Once again, I want to welcome everyone here this morning.
If you don't know, my name is James, one of the one of the
elders here. This morning I'm going to
endeavour to to give to you a message that entitled The
Righteous Shall Live by his faith.
We're going to be in the book of Habakkuk this morning.
Now the book of a back Habakkuk is actually one of my favorite
books in the Bible, and we'll kind of get into that as we move
along. A little book in the Old
Testament, only three chapters or text this morning is going to
be just 21 verses, all of chapter one.
And in the 1st 4 verses of chapter 2, we're going to bring
out some things from all three chapters, but that's going to be
our primary text. This morning Felt last week that
this message was teed up for me very well by Kyle's message of
faithfulness and trusting in God, because that's once again
what we're going to be dealing with this morning.
Habakkuk, there's not a lot known about him other than from
his book. It's believed that the book of
Habakkuk was, I mean, even that name, Habakkuk.
That's fun to say, man, That's just fun to say.
So Habakkuk was written somewhere between 6:40 and 6:15
BC. It was towards the end of the
Assyrian power that they were under.
Assyria would soon to be weakened in their power and this
was a prophecy that would be fulfilled at least two decades
after the book was written. It may have been three or four
decades after the book was written of how God was going to
raise up the nation of Babylon or the Chaldeans that they were
going to come and overtake Assyria.
Oh, and assert their power. And Assyria would be their power
would be no more. And Habakkuk is a prophet.
So this is a prophetic book. But Habakkuk is also a book of
poetry. Much of it is written and if you
look at the the structure of the book, of the sentences
structured in most of not all but most of the verses are
constructed either in what's referred to as couplets or
triplets. Either 2 verses to each, two
sentences to each verse or three sentences to each verse.
Now every verse doesn't apply to that.
Hebrew poetry is not like poetry that we know of as today.
But so Habakkuk is not only a book of prophecy, it is also a
book of poetry, which kind of once again is another reason why
I like, I like this book. I love the character character
of Habakkuk and what we can learn from him as we approach a
holy God. Amen.
So we find out, like I said, there's not a whole lot known
about Habakkuk other than his book.
It's believed that he even lived among the time of Daniel and
Ezekiel. There is.
There is also a in the Jewish Bible, there is a addition to
the book of Daniel called Bell and the Dragon that says that
Habakkuk was actually used by God to go feed Daniel while
Daniel was in the lion's den. Now that's not in our Bible, so
take it for what you want it, what it's worth.
But it was just a interesting side note that I picked up.
Even the many times I've studied this book, I've never come
across that reference before. But as we study this book this
morning, go over the scriptures, it's a real easy to read
Habakkuk story and think that Habakkuk was doubting God, that
Habakkuk was actually had no faith in some of the language
that he uses. Habakkuk is very has a very
accusatory tone that he uses with God.
He actually accuses God of some things in our in our text this
morning. But don't put Habakkuk into the
category of the unfaithful or the doubtful.
He's actually very faithful and he he we can find out through
the text this morning that he has not lost his faith in God.
The actual fact that he is praying to God shows his
faithfulness that he still believes in God.
In a book called Faith Among the Ruins, the Book of Habakkuk
written by Heath Thomas, he writes this.
The complaints in Habakkuk chapter one, verses 2 through 4,
assume that God will counteract violence in chaos precisely
because it is His creation that it has become disordered.
If the Prophet did not think that God was a caring Lord over
his creation, it is sensible to suggest that he would have given
up and that Habakkuk would never have voiced his prayer.
But the Prophet Prophet refuses to take this course.
Habakkuk recognizes that God fashioned this world with
justice and knows that the experience of some twisted form
or partiality that passes for justice is incompatible with
God's design and intention for his good world.
So therefore, you know, like I said, we want to look at this in
the scope of Habakkuk's faithfulness this morning.
Not as a man that has let faith, even in his time of frustration,
in the times that he didn't understand why this was going on
and God gave him a vision of the future overtaken by the
Chaldeans, he still didn't fully understand until God completely
showed him all the vision. So let's remember this morning
what it says in the book of Hebrews, chapter 4, verses 14
through 16. It says this Since then we have
a great High priest who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession.
