Book of Esther — Leonard Ravenhill

The Book of Esther and Its Unique Place in Scripture

Just go down the book just past brother brother Ezra and when you get past brother Ezra you'll get down to Esther. Ezra and Esther. Martin Luther said some wonderful things. He said some funny things too.

He said for instance the epistle of James is an epistle of straw. He must have read the NIV. That abomination, but you know he said about the book of Esther. It's a very beautiful book. He called it a book of bloody revenge.

It's a unique book in this sense that it does not mention the name of God. It's a unique book in this sense. It is not referred to in the whole of the New Testament. In many ways, it's a unique book. Remember the Historic setting is that these people are being carried away into captivity in Babylon.

And then the Medes and Persians came and took over. I'm going to skip over it just. Otherwise we won't have to say a week here. Queen Vashti was hit the Queen. The king has a clumsy name a has Seorius and you graduate fold in Christian, UAS e Horace Dale.

I like Dale better than he asked the Otis Brown sounds better. Maybe not as musical, but it sounds better. Well. You know women have always been rebels and see chapter 1 verse 11. They ordered Queen Vashti vas Vashti the Queen to come before the king.

With the crown royal to show the people and the princes are beautiful. She was fair. She was exceedingly attractive the Hebrew really says. And he wanted to show her off and she didn't want to be showed off.

The Bride Making Herself Ready

I said to a lady yesterday, you know. Poor old Schofield. He says the church is going to be raptured then it's going to be shaped put into shape in heaven. That's not true. That's a lie among many other lies that he told.

The bride hath made herself ready. And I said to the lady did you ever see a girl come to the altar with colors in her hair? She said these days they come in anything. I Think they would. But I never seen a girl at the altar with colors in her hair.

I've never seen the money cutting her fingernails. I've never seen that seen her come in a dirty old Dress. You know then a mother says darling stand a minute, and she throws a cloak over a snow-white beautiful gown.

I was gonna say dressed in China. That wouldn't fit her. What do you call it Brussels lace? No, you better get your wedding garment down here. There's no free ones up there. One man got into the wedding without a garment boy.

He went to outer darkness. Now you fix that up. If you don't know where it is, that's Dale after the meeting. But he went to outer darkness Again as I said in my prayer night. I say it often to myself this life is only a Dressing room for eternity.

That's all it is. We're not all here to make money. We're here to make character again. We're born with this position. This is my philosophy. We're born with this position, but we make character. We make it by our decisions.

We make it by what we accept and what we reject. Well here's Queen van verse 12 the Queen Vashti Refused to come to the king's commandment. By his Chamberlain's. Therefore was the king very wroth and his anger burned in him.

Verse 17 this deed of the Queen shall come abroad to all the women so that they shall despise their husbands in Their eyes when it shall be reported the king as a Horace Commanded Vashti the Queen to be brought before him, but again.

She refused to come out. Jump over to chapter 2 verse 1 after these things when the wrath of King us a hasaurus was appeased. I think I'm going to call him Jack for the rest of the story. When King Jack was appeased He remembered Vashti and what she had done.

You know it's much easier. Do you remember in Daniel it says at what time you hear the sound of the sackbutton the dulcimer and the tumor? What's it say and the timber and all those things we had a man in England?

He didn't read very well. Is a tremendous man of God a tremendous man of prayer. But they asked him to read that one night, and he came to it and he said and the band played. That's the best way to get over it isn't it the band played.

So King Jack listen now after these things when the wrath of King Jack was a based. He remembered Vashti and what she had done and what she was decreed against her and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servants That ministered unto him let there be fair young virgins sought for the king and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces.

Or states we would say in his kingdom they may gather together all the fair young virgins to shoeshine the palace. To the house of the women into the custody of Hagee the king's Chamberlain Keeper of the women and let their things be given to them for purification and let the maidens which pleased at the king be queen Count Queen instead of Vashti.

Esther, Mordecai, and the Rise of Haman

Now there's a plot here as you know I guess The the bad guy as we would say is Mordecai is Haman the good guys Mordecai. And you find the maneuvers so that this Jewish girl can get into the court. Go to verse 10.

Esther had not shown her people nor her kindred for Mordecai had charged her. She should not show it why because she was a Jew. Now the good man in verse 5 again is In shoeshine the palace there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair.

