March 1, 2025 • 55 mins
Today's episode of Sunday Service by Pray.com features Tim Hatch.
Join Pastor Tim Hatch as he delivers a riveting sermon titled "It's All Part of THE Plan," exploring the profound concept of divine providence through the story of Esther. This sermon will invigorate your faith, showing you how God meticulously orchestrates every challenge for a higher purpose. Pastor Hatch passionately reveals how sudden shifts and miracles can occur when you least expect them, all within God’s plan. Watch this powerful message to be inspired to recognize your role in a divine narrative that transforms obstacles into opportunities for growth and impact. Discover your place in God’s unfolding plan—watch now and see your life in a new light!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let us pray, casting all your care upon Him, for
he careth for you first Peter five seven. Dear God,
thank you for listening to me and allowing me to
lean on you. Thank you for your support and letting
me seek shelter in your arms. Some days I find
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myself anxious about the uncertainties that lie ahead. I look
for answers and mothers options or by searching online, or
try to ease my discomfort using the waiting season. Father,
help me to lean on you and embrace the uncertainties,
cause the pain will only make me stronger. I know
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that you have an extraordinary plan for my life, and
I can't wait for it to unfold. Amen, thank you
for listening to to day's daily prayer. For more inspiration
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hi, my name is Tim Hatch. Welcome to Timhatch Live
on pray dot Com. I'm so glad that you have
tuned in. Now here's the deal. I'm the pastor of
seven churches and I also authored two books and two
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for Godly Living right now. Thanks for taking the time
to check out the content, and I pray it blesses
your life. God wants to do things not just for you,
but through you. Touch lives, through you, change the world
around you, impact people beyond you, and make your life
a testimony so that people can come to Jesus because
you were involved in their life. Providence Part four. I
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want to talk to you on the subject of it's
all part of the plan. It's all part of the plan.
Can you say that title with me? On the counter
of three? But you gotta emphasize the word the So one, two, three,
it's all part of God's got a plan. So I'm
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gonna say God's got a plan. Oh, touch your neighbor
and say He's got a plan. Touch your neighbor. Come on,
let's talk to each other. Let's have a conversation. This
isn't a lecture, this is a preach. And we're gonna
talk together. And I'm gonna go to Esther chapter six,
and we're gonna get to the last of this book,
and You're gonna be amazed. I love this passage. I
love this book. I've enjoyed preaching it. Are you enjoying
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the messages? Are you enjoying this series? And I hope
it's instilling faith in you and you are getting ready
for God to do something wonderful through your life. Okay,
So here's a message idea, the big idea of the series.
Providence means God is working no matter what the world
is doing. Providence means God is working no matter what
the world is doing. But I thought to myself off today,
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we got to get personal.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Personal. This is gonna be for you.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
How does God's providence and what he does apply to you? Well,
if you're in Christ, there are four words that I
want you to add to this definition.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Four words.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So here's the new definition. I want you to leave
this series with. Write this down. Providence means that God
is working for me and through me no matter what
the world is doing. Now doesn't that sound better? It's
about it's also including you. God is working for you.
So I wanna say for me. But I need someone
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here today to take another step forward in faith. I
need you to leap forward in faith into a brand
new dimension and don't stay in the for me kind
of faith.
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It's not enough.
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It's not what God wants, it's not what He's up to,
it's not what the scriptures bear witness to. It is
not ultimately just for you faith. I need you to
move into through you faith. God wants to do things
not just for you, but through you. Touch lives through you,
change the world around you, impact people beyond you, and
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make your life a testimony so that people can come
to Jesus because you were involved in their life. See,
this is where a lot of Christians are. They're for me.
I need God to fix things. I need to go
to where where is he?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I need this?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's wonderful, But ultimately true faith is to believe that
it's not really about you. You're not the center of
the story. And God has some plans. I don't know
if you know. He's got some plans for the world,
and he's got you on assignment. This is going to
save some people today. It's gonna save a lot of
people from a syndrome I like to call the Wymy syndrome.
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Have you heard of the Wymi syndrome? See, you know
it's not medically prescribed or diagnosed. It's it's spiritual diagnosed.
It's the why mey? Why is this happening?
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Why? Oh God? Why all right? Why am I related
to these people? Lord? Why don't have to work with
these losers? Lord?
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Why do I have to live here and not there?
Why am I this age or not that age? Why
can't I do this? Why has this happened? Has anybody
had a why mey syndrome season in your life? Come on,
be honest today. It's all right to be honest in church.
Confession is good for the soul. I've had a lot
of wyme sessions I have. I've had a lot to
ask my wife. She'll tell you, Oh yeah, he's why
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me all the time. Man, you gotta watch out this.
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You gonna watch out for wy me.
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Here's what's gonna set you free from wy me when
you realize that it's not about you. There's something on
the other side of your your misery. There's something on
the other side of your trial, there's something on the
other side of your challenges, on your setbacks, that God
story in your life is not done yet. So that
you can start looking at your life and say wait
a second. You are not an aggravation. You are an assignment.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ooo.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That husband of yours, ladies, he's not an aggravation. He's
an assignment. He's there to help you become a more
patient and loving and kind and caring woman and husbands.
That wife for you is not just there to cook
and clean and bury your children or go to work.
Now we're in the modern world. Go to work and
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earn a living for the house or whatever it is.
That's not what she's there. She's there to help you
become what God wants you to become, so that you
can do what God wants you to do and other
people can be blessed through your story.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You can look at that boss tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You can go right up to them and don't say
it out loud, but just say you're my assignment. Yes,
God has you in my life. You're challenging me, you're
changing me. I know that God's working all things together
for the good of those who love Him and are
calling according to his purposes. It's not why me, It's
about Jesus, saymen, and so this is what this message is.
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And we are in Ester chapter five. Let's stand together
for the reading of the last few verses of Ester
chapter five, remember that Esther has brought Hayman, the hateful
enemy of the Jews, and King Xerxes or Hasserius to
a banquet, and she's trying to intervene to save the
Jews from an annihilation. Hayman hastes the Jews. He wants
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to annihilate them. There's an act in place. They're gonna
be annihilated. It is about a year away. And so
she throws a party. Mordecai, her cousin, has instigated this
whole thing. You gotta step up. You've come to the
kingdom for such a time as this. You gotta say something,
because God's gonna work regardless of whether or not out
you do it.
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But you gotta be part of it. So she goes,
and she.
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Finally gets the gumption to do the bare minimum. She
invites Hayman and King Xerxes to a banquet. And then
this is what's happened. This is the end of the
first banquet. At the first banquet, she gets enough gumption
to ask them to come to a second banquet.
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The next night.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So we are between the first banquet and the second
banquet follow Okay, So here's verse twelve. Then Hayman said,
even Queen Esther, this is Hayman. He goes home from
the breaker. Even Queen Esther, let no one but me
come with the king to the feet she prepared. And
tomorrow also I am invited by her, together with the king.
Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long
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as I say. Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's gate,
then his wife's jerish and all his friends said to him,
let a gallows fifty cubas high be made, and in
the morning tell the King to have Mordecai hanged upon it.
Then go joyfully with the king to the feast. This
idea pleased Hayman, and he had the gallows made.
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This is God's word.
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Let's pray together, Father, I ask in Jesus name, that
our hearts will be open, and our ears will be open,
and our minds will be receptive to hear your voice,
to know your truth, to receive your word.
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May your kingdom come, may or will be done.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let the words of my mouth, the meditation of all
of our hearts, be pleasing in your sight. And help us,
o God, to see Jesus, him and Him only It
is my name. We pray, and everybody said, he men, God,
bless you have a seat. So Estra chapter five ends,
and it looks very dark. Somebody say dark life looks dark.
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Maybe in your world right now, it just looks darker
than ever. Maybe for some of you, you are looking
at your words saying, well, I can't get much darker
than this. And I want you to realize that that's
exactly where the Jews were in Estra chapter five. They're
facing extinction, legalized persecution, legalized murder of all of them,
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on top of which their last best effort to change
things is a beauty queen winner having a party with
her husband and the guy who instigated the whole mass.
And this is a very dark moment. But what you
going to see in Extra chapter six is that things
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can change quickly.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And I'm gonna walk through the rest of the book
with you. We're gonna put a lot of the.
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Verses on the screen, because this story is iconic and
ironic at the same time. There are some great moments
of God's deliverance in the Bible. Amen, I mean the
Red Sea being parted and then Pharaoh chasing down the
Israelites into the sea, and then the sea closing in
on him.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I remember the kid in.
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Elementary school who stepped up and said.
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Oh, no, no, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
In the elementary school teacher said, oh, how can God?
How can God split a sea? He didn't really split
a sea. It was just a very shallow sea. And
they just walked through the very shallow sea. And then
the kid was so wise he said, well, then how
does God What a great miracle that God drowned Pharaoh's
army in a shallow sea? Is you know, great story right?
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That God delivered them and this and the kicker was
that Pharaoh's army ended in the bottom of that.
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See that's a great story. Amen.
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Or Dave Daniel in the lions dead and he's petting
lions all night.
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The lions would be eating him otherwise, but the angels come.
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And shut the lion's mouth, and so there's David in
the lions dead, just petting the lion. It would have
been amazing to be a fly on the wall in
the midst of that moment. There's been some great deliverances,
but this one, this deliverance is amazing. Let's take a
look at how this goes down. So Hayman has just
built a gallows seventy five feet fifty Q. It's seventy
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five feet high in his backyard to hang his hateful
enemy Mordecai. Chapter six, verse one. On that night, if
you've got your bible, circle night, because here's what I
want you to hear. God does amazing things in nighttime.
Some of you are in the darkness right now. You
don't even think that I can work. He works his
best stuff at night. He is not sleeping. He doesn't sleep.
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You sleep. He goes to work.
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He meant somebody, and it was night time, and the
smallest thing happens. Look at it says on that night
the king could not sleep, and he gave orders to
bring the book of memorable Deeds, the chronicles, and they
were read before the king, and it was found written
how Mordecai had told Bigthana and Terrish, two of the
king's eunuchs who guarded the threshold and who had sobted
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my hands on King Hasser. So this is an amazing
start to this chapter. In this moment, the whole thing
starts with something inconspicuous, royal insomnia.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
The king can't sleep, and I want.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You to pay attention to that because it reminds me
and I want to tell you that you've got to
realize that God can use even the little things in
your life. Even a sleepless night can be a gift
from God. And this guy can't sleep, that's it. And
so the funny thing is that he says, Okay, I
need to fall asleep. And there was no night quill
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back then, there was no melatonin. So he goes, let
me find the most boring thing that I can think
of and have somebody read it back to me. Oh yeah,
read me back the record of my reign.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So he goes. They get the chronicles of the king.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How boring was his reign that to hear his story
retold put him to sleep.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
That's amazing, right, So they come and they bring the
chronicles and it says this the.
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Verse three, and the I'm sorry, it's just so happened
that the very page that was opened in the King's
chronicles was the moment when Mordechai, this is back in
Estra chapter two, was the moment when Mornechi saved.
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The king's life.
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And the king says, well, what's been done? Look what
it says verse three and the king said, what's what
honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordechai for this?
And the king young men said, nothing has been done
for him. Now this is a very true fact about
the Persian Empire. The kings in the Persian Empire love
to reward loyal subjects who projected the king.
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And so he comes to the he comes to it
says this.
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He wrotes that Mordechai, who saved his life, did not
get honored. He did honor Hayman, and Hayman used his
honor to hate on the Jews.
