{"id":470,"date":"2016-10-05T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&#038;p=470"},"modified":"2017-06-13T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:56:20","slug":"05-haman-the-agagite-the-jews-enemy","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/sermons\/05-haman-the-agagite-the-jews-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"05 Haman The Agagite, The Jew\u2019s Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Haman The Agagite, The Jew\u2019s Enemy <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Esther 3<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Background of the Enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I Samuel 15<\/p>\n<p>Exodus 17:16<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bitterness Towards One Person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esther 3:1-6<\/p>\n<p>Ahasuerus had made a commandment for the people to bow out of respect for Haman<\/p>\n<p>Mordecai refused to bow, out of his belief in God<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 4 They told Haman to see if Mordecai would bow if Haman was present<\/p>\n<p>The greatest proof of a conviction is consistency<\/p>\n<p>Haman wanted to punish Mordecai<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bid to Destroy a People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esther 3:7-15<\/p>\n<p>Haman found out that Mordecai was a Jew and that the Jewish people were scattered throughout the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Haman\u2019s bitterness caused him to desire to destroy an entire people because of one man\u2019s offence<\/p>\n<p>They cast lots to see what day they should start the persecutions<\/p>\n<p>Haman even offered to pay his own money to get the job done, and to replace those subjects of the king that would die<\/p>\n<p>Vs. 13 To add more incentive to insure the Jews died, the notice also stated to spoil to take all the possessions of the Jews that were killed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Biblical Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ezekiel 36:21-38<\/p>\n<p>God promises Israel 1) a nation, 2) the land, 3) and a Messiah, 4) and a new heart<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 83:1-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haman The Agagite, The Jew\u2019s Enemy Esther 3 The Background of the Enemy I Samuel 15 Exodus 17:16 &nbsp; The Bitterness Towards One Person Esther 3:1-6 Ahasuerus had made a commandment for the people to bow out of respect for Haman Mordecai refused to bow, out of his belief in God Vs. 4 They told Haman to see if Mordecai would bow if Haman was present The greatest proof of a conviction is consistency Haman wanted to punish Mordecai &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_sermon_topic":[16],"ctc_sermon_book":[87],"ctc_sermon_series":[86],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[12],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-470","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_topic-bible-history","ctc_sermon_book-esther","ctc_sermon_series-esther","ctc_sermon_speaker-scotty-backhaus","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/470\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnsermons.com\/scottybackhaus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}