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What-Goes-Around-Comes-Around-Part-1 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: Sometimes things aren't what they seem. The righteous go unnoticed,
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Speaker 1: the arrogance seem untouchable, and God appears to be somewhere
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Speaker 1: else entirely. But appearances can be deceiving, and the Book
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Speaker 1: of Esther proves it.
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 1: On Insight for Living, Chuck Swndall recounts one of Scripture's
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Speaker 1: most dramatic stories. It's found in Ester chapter six, where
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Speaker 1: Chuck reminds us that God's timing may feel slow, but
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Speaker 1: he misses nothing. It's the story of a sleepless king,
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Speaker 1: a forgotten act of loyalty, and an overconfident villain that
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Speaker 1: all converge in a single, unforgettable night. Chuck begins by
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Speaker 1: reading from Esther chapter six.
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Speaker 3: For the Jews living in Persia, it seemed as if
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Speaker 3: all was lost. They had no protector except the queen,
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Speaker 3: But how powerful was she in the shadow of the king?
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Speaker 3: The sand in the hour glass was running out, and
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Speaker 3: genocides seemed inevitable. And yet, in spite of the way
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Speaker 3: things seemed, that's not the way things were. God was
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Speaker 3: at work behind the scenes, scripting each movement on the stage.
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Speaker 3: The King her husband had given Esther not only an audience,
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Speaker 3: but also carte blanche to request anything she desired. Up
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Speaker 3: to half the kingdom. None of the Jews knew what
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Speaker 3: was happening behind palace doors. Even Haymon was too busy
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Speaker 3: building the gallows for Mordecai to know anything but his
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Speaker 3: desire for revenge. And so the account continues. Right after
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Speaker 3: Esther's banquet for her husband and Hayman. The scene is
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Speaker 3: the King's bedchamber, late at night. I'm reading for you
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Speaker 3: from Esther, chapter six, beginning at verse one. As the
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Speaker 3: plot thickens, listen carefully. During that night, the king could
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Speaker 3: not sleep, so he gave an order to bring the
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Speaker 3: book of records, the Chronicles, and they were read before
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Speaker 3: the king. It was found written what Mordecai had reported
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Speaker 3: concerning big Thana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs
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Speaker 3: who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to lay hands
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Speaker 3: on King Azuaris. The King said, what honor or dignity
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Speaker 3: has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants,
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Speaker 3: who attended him said, nothing has been done for him.
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Speaker 3: So the king said, who is in the court court now?
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Speaker 3: Hamon had just entered the outer court of the King's
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Speaker 3: palace in order to speak to the King about hanging
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Speaker 3: Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.
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Speaker 3: The king's servant said to him, behold, Hamon is standing
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Speaker 3: in the court, And the king said, let him come in.
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Speaker 3: So Hamon came in, and the King said to him,
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Speaker 3: what is to be done for the man whom the
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Speaker 3: King desires to honor? And Hamon said to himself, whom
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Speaker 3: would the King desire to honor more than me? Then
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Speaker 3: Hamon said to the King, for the man whom the
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Speaker 3: King desires to honor, let them bring a royal robe
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Speaker 3: which the king has worn, and the horse on which
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Speaker 3: the King has ridden, and on whose head a royal
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Speaker 3: crown has been placed. And let the robe and the
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Speaker 3: horse be handed over to one of the kings most
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Speaker 3: noble princes. And let them array the man whom the
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Speaker 3: king desires to honor, and lead him on horseback through
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Speaker 3: the city square, and proclaim before him. Thus it shall
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Speaker 3: be done to the man whom the King desires to honor.
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Speaker 3: Then the King said to Haman, take quickly the robes
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Speaker 3: and the horse, as you have said, and do so
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Speaker 3: for Mordecai, the jew who is sitting in the King's gate,
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Speaker 3: do not fall short in anything of all that you
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Speaker 3: have said. So Hayman took the robe and the horse
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Speaker 3: and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the
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Speaker 3: city square, and proclaimed before him, thus it shall be
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Speaker 3: done to the man whom the king desires to honor.
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Speaker 3: Then Mordecai returned to the King's gate, but Hamon hurried home,
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Speaker 3: mourning with his head covered.
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Speaker 2: You're listening to Insight for a Living.
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Speaker 1: chuck title today's message.
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Speaker 2: What goes around comes around.
