Esther 7:9-10 - Homiletics

The oppressed avenged.

This was indeed the hand—as the heathen would have said, of Nemesis—as we Christians say, of a righteous God and Ruler. Upon the tree erected for the impalement of Mordecai, the cruel, bloodthirsty conspirator Haman was sentenced himself to die. "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make whips to scourge us."

I. OFTEN WE OBSERVE , FOR A WHILE , INNOCENCE SUFFERING AND THREATENED , AND SIN POWERFUL , INSOLENT , AND TRIUMPHANT . Never was a more striking instance of this than was furnished at the court of the Persian king. Yet since the world began similar spectacles have been beheld.

II. A RIGHTEOUS AND ALMIGHTY RULER LOOKS DOWN FROM HIS THRONE AND OBSERVES SUCH SCENES . It is not we only who mark the inequalities and apparent wrongs of human life. An all-seeing Eye is ever upon the prosperous sinner and the afflicted saint. "All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."

III. THE TIME WILL COME WHEN THE OPPRESSOR SHALL BE BROUGHT LOW , AND THE LOWLY AND RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE EXALTED . Perhaps, as in the case before us, in this world; assuredly in the general judgment. "The Lord reigneth;" and though he may have reasons we cannot fully understand for permitting the temporary reign of injustice, the Judge of all the earth shall assuredly do right.