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A Fresh Approach to the Story of Esther
- God is Always at Work Even When You Do Not Know It

SERMON PASSAGE

Esther 4:14, 16

14) For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” 16) And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!”

Psalm 7:14-16

14) Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity; Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood. 15) He made a pit and dug it out, And has fallen into the ditch which he made. 16) His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.

Esther 5:1-5

1) Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. 2) So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter. 3) And the king said to her, “What do you wish, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given to you—up to half the kingdom!” 4) So Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.” 5) Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 5:9

9) So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.

Esther 6:1

1) That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

Esther 5:9-10

9)So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai. 10) Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

Esther 6:1-10

1) That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. 2) And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 3) Then the king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” And the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.” 4) So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5) The king’s servants said to him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.” 6) So Haman came in, and the king asked him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?” 7) And Haman answered the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8) let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head. 9) Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’” 10) Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king’s gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken.”

Esther 6:13

13) When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”