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What Goes Around, Comes Around │ Msg 712 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: For the Jews living in Persia, it seemed as if
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  Speaker 1: all was lost. They had no protector except the queen.
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  Speaker 1: But how powerful was she in the shadow of the king.
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  Speaker 1: The sand in the hourglass was running out, and genocides
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  Speaker 1: seemed inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, in.
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  Speaker 1: Spite of the way things seemed, that's not the way
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  Speaker 1: things were. God was at work behind the scenes, scripting
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  Speaker 1: each movement on the stage. The King, her husband, had
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  Speaker 1: given Esther not only an audience, but also carte blanche
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  Speaker 1: to request anything she desired. Up to half the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: None of the Jews knew what was happening behind palace doors.
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  Speaker 1: Even Haymon was too busy building the gallows for Mordecai
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  Speaker 1: to know anything but his desire for revenge. And so
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  Speaker 1: the account continues. Right after Esther's banquet for her husband
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  Speaker 1: and Hayman. The scene is the King's bedchamber, late at night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading for you from Esther, chapter six, beginning at
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  Speaker 1: verse one. As the plot thickens, listen carefully. During that night,
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  Speaker 1: the king could not sleep, so he gave an order
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  Speaker 1: to bring the book of records, the Chronicles, and they
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  Speaker 1: were read before the king. It was found written what
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  Speaker 1: Mordecai had reported concerning big Fana and Teresh, two of
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  Speaker 1: the king's eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought
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  Speaker 1: to lay hands on King Azuaris. The King said, what
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  Speaker 1: honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?
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  Speaker 1: Then the king's served vins, who attended him, said, nothing
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  Speaker 1: has been done for him. So the king said, who
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  Speaker 1: is in the court.
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Hamon had just entered the outer court of the king's
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  Speaker 1: palace in order to speak to the King about hanging
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  Speaker 1: Mordecai on the gallows, which he had prepared for him.
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  Speaker 1: The king's servant said to him, behold, Hamon is standing
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  Speaker 1: in the court, And the King said, let him come in.
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  Speaker 1: So Hamon came in, and the King said to him,
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  Speaker 1: what is to be done for the man whom the
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  Speaker 1: King desires to honor? And Hamon said to himself, whom
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  Speaker 1: would the King desire to honor more than me? Then
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  Speaker 1: Hamon said to the King, for the man whom the
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  Speaker 1: King desires to honor, let them bring a royal robe
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  Speaker 1: which the king has worn, and the horse on which
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  Speaker 1: the King has redden and on whose head a royal
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  Speaker 1: crown has been placed, and let the robe and the
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  Speaker 1: horse be handed over to one of the king's most
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  Speaker 1: noble princes, and let them array the man whom the
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  Speaker 1: king desires to honor, and lead him on horseback through
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  Speaker 1: the city square, and proclaim before him, thus it shall
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  Speaker 1: be done to the man whom the King desires to honor.
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  Speaker 1: Then the king said to Haman, take quickly the robes
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  Speaker 1: and the horse, as you have said, and do so
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  Speaker 1: for Mordecai, the jew who is sitting in the King's gate.
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  Speaker 1: Do not fall short in anything of all that you
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  Speaker 1: have said. So Hayman took the robe and the horse,
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  Speaker 1: and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the
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  Speaker 1: city square, and proclaim before him, thus it shall be
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  Speaker 1: done to the man whom the King desires to honor.
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  Speaker 1: Then Mordecai turned to the King's gate, but Haymon hurried home,
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  Speaker 1: mourning with his head covered. Normally things are not as
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  Speaker 1: they seem. Most parents of small children will teach you
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  Speaker 1: that if you don't know it already, it's when the
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  Speaker 1: kids get very quiet and are making no noise at
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  Speaker 1: all that you have everything to worry about. Probably there
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  Speaker 1: isn't a parent listening right now who has not done
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  Speaker 1: a quick investigation and found their two year olds standing
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  Speaker 1: waist deep in toilet tissue and kleenex, or in our case,
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  Speaker 1: ankle deep in bath powder, with all of the file
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  Speaker 1: drawers pulled out and all the files all over the floor,
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  Speaker 1: and he's dowsing each one carefully with a quarter of
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  Speaker 1: an inch of bath powder. Cynthia and I have longtime
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  Speaker 1: friends who if their daughter went to a large department
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  Speaker 1: store and the child got very quiet. She was sitting
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  Speaker 1: with her back to them, so they didn't worry about anything.
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  Speaker 2: They knew she wasn't lost, but she was unusually quiet
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  Speaker 2: while they went through the entire transaction at this large
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  Speaker 2: Sears and Roebucks store. And when they finished, they reached
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  Speaker 2: down to pick her up, and they found that all
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  Speaker 2: the while she had been chewing on a cigar butt
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  Speaker 2: she found on the floor there at that Seer's store.
