ESTHER - PART 4

PRAY TO BEGIN

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

Read Esther 5:9-14
1. How would you describe Haman based on these verse?
2. How does Haman’s pride rob him of Joy and happiness?
3. What do we see from this passage about how pride lead to further sin?

Read Esther 6:1-12

4. How can you see God’s hidden hand at work in this chapter?

5. Proverbs 16:18 says “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” How is Hamans story an example of this?

6. How have you seen Pride to be destructive in your life, or as a general rule?

Read Esther 7

7. In what ways is the story of Mordecai’s salvation reminisscent of the gospel account of salvation? In what was is it different?

8. “God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble” (James 4:6). What difference does it make for our lives to know that there is a God who is in control, who will ensure that justice will prevail in the end?

9. How is this passage a comfort when it looks as though evil has the upper hand?

APPLY AND PRAY IN RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

10. In what ways does pride manifest itself in your life?

11. How have you seen God rescue you from a pattern of sin that is self destructive?