Mordecai and Esther

In this message, we meet Esther and her cousin Mordecai and learn how she was chosen to be queen of the Medo-Persians. As Alistair Begg points out, our focus must be higher than the events of the story - we also need to see God working providentially to preserve His people in an unbelieving culture.
Scripture: Esther 2:5-23
Preached: June 23, 2013
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[@patriciavarga4084]

Such an excellent storyteller

[@brendaeyler2866]

Thank you for always teaching the absolute TRUTH of GOD'S WORD. I have struggled for years with Esther and no one has ever been able to help- until now- To GOD be the GLORY 🙏🙏

[@beverlyfrazier4370]

Thank you Pastor Beggs, glory be to God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

[@constancereeder8677]

My adopted grandson's mother was high on drugs her whole pregnancy so Jaxxon was born severely physically and mentally handicapped without possibility of walking, talking, swallowing, continence. I have a very hard time accepting that our loving Father planned him that way. I know He loves him and we do too. I believe that God will use him but to plan him that way? That's a very hard thing to accept!

[@robertmize327]

Grateful to the Word of God for sustaining me.

[@shellinearmstrong7177]

Definitely sets down an issue I’ve been struggling with these last three weeks….I thank you.God bless you.🙏💗

[@anitaarredondo7731]

God is so Faithful. 🥰

[@lillypond1061]

Always as we stay close to our Heavenly Father. Do hope you are coping with all the deceit around us. Endure and remember the promise of our eternity when He will come for us and then the evil one will be finished.

[@adamsanders2270]

This was great! I am reaching through Esther right now and I realized that while I knew the story, I had not thought very seriously about the moral circumstances surrounding the events. Glad to hear someone else wrestling seriously with these!

[@hikerJohn]

At 16:43 when he said: "Nice Legs, shame about her face" he sounded like Crocodile Dundee rather than cockney

[@สุวดีศักดินันท์กาญจน์]

God speaks to me amen

[@toughbiblepassages9082]

Begg says this episode of Esther’s life is “awkward” but I don’t think so at all.. there’s a lot to reflect on with regards to the morality of Esther’s situation in life, and we could learn from it

[@bettyh3747]

❤️

[@marig6184]

Thank you Rev Begg. Did Esther have the right to say "no"?

[@DennyBlessedDCT]

Technically she did have the right to say no. There however was a price to be paid for saying no.

[@ronmoates4883]

We always have the freedom to say yes or no. There are consequences either way. God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways we often cannot seem to understand.