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So now look what it says in verse four. And
the king said, who is in the court? Now?
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Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's
palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged
on the gallows that he had prepared for him. And
the king's young men told him, Hamon is there standing
in the court. And the king said to him, let
him come in. Ooh, I love this moment. Here you
have the enemy of the king, the enemy of the Jews,
is coming into the presence of the king with the
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intention to kill Mordecai.
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At the same time, the king.
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Is thinking about ways to bless Mordecai.
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Do you understand that this story is about you, It
really is.
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It's talking about our reality in Christ Jesus. Here's what
you need to understand. You are living in a spiritual fight.
You are living in a battle between God and the devil.
The devil is coming for you. He wants to steal, killing, destroyer.
That's what Haman represents. He wants to annihilate you, and
he wants.
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To destroy you.
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He wants to rob you of your family, rob you
of your peace, rob you if you enjoy.
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And he's got.
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Plans, he's got schemes, he's got gallows, he wants to
hang you on. And he's coming into God's presence every day.
The Bible says he's the accuser of the brother. But
do you understand Church, Do you know that at the
same time the devil wants to come in and attack you,
that you've got a father in heaven who is planning
to bless you. He wants to do you good, he
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wants to reward you. And you gotta understand something. Yes
you will be set back, yes you will be attacked, but.
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Greater is he that is in you than he that
is in the world.
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This is why Paul said, if God be for us,
who can be against us? So you're gotta look at
your problems. You gotta say, wait a second, this is
a spiritual fight. This is a spiritual struggle. I gotta
step up my game. I gotta realize that, yes, the
devil will throw his aim, his best stuff at me,
but the Lord is still looking to bless me.
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That's this moment. So Mordecai is hanging in the balance.
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Verse six, it says Hayman comes in, and the king
said to him, what should be done? Notice that there's
no names mentioned here. What should be done to the
name to the man whom the king delights to honor?
And Hayman said to himself, who who the King delights
to honor more than me? Now that is just pride, friend,
And there's a verse of the Bible that says pride
comes before a fall, and this guy epitomizes that verse
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so well. In this moment, Hayman, who wants to kill Mordecai, thinks, oh,
the king just wants to do me honor. So verse
seven to nine, he just unloads on what he wants
verse seven, and Hayman said the King. For the man
whom the King delights to honor, Let royal robes be brought,
which the King has worn, and the horse that the
King has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown
has said. And let the robes and the horse be
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handed over to one of the king's most noble officials.
Remember that one of the king's most noble officials. Let
them dress the man whom the King delights to honor,
and let them lead him on the horse through the
square of the city, proclaiming before him, Thus shall it
be done to the man whom the King delights to honor. Now,
let's just stop here for a second and just take
a look at all the things that Hayman thinks he's
gonna get for himself. This guy is second in command
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of the kingdom. He is at the highest place you
can get other than the king. He's probably got riches,
he's probably got houses, he's probably got lands, he's probably
got cattle and sheep and oxen. I mean, he's blessed,
he's extraordinary prosperous. But it wasn't enough. He wanted people's praise.
Oh what a trap that is for so many people.
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And this is Hayman's spirit. This is what the devil wanted,
by the way, in heaven before he fell from earth.
The Bible says that Lucifer was one of the arch
angels Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer. He was one of the arch
angels in heaven with God, and he wanted to be
in God's place. He wanted the praise, he wanted the honor,
he wanted the authority, he wanted.
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The esteem that was only due to God.
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And it cost him his place and his authority, and
God cast him out of heaven and down to this earth.
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And ever since then he's been trying to feed so many.
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Humans the lie that if enough people love you, you'll
feel complete.
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And it's never enough. It's never enough.
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Watch out for the trap of getting people's approval. It'll
rob you of your joy, it'll rob you of your life,
it'll rob you of your ability to live. So he's like, yeah,
just give me all this stuff. And he said, oh,
I want all this pray I So this is the
best part. Here's the best verse in the whole story.
The king verse ten said to him, and hurry, take
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the robes and the horse, as you have said, and
do So to Mordechai, the Jew who sits at the
King's gate, leave nothing out that you have mentioned. Eleve it,
you said it, Now you do it. But you do
it for Mordecai.
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You gotta be.
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I mean, if I could have been a fly of
all there just to see Hayman's face, go what Mordecai,
So he has to do it verse thirteen and made
and verse eleven. So Hayman took the robes and the horse,
and he dressed. Mordechai let him through squares of the city,
proclaiming for him. Thus, and this is how I see
it going down. Mordecai is on the horse, and I
see Hayman in front of him, going the Shall it
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be done to the man? And the king delights to hotter.
Then Mordechai returned to the King's gate. But Haman harried
to his house, mourning with his head covered. And now
he goes home and he sulks, because this guy loves
to unload on everybody. In Verse thirteen says he comes
home to his wife Serish and all his friends, and
he told him everything that happened to him. Then his
wise men and his wife. Jerriff said to him. If
Mordecai Perhorn, whom you have begun to fall, is of
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the Jewish people, you will not overcome him, but you
will surely fall before him. I just want you to
look at something there. It says before whom you have
begun to fall? Do you understand, Christian? Do you know
that the battle for your spiritual victory was already sealed
at the Cross and the empty Grave two thousand years ago.
The devil may taunt you, He may tell you you're
a loser. He may tell you lies, he may whisper
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in your ear, But all you got to do is
remind him that he's a loser in waiting, and the
victory is coming to you in the end. With Jesus Christ,
that's how it goes. He has begun to fall, and
the best is coming for you, Christian. So his wife says, yeah,
this is it is over for you. And this get
this verse fourteen, This is the movement of the story.
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While they were still talking to him, the king's Eunichs
arrived and hurried to bring him into the feast that
Esther had prepared. And this is the feast where she's
finally gonna tell the king what's going on with this
guy Haymen. So that's chapter six. Let's look at chapter seven.
So the King and Haymon went to the King went
to the feast with Queen Esther, and on the second
day of the feast, as they were drinking wine after
the feast, the King said.
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To Esther, what is your wish?
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I wonder if she waited for the wine to get
really heavy in his body, he said, Hey, Esther, what
do you want? I'll give you half the king. That's
why it pays to fast in a world of feasting.
Right there, amen, somebody? Verse three. Then Queen Esther answered,
this is the shot her around the world. She finally
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does it. She finally says something that saves the Jews.
Queen Esther answered, if I had found favor in your sight,
O King, and if it pleased the King, let my
life be granted me for my wish and for my
people my request for we had been sold I and
my people to be destroyed, to be killed, to be annihilated,
if we had been sold as slaves. I wouldn't bothered you,
because it doesn't it's not worthy of the King's you know, discomfort.
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We're gonna be.
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We're gonna be killed, King, my people, me, your wife.
And verse five, he says who is he? And where
is he who has dared to do this? And she's like,
he's at that dinner table, and there's there. It is
finally a break in the action that all began with insomnia.
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Don't despise the small things in your life. God is
involved even in the small things. She says, A foe,
an enemy, the wicked Hayman. Then Hayman was terrified before
the king and the queen. You know, I stop here
to say this. You know the Jews they run Hollywood.
You know this, right, I mean, and I don't say
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that disparage them, but they do. And the reason why
is because they're amazing storytellers. They know how to tell
a good story. And some of you need to get
this in your spirit because.
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You're not understanding how life works.
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The reason that they tell good stories is because these people,
for thirty five hundred year have been through hell and back.
They've had people hate them, try to kill them. You
can go from from Pharaoh to Hayman, to Hitler, to
Hamas to Hesbalah. They all start with h for some reason,
maybe because they all come from the pit of hell,
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and they've been coming for these people for thousands upon
thousands upon thousands of years, and every.
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Time you think they're gonna be.
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Gone, they make a comeback because God is faithful to
his promises and He's gonna preserve that people until Jesus
Christ comes again. And what they got as a result,
you gotta get this. What they got as a result
was a good story. Do you know what makes a
good story? Trouble, hardship, setbacks somebody. You gotta start looking
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at your life as, oh, this is what God is doing.
He's writing a better story. Because the story where you
get everything that you want and everything goes your way
and you always succeed and everybody loves.
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You is boring and no one can relate to.
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It because everyone struggles and everyone goes through and tribulations,
and it doesn't matter how much money you make, and
it doesn't matter how good you look. Everybody goes through difficulties.
And if you want God to do something with your difficulties,
give him your life, surrender your plans, and say God,
have your way with this challenge. I want other people
to hear how you saved me from that I want
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other people to hear how you restored my heart. I
want other people to hear how you brought me back
from cancer, how you saved my kid from fornication, how
you delivered my family and brought me to this place.
Because God takes pleasure and bringing his people back from
the brink again and again, and he wants to do
that in you, and Esther just finally says it, Hayman,
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this guy, he wants to kill us verse seven. And
the king rose in wrath, rose in wrath and went
out from the place where they were eating and drinking,
went to the palace garden. Hayman stayed to beg for
his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm
was determined against him by the king. And verse says
the king returned from the palace garden to the place
where they were drinking wine as Hayman was falling on
the couch where Esther was, and the king he said,
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is he even gonna go and molest my wife in front.
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Of me and my own palace?
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And there's a there's a legend about this moment the
Jews have that Hayman, when he was begging for his life,
just stood there before the.
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Queen, and it was please intervene to save me, don't.
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Let him kill me, And an angel came up behind
him and shoved him on top of the queen.
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I love that.
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I love that legend because it reminds me of something
that some of you need a reminder of.
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There's angels at work on behalf of God's people. Do
you believe this?
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You've got to understand there are spiritual forces of wickedness
coming against you. But I got better news. There are
stronger angels and mightier angels that are working for your good.
You don't just got Christ in you. You don't just
got the Holy Spirit in you. You don't got just
the Father watching over you. You don't just got the
Church supporting it. But you've got angels owing to work
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for your protection.
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The Bible says they're.
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Ministering spirits sent to serve those who are called to
eternal life in Christ.
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Jesus, I don't know about you, but I pray for angels.
Do you pray?
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I don't pray two angels, I pray four angels. I say, Father,
set your angels around my children. When when my kids
get their driver's license, every time they get their drivers.
I say, all right, Lord, I need some extra angels
around that child now, So you need to pray angels
around your family, angels around your children, angels around your home. Lord,
I want protection in the spiritual realm so that the
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enemy doesn't have his way with my family. So the
angel pushes them. I think that's what happened anyway.
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Verse nine.
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Then Harbono, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, moreover,
the gallows that Hayman has prepared for Mornecai, whose words
save the king, is standing at Hama's house.
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Fifty cuba is high. And the king said, hang them
on that.
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So they hanged Hayman on the very gallows that he
prepared for Mordicai. You know, there's a proverb that talks
about this reality that happens to Hymen right here is
Proverbs twenty six twenty seven, and it says this, he
who digs a pit will fall into it. Be careful, Christians,
of digging pits for your nemesis.
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Be careful Christians of trying to get other people back.
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It's childish, it is unfaithful to God, and it really
works out for you, you know, what I'm talking about.
Some of you were quiet today. You got you gotta
know what I'm talking about. You give that person the
silent treatment because you want to let them know that
you're angry, so you never talk to them. I'm not
gonna talk to them anymore. Okay, are you fifth Are
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you in fifth grade? Is that what's going on here?