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  Speaker 2: When children are quiet, it may seem like things are
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  Speaker 2: fine and dandy, but chances are good they are not.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's another one to illustrate things are not as
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  Speaker 2: they seem. When things have gone wrong, it may seem
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  Speaker 2: like they cannot possibly get any worse. Huh, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that they can. I heard a crazy
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  Speaker 2: story this past week. I have to tell you. It's
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  Speaker 2: about a poor guy named Johnson, who all of his
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  Speaker 2: adult life made wrong decisions. Every choice he made was
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  Speaker 2: a wrong choice. If he bet on a horse, it
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  Speaker 2: would lose every time. If he chose one elevator over another,
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  Speaker 2: that would be the elevator that got stuck. If he
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  Speaker 2: selected a particular line in the bank before the teller's cage,
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  Speaker 2: his line would never be the one that moves fastest.
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  Speaker 2: If he picked a day for a picnic, that would
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  Speaker 2: be the day of the cloud burst before they ever
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  Speaker 2: got to the site. Invariably well, it became necessary for
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  Speaker 2: this fuddle to travel about a thousand miles away in
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  Speaker 2: a hurry for an overnight trip. The only way to
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  Speaker 2: get there was an airplane. Frightened him, but to his delight,
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  Speaker 2: he discovered that there was only one airline that serviced
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  Speaker 2: that particular city. So he bring a sigh of really,
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  Speaker 2: and he got on the plane and it took off
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  Speaker 2: no problems. Can you imagine the horror of this man
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  Speaker 2: when he looked out the window, having been flying about
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  Speaker 2: thirty forty minutes, and he saw the engine on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Being a Catholic, he selected his favorite Saint, Saint Francis,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, I have never in my life made
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  Speaker 2: the right choice.
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  Speaker 1: Why.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I have borne my cross without complaint.
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  Speaker 2: On this occasion, I made no choice. Only the plane
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  Speaker 2: I could have taken or have taken is going down.
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  Speaker 2: I had to take this plane. Why am I being punished?
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  Speaker 2: Right about then, a great hand reached out of the
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  Speaker 2: clouds and swept into the plane and pulled him out.
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  Speaker 2: The plane went on down and held him about two
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  Speaker 2: miles above the earth, and a great voice came, son,
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  Speaker 2: I can save you if in truth you have called
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  Speaker 2: upon me. He says, yes, I have I truly called
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  Speaker 2: upon you. Saint Francis, ah said the voice, Saint Francis
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  Speaker 2: Xavier or Saint Francis of a CC. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: About the time you think it's as bad as it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get, it gets works. Now I've got a true
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  Speaker 2: story that really did happen. It really did. You're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna believe it now that I told you that one.
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  Speaker 2: There were a couple of attorneys who worked together regularly
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  Speaker 2: up in the San Francisco area. They happened to be
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  Speaker 2: in offices far above the ground floor, and they were
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  Speaker 2: there when the earthquake struck, the seven point one quake,
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  Speaker 2: and they gloriously made their way down to the main floor.
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  Speaker 2: And they, of course were unable to get to their
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  Speaker 2: cars for their transportation home. So after hours of waiting
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  Speaker 2: and waiting, they finally took commercial transportation. They found a
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  Speaker 2: bus that wasn't packed with people, and they made their
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  Speaker 2: way onto the bus, and on their way home. Would
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  Speaker 2: you believe it, after the earthquake, they were both robbed
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  Speaker 2: on the bus. Never fails, does it? Things are not
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  Speaker 2: as they seem. About the time you think they're never
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  Speaker 2: going to get worse, they get worse. And I am
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  Speaker 2: convinced if you and I had lived in the days
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  Speaker 2: of Esther, and if we had come to this particular
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  Speaker 2: time in our lives as a group of Jewish people
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  Speaker 2: living in the capital city of Susa, we would have
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  Speaker 2: been convinced that this was about our last night. Certainly
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  Speaker 2: if our name had been Mordecai. There is a pivotal
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  Speaker 2: chapter in this book where everything seems to change. I
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  Speaker 2: find in this section of the Book of Esther actually
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  Speaker 2: not one, but four separate principles that seem to illustrate
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  Speaker 2: turn about his fair play. For example, before we even
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  Speaker 2: get into the chapter, the first one is when all
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  Speaker 2: seems lost, It isn't. It really isn't. Had we lived
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  Speaker 2: then we would have thought our protection was lost. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we have no advocate on the throne. The king is
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  Speaker 2: a gentile, he has no interest in the Jews. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: we have no future because his close confidant is Hayman,
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  Speaker 2: who hates the Jews, add a Semitic to the soul
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  Speaker 2: of his sandals. He despises us. We have no hope.
