Sermons on Esther

Esther 8 I hear the word of the Lord with me. This is Esther chapter one, chapter eight, beginning at verse one. It says, on that day, King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king for Esther had told what he was to her. And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai…

Esther 5 All right, the word of the living God, this is Esther chapter five. It says, on the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace in front of the king’s quarters while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, She won favor in his sight. He…

Esther 4 Our reading will be Esther chapter four, it’s 17 verses. And we pick up where we left off last week, the edict to exterminate all the people of God who were exiled in the Persian Babylonian Empire will be exterminated on a certain day. And so the edict standing, is the context where we pick up in chapter four. It says, when Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and…

Esther 2:19 So our reading will be Esther chapter two, verse 19, through the end of three. I believe there’s 15 verses there. Let’s hear the word of the living God together. It says, now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. Esther had not made known her kindred, or her people as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him. In…

Esther 2:1-18 Let’s hear the word of the living God beginning at verse two of Esther. It says, after these things, that’s code for a whole bunch has happened. We’ll speak of that in a moment. After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. And the king’s young men who attended him said, let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the…

Esther 1:10-22 Let’s give our attention to God’s word. Esther chapter one, beginning at verse 10. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman and Biztha and Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carcas, the seven eunuchs, who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely…

Esther 1:1-9 We’ll be reading in a moment or two Esther chapter one verses one through nine. So we’ve just finished Daniel. Daniel was a young exile, exiled, I guess, in 586 or so, and his whole life was spent, 80 years or better, in service to all the different rulers over the Babylonian and then Persian Empire. Esther is going to be a little later, but Esther is a Jew in Susa, the capital of Persia, and she and…