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God is Loudest When He Whispers Biblical Sermon- Minister Max Lucado · Max Lucado Daily Sermons

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  Speaker 1: I don't take any comfort in the butterfly effect. I
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  Speaker 1: don't find any solace in the theory about the butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know this philosophy about which I speak? It
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  Speaker 1: goes something like this. A busy butterfly somewhere, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: in West Africa flaps its wings, stirs a gust of air,
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  Speaker 1: and that gust leads to a ripple And that ripple
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  Speaker 1: leads to a surge. That surge works its way across
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  Speaker 1: the ocean and eventually creates turbulence and chaos on the
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  Speaker 1: Florida coast in the form of a hurricane. I don't
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  Speaker 1: doubt the butterfly part that big things happen with small beginnings.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who has ever planted a seed that resulted in
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  Speaker 1: a tree gets that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the result itself. that I question. It's the randomness.
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  Speaker 2: It's the randomness.
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  Speaker 1: You're telling me that we are all victims of some
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  Speaker 1: busy bug over in West Africa. You're telling me that
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  Speaker 1: the human life is whipped about like a weather vane
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  Speaker 1: by faceless fate. I find no comfort in that whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: I do, however, find wonderful comfort in scriptures like these.
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  Speaker 1: For our God is in the heavens and he does
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  Speaker 1: as he pleases. From eternity to eternity, I am God.
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  Speaker 1: No one can oppose what I do. God chose us
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning and all things happen just as he
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  Speaker 1: decided long ago. One prophet asked, can anything happen without
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's permission? Another one answered, God has the power
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  Speaker 1: to do as he pleases among the angels of heaven
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  Speaker 1: and with those who live on earth i make known
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  Speaker 1: god said the end from the beginning from ancient times
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  Speaker 1: what is still to come my purpose will stand and
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  Speaker 1: i will do all that i please no we're not
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  Speaker 1: victim to a busy butterfly in west africa a hurricane
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  Speaker 1: can only happen with the permission and under the providence
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  Speaker 1: of our almighty god he is indeed the blessed controller
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  Speaker 1: of all things He certainly was in the days of Esther.
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  Speaker 1: And the resounding message in the book of Esther is
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  Speaker 1: the providence of God. Now you might buckle your seatbelt.
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  Speaker 1: Chapters 5 and 6 are quite a ride. We move
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  Speaker 1: from Esther in the prayer room as Travis wonderfully presented
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  Speaker 1: last week. We move from the prayer room to Esther
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  Speaker 1: in the throne room. We last saw her on her
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  Speaker 1: face pleading her case with God to give mercy to
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  Speaker 1: her people and favor to her visit with King Xerxes.
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  Speaker 1: Her people were under a death sentence and she lived
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  Speaker 1: under an archaic rule that said a wife, even the queen,
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  Speaker 1: could not appear before her husband apart from his blessing.
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  Speaker 1: To do so could result in death. She made her choice.
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  Speaker 1: She said, well, if I perish, I perish. So chapter
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  Speaker 1: five opens with Esther now re-robed in royalty and standing
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  Speaker 1: in the inner court of the king, just close enough
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  Speaker 1: for him to catch a glimpse of his wife and
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  Speaker 1: a whiff of her perfume. When he saw Queen Esther
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  Speaker 1: standing in the court, he was pleased with her. and
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  Speaker 1: held out to her the gold scepter that was in
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  Speaker 1: his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of
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  Speaker 1: the scepter. I have it on good authority that in
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  Speaker 1: Persian culture, whenever the king held out his scepter in
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  Speaker 1: the direction of his wife, he was actually saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: good looking, what you got cooking?
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  Speaker 2: I was hoping for a better laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Not only did he invite her to enter, but he
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  Speaker 1: welcomed her petition. What is it, Queen Esther? What's your request?
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  Speaker 1: Even up to half the kingdom and it will be
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  Speaker 1: given to you. So Esther filed a request. She made
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  Speaker 1: a request. She would like to have a nice dinner
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  Speaker 1: with the king, with Haman. Remember, he's the villain. Just
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  Speaker 1: the three of them.
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  Speaker 2: Something intimate. Some chit-chat.
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  Speaker 1: Bottle of bubbly. Frank Sinatra songs. The quickest way to
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  Speaker 1: a man's heart is through his stomach, right? Xerxes and
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  Speaker 1: Haman didn't realize it, but God was stirring a butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: And it was awakening after a long nap. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: dinner was a great success. Haman, the villain, left the
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  Speaker 1: dinner with a full tummy and a big head.
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  Speaker 2: Life was good.
