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There-She-Goes-Miss-Persia-Part-3 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Chuck Swyndall often reminds us that life can be defined
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Speaker 1: as a series of fairly ordinary days. In fact, most
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Speaker 1: days are quite predictable without divine skyriding or obvious signs
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Speaker 1: of some great movement of God. However, there are occasions
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Speaker 1: that break the cycle. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck
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Speaker 1: describes one of those history shattering moments in the life
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Speaker 1: of Esther. In our continuing study of her life, we'll
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Speaker 1: discover how God orchestrated all the elements as this woman
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Speaker 1: walked hand in hand with destiny. Let's pick up with
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Speaker 1: Esther chapters one and two.
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Speaker 2: On the seventh day, when the heart of the king
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Speaker 2: was merry with wine, he makes a command to his
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Speaker 2: wise men that are at least enlisted here the seven
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Speaker 2: eunuchs who served in his presence, and this is what
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Speaker 2: he commanded. They were to bring Queen Vashti before the King,
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Speaker 2: her royal crown, royal head, peace, in order to display
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Speaker 2: her beauty to the people and the princes.
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Speaker 3: For she was beautiful.
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Speaker 2: You can count on this. When scripture says she's beautiful,
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Speaker 2: it really means it. Queen Vashti verse twelve refused to
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Speaker 2: come at the King's command. Well, Queen Vashti's words enraged
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Speaker 2: the king. He absolutely couldn't stand it. Remember he's drunk.
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Speaker 2: Verse twelve tells us the king became very angry and
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Speaker 2: his wrath burned within him.
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Speaker 3: What are we going to do? What's our game plan?
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Speaker 2: In the presence of the King and the princes, memu
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Speaker 2: Can said this, Queen Vashti has wrong not only the king,
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Speaker 2: but all the princes and all the people who are
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Speaker 2: in all the provinces of King of Haajuaras.
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Speaker 3: I would say that's a little overreaction, wouldn't you, But
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Speaker 3: he says it.
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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, the queen's conduct will become known to all the women,
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Speaker 2: causing them to look with contempt on their husband, saying,
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Speaker 2: King Ajajuaras commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in to
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Speaker 2: his presence, and she didn't come.
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Speaker 3: You see.
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Speaker 2: The fear, obviously, is that before long all women will
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Speaker 2: be doing what Queen Vashti has done, and the men
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Speaker 2: will lose control of their wives. And this day the
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Speaker 2: ladies of Persian and media, who have heard of the
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Speaker 2: queen's conduct will speak in the same way to all
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Speaker 2: the King's princes, and there will be plenty of contempt
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Speaker 2: and anger. Can't you hear this?
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Speaker 3: All men's gathering as they are, all, Yeah, that's right, man.
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Speaker 3: Now my wife's like that.
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Speaker 2: Man, she hears about Vashti, she's going to go nuts.
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Speaker 2: She's already a rebel. But he's going to get absolutely
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Speaker 2: out of it. On and on and on and finally
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Speaker 2: he's got the king all ready for his suggestion. If
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Speaker 2: it pleases the King, let a royal edict be issued
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Speaker 2: by him, and let it be written in the laws
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Speaker 2: of the Meds and the Persians. Remember that's the law
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Speaker 2: that's never changed, so that it cannot be repealed, that
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Speaker 2: Vashti should come no more into the presence of King
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Speaker 2: of Hazuevers.
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Speaker 3: Now that was his right.
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Speaker 2: He certainly had the right to say, that's it, Curtains,
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Speaker 2: you've seen the last of me, Lady, you're gone. So directly,
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Speaker 2: this edict had to do with his own own home
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Speaker 2: and his own marriage.
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Speaker 3: But he goes further.
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Speaker 2: Let the King give her royal position to another who
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Speaker 2: is more worthy than she enter esther. This is the
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Speaker 2: wonder of God's sovereignty. He works in these remarkable ways,
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Speaker 2: moving and pushing and changing minds until he brings, even
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Speaker 2: let me say it, out of the most carnal and
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Speaker 2: secular of settings, a decision that will set our course. Anew,
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Speaker 2: We're going to see that all the way through this book,
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Speaker 2: and I love it.