The son of Shimei the son of Kish. Now who else do you remember in the Old Testament was a Kish? Saul the son of Kish. Well, it says this man was a son of Kish a Benjamite. You remember Paul holds on to that.

I'm of the tribe of Benjamin. They were a particular peculiar wonderful people. I'm the tribe of Benjamin and the seed of Abraham. Okay, let's go to the next chapter. Or maybe in your place on the same page chapter 2 and verse 15 the end of it.

Esther up. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her so Esther was taken into the to King a Jack in his house in the royal tent in the 10th month. Which is the 10th month Tiber in the 7th year of his reign and the king loved Esther above all the women and she obtained grace and favor in his sight.

More than all the virgins so that he this is important. He set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen. Instead of Ashton. Chapter 3 verse 1. After these things when all these Marvelous young women had been brought from all the provinces and she'd been selected as a queen of the whole lot.

She'd already had the royal crown put upon her head. After these things did King Asa Horace promote Haman. Now he's the bad guy the son of Hamaditha. A nagging Agagite. Well, does that take you back to King Saul?

An agagite. What did God say to Saul? Said slay all the children of Aga. All the agagites shall all be slain. He didn't slay them. He spared one, but that's all that mattered. He tried to commit suicide.

They're putting his sword in the ground and falling on it and he didn't die. And a young man came and wiped him out. He said who you he said I'm an agagite. You see if God claims something in your life, you don't let it go.

It'll kill you at the end anyhow. Verse 2 all the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed and did reverence to Haman. For the king had so commanded concerning him. You see he had exalted him.

He had advanced him. It says in verse 1 above all the other people that were there all the regents all the rulers all the princes. This man was exalted above them all it went to his head. He became conceited.

All the king's servants that were in the king's gate bowed reverence to Haman for the king had so commanded but Mordecai bowed not in that great. Somebody dares to be unfashionable. Somebody dares to get out of step.

Like the lady in England that watched the army go past 350 men marching and they asked her what she thought of it. She said wonderful. She said but they were all out of step except my John. See her son was the only one in step.

But you've got to step out of step sometimes. John the Baptist was out of step with a section of the church that was out of step with God. And it's got to come to that before too long. Verse 5 says when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence.

Then was Haman full of wrath and Verse 8 says that Haman said to the king Ahasuerus that there is a certain people scattered abroad if this isn't a company of bridegroom company. What is if this isn't part of the bride?

They're scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom and their laws are diverse from the people. Neither keep they the king's laws therefore it is not for the king's prophet to abide them or suffer them.

If it pleased the king let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay 10 ,000 talents of services hatred. See this man is going to be another Hitler. He's going to liquidate the Jews. I think I reminded you the other week.

That that man what was his name. Adolf Eichmann that liquidated six million Jews. And he said I should be happy to jump into my grave knowing I almost wiped out the Jewish nation. That's not his problem.

The problem is when those six million jump out of his at the graves at the judgment scene he has to face them. Nobody gets by with anything. We fool ourselves. Because God doesn't judge us today. We forget that the checkout count is at the end of the line and All people doesn't matter who they are rich poor wise or otherwise.

We're all going to stand at the judgment seat of Christ. I'm trying to write a book on that now and it stirs me breaks me up. This man is prepared to pay what 10 ,000 talents. That's an awful sum of money.

You know we talk about people having a talent. You say that young lady has a lovely talent. She plays the piano. He has a talent. No no no no no. Talents in the Word of God are always money. Get talents of gold and talents of silver.

The others are gifts. Not talents, but he's going to pay out 10 ,000 talents of silver to those that have charge of the business to bring into the king's treasury and The king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the son of Haman Amadeus there the egg I guide.

And the Jews enemy and the king said unto Haman the silver is given to thee. The people also do with them as you will. Now here's a man who's going to liquidate them. And he's going to pay for the joy of doing it to have the satisfaction that all his enemies have been wiped out.

Mordecai's Courage and the Call to Stand Firm

But look now at chapter 4 please verse 1. When Mordecai the man of God perceived or he understood all that was done. Mordecai rent his clothes. But the scripture says don't rent your clothes rent your hearts and not your garments, but wait a minute that included in the verse.

