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An-Evil-Interlude-Part-2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: If you looked up the word life in Heaven's thesaurus,
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  Speaker 1: one of the first synonyms you'd find would be this
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  Speaker 1: one pain. Yes, life has broken bones, bitter losses, and
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  Speaker 1: enemies you never saw coming today On inside for a
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  Speaker 1: living Chuck Wendall points to Esther chapter three, where a
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  Speaker 1: trusted official named Hayman nursed an old grudge until it
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  Speaker 1: became a blueprint for genocide. Here's the point. Unchecked evil grows,
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  Speaker 1: and the only power strong enough to stop it is
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  Speaker 1: the grace of Jesus Christ. Beginning with Ester three, verse five,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled his message an evil Interlude.
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  Speaker 2: When Hayman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid
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  Speaker 2: homage to him, Hayman was filled with rage, and he
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  Speaker 2: disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had
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  Speaker 2: told him who the people of Mordecai were. Therefore, Haymon
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  Speaker 2: sought to destroy all the Jews. Wait a minute. In
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  Speaker 2: Hayman's mind is a learned trait. I hate the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: And he realized if he could ever be placed into
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  Speaker 2: power and ever have an opportunity to do something about it,
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  Speaker 2: he would not stop with one who wouldn't bow. He
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  Speaker 2: would exterminate the race I have circled in my bible.
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  Speaker 2: Hayman sought to destroy all the Jews, because you see,
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  Speaker 2: that's the way evil is. It grows in an exaggerated manner.
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  Speaker 2: He's not satisfied simply to kill Mordecai or to make
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  Speaker 2: his life miserable. Now he must kill the people of Mordecai.
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  Speaker 2: The plan for extermination unfolds rather quickly. The mind is
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  Speaker 2: very creative when it is spurred on by evil. Imagination
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  Speaker 2: runs creatively when evil is behind it. Watch in the
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  Speaker 2: first month, which is the monthly san in the twelfth
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  Speaker 2: year of King of hajuaras Per that is the lot
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  Speaker 2: we'll read later of the feast of Purim. Perim is
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  Speaker 2: the plural of per lots. We'll read of that later.
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  Speaker 2: Lots were cast before Hayman from day to day and
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  Speaker 2: from month to month until the twelfth month, that is
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  Speaker 2: the month eight are we would read verse seven. In
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  Speaker 2: the first month, that is January, lots were cast, and
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  Speaker 2: they were cast through the month of day. Then Hayman
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  Speaker 2: said to King of Hazuaris, I've got an answer. There
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  Speaker 2: is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples
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  Speaker 2: and all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are
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  Speaker 2: different from those of other people, and they do not
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  Speaker 2: observe the king's laws. So it is not of the
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  Speaker 2: King's interest to let them remain. That's nothing more than
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  Speaker 2: extermination talk. And he's telling the king what the king
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  Speaker 2: wants to hear. He doesn't tell him the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't mention the prejudice and the grudge, the long
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  Speaker 2: standing antisemitism that goes back to his Amalekite roots. Doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mention that. What's this about lots and casting lots and
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  Speaker 2: months and days and all of that in a book
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately that's now out of print. Ray Stedman the Queen
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  Speaker 2: and I on Esther, I find these words what a
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  Speaker 2: strange procedure. But the casting of life to determine a
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  Speaker 2: lucky day on which to do something was common practice
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  Speaker 2: in Oriental kingdoms. It is very similar to the practice
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  Speaker 2: to day of shooting dice in order to select a
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  Speaker 2: propitious day for some activity. When the record says they
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  Speaker 2: cast it month after month till the twelfth month, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean they shook dice for a whole year in
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  Speaker 2: front of Haman. It means that every cast made stood
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  Speaker 2: for a different day. A cast was made for each
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  Speaker 2: day of the calendar, and if a propitious number, we
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  Speaker 2: might say an evil omen are some sense of significance
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  Speaker 2: aroused by the throwing of the dice turned up, that
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  Speaker 2: day was regarded as a lucky day. Thus, they went
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  Speaker 2: through three hundred and sixty five casts before they found
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  Speaker 2: the lucky day. When they found it, it was in
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  Speaker 2: the twelfth month, called the month of Adar. The whole
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  Speaker 2: process made it possible for Haman to go to the
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  Speaker 2: king and say, look, if you really want good luck
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  Speaker 2: in your life, if you want fortune to smile on you,
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  Speaker 2: there's only one way to do it. Get rid of
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  Speaker 2: these people. It's precisely the way it happened. When your life,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is driven by superstition, you come upon
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous decisions very much like this. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: are you still superstitious? That is a loaded question, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's assuming we all have been at one time. Do
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  Speaker 2: you still drive the other way when a black cat
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  Speaker 2: crosses in front of your path? Do you never stay
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  Speaker 2: on the thirteenth floor of a hotel? I can hardly
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  Speaker 2: find a hotel with the thirteenth floor. I usually request it.