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  Speaker 2: After all, in the middle of the night, we could
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  Speaker 2: still hear the hammering on the gallows. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: the night Mordecai must have spent listen to that grim
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  Speaker 2: reminder that the very next day the smell of death
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  Speaker 2: would spread across the city from his body as it
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  Speaker 2: is impaled on that vast pole that is being erected
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  Speaker 2: for his extermination. And yet the marvelous fact is Mordecai
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  Speaker 2: apparently spends a full night in sleep, even though the
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  Speaker 2: last verse of chapter five of this ancient book of
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  Speaker 2: esther states that gallows fifty cubits high were being made
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  Speaker 2: and in the very next On the very next morning,
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  Speaker 2: Hayman would go before the king and ask for the
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  Speaker 2: life of Mordecai. Mordecai apparently spends the night with no problem,
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  Speaker 2: because when all seems lost, it really isn't. Mordecai is
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  Speaker 2: not licking his wounds, holding a pity party, thinking poor me,
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  Speaker 2: I'll never make it to see tomorrow night. There's somehow
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  Speaker 2: a sense of trust in his God. As we step
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  Speaker 2: into the first part of chapter six, there was yet
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  Speaker 2: a second principle. When no one seems to notice, they
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  Speaker 2: do remember Mordecai's courageous decision back a number of days earlier,
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  Speaker 2: he heard of a conspiracy between two of the doorkeepers
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  Speaker 2: of the palace, where these two men were going to
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  Speaker 2: kill the king, lay hands on him and kill him.
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  Speaker 2: When he heard of that conspiracy, he told his adopted
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  Speaker 2: daughter Esther about it, and she told the king, she
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  Speaker 2: being the queen, and the king believed her and brought
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  Speaker 2: them in before him and kill them before they had
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  Speaker 2: the chance to kill him. But you know, no one
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  Speaker 2: ever rewarded Mordecai for that great act. The king knew
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  Speaker 2: of it, of course, because he is the one who
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  Speaker 2: said the two men should be killed. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he thought Esther got worried from someone in the palace
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  Speaker 2: who would bother to tell him that it came from
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  Speaker 2: the man who lived at the king's gate, Mordecai himself.
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  Speaker 2: And so Mordechai is living his life not noticed, not rewarded,
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  Speaker 2: and could easily have felt unappreciated until this night. Listen
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  Speaker 2: as I read the first three verses during that night,
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  Speaker 2: and what a night it was. During that night, the
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  Speaker 2: king could not sleep, so he gave an order to
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  Speaker 2: bring the book of records, the Chronicles, and they were
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  Speaker 2: read before the king, and it was found that Mordecai
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  Speaker 2: had reported concerning big Thana and Teresh, two of the
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  Speaker 2: king's eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to
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  Speaker 2: lay hands on King of Haajuaris. He listened to the
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  Speaker 2: reading of the chronicles to the record of Persia, and
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  Speaker 2: he heard the name Mordecai, a new name to him
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  Speaker 2: and unknown until now. And he stops them at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and he says, wait, verse three, what honor or dignity
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  Speaker 2: has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's
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  Speaker 2: servants who attended him said, nothing has been done Have
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  Speaker 2: you lived long enough as an adult to discover that
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  Speaker 2: often momentous events hang upon the tiniest trivia. You discovered
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  Speaker 2: that here's a wonderful case in point. While all of
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  Speaker 2: Susa slept, the king is restless, I mean, of all nights,
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  Speaker 2: to suffer from insomnia. What a night. The king knew
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  Speaker 2: nothing of the plan to kill Mordecai. That was Hayman's
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  Speaker 2: plan the next morning to face him with it and
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  Speaker 2: to get the okay. He really knew little of the
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  Speaker 2: result of his decisions. He's living in a palace away
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  Speaker 2: from the real world. While Mordecai sleeps, While all of
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  Speaker 2: Susa and all of Persia sleeps, the King can't sleep.
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  Speaker 2: I love the first three words of verse one. During
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  Speaker 2: that night, That's the way it is with God. On
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  Speaker 2: the eleventh hour, it's he steps in. He does things
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  Speaker 2: that you would never have expected. When no one seemed
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  Speaker 2: to notice and no one seemed to care, there was
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  Speaker 2: someone he was very much aware. Suddenly it dawned on
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  Speaker 2: the king that he owed his very life and throne
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  Speaker 2: to this obscured Jew named Mordecai. Do I speak today
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  Speaker 2: to some modern day Mordecai? Has it been your decision
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  Speaker 2: or discovery that has caused someone else to be promoted
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  Speaker 2: to a place of significance, and now they are in
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  Speaker 2: virtually a celebrity status, and you've never been noticed, never
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  Speaker 2: been thanked, never been rewarded. How about this? Have you
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  Speaker 2: done the hard, the courageous thing, and someone else got
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  Speaker 2: the credit. Has it been your experience that though you
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  Speaker 2: have done what is right, you have never been rewarded,
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  Speaker 2: You have never been honored. In fact, someone else has
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  Speaker 2: taken the glory that rightfully is yours, but it looks
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  Speaker 2: as though it will never come. Learn a lesson from
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  Speaker 2: Mordecai today, will you. The thing you will love about
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  Speaker 2: the man throughout the chapter and even the following is
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  Speaker 2: that he doesn't seem to be a man of vengeance.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't take an opportunity to get back at Hayman
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  Speaker 2: when he has Hayman in a very vulnerable spot a
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  Speaker 2: little later on in this story, as we will hear today,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't kick him in the face when it's a
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  Speaker 2: chance to do so. He doesn't even speak against him.
