1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,900 Good morning to you. Hope that you are doing well and 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,200 yeah, my name is Kyle. I served as lead Pastor here. 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,300 Not lead singer. As Alan said, I would be a bad 4 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:19,000 idea. None of you would show up each 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,400 week if that were the case. But like, Alan just told me when 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,800 you're married to Patricia and she seems like she does. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:26,800 There's no need for me to sing. Anyway, right. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,200 So, anyway, it's good to see you guys this morning. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,100 I hope you're well, hope you are having a good week. 10 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:36,300 If you have your Bible, like to ask you to open that up, turn to 11 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:40,800 habakkuk. Chapter one habakkuk chapter one 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,700 habakkuk comes between the books of nachum and Zephaniah towards 13 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:51,200 the end of your Old Testament. So maybe that's helpful while 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,000 you're turning there. I'll just kind of give a short 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,900 little synopsis of what we did last week. 16 00:00:55,900 --> 00:00:58,800 Last week, we started a new series in the book of habakkuk 17 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:02,400 the subtitle of the series comes from verse 4 and chapter two, 18 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,300 which will look at today where God says the righteous shall 19 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:08,600 live by faith. And we've just gone shall live 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,100 by his faith. We've gone with the subtitle the 21 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:15,800 righteous live by faith. The outline, as I mentioned last 22 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,200 week of habakkuk is pretty easy to identify. 23 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:20,800 It comes to us in three parts parts. 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,200 One and two are complaints from habakkuk to God, and then God's 25 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,500 answers back to habakkuk. And then, in part 3, we have a 26 00:01:29,508 --> 00:01:35,000 prayer from habakkuk and the, in a moment of worship a piece that 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,300 was actually meant for Stringed instruments and a choir. 28 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,800 And so I think that's interesting. 29 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,400 I think it really helps round out the book and so I'm excited 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,700 to get into it next week, but before you can really experience 31 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:52,400 the climax of anything, right? Of any book of any movie of any 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,200 Story, You've got to go through the difficult pieces of it. 33 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,500 And that's what that's what today is today is sabac, accept 34 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:03,200 and complaints. The book of habakkuk teaches us. 35 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,000 A really important lesson. I think, if I were going to kind 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,300 of round, Round out the lesson. It would be this way. 37 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:15,200 And back teaches Believers to stop saying, what if this 38 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,100 happens, or what if that happens and to be. 39 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:22,300 So concerned about that, and, instead, Believers should start 40 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:27,600 saying, even if those things happen, I will worship God. 41 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,500 So, it's the difference between saying, what? 42 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:34,200 If and even if it's the difference between faith and 43 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:40,300 doubts or faith and worry. Habakkuk teaches us to live by 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,500 faith, but listen doesn't come to us as succinctly as it might 45 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:48,200 and other places of scripture take Philippians, 4, 6 and 7. 46 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,300 For example there we read very plainly. 47 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,700 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by 48 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:58,200 prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests 49 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,600 be made known to God. And then in verse 7, Paul writes 50 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,100 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will 51 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:08,100 guard your hearts. And Minds in Christ. 52 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:13,200 Jesus, verse actually serves as a really good summary of what's 53 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:18,500 taking place in habakkuk, a back is coming to the Lord, with his 54 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,400 anxieties, he's coming to the Lord with his worries, he's 55 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:25,700 making it known in prayer, and he's doing his, his even in his 56 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,600 complaints, he's thankful for the Covenant that he has. 57 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,000 With God, he's thankful for the attributes. 58 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,300 He knows about God which will see today as a backup begins to 59 00:03:35,308 --> 00:03:37,900 Proclaim those things. But it's All of those things 60 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:41,600 that he knows about God, that he struggles to understand the evil 61 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,200 that's present in his life, currently the evil. 62 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,500 That's present, especially as persecution is coming on the 63 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:51,500 nation of Judah, which were widely thought to be God's 64 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:53,700 people though. They were mostly in open 65 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:57,700 Rebellion to God. And habakkuk we get a ringside 66 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:01,000 view into the wrestling match of Faith between God and his 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,600 people. It's a wrestling analogy. 