Esther

[0:00] The fourth chapter in the book of Esther And we'll read the fourteenth verse The fourth chapter In the book of Esther The fourteenth verse For if thou altogether holdest thy peace At this time Then shall there enlargement And deliverance arise The Jews from another place But thou and thy father's house Shall be destroyed And who knoweth Whether thou art come to the kingdom For such a time as this I wonder How many of you realised

[1:01] What you've just said So lift I up my hands and eyes And all my help in Jesus seek Lord bring thy purging sacrifice To wash me white And make me meek Give me more enlarged faith To view the wonders of thy death The Lord does that He'll have something to go through But what a blessing it'll be You know the blessings of God Although he puts prayer within the hearts of his people The blessings of God The blessings of God Cannot be compared in any shape or form To the blessings of time In those portions that we read We saw the heart of sinful man

[2:02] Seeking after wealth and glory In this present time His heart was exactly the same As yours and mine We can't point a finger At him Because if we were left And in the same temptation And have the same opportunity That he had We do exactly the same Also we see a poor wretch Sitting outside the king's gate Seeking Prayer and supplication And how the Lord heard And answered his petition What encouragement there is To those who have got nothing Even the things of this present life Have nothing to them Compared to eternity And a precious Christ And after we may come to God's word

[3:06] And we turn perhaps to Joseph And we see such wonders The way in which God worked With regard to Joseph And we think Well there's not another portion In the scriptures That we enjoy As much as this And then we go to Job And we see Job In all his trouble And the way in which He's brought down All his glory taken from him And the way in which The Lord watches over And keeps him From the power of the devil And we think to ourselves There's not another portion In the scriptures like this And then we come to Esther And Ruth And as the Lord opens up His word to us And as it becomes Life and power to our souls What a beauty there is in it We don't profess to know Very much with regard to the scriptures

[4:07] But this we do know That there are certain portions Of it that we love Because they've been so Precious to us So encouraging And who knows That what thou hast come to the kingdom For such a time as this These words have been very precious to us lately A great help to us As they were on one occasion in the past And who knows You see Mordecai He seemed to have faith He had prayer But he didn't know the Lord's way He didn't know the way In which the Lord was going to deliver But God had given him some Wonderful faith In his time of need Now that's a great blessing Isn't it To have faith In a time of need Even if we don't know The way In which the Lord is leading us

[5:08] And the way in which the Lord is guiding us To have that faith As he says For if thou altogether holdest Thy peace at this time Then There shall enlargement Or as the martyr says Respiration And deliverance Rise to the Jews From another place He was convinced The Jews would be safe He knew although They were as near death As possible Yet There would be respiration And deliverance In God's way in time What a wonderful place To be brought When a man Is so overwhelmed With trouble Oh there may be one here tonight They think Well there's none So troubled as what I am But what about Some of those dear saints of old Our troubles have never been like theirs Our troubles may have been heavy They may have been painful

[6:08] But are these not times When the Lord sees fit to bless his people Have not these been times of great blessing And as Job Experienced the time of deliverance As Joseph was delivered As he was brought into great authority And used of God To deliver his brethren So we can see here Queen Esther Even as a type of Christ As she was married to the king There was that unity There was that unity between them And how the king held out that golden scepter As she pleaded On behalf of the Jews Christ you know He pleads on behalf of his people The same as Esther Pleaded on behalf of her people And when we're unable to plead ourselves

[7:10] It's a great comfort to know The Lord's people are pleading for us But How much better to know the Lord is And to be brought by faith to believe it And not only to believe that he's pleading for us But deliverance must come And it will come It may come in a totally different way To what we expect But To have this enlargement And to have this Respiration When it seems that every breath Is being taken out of us We wonder what's going to happen next How things will be Or how Those two on the Emmaus Road The way they reasoned And how the Lord's people reasoned Don't they As they are brought into times of distress And they can't understand They never expected these things to think Did you expect your trials?