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Speaker 3: Look at verse twenty.
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Speaker 2: They go a little further in the edict than I
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Speaker 2: think would be practically possible to.
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Speaker 3: Require.
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Speaker 2: When the King's edict, which he shall make is heard
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Speaker 2: throughout all his kingdom great as it is, then all
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Speaker 2: women will give honor to their husbands, great and small.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure about that.
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Speaker 2: And this word pleased the king and the princes, and
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Speaker 2: the King did as memu can propose.
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Speaker 3: He sent letters to all the King's.
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Speaker 2: Provinces, to each province according to its script, and to
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Speaker 2: every people according to their language.
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Speaker 3: Notice what it says.
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Speaker 2: Every man shall be the master in his own house,
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Speaker 2: and the one who speaks in the language of his
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Speaker 2: own people, he'll be in charge, and he will speak
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Speaker 2: for the family. God's heart is on his people, a
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Speaker 2: remnant in Persia away from Zion. He must preserve them
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Speaker 2: from extinction. That requires decisions from the top, and that
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Speaker 2: requires one of his people to be there, namely Esther,
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Speaker 2: who will someday be sitting beside.
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Speaker 3: A hasu wearess whom she doesn't even know.
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Speaker 4: Today.
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Speaker 3: God does not go by the human clock.
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Speaker 2: Compared to the works of mankind, God is extremely deliberate
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Speaker 2: and painfully slow. God's wheels grind slowly and exceedingly fine.
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Speaker 2: Now Esther chapter two, after these things. Now, when I
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Speaker 2: read after these things, I thought, well, fourth year of
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Speaker 2: his reign, how about the end of the third year
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Speaker 2: of his reign? And I began to read through the chapter,
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Speaker 2: and I didn't find any help until I came to
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Speaker 2: verse sixteen of chapter two, where Esther, who wins the
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Speaker 2: miss Persia contest Esther is taken to King Ahasuaras to
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Speaker 2: his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the
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Speaker 2: month Tebbeth, in the.
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Speaker 3: Seventh year of his reign.
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Speaker 2: You're telling me four years have gone by between chapters
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Speaker 2: one and two. So I thought, what happened during those
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Speaker 2: four years? Learn a little history. A Hazuaris, also known
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Speaker 2: as King Xerxes, reigned and you count backwards because it's
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Speaker 2: BC from four eighty six to four sixty five BC
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Speaker 2: four eighty six to four sixty five. History books tell
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Speaker 2: us that this particular king, whom the books call Xerxes
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Speaker 2: and I quote made an ambitious but disastrous attempt to
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Speaker 2: conquer Greece. He returned defeated, and he opened the doors
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Speaker 2: of the palace, and there was no lovely wife to
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Speaker 2: greet him with arms outstretched, no comforting words of understanding.
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Speaker 2: For the first time he has been defeated on the battlefield.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing good on the stove in the kitchen, and
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Speaker 2: he's lonely. After these things, the anger of the king
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Speaker 2: had subsided. Of course, it's been three years. The reason
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Speaker 2: I say that is these gals that ran for miss
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Speaker 2: Persia had to have a full year before they came
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Speaker 2: in to see the king. And so I'll get to
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Speaker 2: that a little later on in the passage. You'll read
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Speaker 2: about it when we get there. But took another year.
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Speaker 2: So he's three years later and he's defeated and he's alone.
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Speaker 2: He remembered Vashti, And if you're used to a wife,
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Speaker 2: even though she may be a little strong willed at times,
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Speaker 2: you need her when you come home defeated, you need
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Speaker 2: her arms around you. You need the understanding of your partner.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't find it. He remembered Vashti and what she
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Speaker 2: had done, and what had been decreed against her. I
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Speaker 2: think there is a surrounding sense of low level, kind
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Speaker 2: of grade depression that comes in over him. The king's
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Speaker 2: attendants who served him said, let beautiful young virgins be
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Speaker 2: sought for the king. Isn't it interesting, by the way,
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Speaker 2: that the king had the power to have any woman
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Speaker 2: in the kingdom snap of his finger, should be in
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Speaker 2: his presence, right there in his bedchamber. But he doesn't
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Speaker 2: want a woman for the night. He wants a wife.
