Whom Do You Trust? Job 1:1–22 Have you not put a hedge around him? Job 1:10 God promises to shield the believer against Satan. A main point in Job’s situation is that God had placed a hedge around him. Satan could do nothing to him until God permitted the hedge to be lowered a little

Sudden and Certain Justice Esther 7:3–10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Esther 7:10 Mordecai was a Jew who worked in the court of Xerxes, the king of Persia. Haman was a high official. Most people deferred to Haman, bowing to him almost as if he were the

God’s Favor Esther 5:1–3 She won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Esther 5:2 Esther became King Xerxes’s queen after being taken from the home of her cousin and guardian, Mordecai, to live in Xerxes’s palace. A great enemy of the Jews named

Under Covenant Nehemiah 9:3–10:29 Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing. Nehemiah 9:38 Things changed radically in Jerusalem under the governorship of Nehemiah and the pastoring of Ezra. The people had been spiritually dead. Now they revived, and the changes that came transformed their nation and culture permanently. What were the

Getting Right Nehemiah 5:1–13 The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God? Nehemiah 5:9 We must ask of ourselves: What good is it to build great evangelical institutions, constructing walls against the “evil” of our opposing, secular world, if within the walls the