Or you do the innuendo post on Facebook? You're really
aiming it at them, but you're, you know, trying to
aim and target them or whatever. It's like, let's stop
being children. We are God's people, we are Christ. He's
got his vengeance, belong to God. He'll pay back whatever
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wrongs we've suffered. He'll pay back, and he pays back
better than we could ever think. And so this is
Hayman though, that's Hayman's spirit and he and.
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It kills him.
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He dug a pity, fell into it, he built a gallows,
and he hung on it. So now let me summarize
the rest of the book. Hayman is dead, but the
threat on the Jew's life is still there because the
Edith could not be revoked. So God takes the God
the king takes the ring off of Hayman's finger the
signet ring of authority, and he puts it on Mordechai's finger.
This is another symbol, a symbol of our reality. Do
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you understand that the devil had authority over this earth
up until Jesus died and rose again. Now, the devil
got that authority in the garden with Adam. When Adam
disobeyed God and listened to the devil, he lost dominion,
He lost authority on this planet. That's where the wars
and the chaos and the degregation, all the evil comes from.
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And Gesus came and undid what Adam did wrong. Jesus
obeyed perfectly, He followed the Father. He laid down his
life as a perfect s in the sacrifice, and he
rose again triumphantly on the third day, and he got
back our authority. Do you realize that you have authority
in Christ Jesus over your life, over the spirits, over
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the realms of.
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The unseen things.
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He's got authority in Jesus' name, So you gotta learn
to walk around your house in Jesus name. I just
take authority over this house right now, So you gotta
take authority on.
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The way to work.
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I take authority over my spirit on the way to
work in Jesus' name. Some of you you can't keep
your mouth shut. You open mouth, your insert foot. You
don't know why you keep putting things in your mouth
that shouldn't be in your mouth. You gotta say, I
take authority over my mouth in Jesus' name. So you
got thoughts that you don't know why they come into
your head.
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You're getting dreams.
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You don't know why they're coming in your head. You
gotta take authority. You have authority in the spiritual realm,
not because of who you are, but because who Jesus is.
So he gives him the signet ring, and Mordecai and
Ester write up a new propose. Here's another edict to counter.
They cannot write it, but the counter the first edict.
The Jews can now defend themselves. And so they get
this edict written and has spread throughout the city of Susa,
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and they go to work, and on the day they
were supposed to be attacked, they actually fight back, and
they defend themselves and they kill the sons of Hayman
and five hundred other people. But they need another day,
and so Esther goes back and says, I need another
day to do this. There's a lot of enemies out
there beyond the city of Susa, in the realm of
the Empire. So they send in the letters all throughout
the Empire that the Jews can defend themselves. And seventy
five thousand enemies attack the Jews, and the Jews strike
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back and strike them down. And the Bible says that
many people become Jews because the fear of the Jews had.
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Fallen on them. It's amazing turnaround.
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God specializes in quick reversals. Somebody needs to tell yourself
that right now, this story is not done yet. Somebody
say this after me, this story. Oh, you gotta say
it like you mean it. This story is not done yet.
Somebody say this, This family is not done yet. Somebody
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say my future is not done yet. God is still working.
Do you believe it?
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Shout a man. Come on, you.
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Gotta stir yourself up and talk faith into your life.
I can't be the only person excited this morning. You
might be weak and tied, so am I. I have
any in But I'm agnointed by the Holy Spirit of God,
and he has formed me and He's working through me.
And He's gonna bring victory into our lives. They take
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authority over their enemy. They have victory over their enemies
that were bound to defeat them.
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Instead they got defeat.
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They got defeated, and the Jews were victorious. Oh man,
I wish I could get this into someone's head today.
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You are a victor. You are more than a conqueror.
You are not a loser. You are not the.
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The subject of what's happened to you. You are the
object of God's grace over you, and his love that
wants to be deposited in you, and his victory that
is certain for you. And the best is yet to come.
So they they win two days, and then Mordechai sends
letters throughout all the rum and says, look, Jews, a fellow, Jews,
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letters go out.
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We're gonna celebrate these.
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Two days every year forever, and it becomes the feast
of Puram. And do you know that to this day
the Jews celebrate the feast of Purum. It's at the
last of the winter season and at the beginning of spring.
And I think that's a perfect time to celebrate victory.
Because winter can get you down. Amen, winter can get
you down. Winter can get you like beaten up and defeated.
But every year, just when it's as dark as it
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can possibly look, we got to remind ourselves that spring
is coming down the road.
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That's what the feast of Purum is.
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Here's the last verse of Esther, last verse, verse three
of chapter ten. Mordecai the Jew was second in rank
to King of Hassrus, and he was great among the
Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for
he saw it the welfare of his people and spoke what.
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And spoke peace to all his people.
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I want to end this series by speaking some peace
over you. Peace in the midst of whatever is distressing
you or freaking you out or confusing you.
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Four ways to get it. Are you ready? From Mordecai's life.
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Number one, do good wherever you are in the name
of Christ. Wherever you are now Mordechai, that's what made
his life turn around.
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He did good.
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He was working at the King's gate. Where did he live.
He lived in Susa. He lived in the capital city
of Persia. Understand he was an exile. He was a
Jew living in a foreign He was one of listening
to this very carefully everybody. He was one of God's
people living in a pagan heathen world sound familiar?
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Huh?
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Do you feel strange to this world? Christian?
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Do you feel like what is going on? Why are
the inmates running the asylum? Do you get strange to
the things that are what crazy is coming down the
pike this week? If you feel that way, it's because
you are Listen, you were born again. You are not
of this world. Jesus says, you don't belong here. This
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is not your home. Somebody say, this.
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Is not my home.
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But you still need to do good. Learn how to
do good in the foreign places. Learn how to love
some pagans in Jesus name, Love your non believing neighbor.
Somebody needs to go to work this week and be
the guy who buys lunch just to bless people.
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Do good. Some of you.
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You keep moaning instead of promoting. You keep complaining instead
of contributing.
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And as long as.
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You're a complainer, you're never gonna get anywhere. I have
people who work for me, and I'll tell you something.
The complainers don't last very long.
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They don't.
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It's annoying to have people complaining all the time. Be
somebody who works positively wherever you are. Mordechai did good
for a pagan king. He saved his life. Now listen
to this, and this is so important. After he was celebrated,
after he was led on the horse by Hayman through
the streets of Persia, do you know what?
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Do you know what Mordechai did? Look at it.
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Chapter six. Back to chapter six, verse twelve. It says
Mordecai returned to the King's gate, He was celebrated for
a day, and then he went back and did his job.
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He just did good. He just did good.
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By the way he was at the king's gate. Chapter two,
verse twenty one says he was at the king's gate
when he saw the assassination plot that the two eunuchs
of the king were trying to carry out. And so
what you see here.
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Is a faithfulness in Mordecai.
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And I think this is so important for some of you,
because you you do good and you don't see results,
and then you stop doing good.
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Do you understand that.
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Between Ester chapter two and Ester chapter five and six
was five years that Mordechai saves the king's life.
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In chapter two.
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Doesn't get recognized, doesn't get promoted, doesn't get benefits, nothing happens,
but it gets recorded. Five years go buy things, get worse,
life gets darker, the edict is enacted. He's going to
die and then at the right time he gets rewarded.
Here's what you got to learn how to do in
your life. You got to learn to sow seeds of
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goodness in your present for fruits of blessing in your future.
Some of you want instant microwave Christians, God is not
a microwave. He is a slow cooker. He is a
barbecue pit. Come on, somebody. He slowly cooks that meat
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of goodness in your life until the juices are boiling
out of the center of it. And it smells so wonderful.
And I'm making you depressed right now, aren't I? This
is this is part of my fast A's coming out
because I've been watching all the advertisements for food, and
i don't know about you, but I'm like, I'm gonna
eat that when I'm done. I'm gonna eat that. When
I'm gonna done. I'm I'm gonna be four hundred pounds
by April fourth. That's what's gonna happen to me. It's
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just the season the fastest, the feast is coming, Amen, somebody.
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But you gotta learn how to plant seeds in this fast,
in this fast.
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And I think some of you gotta break free from
this because I feel it in the spirit, and I'm
gonna say it. Nothing has happened, and you feel like
the fastest been a failure. That's not how it works.
You fast in one season, you get the fruit.
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In another season.
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You some of you might get the fruit from this
fast five years from now. Are you willing to do good?
Are you willing to go back to that gate? Are
you willing to keep working? Are you willing to keep
sewing good seed into your life? The world has enough
people who are out to get all that they can
right now, and those people are the most insufferable people
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on the planet. Most of them work in Hollywood. We've
got to learn to be givers and doers of good
wherever we are. And here's the second point. It leads
me right into it. Don't seek human recognition. This is
the way Hayman lived. Do you understand that Hayman dies
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hanging on the gallows that he made for Mordecai. But
the only reason why he made the gallows for Mordecai.
Do you know why he made the Gallas for Mordecai
Because Mordecai.
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And this is so insane to me.
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Mordecai was the only person in the empire who didn't
worship him. Oh, if I could just spend a whole
message on this. Don't seek people's praise. It's a trap.
I don't know if you've met people, but they can
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be awful. Have you met people? Yeah, they can love
you today and hate you tomorrow. They'll build you up today,
they'll tear you down tomorrow. And here's the worst part.
If you get people to love you and like you
and celebrate you, nobody tells you this. You got to
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keep them loving you and celebrating you and worshiping you
and loving you. That's impossible. And guess what you lose
in the midst of making everybody love you.
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You lose you.
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You become a people pleaser and not a God server.
And God who doesn't don't care about you pleasing people.
You understand that you can't. You can't properly parents if
you need your kid's approval. I don't know this modern,
this modern way of parenting, I don't get it. Johnny,
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tell me how you feel what's going on. I know
you're throwing a tempertantrum in the grocery aisle right now,
but tell me your truth.
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I want to hear from you.
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No, pull Johnny out the grocery store into the car
back home and spake Johnny that kidneys a whoopon.
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That's what I got when I was growing up. I
turned out. Okay, I don't got any twitches.
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You gotta learn to love the fact that God has
has loved you with an everlasting love.
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You don't need the love of other people.
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You can't be married if you need your spouse to
celebrate you.
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Oh.
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I could do a whole week on that husband's Your
wife is not your fan. My wife is not my fan.
She does not worship me at all.
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Oh. This it was a great story.
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One day I was I preached and I got down
and my wife was stating it and this Nigerian lady
with the Nigerian accent came up to us and I
was like talking to her, and Cheryl comes up. I said, oh,
this is my wife, Cheryl, and she goes. The Nigerian
lady goes, oh, oh, you're his wife. You must be
on your knees every day, thanking God that you are
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to marry to this man. Now, I perceived that this
woman had the gift of prophecy, but evidently Cheryl did
not feel the same way. And it's a fun story
that I tell and we tell it, you know, parties
and everything.
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But she's not my fan. But I don't.
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If I live for her approval and worship, our marriage
would be a mess. Wives, same goes to you. Your
husband is not your Instagram photographer. He is a grown man.
Do not make him a lackey. He doesn't exist for
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your pleasure. He exists for God's purpose and you gotta
learn to let go of them. Always needed to approve
of you. If you're gonna be married forraversation, never be honest.
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Do good. Oh gosh, I forgot to tell the story.
Is it okay? If I go to point one again
and tell the story? So okay, okay. So this is
a true story about doing good.