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  Speaker 2: Usually there's a lot of room on the thirteenth floor.
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  Speaker 2: I love walking under ladders. You walk around them. You
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  Speaker 2: worry when a mirror is broken. It's that amazing how
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  Speaker 2: those things track us and stay with us, stupid things,
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  Speaker 2: even demonic things. It led to this game plan for
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  Speaker 2: the extermination of the people of the Jews, and the
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  Speaker 2: King bought it, hook line and sinker. He loved the idea.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it appealed to his conceit verse nine. If
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  Speaker 2: it's pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that
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  Speaker 2: they be destroyed. Did you hear what I read? Let's
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  Speaker 2: kill all these people, let's finish them off. When you
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  Speaker 2: are in a closed setting and you have a prejudiced counselor,
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  Speaker 2: and those are the only people that are giving you information,
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  Speaker 2: you come up with plans that are destructive. All the
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  Speaker 2: more reason to live an accountable life and to include
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  Speaker 2: in your circle people who are strong enough to tell
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  Speaker 2: you no, unwise, not good, too far. The King had
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  Speaker 2: none of that. He said, let it be decreed that
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  Speaker 2: they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents
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  Speaker 2: of silver. Are you ready for how much silver? That
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  Speaker 2: is three hundred and seventy five tons. That's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of loot. Where would Haymond get it, Probably from the
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  Speaker 2: homes that he would confiscate once he killed the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I will take all of this silver and
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  Speaker 2: I will place it in the hands of the King's treasuries.
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  Speaker 2: The king took his signet ring from his hand, which
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  Speaker 2: is like you're giving your MasterCard to your associate and
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  Speaker 2: you say, ring it up. He took his signet ring
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  Speaker 2: from his hand. That's the way they signed documents in
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  Speaker 2: soft clay. Documents were written, rolled up a piece of
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  Speaker 2: soft clay, sealed it, and then the inscription from the
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  Speaker 2: king's ring was placed in the soft clay. It sealed
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  Speaker 2: it with the kings let it be written, let it
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  Speaker 2: be done. He gave him the ring. Then the king
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  Speaker 2: listen to how the writer, whoever this writer was, we're
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  Speaker 2: not sure. Listen to how he adds a thought in
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  Speaker 2: verse ten. Then the King took his signet ring from
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  Speaker 2: his hand gave it to Haman, the son of Hamidatha,
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  Speaker 2: the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. He had an
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  Speaker 2: old grudge. He had a long standing hatred for the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: The king didn't need the money. He said in the
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  Speaker 2: next verse, the silver's yours. The people also do with
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  Speaker 2: them as you please. That is unbelievable. Sounds like Hitler
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  Speaker 2: in the nineteen thirties, doesn't it. Somewhere at some time
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  Speaker 2: in that madman's mind there was a break with a lodge,
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  Speaker 2: and he could say, with the passing of his hand,
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  Speaker 2: just finish them off now again before all of our
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  Speaker 2: thoughts turned to those few notorious people we could name,
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  Speaker 2: Let's not get far from home. Are you nursing a grudge?
