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God is Loudest When He Whispers - Max Lucado Daily Sermons · 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 bates 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. It's not the result that I question.
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  Speaker 1: It's the randomness. It's the randomness. You're telling me that
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  Speaker 1: we are all victims of some busy bug over in
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  Speaker 1: West Africa. You're telling me that the human life is
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  Speaker 1: whipped about like a weather vein by faithless fate. I
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  Speaker 1: find no comfort in that whatsoever. I do, however, find
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  Speaker 1: wonderful comfort in scriptures like these, For our God is
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  Speaker 1: in the heavens, and he does as he pleases, from
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  Speaker 1: eternity to eternity. I am God. No one can oppose
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  Speaker 1: what I do. God chose us from the beginning, and
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  Speaker 1: all things happen just as He decided long ago. One
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  Speaker 1: prophet asks, can anything happen without the Lord's permission? Another
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  Speaker 1: one answered, God has the power to do as he
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  Speaker 1: pleases among the angels of heaven and with those who
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  Speaker 1: live on earth. I make known, God said the end,
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
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  Speaker 1: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that
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  Speaker 1: I please. No, we're not victim to a busy butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: In West Africa. A hurricane can only happen with the
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  Speaker 1: permission and under the providence of our almighty God. He
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  Speaker 1: is indeed the blessed controller of all things. He certainly
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  Speaker 1: was in the days of Esther, and the resounding message
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of Esther is the providence of God.
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  Speaker 1: Now you might buckle your seat belt. Chapters five and
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  Speaker 1: six are quite a ride. We moved from Esther in
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  Speaker 1: the prayer room, as Travis wonderfully presented last week, we
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  Speaker 1: moved from the prayer room to Esther in the throne room.
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  Speaker 1: We last saw her on her face, pleading her case
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  Speaker 1: with God to give mercy to her people in favor
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  Speaker 1: to her visit with King Xerxes. Her people were under
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  Speaker 1: a death sentence, and she lived under an archaic rule
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  Speaker 1: that said a wife, even the queen, could not appear
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  Speaker 1: before her husband, apart from his blessing. To do so
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  Speaker 1: could result in deaths. She made her choice, she said, well,
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  Speaker 1: if I perish, I perish. So Chapter five opens with Esther,
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  Speaker 1: now re rogued in royalty and standing in the inner
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  Speaker 1: court of the king, just close enough for him to
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  Speaker 1: catch a glimpse of his wife and a whiff of
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  Speaker 1: her perfume. When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court,
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  Speaker 1: he was pleased with her and held out to her
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  Speaker 1: the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther
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  Speaker 1: approached and touched the tip of the scepter. I have
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  Speaker 1: it on good authority that in Persian culture, whenever the
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  Speaker 1: king held out his scepter in the direction of his wife,
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  Speaker 1: he was actually saying, hey, good looking, what you got cooking?
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping for a better laugh. Not only did
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  Speaker 1: he invite her to enter, but he welcomed her petition
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  Speaker 1: What is it, Queen Esther, what's your request? Even up
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  Speaker 1: to half the kingdom and it will be given to you.
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  Speaker 1: So Esther filed a request. She made a request. She
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  Speaker 1: would like to have a nice dinner with the king,
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  Speaker 1: with Haymon, remember he's the villain, Just the three of them,
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  Speaker 1: something intimate, some chit chat, bottle of bubbly Frank Sinatra songs.
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  Speaker 1: The quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Xerxes and Hayman didn't realize it, but God was stirring
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  Speaker 1: a butterfly and it was awakening after a long nap. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the dinner was a great success. Hayman, the villain, left
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  Speaker 1: the dinner with a full tummy and a big head.
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  Speaker 1: Life was good. He was the King's go to council.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the Queen's short lists for dinner invitations.
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  Speaker 1: What could be better? He smiled as he walked through
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  Speaker 1: the palace courtyard and noticed all the subservient servants bowing
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  Speaker 1: to him. But then he saw Mordecai still at the gate,
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  Speaker 1: still wearing sackcloth and ashes, still refusing to bow, and
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  Speaker 1: Hayman snarled, goodbye, good mood, Hello grumps. He went home,
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  Speaker 1: gathered his friends and wife and told them in no
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  Speaker 1: uncertain terms that Mordecai was reigning on his parade. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king
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  Speaker 1: to the banquet she gave, and she has invited me
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  Speaker 1: along with the king tomorrow. But all this gives me
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  Speaker 1: no satisfaction. As long as I see that jew Mordecai
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  Speaker 1: standing at the king's gate, his wife, Zeresh and all
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  Speaker 1: his friends said to him, have a pole set up,
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  Speaker 1: reaching to a height of fifty cubits, and asked the
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  Speaker 1: king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it.