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There was two guys who were running a broke Rundown
general store in the eighteen hundreds. One was a dead
be drunk and one was an aspiring lawyer. He wanted
to be a lawyer, but he couldn't get to be
a lawyer because he had no money, and they had
a conversation as they were broken on the verge of bankruptcy.
The one want to be the lawyer said, man, I
wish I could get a hold of Blackstone's commentary on
law I'll sell this store tomorrow if I can get
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a hold of that. That's what it would cost sell
the store. I'll buy the commentaries. His dead be drunk
partner said, no way, we're not selling the store. They
were down to their last couple of bucks, and the
traveler drove by the store, stopped and he said, got
out of his wagon, out of his carriage, and he said, look,
I got a barrel I gotta sell. I can't fit
in the car and I need money desperately. Would you
give me fifty cents for it? The dead duke drunk said,
no way, get.
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Out of it here. We don't have any money.
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And the guy who want to be a lawyer said,
you know what, I'll give you a sety cents.
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His heart went out to him and he did good.
He bought the barrel. He didn't need help.
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The stranger out put the barrel in the back of
the store. Months go by. This is a true story,
is why I needed to tell the story. Months go by,
he cleans out the general store. He goes and he
finds the barrel, lifts open the barrel a bunch of rubbish,
pulls the rubbish out, reaches down and underneath the rubbish
was the complete set of Blackstone's commentary on law. He
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pulls it up. He looks up to God and he says,
maybe I'm made for something greater. Eventually the store goes bankrupt.
This guy teaches himself law on his own time, in
his own way, studies himself up.
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He runs for the state legislature.
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He wins six terms as a state legislature representative. He
runs for US Congress, he wins one term as a
US Congressman. He runs for Senate and he loses. But
do you know that he wan for president and he
became the sixteenth President of the end United States. His
name was Abraham Lincoln. It all started with one work
that was good for somebody else, and then you don't
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seek recognition.
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Now back to that one. Jesus said, it's a trap.
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He talked about the Pharisees in John chapter twelve, verse
forty three, he said, they love the glory that comes
from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Matthew twenty three to five. He says, everything they do
is a show, is just to be seen by others.
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Don't you understand that if you're doing things to.
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Please others, you're just becoming a show, You're just becoming
a people pleaser.
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It's a trap of life.
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Do you know why you don't need people's praise or
people's recognition. This is why, because you've already got the
recognition from God. And what you have to understand about
God is that he is keeping accurate records of what
you do. Jesus said in Matthew chapter ten, forty two,
whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup
of cold water, just a cup of water, because you're
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my disciple, then you will not lose your reward. Hebrews
chapter six, verse ten. God is not unjust to overlook
your work. And the love that you have shown for
His name is serving the sames. As you still do,
you gotta do it not for other people's sake, So
you gotta do it for God's sakes. Knowing that the
good you see, the good seed you sow in one
season will be fruit in a season yet to come.
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Point number three, one day can change everything.
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I like this point. I like this point. That's what
Esther chapter five and six tells us.
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Esther Chapter five ends with Mordecai, I'm sorry, Hayman building
a gallows, and Esther chapter six, twenty four hours later,
Hayman is hanging on those gallows. End of chapter seven,
it's just twenty four hours. One day can change everything.
Some of you are looking at your life and is
saying there's no movement. I'm not getting anywhere. I don't understand. Hey,
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one day, somebody say, one day. God does not need
a long time to get something done. God is a
miracle worker. God can do something in one He can
do something in one moment. Don't you know that when
he comes back, he's coming back in the twinkling of
an eye. It's not gonna take long for us to
be gone from this world and be in Heaven forever.
Is gonna happen in an instant second. And there is
nothing that God can do and can't do in one
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day of your life.
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He can change everything. Something needs to write this down.
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Stop worrying about your lack of movement, because God only
needs a moment. Oh, Joseph was sold as a slave
by his brothers who hated him. And then he was
working as a slave and he was doing good. And
then he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, and then
he was thrown into prison, and he was forgotten.
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But on one day Pharaoh had a dream.
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No one could interpret it, but that guy Joseph in
the prison, he can interpret. And they pulled him out
of the pit. He pulled him out of the prison
and put him in the palace and became the prime
minister of Egypt.
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In one day.
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Or Moses, who was wandering the wilderness with his father
in law sheep for forty years, he tried to deliver
Israel in his own strength.
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He killed one Egyptian.
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Thus as far as he got, and then he goes
and he's in exile. And for forty years, this guy
four decades, friend, I'm forty six. He did them my
whole life outside on forty seven. He did that all
for forty years. He was out in the wilderness with
the sheep that he didn't even own. And one day
he saw a bush that didn't burn, and you know
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the rest of the story.
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Or David, who was a shepherd boy and a singer, and.
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His father rejected him, and his brothers didn't like him,
and everybody vilified him, and he was anointed by Samuel,
but people still didn't pay attention to him. And he
was a little delivery boy. He brought the breton the
cheese to his brothers at the army front. And he
was basically doing uber eats all his life, that's what
he was doing. But one day he shows up as
this moment that Goliath is taunting the people of Israel,
and he said, who is this philistine who would taunt Israel?
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And in one day that shepherd boy turns into a
mighty warrior for God. God does not need a long time,
He needs one day to get it done. In your life,
perhaps the most famous one, Jesus Christ. Healed the sick,
raise the dead, cast out demons, fed the multitudes. And
then he was betrayed by his own disciple, and he
was abandoned by all of his other disciples, and he
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was handed over to pagan sinners, and he was crucified
and neil to a tree and thrown in a grave.
But one day came when the when the grave opened
and the stone rolled away, and the heavens fell down,
and the angels came down, and Jesus rose on the
grave and split history in half in one day.
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God does not need a month, He needs a day.
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Some of you gotta wait for the day and let
God have his way through all the things that you're
waiting for one day and ultimately all those stories and
the story of Esther and the story of Mordecai. Really
there's a bigger there's a bigger plot in mind, which
brings you to point number four. Don't lose the big
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plot bringing salvation to many.
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Do you understand that.
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Esther was beautiful, But she wasn't pretty just so that
she could hang out in the palace and eat at
the dinner table. She wasn't pretty just so she could
look a certain.
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Way in front of King Xerxes.
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She was beautiful for the purpose of intervening in the
saving of the jews lives. And Mordecai wasn't rewarded for
saving the king's life simply because he deserved it, and
simply because you know, he needed a leg up, and
he was hated by mor Hayman. No Mordecai was rewarded
so that he could be instrumental in saving many lives.
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Let me tell you about your life. I started this
message by saying God is working for you, but he's
working what through you. Your story is a subplot of
the big plot.
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Don't miss that or you will be miserable.
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Ultimately is about saving lives, friend, Ultimately is about bringing
people to Jesus.
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That's what God wants to do through you. How can
you God use this story.
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This chaos, this crazy, this family, this life to bring
people to Jesus. That's where life starts to get interesting,
starts to make sense, starts to find its way. Then
you know you're not here by accident. You're here on purpose.
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One day, one day, many many years ago.
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Waters Church was a small single church up in Nord, Massachusetts,
and it was a.
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Small little Italian Benecostal.
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Church in the nineteen eighties, and it had grown to
about two hundred and fifty three hundred people. But the
pastor kind of went rogue and left with a bunch
of people split the church in half, a very devastating
thing for any church, and they wallowed in lack of
direction for many years and they were looking for a
pastor and looking for a pastor, and they would bring
candidates into pastor and to candidate for the pastor at job.
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And back in those days, you voted, and so they
would take a vote and every candidate would be voted down,
and if the person who didn't get voted in, all
the people who like that guy would leave church. And
they went from three hundred people down to forty people.
Forty people in nineteen ninety. And they went through this
process for many, many, many months, and eventually they came
to a guy that they said, this guy seems pretty good.
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We're gonna go with him. And it was a slim.
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Chance, but it was a good chans that this guy
was gonna get voted in in a board meeting right
after a Sunday morning one day, a Sunday morning, and
they had the pulpit open. They didn't have anybody to preach,
so they called the district offices and they said, listen,
is there anybody who could preach for us?
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We have our pulpit open. Wouldn't you know that.
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There was a guy that was that was going across
the United States interviewing for his church positions himself and
they said, well, we're not looking for a pastor anymore.
We found one, we think, and sure if he want
to come and precess, fine, Well this guy was from
South Africa and he came and he preached, and some
of you know who he is. And he preached us
Sunday morning, and his name is passed guys Or. He's
the senior pastor of our church. And when you know
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how he preaches, and the fire came down and the
Holy Spirit fell and people got saved and delivered and
things were happening. It was amazing church service, and.
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Everyone was going away.
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And they went to the meeting after that service and
they voted the other guy out and they said, we
want this guy to be our pastor one day. He
can change everything. And I used to go to that
church as a kid. I used to go to the
church as a teenager. And one day I showed up.
One day I showed up and the kids, the teens,
were hanging out after church. And I remember we were
hanging out. We were in a car driving down a
road I know the road where it happened. And one
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of the kids said to me, Hey, Tim, would you
like to come with us to a youth conference. And
I hated youth conferences and I didn't really I wasn't
really interested in church. I didn't really want to, you know,
be all that engaged in church. I kind of just
went because my parents brought me. But for some reason,
I said yes, and I went to that youth conference.
And I got to the church to the youth conference,
and a guy got up on stage and started screaming
like I'm screaming to you and starting to talking about
the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit wants.
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To feel you.
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And I came down to the altar and I put
my hands up and the Holy Spirit fell into my
life and started a fire that's been burning for thirty
six years, Frim, and God called me into the ministry.
God called me to be a past one day, Frim,
one day can change everything. And then that started a
battle between my mother and I.
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Oh, we had a battle. We had a battle through
my teen years.
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That happened when I was twelve years old and I
told my mom I want to be a pastor, and
she said, no, you're going to be an engineer. And
I said, no, I want to be a pastor. She said, no,
you're going to be an engineer or a computer programer.
You're gonna make a lot of money. Because she was
a pastor's daughter and she didn't want me to go
through the hardships of a pastor's family.
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I said, no, mom, God has called me into this ministry.
I gotta do it. And we fought all through life.
But because the Bible.
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Says all to your father and mother, she she filled
out my applications for college.
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She did it, and she.
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Said, you're gonna go to this school and you're gonna
get this degree, and you're going to be a very,
very successful young man.
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I was resistant, but it's like.
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I find And then one day she went to church
up in Norhod with Pastor Geyser and she had a
conversation with him and she said, I can't understand. My
son wants to be like you, but I wanted to
be an engineer. And Pastor Geyser said, listen, let him
go and pursue the ministry because if he's not.
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Called, if he's not called, he'll give up and.
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He'll become whatever you wanted to become. He'll become an
engineer or whatever.
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And she said, you know.
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What, that sounds like a good idea. And she prayed
for me to run away from the ministry. Turns out
I was called friend. Turns out God had his hand
on my life. And one day and one conversation and
one sudden can change everything for us and for you.
You might be going through the valley of the shadow
of death, but God.
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Is with you.
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You might be struggling with depression, but God's not done
with you. You might be in suicide wash, but God
wants to resurrect you. The story is not over. Resurrection
has happened. Jesus is on the throat. I'm telling somebody,
what's your faith in the God who does miracle, in
the God who opens graves, in the God who steals
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the waters.
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, God's gonna do something to our church. God's gonna
do something through this fast. The fast is yet to come.
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Don't lose heart. Hallelujah.
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I know some of you are dying to get those
last blanks filled in so they put it on the screen.
