BGMCTV MESSIANIC LESSON

1034 Would you give your life up for another, Purim 2025

 

 

VERSE: Yochanan (Jn) 14:8-15 a person who lays down his life for his friends.

SYNOPSIS: What is Purim really about? In the Book of Ester, YEHOVAH’S name is not mentioned not even once. But HIS hands are over the entire book. When YESHUA says no greater gift then a person who lays down their life for another. The true Purim understanding is just that laying your life down foe someone else that you have not even met. Let us explore the truth about Purim and how it really applies to us today. 

VERSES: The Book Of Ester.

 

 

Yochanan (Jn) 14:8-15 a person who lays down his life for his friends.

Joh 15:13  No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends. 

 

Ester 4:15-16 if I perish.

Est 4:15  Ester had them return this answer to Mordekhai: 

Est 4:16  "Go, assemble all the Jews to be found in Shushan, and have them fast for me, neither eating nor drinking for three days, night and day; also I and the girls attending me will fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish." 

 

Ester 1:1-3 a very large empire.

Est 1:1  These events took place in the time of Achashverosh, the Achashverosh who ruled over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. 

 

Est 1:3 

 

Ester 1:8-12 This enraged the king—his anger blazed inside him.

Est 1:11  to bring Queen Vashti before the king with the royal crown, in order to show the people and the officials her beauty, for she was indeed a good-looking woman. 

Est 1:12  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the order of the king, which he had sent through his officers. This enraged the king—his anger blazed inside him. 

 

Ester 2:1-4

Est 2:1  A while later, when King Achashverosh's anger had subsided, he remembered Vashti, what she had done and what had been decreed against her. Est 2:2  The king's servants attending him said, "A search should be made for young, good-looking virgins. Est 2:3  The king should appoint officials in all the provinces of the kingdom to gather all the young, good-looking virgins to the house for the harem, in Shushan the capital. They should be put under the care of Hegai the king's officer in charge of the women, and he should give them the cosmetics they require. 

Est 2:4  Then, the girl who seems best to the king should become queen instead of Vashti." This proposal pleased the king, so he acted accordingly. 

 

Ester 2:5-7

Est 2:5  There was in Shushan the capital a man who was a Jew, whose name was Mordekhai the son of Ya'ir, the son of Shim`i, the son of Kish, a Binyamini. 

Est 2:6  He had been exiled from Yerushalayim with the captives exiled with Y'khanyah king of Y'hudah, whom N'vukhadnetzar king of Bavel had carried off. 

Est 2:7  He had raised Hadassah, that is, Ester, his uncle's daughter; because she had neither father nor mother. The girl was shapely and good-looking; after her father's and mother's death, Mordekhai had adopted her as his own daughter. 

 

Est 2:7 

Est 2:8 

 

TAKEN: H3947 לקח lâqach BDB Definition: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away

 

Est 2:8-9

Est 2:10 

Est 2:11 

Est 2:12 

 

Est 2:15  When the turn came for Ester the daughter of Avichayil, whom Mordekhai had adopted as his own daughter, to appear before the king, she didn't ask for anything other than what Hegai the king's officer in charge of the harem advised. Yet Ester was admired by all who saw her. 

Est 2:16  She was brought to King Achashverosh in his royal palace in the tenth month, Tevet, during the seventh year of his reign. 

 

Est 2:17  The king liked Ester more than any of his wives; none of the other virgins obtained such favor and approval from him. So he put the royal crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti. 

Est 2:18  The king then gave a great banquet in Ester's honor for all his officers and servants, decreed a holiday for the provinces and distributed gifts worthy of royal bounty. 

  

Est 2:19  When the girls would gather on other occasions, Mordekhai would sit at the King's Gate. 

Est 2:20  Ester had not yet revealed her family ties or her people, as Mordekhai had ordered her; for Ester continued obeying what Mordekhai told her to do, as she had when he was raising her. 

 

Est 2:21  On one of those occasions, when Mordekhai was sitting at the King's Gate, two of the king's officers, Bigtan and Teresh, from the group in charge of the private entryways, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Achashverosh. 

Est 2:22  But Mordekhai learned about it and told Ester the queen. Ester reported it to the king, crediting Mordekhai. 

Est 2:23  The matter was investigated, found to be true, and both were hanged on a stake. All this was recorded in the daily journal that was kept with the king. 

 

Est 3:1  Some time later King Achashverosh began to single out Haman the son of Hamdata the Agagi for advancement; eventually he gave him precedence over all his fellow officers. Est 3:2  All the king's servants at the King's Gate would kneel and bow down before Haman, because the king had so ordered. But Mordekhai would neither kneel nor bow down to him. Est 3:3  The king's servants at the King's Gate asked Mordekhai, "Why don't you obey the king's order?" Est 3:4  But after they had confronted him a number of times without his paying attention to them, they told Haman, in order to find out whether Mordekhai's explanation that he was a Jew would suffice to justify his behavior. Est 3:5  Haman was furious when he saw that Mordekhai was not kneeling and bowing down to him. 

Est 3:6  However, on learning what people Mordekhai belonged to, it seemed to him a waste to lay hands on Mordekhai alone. Rather, he decided to destroy all of Mordekhai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole of Achashverosh's kingdom. 

Est 3:8  Then Haman said to Achashverosh, "There is a particular people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people; moreover, they don't observe the king's laws. It doesn't befit the king to tolerate them. 

Est 3:9  If it please the king, have a decree written for their destruction; and I will hand over 330 tons of silver to the officials in charge of the king's affairs to deposit in the royal treasury." 

