Introducing Esther — Part Two

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mighty kings and vast nations come and go, but God will reign forever! He has ultimate authority. Does this give Christians the right to despise earthly authority? Hear the answer to this question in a popular message from Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.

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0:00.0	My De Nations rise and fall, great kings and leaders come and go.
0:29.7	God reigns forever. He has ultimate authority. So does this give us as Christians the right to
0:36.0	despise earthly authority? That's the question Alistair Begg tackles today on Truth for Life.
0:42.1	This is one of his most popular messages that's included in our Encore 2023 series.
0:48.1	We're looking at the opening verses in the book of Esther.
0:51.9	King Ahazuerus is presented to us as a big deal. He is a big deal. Under any standards of kings
1:09.0	and dominions and authorities and powers in the study of history, this particular king
1:17.7	stands out as significant and we're told as we read the opening verses of the extent of his
1:26.1	influence that he reigned and he reigned from India to Ethiopia. India and Ethiopia are
1:34.0	represented the extreme boundaries of the then known world. That was if you like the limit of
1:39.9	people's imaginations for exploration. And as you look at these opening verses and I encourage you
1:46.3	to do so, the picture builds of his greatness and of his significance. In verse two, it was the days
1:54.5	when King Ahazuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa the Citadel. He's pictured there as giving a
2:04.4	feast, actually giving two feasts. The first lasting for 180 days, a feast that lasts for six months.
2:14.9	That's some celebration, that's some feast. Presumably people did not stay there for the entire
2:20.6	six months but the celebration went on for that length of time and people would have come and gone
2:25.9	and perhaps returned. And it was a state of symbol that he could actually identify himself with
2:35.0	the longevity of this celebration and have so many people come. He then follows her up with a feast
2:41.4	that lasts for seven days, a kind of garden party and that is for the ancillary workers it would
2:48.8	seem. Perhaps those who have been responsible for making sure that the 180 day feast had been such
2:54.3	a success. And we're told there that the army of Persia and of media and the nobles and the
3:01.7	governors of the provinces were before him. And that picture of coming before him is a picture of
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