
THE AVOWED, MOST ARCHENEMY
OF ISRAEL WERE THE AMALEKITES.
00:30:04.07\00:30:10.04
THE AMALEKITES WERE THE FIRST TO
ATTACK THEM WHEN THEY CAME OUT
00:30:10.07\00:30:13.68
OF EGYPT. THEY
WERE CONSTANTLY AT WAR.
00:30:13.71\00:30:18.18
IT WAS THE AMALEKITES THAT
ATTACKED DAVID'S VILLAGE AND
00:30:18.21\00:30:21.08
CARRIED OFF HIS FAMILY. HE LATER
RESCUED HIS FAMILY FROM THEM.
00:30:21.12\00:30:25.09
KING SAUL, WHEN HE WAS
KING, HE WAS TOLD BY SAMUEL -
00:30:25.12\00:30:29.52
AND PEOPLE FIND THIS A VERY
BRUTAL COMMAND - TO ATTACK THE
00:30:29.56\00:30:33.23
AMALEKITES AND EXTERMINATE THEM.
00:30:33.26\00:30:35.36
BUT SAUL DID NOT LISTEN TO
SAMUEL'S COUNSEL AND HE SPARED
00:30:35.40\00:30:39.87
THE KING - AND EVIDENTLY SOME OF
HIS FAMILY - AND THE KING'S NAME
00:30:39.90\00:30:43.34
WAS 'AGAG.' AND SO, SAUL
WAS TOLD TO EXTERMINATE - AND HE
00:30:43.37\00:30:49.54
JUST ABOUT DID EXTERMINATE
THE AMALEKITES - SOME OF THEM
00:30:49.58\00:30:52.95
SURVIVED AND HE DIDN'T KILL
AGAG, SAMUEL THE PROPHET FINALLY
00:30:52.98\00:30:56.45
DID. SAUL WAS
FROM THE TRIBE OF WHAT?
00:30:56.48\00:30:59.35
BENJAMIN. SAUL WAS THE
SON OF KISH. ARE YOU WITH ME?
00:30:59.39\00:31:05.03
SAUL WAS FROM THE TRIBE
OF BENJAMIN, SON OF KISH.
00:31:05.06\00:31:08.00
NOW WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT
HAMAN? THE AGAGITE, A DESCENDENT
00:31:08.03\00:31:12.73
OF THE AMALEKITES, AGAG.
AND WHAT DOES IT SAY JUST ABOVE
00:31:12.77\00:31:16.77
THAT - ABOUT MORDECAI? IT
SAYS HE WAS THE SON OF JAIR,
00:31:16.81\00:31:21.54
THE SON OF SHIMEI, THE
SON OF KISH, A BENJAMITE.
00:31:21.58\00:31:25.08
SO HERE YOU'VE GOT A
LONG-STANDING FAMILY FEUD COMES
00:31:25.11\00:31:31.22
BACK TO LIFE IN PERSIA
BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS.
00:31:31.25\00:31:36.06
AND SO IT'S THE BATTLE
BETWEEN THE ISRAELITES AND THE
00:31:36.09\00:31:41.10
AMALEKITES RESUMES. THE
KING, KNOWING NOTHING OF
00:31:41.13\00:31:45.80
THIS HISTORY, FOR
WHATEVER REASON HE LIKES HAMAN.
00:31:45.83\00:31:48.44
HAMAN PROBABLY FLATTERS HIM OR
WHATEVER, AND HE EXALTS HIM TO
00:31:48.47\00:31:52.71
BE THE KING'S FRIEND.
HE'S, SORT OF, PRIME MINISTER -
00:31:52.74\00:31:55.01
THE KING'S PERSONAL ADVISOR -
AND EVERYBODY'S COMMANDED TO BOW
00:31:55.04\00:31:59.68
TO HIM. BUT ONE OF
THE KING'S SUBJECTS
00:31:59.71\00:32:04.52
DOES NOT BOW TO HAMAN.
WHO'S THAT? MORDECAI WON'T BOW.
00:32:04.55\00:32:11.36
NOW, WE'D LIKE TO THINK IT'S
BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT YOU
00:32:11.39\00:32:13.73
SHOULD NOT BOW TO A MAN.
DID JOSEPH'S BROTHERS BOW TO
00:32:13.76\00:32:18.00
JOSEPH? THEY DID.
00:32:18.03\00:32:21.14
SO IT MAY BE A COMBINATION
OF THE FACT THAT HE'S JUST NOT
00:32:21.17\00:32:24.17
GOING TO WORSHIP A MAN, WHICH
IS ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:32:24.21\00:32:28.01
IT MAY ALSO BE THAT HE'S NOT
GOING TO BOW TO AN AMALEKITE.
00:32:28.04\00:32:32.38
BUT EITHER WAY, HE WILL NOT BOW.
I'D LIKE TO THINK IT'S BECAUSE
00:32:32.41\00:32:36.95
OF THE BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE.
AND ONCE OR TWICE HAMAN THINKS,
00:32:36.99\00:32:41.56
'WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS GUY?
HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.' AND THEN
00:32:41.59\00:32:43.79
HE TALKS TO HIS SERVANTS
AND THEY SAY, 'NO, HE'S A JEW.
00:32:43.83\00:32:45.76
HE'S NOT GOING TO BOW TO YOU.'
HE SAYS, 'OH, HE'S A JEW, IS HE?
00:32:45.79\00:32:48.96
I CAN DEAL WITH THAT.' AND HE
THINKS, 'I'M GOING TO GET RID OF
00:32:49.00\00:32:54.10
ALL THE JEWS.' AND SO THERE'S
THIS BATTLE GOING ON HERE.
00:32:54.14\00:32:57.11
NOW THROUGH THE EFFORT TO
EXTERMINATE THE JEWS, WHEN DO
00:32:57.14\00:33:03.75
YOU THINK GOD'S PEOPLE,
HISTORICALLY, HAVE BEEN THE BEST
00:33:03.78\00:33:06.75
WITNESSES? WE ALWAYS
PRAY THAT GOD'LL BLESS
00:33:06.78\00:33:11.39
US AND SAVE US FROM PERSECUTION
BUT, YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY,
00:33:11.42\00:33:14.06
WHEN THE GOSPEL
HAS GONE THE QUICKEST?
00:33:14.09\00:33:16.16
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS THE BEST
MISSIONARIES IN PERSECUTION.
00:33:16.19\00:33:20.96
YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO
TELL YOU THAT BUT IT'S TRUE.
00:33:21.00\00:33:26.40
WHEN IS THERE AN INTERNATIONAL
COMMAND TO WORSHIP JEHOVAH?
