My life is over?
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See the deposed queen
See the deposed queen
Esther 1
Vashti is gone
Vashti is gone
the queen has been deposed
king ahasuerus has decreed - cannot go back on the law
but he was now regretting the hasty law made in a rage
heat of the moment
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After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.
I’m wondering at this point is the king turning his anger at his advisors
And the king’s servants attending him said, “Let them seek attractive young virgins for the king. Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the harem in the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give them their beauty treatment. And let the young woman who is pleasing in the king’s eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king’s eyes, and he acted accordingly.
Mordecai
Mordecai
a new character in our story
There was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, who was deported from Jerusalem with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah the king of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported.
deportation..
Esther
Esther
He was raising Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman had a beautiful figure and was very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.
orphan raised by an uncle
prisoner in foreign country
a Hated Jew
And it happened, at the proclaiming of the edict of the king and his law, when many young women were being gathered to the citadel of Susa under Hegai’s care, Esther was taken to the king’s palace under the care of Hegai who was in charge of the women.
and now her life had changed dramatically
stolen from the life she knew
she has been taken into the harem of the king
never will she return to her uncles house
what is your attitude right now?
depression? anxiety?
The young woman pleased him and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the king’s palace, and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the harem.
believe was always looking forward
not dwelling on the past
she could have gone into this situation depressed, with a bad attitude,complaining
made things worse for herself
How do I move foreward ?
We see what Esther did
When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her. Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his palace, in the tenth month that is Tebeth in the seventh year of his reign.
es 2 15-16
Esther took the advice of her mentor, when her time to go into the king.
she made the best of this new life.
conclusion
God’s life for us involves roadblocks and detours
what are we going to do when we come to them?
words that we never want to hear cancer, death, homeless, or worse.
if you are a child of God you can have the confidence that as
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,
God is in control no matter what your situation is
if you are not a child of God I want to invite you to to join the Family
Bad news good news
saved by grace through faith