We are in Esther. We were in Esther the first hour,
one and two. Now we're going to be in the
rest of the chapters of Esther. Our hope is that the Lord would
be our vision this morning, isn't it? That he would be seen. That's our hope. If he's not
seen, we meet in vain. And the only way he can be seen
is by being revealed. That song, Be Thou My Vision,
is a plea, it's a request. We come begging. Every time we
meet, every time we attempt to worship Him, we come begging,
Lord, please be our vision. Now we're in Esther chapter three
to begin with, but I want to turn to Hebrews chapter seven
to preface this message. If you'll turn over and hold
your place in Esther, turn to Hebrews chapter seven. Hebrews chapter seven, verse
24 tells us this. But this man, because he continueth
ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to
save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest
became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners,
and made higher than the heavens. Who needeth not daily as those
high priests to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sin, and then
for the sins of the peoples. For this he did once when he
offered himself up. For the law maketh men high priests,
which have infirmity, but the word of the oath which was since
the law maketh the son who is consecrated forevermore. Now
pay close attention to verse 25 again. Wherefore he is able
also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. I've titled this message,
Ever Liveth to Make Intercession. Now go back with me to Esther
chapter three, Esther is one of the most beautiful
pictures that we have of our Lord interceding for us, for
his people. It's one of the most beautiful
pictures we have of the Lord intervening. That's what interceding
means, is intervening on behalf of or speaking as a substitute
in the place of. That's what the Lord does for
his people, isn't it? Now, men in religion today, they
have priests that stand and declare that they are to be approached
and sins be confessed to them, and then they will make atonement
for those sins. Catholic church is one that's
very predominant in that. They have priests that you go
to confessions and you confess to the priest what you've done.
Boy, I'm glad we don't do that here. I don't want to hear about
everything that you've done wrong, and you don't want to hear about
what I've done wrong, first of all, and it wouldn't do any good. It would
just, it's a waste of time. We have an intercessor named
Jesus Christ the righteous. We come to him confessing our
sin, don't we? And when we do, what did he say?
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. Aren't you thankful you have
an intercessor, a high priest named Jesus Christ that you don't
come to me or any other man. We have the man, the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is what I hope to see in
Esther this morning is this intercessory. Only Christ can intercede. Only
Christ can intercede and he ever liveth to do just that for his
people. That means he lives forever.
Forever and ever, he intercedes for his people. Now, it would
remind us of the first hour. We looked at Queen Vashti, and
we looked at Esther, chapters one and two. We've seen Vashti
as being a type of our old man, our flesh, and we've seen Esther
as being a type of our new man, what the Lord Jesus Christ provided
in salvation and bestowed upon us. Now, the end of chapter two,
I want to read that to us because we didn't read that the first
hour, the three verses. In verse 21 of chapter two, In
those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the
king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept
the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen,
and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name. And
when the inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out,
therefore they were both hanged on a tree, and it was written
in the book of the Chronicles before the king. So we have the
end of this chapter telling us that two men wanted to kill the
king and Mordecai, which I would remind us is the nephew of Esther's
father who had died and raised Esther. Mordecai raised Esther.
Now, we understand what has happened here. These two men wanted to
kill the king. Mordecai heard of it. Mordecai warned Esther.
Esther went to the king and said, Mordecai has said this. They've
searched out the matter and found it to be so. They killed both
of the men. Now this is important to remember because nothing is
ever said after this in this chapter, nor in the next chapter
about Mordecai. So nothing happened to Mordecai. He didn't get praised. He didn't
get riches. He didn't get anything. He literally
told the king that he was going to die, and the king took matters,
took care of business, and then it was forgotten. Completely
forgotten. And so we see that these men
were put to death, and we see that Mordecai was the reason
in order to save the king, and yet nothing was ever done. He
was not rewarded. He wasn't rewarded. So Now the
very next chapter, and we will see what happens to Morty, he
does get rewarded later on. And it's interesting that it
didn't happen immediately. King had, can you imagine somebody
saving your life, literally saving your life? And you had the power
as the king, as the one over everything, wouldn't you reward
the person? I would think so. I would. I would want to do something
nice for somebody. Even if you give me a gift, I
want to do something nice for you. I can't imagine saving my
life. What could you do? What would you want to do? I
don't know, but he didn't do anything to Mordecai, did he?
