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*What Goes Round Comes Round*
!!!! Esther 6
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Throughout the book of Esther, God’s name is never mentioned, however we discover the invisible, almighty God has been working behind the scenes on behalf of His people.
Subtly setting up situations,
incidents,
events
that work to the benefit of those who love and follow Him.
And He is still working that way today!
He’s still doing it!
Right now,
Today, if you’re trusting and following Him…
He’s weaving the ‘seemingly insignificant’ details of your life into His perfect plan for you.
But He’s doing it anonymously,
many times without your awareness or knowledge.
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*Review: People in our story*
KING: Exerses (Ahashueras)
- king of all Persia.
- Jews were in exile in Babylon when the Persians conquered Babylon.
Swayed by his self-serving pride
Banished his wife because she refused to display her beauty in front of his drunken guests.
Then declared an edict that all the women in his vast country must obey their husbands.
Beauty contest was held to choose a new Queen and *Esther* was chosen.
Esther was an orphaned Jewish girl who was raised by her cousin Mordecai.
*Mordecai*:
Uncovered a plot to kill king
Deed was recorded but not rewarded.
*Haman* the Agagite was a racial enemy of the Jews.
The king elevated him to the place above all the other nobles.
Everyone, except Mordecai, knelt down and paid honour to him.
This so enraged Haman that he tricked the king into declaring a foolish and deadly edict.
On one specific day all the citizens of Persia are to rise up against their Jewish neighbours and kill all the men women and children and take their possessions as plunder.
Mordecai pleaded with Esther to approach the king and beg for their lives.
“Who knows,” he said, “but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this.”
Reluctantly she agreed knowing that the king could have her killed for approaching him without being summoned.
She asked Mordecai and all the Jews in the city to fast and pray for her for three days.
On the third day she approached the king,
he extended to her the royal sceptre
and asked her her petition.
Her request, please come to a banquet I have prepared and bring Haman.
After the meal, the king asked her to state her request.
Once again she invited the king and Haman to a second banquet the next day and then she would do as the king asked, then she would state her request.
Haman went home from the banquet swollen with pride but passed Mordecai on the way and again was enraged that Mordecai did not pay him honour.
/“His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, /
/"Have a gallows built, seventy-five feet high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it.
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/Then go with the king to the dinner and be happy."
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/This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the gallows built.”/
(Es 5:14 NIVUS)
That’s where we paused our story last week.
The question remained hanging as it were:
- will Mordecai be hanged?
- Did Esther wait to long to petition the king?
- Will God triumph?
Will He intervene on behalf of His chosen people?
Now chapter 6 “What Goes Round Comes Round.”
Notice who is honoured and exalted and who is disgraced and humiliated.
Chapter 6
*Characters*:
Exerses
What he does not know:
Who are the people he agreed to annihilate
His wife is one of those people – a Jew
Relationship between Mordecai and Esther
Haman’s true motives
Mordecai:
Mordecai is passed over as Haman, his enemy is chosen to be promoted.
But Mordecai never becomes a man of vengeance.
Mordecai knew how to guard his heart.
Listen to the words in book of Hebrews written several hundred years later but the principle is one by which Mordecai lived.
/“God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them.”/
(Heb.
6:10)
God does not forget.
He notices.
He will reward us for acts done in His name.
Perhaps not on this earth as happens to Mordecai, but someday.
Haman
Love of self ~/~/ hatred of Mordecai and all Jews
His wife counsels him – (against edict of the king!)
- 1st to build gallows (5:14)
- predicts Haman’s downfall by Mordecai (6:13)
God:
- working behind the scenes
- silent but powerful
- orchestrating *“circumstances”*
Notice the circumstances that pile up after God’s people have prayed and now it is the 11th hour.
1) the king is unable to sleep:
/“*That* night the king could not sleep…”/
While all of Susa slept, the king was restless.
Of all nights to suffer from insomnia, this is the night!
That’s the way it is with God.
At the eleventh hour, He steps in.
He does the unexpected.
When no one seems to notice and no one seems to care,
He notices and He cares.
In our story, God moves the heart of a godless king, who suddenly realizes that he owes his very life and throne to this obscure Jew named Mordecai.
A man, who up to this moment in time, meant nothing to him.
Suddenly, he’s the king’s top priority.
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2) the daily court record read to him is about Mordecai – of all places in the court record to read.
3) The king learns Mordecai has not been honoured for this act.
He began to imagine what might be done to reward this man for his great deed.
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