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Pastor Greg Laurie
Part 2: Esther 5
June 27, 2013
Greg was talking about laws:
Murphy’s Law
The Law of Gravity
The Law of Thermodynamics
The Biblical Law of Sowing
and Reaping
(Galatians 6:7-8 (NKJV) 6 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked;
for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. [8] For he who sows to his
flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of
the Spirit reap everlasting life.)
Satan was behind this
because he hates the Jewish people.
Satan hates what God loves.
Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV)
5 But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Esther 4:13-14 (NKJV)
And Mordecai told them to
answer Esther: "Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the
king's palace any more than all the other Jews. [14] For if you remain
completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews
from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows
whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
Esther 4:16 (NKJV)
"Go, gather all the
Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for
three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go
to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"
Character is not made in
crisis; it is only exhibited.
A faith that cannot be
tested cannot be trusted.
Esther 5:1-8 (NKJV)
On the third day of the
fast, Esther put on her royal robes and entered the inner court of the palace,
just across from the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne,
facing the entrance. [2] When he saw Queen Esther standing there in the inner
court, he welcomed her and held out the gold scepter to her. So Esther
approached and touched the end of the scepter. [3] Then the king asked her,
"What do you want, Queen Esther? What is your request? I will give it to
you, even if it is half the kingdom!" [4] And Esther replied, "If it
please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet I have prepared
for the king." [5] The king turned to his attendants and said, "Tell
Haman to come quickly to a banquet, as Esther has requested." So the king
and Haman went to Esther's banquet. [6] And while they were drinking wine, the
king said to Esther, "Now tell me what you really want. What is your
request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!" [7]
Esther replied, "This is my request and deepest wish. [8] If I have found
favor with the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request and do what
I ask, please come with Haman tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for you.
Then I will explain what this is all about."
No one is unreachable.
No one is beyond the reach
of God and prayer.
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart is in the
hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.
Hebrews 6:10 (NKJV)
For God is not unjust to
forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in
that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Esther 5:2-3 (NKJV)
2 So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in
the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to
Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near
and touched the top of the scepter.
3 And the king said to her, “What do you wish, Queen
Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you—up to half the
kingdom!”
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NKJV)
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He
has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that
God does from beginning to end.
Proverbs 25:11 (NKJV)
11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold
In
settings of silver.
Esther 5:4 (NKJV)
4 So Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, let the
king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”
“What a happy man Haman was
as he left the banquet!”
(Esther 5:9)
You will be rewarded for
every act of kindness and word of testimony.
(Hebrews 6:10)
Psalm 121:4 (NKJV)
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor
sleep.
Psalm 30:5 (NKJV)
5 For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is
for life;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the
morning.
Esther 6:11-13 (NKJV)
So Haman took the robe and
the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square,
and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king
delights to honor!" [12] Afterward Mordecai went back to the king's gate.
But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered. [13] When
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to
him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before
whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against
him but will surely fall before him."
Esther 6:14 (NKJV)
14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's
eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had
prepared.
Esther 7:1-10 (NKJV)
7 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen
Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after
the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It
shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom,
it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have
found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be
granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 For we have
been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be
annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have
been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the
king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and
where is he, who has dared[a] to do this?” 6 And Esther said, “A
foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and
the queen.7 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking
and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from
Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 8 And
the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine,
as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he
even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the
mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 9 Then Harbona, one
of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows[b] that
Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at
Haman's house, fifty cubits[c] high.” 10 And the king said, “Hang
him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for
Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
1. God is always present and
at work, whether we feel Him or not.
2. God can take impossible
situations and turn them around for His glory.
3. You will reap what you
sow.
2 Corinthians 9:6 (NKJV)
But this I say: He who sows
sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap
bountifully.
Sow a thought, reap an act,
sow an act, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, and reap
a destiny.
God can forgive you of your
sin.
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