When we read the Bible, we see that human leadership is

ordained by God. So what does God do when those who are in authority abuse

their power or threaten his people? Well today on Truth For Life we'll find out

what happened when a king's top official plotted to destroy the entire

Jewish population. Alistair Begg is teaching today from chapter three in the

Book of Esther.

Hordecai was dealing with a question that we've already noted, namely how could he

be a good Jew and a good citizen in Persia? He obviously was committed to

being a good Jew. If he was an insurrectionist then when two fellows had

decided when he got in the earshore of the fight the two fellows had decided

to assassinate the king, if he was an insurrectionist a revolutionary then

anybody would have said this is fantastic. Nothing nothing like better than a

good assassination. Let me help you and he could have covered up for them or

perhaps made it even easier for them. But no he's a citizen of Persia. He's not

going to allow the king to be threatened and imposed upon in that way. So there's

no sense in which we can cast more to Cai in those sort of revolutionary turns.

No, it's far more difficult than that. How can he be a loyal citizen and a loyal

Jew? How can he do these things and not compromise his own core convictions?

Because he did have core convictions and presumably this was one of them.

It's a constant question isn't it? It's a question for you and me today. How are

we to live as Christian believers, as aliens, strangers in a world where our

citizenship is ultimately of heavenly origin? How do I then as a citizen of the

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