68 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,600 Alan, you're welcome. Habakkuk teaches us how to go to 69 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:09,800 God. Teaches us. 70 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,000 How to deal with unexpected answers from God and you go to 71 00:04:14,008 --> 00:04:15,900 God, sometimes with your complaints, right? 72 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:18,300 And then God, you receive an answer. 73 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:22,400 That's different. Then what you had hoped for. 74 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:24,600 It's different than what you had thought. 75 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:30,800 God might say, And so habakkuk teaches us how to deal with that 76 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,100 as God teaches habakkuk how to deal with that. again, the 77 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:39,700 phrase, the righteous shall live by his faith is important for us 78 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:44,600 to remember, And our text from last week habakkuk was wondering 79 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:51,400 where God was, as evil was growing around him as those who 80 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,900 were seemingly. Righteous were enduring 81 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:56,400 persecution. Back at comes to God and says 82 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,700 what's going on? Where are you? 83 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,900 Where is justice? And God answered him by saying, 84 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:07,900 I am doing a work that you would not believe. 85 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,100 Even if you were told, I'm raising up the Chaldeans. 86 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:18,500 That is the Babylonians as judgment against my people in 87 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:21,700 Judah. If you weren't here last week 88 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:23,400 and you kind of wonder about the backstory. 89 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,100 I encourage you to go, listen to that sermon from last week. 90 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:31,500 But in our passage today, a bacchic now questions, God's 91 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,800 answer, you know that the question is this? 92 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,200 How could you do this first? It was. 93 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,400 Where are you? And then when he gets the 94 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,800 answer, he doesn't like he goes to God with. 95 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:50,300 Well, how could you God do this? How can you use a wicked Nation 96 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:55,300 to punish a seemingly less Evil Nation is habakkuk question? 97 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,700 Why does evil go unpunished in your sides habakkuk? 98 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:06,200 Ask and God answers habakkuk saying all will receive their 99 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,900 just punishment. All evil will receive, it's just 100 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,500 punishment. But the righteous shall live by 101 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:14,900 faith. And that's what we're going to 102 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:19,600 look at today, is the Action between habakkuk and God but let 103 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,200 me pray for us before we get into that. 104 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,300 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. 105 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,200 God, we thank you for this book of habakkuk which teaches us how 106 00:06:28,207 --> 00:06:31,800 to deal with hardship. It teaches us how to do with 107 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,300 persecution. It teaches us how to think about 108 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,600 you how to approach you how to trust you. 109 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:46,800 In our times of distress. God, whether those times be 110 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:56,000 personal or, or Global in our view, There are many times we 111 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,200 wonder. Why is evil prospering? 112 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,900 And Lord this book teaches us how to handle those questions. 113 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:07,000 And so I pray father today, that you would Enlighten us that you 114 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,700 would grant us deep faith in you. 115 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,600 That you would help us to trust your goodness, your kindness, 116 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:22,200 your Sovereign plan. Father, we ask that your spirit 117 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,800 teach us today in. Christ's name I pray. 118 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:28,300 Amen. Let's just start by reading 119 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:32,400 habakkuk, s complaints. There in habakkuk chapter 1, 120 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:38,800 verse 12, again, backaches answering God, and he says this, 121 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,300 he says, are you not from Everlasting? 122 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:48,000 O, Lord my God, my Holy One. We Shall Not Die. 123 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:51,400 Oh Lord. You have ordained them as a 124 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,900 judgment. So now he's talking about the 125 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:57,000 Chaldeans and Dane ordained as a judgment, and you will rock have 126 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:03,400 established them for reproof you who are of purer eyes than to 127 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,400 see evil and cannot look at wrong. 128 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,200 Why do you idly look at Traders and remain silent? 