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0:00 Gonna talk about persevering. Somebody say persevering Persevering. In the providence of God. Say that line too. In the providence of God. Kinda messed up how you should say it. Alright. Let's say it all together on the0:10 count of 3. 1, 2, 3. Persevering in the providence of God. And I am excited to get to this moment in the book of Esther. So if you've got a bible, I would invite you to open0:22 it up. Or if you got a smartphone bible, you know, you're slightly less spiritual than the rest of us, you got a smartphone bible, It's okay. We're at the church for you. There's slightly less spiritual people. Take out0:33 your smartphone bible. I know I said I would stop teasing you about that. And then, you know, if, at any of our locations, if it's too dark for you to read I'm doing this on the fly. If it's too dark for you to read a0:44 paper bible it's very disingenuous for me to say, take out a paper bible. And you can't read it because we keep it so dark. If it's too dark, just raise your hand so that our sound people and our lighting people can see.0:53 I know it's not too dark here. It's nice and bright. Because I do want you to take a paper bible with you. I want you to mark it up. I you to have it with you. 1 of my greatest prideful moments as a father, you know,1:05 there is good pride. You can take pride in some things that are good. Right? And I'll never forget my son was getting dressed and ready for work at at Chick fil A going off to serve the Lord's chicken, and I'll never1:15 forget that he was on the way out the door to go to work, and he had a Bible in his arm. I said, what are you bringing a Bible to Chick fil A for? And he said, oh, I read it on my breaks. I was like, wow. Praise the1:27 Lord. I never did that when I was a teenager. I was too scared, to be honest with you. But praise God to see that happen. So have yourself a paper bible. Make a statement. The
1:38 bigger the bible, the more godly the saint. Okay? So if Esther Esther chapter 3 and 4, and I'm not gonna stand for the
1:50 reading today because there's just so much to read about this, and we're gonna have a lot of text on the on the on the screen. Now we've got a game plan for January. All locations, listen up, a
2:02 7 day, I said it, 7 day fast. Where is our faith? At the end of January.
2:14 January 20 third, that's a Tuesday, to January thirtieth. So lunch Tuesday the thirtieth would be your last regular meal. If this is your first fast, don't do it. Don't do it. Do
2:26 like 1 day, then eat, and then maybe eat for a couple days, then do it again for another day, then come to first Tuesday. That's your first time. But for those of you who've been with us for long enough, you know the
2:36 routine. And we do this every year. We usually do 3, but we're doing 7. And I would do If it was Maybe your second fast, I would maybe do 2 4 days of Daniel fast, which
2:48 is basically just being a vegan. And then 3 days of straight fasting, which is water and juice, no coffee. God help us all.
3:01 Now, we've got so many vegans in this church. I don't know what's going on. The Bible says, get up, Peter. Kill. Eat. Amen.
3:14 I like that part about kill. Amen. So we but for the vegans in our church, you should be doing the straight fast all 7 days. That's
3:26 giving something up. Okay? Or maybe just do your least favorite vegetable for the first 4 days. So brussels sprouts for 4 days, and then nothing. But why are we doing this? Because God is going to do great things
3:37 in our church. He already is doing great things, and we wanna be ready for it. We wanna pray. We wanna fast. We wanna put God first at the end of our first month of the year. And the reason why
3:49 is because I believe in the providential work of God. What does providence mean? Here's what it means if you were here last week or watched online because of the snow. This is what I said to you. Providence
4:01 means that God is working no matter what the does anybody remember? This is why I preach every week. This is why, right here. Okay?
4:13 God is working no matter what the world is doing. So I don't know what's going on in your world, but I am here to tell you with 100 percent confidence that God
4:25 is what? Working. He's working and he's working, the scripture says, for the good. Somebody say good. Good. For the good of those who love him,
4:37 who are called according to his purpose, and who are predestined. I believe in predestination. I absolutely do, it's a biblical
4:48 doctrine. But so often we minimize that glorious doctrine to be 1 stupid phrase from some armchair theologian that goes like this,
5:00 once saved, always saved. I hate that line. I believe in predestination like this, the way the Bible says, that we are called and predestined to be
5:11 conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. So it is once saved at the beginning, but then continually being resaved, and saved more, and saved
5:23 again, so that we become what God wanted us to become. And what God wanted us to become is not a better version of ourselves, but somebody who looks much more like Jesus by the time we get to
5:34 heaven.
