Queen Esther: Lesson Five

You may be where you are for such a time as this.

Going in to the king without being called could cost Esther her life.

Esther 4:11 (KJV): All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Mordecai told her the palace would not save her if she stayed quiet.

Esther 4:13 (KJV): Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

God's deliverance would come either way. The question was whether Esther would be part of it.

Esther 4:14 (KJV): For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?