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Sequence of events

Practicing the I mpossible Esther 8 Doug Brown audio, pdf , and power point available @ karenvineyard.org.

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Sequence of events

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  1. Practicing the ImpossibleEsther 8Doug Brownaudio, pdf, and power point available @ karenvineyard.org

  2. A religious life that is possible for you to live on your own is called moralism. Moralism is the view that you are acceptable to God through your attainments. There is no need for the cross.

  3. Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18.25-27

  4. Sequence of events • Esther 3:12 - Decree written on the 13th day of the first month. • Esther 8.9 – Second decree written on the 23rd day of the third month.

  5. Sequence of events • Esther 3:12 - Decree written on the 13th day of the first month. • Esther 8.1- That same day Esther and Mordecai receive Haman’s estate. • Esther 8.4- The King extended the gold scepter to Esther. • Esther 8.9 – Second decree written on the 23rd day of the third month.

  6. Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed. Daniel 6.8

  7. New Edict gave 3 Rights • DEFENSE - Right to assemble so that they could protect themselves • OFFENSE - Right to retaliate against anyone who did attack them – they were only allowed to attack those who attacked them; no permission for a first strike • RECOMPENSE - Right to claim as their own the property of their enemies.

  8. “but they did not lay their hands on the plunder”. vv.9.10, 9.15, & 9.16

  9. Completing the Assignment

  10. Practicing the impossible is accomplished through sacrifice. Three sacrifices are required to practice the impossible.

  11. Sacrificing our Limitations Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed. Daniel 6.8

  12. Experiencing personal limitations can mean having a sense of . . . • Disapproval • Criticism • Control • Skepticism . . . which can all be expressions of the fear of man.

  13. Difficult and impossible are often synonymous in our minds. The only reason we describe some things as impossible is because we have defined our limits and not God.

  14. Expanding our horizons . . . means letting God define your limits.

  15. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3.13-14

  16. Sacrificing our own reputations and respectability Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. v.3

  17. To live so cautiously that you never risk for fear of failing is never to have really lived.

  18. “It’s doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.” A.W. Tozer

  19. Sacrificing our rules Then the king extended the gold scepter to Esther and she arose and stood before him. v.4

  20. After beginning with the Spirit are you now trying to attain your goal through human effort. Galatians 3.3

  21. As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He (Abraham) is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Romans 4.17

  22. When you were dead in your sins  . . . God made youalive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,having canceled the written code, with its regulations that stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.  Colossians 2.13-14

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