[8:12] Did you expect the Lord would lead you In the way in which he led you? You know there are those in the religious world It seems that their religion goes Exactly the way they want it to go But if you're a child of God Your religion will go the opposite way To what he wanted to go You see Haman He thought there was none like him There was no one else Whom the king would delight to honour Apart from him How wrong he was And how you see He had an enmity Within his heart To God and God's ways How like so many Even in the day in which we live Have that hatred To the Jews As a nation It's a great mercy If we have no hatred To the Jews As a nation It's a great mercy

[9:13] If we can see them As a nation Whom the Lord Has picked out Chosen Who is watching over And keeping them As a nation And although we may not Be able to see Marks of grace And evidences That we would like to see We see the church of Rome Rising We see communism rising We see great inroads Seeking to overthrow Israel Israel But Israel is safe As a nation As she's been protected So she will be protected Right down to the end of time And one of these days The Lord is going to open her eyes On what an engathering That will be When that happens We don't know how soon It will be But we do know It will happen And how they will mourn How they will look upon

[10:14] That blessed redeemer Now if thou altogether Holdest thy peace At this time Have you been brought To a place Where you couldn't Hold your peace Because of your sin At such a time as this Have you been brought Into a time Like this Where you couldn't Hold your peace For such a time As this To have a God When one is brought Under the law As a sinner Before God We don't hear Very much about it Today It's one of those Things which The devil has Tried to put In the background That it's not Necessary to have A law at work It's not necessary To know one As a sinner And to feel guilt Condemnation Within the soul

[11:14] If you believe that You're deluded You're under the power Of Satan It is necessary One must know Their sinnership As the Lord Jesus Spoke to his disciples As he was about To depart From this life He said he would Send the comforter The Holy Spirit To convince The world of sin And that is Not the whole world In general But his world Those Who will live Eternally with him That's his world And so often You see man Will take that word Out of its context And it speaks About all the world And especially In the epistles We read of all the world It's those who are In the world And he speaks

[12:16] Very plainly Of that in his prayer Doesn't he The Lord Jesus As he prayed For the church He prayed Not for the world But those who are In the world His dear people Now you see They are no different To anyone else We don't know Who they are Sometimes we trust To believe We know who they are As the Holy Spirit Reveals them to us As we are able To fill a little union And our hearts Burn within us As they talk By the way That again We don't have Very much of We don't have A little of it To have a little reality But have you been Brought to such a time As this When you've had To stand Before a just And a holy God I'm feeling this That if you perish You perish No other to stand Before No other way

[13:17] Of hope Unless that golden Scepter Is put out Pointed to you And that golden Scepter is Christ Jesus Is the way To guard Jesus Is the way To bless In this way The saints Have trod Down from Adam's day To this There's no other way For such a time As this So one Before they can be Brought to know Anything Savingly Of Christ Must first Of all Know something Of being lost Because of Sin and guilt It's all of Isn't it But it's true And if you know Nothing Of yourself As a sinner As one who Has broken God's law Or may the Lord Graciously Open your

[14:18] Eyes to see Even at such A time as this Because soon Time will be Gone And you'll Enter eternity And if you've Never been Brought As Esther Was To have to Go Before the King And seek Salvation For the Jews And how The Lord Jesus Then We see him In so very Many types And ways In the Scriptures And yet There is That How in Ruth You see There's That Unity How Boaz Gave her A few Handfuls Of purpose That's all We get A few Handfuls Of purpose As we Journey Through For such A time As this How you See there Was famine As there Was in The time Of Joseph Plamined In the Land And poor Ruth How she Had to

