TiL- Esther 9

Good evening. Welcome to the truth and love podcast tonight. We are going to look at Esther chapter 9. Hope you will stay with us. So Dan, I played with the video just a little before we got on here tonight.

It's not bad. It's not bad. What do you think? I.

Wasn't sure what I was listening to there. I didn't enjoy it. I Wasn't sure if I was getting slammed in a jail cell or if the ocean was going off or if there were cannons involved.

Either way it kept you intrigued. I liked it. Well, you know, at least it it triggered your imagination. For anybody it could be anything. I guess that's what art supposed to be whatever. It's not our theory or theory or intent anymore, is it?

No, no.

No, in fact, I'm going to choose to believe that. What I just heard was a underwater jail cell in wartime.

Hey, that sounds good coast. Nice nice good stuff. I'll a Pat miss type stuff. There you go. There you go, and we can go back to a revelation. At least at least with this video. I faded at the end. I finally got it wasn't as abrupt.

Good we had a good day today. We we had we've been kept away from our Church fan our morning church family Due to we had car troubles for a few weeks and then We had covered for two weeks and so today was like the first day in like a month and and a half or so since we've been able to could go and Be with the folks at the Walton congregation and we got back there today and it was just wonderful and then you know, we're healthy so we're finally able to get back to The church up here where we're planting the church for for our evening service and we had the Lord's Supper and I don't know what Happened to our pastoral intern tonight, but something clicked in his brain and he preached a fantastic sermon tonight from John 11 in the 12 a little bit about Mary worshiping God and people trying to to kill Jesus and Lazarus and Who good stuff?

But we had a good we had a good service as well and I was encouraged by what our pastor said. I was encouraged. But we we have a small group and the small groups at our church. They can meet at different times we We chose to meet right after the service we're trying to find the best time and so we should we're choosing to meet right after the service and The way these Community groups community gospel groups.

We have some different names for them. But uh, we started out and and we've kind of continued this Trend where we kind of debrief. On the sermon we go over the sermon. We we jot down some notes jot down questions and we talk about the sermon and I was really encouraged.

The other guy that helps me lead the small group He was speaking of I guess a conviction of his that that we should live in light of the victory of Christ and Really have a Aim to change culture and I was really encouraged by that.

We we've touched on that because of our eschatology How we believe that that Jesus wants us to Engage and and have a heart for our culture, which is through the gospel. And and so to hear to hear that same conviction and message.

Being reiterated by other people in your congregation. It was really encouraging to me. Yeah, so.

Yeah, I was thankful for that. Did y 'all baptize any babies in your service today? We did not.

One day maybe I had to think about it Dan just for a second, but no we didn't do that today. Well, we didn't either but coming up here in the next.

Several months. We'll have two of them. Yeah one for we got a little one doing December and there's another family in the church that has a baby due in.

October beginning of October. Okay. Now now we may dedicate one or two here there. But we're not we're not baptizing quite yet. Yeah, there you go, oh.

Esther 9: The Jews Gain the Mastery Over Their Enemies

So, are you ready to jump in. Esther. Absolutely, let's do it. All right, we are. I'm ready to hear you pronounce these names.

I'm not gonna do it. Well, I can promise you we are we are in Esther chapter 9 and We can probably look at Esther chapter 10 because it's only three verses and we will wrap up and be finished with Esther tonight.

So So Mordecai and and Esther are on kind of on the other side of this thing with the king he has she's come clean to him about who she is about her relationship with Mordecai and she is she is pleading with him to save her people and he can't he can't go back and Take away his his decree To to eradicate the Jewish people.

So he's worked worked away found a way To go against his self, I guess a way that you could put it. He he has given them the right to assemble. He's given them the the means and the ability to Take up for themselves and so wrote the Second Amendment before it was cool.

That's right the right to assemble and bear arms. Absolutely, so yeah, they are they are excited about this they know They know good things are ahead because of What the Lord has done through through Esther and Mordecai.

So let's jump into chapter 9 and I'll read a few verses and Let Dan give us some commentary. Starting in verse 1 it says now in the 12th month That is the month of Adar on the 13th day when the king's command and edict were about to be executed On the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them.

It was Turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them. The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King. We learned a different way to pronounce the king's name actually hopefully the right way, but I still can't do it.

