Section 04 - The End of Haman

This event has been a long time coming. We have been waiting for it, but it just never seems to happen. Well in this section we will finally see the end of him.

I want to start by sharing one Scripture. Romans 8:2 says,

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free once for all from the law of sin and death.

We saw in the last section about how Haman was trapped and defeated by his own selfishness. He tried to exalt himself and he was forced to exalt Mordecai instead.

We come now to the final event that changed everything. It is time to get rid of Haman and put Mordecai back in his place. We have seen several stages leading up to this, but let's see how it is finally accomplished.

Revelation Needed

The most important thing that needs to take place before it is accomplished is there needs to be a revelation. Remember that Haman is a picture of the flesh; of our sinful tendencies. So the first step to bringing this to an end is a revelation.

You see our soul is the place where we live most of the time. It is the real us where our thoughts and feelings are, and most of the time it is oblivious to what is going on right under our noses.

We don't see what the flesh is doing in our lives. We don't realize it and at times we are even naive.

We need a revelation. And until the soul gets the message and the revelation of what is going on within as a result of the flesh nothing is going to be accomplished.

How does this happen? It takes a recreated spirit in Christ to bring it about, and Esther is a picture of the recreated spirit. It took Esther to bring the king to a place where his eyes were opened and where he could see.

Listening to the Inner Voice

In other words your soul is going to have to learn to listen to that gentle, tiny voice deep within that is coming out of your spirit. It is a very gentle voice that speaks all the time. It never imposes itself and never pushes.

We see a perfect picture of this in Queen Esther. She comes in humility, in submission and gentleness. She doesn't push herself or impose herself in any way. She is just there to suggest and to influence.

The trouble is we suppress that voice. In the story of Esther the king was so busy with everything else that was going on, that he forgot about this precious gem that he had, on whom he put the crown.

Perhaps he was also busy with some of his other new wives that he accumulated. But whatever the case was, the king forgot about Esther. He had to be reminded about her.

You know we get so wrapped up in the busyness of life and of what we are doing, that we forget about and no longer appreciate what God put in us when we were born again.

We don't realize the value of the treasure that we have deep in our spirits, as a result of the new birth and the Spirit of God coming to live within us.

Shutting Other Voices Out

Our spirits are there and speaking gently all the time. But sometimes we have to be brought to the place where we shut out all the other voices and can finally listen to that little voice deep within.

That is what was accomplished there as Esther invited the king to come to her banquet.

It was to get him out of his court and out of his place of control where all the people were fussing around him. It was to get him all alone, on his own, to where she could speak to him straight.

In your spiritual life, when you get to this point then the Spirit can tell you what is going on. You just need to take the time and make the effort to listen.

When you hear that voice from the Spirit within, there comes a revelation and everything suddenly becomes very clear. Then you see what was staring you in the face all the time but you didn't notice it.

God has to move deep within you. He has to sometimes bring you to a place where He takes you out of all your activity. He takes you away from all the things that preoccupy you to try and get your attention.

He does it so that He can speak in that gentle voice and say,

"Hey, we have a problem. You are not even aware of it, but you are the king. You don't even know what is going on."

There is imminent death within that is about to take place. But you are too foolish to even be aware of it, let alone do anything about it.

Seeing the Ugly Truth

So the king and Esther are at the banquet, and he asks her for the third time,

"What do you want, Esther? It will be given to you, up to half of my kingdom."

You would think that he may have increased it to three quarters of his kingdom by now. I think he was quite determined to grant her this request. Finally Esther says to him,

"I'm asking for my life and for the life of my people."

She does it in such humility. She says,

"You know if we were due to be sold into slavery I wouldn't have bothered you with it, because I know you are a busy man. But our lives are at stake here. This is serious. It is urgent.

King, you need to know what is going on. Somebody has plotted to destroy your beautiful queen as well as the people in your land. You don't realize that they are probably the most important people that you have."

They are related to Mordecai who is a picture of the Spirit. And all of these elements of your spiritual life are now being put into question and being brought to death. Didn't the king know it?

Well finally he gets to find out and he is quite flabbergasted. He says,

"What! Who would do something like that?"

Esther says, "You oh King, because you went and gave your ring to this guy Haman here. You let him issue a decree to destroy every single Jew."

I think the king got quite a fright. In fact he was so staggered he had to walk out of the room. He was mad confused. You would think that he would have simply said,

"Hey Haman, how dare you do that. Die!"

No, the king suddenly woke up to realize what he had done. He had actually handed everything over to this man that he trusted. And now he was out to destroy what was very valuable to him.