[15:18] Go Gleaning But Boaz Knew all About her He knew Her need He knew Why she Had come The same As the Lord knows Why you Have come Tonight How you Have come He knows Everything About you He knows Everything About me And it May be There's a Ruth here Tonight And the Lord is Going to Give you A few Handfuls Of purpose Not a Lot And that's All we Get in This Life But there's A purpose A purpose In those Handfuls And the Purpose Is this To reveal Redeeming Love There was Love in Those Handfuls Not a Lot We've said Before we May have Said it Here The Reapers They had Armfuls Of sheaves Didn't They Ruth Ruth Ruth had Just a Handful Of purpose What would You be Rather a Ruth Or a Reaper We see

[16:21] Those today Who stretch Their arms Like shores And take All the Sea And once Who grant Me the Visits Of thy Face And I Design No more Oh to Have a Handful Something Which has Been Given Us By that Heavenly Bout Now if Thou Holdest Thy Peace At this Time When one Is brought In such A time As this Under guilt And sin They can't Hold their Peace And I Just want To speak A personal Word And I'm Sure you'll Forgive me I feel Terribly Sad To think That so Long I've Kept silent Regarding my Dear one And that She's kept Silent That we've Had no Spiritual Conversation As the Lord has Grasly revealed To me That work Which has Been going On within Her heart And how

[17:22] The Lord Has loved Her I believe How she Has been Brought to Love the Lord And now We're unable To communicate One with Each other As we Would On any Matter Let alone Spiritual Matters If the Lord has Brought you In any Way There's two People here Who the Devil is Separating In such A way To stop You from Spiritual Conversation Oh may The Lord Fave you Don't Fall into Satan's Devices At such A time As this Don't Think that It will Be Presumption You will Think it's Presumption If you're Right You'll Think it Will be Presumption To speak Of anything You trust The Lord Has done For you But speak I say Speak In such A time As this

[18:23] We don't Hear enough Of it And if There's One here Who is Drawing Back Who is Saying Well they Don't Want to Hear What The little I've Got to Say What Did Esther Say If I Perish I Perish That's Where she Was Brought And how You see There are Those Who would Love to Hear their Dear One Say This If I Perish I Perish How she Had to Go For if Thou All together Holdest Thy peace At this Time Then Shall Their Enlargement Deliverance Arise To the Jews From Another Place The Lord He Has Various Ways And Various Places In which He's Going to Deliver His People The Time Is now Fixed And Soon It Will Come When God Will His Messenger Send To

[19:24] Take us From Meshach And Carry Us Home And Then All Our Trials Will End You See There's A Fixed Time And Place In The Experiences Of All The Lord's People It's Fixed And It's Fixed In The Eternal Councils Of God And Whatever Man May Do Although He May Go To Great Lengths Although He May Set Up Gallows Although He May Been Able To Tell All His Friends And His Loved Ones Of The Way In Which The King Has Received Him There's One Thing He's Forgot And That's This That This God Who We Worship Even The Kings Are Under His Control What Do We Read On That Night Could Not The King Sleep Nothing Unusual Is It Nothing Unusual So Often Sleep Is And

[20:27] Then How The Lord Worked In That Mysterious Way His Wonders To Perform Herman Was Working The Devil Was Working God Was Working Too We Worship A Living God You Know At Such A Time As This You Don't Want A Play Thing For Religion Do You You Want Something Solid Something Real You Want Some Almighty Power To Deliver You Don't You And So You See Mordecai His Knowledge Of God Was Not Something That He Read About It Was Not Something That He Was Just Hoping About It Wasn't A Fairy Tale It Was Something God Implanted Within His Heart And He Knew This That This God Would Deliver Oh What A Place To Be Brought There Were Times Surely

[21:27] When He Was Brought Into Doubt And Especially As He Saw Haman Going In And Out And The Glory And That Which Was Afforded Him But What A Wonderful Surprise It Was To Him When That Proud Haman Was Brought Low As He Came Out With All That Royal Of Power On The Horse What A Humbling Effect It Had Now A Proud Sinful Man Will Be Humbled In That Great And That Solemn Day We See The World Around Us They Have No Thought Of God We See The Religious World We See The High Dignitaries In The So-called Churches What Help Are They What Reality Is There In Them But We See Just One Here Sitting Outside

