For the people of ancient Persia, life had turned bleak overnight.

Because of an evil scheme, every Jewish person in the land was living on borrowed time.

It would take a miracle to thwart the plan and convince the king to change directions.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall uses this life-threatening conflict to ask a penetrating question,

one that's just as relevant today. Does one person really make a difference?

Chuck's answer may surprise you and move you to action.

We begin in Esther Chapter 3.

Chuck titled today's message,

Thinking and Saying What's Right, Regardless.

The Jews have been threatened with extermination.

Look at verse 13 of chapter 3, and you'll see it in one verse.

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old,

women and children, in one day, the 13th day of the 12th month, which is the month Adar,

and to seize their possessions as plunder. That's the plan. It has the makings of the worst kind of Holocaust. What a day for a heroic patriot to step forward. And her name is Esther. Follow the story as we find the response

of the people beginning at verse 1 of chapter 4, they are lost in mourning

and weeping.

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes,

and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.

Then Esther summoned Hathak from the king's eunuchs, I'm sure one of the runners, one of her

trusted assistants, whom the king had appointed to attend her and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what

this was and why it was. She doesn't know. Mordecai knows that he has put the issue on

the line for Esther, and he knows if she acts on this, it could mean her life. This is no

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