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  Speaker 2: Let me challenge you to guard your heart as he did.
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  Speaker 2: Let me have you be encouraged from the writing of
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  Speaker 2: a verse of scripture in the margin of your bible
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  Speaker 2: here Hebrews six'. Ten listen to the. Words For god
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  Speaker 2: is not unjust to forget your work and, labor which
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  Speaker 2: you have showed Toward his, name in that you have
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  Speaker 2: ministered to the saints and are. MINISTERING i love the.
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  Speaker 2: Words god is not unjust to forget when no one
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  Speaker 2: else seems to. Notice god notices when no one else.
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  Speaker 2: Remembers god. Records we're told in The psalms he keeps
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  Speaker 2: our tears in a. Bottle he will reward us for
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  Speaker 2: acts that are done in his. Name so be encouraged.
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  Speaker 2: Today there will come a day when rewards will come
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  Speaker 2: your way as they. Should perhaps not on this, earth
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  Speaker 2: as happens To, mordecai but. Someday god is not unjust
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  Speaker 2: to forget your work your. Labor this brings up a
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  Speaker 2: third principle from the basic axiom that things are not
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  Speaker 2: really as they, seem and that is when everything seems,
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  Speaker 2: great it's not sounds like one Of murphy's, laws doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: It anytime things appear to be going, better you have overlooked.
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  Speaker 2: Something is that basic? Law AND i think Of hayman
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  Speaker 2: WHEN i hear that humorous. Principle as soon as the
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  Speaker 2: king heard nothing had been done For, mordecai his wheels started.
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  Speaker 2: Turning he began to imagine what might be, done and
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  Speaker 2: then he had to figure out who who would help
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  Speaker 2: him carry it. Out so in verse four he asks
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  Speaker 2: the logical, question who is in the court? Now hayman
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  Speaker 2: had just entered the outer court of the king's palace
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  Speaker 2: watch this in order to speak to the king about
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  Speaker 2: Hanging mordecai on the, gallows which he had prepared for.
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  Speaker 2: Him is this a great moment or? What the sun
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  Speaker 2: begins to come? Up haymon comes, early has an appointment
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  Speaker 2: with the, king has plans to finish off his long hated,
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  Speaker 2: enemy and out of the inner court comes the word
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  Speaker 2: of the. King call him, In Call hayman. In hamon comes.
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  Speaker 2: In i'm getting ahead of. Myself verse. Five king's servants, said,
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  Speaker 2: Behold hamon is. In is standing in the, Court and
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  Speaker 2: the king, said let it come in. Now if you Were, haman,
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  Speaker 2: right wouldn't this make a great? Movie you would, think
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  Speaker 2: now is my? Chance just a, minute, gallows somebody will
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  Speaker 2: be on, you and you walk into the court of the,
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  Speaker 2: king thinking this is my. Moment before you can get
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  Speaker 2: a line out of your. Mouth, however the king fills
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  Speaker 2: your ears With verse, Six So hamon came, in and
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  Speaker 2: the king said to, him what is to be done
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  Speaker 2: for the man whom the king desires to? Honor, well
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  Speaker 2: if you Were, haman you would think of. Yourself who
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  Speaker 2: else carries around four cartridges of slides and shows them
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  Speaker 2: every chance he gets about his own? Promotion who else
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  Speaker 2: talks about how much money he, makes how many kids he's,
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  Speaker 2: got how well fixed he? Is? Hamon so you, think? Who?
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  Speaker 2: WELL i better put on hold the IDEA i was
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  Speaker 2: going to bring up and, answer this is my. CHANCE
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  Speaker 2: i love stories like, THIS i love. Them what is
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  Speaker 2: to be done for the man whom the king desires to?
