Latest / INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living / Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Strength and Dignity on Parade, Part 1

Transcript

Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Strength and Dignity on Parade, Part 1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

0:08
Speaker 1: The Bible contains sixty six books. All of them are
0:11
Speaker 1: woven together as a unified picture of God's love and
0:14
Speaker 1: his plan of redemption. While some are primarily focused on
0:18
Speaker 1: theological content, such as Hebrews or the Book of Romans, others,
0:23
Speaker 1: like the one we're enjoying right now, tell a life story.
0:27
Speaker 1: Today on Insight for Living, CHUCKX. Wendahl invites us to
0:30
Speaker 1: follow along in the Old Testament Book of Esther. This
0:34
Speaker 1: ancient account reveals the remarkable courage and integrity of a
0:38
Speaker 1: woman whose walk with destiny changed history forever.
0:49
Speaker 2: The Bible is full of great women, and for that matter,
0:53
Speaker 2: so is history. Along with the Joan of Arcs, the
0:56
Speaker 2: Flores Nightingales, and the Madame Curie's, we find countless other
1:01
Speaker 2: nameless mothers and sisters and daughters. It was Abraham Lincoln
1:07
Speaker 2: who once said, no man is poor who has had
1:11
Speaker 2: a godly mother. Down through the history of time marches
1:16
Speaker 2: an endless secation of courageous and visionary women, virtuous women,
1:22
Speaker 2: self sacrificing, great women. Today we will pick up the
1:27
Speaker 2: story of just such a woman. This one happens to
1:31
Speaker 2: be in her late teens, perhaps early twenties. Her name
1:36
Speaker 2: is Esther. We find Esther in the powder room of
1:40
Speaker 2: the palace, if you will, where the contestants are putting
1:44
Speaker 2: on their makeup for the miss Persia pageant. I'll read
1:49
Speaker 2: her story to you. It's found in Esther chapter two,
1:54
Speaker 2: verses eight through seventeen. So it came about when the
1:59
Speaker 2: command and decree of the king were heard and many
2:03
Speaker 2: young ladies were gathered to the citadel of Susa into
2:08
Speaker 2: the custody of Hagai, that Esther was taken to the
2:12
Speaker 2: King's Palace into the custody of Hagi, who was in
2:17
Speaker 2: charge of the women. Now, the young lady pleased him
2:22
Speaker 2: and found favor with him, so he quickly provided her
2:27
Speaker 2: with her cosmetics and food, gave her seven choice maids
2:33
Speaker 2: from the King's palace, and transferred her and her maids
2:38
Speaker 2: to the best place in the harem. Estor did not
2:42
Speaker 2: make known her people or her kindred, for Mordecai had
2:47
Speaker 2: instructed her that she should not make them known. Picking
2:53
Speaker 2: up at verse fifteen. Now, when the turn of Esther,
2:57
Speaker 2: the daughter of Abbi Hail, the uncle of Mordecai, who
3:01
Speaker 2: had taken her as his daughter, came to go into
3:05
Speaker 2: the king, she did not request anything except what Hagi,
3:11
Speaker 2: the king's eunuch, who was in charge of the women, advised,
3:15
Speaker 2: and Esther found favor in the eyes of all who
3:19
Speaker 2: saw her. So Esther was taken to King Azuaris to
3:24
Speaker 2: his royal palace in the tenth month, which is the
3:28
Speaker 2: month Tebbeth, in the seventh year of his reign. The
3:33
Speaker 2: king loved Esther more than all the women, and she
3:38
Speaker 2: found favor and kindness with him.
3:42
Speaker 3: More than all the virgins, so that he set.
3:45
Speaker 2: The royal crown on her head and made her queen
3:51
Speaker 2: instead of Vashti.
4:02
Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
4:05
Speaker 1: the book of Esther on your own, be sure to
4:07
Speaker 1: purchase our Searching the Scripture's Bible Study workbook by going
4:11
Speaker 1: to Insight dot org. Slash offer Chuck title today's message
4:17
Speaker 1: strength and Dignity on Parade.
4:20
Speaker 3: In so many ways, there is not a more powerful
4:24
Speaker 3: creature on earth than a woman. God planned it that way.