5:35 That's
5:37 what God wants for you. I don't know what your New Year's resolution is, but God's New Year's resolution is the same every year, become more like my son. That's what it is. And the way that he does that, many
5:48 times, and you're not gonna like this part of this series, is problems. So that's why it's called persevering. And I it it sounds like a, you know,
6:00 contradiction in terms. Persevering through the promise of God. Well, if all if all things are working together for good, and God is on my side, God is on yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
6:06 But doesn't mean there's
6:06 not gonna be problems. And and and every good story this is true. Every good story has problems. Now there are 2 writers in Hollywood
6:18 that are probably well known to a subset of our population in all of our locations. Their names are Matt Stone and Trey Parker. What did they write? What did they write for? They write
6:30 for South Park. Nobody wants to say it. You're all ashamed to say that say that name in church. I understand. It's a raunchy show. Okay. So they are the South Park writers. They went to New York
6:41 University, NYU, many years ago, and they gave a talk on the on how to tell good stories. And I don't know which 1 said it, but 1 of them said it. If your story and the scenes
6:53 in your story is connected by the words and then, your story is and he used to expletive. Your story is terrible. If your story
7:05 goes and then between movements, your story is terrible. Nobody wants to watch. Nobody wants to watch. So if your story is, he was born, and then he grew up, and then he went to
7:17 school, and then he met a girl, and then he got married, and then he had babies, and then he moved to a country house, and then he built a fence, a white picket fence, and then he got dogs, and then he got a couple of
7:26 cats, and then he retired, and then he moved to Florida or Arizona, and then he started to play golf, and then he died. Stupid story nobody wants to pay attention to. The key to every good
7:38 story is 2 different words. Well, 1 similar, but let's change 1 of the words. And here's what they said, but then. The key to every great story is a lot
7:50 of but thens. And if you wanna interest people in paying attention to what you're talking about, you gotta shift the story up. You gotta make things change,
8:02 happen, and and unexpected things occur instead of just the expected things occurring. Now this is why it's a good story. Raise your hand if you've ever had something happen that you didn't expect and didn't want.
8:15 And everybody can relate. That's why it's a good story. We have come in Esther chapter 3 to to the but then of the moment. Because the story starts with this
8:27 precious, beautiful, beautiful Jewish girl named Esther who goes from no 1 to the queen of of Persia, the greatest empire at that time in the history of
8:39 the world. And she's in the palace and she's celebrated and she's given beauty treatments and she's just living it up. She's just the belle of the ball, she's everything every little
8:50 girl dreams of being, at least on the outside and and it's a beautiful beginning but then it turns very dark in chapter 3. And here's what I want you to write down in your notes because it happens to you, it happens to
9:02 Esther, happens to Mordecai in this chapter. Write this down. Life often shifts from beautiful to battleful. You start your
9:14 life and things are so promising, but then. You find the girl, you find the guy, you
9:26 get married, but then. You have children, you start to raise them, they're so precious, they're so cute, you send them off to school,
9:39 but then. You have plans as to where you're gonna live, where you're gonna move, how you're gonna do life, but then. You finally get the job that you have always wanted, you move into the office,
9:50 they actually have your name engraved on something. It's the first time you've ever seen your name engraved on something. I mean it was on your high school diploma and your college
10:02 degree, but that was just in ink. Come on somebody, there's something special to having your name engraved somewhere. And you move into the office, and you think, I'm finally here. But then,
10:14 you meet the guy in the office next door. Amen. Something always kinda shifts. And that's what happens in Esther chapter 3 verse 1. Look what it says, sometime
10:26 later. That's the Bible's way of saying, but then. Here she is living it up, bell the ball, beautiful queen Esther on the throne. Mordecai doing his business, working for the kings, sniffing out
10:38 assassination plots. Everything's looking good. But then but then, King Xerxes promoted what's the name? Haman, the son of what's the next name? I just did that to
10:50 torture you. Hamadatha. But this 1 I want you to circle. The Agagite. Now some of you might say, what the heck is an Agagite? Did Popeye come up with that word? Agagagite.