[22:27] The King's Gate A Crumb Of Mercy Lord I Cray Unworthy To Be Fed He Felt His Unworthiness At Such A Time As This Have You Known That What It Is To Feel Unworthy To Come Before The King Have You Realised That You Couldn't Come Man Man Will Tell Us Today All You Have To Do Is To Accept The Invitations Of The Gospel Well That's True That's Perfectly True That How Can One Accept The Invitations Of The Gospel Until One Is Invited And A Poor Senna Before A Just And A Holy God Of Course He Would Accept The Invitations Of The Gospel But How Can He Come Until That Golden Scepter Is Held Out To Him Until He Sees A Precious

[23:27] Christ And So Again Here We See Esther As One Who Is Brought Under The Law One Who Has Death Destruction Before Her There She Represents As It Were The Bride Of Christ And How The Devil Ever Since The Time Of Creation Has Been Bent On Destroying The Church Of God And All These Thousands Of Years He's Never Been Able To Do It He's Never Destroyed One Yet For Whom The Lord Shed His Precious Blood And Mordecai I Knew This It Was Revealed To Him As He Sat Silently Outside The King's Court But Thou And Thy Father's House Shall Be Destroyed Now You See Had The

[24:27] Lord Jesus Under The Time Of Temptation Fallen As You And I Fall He Would Have Been Destroyed No Doubt About It No Question About It At All And You And I Would Have Been Destroyed As Well But He Was Not Destroyed Almighty Power Held The Satan In Those Chains Satan Can Only Go So Far He Knows It To I'm Sure He Does He Tries And Tries He Struggles He Will Do Right Down To The End Of Time Because He Knows This That If He Can Claim One Of The Lord's People Even If It's Only A Babe Then The Whole Church Of God Will Crumble And The Work Of Redemption

[25:28] Will Be Of Little Value But God's Word Is Solid A Thought Just Come Into My Head How That Fits In Without Opening Him Doesn't It Rock Of Ages The Rock Of Ages Satan Can't Move That As We Sat Around Adia One's Bed Last Night We Reminded Her And She Was Able To Speak Of It Go Right Through Our Firm A Foundation He Saints Of The Lord He Laid For Your Faith In His Excellent Word What More Can He Say Than To You He Has Said You Who Unto Jesus For Refuge Have Fled At Such A Time As This Wonderful Isn't It Now You See Whatever The Time Is Whatever

[26:29] You're Passing Through At Such A Time As This The Lord Is Watching Over You You May Now Be One Who Has No Interest In The Things Of God You Can Be Bent On Having Your Pleasure Of This World And Your Fill Of It You Can Be Satisfied In A Dead Form Of Religion But If You're One Of The Lord The Lord Will Come In Some Way Or Other And You'll Be Brought To Bow Before Him The Stoutest Rebel Whoever That Rebel May Be Must Bow Before This God And When The Lord Does Work At Such A Time As This When He's Brought On Their Very Knees They Have To Acknowledge This God They Know This God They Believe In This God There No Doubt

[27:29] Within Their Mind That They Must Stand Before This God Have You Been Brought To Such A Time As This And Then Have You Had To Beg You See For Mercy There Was No Christ Then The Gospel Wasn't Revealed To You There Was No Way As It Were Of Salvation That You Could See All You Could See Was Justice Demanded And That Justice Was Out Of Your Reach As Beyond Your Power And There You Were At Such A Time As This And The Devil Was Planning And Everything Was Going According To His Plans And Everything Was Going Against Your Plans The More You Strove Against Sin's Power You Sinned And Stumbled Yet The More And So You Went On Struggling Under The Law At

