EV Youth On The Line | 17/09/21

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[Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hey my name's sammy i'm in year 8 and i'll be watching you from my lounge room with my dogs hi i'm bianca i'm in year 11 and i'm watching the youth live stream from my home in erin hey i'm nick i'm in year 12 and i'll be watching the youth live stream from my land room in matchup hello every youth my name is imogen and i'm in year 12. i usually watch youth from my bedroom in terrigal [Music] hello and welcome every youth uh to another week it was nice to see some of your faces and it's great um to have you joining us again it is i hope you are nice and comfy at home and ready for a good night i'm ready for good night are you ready absolutely nick i'm nick this is formo uh if you don't know us um yeah and can i have your mind if i say jump in if you're new with us welcome we're really excited to have you with us tonight as well yep and we hope you have a great night we'd love to hear from you um send us a message instagram we'd love to hear that you joined um and let me tell you what i know it's going to look like yeah um it's a bit different what we'd do if we're here in person but we're still going to have a bunch of fun at the start of the night we're going to sing together and we're going to get to hear you from the bible and have it explained to us um so lots of good things happening it's good we like to catch up a little bit just to kick off the night yeah yeah um and so question for you did anything big significant happen for you this week yeah anything you want to share absolutely um you know uh you read like uh biographies or um have you ever read a book before i have occasionally and often in those um books or biographies um or autobiographies there's a moment where someone goes i almost died now i see everything clearly right that happened for me this week like their lives flash before their eyes in my life flash before my eyes this was amazing that's that's not not everyone gets to have that experience in a way i'm privileged um it's not how i felt well all right well tell us about it for me i was going for a walk with my good friend zach bodel yeah um getting our steps in have my phone in my pocket love saying how many steps i got done each day uh it was like a bush walk um because where were you uh it's little beach walking to maitland bay um booty national park brutal don't know which one it is there's national park and i was we were walking along and we were talking because you know it would be weird if we walked in silence walking along walking around walking along and i was like and it's rocks and gravel and roots yeah the ground there's i'm just explaining to everyone who may not have been a national looks like and i take a step and i go that route or and or stick is different to all the other ones oh game changing okay let's check out what we're working with look down snake biggest biggest fear i'm like this is the moment where i die didn't got away great and so you said your life flashed before your eyes what part of your life flushed most vividly in front of you in front of you as in like when i thought i was like what is yeah what did your mind go to all the time i spent with you get all of our moments together i was like no no more right answer then here we are yeah good um so this snake tell me about it snakes are one of your biggest fears absolutely and rightfully so they're terrifying they're not that terrifying they're just like i don't like every creature they're fine not gonna do anything on first look i went to a brown snake deadliest snake and then i said was it brown no it wasn't like brown brown it was more like black okay very different and then i went this is upon reflection afterwards i was like maybe red belly black snake then i thought oh it's more like black and green sort of colors yeah yeah [Laughter] so like a tree snake or a python probably yeah good chance it was a common tree snake upon reflection um which look they're not venomous uh but still scary i think you should be thankful that you even though you thought you were in danger and you got to have that near-death experience you actually never were it was completely it was um as test yeah i failed yeah i um did not do well in that moment but that's it but that's some excitement it's a big week big week yeah in what could have been a boring week tell me about you did you have a big week too i'd oh i had no i'd put out a big moment today i realized something did your first time snake or spider no bigger than that car crash that you left and went to play golf even bigger right i was uh i saw a video today that told me that gino streets ice creams i have heard of street ice cream and they put out this rainbow ice cream do you know it's not rainbow flavored the rainbow ice cream is actually caramel flavor what flavor do you think rainbow is i don't know but i thought it was maybe a mixture of all of these multiple things it's just caramel how boring is that i what do you get a mixture of a bunch of other flavors when you taste it did you go oh yeah i can taste all these flavors no it made sense it was like one of those moments where it's like i never would have thought of this but now it's click time was it like a really reputable style you still want to talk about this for this long just a quick thing this was just a quick like just the last date was it like like a scientific paper or i'm going to move on to something great which is singing together so we're going to hand over to the band now hey v youth um this week i've really been reflecting on um yeah the glory of the resurrection um it's so easy for us as christians especially those growing up in christian families to lose um yeah our awe and our love of jesus and his sacrifice so in this next song let's reflect on what god has done for us in his amazing grace let's sing [Music] [Music] we were dead in our fall we were sinful signs [Music] we couldn't choose righteousness we couldn't save ourselves from death [Music] my is [Music] we have peace in jesus christ he has brought us to his side he wakes us up [Music] [Applause] [Music] by his face [Music] to give us [Music] we are safe but by faith in jesus name by his grace [Music] in jesus name [Music] well isn't it helpful to be reminded that we're not saved by works or by words but by having faith in jesus and his name helpful reminder great good to sing together um nick yes we're about to move into a little spot a little moment a spot a moment that's had varying degrees of success i would say like mostly failures mostly failures but that's been great for the people who did find success one single person yeah um we call it made for this moment yeah here's how it works we call one person each week maybe two if we're feeling really disappointed in the only one this week we're committing to one definitely one this week um and when they answer they've got to say a phrase nick you should know it so well you can just close your eyes and say it so