Oct 11, 2026 · 44 min · 9 segments
What began with a three-month drunken party, turned into a nationwide human trafficking ring, and leads to a plan to enact genocide on an entire people group. The enemy is real and he operates through…
Mark SpanselHost
Yet the existence of evil and suffering is part of his comprehensive eternal plan.
And we just see as we think about this issue of suffering and evil that no suffering is ever wasted.
Every ounce of pain has been carefully measured, allocated, and redeemed by a loving Father who orchestrates it for the ultimate good of his children.
I can't think of the passage or the verse, Romans 8:28, without thinking of my grandfather.
And we know that God works all things together for good to those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.
We might just conclude this little theology lesson by saying, look, the ultimate proof of this is the cross.
The context that we meet him is connected to Esther chapter 2 verse 23, when Mordecai is overlooked, when he should have been rewarded.
And it says in 2:23, "When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows, and it was recorded in the book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king." And I called this providential forgetfulness.
The Persian kings, who were always quick to reward the good done in the kingdom, providentially forget to reward Mordecai, but it's recorded, and we're gonna see, of course, that come back around later in the story at just the right time.
Agagite, uh, "the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him." And so here we meet Haman, who has been promoted, and Mordecai, who has been forgotten.
Yet the existence of evil and suffering is part of his comprehensive eternal plan.
And we just see as we think about this issue of suffering and evil that no suffering is ever wasted.
Every ounce of pain has been carefully measured, allocated, and redeemed by a loving Father who orchestrates it for the ultimate good of his children.
I can't think of the passage or the verse, Romans 8:28, without thinking of my grandfather.
And we know that God works all things together for good to those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.
We might just conclude this little theology lesson by saying, look, the ultimate proof of this is the cross.
The context that we meet him is connected to Esther chapter 2 verse 23, when Mordecai is overlooked, when he should have been rewarded.
And it says in 2:23, "When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows, and it was recorded in the book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king." And I called this providential forgetfulness.
The Persian kings, who were always quick to reward the good done in the kingdom, providentially forget to reward Mordecai, but it's recorded, and we're gonna see, of course, that come back around later in the story at just the right time.
Agagite, uh, "the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him." And so here we meet Haman, who has been promoted, and Mordecai, who has been forgotten.
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