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Speaker 2: You see, he's not drunk any longer. He's thinking clearly now.
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Speaker 2: Who wouldn't prefer a woman who will be there tomorrow
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Speaker 2: and the next day in contrast to a quickie sex
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Speaker 2: experience for the night with some unnamed female. So they say,
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Speaker 2: let the king appoint overseas in all the provinces of
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Speaker 2: his kingdom, that they may gather every beautiful young virgin
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Speaker 2: to Susa, the capital, to the harem.
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Speaker 3: Look, he even had a harem. He didn't want one
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Speaker 3: of them.
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Speaker 2: Into the custody of Hagai, the king's eunuch, who was
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Speaker 2: in charge of the women.
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Speaker 3: And let their cosmetics be given them interesting, and.
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Speaker 2: Then let the young lady who pleases the king be
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Speaker 2: the queen in place of Vashti.
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Speaker 3: We'll get another wife for you. This one will be beautiful.
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Speaker 2: She will be the most beautiful woman in Persia. We'll
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Speaker 2: go to all one hundred and twenty seven provinces and
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Speaker 2: we'll find the best of the group. We'll even have
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Speaker 2: her made even more attractive with cosmetics.
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Speaker 3: Drop down if you will to verse twelve.
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Speaker 2: When the turn of each young lady came to go
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Speaker 2: into King Asuaris at the end of her twelve months,
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Speaker 2: Look at that. There's that extra year I told you about.
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Speaker 2: She would have twelve months under specific regulations for the women.
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Speaker 2: How would they be spent? The days of her beautification
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Speaker 2: of their beautification were completed as follows, six months with
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Speaker 2: oil of ola, oil of mer, and six months with
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Speaker 2: spices and cosmetics for women.
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Speaker 3: Kyle C. F.
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Speaker 2: Kyle of The Kyle and Daily Commentaries makes comment that
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Speaker 2: these words are to rub, to polish, to adorn with
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Speaker 2: all kinds of precious ointments. It's physical beauty that they're
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Speaker 2: going for. And before you sneer at that, ladies, trust me,
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Speaker 2: the men aren't sneering. Before you buy into the feminist
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Speaker 2: movement of our day, where you can look like an
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Speaker 2: unmade bed, and still you're to be adored and appreciated.
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Speaker 3: Learn a lesson from scripture. Every once in a while.
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Speaker 2: Scripture does say a word about physical beauty. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: place the emphasis on it that you would hear in
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Speaker 2: lustful magazines or from lustful men, but it does place
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Speaker 2: an emphasis on your beauty the cosmetics mentioned here.
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Speaker 3: Look at verse five.
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Speaker 2: Suddenly he mentions a jew in Susa. Does that sound
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Speaker 2: like an uneventful start. There's not a guy in the
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Speaker 2: palace that knows Mordecai by name, but they're going to
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Speaker 2: because God's hand is moving the heart of.
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Speaker 3: The king like channels of water.
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Speaker 2: There was a jew in Susa, the capital, whose name
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Speaker 2: was Mordecai, the son of Jayas, son of EMII, son
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Speaker 2: of Keisha Benjamine, who had been taken into exile. Now
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Speaker 2: the who is a reference to Kish Mordecai wasn't taken
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Speaker 2: into exile. Back in his genealogy, Kish was had been
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Speaker 2: taken into exile from Jerusalem with a captives who have
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Speaker 2: been exile. We've been over all that historical jazz, so
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Speaker 2: there's no reason to repeat it. The point is he
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Speaker 2: is unrelated to the Persian kingdom. He's a Jew living
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Speaker 2: in exile. He hasn't gone back to Jerusalem. And on
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Speaker 2: top of that, he's bringing up verse seven. Havasa myrtle
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Speaker 2: is the original word like a myrtle tree, a myrtle bush, fragrance.
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Speaker 2: Her Persian name is Esther, which means star like a
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Speaker 2: star in the sky. His uncle's daughter.
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Speaker 3: She had neither father nor mother. It's the first reference
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Speaker 3: to Esther.
