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What-Goes-Around-Comes-Around-Part-2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: To fully engage with Esther's story, we need to be
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Speaker 1: familiar with the three characters who play a major role.
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Speaker 1: First is Mordechai, Esther's adoptive father. Second is Hayman, a
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Speaker 1: powerful leader in the king's company who had generational hatred
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Speaker 1: for the Jews, and the third king Ahasuerus of Persia.
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Speaker 1: When the king discovered Mordechai had once saved his life
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Speaker 1: but was never rewarded, the stage was set. Today on
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Speaker 1: Insight for a Living Jucks Mondaul describes the twists and
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Speaker 1: turns in this epic plot where in Ester chapter six,
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Speaker 1: with a message titled what goes around comes around.
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Speaker 2: As soon as the king heard nothing had been done
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Speaker 2: for Mordecai, his wheels started turning to imagine what might
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Speaker 2: be done, and then he had to figure out who
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Speaker 2: would help him carry it out. So in verse four
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Speaker 2: he asks the logical question, who is in the court now?
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Speaker 2: Hayman had just entered the outer court of the king's
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Speaker 2: palace watch this in order to speak to the King
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Speaker 2: about hanging Mordecai on the gallows, which he had prepared
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Speaker 2: for him. Is this a great moment or what verse
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Speaker 2: five King's servants said behold, Hamon is in is standing
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Speaker 2: in the court, and the king.
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Speaker 3: Said, let it come.
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Speaker 2: In verse six, So Hamon came in, and the King
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Speaker 2: said to him, what is to be done for the
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Speaker 2: man whom the king desires to honor? And Hamon said
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Speaker 2: to himself, whom would the king desire to honor more
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Speaker 2: than me? Of course, Let's begin with the king's robe,
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Speaker 2: which the king has worn.
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Speaker 3: And choose the horse on which the.
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Speaker 2: King has ridden, and the crown on whose head the
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Speaker 2: royal crown has been placed. And let them eray the
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Speaker 2: man whom the king desires to honor, and lead him
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Speaker 2: on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him
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Speaker 2: that it shall be done to the man whom the
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Speaker 2: King desires to honor. Verse ten one of my all
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Speaker 2: time favorite verses. Take quickly the robes, the crown, the horse,
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Speaker 2: and all you have said, and do that for Mordecai
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Speaker 2: the Jew. Oh no, oh, this has got to be
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Speaker 2: this has got to be a mistake. Who Mordecai the Jew,
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Speaker 2: who is sitting at the King's gate, do not fall
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Speaker 2: short in anything of all.
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Speaker 3: That you have said.
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Speaker 2: Now I want to get the finest in the kingdom
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Speaker 2: to make the announce So, Hayman, you'd be the one
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Speaker 2: who leads the horse through the city and make the announcement,
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Speaker 2: how great this man is it sits on this horse.
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Speaker 2: This isn't in your face kind of announcement. Some of
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Speaker 2: you look at me rather piously. How could you think
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Speaker 2: such a thing. Oh, it's easy, just like you could
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Speaker 2: do it. I mean, this is my chance to get back. No,
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, I can't. I've got to go
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Speaker 2: through and make it worse. I thought of it. I
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Speaker 2: thought of this idea. So Hamon, Oh this is great.
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Speaker 2: So Hamon took the robe and the horse and arrayed
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Speaker 2: Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square,
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Speaker 2: and proclaimed before him, Thus it shall be done to
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Speaker 2: the man whom the.
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Speaker 3: King desires to honor.
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Speaker 2: One wise commentator said, the words Hayman had to proclaim
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Speaker 2: must have been as gravel in his mouth. We have
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Speaker 2: a sing in our day. It's called what goes around
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Speaker 2: comes around. It has come around. For Mordecai, sitting on
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Speaker 2: that horse in regal attire, is the most surprised man
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Speaker 2: in the kingdom. That's the beauty of the story. Not
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Speaker 2: a proud man, not a man whispering.
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Speaker 3: Say it a little louder, eat your heart.
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Speaker 2: Out, Haman, not a word you read, nothing, listen to me,
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Speaker 2: nothing a vengeance in More's life. You know what I
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Speaker 2: appreciate most the silence.
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Speaker 3: Of Mordecai.
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Speaker 2: How rare are the people who can be promoted to
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Speaker 2: a place of significant stature and not live for their
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Speaker 2: own clippings, and not crave the lights, not demand to
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Speaker 2: be in the center stage, to be treated with kid gloves.
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Speaker 3: You know, a beautiful scene.
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Speaker 2: It's a small phrase you would probably in your reading
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Speaker 2: overlook verse twelve. Then Mordecai returned to the King's gate?
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Speaker 3: Is that great?