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  Speaker 1: He was the king's go-to counsel. He was on the
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  Speaker 1: queen's short list for dinner invitations.
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  Speaker 2: What could be better?
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  Speaker 1: He smiled as he walked through the palace courtyard and
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  Speaker 1: noticed all the subservient servants bowing to him, But then
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  Speaker 1: he saw Mordecai still at the gate, still wearing sackcloth
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  Speaker 1: and ashes, still refusing to bow. And Haman snarled.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, good mood. Hello, grumps.
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  Speaker 1: He went home, gathered his friends and wife. and told
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  Speaker 1: them in no uncertain terms that Mordecai was reigning on
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  Speaker 1: his parade. I'm the only person Queen Esther invited to
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  Speaker 1: accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she
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  Speaker 1: has invited me along with the king tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: But all this.
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  Speaker 1: Gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that
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  Speaker 1: Jew Mordecai standing at the king's gate. His wife Zeresh
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  Speaker 1: and all his friends said to him, have a pole
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  Speaker 1: set up reaching to a height of 50 cubits. and
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  Speaker 1: asked the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled
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  Speaker 1: on it. Then go with the king to the banquet
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy yourself. This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had
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  Speaker 1: the pole set up. 50 cubits is 75 feet, seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half stories. A pole was set up upon
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  Speaker 1: which Haman would be impaled. Yes, gallows in the days
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  Speaker 1: of Persia. did not include putting a rope around the
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  Speaker 1: neck and hanging. It was the impaling of a person.
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  Speaker 1: So Mordecai was going to be impaled. Haman went to
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  Speaker 1: bed that night dreaming of Mordecai on a stick. Not
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  Speaker 1: a pleasant thought. But then again, Haman was not a
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  Speaker 1: pleasant person. Speaking of sleep, King Xerxes couldn't. He was
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  Speaker 1: up all night, tossing and turning, first this way, then
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  Speaker 1: the next, pounding the pillow, first this side, then the next. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: he sat up on the edge of the bed and
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  Speaker 1: groaned and belched. He blamed the sleeplessness on the spicy
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  Speaker 1: meat sauce. It had been wiser to blame it on
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  Speaker 1: heaven's butterfly. Modern day insomniacs listen to locato sermons for treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Xerxes had no such option, so he requested a reading
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  Speaker 1: of the book of records. The court attendant entered the
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  Speaker 1: chamber carrying a fat scroll.
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  Speaker 2: He opened it and began to drone on and on
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  Speaker 2: and on. He read the minutes from the.
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  Speaker 1: Last council meeting in a tone that would have anesthetized
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  Speaker 1: a root canal patient. Six gates were ordered for Susa.
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  Speaker 1: The king approved new helmets for the army. Seven million
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  Speaker 1: paperclips were dispatched into the kingdom. Mordecai saved the king's
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  Speaker 1: life by reporting an assassination attempt. What? The king sat
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  Speaker 1: up straight in bed and said, read that one again.
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  Speaker 1: And the servant did. I told you this moment would reappear,
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  Speaker 1: didn't I? When we were in chapter two and we
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  Speaker 1: talked about that curious interlude in which Mordecai at the
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  Speaker 1: gate overheard an assassination plot, an attempt between those two
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  Speaker 1: guys with the weird names, Big Session T.
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  Speaker 2: Sean or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then nothing happened. Mordecai was not rewarded. It was
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  Speaker 1: just recorded in the book. Here it reappears. Here it reappears.
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  Speaker 1: And the king has a question. He says, what honor
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  Speaker 1: and recognition has Mordecai received for this? Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing what's happening here. But on the outside chance,
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  Speaker 1: somebody is not. Let me spell it out for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is God at work. God managing the events. He
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  Speaker 1: kept the king's eyelids open. He prompted him to read
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  Speaker 1: a reading from the book of boredom. He caused the
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  Speaker 1: book to open to the precise page about Mordecai. He
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  Speaker 1: motivated Xerxes to do the first decent thing he's done
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  Speaker 1: thus far in this story. When the king learned that
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  Speaker 1: nothing had been done to honor the man who had
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  Speaker 1: saved his life, he was apoplectic.
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  Speaker 2: How could this be?
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  Speaker 1: Mordecai protected the crown and got not so much as
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  Speaker 1: a gold watch. Xerxes climbed out of bed and he
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  Speaker 1: began to pace back and forth, back and forth. Something
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  Speaker 1: needed to be done, but he didn't know what. Xerxes
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  Speaker 1: needed some advice.
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  Speaker 2: So the king asked, who is in the court? Look
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  Speaker 2: at this.