It takes a revelation for you to open your eyes and to see the destruction that sin is causing in your life. Yes you are a believer. You are born again and the Spirit of God dwells within you.

You are on your way to heaven because you are a child of God. But sin is deceitful and the flesh within you is deceitful. It is time you stop, have a good look inside and see what is going on.

Well the flesh (Haman) was exposed. Esther said,

"King, this evil man is the one who is out to destroy me and all of my people."

So the first thing Haman does is to fall on his knees and beg for mercy.

He says, "I'm so sorry. I did absolutely wrong and I repent of my sin."

Worldly Sorrow

No, I don't read him doing that. The flesh will never repent and it will never bow. The flesh will never admit that it did wrong.

It will justify itself, make excuses and try to point to someone else to blame. But when it is caught out the flesh will grovel and cry crocodile tears.

It will look so sorrowful and so repentant, but it will not be. You see the flesh will show sorrow, but not sorrow to repentance.

Paul speaks about this in 2 Corinthians when he wrote the Corinthians a letter that affected them. It hit them right in the heart and they were really grieved at their sin and what they had done. But Paul says,

"I am glad that it did more to you than that."

He says in 2 Corinthians 7:9,

Now I am glad, not because you were grieved, but that you were grieved enough to change your way of thinking: for you were grieved under the influence of God, so that you would not be hurt by us in any way.

The idea wasn't to hurt them but to open their eyes. Then verse 10 says,

For the God kind of sorrow accomplishes a change of thinking leading to deliverance and victory without any regrets: but the sorrow of the world results in death.

You see the sorrow of this world says,

"Woe is me; shame, isn't this terrible? Please help me."

It will never acknowledge its failure. Don't ever think you can fix the flesh.

Haman was still trying to save his skin. He wasn't unhappy about what he. He didn't regret a single thing that he had done. He just wanted to save his own neck now. That is all he was concerned about.

No Patching the Flesh

The flesh is totally selfish. It will always try and save itself and save face. The trouble is he only made it worse.

You might think you can patch up the flesh and put up a nice big front of super spirituality. You might think that it is going to help but it won't. It will simply get worse.

I have seen people who come to church. They are given a chance to pray, whether it be to open in prayer or in the prayer meeting. They say things like,

"Oh Lord our God, we are so grateful to be here today."

They pray a beautiful, eloquent and spiritual prayer. But nobody knows that this guy just beat his wife before coming to the meeting. Nobody knows what kind of life he lives. You see the flesh is that way. It will put on a veil of spirituality.

Be careful that you are not caught using the flesh to produce false spirituality. You may be able to fool a lot of people out there, but the spirit within knows the truth.

Groveling and Appealing

Haman now tries to appeal to the queen. You see if the flesh can convince the spirit that the spirit is wrong; if it can get the spirit to change its mind, maybe it can get saved.

That is what Haman is hoping. And so he grovels. He falls to his knees and on his face before the queen and cries,

"Please queen; please queen."

I think the queen just moved back a bit further on the bench she was sitting on. He crawled towards her again and said,

"Please queen."

By the time the king walked in, it looked like Haman was lying on top of the queen. He thought,

"What! It's not enough that he did all of this, but now he wants to rape the queen right here."

You see give the flesh enough rope to hang itself and it will do a very good job. This is because the flesh only thinks about itself.

I want to tell you that when that revelation comes it is devastating. When from deep within your spirit, the Spirit of God exposes your sin and your flesh, it is devastating.

It is deadly, and it is going to bring change whether you want it or not. It is going to bring to death the thing that you have relied on for so long.

And so as the king comes in, he just speaks one word and Haman disappears. As he speaks they cover Haman's face so you cannot see him anymore.

He is still there. He is not dead, but you can't see him anymore. He is starting to vanish.

That is the first step that will take place when the flesh is exposed for what it is. The flesh is going to disappear and begin to lose its influence.

Reaping What You Sow

Then one of the king's servants steps forward and says,

"Oh king, you are not aware of it but let me give you some more revelation. Haman had set up a gallows in his own home to hang Mordecai on. Did you know that, king? He was actually coming to ask you permission to hang Mordecai."

The king says,

"Good, then hang him on his own gallows."

You see that gives new meaning to the expression 'giving someone enough rope to hang himself'. Haman is hung on his own gallows. The trap that he set for someone else came back on him.

There is a Scriptural principle here. It is called the law of sowing and reaping. The Word says,

Whatsoever you sow that you will reap.

If you sow destruction you will reap destruction. You will receive the consequences of your own actions.

The more you allow the flesh to control, rule and reign, and the longer you allow the flesh to sow its seeds of sin, the bigger harvest of retribution you will receive when God exposes that flesh and deals with it.

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