11:02 It sounds like they asked Popeye, what what should we call him? Agagagagagagag. It says, Haman, son of Hamadatha the Agagite, who is promoted over all the other nobles. The Bible says, there was
11:14 a command from the king. Everybody's gotta bow down. You walking down the street, Haman walking down the street, gotta Haman. Oh, all hail Haman. It's amazing how this works.
11:26 And there's a guy named Mordecai. We know this. This is Esther's cousin. He refuses to bow. And it just really peeves Haman. And he finds out. This is the key part of the story. Haman finds
11:38 out that Mordecai is a Jew. And he just goes apoplectic. He starts to think about how can I not just kill Mordecai?
11:50 Listen to this. It's in the text. You can read it for yourself. How can I kill every single Jew in the entire empire?
12:01 Okay. Here's how it goes. Everybody ready? Haman, Hitler, Hamas. Nothing new under
12:14 the sun. And so the plot thickens. Everything looks so good, but then the exact wrong
12:25 character gets promoted. I wonder where has that happened in your life? The exact wrong person gets the job. The exact wrong person moves into the
12:37 neighborhood. The exact wrong person is your relative. The exact wrong person. Okay. That's life, and this is what makes for great
12:49 stories. Because here's the history of the story that the book of Esther doesn't tell you, and this is what I love about the Bible, you can dig into the Bible, and you can find
13:01 so many cool connections that it just starts to come alive. And the Bible tells us that he is a Haman, this hate hater of the Jews, is an Agagite. Well,
13:13 the Agagites come from a guy named Agag. Agag led or was the king of a people called the Amalekites. The Bible has some funky names for people.
13:25 And the Amalekites were an ancient nomadic group of people who lived in the southern portion of Israel, the the Negeb. And when Israel came out of Egypt from slavery,
13:38 here they are, this ragtag bunch of former slaves who were barely you know, they barely have clothes on. They're just free at last, free at last. They're on their way into the and as they're wandering through the
13:49 wilderness, the Amalekites, these hateful people, come out and attack them with weapons. And God says, I need you to fight now. I know you've been freed from slavery, but I need you to fight.
14:01 Hey, Christian. Jesus Christ frees you from sin, but you still gotta fight. So they come out of Egypt, and they gotta start fighting right away. And this is a great story in the Bible. Some of you know this story. I've
14:12 preached this text before. Exodus chapter 17. Moses goes up on the mountain, and he raises his hands to God. And as long as Moses' hands are up, Joshua fighting the battle against the Amalekites wins.
14:24 But whenever Moses puts his hands up, Joshua starts to lose. So Aaron and Hur come up on the right and left of of Moses. And you have this beautiful picture of of the of the cross, really. You have this beautiful picture
14:33 of Jesus is up in heaven. His hands are lifted. He has interceded for us. He has given us the victory, and we can fight the battle in our lives, not because we're strong, but because he's strong through
14:45 us. And the scripture says that Joshua totally defeats the Amalekites, but they still live on after this. And and the Lord gives them a reminder in Exodus chapter 17 16.
14:57 It says, the Lord will have war with who? Amalek from generation to genere this is gonna go on for some time, God says. Fast forward a couple more
15:08 centuries, and there's a king on the throne of Israel, and his name is Saul. And Saul, if you remember from last week, I told you this about Mordecai. Saul is the son of Kish. Mordecai comes from Kish, the Bible
15:20 says, and Esther, from the tribe of Benjamin. Saul is given a command by Samuel, the prophet. He says, Saul, you wanna be king, you gotta fight for the people.