[28:30] Such A Time As This And You Went Deeper And Deeper In The Mind The Lord Was Watching Over You At Such A Time As This He Saw You He Saw Us Ruined In The Fall Yet Loved Us Not With Standing All His Sorrows In Our Lost Estate His Loving Kindness Over Our Great I Had A Feeling Coming Along This Even Thinking Of My Dear One And The Love Of God And I Felt Such A Love Towards My Dear One Especially This Last Few Weeks In Her Weakness The Frailty Of Her Mind Don't Feel I Ever Loved Her So Much And Yet Coming Along It Seem To Me Well If The Lord Loves Her His Love Is Far Stronger Than Mine

[29:30] Is He Loves Her A lot More Than I Do And Therefore If The Lord Is Going To Take Her Isn't He Going To Love Her More Than I Can Whatever I Do Is Of Little Avail Of Little Comfort But To Take Her Away That Vile Body Yes That Vile Body That I Love Take It Away Give Her That Immortal Body That Corruption In Corruption I Say What Love On Such Love My Soul Shall Ponder Love So Great So Rich So Free At Such A Time As This What A Help What A Comfort It Was To Me As I Journeyed Here Tonight And I Felt Well If The Lord Really Loves Her Surely

[30:31] Loves Her Greater Than I Do And I Know She Will Be Safe I Know She Be Happy I Know She Forget All About My Weaknesses All My Wrong Doings And Even Those Things Where I Even Tried To Help Her She You'll Know Nothing Of That Because You'll See The Lamb In All His Glory These Are Solid Wonderful Truths There's A Great Mercy To Have Hope And Then You See To Be Brought At Such A Time As This To Know That Deliverance Will Come And So That Whatever May Be Before Us Our Dear Afflicted Friend Look At The Way In Which The Lord Delivered Him Some Years Back When He Lost His Partner How Others Have Been Delivered At Such A Time As This And Whilst I Don't Want To Dwell And Should Not Dwell Rightly On My Own Personal Case I

[31:31] Do Want To Say This That The Lord Knows Everything About His People And Whatever Time It Is Whatever They're Passing Through You Know That Hymn Of John Ryland Sovereign Rule Of The Sky Those Last Verses Are Left Out In Our Book I Wish They Hadn't Been It Goes On To Say Why Should I Believe It Be He Wrote Them You Know The Death Of His Partner Why Should I Believe It Be Since I Always Shall Have The You Know It's A Wonderful Thing When The Holy Ghost Comes Comforts His People At Such A Time As This Now You See How Things Change So Rapidly We Can Be Brought Into Trouble Rapidly Things Come Upon Us Which We Never Expected Now Look What Haman Was Expecting

[32:32] Can't We See His Face As The King Was Saying To Him Now What Should Be Done Under The King The Man That The King Delighted To Honor Can't We See The Glee And The Sparkle In His Eyes As He Told The King Exactly What He Wanted And How He Was Who Would The King Like To Delight More Than Me He Was Going To Have A Wonderful Time Wasn't He He Was Going To Show Mordecai Something But How He Had To Come Down As Paul Mordecai In His Sackcloth And Ashes Sitting Outside The Gate How Quickly Things Changed Whatever Must He Have Thought As He Saw Haman Coming Out And Then To Strip Him Of The Sackcloth On The At Haman Was Humiliated Wasn't He Had To Put This Garment

[33:32] On Mordecai And Then Parade Him Round The Street Because The King Delighted To Honor What A Wonderful Description That Is Of Wretched Unworthy Sinners Receiving The Glory Of God It Was The Very Robe You See That The King Used To Wear It Was That Chariot Of Salvation The Horse Everything You See Which The Lord Had All That He Had The King Delights To Honour His People And Yet Underneath See See There Was This Secret Prop Going All The Time With Mordecai He Was Certain That Deliverance Would Come He Was Certain That The Lord Would Not Persake His People How We See It Repeatedly Through The Scriptures Ah