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  Speaker 1: Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.
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  Speaker 1: This suggestion delighted Hayman, and he had the pole set
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  Speaker 1: up fifty cubits is seventy five feet seven and a
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  Speaker 1: half stories. A pole was set up upon which Hayman
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  Speaker 1: would be impaled. Yes, gallows in the days of Persia
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  Speaker 1: did not include hanging a rope. Putting a rope around
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  Speaker 1: the neck and hanging it was the impaling of a person,
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  Speaker 1: so Mordecai was going to be impaled. Hayman 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, Hayman 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, founding the pillow first this side, then the next.
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  Speaker 1: Finally he sat up on the edge of the bed
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  Speaker 1: and groaned and belched. He blamed the seapless sleeplessness on
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  Speaker 1: the spicy meat sauce. It'd have been wiser to blame
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  Speaker 1: it on Heaven's butterfly. Modern day insomniacs listened to locato
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  Speaker 1: sermons for treatment. Xerxes had no such option, so he
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  Speaker 1: requested a reading of the Book of Records. The court
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  Speaker 1: attendant entered the chamber carrying a fat scroll. He opened
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  Speaker 1: it and began to drone on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: He read the minutes from the last council meeting in
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  Speaker 1: a tone that would have anesthetized a root canal patient.
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  Speaker 1: Six gates were ordered for Susa. The king approved new
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  Speaker 1: helmets for the army. Seven million paper clips were dispatched
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  Speaker 1: into the kingdom. Mordecai saved the king's life by reporting
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  Speaker 1: an assassination attempt. What the king sat up straight in
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  Speaker 1: bed and said, read that one again. And the servant
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  Speaker 1: did I told you this moment would reappear, didn't I?
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  Speaker 1: When we were in chapter two and we talked about
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  Speaker 1: that curious interlude in which Mordecai at the gate overheard
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  Speaker 1: an assassination plot, an attempt between those two guys with
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  Speaker 1: the weird names Big Session Teach 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, but on the outside chance somebody
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  Speaker 1: is not. Let me spell it out for you. This
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  Speaker 1: is God at work, God managing the events. He kept
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  Speaker 1: the king's eyelids open. He prompted him to read a
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  Speaker 1: reading from the Book of Boredom. He caused the book
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  Speaker 1: to open to the precise page about Mordecai. He motivated
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  Speaker 1: Xerxes to do the first decent thing he's done thus
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  Speaker 1: far in this story. When the king learned that nothing
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  Speaker 1: had been done to honor the man who had saved
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  Speaker 1: his life. He was apoplectic. How could this be? Mordecai
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  Speaker 1: protected the crown and gotten not so much as a
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  Speaker 1: gold watch. Exerxes climbed out of bed and he began
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  Speaker 1: to pace back and forth, back and forth. Something needed
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  Speaker 1: to be done, but he didn't know what. Xerxes needed
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  Speaker 1: some advice, so the king asked, who is in the court?
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  Speaker 1: Look at this now? Hayman had just entered the outer
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  Speaker 1: court of the palace to speak to the king about
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  Speaker 1: hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had erected for him.
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  Speaker 1: His attendants answered, Haymon is in the court. Bring him in?
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  Speaker 1: The king ordered, is this not the best? It was
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  Speaker 1: the crack of dawn. Both men were in the court
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  Speaker 1: with Mordecai on their minds. Except Xerxes wanted to honor him.
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  Speaker 1: Hayman wanted to kill him. So the king called for Haman.
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  Speaker 1: Haman flushed his peacock feathers and strutted into the king's quarters.
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  Speaker 1: But before he could say top of the morning, king's
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  Speaker 1: sersees had a question, what should be done for the
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  Speaker 1: man the king delights to honor? Now Haman thought to himself,
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  Speaker 1: who is there that the King would rather honor than me,
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  Speaker 1: narcissists that he was. He assumed the King was giving
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  Speaker 1: him prompts and being coy about it. After all, who
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  Speaker 1: else deserves honor other than Haymon. He puffed on his
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  Speaker 1: fingernails and buffed them on his chest, and began to
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  Speaker 1: envision the day unfolding before him. He would be astride
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  Speaker 1: the steed of the King, wearing the royal robe of
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  Speaker 1: the King, and all the people would come out and
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  Speaker 1: call his name, and they would cast rose petals on
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  Speaker 1: his path, 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 on the horse through
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  Speaker 1: the city streets, proclaiming before him, this is what is
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  Speaker 1: done for the man the King delights to honor. That's
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  Speaker 1: a great idea, said the King. Of course, it is
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  Speaker 1: thought Hayman the Laus and what happened next, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the great moments in scripture. Go At
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  Speaker 1: Once the king commanded Hayman, get the robe and the horse,
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  Speaker 1: and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai, the
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  Speaker 1: Jew who sits at the king's gate. Do not neglect
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  Speaker 1: anything that you have recommended. Could it get any better?