I've been saying it has to wear us. Would you say it was then a hash way Ross a hash for us?

Close enough. About eight different ways to pronounce every word and for every way that there is a pronounce a word. There's about seven people out there who will tell you you're doing it wrong. Ways to just go on ahead and do it.

Forget anybody else behind you and just move on understanding who that person is in your brain.

So I wouldn't even worry about it, but also known as Xerxes there you go. To lay hands on those who saw their harm and no one could stand before them for the dead of them had fallen on all the peoples.

Yeah. This is pretty cool the same day that they were going to go out with the Haman and all of his folk we're gonna go out there and Annihilate the Jews. They're just going let them have it. The King said I choose gather up.

You're gonna go out there and you're going to Defend yourselves so they gathered up arms. They gathered together. They they acted as a unit. I'm sure that. They they probably came together and did some training exercises made sure they knew what they were doing and The folks there were their enemies were afraid.

Now here's the thing. It's interesting to what God is fighting for a people the dread of the Jews will come across come on top of those people if you think about the The Exodus they leave out and they're coming up and as they come up They're talking to no different people who around the area a rehab I think was even one of them and They're talking to him and they say well we've heard about what happened what your God did and we're afraid.

We we don't want any part of no messing with you because we know that your God fights for you. It's the same sort of thing here. Now. We don't hear God's name mentioned but God was still fighting for them.

Because the dread of the Jews fell upon the people. Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's kind of a given. We're talking about the Jews and we we know who the God of the Jews is. They knew who the God of the Jews is and They knew who their God is was. Yeah, and so when it says Jews, we know their religion.

We know their God. They knew their God and. Yeah, I just I think it's a given and there's even a passage isn't in chapter 8 or chapter 9 Dan where it says many became.

Many more became Jews or something like that. Yes towards the is towards the end of chapter 8. Yeah, yeah.

I'd have to look for it. But but yeah, yeah, they not only was there dread but uh there was there was a revival not a revival, but a insurgents, there's a.

Coming to um. Coming to the religion. Yeah mass conversion. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Also interesting that uh, it wasn't just a supernatural thing but God used means as well. You look there in verse 3 and actually 3 3 4.

Um.

Yeah, go ahead. Read those. Even even all the princes princes of the provinces the satraps the governors and those who were doing the King's business Assisted the Jews because the tread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

Mordecai was great in the king's house and his fame spread throughout all the provinces. For the man Mordecai became greater and greater.

Yeah, so Mordecai was he was getting a name for himself. No, while he was he was there they figured out. Hey, this guy's is somebody. He's getting power. The king really trusts him. He you know thwarted a plot to kill the kill the king.

He wouldn't let his enemy, you know, take him over and not only that but he's got all the king's horses and all the king's men. Getting ready to fight for him. So the people who had the dread fall on them weren't only afraid they weren't afraid for no reason.

They were afraid because God had put the fear of him in them and part of that was accomplished because. They were now living in a an empire where on a certain day if they came and fought against the Jews.

They were also gonna fight against the full might of the the Medo-Persian army. Right, so it's like you had to deal with. No, the National Guard Couple couple Marines and the local police department while you're going after the Hatfields down the road.

It was not going to not gonna go well for you. Yeah.

Yeah, I just I find it amazing that they just didn't I mean roll over because I Mean the tables had turned even though he couldn't reverse his edict. I mean, I guess they had to obey the king. Me that's such an interesting turn of events.

You had some that had to obey the king to attack the Jews and you had some to obey the king to to Fight and protect the Jews against the ones I guess the people who the king commanded to attack them. I mean he's commanding both people to fight against each other.

It was more of an allowance than a command because it was the enemies who were who were destroyed. So if if you decided you know, I'm not gonna be an enemy of the Jews this day I'm gonna go somewhere else.

I'm gonna go take a hike and Even though some were afraid and I'm sure a lot back down. If you look at who all was fighting. It was a payment spoke. Go on through.

Go on through verse 9. Okay. Here comes the good part. Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword killing and destroying and they did what they pleased to those who hated them as. At the Citadel in Susa the capital the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men and harsh and Bethel Dauphin Aspitha Poor of the Dahlia It is a Dahlia Aradapta Parmista are our RSI are a die and Bazaar bazaar close enough.