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  Speaker 2: Honor And hayman said to, himself whom would the king
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  Speaker 2: desire to honor more than? Me of, course since my,
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  Speaker 2: moment let's see what could be done for. Me let's
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  Speaker 2: begin with the king's. Robe verse, Seven hayman, said for
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  Speaker 2: the man whom the king desires to, honor let them
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  Speaker 2: bring a royal robe which the king has. Worn write
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  Speaker 2: that down royal robe king is. Worn and choose the
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  Speaker 2: horse on which The king has. Ridden write that down
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  Speaker 2: horse on which the king has, ridden preferably. White and
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  Speaker 2: the crown on whose head the royal crown has been.
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  Speaker 2: Placed royal crown once placed on the, head and the
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  Speaker 2: robe and the, horse can you, See, Hamon let the
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  Speaker 2: robe and the horse and the crown be placed on this,
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  Speaker 2: individual and let them eray the man whom the king
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  Speaker 2: desires to, honor and lead him on horseback through the city,
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  Speaker 2: square and proclaim before him that it shall be done
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  Speaker 2: to the man whom the king desires to. Honor that'll do,
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  Speaker 2: it great, idea says the king couldn't have thought of
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  Speaker 2: something his. Imaginative it's great Now verse ten one of
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  Speaker 2: my all time favorite. Verses take quickly the, robes the,
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  Speaker 2: crown the, horse and all you have, said and do
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  Speaker 2: that For mordecai The. Jew oh, no, oh this has
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  Speaker 2: got to be this has got to be a. Mistake
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  Speaker 2: Who mordecai The, jew who is sitting at The king's,
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  Speaker 2: gate do not fall short in anything of all that
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  Speaker 2: you have. Said, NOW i want to get the finest
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  Speaker 2: in the kingdom to make the. Announcement, So, hayman you'd
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  Speaker 2: be the one who leads the horse through the city
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  Speaker 2: and make the, announcement how great this man is it
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  Speaker 2: sits on this. Horse that's like sing to THE Ucla
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  Speaker 2: bruins announced to the, world sc will go to The Rose.
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  Speaker 2: Bowl it's like saying To Michael, doucaucus you deliver the final,
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  Speaker 2: Speech George, bush beating my socks, off he will be the.
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  Speaker 2: PRESIDENT i, mean this isn't in your face kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Announcement some of you look at me rather. Piously how
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  Speaker 2: could you think such a. Thing, oh it's, easy just
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  Speaker 2: like you could do. IT i, mean this is my
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  Speaker 2: chance to get. Back, no all of a, SUDDEN i.
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  Speaker 2: Can't i've got to go through and to make it.
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  Speaker 2: WORSE i thought of. IT i thought of this. Idea So,
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  Speaker 2: Haman oh this is. Great So hamon took the robe
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  Speaker 2: and the horse and Arrayed mordecai and led him on
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  Speaker 2: horseback through the city, square and proclaimed before, him thus
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  Speaker 2: it shall be done to the man whom the king
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  Speaker 2: desires to. Honor one wise commentator, said the Words haman
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  Speaker 2: had to proclaim must have been as gravel in his.
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  Speaker 2: Mouth we have a sing in our. Day it's called
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  Speaker 2: what goes around. Around it has come around For, mordecai
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  Speaker 2: sitting on that, horse in regal. Attire is the most
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  Speaker 2: surprised man in the. Kingdom that's the beauty of the.
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  Speaker 2: Story not a proud, man not a man, whispering say
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  Speaker 2: it a little, Louder eat your heart, out. Haymen not
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  Speaker 2: a word you, read, nothing listen to, me nothing a
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  Speaker 2: vengeance In mordecai's. Life you know WHAT i appreciate, most
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  Speaker 2: the silence.
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  Speaker 3: Of.
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  Speaker 2: Mordecai how rare are the people who can be promoted
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  Speaker 2: to a place of significant stature and not live for
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  Speaker 2: their own, clippings and not crave the, lights not demand
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  Speaker 2: to be in the center, stage to be treated with kid.
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  Speaker 2: Gloves you, know a beautiful. Scene it's a small phrase
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  Speaker 2: you would probably in your reading overlook verse. Twelve Then
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  Speaker 2: mordecai returned to The king's? Gate is that? Great rather
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  Speaker 2: Than mordecai decided it was time for a. Promotion, no
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  Speaker 2: why it's significant because that's where he's been all the,
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  Speaker 2: time and his role has not gone to his. HEAD
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  Speaker 2: i THOUGHT i was the first to discover, That and
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  Speaker 2: THEN i, found in an old book published in eighteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty from a man Named Alexander, raleigh this insightful, paragraph
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  Speaker 2: better THAN i could have ever, thought AND i quote a,
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  Speaker 2: proud ambitious man would have said to, himself no more
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  Speaker 2: of The king's gates for. ME i shall direct my
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  Speaker 2: steps now to The king's palace and hold myself ready for,
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  Speaker 2: honor which surely must now be at. Hand mordecai seems
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  Speaker 2: to have said with, himself if these things are designed for,
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  Speaker 2: me In god's good, providence they will find, me but
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  Speaker 2: they must seek. ME i will not seek. Them those
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  Speaker 2: who confer them know my, Address mordecai at The king's,
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  Speaker 2: gate that will still find. Me let the crowd wonder and.
