Sermon Notes: Esther Week Two
Pastor Blaine Workman | November 16&17, 2024

Some have described divine providence as “the hand of God in the glove of human events”, and that is a picture the story of Esther paints for us.

After these things King Ahasuerus (or Xerxes) promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.  And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage. Esther 3:1-2

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.  If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[a] of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.” So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.  And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.” Esther 3:8-11

God is providentially watching over His people. 

God is providentially walking beside us in our plight

 God providentially works to fulfill ALL His promises. 

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you (Abram) all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Genesis 12:1-3

This is my Father’s world:

O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the Ruler yet.

This is my Father’s world:
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King: let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let earth be glad!