Healing Touch Podcast

A Ministry of Gilead Baptist Church – Taylor, Michigan

 

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God’s Perfect Storms
A Time Like This
Esther
Pastor Tom

Introduction: God arranges for us to experience life defining moments; those that choose to trust God at these critical junctions are forever changed.

I. The Approaching Storm

• Altasurerus (Xerxes) embarrassed by Queen Vashti and divorces her. – Esther 1:1, 12, 19b
• Esther (Jewish) chosen queen – Esther 2:7, 10, 17
• Mordecai spoils a takeover plot – Esther 2:21-23
• Haman’s plot against the Jews – Esther 3:5, 6
• Extermination ordered – Esther 3:13
• The Vortex – Esther 4:13-16

II. The unseen changer

• Dinner invite – Esther 5:3-4
• Haman’s Gallows – Esther 5:14
• Xerxes insomnia – Esther 6:1
• Haman’s embarrassment – Esther 6:11- 12
• The enemy identified – Esther 7:5-6
• Haman hanged on gallows- prepared for Mordecai – Esther 7:10

III. The sun breaks through

• Mordecai’s counter decree – Esther 8:11
• Their enemies destroyed – Esther 9:16
• The Feast of Purim instituted – Esther 9:22

CONCLUSION: Haman cast his lot with astrologers while Esther cast her lot with the God that created the stars. That decision defined her life for eternity. – Proverbs 3:5-6

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