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  Speaker 2: Disperse i've had enough of their. Incense Let hayman go
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  Speaker 2: whither he. Will he is in the hands of The.
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  Speaker 2: Lord let my friends at home. Wait they will all
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  Speaker 2: hear all in. TIME i can wait best at the old,
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  Speaker 2: place and in the accustomed Way i'll be at The king's.
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  Speaker 2: Gate have you been promoted in recent? Days Has god's
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  Speaker 2: providence smiled on you so that you are now being
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  Speaker 2: quoted in places where you were once not even? Known
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  Speaker 2: have you come to the place of nobility in the
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  Speaker 2: eyes of the. People the real question is are you
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  Speaker 2: still comfortable at The king's? Gate or must you now
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  Speaker 2: live in the palace where you are protected from the real.
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  Speaker 2: World must you now be treated with special care and
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  Speaker 2: be given a special, touch and not bothered with everyday.
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  Speaker 2: Problems mordecai, said just drop me off at The King's.
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  Speaker 2: Gate let me give you a little piece of. Advice
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  Speaker 2: no matter what happens to, you the best place on
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  Speaker 2: earth is The King's. Gate one more principle comes from this,
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  Speaker 2: story in this, chapter and that is when nothing seems.
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  Speaker 3: Just.
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  Speaker 2: It is if you're like, me you have been waiting
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  Speaker 2: for a long time for the shoe to. Fall you
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  Speaker 2: have been wanting, somehow not For mordecai to take, vengeance
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  Speaker 2: that's not his, right but you have been Wanting hayman
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  Speaker 2: to get what he. Deserves there's something in all of
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  Speaker 2: us that wants. Justice that's why we will go to
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  Speaker 2: the trouble of finding an attorney and if, necessary going
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  Speaker 2: to law in this, case because we have to bring
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  Speaker 2: about a sense of justice when we have been, wronged
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  Speaker 2: and this Man, hayman has strutted his stuff long. Enough
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  Speaker 2: when all seems, lost when nothing seems, just it is
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  Speaker 2: listen to. Twelve mordecai returned to The King's, gate But
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  Speaker 2: haman hurried, home mourning with his head. Covered remember the
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  Speaker 2: last time he was, there he was going through the
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  Speaker 2: litany of how great he, is how he slides under
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  Speaker 2: the door as he gets there that, afternoon and he
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  Speaker 2: recounts To, zeresh his wife and his friends everything that
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  Speaker 2: had happened to. Him The hayman types are the type
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  Speaker 2: that always blame other people for their. Misfortune have you
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  Speaker 2: noticed that it's Never god has taught me a valuable,
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  Speaker 2: lesson OR i have been humbled through this and in
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  Speaker 2: the LOSS i have, gained Or god has crushed my,
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  Speaker 2: spirit AND i have learned to rely on. Him it
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  Speaker 2: is invariably if it hadn't been for, him if she hadn't,
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  Speaker 2: said if that person hadn't, done if the company hadn't
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  Speaker 2: an on and on and. On haman's like that he
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  Speaker 2: rehearses all that has happened to, him not all that
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  Speaker 2: he brought on. Himself then his wise men And zeriesh his,
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  Speaker 2: wife said to, him hold, on If, mordecai before whom
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  Speaker 2: you have begun to, fall is Of jewish, origin you
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  Speaker 2: will not overcome. Him your days are. Numbered he will
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  Speaker 2: surely fall before. Him you know, What you've got to
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  Speaker 2: Admire their. Theology they are right on. Target that couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have been sourced better IF i had read for You
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  Speaker 2: genesis twelve two and. THREE i will make, you The,
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  Speaker 2: jews a great. NATION i will bless. YOU i will
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  Speaker 2: bless those who bless, you and the one who curses,
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  Speaker 2: YOU i will. Curse the marginal reference STATES i will
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  Speaker 2: bind under a Curse genesis twelve two and, three The Abrahamic.