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  Speaker 1: Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the
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  Speaker 1: palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on
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  Speaker 1: the gallows he had erected for him. His attendants answered,
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  Speaker 1: Haman is in the court. Bring him in, the king ordered.
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  Speaker 1: Is this not the best? It was the crack of dawn.
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  Speaker 1: Both men were in the court with Mordecai on their minds.
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  Speaker 1: Except Xerxes wanted to honor him. Haman wanted to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: So the king called for Haman. Haman flushed his peacock
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  Speaker 1: feathers and strutted into the king's quarters. But before he
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  Speaker 1: could say top of the morning, King Xerxes had a question.
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  Speaker 1: What should be done for the man the king delights
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  Speaker 1: to honor? Now Haman thought to himself, who is there
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  Speaker 1: that the king would rather honor than me?
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  Speaker 2: Narcissist that he was.
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  Speaker 1: He assumed the king was giving him props and being
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  Speaker 1: coy about it. After all, who else deserves honor other
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  Speaker 1: than Haman? He puffed on his fingernails and buffed them
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  Speaker 1: on his chest. And began to envision the day unfolding
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  Speaker 1: before him. He would be astride the steed of the king.
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  Speaker 1: Wearing the royal robe of the king. And all the
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  Speaker 1: people would come out and call his name. And they
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  Speaker 1: would cast rose petals on his path.
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  Speaker 2: And he would be honored. He would finally.
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  Speaker 1: Receive the recognition that he deserved. And so he answered
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  Speaker 1: the king. For the man the king delights to honor,
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  Speaker 1: have them bring a royal robe the king has worn
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  Speaker 1: and a horse the king has ridden, one with a
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  Speaker 1: royal crest placed on its head. Then let the robe
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  Speaker 1: and horse be entrusted to one of the king's most
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  Speaker 1: noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights
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  Speaker 1: to honor and lead him out.
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  Speaker 2: On the horse through the city streets.
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  Speaker 1: Proclaiming before him, This is what is done for the
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  Speaker 1: man the king delights to honor. That's a great idea,
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  Speaker 1: said the king. Of course it is, thought Haman the louse.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened next, ladies and gentlemen, is one of
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  Speaker 1: the great moments in scripture. Go at once, the king
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  Speaker 1: commanded Haman. Get the robe and the horse and do
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  Speaker 1: just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew. Who
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  Speaker 1: sits at the king's gate. Do not neglect anything that
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  Speaker 1: you have recommended. Could it get any better? Within moments
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  Speaker 1: it was Mordecai day in Susa. The city threw him
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  Speaker 1: a parade and Haman wanted to throw up. Now. Behold
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  Speaker 1: the reversal of fortune. Let's just list them. Haman intended
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  Speaker 1: to put Mordecai on a spike. Instead, he placed him
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  Speaker 1: on a horse. Haman planned to lead Mordecai to the gallows. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he led him through the streets. Haman, who demanded to
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  Speaker 1: be worshipped, was humiliated. Mordecai, who refused to worship.
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  Speaker 2: Haman, was rewarded.
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  Speaker 1: Does anybody know how you say poetic justice in Persian?
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  Speaker 1: After it was over, Haman hurried home mourning with his
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  Speaker 1: head covered. And Haman recounted to Zeresh, his wife, and
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  Speaker 1: all his friends, everything that had happened to him.
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  Speaker 2: Now, who saw this coming?
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  Speaker 1: Who imagined, who could have imagined such a Turn on
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  Speaker 1: a dime series of turnarounds. I can answer that question.
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  Speaker 2: God could. God could.
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  Speaker 1: God orchestrated all the details. The sleepless king. The detailed reading.
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  Speaker 1: The entry about Mordecai in the book. The entry of
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  Speaker 1: Haman at the right time in the castle court. Who
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  Speaker 1: could do this but the blessed controller of all things.
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  Speaker 1: And friends, he invites you and me to believe this promise.
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  Speaker 1: God makes everything work out according to his plan. He
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  Speaker 1: makes everything work out. Even in the most pagan corner
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  Speaker 1: of the world, even in the heart of a pagan king,
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  Speaker 1: even in the interplay between two men who have decreed
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  Speaker 1: the deaths of thousands of Jews, God was at work.
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  Speaker 1: And friend, God is at work. Somebody needs this reminder today.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody needs a reminder. You're wondering if there is a God,
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  Speaker 1: if there is a God, if he knows about you.
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  Speaker 1: And if he knows about you, does he care about me?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody has told you that life is nothing more than
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  Speaker 1: a roll of the dice. And it's been a long
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  Speaker 1: time since the dice rolled in your favor.