Why? Because of the divine purpose
of God. because of the preeminence of
God, because of the grace of God, as we'll see later on. It
was done so that the king would forget about it, and when the
time of God came to pass, he would remember it for a purpose.
This is in our lives throughout all the time happening. We don't
even realize that it's happening. We forget things, and then we
remember things. The Lord gets all the glory in
this salvation. The Lord gets all the glory in
this chapter, this book, Genesis to Revelation. He gets all the
glory for it, doesn't he? So in chapter 3 verse 1, After
these things did King Ahasuerus promote Haman, the son of Hamadathah
the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the
princes that were with him. So Haman has now been promoted
because of the death of these two men. If these two men had
not died, Haman would not have been promoted. Now understand
Throughout this book, you're gonna find out that Haman is
the enemy of the Jew. The Lord raises up men to do
whatsoever he would. Whatsoever the Lord's purpose,
he raises up men. The president of the United States
is the president of the United States because the Lord has purpose
before the foundation of the world that he would be in office.
It doesn't matter whether you like him or you don't, that's
irrelevant. It's God's president of the United States right now.
That's good news to me because it looks, If you look around
the things in society, the things that seem overwhelming to you
and things that you wish you could change, everything is exactly
as the Lord has ordained it from the foundation of the world.
Rest in Christ. Rest in Christ. Don't rest in
government. Don't rest in what you think. Rest in the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's the message. Mordecai,
look at verse two with me. I didn't read verse two, and
that's important. All the king's servants that were in the king's
gate bowed and reverenced Haman. For the king had so commanded
concerning him, but Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence."
Everybody bowed to Haman. This was the king's right-hand
man. This was the head honcho, if you will. And everybody seen
him coming, they would bow. They would observe his isness, his
power, his position. And the king said to do so. He
represented the king. Mordecai said, I'm not bowing.
I am not bowing to this man. Why? because the Lord has said,
you don't bow to anyone but me. See, Mordecai was a Jew, and
he knew of the Lord's commandments, and that's the reason he would
not bow. This made Haman very, very upset. He was insulted. How dare this puny Jew in my
country, not even part of my country, I mean, the worst possible
things that you could think about, I guarantee Haman thought of
it because he devised a plan. He says, I'm gonna kill him.
I'm gonna kill him and every single Jew, man, woman, boy,
girl. I'm gonna kill every one of them.
And he goes to the king to do so. He starts talking to the
king and he says, there's a people among us and they mean us harm. They don't reverence us. They
don't reverence you, O king. What he was really saying is,
is Mordecai won't bow to me and I'm gonna throw a temper tantrum
and I'm gonna have it my way and kill every one of them. And that's
exactly what he tries to do. Haman devised a plan. Aren't
you glad our God is not the God of plans? God doesn't plan. God's never planned anything.
He does. He is. He purposes. Did you know
that the word control is not in the Bible? And we say this,
and you'll hear me say this sometimes, so this is not a criticism to
anyone. This is just something we say
that we've picked up from other people. But the word control,
saying God's in control, that's not in the Bible. That's not
in the Bible. You won't see anywhere where it says God is in control. Now we know he's in control.
We know he's seated in the heavenlies, but think of it this way instead. All things are ordered and sure. The Lord doeth whatsoever he
pleaseth. His will is done in heaven and in earth. He wills
and it happens. He purposes and it comes to pass. This is not, he doesn't plan. Satan plans, Satan plots, Satan
tries. God just reigns. God just is. He just does. I like that myself. I love the fact that he purposes
and it comes to pass and I can't change it. I can't break it.
