FIGHT (9 OF 10)
by Steve Jones
Scripture: Esther 8:1-17, Esther 9:1-23
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Fight (9 of 10)
Series: The Gospel in Esther
Steve Jones
Esther 8:1-17, 9:1-23
Summary: In this message we look at the Jewish exercise of self-defense in the book of Esther. Then, we broaden the context to consider the Biblical foundation for self-defense in general.
Introduction: On Sunday, 7.11.21, political protests erupted in the streets of Cuba driven by shortages of food, medicine, and the suppression of basic freedoms under the communist regime. According to the Cuba Archive Project, 10,723 deaths are attributed to the regime of Fidel Castro. Including nearly 1,000 disappearances, more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings, and over 3100 people killed by firing squad. Some 10 minor children have been murdered by the regime via beating, the withholding of medical attention, and other methods. In addition to these killings, some 78,000 people are estimated to have died while trying to flee the country. Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90 but his totalitarian system and laws live on causing continued misery for the Cuban people.
Last week in our sermon series on Esther, we saw the downfall and execution of Haman in the poetic justice of God. But the crises for the Jewish people in Persia was far from over. Like Castro, ''Haman was dead, but his edict lived on.'' In about eleven months, the Jews in the Persian Empire will still face extermination. Let me remind you how that edict reads.
Esther 3:13-14 ''To annihilate, kill, and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the 13th day of the 12th month and to seize their possessions as plunder.''
Fortunately, God's providence continued to orchestrate a solution. Esther came before King Xerxes with this request.
Esther 8:5,8 ''If it pleases the king...let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.'' However, this request was not as easy for the king to fulfill as was an inv ...
Series: The Gospel in Esther
Steve Jones
Esther 8:1-17, 9:1-23
Summary: In this message we look at the Jewish exercise of self-defense in the book of Esther. Then, we broaden the context to consider the Biblical foundation for self-defense in general.
Introduction: On Sunday, 7.11.21, political protests erupted in the streets of Cuba driven by shortages of food, medicine, and the suppression of basic freedoms under the communist regime. According to the Cuba Archive Project, 10,723 deaths are attributed to the regime of Fidel Castro. Including nearly 1,000 disappearances, more than 2,000 extrajudicial killings, and over 3100 people killed by firing squad. Some 10 minor children have been murdered by the regime via beating, the withholding of medical attention, and other methods. In addition to these killings, some 78,000 people are estimated to have died while trying to flee the country. Fidel Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90 but his totalitarian system and laws live on causing continued misery for the Cuban people.
Last week in our sermon series on Esther, we saw the downfall and execution of Haman in the poetic justice of God. But the crises for the Jewish people in Persia was far from over. Like Castro, ''Haman was dead, but his edict lived on.'' In about eleven months, the Jews in the Persian Empire will still face extermination. Let me remind you how that edict reads.
Esther 3:13-14 ''To annihilate, kill, and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the 13th day of the 12th month and to seize their possessions as plunder.''
Fortunately, God's providence continued to orchestrate a solution. Esther came before King Xerxes with this request.
Esther 8:5,8 ''If it pleases the king...let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.'' However, this request was not as easy for the king to fulfill as was an inv ...
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