Divine Reversals | Sermon by Tony Evans (Esther Series)

welcome to an epic event as the curtain rises over the slave girl caught in a set of circumstances out of her control you're going to discover how the invisible hand of God intervenes in her life and the life of her relative and in the life of her people to save all of them from certainly this is the story that would blow your mind but it is also a story that will transform lovey and give you a much bigger [Music] we are looking at the book of Esther the only book in the Bible that never mentions God by name and yet his fingerprints are all over it as we've already seen Esther has discovered that she's been placed in her position for a spiritual reason not merely for personal benefit mordecai or cousin has said you've been called to the kingdom for such a time as this that god's whole plan and making you pretty god's whole plan are you being chosen out of all the possible females in the kingdom god's whole plan was that you would be here at this time for this moment for his kingdom purpose and she after thinking about it for a moment said okay i'm going to go to the king you tell him about havens plan to destroy all the Jews and if I perish I perish she now prepares dinner for the king and invites Haman the architect of genocide because she's ready to tell the King and spill the beans on him at the dinner banquet the King says to her as we saw last time Esther chapter five verse six what do you have to tell me Esther says my petition and my request is and she stops she doesn't get it out she can't say it she backs off she says my request is for you to have dinner again with me tomorrow something happened that caused her to pause and her request for deliverance the question is why did she stop why didn't you just come out and say it me she began the whole sentence my petition is and then she backed up if Esther would have finished the sentence at that time those things in the planning of God would not have occurred in the sequence God wanted them to occur and therefore although she was going to do the right thing it was the wrong time because you see as we looked at chapter 6 last time Haman is gonna leave her presence he's gonna run across water Carr morning I will not bow that's gonna take him in off Haman's gonna go ticked off to his wife his wife is gonna say you don't have to take that you don't have to take that he comes in and he says I everything is going good for me but this you got he won't bother me well you don't have to take that why don't you put him on the gallows tomorrow Haman said that's really great I'm gonna put him on the gallows tomorrow get rid of this guy solve it once and for all the King goes to bed the King can't sleep the king is tossing and turning when the king is tossing and turning and he tells us serving go get a boring book for me to read so that when I read the boring book I will go to sleep so they bring him the boring book and look they just happen to turn to the page that dealt with Mordecai Mordecai had saved the King's life earlier the king wants to know how what did we do for the guy who saved my life oh no we didn't do anything for the guy saved my life as chance would have it Haman comes in right when the King is talking to the servant about Mordecai who had saved his life and the King asked well what should i do Haman with somebody who saves the King's life but he doesn't mention the name or the kind because he does not mention the name water Haman thinks he's talking about him so Heyman says well what you ought to do with the guy who saves your life it's making number two in the kingdom so he's the heir apparent to the rule well I like that idea why don't you go and go ahead and get Mordecai so I can put him in that position and why don't you lead his horse throughout the land and proclaim him as second-in-command it just so happened that during the pause which produce the delay which produce the movement which produce Mordecai's rejection which produce Haman's angry wife which produced water car Haman wanting to put the gallows together which produced a sleepless life which produced a boring book which produced the name mordecai which produced not mentioning his name which produced and being elevated which produced havens having to take them across to the street which produced guard the puppet master pulling things together to bring about his timing he goes home at the end of chapter six after lead Mordecai through the street and he depressed this is the Prozac moment this is this is he's depressed cuz he's leading the Future King and he was supposed to be the future king and so he goes home and he just cries out morning with his head covered verse 12 his wife says him in verse 13 boy are you in trouble now though you leave Mordecai through here and he's the Jew don't look good for you Oh verse 14 why somebody say while that's a time word that's the time word while while his wife telling me don't look good while he's crying with his head covered cuz it don't look good while they were still talking with him the king's eunuchs arrived and hastily brought him into the banquet which Esther had prepared now this is the second banquet has to prepare the second banquet coz God blocked her from doing the first banquet while his wife was telling me that doesn't look good and he's warning the unit comes in and says come on you gotta hurry up it's time for the banquet why is that important that that happened wild because that didn't give him time to come up with a plan it didn't give him time to run and flee it didn't give him time to escape God had that thing clicking so that one thing happens right after another so that there could be no interjection to change the program of God he tells a eunuch don't get him now because God's got a plan to keep in a program to execute so he goes to the dinner so the king says okay Esther I mean you've been saying for the last 24 hours you got to tell me something what is it so she tells him Oh King it's chapter 7 there Oh King at the end of verse 3 if it pleases the King let my life be given to me in my petition and my petition and my people that's my request saved my life King saved the life of my people for we have been sold I end my people to be destroyed killed and annihilated if they were going to sell me his slaves I would have lived with that but no they want to kill me so the King asks the Queen who is he they want to kill my wife and kill my wife's people who you talking about and not only who is he verse 5 but where is it well who is it and where is it guess who's coming