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  Speaker 2: If so, this story is for you.
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  Speaker 1: If so, I urge you to ponder the plight of
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  Speaker 1: Mordecai and Haman and note how God flipped, flopped their stories.
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  Speaker 1: Haman began the day large and in charge. Mordecai began
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  Speaker 1: the day wearing sackcloth and ashes, praying in the shadow
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  Speaker 1: of a seven-story gallow that bore his name. Yet from
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  Speaker 1: one minute to the next, Haman was brought down to
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  Speaker 1: size and Mordecai was given.
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  Speaker 2: The keys to the city.
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  Speaker 1: Who's to say, my friend, that something similar won't happen
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  Speaker 1: to you? God makes everything, everything agree with what he
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  Speaker 1: decides and wants. The next time you hear somebody say
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  Speaker 1: the devil is in the details, you correct them. God
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  Speaker 1: is in the details. God is in the details. In
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  Speaker 1: his hands, the insignificant becomes significant because he is ever
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  Speaker 1: managing the ordinary events of billions.
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  Speaker 2: Of people's lives through.
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  Speaker 1: Millennia of time to accomplish his eternal purposes. He delivered
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  Speaker 1: an entire race of people in Persia because one man
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't bow, one queen wouldn't quit, a king couldn't sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and a scoundrel could not leave good enough alone. God
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  Speaker 1: wears a glove called providence. Look back over your life.
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  Speaker 1: Can you not see some moments of quiet sovereignty? Events
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  Speaker 1: that cause you to say, only God could have. My
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  Speaker 1: wife's aunt, Jane Ken, she was utterly void of hope.
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  Speaker 1: Her husband had been shot and killed by his own son.
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  Speaker 1: And the son then turned the gun on himself. And
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  Speaker 1: she was left to raise their daughter all alone. Jane
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  Speaker 1: had given up on faith, given up on hope, given
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  Speaker 1: up on God. But God had not given up on her.
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  Speaker 1: One day she heard the television in the adjacent room.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't remember turning it on and to this day
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  Speaker 1: she has no idea how it was on a religious channel.
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  Speaker 1: She never watched religious networking. She entered the room and
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  Speaker 1: to turn it off, but something the teacher said touched
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  Speaker 1: her heart. So she sat on the edge of her bed.
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  Speaker 1: And within moments, she was on her knees. God was
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  Speaker 1: at work. A television show. In the adjacent room. At
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  Speaker 1: just the right channel. With just the right message. And
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  Speaker 1: Jane can tell you about Providence. So can a woman.
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  Speaker 1: A mother in Illinois. Out of respect for her privacy.
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  Speaker 1: I won't disclose her name. But I'd love to tell
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  Speaker 1: you her story. She had decided to end her life.
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  Speaker 1: The twists and turns of life. Had taken all her cope.
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  Speaker 1: And she was going to.
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  Speaker 2: Check out.
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  Speaker 1: She planned her exit down to the last detail. One
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  Speaker 1: of those details was a trip to a bookstore to
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  Speaker 1: purchase a children's book for her children. And it would
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  Speaker 1: be her parting gift. She asked the store owner to
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  Speaker 1: make a recommendation. And he took her to a shelf
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  Speaker 1: that contained a book called Tell Me the Story, written
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  Speaker 1: by Max Locato.
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  Speaker 2: The mother made the purchase.
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  Speaker 1: I know what happened next because she wrote me a
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  Speaker 1: letter on the back of the bookstore.
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  Speaker 2: Sack. This is just a short.
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  Speaker 1: Note to say thank you for your wonderful book, Tell
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  Speaker 1: Me the Story. I went to the bookstore today to
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  Speaker 1: purchase several gifts for several people. For several weeks, I
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  Speaker 1: have been playing with the idea of killing myself. I
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  Speaker 1: have been struggling for years to really believe and feel
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  Speaker 1: that God is real. I bought this as a goodbye
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  Speaker 1: present for one of my children. I had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what the book said, but it was supposedly Christian and
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty cover. For the next several hours, I
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  Speaker 1: drove around crying. I was waiting until my children would
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  Speaker 1: be asleep so I could go home, leave their presence,
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  Speaker 1: and then disappear forever.
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  Speaker 2: God led me.
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  Speaker 1: On a little detour, though my car ran out of oil,
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  Speaker 1: and the engine started making that clicking sound. I tried
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  Speaker 1: to find an open oil express or something, but everything
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  Speaker 1: was closed. I was frustrated because I needed my car
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  Speaker 1: to stay in one place long enough for me to
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  Speaker 1: go home and then go back to some nearby railroad tracks.
