Learning
to Trust God - Part VI: Book of Esther
Learning
to Trust God - Part VI: Book of Esther
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“Our Goal for this bible study is to
learn to trust God with every area and aspect of our life.”
Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.
Esther Chapter 6:
The night
before the second banquet, the king could not sleep. He asked for the book of records of the
chronicles and they were read to him. It
was written that Mordecai the Jew had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the
king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to kill king
Ahasuerus. The king asked what honor and
dignity had Mordecai the Jew received for his good deed of saving his
life. His servants told him, nothing had
been done for him.
The
book of chronicles is a record book listing special services. The general rule for special services was to
promptly reward a person for their services.
Since Mordecai’s deed of saving the kings’ life was somehow over looked,
he must be rewarded immediately. Isn’t it amazing how suddenly the king cannot sleep, the night before Esther’s banquet for the king and Haman? Do you think God was directing the king? Why did the king ask for the Book of Records of the Chronicles to be read to him that particular night? Why didn’t Esther make her request to the king at the first banquet? God’s providence and timing is evident. The hand of God is all over this Gentile king, causing him to become sleepless and request the reading of the records.
Remember, when Queen Esther entered the court, she entered into the inner court of the king’s house. Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak to him to hang Mordecai the Jew on the gallows that he had prepared for him. The king asks his servants, “Who is in the court? The king’s servants said, “Haman stands in the court.”
Although Haman was elevated above all the other princes, he still had to abide by proper protocol. He could not just go before the king without the king calling him. Remember the kings law, “that whosoever whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter that he may live.” Haman knew to stay in the outer court, because the rule applied to all men and women, even a prince.
The king
gives a command to let Haman come in. But, before Haman could ask permission to
hang Mordecai the Jew, the king asks him, “What shall be done unto the man whom
the king delights to honor?” (Now Haman as
arrogant as he was could not imagine the king would delight to honor any one
more than him.) Esther 6:6
Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more
than to myself?”
Ø Proverbs 18:12
Ø Proverbs 18:7
Ø Proverbs 18:21
Ø Proverbs 16:33*
Ø Proverbs 16:18
So Haman, thinking the king is talking about him, answers, “8Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: 9And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble prince, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.
Verse 10: Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate; let nothing fail of all that thou has spoken.
Ø Proverbs 16:2
Ø Proverbs 16:5
Ø Proverbs 11:2
So Haman took the apparel and horse and arrayed Mordecai the Jew and brought him through the street of the city on horseback and proclaimed before him, “6What shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor?” This no doubt humiliated and humbled him. The man he desired to kill, he Haman the high prince had to honor the Jew.
Haman brought Mordecai back to the king’s gate and went to his house mourning and covering his head. Haman told his wife and all of his friends what happened. Then Zeresh, his wife said to him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thous has begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him. (Did she prophesy?) While she was talking to her husband, the king’s chamberlains, came to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Discussion Questions:
1.
Can Haman now ask
the king to kill Mordecai whom the king honored?
2.
What do you think is
now going on in Haman’s mind as he goes to Queen Esther’s banquet?
3.
Summarize the second
table of Leviticus 19:18-34 in three words.
4.
What did Jesus tell
us about the “Law of Love” sometimes
called the “Law of Christ”? The answer is found in Matthew Chapter 5.
Genesis 12:3
King James Version (KJV)3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Proverbs 18:12*
King James Version (KJV)12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 16:18
King James Version (KJV)18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Mordecai, humbled himself before the Lord as he mourned in sack cloth and ashes and now he is exalted by the hand of his enemy: (Prov.15:33, 18:12; Matthew 5:4)
Haman who was an enemy of God’s child, who had been full of pride is now mourning. But God is the Judge he puts down one, and exalts another (Psalms 75:7)
Haman cannot prevail against the God of Israel.
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Read and discuss Matthew 25:31-46
For those attending the bible study in person:
·
Read Esther Chapters 6-8
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Read and be prepared to discuss Matthew 25:31-46
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Be prepared to answer the above
questions
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Be prepared to share what you learned in this
chapter
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