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  Speaker 2: You have a face on your dartboard. You have a soul,
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  Speaker 2: an organization, former mate, former pastor, a church, a boss,
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  Speaker 2: a coach, someone that you revered and trusted who used
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  Speaker 2: you and or abused you. You have someone who has
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  Speaker 2: made it hard for you. And whatever the intricacies of
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  Speaker 2: the encounter, they're now gone, they're past, but you are
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  Speaker 2: determined to hold onto them and someday, someday I'll get back.
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  Speaker 2: You say, Chuck, I'm a Christian. I know some of
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  Speaker 2: you who say that. Are you think you still haven't
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  Speaker 2: the old nature? When you give vent to your old nature?
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  Speaker 2: Can you not lust as you once lusted? Can you
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  Speaker 2: not be as selfish as you have ever been selfish
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  Speaker 2: in your life. Can't you be as vile with your lips?
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  Speaker 2: You know you can, and so could I. This nursing,
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  Speaker 2: this lingering grudge, this refusal to forgive, grows and grow.
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  Speaker 2: It's silent, Oh, it's so quiet. You read nothing of
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  Speaker 2: a Hymen before chapter three. He's not even in the picture.
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  Speaker 2: He's an adult by the time we meet him. But
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  Speaker 2: he comes ready to pounce. It is his moment. Life
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  Speaker 2: and pain are synonymous. You cannot escape the pain. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not careful, you will carry out the most heinous
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  Speaker 2: of sins. These are days of treacherous, terrible, criminal cases
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  Speaker 2: in the courts. We read of knights, slashers, night stalkers,
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  Speaker 2: and homosexual killings, and we read of a man whose
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  Speaker 2: background and now includes apparently over sixty murders of the
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  Speaker 2: worst kind, the kind I couldn't even read to a child.
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  Speaker 2: We watch them as they smile through their court proceeding,
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  Speaker 2: and we think, what an animal and true. But that
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  Speaker 2: same animal nature resides in me and resides in you.
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  Speaker 2: It is there. It is wicked, it is vile, and
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  Speaker 2: were it not for the very presence and grace and
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  Speaker 2: deliverance of Jesus Christ. It would consume us, and we
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  Speaker 2: would kill and not give it that much worry, how
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  Speaker 2: absolutely powerless we are to solve our own problem of evil.
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  Speaker 2: We're not the power of Christ given to us in
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  Speaker 2: daily doses, literally moment by moments, my grudge lack of
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  Speaker 2: forgiveness could grow to a grudge, and grow to such
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  Speaker 2: thoughts as would shock you and yours would shock me.
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  Speaker 2: There's no waiting. The plan is all set. Scribes are
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  Speaker 2: poised to write in whatever language, for whatever province. Verse twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote it in the first month, and he let
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  Speaker 2: them live in the misery of it for twelve If
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  Speaker 2: he had his way about it, he would have them
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  Speaker 2: tortured waiting those eleven long months for the gallows to
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  Speaker 2: be built and the graves to be dug. It was
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  Speaker 2: written just as Hayman commanded to the King sat Traps.
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  Speaker 2: He had thought this through to the governors who were
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  Speaker 2: over each province, to the princes of each people according
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  Speaker 2: to the script, each people according to its language, whatever language.
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  Speaker 2: He had the scribe ready to write it, and it
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  Speaker 2: was written in the name of King of haajuwares here
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  Speaker 2: give it to me, and he sealed it with his ring.
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  Speaker 2: Every one of them, all one hundred and twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: provinces let it be sent, and he had the runners
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  Speaker 2: there to take it. The couriers were ready. Verse thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the way he puts it to destroy, to kill,
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  Speaker 2: to annihilate all the Jews. You haven't misread this or
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  Speaker 2: misheard it? Young and old women and children? How dare
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  Speaker 2: they do that? To a gag? I'll teach them a lesson.