[34:33] But The Devil Says You're Not One Of His People You're Not One Of His People Otherwise You Wouldn't Have A Nature Like You God You're In Trouble As You Are Now And Yet You Still Sin You Still Fall Under The Tempter's Power With All This Surely You Spend Every Moment In Prayer I Wondering Mordecai Did Outside The King's Gate Do You Mean To Tell Me There Were Not Times When As I Am Went In And Out He Never Had An Evil Thought Towards Him That We Don't Know But I'm Sure I Would Have Had As I'm Sure I Would Have Had But How The Lord You See Rules And Over Rules The Sovereign Ruler And The Skies Now

[35:34] At Such A Time As This This Is Time We're Passing Through Time And This World Of Ours It Spins Round Doesn't It And Time Spins Round Very Very Quickly But This Spinning World Will Soon Stop It Will Soon Come To An End And It Will Be At Such A Time As This When We Least Expect It As The Trials Come As The Deliverances Come At Times Which We Least Expect So The End Of This World Will Come When We Least Expect It It May Be That Our Very Lives May Come To An End At A Time That We Least Expect And Then How Will It Be At Such A Time As This Will It Be A Time Of Deliverance Because Here

[36:34] We Can See Surely Life And Death We Can See Amen Death We See Mordecai In The Jews Life Deliverance When The End Comes It Will Be Either Life Eternal Life Or Eternal Death A Solemn Thought Isn't It It's Abundantly True We Have God's Word But We Can Read God's Word We Can Tell Others About It It Will Have No Effect Upon Them But Has The Holy Spirit Brought These Things Home To At Such A Time As This Whilst We're In Time Has It Been Your Prayer Prepare Me Gracious God To Stand Before Thy Face Thy Spirit Must Have Worked Before For Us Is

[37:34] All Of Grace You See You May Be Brought Where You Can't Even Pray You May Be Brought Into A Place Where You Can't Even Read The Scriptures One Near And Dear To Us Not Our Dear Partner But Another So Near To The Gates Of Death Is Unable To Pray Unable To Speak As It Were To His Partner Unable To Read The Scriptures Which They Been So Used To Reading For So Many Years You See These Times Come But At Such A Time As This The Lord Knoweth Our Frame He Knows The Weakness And When One Has A Good Hope Which We Should Be To Leave Prayer There's

[38:35] No Prayer In Heaven You See Prayer Is Seeking The Lord For Something That We Need We Don't Hear Much Of This Today Do We In Prayer But Real Prayer Is Seeking The Lord For Something It Might Be His Blessing Upon Our Worship It May Be For Such A Time As This When We're Brought Into Under The Law But When The Saints Enter Into Heaven There Be No More Prayer Just Eternal Praise Eternal Bless There Be Nothing To Pray For Because Everything Will Be There That They Need And They'll Have A Body Able To Enjoy But How We Need That Faith To Come Don't We Whereby We Can Realize These Things But Deliverance Will Arise

[39:35] From Another Place For Thou And Thy Father's House Will Be Destroyed You See He Held Nothing Back There's A Solemn Warning There Is A Holding Back In The Day In Which We Live A Holding Back Of The Solemn Warning With regard To Eternity With regard To A Dead Form Of Religion When Those Who Profess To Be The Lord's Servants If They Hold Back They'll Have To Give An Account Of It But To지 Boy erg Land See And If I'm Wolf of When When S pacing Aff يع They can rest assured of this.

[40:23] That that golden scepter will be pointed to them. They'll be able to touch it. Like the dear woman in the press, she touched the golden scepter.

[40:35] She touched the precious Christ. And what happened? Why, healing virtue came from him. And to feel that healing virtue, sometimes we sing it, don't we?

[40:48] Heal us, Emmanuel. Here we are, waiting to feel thy touch. Deep wounded souls to leave repair. And saviour, we are such.

[41:00] Have you felt it? Have you known it? All the sin, the corruption of our nature. But, this is the anticipation of the child of God to be free from all this.

[41:16] At such a time as this, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? When we come to the end.

[41:26] You know, often people say, well, what was their end like? Did they make a good end? For so many of the Lord's people, they're unable to speak.