15:32 That's what kings do. They protect the people. They fight for the people. So you gotta go to war. You gotta go to war against adversary number 1, the Amalekites. They're rearing their ugly head again. So he does. And
15:43 here's what God says to to to Saul through Samuel. He says, you need to thoroughly destroy them. Wipe them out. Now I don't have time to explain the justification of
15:55 holy war. That's for another conversation. But this is what God says to Saul. And he's supposed to wipe them out completely. And so Saul goes to battle. That's the that's the mandate. Wipe them out completely. And he
16:05 goes in, and he wins. He wins the war. But he doesn't obey the Lord. He spares the best of the sheep and the goats. And the scripture says, and he took this is in first
16:17 Samuel 15 8. Look what it says. And he took who? Agag. Say it proud. It's on the screen. And he took Agag. Agag, the king
16:29 of the Amalekites alive. What was Saul thinking? He was thinking like a king. He was thinking like a human king. I'm gonna take this king as my trophy of victory, and I'm gonna show the nation that I'm
16:41 really cool, and I'm really powerful. And look at me, I got this king in my possession now. But what was God's command? Kill him. He didn't kill him. And as a result, some descendants of this
16:52 guy named Agag, this ancient historical rival of Israel, survive and trickle down effect generation after generation. And Haman, the son of
17:04 Hamadatha, the Agagite, is thoroughly ticked off because Mordecai from the family of Saul's tribe won't bow
17:16 down to him. See how the Bible comes together? See how this isn't this cool? And it doesn't spell it out for you. You gotta do some research to find this stuff out. And all of this means something for us. All of
17:28 this means something for us, and it's what I wanna talk to you about when it comes to the battles in your life. And I want you to write 3 points down about the battles, and I'm gonna give you 3 solutions. So 3 realities
17:38 about your battle. Number 1, my battles are the result of a cosmic conflict that started long before me.
17:50 Every temptation that you feel, every failure of your life, every difficult challenging relationship, every failure
18:02 of someone who you should have trusted and they didn't prove trustworthy. I'm talking about life, friend. I'm talking about life on planet earth. Does anybody
18:13 anybody familiar with this? It's hard. There's frustration. There's animosity. There's division. You look
18:25 at our country. You look at our crazy world. It is just filled with hate and I mean, this nation could not possibly be more blessed, and yet we're more hateful and
18:37 at each other's throats than ever before. We got divisions giving birth to divisions. We got racial division. We got age division. We got gender division.
18:49 And in the middle we got all kinds of people who don't even know their gender. We got moms against kids, and kids against moms. We got we got all this stuff. Where does this come from? There's an ancient conflict that
19:00 started. Just Listen to this very carefully. Just like Saul failed to fully obey God.
19:12 And like a rock dropped in a pond, the ripples went all the way down to the time of Esther. So too, Adam
19:25 failed to obey God. And like ripples have come all the way down through the history of humanity to you.
19:38 Now I am not in the business of giving you an excuse for why things happen to you or, you know, pastoring into you a victim
19:50 mentality. That's not what this church is about. If you know my preaching at all, I hate victimhood. And this is why I hate victimhood. Are you ready for it?
20:02 Because Saul failed, and David failed. And then Solomon failed. And Rehoboam failed. And
20:14 Asa failed. And I know these kings, but I don't know after that. And all these other kings with all these other names, all the other Azariahs and Asa's and Jeroboams and Rehoboam's and all the other Boam boys.
