Key Insights
- 🙏 We can find comfort and assurance in knowing that God has chosen us and has a purpose for our lives.
- 👑 Just like Esther, we are placed where we are for a purpose, and we must step up and take action to make a difference in the lives of others.
- 🤔 God doesn’t need us, but he wants us and longs for a relationship with us.
- 🌍 God’s love and choice of us is similar to His choice of the nation Israel – not because they were more numerous or deserving, but simply because He loved them.
- 🚗 “The Bible teaches both predestination and free will. God chose you, but you must choose him.”
- 🚪 “Whosoever will, let him come. You open the door, you walk in, you shut the door behind you, and on the other side of the door. It’s written, chosen in Christ from the foundation of the world.” – Believing in Jesus Christ is a way to prove that you are chosen by God.
- 🙏 Billy Graham’s greatest passion was sharing the Gospel and giving people an opportunity to believe in Jesus Christ.
- 📖 “God predestined you to be adopted into his family as his very child. That’s why he did it. Because he loved you and he wanted to adopt you.”
- 💔 On the cross, God treated Jesus as if he had personally committed every sin ever committed by every person who had ever believed, though he committed none of them.
Authority and Responsibility
- 💥 Haman’s access to the king’s power and his wicked plot to eradicate the Jewish people emphasizes the dangers of unchecked authority and the potential for genocide.
Summary
God chooses and loves us despite our flaws, and we have the choice to believe in Jesus and fulfill God’s purpose for our lives.
- 🙏 God’s omniscience and divine plan should guide our choices; Jesus chose Peter, despite knowing his future failures, because God sees the bigger picture and predicted his eventual return.
- 📜 Don’t be indifferent to those who don’t know God, as you have been placed where you are for a purpose, just like Esther, who was urged to step up and save her people.
- 🙏 God wants a relationship with us and chooses to use us as messengers, regardless of our flaws, because he loves us and has a purpose for us.
- 🙏 Believe in Jesus to prove you are chosen by God, as it is your choice, not predestination, that determines your eternal destiny.
- 🙏 God orchestrates events and gives believers opportunities to share the Gospel, as we are chosen to be adopted into His family and have the choice to follow Billy Graham’s example or not.
- 📚 We have been adopted into God’s family according to His good pleasure, and our role as parents is to raise our children to be responsible and teach them faith in Jesus Christ.
- 🙏 God has chosen us to be his adopted children, taken us out of the slavery of sin, and loves us as much as he loves Jesus, so we should strive for perfect unity to show the world his love.
- 🙏 God chose, forgave, and adopted you, treating Jesus as if he had personally committed every sin, so that you might become the righteousness of God in him; seek to discover and fulfill God’s will for your life by believing in Jesus Christ and asking for forgiveness.