Mordecai perceived all that was done. And he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went into the midst of the city. That's the most stupid thing he could do. But you can't hide your light under a bus will meet the devil where he is go in the middle of the city.

He's the marked man for God, and he's not afraid of the enemies. It's a valley of the shadow of death for him, but there he goes into the middle of the city and He got behind the post and whimpered. Is that what it says?

It says he cried with a loud voice. You remember Esau when he lost that blessing he cried with a bitter cry ask thou but one blessing bless me. Why is he crying with a bitter voice? With a bitter cry and he came even before the king's gate and none might enter the king's gate.

Gate clothed with sackcloth. What does he care about kings? Come on let get it sink in your mind you young guys one man with God is a majority. If the devil and all hell against you, what does it matter?

When the devil fell he only took a third part of the heavenly host therefore two-thirds must be on our side. With the father the son the Holy Ghost two-thirds of the crowd up there and all the promises of God well in God's name.

Why aren't we conquering the world? What are we sitting in a back corner whimpering as though you know? Some people are saying if we get some good if Pat Robinson runs and Jerry Falwell runs at the side of it.

Where will the runners they run us in the ground? That's all they'll do they won't run us to safety. You see God has an issue with American. He's gonna settle it. We are blessed with more than any other nation in the world.

We more Bibles than you. You know there are three back. There are six. What was it now? What's the population of America? 200 pun 230 million. Well, there are three Bibles for every person in America not every home every person.

Nobody in the world has that we've more Bible schools than any other nation in the world. We've more radio programs that at least give a bit of the gospel every day than anybody else in the world. But to whom much is given much is expended.

Do you know how much we give to missions? Yes? I'll tell you what we give about a tenth of what we spend on dog food and cat food. He went to the midst of the city and cried out aloud. Can you imagine them saying hey look who he is?

That man's a Jew he should be destroyed. He Go down the road. He'll get mugged or killed. He doesn't care. What should I fear what man shall do to me. Doesn't the Word of God say there's gonna come a day.

When you don't care you defy Kings you defy laws if you're doing the will of God and don't fear those who can destroy the body. A good Lord put me near the wall and shoot me. That's the quickest way to heaven.

If they put you in prison for 20 years like you have in Russia. It's very different to let you rot and rot and rot and rot the quickest way shoot me sure He came before the king's gate where none might go in sackcloth and in every province with us.

Whether the king had commanded his decree there was great mourning among the Jews and fasting and weeping and wailing. Come on. Are we gonna have to. I've said too often. I say it again. I think our option right now is to Concentrate on prayer or praying concentration camp so when you're in a stinking concentration camp remember I told you that.

That's our option. They're weeping and wailing because they've been carried away captive into Babylon, and then they've been released for a little while. Say come on. Let's be honest. Would you like to live in a neighborhood where everybody went in the street one day and started howling and weeping and groaning and shouting?

Boy, they'd lock us and put it in insane asylum. Insane asylum. People say we want to go back to Pentecost. I don't think we do. Do you want to go back to a service where Sunday morning the first thing the pastor does is said before we sing?

All hail King Jesus. I've got a couple of deacons. I want to kill. Wouldn't that be a sensational way to start a Sunday morning service? All on a nice and safaris stinking old hypocrites. They've brung the hearts of the last six pastors and the judge pray.

I went to a church where they asked me would I pray? For a month he's about 90 years of age, and he's very near to death. And he's our oldest deacon, and he's bought so many things for the church of course.

He's the most cantankerous man. We've ever had he broke the heart of the last three pastors. Would you pray with us? I said sure I'll pray. God will kill him tonight. The lady said you mean that. I said sure get the old hypocrite out of the way is a good chance.

You know it doesn't look as bad if he's been sick for three months. Get rid of him. Why are we such hypocrites? The worst thing is to be hypocritical in prayer. You know when God comes with Holy Ghost power.

He's going to do some things that we'd never dreamed of. We're going to go to meetings that will be so revolutionary. You'll hardly dare mention it after you get out of the sanctuary on Monday when you go to the bank.

Well. I am convinced. Do you think Mordecai loved his people? He has mourning and weeping. He shouts with a bitter cry aloud and a bitter cry. There was fasting and weeping and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

God. I'd like to see that. Was it where was it. Come on dick will get me out of here. Where was it Nineveh where they put sackcloth on the animals? Dear God the animals had more sense than we have. Animals with sackcloth on them.

