When things are going well in our lives, when we're safe and secure, most of us are reluctant

to rock the boat. Today on Truth for Life we'll find out how Queen Esther responded when she was

confronted by a potentially life-threatening dilemma. She had the option to hide in the safety of

the palace, or she could risk her life to save her people. Alistair Begg is teaching from the

Book of Esther a message titled, What's Going On? I invite you to turn with me to the Old Testament to

the Book of Esther to chapter 4 and we'll read from verse 12 and they told Mordekai what Esther had

said. Then Mordekai told them to reply to Esther. Do not think to yourself that in the King's

palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time,

relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place but you and your father's house will

perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Then Esther told them to reply to Mordekai, go gather all the Jews to be found in Susa and hold

the fast on my behalf and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women

will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the King, though it is against the law, and if I perish,

I perish. Mordekai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.

Thanks be to God for his word. Father, illumine the page to us by the Holy Spirit we pray so that our study

may not simply instruct our minds but stir our hearts, challenge our wills, and change our lives.

Only the Holy Spirit can do this to him we look in Christ's name we pray. Amen.

Paul writes to the Romans in chapter 15 and he tells them whatever was written in former days

was written for our instruction that through endurance and the encouragement of the scriptures

we might have hoped. It would be fairly understandable if someone were to say I haven't really been

interested in church very much, I haven't come around much but I don't know why it is that we would

spend time studying an ancient book. Isn't there something that is far more up to date, more

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