WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:18.519 practical ways. Good morning, good morning, we talked, Good morning 4 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:19.600 to you, and. 5 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:22.399 Good for you, buddy. 6 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.920 Hey, good morning everybody. We are the Bible Guys, and 7 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:26.280 welcome to another episode. 8 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:28.960 Man, we are gonna be looking into Estra chapter four. 9 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.840 It's one of the boldest moments of standing uh for 10 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.320 God and for good in the entire Old Testament. So 11 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:39.520 the Jews are on the verge of annihilation, and the 12 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:44.159 fate of an entire nation hangs in the balance, and 13 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.240 the balance and it rests in the hands of one 14 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.000 young woman. It's gonna be good. 15 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:51.520 It's gonna be good. 16 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:52.200 It's gonna be good. 17 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:54.320 Hey. Before we get to that, we're gonna go ahead 18 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:56.799 and do a segment just for fun called would you rather? 19 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.119 I like this segment? I like because it gives us 20 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:01.520 two awful choices, WHI says most of the time, and 21 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:03.920 it forces us to pick one of the other over 22 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.959 the other. Would you rather number one? There's only five 23 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:09.439 of them. The first one is would you rather Jeff 24 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:14.840 climb Mount Everest or drive to the foot of dive 25 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.519 dive or excuse me, dive to the foot of them 26 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:20.959 Mariann Trench. 27 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:22.959 I don't know what that is. That's the deepest place 28 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.319 on the planet. It's the deepest spot in the ocean. 29 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:29.439 Oh so the highest mountain or the deepest the highest 30 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:30.719 or the lowest spot on Earth. Yeah. 31 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:33.560 Yeah, so dive to the foot. So it's saying dive 32 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.200 is a excuse, No, you can't. It would crush you. 33 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:37.799 Submarine dive, Yeah, yeah. 34 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:41.480 It would crush you. So it's it's it's deeper than 35 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.879 the height of Everest. I think, by the way, you 36 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:45.799 have to be a submarine. 37 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:50.560 By the way, Uh do they build things that don't collapse? 38 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.400 I don't know if there's any any human holding subs 39 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:00.599 that go that deep, but we've sent aliens, say UAVs 40 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.040 down Oh yeah. 41 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:07.560 Wow, okay, So would I rather well than how could 42 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:08.479 I go if I'm a human? 43 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:11.400 I don't know. Maybe that there's a sub now that 44 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:11.919 can do it. 45 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.360 Maybe, Okay, what would you rather do? 46 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:24.240 I think I don't know. Both of them are scared. 47 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:28.199 I think if the technology was there, maybe the Mariana Trench. 48 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.719 I would literally have to pick the one that gave 49 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.879 me the least amount of chance to die. 50 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.879 Well, I think they both. Yeah, very dangerous. 51 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.719 Yeah, I'm gonna have to say Mount Everest just because 52 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.759 I feel like we have we have more of a 53 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:54.680 chance to fight snow and gravity than we do probably 54 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:55.599 the ocean. 55 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:00.039 So Everest is twenty nine thirty one point seven feet. 56 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:01.400 Thirty tine thousand. 57 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.960 Okay, So for twenty nine so thirty grand twenty nine thousand, yep, 58 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:09.960 thirty one feet okay. The Mariana Trench is thirty six thousand, 59 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:15.560 thirty seven feet deep low sea level. Wow, that's that's 60 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:20.879 an extra seventeen thousand. Sweet. Wow, isn't that amazing? Yeah, 61 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:21.879 it's crazy. 62 00:03:22.439 --> 00:03:25.719 Yeah, I I don't desire to do either one of 63 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.560 those things. By the way, all right, number two, you ready, 64 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.879 we're gonna move on. Would you rather publish a best 65 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:36.919 selling book? Yeah, that's pretty good or direct an Oscar 66 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.439 winning movie. Oh, this is set up for me and 67 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.039 you come on, I'm gonna choose the movie. You're gonna 68 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:42.800 choose the book. 69 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.360 Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. 70 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.280 Yes, yeah, yeah, of course I'm gonna do the Oscar 71 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:48.000 winning movie. 72 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.039 Yes, yes, Oscar winning movie. You probably make more money. 