00:33:26.43\00:33:30.21
WHEN SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND
ABEDNEGO ARE ABOUT TO GO TO THE
00:33:30.24\00:33:33.64
FURNACE. WHEN GOD
SAVES THEM FROM THE
00:33:33.68\00:33:36.41
FURNACE, NEBUCHADNEZZAR ISSUES
AN INTERNATIONAL DECREE ABOUT
00:33:36.44\00:33:40.25
JEHOVAH. WHEN IS
THERE AN INTERNATIONAL
00:33:40.28\00:33:43.82
DECREE FROM THE
PERSIAN KING ABOUT JEHOVAH?
00:33:43.85\00:33:47.19
WHEN DANIEL GOES TO THE LION'S
DEN, BECAUSE GOD PRESERVES HIM
00:33:47.22\00:33:51.13
THROUGH TRIAL, GOD IS GLORIFIED
AND THERE IS AN INTERNATIONAL
00:33:51.16\00:33:55.93
DECREE. THEY DO
THEIR BEST MISSION WORK
00:33:55.96\00:33:59.17
THROUGH TRIAL. IT'S
WHEN JOSEPH IS IN PRISON IN
00:33:59.20\00:34:04.61
EGYPT THAT HE'S ABLE TO BE
A MISSIONARY FOR GOD IN THAT
00:34:04.64\00:34:09.28
KINGDOM. AND SO,
YOU'LL OFTEN FIND -
00:34:09.31\00:34:12.55
WHEN DID THE GOSPEL SPREAD
THE MOST QUICKLY THROUGH EUROPE?
00:34:12.58\00:34:16.65
IT WAS THE TIME WHEN THE CAESARS
PROHIBITED CHRISTIANITY AND THEY
00:34:16.69\00:34:21.32
WENT UNDERGROUND. WHO WAS IT?
00:34:21.36\00:34:24.19
TERTULLIAN THAT SAID, "THE BLOOD
OF THE MARTYRS IS SEED FOR THE
00:34:24.23\00:34:28.00
GOSPEL." IT SEEMED LIKE THE MORE
00:34:28.03\00:34:30.63
CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED,
THE MORE THEY WERE NOTICED.
00:34:30.67\00:34:33.03
SO WHEN YOU PRAY FOR REVIVAL
IN THE CHURCH, ARE YOU AWARE OF
00:34:33.07\00:34:37.81
WHAT YOU'RE PRAYING FOR?
ALL THAT LIVE GODLY WILL SUFFER
00:34:37.84\00:34:42.81
PERSECUTION. AND
SOMETIMES PERSECUTION
00:34:42.84\00:34:46.85
INSPIRES GODLY LIVING AND THAT'S
WHEN WE'RE THE BEST WITNESSES.
00:34:46.88\00:34:50.85
SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE NOW
THERE'S A GREAT CONFLICT THAT
00:34:50.89\00:34:53.82
HAPPENS, BUT AT THE END, NOT
ONLY ARE GOD'S PEOPLE PRESERVED
00:34:53.86\00:34:57.76
BUT GOD'S NAME IS EXALTED AND
THE MESSAGE SPREADS THROUGH THIS
00:34:57.79\00:35:02.73
GREAT TRIAL. SO
MORDECAI WILL NOT BOW TO HAMAN.
00:35:02.76\00:35:08.30
HAMAN SAYS, 'WELL, I'M GOING
TO GET RID OF HIM.' HE FINDS OUT
00:35:08.34\00:35:11.11
WHAT HIS PEOPLE ARE AND HE TELLS
THE KING, 'THERE'S A PEOPLE THAT
00:35:11.14\00:35:14.11
LIVES IN YOUR KINGDOM AND
THEY JUST DON'T OBEY YOUR LAWS.'
00:35:14.14\00:35:17.15
HE NEVER SPECIFIES WHO THEY ARE.
00:35:17.18\00:35:18.58
AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THEY -
HE'S GOT 127 PROVINCES AND THE
00:35:18.61\00:35:21.95
KING IS FIGURING, 'I DON'T KNOW,
THERE'S ALL THESE TRIBES AND
00:35:21.98\00:35:24.22
SECTS AND GROUPS AND I
DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS.'
00:35:24.25\00:35:25.95
AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THEY
ARE JUST A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE AND
00:35:25.99\00:35:29.46
KING, REMEMBER, THERE'S JUST
BEEN AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON
00:35:29.49\00:35:31.93
THE KING. SOME OF
THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS
00:35:31.96\00:35:34.46
WANT THE KING OUT OF THERE.' SO
HAMAN SAYS, 'I'M LOOKING OUT FOR
00:35:34.46\00:35:37.43
YOUR INTERESTS. MATTER
OF FACT, I'M SO CONCERNED
00:35:37.47\00:35:39.37
ABOUT YOUR INTERESTS, KING, I AM
WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE A LOT OF
00:35:39.40\00:35:41.90
MONEY TO EXTERMINATE THESE
PEOPLE.' AND THE KING SAYS,
00:35:41.94\00:35:45.07
'WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
SURE, I'LL SIGN THE DECREE.
00:35:45.11\00:35:46.71
WHATEVER YOU THINK IS BEST.' ARE
KING'S SOMETIMES TRICKED INTO
00:35:46.74\00:35:51.15
MAKING LAWS? THE
KING DOESN'T EVEN KNOW.
00:35:51.18\00:35:54.72
DID THE KING OF PERSIA KNOW WHEN
THEY TOLD HIM TO MAKE THIS LAW,
00:35:54.75\00:35:58.89
THAT THIRTY DAYS 'DON'T PRAY
TO ANYBODY BUT THE KING' - HE
00:35:58.92\00:36:01.52
DIDN'T REALIZE THEY WERE TRYING
TO USE THIS TO GET RID OF HIS
00:36:01.56\00:36:04.39
FRIEND DANIEL. AND
NEITHER DID KING AHASUERUS
00:36:04.43\00:36:08.90
REALIZE THAT THIS WAS A LAW
THAT WOULD KILL HIS QUEEN - BUT
00:36:08.93\00:36:12.20
THAT'S BECAUSE HAMAN DIDN'T
REALIZE THE QUEEN WAS A JEW,
00:36:12.23\00:36:17.84
BECAUSE MORDECAI SAID, 'DO NOT
REVEAL YOUR PEOPLE YET.' THERE
00:36:17.87\00:36:21.64
WAS GOING TO BE A TIME
AND TIMING IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:36:21.68\00:36:24.81
YOU KNOW, IF YOU WORK IN A
SECULAR ENVIRONMENT, YOU MAY NOT
00:36:24.85\00:36:28.22
WANT TO WEAR YOUR RELIGION
ON YOUR SLEEVE EVERY DAY.