just close your eyes for us uh just say it because you wrote it you know it yeah uh boy oh boy yep never in my wildest dreams so good did i think this would happen not good we keep going uh nick informo is there i was made for this so give me my price how often and there's a good example of how hard it is nick wrote this statement he made it up and he still can't get it yep i've put no effort into memorizing so i hope you have um and format there's prizes ask for grabs this is last week's prize last week's prize which was a great signed copy of um soph and tim's engagement yeah um signed by signed by tamara awesome what have we got this week pretty good looking signature too it is a good reason for that big and then um this week new photo huge um the one and only tom sharp um signed by signed by tommy himself wow first time that we've matched the photo with the person man it's hard to find people these days um and if you're wondering what is on there tom's holding a cupcake awesome um and whoever's calling me right now that's not how the game works although i'm glad that they are um being entrepreneurial about this yeah they're taking initiative yeah they're trying to create their own luck exactly you know how it works not how what's gonna happen um that's enough though nick we're gonna make the call call the person and let's see what happens ready for the um most awkward part of the night yeah while we wait and see if they're ready boy oh boy never in my wildest dreams did i expect i get this call but nick and fomo i have one thing to say to you what's the one thing what is it what's the one thing you just got to get the photo i was made for this so i have one thing to say to you give me my prize oh look it's sketchy sketchy i'd love to hear what people think give him who we got who have we got here oh hey jack how are you i'm good how are you how do you ask him about the accusations that are flying around the building how do you feel about your performance just then i look not great would you if if you were us what would you do in this moment right now i would have mercy on you and uh gotta be confused with the perspective but i like it um and it's the last week so let's just give them to him yeah jack you will be receiving in the mail when i get around to it um these two beautiful prizes and let's be honest that's not gonna happen anytime soon no worries my absolute pleasure to make your night see you later jack jack [Laughter] all right we had a success kind of yeah yeah um well that's it that's it for me for this moment done um no more prizes and former nick you said something there what'd i say it is the end of the turn it is big big last week which means that in lockdown you've had lots of spare time at home uh in the holidays you're going to have even more space school does exist less even less than it already did this term and so uh we want to make sure that all of you guys are able to make the most of your time and not waste it and grow big or go home is a way you can be doing that um and so shut up but anyway keep going okay uh there's a bunch of ways on there that you can be using your time well um seriously there it's getting to the bible more regularly you read a christian book um a bunch of different things last week we heard some good things that different jay teams were doing um if you haven't had a chance to crack into that yet um jump on the website and have a look it's an awesome thing do it sounds great um that's it let's that's no more announcements for tonight but we are gonna about to jump into a video uh some of you guys um and so let's do that now let's hear from a couple ways i've been trying to grow as a christian during this time is to meet up with a friend from youth and go for a walk and to read shorter parts of the bible but actually dig deeper into them one thing i'll be doing over the holidays to grow my faith as a christian is to read dominion by tom holland and re-read the whole inner holiness and i'll be talking about those with one of my mates um something i'm keen to be doing in the holidays to keep growing as a christian is read a christian book called desiring god hey guys one thing i'm keen to do to keep growing as a christian over the holidays is to write in this book while i'm praying to help keep my thoughts organized and so i can enjoy some solid time away from distractions uh enjoying relationship with god and growing that habit yeah something that i'm really looking forward to doing in the holidays to stay close in my relationship with god but definitely to be some to see some youth friends and to just be encouraged by one another something else i've also done is plan a lot of bush walks to just make the most of this amazing beautiful world that god has created and how blessed are we that we get to live where we do in this time and yeah those are some things that i planned miss you all see you guys that was great um good to see some of what you guys have planned and yeah if you don't have if you didn't have ideas um for what you can do there's some there jump on one of them um they sound really good a bit former we can keep moving we are nick and what's the time for right now uh look uh i've been thinking okay have you ever seen one of those photos of uh those goats up on the mountain mountain goats yeah and i do know them you think how did that get there yep well it's kind of like our next spot here with a couple boys you you think how did they get here time for tim and tom [Music] it's gonna take some time to realize [Music] [Applause] [Music] always be picking you up when you're [Music] what's up baby it's your boys tim and tom we're back again we're here to get it we're going to get straight into it loving that new intro we've got a good thing going yeah i'm not ready for it to stop anyway i feel like we've got up we've got to answer foremost question that's we you asked us to be here so you should probably just think why did you ask us if you don't like us that much but it's your own fault so we're here am i going to do can tom smell it probably not i've never can i've brought something pretty special uh you guys it may look like something uh plain and simple but it's really not no i don't i don't know i don't know what that is so you can't smell it i i really don't know like a liquid of some sort it seemed like right to me it smelled like the turps like i would have it work you know like is that your methylated spirits well you can take you can take your blindfold off because it's not terps uh it's just vinegar so have a swig vinegar it looks like straight up water yeah well have a drink how big as much as you want oh that's way more than i thought you would show you going back [Music] you want to keep it in yeah that's good well now it's time for ask us anything while you while you struggle with uh what's in your throat i have a question for you yeah lay it on me do you have a girlfriend this comes in from jack faust the one and only jack fiers uh no i do not have a girlfriend why he asks why um you know just waiting for that