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  Speaker 2: Covenant my people will be. Protected you curse, them you
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  Speaker 2: will pay a terrible. Price Thank, God america has not
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  Speaker 2: forgotten that it's wise to remain allies to The. Jews
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  Speaker 2: when nothing seems just it, is and they say to,
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  Speaker 2: him don't get your hopes up for many more. Mornings
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  Speaker 2: it looks like you're about done for not WHILE i
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  Speaker 2: was graduating From, seminary but a couple of years before
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  Speaker 2: my class made, IT i was sitting in the audience
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  Speaker 2: listening to the to the long standing president Of Dallas
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  Speaker 2: seminary at the, time Doctor John. WALVERARD i forget much
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  Speaker 2: of what he, said BUT i will never forget a
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  Speaker 2: statement he made as he was challenging the graduates to
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  Speaker 2: a life of, purity, holiness, humility. GODLINESS i remember his
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  Speaker 2: warning all of those graduates in cap and gown that
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  Speaker 2: day to be careful with how they handled the glory
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  Speaker 2: Of god And god's use of their lives in the days.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead he made a statement not original to, him but
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  Speaker 2: at the TIME i had never read it anywhere else.
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  Speaker 2: Before he, said, Remember god's wheels grind, slowly but they
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  Speaker 2: grind exceedingly. Fine never forget that here in the case Of,
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  Speaker 2: Haman god's wheels grind exceedingly. Fine never, once in all
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  Speaker 2: of his peacocks strutting about the, kingdom Had god Overlooked.
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  Speaker 2: Haman never, once in none of his plan for the
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  Speaker 2: murder of The, jews to say nothing of the murder
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  Speaker 2: Of mordecai that. Day Had god missed the, statements the
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  Speaker 2: feelings of the, hearts the motives behind the. Decisions his
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  Speaker 2: wheels grind, slowly but exceedingly. FINE i don't care how
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  Speaker 2: important you may think you, are or how valuable you
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  Speaker 2: feel you are to the, company or the, community or
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  Speaker 2: the home or the. Church its wheels grind exceedingly. Fine
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  Speaker 2: be very very careful about walking in. Pride it will
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  Speaker 2: come back to curse. You having heard these. Words in,
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  Speaker 2: fact while verse, fourteen while they were still talking with,
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  Speaker 2: him a knock came at the, door and before he
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  Speaker 2: could even get his thoughts. Together according to the, verse
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  Speaker 2: the king's eunuch had arrived and hastily Brought hayman to the,
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  Speaker 2: banquet Which esther had. PREPARED i, mean he didn't even
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  Speaker 2: have time to compute what was said before he was
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  Speaker 2: swept out of the house and moved right on to
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  Speaker 2: the palace of the king for this ominous banquet that
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  Speaker 2: would spell his. Doom will you will you allow a
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  Speaker 2: preach your little imagination for a? MOMENT i can't help
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  Speaker 2: but wonder if on the way to The king's Palace
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  Speaker 2: hayman didn't glance at the gallops and truly, think could
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  Speaker 2: it be that the ONE i planned to put there
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  Speaker 2: will never? Go AND i will be hung there in its.
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  Speaker 2: Place it's the kind of thought That judas thought of too.
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  Speaker 2: Late there's an Old english couplet that, says still as
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  Speaker 2: of old man by himself Is christ for thirty. Pieces
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  Speaker 2: judas sold, himself Not. Christ there he stood in a
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  Speaker 2: moment of hesitation before going into the. Banquet what goes
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  Speaker 2: around comes. Around we've seen the principle things are not
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  Speaker 2: as they seem carried out in four different. Manners haven't
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  Speaker 2: We when all seems lost it. Isn't when no one
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  Speaker 2: seems to notice they. Do when everything seems, great it.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't and when nothing seems, just it, is which is
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  Speaker 2: another way of, saying When god seems, Absent.
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  Speaker 3: He's.
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  Speaker 2: Present even when you think you have lost it. All
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  Speaker 2: in the losing of, All god uses it as an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to bring you to your. Knees that's the strange
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  Speaker 2: way he, works you. KNOW i saw in A Billy
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  Speaker 2: Graham decision magazine a story that was Entitled. Disaster maybe
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  Speaker 2: you remember reading. It it was a story of a
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  Speaker 2: man who was shipwrecked and thrown on an island with
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  Speaker 2: nothing but a few things he was able to salvage
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  Speaker 2: from the, ship and he hurriedly built a little hut
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  Speaker 2: in which he would be protected from the elements and
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  Speaker 2: where he could keep the few last possessions he had
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  Speaker 2: salvaged from the. Wreck and he lived through the hot
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  Speaker 2: sun and the cold, nights and the stormy days and
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  Speaker 2: nights on the, island and returning one evening after a
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  Speaker 2: search for. Food and he had every day watched for
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  Speaker 2: a passing ship and saw. Nothing when he came back that.
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  Speaker 2: Evening he was terrified to find that the little hut
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  Speaker 2: he had built was consumed in. Flames and he stood
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  Speaker 2: there without any ability to stop the fire and the
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  Speaker 2: crushing disaster of realizing that the last bit he had
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  Speaker 2: was now. Gone, yet by divine, mercy his affliction was
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  Speaker 2: going to work toward mighty. Advantage he went to sleep
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  Speaker 2: that night near the, ashes listening to the surf as
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  Speaker 2: it pounded on the. Sand awoke early the next, morning
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  Speaker 2: and to his, surprise as he sat, up he saw a.