00:36:28.25\00:36:30.75
YOU PRAY FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO
LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE
00:36:30.79\00:36:34.19
AND THEN YOU
TASTEFULLY SHARE WITH THEM.
00:36:34.22\00:36:37.96
SO, THIS LAW IS SIGNED AND THE
BIBLE TELLS US THAT WHEN ALL OF
00:36:37.99\00:36:47.40
THE JEWS HEAR ABOUT
IT, THEY'RE ALL MOURNING.
00:36:47.44\00:36:49.74
THEY'RE RENDING THEIR ROBES
- AND A DATE IS SET WHEN ALL OF
00:36:49.77\00:36:54.84
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE
GOING TO BE EXTERMINATED.
00:36:54.88\00:36:57.61
AND SO, THERE'S A FEAST - HAMAN
PREPARES - HE'S VERY HAPPY ABOUT
00:36:57.65\00:37:02.52
THIS. HE'S
CELEBRATING, BUT HE CAN'T
00:37:02.55\00:37:04.42
BE COMPLETELY HAPPY BECAUSE EVEN
AFTER HE GETS THE KING TO SIGN
00:37:04.45\00:37:07.59
THE DECREE THAT ALL OF GOD'S
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE KILLED ON
00:37:07.62\00:37:10.13
THIS CERTAIN DATE, HE HAS
TO WALK OUT OF THE GATE AND
00:37:10.16\00:37:12.03
EVERYBODY BOWS
EXCEPT MORDECAI WON'T BOW.
00:37:12.06\00:37:16.03
HAMAN GOES HOME AND HE TELLS
HIS FAMILY - HE SAYS, 'LOOK, I'M
00:37:16.06\00:37:19.20
GLAD ABOUT THE
HONOR I GOT FROM THE KING.
00:37:19.23\00:37:21.27
AND I'M GLAD THAT NOW
WE'RE GOING TO EXTERMINATE THESE
00:37:21.30\00:37:24.57
PEOPLE, BUT HAMAN STILL DOESN'T
BOW.' AND HIS FAMILY SAYS,
00:37:24.61\00:37:27.44
'WELL, WHY DON'T YOU
DEAL WITH HIM SPECIFICALLY?
00:37:27.48\00:37:29.28
TEACH HIM A LESSON - MAKE A
GALLOWS 50-FEET HIGH AND YOU'LL
00:37:29.31\00:37:31.55
HAVE HIM HUNG ON IT. WHY
DON'T - BEFORE - DON'T EVEN
00:37:31.58\00:37:34.45
WAIT FOR THE DECREE. GO
GET A SPECIAL PERMIT TO HAVE
00:37:34.48\00:37:36.18
HIM HUNG EARLY.'
HE SAYS, 'I'LL DO IT.'
00:37:36.22\00:37:39.59
AND HE GOES INTO THE
KING. HE'S GOT THIS LAW HE WANTS
00:37:39.62\00:37:42.82
SIGNED TO HANG
MORDECAI ON THESE GALLOWS.
00:37:42.86\00:37:46.39
AND THAT MORNING - YOU REALIZE,
I'M NOT GOING THROUGH THE
00:37:46.43\00:37:49.46
LESSON, I'M JUST
SORT OF TALKING HERE.
00:37:49.50\00:37:51.93
WE'VE GOT TO TELL THE STORY.
THAT VERY MORNING - THE KING
00:37:51.97\00:37:54.37
CANNOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT.
YOU KNOW THAT GOD CAN GIVE YOU
00:37:54.40\00:37:59.21
PEACE AND REST AND
GOD CAN KEEP YOU UP.
00:37:59.24\00:38:01.58
AND HE'S TOSSING AND TURNING
AND HE CAN'T SLEEP AND THE KING
00:38:01.61\00:38:06.08
SAYS, 'OH, MAN, GET THE SCRIBE
TO COME IN HERE AND READ THE
00:38:06.11\00:38:10.15
CHRONICLES TO ME - ABOUT WHAT'S
BEEN HAPPENING - BECAUSE NOTHING
00:38:10.19\00:38:13.62
PUTS ME TO SLEEP QUICKER THAN
LISTENING TO THAT GUY MOAN ON
00:38:13.66\00:38:16.86
AND READ THE - AND SO THEY
GOT THE, YOU KNOW, THE HARPS ARE
00:38:16.89\00:38:21.53
PLAYING AND HE SAID,
'JUST READ THE CHRONICLES TO ME.
00:38:21.56\00:38:22.93
THAT'LL PUT ME TO
SLEEP.' I AM ABSOLUTELY SERIOUS.
00:38:22.96\00:38:26.63
YOU CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY TIMES
PEOPLE TELL ME - IT HAPPENED
00:38:26.67\00:38:29.60
AGAIN LAST WEEK - 'PASTOR
DOUG, I JUST LOVE YOUR SERMONS.
00:38:29.64\00:38:34.28
WHENEVER I CAN'T SLEEP I PUT
THEM ON.' OR THEY SAY, 'I GO TO
00:38:34.31\00:38:41.55
SLEEP LISTENING TO
YOUR SERMON EVERY THURSDAY.
00:38:41.58\00:38:47.89
THAT WAY, WHEN WE DO SABBATH
SCHOOL...' AND I JUST SAY,
00:38:47.92\00:38:49.86
'WELL, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.' I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
00:38:49.89\00:38:53.13
I THOUGHT MAYBE I OUGHT TO
JUST PUT OUT SOME CDS AND SAY,
00:38:53.16\00:38:56.67
'TO HELP YOU SLEEP.
00:38:56.70\00:39:00.40
SOME, YOU KNOW, SPECIAL
SLEEPING AID' - OR SOMETHING.
00:39:00.44\00:39:03.74
SO THE KING, HE GETS -
AND THE SCRIBE IS READING.
00:39:03.77\00:39:07.74
HE'S SAYING, 'BLAH, BLAH, BLAH,
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.' AND THE
00:39:07.78\00:39:09.84
KING IS STARTING TO DOZE OFF
AND THEN THE SCRIBE READS, 'AND
00:39:09.88\00:39:12.75
THERE WAS AN ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPT AGAINST THE KING AND
00:39:12.78\00:39:15.42
BIGTHAN AND TERESH TRIED TO
ASSASSINATE THE KING BUT THE
00:39:15.45\00:39:18.52
PLOT WAS REVEALED BY MORDECAI
AND THE KING'S LIFE WAS SPARED
00:39:18.55\00:39:20.82
AND THEY WERE EXECUTED.'