Do what a close enough? Yes, right the the ten sons of Haman the son of Haman Datha the Jews enemy, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

Yeah, the people there were who are fighting against the Jews were Haman's ten sons and Their people. And on one day 500 of them died. Now, I don't know if any of the Jews died as well. It doesn't say.

But 500 of them died. I'm sure that they were outnumbered because they had you know, all the king's horses and all the king's men. But this this old blood feud between them. Was I Was over before it started there.

God was on the Jews side and he was making sure that it was. It was finished the way it was supposed to be finished which is also interesting. Why they didn't lay their hands on the plunder. They didn't take the stuff that was there because they weren't supposed to take the stuff the first time.

Yeah. We're supposed to take the plunder when they were going after them as they entered into the land. And so they understood what they were doing. These are the people that we were supposed to plunder or go in there and destroy before and not keep the plunder and.

We left some alive and now we're gonna go back. We're gonna finish the job, right?

I think that that references first first Samuel 15 but if I remember correctly, I think that's That's when Saul was supposed to Not leave anything. But he did and and so then. Therefore we now have Haman and his and his sons.

To go against Mordecai and Esther. Yeah somewhere in there. Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the reference. Yes. It's it's working in there. There's a lot of it there I don't want to spend the whole time reading on it.

So so verse 11 on that day the number of those who were killed at the Citadel and Susa was reported to the king. The king said to Queen Esther the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and the ten sons of Haman in the at the Citadel and Susa.

What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces now? What is your petition? It shall be even it shall even be granted to you. And what is your further request? It shall also be done. Oh man, she.

Excuse me.

Yeah, they they went to The king and told him 500 people were killed in the capital in his city that day and he told he told Esther say 500 people all the sons of Haman were killed in the Citadel day.

He was like, hey How many folks did you actually kill? You know how many more have died all the way across this has been a great success. But you're also kind of slaughtering my people He says but hey, we're gonna get these guys so what do you want?

I'll give it to you. No, what is your request? We'll do that even more. It's like do you want to ask for more? Ask away. I got you. No, that's a good husband.

That's right. That's right and You know eventually the obedience to God, you know, we we don't want to make promises for God but you know ultimately You know He's gonna rain blessing upon blessing, you know upon us even if it's in glory, but Even sometimes in this life We we see Extra blessing from God it seems like I know I was listening to a sermon and And these terms have been hijacked by the Some of the folks in the charismatic movement, but he was talking about how they were looking forward to the the ladder rank This this in in blessing where where God was just going to pour down his blessing and and here You know, we can't use this as a prescription say this is do this and what happened for you?

But what we can do is rejoice in the situation that Esther is in and Just like they do and we're gonna we're gonna read about you know, the festival that was created. But you know, that's I would say that it's part of the festival that's part of the remembrance that we do when we read a story like this and and you know, the Jews will even Make it out into a play.

Well people will dress up somebody dresses up like Mordecai somebody dresses up like Haman. Haman comes across the stage and people boo. But part of that process is is looking at this situation where Mordecai was Mordecai was faithful Esther was faithful.

They could have done this they could have done that but they were they were faithful to God and They fasted they sought God and they they obeyed him. They were faithful to him and here not only is Esther in a position where the the king Probably really hated being deceived by Haman.

So she has that on her side, but also she has His favor on her side. He really he really loves her. He I think It's been that way from the very beginning of their you know, their first interaction. So he really he really cares for her.

He really favors her but also he really hates being deceived so God has put Esther in this position of Double blessing from the king and so he's like Give me some more. Give me some more requests and ensures, you know, whatever you want.

It's yours. He's just feeling really generous so let's look on to a Few more verses. Verse 13 then Esther said if it pleases the king Let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today and let Haman's ten Sons be hanged on the gallows so the king commanded that it should be done so and an edict was issued in Susa and Haman's ten sons were hanged.

The Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the 14th day of the month of Adar and killed 300 men in Susa. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces assembled to defend their lives and rid themselves of their enemies and Kill 75 ,000 of those who hated them, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

Mm-hmm.

