‘Esther and Mordecai’ Lesson 12 Q4 Sabbath School 2023, The Biblical Perspective
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Sabbath school lesson 2023 titled ‘Esther and Mordecai’ - Lesson 12 Q4. In our 12th study in the series, we will address the following questions:
1.) What is the relevance of discussing people like Daniel, Esther and Mordechai in the context of mission?
2.) What about Esther and Mordechai, especially in Est. 2.8-11, how does this work missiologically?
3.) Why did the book of Esther make it into the canon, eventually?
4.) What part of this story particularly sheds light on mission?
5.) Where do we see God using those people as missionaries?
Key Bible Text: “ ‘I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth’ ” (Isa. 49:6, NRSV).
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Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Prayer
01:27 Question 1
14:20 Question 2
16:48 Question 3
20:51 Question 4
29:14 Question 5
36:27 Closing remarks
Bible text from this week’s study:
Daniel 1: 17 - 21
Daniel 2: 17 - 19
Daniel 3: 12, 16 - 18, 26, 28, 29
Daniel 1: 1-4, 8
Esther 2: 8 - 11
Esther 2: 9
Esther 2: 15 - 17
Esther 3: 3 - 5
Esther 4: 1 - 3
Esther 4: 12 - 14
Esther 4: 15 - 17, 5: 1 - 3
Esther 7: 10
Esther 8: 2, 17
Esther 9: 25
This weeks study ‘Esther and Mordecai’ is taken by Pedro Antonius and Colleen Dixon.
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Thank you TBP family.
May God increase your wisdom 🙏 🙌
Hi Marietta, thanks and many blessings to you.
We just have to accept God's plan to save His people 🙏
Hi sharon, that is right. Blessings.
Thank you TBP for the great study lesson discussion. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
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WONDERFUL STUDY 😊
Blessings to you Desna and thanks for studying with TBP.
This presentation was exceptional and very informative👍. Especially when the presenter said Mordecai's actions against Haman created problems for the Jews- that part was really eye-opening. Thank you TBP🙏
Hi godblessfee, thank you for letting us know that this study has been useful to you. We pray for the Lord's blessings upon you.
Are you saying that Mordecai's obeying God's command not to bow down to any other than Him was wrong? I strongly disagree with that position. Mordecai was not wrong as I see it.
Mordecai wasn't wrong at all. It's just that sometimes our stance for God impacts those around us. Haman had a personal vendetta against Mordecai but was vengeful enough to include others, that's all.
@@godblessfee_812 Yes, our stance for God always impacts others one way or another. There is a distinction between doing obeisance to dignitaries in the Bible and worshiping idols. Both are practiced everywhere in the Bible and one does not mean the other. You are right concerning Human, but notice the Bible does not say why Mordecai refused to bow him as to recognise his position. We assume the worship reason and fail to see that the Bible makes a difference between these two things although it uses the same expression for both. It was Mordecai who started this for some obscure reason that may have nothing to do with God. You can do a word search on 'bowed' bowing down' and so forth to see what you find. I hope this makes sense. Blessings.
Hi,@@edithdotson5617, do you think Mordecai bowed down before the king at some point, like it was practiced in all kingdoms, including in Israel as a sign of respect for authority? God does not condemn this sort of bowing down, it would seem, but the one to idols. We should not confuse those two things. I could give you a whole list of references, but it would be best if you look it up personally. Do not accept it like this, check it for yourself. Blessings.
Jesus is a craftsman. He crafts something out of a difficult situation.
Daniel and his cousins, Mordecai, Eunuch from Ethiopia are examples of suffering servants. Male slaves that worked in palaces were emasculated: their geneology was terminated. It is Joseph who worked in the palace and had own children.
What it means to be a eunuch:
Deuteronomy 23:1 No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord.
2 No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.
Mordecai forces Esther to enter into a forbidden marriage: a Jewess getting married to an uncircumcised man. Children of Jacob killed all men in an entire region because the prince of the region had raped Jacob's daughter.
