Welcome to Truth for Life with Alistair Begg.

Today Alistair is teaching from the book of Esther, where everyone seems to be plotting

and scheming, either for good or for evil.

We'll see today how God takes the plans of men and women, even in the small details,

and folds them into his perfect plan.

Alistair is teaching from Chapter 6.

Now, all I would like to do this morning is follow the storyline.

So let's note, first of all, that the king couldn't sleep.

The king couldn't sleep.

Secondly, we're told that the king sought advice.

He sought advice.

We know this.

He has done this from the very beginning.

He, in a moment of peak, vanishes his queen, Vashte.

He then doesn't sure what to do.

His advisors come up with a beauty pageant, and so it goes on from there.

You can rehearse it all yourself.

And so it's not surprised to us that when he discovers that nothing has been done, his

first response is to say, well, who is in the court that can actually help me with this

kind of thing?

That seems to be the inference, doesn't it?

And the king said, who is in the court?

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