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  Speaker 1: I pulled into a nearby parking lot and was sorting
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  Speaker 1: through the presents and writing little notes of encouragement on each.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason, I decided to waste time by reading
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  Speaker 1: Tell Me the Story. I was really touched by the
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  Speaker 1: stories in there. I felt as if I was able
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  Speaker 1: to know Jesus in a different way. Instead of killing
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  Speaker 1: myself tonight, I'm going to go home and keep rereading
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  Speaker 1: the book. I want a relationship with God. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to turn my car around, mail this letter, and go home.
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  Speaker 1: And read a story to my kids. Aunt Jane hears
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  Speaker 1: the TV. A despondent mom buys a book. A king
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  Speaker 1: can't sleep. A villain walks in the king's courtroom.
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  Speaker 2: At just the right time. Our God is at work.
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  Speaker 1: And because he is, my friend, because he is, You
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  Speaker 1: can choose faith over fear.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna ask you an honest question. What are
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  Speaker 2: you choosing? What are you choosing?
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  Speaker 1: You're getting it from every angle, I know. You've got
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, you've got the political chaos, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: your personal struggles. They're coming at you from every side. Pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: political chaos, personal struggles, The three P's.
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  Speaker 2: Of our day.
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  Speaker 1: But today I'm telling you, you can counteract those three
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  Speaker 1: P's with the one P that matters and.
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  Speaker 2: That is providence. Providence.
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  Speaker 1: The belief that a good God occupies a holy throne
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  Speaker 1: and is directing the affairs of every single life. He
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  Speaker 1: is engaged in the details.
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  Speaker 2: Of your life. Your world is not run by the economy.
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  Speaker 1: God will not fall off his throne if a particular
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  Speaker 1: candidate is elected president of the United States. Your days
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  Speaker 1: are not even determined by the flow of this microscopic
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  Speaker 1: virus that has us all so befuddled and leading such
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  Speaker 1: a different life.
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  Speaker 2: God is still in control. Amen? That means everything.
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  Speaker 1: Let others cower in fear. You can bow in worship.
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  Speaker 1: Let others turn and hide. You can stand and trust.
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  Speaker 1: Let others believe that the world is going off the rails.
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  Speaker 1: You can believe that in difficult times, sovereignty prevails.
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  Speaker 2: It always has. It always will.
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  Speaker 1: And especially today, you need to know that your world
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  Speaker 1: is not being run by some busy butterfly in West Africa.
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  Speaker 1: That the Almighty God is in charge and He will
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  Speaker 1: make everything work out in the way He intends.
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: So Lord, we receive this extraordinary story that so illustrates
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  Speaker 1: the promise of your providence.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Father. Thank you. In Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 3: Loving you alone feels so beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: It hurts the most.
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  Speaker 4: You became my quiet sunrise The dream I never dared
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  Speaker 4: to say Every smile you gave so freely Took my
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  Speaker 4: breath a little away I.
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  Speaker 5: Held this love like fragile glass So precious, soft and
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  Speaker 5: true But every beat inside my heart Was only reaching
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  Speaker 5: out to you Unspoken love is sweet and painful Like
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  Speaker 5: honey mixed with rain A tender hope I hold so
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  Speaker 5: tightly While it slowly breaks me Loving you.
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  Speaker 6: From just one side now Leaves my soul.
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  Speaker 5: In silent blue Cause.
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  Speaker 6: The deeper that I fall alone.
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  Speaker 4: The lonelier I do, I can't blame my heart for
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  Speaker 4: choosing someone.
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  Speaker 2: It could never keep.
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  Speaker 7: So I smile through hidden heartache and.
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  Speaker 6: Love you quietly.
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  Speaker 8: Unspoken love is sweet and painful like honey mixed with rain.
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  Speaker 8: A tender hope I hold so tightly while it slowly
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  Speaker 8: breaks me. Loving you from just one side now leaves my.
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  Speaker 1: Soul in silent blues.
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  Speaker 6: Cause the deeper that I fall alone, the lonelier I do.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe loving you in silence is the closest I can stay.
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  Speaker 7: Though it leaves behind a sorrow that may never fade away.
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  Speaker 9: Unspoken love is sweet and painful, like honey mixed with rain.
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  Speaker 9: A tender hope I hold so tightly while.
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  Speaker 6: It Slowly breaks me loving you.
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  Speaker 5: From just one side now.
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  Speaker 6: Leaves my soul in silent blue. Cause the deeper that
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  Speaker 6: I fall alone, the lonelier I do.