Pride the Dangerous Sin

Notes: Pride the Dangerous Sin
Esther 6
Pastor John Collins
Harvest OC
4/3/2018

Lives can be radically changed by Christ. People find Christ in so many amazing ways.

This chapter God gets the attention of the king when he can’t sleep. 

Mordecai’s good deeds were told to the king that night.

Mordecai and Esther put their future in God’s hands. Xerxes and Haman try to control their own destiny.


Esther 6:1-5 NLT
[1] That night the king had trouble sleeping, so he ordered an attendant to bring the book of the history of his reign so it could be read to him. [2] In those records he discovered an account of how Mordecai had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the door to the king's private quarters. They had plotted to assassinate King Xerxes.

[3] "What reward or recognition did we ever give Mordecai for this?" the king asked. 

His attendants replied, "Nothing has been done for him." 

[4] "Who is that in the outer court?" the king inquired. As it happened, Haman had just arrived in the outer court of the palace to ask the king to impale Mordecai on the pole he had prepared. 

[5] So the attendants replied to the king, "Haman is out in the court."
"Bring him in," the king ordered.

God sometimes will use time to work in our lives. Timing can be everything.

God always shows up just at the right time.

All of God’s delays are His maturing.

God uses the intentions of men in His own plans.

Esther 6:6-9 NLT
[6] So Haman came in, and the king said, "What should I do to honor a man who truly pleases me?" 

Haman thought to himself, "Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?" [7] So he replied, "If the king wishes to honor someone, [8] he should bring out one of the king's own royal robes, as well as a horse that the king himself has ridden-one with a royal emblem on its head. [9] Let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. And let him see that the man whom the king wishes to honor is dressed in the king's robes and led through the city square on the king's horse. Have the official shout as they go, 'This is what the king does for someone he wishes to honor!'"

Proverbs 16:18 NLT
[18] Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.

Haman’s fall is gong to be fast and hard.

Pride is a dangerous sin. The best way to avoid it is to recognize it.

Esther 6:10-14 NLT
[10] "Excellent!" the king said to Haman. "Quick! Take the robes and my horse, and do just as you have said for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the gate of the palace. Leave out nothing you have suggested!" 

[11] So Haman took the robes and put them on Mordecai, placed him on the king's own horse, and led him through the city square, shouting, "This is what the king does for someone he wishes to honor!" [12] Afterward Mordecai returned to the palace gate, but Haman hurried home dejected and completely humiliated. 

[13] When Haman told his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends what had happened, his wise advisers and his wife said, "Since Mordecai-this man who has humiliated you-is of Jewish birth, you will never succeed in your plans against him. It will be fatal to continue opposing him." 

[14] While they were still talking, the king's eunuchs arrived and quickly took Haman to the banquet Esther had prepared.

Give a prideful man enough rope and he will hang himself with it.

Haman was building his own gallows.

God was protecting His own people.

If God is for us, who can be against us.