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Speaker 2: Rather than Mordecai decided it was time for a promotion. No,
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Speaker 2: why it's significant because that's where he's been all the time,
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Speaker 2: and his role has not gone.
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Speaker 3: To his head.
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Speaker 2: I thought I was the first to discover that, And
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Speaker 2: then I found, in an old book published in eighteen
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Speaker 2: eighty from a man named Alexander Raleigh, this insightful paragraph.
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Speaker 2: Better than I could have ever thought, And I quote
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Speaker 2: a proud, ambitious man would have said to himself, no
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Speaker 2: more of the King's gates for me. I shall direct
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Speaker 2: my steps now to the King's palace, and hold myself
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Speaker 2: ready for honor, which surely must now be at hand.
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Speaker 2: Mordecai seems to have said with himself, if these things
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Speaker 2: are designed for me in God's good providence, they will
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Speaker 2: find me, but they must seek me. I will not
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Speaker 2: seek them. Those who confer them know my address, Mordecai
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Speaker 2: at the king.
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Speaker 3: That will still find me.
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Speaker 2: Let the crowd wonder and disperse. I've had enough of
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Speaker 2: their incense. Let Hayman go whether he will, he is
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Speaker 2: in the hands of the Lord. Let my friends at
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Speaker 2: home wait. They will all hear all in time. I
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Speaker 2: can wait best at the old place, and in the
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Speaker 2: accustomed way I'll be at the King's gate. Have you
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Speaker 2: been promoted in recent days? Has God's providence smiled on
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Speaker 2: you so that you are now being quoted in places
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Speaker 2: where you were once not even known? Have you come
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Speaker 2: to the place of nobility in the eyes of the people.
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Speaker 2: The real question is are you still comfortable at the
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Speaker 2: King's gate? Or must you now live in the palace
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Speaker 2: where you are protected from the real world. Must you
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Speaker 2: now be treated with special care and be given a
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Speaker 2: special touch, and not bothered with everyday problems? Mordecai said
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Speaker 2: just drop me off at the King's Gate. Let me
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Speaker 2: give you a little piece of advice. No matter what
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Speaker 2: happens to you, the best place on earth is the
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Speaker 2: King's Gate. One more principle comes from this story, in
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Speaker 2: this chapter, and that is, when nothing seems just, it
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Speaker 2: is if you're like me, you have been waiting for
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Speaker 2: a long time for the.
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Speaker 3: Other shoe to fall.
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Speaker 2: You have been wanting somehow, not for Mordecai to take vengeance,
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Speaker 2: that's not his right, but you have been wanting Hayman.
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Speaker 3: To get what he deserves.
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Speaker 2: There's something in all of us that wants justice. That's
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Speaker 2: why we will go to the trouble of finding a
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Speaker 2: two and if necessary, going to law in this case,
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Speaker 2: because we have to bring about a sense of justice
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Speaker 2: when we have been wronged, and this man Hayman, has
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Speaker 2: strutted his stuff long enough. When all seems lost, when
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Speaker 2: nothing seems just, it is Listen to twelve. Mordecai returned
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Speaker 2: to the King's Gate, but Haymon hurried home morning with
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Speaker 2: his head covered. Remember the last time he was there,
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Speaker 2: he was going through the litany of how great he
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Speaker 2: is now. He slides under the door as he gets there.
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Speaker 2: That afternoon, and he recounts to Zeresh, his wife and
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Speaker 2: his friends everything that had happened to him. Hayman types
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Speaker 2: are the type that always blame other people for their misfortune.
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Speaker 2: Have you noticed that it's never God has taught me
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Speaker 2: a valuable lesson, or I have been humbled through this
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Speaker 2: and in the law loss I have gained, or God
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Speaker 2: has crushed my spirit and I have learned to rely
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Speaker 2: on him.
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Speaker 3: It is invariably if.
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Speaker 2: It hadn't been for him, if she hadn't said, if
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Speaker 2: that person hadn't done, if the company hadn't on and
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Speaker 2: on and on. Hayman's like that, he rehearses all that
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Speaker 2: has happened to him, not all that he brought on himself.
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Speaker 2: Then his wise men and Zeresh, his wife said to him,
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Speaker 2: hold on, if Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall,
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Speaker 2: is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him. Your
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Speaker 2: days are numbered. He will surely fall before him. You
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Speaker 2: know what, You've got to admire their theology. They are
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Speaker 2: right on target. That couldn't have been sourced better if
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Speaker 2: I had read for you Genesis twelve two and three.
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Speaker 2: I will make you the Jews a great name I
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Speaker 2: will bless you. I will bless those who bless you,
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Speaker 2: and the one who curses you, I will curse. The
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Speaker 2: marginal reference states I will bind under a curse Genesis
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Speaker 2: twelve two and three the Abrahamic Covenant. My people will
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Speaker 2: be protected. You curse them, you will pay a terrible price.
