Pyeongtaek International Community Church

This week we look at what the bible says about thankfulness. What does it mean to be thankful? I we struggle to be thankful on a regular basis, how do we become thankful? Why is thankfulness sometimes a struggle? A how do we practice thankfulness?

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The end of Esther describes the celebration that results from the Jewish people defeating their enemies. A new Jewish feast called Purim is started. The significance of the feast is that it recognizes the need to remember. And so this week we look back at all that the book of Esther has taught us and why remembering is so important.

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Chapter 9 brings us to the date when Haman's edict has finally come to pass. Thankfully Mordecai's new edict has also been enacted allowing the Jewish people to defend themselves.

Even though we can clearly see that the Jewish people were on the defence, not offence, we know that there are times throughout their history when God commands them to be on the offence. How do we reconcile this with the fact that God is a loving God? How do we reconcile the judgement of God in the Old Testament with Jesus in the New Testament telling his disciples to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them?

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Haman has been defeated but his edict still lives. In Persia a law could not be overturned or revoked and so what can Esther and Mordecai do? Throughout the book of Esther we've seen God providentially working to rescue his people. And so will he come to their rescue again? Today we talk about God's Providence and what that even means for our work. Does what we do even matter if God's will is ultimately going to prevail?

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This week our guest John-Michael Becker shares with us his journey as a missionary to Korea and how he got involved with orphanage ministry.

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It's all been building to this moment. At the 2nd and final banquet that Esther will throw for the king and Haman, Esther is finally ready to tell the king her request but she has to out Haman without implicating the king, who is actually involved in this whole plot to destroy her people. How will persuade the king to side with her instead of his right hand man?

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It looked like the tables were turning in favour of Esther and Mordecai.  Her divinely inspired plan has been set in motion.  But then unbeknownst to them, Haman and his wife and friends have made this other plan to have Mordecai killed the very next day.  What is going to happen?  How are Mordecai and Esther going to figure this out? Well….honestly….they’re not.  God is.  And even though he’s not mentioned, at all in this book, we are going to clearly see him working.  

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This week our guest speaker, Nathan Bingaman, walks us through Galatians 1:1-5. What was Paul trying to communicate in the introduction of this letter to the Galatians?

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After calling the Jewish community of Susa to pray and fast for 3 days and 3 nights, Esther approaches the king. In ch.4 she was at a crossroads and now Esther has chosen to act, but not in her own strength or power but act by depending on her God. The question now is not just how will the king respond but how will God intervene to deliver his people?

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Esther gets word that Mordecai is in mourning. After a back and forth Mordecai challenges Esther to stand up for her people. "Who knows," he says, "whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Has Esther become queen for this purpose? "Who knows," Mordecai says. "It's possible! Maybe!" When we see the uncertainty that these biblical heroes have about what God is doing and what he will do, we see that not much has changed. We are sometimes left guessing at what our future holds and how we should move forward. How do we reconcile this? How do we move forward and how can we know what God's purpose is for our lives?

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