4:30
Speaker 3: God has given the woman a sense of strength and
4:32
Speaker 3: dignity that is found in not another of his creations,
4:37
Speaker 3: not another. Her influence through the centuries is legendary to
4:46
Speaker 3: begin with. It is through the woman children are born
4:50
Speaker 3: and only through the woman. Chances are good that if
4:54
Speaker 3: there was any sense of direction provided for children included
5:00
Speaker 3: in the formative years of life, the most significant influence
5:05
Speaker 3: has come from the woman. The most dignified and significant
5:11
Speaker 3: of all roles in life is the role of a mother.
5:17
Speaker 3: I have never met a man I respected who did
5:20
Speaker 3: not say that the touch of his mother's hand on
5:25
Speaker 3: his life made him different. The counsel of a mother
5:32
Speaker 3: is eloquent, even when not a word is spoken. Who
5:36
Speaker 3: hasn't caught a look from his or her mother, who
5:42
Speaker 3: hasn't been moved to a decision by the silence of
5:46
Speaker 3: a mother, and certainly by the tears of a mother.
5:54
Speaker 3: I'm convinced that mothers win ballgames. Some wag down in
6:01
Speaker 3: the office put a sign on my door this past
6:04
Speaker 3: week that reads, will the lady who left her eleven
6:08
Speaker 3: kids at Texas Stadium please pick them up? They're beating
6:11
Speaker 3: the Cowboys fourteen to nothing. No respect what I've said
6:22
Speaker 3: regarding the power and influence of a mother, I would
6:25
Speaker 3: certainly say regarding a wife. I don't know of a
6:29
Speaker 3: husband I respect who doesn't confess that there have been
6:34
Speaker 3: times where the confidence of his wife bolstered his own,
6:40
Speaker 3: or even admitted after an argument that it had drained
6:43
Speaker 3: away so much of his joy and reason for going on.
6:49
Speaker 3: If ladies realize the power they have over their husbands,
6:52
Speaker 3: I believe they would use it far more wisely. And
6:56
Speaker 3: may I say even more often decisions that we men make,
7:04
Speaker 3: we who were married, are often made as a result
7:07
Speaker 3: of blending them through the wisdom of our wives, listening
7:13
Speaker 3: to their advice, seeking their counsel, and heeding their warnings.
7:22
Speaker 3: If I must speak only for myself, I can assure
7:25
Speaker 3: you that I am today the man I am because
7:28
Speaker 3: of the wife I have. I could no more stand
7:34
Speaker 3: in this place and fill this role if it had
7:37
Speaker 3: not been for her presence in my life than the
7:42
Speaker 3: man in the proverbial moon. You see, there are God
7:48
Speaker 3: given strengths that are placed in the life of a woman,
7:52
Speaker 3: and it seems as though in abundance there as in
7:56
Speaker 3: no other creature. Let me name four. If I had time,
8:00
Speaker 3: could name perhaps twenty or twenty four of them, but
8:04
Speaker 3: certainly these four would be included. First, God has given
8:08
Speaker 3: the woman an intuition. There is a sixth sense that
8:15
Speaker 3: is residing in the life of most women I know
8:20
Speaker 3: that allows them to penetrate the hardest shell and see
8:24
Speaker 3: beyond the thickest facade, and to read truth when error
8:30
Speaker 3: and falsehood is being presented. Women have the ability to
8:35
Speaker 3: sense character or the lack of such, while we men
8:40
Speaker 3: seem far more gullible. As it relates to that, there
8:44
Speaker 3: is an intuition given by God that most women can enjoy.
8:49
Speaker 3: The perception is at times incredible and on occasion maddening. Second,
8:57
Speaker 3: God has given the woman an endurance to pain that
9:01
Speaker 3: he has not given to most men, an ability to
9:05
Speaker 3: handle hardship over the long haul. The pioneer woman is
9:12
Speaker 3: still in our day a saying from our history. They
9:17
Speaker 3: have the ability to press on against insuperable odds with
9:21
Speaker 3: relentless determination to persevere. How many men have been kept
9:27
Speaker 3: at the job simply because a woman in his life
9:31
Speaker 3: believed in him. Third, along with intuition and endurance, God
9:37
Speaker 3: has given the woman a unique responsiveness he's not given
9:41
Speaker 3: to the man. We men are far more closed, closed
9:46
Speaker 3: toward God and closed toward one another. But the woman
9:51
Speaker 3: there is a warmth. There is a responsiveness to the
9:54
Speaker 3: things of God. If I announce just about any subject
9:59
Speaker 3: found in scrip and present what I plan to say
10:02
Speaker 3: about it. Chances are good to hear me speak on it.