Now why should we hold our confession, since we have a
great High priest whose name is Jesus?
He goes on and says, For we do not have a high priest who is
unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every
respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let us then, with confidence draw near to the throne of
grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time
of need. And that's exactly what we found
out here in the book of a backup.
Now we're getting ready to to read our word, and I'm going to
ask you to stand here momentarily.
And just as a side note, if you were in Sunday school a few
weeks back we studied about after Jeremiah brought the 3rd
wave of the Jews back from Babylon.
Ezra brought the 2nd wave, Jeremiah brought the 3rd wave.
When he and Jeremiah comes back he still finds that there's many
that are still in idolatry against God and he comes back
and they they build this platform.
And Ezra the priest stands on the platform and he reads the
book of the law, and it says that all the all the people of
Israel, men, women, and all the those that could understand, so
all those that were of age that could understand God's word was
there. And he said as he, as he opened
the book of the of the law that the people stood and then went
on cue the people would say, Amen, Amen.
So when we asked you to stand for the reading of God's word is
not just on ceremony, it is actually an act of worship.
This is what the people of Israel was doing when Ezra
opened up the Book of the law to read.
So never assume that we ask you to stand for the reading of
God's word just because it's a piece of ceremony or just
something that we do. It's actually an extension of
our worship. Amen.
So this morning we're going to be reading Habakkuk, chapter
one, beginning with verse one to chapter 2, verse four.
And if you are able, I ask you to stand and when I'm done
reading, I will say this is the word of the Lord and I ask that
you respond, Thanks be to God. Habakkuk, chapter one, verse
one. The Oracle that Habakkuk the
prophet saw. Oh Lord, how long shall I cry
for help? And you will not hear or cry to
you violence and you will not save.
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at
wrong? Destruction and violence are
before me. Strife and contention arise, so
the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth, For
the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth
perverted, and the Lord answers. Habakkuk started in verse five.
Look among the nations and see Wander, and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe
if told. For behold, I am raising up the
Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who March through the
breath of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
They are dreaded and fearsome. Their justice and dignity go
forth from themselves. Their horses are swifter than
leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves.
Their horsemen press proudly on their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle, swift to devour.
They all come for violence, all their faces forward.
They gather captives like sand at kings they scoff, and at
rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress,
for they pile up earth and take it.
Then they sweep by like the wind, and go on.
Guilty men whose own might is their God.
Then Habakkuk brings a second complaint to God.
Are you not from everlasting? O Lord, my God, my holy one, we
shall not die, O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgement,
and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
You who are of pure eyes than to see evil and cannot look at
wrong, Why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when
the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things
that have no ruler. He brings all of them up with
the hook, He drags them out with his net.
He gathers them in his dragnet. So he rejoices and is glad.
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his
dragnet, for by them he lives in luxury and his food is rich.
Is he the end to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly
killing nations forever? Chapter 2, verse one, I will
take my stand and at my watch post and station myself on the
tower and look out to see what he will say to me and what our
answer concerning my complaint. Once again the Lord answers
Habakkuk, verse two, and the Lord answered me.
Write the vision. Make it plain on tablets, so he
may run. Who reads it?
For still the vision awaits its appointed time.
It hastens to the end. It will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it. It will surely come.
It will not delay. Behold, his soul is puffed up.
It is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by
his faith. This is the word of the Lord.
Let's pray this morning. Father God, I praise you.
I magnify you for your word. I thank you for truth.
I thank you that you are a God of justice.
You are a God of order. And, Father, we may not always
understand, but you are constantly making sense of the
chaos. Let us, Father, not lean upon
our own understanding, but lean upon you.
Help us to receive from your word.
This morning, Father, I ask that you will give me the words to
say that I can relay what you have given to me to those here.
Father, let us be able to understand your word this
morning. Amen.
You may be seated this morning. The big ideal for today's sermon
is this. Even in our frustrations over
our current situations, we can always put our faith in Jesus,
who is actively working in the background of our lives to bring
about good. Even in our frustrations over
our current situations, we can always put our faith in Jesus,
who is actively working in the background of our lives to bring
about good. Who's ever been frustrated over
a situation in your life? The rest of you that didn't
raise your hand? You're lying.
