If I Perish, I Perish

Transcript of the segment on Being Indispensable:

Jacob promised that the royal scepter would not depart from the house of Judah. He [Mordecai] was thinking of the promise that God made to David, who came from the house of Judah. He was a Jew and he became king. And God said to David, “I’m going to raise up from your posterity, I’m going to raise up someone who will be the Messiah-King, and who will reign over an everlasting kingdom. He will reign forever and ever. Mordecai believed that. He believed that one day the Messiah would come. And he believed that, on the basis of Messiah’s message, one day in the future to a Samaritan woman by a well in Samaria, salvation is of the Jews. And he reasons, Mordecai reasons from the promises of God into his circumstances, and he says to Esther, ‘If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews, from another place. In other words, what he is doing as he speaks to Esther is that he is teaching her a lesson. He teaching her that, number 1, she has an opportunity to serve the purpose of God. She may die, by the way, in pursuing that path of obedience. But she has the opportunity to serve the purposes of God. Number 2, he is saying to her, ‘You are, however, not indispensable to the purposes of God. No one ever is. No one ever is indispensable to the purposes of God. God buries his workmen, but his work goes on.”