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Esther 1 - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: December 12, 2013

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Esther 1:1)

God's story of redemption keeps being told in many lives in many ways.

Life Lesson (Esther 1:1)

One life can make a difference.

Life Lesson (Esther 1:12)

God is always at work in our lives, even when and especially when, we don't know what He is doing.

Life Lesson (Esther 1:20)

A leader leads, makes important decisions and is also the first one to apologize.

Life Lesson (Esther 1:22)

We should do whatever it takes to spread the Good News.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Eph 3:20 NKJV

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Rom 8:28 NKJV

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Est 1:3 NLT

In the third year of his reign, he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials. He invited all the military officers of Persia and Media as well as the princes and nobles of the provinces.

Est 1:4 NLT

The celebration lasted 180 days—a tremendous display of the opulent wealth of his empire and the pomp and splendor of his majesty.

Est 1:5 NLT

When it was all over, the king gave a banquet for all the people, from the greatest to the least, who were in the fortress of Susa. It lasted for seven days and was held in the courtyard of the palace garden.

Est 1:6 NLT

The courtyard was beautifully decorated with white cotton curtains and blue hangings, which were fastened with white linen cords and purple ribbons to silver rings embedded in marble pillars. Gold and silver couches stood on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Est 1:8 NLT

By edict of the king, no limits were placed on the drinking, for the king had instructed all his palace officials to serve each man as much as he wanted.

Est 4:14 NLT

If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?"

Est 4:15-16 NLT

15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 "Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die."

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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