that special girl you know the right one just waiting on that right one and you know i just haven't had one catch my eyes yeah or lately i don't know that's my that's my answer that's a good answer it's experience i don't know cool do you have any questions for me yeah yeah no no i do have a question for you um i remember who sent it but it's a serious question and they wanna know why do you always have sign on your head they kind of fail because look at you right now i have nothing on my head so that answers your question i don't always wear something on my head why do you usually well i don't what do you mean you always have a hat like always yeah i like wearing hats it's a fashion accessory oh he accessorizes very nice cord caps cord caps to be specific yeah and they are called cap enthusiasts of the collection i've seen it yes collection um yeah so this week tom oh actually no i have another question for you i forgot about this one for me yeah yeah yeah um this one comes in from sammy um how much does the world weigh i haven't been to space yet i don't even know what to say like i haven't been to space either i don't know like how me going to space would help with weighing it like i can't i can't pick it up i don't know um my answer is i don't know and i don't really care [Laughter] there you go that's pretty good answer now should we get into the big stuff what we're all really here for we hyped this thing up last week um we did and we've really we really thought we'd get the cream of the crop but um we've had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to make tonight work so yeah we're gonna do this what what were you doing you know what were you thinking like what's what's going on we're gonna try and show you some talent um but yeah it's up to you it's a sort of just not so talented show yeah you know i don't know what you guys were doing what you were thinking but not only did you let me down you let tim down oh yeah no i'm kidding [Music] judge for yourselves well uh our first talent uh comes in from uh our friend matt award oh this is this is a good one i like this hey guys nada here gonna be doing my sweet skill some tennis ball trick shots let's go oh foreign [Music] thanks for watching my skill guys hope you liked it wow yeah definitely the first time i've seen anything like that the the original the the bin part was my favorite part that was that was clearly just saw him throw the ball yeah that's cool uh that you sent in your talent um but uh the next one comes from one of the year seven girls what has happened yeah i your shoulder rather than the talent but good on you like pretty sweet um it was good to see i don't want to see it in person that's kind of like a oh no no i don't even know how you good on you that's what i would say where are we going well the next one comes in um from her leader gracie gracie hi evie youth it's gracie here coming to you live from the ocean um my special talent is swimming in cold water in winter um in spring i love it you can see there's not really anyone else swimming except my friend mel i brought my friend mel i would say i'm generally pretty good at convincing people to come swimming with me they don't always like it tom you weren't convinced the other day that was disappointing you should go swimming in the ocean anyway um that's about it so yeah hope to see you all soon bye well the first thing i have to say tom she said she was live but i look out the window and it's dark yeah no no no like she called me like that was a bit of a you know a bit of a slip up there but ah what are you going to do you know but uh a talon oh do we think it was a talent well she she called you out and said she can brave the cold better than you so maybe it's a talent oh come on i've been there now she's right i'm not even going to try and fight that when was the last time you went for a swim in the ocean yeah uh last weekend actually oh yeah yeah there you go gracie tom's match show with your talent um so another one from the year seven girls [Music] hey youth it's me and my shrimp here we got this okay [Music] [Music] what are you saying [Music] oh [Music] when i was 13 i had my first love there was nobody can't hedge my baby nobody just come back she had me going crazy like how star struck she want me up daily don't need no starbucks she make my heart give a big when i see you on the street yeah it's cool on the playground but i really want to see on the weekend she knows she's got me baby and she was so amazing and now my husband but i just keep on saying so good well i i enjoyed it you know like you killed the rap verse ludacris would be proud i love the song i i sing that all the time you know it's a good song uh good video editing um i don't know if it's a talent still but what they sung yeah no no you got me there i reckon it's good yeah nice wig i enjoyed it good job um we appreciate that you sent us in a video um you beat many people with points there so well done um the next one uh comes in from maddie bell um hey guys my name is maddie bell i'm going to show you my special talent which is folding t-shirts so you're going to want to make sure that the front goes down on the table first now you've got to do what the fabric wants so you've got to follow all the lines now first we're gonna just pop the the front side over now you wanna gonna get these little shapes here we call those horns so you're gonna get the little horns lined up and we'll fold it over again and you just gotta tuck in the sleeves tuck it right in just like that and then we'll do the other side i'm gonna get one of those nice little horns again chuck her over make sure it's all nice and in line there you go look she knows the lingo like she pulled out some big words but i'm pretty sure anyone can fold but i don't know about anyone but my room is pretty messy i know i don't usually fold i just you know grab the coat hanger you know yeah that's all i can say but it doesn't seem like a solid fold i'll probably re-watch it again just so i can get it in my head yeah maybe you should take some pointers and do it at home probably well we've got one more oh this this one you're gonna enjoy this one this is a very special person this one's coming in live live like this is this is the best talent we could find and so we got him to come in live i'm so thankful that he believed me when i said everyone else was coming in live we got him here please welcome up mr zach bodle come on give it up for him what's going on how are we zach what are you gonna do for us brother yeah yeah i gotta got a special song for a special lady um is the mic on by the way um yeah special lady uh enjoy mum and shari sherry baby sherry sherry baby sherry [Music] baby [Music] a sherry baby baby a sherry baby [Music] [Applause] [Music] where can we cut him off sherry baby hey thank you thanks thank you thank you for that special special talent some collins coming in here saying that that was incredible uh majestic um people are loving it well done it was a great tribute to his mom and to our