73 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:53.840 Yeah, well that's not why though, I don't know. I 74 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:57.000 just would much rather direct a. 75 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.039 Movie than write a book. 76 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.840 Than write a book, although I like, I like the 77 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:00.960 you writing a book. 78 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.719 Though I like to read books in the evening. Do 79 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:07.719 my dad when he died, I introduced him Louis Lamore. 80 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.240 I think I mentioned that here recently. Back when I 81 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:12.560 was teaching, we didn't have TV. So I just read 82 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:14.879 and read and Red Red Red, and I stumble on Louilamore. 83 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.600 Start reading a little more books. He's wrote one hundred 84 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:18.040 and fifty boos or a hundred and forty books, something 85 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.120 like that, So I started. So when he died, he 86 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:24.639 had every single Booklemorrol, and he made a note of 87 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:26.800 the dates because he read through him twice of the 88 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:28.600 dates he read those books. And so now I have 89 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:30.240 them all in my office. So I've been going back 90 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:33.600 and rereading those. I like reading, man, I like you. 91 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:37.120 Know what I discovered. I have to read in the day. Really, 92 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.720 if I read anywhere close tonight, I get sleep I 93 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:43.279 get sleep I get sleepy. I could be like eight 94 00:04:43.279 --> 00:04:46.720 o'clock at night, when I normally wouldn't fall asleep already, 95 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:48.639 but I start reading at night, and I start to 96 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.160 get sleepy. Wow, But if I read during the afternoon, 97 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:55.279 I'm like, I'm completely awake, and so, yeah, I don't 98 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.199 know what it is, but I over the years, I 99 00:04:58.279 --> 00:04:59.480 have to do my reading in the day. 100 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.720 Okay, in that well, yeah, that is well, so you 101 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.839 want to read. Would you rather have a laugh that 102 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.279 sounds like a foghorn or hiccups that sound like a 103 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:09.959 rubber duck. 104 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:12.639 That's a great question. 105 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:13.839 I choose the rubber duck. 106 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:20.240 Really, yeah, I don't know, because hiccups are a lot 107 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:20.920 less common. 108 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.120 Well, well, and beyond that, the laugh would shake the building. 109 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:27.040 You ever been by a fog horn when it goes off? 110 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.240 Yes, yes, I actually have. 111 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:30.839 You can feel it? 112 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:33.759 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I'm gonna choose the rubber 113 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:34.120 duck too. 114 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:35.600 You convinced me, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 115 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.079 At first I was going to say, it'd be great 116 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.240 to be able to have that kind of power in 117 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:43.600 your laugh. Yeah, but laughter is so common, right, So okay, 118 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:47.360 all right? Number four? Would you rather live one hundred 119 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.399 years in the past or one hundred years in the future? Well, 120 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:50.959 how could I know? 121 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:54.680 Do you get to pick? How do I we get 122 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:56.560 to set the rules? We get to set the rules? 123 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:58.879 Do you get to pick when in the future or 124 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:01.560 when in the No. No. In other words, it's one 125 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.439 hundred years back or one hundred years forward. 126 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:03.720 Yeah. 127 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:06.800 So it's saying like, would I rather be alive in 128 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.720 nineteen twenty five or twenty one twenty five? 129 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:10.240 Correct? 130 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:12.560 Oh well what's for you? 131 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.160 Well, how do I know? Twenty one twenty five might 132 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.360 be in a nuclear shelter somewhere. 133 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.800 Well, you'll be in heaven maybe or something. Yeah, I don't. 134 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.399 Know, but what if? But what if there is that 135 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:24.040 nuclear before there's a tribulation? 136 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.000 I sometimes think I was born out of my time? 137 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:27.720 Yeah? 138 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.480 Yeah, do you ever feel that way? No, Like, if 139 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.480 I could just choose the time to go back, it'd 140 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:34.920 be the nineteen twenties for real, I promise you. 141 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:35.839 With no air conditioning. 