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Gospel Project Esther
Esther 6:6-11; 7:3-10; 9:1-2
Main Idea: Doing God’s will takes boldness and trust.
Me:
I was trying to think of stories that I was bold or brave in and unfortunately none came to mind.
I have several stories in which I wasn’t bold however.
How about all the times where I was part of a group that picked on other kids, and while I wasn’t the ring leader, I didn’t do anything to stop it.
Or like the time my friend asked me point blank about God and was seriously inquiring about trusting Jesus and I froze up and told him we could talk about a different time and it never came back up.
And sometimes its not even about boldness it also about trusting God as well.
Like the times I know that I need to trust God about my situations but instead I tell God, don’t worry about it anymore, I’ll take care of it.
Without realizing that God was protecting me from something and I ended up getting hurt in the process.
Being bold and trusting is not easy.
Being bold, we believe comes natural.
But I don’t really think it does.
I think it take us having a great deal of trust in an almighty God that gives us the boldness to do his will.
It takes trust in God’s plan to be bold in your life.
I remember a time where my buddies and I were playing football in the school yard.
Let me tell you something there is nothing better then playing football in 6th grade.
Because the teacher at recess would let us tackle each other.
It was incredible.
Well we would play everyday.
And I remember that one time my buddy was like hey I have a plan, we are going to do a reverse flea flicker.
Here is what that means.
We are going to run one way hand the ball off to someone else then they are going to throw it back to quarterback and he is going to bomb it deep.
I got to the wide receiver, who was going to go catch the ball.
I however had a bad attitude about the whole thing.
Why?
I wanted to run a different play.
I thought this play was stupid and there was going to be no way that this play was going to work.
So I went to my spot and my buddy yelled hike.
The play was in motion and I stood right where I was.
Hands on my hips because I knew they play was not going to work.
I didn’t trust my team to pull this play off.
So I decided to take the play off.
I was a little emotional okay.
But you know what happened.
The play worked, I the ball was thrown to where I was suppose to be— and the other team picked it off.
To which my response was see, I told you so.
To which every player on my team blamed me for not being the right place.
Let’s just say they were mad at me the rest of the day.
We:
But like when we don’t trust a plan or we think our plan is better, we do this.
We think we know better.
So lot of times we will just wait for things to fail.
Like we if fail to trust the plan we are not going to give it our all are we?
I mean we might say we are but deep down we are rooting for the plan to fail.
We want it to.
It shows a lack of trust on our end.
And when we lack trust we lack boldness to go along with it.
I want us to look at the story of Esther tonight.
If you recall last week we talked about God’s providence is always greater then our own longings.
Esther had become queen and now she had a chance to help out her people.
Recall the Jewish people were set to be destroyed by that dude Hamon— BOOO
And it was her cousin Mordecai who told her look, if you don’t help us that is okay, we will find deliverance through another means.
As in God will see us through this with or without you.
He had incredible trust in his God.
But he would go on to say this:
Mordecai is like look, there is a reason why you have become queen and it could very well be for a time such as this.
Your people, remember Esther is a jew as well.
Your people are going to die if you don’t go before your husband the king.
She was scared for this, because nobody shows up in front of the King uninvited.
Yet she found boldness inside of her and decided it was the right thing to do.
That is where we left off last week.
God:
So lets pick this up with another timeline.
To the whiteboard!
Here are the people we have present
Esther
Xerxes
Mordecai
Hamon-BOO
Zeresh— Hamon’s wife
So lets do through the timeline of what is happening here.
*Esther gets boldness to go before the King.
You can image how scared she probably was!
But it played out well.
*The King accepted her.
I don’t Esther was not prepared for this.
I think she was thinking that the King was going to reject her.
Let’s see her reply
*So she invites Him and Hamon over for a meal
The King is so excited for this!
*Esther has them over for lunch.
The King ask the same question again— what do you wish— I’ll give it to you.
And Esther says to have lunch with you tomorrow as well.
I really think that this all was happening so well that Esther kept finding herself not ready to answer the question.
Maybe this was Esther’s plan to butter him up before she dropped the news that his number 2 guys is a snake who is trying to wipe out her people.
I don’t think that they make greeting card for that.
So as Esther preps for the next day.
*Hamon is on cloud nine.
He is loving life, he just got to eat with the king and queen.
Life is looking pretty good for Hamon.
Until he sees his enemy Mordecai!
Yet Hamon returns home and tells his wife Zeresh all that happened that day.
He had a meal with the king and queen and was invited back tomorrow as well.
But yet even as amazing as that was he still saw Mordecai!
and that ruined his day.
So Hamon’s next step in his evil plan to destroy the jews was building the gallows.
As in a place to hang them.
To kill them.
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