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ESTHER 4:13, 14

"FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"

Intro:  Today the U.S. has been raised to height & power. Why?  To each of
        us God  has given opportunity, talent, and position. Who knows
        whether thou art come  to the Kingdom for such a tim as this.

I. HEARKEN.
        a. Will you try to separate your interests from those of your
           people & your God?
                1. "Thine not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the
                   King's house."
                2. She may have though, "I am safe."
                3. Do you look at the iniquity around you & say "It
                   doesn't matter as long as I am saved."
                        a. I will live my own faith & life.
                        b. The Church matters not if it apostiscies.
        B. Remember, God can do without you.
                1. Enlargement & deliverance will come.
                2. God's purposes shall be fullfilled.
                3. The lost shall hear of Jesus Christ.
                4. It may be that God will do without us.
                        a. It may be that God will set aside the United
                           States as unfruitful tree - "cut it down."
                        b. Because the church has refused to repent He may
                           come and fight against it with the sword of His
                           mouth."
                                1. Saul set aside (would not submit).
                                2. Sampson set aside (lost).
        C. Think of the disgrace if you fail God.
                1. What if Esther had not gone before the King to speak?

II. CONSIDER.
        A. The position that God has brought you to.
                1. Salvation.
                2. Raised to child of the King; walk worthy.
                3. Some of you brought out of poverty to place of
                   abundance.
        B. Why has God brought you where you are?
                1. For your sake that you might practice self-indulgence?
                2. We are like a mesh in a net; cannot move without moving
                   others.
                        a. He does not bless the hand for the hands sake
                           but for the body's sake.
        C. Consider the time of God's blessing.
                1. You have been brought to faith when infidelity is
                   growing.
                2. You have been brought to full assurance when others in
                   doubt & trembling.
                3. You have been brought to knowledge when multitudes
                   perishing for lack of knowledge.
                4. God has done this for some good purpose.
                5. If God has blessed you financially, do you think you
                   are a proprietor or steward?

III. ASPIRE "WHO KNOWETH WHETHER THOU ART COME TO THE . . . 
        A. "Who knoweth" that is what ambitious man says.
                1. Louis Napoleon in prison fortress.
                2. I do not desire to move your ambitions for poor
                   thrones or honors of men.
                3. Ambitious for God.
        B. God may use you & bless this nation.
                1. No one can know to the contrary.
                        a. Billy Graham.
                2. No one knows the limits of the posibilities of a man
                   should God choose to use him.
                3. You say I am nothing; put the right one in front of
                   you and you are 10; get several nothings with right
                   one.
        C. Aspire great things for God.

IV. CONFIDENCE.
        A. Be confident you are safe.