Esther Makes the Enemy's Law Ineffective
SIN LESS series Part 14

November 23, 2014
MF Blume


Esther 8:1-8  On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.  (2)  And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.  (3)  And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.  (4)  Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,  (5)  And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:  (6)  For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?  (7)  Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.  (8)  Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.


Esther and Mordecai were now out of danger.

But the JEWS were still in danger.
Esther already gave her request.
Esther learned that the King provided all that was required for the Queen for her victory when he hanged Haman and gave Haman’s house to her.
Once she had touched the scepter of the kingdom and came into contact with power, she was given the ability to make a DECREE  in the king’s name.

Esther 8:9-10  Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.  (10)  And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
 
Paul’s letters went to all the church in the New Testament.
Esther 8:11-12  Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,  (12)  Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
 
The law gave the Jews the authority to defend their lives and to FIGHT BACK.
Romans 7:8-9  But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.  (9)  For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Things is like us trying to serve God and committing sins.
The commandment of God speaks of the OLD TESTAMENT list of do’s and don’ts.
Paul said his will power was not strong enough and he ended up doing what SIN urged him to do.

Romans 7:15  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
 
Romans 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
 
He had the will power!
 Paul analyzed his situation and got revelation from it.

Romans 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

It hit him!

Everytime Paul used will-power – used flesh – to serve God and make himself do good, another law would be fulfilled.
Romans 7:4-6  Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.  (5)  For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.  (6)  But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
 
The motions of sins were by the law, because everytime we went to obey the law by making ourselves do good through will power, sin went into motion!
Will power is like a child’s hand taking your other hand to do something good, but everytime you do it, a giant’s arm wrestling hand forces it to do wrong instead.
Romans 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
 
Call on God and pull back from using your will power alone, and ask His hand to use yours like an instrument of righteousness in his hand.

While serving God in oldness of letter using “will power” is not strong enough to stop sin from working its motions in us, but actually FEEDS sin to work more the more we try, THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE makes us free from the law of sin and death.
 
Here is where we go back to Esther’s entrance to the KING.
 
Romans 6:13  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but (1) yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and (2) your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
 
It’s one thing to finally get (1) the boldness to go before God in faith that HE WELCOMES YOU so you don’t have the unbelief that your prayers won’t be heard.
 
1)   When Esther got bold enough to go before the king, that represents presenting yourself to God as those alive from the dead.

2)   But when she went further and wanted to see her enemy Haman dealt with and stop the law he initiated, that is related to presenting our BODILY MEMBERS as instruments of God’s righteousness.

That is the part in our lives when we start overcoming sin.

Overcoming that DEATH that the bible calls it when we sin and fail in serving God.

In Esther’s story, she was told to USE THE KING’S NAME AND AUTHORIZE JEWS TO FIGHT BACK!
You believe that HE WILL EMPOWER YOU to affect YOUR BEHAVIOUR NOW.
Isaiah 40:31  But they that wait upon the LORD (NOT USE WILL POWER) shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
 
Wings of eagles are not NATURAL to us any more than OLIVE OIL is natural to ALMOND TREES.
Isaiah 40:28-31  Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.  (29)  He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.  (30)  Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:  (31)  But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
 
God who does get weary can GIVE POWER TO US so WE WILL RUN AND NOT BE WEARY!

It’s unnatural to us, so using will power to gather up all your natural power to do good is certainly not to be compared to GOD GIVING YOU POWER to be able to experience what HE EXPERIENCES!

WAITING means you are not doing something using will power.
Mordecai put it in letters sealed with the king’s name for the people to stand up and fight back.

Now you can fight back against the law of sin and death and stop this cursed sinning all the time that is as good as slaying you!

The letters of Paul are there in the New Testament!
 
1 Corinthians 14:37  If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
 
PRAY IN JESUS’ NAME and call on God.
That is what it means to go in the name of the Lord!
Think of the need to stop relying on will power when you read this:

Zechariah 4:6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
 
You believed God for HIS SPIRIT to work with you now.

When you pray in unbelief thinking something about you is lacking, the faith God needs to answer you is absent, and He cannot help.
But once bold enough to go in, you then discover the same source of flesh you looked for to make yourself worthy, that you  now know is ridiculous, is the source you looked for to fight sin in your life.

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