129 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,100 When the wicked swallows up? The man more righteous than he 130 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,300 You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things 131 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:24,300 that have no ruler. He brings all of them up with a 132 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:26,800 hook. He drags them out with his net. 133 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,700 He gathers them in his Dragnet. So he rejoices, and is glad 134 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:35,500 therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his 135 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:39,400 Dragnet for by them. He lives in luxury and his food 136 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:45,500 is rich, is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly 137 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:51,100 killing Nations forever. I will take my stand at my 138 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:56,200 watch, foes and station myself on the tower and look out to see 139 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,800 what he will say to me. And what I will answer 140 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:06,800 concerning my complaints. so, let's walk through this a little 141 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,700 bit. Once again, we need to take note 142 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:16,300 of how bacchic addresses God is Devotion to the Lord shines 143 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:21,100 through, in the very beginning of his his prayer, his 144 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:24,900 complaints. Habakkuk teaches us how to go to 145 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:30,600 God during our distress. Are you not from Everlasting? 146 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,000 O? Lord my God, my Holy One. 147 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,000 Again, we see habakkuk using the Covenant name. 148 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:42,400 For God, he's addressing him as Lord. 149 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:46,300 This is how God's people addressed him in the Old 150 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:49,000 Testament. It was, he is our Lord, he does 151 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,400 not approach. God, like an unbeliever. 152 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:57,700 He doesn't issue just vain accusations against the Lord. 153 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:02,000 He doesn't say things. Like, if you're such a good God, 154 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,600 then why do you allow evil? I think he's asking this 155 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,200 question, but it's not, it's not an accusation. 156 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,900 That essentially, God must not exist, is what I'm getting at. 157 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:19,300 He's clearly saying O, Lord my God, my Holy One, and in doing 158 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:21,400 so he's recalling the attributes of God. 159 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:24,700 He's going to God, as a Believer, something that only 160 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:28,300 Believers would know about God as how he's addressing God, my 161 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:30,200 Lord. My God. 162 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,500 My Holy One. Are you not from Everlasting? 163 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:38,300 In other words, he's declaring the, the Eternal nature of God. 164 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:45,900 He's saying in a sense. I know you are a good God. 165 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,100 You are Eternal. You Are Holy. 166 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,500 You are all-powerful. And then he gets to his 167 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:53,800 question. So why do you allow evil to go 168 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:56,600 unpunished? How can you use the wicked 169 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,700 Nation to punish your people? The habakkuk doesn't understand 170 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:03,500 what's going on. It doesn't understand the 171 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:07,400 workings of God. He continues to Proclaim his 172 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,300 faith in God. O Lord my God. 173 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:14,400 My Holy One. Are you not from Everlasting? 174 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:19,800 And I think that's, I think that's important. 175 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,800 I think the difference between the unbelieving in the believing 176 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,400 approach, may seem faint at first but if you examine the 177 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:31,400 words and it's a glaring difference, the words that are 178 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,500 used by habakkuk to describe God's, he knows he knows that 179 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:36,900 God is good, he knows that God is Holy, he knows that he's 180 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:41,300 Eternal that he's righteous that he's just And that's why 181 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:43,800 struggling to see. What are you doing? 182 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,400 God. Why would you do this God? 183 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:50,800 I know that these things are true about you. 184 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,500 So why are you doing this to understand the difference 185 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:58,200 between that and the way an unbeliever my tissue vein 186 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:04,400 accusations against God? He goes on in habakkuk 1 verse 187 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,200 13. He says this, he says, you who 188 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:12,000 are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong. 189 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:14,500 Why do you idly? Look at Traders and remain 190 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:16,400 silent? When the wicked swallows up? 191 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,500 The man more righteous than he Yeah, the idea here is and some 192 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:25,400 translations might do a little bit better job of explaining 193 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,400 what exactly what habakkuk is saying. 194 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,100 That the idea here is that you are. 195 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:37,300 So pure God, there's no way that you can look favorably at wrong. 196 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:40,800 It's not that he can't look upon. 197 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,500 It's not that. He doesn't see Sinners. 