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  Speaker 2: A copy of the edict was to be issued as
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  Speaker 2: law in every province, was published to all the people,
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  Speaker 2: so that they should be ready for this day. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the incredible irony of the last verse. The couriers
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  Speaker 2: went out impelled with the king's command, while the decree
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  Speaker 2: was issued in Susa, the capital that's where Haman and
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  Speaker 2: the king lived. And look at the scene. And while
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  Speaker 2: the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city
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  Speaker 2: of Susa was in confusion. Yes, it can be planned.
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  Speaker 2: Such murderous things can be planned. And all the while
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  Speaker 2: you can sip your booze and could care less. That's
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  Speaker 2: the way it is with evil. I draw three very
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  Speaker 2: valuable lessons from three major characters of this story. First
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  Speaker 2: from Mordecai, and then from Hayman, and then the king himself.
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  Speaker 2: From Mordecai, I learned this. Always remember that there will
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  Speaker 2: be someone who will resent your independent devotion to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it all started. Why don't you bow down
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  Speaker 2: to Haman, the prime minister. I am a Jew. My
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  Speaker 2: devotion to my Lord is such that I dare not
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  Speaker 2: do that. There will always be someone who will resent
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  Speaker 2: your independent devotion to the Lord. It will weaken your
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  Speaker 2: will if you forget that. Expect it. I've seen it
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  Speaker 2: in the military. I've seen it in neighborhoods. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: it in ministry. There will be resentment if your devotion
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord is too independent and you don't play
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  Speaker 2: those political games. Second, Haymen, never underestimate the diabolical nature
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  Speaker 2: of revenge. Listen to this. Never underestimate the diabolical nature
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  Speaker 2: of revenge. Don't underestimate your own ability to connive and
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  Speaker 2: get back. It'll poison your life if you do. Many
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  Speaker 2: many a divorcee lives today. Consume in the poison of
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  Speaker 2: an unforgiving spirit. Third from the king. Never overestimate the
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  Speaker 2: value of your own importance. Some Wise counselors should have
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  Speaker 2: come up alongside of Hazuaris and said to him, what
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  Speaker 2: is this you're allowing? It isn't worth it, Not even
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  Speaker 2: you are that important. It'll blind your mind if you do.
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  Speaker 2: There is an evil interlude in the lives of every
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  Speaker 2: one of us. Every one of us. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Jews have never forgotten Himan. They're reminded of it at
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  Speaker 2: the feast of Purim every year. Listen during the dramatic
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  Speaker 2: reading of the Book of Esther in a Jewish synagogue
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  Speaker 2: at the feast of Purim, the congregation will be found
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  Speaker 2: taking the part of a chorus and exclaiming at every
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  Speaker 2: mention of the name of Hayman, may his name be
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  Speaker 2: blooded out, May his name be blooded out. Let the
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  Speaker 2: name of the ungodly perish. While boys with mallets pound
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  Speaker 2: stones and bits of wood on which that odious name
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  Speaker 2: is written. Did you know that while the congregation is
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  Speaker 2: answering an antiphanal voice, let the name of the ungodly perish.
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  Speaker 2: May his name be blotted out? Little boys are pounding
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  Speaker 2: on peaches of stone and wood that read Hayman, Hayman.
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  Speaker 2: He is to them the personification of vanity and cruelty.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do with all this? I think some
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  Speaker 2: of you are hearing this kind of teaching for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time in your life. For the first time
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  Speaker 2: something from the Bible has grab your attention, and you
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  Speaker 2: may even be astounded that it's spoken so directly to
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  Speaker 2: where you live. First of all, let me say that
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  Speaker 2: you are in the company of other people who who
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  Speaker 2: understand those kind of feelings. It's happened to all of
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  Speaker 2: us at one time or another in every one of
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  Speaker 2: our lives. We have been shocked with the relevance of scripture.
