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Today, the book of Esther.

And we're kind of flying and missing man formation.

Taylor is out of town this week.

But what a privilege to welcome Sister Joy D. Jones to be our guest as we cover this book of Scripture

called Esther. So as we jump into this story of Esther, let's just talk through a couple of the

things that make this particular book fairly unique, not just in the Old Testament, but in all of

Scripture. So what are some things that come to mind?

Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind is the hiddenness of God. Because throughout

the chapters of Esther, I counted over 50 times that we see Esther's name, and I counted over 50 times that we see

Haman's name, both key characters in this story. But God is not mentioned once. Interesting.

Which is very rare. I mean, here it is a book of the Bible, and you don't get his name one time.

And so it makes you think, well, then is the book inspired? Or is it, does it be long?

Does it fit in? Or is it not really scripture? Is it safe to say that God is kind of incognito

here? He's kind of behind the scenes. He's kind of hidden. You have to look for these things.

And you're going to find a whole series of little

circumstances that might look like happenstance, like a coincidence, but they all line up,

almost as if an invisible hand is putting some dominoes in place for the right moment to then unfold this beautiful story.

That's such a good prelude because that allows you to watch now as we go through these

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