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Speaker 4: Normally things are not as they seem. Most parents of
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Speaker 4: small children will teach you that if you don't know
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Speaker 4: it already, it's when the kids get very quiet and
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Speaker 4: are making no noise at all that you have everything
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Speaker 4: to worry about. Probably there isn't apparent listening right now.
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Speaker 4: Who has not done a quick investigation and found their
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Speaker 4: two year old standing waist deep in toilet tissue and kleenex,
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Speaker 4: or in our case, ankle deep in bathpowder, with all
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Speaker 4: of the file drawers pulled out, and all the files
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Speaker 4: all over the floor, and he's now seeing each one
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Speaker 4: carefully with a quarter of an inch of bath powder.
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Speaker 4: Cynthia and I have longtime friends who with their daughter,
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Speaker 4: went to a large department store and the child got
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Speaker 4: very quiet. She was sitting with her back to them,
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Speaker 4: so they didn't worry about anything. They knew she wasn't lost,
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Speaker 4: but she was unusually quiet while they went through the
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Speaker 4: entire transaction at.
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Speaker 5: This large Sears and Roebucks store.
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Speaker 4: And when they finished, they reached down to pick her up,
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Speaker 4: and they found that all the while she had been
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Speaker 4: chewing on a cigar butt she found on the floor
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Speaker 4: there at that Seer's store. When children are quiet, it
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Speaker 4: may seem like things are fine and dandy, but chances
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Speaker 4: are good they are not. Now here's another one to
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Speaker 4: illustrate things are not as they When things have gone wrong,
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Speaker 4: it may seem like they cannot possibly get any worse, huh.
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Speaker 4: But you know and I know that they can. I
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Speaker 4: heard a crazy story this past week. I have to
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Speaker 4: tell you. It's about a poor guy named Johnson who
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Speaker 4: all of his adult life made wrong decisions. Every choice
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Speaker 4: he made was a wrong choice. If he betled a horse,
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Speaker 4: it would lose every time. If he chose one elevator
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Speaker 4: over another, that would be the elevator that got stuck. Well,
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Speaker 4: it became necessary for this fellow to travel about a
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Speaker 4: thousand miles away in a hurry for an overnight trip.
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Speaker 4: The only way to get there was an airplane. Frightened him,
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Speaker 4: but to his delight, he discovered that there was only
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Speaker 4: one airline that serviced.
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Speaker 2: That particular city.
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Speaker 5: So he breathed a sigh.
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Speaker 4: Of relief, and he got on the plane and it
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Speaker 4: took off no problems. Imagine the horror of this man
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Speaker 4: when he looked out the window, having been flying about
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Speaker 4: thirty forty minutes, and he saw the engine on fire.
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Speaker 4: Being a Catholic, he selected his favorite Saint, Saint Francis,
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Speaker 4: and he said, I have never in my life made
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Speaker 4: the right choice. Why, I don't know, but I have
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Speaker 4: borne my cross without complaint. On this occasion, I made
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Speaker 4: no choice. Only the plane I could have taken or
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Speaker 4: have taken, is going down.
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Speaker 5: I had to take this plane. Why am I being punished?
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Speaker 4: Right about then, a great hand reached out of the
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Speaker 4: clouds and swept.
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Speaker 5: Into the plane. And pulled him out.
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Speaker 4: The plane went on down and held him about two
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Speaker 4: miles above the earth, and a great voice came, my son,
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Speaker 4: I can save you, if in truth you have called
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Speaker 4: a me.
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Speaker 2: He says, yes, I have.
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Speaker 5: I truly call upon you.
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Speaker 4: Saint Francis, ah said the voice, Saint Francis Xavier, or
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Speaker 4: Saint Francis of a CC.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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Speaker 4: About the time you think it's as bad as it's
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Speaker 4: gonna get, it gets worse. Never fails, does it. Things
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Speaker 4: are not as they seem. About the time you think
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Speaker 4: they're never gonna get worse, they get worse. And I
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Speaker 4: am convinced if you and I had lived in the
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Speaker 4: days of Esther, and if we had come to this
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Speaker 4: particular time in our lives as a group of Jewish
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Speaker 4: people living in the capital city of Susa, we would
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Speaker 4: have been convinced that this was about our last night.
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Speaker 4: Certainly if our name had been Mordecai. There is a
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Speaker 4: pivotal chapter in this book where everything seems to change.
