As you watch the details of your life unfold, it might appear as though things are moving in a particularly bad direction. If that continues, many of us might see our circumstances as irreversible. That’s where God comes in; He has the capacity to take the irreversible circumstances of our lives and reverse them on a dime.
welcome to an epic event as the curtain
rises over the slave girl caught in a
set of circumstances out of her control
you’re going to discover how the
invisible hand of God intervenes in her
life and the life of her relative and in
the life of her people to save all of
them from certainly this is the story
that would blow your mind
but it is also a story that will
transform lovey and give you a much
bigger
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we are looking at the book of Esther the
only book in the Bible that never
mentions God by name and yet his
fingerprints are all over it as we’ve
already seen Esther has discovered that
she’s been placed in her position for a
spiritual reason not merely for personal
benefit
mordecai or cousin has said you’ve been
called to the kingdom for such a time as
this
that god’s whole plan and making you
pretty god’s whole plan are you being
chosen out of all the possible females
in the kingdom god’s whole plan was that
you would be here at this time for this
moment for his kingdom purpose and she
after thinking about it for a moment
said okay i’m going to go to the king
you tell him about havens plan to
destroy all the Jews and if I perish I
perish she now prepares dinner for the
king and invites Haman the architect of
genocide because she’s ready to tell the
King and spill the beans on him at the
dinner banquet the King says to her as
we saw last time Esther chapter five
verse six what do you have to tell me
Esther says my petition and my request
is
and she stops she doesn’t get it out she
can’t say it she backs off she says my
request is for you to have dinner again
with me tomorrow
something happened that caused her to
pause and her request for deliverance
the question is why did she stop why
didn’t you just come out and say it me
she began the whole sentence my petition
is and then she backed up if Esther
would have finished the sentence at that
time those things in the planning of God
would not have occurred in the sequence
God wanted them to occur and therefore
although she was going to do the right
thing it was the wrong time because you
see as we looked at chapter 6 last time
Haman is gonna leave her presence he’s
gonna run across water Carr morning I
will not bow that’s gonna take him in
off Haman’s gonna go ticked off to his
wife his wife is gonna say you don’t
have to take that you don’t have to take
that he comes in and he says I
everything is going good for me but this
you got he won’t bother me well you
don’t have to take that why don’t you
put him on the gallows tomorrow
Haman said that’s really great I’m gonna
put him on the gallows tomorrow get rid
of this guy solve it once and for all
the King goes to bed the King can’t
sleep the king is tossing and turning
when the king is tossing and turning and
he tells us serving go get a boring book
for me to read so that when I read the
boring book I will go to sleep so they
bring him the boring book and look they
just happen to turn to the page that
dealt with Mordecai Mordecai had saved
the King’s life earlier the king wants
to know how what did we do for the guy
who saved my life
oh no we didn’t do anything for the guy
saved my life as chance would have it
Haman comes in right when the King is
talking to the servant about Mordecai
who had saved his life
and the King asked well what should i do
Haman with somebody who saves the King’s
life but he doesn’t mention the name or
the kind because he does not mention the
name water
Haman thinks he’s talking about him so
Heyman says well what you ought to do
with the guy who saves your life it’s
making number two in the kingdom
so he’s the heir apparent to the rule
well I like that idea why don’t you go
and go ahead and get Mordecai so I can
put him in that position and why don’t
you lead his horse throughout the land
and proclaim him as second-in-command it
just so happened that during the pause
which produce the delay which produce
the movement which produce Mordecai’s
rejection which produce Haman’s angry
wife which produced water car Haman
wanting to put the gallows together
which produced a sleepless life which
produced a boring book which produced
the name mordecai which produced not
mentioning his name which produced and
being elevated which produced havens
having to take them across to the street
which produced guard the puppet master
pulling things together to bring about
his timing he goes home at the end of
chapter six after lead Mordecai through
the street and he depressed this is the
Prozac moment this is this is he’s
depressed cuz he’s leading the Future
King and he was supposed to be the
future king and so he goes home and he
just cries out morning with his head
