Let's get into the word. Esther, chapters seven and eight 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, 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 that 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 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,

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

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