Hmm. Sounds like you're getting serious doesn't it. Of course we'd have white sackcloth. We'd have embroidered sackcloth. We'd have a church sign on the side or a fish or something. I don't like that fish knees a bit smelly to me.

I want to emphasize it here because it got to my heart when I read it. It's not mourning. It's great mourning among the Jews and fasting and weeping and wailing and many people were prostrate in sackcloth and in ashes.

So Esther's maids came and the Chamberlain's came and told her. Then was the Queen exceedingly grieved and she sent Raymond. She sent cloth while we're still in chapter 4 here and those four so Esther's maids and the Chamberlain's came and told it to her.

Then was the Queen exceedingly grieved and She sent Raymond to Mordechai. To take away his sackcloth from me. He says not on your life. I'm not going to escape trouble. I'm not going to escape torment.

Leave my sackcloth on me. It's my Identification. I'm willing to be considered poor and ridiculous. I'm not taking your royal garments. Take them back to the Queen. I want to be identified with the people that mourn and travail blessed.

Are they that mourn. See he gives beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning. But we don't want the oil of joy for mourning. You ladies want oil of the lay. You'd rather have that Oil of joy for mourning, but you can't escape the mourning brother Keith.

If you're gonna have the joy of the Lord you can have silliness you can have frivolity you can have fun. But what in God's name is that? I'm talking about the same joy that Jesus had and the cross was before him and it says he endured the cross.

He didn't enjoy it. He endured it. Why did he endure it. Because it was a will of his father. I love the hymn of boners go labor on spend and be spent by joy to do the father's will. It is the way the master way.

Come on. Now. Why do you expect better treatment from this world than Jesus God? Are you so holy are you beyond him? It couldn't tolerate him. It couldn't listen to him. It spit on him. It was mad against him All the days of his life from the moment.

He left his mother's womb. We have the shadow of illegitimacy over him, and I think we forget that. Didn't they say when he stood in a synagogue, we know who his father and his mother they didn't. They knew his mother.

They didn't know his father. Don't you think all his life? They said he's a bastard. Of course they did. Some German theologians said that a few years ago that there was an invasion of Germans in that area at the time Jesus was born and he was fathered by a German.

Well, we know that's not true because the end of verse 4 again. The Queen sent raiment of cloth to Mordecai. Do you think she sent him some junk? She sent him some royal robe. She sent him something with distinction and he says no, I'm sticking here.

This is why God wants me. I'm not going to be decorated. I'm going to stay with the humble and the meek and the lowly and the despised and rejected. Nowadays you want to be accepted. Everybody wants to be accepted.

God pity you. Get to the place where you can open your arms and say Lord, let me be rejected as you are rejected. Let me be despised as you were despised. You see he won't comfort you unless your heart is broken.

You hear people say I drew near to the Lord and Iraq met my darling daughter-in-law. Said a while ago an experience. She'd gone through and she said to Martin. I just felt the arms of Jesus around me.

He so bathed me in his love. Why? Because she'd been through a kind of Gethsemane. They say we want to wake up in the morning with some bubbly exciting experience and God says no. I Counsel thee to buy of me.

Oh, you can't buy anything from God. Grace is free. Sure. It is but rewards are not free. We only get what we've laid up treasure in heaven for by by by of me white raiment by of me gold. Gold is typical of the typical of divinity.

I'd buy through my willingness to walk a different road from the other guys. The other day I got a photograph of our team that used to walk. We walked the length and breadth of England. I looking at all those men there.

Almost all of them are dead now. Super preachers as far as I'm concerned. I looked at some others when I was at college, which I was there six months as you can tell. But you know when I was there. They say well, why were you on the Dean's list?

We didn't even have a Dean at the college. It was so poor. I'm glad we didn't. I'd have never made the list. I had a very important place on the list every week when the examination test came out I was at the bottom holding all the others up.

But you know what? The guys used to laugh at three of us because we spent more time in prayer. They play ball. We went down by the river to pray. We'd have a night of prayer while the other fellows were fooling around.