It's easy to be frustrated. It's easy to allow ourselves to.
And the reason why we get so frustrated is because we're
naturally selfish people as humans because of sin.
Our number one response or quit The quick response.
Whenever something happens we don't like or we have to wait
and we don't want to wait. It is because we are selfish
people and our instinct is to preserve our self and that's
because of sin. We are selfish people because of
sin, but we don't have to stay selfish people.
Amen. So what we see here today is
Habakkuk praying to God, and it's actually, I like the phrase
here we go again. There was a cadence in the
military that we would sing a lot.
Here we go again, same old stuff again, just the same day, over
and over. And what we find here in the
book of Habakkuk is exactly that, that we found out that
throughout the Old Testament we found the story of God's people
committing themselves to follow God's law.
But then God's people would turn their back on him.
They would serve other gods. They would commit spiritual
idolatry against God. God would bring judgment upon
his people. They would cry out for help.
God would come and deliver His people.
His people would then commit themselves to follow His laws
and follow His commandments. And then after a while, they
would turn their back on God. God would bring judgment, and
there, and the cycle would go on and on and on.
We found out throughout the Old Testament.
And here once again we see the we see God's people in this
situation. They were under the Assyrian
authority because of their sinfulness, because they had
turned their back on God. So once again, God was using one
of his chosen ones, Habakkuk, to show a a prophecy that was going
to happen. Like I said earlier, it was
since. At least two decades from the
time God spoke to a backer and gave him the vision of the
Chaldeans coming, and they would.
God was raising them up to punish Assyria.
But in the process, Assyria would be punished because they
had oppressed the Jewish people. But in the process, the
Chaldeans would wipe out their Syrians.
But they would still be over God's people.
So God's people would still be under other people's authority.
So through this all, Habakkuk just didn't understand.
In Psalm chapter 13, David declares, Oh Lord, how long, oh
Lord, will you forget me? Forever.
How long will you hide your face from me?
Goes on and says how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
There are absolutely times in our life that we we are
frustrated. We don't know why things are
happening. We don't know why we're in this
situation now here they were in this situation because of sin.
But just because we're going through a situation doesn't mean
it's sin. Lots of times.
It just means it's life. Amen.
And we have a smaller crowd this morning and I have a lot to say,
but the more feedback I get, the quicker I can go.
So if I don't get a lot of feedback, we may be here a
little longer. I'm just saying, so this morning
I want to direct your attention back to the book of Habakkuk,
Habakkuk. Now Habakkuk pleads for God's
intervention from the Assyrian captivity, and we found out in
chapter one, verse two, that he cries out.
How long shall I cry for help? And you will not hear, he says,
hear or cry out to you violence. And you will not say this word.
Violence means injustice, It means harsh treatment.
It references rude, wicked men. And this word he says, How long
will you not save this word? Save means to be liberated from
external evils. External evils.
So he's asking how long will you allow these rude, wicked, unjust
men to be over us and afflict us from their evils?
How long will you not save us from from these people?
Verse three tells them you make me see iniquity, which is
trouble or sorrow or idolatry or wickedness.
It says destruction and violence are before me.
Strife and contention arise. So your reference is that there
are disputes. We find out later on that there
is public hostilities. It's just people are at one
another. Kind of sounds for me or doesn't
it? Kind of sounds like the world we
live in. You were am in the home groups
that studied the. Yep.
That's it. I I I forgot the book of the
Bible now the book that Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes.
Thank you. If you, if you were in the Home
group that was studied on the book of Ecclesiastes, you know
that that there's nothing to do under the sun, that history does
repeat itself. That's just not something that
someone made-up. History does repeat itself.
And we're seeing this here, we're seeing it in our lifetime.
So our backup actually accuses God of willfully ignoring what's
going on in the nation. He accuses God.
He's he's very accusatory in his communication into dialogue with
God and this is one of the reasons why I love the book of
Habakkuk. Habakkuk teaches that we can be
honest with God. We have a high priest that
understands us. He understands everything that
we go through. For he's tested just as we He is
tested in every aspect as we are, yet without seeing.
So we can be honest with God. Never think that you can't be
honest when you're when you're praying to God.
Never think you can't be honest. God welcomes that.
