This is the Bible Book Club, the book of Esther. Welcome to the club.

Last time in chapter four, we discovered why Esther had come to the position of Queen

for such a time as this. Mordecai learned of the edict

to kill the Jews, and he tore his clothes in mourning. So great was his display of mourning that Esther

heard about it all the way back in the palace. Through messages sent by her eunuch, Mordecai

challenged her to take action. Esther was faced with a difficult choice. Stay silent and safe

or risk death by approaching the king uninvited. After calling for three days of fasting, she made her

decision. If I perish, I perish. She chose trust God with her life and go to the king with her request.

So when we left Esther, she had accepted this seemingly impossible mission to save her people.

So many things were against her.

The law was against her because she couldn't approach the king without an invitation.

Her sex was against her because the king saw women as disposable and she hadn't even seen him in 30 days. Her nationality

was against her because Heyman's death decree included her. Time was against her. The king's

volatile temper was against her. Even the fatigue from fasting for three days would have worked

against her physically. So what takes place in the next 24 hours

of Esther's story is the start of the epic reversal. The proud will be humbled. The humble will be

elevated. The villain will be sentenced to death and the victims will be given life. Esther never

mentions God and we don't know how much

access she had to the scriptures, but we have access to the scriptures, and we also have the New

Testament. When faced with difficult situations like Esther, we have the scriptures behind the

spirit of Esther's actions.

Romans 8 31 and 37 say this.

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