[41:39] It's not what our end is. You see, we may come and let me die the death of the righteous, let my last end be as theirs.

[41:51] But, what about our life? What about our experience? religions? You see, it's not only the end, it's our life.

[42:03] And if the Lord, we don't know the Lord in life, we should never know him in death. Because, once death comes, there be no knowledge of Christ, but oh, that in life, even passing through the valley of the shadow, of death, he may be known.

[42:24] It's a solemn thing to have a religion without a reality in it, isn't it? Prevail altogether, holdest thy peace at this time. I wonder whether Mordecai could hold his peace when that deliverance came.

[42:43] What do we read about the Jews? How they had joy and gladness and a good day. It's a wonderful word, you know, if you follow on this, under the influence of the Spirit, if you're able to follow on through this portion of Esther, and see how they had joy and gladness, peace and a good day.

[43:08] Have you ever known what it is to have a good day? A good day in the Lord's house, a good day in the home, in the field, a good day.

[43:20] What is a good day? Perhaps, during that day, you had a few moments, just a fleeting glance, just a little hope raised up.

[43:32] It was a good day, wasn't it? That day that you look back upon with pleasure, that day when the Lord granted deliverance, that day when the Lord came to you and raised up a little hope, that day when the Lord put a desire within your heart, those desires which the Lord puts within the hearts of his people, he must and will answer.

[44:00] He won the half of the kingdom. And so you see, Haman was looking forward to this banquet. He was looking forward to the things of time, filling himself with the so-called pleasures so that he could go and boast about it.

[44:18] But what did the psalmist say? My soul, not my flesh, my soul shall make her boast in the Lord.

[44:31] The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Poor old Mordecai, humble soul. He was delivered. Even at such a time as this.

[44:45] Yes, deliverance will come. It will come to his people. As it will come to the nation of Israel. It must come to the church of God.

[44:57] Or we look around us. We see the inroads of Satan. We see the Pope of Rome. We see the intended visit. All these things Satan brings before us.

[45:11] Where is now thy God? Where is now thy God? We see a chapel with just one or two in it. Does it matter if they're godly souls?

[45:25] If the Lord has drawn over the Holy Spirit there, the place is full. Full of the Holy Spirit. Why there's no little places we go to. One or two that we love to go to.

[45:38] Because whenever we go, we feel that prayer is in that place. We feel there's life within that place. We feel that although perhaps there may only be four four godly souls.

[45:53] What a favour to be with one godly soul let alone four. Where you can speak of the things of Jesus. And who knows? Perhaps thou hast come to the kingdom for such a time as this.

[46:07] Perhaps this word has been used to the Lord to some soul tonight. I don't know. But I do know this has been used with the Lord for my soul. And I pray that it may be for you.

[46:18] Even in time to come. You know there are those times when we may hear things and forget them. It's seed which is sown. And it may spring up after many days.

[46:30] You don't know what's before you. But you may be brought into trouble. And the Lord may bring you as he did with Esther, Mordecai.

[46:44] At such a time as this. And he'll reveal himself to you. All these times. All my times are in his hand. All events at his command.

[46:55] You know there's something wonderful in this God. There's perfection in all his ways. And to his people.

[47:06] There's no hardness. It's all in love. All in mercy. All in compassion to his people. I love my God.

[47:17] I love what he's done for me. And I seek that the Lord will keep me from rebelling. For may he keep us. We need to be kept. Because if we are not we should soon be a snare.

[47:33] Satan will soon put that snare to that dear man that God spoke about. Now it'll be in it before we know where we are. But how we need to be kept even at such a time as this.

[47:46] Even when the Lord is blessing us. Because our heart uplifts with God's own gifts. And makes in grace a snare. At such a time as this. Every time we need this God will make it be a God not only in life but also in death.

[48:03] Amen. I'm dossier inch and had another stinky neck has later we went to dinner