142 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:40.639 Oh they had little air conditioning. Yeah, but yeah, I 143 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.560 would choose go back twenty Yeah. 144 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:48.319 You remember you remember Back in the Future part three? 145 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:50.399 I remember that it happened. 146 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:55.639 Okay, So they're sitting down and Shamus, which is Marty 147 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.439 McFly's like great grandfather. He's like, would you like some 148 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:00.920 would you like some rabbits? And he went out in 149 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.000 shot rabbit and he puts it in front of him 150 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.160 and They're in this eighteen hundreds cabin and he's literally 151 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:10.720 picking up the shotgun pellets, right, and it's just normal. 152 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:12.360 That's what they're doing. They're all just picking them out, 153 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:14.480 and it's like, no thanks. 154 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.519 We used to hunt rabbits and that's how we did 155 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.120 it when I was growing up. That wasn't in the 156 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:20.759 eighteen hundreds. Dude. Well, what I'm saying is in the 157 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:21.480 nineteen eighties. 158 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.759 There's a lot of things that were cooler in the 159 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.399 nineteen twenties and thirties, but there's a lot of things 160 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:26.959 that were not. 161 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:29.720 I think it would have been super exciting because flight 162 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:36.759 was just beginning. Automobiles, skyscrapers, ships that could go, you know, superliners, 163 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:42.680 radio record players with light bulbs, which means that you 164 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.480 write all these It would have been so exciting. You 165 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.800 have no flying, though, and the music was great. 166 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.920 So now you're going to give up traveling for tti 167 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:52.480 and flying over to the middle. 168 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:53.800 You just get on the boat. You got to go 169 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:54.279 a long time. 170 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.720 Yeah, yeah, hey see you in five weeks. Yeah, no thanks, 171 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.800 no thanks. I saw the future. 172 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:03.720 Okay, you're picking the future. 173 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:08.360 I picked the number five. Would you rather have thin 174 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.480 crust or deep dish pizza. That's a tough one. 175 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.560 Oh man. Those are my two favorite kinds of pizzas. 176 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.480 Yeah, I'm going to go with thin crust for me. 177 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.399 Thin crust the best. So you know, I'd lived in 178 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.480 Chicago for a long time. I've eaten all of the 179 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.639 pizza places, and I know there's lots of people with 180 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:34.120 dumb opinions about pizza. So the best deep dish pizza, yeah, 181 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:38.399 I think, when you get it right, is Connie's Pizza 182 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:41.399 in Chicago, which is like fifth or sixth down on 183 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.120 most people's list, but it's my favorite. Yeah, so deep dish, 184 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.279 I would go deep dish. Dude. One slice weighs like 185 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.600 three pounds. It's crazy, it's so good. Wow. 186 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:51.639 Hey, you know, speaking of dumb. 187 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:55.039 Opinions, dumb opinions, you know whose opinion wasn't dumb? 188 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:01.919 Mordecai had the right opinion. 189 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.039 He has some good opinions. 190 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.519 Yet what to do when it comes to Haman's Well. 191 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:09.120 We Are in Esther chapter four, We Are, and it 192 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.799 says when Mordecai learned about all that had been done, 193 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.840 he tore his clothes, put on burlap and ashes, and 194 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:17.799 went into the city crying with a loud and bitter whale. 195 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:19.840 He went as far as the gate of the palace, 196 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:22.200 for no one was allowed to enter the palace gate 197 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.799 while wearing clothes of mourning. And as news of the 198 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.399 king's decree reached all the provinces, there was great mourning 199 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:29.639 among the Jews. They fast, had wept and whaled, and 200 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.120 many people lay in burlap and ashes. When Queen Esther's 201 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.440 maids and eunuchs came and told her about Mordechai, she 202 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.399 was deeply distressed. She sent clothing to him to replace 203 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:42.279 the burlap, but he refused it. Then Esther sent for Hathetch, 204 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:44.919 one of the king's eunuchs who had been appointed as 205 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:47.879 her attendant. She ordered him to go to Mordecai and 206 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:49.879 find out what was troubling him and why he was 207 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.360 in mourning. So Hathach went to Mordecai in the square 208 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:55.759 in the front of the palace gate. Mordechai told him 209 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.080 the whole story, including an exact amount of money Hayman 210 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:00.399 had promised to pay into the Royal Treasu for the 211 00:10:00.440 --> 00:10:04.399 destruction of the Jews. Mordecai gave Hatach a copy of 212 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:06.559 the decree issued in SUSA that called for the death 213 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:09.720 of all Jews. He asked Hatach to show it to 214 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:12.639 Esther and explain the situation to her. He also asked 215 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:15.039 Hateach to direct her to the king, to go to 216 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:17.279 the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people. 