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There are no accidents when you're in Christ.
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It's all part of the plan. God knows from beginning
to end. And I need to tell somebody here. You're
not an actor. You're not a mistake, and your life
isn't an accident. There's no accidents in Christ. There's no
such thing as chance. If you want chance, go to Vegas.
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God orchestrates, God ordains. God is working for you and
through you. No matter what the world is doing. What
just staying with me at this point, If you're done
writing those things down, what just staying with Let's give
God a praise offering in that, Let's.
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Let us pray, casting all your care upon Him, for
he careth for you first Peter five seven. Dear God,
thank you for listening to me and allowing me to
lean on you. Thank you for your support and letting
me seek shelter in your arms. Some days I find
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for answers and mothers options or by searching online, or
try to ease my discomfort using the waiting season. Father,
help me to lean on you and embrace the uncertainties,
cause the pain will only make me stronger. I know
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to check out the content, and I pray it blesses
your life. God wants to do things not just for you,
but through you. Touch lives, through you, change the world
around you, impact people beyond you, and make your life
a testimony so that people can come to Jesus because
you were involved in their life. Providence Part four. I
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want to talk to you on the subject of it's
all part of the plan. It's all part of the plan.
Can you say that title with me? On the counter
of three? But you gotta emphasize the word the So one, two, three,
it's all part of God's got a plan. So I'm
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gonna say God's got a plan. Oh, touch your neighbor
and say He's got a plan. Touch your neighbor. Come on,
let's talk to each other. Let's have a conversation. This
isn't a lecture, this is a preach. And we're gonna
talk together. And I'm gonna go to Esther chapter six,
and we're gonna get to the last of this book,
and You're gonna be amazed. I love this passage. I
love this book. I've enjoyed preaching it. Are you enjoying
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the messages? Are you enjoying this series? And I hope
it's instilling faith in you and you are getting ready
for God to do something wonderful through your life. Okay,
So here's a message idea, the big idea of the series.
Providence means God is working no matter what the world
is doing. Providence means God is working no matter what
the world is doing. But I thought to myself off today,
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we got to get personal.
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Personal. This is gonna be for you.
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How does God's providence and what he does apply to you? Well,
if you're in Christ, there are four words that I
want you to add to this definition.
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Four words.
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So here's the new definition. I want you to leave
this series with. Write this down. Providence means that God
is working for me and through me no matter what
the world is doing. Now doesn't that sound better? It's
about it's also including you. God is working for you.
So I wanna say for me. But I need someone
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here today to take another step forward in faith. I
need you to leap forward in faith into a brand
new dimension and don't stay in the for me kind
of faith.
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It's not enough.
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It's not what God wants, it's not what He's up to,
it's not what the scriptures bear witness to. It is
not ultimately just for you faith. I need you to
move into through you faith. God wants to do things
not just for you, but through you. Touch lives through you,
change the world around you, impact people beyond you, and
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make your life a testimony so that people can come
to Jesus because you were involved in their life. See,
this is where a lot of Christians are. They're for me.
I need God to fix things. I need to go
to where where is he?
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I need this?
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That's wonderful, But ultimately true faith is to believe that
it's not really about you. You're not the center of
the story. And God has some plans. I don't know
if you know. He's got some plans for the world,
and he's got you on assignment. This is going to
save some people today. It's gonna save a lot of
people from a syndrome I like to call the Wymy syndrome.
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Have you heard of the Wymi syndrome? See, you know
it's not medically prescribed or diagnosed. It's it's spiritual diagnosed.
It's the why mey? Why is this happening?
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Why? Oh God? Why all right? Why am I related
to these people? Lord? Why don't have to work with
these losers? Lord?
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Why do I have to live here and not there?
Why am I this age or not that age? Why
can't I do this? Why has this happened? Has anybody
had a why mey syndrome season in your life? Come on,
be honest today. It's all right to be honest in church.
Confession is good for the soul. I've had a lot
of wyme sessions I have. I've had a lot to
ask my wife. She'll tell you, Oh yeah, he's why
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me all the time. Man, you gotta watch out this.
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You gonna watch out for wy me.
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Here's what's gonna set you free from wy me when
you realize that it's not about you. There's something on
the other side of your your misery. There's something on
the other side of your trial, there's something on the
other side of your challenges, on your setbacks, that God
story in your life is not done yet. So that
you can start looking at your life and say wait
a second. You are not an aggravation. You are an assignment.
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Ooo.
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That husband of yours, ladies, he's not an aggravation. He's
an assignment. He's there to help you become a more
patient and loving and kind and caring woman and husbands.
That wife for you is not just there to cook
and clean and bury your children or go to work.
Now we're in the modern world. Go to work and
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earn a living for the house or whatever it is.
That's not what she's there. She's there to help you
become what God wants you to become, so that you
can do what God wants you to do and other
people can be blessed through your story.
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You can look at that boss tomorrow.
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You can go right up to them and don't say
it out loud, but just say you're my assignment. Yes,
God has you in my life. You're challenging me, you're
changing me. I know that God's working all things together
for the good of those who love Him and are
calling according to his purposes. It's not why me, It's
about Jesus, saymen, and so this is what this message is.
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And we are in Ester chapter five. Let's stand together
for the reading of the last few verses of Ester
chapter five, remember that Esther has brought Hayman, the hateful
enemy of the Jews, and King Xerxes or Hasserius to
a banquet, and she's trying to intervene to save the
Jews from an annihilation. Hayman hastes the Jews. He wants
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to annihilate them. There's an act in place. They're gonna
be annihilated. It is about a year away. And so
she throws a party. Mordecai, her cousin, has instigated this
whole thing. You gotta step up. You've come to the
kingdom for such a time as this. You gotta say something,
because God's gonna work regardless of whether or not out
you do it.
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But you gotta be part of it. So she goes,
and she.
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Finally gets the gumption to do the bare minimum. She
invites Hayman and King Xerxes to a banquet. And then
this is what's happened. This is the end of the
first banquet. At the first banquet, she gets enough gumption
to ask them to come to a second banquet.
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The next night.
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So we are between the first banquet and the second
banquet follow Okay, So here's verse twelve. Then Hayman said,
even Queen Esther, this is Hayman. He goes home from
the breaker. Even Queen Esther, let no one but me
come with the king to the feet she prepared. And
tomorrow also I am invited by her, together with the king.
Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long
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as I say. Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king's gate,
then his wife's jerish and all his friends said to him,
let a gallows fifty cubas high be made, and in
the morning tell the King to have Mordecai hanged upon it.
Then go joyfully with the king to the feast. This
idea pleased Hayman, and he had the gallows made.
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This is God's word.
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Let's pray together, Father, I ask in Jesus name, that
our hearts will be open, and our ears will be open,
and our minds will be receptive to hear your voice,
to know your truth, to receive your word.
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May your kingdom come, may or will be done.
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Let the words of my mouth, the meditation of all
of our hearts, be pleasing in your sight. And help us,
o God, to see Jesus, him and Him only It
is my name. We pray, and everybody said, he men, God,
bless you have a seat. So Estra chapter five ends,
and it looks very dark. Somebody say dark life looks dark.
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Maybe in your world right now, it just looks darker
than ever. Maybe for some of you, you are looking
at your words saying, well, I can't get much darker
than this. And I want you to realize that that's
exactly where the Jews were in Estra chapter five. They're
facing extinction, legalized persecution, legalized murder of all of them,
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on top of which their last best effort to change
things is a beauty queen winner having a party with
her husband and the guy who instigated the whole mass.
And this is a very dark moment. But what you
going to see in Extra chapter six is that things
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can change quickly.
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And I'm gonna walk through the rest of the book
with you. We're gonna put a lot of the.
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Verses on the screen, because this story is iconic and
ironic at the same time. There are some great moments
of God's deliverance in the Bible. Amen, I mean the
Red Sea being parted and then Pharaoh chasing down the
Israelites into the sea, and then the sea closing in
on him.
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I remember the kid in.
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Elementary school who stepped up and said.
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Oh, no, no, I believe that.
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In the elementary school teacher said, oh, how can God?
How can God split a sea? He didn't really split
a sea. It was just a very shallow sea. And
they just walked through the very shallow sea. And then
the kid was so wise he said, well, then how
does God What a great miracle that God drowned Pharaoh's
army in a shallow sea? Is you know, great story right?
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That God delivered them and this and the kicker was
that Pharaoh's army ended in the bottom of that.
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See that's a great story. Amen.
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Or Dave Daniel in the lions dead and he's petting
lions all night.
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The lions would be eating him otherwise, but the angels come.
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And shut the lion's mouth, and so there's David in
the lions dead, just petting the lion. It would have
been amazing to be a fly on the wall in
the midst of that moment. There's been some great deliverances,
but this one, this deliverance is amazing. Let's take a
look at how this goes down. So Hayman has just
built a gallows seventy five feet fifty Q. It's seventy
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five feet high in his backyard to hang his hateful
enemy Mordecai. Chapter six, verse one. On that night, if
you've got your bible, circle night, because here's what I
want you to hear. God does amazing things in nighttime.
Some of you are in the darkness right now. You
don't even think that I can work. He works his
best stuff at night. He is not sleeping. He doesn't sleep.
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You sleep. He goes to work.
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He meant somebody, and it was night time, and the
smallest thing happens. Look at it says on that night
the king could not sleep, and he gave orders to
bring the book of memorable Deeds, the chronicles, and they
were read before the king, and it was found written
how Mordecai had told Bigthana and Terrish, two of the
king's eunuchs who guarded the threshold and who had sobted
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my hands on King Hasser. So this is an amazing
start to this chapter. In this moment, the whole thing
starts with something inconspicuous, royal insomnia.
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The king can't sleep, and I want.
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You to pay attention to that because it reminds me
and I want to tell you that you've got to
realize that God can use even the little things in
your life. Even a sleepless night can be a gift
from God. And this guy can't sleep, that's it. And
so the funny thing is that he says, Okay, I
need to fall asleep. And there was no night quill
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back then, there was no melatonin. So he goes, let
me find the most boring thing that I can think
of and have somebody read it back to me. Oh yeah,
read me back the record of my reign.
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So he goes. They get the chronicles of the king.
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How boring was his reign that to hear his story
retold put him to sleep.
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That's amazing, right, So they come and they bring the
chronicles and it says this the.
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Verse three, and the I'm sorry, it's just so happened
that the very page that was opened in the King's
chronicles was the moment when Mordechai, this is back in
Estra chapter two, was the moment when Mornechi saved.
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The king's life.
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And the king says, well, what's been done? Look what
it says verse three and the king said, what's what
honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordechai for this?
And the king young men said, nothing has been done
for him. Now this is a very true fact about
the Persian Empire. The kings in the Persian Empire love
to reward loyal subjects who projected the king.
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And so he comes to the he comes to it
says this.
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He wrotes that Mordechai, who saved his life, did not
get honored. He did honor Hayman, and Hayman used his
honor to hate on the Jews.
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So now look what it says in verse four. And
the king said, who is in the court? Now?
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Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's
palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged
on the gallows that he had prepared for him. And
the king's young men told him, Hamon is there standing
in the court. And the king said to him, let
him come in. Ooh, I love this moment. Here you
have the enemy of the king, the enemy of the Jews,
is coming into the presence of the king with the
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intention to kill Mordecai.
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At the same time, the king.
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Is thinking about ways to bless Mordecai.
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Do you understand that this story is about you, It
really is.