198 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:46,900 He sees Sinners, but there's no way he can see Sinners and be in 199 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:50,200 favor of what they're doing. And this is what habakkuk is 200 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,100 recalling about. The goodness of God. 201 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:56,700 The just nature of God is that there's no way God that you can 202 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:59,100 be looking on what they're doing. 203 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 And justify it. There's no way you can look upon 204 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,900 what they're doing and be in favor of it. 205 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:11,200 And this is the the true. This is one of the difficulties 206 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:15,200 about understanding. God, is that he is, Sovereign, 207 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,600 he is in control of all things. He is ruling over all things, 208 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:24,200 but he is not the cause of evil. He's not the author of evil 209 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:29,300 scripture, says, Right? And so it's hard to reconcile 210 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,800 the two, but what we see, this isn't in my notes, but it's 211 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,700 probably worth mentioning. what we see about God, is that there 212 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:42,800 are there are two There's one will in God. 213 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,400 Let me explain it this way. There's one willing. 214 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:49,200 God his will is to glorify himself and all the Earth 215 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,200 because this is what's best for Humanity is that God be 216 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,800 glorified? Is that we understand his glory? 217 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,900 That we see his glory that we praise him. 218 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,500 If there's anything that deserves Glory over God. 219 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,800 Well then that thing would be God right? 220 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,100 We should worship it. Not God and so God being God 221 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:13,400 knowing he's caught Was that it's best that we glorify his 222 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:19,500 name and so there are two ways this thing flushes itself out 223 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:24,600 one is, we have the written will of God, we have what we might 224 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,700 call the, I guess the the decreed will of God. 225 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:32,100 These are the things that he has said, and we know that these 226 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:34,900 things are, his will Thou shalt not murder. 227 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:40,000 Is the will of God, right? It's the will of God that no one 228 00:14:40,300 --> 00:14:41,300 murder. Someone. 229 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,300 Amen. Can we agree on that? 230 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,200 Maybe. Okay, maybe we need to back up. 231 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,700 Start a new series, ten commandments. 232 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:54,100 All right. It's wrong to murder. 233 00:14:54,100 --> 00:15:00,000 Yes or no, right? And so God says, Thou shalt not 234 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,000 murder, but as we looked at last week in Acts chapter 2, we read 235 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,600 that God foreordained, the murder of Christ to accomplish 236 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,600 his will, amen. And so he uses murder to 237 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,100 accomplish great good but God was not the author of the 238 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:25,500 murder, but he was able to use the murder to cause good. 239 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,100 Amen. How many of, you know, the death 240 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:33,000 of Jesus Christ is where we see the glory of God at its finest, 241 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,900 it's on display. And it now opens it up as will 242 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:37,800 see towards the end of this sermon. 243 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:42,700 It opens us up to be able to experience the glory of God 244 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,800 because Atone for our sins, which separate us from God. 245 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,700 And so, now, through Christ, we can come to God and we can truly 246 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:53,200 glorify God in ways that we could not previously. 247 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:56,400 And so there's one willing God and that is that his name be 248 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:00,700 glorified in all the Earth and he will accomplish that will, 249 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:06,600 however, he must And thankfully, he is Sovereign, he's big 250 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:11,400 enough, he's powerful enough, he knows all things and so he can 251 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,200 orchestrate providentially, the events of everything to glorify 252 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,300 his name, the best, amen. It's one of the great mysteries 253 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:23,400 of God, it's one of the reasons that the psalmist says, your 254 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,400 ways are higher than my ways. Your thoughts are higher than my 255 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:31,000 thoughts. We can't fully arrive at a full 256 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,300 knowledge, a perfect knowledge of God, but there's much to be 257 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:37,100 learned. There's much to be discovered 258 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:41,000 and so in habakkuk 14 first 14, sorry. 259 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:47,800 Back at chapter 1. And 13 habakkuk is wrestling 260 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,400 with this understanding of the justice of God is, how can you 261 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,100 allow the wicked and Babylon to punish the less Wicked and 262 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:58,200 Judah. And so he's assuming that Judah 263 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,800 is more righteous because there's at least a Remnant left 264 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,599 in Judah who are believing the Lord who are seeking to follow 265 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,599 the lord faithfully and so they're at least more righteous 266 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,000 in that sense. I may be guilty of a ton of sins 267 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,599 but they're at least more righteous God. 268 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:15,200 So how can you use Babylon to punish Judah. 