20:28 They all failed. And your president will fail, and your senator will fail, and your governor and your mom will fail, and your dad will fail. But my Bible tells me that there's
20:40 somebody who didn't fail. There's somebody who crushed our enemy's head, and his name is Jesus. That's why we're not victims, but it
20:51 doesn't mean it doesn't mean we're not called to fight. The Bible pronounces the gospel of our salvation in the third chapter of the
21:03 Bible. It's right there in chapter 3. Here's what God says to Adam on the on the heels of his failure. He says, I will put enmity between you. He's talking to the
21:15 serpent here. Between you, the serpent, and who? The woman. By the way, you're all sons and daughters of Eve. I don't care your skin color. You're a daughter of Eve. K? Don't let don't
21:27 let the university come in and infect that nonsense of all races, all these races. We're not a bunch of races. We're 1 race. We're 1 race with different
21:39 pigmentation. Got it? I mean, enough. This is all programmed from the halls of power to get us hating each other. We're 1
21:51 race, the Bible says. And so there's enmity. Circle enmity in your notes because that's just another name for animosity, another word for, you know, antagonism between you, the
22:02 serpent, the devil, and the woman, and between your offspring, the devil's offspring, and whose offspring? Her offspring. Now the word is singular. He, the Bible
22:14 says, her offspring shall crush or bruise your head, and you, serpent, shall bruise his heel. At the cross, the serpent, Satan, bruised the heel
22:26 of Jesus. Where did they put the nails? Hands and feet. At the cross, the serpent bruised the offspring of Eve in his heel. But
22:38 at the resurrection, Jesus came out of that grave, and he saw that serpent slithering by. And he said, I now have the keys of hell and death, and I have lived and died, and I'm alive
22:49 forevermore. And he crushed the serpent's head for you and for me. But it doesn't mean we're not gonna fight. This is why Paul will say in Ephesians chapter 6 verse
23:01 12, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. Okay. So there you go. There you have it right there. We're not fighting against people. If your battle's against people, you're fighting the wrong battle. If you think
23:13 your mom's problem, you're you've got the wrong idea. If you think if you think other people, nonbelievers are the problem. Atheists are not our problem. Mm-mm. Secularists are not our problem. They're they're just
23:23 following the prince of the power of the air. They're just following their leader, the devil. And by God's grace, we have the power of the gospel to preach to them and hopefully bring them over to our side. Amen? But we
23:34 wrestle against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places, and we have got a fight to fight.
23:46 Amen. I want you to understand this, And it's a serious, serious fight. Number 2, my enemy wants to consume me. He's not playing
23:58 games, friend. The devil is not your friend. The devil does not offer you anything good. He wants to destroy you. That is what Haman wanted
24:10 to do with the Jews. Look at verses 5 and 6 of Esther chapter 3. When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down to him to show him respect, he was filled with he was filled with rage. And then verse 6 says,
24:22 he said it says, he had learned of Mordecai's nationality, so he decided that it was not enough to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he looked for a way to destroy all the Jews throughout all the empire of Xerxes.
24:32 And so he goes and he finagles this idea. And he comes up with this law. And he says, listen, king. I want you to put this law on the books. And here's what he says in verse 9. If it pleases the king, issue a decree that
24:43 they'd be destroyed. And I will give, look at this sum, 10000 talents. That that sum is in a ridiculously large sum of money. He says
24:54 10000 talents of silver in the in the government to the government administrators to be deposited into the royal treasury. And, what I'm just highlighting here is
25:06 he's willing to do whatever it takes. He's willing to pay whatever the price to completely destroy the people who belong to God.
25:18 Did you hear that? Because it's not about Haman. It's about the devil. It's about you. The devil will pay whatever price it takes. He will do whatever
25:29 work is required. He will commit. He is committed to this cause until your dying day. He will come at you when you're young. He will come at you when you're old. He comes at you if you're a man
25:41 or a woman, a child, or a grandpa. He will come at you no matter your skill level, your degrees, your studies, your schooling, your nationality. He doesn't care what this world thinks
25:53 about you. He's coming for you, and he will use whatever it takes and the powers of this world to thoroughly destroy you. And all he needs,
26:06 all that he needs is for you to be ignorant of it. That's it. Verse 13, it says, listen. Why don't you make this
26:17 announcement? We'll send letters to the couriers of all the kings and prophets to kill, destroy, annihilate the Jews, young, old, women, children. 1 day, thirteenth day, the twelfth month. By the way, that was the day
26:27 before Passover. The day before Passover. How many know what happened the day before Passover the first time? The Jews were on the brink of extinction then, and God brought them out through the death of
26:39 the firstborn. Amen, somebody. This is all about our gospel of Jesus Christ as well. We were on the brink. We were lost. We were undone. We had no hope. But God brought us out through the death of the firstborn, not of
26:49 man, but of God. And through his blood, we are redeemed and set free. Amen, somebody? So this announcement goes through on the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month. And in 1 day, all the people of Israel were to be
27:01 killed, annihilated, and destroyed, and then they were gonna plunder their goods. And I just thought about this, and here's what I I want you to see. Jesus talks about this regarding you. In John chapter 10, he says, the
27:10 thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I've come to give you life, abundant life. Think about the fact too. Just let's back up in the text. Beep.