friends and the four seasons is his mum named sherry or baby neither her name is claire but i like the tribute [Laughter] it was well tom we're finished uh tim and tom off before the term on a high oh yeah we just heard zack singh i really appreciated it thought it was great but like we do every week we're gonna throw uh to the greatest bit of the night um and will's going to read the bible for us so grab your bibles out get amongst it catch us later g'day guys i'm will i'm the united leader and i'll be reading tonight's passage which is chapter 8 of esther from verse 15 to chapter 9 verse 4 of esther so i'll give you a moment to flick there it's been a pretty wild term again with online youth but it's still been epic seeing god's goodness in his word and so we're going to see that again as i read so let's read when mordecai left the king's presence he was wearing royal garments of blue and white a large crayon of gold and a purple robe of fine linen and the city of sousa held a joyous celebration for the jews it was a time of happiness and joy gladness and honour in every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came there was joy and gladness among the jews with feasting and celebrating and many people of other nationalities became jews because fear of the jews had seized them on the 13th day of the 12th month the month of adar the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out on this day the enemies of the jews had hoped to overpower them but now the tables were turned and the jews got the upper hand over those who hated them the jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of king xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them no one couldn't stand against them because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them and all the nobles of the provinces the satraps the governors and the king's administrators helped the jews because fear of mordecai had seized them mordecai was prominent in the palace his reputation spread throughout the provinces and he became more and more powerful amen well g'day everybody my name is dan i'm one of the pastors here at eva church and i'm so good to be with you we're looking at the very last part of the book of esther and so if you're joining us for the first time you're jumping right into the end of a book so i don't know if you've ever bought a book before and skipped right to the end and read the last kind of words on the last page to see how it ends that's kind of like what you're doing now but i want to jump straight to the chase tonight tonight we're talking about power power power not as in the um the electrical power that's powering your tv right now uh not a but the kind of power that a king has you know um strength the kind of power that means that you have strength and influence and you can do stuff and you can even have control over someone else that kind of power and the reason we're going to talk about power tonight is because this part of the bible we're looking at esther chapter 8 to 10. is a part of the bible where power is at the heart of it where there's powerless people who become powerful and powerful people become powerless have a look into the listen to this verse i think it will come up on the screen for you esther chapter nine verse one on this on this day the enemies of the jews had hoped to overpower them but now the tables were turned the jews got the upper hand on those who hated them in this part of the bible the end of the book of esther god's people the jews go to war with a people who were seeking to absolutely wipe them out and the jews smashed them the the jews god's people they'd actually been the powerless ones they were living not in a country that there was that was their own they were living in persia not in israel and there was a plan that was made against them to come and wipe them out on this certain day and the tables are completely turned the jews become the powerful they go to war with the persians and the jews the powerless ones end up smashing them they fight back and win but here's the thing are we okay with this are we okay with the bible talking about this kind of thing about god's people having power over their enemies and using that power to defeat their enemies i want us to spend the next little bit of time thinking about power and the bible's view of power and whether the bible supports giving power to people who could possibly abuse that power you know we often hear stories about powerful people abusing their power don't we taking advantage of the little guy it's often stories about men in power who abuse that power not it's not always men sometimes you get the occasional story of a woman in power doing a similar thing but it's often men in positions of power who use that power to put themselves up and squash others down is the bible okay with that now you might think that's a strange question to ask but it's an important thing for us to ask because sometimes people point the finger at the bible and say um when there's powerful people who crush the little one when there's powerful men who crush women or that's the bible's fault that's christianity's fault and the re it's it's not only people don't only point the finger the bible but sometimes people do that and the one of the reasons for that is the bible has completely shaped everything about our culture everything about the part of the world we live in the western world two thousand years ago when jesus came he had such a massive influence and his words as they recorded for us in the bible they have completely shaped the whole way our world thinks the way our world functions you know love thy neighbor you heard that that before do love your neighbor that's what jesus said and that has been this underpinning for everything about our society and so the bible has completely shaped our society and so sometimes when things go wrong people point the finger at the bible at christianity and they say it's christianity's faults the bible's fault it's jesus fault when people abuse power now is that right that's what i want us to think about tonight and it's a great passage for us to think about it because it it has this idea of the reversal of power right at the heart of it and so here's the plan we're going to look at these chapters together we're just going to see what happens and after we see what happens we'll step back and we'll ask what is the bible telling us about power so let's dive in together the big drama of the book of esther is the is this plan to wipe out god's people the two most powerful men in the world at the time was a was the king named king xerxes and his second in command heyman and heyman is literally the worst imagine the worst person ever that you can possibly think of and then double it that's haman hayman had planned to kill all of god's people and king xerxes was like yeah sure was it tuesday today i'm going to go get an ice cream a rainbow colored ice cream um and heyman heyman not only did he have this plan to kill the jews he also had this other separate plan on the