covered verse 12 his wife says him in
verse 13 boy are you in trouble now
though you leave Mordecai through here
and he’s the Jew don’t look good for you
Oh verse 14 why somebody say while
that’s a time word that’s the time word
while while his wife telling me don’t
look good while he’s crying with his
head covered cuz it don’t look good
while they were still talking with him
the king’s eunuchs arrived and hastily
brought him into the banquet which
Esther had prepared now this is the
second banquet has to prepare the second
banquet coz God blocked her from doing
the first banquet while his wife was
telling me that doesn’t look good and
he’s warning the unit comes in and says
come on you gotta hurry up it’s time for
the banquet why is that important that
that happened wild because that didn’t
give him time to come up with a plan it
didn’t give him time to run and flee it
didn’t give him time to escape
God had that thing clicking so that one
thing happens right after another so
that there could be no interjection to
change the program of God he tells a
eunuch don’t get him now because God’s
got a plan to keep in a program to
execute so he goes to the dinner so the
king says okay Esther I mean you’ve been
saying for the last 24 hours you got to
tell me something what is it
so she tells him Oh King it’s chapter 7
there Oh King at the end of verse 3 if
it pleases the King let my life be given
to me in my petition and my petition and
my people that’s my request saved my
life King saved the life of my people
for we have been sold I end my people to
be destroyed killed and annihilated if
they were going to sell me his slaves I
would have lived with that but no they
want to kill me so the King asks the
Queen who is he
they want to kill my wife and kill my
wife’s people who you talking about
and not only who is he verse 5 but where
is it well who is it and where is it
guess who’s coming to dinner who is he
where is he
who would presume to do this who are you
talking about oh it is verse 6 chapter
7s the saying a foe and an enemy is this
wicked Haman then Haman became terrified
before the king and queen that’ll shake
you up
she says this man who I invited to
dinner wants to kill me your wife kill
my people ok rewind if she would have
told them the first time when he wasn’t
mad at him and when he wasn’t mad at
Mordecai when he built the gallows for
Mordecai with Monika have not been
elevated to be the second in command in
the future the King would have had a
totally different mood about the
situation because now Mordecai’s
relationship to the king has changed
Mordecai’s relationship to Esther and
the Kings has changed everything has
been reconvened and redone to fulfil the
timing purposes of God and he’s not
finished yet
he says she says Haman that’s who wants
to get rid of me oh the king is hot
verse 7 he’s ticked off says with anger
he went into the palace garden now watch
this verse 8 says Haman was falling on
the couch where Esther was
he’s falling on the couch verse seven
says begging for his life so the king is
hot King walks our King didn’t know what
to say named so mad that Haman planned
to do this Esther is laying on the couch
reclining on the couch ain’t you proud
to beg you remember that he plead for
his life he goes over Esther and follow
Warner’s they pleased as the please
don’t let him kill me don’t let him kill
me it says now when the King returned
from the garden oh you get the picture
into the place where they were drinking
wine Haman was falling on the couch
where Esther was then the king said he
already hot then the king said will you
even assault the Queen with me in the
house oh you got to be kidding me
women you already told me you want to
kill my wife now you all up on her no oh
oh no no you know you get int you’re
gonna assault my wife with me in the
house now that’s not what he was doing
he was begging for his life the
scripture says okay
God is so particular he will create
impressions God is so God is so nuanced
that he will make something look like
it’s not really that in order to
accomplish his purpose because the King
comes in just in time
oh but he not finished yet cuz after the
King comes in and says sees what he’s
doing then verse 9 then is a time word
you got while you got now you got then
then
happy nah one of the eunuchs who was
before the king said behold indeed the
Gallo standing at Haman’s house fifty
cubits high which Haman made for
Mordecai who spoke good on behalf of the
king and the King said hang him on it
all right
so guess what God delayed Esther from
telling the King to give Haman time to
get mad so that he would build a gallows
for Mordecai in order that he might dig
his own grave
God will let unbelievers express their
anger against believers and used that
very thing to destroy the unbeliever
from destroying the believer and it’s
all got to do with time it’s all got to
do with God nuancing time it says so
they hanged him on the gallows now won’t
you notice something else about time
