Same God - Walking in Faith 04
June 12, 2022

Esther

Esther 4:6-16 (NKJV)

Same God - Walking in Faith 04 | Debbye Turner Bell | Leadership & Discipleship Pastor in Connect Care & Grow / Local Outreach | first aired on 06.12.2022

6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate. 7 And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries to destroy the Jews. 8 He also gave him a copy of the written decree for their destruction, which was given at [b]Shushan, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her, and that he might command her to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people. 9 So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai.10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai: 11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.” 12 So they told Mordecai Esther’s words. 13 And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. 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?” 15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather all the Jews who are present in [c]Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!” —Esther 4:6-16 (NKJV)

I. Summary of the book of Esther

A. King Ahasuerus has a feast
B. Vashti, the Queen is dethroned
C. Esther becomes Queen
D. Mordecai reveals assassination plot
E. Haman plots to annihilate the Jews
F. Mordecai enlists Esther to save the Jews
G. Esther has two banquets
H. King Ahasuerus honors Mordecai
I. Esther reveals Haman’s plot
J. Haman is hanged
K. Esther asked the King to save the Jews
L. The Jews are allowed to defend themselves
M. Jews prevail against the Persian army
N. Beginning of the Feast of Purim

II. This is an amazing story of the

and mighty hand of God working behind the scenes to save his people.

A. If some of the Jews had not remained in Persia, then Mordecai would not have been in place to warn the King about the assassination plot.

B. If King Ahasuerus had not had a 6-month long drunken party then Vashti would not have rejected his order, then he would not have looked for a new Queen. Then young Esther would not have been sent by her uncle Mordecai as a candidate to become Queen and she would not have been in place to have access to the King to foil the plot of Haman

III. We clearly see the timing of God in operation.

A. Mordecai was at the gate of the palace at the right time to hear the assassination plot.
B. Esther became Queen at the right time.
C. Esther made her request to the King at the right time.
D. Even the date of the decreed annihilation of the Jews was in God’s timing
E. The perfect timing of God is just as

as His will and purpose.

IV. The right reason … God’s purpose.

A. Esther could have easily become so consumed with her title that she forgot her ancestral roots, stopped caring about her uncle or even the God of her forefathers.

B. Even as queen, she was obedient to Mordecai by not revealing her Jewish heritage at first.

C. Esther used her

to accomplish God’s purpose in her life and in the life of a whole nation of people.

V. Why do you have what you have? Why are you where God has placed you?

A. God blesses us for

purposes not .
B. Where has God placed you for such a time as this?
C. God has placed you in the right place-at the right time-to accomplish His plan.
D. Are you willing to be used by God?

VI. The name of God can be found nowhere in the Book of Esther, but you don’t have to look hard to see the hand of God and his Providence at work.

A. Just like in Esther, His presence might not be obvious but He is there nonetheless.
B. And if things haven’t worked out yet for your good that means God hasn’t stopped working.
C. God may seem

but He will never you.

Action Steps:

1. Determine to use what you have and where you are for the glory and purpose of God.
2. Seek God for direction in what you should do and how to move forward in His purpose for your life.
3. Repent for not standing up against evil.
4. Ask God for courageous faith to walk in the purpose and power that He has ordained for you.

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