side to kill one of them particularly this bloke named mordecai now mordecai was esther's uncle the good news is as we come into chapter eight uh haman is dead on a stick and mordecai's gone free brutal but really good news for mordecai heyman was put to death which was um we're stoked about that for the sake of mordecai chapter seven saw uh esther the queen the queen of persia the main character in this story kind of rise up and take control and plead with the king and so everything's gone good and haman's dead and mordecai is still alive and so everything's going good and what happens is mordecai who was about to get killed he now becomes the powerful one and he becomes the second most powerful man in all the world at the time have a look with me at chapter eight verse one if you've got your bible there at home if not it'll come up on the screen for you anyway eight verse one that same day king xerxes gave queen esther the estate of haman the enemy of the jews and mordecai came into the presence of the king for esther had told her he was related to her the king took off his signet ring which he'd reclaimed from haman and he presented it to mordecai and esther appointed him over haman's estate mordecai comes to power taking haman's spot and did you catch that thing about the signet ring the king he had this ring and it was pretty much a magic ring for all intensive purposes think lord of the rings there's the one ring of power well the king he had a ring it wasn't magical if you put it on it didn't make him disappear but whatever this um whatever the if you are having if you had this ring on whatever you said went you know you if you wrote a law you wrote a letter and said this is what's going to happen and then you'd sign it with your ring that was now the law of all the world all the countries and so this signet ring it's got all this power and now mordecai wears the signet ring and so what mordecai says goes what what mordecai commands it's as if it's come from the king himself and this is really good news for the king for the jews because even though haman's dead haman's plan to have them wiped out was still in play and so mordecai has to try and now get rid of that plan so let's see how that goes down verse seven chapter eight verse seven king xerxes replied to queen esther and to mordecai the jew because haman attacked the jews i've given his estate to esther and they've impaled him on a pole now write up another decree in the king's name in behalf of the jews as best seems as it best seems best to you and seal it with the king's signet ring for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked now what this means is haman's plan to wipe out the jews it's still in play it's still going to happen haman's dead on a pole but his plan it was signed with the signet ring the magic ring of power and so it's still going to happen and so mordecai he's got to come up with a new plan he's going to write another letter another law that says that when all the persians come to attack the jews the jews can fight back and defend themselves and that's exactly what happens mordecai writes his letter he signs it with his signet ring he sends it out through all the empire and nine months later the day comes and a bunch of persians come out to attack god's people and the jews stand up they fight back and they smash them chapter 9 verse 1 again on this day the enemies of the jews had hoped to overpower them but the tables were turned and the jews got the upper hand on those who hated them the tables were turned the power less became the powerful the powerful became the powerless and god's people were saved and it all ends chapter 9 chapter 10 with this huge celebration they have a huge feast um they they're full of joy they're full of food they're giving presents to one another they're just stoked that they've been saved the jews thought they were going to be smashed and killed and wiped out but they've been saved and it's such a massive thing for them that they they they mark that day of celebration and they say we're going to do this every year and mordecai he writes down another letter another law he signs it with his signet ring and he says every year from now on we're going to celebrate these days we're going to have a festival just like we celebrate easter every year and christmas every year they were going to celebrate this festival this festival purim every year to celebrate the fact that they didn't get wiped out and that they were saved how good god's people didn't get slaughtered what a reason to celebrate and that really is the big thing about this book that's the big message of esther even when things were at their darkest god was working for the good of his people god had his people's back and so it finishes with this great celebration but there's a dark side to these events as well in at least one way mordecai's power got the better of him and this is where the danger of power comes into it so there's something in this story that i've left out so far when mordecai was writing his new letter and signing it with his ring mordecai gave the jews permission to do something which he shouldn't have done when mordecai sent out his letter in chapter 8 verse 11 he told the jews they could defend themselves when people come to attack you you can defend yourself and fight against and that was good but he also told them something he shouldn't have he told them that they could take plunder from their enemies now plunder plunder just means stuff basically but back in those days in war often what would happen is you know you'd be fighting and whoever whichever side won the battle the other side would go and take their stuff take their sheep and whatever but and mordecai had told the jews that they could do this they could go and take the the stuff but god had said in an earlier part of the bible that in this particular kind of war that was going on here called a holy war in this kind of war you weren't to take plunder we don't have time to go into all the details of it but basically god said in this situation you don't do that and mordecai ignored that in his letter he told them he could do it and it's possible that mordecai was so personally caught up with this attack on him by haman and against his people that when he finally got in a position of power he didn't just fight back but he sought to get back at them as well it's possible that mordecai went too far here it's possible that mordecai started behaving like boromi do you know who boromir is i hope you've all seen lord of the rings or read it you've got to read it at some stage um but borrow me in the lord of the rings there's this ring of power but the thing about the ring is it kind of it corrupts you and it the the fact that it could give you all this power makes them want it for themselves and instead of using it for good they end up using it for their own from themselves and and boromir he gets seduced by the power of the ring and he's meant to protect frodo but he does the thing he shouldn't do and he turns on frodo the power