Let's get into the word. Esther, chapters 7 and 8 tonight. I want to, before we jump in, just kind of,

so we can hit the ground running, let you know where we're at. We kind of left it on a cliffhanger last week.

It was right after the first banquet that Esther had invited Haman, evil Haman and the king too.

And she had, instead of asking for what her petition was, after the king had said,

I will give you up to half of my kingdom. She said, if it pleases the king, will you please the king,

will you please come to a second banquet tomorrow, which was really interesting because God did quite a bit

that night between the first banquet and the second banquet, namely giving the king a sleepless night,

this divine insomnia. And the king, as a result of of that had his men go get the chronicles to read as

boring as they would be to put him to sleep. And as God would have it, they selected the exact

from who knows how many of these scrolls with the chronicles and the history.

And of all of them, they pick the one that has the account of when Mordecai saved the king's life

by through Esther revealing a plot on his life to assassinate him. And so the king in response

to this says to his men, do we ever do anything for this Mordecai? I mean, after all, he saved my life.

I'm still alive today because of him,

to which their response was, no, we've not done anything. And at that exact moment, again,

as God would have it, here comes Haman. Now, he's there for a different reason, and he's there early,

first thing in the morning. And he's there for a different reason and he's there early first thing in the morning and he's there to ask the king to have Mordecai hung on the gallows that he had built and before he could even

ask the king to grant him this, the king asks him a question

on the heels of learning that nothing was done for Mordecai. And so he says to Haman, Haman,

what do you think should be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?

Now here's Haman full of himself. It's all about him. And he's thinking to himself,

we're told in the text, interesting detail that's recorded

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