The person who walks through
the world and sees no God, is
declared by inspired authority
to be a fool.
 But the wise man’s eyes, with
an inner sight, discovers God at
work everywhere.
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Psalm 115:3
 Our
God is in the heavens; he
does all that he pleases.
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Psalm 135:6
 Whatever
the LORD pleases,
he does, in heaven and on
earth, in the seas and all
deeps.
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Though God may at times seem distant,
but He is always actively at work.
Though absent by name from this book,
God is present in every scene and in the
movement of every event,
until He brings everything to a
marvelous climax as He proves
Himself Lord and Savior of His
people.
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What you have in Esther is not a
whole lot of miracles.
There is nothing like the Red Sea
opening up, or the walls of Jericho
falling down.
But you do have all kinds of
interwoven circumstances as God
works His will.
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The root meaning of providence is foresight
It also assumes activity arising from
foresight
There is only One who has foresight, so only
He is able to act on the basis of
foreknowledge.
Divine foreknowledge and the Divine
activity which arises from it.
This is what we see demonstrated
in the Book of Esther.
 The crisis about which the book is
written is providentially
anticipated
 and then providentially
overruled at just the crucial
moment.
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Esther is set on the stage of real history
Ahasuerus, the Persian monarch;
Vashti, the deposed queen;
Haman, the Jew-hater;
Mordecai, the Jewish leader;
Esther, the orphaned Jewish girl who
became queen.
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By the king's command each
guest was allowed to drink in his
own way, for the king instructed
all the wine stewards to serve
each man what he wished. (NIV)
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Xerxes was under the control of wine
Xerxes was a proud man
Xerxes sought to selfishly promote her
Xerxes could not coerce his own queen
Xerxes could not control his own heart
"Gluttony just killed that fish."
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Xerxes was under the control of wine
Xerxes was a proud man
Xerxes sought to selfishly promote her
Xerxes could not coerce his own queen
______could not control his own heart
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Do not be controlled with strong drink or
anything else.
Instead submit to Christ for salvation and then
let the Holy Spirit take control.
Be encouraged that God can even use our
failures to grow our faith in Him.