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12 19 2023 Mordecai’s Faithful Witness · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good
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  morning. It is Tuesday, December nineteen, twenty twenty three. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's mission,
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  my mission, and our caption for today is Mordecai's Faithful Witness. Mortechai's
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  Faithful Witness. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please also pick up your
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  Daily Portion book and let us know where you are in the world at your
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  Daily Portion dot com. This is a way, as I say always,
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  for us to continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  giving us this new day and for the privilege you have entrusted to us to
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  open your word again. Please help us to find some lessons in your word
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  this morning, and then live the principles in Jesus's name, I pray,
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  Amen and Amen again. I admit the lesson writer has packed a lot in
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  these last few days, and it is not super easy to glean what we
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  need to glean in just ten minutes. Okay, so we are doing our
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  best. The key is going to be when you go and read and study
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  for yourselves in these chapters, especially in the story of Esther. Let me
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  begin by reading from this quote the Advent Review and Sabbath Harold May thirteenth,
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  eighteen eighty four, and it reads from Danielle and his Companions. I admit
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  this is what came to my mind when I was looking at this story about
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  Esther and Mordecai and so forth. From daniel and his Companions and Mordecai Bright
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  light shone amid the moral darkness of kingly courts in Babylon. That's the end
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  of the quote. Let me ask you, are you in Babylon right now?
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  And we know the ancient city called Babylon has been destroyed and it will
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  never be rebuilt. Can I just put a nice spiritual commercial here for just
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  one moment for people who do not believe the Bible, People who do not
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  believe in Bible prophecy part of me. If you want to try to disprove
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  the Bible, I would not recommend it. But if you want to,
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  I want you to go over there with your billionaire friends and get as many
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  of them as you can together and try to rebuild Babylon. Please go ahead
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  and try to rebuild Babylon. If you want to prove the Bible not to
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  be true, because God said that Babylon will never be rebuilt. People have
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  tried it. People with a whole lot of money bank accounts long have attempted
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  it. But of course God's word cannot be broken. Now back to your
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  regularly scheduled program. I believe the Bible. If you believe in the Bible,
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  go ahead and type of one in the chat. If you're on YouTube
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  or on one of the social media platforms type of one. In the chat,
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  if you believe God when God speaks, I believe what God says.
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  But I digress. Let's go to now the book of Esther, chapter three.
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  Let's see how much of this we can read and then glean some lessons,
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  beginning at verse one. Esther chapter three, beginning at verse one.
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  Sometime later, King Hazararas promoted Haman, the son of Hamadatha, the Agagite,
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  exalting him and setting his position above that of the officials who were with
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  him. As a result, all the king's servants who were at the king's
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  gate were bowing and paying homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded.
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  You see, there are some people that are opportunistic and wicked, both
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  at the same time. This is what Hayman was, Oh brother. However,
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  Mornechai did not bow, nor did he pay him homage. Have we
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  heard this before? Is there an echo in this room? God's people do
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  not pay homage in the way that Hayman required to humans or false gods.
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  We only worship God. Okay. Verse three. Then the servants of the
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  king who were at the King's gate, axs, Mornachai, why are you
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  violating the king's commandment? Remember the three young men, three Hebrew boys,
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  And after they had spoken to him day after day without his paying any attention
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  to them, they informed Hayman to see whether his attitude on Morchai's part would
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  be permitted. Furthermore, he had disclosed to them that he was from the
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  Hebrew people. Then, when Hayman saw that Mordechai was not bowing or paying
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  homage to him, he was filled with rage. But the thought of striking
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  out against Mornechai alone was repugnant to him, for he had been informed of
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  the identity of Mordechai's people. So Hayman sought to destroy all of those people,
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  all of the Hebrew people, that is, the people of Mordechai.
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  Remember, Wait a minute, I thought Esther was from among I thought Esther
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  and Mordechai were related. Wait a minute, So Hayman wants to destroy the
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  king's the queen's people. Wait a minute, some thing's not working out here.
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  Verse seven. In the first month, that is the month of Nissan,
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  in the twelfth year of King Hazaius' reign, purer that is, the
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  lot was cast before Hayman in order to determine a day and a month.
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  It turned out that to be the twelfth month, that is the month of
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  a Dar. When Hayman said to King Ajazarius, there is a particular people
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  that is dispersed and spread among the inhabitants throughout the provinces of your kingdom,
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  whose laws differ from those of all other peoples. Furthermore, they don't observe
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  the King's laws. It is not appropriate for the king to provide haven for
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  them. If the king is so inclined, Let that an edict be issued
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  to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to be
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  conveyed to the king's treasuries for the officials who carry out his business. So
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  the king removed his signet ring for his hand had give. He gave to
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  Hayman, the son of Hamadatha, the Agagite, who was hostile toward the
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  Hebrew people. The king replied to Haman, keep your money and do with
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  those people whatever you wish. So the royal scribes were summoned in the first
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  month. On the thirtieth day of the month. Everything Hayman commanded was written
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  in the kings, to the King's satraps and governors who were in every province,
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  to the officials of every people, province by province according to the script,
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  and the people by people according to their language, in the name of
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  the King has aias it was written and sealed with the King's signet ring.
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  Two more verses. Letters were sent by runners to all the King's provinces stating
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  that they should destroy and kill and annihilate these people, from the youth to
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  the elderly, both women and children, on a particular day, namely the
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  thirteenth day of the twelfth month, that is the month of Adar, and
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  to luten to plunder their possessions. A copy of this edict was to be
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  presented as a law throughout every province. It was to be made known to
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  all inhabitants, so that they would be prepared. This day. The messengers
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  scurried forth with the king's order. The edict was issued in Susa Citadel.
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  While the king and Haman sat down to drink. The city of Susa was
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  in an uproar. How far do wicked people go when they are envious,
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  when they are dark, when they have vitriol against God? And his people,
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  how far will they go? Hamen because he was proud, Haman and
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  others in the kingdom in different times throughout history. Because they were envious and
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  could not find a way to just resolve that they would submit themselves to God,
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  they decided that they would try to destroy people. How many people know
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  who are watching or listening right now, that it is not okay. It
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  is unholy and God is always watching. It is not okay to destroy people
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  because you have pride. It is not okay for you to have against people,
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  classism, racism, religionism, if that's a word. It is not
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  okay to fight against God by attempting to destroy his people. And so there
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  are a few things that I want you to keep in mind. I want
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  you to have courage to uphold your principles. I want you to witness through
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  your actions. Mornecai stood firm and tall because he only worshiped the true and
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  Living God. Note that there is a potential cost of faithfulness, but God
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  will take care of you, and there is sometimes a conflict between divine and
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  earthly laws. However, God will always come through for his people, and
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  ultimately God wins. Have a wonderful day, Peace, thanks for joining us
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  listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,