That's why he says come boldly before the throne of grace.
He was very honest. He was very raw emotionally in
his dialogue with God. And in Habakkuk's opinion, there
are four things that are happening be because in
Habakkuk's opinion, because God is is allowing these things to
go on. The first worst one is, is that
the Law of Moses is paralyzed. That's the first thing he says.
You're not answering my prayers. And because you're not answering
my prayers, these four things are happening in my this is in
Habakkuk's mind, Habakkuk's backup's opinion.
The Law of Moses is paralyzed. And this word paralyzed means to
be cold or to be ineffective or to be numb.
He tells basically he's telling God your people have turned away
from the law, and because the law is paralyzed, the heat of
your judgment, the people no longer feel.
And because they no longer feel the hot, the heat of your
judgment, they are numb to the extended effectiveness of your
law. And Habakkuk accuses God of
allowing this to happen. The second thing that he accuses
God is that justice never goes forth.
Justice never goes forth. Once again, it goes back.
You're not answering my prayers. And the law is paralyzed.
And because the law is paralyzed, justice never goes
forth. #3 tells them that the wicked surround the righteous.
This is in verse. In verse four he says so the law
is paralyzed and justice never goes forth.
For the wicked surround the righteous.
And this word surround gives the meaning of as an enemy surrounds
its foe. So he's declaring God and and
once again backups opinion. The law is paralyzed, never goes
forth. They're white, right?
They're wicked or is outnumbered by the righteous.
And #4, the fourth thing, in a back of his opinion, is because
the wickedness of more than the righteous, that what justice the
others go forth, that goes from, goes forth perverted.
Justice goes forth. Perverted And this word
perverted means crazy. You're confused or to be bent
out of shape. It also means to be.
Crooked or crooked justice? Which also sounds.
Like the world we live in today. So in a back to.
Mind, this is God. You're not answering my prayers.
And because you're not. Answering my prayers.
These are the things that are happening.
In a backpack like I. Said he was very honest with
God. He was very raw emotionally with
God. And it teaches.
Us, that we can be honest with God.
We can come to God with emotion. We can come to God with our with
our doubts and our our worries, our fears.
And we can trust that. God hears us.
Now the. Lord answers habakkuk here in
verse five of chapter one. And he tells them look.
Among the nation, and see Wander and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe
if I told you so. The Lord answers and the first
thing he tells them is that I am doing a work.
See Habakkuk. Hebakkuk didn't didn't see this.
He didn't know what was, what was, what God had planned.
God wasn't. In heaven scratching his head,
saying, Oh my, the Syrians are over my people, what am I going
to do? God knew what he had in plan and
he was fixing to tell Habakkuk, because God was already working
out all the details of Israel's situation that once again bring
him, bring them close to him. And I want you.
To look at verse 6 here in chapter one, remember this is
this was written at least two decades before this prophecy was
fulfilled. But look at verse six
specifically, and I want you to see how God uses the present
tense in his response to a backer.
This isn't this, this isn't a I'm.
I'm going to look at the present tense here, he says, for behold,
I am raising up. The child ends.
I am as present tense, not that I will.
I am saying God's mind. This is our He.
This is already in place. That bitter and hasten hasty
nation, he says, says that they are dreaded and fearsome.
They are once again present tense.
Their horses are, he tells them in verse 7.
Excuse me, verse 8. Their horses are swifter than
leopards, more fierce than the evening evening wolves.
Their horsemen press on me, tells them there are more
fierce. Than the evening.
Wolves. These are all present tense
language that God is using with with Habakkuk.
So. Even though Habakkuk didn't
understand what was going on, God already had a plan.
God already had a plan in place, and in God's mind it was already
happening because the plan is happening.
The thing was, Habakkuk didn't see it.
And we don't see it. We don't always see it.
Because God doesn't. Always reveal every step, but
what we have to do, we're charged to do as individuals, as
believers. Is to trust.
God for the next step. I've said this before that God
is a connect the dot God. However many how?
How how many? Remember those those pages?