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  Speaker 1: Within moments, it was Mordecai Day in Susa. The city
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  Speaker 1: threw him a parade, and Hayman wanted to throw up.
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  Speaker 1: Now behold the reversal of fortune. Let's just list them.
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  Speaker 1: Hayman intended to put Mordecai on a spike. Instead he
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  Speaker 1: placed him on a horse. Hayman planned to lead Mordecai
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  Speaker 1: to the gallows. Instead, he led him through the streets. Hayman,
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  Speaker 1: who demanded to be worshiped, was humiliated. Mordecai, who refused
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  Speaker 1: to worship Hayman, was rewarded. Does anybody know how you
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  Speaker 1: say poetic justice in Persian? After it was over, Hamon
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  Speaker 1: hurried home morning with his head covered, and Hayman recounted
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  Speaker 1: to Zireesh's wife and all his friends everything that had
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  Speaker 1: happened to him. Now, who saw this coming? Who imagined?
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  Speaker 1: Who could have imagined such a turn on a dying
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  Speaker 1: series of turnarounds? I can answer that question. God could?
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  Speaker 1: God could? God orchestrated all the details, the Sleepless King,
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  Speaker 1: the detailed reading, the entry about Mordecai in the book,
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  Speaker 1: the entry of Hayman at the right time in the
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  Speaker 1: castle court. Who could do this? But the blessed Controller
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  Speaker 1: of all things and friends? He invites you and me
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  Speaker 1: to believe this promise. God makes everything work out according
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  Speaker 1: to his plan. He makes everything work out, even in
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  Speaker 1: the most pagan corner of the world, even in the
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  Speaker 1: heart of a pagan king, even in the interplay between
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  Speaker 1: two men who have decreed the deaths of thousands of Jews.
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  Speaker 1: God was at work, and friend, God is at work.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody needs this reminder today. Somebody needs a reminder. You're
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  Speaker 1: wondering if there is a God, or if there is
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  Speaker 1: a god, if he knows about you, and if he
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  Speaker 1: knows about you, does he care about me? Somebody has
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  Speaker 1: told you that life is nothing more than a roll
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  Speaker 1: of the dice, and it's been a long time since
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  Speaker 1: the dice rolled in your favor. If so, this story
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  Speaker 1: is for you If so, I urge you to ponder
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  Speaker 1: the plight of Mordecai and Hayman, and note how God
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  Speaker 1: flipped flopped their stories. Hayman began the day large and
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  Speaker 1: in charge. Mordecai began the day wearing sackcloth and ashes,
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  Speaker 1: praying in the shadow of a seven story gallow that
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  Speaker 1: bore his name. Yet from one minute to the next,
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  Speaker 1: Hayman was brought down to size, and Mordecai was given
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  Speaker 1: the keys to the city. Who's to say, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: that something similar won't happen to you. God makes everything
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  Speaker 1: everything agree with what He decides and wants. The next
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  Speaker 1: time you hear somebody say the devil is in the details,
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  Speaker 1: you correct them. God is in the details. God is
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  Speaker 1: in the details. In his hands, the insignificant becomes significant
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  Speaker 1: because He is ever managing the ordinary events of billions
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  Speaker 1: of people's lives through millennia of time to accomplish his
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  Speaker 1: eternal purposes. He delivered an entire race of people in
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  Speaker 1: Persia because one man wouldn't bow, one queen wouldn't quit,
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  Speaker 1: a king couldn't sleep, and a scoundrel could not leave
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  Speaker 1: good enough alone. God wears a glove called providence. Look
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  Speaker 1: back over your life. Can you not see some moments
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  Speaker 1: of quiet sovereignty, events that cause you to say, only
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  Speaker 1: God could have done that. My wife's aunt, Jane Kin,
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  Speaker 1: she was utterly, utterly void of hope. Her husband had
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  Speaker 1: been shot and killed by his own son, and the
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  Speaker 1: son then turned the gun on himself, and she was
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  Speaker 1: left to raise their daughter all alone. Jane had given
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  Speaker 1: up on faith, giving up on hope, given up on God.
