God Can Use Bad Advice For His Glory (#6 of 10)
Esther 5

1. We can make ourselves

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   to bad advice. (9) – “Haman went out…with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai…that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation”
   

2. Bad advice often comes from those

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   to us. (10) – “Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh”
   

3. Bad advice finds a

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   amidst pride and selfishness. (11-13) – “Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king…’Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet’…’ this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.’”
   

4. Entertaining bad advice can lead to our

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   . (14) – “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it”
   

5. Our response to bad advice reveals our spiritual

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   . (14) – “the thing pleased Haman”
   

6. God can turn bad advice into a

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   work. (14) – “so he had the gallows made”