I can't fix it. I can't challenge God in any
way. And Satan can't challenge God in any way. He just does
because of who he is. Now this is all that men can
do is try to make plans. If you're talking about salvation
being a choice, then men would have to say that God made a plan
because if he loves everybody and he died for everybody, then
everybody should go to heaven. But if somebody that he died
for goes to hell, that means he made a plan and his plan failed. Do we see that? That's what we're
saying. If we're saying that God loves everybody and God died
for everybody, but yet some people that God died for went to hell,
God's plan failed. God's a failure. Thanks be to
God, that's not true, is it? Whomsoever the Lord loveth, Whomsoever
the Lord loved, He died for. And whomsoever He died for is
perfectly righteous in His sight. He put away their sin. See, the
cross of Calvary is not just a bucket where we go to and dump
our sin into, like men think. All you have to do is take the
first step. Come and dump your sin into the bucket. It'll go
away. That's not it at all. He became sin for us who knew
no sin. He took our sin. He took our
shame. He took our guilt and made us
perfect. He gave us his righteousness.
That's called substitution. That's what he did for his people. And Haman here thinks that he's
going to make a plan, make a plan to destroy the Jew. Now look
in verse 13 of this chapter. The letters were sent by post
into all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill, to cause
to perish. Now understand the hate that
this man has in his heart. It didn't just say kill, did
it? It didn't just say destroy, it says three things. He's gonna
destroy them, he's gonna kill them, and he's gonna cause them
to perish. All Jews, both young and old, little children and
women, in one day, upon the 13th day of the 12th month, which
is the month of Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a
prey. It was published in every province. It was published throughout
every part of the land. Everybody knew that on this particular
day, the Jews were to be killed. Now, what would you do? What
would you do if that happened to you and your family, your
kindred, your brethren? What would you do if that decree
came forth from the king? Now, a king is a dictator. We
live in a democracy, and I'm thankful for that. But a king
is, whatever he says goes. There is no negotiating. There
is no, you can plead with him all you want to, but what he
says is the law. Do we see that? So if we were
under those circumstances and the king says the Jews are going
to die, it was sealed with his signet. He gave Haman his ring.
And he said, put my name to it, whatever you want to do. He says,
I want to kill every one of the Jews. I want to destroy them.
I want to make sure every one of them perishes from off the face of
the earth. The children, the women, all of them. That's how
much hate he had. What would you do? under those circumstances. You'll do the exact same thing
Mordecai did, no doubt. Fall upon your face before God
because there's nothing else you can do. There's nothing. They're going to kill us. Lord,
they're going to destroy us. Have mercy upon us. That's exactly
what we would do, isn't it? That's exactly what the Lord
does whenever he reveals that we're sinners. When the Lord
reveals unto you that you are dead in trespasses and in sin,
when the King's law is made real unto you and you have repentance
towards God, you see God. going to destroy you for being
a sinner. What do you do? You run to Christ. He gives you the faith of Christ
to cry out unto him. Mordecai sat in sackcloth and
ashes, and nobody in sackcloth and ashes could come into the
king's court, the scripture says. So what did Mordecai do? He spoke
to Esther. He said, I can't come into the
king's presence. I haven't been summoned, but
he delights in you, Esther. He delights in who you are as
his queen. He loves you. I need you to go tell the king
to not destroy your family. All of us, we're all going to
perish. She said, Mordecai, The only way that you can go into
the king's presence is if he gives you permission to do so.
If he grants you an audience by asking you to come to him,
you don't just walk into his courtroom. He's the king. The
hope is one law that he made, that he could hold up a golden
censer. He could hold up this device
that would enable the person to approach him. If he didn't
hold up the golden censer, the scepter, the golden scepter,
you know what would happen? They would kill him. They would
kill him. Their only hope in approaching the king is that
he would hold up that golden scepter so that she could enter
in and plead his perpetition. She tells that to Mordecai. Mordecai
says, you must do this. If you do not, if you sit idly
by, if you don't do something, we're going to die. And she says,
okay, we'll fast and we'll pray for three days unto the Lord.