AND HE - 'WAIT? WAIT? WHAT? !
00:39:20.86\00:39:23.69
READ THAT AGAIN!' THE
KING WAKES RIGHT UP AND HE
00:39:23.73\00:39:26.16
THINKS, 'NOW WHAT DID WE DO FOR
THIS GUY MORDECAI WHO SAVED MY
00:39:26.19\00:39:29.20
LIFE?' AND HE
LOOKS AT THE FOOTNOTES
00:39:29.23\00:39:32.07
AND THE SCRIBE SAYS, 'NOTHING.'
'OH,' - THE KING IS SAYING -
00:39:32.10\00:39:35.44
'I'M NOT THAT -
THAT'S NOT VERY KINGLY OF ME.
00:39:35.47\00:39:37.61
THE GUY SAVES MY LIFE -
I DON'T GIVE HIM ANYTHING.
00:39:37.64\00:39:39.64
I DON'T GIVE HIM A
DISCOUNT AT THE CAFETERIA.
00:39:39.67\00:39:41.21
I DON'T GIVE HIM ANYTHING.' AND
HE'S THINKING, 'I'VE GOT TO DO
00:39:41.24\00:39:44.91
SOMETHING FOR THAT GUY.
00:39:44.95\00:39:46.28
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A
GUY THAT SAVES YOUR LIFE?'
00:39:46.31\00:39:47.95
AND WHILE HE'S THINKING THAT
(KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK) HAMAN IS
00:39:47.98\00:39:52.02
KNOCKING AT THE GATE.
HE SAYS, 'WHO'S OUT THERE?
00:39:52.05\00:39:53.92
IT'S AWFUL EARLY.' HAMAN, HE'S
GOING, 'I'VE GOT TO GET THIS
00:39:53.96\00:39:57.16
SIGNED. I'M
GOING TO HAVE HIM HUNG.
00:39:57.19\00:39:59.03
THE GALLOWS ARE - I'M GOING
TO GET HIM HUNG TODAY.' AND HE
00:39:59.06\00:40:01.63
COMES IN AND JUST WHEN HAMAN
COMES IN THE KING SAYS, 'OH
00:40:01.66\00:40:05.27
HAMAN - YOU! COME ON
IN. I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
00:40:05.30\00:40:07.30
I'VE GOT A QUESTION TO
ASK YOU. I'M GLAD IT'S YOU.
00:40:07.34\00:40:09.50
WHAT SHALL I DO FOR THE ONE THAT
THE KING DELIGHTS TO HONOR?'
00:40:09.54\00:40:14.88
HAMAN IS SO FULL OF SELF - NOW
IF MORDECAI REPRESENTS CHRIST,
00:40:14.91\00:40:20.68
WHO DOES HAMAN REPRESENT?
00:40:20.72\00:40:22.55
WHO IS IT THAT WANTS
TO DESTROY GOD'S PEOPLE?
00:40:22.58\00:40:25.39
THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE
WOMAN AND WANTS TO DESTROY THE
00:40:25.42\00:40:28.59
SEED OF THE WOMAN.
AND WHAT DOES HAMAN WANT?
00:40:28.62\00:40:30.93
HE WANTS TO
DESTROY THE SEED OF ESTHER.
00:40:30.96\00:40:34.13
AND SO WHAT DOES
HAMAN SAY TO THE KING?
00:40:34.20\00:40:37.27
'WHO WOULD THE KING
DELIGHT TO HONOR MORE THAN ME?'
00:40:37.30\00:40:40.07
HE THINKS WITHIN HIMSELF,
'I, I, I. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME.
00:40:40.10\00:40:44.14
WHO WOULD HE WANT TO
DELIGHT - HONOR MORE THAN ME?'
00:40:44.17\00:40:47.28
AND SO HE BEGINS TO TELL
THE KING WHAT HE WANTS, THINKING
00:40:47.31\00:40:49.54
IT'S ALL GOING TO BE ABOUT HIM.
'WELL, PUT HIM ON THE KING'S
00:40:49.58\00:40:53.55
HORSE AND HAVE THE KING'S MOST
PROMINENT PEOPLE ANNOUNCE BEFORE
00:40:53.58\00:40:57.99
HIM - PUT THE
KING'S ROBE ON HIM.
00:40:58.02\00:41:00.76
PUT THE KING'S
CROWN ON HIS HEAD.
00:41:00.79\00:41:03.19
PARADE HIM UP THE STREETS AND
SAY, 'THUS WILL IT BE DONE FOR
00:41:03.22\00:41:05.99
THE ONE WHOM THE KING DELIGHTS
TO HONOR.' WELL, IF I DIDN'T
00:41:06.03\00:41:08.60
KNOW BETTER, I WOULD THINK THAT
MORDECAI - HAMAN WANTED TO BE
00:41:08.63\00:41:10.83
THE KING. WHAT DID LUCIFER WANT?
00:41:10.87\00:41:13.87
'TO EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE
THE STARS - TO SIT ON THE' - HE
00:41:13.90\00:41:18.41
WANTED THE THRONE OF GOD AND
THE SIZE OF THE CONGREGATION.
00:41:18.44\00:41:22.78
HE WANTED TO BE
LIKE THE MOST HIGH.
00:41:22.81\00:41:24.81
SO HAMAN IS VERY MUCH
LIKE THE DEVIL - ALL ABOUT HIM.
00:41:24.85\00:41:29.85
AND THE KING LISTENS - HE
LISTENS - HE'S TELLING THE
00:41:29.88\00:41:33.56
SCRIBE, 'WRITE THIS DOWN.
THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS GOOD.
00:41:33.59\00:41:35.26
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.' AND HAMAN,
HE'S SAYING 'OH, DO THIS AND
00:41:35.29\00:41:37.23
THIS AND THIS.' AND THE
KING SAYS, 'OKAY, SOUNDS GOOD.
00:41:37.26\00:41:40.30
GOOD IDEA. THAT'S
WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO FOR
00:41:40.33\00:41:42.30
MORDECAI THE JEW THAT SITS IN
THE KING'S GATE.' AND RIGHT IN
00:41:42.33\00:41:46.97
HAMAN'S HAND, HE'S GOT THE DEATH
DECREE FOR MORDECAI HE WANTS THE
00:41:47.00\00:41:50.31
KING TO SIGN. AND HE
WALKS OUT OF THERE AND HE
00:41:50.34\00:41:53.11
TEARS HIS CLOTHES - 'OH, OH.'
AND HE HAS TO WALK BY MORDECAI
00:41:53.14\00:41:58.81
IN THE GATE, WHO
STILL WILL NOT BOW DOWN.
