“Spirit Or Flesh” Esther 7:8-10

Esther 7:8-10 King James Version (KJV)

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You all be encouraged and be blessed and as it says in : Galatians 5:16

“So I say, walk by the Spirit,l and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

Paul says in the opening words of the eighth chapter of Romans, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death,” (Romans 8:2 RSV). A new law, a new edict, has gone into effect. “It is no longer I that live,” he says, “but Christ liveth in me,” (Galatians 2:20a KJV). The law of his life in me is able to counteract the effects of sin and death. It is no longer I that work, but it is he who works through me and so I live his life. It is still I who live it, but “I live it by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me,” (Galatians 2:20 KJV). And when I count on his indwelling life to work through me step by step, he turns even my failures into victories! That is what he is saying.

“Your sorrow shall be turned into joy” (John 16:20), the Lord Jesus said to his disciples before he went to the cross. Notice he did not say, “Your sorrows shall be replaced by joy.” He said that the thing that causes you sorrow shall itself be translated, transmuted, turned into joy. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus turns adversity into adventure, and affliction into praise. It does not always change the circumstances. But it uses them, overpowers them, reverses their effect. The strange thing is that it works best in weakness and in defeat.

This is what Paul discovered when that thorn in the flesh, that raw, grinding, nerve destroying thing kept eating away at him.

We don’t know what it was — something in the flesh that bothered him like a thorn continually pricking him in the side. He prayed three times that it might be taken away, but the answer came, “My strength is made perfect in weakness, my grace is sufficient for thee,” (2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV). So the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus sets you free from the law of sin and death. There need be no defeat for your spirit. There need be no discouragement, no terrible crushing sense of despair even though the circumstances remain unchanged, his indwelling life in you is sufficient to meet everything that comes.

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, working in a shepherd lad named David, took hold of the very situation that was causing despair and pessimism in the camp of Israel and turned the very threat itself, Goliath the giant, into triumph for Israel. David’s faith in an indwelling, all-adequate God was the only new factor added to that situation. Gloom and despair had spread like a cancer throughout the whole camp of Israel and one man, a mighty man of towering stature and strength, was holding the entire army of God immobile and helpless. Then David came along saying, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that dares defy the armies of the living God?” (1 Samuel 17:26). Though his sight, like the others, is fixed upon Goliath, his faith was fastened upon a living God who was able to meet every circumstance no matter what it was, when it came, or how it occurred. And he said, “In the face of those resources, who is this?” That quiet faith worked the miracle by which the very one who threatened became the ground of victory, triumph, and blessing.