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<div class="SSN_title">"FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. GOD'S PURPOSES ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH HUMAN INSTRUMENTS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Threatened annihilation of Abraham's seed, before God's promise was fulfilled.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Through thy seed shall all nations of world be blessed."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "There shall arise a branch out of the stem of Judah."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God must preserve this tribe to fulfill His Word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God's advance preparations.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Vashti's disobedience and de-thronement.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. What sparked the mind of the drunken king to issue the order that she disobeyed?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Esther chosen over all other to be new queen.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You say her beauty - who gave her such beauty - God working in womb of mother.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God's purposes begin even before birth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">Paul - "Separated unto the Gospel from mother's womb."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Esther's whole life was being led to this psychic moment "such a time as this."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Why was Esther born?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. To save Judah from destruction?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. To please God through obedience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Why were you born?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Note years of preparation for a two-day task.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Despise not the days of preparation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The time of revelation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. How can we become instruments for God's use?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Submission.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "I will go."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "Present your bodies as living sacrifices."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. When the call of God comes we must go and trust the circumstances to Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Dedication.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "If I perish I perish."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Many ventures for God forsaken for lack of courage, which comes from total dedication.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. What have you got to lose? My neck! What's so precious about your neck? - "Fear not him who can kill the body..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. What if we fail God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "If you hold your peace then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What faith in the purposes of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "But you and your fathers house shall be destroyed."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We have been placed here on earth for one chief purpose. All others spring from Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. To glorify God by our submission and obedience to Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. God gives us many opportunities throughout life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Longsuffering and patient.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. He doesn't let us go.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. He pursues after us.</div>
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