00:41:58.85\00:42:02.98
AND HE GOES TO HIS HOUSE AND HE
SAYS, 'THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.'
00:42:03.02\00:42:06.19
AND HIS FAMILY SAYS, 'YOU
KNOW, THIS DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.
00:42:06.22\00:42:08.12
IT SEEMS LIKE THESE JEWS ARE
INDESTRUCTIBLE, HISTORICALLY.'
00:42:08.16\00:42:11.83
AND SO THEN HE GETS INVITED TO
THE SECOND FEAST - ESTHER KEEPS
00:42:11.86\00:42:16.90
INVITING THE - HAMAN AND THE
KING - TO THESE SPECIAL BANQUETS
00:42:16.93\00:42:22.14
WHERE SHE'S GOING TO
MAKE A GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT.
00:42:22.17\00:42:24.94
HAVE YOU NOTICED IN THE BIBLE
HOW MANY BIG THINGS SEEM TO
00:42:24.97\00:42:28.41
HAPPEN AT FEASTS?
HOW MANY TIMES A FEAST
00:42:28.44\00:42:32.11
REPRESENTS A CHANGE OF STATUS.
I'VE GOT A COUPLE LITTLE NOTES
00:42:32.15\00:42:36.22
HERE. LET ME SEE
IF I CAN FIND THAT -
00:42:36.25\00:42:37.99
ABOUT - YEAH, FEASTS OF CHANGE.
SODOM IS DESTROYED AFTER A
00:42:38.02\00:42:43.29
FEAST, REMEMBER? LOT
INVITED THE ANGELS IN AND
00:42:43.32\00:42:45.63
FEASTED WITH
THEM. THEY HAD BREAD.
00:42:45.66\00:42:48.50
HAGAR IS CAST ASIDE AT THE
FEAST WHERE ISAAC IS WEANED.
00:42:48.53\00:42:53.50
PHARAOH HANGS THE BAKER AND
RESTORES THE BUTLER AT A FEAST.
00:42:53.54\00:42:57.61
JOB'S CHILDREN
DIED WHILE FEASTING.
00:42:57.64\00:43:00.74
EGYPT IS HUMBLED AND ISRAEL
IS FREED AT THE PASSOVER FEAST.
00:43:00.78\00:43:04.78
SAMSON BEGINS HIS BATTLE
WITH THE PHILISTINE BECAUSE OF A
00:43:04.81\00:43:07.85
WEDDING FEAST.
NABAL DIES AND DAVID TAKES
00:43:07.88\00:43:10.99
ABIGAIL FOLLOWING A FEAST.
JEROBOAM ORDAINED A FEAST AND
00:43:11.02\00:43:15.86
ISRAEL WAS CURSED. JEHU
SLEW THE BAAL WORSHIPERS AT
00:43:15.89\00:43:20.30
A FEAST FOR BAAL. IT'S
AT A MEDO-PERSIAN FEAST THE
00:43:20.33\00:43:23.77
HANDWRITING APPEARS ON THE
WALL AND THE KINGDOM CHANGES.
00:43:23.80\00:43:26.97
ESTHER BEGINS WITH A FEAST
AND THERE'S A CHANGE OF QUEENS.
00:43:27.00\00:43:31.44
JOHN THE BAPTIST DIES AT A FEAST
- BIRTHDAY FEAST - WHEN THE GIRL
00:43:31.47\00:43:37.11
COMES OUT AND DANCES. AND
THE NEW TESTAMENT COVENANT
00:43:37.15\00:43:41.02
IS ESTABLISHED AT A
FEAST. THIS IS JUST A FEW.
00:43:41.05\00:43:43.39
HOW OFTEN THINGS CHANGE
IN THE CONTEXT OF A FEAST.
00:43:43.42\00:43:46.82
SO ESTHER INVITES
HAMAN TO THE FEAST.
00:43:46.86\00:43:49.22
AND AT THE FIRST FEAST SHE SAYS,
'I WANT TO HAVE ANOTHER FEAST.
00:43:49.26\00:43:51.66
I WANT YOU TO COME.' SO
NOW HAMAN'S COMING BACK FOR THE
00:43:51.69\00:43:53.83
SECOND FEAST -
HE'S BEING SUMMONED.
00:43:53.86\00:43:55.83
HE STILL CAN'T GET OVER THE FACT
THAT HE HAD TO PARADE MORDECAI
00:43:55.86\00:43:59.93
UP THE STREET. HE HAD TO DO
IT RIGHT WHEN THE KING SAID.
00:44:00.04\00:44:03.27
HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO GO DO IT
RIGHT NOW.' MORDECAI WAS THERE
00:44:03.30\00:44:06.61
AT THE GATE AND HAMAN
COMES. HE SAID, 'COME WITH ME.'
00:44:06.64\00:44:09.18
THEY PUT THE
KING'S ROBES ON MORDECAI.
00:44:09.21\00:44:11.88
THEY PUT THE
KING'S CROWN ON MORDECAI.
00:44:11.91\00:44:13.65
HE'S BEEN WEARING SACKCLOTH
BECAUSE OF THE DECREE TO DESTROY
00:44:13.68\00:44:16.05
ALL GOD'S PEOPLE. HE'S
BROUGHT UP AND DOWN THE
00:44:16.08\00:44:18.99
STREETS. YOU
KNOW, DOESN'T IT SAY A
00:44:19.02\00:44:20.96
HAUGHTY SPIRIT
GOES BEFORE A FALL?
00:44:20.99\00:44:22.72
THE STORY OF ESTHER IS AMAZING
BECAUSE THE ONE WHO EXALTED
00:44:22.76\00:44:26.86
HIMSELF THE MOST GETS HUMBLED
THE MOST AND THE ONE WHO IS IN
00:44:26.90\00:44:31.53
SACKCLOTH AND ASHES AT
THE KING'S GATE GETS EXALTED.
00:44:31.57\00:44:36.24
JESUS, WHO CAME AND HUMBLED
HIMSELF, IS GOING TO BE EXALTED;
00:44:36.27\00:44:41.64
AND THE DEVIL, WHO WANTED THE
POSITION OF GOD, IS GOING TO BE
00:44:41.68\00:44:44.15
HUMBLED. SO THE
BOOK OF ESTHER IS
00:44:44.18\00:44:46.75
TEACHING THE
WHOLE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
00:44:46.78\00:44:48.65
IT IS A COMPLETE REVERSAL OF
ROLES THAT IS HAPPENING HERE AND
00:44:48.68\00:44:52.12
HOW IT HAPPENS IN
GOD'S TIMING AND PROVIDENCE.