217 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:21.440 So Hatech returned to Esther with Mordechai's message. Then Esther 218 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:25.399 told Haitach to go back and relay this message to Mordechai. 219 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:27.840 All the king's officials and even the people in the 220 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.440 provinces know that anyone who appears before the King in 221 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.720 his inner court without being invited is doomed to die 222 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:35.200 unless the King holds out his gold scepter. And the 223 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:36.919 King has not called for me to come to him 224 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:40.840 for thirty days. So Haitach gave Esther's message to Mordecai. 225 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.799 Mordechai sent this reply to Esther. Don't think for a 226 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:45.879 moment that because you're in the palace, you will escape 227 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.080 when all the other Jews are killed. If you keep 228 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.559 quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for 229 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.159 the Jews will arise from some other place, But you 230 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.159 and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you 231 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.559 were made queen for just such a time as this. 232 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.799 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai, go and gather 233 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.519 together all the Jesus USA and fast for me. Do 234 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.559 not drink or eat for three days night or day. 235 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:10.639 My maids and I will do the same. And then, 236 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:13.120 though is it against the law, I will go in 237 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.799 to see the king. If I must die, I must die. 238 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.240 So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had 239 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:25.279 ordered him. Yeah, wow, Yeah, some of the greatest phrases 240 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:27.080 in the Bible really courage. 241 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.039 Yes, I think you're right. I think you're right because 242 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.120 one of the best lines is who knows if perhaps 243 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:39.039 you were made queen for such a time as this? Right, 244 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.840 because you know what he's doing is he's recognizing that, 245 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.279 you know, maybe this is God's orchestration in your life. 246 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:50.879 Who knows, Maybe maybe you are to use your influence 247 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.399 for this reason. Maybe maybe this is the reason why 248 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.159 you're in the spot. And I think that there's a 249 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.200 lot of times where we don't feel like maybe we 250 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.000 we don't recognize our importance. Right, we don't have to 251 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:09.799 be queen or king. Right, But like for instance, uh, 252 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.039 just literally just last night last night, Uh, there was 253 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:16.039 a situation where I was with a good friend of 254 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:19.159 mine who's you know, I've been one of his pastors 255 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:22.039 for you know, twenty years or whatever. And uh, and 256 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.919 we're with him and his son, and we're at this restaurant, 257 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:29.679 and uh, this server comes over and make some comments. 258 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.759 And I knew this person, the server, and so I 259 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:37.639 decided to speak up. And I just decided that I'm 260 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:42.159 going to leverage my influence and my relationship with this 261 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:46.120 person to try to make a difference. So ultimately it 262 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:50.200 ends up with the church invitation, right, it ends up with, hey, yeah, 263 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:52.399 let me show me your church. I showed. I showed 264 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.159 her the church on the on the phone, and she's like, 265 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.120 that's incredible, you know. And so I'm really hoping right 266 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:02.559 now she's gonna be our And it's just these small, 267 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.000 teeny tiny, microscopic moments that obviously don't even compare to 268 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.720 this massive moment in Hester's life, which her decision is 269 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:14.039 going to control and dictate the future of an entire nation. 270 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:21.279 But guess what, my decision might end up being a 271 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:26.039 situation where God uses to dictate and control the eternity 272 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:31.879 of an entire family. Right, so who knows what might happen? 