We'll fast and we'll pray. And on the third day, I will
go before the king as your word, as what you're telling me. Can you imagine knowing that you could die in
approaching? in approaching this king, the
position that she's in, knowing that the possibility, like he
has all power, he has all authority to do whatsoever he will. And
she just hoping and begging unto the Lord to put his heart towards
her. If he don't have a heart towards
her whenever she comes in, see, it may be that his heart is on
other matters and he's frustrated and don't wanna deal with her,
right? I mean, that's a possibility. And if he doesn't take notice
of her and lift up this golden scepter, then she's dead, she's
dead. Esther says, if I die, then I
die. If I die, then I die. And after
three days and three nights, she puts on her royal garment
and goes in before the king. And you know what it says? She
obtained favor in his sight. And he lifted up the golden scepter. He says, what is your request?
What is your request? Anyone that enters into the king's
presence had to come for a reason, knowing that she could die. And
him knowing that she could die prompted him to ask the question,
why did you come here? What is your request? Her request
says, she tells him, she says that we may have a feast, that
we may have a banquet with just you and me and Haman. And the king agrees to it. First
of all, she says, if I found grace in your sight, if you're
pleased, if it please you, if it's okay, I would like to do
this. So she's very in reverence unto the king at all times. She's
bowing into him at all times in her words and her actions.
She said, I want to have a banquet with just you and me and Haman. And he says, okay. And he goes
to this banquet of wine. And while they're at the banquet
of wine, he asks her again. He says, what is your request?
And she said, my request is this, that we have a banquet again
that I prepare, a feast this time, just for you and just for
me and just for Haman. And he says, okay. Now Haman
is lifted up with pride at this point. Haman is really excited
about Haman. He is really proud of Haman because
Haman was the only one invited to the king and queen's banquet,
right? He thought he was something else. Can you imagine the arrogance
of this man? First of all, in trying to kill
all the Jews, but second of all, now he's with the king and with
the queen alone. He's the man in his mind. He
goes home and he brags unto his wife, unto his friends. Nobody
else was invited but me. I got to go. You didn't get to
go. See how awesome I am? I mean, that's literally what
he does. On the way home, he sees Mordecai and he wants to
kill Mordecai right then, but the scripture says, He restrained
himself. You know who restrained him?
God did. God restrained him right then, didn't he? See, your enemies
can't touch you unless the Lord permits it to be so. Do you rest
in that? I rest in that. I believe when
the Lord says, nothing can come to you, nothing can get to you
unless it passes through his hand. I rest in that. So we see Naaman leaving Mordecai
there. He's feeling very prideful about
himself, very excited about himself, but yet he's angry because of
Mordecai. He goes home and he brags to
his friends about the position that he has at the banquet. But
then he says, but this Jew, this Mordecai, he will not bow and
give me reverence. Look what the king and queen
has done, and he still won't bow and give me reverence. And his wife says,
well, make a gallows, 50 cubits high and hang him, hang him.
And Naaman says, okay, I'm gonna build a gallows 50 cubits high,
and he does so. He builds a gallow 50 cubits high. Now, shortly thereafter, as he's
telling all of this, and as this is coming to pass, they come
and get him for the banquet, the second banquet. Now, I'm
not sure how much time had passed, enough time for 50 cubit high
gallows to be built, and we know that. But as he's talking to
his wife, continue, it literally says, and they came to get him
to the banquet. And so he now, okay, I'm gonna go to this banquet.
I'm the man, this is awesome. I've got the gallows ready to
hang the guy that won't bow to me. And I get to eat with the
king and queen. He gets there and the king asks
Esther, what is thy request? What is thy request? Now, I got
a little bit ahead of myself and I must back up because it's
very important, okay? So forgive me for this. I just
jumped from chapter three all the way over to chapter five
and I forgot about chapter four, which is very important, very
important. I want you to look with me. I want you to look with me actually
in chapter six, in chapter six. Actually, I didn't get ahead
of myself. I stand corrected, actually. At the end of chapter
five is actually where he builds the gallows, and it pleased him. So here we are in chapter six. On that night, the night that
he builds the gallows, could not the king sleep, and he commanded
to bring the books of records of the chronicles, and they were
read before the king. And it was found written that
Mordecai had told of Bigthanah and Teresh, two of the king's
chamberlains. Remember chapter two, the end of chapter two,
this is what the king, the king can't sleep. And he calls for
the books to be brought. Think about the province of God
and just grabbing that particular book. But not only that, reading
that particular passage, reading that particular thing that happened,
it was lost in the history. It would have been lost forever.