of the ring kind of twists him well it's possible that now that mordecai has the king's signet ring he's he's so frustrated at his enemies so caught up in it that he's he seeks to get back at them and he oversteps the mark he tells the jews to take the plunder but three times in chapter nine we actually find out the jews don't listen to him they actually disobey his command on this um three times we're told throughout chapter nine they did not lay their hands on the plunder they did not lay their hands on them they did not we're told again and again they defeat their enemies yes they defend themselves but they leave the plunder they disobey mordecai and it seems like that was a really good thing for them to do the book finishes with us celebrating this victory but also celebrating mordecai have a look at the very last verse of the book chapter 10 verse 3 mordecai the jew was second in rank to king xerxes preeminent among the jews and held in high esteem by his fellow jews because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of the jews now i want us to step back for a moment and ask what do we make of all this what do we make of mordecai that final verse shows us that mordecai did heaps of good it paints in him in a really positive light he worked for the good of his people it said you know he stopped thousands of people being slaughtered but chapter 9 does show us that he did act in some questionable ways is the bible promoting the misuse of power well that's what we're going to think about for these last couple of minutes together i've got three things to say and i'm going to move quite quickly through these the first thing is a lesson in reading the bible properly and then two things about power so first a quick lesson in bible reading here's the thing to get just because the bible describes something happening doesn't mean it's telling us to do the same thing just because the bible says something happened doesn't mean go and do the same thing this is the difference between describing something and commanding something or if you like rhymes describing and prescribing see the bible describes a bunch of stuff happening the bible describes satan tempting adam and eve to sin that doesn't mean that we should do the same thing it's just describing the fact that that happened after jesus rose from the dead the apostles were able to go out through all the world and see all these miracles happen as the good news about jesus spread throughout all the earth does that mean we should expect the same thing well not necessarily it's just describing something that happened the bible just describes a whole bunch of stuff but there's a whole other category see the bible also commands stuff says do stuff says christians love your neighbor it says christians ought to submit to the governing authorities over us and that's a different category that's telling us to do something not just telling us about something and so the question is what's the book of esther what's going on in these chapters is it commanding or describing it's describing it's just describing what happened and so what do we make of this description of mordecai well it's not commanding us to go and get a signet ring and to engage in war and so what do we do with it well i think esther is holding out for us attention i think on the one hand you we finish the book and we're just stoked we're stoked we're celebrating it's so good look at what god did he saved his people from getting smashed and god used mordecai's new position of power to be able to do that it's awesome but at the same time we're meant to see that throughout the book esther and mordecai both do a whole bunch of dodgy stuff and so there's a tension so there's the first thing just to note about reading this part of the bible it's describing events not commanding things but second and third how should we think about power i've got two big things to say about power first is that power in the hands of sinners can be dangerous think of haman second most powerful man in all all the world at a time he used his power to go at people who he didn't like you know he was racist he didn't like mordecai he didn't like the jews and so he used his power to try and wipe them out that's awful afghanistan the taliban have come to power now the old government's out and they're in and even so far they're already using that power for evil it's a dreadful dreadful thing the abuse of power to hurt people is never okay the bible is never okay with people using power over others to hurt them and harm them the bible says that god is a judge who will judge the wicked for abusing the vulnerable what this means for us all is that if you ever find yourself in a position of great power um which we all have we're all in positions of power to different degrees you've you've got to be careful in your position because we're all broken we're all sinful be careful that you don't use it for your own good it's for the good of others and if i can apply this to us quickly you know we all have power in a thousand different ways but if i can just pick out one thing for guys and one thing for girls boys for the most part you've got to hear me on this listen carefully for the most part boys have a physical power greater than girls for the most part if a guy and a girl have an arm wrestle the guy's going to win because god has given us different bodies to one another he's made us differently now that's not to say that some girls aren't going to be stronger than some boys yes of course but for the most part which means boys be careful with the use of your bodies use your physical strength that god's given you use your physical strength for good to help to to strengthen to help the little guy to stand up for the little guy girls girls have a power too a unique power lots actually but just to pick one in our society at the moment for the most part girls have an intellectual power that boys don't have because girls are currently better educated than boys now for the most part not you know not all it used to be that boys did better than girls in maths and boys did better than girls in english now kind of for the majority for the most part across the western world girls and boys are equal at maths and girls smash boys in english and for the most part more women go to university than boys do which means that girls are for the most part better educated than men now now this is not saying that all women are heaps smarter than boys no of course not um but for the most part better educated now which means girls you have a position now which means that you need to use that for good and not to crush we need to use our power whatever it might be in all these different ways for good secondly the big the second big thing to say about power is that power in itself is not a bad thing see power is just the ability to do stuff you know i've got the power to pick up my bible right now some people don't have that power so power is not bad it's what you do with it that's good or bad and god's word is always always always telling