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  Speaker 2: It has cut like a hot knife through butter, right
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  Speaker 2: into our hearts. And I want to warn you that
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  Speaker 2: if you don't do something about your grudge and your
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  Speaker 2: plan for revenge, either you will be eaten alive by
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  Speaker 2: it and do that which is horrible, or it'll take
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  Speaker 2: your life. You'll be turned over to torturers, internal torturers,
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  Speaker 2: and not even the finest counselor in the world can
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  Speaker 2: free you. At the risk of sounding simplistic, yet again,
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  Speaker 2: I want to tell tell you that it is for
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  Speaker 2: this very reason that there once came a day that
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  Speaker 2: God invaded this polluted earth. It was for this very
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  Speaker 2: reason that we were not able to help ourselves. That
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus helped us, and let nails be driven
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  Speaker 2: into his hands and into his feet, and that vertical
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  Speaker 2: post lifted and dropped into a hole as he hung
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  Speaker 2: and died on a cross, so that whoever would believe
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  Speaker 2: in him would never perish in their own grudge and
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  Speaker 2: sin and evil and revenge. Somehow, in some wonderful way,
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  Speaker 2: God says that the blood that came from his body
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  Speaker 2: is like an internal detergent that will wash away your sins.
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  Speaker 2: Great no words could give you, or anyone could give
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  Speaker 2: you will do that, But the blood of Christ will.
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  Speaker 2: What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus, What can make me whole again? Nothing but
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  Speaker 2: his blood. We must bow our heads, close your eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Please let the blood wash away your sins. Let it
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  Speaker 2: make you whole again. You can't escape the evil. It's there.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even promise you that after giving your life
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus Christ, it will never be another thought of revenge.
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  Speaker 2: But then you'll have some built in controls that will
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  Speaker 2: keep you, just like it keeps others around you who
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  Speaker 2: know the Lord Jesus from carrying out the wishes of
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  Speaker 2: a wicked old nature. Right where you're sitting, you can
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  Speaker 2: experience the beginning of a transformation. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: do a thing physically. Sometime it helps if you do that.
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  Speaker 2: But for this decision, it's deep and it's personal. A
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  Speaker 2: simple prayer will do something like this in all sincerity,
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  Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, I live with this evil in me and
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  Speaker 2: I cannot conquer it. I believe that Jesus died and
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  Speaker 2: he rose from the grave, and I believe that his
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  Speaker 2: death paid the penalty for my sins, and I take
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  Speaker 2: him into my life now. Thank you Lord for coming
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  Speaker 2: into my life. After making this decision, You'll need to grow,
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  Speaker 2: to begin a process of growth in the spiritual life,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what a church is all about. That's what
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  Speaker 2: Christian fellowship is all about. Being accountable. Father, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for your grace that sees beyond our deepest need. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for meeting us where we are, for talking straight
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  Speaker 2: to us in terms that even we can understand. For
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  Speaker 2: pulling from this tiny entry out of an ancient scroll
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  Speaker 2: named esther a story is relevant as today's grudge and
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  Speaker 2: feelings of revenge. I pray that you would clear our
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  Speaker 2: hearts of all malice, give us the ability to give
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  Speaker 2: that pain to you, and resist all all attempts at
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  Speaker 2: getting even while you, through your power, deal with this
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  Speaker 2: unsolvable problem for us. Thank you in advance for doing
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  Speaker 2: miraculous things through us, and even in spite of us,
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  Speaker 2: and the good name of our God and the great
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  Speaker 2: name of our Lord Jesus. We pray these things amen.
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  Speaker 1: Evil doesn't announce itself. It grows quietly in the shadows
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  Speaker 1: of an unforgiving heart. Chucks Wendall's message today is a
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  Speaker 1: reminder that the antidote to life's inevitable pain isn't revenge,
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  Speaker 1: it's the cleansing grace of Jesus Christ. If today's message
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  Speaker 1: stirred something deep within you, we encourage you to dig
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  Speaker 1: further into this remarkable story. Inside for Living has resources
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  Speaker 1: designed to help you study the Book of Esther on
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  Speaker 1: your own, and we'd love to send them your way
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  Speaker 1: our searching. The Scripture's Bible study workbook for Esther is
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  Speaker 1: built for that kind of encounter. Chuck's teaching has laid
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