That's a lot of people. Yeah. Number keeps going up and up. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, that's the number of people who live in the Gastonia area. 75 ,000 if you. If you think about a I mean Gastonia is what like a mid-sized town.

Just like the whole Population gone. You figure 127 provinces. Let's do some math real quick.

You were close 76 ,000 635 in 20. Yeah right about there. You're really close.

That's a good memory. Yeah, I haven't lived in Gastonia in a while.

So, let's see, oh, I mean that's a that's a really good picture. I mean Numbers are just numbers when you're reading through them in Scripture. But when you can put when you can put a picture to it and really Imagine it in your head.

Yes, that's huge. Yeah if you.

Pull the numbers out. Now this is a large area, right? But the the population of each one of the the Provinces was centered around cities look by and large was centered around cities. So it was roughly 590 591 people who died per province so.

Imagine each large town in a state will call it a state for helping Americans think through it anyway. So about about 600 people per state the size of we'll say. Something like New Jersey, you know a postage stamp.

I mean you can drive across New Jersey like hour and a half north to south. No, as long as the traffic's good not bad. I don't know how often that happens. But you know, it's it's not very big. I mean, so so you knew somebody.

Some somebody there knew somebody what's up Claude? The the destruction was was widespread. Yeah, I think that that's kind of on on purpose. Wherever God's enemies are when God fights against his enemies they go down.

You everybody in the kingdom knew somebody who had been a part of the losses of those days. Everybody had a personal story somehow even once maybe twice removed. No, my brother's cousin or my aunt or somebody something like that.

Where they said no God bring judgment on us as a people and he did it because we were Going against his his people. He had chosen a people and we went against them and we had to pay. It's really a picture of God's faithfulness to his covenant people to the coming Christ that These people would be around or not around themselves but that the Jewish people would be around to see the coming Christ that he would come he would do everything that he said that God the promises that God had made we're going to be true and Every once in a while my email just like takes half my screen.

It just threw me off. I don't know what that's doing but yeah, so this this was a Time where God elevated his people to show not necessarily how great the Jewish people were but to show how great he was.

And I think that's part of why They get into when the next few verses talks about turning this into a a large festival. This is something where they're going to remember it year after year after year even to today.

Because it was something where God had kept a promise and so we're going to commemorate God keeping that promise.

Yeah, and not only is it him showing himself off to the these other people outside of the Jewish nation. But just to bring back in what we have talked about this whole time through Esther if you go back to the Ezekiel 38 and 39.

This is fulfillment prophecy fulfillment where God says I'm gonna bring all these nations Against you and I'm going to save you I'm going to Bring this victory for you. And and so I'm God is showing himself faithful in these prophecies and.

And he's showing himself to be true To his people so he's showing he's showing off and showing his glory before all these people outside of the Jewish nation. But he's also showing himself true To his own people by fulfilling that prophecy you think about Mordecai and his his communication with Esther who was there in the temple and He says to her, you know you got a chance here to speak to the king on behalf of your people, but if you don't you and your household are going to go down and God is going to God is going to bring deliverance from somewhere else.

So there there is that knowledge of God's promise that he is going to deliver his people. That's. That's that's in the heart of these prophets back then like Mordecai They got is he knows the scriptures.

He knows the prophecies and God has promised that he's going to deliver them and here here. He's showing off 70 75 ,000 of those that hated him 500 in each province and like like Dan was telling us and we got to remember too and we've talked about the size of the The kingdom this was the Persian Kingdom around the Iranian area and you've got This this Persian Kingdom that goes all the way to India from India to Egypt.

It's huge huge kingdom. And with all these hundred with 27 provinces. Yeah, right. Yeah. All these battles going on. And God is working through that whole area through the whole region to show himself to be true to his people.

Now imagine for a second being a Nominal Jew at the time, you know somebody who may be Really enjoying living in the Medo-Persian Empire. You know, you were know maybe your parents or your grandparents were taken Back by the Assyrians and so you've Seen maybe you grew up a little bit of Babylonian influence.

At least you heard of it. Now. You're in the Medo-Persian Empire. You're not Not really second-class citizen. You're just enjoying life. You're going through living in a different kingdom and you know, you know, you're Jewish guy, but you know, whatever I'm gonna you know kind of live my life and do whatever I want to and you know, enjoy myself and then.