us to use power for the good of others never for our own glory always for the good of others mordecai mordecai used his power to do lots of good the end of the book he worked for the good of his people he spoke up for the welfare of his jews but mordecai was also a sinner at times he overstepped the mark which means there's some lessons we can learn from mordecai's example but the greatest example of the use of power is the lord jesus christ jesus before jesus came to earth born as a baby was the all-powerful eternal son of god the one who created all things just by speaking who who upholds the universe he has all power and yet jesus came to earth as a little baby to be crucified he used his position and made himself a servant so that he could do good for us so that he could forgive the weak for our sins jesus is the powerful king who rules over everything he doesn't need a signet ring and yet he uses his power for good he uses his power to uphold the world to send rain to give food to give us sunshine and all good things and he uses his glorious power by the power of his spirit to forgive sinners like me and ultimately one day jesus will use his power as judge of all the world to punish those who've abused their power and bring justice to those who've been hurt by the powerful and so to wrap up to finish how should we think about power how should christians think about power it's to be used for good for the sake of others like our god like jesus has used his power for the good of others how are you going to use what god's given you to love and serve and do good and what are you going to do with your failures to do good what are you going to do with your failures to keep god's commands like mordecai look to jesus jesus who who gave up his power in order to save he has the power to save us let's praise our wonderful god now in prayer let's praise him father we praise you almighty all powerful we praise you that your son jesus the eternal powerful son of god gave up his power becoming weak and crucified hanging on a cross so that we might be forgiven we praise you that your powerful spirit works to bring us to know you and we pray that we would be people who use the power we have for for helping and serving other people for your glory amen yeah how good is it that we have a god who has immense sovereign power and that he would use that power to humble himself as a man to save sinners like us so in this next song let's reflect on that and rejoice in our great god [Music] [Music] you give life you are love you bring light to the darkness you give hope you restore every heart that [Music] it's your breath [Music] so [Music] great are you [Music] every heart that is [Music] me [Music] and all the earth will shout your praise our hearts will cry these bones [Music] these bones will sing [Applause] [Music] oh hearts will cry these bones [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] before [Applause] [Music] how great are let's pray dear lord we thank you that you are a good and sovereign god that with all immense power that you have you chose to save wretched sinners like us we pray that with the power that you give us that you would help us to be humble as we live as your servants in this world and we also pray that as we go into the school holidays that we would continue to dwell in your word and encourage one another in faith amen amen i'm just gonna read something for you guys to finish off um from philippians chapter two verse six uh or verse five in your relationships with one another have the same mindset as christ jesus who being in very nature god did not consider equality with god something to be used to his own advantage rather he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness and being found in appearance as a man he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death even death on the cross jesus who had all the power had the position um gave that up for us to save us and what a model we have now in jesus um that is if i don't know if you called that but verse the start there in your relationships with one another have the same mindset as christ uh to be servants of each other if we do find ourselves in power in positions of power to serve and love each other be like jesus it's good it's been a good night together has been uh it's been a good term together but we have a couple more things to do for me couple more things first thing is get through some emails it is we've got a few to get through and so we're gonna just kind of pump through them let's go quick you go first yeah i will i'll start us off this is um one of our good friends uh joy sent us an email uh she sent us a little uh thing there as well um and she said hello can you please read this at the beginning of the stream uh we didn't read it at the beginning but we're reading it now so you can't win a ball yep don't want them all um she has a special message for seniors she just wanted to say to all year 11s that you did well this year you did well your 11's uh and not to stress about um your prelim exams that's what she wanted you to know um and you're 12s as well hsc coming up she wants you to relax have a good time over the holidays look you can't control everything but the big i think her big message was you're made for this moment you're twelves yeah so there we go we'll see you there thank you joy uh all right we got an email from uh who it doesn't do the chunky boys the united boys we've got a few emails from them uh do you wanna hold up what they've made they've made a presidential poster for isaac reed uh and look let's say say say it for what it is they've tried to rick roll us they have we'll read it anyway they said isaac reigns for president he will never give you up make you cry let you down say goodbye run around tell a lie desert you or hurt you uh so they've just made a song a poster they've just made isaac right into a song poster i don't know what um like president of what yeah no no no i it's not a question that i've asked this whole time but it's one that i would like an answer to but we appreciate it there's that this is i like this one i'm biased though maybe our this is our favorite piece of art that we've received it is um and this is from benison um hey coughed up a sketch of the underdog duo which is us which is awesome in my heart i like to think you're superior to tim and jimmy um sincerely ben look at that yes and look at what he's done for us it's a sketch of us i like that i feel like i'm giving you some attitude in this nick yeah look at that hand yeah i don't know why i'm so like here's how it is nick yeah and that is what i feel most days but we'll put that on display that's our favorite is it i think when we said we wanted art that is probably what we are looking for pictures of ourselves of us that uh we will keep um forever in treasure so thank you benison all right next one's from sophia fast it has no content to it just um the title says open your draw would you actually do the play our draw here i'm sorry i put an artwork in front of it yeah i