And you got in grade school that had nothing but dots on it,
either ABCD or 12345, and you would start at a, or you start
at one and you'd go to the next dot and go to the next dot and
go to the next dot. Or sooner, sooner or later, once
you got enough dots, lines to the dots, you understood, wow,
there's an elephant on my paper. Well, there's a line on my
paper, but when you first got your paper, all you saw was
dots. Well, see, that's us.
All we can see is dots. But the more that we allow and
trust God to go from one dot to the next dot to the next dot to
the next dot, we we we become. We begin to understand the full
picture that what God is is bringing about to pass.
But we have to trust God to take us from one dot to the next dot
to the next dot. And this is what he was telling
Habakkuk here in in this prophetic book.
The rest of God's response to him goes on, and Speaking of the
child, he ends once again in the present tense.
And let's pick let's pick chapter one back up in verse 12.
Now back at still. Didn't fully understand what was
going on and he he tells him in verse 12 he's speaking to God.
He says are you not from everlasting?
Oh Lord my God. This is not the verbiage being
used of someone that is doubting or not believing and not having
faith in here in God. This is someone that's he's
using verbiage that shows he does believe in God.
Are you not from everlasting? Oh Lord, my God, my holy one, we
should not die. See, He's, he's he hears about
the Chaldeans coming and wiping out people and he's like, wait,
wait a minute. You're not that's not going to
happen. We're your people.
He says, oh Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment and
you are rock have established them for reproof you who are
pure eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.
And once again he uses this word.
Why do you oddly look at traitors and remain silent when
the wicked swallow up the man more wicked than he?
He didn't understand Assyria was wicked and.
You're going to, You're going to.
Bring up a nation more wicked than them to take over them, but
we're still going to be in bondage.
He didn't understand it. Once again, he tells God that
he's oddly looking by. How many he's ever felt?
Like your prayers never go past the ceiling.
Amen. There were times in our.
Life that we may not feel godly, we not may not feel.
Like we are. God's chosen people.
There's times we may not. Feel like God is hearing our
prayers. But I want to encourage.
You this morning that God is absolutely hearing your prayers
and God is absolutely working in the background of your lives to
bring about good Amen. Now let's let's jump on into
chapter 2. Verse one Tobacco declares the
God that I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself
from the tower and look out to see what he will say to me and I
will answer concerning my complaint.
So Abaca says I'm going to stand, I'm going to listen, and
what does he say here? He says I will answer concerning
my complaint. So he's already waiting for God
to come with come with the next thing, and he's already planning
what he's going to complain to God about next.
I know. No one is.
Here has ever done that? You ever listen to?
Someone or hear or be in a conversation, all you're
thinking about is what you're going to say next.
OK, nevermind, OK. This is what a backup.
Was doing he he said, OK, I'm going to stand here and I'm
going to listen to what God says and then I'm going to come back
with my next comeback. And God.
Tells he begins to speak once again to Habakkuk in verse two
through four. He tells them to write the
vision. Tells them that the vision.
Awaits its appointed time, says it hastens God's vision.
Hastens to the end. It will not lie, he tells them.
If it seems slow, wait for it. Because it's going to happen.
There are times we pray and we seek God about something, and it
seems like it's just like. 20 minutes by.
Goes by and whatever we prayed God for, what happens or the
next day or the next week. Then there's times we pray and
we pray and we pray and we never see results about whatever we're
praying about. Never get.
Discouraged. Even though it's.
Harder to say than do I realize that never get discouraged when
it seems like you pray and God never answers that prayer.
Because we. Have to trust in the sovereignty
of God. We don't always understand why
we're going through the things we're going, or why we might
have a certain hardship, or why it seems like the same thing
happens over and over. Why do I struggle?
With this over and over, why can't I defeat this?
We have to trust. The process.
Amen. We have to trust that God has
taken us from one dot to the next dot to the next dot.
For God is higher. His ways are higher than ours.
We have to lean. Upon his understanding not our
own. Amen.
Once again, he tells. Them it will surely come, It
would not delay, and it will come at God's appointed time,
Paul. Wrote.
That at their appointed time God sent his Son Jesus.
And that's how God. Works in his appointed time, not
ours. When you look down in.
Chapter 2, verse four, it says Behold, his soul is puffed up.
It is not upright within him whose soul is puffed up.
He's still Speaking of the Chaldeans, but it says.