verse 8 when the King comes in and see
him what he thinks his assaulting his
wife the nuance really what happened
look that way as the word went out of
the king’s mouth by insulting my wife
they covered Heyman’s face while the
words were coming out of the king’s
mouth they come see you got a we got to
read every word of the Bible rather word
was coming out of the Kings mouth they
covered his face they didn’t give him a
chance to explain because this was a
time of judgment and so you not even
gonna be given the chance to say you
were begging soon as he finished the
last work who covered up take it out
because when God moves suddenly against
your enemies when God moves suddenly on
your behalf because you how sensitive to
his will and
he can move with lightning speed so they
hang them on the gallows that was
prepared for Mordecai and the Kings
anger subsided the problem is as a law
out there that says all the Jews are to
be exterminated the laws of the Medes
and the Persians meant it was a law you
could not change it was a fixed law in
the Society of lido Persian Empire God
is a God of reversals he can reverse
things on a dime that appear to be
irreversible let me show you some of the
reversals in chapter a reversal number
one on that day verse one King Ahasuerus
gave the house of Haman the enemy of the
Jews – Queen Esther okay that’s I’ll
call that economic reversal all that
Haman owned now belonged to Esther you
know the scripture says the inheritance
of the wicked is laid up for the
righteous when God gets ready to move
and to make a statement in the economic
order of things he can flip that thing
for you – you through you by you on a
dime all that Haman old now Elster it’s
yours we didn’t switched because he was
a rich man he put up all that money to
kill the Jews okay
first to the King took off his signet
ring which he had taken away from Haman
and gave it to Mordecai we’ll call that
political reversal you see the signet
ring was the ring of authority it was
the ring in chapter 3 verse 10 then the
King took his signet ring from his hand
and gave it to him the signet ring was
the ring of authority where you could
represent the king
officially he said give that ring to
Mordecai we made more the cop was a dead
man walking nay he’s second in command
with the King’s ring that means he
courage clout that means he carried
juice that mean
he carried some Authority with him so
God can change things on the docks you
think your boss has the final say
you think the powers that be have the
final say
you fake those unscrupulous co-workers
who a party against you have the final
say
you think because they have the name
have the money have the position they
have the final say they don’t have a
thing unless God gives it to it
and the God who gives it can take it
away the point is simply that it’s I
keep telling y’all
you only have one source if you help me
get that in your head if it ever burns
into your skull that nobody I don’t care
who they are has the final say-so over a
Christian living by the spirit in the
will of God nobody which means you never
live a threatened life then no things
can be threatening but you never live a
threatened life as though they have a
final say because they do not so there
was a political shift then coming off of
that was a legal shift she said if it
please the king if I found favor in your
sight verse 7 it seems proper let it be
written to revoke the letters devised by
Haman Haman I will let it kill all the
Jews
she said King do something about this
letter revoke it
the problem is the laws of the Medes the
Persians were irrevocable so what’s the
king to do
how can I endure the calamity famous
there but we still got the problem which
will befall my people how can I endure
seeing the destruction of my people why
because God’s kingdom program is always
bigger than you and so what are we going
to do about all this he says well I’ve
given the authority to Mordecai so
here’s what I want you to do verse 8 I
want you to write to the Jews as you see
fit in the King’s name and seal it with
the Kings Cygnet so I want you to write
so the Kings scribe were called and they
begin to write what do they write
because we got an unchangeable law verse
11 in them the King granted the Jews who
were in each and every city the right to
assemble and to defend their lives to
destroy to kill to annihilate to an
entire army of any people or province
which might attack them including
children and women and to plunder best
oil okay follow this Haman law every Jew
got to be killed the law can’t be
changed so the King tells Esther y’all
come up with something put my seal on it
they come up with the law the law says
signed by the king while I can’t change
the law that you got to be killed I
can’t make another law i’ma write an
executive order since that’s big these
days I’m a I’m a write an executive
order and on this executive order all
Jews have the right to defend themselves
against anybody would try to kill them
and if they try to kill you you not only