do want to show the people um we talked about this a little while ago it's um creepy creepy eyes yeah the uh mona lisa yeah the mona lisa the game that she plays with uh brother jack the part of it now you're way apart we've been dragged into this against our world do we have to keep this i'm not okay back in the draw you can have it back in the drawer back [Music] um oh speaking of jack here he is um dear nick and fomo i'm disappointed that i have to ask this again but i will my one and only request is that formo waxes leg on the live stream this week it's a simple request sincerely your third uncle uh look one thing to say yeah what's your i have something to say too so two things to say jack you're going to learn a valuable lesson tonight the life is full of disappointments yes i got um disappointments tonight but i can make a commitment to you right now jack that next turn on the stream formo will be waxing his leg um and no you can't yeah i can make like always that is the commitment that i'm choosing to make next time and i'll stand by next email uh dear nicholas and formulas pronounced form you said nicolas but my name's just actually nicholas oh yes wrote your name normal yeah nicholas and formulas uh i've written this formal complaint as the other half this is f this is from emmett yeah did you say that no yeah uh on behalf what did you you see you surround me now um perfect record of reading emails you come and you've ruined it in week 10. uh formal complaint as the other half of the alpha male twin to say i am insulted for nick not watching the lawn bowls highlight reels which i'm fair complaint my brother combed the internet for prime entertainment for you to watch for three minutes which converted a second at 180 seconds nick uh therefore i've decided to embed inside this electronic mail delivery a link for nick on how to schedule his time and provide himself with more free time so that he can enjoy the entertainment which is lawn bowls former mad respect something nick will not get until he watches the lawn oh okay watch this nicholas kindness regards and formalities oh lots of names it's just emmet yeah thoughts um i did click on this link that he sent me about um and it went to a video uh 10 tips for time management um did you take any of them well i didn't watch the video because i was too busy so too busy to watch a video about time management saying no i haven't watched it and no i still haven't watched the lawn bowls thing um but i may it needs to be in the form of an instagram video to get your attention yeah yeah yeah 20 seconds or less please um all right here we go oh here we go this is it this is this is it oh a big moment right here uh from our friend liam bruce mcdonald oh i said friend it's hard to tell these days it's confusing it is a very it's been a very confusing ongoing um he's a acquaintance sure i don't know how to describe it but he says hey boys gonna try to do something pretty cool for my last email yeah it'll be the last one did wanna say like off the character of liam bruce i didn't think that made heaps of sense um oh he's just had a whole lot of fun big cheers from me yeah that's what he said yeah just wondering what a good length of video is for the stream it won't be be one of a weird puppet uh but something a bit more creative i mean if you don't want to show it that's cool i'm not fast but i'll probably put a put more high effort in okay uh but let me know what a good length is we didn't let him know what a good length was i still can't get into these emails but he has gone ahead and sent us a video yeah um and he's ended it with this is his last production that he's gonna make he's titled the final the final uh but he's also said i'm happy to return next term for special appearances but then who knows what my rates will be so he's wanting money from us let's watch it but let's watch this video let's do it [Music] it all started about 10 weeks ago and i uh i sent my first email um a script something i put a lot of effort into for them and yeah they ignored me so i um i wrote back next week and i said guys you ignored and they read it they said yeah and they said if you do another script we might read it um so i uh i wrote another script for them and they ignored it they said it was too long um i did ask for a word count but they never gave me one so after that i took it into my own hands and i i made my own video i got with some pretty infamous actors i got max farmer and isaac reed and they they did better than i ever could imagine [Music] and i sent that in and they didn't like it um everyone else did but they didn't uh they said ball's in my court so i sent another video um and they they ignored that one i even got holy jmo i spent all my money on the editing and that's why i'm here today um i thought they were my best friends i said i'm an open book and they they had no questions for me and um i've just really been needing a friend and after being ignored so many times i realized it's not going to get any better with them so this is my final my final video and my final email to nick informo yeah okay incredible oh incredible unbelievable um he ended that i think the last thing that was written on the screen was a big thanks to us and so i'd just like to say you're welcome also leave the puppets behind that was brilliant absolutely that was next level what an emotional film i think you're welcome we helped get the best out of you yes we have pushed back and push you harder yeah um if it wasn't for us you'd still just be writing scripts but look at what we've got now it was our pleasure i was nice to put a uh face to the name too yeah uh but we're gonna finish off with something very quick uh zach could you please come up here quickly like yeah um it's hard to find good help this year yeah it is quite hard uh zach why do you think we might have brought you up for this last moment i don't your best guess uh i don't know just something okay good energy zach i love what you're bringing right now uh do you remember what you were meant to do tonight um was it the ice bath it was um just to keep get everyone up to speed yeah zach betrayed me a couple of weeks ago yeah a couple times yep i think like five or six years five or six years it's worth the times um gracie and her girls emailed us in and said what would be a proper punishment for zach it would be zack in a nice bath of course um we said at the end of last week uh zach would be in an ice bath yep are you in an ice bath i'm not in an ice bath you are not you're not he is not and so we're gonna say goodbye to everyone right now wave goodbye for the term but as we go the music will come on and zach is going to do a little final dance for us and we are going to take that as um equal to an iceberg and so goodbye every youth goodbye it's been a pleasure um have a great uh holidays and we'll see you next time peace out you can go in the middle if you want wherever you want as long as you're in the camera [Music] [Music] [Music] you
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