269 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,700 Habakkuk thinks. Surely surely that's enough to 270 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:22,599 keep you from punishing the whole nation. 271 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,500 It's very, it's very similar to Abraham's interaction with the 272 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:29,700 angel of the Lord in Genesis just before the destruction of 273 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:32,400 Sodom and Gomorrah. If there be 50, their Lord. 274 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,200 Will you still destroy if there be 40? 275 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,500 Would you still destroy? If there be 30, if there be 20, 276 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:40,400 if there be ten? Would you still destroy? 277 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,200 Alright, it's kind of that, that idea. 278 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:49,800 Save The Righteous preserve, the righteous. 279 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,600 And so in verse 14 habakkuk charges god with allowing 280 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,100 mankind to act, like lower creatures, who have no rulers. 281 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:02,000 They have no judges because their wickedness marches onward. 282 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,800 Remember last week they were described God describes them as 283 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,200 a wind that just comes through and blows everything. 284 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,500 A scorching wind, it just comes from blows everything in its 285 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:14,800 path away. It's stood one day, Day. 286 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:20,300 And now it's gone because the Babylonians have come through In 287 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:23,000 verse 15 and 17. We get habakkuk, describing the 288 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,300 Evil Nation, we know that he's describing Nation because he 289 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:30,500 uses the word, he, and the, he and verse 15 references. 290 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:33,800 Back to the he that we had in, at the end of verse 13. 291 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:38,300 So you see in verse 13, He says, the man more righteous than he. 292 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:41,200 And then in verse 15, he starts with. 293 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,300 He brings all of them up with a hook. 294 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:50,900 That's maybe a literal reference as well. 295 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:56,900 One of the things that would happen in Back in these days is 296 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:00,100 Captains were often taken away by ropes that were fixed to 297 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:02,600 Rings or hooks in their nostrils. 298 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:08,000 Let away it was a way of humiliating causing further harm 299 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,800 even to their captives. It was a way of saying your 300 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,400 hours. We're going to treat you lower 301 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:21,800 than animals. and then he says, he drags them out with his net, 302 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:27,500 he gathers them in his Dragnet, he rejoices and is glad the 303 00:19:27,508 --> 00:19:30,600 Babylonians were literally seen as Gathering up nations of 304 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:36,000 people Like catching a fit like catching a load of fish in the 305 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,500 net. Again, the reference might be 306 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,500 literal. There are stork images. 307 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:49,400 On Rock faces and Mesopotamia that show people being hauled 308 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:55,500 away and Nets. So what is the Evil Nation do? 309 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:57,900 What does this evil King and Babylon? 310 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:03,100 Do he rejoices he's glad the back they could say not only do 311 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:06,500 they commit great evil Against Humanity but they rejoice in it 312 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,600 their hearts are glad the Babylonians not only going 313 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:18,500 punished their prospering Right. The prospering And so back, it 314 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:22,300 says, is he then to keep on emptying his net, is he to keep 315 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:25,100 on mercilessly killing Nations forever? 316 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:29,600 And here we get the heart of habakkuk complaint. 317 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,600 If you being a holy God, essentially will not put an end 318 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,800 to this, then who will? That's what that's what habakkuk 319 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:41,700 is asking. God. 320 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,500 Back is discovering that it's hard to reconcile. 321 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,400 God's character with his seeming passivity. 322 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,200 This is a question that's gone throughout the ages. 323 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,300 Is the question we ask today as we survey the landscape of the 324 00:21:01,308 --> 00:21:05,200 world, we live in its it's an easy question to find yourself 325 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,800 asking Why is it that habakkuk is struggling to do this? 326 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,700 Because what we see, is that he correctly affirms, the many some 327 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,000 of the many attributes of God. He's Eternal. 