for breakthrough that you can do is not to run around your city and find some kind of lay lines that you need to break is to sit down feast together in the kingdom because his kingdom is one of incredible joy let's do the last one because I want to get to ministry the father is it reintroducing us to himself one who is kinder than we dare believe see the thing in this story is that even this evil king represents something of miraculous favor when everyone was expecting Esther to actually get the death penalty he extends mercy to her and opens up favor and says I will do whatever you wish the book of Esther is opening up for us who our father is he is not slow to give he is not a demanding task master he is not a horrible controlling policeman big brother watching you figure he is the kindest father you could dare imagine and more so because he exceeds what we ask think or even imagine you know in this story I can't help but think of Luke 4 where it's this moment where Jesus is in the synagogue and he's given a scroll to read and he opens up the scroll and he reads the words from Isaiah 61 spirit of the Lord is upon me because he is anointed me we know the word so well to declare freedom to give sight to the blind to set the prisoner right he's reading that and he gets to the end of the scripture that he's reading well almost to the end I'm just gonna flick there for a second and we're gonna land with this he has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives recover of sight to the blind to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and then we're told he rolled up the scroll gave it back to the attendant and sat down and said today the scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing do you know what's so unusual about what Jesus does is that he doesn't read the full scripture because the scripture doesn't end with the year of the favor of the Lord it goes on to say and the day of the vengeance of our God but Jesus doesn't read that why because Jesus on the cross absorbs every punishment that would be on you and me he absorbs everything that is broken everything that has judgment against sin he absorbs it all so that Jesus becomes the favor filled full stop of heaven if you want to know what God thinks about you there is no vengeance or judgment or anger that he feels towards you every drop of that has been dealt with on the