00:44:52.15\00:44:55.26
YOU MIGHT WONDER WHY, SOMETIMES,
YOU'RE ALWAYS AT THE LOW END.
00:44:55.29\00:44:58.19
YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF AND IN
GOD'S TIME HE WILL LIFT YOU UP.
00:44:58.23\00:45:01.23
AND EVERY KNEE WILL DECLARE
THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD.
00:45:01.26\00:45:05.00
MORDECAI - I'M SORRY, HAMAN HAD
TO DECLARE THAT MORDECAI WAS THE
00:45:05.03\00:45:11.01
ONE WHOM THE KING
DELIGHTED TO HONOR.
00:45:11.04\00:45:14.24
DID HE WANT TO SAY THAT? >>NO.
00:45:14.28\00:45:16.64
>>DOES THE DEVIL WANT
TO SAY THAT JESUS IS LORD?
00:45:16.68\00:45:18.98
BUT HE WILL SOMEDAY, WON'T
HE? DO YOU THINK THE BOOK OF
00:45:19.01\00:45:22.95
ESTHER'S INSPIRED AND
IT BELONGS IN THE BIBLE?
00:45:22.98\00:45:25.02
OH, IT'S AN AMAZING
STORY. BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET.
00:45:25.05\00:45:28.46
SO FINALLY, AFTER ALL THAT, HE
COMES BACK TO HIS HOUSE AND HE'S
00:45:28.49\00:45:31.99
JUST A BUNDLE OF NERVES.
MORDECAI - OR HAMAN DOESN'T KNOW
00:45:32.03\00:45:35.73
WHAT TO DO AND HE'S
NOW INVITED TO THIS FEAST.
00:45:35.76\00:45:37.80
AND AT THIS FEAST,
ESTHER FINALLY SAYS TO THE KING,
00:45:37.83\00:45:43.77
'PLEASE, IF YOU SOLD US
INTO SLAVERY I'D SAY NOTHING.
00:45:43.81\00:45:46.84
BUT MY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
MARKED FOR ANNIHILATION AND
00:45:46.88\00:45:50.61
DESTRUCTION.' AND THE
KING IS OUTRAGED AND AGHAST.
00:45:50.65\00:45:53.88
'WHO WOULD DARE
TO DO SUCH A THING?'
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.78
YOU'VE GOT ONE OF THESE GREAT
MOMENTS IN THE BIBLE AND EVEN
00:45:55.82\00:45:58.85
HAMAN IS THINKING,
'YEAH, WHO?' >>(LAUGHTER)
00:45:58.89\00:46:01.49
>>HE DOESN'T KNOW
WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT.
00:46:01.52\00:46:03.79
MAYBE HE STARTS TO
GET A CREEPING HUNCH.
00:46:03.83\00:46:07.93
'COULD SHE BE A JEW?'
AND SHE POINTS TO HAMAN.
00:46:07.96\00:46:14.74
SHE SAYS, 'THIS WICKED HAMAN
IS TRYING TO DESTROY MY PEOPLE.'
00:46:14.77\00:46:17.84
AND NOW THE KING, HE THINKS,
'WHAT? OH YEAH, HE HAD ME SIGN
00:46:17.87\00:46:21.78
THE DECREE. BUT
ONCE I SIGN A DECREE, I
00:46:21.81\00:46:23.48
CANNOT UNSIGN IT.
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?
00:46:23.51\00:46:26.41
I'VE MADE A LAW THAT ALL
OF ESTHER'S PEOPLE ARE TO BE
00:46:26.45\00:46:30.32
DESTROYED.' THE KING
GOES OUT TO THINK ABOUT IT.
00:46:30.35\00:46:32.25
NOW HAMAN, HE THINKS, 'OH, I
SEE THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
00:46:32.29\00:46:36.02
THIS DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR ME.'
HE THINKS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN
00:46:36.06\00:46:38.46
WORK WITH THE KING NOW - HE
NEEDS ESTHER TO INTERCEDE FOR
00:46:38.49\00:46:42.43
HIM AND HE FALLS ON ESTHER AND
HE'S OVERWHELMED WITH FEAR NOW.
00:46:42.46\00:46:47.94
THE KING WALKS BACK IN AND THERE
HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S ACCOSTING HIS
00:46:47.97\00:46:54.34
BRIDE. AND HE
SAID, 'WILL YOU ABUSE THE
00:46:54.38\00:46:57.48
QUEEN IN MY PRESENCE?' AND
AS SOON AS HE SAYS THAT THE
00:46:57.51\00:47:01.45
SERVANTS, THEY CAME AND THEN
THEY BLOCK HIM FROM THE QUEEN.
00:47:01.48\00:47:04.75
IT'S A VERY
INTERESTING DRAMATIC SCENE.
00:47:04.79\00:47:08.89
AND THEN THE SERVANTS - THEY'RE
LIKE THE ANGELS - THEY LET THE
00:47:08.92\00:47:12.89
KING IN ON A LITTLE TIP.
THEY SAY, 'KING, GO OUT ON YOUR
00:47:12.93\00:47:15.23
BALCONY. YOU SEE
THE HOUSE OF HAMAN?
00:47:15.26\00:47:17.13
YOU SEE THERE'S A
GALLOWS THAT HE BUILT?
00:47:17.17\00:47:18.80
HE SAYS, 'HE WANTED THAT GALLOWS
TO EXECUTE MORDECAI, WHO SAVED
00:47:18.83\00:47:23.37
THE KING'S LIFE.' AND THE KING
NOW BECOMES VERY DECISIVE AND HE
00:47:23.41\00:47:29.21
SAYS, 'HANG HIM ON THE GALLOWS.'
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE
00:47:29.24\00:47:34.32
THAT ROLLS A STONE WILL
HAVE IT ROLL BACK ON HIM.
00:47:34.35\00:47:36.75
WHAT YOU DO UNTO
OTHERS WILL BE DONE UNTO YOU.
00:47:36.79\00:47:39.49
AND YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL
WHEN YOU SET A TRAP FOR YOUR
00:47:39.52\00:47:42.02
ENEMY, YOU MIGHT FALL
IN THE TRAP THAT YOU SET.
00:47:42.06\00:47:44.13
THAT'S WHY IT'S BETTER TO
FORGIVE AND LET VENGEANCE BE THE
00:47:44.16\00:47:46.80
LORD'S, RIGHT? HE
ENDED UP GETTING HUNG ON THE
00:47:46.83\00:47:50.47
GALLOWS THAT HE BUILT. AND
IN THE END OF THE STORY IT'S
00:47:50.50\00:47:56.00
JUST WONDERFUL HOW MORDECAI IS
TAKEN - HE'S EXALTED, HE SEEKS
00:47:56.04\00:48:03.18
THE PEACE OF GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE
THRONE, AND ALL OF IT IS BECAUSE
00:48:03.21\00:48:08.78
HE REVEALED WHO HE WAS.