to dinner who is he where is he who would presume to do this who are you talking about oh it is verse 6 chapter 7s the saying a foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman then Haman became terrified before the king and queen that'll shake you up she says this man who I invited to dinner wants to kill me your wife kill my people ok rewind if she would have told them the first time when he wasn't mad at him and when he wasn't mad at Mordecai when he built the gallows for Mordecai with Monika have not been elevated to be the second in command in the future the King would have had a totally different mood about the situation because now Mordecai's relationship to the king has changed Mordecai's relationship to Esther and the Kings has changed everything has been reconvened and redone to fulfil the timing purposes of God and he's not finished yet he says she says Haman that's who wants to get rid of me oh the king is hot verse 7 he's ticked off says with anger he went into the palace garden now watch this verse 8 says Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was he's falling on the couch verse seven says begging for his life so the king is hot King walks our King didn't know what to say named so mad that Haman planned to do this Esther is laying on the couch reclining on the couch ain't you proud to beg you remember that he plead for his life he goes over Esther and follow Warner's they pleased as the please don't let him kill me don't let him kill me it says now when the King returned from the garden oh you get the picture into the place where they were drinking wine Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was then the king said he already hot then the king said will you even assault the Queen with me in the house oh you got to be kidding me women you already told me you want to kill my wife now you all up on her no oh oh no no you know you get int you're gonna assault my wife with me in the house now that's not what he was doing he was begging for his life the scripture says okay God is so particular he will create impressions God is so God is so nuanced that he will make something look like it's not really that in order to accomplish his purpose because the King comes in just in time oh but he not finished yet cuz after the King comes in and says sees what he's doing then verse 9 then is a time word you got while you got now you got then then happy nah one of the eunuchs who was before the king said behold indeed the Gallo standing at Haman's house fifty cubits high which Haman made for Mordecai who spoke good on behalf of the king and the King said hang him on it all right so guess what God delayed Esther from telling the King to give Haman time to get mad so that he would build a gallows for Mordecai in order that he might dig his own grave God will let unbelievers express their anger against believers and used that very thing to destroy the unbeliever from destroying the believer and it's all got to do with time it's all got to do with God nuancing time it says so they hanged him on the gallows now won't you notice something else about time verse 8 when the King comes in and see him what he thinks his assaulting his wife the nuance really what happened look that way as the word went out of the king's mouth by insulting my wife they covered Heyman's face while the words were coming out of the king's mouth they come see you got a we got to read every word of the Bible rather word was coming out of the Kings mouth they covered his face they didn't give him a chance to explain because this was a time of judgment and so you not even gonna be given the chance to say you were begging soon as he finished the last work who covered up take it out because when God moves suddenly against your enemies when God moves suddenly on your behalf because you how sensitive to his will and he can move with lightning speed so they hang them on the gallows that was prepared for Mordecai and the Kings anger subsided the problem is as a law out there that says all the Jews are to be exterminated the laws of the Medes and the Persians meant it was a law you could not change it was a fixed law in the Society of lido Persian Empire God is a God of reversals he can reverse things on a dime that appear to be irreversible let me show you some of the reversals in chapter a reversal number one on that day verse one King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman the enemy of the Jews - Queen Esther okay that's I'll call that economic reversal all that Haman owned now belonged to Esther you know the scripture says the inheritance of the wicked is laid up for the righteous when God gets ready to move and to make a statement in the economic order of things he can flip that thing for you - you through you by you on a dime all that Haman old now Elster it's yours we didn't switched because he was a rich man he put up all that money to kill the Jews okay first to the King took off his signet ring which he had taken away from Haman and gave it to Mordecai we'll call that political reversal you see the signet ring was the ring of authority it was the ring in chapter 3 verse 10 then the King took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to him the signet ring was the ring of authority where you could represent the king officially he said give that ring to Mordecai we made more the cop was a dead man walking nay he's second in command with the King's ring that means he courage clout that means he carried juice that mean he carried some Authority with him so God can change things on the docks you think your boss has the final say you think the powers that be have the final say you fake those unscrupulous co-workers who a party against you have the final say you think because they have the name have the money have the position they have the final say they don't have a thing unless God gives it to it and the God who gives it can take it away the point is simply that it's I keep telling y'all you only have one source if you help me get that in your head if it ever burns into your skull that nobody I don't care who they are has the final say-so over a Christian living by the spirit in the will of God nobody which means you never live a threatened life then no things can be threatening but you never live a threatened life as though they have a final say because they do not so there was a political shift then coming off of that was a legal shift she said if it please the king if I found favor in your sight verse 7 it seems proper let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman Haman