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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you she emerges with incredible beauty and
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Speaker 2: character that'll just make you take your hat off. She
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Speaker 2: is one phenomenal lady. Next time we're going to look
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Speaker 2: at the queenlike qualities of a lovely lady, all drawn
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Speaker 2: from the life of Esther. In this early reference to her,
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Speaker 2: it says in verse seven, the young lady was beautiful
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Speaker 2: of form and features.
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Speaker 3: The original said she was beautiful.
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Speaker 2: She had a beautiful body, She had a beautiful face,
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Speaker 2: she had beautiful features. When her father and her mother died,
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Speaker 2: Mordecai took her as his own daughter. Period And that's
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Speaker 2: where we got to stop. Orphan beautiful. And before long
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Speaker 2: you're gonna hear there she goes miss Persia. She doesn't
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Speaker 2: know that right now, she has no idea of the
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Speaker 2: stuff we've uncovered. Yet her day began rather uneventfully. Before
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Speaker 2: her years would end, she would be crowned in an
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Speaker 2: incredible coronation.
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Speaker 3: As the Queen of Persia.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is not a sermon about Persian history.
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Speaker 3: This is a sermon about life.
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Speaker 2: And I find woven through the tapestry of this wonderful
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Speaker 2: story that we've begun to uncover three timeless lessons that
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Speaker 2: are going to be true till we draw our last
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Speaker 2: breath and in the next generation when we're gone. Number
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Speaker 2: one has to do with God's plan, second has to
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Speaker 2: do with God's purposes, and third has to do with
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Speaker 2: God's people. Listen, God's plans are not hindered when the
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Speaker 2: events are carnal.
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Speaker 3: Or secular.
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Speaker 2: God's plans are not hindered when the events that seem
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Speaker 2: significant are carnal and secular. He is not limited to
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Speaker 2: working in the Christian family. He is as much at
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Speaker 2: work in the Oval office as he is in your
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Speaker 2: pastor's study. He is as much at work in the
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Speaker 2: heart of the president as he is in the Christian
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Speaker 2: leaders in America. The day you doubt that is the
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Speaker 2: day you limit his sovereignty, and you will stop reading
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Speaker 2: the news, and you will become rather unhelpful in interpreting
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Speaker 2: events of life.
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Speaker 3: Christians stay in touch with the news.
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Speaker 2: God is at work, he's moving, he's touching lives, he's
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Speaker 2: shaping kingdoms. Just because they happen to be secutar or
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Speaker 2: carnal doesn't mean he's not present. He may not be glorified,
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Speaker 2: but he's present. He's at work.
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Speaker 3: None of it makes him go.
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Speaker 2: He's never surprised. Second, God's purposes. God's purposes are not
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Speaker 2: frustrated by moral or marital failures. Isn't that encouraging, especially
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Speaker 2: if you have failed morally or maritally. I can't imagine
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Speaker 2: the debauchery of the banquet hall. I can't imagine the
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Speaker 2: vulgarity and obscenity of the jokes. I can't imagine the
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Speaker 2: lust in the mind of King Hasuarus when he wanted
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Speaker 2: to bring in his nude wife, if that indeed was
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Speaker 2: his plan. But I'll tell you, in spite of the
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Speaker 2: low morals and the breakdown in their marriage, God's purposes
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Speaker 2: were not frustrated, and neither are they in your life.
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Speaker 3: How do I know that?
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Speaker 2: Because he is a God of grace. He is a
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Speaker 2: god of great grace. Third, God's people, This is my
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Speaker 2: favorite one. God's people are not excluded from high places.
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Speaker 3: Because of handicap or hardship.
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Speaker 2: Don't you even think about discounting anybody from being in
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Speaker 2: a place of significance.
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Speaker 3: I'm laughing because I saw.
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Speaker 2: Sign the other day that said, don't you even think
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Speaker 2: about parking here?
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Speaker 3: Isn't that a good sign?
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Speaker 2: Don't you even think that somebody is off the record.
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Speaker 2: God's people are not excluded from high places because of
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Speaker 2: handicap or hardship. I don't know if Mordecai knew where
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Speaker 2: the next meal was coming from. I do know that
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Speaker 2: Esther was orphaned, and I do know she.
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Speaker 3: Was not nobility.