WILL SOMEONE READ FOR US ESTHER
00:48:08.82\00:48:12.22
8, VERSE 16. WHO'S GOT THAT?
00:48:12.25\00:48:15.96
WE'LL GIVE YOU THE MICROPHONE.
LET'S GET A CAMERA THERE.
00:48:15.99\00:48:17.66
MATTER OF FACT, JUST BEFORE YOU
READ THAT I WANT TO READ THIS.
00:48:17.69\00:48:19.73
THAT'LL GIVE THEM
A CHANCE TO SET UP.
00:48:19.76\00:48:21.46
LAST BOOK ELLEN WHITE WROTE,
CALLED PROPHETS AND KINGS - LET
00:48:21.50\00:48:25.17
ME READ TO YOU PAGE 605.
KEEP IN MIND, WHAT YOU JUST READ
00:48:25.20\00:48:29.54
IN THE STORY OF ESTHER, A DEATH
DECREE IS MADE AGAINST GOD'S
00:48:29.57\00:48:33.68
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT
BREAK THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
00:48:33.71\00:48:36.81
THEY'RE ALL TO BE EXTERMINATED
ON A CERTAIN DAY, BUT AT THE
00:48:36.85\00:48:39.21
TIME WHEN THE DAY COMES,
THEIR ENEMIES ARE DESTROYED.
00:48:39.25\00:48:42.58
THEY ARE DELIVERED.
MORDECAI IS EXALTED AND THE
00:48:42.62\00:48:47.56
PEOPLE REJOICE.
COMPLETE REVERSAL OF ROLES.
00:48:47.59\00:48:51.83
HERE'S WHAT SHE SAYS - AND THIS
IS 605 IN PROPHETS AND KINGS -
00:48:51.86\00:48:55.06
"THE TRYING EXPERIENCES THAT
CAME TO GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE DAYS
00:48:55.10\00:48:58.57
OF ESTHER ARE NOT
PECULIAR TO THAT AGE ALONE.
00:48:58.60\00:49:01.94
THE REVELATOR," - IN THE BOOK
OF REVELATION - "LOOKING DOWN
00:49:01.97\00:49:04.91
THROUGH THE AGES TO THE CLOSE OF
TIME, HE DECLARED THE DRAGON WAS
00:49:04.94\00:49:08.28
WROTH WITH THE WOMAN AND HE WENT
TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF
00:49:08.31\00:49:11.85
HER SEED THAT KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE
00:49:11.88\00:49:14.75
TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
SOME WHO ARE TODAY LIVING ON THE
00:49:14.78\00:49:19.02
EARTH WILL SEE
THESE THINGS FULFILLED."
00:49:19.05\00:49:21.36
- SHE WROTE THAT, I THINK, 1915
- "THE SAME SPIRIT THAT IN AGES
00:49:21.39\00:49:26.36
PAST LED MEN TO PERSECUTE THE
TRUE CHURCH WILL, IN THE FUTURE,
00:49:26.39\00:49:30.93
LEAD TO A PURSUANCE OF A
SIMILAR COURSE TOWARDS THOSE WHO
00:49:30.97\00:49:34.70
MAINTAIN THEIR LOYALTY TO GOD.
EVEN NOW PREPARATIONS ARE BEING
00:49:34.74\00:49:37.77
MADE FOR THIS LAST GREAT
CONFLICT. THE DECREE THAT WILL
00:49:37.81\00:49:41.24
FINALLY GO FORTH AGAINST THE
REMNANT PEOPLE OF GOD WILL BE
00:49:41.28\00:49:44.21
VERY SIMILAR TO THAT ISSUED
BY AHASUERUS AGAINST THE JEWS.
00:49:44.25\00:49:48.32
TODAY THE ENEMIES OF THE
TRUE CHURCH SEE, IN THE LITTLE
00:49:48.35\00:49:51.49
COMPANY OF SABBATH COMMANDMENT
KEEPERS, A MORDECAI IN THE GATE.
00:49:51.52\00:49:55.92
THE REVERENCE OF GOD'S PEOPLE
FOR HIS LAW IS A CONSTANT REBUKE
00:49:55.96\00:50:00.40
TO THOSE WHO CAST OFF THE FEAR
OF THE LORD AND ARE TRAMPLING ON
00:50:00.43\00:50:04.17
HIS SABBATH." ISN'T THAT
INTERESTING? SAME THINGS.
00:50:04.20\00:50:08.24
NOW GO AHEAD. LET'S
READ THAT FINAL VERSE.
00:50:08.27\00:50:11.04
>>"THE JEWS HAD LIGHT AND
GLADNESS, JOY AND HONOR, AND IN
00:50:11.07\00:50:16.51
EVERY PROVINCE AND CITY,
WHEREVER THE KING'S COMMAND AND
00:50:16.54\00:50:20.22
DECREE CAME, THE JEWS HAD
JOY AND GLADNESS, A FEAST AND A
00:50:20.25\00:50:25.65
HOLIDAY. THEN
MANY OF THE PEOPLE OF
00:50:25.69\00:50:29.09
THE LAND BECAME
JEWS BECAUSE FEAR OF
00:50:29.12\00:50:32.96
THE JEWS FELL
UPON THEM." >>AMEN.
00:50:32.99\00:50:34.96
WELL OUR WHOLE LESSON TODAY
IS ABOUT MISSIONARIES, RIGHT?
00:50:35.00\00:50:39.17
THIS WHOLE ORDEAL THAT GOD'S
PEOPLE WENT THROUGH IN A FOREIGN
00:50:39.20\00:50:42.87
LAND, WHAT WAS THE FINAL RESULT?
MANY OF THE PEOPLE BECAME JEWS.
00:50:42.90\00:50:48.24
AND SO, THEY WERE ABLE TO - BY
STANDING FOR THEIR CONVICTIONS
00:50:48.28\00:50:52.05
AND BY ENDURING TRIAL, EVERYBODY
COULD SEE GOD WAS WITH THEM AND,
00:50:52.08\00:50:56.82
BECAUSE OF ESTHER'S BEAUTY AND
SHE LET HER LIGHT SHINE SO TO
00:50:56.85\00:51:00.79
SPEAK, SHE INTERCEDED -
OH, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH IN THE
00:51:00.82\00:51:04.39
STORY ABOUT THE KING HOLDING
OUT THE SCEPTER OF GRACE AND ALL
00:51:04.43\00:51:06.19
THAT. AND THAT
REPRESENTS - WE DON'T
00:51:06.23\00:51:08.46
HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH IT
ALL. WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME FOR
00:51:08.50\00:51:10.40
SABBATH SCHOOL, BUT I DO WANT
TO REMIND, BEFORE WE GO OFF THE
00:51:10.43\00:51:12.53
AIR, THAT WE DO HAVE A
FREE OFFER IF YOU DID NOT HEAR.