273 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:34.679 I have no idea. It was at stake. So who knows, 274 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:39.360 Maybe she comes and becomes a Christian, because I'm pretty 275 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.720 convinced that she doesn't know God at this point. Maybe 276 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.440 her boyfriend fiance is going to become a Christian. And 277 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.000 then who is maybe they raise up their children in 278 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.360 a Christian home and all of a sudden, their entire 279 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:56.240 legacy starts to change all because of this moment. And 280 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:59.720 by the way, isn't it true that that's the story 281 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.559 of our lives? Right? Like I'll never forget when I 282 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.519 was sorry to take this, but but I was. I 283 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:08.799 remember being in the mall one time and I and 284 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.480 I was going up the escalator and then down the escalator. 285 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.639 Is this kid that that somebody brought the church that 286 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:17.399 visited my youth group. You know, we had a small 287 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:20.399 church here, two hundred people whatever, right, and we had 288 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.440 a big friend day kind of a thing. And this 289 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.360 kid's name was Sean Willis, and uh, he had only 290 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.840 come one time as a guest from somebody. And I 291 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.440 remembered him and and and I remembered his name. And 292 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.080 as he was coming down the escalator, I wasn't going 293 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:34.960 to say anything because I knew he wouldn't know me, 294 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.519 and he didn't see me. And I decided in that moment, 295 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:41.080 I was like, hey Sean, and he's like, who. 296 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:41.440 Are you again? 297 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.759 I'm like, you came and visited my church. And now 298 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:48.000 now he he has a son, he has two sons, 299 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:51.360 and now their entire home, their entire home are Christians. 300 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:54.360 Their entire legacy. He went to Bible College, right, he 301 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.840 went into ministry and and uh and now he was 302 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.360 for an airline, but he still does ministry. But but now, 303 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.200 in his entire story that he tells says, he goes, Chris, 304 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.559 what if you wouldn't have said anything to me on 305 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:10.799 the escalator at them all that day? He goes, thank 306 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:15.000 God that you decided to say hi to me on 307 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.799 that escalator. Right, So he points to the entire legacy 308 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.279 to this single moment where I felt like God wanted 309 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:24.759 me to say, hey Sean, remember me, I'm the youth 310 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.559 pastor guy. Right, And that's what I'm talking about. I'm 311 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.000 talking about, like the moment last night at the restaurant. 312 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.720 I'm talking about every single time that God nudges you 313 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.799 to do something, to leverage your influence, to leverage your relationships, 314 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.759 to do something small that you think is so small 315 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.279 in the moment that could change the entire legacy and 316 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:47.679 history and eternity of somebody's life life because you and 317 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.919 I have no idea what's at stake when God nudges 318 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:50.720 us to do something. 319 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:53.960 And so just as Moricai said, who knows if perhaps 320 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:57.279 you were there for just as such a time as this? 321 00:15:57.440 --> 00:15:57.720 Yes? 322 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:01.080 Right, So maybe God you there on purpose? Right? And 323 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:03.559 it's not just talking about you, it's every listeners, the 324 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:05.480 circumstance you're in front of him, the moment, the person 325 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:07.440 you're around, in the moment that little nudge from God. 326 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:09.840 Respond you think of a good thing to say, say it, 327 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:11.360 You think of a good thing to do, do it. 328 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:14.279 You think of an opportunity to maybe offer to pray 329 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.879 for somebody, do it. Don't wait, because maybe you're there 330 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:22.200 just for that purpose, right, And then you know I 331 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:24.639 was thinking through. I had a pastor when I was 332 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.600 a teenager. His name was Jim Fisk, and he drove 333 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.080 a Irock xy Camaro, and I thought he was yeah, 334 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.679 he was just he was such a cool guy. 335 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:35.080 Yeah. 336 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:38.360 I was friends with his daughters and all that. Our 337 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.519 families were really close, and I can remember him preaching 338 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:44.080 about this one time, and he was a man of action. 