Pastor Chris Enoch - February 26, 2017
Scriptures:
Esther 3:1-7
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of
Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher
than that of all the other nobles. All the royal officials at the king’s gate
knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning
him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
Then the royal officials at the
king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s command?” Day after
day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about
it to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them
he was a Jew.
When Haman saw that Mordecai would
not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who
Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead
Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout
the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
In the twelfth year of King Xerxes,
in the first month, the month of Nisan, they cast the pur (that is, the lot) in
the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[a] the
twelfth month, the month of Adar.
Exodus 20:5
"You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents
to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me...."
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave
again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship….
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