In many books or movies, just when you think the evil villain is

about to win, there is an unbelievable plot twist. Well, in the same way today on

Truth For Life we'll find out how Haman, the prideful enemy of the Jews,

became hopelessly ensnared in his own wicked scheme.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Chapter 7 in the Book of Esther.

So she has dawned her royal robe, she's gone into the presence of the King, she's

gone through feast number one, then there has been Chapter 6 where she's been doing

nothing at all apparently, and then in Chapter 7 she's back in action again.

She purposefully uses the words of the edict, doesn't she? I'm asking for my life,

I'm asking for the lives of my people, they're my people we have been sold.

Haman knew that he'd been the one who'd sold them down the river,

and the skill in this, as she spills the beans, is that she can't get them all over the place.

She needs to do this in such a way that the spotlight is turned on Haman without actually implicating the King.

Because when the King says who is he and where is he, she might justifiably have said,

do you have a mirror? But she's not going to do that, that wouldn't be smart, that wouldn't be

a shrewd, she's not just pretty, she's clever. She couldn't simply appeal to the King on the

basis of his sense of right and wrong because he didn't have much of a sense of right and wrong.

She couldn't appeal to the King and say, you know, killing people like this, destroying and

annihilating big groups of people is not a good idea, you know, genocide is wrong, she couldn't

go to him with that. Why? Because he didn't believe it was wrong. He didn't care about it.

Before we finish, I'm going to show you what a bad man he really was. The only way she could really

appeal to him was on the strength of his own self-interest. I wouldn't have come to you,

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