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February 13 - Esther 5 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It is shown here and it is a
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  Monday, whether it be morning, noon or night, it is great to
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  have your company in my part of the world.
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  It is a public holiday today. So while you are being a
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  productive, human being wherever you are us, ho bachchan's.
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  We are taking it. Easy, maybe even going to the
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  Regatta, which is the whole point of this public holiday, I
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  believe, but nonetheless, whether you are working or not,
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  Retired or schooling or wherever you are in between great to have
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  your company. Because today, we continue
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  reading through this crackerjack book of Esther.
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  We are hotting up. You may have remembered where
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  we've got until last week where Esther had just been convinced
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  by Mordecai that she needed to approach her husband King Xerxes
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  to try to stop the dastardly, haman's, evil plan of destroying
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  every Jew across the Persian Empire for, let's see how she
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  goes. Join me friends, as we read
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  together today, Esther chapter 5.
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  On the third day of the fast Esther put on her royal robes
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  and entered the inner Court of the palace just across from the
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  Kings Hall. The King was sitting on his
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  Royal Throne facing the entrance when he saw Queen Esther
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  standing there in the inner Court, he welcomed her and held
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  out the gold scepter to her. So Esther approached and touch.
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  The end of the scepter, then the king asked her.
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  What do you want? Queen Esther.
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  What is your request? I will give it to you.
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  Even if it is half the kingdom and Esther replied, if it please
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  the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet.
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  I have prepared for The King, The King turned to his
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  attendants and said tell Haman to come quickly to a banquet as
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  Esther has requested. So the king and Haman went to
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  Esther's banquet And while they were drinking wine, the king
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  said to Esther. Now, tell me what you really
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  want, what is your request? I will give it to you, even if
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  it is half the kingdom Esther applied, this is my request and
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  deepest wish if I had found favor with the King and if it
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  pleases the king to Grant my request and do what I ask.
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  Please come with Heyman tomorrow to the banquet.
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  I will prepare for you. Then I will explain what this is
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  all about. Haman was a happy man as he left
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  the banquet, but when he saw more two guys sitting at the
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  palace gate, not standing up or trembling nervously before him
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  Haman became Furious. However, he restrained himself
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  and went on home. Then Heyman gathered together,
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  his friends and Suresh, his wife and boasted to them about his
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  great wealth. And his many children, he
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  bragged about the honors. The king had given him and our
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  he had been promoted over all the other Nobles and officials,
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  then, Heyman, added. And that's not all Queen Esther
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  invited. Only me, and the King himself to
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  the banquet, she prepared for us and she has invited Me to dine
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  with her in the king and gained tomorrow, then he added.
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  But this is all worth noting. As long as I see Mordecai the
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  Jew, just sitting there at the palace gate.
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  So haman's, wife Suresh, and all his friends suggested set up, a
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  sharpened pole that stands 75 feet tall and in the morning,
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  ask the king to impale mortdecai on it.
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  When this is done, you can go on your Merry way to the banquet.
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  With the king of this pleased Haman and he ordered the pole
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  set up. Jesus, this story kind of
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  exposes the shadow side of Our Own Heart Out wild ambition, our
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  jealousy, our pride, all the things that draw us away from
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  you Lord, I pray that you would replace our broken human Spirits
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  with your spirit so that our pride is not an ourself but
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  everything that you have done for us and that we can share.
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  You'll love generously in the world as we go about our daily
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  lives and that we can have a red flag.
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  Go up when we receive advice that Strokes our ego and that we
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  can turn everything back to you for your glory.
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  Thank you for the way that you work behind the scenes for our
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  Glory, even though we don't even know it.
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  We just lift you up and we praise you.
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  Jesus, and it's in your name that we pray.
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  Amen. We just lift you up and we
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  praise you. Jesus, and it's in your name
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  that we pray. Amen.