Mordecai, Man of Influence

Outline by Matthew Scott

April 11, 2018

Mordecai’s Character

• Character is what I am
• Reputation is what you think I am
• Conduct is how my Character Controls Me
• Influence is how my Character Affects Others

Mordecai’s Compassion

• Care for Esther
  • A Father to the Fatherless, a defender of Widows, is God in His holy habitation – Psalm 68:5
• Care for Jews in Danger
  • Defend the poor and the fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy – Psalm 82:3

Mordecai’s Fear

• Does Not Return to the Land
• Hides his Identity
• Do not be deceived “Evil company corrupts good habits”
  –1 Corinthians 15:33

Mordecai’s Fear Turned to Courage

• Would not Bow to Haman
• Sackcloth and Ashes and Fasting
• What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36

Mordecai’s Focus

• Continually at the Gate
• Not Distracted by Promotion
• The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is good, your whole body shall be full of light.  Matthew 6:22

Mordecai’s Influence for Good

• Exhorts Esther to Act
• Unites Jews to Fast
• You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost his flavour, how shall it be seasoned?… …You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid – Matthew 5

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