All of a sudden you hear. Hey, we're going to. Who want to take out all the Jews? You know I will. What gives I don't want to be taken out. I'm enjoying it here like I'm not causing any trouble. Who's causing trouble over there?

It's not me. And then to see God work his promise. You hear what God was faithful to us. God had called us out of the land of Egypt. He brought us across the Red Sea. He put us in the land of Canaan he gave us that land we were unfaithful and he took us out now here he is defending us in a foreign land and.

To see the backslidden brothers the the nominal Jews. Coming out of the woodwork saying our God is an awesome God. No, look at the 75 ,000 that he has killed no over the course of one day. It would have brought revival.

It would have would have been incredible and Here's the thing we've seen Things like that with our own eyes today. We've seen God fighting for his people even today. How we've seen People preserved alive or we've seen even Christ coming and taking care of sins.

We should really be careful not to be a backslidden comfortable in captivity type of Christian where we think that because we're living somewhere where we might be a little comfortable. We can just go on doing whatever we want to but there is still an enemy who wants to see us destroyed.

Who wants to? See our lives taken apart just because the devil is bound in a sense where he can't deceive the nation. It doesn't mean that he doesn't want to lull people to sleep and see their souls destroyed.

He's still out there trying to wreak havoc where he's able to but Christ has made his promises and he has stood firm in Defeating his enemies. And we who backslide who fall away who live? Apathetically towards the reality that Christ is King and he's done what he said he's going to do in this world.

We should we should really take the opportunity to think like these Jews and think hey I Have a God who has fought for me. I have a God who has done something fantastic for me. I should really worship this God.

I need to put my sin away. I need to you know change my mindset. I need to know like first Corinthians says. Let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus let us just repent turn from ourself give everything to God and know that he is a wonderful fantastic Savior.

That's right. Amen, and we we need Claude's organ at this point. Because that was a wonderful message that was that was powerful and that's something that we need to be reminded of and and I would say I Would say I don't know what I would say.

Hoorah. I would say that's right because that's kind of the purpose of us going to Esther is to To point to The hearts replaced the organ tonight. What you heard from Dan is what we wanted to share with you as we go through the book of Esther How to interpret God's Word how to look at it.

You know biblically we spoke about this and and you know, I've got to touch on this but it's one of the main reasons why we came from Ezekiel to Esther was because of eschatology, but the reason we We were in eschatology is because we want to interpret Scripture correctly accurately and so Listening to Dan how we should view God and how we how this scripture helps us to to view God and understand God is Is one of the ways that we should be reading the book of Esther.

But we touched on it last time when we were going through the going through chapter 8 how people view people interpret Scripture based on their 2022 current Understanding of language understanding of culture and trying to squeeze it into these words that they find in Scripture to these Circumstances that they find in Scripture so so a person will walk outside and they say well the stars are still there.

They haven't fallen a third of the land is isn't taken away a third of mankind Isn't taken away so I can go back inside. This hasn't happened yet. So, you know, it's in our future. It hasn't happened yet.

And we we say no, we don't interpret Scripture based on our 2022 Understanding of language understanding of culture. No, we understand Scripture based on Scripture and how it interprets itself. That's why we don't go to Ezekiel to try to squeeze in Russia in our eschatology in our pre-trib dispensational rapture Eschatology when it doesn't fit we we kind of go and and cherry-pick verses throughout the Old Testament to try to fit a certain eschatology when in reality we go to places like Ezekiel Zechariah and we found their fulfillment in you know, Nehemiah Ezra and Esther and that's how we want to share with you the the accurate Accurate best way to interpret God's Word to let it speak for itself.

And so I'm glad Dan was sharing what he shared about how to view God.

In light of These books. Yeah, it's interesting if you think back to the road to Emmaus Jesus is talking to some folks that should have known who he was. But for whatever reason their eyes were blinded to him.

And it says he started with Moses and the prophets explaining how all the scriptures were about him. If we go through the Old Testament and we find Russia or something that's often our future. Unless it's something that just barely mentioned or we find the end result of what Christ is going to do.

You know mentioned there. We've kind of kind of missed it. What we need to be looking for is Christ because that who is represented in the Old Testament Scriptures and it's interesting because a lot of the New Testament is simply a commentary on the old.