10:05
Speaker 3: There will be more women than men. There is a
10:09
Speaker 3: desire on the part of the woman to grow, to react,
10:13
Speaker 3: to feel, to show affection toward the things of God
10:18
Speaker 3: that is not found in the average man. Along with
10:22
Speaker 3: these qualities, and tied into the third, the fourth would
10:25
Speaker 3: be vulnerability. Most women I know are less afraid than
10:31
Speaker 3: men to tell the truth about their lives. That's why
10:34
Speaker 3: most counselors will tell you seventy percent or more of
10:38
Speaker 3: their council ease are women. They're willing to ask for help.
10:45
Speaker 3: You doubt that. Just remember the last time you were
10:47
Speaker 3: lost in the car, men and your wife said, why
10:51
Speaker 3: don't we just stop and ask? We will drive one
10:56
Speaker 3: hundred miles further to prove that we knew where we
10:59
Speaker 3: were going. The woman will simply stop and ask. Women
11:05
Speaker 3: are less guarded. They're open, even willing to admit fears
11:12
Speaker 3: and apprehensions, slight though they may be, and acute though
11:16
Speaker 3: they are, at times they will say so. They are
11:20
Speaker 3: usually the ones in the marriage who are the first
11:22
Speaker 3: to say there's something wrong here. I'm not thinking simply
11:28
Speaker 3: of mothers and simply of wives. Today, I'm thinking of
11:31
Speaker 3: the woman in general with these qualities. In fact, look
11:34
Speaker 3: at Proverbs chapter eleven, and I will take you through
11:38
Speaker 3: several proverbs. For the sake of saving time, will limit
11:41
Speaker 3: it to proverbs. But the Bible is replete with examples
11:45
Speaker 3: of the significance and the strength the power God has
11:50
Speaker 3: given the woman. Look at Proverbs eleven sixteen. A gracious
11:57
Speaker 3: woman attains honor, violent men attain riches. Isn't that interesting?
12:06
Speaker 3: There is something about the grace, and, as I shall
12:08
Speaker 3: say later, the charm of a woman that brings her
12:12
Speaker 3: a place of honor that we men would love to
12:15
Speaker 3: have but cannot attain. Look at twenty two. A bit
12:20
Speaker 3: of humor as a ring of gold in a swine snout.
12:25
Speaker 3: So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. How much
12:31
Speaker 3: we long to see discretion in a woman, Not even
12:34
Speaker 3: her beauty will hide the fact that she lacks it.
12:38
Speaker 3: Look at twelve four. An excellent wife is the crown
12:44
Speaker 3: of her husband. She is the final jewel. She is
12:49
Speaker 3: the uppermost crown. She gives him a place of significance
12:55
Speaker 3: personally and publicly. Look at eighteen twenty two. He who
13:02
Speaker 3: finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor
13:08
Speaker 3: from the Lord and nineteen fourteen, same book, next chapter,
13:14
Speaker 3: house and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but a
13:19
Speaker 3: prudent wife is from the Lord. Best of all pieces
13:25
Speaker 3: of literature on the woman is chapter thirty one Proverbs.
13:29
Speaker 3: It's the classic section, in my opinion, of anything I
13:33
Speaker 3: have ever read or upholding the dignity and honor of
13:37
Speaker 3: the woman thirty one to ten an excellent wife. The
13:43
Speaker 3: old version reads a virtuous woman who can find her
13:49
Speaker 3: worth is far above jewels. And then he begins, after
13:53
Speaker 3: that opening to describe the worth of the woman. She
13:57
Speaker 3: has a husband who trusts in her. Why, of course
14:02
Speaker 3: he will have no lack of gain. She does him
14:05
Speaker 3: good and not evil all the days of her life.
14:10
Speaker 3: And then it describes her diligence as she carries on
14:14
Speaker 3: the along with her role as a wife and along
14:18
Speaker 3: with her role as a mother. She has a business,
14:22
Speaker 3: and it's with efficiency and diligence she carries her She
14:25
Speaker 3: carries out her responsibility. She verse twenty one, she's not
14:29
Speaker 3: afraid of the snow for her household, She's prepared for it.
14:35
Speaker 3: Twenty five My wife's favorite verse, strength and dignity are
14:39
Speaker 3: her clothing, and she smiles at the future. There is
14:44
Speaker 3: a strength of character, and there is a sense of
14:47
Speaker 3: dignity about the godly woman that cannot be found even
14:52
Speaker 3: among godly men. She smiles at the future. She opens
14:58
Speaker 3: her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is
15:01
Speaker 3: there right there on her tongue. How many of us
15:04
Speaker 3: learned good manners, what I often call class, from our mothers.