339 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.759 He just he would just do things. It just got 340 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.120 things done. It's always kind of that guy, always hustling 341 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:52.480 and all that. And I remember him preaching to our 342 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.960 youth group one time and he was the lead pastor, 343 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.919 so it was exciting. He came, he got a bus, 344 00:16:58.200 --> 00:16:59.559 he put us all on the bus, drove us to 345 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:04.079 tackle b bought everybody taco bell then the whole youth group. 346 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:05.720 It is like eighty kids or something, and then we 347 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:09.799 got we went back and he taught us this. And 348 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:11.519 I don't even know why those two were connected, but 349 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.400 this is what he did. And he said he talked 350 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:15.720 about if you think of a good thing, do it. 351 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:17.839 If you think of a good thing to say, say it. 352 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:20.039 If you think of somebody who needs to hear the gospel, 353 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.920 tell him. And he was talking about being a man 354 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:25.759 or a woman of action. And he talked about this, 355 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:30.079 have a predisposition to go, have a predisposition to do, 356 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:36.400 have a predisposition to act. And Mordecai had said, don't 357 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:38.039 think that you can just go. She had power at 358 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.400 this point, she had some money, She had a bunch 359 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.359 of eunuchs that would help her out. She could have 360 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:46.720 gotten a carriage, loaded it up, got some and made 361 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:48.759 an excuse. I'm just gonna run because nobody knew she 362 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.440 was a Jew, right right, I'm going to go down 363 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:52.680 to the beach. We're just going to hang out for 364 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:55.000 a while. She could have tried to escape. Hey, Mordecai, 365 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.440 come with me. And Mordecai is like, don't think you 366 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.680 can escape, right, That's not God's plan. God's plan isn't 367 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:02.599 for you to get away just so you can live. 368 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.279 But that would be our first inclination, our first inclinationship. 369 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:07.599 How do I get me and my family away? And 370 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:10.279 he said, Mordecai goes, no, you're here. Don't you understand 371 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:13.759 all the junk you've gone through being abused and taken 372 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:16.559 advantage of by a king, but you got promoted to 373 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.839 being the queen. All the junk that you've gone through 374 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:25.720 might be just for this purpose, just to rescue the Jews. 375 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.279 And she goes, I could die. He hasn't even called 376 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:30.720 me in to talk to him in a month. I 377 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.799 could die for this. And he says, don't think you're 378 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.039 going to get away. Don't think you're going to live, right, 379 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.319 So then she goes, Okay, if I die, I die. 380 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:41.279 And it's amazing to me just that one message when 381 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:43.240 I was a teenager, he talked about if I die, idea, 382 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:46.599 I die, there's worse things than dying, and there is right, 383 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:49.000 if you're truly a follower of Jesus and you believe 384 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:53.759 in heaven, there's worse things than dying, Dying without any character, 385 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:57.440 dying having failed your mission, dying it right, there's all 386 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.720 these things and he just kind of started talking, that's worse, 387 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:04.799 worse than going in and attempting to do a great thing. Uh, 388 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.559 there's there's worse things than that. And so you know, 389 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:09.599 live your life, live your life in a way that 390 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:13.400 is willing to risk it all in order to do 391 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:15.759 great things for God and to make an impact for 392 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:18.319 the benefit of other people. And that that message is 393 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:20.440 one of the messages changed my life because that's why 394 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:21.359 I want to live my life. 395 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:27.039 Right. Yeah, that's amazing. And so so this thing is, 396 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:30.759 it's set up in such a way to where we're 397 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:36.079 looking at xerxes character and she says, everybody knows that 398 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.359 if you go into the King's presence, into his inner 399 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:44.519 court without being invited, everybody knows you're doomed unless he 400 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.480 decides to grant you mercy by holding out How obnoxious 401 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:52.200