 

Est 3:12  The king's secretaries were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month. They wrote down all Haman's orders to the king's army commanders and governors in all the provinces and to the officials of every people, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language; everything was written in the name of King Achashverosh and sealed with the king's signet ring. 

Est 3:13  Letters were sent by courier to all the royal provinces "to destroy, kill and exterminate all Jews, from young to old, including small children and women, on a specific day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to seize their goods as plunder." 

 

Est 4:1  When Mordekhai learned everything that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes and went out through the city, lamenting and crying bitterly. 

Est 4:2  He stopped before entering the King's Gate, since no one was allowed to go inside the King's Gate wearing sackcloth. 

 

Est 4:3  In every province reached by the king's order and decree, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing, as many lay down on sackcloth and ashes. 

 

Est 4:8  He also gave him a copy of the decree for their destruction issued in Shushan; so that he could show it to Ester, explain it to her, and then instruct her to approach the king, intercede with him and implore his favor on behalf of her people. 

 

Est 4:11  "All the king's officials, as well as the people in the royal provinces, know that if anyone, man or woman, approaches the king in the inner courtyard without being summoned, there is just one law—he must be put to death—unless the king holds out the gold scepter for him to remain alive; and I haven't been summoned to the king for the past thirty days." Est 4:12  Upon being told what Ester had said, Mordekhai Est 4:13  asked them to give Ester this answer: "Don't suppose that merely because you happen to be in the royal palace you will escape any more than the other Jews. Est 4:14  For if you fail to speak up now, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from a different direction; but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows whether you didn't come into your royal position precisely for such a time as this." Est 4:15  Ester had them return this answer to Mordekhai: 

Est 4:16  "Go, assemble all the Jews to be found in Shushan, and have them fast for me, neither eating nor drinking for three days, night and day; also I and the girls attending me will fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish." 

 

Est 5:1  On the third day, Ester put on her royal robes and stood in the inner courtyard of the king's palace, opposite the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the king's hall, across from the entrance to the hall. 

Est 5:2  When the king saw Ester the queen standing in the courtyard, she won his favor; so the king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Ester. Ester approached and touched the tip of the scepter. 

Est 5:3  "What is it you want, Queen Ester?" the king asked her. "Whatever your request, up to half the kingdom, it will be given to you." 

Est 5:4  "If it is all right with the king," answered Ester, "let the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for him." 

 

Est 5:6  So the king and Haman came to the banquet Ester had prepared. 

Est 5:7  At the banquet of wine the king again said to Ester, "Whatever your request, you will be granted it; whatever you want, up to half the kingdom, it will be done." 

Est 5:8  Then Ester answered, "My request, what I want, is this: if I have won the king's favor, if it pleases the king to grant my request and do what I want, let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them; and tomorrow I will do as the king has said." 

 

Est 5:9  That day Haman went out happy and in good spirits. But when Haman saw Mordekhai at the King's Gate, that he neither rose nor moved for him, Haman was infuriated with Mordekhai. 

Est 5:13  Yet none of this does me any good at all, as long as I keep seeing Mordekhai the Jew remaining seated at the King's Gate." 

Est 5:14  At this Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high constructed, and in the morning speak to the king about having Mordekhai hanged on it. Then go in, and enjoy yourself with the king at the banquet." Haman liked the idea, so he had a gallows made. 

 

Est 6:1  That night, the king couldn't sleep; so he ordered the records of the daily journal brought, and they were read to the king. 

Est 6:2  It was found written that Mordekhai had told about Bigtana and Teresh, two of the king's officers from the group in charge of the private entryways, who had conspired to assassinate King Achashverosh. 

Est 6:3  The king asked, "What honor or distinction was conferred on Mordekhai for this?" The king's servants answered, "Nothing was done for him." 

 

Est 6:6  So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What should be done for a man that the king wants to honor?" Haman thought to himself, "Whom would the king want to honor more than me?" 

 

Est 6:10  The king said to Haman, "Hurry, and take the robes and the horse, as you said, and do this for Mordekhai the Jew, who sits at the King's Gate. Don't leave out anything you mentioned." 

 

Est 7:1  So the king and Haman went to Queen Ester's banquet; Est 7:2  and the king again said to Ester at the wine banquet, "Whatever your request, Queen Ester, you will be granted it; whatever you want, up to half the kingdom, it will be done." Est 7:3  Ester the queen answered, "If I have won your favor, king, and if it pleases the king, then what I ask be given me is my own life and the lives of my people. Est 7:4  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, exterminated. If we had only been sold as men- and women-slaves, I would have remained quiet; since then [our] trouble would not have been worth the damage it would have caused the king [to alter the situation]." 

Est 7:5  King Achashverosh asked Ester the queen, "Who is he? Where is the man who dared to do such a thing?" 

Est 7:6  Ester said, "A ruthless enemy—it's this wicked Haman!" Haman stood aghast, terrified before the king and queen. 

 

Est 8:11  The letters said that the king had granted the Jews in every city the right "to assemble and defend their lives by destroying, killing and exterminating any forces of any people or province that would attack them, their little ones or their women or would try to seize their goods as plunder 

Est 8:12  on the designated day in any of the provinces of King Achashverosh, namely, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar." 

 

Est 9:18  However, the Jews of Shushan assembled on both the thirteenth and fourteenth days of Adar, so it was on the fifteenth that they rested and made it a holiday for celebrating and rejoicing. 

Est 9:19  This is why the Jews of the villages, those who live in unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day for celebrating and rejoicing, a holiday and a time for sending each other portions [of food]. 

 

Joh 15:13  No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends. 

 

AMEN & AMEN!!!

 

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He was and always will be a JEW!!!
 

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