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It's talking about our reality in Christ Jesus. Here's what
you need to understand. You are living in a spiritual fight.
You are living in a battle between God and the devil.
The devil is coming for you. He wants to steal, killing, destroyer.
That's what Haman represents. He wants to annihilate you, and
he wants.
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To destroy you.
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He wants to rob you of your family, rob you
of your peace, rob you if you enjoy.
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And he's got.
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Plans, he's got schemes, he's got gallows, he wants to
hang you on. And he's coming into God's presence every day.
The Bible says he's the accuser of the brother. But
do you understand Church, Do you know that at the
same time the devil wants to come in and attack you,
that you've got a father in heaven who is planning
to bless you. He wants to do you good, he
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wants to reward you. And you gotta understand something. Yes
you will be set back, yes you will be attacked, but.
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Greater is he that is in you than he that
is in the world.
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This is why Paul said, if God be for us,
who can be against us? So you're gotta look at
your problems. You gotta say, wait a second, this is
a spiritual fight. This is a spiritual struggle. I gotta
step up my game. I gotta realize that, yes, the
devil will throw his aim, his best stuff at me,
but the Lord is still looking to bless me.
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That's this moment. So Mordecai is hanging in the balance.
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Verse six, it says Hayman comes in, and the king
said to him, what should be done? Notice that there's
no names mentioned here. What should be done to the
name to the man whom the king delights to honor?
And Hayman said to himself, who who the King delights
to honor more than me? Now that is just pride, friend,
And there's a verse of the Bible that says pride
comes before a fall, and this guy epitomizes that verse
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so well. In this moment, Hayman, who wants to kill Mordecai, thinks, oh,
the king just wants to do me honor. So verse
seven to nine, he just unloads on what he wants
verse seven, and Hayman said the King. For the man
whom the King delights to honor, Let royal robes be brought,
which the King has worn, and the horse that the
King has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown
has said. And let the robes and the horse be
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handed over to one of the king's most noble officials.
Remember that one of the king's most noble officials. Let
them dress the man whom the King delights to honor,
and let them lead him on the horse through the
square of the city, proclaiming before him, Thus shall it
be done to the man whom the King delights to honor. Now,
let's just stop here for a second and just take
a look at all the things that Hayman thinks he's
gonna get for himself. This guy is second in command
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of the kingdom. He is at the highest place you
can get other than the king. He's probably got riches,
he's probably got houses, he's probably got lands, he's probably
got cattle and sheep and oxen. I mean, he's blessed,
he's extraordinary prosperous. But it wasn't enough. He wanted people's praise.
Oh what a trap that is for so many people.
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And this is Hayman's spirit. This is what the devil wanted,
by the way, in heaven before he fell from earth.
The Bible says that Lucifer was one of the arch
angels Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer. He was one of the arch
angels in heaven with God, and he wanted to be
in God's place. He wanted the praise, he wanted the honor,
he wanted the authority, he wanted.
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The esteem that was only due to God.
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And it cost him his place and his authority, and
God cast him out of heaven and down to this earth.
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And ever since then he's been trying to feed so many.
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Humans the lie that if enough people love you, you'll
feel complete.
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And it's never enough. It's never enough.
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Watch out for the trap of getting people's approval. It'll
rob you of your joy, it'll rob you of your life,
it'll rob you of your ability to live. So he's like, yeah,
just give me all this stuff. And he said, oh,
I want all this pray I So this is the
best part. Here's the best verse in the whole story.
The king verse ten said to him, and hurry, take
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the robes and the horse, as you have said, and
do So to Mordechai, the Jew who sits at the
King's gate, leave nothing out that you have mentioned. Eleve it,
you said it, Now you do it. But you do
it for Mordecai.
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You gotta be.
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I mean, if I could have been a fly of
all there just to see Hayman's face, go what Mordecai,
So he has to do it verse thirteen and made
and verse eleven. So Hayman took the robes and the horse,
and he dressed. Mordechai let him through squares of the city,
proclaiming for him. Thus, and this is how I see
it going down. Mordecai is on the horse, and I
see Hayman in front of him, going the Shall it
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be done to the man? And the king delights to hotter.
Then Mordechai returned to the King's gate. But Haman harried
to his house, mourning with his head covered. And now
he goes home and he sulks, because this guy loves
to unload on everybody. In Verse thirteen says he comes
home to his wife Serish and all his friends, and
he told him everything that happened to him. Then his
wise men and his wife. Jerriff said to him. If
Mordecai Perhorn, whom you have begun to fall, is of
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the Jewish people, you will not overcome him, but you
will surely fall before him. I just want you to
look at something there. It says before whom you have
begun to fall? Do you understand, Christian? Do you know
that the battle for your spiritual victory was already sealed
at the Cross and the empty Grave two thousand years ago.
The devil may taunt you, He may tell you you're
a loser. He may tell you lies, he may whisper
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in your ear, But all you got to do is
remind him that he's a loser in waiting, and the
victory is coming to you in the end. With Jesus Christ,
that's how it goes. He has begun to fall, and
the best is coming for you, Christian. So his wife says, yeah,
this is it is over for you. And this get
this verse fourteen, This is the movement of the story.
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While they were still talking to him, the king's Eunichs
arrived and hurried to bring him into the feast that
Esther had prepared. And this is the feast where she's
finally gonna tell the king what's going on with this
guy Haymen. So that's chapter six. Let's look at chapter seven.
So the King and Haymon went to the King went
to the feast with Queen Esther, and on the second
day of the feast, as they were drinking wine after
the feast, the King said.
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To Esther, what is your wish?
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I wonder if she waited for the wine to get
really heavy in his body, he said, Hey, Esther, what
do you want? I'll give you half the king. That's
why it pays to fast in a world of feasting.
Right there, amen, somebody? Verse three. Then Queen Esther answered,
this is the shot her around the world. She finally
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does it. She finally says something that saves the Jews.
Queen Esther answered, if I had found favor in your sight,
O King, and if it pleased the King, let my
life be granted me for my wish and for my
people my request for we had been sold I and
my people to be destroyed, to be killed, to be annihilated,
if we had been sold as slaves. I wouldn't bothered you,
because it doesn't it's not worthy of the King's you know, discomfort.
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We're gonna be.
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We're gonna be killed, King, my people, me, your wife.
And verse five, he says who is he? And where
is he who has dared to do this? And she's like,
he's at that dinner table, and there's there. It is
finally a break in the action that all began with insomnia.
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Don't despise the small things in your life. God is
involved even in the small things. She says, A foe,
an enemy, the wicked Hayman. Then Hayman was terrified before
the king and the queen. You know, I stop here
to say this. You know the Jews they run Hollywood.
You know this, right, I mean, and I don't say
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that disparage them, but they do. And the reason why
is because they're amazing storytellers. They know how to tell
a good story. And some of you need to get
this in your spirit because.
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You're not understanding how life works.
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The reason that they tell good stories is because these people,
for thirty five hundred year have been through hell and back.
They've had people hate them, try to kill them. You
can go from from Pharaoh to Hayman, to Hitler, to
Hamas to Hesbalah. They all start with h for some reason,
maybe because they all come from the pit of hell,
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and they've been coming for these people for thousands upon
thousands upon thousands of years, and every.
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Time you think they're gonna be.
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Gone, they make a comeback because God is faithful to
his promises and He's gonna preserve that people until Jesus
Christ comes again. And what they got as a result,
you gotta get this. What they got as a result
was a good story. Do you know what makes a
good story? Trouble, hardship, setbacks somebody. You gotta start looking
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at your life as, oh, this is what God is doing.
He's writing a better story. Because the story where you
get everything that you want and everything goes your way
and you always succeed and everybody loves.
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You is boring and no one can relate to.
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It because everyone struggles and everyone goes through and tribulations,
and it doesn't matter how much money you make, and
it doesn't matter how good you look. Everybody goes through difficulties.
And if you want God to do something with your difficulties,
give him your life, surrender your plans, and say God,
have your way with this challenge. I want other people
to hear how you saved me from that I want
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other people to hear how you restored my heart. I
want other people to hear how you brought me back
from cancer, how you saved my kid from fornication, how
you delivered my family and brought me to this place.
Because God takes pleasure and bringing his people back from
the brink again and again, and he wants to do
that in you, and Esther just finally says it, Hayman,
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this guy, he wants to kill us verse seven. And
the king rose in wrath, rose in wrath and went
out from the place where they were eating and drinking,
went to the palace garden. Hayman stayed to beg for
his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm
was determined against him by the king. And verse says
the king returned from the palace garden to the place
where they were drinking wine as Hayman was falling on
the couch where Esther was, and the king he said,
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is he even gonna go and molest my wife in front.
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Of me and my own palace?
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And there's a there's a legend about this moment the
Jews have that Hayman, when he was begging for his life,
just stood there before the.
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Queen, and it was please intervene to save me, don't.
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Let him kill me, And an angel came up behind
him and shoved him on top of the queen.
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I love that.
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I love that legend because it reminds me of something
that some of you need a reminder of.
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There's angels at work on behalf of God's people. Do
you believe this?
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You've got to understand there are spiritual forces of wickedness
coming against you. But I got better news. There are
stronger angels and mightier angels that are working for your good.
You don't just got Christ in you. You don't just
got the Holy Spirit in you. You don't got just
the Father watching over you. You don't just got the
Church supporting it. But you've got angels owing to work
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for your protection.
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The Bible says they're.
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Ministering spirits sent to serve those who are called to
eternal life in Christ.
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Jesus, I don't know about you, but I pray for angels.
Do you pray?
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I don't pray two angels, I pray four angels. I say, Father,
set your angels around my children. When when my kids
get their driver's license, every time they get their drivers.
I say, all right, Lord, I need some extra angels
around that child now, So you need to pray angels
around your family, angels around your children, angels around your home. Lord,
I want protection in the spiritual realm so that the
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enemy doesn't have his way with my family. So the
angel pushes them. I think that's what happened anyway.
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Verse nine.
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Then Harbono, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, moreover,
the gallows that Hayman has prepared for Mornecai, whose words
save the king, is standing at Hama's house.
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Fifty cuba is high. And the king said, hang them
on that.
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So they hanged Hayman on the very gallows that he
prepared for Mordicai. You know, there's a proverb that talks
about this reality that happens to Hymen right here is
Proverbs twenty six twenty seven, and it says this, he
who digs a pit will fall into it. Be careful, Christians,
of digging pits for your nemesis.
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Be careful Christians of trying to get other people back.
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It's childish, it is unfaithful to God, and it really
works out for you, you know, what I'm talking about.
Some of you were quiet today. You got you gotta
know what I'm talking about. You give that person the
silent treatment because you want to let them know that
you're angry, so you never talk to them. I'm not
gonna talk to them anymore. Okay, are you fifth Are
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you in fifth grade? Is that what's going on here?
Or you do the innuendo post on Facebook? You're really
aiming it at them, but you're, you know, trying to
aim and target them or whatever. It's like, let's stop
being children. We are God's people, we are Christ. He's
got his vengeance, belong to God. He'll pay back whatever
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wrongs we've suffered. He'll pay back, and he pays back
better than we could ever think. And so this is
Hayman though, that's Hayman's spirit and he and.
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It kills him.
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He dug a pity, fell into it, he built a gallows,
and he hung on it. So now let me summarize
the rest of the book. Hayman is dead, but the
threat on the Jew's life is still there because the
Edith could not be revoked. So God takes the God
the king takes the ring off of Hayman's finger the
signet ring of authority, and he puts it on Mordechai's finger.