15:11
Speaker 3: How few have learned it from their fathers. Verse twenty
15:16
Speaker 3: eight tells us her children will rise up and bless her.
15:19
Speaker 3: Even her husband will praise her, saying, many have done nobly,
15:25
Speaker 3: but you excel them all. It's beautiful presentation. The Bible
15:33
Speaker 3: is full as history as well of great women, along
15:38
Speaker 3: with the Joan of Arcs, and the Florence Nightingales, and
15:42
Speaker 3: the Madame Curies, and the Mother Teresa's, and so many
15:46
Speaker 3: of the others. There are early saints who write of
15:49
Speaker 3: their mothers and their sisters and their daughters. There are
15:52
Speaker 3: many presidents who speak of their success as being directly
15:56
Speaker 3: linked to the mother. Lincoln said, no man is poor
16:00
Speaker 3: who has had a godly mother. Military heroes, statesmen, literary
16:05
Speaker 3: and musical geniuses, alike often attribute the development and cultivation
16:09
Speaker 3: of their skills first to their mothers, and the continuation
16:12
Speaker 3: of it to their wives. There are courageous ladies. They
16:16
Speaker 3: are visionary, virtuous women, self sacrificing women down through the
16:21
Speaker 3: history of time in scriptures Summer singled out. This past week,
16:26
Speaker 3: I did a little project I had never done before.
16:28
Speaker 3: I thought my way through the scriptures from Genesis through
16:31
Speaker 3: Revelation by calling to mind the women that are mentioned
16:35
Speaker 3: within those sections. It's remarkable a few of them. Sarah,
16:40
Speaker 3: the mother of Isaac and the wife of Abraham. Jakobed
16:45
Speaker 3: the mother of Moses, who sacrificially kept him until he
16:49
Speaker 3: was weaned, graciously prepared him for the court room where
16:54
Speaker 3: he would live for the following thirty five or so
16:57
Speaker 3: years of his life. Hannah, the mother of Samuel. Abigail,
17:03
Speaker 3: the wife of Nabal, who saved him from death by
17:07
Speaker 3: an angry David because she knew how to handle both men.
17:13
Speaker 3: Nabol she handled one way, and David she handled another.
17:18
Speaker 3: There is Deborah, there is Ruth, There is Elizabeth, There
17:21
Speaker 3: is Loez. There is Priscilla. There is Lydia, there is Phoebe.
17:27
Speaker 3: All the way through scripture there are these women who
17:29
Speaker 3: keep emerging, most of them sort of out of obscurity,
17:33
Speaker 3: only to fade again into another kind of obscurity. But
17:37
Speaker 3: they have left their mark on the greats. No extra
17:42
Speaker 3: charge for this. But I want to say that if
17:45
Speaker 3: I feel compassion for anyone today, I feel compassion for
17:49
Speaker 3: the woman of God who has to endure the nonsense
17:52
Speaker 3: that comes from the media regarding your role, regarding your significance,
18:01
Speaker 3: regarding your place in society. I don't know of anyone
18:07
Speaker 3: who would have a right to be more confused than
18:10
Speaker 3: the woman. All sorts of answers, all sorts of messages,
18:15
Speaker 3: all sorts of alleged proof, and you must wonder at
18:20
Speaker 3: times in the whirlwind of your mind, what exactly am
18:22
Speaker 3: I supposed to do? What exactly am I supposed to be?
18:29
Speaker 3: If there is anyone in your family who needs assistance,
18:32
Speaker 3: my parental friends, it is your daughters, your sons, Yes,
18:39
Speaker 3: but a special measure of assistance needs to be given
18:43
Speaker 3: to your daughters so they know what it is to
18:46
Speaker 3: be a lady, so they know how to conduct themselves
18:50
Speaker 3: as a woman, a young woman of God, what that
18:54
Speaker 3: means and what it does not mean, especially if she
19:00
Speaker 3: is one of these intellectual, highly gifted young women, as
19:05
Speaker 3: so many of them are. She will live in great frustration,
19:10
Speaker 3: and there will be many ready to give her her
19:12
Speaker 3: script if you do not speak and guide and graciously
19:19
Speaker 3: shape her life. We're looking into the life of an
19:23
Speaker 3: Old Testament woman named Esther. As we study this wonderful biography,
19:28
Speaker 3: I'd like to have you turn back to the second
19:30
Speaker 3: chapter and we'll draw our thoughts from this section of
19:35
Speaker 3: her life we're looking at today. If you've been with
19:38
Speaker 3: us from the start of the study, you know that
19:40
Speaker 3: she emerges in a rather unusual manner. The land is Persia.
