2. Series 2 - God Pursues His People
The Story Finding Your Story in God’s Story “Queen of Beauty and Courage”
Series 2 - God Pursues His People

3. Review Chapter 19 “The Return Home”
Series 2 - God Pursues His People

5. Susa
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6. King Xerxes (Ahasuerus)

7. Haman – right hand man to the king

8. Mordecai

9. Hadassah – Persian name Esther

10. I. A New Queen is Chosen
Esther 1 – Queen Vashti is banished

11. Queen Vashti refuses the king’s order to be ogled

12. The king – call my lawyers
Banish her
Decree every man ruler of his home

13. Esther 2 – Esther becomes queen

14. PERSIA’S NEXT
Queen

15. Esther, along with many others are brought to the king’s harem to be groomed for 12 months

16. The king makes Esther queen

17. Her nationality is a secret
Mordecai exposes a plot to assassinate the King

18. II. Haman’s plot
Esther 3

19. Haman is given high position in the empire
King commanded officials to bow to him
Mordecai refuses – he is a Jew

20. Haman filled with rage – plots a holocaust

21. Mordecai and fellow Jews go into mourning
Mordecai sends word to Esther to go to the king and beg for mercy

22. The risk of death approaching the king uninvited
The risk of death if all the Jews are killed

23. Perhaps you were made queen for such a time as this

24. III. Esther’s Appeal Esther 5-8 A banquet for the king and Haman
The King’s sleepless night
The Honoring of Mordecai – for saving the king’s life exposing the assassination attempt
The Humiliation of Haman

25. Esther exposes the plot, by this man Haman, against her people to annihilate them

26. Haman impaled on the pole set up to impale Mordecai
James 4:6 (NASB) 6  But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

27. Mordecai promoted
James 4:10 (NASB) 10  Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

28. Esther’s appeal to reverse the king’s law to kill the Jews

29. IV. The Preservation of a People
Esther 9:1-4

30. The preservation of the people through whom the Savior would come
Genesis 3:15 (NLT) 15  And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

31. Revelation 12:5 (NLT) 5  She gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away from the dragon and was caught up to God and to his throne.

32. For such a time as this
Galatians 4:4 (NLT) 4  But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.

33. Christ’s Crucifixion
1 Corinthians 2:7-8 (NLT) 7  No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God—his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began. 8  But the rulers of this world have not understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord.

34. The hand of God involved in the affairs of man to bring about his purpose
Romans 8:28 (NASB) 28  And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.