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Speaker 2: She's not the last commoner that nobility placed hands on,
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Speaker 2: nor is she the last one that God exalted from nothing.
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Speaker 2: Classic illustration. A young couple that made a ninety mile
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Speaker 2: journey south found no place to stay, and in the
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Speaker 2: middle of the night caused the angels to declare, God
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Speaker 2: is here. Joseph and Mary the vehicles for the birth
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Speaker 2: of the Messiah, who did not come with royal blood
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Speaker 2: from this earth's perspective, but he became the true King
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Speaker 2: of kings and Lord of lords.
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Speaker 3: Maybe a bow together.
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Speaker 2: I don't know where this message finds you, probably discounting
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Speaker 2: the significance of these days, probably sighing rather than singing,
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Speaker 2: no doubt, thinking what in the world good can come
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Speaker 2: from all that I'm having to live with these kids.
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Speaker 2: I can't handle the pressure of today. I can't see
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Speaker 2: the purpose. You've heard enough today to know that God's
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Speaker 2: hand is not short and it cannot save, Nor is
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Speaker 2: his ear heavy that he cannot hear. You may be
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Speaker 2: the one He's working on in this very place today.
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Speaker 2: You may be the individual who needed to hear this
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Speaker 2: the most. You may need to hear it on behalf
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Speaker 2: of one of your kids, or on behalf of your
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Speaker 2: mate or a close friend, or maybe you yourself. When
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Speaker 2: you take that journey to the cross where Christ paid
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Speaker 2: for your sins, do you find someplace in your past
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Speaker 2: where you bowed the knee to him and claimed all
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Speaker 2: Hail King Jesus, all Hail Immanuel. Have you given him
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Speaker 2: your life, your heart, your future, your sinfulness for him
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Speaker 2: to cleanse and make right? Hey, what are you waiting for?
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Speaker 3: Now's the time you need to come today. Don't delay.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Father, or the stories of your book. They
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Speaker 2: pulsate with significance, and we realize how directly they are
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Speaker 2: tied into our day. Forgive us for living in such
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Speaker 2: an ultra Christian world with only Christian contacts, that we
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Speaker 2: have failed to see the movement of a sovereign God
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Speaker 2: in the vast scenes of state and empires.
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Speaker 3: In our world.
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Speaker 2: Broaden our world with this story of Esther, And may
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Speaker 2: we remain pure and committed to the things of God
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Speaker 2: while we remain sensitive to Your hand moving in carnal
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Speaker 2: secular even drunken places. Thank you, Father for your work
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Speaker 2: in our lives. Bring to yourself this day those desperately
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Speaker 2: in need of hope and a reason to go on.
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Speaker 3: I pray for jesus sake leave.
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Speaker 1: In God is sovereignly at work even in the most ordinary,
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Speaker 1: uneventful days of your life. That's the heart of Chuckswndall's
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Speaker 1: message today on insight for living. And though you may
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Speaker 1: feel like an unknown orphan with no particular destiny in sight,
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Speaker 1: God's plans aren't hindered by your circumstances, and his purposes
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Speaker 1: aren't frustrated by your past. He may be quietly preparing
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Speaker 1: Esther demonstrated that real strength isn't about power or position,
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Speaker 1: It's about character. That insight for living has brought Esther's
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Speaker 5: Aardia.
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Speaker 6: Oh, my little Ardia, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Are you sad?
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Speaker 4: I believe I'm angry?
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Speaker 6: Oh, come here, little one. What could there be to
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Speaker 6: be sad about on a day like this?
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Speaker 4: I've asked God for something and he won't answer me.
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Speaker 3: Oh, well, that is quite a thought.
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Speaker 2: What did you ask for?
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Speaker 4: I asked for the freckles to lave my nose. I
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Speaker 4: asked for my hair to be red, and I asked
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Speaker 4: to be fifteen.
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Speaker 6: And how did you come up with a list like that?
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Speaker 4: I asked to be like you. Oh, I see you
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Speaker 4: have everything. You're beautiful. You're fifteen, not until tomorrow. Everyone
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Speaker 4: loves you. I ask God for just a little of
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Speaker 4: what you have.
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Speaker 6: Oh, sweet little Alreadia.
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