27:22 Beep. Beep. Beep. John 10 10, the thief comes to what? Steal. Yeah. Just stop at the first 1. Yeah. Steal. No. Steal. First is the first
27:34 1. The first, There's, like, 3, and then the first 1 is that 1. Okay. So the first 1 is he comes only to Steal. Why would the devil wanna steal? Do you know why? Because you got something he wants.
27:47 Real quick, 7 things that he wants to steal from you. These are not in the notes, but I just wanted to give them to you. Number 1, he wants to steal the image of God from you. You're made in the image of God. And all
27:55 humans, I don't care your beliefs right now. This applies to you. This these first 2 apply to every human being.
28:01 You don't even have to
28:02 be a Christian. The devil wants to steal this from you. The image of God. You're made in God's image. You don't need to be saved to be made in God's image. And now let me get
28:15 political. Because political is a way for people to shut preachers up. That term. Don't preach politics. Well, it affects you. And all this transgender
28:27 nonsense is the devil's tool to radically confuse our children, divide them from their parents, and ultimately cause them
28:38 to commit suicide. He hates the image of God. Do you know why? Because the image of God in you represents the authority that he rebelled in against in heaven.
28:51 You are a threat just by being born. The second thing he wants to steal is the love of God from you. He wants to steal the love of God from you. God loves the
29:03 world, the Bible says, John 3 16. Even if you're not a Christian, did you know that God loves you? The Bible says he takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. God is not up there with thunderbolts waiting to strike
29:13 you. That is a image from some cartoon somewhere. God loves you with an everlasting love. He wants you to come home to his family. If you resist Him, there's nothing He does to
29:25 stop you sometimes. Some sometimes He changes our will though. But but but people who resist Him are resisting the love of God. Now number 3, these are for Christians only. He wants to steal the fullness
29:37 of God from you. He wants to steal the Holy Spirit. Now you can't take him out of you, but he can he can get you involved in things that grieve the Holy Spirit. Number 4, he wants to steal the power of God
29:49 in you. Do you understand, Christian, that you've got the power of God in your life? You you you need to understand it. Number 5, he wants to steal God's guidance from you. He wants to get you confused. He wants you to
30:01 get get your eyes out of this and onto all kinds of other nonsense in this world. Number 6, he wants to steal the victory that God has for you. You have victory in you in Jesus Christ. The Bible says that we are
30:13 more than conquerors through him who loved us. The Bible says that this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. We are victorious in Jesus Christ. And the last thing he wants to steal from you is your
30:23 position in God. The Bible says that we are hidden with Christ in God. We are hidden in Christ with God. Do you understand that you are hid in the presence of the Lord? You are seated in heavenly
30:35 places with Jesus Christ. You are blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus that the devil ultimately cannot touch you. He can whisper to you. He can talk to you. He can lie to you. He can get you convinced
30:46 that he's won and you're over and it's all done for you. But I got news for you. He doesn't speak the truth. He's always lying to you. And Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. And he comes to set you free
30:58 from the lies of the enemy. But all I said a a little while ago, wanna repeat so that you understand. All that the enemy needs from you is passivity. Number 3, my enemy wants me passive in this battle.
31:10 Now let me unpack this so that you're getting it. Your marriage is frustrated right now because the devil is coming for you. You can
31:22 see all the counselors that you want. But unless you fight the spiritual battle Amen. Amen. Reach out. You've you're you're fighting a losing battle. You're the parents,
31:34 I'm begging you to understand that the devil is coming for your children. And all he needs you
31:42 to do is not take this serious. That's all he needs.
