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you get me today, so, Sorry.

We are going to be looking at the Book of Esther.

Which is difficult for me, because I've been teaching a class on Esther since January.

So, I have a lot of things in my brain and only like 35 minutes.

So that's the challenge.

The challenge wasn't me, thinking of things to say the channels saying, what am I going to say?

When I, what am I going to not say, but this morning, we are looking at the Book of Esther and we're continuing this, the sermon series that we've been in for quite some time.

And I believe if I'm not mistaken that I am rounding out the Old Testament here.

So I'm the last one in the Old Testament.

We are kind of covering.

So last week, pastor Matt went over a little bit about some of the the Jews who decided to go back home to Judah after the eggs.

I was over and kind of some of the struggles that they went through.

We're looking at the others, some of the juice that stayed behind in some of the places that they were living in.

And I'm just looking at some of the struggles that they were having some of the things that they are put through because of those struggles, but just to remind us of where we are at.

So the plan is the Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

And so knowing this, we have kind of four different coordinates that we look at throughout this sermon series.

First, we have the people who is a story about is a place.

Where is their home?

The presents working?

They meet with God and their purpose.

What is gone asking them to do?

And for that, we're going to turn to Jeremiah 29 and we going to read a few versus there.

So let's, let's do that.

Just now Jeremiah.

29 versus 4 through 7 says this is what the Lord Almighty the god of Israel says, to all those I carried into Exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, build houses and settle down, plant Gardens, and eat what they produce.

Marry, and have sons, and daughters find wise for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they, too may have sons and daughters increase.

The number there, do not decrease, also seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into Exile.

Pray to the Lord for it because if it prospers you two will prosper.

And I also want to read verses 10 and 11 which might sound somewhat familiar.

This is what the Lord says.

When seventy years are completed for Babylon.

I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place for.

I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a Future.

So as we look at those those versus there, we see some things that God might be.

Commanding them to do, but knowing that we're reading the book of Esther.

Okay, we don't see the characters within Jeremiah 29, but we know some of the characters.

So who is the story about what his story is going to be about Mordecai Astor, but then the entire entirety of the Jews me about all of them, but we're going to specifically be looking at a couple of these Jewish people who are living in a certain place.

I'm talking about the place with Mordecai.

Esther in the Jews.

Where is their home?

That's a good question while they're at their home is essentially Judah, right?

That's the promised land.

And that's where they are.

That's where their home is, but some are choosing not to go home.

Some are choosing not to go back to Judah.

Now, in terms of presents, where can they meet with god?

Well, they can't, there's not really a specific presence of God and a part of Matt sermon.

Last week was looking at, you know, how they just they tried.

So, so so hard to bring that presents back to where they thought it was going to be eat, and they still struggled to do just that, but especially for the Jews were living elsewhere.

There is nowhere that they can specifically go meet with God.

Now.

I, I'm just a pastor.

I can't control God.

I can't say no.

God can't meet them, wherever they're at.

Obviously do that.

But in terms of the people being, we'll just go somewhere somewhere and meet with God.

They cannot do that.

Now their purpose, what did God tell them to do? Well from Jeremiah?

29 looks like if he says trust me trust God, trust me.

That I will come back for you, but I'm not sending you into Exile and saying, I'm done with you and moving on to someone else.

He's saying, you're going into Exile.

Be patient.

Wait for me.

I will be back for you.

Trust me and then follow me.

Follow God.

Notice how he didn't say in Jeremiah 29.

Yeah, go live elsewhere and then do whatever you want to from their follow their gods.

Do whatever you want.

No, he says go elsewhere and still be my people.

Still have families, still build home, still do these things?

You're still my people follow me.

You're just living somewhere else.

So trust, me and follow me.

And so that's where we're left at with a book of Esther and as we've been going through this class that I'm teaching since January, we keep coming to the conclusion that there's more questions that come up and answers within this book and there's a specific reason why?

Because you know where humans and we love rules and we love you know, just tell me what to do and tell me where I need to be at this time and tell me all of that and Esther is kind of a book where it's like there's a lot of unknowns with in it.

And says we've been going about the story we say, man.

I'm just left with more questions than I have answers.

And so where can I reach that conclusion with this sermon?

I'm sorry that I can't tell you.

This is a hard line answering.

You go do this and you'll be fine.

I'm just going to tell you that, you know, there's a murky Waters out.

There's a lot of gray area and it's difficult to determine some things.

Let's get into the story of Esther and what a story that it is, there's so much within its that we're going to be cutting a lot of stuff that I wish I could share about what we're going to start an Esther chapter 1.

All verses 1 through 3, just to kind of set the image of where we're at.

So, this is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over, 127 provinces, stretching, from India to Kush at that time.

King Xerxes rain from his Royal throne in the Citadel of Susa.

And in the third year of his Reign, he gave a banquet for all his Nobles and officials, the military leaders of Persia and media, The Princess and The Nobles of the provinces were present.

So, where is this specific story taking place right now.

Where's the the juice home?

Where is a specific story taking place?

What was happening in Susa, the capital of Persia.

Now?

The Persians are the Empire, who conquered the Babylonians, and then take over rule over the land, that the Babylonians were ruling over.

Now.

If you remember, the Babylonians are the ones who actually were the ones that conquered Judah and where the Jews were sent into Exile under the Babylonian rule until the Persians come along.

They conquer Babylon.

This should be kind of a little bit of a review.