[Buzzing sound and fun music]
So part of God's story is about a woman named Esther
and it goes like this.
Esther was adopted by her cousin, Mordecai, [buzzing]
because her parents died.
She and Mordecai were Jews,
which means they were part of God's special family.
Our story begins right before Esther becomes Queen
and God's family gets in some serious danger.
Now even though Esther was a Jew, she lived in Persia
which was ruled by King Xerxes. [buzzing]
Let's just called him X.
One night, King X wanted to show off his wife, [buzzing]
Queen Vashti, at a party.
She said no,
so he said Vashti could never see him again
and he needed a new queen.
So the King invited all the single ladies in Persia to his palace for a year.
He decided Esther was prettiest
and she became queen.
Really!
But as crazy as that sounds [buzzing]
it was a good choice because Esther saved his life.
See one day Mordecai overheard two guards plotting
to kill the king. So he told Esther, and Esther told X.
Around the same time,
another powerful man at the palace, Haman, got really mad at Mordecai he didn't
know Mordecai had saved the King's life or that he was the Queen's cousin so he
made a rule that all Jews must die like we said he was really mad and the King
let him and make this rule because he had no idea that Mordecai or Esther were
Jews well all the Jews were heartbroken but Mordecai thought maybe Esther could
save them she was Queen after all problem is only a king could change laws
and anybody who even spoke to the king when he didn't want to listen could die
including Esther but she was willing to try she said if I die I die
talk about brave so Esther visited the King to her relief
he said what do you want I'll give it to you Esther had a plan politely she
invited King X and Haman to dinner she had saved the King's life now she was
making a special dinner for him X liked that he said yes that night the King
asked Esther what she wanted again and again Esther invited them to dinner
Haman was thrilled to be invited to dine with the king and queen twice but even
with the special treatment he knew he couldn't be truly happy until Mordecai
was dead so he came up with a plan to kill him the next day
but that same day the King realized that Mordecai had never been honored for
saving him so X asked Kaman how to honor someone Haman thought the king was going
to honor him instead he honored Mordecai so Haman was already in a bad mood when
he got to dinner but his day went from bad to worse see Esther finally told the
king that someone made a law to destroy her people X was furious and asked who
dared to do such a thing Esther told him it was Haman then the
King found out that Haman wanted to kill Mordecai too enraged he ordered that
Haman be killed after that King extolled Mordecai to make a new law to save the
Jews the Jews honored Mordecai and celebrated with a feast Esther had been
willing to risk her life for her people and she ended up saving them like Esther
another rescuer would come one day and he would actually die to save all of
God's special family and that's the story of Esther so in case you missed it
here's the quick version Esther was a Jew she became Queen Mordecai overheard
a plan he told Esther Esther told X Mordecai
made Haman mad Haman made a law the Jews were sad
Esther was brave she had a plan she told the King about Haman the King
got rid of Haman God's family was saved and that's a part of God's story