This is another symbol, a symbol of our reality. Do
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you understand that the devil had authority over this earth
up until Jesus died and rose again. Now, the devil
got that authority in the garden with Adam. When Adam
disobeyed God and listened to the devil, he lost dominion,
He lost authority on this planet. That's where the wars
and the chaos and the degregation, all the evil comes from.
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And Gesus came and undid what Adam did wrong. Jesus
obeyed perfectly, He followed the Father. He laid down his
life as a perfect s in the sacrifice, and he
rose again triumphantly on the third day, and he got
back our authority. Do you realize that you have authority
in Christ Jesus over your life, over the spirits, over
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the realms of.
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The unseen things.
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He's got authority in Jesus' name, So you gotta learn
to walk around your house in Jesus name. I just
take authority over this house right now, So you gotta
take authority on.
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The way to work.
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I take authority over my spirit on the way to
work in Jesus' name. Some of you you can't keep
your mouth shut. You open mouth, your insert foot. You
don't know why you keep putting things in your mouth
that shouldn't be in your mouth. You gotta say, I
take authority over my mouth in Jesus' name. So you
got thoughts that you don't know why they come into
your head.
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You're getting dreams.
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You don't know why they're coming in your head. You
gotta take authority. You have authority in the spiritual realm,
not because of who you are, but because who Jesus is.
So he gives him the signet ring, and Mordecai and
Ester write up a new propose. Here's another edict to counter.
They cannot write it, but the counter the first edict.
The Jews can now defend themselves. And so they get
this edict written and has spread throughout the city of Susa,
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and they go to work, and on the day they
were supposed to be attacked, they actually fight back, and
they defend themselves and they kill the sons of Hayman
and five hundred other people. But they need another day,
and so Esther goes back and says, I need another
day to do this. There's a lot of enemies out
there beyond the city of Susa, in the realm of
the Empire. So they send in the letters all throughout
the Empire that the Jews can defend themselves. And seventy
five thousand enemies attack the Jews, and the Jews strike
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back and strike them down. And the Bible says that
many people become Jews because the fear of the Jews had.
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Fallen on them. It's amazing turnaround.
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God specializes in quick reversals. Somebody needs to tell yourself
that right now, this story is not done yet. Somebody
say this after me, this story. Oh, you gotta say
it like you mean it. This story is not done yet.
Somebody say this, This family is not done yet. Somebody
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say my future is not done yet. God is still working.
Do you believe it?
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Shout a man. Come on, you.
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Gotta stir yourself up and talk faith into your life.
I can't be the only person excited this morning. You
might be weak and tied, so am I. I have
any in But I'm agnointed by the Holy Spirit of God,
and he has formed me and He's working through me.
And He's gonna bring victory into our lives. They take
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authority over their enemy. They have victory over their enemies
that were bound to defeat them.
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Instead they got defeat.
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They got defeated, and the Jews were victorious. Oh man,
I wish I could get this into someone's head today.
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You are a victor. You are more than a conqueror.
You are not a loser. You are not the.
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The subject of what's happened to you. You are the
object of God's grace over you, and his love that
wants to be deposited in you, and his victory that
is certain for you. And the best is yet to come.
So they they win two days, and then Mordechai sends
letters throughout all the rum and says, look, Jews, a fellow, Jews,
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letters go out.
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We're gonna celebrate these.
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Two days every year forever, and it becomes the feast
of Puram. And do you know that to this day
the Jews celebrate the feast of Purum. It's at the
last of the winter season and at the beginning of spring.
And I think that's a perfect time to celebrate victory.
Because winter can get you down. Amen, winter can get
you down. Winter can get you like beaten up and defeated.
But every year, just when it's as dark as it
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can possibly look, we got to remind ourselves that spring
is coming down the road.
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That's what the feast of Purum is.
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Here's the last verse of Esther, last verse, verse three
of chapter ten. Mordecai the Jew was second in rank
to King of Hassrus, and he was great among the
Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for
he saw it the welfare of his people and spoke what.
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And spoke peace to all his people.
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I want to end this series by speaking some peace
over you. Peace in the midst of whatever is distressing
you or freaking you out or confusing you.
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Four ways to get it. Are you ready? From Mordecai's life.
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Number one, do good wherever you are in the name
of Christ. Wherever you are now Mordechai, that's what made
his life turn around.
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He did good.
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He was working at the King's gate. Where did he live.
He lived in Susa. He lived in the capital city
of Persia. Understand he was an exile. He was a
Jew living in a foreign He was one of listening
to this very carefully everybody. He was one of God's
people living in a pagan heathen world sound familiar?
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Huh?
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Do you feel strange to this world? Christian?
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Do you feel like what is going on? Why are
the inmates running the asylum? Do you get strange to
the things that are what crazy is coming down the
pike this week? If you feel that way, it's because
you are Listen, you were born again. You are not
of this world. Jesus says, you don't belong here. This
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is not your home. Somebody say, this.
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Is not my home.
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But you still need to do good. Learn how to
do good in the foreign places. Learn how to love
some pagans in Jesus name, Love your non believing neighbor.
Somebody needs to go to work this week and be
the guy who buys lunch just to bless people.
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Do good. Some of you.
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You keep moaning instead of promoting. You keep complaining instead
of contributing.
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And as long as.
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You're a complainer, you're never gonna get anywhere. I have
people who work for me, and I'll tell you something.
The complainers don't last very long.
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They don't.
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It's annoying to have people complaining all the time. Be
somebody who works positively wherever you are. Mordechai did good
for a pagan king. He saved his life. Now listen
to this, and this is so important. After he was celebrated,
after he was led on the horse by Hayman through
the streets of Persia, do you know what?
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Do you know what Mordechai did? Look at it.
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Chapter six. Back to chapter six, verse twelve. It says
Mordecai returned to the King's gate, He was celebrated for
a day, and then he went back and did his job.
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He just did good. He just did good.
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By the way he was at the king's gate. Chapter two,
verse twenty one says he was at the king's gate
when he saw the assassination plot that the two eunuchs
of the king were trying to carry out. And so
what you see here.
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Is a faithfulness in Mordecai.
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And I think this is so important for some of you,
because you you do good and you don't see results,
and then you stop doing good.
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Do you understand that.
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Between Ester chapter two and Ester chapter five and six
was five years that Mordechai saves the king's life.
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In chapter two.
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Doesn't get recognized, doesn't get promoted, doesn't get benefits, nothing happens,
but it gets recorded. Five years go buy things, get worse,
life gets darker, the edict is enacted. He's going to
die and then at the right time he gets rewarded.
Here's what you got to learn how to do in
your life. You got to learn to sow seeds of
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goodness in your present for fruits of blessing in your future.
Some of you want instant microwave Christians, God is not
a microwave. He is a slow cooker. He is a
barbecue pit. Come on, somebody. He slowly cooks that meat
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of goodness in your life until the juices are boiling
out of the center of it. And it smells so wonderful.
And I'm making you depressed right now, aren't I? This
is this is part of my fast A's coming out
because I've been watching all the advertisements for food, and
i don't know about you, but I'm like, I'm gonna
eat that when I'm done. I'm gonna eat that. When
I'm gonna done. I'm I'm gonna be four hundred pounds
by April fourth. That's what's gonna happen to me. It's
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just the season the fastest, the feast is coming, Amen, somebody.
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But you gotta learn how to plant seeds in this fast,
in this fast.
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And I think some of you gotta break free from
this because I feel it in the spirit, and I'm
gonna say it. Nothing has happened, and you feel like
the fastest been a failure. That's not how it works.
You fast in one season, you get the fruit.
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In another season.
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You some of you might get the fruit from this
fast five years from now. Are you willing to do good?
Are you willing to go back to that gate? Are
you willing to keep working? Are you willing to keep
sewing good seed into your life? The world has enough
people who are out to get all that they can
right now, and those people are the most insufferable people
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on the planet. Most of them work in Hollywood. We've
got to learn to be givers and doers of good
wherever we are. And here's the second point. It leads
me right into it. Don't seek human recognition. This is
the way Hayman lived. Do you understand that Hayman dies
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hanging on the gallows that he made for Mordecai. But
the only reason why he made the gallows for Mordecai.
Do you know why he made the Gallas for Mordecai
Because Mordecai.
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And this is so insane to me.
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Mordecai was the only person in the empire who didn't
worship him. Oh, if I could just spend a whole
message on this. Don't seek people's praise. It's a trap.
I don't know if you've met people, but they can
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be awful. Have you met people? Yeah, they can love
you today and hate you tomorrow. They'll build you up today,
they'll tear you down tomorrow. And here's the worst part.
If you get people to love you and like you
and celebrate you, nobody tells you this. You got to
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keep them loving you and celebrating you and worshiping you
and loving you. That's impossible. And guess what you lose
in the midst of making everybody love you.
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You lose you.
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You become a people pleaser and not a God server.
And God who doesn't don't care about you pleasing people.
You understand that you can't. You can't properly parents if
you need your kid's approval. I don't know this modern,
this modern way of parenting, I don't get it. Johnny,
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tell me how you feel what's going on. I know
you're throwing a tempertantrum in the grocery aisle right now,
but tell me your truth.
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I want to hear from you.
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No, pull Johnny out the grocery store into the car
back home and spake Johnny that kidneys a whoopon.
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That's what I got when I was growing up. I
turned out. Okay, I don't got any twitches.
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You gotta learn to love the fact that God has
has loved you with an everlasting love.
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You don't need the love of other people.
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You can't be married if you need your spouse to
celebrate you.
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Oh.
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I could do a whole week on that husband's Your
wife is not your fan. My wife is not my fan.
She does not worship me at all.
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Oh. This it was a great story.
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One day I was I preached and I got down
and my wife was stating it and this Nigerian lady
with the Nigerian accent came up to us and I
was like talking to her, and Cheryl comes up. I said, oh,
this is my wife, Cheryl, and she goes. The Nigerian
lady goes, oh, oh, you're his wife. You must be
on your knees every day, thanking God that you are
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to marry to this man. Now, I perceived that this
woman had the gift of prophecy, but evidently Cheryl did
not feel the same way. And it's a fun story
that I tell and we tell it, you know, parties
and everything.
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But she's not my fan. But I don't.
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If I live for her approval and worship, our marriage
would be a mess. Wives, same goes to you. Your
husband is not your Instagram photographer. He is a grown man.
Do not make him a lackey. He doesn't exist for
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your pleasure. He exists for God's purpose and you gotta
learn to let go of them. Always needed to approve
of you. If you're gonna be married forraversation, never be honest.
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Do good. Oh gosh, I forgot to tell the story.
Is it okay? If I go to point one again
and tell the story? So okay, okay. So this is
a true story about doing good.
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There was two guys who were running a broke Rundown
general store in the eighteen hundreds. One was a dead
be drunk and one was an aspiring lawyer. He wanted
to be a lawyer, but he couldn't get to be
a lawyer because he had no money, and they had
a conversation as they were broken on the verge of bankruptcy.
The one want to be the lawyer said, man, I
wish I could get a hold of Blackstone's commentary on
law I'll sell this store tomorrow if I can get
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a hold of that. That's what it would cost sell
the store. I'll buy the commentaries. His dead be drunk
partner said, no way, we're not selling the store. They
were down to their last couple of bucks, and the
traveler drove by the store, stopped and he said, got
out of his wagon, out of his carriage, and he said, look,
I got a barrel I gotta sell. I can't fit
in the car and I need money desperately. Would you
give me fifty cents for it? The dead duke drunk said,
no way, get.