328 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,600 He's holy he's all-powerful, he's good. 329 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:24,100 He's just how can he continue to look on evil right there for 330 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:28,000 habakkuk questions. God, and he's essentially saying 331 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,600 this because these things are true about you because you are, 332 00:21:30,608 --> 00:21:32,400 holy and you're good and you're righteous. 333 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:38,500 You just your all-powerful, how can you identify Stand by while 334 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:41,900 evil prevails. How can you look upon evil? 335 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:45,200 Surely you don't look favorably upon the wrong that's being 336 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,200 done. He can't comprehend how God 337 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,200 uses. The more wicked nation of 338 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,500 Babylon to punish the seemingly less Evil Nation of Judah for 339 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:57,900 God's Own people. And so habakkuk, concludes his 340 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:01,600 complaint. With a really wise statement. 341 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,500 I think he says, I will take my stand at my watch pose and 342 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:09,900 station myself on the tower and I'll look out to see what he 343 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:12,400 will say to me. And what I will answer 344 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,900 concerning my complaints back here is choosing to wait on the 345 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:22,500 response of God. He's made his case and now he 346 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:28,900 waits This is faith in action. This is what faith does. 347 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:34,800 Faith is content to wait on God. Habakkuk fortifies. 348 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,800 His faith by remembering his Covenant with God. 349 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:41,300 He fortifies his faith by proclaiming the attributes of 350 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,500 God. Nothing. 351 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:46,400 Strengthens weak Faith. Like remembering your salvation, 352 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,100 remembering the character of God In Prayer. 353 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:55,800 Remember your salvation recall, your salvation if you read 354 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,800 psalms, you'll notice this theme throughout the Psalms that 355 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,600 there's lots of hardship. There's lots of Heartache, it's 356 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,100 lots of real world, scenarios difficult emotions. 357 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:11,600 But over and again, the psalmist Proclaim, God is Lord the 358 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,500 recalling, their covenants. They remember you'll see phrases 359 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,600 like Patricia red. One this morning. 360 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,200 We'll remember the steadfast love of God. 361 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,100 They'll say things like, he's always faithful. 362 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,500 One of those moments. They don't feel like he's always 363 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:26,400 faithful. That's them. 364 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:30,600 Reminding themselves. God is always faithful. 365 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,800 And this is what habakkuk is doing. 366 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,600 Here is reminding himself, he is my Lord. 367 00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:42,300 He's my God, he's my Holy One. He's from eternity past. 368 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,400 I know he's faithful. But I'm struggling right now. 369 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,600 This is how Faith, how you go to God, in faith, in the midst of 370 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,200 turmoil, the stress particular Shannon. 371 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:03,400 Whatever you're going through. I've heard it said, I remember 372 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,000 hearing this a lot. I grew up in kind of didn't grow 373 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,400 up in. I spent a lot of time, any kind 374 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,600 of Word of Faith, style churches, where anything that 375 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,300 seems, as though it has some doubt to it or some questions 376 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:21,400 about God, is seeing as having no faith, or little faith. 377 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,500 And I remember hearing the statement this statement at 378 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:31,500 times, that worry is practical atheism, Anybody maybe it's just 379 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:32,500 me. Maybe I'm making this up. 380 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:35,400 I think I remember. This worry is practical atheism. 381 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,200 Another words it's worry. Is when a Christian says, I 382 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,600 don't believe in God. I don't believe God. 383 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:53,300 But and I used to wear that. Walk around pretty discouraged. 384 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:56,700 You know, when I would worry about something I am here, I am 385 00:24:56,700 --> 00:25:00,200 not believing God again. But I think it's better to say 386 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,000 as I've gotten older. I think that this is more true. 387 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,900 One that worry is practical atheism, doesn't exist in 388 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:10,600 scripture as to what does show up in scripture? 389 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:15,200 Is that worry is more akin to practical idolatry. 390 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:18,900 What worry is not the absence of Faith. 391 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:22,900 It's misplaced Faith. It's putting faith in the wrong. 392 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,700 Things, your doubts, your fears, your worries. 393 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:29,100 Your concerns are not evidence of no faith or evidence of 394 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:34,800 misplaced faith, I'm placing my faith in someone. 