Remember when you. See the Word.
But it's so little to have so, so much of an impact when you
see the Word but in Scripture and it's pertaining to mankind
almost every single time. It's in a negative context.
But whenever you see the Word but and it refers to God, it's
100% always in the positive context.
And we see that once again here, he says.
But. The righteous shall.
Live by his faith, he's telling Habakkuk.
Through me, through faith in me, you can live that free.
And that's what I'm declaring to you this morning, man.
We have to trust that. God is.
Always. Always.
Working. To make good out of our current
situations. Book of Romans.
Chapter 8 Verse 28 says, and we know that that for those who
love God, all things work together for good.
Doesn't say all things are good, doesn't say all of our lives
experiences are good. It says all.
He's working together for good for those who are called
according to his purpose. So God can take the good times
and the bad times and the terrible times in our lives.
And ultimately. Make them for good.
But we have to trust. That we have to trust the
process. For it is in.
God's appointed time. See, God already had a.
Plan. For.
Habakkuk, The nation, his people.
God already has a plan for you and me.
He had all that. Planned out before God ever said
let there be light. And his.
Plan will never be thwarted. Amen.
And that plan is for us to become more and more like him
every day. And we do so by allowing God to
take us from one dot to the next dot to the next dot.
James Chapter One, verse 25 says this, but the one who looks into
the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being
no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in
his doing. 2nd Corinthians 317 through 18 declares, now the
Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face,
beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
same image from 1° of glory to another, for this comes from the
Lord, who is the Spirit. Once again, it is a step by step
process. Jesus.
Understands our distresses and our frustrations.
Once again. Hebrews chapter 4, verse 14
through 16. Since then we have a great High
priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of
God. Let us hold fast to our
confession. For we do not have a high priest
who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in
every respect has been tempted as we are yet without sin.
Let us stand with confidence, confidence, draw near to the
throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace in
help. In time of need.
Jesus, always working in the background.
He's always. Working in the background.
He's working in the background. To bring us to salvation.
And then the more and more we look into His Word, the more and
more we persevere to bring us through the sanctification
process of the Holy Spirit to make us more and more like Him.
That is what God is. Doing for us?
Habakkuk. If you continue in in chapter 3
verse 16, Habakkuk says that when he first heard the vision,
when he first saw the Vision, that rottenness entered his
bones because of what was going to transpire.
Once the Chaldeans came and devastated the land.
Rottenness entered by bones yet? I will quietly.
Wait. For the day of.
Trouble Why? Because of backup wasn't a
unbelieving. Doubting prophet.
He was a prophet that absolutely believed in the God of the
universe. He put his faith and trust in
that God, and we can too. Amen.
Chapter 3, verse. 19 of a back It says that you make my feet
like the deers so I can go upon my high places.
This is a reference. To them being able to go up on
the cliffs, the narrow cliffs and and be able to walk and have
their balance and not fall on these high cliffs with just
barely something to stand on and God can do the same for us.
Amen. Where we have to stress the
process, Let's pray. This morning, Father, I ask that
you forgive us for our times of doubts.
I ask that you help us when we're.
Frustrated. Help us when we don't
understand, to always, always believe in you.
Father, help us. To understand and always
remember that you do have an appointed time for everything to
happen in our lives. And God?
I ask. That when we go through life.
Father help us to. Trust that process.
Help us to put our. Faith and our trust in you.
I ask. That help us to remember that we
can boldly come before you. That we do.
Not have to fear. Romans chapter 8, verse 15 says
we've been given us a spirit of fear but spirit of power.
Sorry, it says we have not. Been given a spirit of fear
again. That word again.
Father is so important, we don't have to fear you.
Adam and Eve feared. You, God.
Because they had. Transgressed you, but.
Father you have made. A way for us to once again be
close to you. Father I just.
Ask Help us to come before you boldly.
Help us to understand. That we can come before you.
And be honest. With our pain, we can be honest.
With our feelings because you. Understand our frustrations and
our feelings because you experienced everything that we
have or ever will. Yet without.
Sin. Thank you God that.
You are our High Priest. That we can come and we can.
Simply just be in your presence. Help us to trust.
The process this morning. Hallelujah.