Legends of the Faith - Esther

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LEGENDS OF THE FAITH – 5

 

(Hebrews 12:1) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

 

(Esther 1:4-5 CSB) He displayed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness for a total of 180 days. 5 At the end of this time, the king held a week-long banquet in the garden courtyard of the royal palace for all the people, from the greatest to the least, who were present in the fortress of Susa.

 

(Esther 1:8 CSB) The drinking was according to a royal decree: “There are no restrictions.”

 

(Esther 1:10-11 CSB) On the seventh day, when the king was feeling good from the wine, (In Hebrew, that is stone-cold plastered - and Ahasuerus commanded his eunuchs 11 to bring Queen Vashti before him with her royal crown. He wanted to show off her beauty to the people and the officials, because she was very beautiful.

 

 (Esther 1:18 CSB) “Before this day is out, the wife of every one of us will hear what the queen did and will start talking to their husbands in the same way. There will be no end to the contempt and anger throughout your realm.”

 

Chapter 2: “Let us search the empire to find beautiful young virgins for the king…then the young woman who pleases you most will be made queen instead of Vashti.”

 

(Esther 2:7) “And Esther had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at.”

 

(Esther 3:1) After all this took place, King Ahasuerus honored Hamar the Agagite.

 

(Esther 3:2) The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage. 3 The members of the royal staff at the King’s Gate asked Mordecai (who, again, was Esther’s cousin), “Why are you disobeying the king’s command?”

(Esther 4:11) “All the royal officials and the people of the royal provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner courtyard and who has not been summoned—the death penalty— unless the king extends the gold scepter, allowing that person to live. I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the last thirty days.”

(Esther 4:13-14) “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace. 14 If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.”

 

(Esther 4:16) “I will go to the king, though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”

 

 

“When your defining moment comes, do everything you can to seize it.”

 

4 Ways You Can Seize Your Moment:

 

1.Realize that God can use someone just like you.

 

It doesn’t matter what your history is. It doesn’t matter what your ability is. It matters what your availability is.

 

2.God has been at work in your life whether you’ve recognized it or not.

 

3.You can’t hold on to life, so risk it for the Kingdom.

 

(Esther 4:13-14) “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace. 14 If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.”

 

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” –Jim Elliot, missionary to Ecuador

 

4.The need is urgent.