I will let it kill all the Jews she said King do something about this letter revoke it the problem is the laws of the Medes the Persians were irrevocable so what's the king to do how can I endure the calamity famous there but we still got the problem which will befall my people how can I endure seeing the destruction of my people why because God's kingdom program is always bigger than you and so what are we going to do about all this he says well I've given the authority to Mordecai so here's what I want you to do verse 8 I want you to write to the Jews as you see fit in the King's name and seal it with the Kings Cygnet so I want you to write so the Kings scribe were called and they begin to write what do they write because we got an unchangeable law verse 11 in them the King granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to defend their lives to destroy to kill to annihilate to an entire army of any people or province which might attack them including children and women and to plunder best oil okay follow this Haman law every Jew got to be killed the law can't be changed so the King tells Esther y'all come up with something put my seal on it they come up with the law the law says signed by the king while I can't change the law that you got to be killed I can't make another law i'ma write an executive order since that's big these days I'm a I'm a write an executive order and on this executive order all Jews have the right to defend themselves against anybody would try to kill them and if they try to kill you you not only can defend yourself you can kill their wives and children now if I'm one of the Persians operating on a long number one where the Jews could not defend themselves and now I hear there is another law that doesn't cancel that I can kill them but give their permission to kill me back not only do they have permissions you kill me back they have the wishes permission to go after my wife my chillings they got permission to destroy my household now I'm rethinking law number one because I got to deal with law number two see God has an override button that can take what Satan has planned against you people he's raised up against you circumstances that look not in your favor and when he pushes override it may not stop their evil from being evil but God gives you something when the enemy comes in like a flood the scripture says he will raise up a standard against them he will push an override button so there was a legal reversal oh but it's not all there was an emotional reversal you see because in chapter 4 verse 3 it says there was great mourning among the Jews weeping and wailing that's when the first law was passed but when the second law was passed and the carriers send a message out that the Jews could take care of themselves it says in verse 16 for the Jews there was light and gladness and joy and oh wait man you're crying one day and you're laughing the next oh the Bible says sorrow man do it for the night but joy cometh in the morning you may be crying in the day but don't think that's how it's gonna be when you wake up tomorrow not when God has jumped into the situation God can wipe tears away he can turn pain into pleasure he can turn sadness into joy when we are operating with his reversal principles operating with his timing operating submitting to his will and listening to his voice oh but it's not over yet cuz there's one other thing the last verse of chapter 8 says at the end of the verse and many among the peoples of the land became Jews huh and the dread of the Jews had fallen on them oh I like this I like this I like this that's like saying many sinners got saved I admitted many non-christmas macaca in other words when they saw what God was doing for his people they said we want some of that so to become a Jew you had to come under the Jewish covenant to come under the Jewish government you had to accept the Jewish God so they said we won't summon that God may put you in a bad situation so that he gives you a supernatural deliverance so that other folk want to attach to the God who delivered you cuz they won't some of this they want to see God do for them what he's done for you there was a spiritual reversal when people saw what God can do I wish I could be I wish I could be apprecia who told you come on come to God and there'll be no enemies come to God there'll be no bad days come to God there'll be no lean years come to God there'll be no disappointments come to God there won't be any bad employees I wish I could tell you that but I'd be lying to you it's all through Scripture but I can tell you this whatever it is doesn't have the last exploring dirt at you reversible he was in the Birmingham jail but you go to Washington DC you'll see a monument Nelson Mandela had a reversal he was put in jail but then it became head of South Africa because God is the god of reversal oh but that's one reversal bigger than all of that cuz Satan thought he had Jesus on the cross Winnie hung him high and stretched him wide look like save that one but early Sunday morning just a little while before day God raised Jesus up and he said all power is in my hands God is a God of reversal so you hang on to him even though Satan is throwing dirt at you nothing reveals the power of God more visibly than when he reverses a situation in your life in mind and it looks like it's going downhill and he takes it in a whole nother direction that's God being God I think of a lady in our church was being misused and abused by her employer she came to me for prayer that God would intervene she went back a few days later to work only to discover that her boss who was abusing her had gotten a review the review went badly he was fired and she was promoted to his position see God doesn't take a long time when he's ready to move oh yes we have to wait till he's ready but when he moves you discover that it is worth waiting a [Music] nation in jeopardy a family in crisis a woman seeking the strength to be a queen for her people the story of Esther explores the gripping tale of the nation of Israel and their Redemption from destruction because of the courage of a young woman God has a purpose for your life as well just as he did for Esther in the brand-new CD series Esther pathways to purpose renowned pastor teacher and author Tony Evans explains how God has prepared a plan for your life request yours today for your gift of any amount it's time to discover destiny [Music] you

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Length: 28min 41sec (1721 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 06 2017