Introduction
- 5 minutes to prepare a persuasive speech on something you are passionate about. They are to be 30 seconds long.
- Review Esther to this point: Esther becomes queen after winning what was essentially a beauty pageant. Haman gets power, and is against the Jews. Mordecai, cousin of and the person who raised Esther, refuses to bow to him and sends him over the top. Haman gets permission to wipe out the Jews. Esther now in the position to save the lives of the Jews.
- Read Esther 7:1-7. Big, bad, overconfident Haman now is scared for his life. He goes to beg and plead with Esther to spare his life.
- Read Esther 7:8-10. Haman basically dug his own grave. The fact is when people go against God or persecute His people, then they are truly digging their own graves.
- Read Esther 8:1-17. A beautiful story of victory and deliverance.
- Read Esther 9:1-10:3. Remember a couple weeks ago we asked you to remember the fact that they, “cast the pur (lot)” to see when the annihilation of the Jews would occur? That’s because the Jews now celelbrate, on February 28th, Purim. The day they should have been wiped out, but instead they stood victorious and delivered.
- Though God was never mentioned in this book, how was it evident that He was at work?
- What did He give to Esther to make her successful and a tool for the deliverance of His people?
- What lessons have you learned from the study of Esther?
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