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Out of it here. We don't have any money.
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And the guy who want to be a lawyer said,
you know what, I'll give you a sety cents.
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His heart went out to him and he did good.
He bought the barrel. He didn't need help.
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The stranger out put the barrel in the back of
the store. Months go by. This is a true story,
is why I needed to tell the story. Months go by,
he cleans out the general store. He goes and he
finds the barrel, lifts open the barrel a bunch of rubbish,
pulls the rubbish out, reaches down and underneath the rubbish
was the complete set of Blackstone's commentary on law. He
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pulls it up. He looks up to God and he says,
maybe I'm made for something greater. Eventually the store goes bankrupt.
This guy teaches himself law on his own time, in
his own way, studies himself up.
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He runs for the state legislature.
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He wins six terms as a state legislature representative. He
runs for US Congress, he wins one term as a
US Congressman. He runs for Senate and he loses. But
do you know that he wan for president and he
became the sixteenth President of the end United States. His
name was Abraham Lincoln. It all started with one work
that was good for somebody else, and then you don't
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seek recognition.
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Now back to that one. Jesus said, it's a trap.
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He talked about the Pharisees in John chapter twelve, verse
forty three, he said, they love the glory that comes
from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Matthew twenty three to five. He says, everything they do
is a show, is just to be seen by others.
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Don't you understand that if you're doing things to.
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Please others, you're just becoming a show, You're just becoming
a people pleaser.
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It's a trap of life.
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Do you know why you don't need people's praise or
people's recognition. This is why, because you've already got the
recognition from God. And what you have to understand about
God is that he is keeping accurate records of what
you do. Jesus said in Matthew chapter ten, forty two,
whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup
of cold water, just a cup of water, because you're
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my disciple, then you will not lose your reward. Hebrews
chapter six, verse ten. God is not unjust to overlook
your work. And the love that you have shown for
His name is serving the sames. As you still do,
you gotta do it not for other people's sake, So
you gotta do it for God's sakes. Knowing that the
good you see, the good seed you sow in one
season will be fruit in a season yet to come.
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Point number three, one day can change everything.
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I like this point. I like this point. That's what
Esther chapter five and six tells us.
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Esther Chapter five ends with Mordecai, I'm sorry, Hayman building
a gallows, and Esther chapter six, twenty four hours later,
Hayman is hanging on those gallows. End of chapter seven,
it's just twenty four hours. One day can change everything.
Some of you are looking at your life and is
saying there's no movement. I'm not getting anywhere. I don't understand. Hey,
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one day, somebody say, one day. God does not need
a long time to get something done. God is a
miracle worker. God can do something in one He can
do something in one moment. Don't you know that when
he comes back, he's coming back in the twinkling of
an eye. It's not gonna take long for us to
be gone from this world and be in Heaven forever.
Is gonna happen in an instant second. And there is
nothing that God can do and can't do in one
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day of your life.
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He can change everything. Something needs to write this down.
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Stop worrying about your lack of movement, because God only
needs a moment. Oh, Joseph was sold as a slave
by his brothers who hated him. And then he was
working as a slave and he was doing good. And
then he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, and then
he was thrown into prison, and he was forgotten.
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But on one day Pharaoh had a dream.
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No one could interpret it, but that guy Joseph in
the prison, he can interpret. And they pulled him out
of the pit. He pulled him out of the prison
and put him in the palace and became the prime
minister of Egypt.
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In one day.
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Or Moses, who was wandering the wilderness with his father
in law sheep for forty years, he tried to deliver
Israel in his own strength.
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He killed one Egyptian.
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Thus as far as he got, and then he goes
and he's in exile. And for forty years, this guy
four decades, friend, I'm forty six. He did them my
whole life outside on forty seven. He did that all
for forty years. He was out in the wilderness with
the sheep that he didn't even own. And one day
he saw a bush that didn't burn, and you know
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the rest of the story.
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Or David, who was a shepherd boy and a singer, and.
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His father rejected him, and his brothers didn't like him,
and everybody vilified him, and he was anointed by Samuel,
but people still didn't pay attention to him. And he
was a little delivery boy. He brought the breton the
cheese to his brothers at the army front. And he
was basically doing uber eats all his life, that's what
he was doing. But one day he shows up as
this moment that Goliath is taunting the people of Israel,
and he said, who is this philistine who would taunt Israel?
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And in one day that shepherd boy turns into a
mighty warrior for God. God does not need a long time,
He needs one day to get it done. In your life,
perhaps the most famous one, Jesus Christ. Healed the sick,
raise the dead, cast out demons, fed the multitudes. And
then he was betrayed by his own disciple, and he
was abandoned by all of his other disciples, and he
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was handed over to pagan sinners, and he was crucified
and neil to a tree and thrown in a grave.
But one day came when the when the grave opened
and the stone rolled away, and the heavens fell down,
and the angels came down, and Jesus rose on the
grave and split history in half in one day.
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God does not need a month, He needs a day.
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Some of you gotta wait for the day and let
God have his way through all the things that you're
waiting for one day and ultimately all those stories and
the story of Esther and the story of Mordecai. Really
there's a bigger there's a bigger plot in mind, which
brings you to point number four. Don't lose the big
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plot bringing salvation to many.
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Do you understand that.
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Esther was beautiful, But she wasn't pretty just so that
she could hang out in the palace and eat at
the dinner table. She wasn't pretty just so she could
look a certain.
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Way in front of King Xerxes.
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She was beautiful for the purpose of intervening in the
saving of the jews lives. And Mordecai wasn't rewarded for
saving the king's life simply because he deserved it, and
simply because you know, he needed a leg up, and
he was hated by mor Hayman. No Mordecai was rewarded
so that he could be instrumental in saving many lives.
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Let me tell you about your life. I started this
message by saying God is working for you, but he's
working what through you. Your story is a subplot of
the big plot.
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Don't miss that or you will be miserable.
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Ultimately is about saving lives, friend, Ultimately is about bringing
people to Jesus.
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That's what God wants to do through you. How can
you God use this story.
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This chaos, this crazy, this family, this life to bring
people to Jesus. That's where life starts to get interesting,
starts to make sense, starts to find its way. Then
you know you're not here by accident. You're here on purpose.
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One day, one day, many many years ago.
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Waters Church was a small single church up in Nord, Massachusetts,
and it was a.
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Small little Italian Benecostal.
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Church in the nineteen eighties, and it had grown to
about two hundred and fifty three hundred people. But the
pastor kind of went rogue and left with a bunch
of people split the church in half, a very devastating
thing for any church, and they wallowed in lack of
direction for many years and they were looking for a
pastor and looking for a pastor, and they would bring
candidates into pastor and to candidate for the pastor at job.
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And back in those days, you voted, and so they
would take a vote and every candidate would be voted down,
and if the person who didn't get voted in, all
the people who like that guy would leave church. And
they went from three hundred people down to forty people.
Forty people in nineteen ninety. And they went through this
process for many, many, many months, and eventually they came
to a guy that they said, this guy seems pretty good.
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We're gonna go with him. And it was a slim.
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Chance, but it was a good chans that this guy
was gonna get voted in in a board meeting right
after a Sunday morning one day, a Sunday morning, and
they had the pulpit open. They didn't have anybody to preach,
so they called the district offices and they said, listen,
is there anybody who could preach for us?
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We have our pulpit open. Wouldn't you know that.
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There was a guy that was that was going across
the United States interviewing for his church positions himself and
they said, well, we're not looking for a pastor anymore.
We found one, we think, and sure if he want
to come and precess, fine, Well this guy was from
South Africa and he came and he preached, and some
of you know who he is. And he preached us
Sunday morning, and his name is passed guys Or. He's
the senior pastor of our church. And when you know
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how he preaches, and the fire came down and the
Holy Spirit fell and people got saved and delivered and
things were happening. It was amazing church service, and.
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Everyone was going away.
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And they went to the meeting after that service and
they voted the other guy out and they said, we
want this guy to be our pastor one day. He
can change everything. And I used to go to that
church as a kid. I used to go to the
church as a teenager. And one day I showed up.
One day I showed up and the kids, the teens,
were hanging out after church. And I remember we were
hanging out. We were in a car driving down a
road I know the road where it happened. And one
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of the kids said to me, Hey, Tim, would you
like to come with us to a youth conference. And
I hated youth conferences and I didn't really I wasn't
really interested in church. I didn't really want to, you know,
be all that engaged in church. I kind of just
went because my parents brought me. But for some reason,
I said yes, and I went to that youth conference.
And I got to the church to the youth conference,
and a guy got up on stage and started screaming
like I'm screaming to you and starting to talking about
the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit wants.
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To feel you.
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And I came down to the altar and I put
my hands up and the Holy Spirit fell into my
life and started a fire that's been burning for thirty
six years, Frim, and God called me into the ministry.
God called me to be a past one day, Frim,
one day can change everything. And then that started a
battle between my mother and I.
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Oh, we had a battle. We had a battle through
my teen years.
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That happened when I was twelve years old and I
told my mom I want to be a pastor, and
she said, no, you're going to be an engineer. And
I said, no, I want to be a pastor. She said, no,
you're going to be an engineer or a computer programer.
You're gonna make a lot of money. Because she was
a pastor's daughter and she didn't want me to go
through the hardships of a pastor's family.
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I said, no, mom, God has called me into this ministry.
I gotta do it. And we fought all through life.
But because the Bible.
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Says all to your father and mother, she she filled
out my applications for college.
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She did it, and she.
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Said, you're gonna go to this school and you're gonna
get this degree, and you're going to be a very,
very successful young man.
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I was resistant, but it's like.
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I find And then one day she went to church
up in Norhod with Pastor Geyser and she had a
conversation with him and she said, I can't understand. My
son wants to be like you, but I wanted to
be an engineer. And Pastor Geyser said, listen, let him
go and pursue the ministry because if he's not.
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Called, if he's not called, he'll give up and.
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He'll become whatever you wanted to become. He'll become an
engineer or whatever.
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And she said, you know.
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What, that sounds like a good idea. And she prayed
for me to run away from the ministry. Turns out
I was called friend. Turns out God had his hand
on my life. And one day and one conversation and
one sudden can change everything for us and for you.
You might be going through the valley of the shadow
of death, but God.
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Is with you.
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You might be struggling with depression, but God's not done
with you. You might be in suicide wash, but God
wants to resurrect you. The story is not over. Resurrection
has happened. Jesus is on the throat. I'm telling somebody,
what's your faith in the God who does miracle, in
the God who opens graves, in the God who steals
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the waters.
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, God's gonna do something to our church. God's gonna
do something through this fast. The fast is yet to come.
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Don't lose heart. Hallelujah.
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I know some of you are dying to get those
last blanks filled in so they put it on the screen.
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There are no accidents when you're in Christ.
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It's all part of the plan. God knows from beginning
to end. And I need to tell somebody here. You're
not an actor. You're not a mistake, and your life
isn't an accident. There's no accidents in Christ. There's no
such thing as chance. If you want chance, go to Vegas.
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God orchestrates, God ordains. God is working for you and
through you. No matter what the world is doing. What
just staying with me at this point, If you're done
writing those things down, what just staying with Let's give
God a praise offering in that, Let's.
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Give God a pray. Come on out, Let's give God
a praise and then play Halla Jesus Well.
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