19:45
Speaker 3: The place is Sousa, or as it's otherwise called Shushan,
19:49
Speaker 3: the capital of Persia. The king is a Hazuaris, otherwise
19:53
Speaker 3: known as Xerxes. His wife, Vashti, has been demoted from
19:59
Speaker 3: the throne for reasons we'll not get back into, but
20:02
Speaker 3: we cover that last time. She is a forgotten soul,
20:05
Speaker 3: never to be mentioned again. He comes back from war
20:10
Speaker 3: and he's lonely and in need of the affection and
20:13
Speaker 3: care and enjoyment and pleasure of a wife. His counselors say,
20:18
Speaker 3: here is a unique way to do it. Let's find
20:21
Speaker 3: every possible available beautiful young woman in the kingdom, in
20:25
Speaker 3: all the provinces, and let's bring her here and let
20:28
Speaker 3: you take your choice, and she will become the queen.
20:33
Speaker 3: Notice in reading chapter two of Esther, verse three, the
20:37
Speaker 3: development of the story. Let the king appoint overseers in
20:41
Speaker 3: all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather
20:45
Speaker 3: every beautiful young virgin to Susa, the capital, to the Harem,
20:51
Speaker 3: into the custody of Hegei, the King's eunuch, who was
20:55
Speaker 3: in charge of the women, and let their cosmetics be
20:59
Speaker 3: given them. It's plain and simple beauty contest, and the
21:03
Speaker 3: women come from all the provinces. Josephus, the Jewish historian,
21:07
Speaker 3: tells us there were as many as four hundred women
21:11
Speaker 3: involved in this rather remarkable contest. The plan was that
21:16
Speaker 3: the finalist would be given an opportunity literally to have
21:19
Speaker 3: an audience with the king. They would spend a night
21:23
Speaker 3: with the king. They would bring with them all their
21:26
Speaker 3: elegance and charm and seduction and beauty that they could
21:31
Speaker 3: possibly muster in a year's time, and he would make
21:34
Speaker 3: his choice once he has been with these women. Out
21:39
Speaker 3: of the midst of all of this Esther comes on
21:41
Speaker 3: the scene. Look at verse five. There was a Jew
21:45
Speaker 3: in Susa, the capital, whose name was Mordecai. Verse seven,
21:50
Speaker 3: and he was bringing up Hadassah. That's a Jewish word
21:55
Speaker 3: that means myrtle, as in the plant. That is Esther.
22:00
Speaker 3: That's a Persian name meaning star, as in the star
22:04
Speaker 3: of the heavens. She was given that name later in
22:08
Speaker 3: her adult life. He was bringing up Esther, his uncle's daughter,
22:12
Speaker 3: for she had neither father nor mother. Now, the young
22:15
Speaker 3: lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her
22:18
Speaker 3: father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his
22:22
Speaker 3: own daughter. What you don't read, but you have to
22:24
Speaker 3: see between the lines, is that she is in the minority.
22:28
Speaker 3: She is living as a captive in a foreign land.
22:31
Speaker 3: Her home is Jerusalem, that is her people's home, the
22:36
Speaker 3: land of Palestine. And because of the turning and twisting
22:40
Speaker 3: of historical events, her people have been brought in exile
22:44
Speaker 3: to Persia. So she's living a life rather obscurely in
22:48
Speaker 3: the home of Mordecai. I'm sure it was a sheltered home,
22:53
Speaker 3: a monotheistic home, a home of great care and concern
22:58
Speaker 3: for character and for deep beauty. On top of all this,
23:04
Speaker 3: she had a physical beauty that attracted people to her.
23:08
Speaker 3: Verse eight. It came about when the command and decree
23:13
Speaker 3: of the king were heard, and many young ladies were
23:17
Speaker 3: gathered to Susa, the capital, into the custody of HEGEI.