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Speaker 4: I find in this section of the Book of Esther
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Speaker 4: actually not one but four separate principles that seem to
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Speaker 4: illustrate turn about his fair play. For example, before we
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Speaker 4: even get into the chapter. The first one is when
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Speaker 4: all seems lost.
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Speaker 2: It isn't.
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Speaker 5: It really isn't.
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Speaker 2: Had we lived then.
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Speaker 4: We would have thought our protection was lost. I mean,
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Speaker 4: we have no advocate on the throne. The king is
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Speaker 4: a gentile, he has no interest in the Jews. Furthermore,
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Speaker 4: we have no future because his close confidant is Hayman,
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Speaker 4: who hates the Jews, add a Semitic to the soul
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Speaker 4: of his sandals.
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Speaker 5: He despises us. We have no hope.
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Speaker 4: After all, in the middle of the night, we could
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Speaker 4: still hear the hammering on the gallows. Can you imagine
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Speaker 4: the night Mordecai must have spent as he listened to
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Speaker 4: that grim reminder that the very next day the smell
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Speaker 4: of death would spread across the city from his body
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Speaker 4: as it is impaled on that vast pole that is
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Speaker 4: being erected for his extermination.
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Speaker 5: And yet the marvelous fact is.
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Speaker 4: Mordecai apparently spends a full night in sleep, even though
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Speaker 4: the last verse of chapter five of this ancient book
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Speaker 4: of esther states that gallows fifty cubits high were being made,
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Speaker 4: and in the very next on the very next morning,
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Speaker 4: Hayman would go before the King and ask for the
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Speaker 4: life of Mordecai. Mordecai apparently spends the night with no problem,
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Speaker 4: because when all seems lost, it really isn't. Mordecai is
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Speaker 4: not licking his wounds, holding a pity party, thinking poor me,
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Speaker 4: I'll never make it to see tomorrow night. There's somehow
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Speaker 4: a sense of trust in his God. As we step
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Speaker 4: into the first part of chapter six, there was yet
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Speaker 4: a second principle. When no one seems to notice, they
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Speaker 4: do remember Mordecai's courageous decision back a number of days earlier,
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Speaker 4: he heard of a conspiracy between two of the doorkeepers
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Speaker 4: of the palace, where these two men were going to
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Speaker 4: kill the king, lay hands on him and kill him.
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Speaker 4: When he heard of that conspiracy, he told his adopted
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Speaker 4: daughter Esther about it, and she told the king, she
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Speaker 4: being the queen, and the King believed her and brought
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Speaker 4: the men before him and kill them before they had
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Speaker 4: the chance to kill him. But you know, no one
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Speaker 4: ever rewarded Mordecai for that great act. The king knew
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Speaker 4: of it, of course, because he is the one who
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Speaker 4: said the two men should be killed, but I'm sure
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Speaker 4: he thought Esther got worried from someone in the palace
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Speaker 4: who would bother to tell him that it came from
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Speaker 4: the man who lived at the king's gate, Mordecai himself.
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Speaker 4: And so Mordechai is living his life not noticed, not rewarded,
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Speaker 4: and could easily have felt unappreciated until this night. Listen
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Speaker 4: as I read the first three verses during that night,
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Speaker 4: and what a night it was.
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Speaker 5: During that night, the king.
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Speaker 4: Could not sleep, so he gave an order to bring
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Speaker 4: the book of records, the Chronicles, and they were read
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Speaker 4: before the king, and it was found that Mordecai had
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Speaker 4: reported concerning big Thana and Teresh, two of the king's
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Speaker 4: eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to lay
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Speaker 4: hands on King Ahajuaris. He listened to the reading of
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Speaker 4: the chronicles, to the record of Persia, and he heard
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Speaker 4: the name Mordecai, a new name to him and unknown
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Speaker 4: until now. And he stops them at this point, and
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Speaker 4: he says, wait, verse three, what honor or dignity has
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Speaker 4: been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants
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Speaker 4: who attended him said, nothing has been done. Have you
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Speaker 4: lived long enough as an adult to discover that often
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Speaker 4: momentous events hang upon the tiniest trivialities. You discovered that
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Speaker 4: here's a wonderful case in point. While all of Sousa's slept,
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Speaker 4: the king is restless, I mean, of all knights, to
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Speaker 4: suffer from insomnia.
