Big Thought: In the darkest moments God’s people must shine the and do things.
Esther 3:5-6 (NIV)– When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
Proverbs 16:33 (ESV) – The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
GOD’S MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE THROUGH ESTHER:
1) God is in .
2) We are much more like than we care to admit.
3) There are for when we give away our ring. And they are .
4) We can get so on our own life, we grow to the real world where God rules.
Hebrews 10:23-25 (ESV) – Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
5) from the Lord leads us to make the decisions.
a. Our does not us from calamity.
b. God’s promises come about, with or without us. What’s at stake is our in it.
c. God places each of us in places to be a part of His glorious .