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Speaker 2: Thank God, America has not forgotten that it's wise to
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Speaker 2: remain allies to the Jews.
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Speaker 3: When nothing seems just.
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Speaker 2: It is, and they say to him, don't get your
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Speaker 2: hopes up for many more mornings. It looks like you're
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Speaker 2: about done for not while I was graduating from seminary,
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Speaker 2: but a couple of years before my class made it,
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Speaker 2: I was sitting in the audience listening to the to
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Speaker 2: the long standing president of Dala Seminary at the time,
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Speaker 2: doctor John walverd. I forget much of what he said,
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Speaker 2: but I will never forget a statement he made as
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Speaker 2: he was challenging the graduates to a life of purity, holiness, humility, godliness.
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Speaker 2: I remember his warning all of those graduates in cap
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Speaker 2: and gown that day to be careful with how they
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Speaker 2: handled the glory of God and God's use of their
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Speaker 2: lives in the days ahead. He made a statement not
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Speaker 2: original to him, but at the time I had never
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Speaker 2: read it anywhere else before. He said, Remember, God's wheels
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Speaker 2: grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. Never forget that
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Speaker 2: here in the case of Hayman, God's wheels grind exceedingly fine.
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Speaker 2: Never once, in all of his peacocks strutting about the kingdom,
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Speaker 2: had God overlooked Hayman. Never once, in none of his
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Speaker 2: plan for the murder of the Jews, to say nothing
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Speaker 2: of the murder of Mordecai that day, had God missed
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Speaker 2: the statements, the feelings of the hearts, the motives behind
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Speaker 2: the decisions.
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Speaker 3: His wheels grind slowly, but exceedingly fine.
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Speaker 2: I don't care how important you may think you are,
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Speaker 2: or how valuable you feel you are to the company,
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Speaker 2: or the community, or the home or the church. Its
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Speaker 2: wheels grind exceedingly fine. Be very very careful about walking
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Speaker 2: in pride. It will come back to curse you having
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Speaker 2: heard these words. In fact, while verse fourteen, while they
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Speaker 2: were still talking with him, a knock came at the door,
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Speaker 2: and before he could even get his thoughts together. According
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Speaker 2: to the verse, the king's eunuch had arrived and hastily
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Speaker 2: brought Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't even have time to compute what.
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Speaker 2: Was said before he was swept out of the house
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Speaker 2: and moved right on to the palace of the King
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Speaker 2: for this ominous banquet that would spell his doom.
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Speaker 3: Will you allow a preach your little imagination for a moment?
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Speaker 2: I can't help but wonder if on the way to
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Speaker 2: the King's palace Haman didn't glance at the gallows and
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Speaker 2: truly think, could it be that the one I planned
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Speaker 2: to put there will never go, and I will be
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Speaker 2: hung there in its place. It's the kind of thought
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Speaker 2: that Judas thought of too late. There's an old English
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Speaker 2: couplet that says, still as of old man by himself
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Speaker 2: is Christ for thirty pieces. Judas sold himself.
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Speaker 3: Not Christ.
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Speaker 2: There he stood in a moment of hesitation, before going
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Speaker 2: into the banquet. What goes around comes around. We've seen
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Speaker 2: the principle things are not as they seem, carried out
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Speaker 2: in four different manners, haven't we. When all seems lost
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Speaker 2: it isn't, when no one seems to notice they do,
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Speaker 2: When everything seems great it isn't. And when nothing seems
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Speaker 2: just it is, which is another way of saying, when
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Speaker 2: God seems absent, he's present. Even when you think you
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Speaker 2: have lost it all. In the losing of all, God
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Speaker 2: uses it as an opportunity to bring you to your knees.
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Speaker 2: That's the strange way he works, you know. I saw
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Speaker 2: in a Billy Graham Decision magazine a story that was
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Speaker 2: entitled Disaster. Maybe you remember reading it. It was a
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Speaker 2: story of a man who was shipwrecked and thrown on
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Speaker 2: an island with nothing but a few things he was
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Speaker 2: able to salvage from the ship, and he hurriedly built
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Speaker 2: a little hut in which he would be protected from
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Speaker 2: the elements, and where he could keep the few last
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Speaker 2: possessions he had salvaged from the wreck. And he lived
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Speaker 2: through the hot sun and the cold nights, and the
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Speaker 2: stormy days and nights on the island, and returning one
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Speaker 2: evening after a search for food, and he had every
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Speaker 2: day watched for a passing ship and saw nothing. When
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Speaker 2: he came back that evening, he was terrified to find
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Speaker 2: that the little hut he had built was consumed in flames,
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Speaker 2: and he stood there without any ability to stop the fire,
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Speaker 2: and a crushing disaster of realizing that the last biddy
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Speaker 2: had was now gone. Yet by divine mercy, his affliction
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Speaker 2: was going to work toward mighty advantage. He went to
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Speaker 2: sleep that night near the ashes, listening to the surf
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Speaker 2: as it pounded on the sand. Awoke early the next morning,
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Speaker 2: and to his surprise, as he sat up, he saw
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Speaker 2: a ship, and before he could awaken himself fully, he
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Speaker 2: heard the footsteps of a crew of men next to him,
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Speaker 2: and one of them said, we saw your smoke signal,
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Speaker 2: and we came to rescue you.
