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Notes: God is Never Late, He Will Vindicate
Pastor Jason Powell
Harvest OC
4/17/18
We go through spiritual attacks.
Satan would have you feel you’re alone.
When God is your defense, you don’t need to be so defensive. God loves and protects His people.
God is never late, He will vindicate.
Esther 7:1-10 NKJV
[1] So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. [2] And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!"
[3] Then Queen Esther answered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. [4] For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss."
[5] So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?"
[6] And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!" So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
[7] Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. [8] When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?"
As the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. [9] Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, "Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king's behalf, is standing at the house of Haman."
Then the king said, "Hang him on it!"
[10] So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath subsided.
What Esther did, is what you should do in your life.
Esther stood for truth.
Silence is agreeing with what is happening around you.
What makes a person like Esther? She stood while others may have shied away.
Cowardice is caring more about man’s approval than God’s approval.
Knowing a great God inspires great confidence.
One confident voice in truth will inspire others.
Great leaders have great resolve.
World changers are truth tellers.
Many men have a plan, but God has the power!
Proverbs 26:27 NKJV
[27] Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
God will be standing in the final court we will all enter.
Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
[12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 2:2 NKJV
[2] in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience
Pastor Jason Powell
Harvest OC
4/17/18
We go through spiritual attacks.
Satan would have you feel you’re alone.
When God is your defense, you don’t need to be so defensive. God loves and protects His people.
God is never late, He will vindicate.
Esther 7:1-10 NKJV
[1] So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. [2] And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!"
[3] Then Queen Esther answered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. [4] For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss."
[5] So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?"
[6] And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!" So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
[7] Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. [8] When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?"
As the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. [9] Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, "Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king's behalf, is standing at the house of Haman."
Then the king said, "Hang him on it!"
[10] So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath subsided.
What Esther did, is what you should do in your life.
Esther stood for truth.
Silence is agreeing with what is happening around you.
What makes a person like Esther? She stood while others may have shied away.
Cowardice is caring more about man’s approval than God’s approval.
Knowing a great God inspires great confidence.
One confident voice in truth will inspire others.
Great leaders have great resolve.
World changers are truth tellers.
Many men have a plan, but God has the power!
Proverbs 26:27 NKJV
[27] Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
God will be standing in the final court we will all enter.
Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
[12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 2:2 NKJV
[2] in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience
The enemy is real. Satan is out to wreck your life.
Why does God allow this?
1. To keep us humble
2. To build your faith: “God I trust you”
3. It teaches us compassion
God has our backs... Haman was hung in the end.
When you know God will set it right, you don’t need to lose sleep over it.
God sees your situation and promises to step in.
Satan is on a leash and has a future judgement coming.
God is on the throne!
We are in the protective custody of God.
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