00:51:12.57\00:51:14.80
ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO
IS CALL AND ASK FOR IT.
00:51:14.84\00:51:16.91
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WE'LL STUDY LESSON #7 NEXT WEEK.
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(MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN
IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED
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CONCEPT. >>HELLO,
THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
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THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
- FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>THESE RADIO BROADCASTS WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:52:15.36\00:52:18.27
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:52:18.30\00:52:22.27
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
00:52:41.26\00:52:45.43
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
AMAZING FACTS - GOD'S MESSAGE,
00:52:56.44\00:53:03.24
OUR MISSION. >>IN
SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE
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HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. FOR
THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS
00:53:10.85\00:53:14.89
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:53:14.92\00:53:17.66
NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY.
00:53:17.69\00:53:21.70
WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID
GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST?
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DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:53:25.60\00:53:28.30
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
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LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED.
VISIT 'SABBATHTRUTH.COM'.
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>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
>>WELL, MY CONVERSION STORY IS
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WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES
I JUST GRADUATED AS A NURSE AND
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AFTERWARDS I DID NOT HAVE ANY
RELIGION AND ONE TIME I FOUND
00:53:58.97\00:54:04.34
MYSELF INSIDE A SMALL CHURCH -
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MANILLA - AND
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BEFORE A BIG CROSS AND I WAS
KNEELING BEFORE AND I COULD HEAR
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JESUS TELLING ME TO ENTER THE
CONVENT, SAVE MYSELF, AND ALSO
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MY FAMILY. AND I
SAID, 'LORD, I WOULD LIKE
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TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY.'
AT THAT POINT I SEEMED TO BE
00:54:25.33\00:54:28.23
HAPPY, EXTERNALLY, BUT BECAUSE
INSIDE THE CONVENT WE DON'T READ
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THE BIBLE - WE DON'T STUDY ABOUT
THE WORD OF GOD, WE PRAY THE
00:54:33.30\00:54:37.91
ROSARIES. WE ALSO,
AT THE SAME TIME, STUDY
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THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS AND ALSO
OUR FOUNDERS AND THE ENCYCLICALS
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OF THE POPE,
AND THE VIRGIN MARY.
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AND SO I DO NOT KNOW THE
TRUTH AND I HAD THIS TORTURE OF
00:54:49.75\00:54:53.09
CONSCIENCE - THE GUILTY FEELINGS
THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED.
00:54:53.12\00:54:57.66
SO I WOULD CONFESS TO THE PRIEST
IN THE CONFESSIONAL BOX SAYING,
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'FATHER, FORGIVE ME.
SINCE MY LAST CONFESSION WAS
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LAST WEEK - SINCE THEN I
HAVE COMMITTED THE FOLLOWING SIN
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INCLUDING THE ROOT CAUSE, 'WHY
AM I FALLING AND FALLING IN THAT
00:55:09.04\00:55:13.61
SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN?'
AND STILL, FOR 21 LONG YEARS I
00:55:13.64\00:55:19.28
STRUGGLE AND I
STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE.
00:55:19.31\00:55:23.99
I REALIZED THAT I
WAS TOTALLY EMPTY.
00:55:24.02\00:55:27.56
I WAS TOTALLY HELPLESS AND
HOPELESS AND SO DEPRESSED AND SO
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DESPERATE THAT I WOULD
LIKE ALREADY TO END MY LIFE.
00:55:32.63\00:55:36.53
I WAS WORKING FOR FIVE YEARS AS
DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT
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AUGUSTINE COLLEGE OF NURSING
IN ILOILO CITY, ONE OF THE
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ISLANDS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
AFTER FIVE YEARS I RECEIVED MY
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COMMISSION FROM MY PARENTS
TO HELP MY SISTER WHO IS BEING A
00:55:50.95\00:55:55.98
BATTERED WOMAN. THIS IS
ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I
00:55:56.02\00:55:59.55
CAME OVER TO THE UNITED STATES.
IT IS BECAUSE MY SISTER NEEDS MY
00:55:59.59\00:56:06.16
HELP. AS I WAS
WORKING IN THE HOSPITAL
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IN NEW YORK, MY BOSS, SERAPHIN,
HE WAS SO GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO
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GIVE ME AN INVITATION TO
THE 'MILLENIUM OF PROPHECY'.
00:56:12.13\00:56:16.07
AS I WAS LISTENING TO PASTOR
DOUG BATCHELOR'S PRESENTATION,
00:56:16.10\00:56:20.81
MY HEART REALLY WAS BEATING SO
FAST AND MY MIND - I AM ABLE TO
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GRASP THE TRUTH THAT THIS IS THE
TRUTH THAT I'VE BEEN LONGING TO
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HEAR ALL MY LIFE - THAT I
HAVE BEEN SEEKING FOR SO LONG.
00:56:32.32\00:56:37.26
MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
JESUS - I CAN SEE JESUS AS MY
00:56:37.29\00:56:42.56
PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE IS
NOT ONLY THE SAVIOR OF THE
00:56:42.60\00:56:46.13
WHOLE WORLD, BUT HE
IS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR.
00:56:46.17\00:56:50.27
HE WAS THE ONE WHO DELIVERED ME
MIGHTILY FROM THE DEPTHS OF SIN
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- FROM THE MIREY CLAY.
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR HAS BEEN
00:56:56.44\00:57:00.15
USED BY THE LORD
IN MY CONVERSION.
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THE AMAZING
FACTS - I OWE TO THEM.
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THE LORD REALLY BLESSED THIS
MINISTRY AND I'M SO PROUD I WAS
00:57:06.32\00:57:12.09
ABLE TO ATTEND THIS
'MILLENIUM OF PROPHECY'.
00:57:12.13\00:57:15.76
MY LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME.
IT HAS GIVEN ME THAT PEACE -
00:57:15.80\00:57:20.24
THAT JOY THAT NEVER - I
HAVE NEVER TASTED IN MY LIFE.
00:57:20.27\00:57:26.44
NOW I AM SET FREE TO BE ABLE TO
WORK FOR HIM AND TO FOLLOW HIM.
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>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS
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