There's some new stuff there. I mean, obviously Jesus came we have the Gospels. We've got no stuff like that. But a lot of Paul's letters are him explaining. What does the Old Testament? What did the Old Testament say and how does it apply to us now that the Christ that it was talking about has arrived?

Now that he has procured salvation he has defeated sin death and the devil, how do we live our lives? What do we do? How do we set up the church? What do we go about doing?

Interesting stuff there. Oh, yeah. Listen, let's move right along. Starting in verse 17 this was done on the 13th day of the month of Adar and on the 14th day they rested and Made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

But the but the Jews who were in suits assembled on 13th and the 14th of the same month and they rested on the 15th day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

Therefore. Go ahead people in the city. Just work too hard. Them country folks did did one solid day of work and said we're let's party. Throw down y 'all come on to the barbecue. We're gonna get it started.

Them city folks said now we need to work an extra day. I.

Don't know. Well and and here We have the theme of rest. Yep, and we we know that we can point to Christ That they they were they were working they were working they were battling and they they had to take That take this time this this to set us out to rest, but we can point to Christ.

And we're gonna do that here in a second, of course when we look Deeper into the chapter, but yeah, we can see We can see Christ coming up. Therefore the Jews in the of the rural areas who live in the rural towns Make the 14th day of the month of Adar a holiday for rejoicing and feasting and sending portions of food to one another.

Come on out to the barbecue. You Ready to go on. Yeah, okay. Then Mordecai recorded these events and sent he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Hashewaris Xerxes both near and far Obliging them to celebrate the 14th day of the month of Adar and the 15th day of the same month annually.

Because of those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies and was a month which was turned for them from sorrow Into gladness and from mourning into a holiday that they should make them days of Feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do and what Mordecai had written for them.

Man, if that don't sound like Easter I don't know what does. There was a people who thought that they were going to die on a certain day and their mourning was turned into rejoicing. Man it sounds like Easter.

I mean, it's not this is something completely different, but it's the same idea there. These people were expecting to die on that day and it was going to. I mean, I look grim. I look dark. They weren't gonna survive it.

The same thing when Christ went to the cross if you were standing there it got dark. His blood was coming down his side. He was the crown of thorns beaten beyond recognition. It looked dark. You know, how are we gonna come back from this?

This is a day of sadness. And now every year. Whether we're supposed to or not That's a different debate, but we are we're definitely supposed to remember Christ's passion and his especially his resurrection his death and his resurrection that he he died.

But it wasn't a sad time because what he did was he procured salvation the sin that holds us down that keeps us tied to Sin and death and darkness Goes away because Christ rose from the dead. He's alive.

He's reigning now. He's living. It was a day turned from sadness into rejoicing. It's the same thing here. This is pointing ahead. The Christ that was promised will come through the bloodline that was preserved on this day.

It was a time that what could have been sad. But instead it was turned to a day of rejoicing and gladness. Feasting come on out to the barbecue. Let's let's talk about how the God is is it and There's nothing wrong with celebrating.

And and we should I Mean, it makes me want to celebrate Tomorrow, it makes me want to celebrate more when Easter rolls around. And enroll at the barbecue have a feast because I mean you're exactly right this this is Easter.

Because if you think about it, you know, we're we're looking at a battle here. They were they were battling people who hate them. Well, we We are enemies of God in our mind that we could works we we Battle with sin and if we if we were to continue to battle with I know we wait for the gospel to the end.

But you know here it is in Scripture. We got to talk about it. I mean if we if we continue to battle with sin for the rest of our lives to try to defeat it. It would be like climbing to the trying to climb to the moon on a road made of sand.

We it's impossible. We can never do it. We can never defeat sin in our lives. We can never make up for it. We can never kill it. We can and so our our position with the father Would Would still be where it is no matter how much we fought against sin.

So therefore he sent his son to to battle sin and Jesus defeated it. Jesus won the battle against sin. Our sin that we brought into this world that that brought a curse onto this world. Jesus won that battle on our behalf for the glory of God so that we could be saved so that we didn't have to Anymore against this sin and so on the third day He was he was resurrected and now we can have rest in him and we can celebrate that rest every day.