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Speaker 2: What a night.
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Speaker 4: The king knew nothing of the plan to kill Mordecai.
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Speaker 4: That was Hayman's plan the next morning to face him
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Speaker 4: with it and to get the okay. He really knew
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Speaker 4: little of the result of his decisions. He's living in
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Speaker 4: a palace away from the real world. While Mordecai sleeps,
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Speaker 4: while all of Susa and all of Persia sleeps, the
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Speaker 4: King can't sleep. I love the first three words of
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Speaker 4: verse one. During that night, That's the way it is
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Speaker 4: with God. On the eleventh hour, it seems he steps in.
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Speaker 4: He does things that you would never have expected. When
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Speaker 4: no one seemed to notice, and no one seemed to care,
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Speaker 4: there was someone he was very much aware. Suddenly it
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Speaker 4: dawned on the king that he owed his very life
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Speaker 4: and throne to this obscure Jew named Mordecai. Do I
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Speaker 4: speak to to some modern day Mordecai? Has it been
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Speaker 4: your decision or discovery that has caused someone else to
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Speaker 4: be promoted to a place of significance, and now they
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Speaker 4: are in virtually a celebrity status. And you've never been noticed,
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Speaker 4: never been thanked, never been rewarded. How about this, Have
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Speaker 4: you done the hard the courageous thing, and someone else
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Speaker 4: got the credit. Has it been your experience that though
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Speaker 4: you have done what is right, you have never been rewarded,
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Speaker 4: You have never been honored. In fact, someone else has
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Speaker 4: taken the glory that rightfully is yours, But it looks
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Speaker 4: as though it will never come. Learn a lesson from
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Speaker 4: Mordecai today, will you. The thing you will love about
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Speaker 4: the man throughout the chapter and even the following is
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Speaker 4: that he doesn't seem to be a man of vengeance.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't take an opportunity to get back at Hayman
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Speaker 4: when he has Hayman in a very vulnerable spot a
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Speaker 4: little later on in this story, as we will hear today,
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Speaker 4: he doesn't kick him in the face when it's a
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Speaker 4: chance to do so. He doesn't even speak against him.
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Speaker 4: Let me challenge you to guard your heart as he did.
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Speaker 4: Let me have you be encouraged from the writing of
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Speaker 4: a verse of scripture in the margin of your Bible
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Speaker 4: here Hebrews six'. Ten listen to the, words For god
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Speaker 4: is not unjust to forget your work and, labor which
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Speaker 4: you have showed Toward his name in that you have
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Speaker 4: ministered to the saints and are. MINISTERING i love the.
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Speaker 4: Words god is not unjust to forget when no one
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Speaker 4: else seems to. Notice god notices when all what else.
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Speaker 4: Remembers god. Records we're told in The psalms he keeps
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Speaker 4: our tears in a. Bottle he will reward us for
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Speaker 4: acts that are done in his.
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Speaker 5: Name so be encouraged.
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Speaker 4: Today there will come a day when rewards will come
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Speaker 4: your way as they. Should perhaps not on this, earth
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Speaker 4: as happens To, mordecai but. Someday god is not unjust
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Speaker 4: to forget your work your. Labor this brings up a
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Speaker 4: third principle from the basic axiom that things are not
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Speaker 4: really as they, seem and that is when everything seems,
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Speaker 4: great it's not sounds like one Of murphy's, laws doesn't.
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Speaker 4: It anytime things appear to be going, better you have overlooked.
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Speaker 4: Something is that basic? Law AND i think Of hayman
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Speaker 4: WHEN i hear that humorous. Principle as soon as The
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Speaker 4: king heard nothing had been done For. Mordecai his wheels started.
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Speaker 4: Turning he began to imagine what might be, done and
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Speaker 4: then he had to figure out who would help him
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Speaker 4: carry it. Out so in verse four he asks the logical,
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Speaker 4: question who is in the court? Now hayman had just
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Speaker 4: entered the outer court of the king's, palace watch this
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Speaker 4: in order to speak to the king about Hanging mordecai
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Speaker 4: on the, gallows which he had prepared for. Him is
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Speaker 4: this a great moment or? What the sun begins to come?
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Speaker 4: Up hayman comes, early has an appointment with the, king
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Speaker 4: has plans to finish off his long hated, enemy and
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Speaker 4: out of the inner court comes the word of the.