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  Speaker 2: Ship and before he could awaken himself, fully he heard
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  Speaker 2: the footsteps of a crew of men next to, him
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  Speaker 2: and one of them, said we saw your smoke, signal
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  Speaker 2: and we came to rescue. You everything The maroon man
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  Speaker 2: owned had to be destroyed before he could be. Rescued
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  Speaker 2: who are you in this? STORY i speak mainly to
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  Speaker 2: The haymans who have been kind enough to listen very.
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  Speaker 2: Carefully you've been engaged in building your kingdom and erecting your,
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  Speaker 2: fortune establishing your, name making it prominent so that other
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  Speaker 2: people would ooh and. Ahe you've got your fortune in.
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  Speaker 2: Hand you can see it in your. Sights you've walked
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  Speaker 2: over and through people to get. There listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: PIECE i had walked life's away with an easy. TREAD
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  Speaker 2: i had traveled where pleasures and comfort, led until one,
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  Speaker 2: day in a quiet, PLACE i met The master face to.
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  Speaker 2: Face with station and rank and wealth for my, goal
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  Speaker 2: much thought for my, body but none for my. SOUL
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  Speaker 2: i had entered to win this life's mad. Race WHEN
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  Speaker 2: i met The master face to, Face i'd built my
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  Speaker 2: towers and reared them high till they had pierced the
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  Speaker 2: blue of the. Sky i'd sworn to rule with an iron.
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  Speaker 2: Mace WHEN i met My master face to, FACE i
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  Speaker 2: met him and knew, him and blushed to see that
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  Speaker 2: his eyes full of sorrow were fixed upon. ME i
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  Speaker 2: faltered and fell at his feet that, day while my
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  Speaker 2: castles melted and vanished, away melted and, vanished and in
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  Speaker 2: their place nothing else COULD i see but The master's.
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  Speaker 2: Face my thoughts are now for the souls of. MEN
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  Speaker 2: i have lost my life to find it, again since
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: that day in a quiet, place WHEN i met The
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  Speaker 2: master face to, Face i'd like you to bow your
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  Speaker 2: heads for a few. Moments i'd like to address you
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  Speaker 2: who feel That god has been absent or on hold.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Distant in some, WAY i would like to reassure you of.
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  Speaker 2: This he has been present all the. Time, furthermore he your.
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  Speaker 2: Heart he knows the true condition of your. Soul he
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  Speaker 2: knows the impurities of your, motive he knows the depravity
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  Speaker 2: of your. Sin but he has come to your rescue.
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  Speaker 2: Today the good news is that he has come to.
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  Speaker 2: You he's heard your, signal and he will not turn you.
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  Speaker 2: Away you're surrounded this day in all corners of this
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  Speaker 2: world with people who have given their hearts To Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Christ maybe they've not announced it to, you BUT i
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: can assure you in churches that preach his, truth they're
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  Speaker 2: there in great. Numbers they understand the battle you're going.
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  Speaker 2: THROUGH i today invite you to make a decision they have,
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  Speaker 2: made and that is to give your life To Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Christ seems only, wise doesn't. It why should you wait
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  Speaker 2: for a disaster or you, See god will. Win he
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  Speaker 2: will have his. Way he's not impressed with earthly kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: and personal towers and pride and prestige and. Wealth he's
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: impressed with a humble heart that comes to the. Cross come,
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  Speaker 2: now in your own words and in your own, way
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Tell Jesus christ that you've come to an end of.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Yourself you're ready for him to take. Over you'll give
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: him your. Life don't, Wait, Father we come just as
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  Speaker 2: we are. Today we come As hamans And. Mordecai's we
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  Speaker 2: come in our. Need we come in the dread of
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  Speaker 2: our own foolish. Decisions we come in the misery of a,
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  Speaker 2: memory and yet we. Come Thank you for truth that
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  Speaker 2: emerges from an ancient book whose scrolls are hardly known
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  Speaker 2: by the public at. Large Thank you for speaking to
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  Speaker 2: us through the lives and lips of men and women
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  Speaker 2: that we can identify with who lived in a culture
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  Speaker 2: we'll never, know at a time where we could never.
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  Speaker 2: Be Thank you for the glory of heaven that awaits
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  Speaker 2: all who Know Jesus. Christ for the pleasures of sins,
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  Speaker 2: forgiven tears, removed blessings eternally ours to, enjoy rewards never,
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  Speaker 2: made reel on earth coming to pass. There thank you For,
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  Speaker 2: christ who has made it all, possible and we come
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  Speaker 2: to him today in his great. Name.
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  Speaker 3: Amen the preceding, message what Goes Around Comes around was
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