23:22
Speaker 3: Now read carefully that Esther was taken to the king's
23:29
Speaker 3: palace into the custody of Hegui, who was in charge
23:34
Speaker 3: of the women. I'm intrigged by the passive tense. I
23:38
Speaker 3: am also intrigued by the verb itself was taken. In fact,
23:45
Speaker 3: this verb can mean taken by force, and some Jewish
23:49
Speaker 3: scholars do that with Esther iiO. It is so rendered
23:53
Speaker 3: that way in other parts of the Old Testament. I
23:57
Speaker 3: don't know if there was coercion. We're not told that
24:01
Speaker 3: she was forced to go, but I think it would
24:04
Speaker 3: be fair to say there was reluctance. I mean, just
24:08
Speaker 3: stop and think. Why would a young Jewish woman want
24:14
Speaker 3: to get involved in a plan that would involve time
24:18
Speaker 3: with a heathen king and the possibility of intermarriage outside
24:22
Speaker 3: her race. Why would Mordecai ever give his permission for
24:28
Speaker 3: such Now I think it's safe to say she went
24:32
Speaker 3: reluctantly and By the way, isn't it refreshing to find
24:37
Speaker 3: a little reluctance in a beautiful woman. I see that
24:42
Speaker 3: in Esther, and I'm impressed by it.
24:53
Speaker 1: Esther didn't rush toward greatness. She was drawn into it,
24:57
Speaker 1: perhaps reluctantly, certainly by a hand and greater than her own.
25:01
Speaker 1: And isn't that how God often works? He doesn't always
25:04
Speaker 1: ask for volunteers. Sometimes He simply moves us gently, sovereignly,
25:09
Speaker 1: purposefully into places we never would have chosen for ourselves.
25:14
Speaker 1: If you find yourself somewhere unexpected today, take heart. Esther's
25:18
Speaker 1: story is just beginning, and yours may be as well.
25:22
Speaker 1: This is insight for living and the Bible teaching of Chuckswindall.
25:26
Speaker 1: Esther's story is one you don't want to rush past.
25:29
Speaker 1: Every chapter holds something worth sitting with, a question worth
25:33
Speaker 1: wrestling through, a truth worth writing down our searching. The
25:37
Speaker 1: Scripture's Bible Study Workbook gives you the tools to do
25:40
Speaker 1: exactly that. It's an in depth companion to this series,
25:44
Speaker 1: designed to take you beyond Chuck's teaching into your own
25:47
Speaker 1: personal discovery of the Bible. Because what God says to
25:50
Speaker 1: you in his word matters to purchase the Bible Study
25:54
Speaker 1: Workbook for Esther. Call eight hundred seven seven to two
25:58
Speaker 1: eighty eight eighty eight or God directly to Insight dot
26:01
Speaker 1: org slash offer. Did you realize that Chuck has also
26:05
Speaker 1: written a full length book on Esther. It's from the
26:08
Speaker 1: Great Lives series, and you'll love engaging in Esther's story
26:12
Speaker 1: told only as Chuck can tell it. Everyone loves a
26:16
Speaker 1: transformation story, rags to riches, obscurity to royalty, fear to
26:21
Speaker 1: fearless courage. But Esther's story isn't a fairy tale. It's
26:25
Speaker 1: a true account of an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary
26:29
Speaker 1: circumstances and the God who quietly worked behind every scene.
26:34
Speaker 1: Chuck's book on Esther will take you deeper into her
26:37
Speaker 1: world than you've ever been. You'll walk away with more
26:40
Speaker 1: than inspiration. You'll walk away changed. To purchase Chucks Wendall's
26:44
Speaker 1: full length book on Esther, visit Insight dot org slash offer.
26:50
Speaker 1: Thanks for remembering that Inside for Living and the Bible
26:52
Speaker 1: teaching of Chucks Wendall are made possible because people like
26:56
Speaker 1: you give generously. We are so grateful for our monthly
27:00
Speaker 1: partners and everyone who supports Insight for Living.
27:10
Speaker 3: I'm Bill Meyer.
27:11
Speaker 1: Join us when Chucks Wendall continues to describe what he
27:14
Speaker 1: calls Strength and Dignity on Parade tomorrow on in Sight
27:19
Speaker 1: for Living. The preceding message Strength and Dignity on Parade
27:26
Speaker 1: was copyrighted in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety seven,
27:31
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, two thousand and eight, twenty eighteen,
27:34
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty six, and the sound recording was copyrighted
27:37
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six by Charles R. Swindall Incorporated. All
27:42
Speaker 1: rights are reserved worldwide. Duplication of copyrighted material for commercial
27:46
Speaker 1: use is strictly prohibited