And I look at those men super intellectuals many of them and they got into ordination. Which is a step downward anyhow. There's only one ordination that's the ordination of John 15. I have ordained you or as God said to Jeremiah I ordained you when you're in the womb.

That's the earliest ordination. I know of you know one earlier than that Keith. Well, you're as ignorant as I am. It doesn't know that's good the ordination of God. No man can take it from you. If you walk in the light you keep that ordination or if you like unction or Divine anointing as long as we're obedient.

Esther's Risk Before the King

Well, I want to get on here a bit. They wanted to take his sackcloth from him, but he wouldn't take it. They would have given him a chance to escape. He didn't want to escape. Verse 11 of chapter 4 still.

All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whosoever whether it be a man or a woman shall come Into the court of the king into the inner court without being called. Come on now.

What does scripture say many are called few are chosen. They were all legally belonging to the kingdom, but unless they were called by the king. They could not go into the place where the king was. We sang that lovely hymn tonight.

Jesus calls us by thy mercies Savior. May we hear thy call? You see there are periods in your life where you have to get to a crossroad and you hear a very distinct call and The word of God says that God will call us when we're in the way won't call you're sitting in a chair.

He'll call you when you're doing the will of God. When you're going right ahead and suddenly you hear a voice saying not this go right or go left. The most precious thing in the world I think is to be conscious of the voice of God.

Which can come in that mysterious way in our spirits or it can come again? Through the word of the Living God. But no man can a woman can go to in the court who is not called, but there is one law of His that shall put him to death except such to whom the king shall hold out a golden scepter that he may live.

But I have not been called to come into the king for 30 days. Come on. What happened to you when you didn't hear God's voice for 30 days. God some of us can't we be lonely 30 hours? When God is driving you to your knees driving you to intense prayer and He shuts off communications.

It's the only way to get our attention. We're going along so blessed so happy. Oh. Every morning I get up. I read you know streams in the desert or squirts in the wilderness or something. Oh, it's so nice.

I so enjoyed the Lord is so good. Come on get out of it. You've been reading that thing for 30 years. Come on. He's a living God. And I can only live as he pours his living life into me. I can't live on my theology.

You can't love theology. You say I'm a Baptist. I love Baptist doctrine. You can't love Baptist doctrine. A Pentecostal doctrine. You're gonna love a person boy. Doctrine won't help you too much. I have not been called to come into the king these 30 days.

How do you think she felt? She's in a court where everybody despised her every other woman in the hair, and that's what it was. Envied her and yet for 30 days. She's been left outside with a crowd. Doesn't say she's wearing a crown even though.

She'd been given a crown in the previous chapter. But the king hadn't called her in. Well at the gun sour. Is he gonna get rid of me. Got rid of Vashti. Is he gonna get rid of me? You know when the Lord stopped Saul on the road to Damascus.

I Never noticed what he said. You know the Lord pitched him off his horse. He must have been on the horse. They wouldn't have been going to Damascus that way all that way walking take him rest of his life.

And he's down in the dust he bites the dust and he didn't say Lord. Why he said Lord what? What? You suddenly put a roadblock here. What is it. And the Lord sent Ananias? And he said go and tell him what what he must suffer.

No he didn't say that. Tell him what great things he must suffer. Oh. It's bad psychology to tell this young guy. You know I mean he may be the best softball pitcher in the church league. Which of course gets you a special crown in heaven if it's in the church league.

And you go whispering. Is there. Listen, son. I want to tell you something. Go on and be a professional ballplayer if you like but right now God is calling you. I'll tell you what he's calling you is calling you to hardship and sacrifice.

You're gonna be hungry up the river Amazon. You're gonna be bitten by a bug. There's a precious lady. Was that lady. Martha came from the Amazon. Sophie Muller, I'd wanted to see that woman for years.

I went to a conference. They said Sophie Muller's coming. And I was sitting at the end seat and somebody says she's coming. She's at the door. She's coming in. I looked past you know. Wait don't throw your hymn books at me.

She got the most beautiful legs. I've ever seen. She's about 55. Do you know what they look like. They looked as though down the stocking she'd golf balls all the way big big bumps bitten with bugs. Bitten with all kinds of thing.

A whole body was out of shape. And yet she goes up the Amazon where men won't go. She gets men to paddler up the river. And then she puts a screen up and teaches the youngsters and the other people to learn a language.

