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🗓️ 2 March 2023
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0:00.0 | Throughout the Bible, we read story after story about God's providential care for his |
0:29.4 | people. So why do we still become anxious or sad? Are we failing to trust him? We'll hear the |
0:37.6 | answers today on Truth for Life as Alistair Begg takes us to the book of Esther to examine how |
0:43.3 | the Jews reacted to the threat of imminent extinction. |
0:48.0 | Esther chapter 4 |
0:55.5 | verse 1 when Mordekai learned all that had been done, Mordekai tore his clothes and put on |
1:01.8 | sackcloth and ashes and went out into the midst of the city and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. |
1:10.4 | He went up to the entrance of the King's Gate for no one was allowed to enter the King's Gate |
1:15.6 | clothed in sackcloth and in every province wherever the King's command and his decree reached |
1:22.6 | there was great mourning among the Jews with fasting and weeping and lamenting and many of them lay |
1:29.2 | in sackcloth and ashes. When Esther's young women and her unix came and told her the queen was |
1:36.4 | deeply distressed she sent garments to Clove Mordekai so that he might take off his sackcloth |
1:43.2 | but he would not accept them. Then Esther called for a heathach, one of the King's unix, |
1:49.2 | who had been appointed to attend her and ordered him to go to Mordekai to learn what this was and |
1:55.6 | why it was. Heathach went out to Mordekai in the open square of the city in front of the King's Gate |
2:03.0 | and Mordekai told him all that it happened to him and the exact sum of money that Hayman had promised |
2:09.4 | to pay into the King's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. Mordekai also gave him a copy of the |
2:16.1 | written decree issued in Susa for their destruction that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her |
2:23.1 | and command her to go to the King to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people. |
2:29.6 | And Haythach went and told Esther what Mordekai had said. Then Esther spoke to Haythach and commanded |
2:36.3 | him to go to Mordekai and say, all the King's servants and the people of the King's provinces know |
2:42.6 | that if any man or woman goes to the King inside the inner court without being called, there is |
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