But God said, God made the man, Ahasuerus, not able to sleep.
Took his sleep from him. And he called for the books. How many records did they keep
back then? I mean, I would imagine it would be in abundance, wouldn't
you? Everything that transpired in the kingdom, everything that
was going on. So it'd been a library. Yet they grabbed the one book,
don't they? And they bring that one book to the king and the
king reads it. And he finds out about what Mordecai had done
to the two Kings Chamberlains. Now, the next thing the king
says is, who is in the court? And they said, Haman. Haman's in the court. Now for
the sake of time, I'm not going to continue reading. I'm going
to tell you what happens because I feel like I'm running out of time
and I haven't brought the gospel through all this very much yet.
I want this to be a gospel message. My intention is not to tell you
the story of Esther. My intention is to tell you about Christ.
So what happened was Haman's the one in the court. Now talk
about time and place. They got the right book, the
right chapter. They read that chapter. It's
Mordecai. Nothing's been done good to him. And he says, well,
who's in the court? And he says, Haman. He goes, well, send Haman
in. Haman, what should I do to the man whom the king delights?
What should I do to the man? If I wanted to exalt a man, what
should I do? And Haman said, oh yeah, he's
talking about me. He's talking about this guy,
number one. That's what Haman was thinking. I know that's what
he was thinking because the scripture says you should put a crown on
his head. You should put your robe on his
back, your ring on his finger, and have your best man parade
him around the whole town. He says, that's a fantastic idea.
There's a Jew out there at the gate named Mordecai. Go do that
for him. You're my best man. Haman has to go and take Mordecai
and parade him around the entire city with the king's robe The
king's crown and the king's signet on his finger. What do you think
about that? Is that not providence of God? Is that not taking our
enemy, Satan, all he can do against the children of God is exactly
what the Lord allows him to do. Is that not good news to you?
This is what he did for his people. So he continues on and he tells
us, he tells us in chapter seven, The king and Haman came to a
banquet with Esther the queen. And the king said again unto
Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, what is that
petition queen Esther? And it shall be granted to thee.
And what is that request? And it shall be performed even
half the kingdom. Esther the queen answered, if I have found
favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my
life be given me at my petition and my people at my request for
we are sold. although the enemy could not
countervail the king's damage. And the king of Hazareth said
to Esther the queen, who is he and where is he that durst presume
in his heart to do so? And Esther said, the adversary
and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before
the king and the queen. And you know what they did with
Haman? They took him out to the 50 foot gallows that he had built
for Mordecai and they hung him there. Then they gave every possession
that he had unto Esther and Mordecai, every possession that he had.
Mordecai was then made the king's right-hand man, and the king
gave Mordecai the signet. As the account continues on,
we find that the king doesn't take back what he said to destroy
the Jews. Once the king's word is in place,
it's not stricken. It's law at that point. So what they did was, is just
as he told Haman, write whatever you want to write on behalf of
the Jews, he told Mordecai, write whatever you will write on behalf
of the Jews. And Mordecai writes that we are
empowered to defend ourself against men that would slay us. And it
turned out that the Jews were the ones that did the slaying,
not the other way around. Now, I've told you the story,
the account of Esther. And I want to bring to your attention
some of the things that I have just told you about as the type
and picture of our Lord Jesus Christ and what he has done for
his people. First of all, we were born in
sin, in bondage, just as this account is given at the beginning,
in bondage, not having any hope to get outside of this bondage.
And the thing about it was, is we're in bondage by choice, aren't
we? We're sinners by nature. We're sinners by practice. We
practice sin. We don't even mean to do it.
They did not go back to Jerusalem, did they? They stayed in bondage.
That's where we find ourselves at the beginning of this chapter.