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Speaker 3: Everything the Maroon man owned and had to be destroyed
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Speaker 3: before he could be rescued.
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Speaker 2: Where are you in this story? I speak mainly to
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Speaker 2: the Haymans who have been kind enough to listen very carefully.
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Speaker 2: You've been engaged in building your kingdom and erecting your fortune,
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Speaker 2: establishing your name and making it prominent so that other
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Speaker 2: people would ooh and ahe. You've got your fortune in hand.
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Speaker 2: You can see it in your sights. You've walked over
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Speaker 2: and through people to get there. Listen to this piece.
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Speaker 2: I had walked life's away with an easy tread. I
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Speaker 2: had traveled where pleasures and comfort led, until one day
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Speaker 2: in a quiet.
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Speaker 3: Place, I met the Master face to face.
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Speaker 2: With station and rank and wealth for my goal, much
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Speaker 2: thought for my body, but none for my soul.
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Speaker 3: I had entered to win this life's mad race.
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Speaker 2: When I met the Man face to face, I built
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Speaker 2: my towers and reared them high till they had pierced
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Speaker 2: the blue of the sky. I'd sworn to rule with
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Speaker 2: an iron mace. When I met my Master face to face,
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Speaker 2: I met him and knew him, and blushed to see
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Speaker 2: that his eyes full of sorrow were fixed upon me.
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Speaker 2: I faltered and fell at his feet that day, while
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Speaker 2: my castles melted and vanished away, melted and vanished, and
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Speaker 2: in their place nothing else could I see but the
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Speaker 2: Master's face. My thoughts are now for the souls of men.
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Speaker 2: I have lost my life to find it again. Since
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Speaker 2: that day in a quiet place, when I met the
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Speaker 2: Master face to face, I'd like you to bow your
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Speaker 2: heads for a few moments. I'd like to address you
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Speaker 2: who feel that God has been absent or on hold,
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Speaker 2: distant in some way. I would like to reassure you
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Speaker 2: you of this. He has been present all the time. Furthermore,
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Speaker 2: He knows your heart, He knows the true condition of
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Speaker 2: your soul. He knows the impurities of your motive, he
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Speaker 2: knows the depravity of your sin, but he has come
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Speaker 2: to your rescue today. The good news is that he
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Speaker 2: has come to you. He's heard your signal, and he
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Speaker 2: will not turn you away. You're surrounded this day in
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Speaker 2: all corners of this world with people who have given
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Speaker 2: their hearts to Jesus Christ. Maybe they've not announced it
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Speaker 2: to you, but I can assure you in churches that
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Speaker 2: preach his truth, they're there in great numbers. They understand
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Speaker 2: the battle you're going through. I today invite you to
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Speaker 2: make a decision they have made, and that is to
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Speaker 2: give your life to Jesus Christ. Don't wait, Father, We
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Speaker 2: come just as we are today. We come as Hamans
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Speaker 2: and Mordecai's. We come in our need, We come in
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Speaker 2: the dread of our own foolish decisions. We come in
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Speaker 2: the misery of a memory, and yet we come. Thank
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Speaker 2: You for truth that emerges from an ancient book whose
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Speaker 2: scrolls are hardly known.
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Speaker 3: By the public at large.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for speaking to us through the lives and
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Speaker 2: lips of men and women that we can identify with,
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Speaker 2: who lived in a culture we'll never know at a
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Speaker 2: time where we could never be. Thank you for the
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Speaker 2: glory of heaven that awaits all who know Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 2: for the pleasures of sins forgiven, tears removed, blessings eternally,
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Speaker 2: ours to enjoy, rewards never made, reel on earth coming
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Speaker 2: to pass there. Thank you for Christ who has made
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Speaker 2: it all possible. And we come to Him today in
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Speaker 2: his great name.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 1: program today more like Hayman building your own kingdom, or
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Speaker 1: more like Mordecai, faithful and overlooked, the invitation is the same.
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