When people are oppressed, they would rather die/sacrifice their body not the mind🧠Mordecai knew what was about to happen to his people. He had to sound the battle cry. He reminded Esther, "heiress of the kingdom o why thou dost slumber"
Song sang by slaves:
Oh freedom×3
Over me
And before I'd be a slave
I will be burried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free
Mordecai used the beauty of a young woman, Esther to check the king😊. Vashti, like John the Baptist, decreased and Esther increased. Vashti refused to show her beauty to the King's men and so she lost her queenship and gave way to Esther; whose identity was concealed for protection until mission was done. The only physical weapon Mordecai had was to send Esther for a competition. Mordecai knew the weakness of kings and their men. Deborah indicates the weakness too in Judges 5:30‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:
a woman or two for each man"
Mordecai like Naaman's slave girl were stirred to do something to save themselves or die. Naaman would spread his leprosy to the entire household, his silver and gold was all infected with the disease. Elisha refused to meet him not to share his leprosy. He knew the health laws. Hoarding is another kind of leprosy. Gehazi gets the physical leprosy forever for the hidden sin of hoarding.
Esther's comfort zone was encroached. Getting involved with an old uncircumcised man was not an honour, it was mission to save herself and her people😊she did not desire the king. And lets not get excited about Esther becoming a queen, the union was forbidden and her children would be bastards according to Jews (Deut.23) The marriage was to cause her suffer with the rest of the Jews. Her children with the king would be bastards, the queenship in a foreignland was not a glorious thing to the Jews😢 they were try to liberate themselves from haters. Men and women we have to participate in all wisdom to reach the finish line🎉 Teamwork is necessary
Hi MsGratefugal, thanks for your important comments on this challenging story that so many would not see without sanitised eyes. The people only came under threat because of Mordecai's action. Had he been respectful to Haman, there would have been no threat of killing them all off. All we would have had is that strange story of how Esther became queen of Persia. However, God knows how to glorify his name through the missteps of humanity when he assists them in their madness and vanity because he loves his people. This is about us and how we often live our lives. Blessings.
@@TheBiblicalPerspective we cannot know what was boiling between Mordecai and Haman. Mordecai refused to bow to Haman. Daniel refused to bow to Darius' decree, the cousins refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's decree of worshipping the statue. They obeyed God's 1st Commandment because the loved Him. Joseph refused to give in to Potiphar's wife. There is a stirring that happens deep within someone to stand for God. (Rahab)
Jesus needs the bold and zealous ones for example
1. Phinehas killed an Israelite, Zimri with his foreign Midianite woman, Kozbi
Number 25:6 "Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped; 9 but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
10 The Lord said to Moses, 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites. Since he was as zealous for my honor among them as I am, I did not put an end to them in my zeal. 12 Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. 13 He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
2. Elijah
4. Deborah & Barak & Jael (tent dweller)
3. Paul
4. Mordecai🙂added to the list
5. +more up to this generation😊🙏
They were not picked to do the job but the were anointed by the Spirit of God. God is in control, He knows how to stir the water for healing of souls. He caused a storm to help Jonah. He wants to work with us and we need to be attentive like Samuel not hesitant Lot. We are grateful to angels that grab us from God's Wrath. The eyes of the Lord range on those who are fully committed to Him and He strengthens them🙏
@@MsGratefulgalAs you said, we do not know what was boiling between them. However, being zealous for God 'according to knowledge' as Paul would put it, is a good thing that as you rightly said, God honours. Blessings.
@@TheBiblicalPerspective There is a direct connection between something we do for Jesus on Earth and something great He will do for us in heaven Luke 6:22-23
When we acknowledge Jesus on Earth, He will acknowledge us before the Father
Everything we do today for Christ's sake, matters forever
@@MsGratefulgal Amen.