can defend yourself you can kill their
wives and children now if I’m one of the
Persians operating on a long number one
where the Jews could not defend
themselves and now I hear there is
another law that doesn’t cancel that I
can kill them but give their permission
to kill me back
not only do they have permissions you
kill me back they have the wishes
permission to go after my wife my
chillings they got permission to destroy
my household now I’m rethinking law
number one because I got to deal with
law number two see God has an override
button that can take what Satan has
planned against you people he’s raised
up against you circumstances that look
not in your favor and when he pushes
override it may not stop their evil from
being evil but God gives you something
when the enemy comes in like a flood the
scripture says he will raise up a
standard against them he will push an
override button so there was a legal
reversal oh but it’s not all there was
an emotional reversal you see because in
chapter 4 verse 3 it says there was
great mourning among the Jews weeping
and wailing that’s when the first law
was passed but when the second law was
passed and the carriers send a message
out that the Jews could take care of
themselves it says in verse 16 for the
Jews there was light and gladness and
joy and oh wait man you’re crying one
day and you’re laughing the next oh the
Bible says sorrow man do it for the
night but joy cometh in the morning you
may be crying in the day but don’t think
that’s how it’s gonna be when you wake
up tomorrow not when God has jumped into
the situation God can wipe tears away he
can turn pain into pleasure he can turn
sadness into joy when we are operating
with his reversal principles operating
with his timing operating submitting to
his will and listening to his voice oh
but it’s not over yet cuz there’s one
other thing the last verse of chapter 8
says at the end of the verse
and many among the peoples of the land
became Jews huh and the dread of the
Jews had fallen on them oh I like this I
like this I like this
that’s like saying many sinners got
saved I admitted many non-christmas
macaca in other words when they saw what
God was doing for his people they said
we want some of that so to become a Jew
you had to come under the Jewish
covenant to come under the Jewish
government you had to accept the Jewish
God so they said we won’t summon that
God may put you in a bad situation so
that he gives you a supernatural
deliverance so that other folk want to
attach to the God who delivered you cuz
they won’t some of this they want to see
God do for them what he’s done for you
there was a spiritual reversal when
people saw what God can do I wish I
could be I wish I could be apprecia who
told you come on come to God and
there’ll be no enemies come to God
there’ll be no bad days come to God
there’ll be no lean years come to God
there’ll be no disappointments come to
God there won’t be any bad employees I
wish I could tell you that but I’d be
lying to you it’s all through Scripture
but I can tell you this whatever it is
doesn’t have the last exploring dirt at
you reversible he was in the Birmingham
jail but you go to Washington DC you’ll
see a monument Nelson Mandela had a
reversal he was put in jail but then it
became head of South Africa because God
is the god of reversal oh but that’s one
reversal bigger than all of that
cuz Satan thought he had Jesus on the
cross
Winnie hung him high and stretched him
wide
look like save that one but early Sunday
morning just a little while before day
God raised Jesus up and he said all
power is in my hands God is a God of
reversal so you hang on to him
even though Satan is throwing dirt at
you nothing reveals the power of God
more visibly than when he reverses a
situation in your life in mind and it
looks like it’s going downhill and he
takes it in a whole nother direction
that’s God being God I think of a lady
in our church was being misused and
abused by her employer she came to me
for prayer that God would intervene she
went back a few days later to work only
to discover that her boss who was
abusing her had gotten a review the
review went badly he was fired and she
was promoted to his position see God
doesn’t take a long time when he’s ready
to move oh yes we have to wait till he’s
ready but when he moves
you discover that it is worth waiting a
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nation in jeopardy a family in crisis a
woman seeking the strength to be a queen
for her people the story of Esther
explores the gripping tale of the nation
of Israel and their Redemption from
destruction because of the courage of a
young woman God has a purpose for your
life as well just as he did for Esther
in the brand-new CD series Esther
pathways to purpose renowned pastor
teacher and author Tony Evans
explains how God has prepared a plan for
your life
request yours today for your gift of any
amount it’s time to discover
destiny
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