We find ourselves having judgment cast upon us because of what
we are. Just as Mordecai heard that they were going to die,
that is the sentence. The wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life. The sentence was passed for judgment
to be given, and the judgment was death. Death to every Jew. That was the qualification. You
had to be a Jew. Now understand something, that
if Haman would have been able to perform this task, there would
have been no hope of a Redeemer, would they? We know that the
Lord Jesus Christ was going to come through the lineage of the
Jews. So Haman's plan was in no way gonna work. But just as
the scripture says, the lot falls into the lap, and we worry, and
we're concerned, just as Mordecai was, the whole disposing is of
the Lord. We see ourself as having a righteousness
as filthy rags, just as Mordecai did, don't we? We see the sackcloth
that we are. Once the law went into effect,
once the King's word went, we see ourself as having nothing
but sackcloth and ashes upon us. We see no good thing in us.
We cannot approach the King's court at that moment, we can't.
Why? Because our righteousness is
as filthy rags. I'm talking about the high king
of heaven and his court. We can't approach because of
what we are, but we have one that is in the king's court,
don't we? The Lord Jesus Christ, our Esther. And what do we do? We beg, Lord,
I cannot come into the king's presence, but you can. Lord,
I cannot go before the king and have life, but you can go in
my stead and you can intercede for me. That's what we pray,
isn't it? Lord, you can, if you will. Now, what does the Lord
do? What did the Lord do for us?
He said the same thing as Esther said, when he said, Father, let
this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.
What was he saying? If I die, I die. And the Lord Jesus Christ knew
that in taking our sin, When he entered into the presence
of God, when he entered into that throne room, that scepter
would not be lifted. Quite the contrary, the sword
of justice would be unsheathed. That's what he did for us. He
entered the throne room, the presence of God, as us, as the
chief of sinners, bearing our sin in his body, and that scepter
was not lifted. He was executed. He was put to
death. for us, for his people, bearing
our sin. Therefore, when we enter into
the throne room, we have the righteousness of God in him.
He took our sackcloth and he robed us in his righteousness.
And when we enter into the presence of God now, there is an eternal
golden scepter that is upright in the hand of our God and to
his people. He is well pleased with his people because of the
death of his son. He put away our sin. He sees
us as nothing but perfectly righteous. He sees us as good in his eyes. This is what the picture is here.
Esther is the Lord Jesus Christ entering in for his people. Now,
this was a one time account. What I'm trying to tell you is,
is it pleased the Lord to bruise him? The Lord could not give
favor unto the Lord. He couldn't show favoritism.
See, the Lord is not a respecter of any man. If you have sin upon
you when you approach the king, the penalty is death. It's death. We have to be made perfectly
righteous in his eyes. If he spared not his own son,
how is he going to spare me, the chief of sinners? He spared
not his own son because his son was bearing our sin in his body.
And the Lord Jesus Christ put those sin away, didn't he? Naaman accused Mordecai of being
wrong. Naaman is a picture of Satan
accusing the brethren. What does Satan accuse us of?
Breaking the law. Is that not what he brings into
account with the Lord? Every time he accuses you of
sin before God, what is he accusing you with? The law of God. but the law and God's justice
was satisfied. So every time he accuses you
of breaking one of God's laws, the Lord does not see you as
a law breaker. Isn't that glorious? Every accusation
that Satan makes because of what God has done, every accusation
that Satan makes for the elect of God is a lie. Think about
that. That's all he can do is falsely
accuse us because of the righteousness we have in Christ Jesus. Now,
in our eyes, we would say, yeah, he's not wrong. I've done that.
I've done that. But when the Lord looks at his people, when
the Lord looks at his people, he declares them as perfectly
righteous. He doesn't see their sin any
longer. There's a golden scepter held up to them. Everything that
Satan does in trying to accuse us is false. It's not true because
the Lord has put away our sin. One of these days, the Lord's
going to take the devil and throw him in the lake of fire. But
in the meantime, all the devil can do, brother, I hope we can
enter into this. All that Satan can do in accusing
us is just parade us around in the robe of the Lord Jesus Christ.
