We humans frequently manifest a strange urge for timelessness; we possess an instinctive need to be remembered after we are gone. The idea that we will be forgotten is a pain we can hardly sustain.
Yet, in all of human history there has been only one truly timeless, eternal event; it was the cross of Jesus Christ. The cross of Jesus Christ marks the hinge moment in human history and it passes judgment on every human life.
This event not only occurred in time and space some nineteen hundred years ago, but it is something which also takes place every day in each and every Christian's life. In fact, it must take place on a daily basis in every Christian's life, perhaps many times a day.
This timeless event becomes part of our experience when we reenact it in our own lives. This is why the cross of Jesus Christ, with all its possibilities of salvation and deliverance, can be an utterly useless thing if it finds no translation into our own personal experiences. When we believe and act (that is what belief is, acting on the principles set forth in that cross), then it comes to be true in our life experiences.
This is what we have in Esther 7. This material provides a picture of the only way Christians can find real victory over the subtle, crafty, self-loving, self-pleasing, self-pitying, self-defending, self-asserting urges that arise within us.
This daily manifestation is what is portrayed for us in this seventh chapter of Esther, as our Pastor continues his present series. The sermon is entitled Haman’s Last Supper.
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