31:47 Because if if you are haphazard about it, he'll put all his military armament targeted on your kid's head and
31:59 fill that kid with all kinds of nonsense and lies and and and miss mistruths, and and and he will dominate that kid's life. You gotta watch. Parents, you gotta
32:11 be the guardian at the gate with what your kids are letting come into their eyes. This is a battle. This is a fight. Because I'm telling you, I
32:23 this is why we're starting school. We were having a meeting about it. We got a great team putting the school together. And and and my plan is for schools wherever we have churches, and and that's down the road. But we
32:35 were talking about we're we're looking at hiring teachers, and already the scuttlebutt on the street is that there's teachers in the public schools who are interested in working for our
32:47 school because they're sick and tired of all the garbage. I had to PG it up there. They're sick and tired of all the garbage they gotta force down these
32:58 kids' throat. There is a hunger for truth in this country like I've never seen before. And ladies and gentlemen, we got the truth, and the truth's name is Jesus. But
33:12 if you don't take it seriously, you're like a sitting duck for the enemy. Some
33:18 of you negotiate with your kids about going to church. There's no negotiation. Some of you decide last minute before you come. Should we
33:29 go? I don't know. I'm feeling a little, I don't know, slightly nauseous, 10 percent. Let's take today off. No, friend. It's a fight to the end of your
33:41 life against a real enemy who wants to take ownership of your children. What does Paul say to Timothy? I have fought the good fight. I have
33:53 run the race, and hence, there is a crown of righteousness awaiting for me in heaven. And not just for me, but for everybody who loves his appearing. We gotta fight.
34:04 Don't be passive.
34:06 Don't be don't be how about jump in because this is serious. So the Bible says that there's 2 very passive people. And if you just want a picture of passivity, here's number 1,
34:18 Xerxes. The Bible says that Xerxes just takes the ring. He just gives them the ring off of his finger and says, go ahead. You do whatever you wanna do with all the people. And if
34:30 this bozo had spent 30 seconds investigating Haman's plot, he would have realized that it was coming for his wife. How many husbands need to start
34:42 being men in their home and realize that God has put you husbands are the head of the wife, and everybody takes that so negatively, and I understand why. The reason why
34:54 is because you got an I don't know if I should say it. You got an ask. You got an ask instead of a
35:03 head over you. And it's time to be
35:08 a head man. Stop being an ass and stop being a man and get serious about what God has put into your life. I'm so sorry. We can edit this video later.
35:20 But we need men to be men, strong, mighty men of God who will pray over their homes and for their children and say, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. You gotta
35:32 fight this fight. We got guests in town from, for this child dedication. I'm so sorry. I'm not usually this angry at the devil, but you came on a perfect
35:43 Sunday to do some battle in your own family. What what a moron Xerxes is. He he represents the passivity of Adam. The Bible says that that
35:55 Eve was having the conversation with the serpent, and she finally took the fruit, and she gave it to the man. And the Bible says, he was with her the whole time. He should have guarded that garden. He should have stomped
36:05 on that devil. He should have told that serpent, shut up. This is my bride. Get away from he didn't do what he did. He didn't do what he should have done. And as a result, we're dealing with the consequences. But, again,
36:16 our true Adam, the second Adam, the Bible calls him, Jesus Christ, stomped that devil down. He's your true husband. He's your true leader. He's your true king. And you've got authority in him
36:29 to fight. But there's someone else that's passive, and her name is Esther. And the Bible says that Mordecai learned in chapter 4. Mordecai learned about all of this. He put on sackcloth. He started to mourn. Verse 3. As
36:38 news of the king's decree reached all the prophets, there was great mourning among all the Jews. They fasted, wept, wail. Verse 5. Esther sent for hathatch. The Bible says she sent she said, listen. Go find out from
36:47 Merodecai. What's going on? She didn't even know. Some of you don't even know. Some of you don't even know that this is going on. Some of this is like a light bulb's going off today. That's why I'm so miserable.
36:59 Yes. That's why you're depressed. Young people, that's why you're anxious. Don't let this culture
37:11 tell you that it's some kind of chemical imbalance so that you can forever be a victim and subservient to the pharmaceutical industrial complex that wants to sell you pills for the rest of your life.Show more
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