Book: Esther
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ESTHER 4:14

"FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS"

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