All he can do, think about this, all that Satan can do because
of what Christ did, every time he accuses us, he's just parading
the righteousness of the Lord around because when the Lord
looks at you, all he sees is his precious son. Do we see that? As he's accusing over and over
and he's saying false things against us because it's not true,
our sin's been put away. He is only exalting the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Lord does not see you as
a sinner. He sees you robed in his own
righteousness. He sees his crown upon your head. He sees you as righteous. So
all that he can do is just glorify God in falsely accusing us. I love that. After three days, Christ was
resurrected. Christ was resurrected just as
three days whenever she went before the King, Christ was resurrected.
And when Christ went into the throne room for his people this
time, the father was well pleased with his son, wasn't he? Father
was well pleased. And because that golden scepter
is up for his son, it will always be held up for his people. Hebrews
7.25 is where we started. It says, wherefore he is able
also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for them. He ever liveth to make
intercession for them. There's only one way to come
and that's by him, confessing him, confessing him as all your
righteousness. We can't go into the throne room
of God unless we are in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
what does the Lord say? Come. Heathen without money, without
price, come, take of the water of life freely. Come unto me
all you that are labored and heavy laden. I'll give you rest. Enter
into the throne room boldly, having obtained mercy to find
grace to help in the time of need. The separation, the middle
wall of petition has been broken down as we read. The veil in
the temple has been written twain from top to bottom. We have a
golden scepter extended unto us because of the finished work
of Christ forever. Now, Wednesday night, I was gonna
read Ephesians chapter one, and the Lord did not purpose for
me to read Ephesians chapter one on Wednesday night, but I'd
like to read that with us now, if you'd like to turn there in
closing. Ephesians chapter three. This is what the Lord's done
for his people. Ephesians chapter one. I said that wrong, I think.
Ephesians chapter one, in verse three. Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If there's a spiritual blessing,
you have been blessed with it. Every single one of them as God's
people, all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Here's the
reason why. According as he hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according
to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of
His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved."
We are accepted. We are no longer rejected because
of what we were, but in His sight, we're acceptable. How can you
take something so wretched so vile and turn it into something
beautiful, something perfect, something righteous. God did
by the death of his own son. That's exactly what the Lord
Jesus Christ did for his people. And in him, verse seven, in whom
we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace. wherein he hath abounded
towards us in all wisdom and prudence. And this is what he's
also done for us, brethren. He has made known unto us the
mystery of his will. What is his will? What is his
will? That all of those for whom he
gave unto his son to be redeemed were redeemed and will come unto
him when he calls. The salvation of his people,
his will, this is his doing. having made known unto us the
mystery of his will according to the good pleasure which he
hath purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness
of time, there it is, brethren, it came to pass, in the dispensation
of the fullness of time, and it came to pass when the Lord
purposed, he might gather together in one all things in Christ,
both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him,
in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after
the counsel of his own will." See, he gets all the glory in
it, doesn't he? He did it all and gets all the glory in it.
And all that the devil can do is just parade us around as being
perfectly righteous in the Lord Jesus Christ. One of these days,
the Lord's going to hang Satan on his own gallow. Did you know
that? He already bruised his head on the cross of Calvary
and thwarted everything that Satan thought he was accomplishing
by the death of Christ. He by himself put away our own,
by his own blood, put away our sin and conquered Satan once
and for all. One of these days, he's gonna
throw Satan in the lake of fire for all eternity, just as Haman
had to hang on his noose. Everything that he created, everything
that he created to try to destroy the Lord's people, the Lord's
gonna use to destroy him. All the lies, everything that
he's ever done, All that's gonna happen is the Lord's gonna get
all the glory for it, and the Lord's people will be brought.
They've already been brought. They've already been brought
into glory, haven't they? We talk of futuristic and we talk
of, it's hard to differentiate because we're there, but we're
here too. And I don't understand that, but that's what the Lord
said. We didn't believe. We're in the King's presence right
now. And there's a golden scepter held up. Perfect peace before
the King. Isn't that glorious? We can enter
boldly to the throne of grace at any time. It's all because
he ever liveth, he ever liveth to make intercession for us.
Amen. Father, bless your word according to what you promised.
Thank you for the substitution of your darling son and interceding
for your people. It's in Christ's name we pray.