이기헌 목사 설교 (새벽) 2025.05.13 | 카르텔: 빠져나올 수 없는 그 이름 (에스더 1장 9-22절)

[Click "Read More" below to view the full text] ■ Pastor Lee Ki-heon's Word Warehouse Currently an online community for sharing the Word. We hold offline sharing sessions irregularly. - Donation Account: Kookmin Bank (Lee Ki-heon) 438901-01-278446 □ Sermon Date: May 13, 2025 (Tue), Early Morning Prayer Meeting (Soonbokum Dobong Church) Title: Cartel: That Name from which One cannot escape Text: Esther 1:9-22 9. Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus. 10. On the seventh day the king was in revelry and commanded seven of his court eunuchs: Mehuman, Pistha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abakta, Zedar, and Gargash. 11. He ordered that Queen Vashti be summoned, dressed in her royal crown, and come before him to show her beauty to all the people and the officials of the provinces, for her appearance was pleasing to behold. 12. But Queen Vashti refused to obey the king’s command conveyed by the eunuch. The king was enraged, and his heart was on fire. 13. The king asked the wise men who knew the customs (there is a custom for a king to ask those who know the statutes and laws). 14. At that time, the men who approached the king to observe his countenance and sat in the first seats of the kingdom were the seven governors of Persia and Media: Garsena, Zethar, Admath, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan.) 15. Queen Vashti did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus conveyed by the eunuch; according to the custom, how shall she be dealt with? 16. Memucan answered before the king and the governors, saying, "Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but also the officials of King Ahasuerus’s provinces and all the people." 17. When the news of the queen’s conduct—that she did not come when King Ahasuerus commanded her to—becomes known to all the women, they too will despise their husbands. 18. Even today, Persia and When the noblewomen of Media hear of the queen’s conduct, they will speak to all the king’s governors, and much contempt and wrath will arise. 19. If it pleases the king, issue a decree that Vashti shall never again come before the king, and write it in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be altered, and give the position of queen to someone better than her. 20. When the king’s decree is proclaimed throughout this vast kingdom, all women, regardless of their social standing, will honor their husbands. 21. The king and the governors considered this to be right, so the king did as Memucan had said. 22. He issued a decree to all the provinces in the script and language of every province and every people, saying, “Let the husband be in charge of his own household and speak in the language of his own people.” #DailyBible #Esther #Cartel