The government I won't say which one of them the Catholics got so upset at the people who are being saved. You see when that when they get saved they quit their running around with women. They quit their drinking.

They quit their fooling and fighting and there was such a transformation the priest got mad because he hadn't given up his girlfriends yet. It was living in his adultery and wickedness and drunkenness and the news spread the Sophie Muller.

I looked at that precious little woman. Where were we just outside of Chicago there? 60-odd years of it and she's back there now. You can't keep her at home. She's taught the alphabet to so many people so many Indians.

I Better where's. Where Spencer see. Oh Spencer you better get with her boys. Are we bring it up to your tribes? They see what can be done. She refuses to accept the king's garments. That blessed woman doesn't anything worth five bucks.

Oh My dear wife. Oh our pastor's wife always wears designer dresses. Well, if that won't get you heaven, what will? Hmm, you know the vanity of the world just about swallowed the church up today. We have to dress and show off.

You know, I wouldn't have worn this coat years ago. I've had it about five years and I put it on the other day a moth has eaten dirty thing. Look it's made. It's bitten a big hole. And I got a new one and put it in the same closet and it ate that.

Boy if I get it, it's life's finished. I'll tell you. Not gonna eat any more of my stuff. The king hasn't called me for 30 days. Come on. Don't panic. God isn't speaking as he did. His word seems dry.

Prayer is dry. So what has God changed? You've changed your emotions of change. You go up and down according to what somebody says to you. You don't if you're stayed on God. We sing that lovely hymn stayed upon.

Jehovah hearts are fully blessed. Hidden in the hollow of his blessed hand. Never folk and follow never traitor stand. The only one who can change God's opinion of you is you. No matter if people lie about you say you're a cheat or a whoremonger or any other process.

It makes no difference. He shouldn't worry you that much. Oh Well, I have a reputation. I'll take it to the cross get rid of it. Reputation will kill you. Reputation is what men think you are. Character is what God knows you are now what you're gonna worry about reputation.

That doesn't mean you're gonna take playboy a sneak off to some dirty film. No, you're not going to do that. Because the more the love of God is shed abroad in your heart the more you love him and. The other things they cease cease to make magnetizes.

I Said to my darling wife. I think that they Are somewhere we were well anyhow thinking of where it was, but I won't tell you. Here is a man. You talk about a lunatic a wealthy man a man with a colossal intellect the greatest brain in the world in his day.

And he says I take pleasure in the Olympic Games. Remember they had Olympic Games 400 years before Jesus was born. Paul refers to the running races and all the rest of it wrestling. What do you say? Oh, I went and I saw the championship heavyweight championship.

It doesn't say that he says I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities the very things we scream to God Almighty to keep us from and. So it doesn't keep us so we get full of all the other band vain things that don't mean a hill of beans.

I Take pleasure in everything this world despises. I despise those who despise the gospel and that to a sense of the world 30 days God hasn't spoken. Well, if it's coming to you, you better learn that lovely him that Who was it now founder of the channel in admission his favorite him?

Hudson Hudson Taylor, thank you Jesus. I am resting resting in the joy of what thou art. You know what the psalmist says my heart is fixed you better be watching it in these days. We're going into the most serious trouble America's ever been in if your heart isn't fixed.

You've got a pieces. You know when I get in trouble, we either go to pieces or we go to praises one of the two. There's no middle ground. The world's going to crack up round about us. The psalmist says my heart is fixed.

My emotions aren't fixed. My circumstances aren't fixed. My financial situation isn't fixed. Nothing. My heart is fixed. I Was raised a Methodist, you know and boy how they used to sing rollicking hymns.

My heart is fixed eternal. God fixed on thee fixed on thee and my immortal choice is made Christ for me. He is my prophet priest and King who did for me salvation bring and while I breath I mean to sing Christ for me.

He's the same. He's the unchanging. Nobody can weaken God. He has all power. Nobody can advise God. He has all wisdom. Nobody can make God sour. He's holy. He never changed his mind about you unless you violate his laws.

And if you do that, he'll whip you and he should do and me, but all he decides. I come to maturity. Taking me a long while but I'm getting there. They told Mordecai Esther's words. Mordecai commanded to answer Esther.