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Speaker 5: King call him, In Call hayman. In hamon comes. In
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Speaker 5: i'm getting ahead of.
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Speaker 2: Myself verse.
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Speaker 4: Five king's servants, said, Hold hamon is. In is standing
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Speaker 4: in the, Court and the king, said let him come in.
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Speaker 4: Now if you Were, haman, right wouldn't this make a great?
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Speaker 4: Movie you would, think now is my? Chance just a, minute,
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Speaker 4: gallows somebody will be on, you and you walk into
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Speaker 4: the court of the, king thinking this is my. Moment
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Speaker 4: before you can get a line out of your, mouth,
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Speaker 4: however the king fills your ears with verse. Six So
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Speaker 4: hamon came, in and the king said to, him what
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Speaker 4: is to be done for the man whom the king
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Speaker 4: desires to? Honor, well if you Were, haman you would
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Speaker 4: think of. Yourself who else talks about how much money he,
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Speaker 4: makes how many kids he's, got how well fixed he?
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Speaker 3: Is?
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Speaker 5: Hamon so you think?
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Speaker 1: Who?
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Speaker 4: WELL i better put on hold the IDEA i was
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Speaker 4: going to bring up and, answer this is my. CHANCE
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Speaker 4: i love stories like, THIS i love. Them what is
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Speaker 4: to be done for the man whom the king desires to?
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Speaker 4: Honor And hayman said to, himself whom would the king
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Speaker 4: desire to honor more than? Me of, course since my,
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Speaker 4: moment let's see what could be done for. Me let's
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Speaker 4: begin with the king's. Robe verse. Seven hayman, said for
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Speaker 4: the man whom the king desires to, honor let them
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Speaker 4: bring a royal robe which the king has. Worn write
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Speaker 4: that down royal robe king is. Worn and choose the
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Speaker 4: horse on which the king has. Ridden write that down
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Speaker 4: horse on which The king has, ridden preferably. White and
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Speaker 4: the crown on whose head the royal crown has been.
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Speaker 4: Placed royal crown once placed on the, head and let
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Speaker 4: the robe and the. Horse can you, See let the
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Speaker 4: robe and the horse and the crown be placed on this,
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Speaker 4: individual and let them eray the man whom the king
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Speaker 4: desires to, honor and lead him on horseback through the city,
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Speaker 4: square and proclaim before him that it shall be done
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Speaker 4: to the man whom the king desires to. Honor that'll do,
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Speaker 4: it great, idea says the king couldn't have thought of
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Speaker 4: something as. Imaginative it's great. Now verse ten one of
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Speaker 4: my all time favorite. Verses take quickly the, robes the,
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Speaker 4: crown the, horse and all you have, said and do
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Speaker 4: that For mordecai The. Jew oh, no, oh this has
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Speaker 4: got to be this has got to be a.
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Speaker 6: Mistake, Ohoh mordecai The Jew.
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Speaker 1: Hayman walked into The king's court convinced this was his,
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Speaker 1: moment and in a way he was. Right it just
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Speaker 1: wasn't the moment he. Imagined this is insight for. Living
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Speaker 1: there's an important closing thought From Chucks wendall coming, up
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Speaker 1: so stay with. Us chuck titled today's, message what goes
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Speaker 1: Around comes. Around it's number seven in his twelve part
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Speaker 1: study Of, esther which ends On june, ninth while there's
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Speaker 1: still time take advantage of the Companion bible study tools
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Speaker 1: we've prepared for, you including The searching The Scripture's Bible study,
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Speaker 1: workbook and the audio CDs For. Esther all the details
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Speaker 1: can be found at insight dot org slash. Offer and,
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Speaker 1: then beginning On june, tenth we'll be turning to another powerful.
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Speaker 1: Series this, Time chuck's focus is on the amazing attributes Of.
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Speaker 1: God the central theme of this next study is the
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Speaker 1: power of The cross Of Jesus. Christ Here's.
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Speaker 2: Chuck you, know for.
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Speaker 3: Almost twenty years a colleague of mine did the same
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Speaker 3: thing every Single, Sunday right BEFORE i stepped up to.
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Speaker 3: Preach how he would lean over and whisper a few
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Speaker 3: words into my, ear the same words every. Time Preach, Grace,
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Speaker 3: chuck preach The. Cross oh, MY i can still hear his.
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