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And I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods (Deut. 31:18)
… let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti … Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor … So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen … (Esther 2:4,17)
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Mordechai … urge[d] her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people … he … answer[ed] ‘Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?’ (Esther 4:7,8,13,14)
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Then Esther sent this reply to Mordechai: ‘Go gather together all the Jews … and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish’ (Esther 4:15,16)
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The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves (Hebr. 10:1)
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord … (Is. 11:2)
Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne … (Rev. 1:4)
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Discussion & dialogue
Discuss how people in your churches, as clearly chosen by God for salvation ministry as Esther was, can be helped, motivated and facilitated to execute their God-given missions to the unreached and least-reached people groups in the world
Discuss which key character-trait of Esther’s was the one without which Haman would have succeeded
Which six of the ten themes feature in Esther, and how?
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