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February 14 - Esther 6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It is shown here and it is great
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  to have your company on this 14th day of February.
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  That would make it st. Valentine's Day.
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  Happy Valentine's Day to you. I hope that today is the day
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  that you can celebrate love in your life, whatever shape that
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  takes, and how that looks, Happy Valentine's Day to your friend.
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  We are going to continue with our readings today and there is
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  not a whole lot. Of Love here.
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  This is well, this is one of those chapters in the story
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  where it is just comeuppance bubbling up until it overflows.
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  It's the sort of chapter that we love the chapter, where the bad
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  guy gets it coming to him, well, not quite nigori way that will
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  come later on in the story but just rubbing his nose in.
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  It makes us all kind of fist pump and pump the air saying,
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  take that bad guy. I'm hoping that's just me.
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  I don't know but We are ready to read the next chapter of esta
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  and I'm not sure how you're going.
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  But I am really enjoying reading from the New Living Translation.
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  I know some of you have been reading along with your Bibles
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  and you probably may not have a New Living Translation, one in
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  front of you. So it must be painful.
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  Having the text in the new international version with me
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  reading this version, and I apologize.
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  If that's you. But for all of us who are just
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  listening along this Just Breathe new life into these
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  passages, and, and it rolls Is off the tongue so much easier
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  reading and it is bringing it to life in a new and amazing way.
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  So join me as we using this translation read together.
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  Esther chapter 6, That night, the king had trouble
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  sleeping. So he ordered an attendant to
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  bring the book of the history of his Reign, so it could be read
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  to him. In those records.
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  He discovered an account of how more to go.
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  I had exposed the plot, a big tana and teresh to of the
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  eunuchs who guarded the door to the Kings private quarters.
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  They had plotted to assassinate King Xerxes what reward or
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  recognition? Did we ever give more to guy for
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  this? The king asked?
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  His attendance replied. Nothing has been done for him.
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  Who is that in the outer Court, the king and quiet as it
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  happened. Heyman had just arrived in the
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  outer Court of the palace to ask the king to impale more to guy
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  on the pole. He had prepared.
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  So the attendance replied to the king Heyman is out in the court.
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  Bring him in the king ordered. So hey, man came in and the King
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  said, what should I do to honor a man who truly pleases me?
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  Heyman thought to himself whom would the king wished to honor
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  more than me. So, he replied, if the king
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  wishes to honor someone, he should bring out one of the
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  king's own Royal robes, as well as a horse, that the king
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  himself has written one with the Royal emblem on its head.
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  Let the robes and the horse, be handed over to one of the Kings,
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  most noble officials and let him see that, the man whom the king
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  wishes to honor. Is dressed in the kings robes
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  and led through the city Square on the king's horse.
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  Have the official shout as they go this is what the king does
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  for someone. He wishes to honor Excellent.
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  The king said to Haman, quick. Take the robes and my horse and
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  do just as you have said, for more to guy, the Jew, who sits
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  at the Gate of the palace, leave out, nothing you have suggested
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  So Heyman took the robes and put them on more, to guy placed him
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  on the king's own horse and led him through the city Square
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  shouting. This is what the king does for
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  someone. He wishes to honor afterward.
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  Mordecai return to the Palace gate, but Heyman, hurried home,
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  dejected, and completely humiliated when Haman told his
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  wife jerash and all his friends. Is what had happened.
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  He's wise advisors, and his wife said, since more to guy, this
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  man who has humiliated, you is of Jewish birth, you will never
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  succeed in your plans against him, it will be fatal to
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  continue opposing him while they were still talking, the Kings
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  Unix arrived and quickly took Haman to the banquet Esther had
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  prepared. Jesus, it's so easy.
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  As we read the story to side against Heyman, but there is a
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  little bit of this in all of us, as we strive forward, with our
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  own plans. When the plans of the king,
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  that's you, when your plans are different and we can become
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  frustrated as the thing that we want to happen isn't happening.
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  Jesus change our hearts soften our hearts so they beat in one
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  with your Rhythm that it's your plans and your wishes that we
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  would want more than our own selfish ambition, Jesus, we just
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  lift up our lives and give it to you and pray that you would mold
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  us shape us and use us For Your Glory, because what better use
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  of our lives and to hold you up, our God, our savior and our
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  friend, Thank you. Jesus, for all you have done for
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  us and we just respond with our lives to you and your name, we
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  pray. Amen.