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  Speaker 1: But God had not given up on her. One day,
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  Speaker 1: she heard the television in the adjacent room. She didn't
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  Speaker 1: remember turning it on, and to this day she has
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  Speaker 1: no idea how it was on a religious channel. She
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  Speaker 1: never watched religious networking. She entered the room intending to
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  Speaker 1: turn it off, but something the teacher said touched her heart,
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  Speaker 1: so she sat on the edge of her bed. Within moments,
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  Speaker 1: she was on her knees. God was at work a
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  Speaker 1: television in the adjacent room at just the right channel,
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  Speaker 1: with just the right message. And Jane can tell you
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  Speaker 1: about providence. So can a woman, a mother in Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: Out of respect for her privacy, I won't disclose her name,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd love to tell you her story. She had
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  Speaker 1: decided to end her life the twists and turns of
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  Speaker 1: life had taken all her cope and she was going
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  Speaker 1: to check out. She planned her exit down to the
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  Speaker 1: last detail. One of those details was a trip to
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  Speaker 1: a bookstore to purchase a children's book for her children,
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  Speaker 1: and it would be her parting gift. She asked the
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  Speaker 1: store owner to make a recommendation, and he took her
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  Speaker 1: to a shelf that contained a book called Tell Me
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  Speaker 1: the Story, written by Max Lookato. 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 sack. This is
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  Speaker 1: just a short note to say thank you for your
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  Speaker 1: wonderful book, tell Me the Story. I went to the
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  Speaker 1: bookstore today to purchase several gifts for several people. For
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  Speaker 1: several weeks, I have been playing with the idea of
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  Speaker 1: killing myself. I have been struggling for years to really
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  Speaker 1: believe and feel that God is real. I bought this
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  Speaker 1: as a goodbye present for one of my children. I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what the book said, but it was
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  Speaker 1: supposedly Christian and had a pretty cover. For the next
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  Speaker 1: several hours, I drove her around crying. I was waiting
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  Speaker 1: until my children would be asleep so I could go home,
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  Speaker 1: leave their presence, and then disappear forever. God led me
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  Speaker 1: on a little detour, though my car ran out of
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  Speaker 1: oil and the engine started making that clicking sound. I
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  Speaker 1: tried to find an open oil express or something, but
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  Speaker 1: everything was closed. I was frustrated because I needed my
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  Speaker 1: car to stay in one place long enough for me
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  Speaker 1: to go home and then go back to some nearby
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  Speaker 1: railroad tracks. I pulled into a nearby parking lot and
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  Speaker 1: was sorting through the presence and writing little notes of
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  Speaker 1: encouragement on each. For some reason, I decided to waste
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  Speaker 1: time by reading Tell Me the Story. I was really
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  Speaker 1: touched by the stories in there. I felt as if
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  Speaker 1: I was able to know Jesus in a different way
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  Speaker 1: instead of killing myself. Tonight, I'm going to go home
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  Speaker 1: and keep rereading the book. I want a relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to turn my car around, mail this letter,
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  Speaker 1: and go home and read a story to my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Jane. Here's a TV. A despondent mom buys a book.
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  Speaker 1: A king can't sleep. A villain walks in the king's
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  Speaker 1: court room at just the right time. Our God is
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  Speaker 1: at work, and because he is my friend. Because he is,
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  Speaker 1: you can choose faith over fear. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: ask you an honest question, what are you choosing? What
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  Speaker 1: are you choosing? You're getting it from every angle. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've got the pandemic, you've got the political chaos,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got your personal struggles. They're coming at you
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  Speaker 1: from every side. Pandemic, political chaos, personal struggles, the three
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  Speaker 1: p's of our day. But today I'm telling you you
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  Speaker 1: can counteract those three piece with the one P that matters,
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  Speaker 1: and that is providence. Providence the belief that a good
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  Speaker 1: God occupies a holy throne and is directing the affairs
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  Speaker 1: of every single life. He is engaged in the details
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  Speaker 1: 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 also befuddled and leading such a
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  Speaker 1: different life. God is still in control, Amen, everything. Let
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  Speaker 1: others cower and fear, you can bow in worship. Let
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  Speaker 1: others turn and hide, you can stand and trust. Let
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  Speaker 1: 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. It
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  Speaker 1: always has, it always will, and especially today, you need
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  Speaker 1: to know that your world is not being run by
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  Speaker 1: some busy butterfly in West Africa. That the Almighty God
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  Speaker 1: is in charge and he will make everything work out
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  Speaker 1: in the way he intends. Amen. So Lord, we receive
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  Speaker 1: this extraordinary story that so illustrates the promise of your providence.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you Father, Thank you in Jesus name.