395 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,700 I'm placing my faith in something. 396 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,800 Some job, some whatever, some good news. 397 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,200 Some King, right? It's not working out for me. 398 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:50,000 Habakkuk does with all believers. 399 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,500 Must do habakkuk remembers his salvation and because God's 400 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:55,200 attributes, he brings his questions to God. 401 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,500 He chooses, then to wait on God's response. 402 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:04,500 So back is clearly planting his flag in the solid ground of 403 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:08,500 faith in God. That's where he sets up camp, 404 00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:13,500 even though habakkuk does not understand everything that God 405 00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:16,100 is doing. And God told him, you wouldn't 406 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:18,200 understand it, you wouldn't believe it. 407 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,900 Even if you were told What habakkuk understands is that the 408 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:26,800 righteous shall live by faith in every situation? 409 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:30,200 And he write that down today that I think this is the point 410 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,600 of habakkuk is that the righteous shall live by faith in 411 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:38,300 every situation. Over again, we get these 412 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:39,900 encouragement throughout scripture. 413 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:44,100 Habakkuk is just one more place. We find this encouragement. 414 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:49,800 The live by faith. Let's look at the Lord's 415 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,400 response. It's it's quite lengthy. 416 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,800 And so I won't spend a ton of time on it, but I'll try to 417 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,000 summarize statements that we see God make so that we can work our 418 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,600 way through this. And the Lord answered me back to 419 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,800 verse 2, when the read 2 through 5 and then we'll, we'll talk 420 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,400 about it for a moment. Back to 235 and the Lord 421 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,700 answered me. Write the vision, make it plain 422 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:16,200 on tablets. So he may run who reads it for 423 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,900 the vision, awaits its appointed time, it hastens to the end, it 424 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:24,200 will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it. 425 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,900 It will surely come. It will not delay. 426 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,200 Behold his soul is puffed up. Now we're talking about the evil 427 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,600 man. Again, his soul is puffed up, it 428 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,700 is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his 429 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:38,600 faith. Moreover wine is a traitor, an 430 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,400 arrogant man who is never at rest. 431 00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:43,500 His greed is as wide as she'll like death. 432 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:47,200 He has never enough. He gathers for himself All 433 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,700 Nations and and collects as his own. 434 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:55,500 All Peoples, God is pronouncing judgments there in Verses 4 and 435 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:59,300 5 on the evil man. But in two and three, he's 436 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:05,100 telling a bacchic, wait for it. Live by faith. 437 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,100 And this response what God is doing is, he's assuring habakkuk 438 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:14,500 that he will, in fact, act in Justice, I've not forgotten 439 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:16,600 Justice. I've not forgotten goodness, I'm 440 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,300 not forgotten righteousness. I will punish all the wicked. 441 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,100 When the right time comes, there's an appointed time for 442 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,500 it, and it's not yet habakkuk. They're serving my purpose 443 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:34,600 first. In verse 2, he says write this 444 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:39,700 Vision so he may run who reads it back. 445 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:42,700 It was to record. These interactions for the sake 446 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:44,800 of the faith of God's people both then. 447 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:49,200 And now these, these words are Holy Spirit, inspired as is the 448 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,600 rest of the Holy scriptures. They were from the Lord, as we 449 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,500 read habakkuk, we don't read one man's pinned words. 450 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:00,600 We read words from God written for his people. 451 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,400 Today. Hebrews tells us that the word 452 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,000 of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged 453 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,100 sword. And so we know that these words 454 00:29:11,100 --> 00:29:15,800 have a way of piercing down into US, purifying us. 455 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,700 Great making us more like Christ and so when we read words like 456 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:24,000 this we need to know God is speaking. 457 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:30,400 He speaking to us I think the phrase where he says, the one 458 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:37,700 who reads it will run. It seems that it could have a 459 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:39,800 double meaning in my study this week. 460 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,500 It's a message on one hand. That's likely a message that is 461 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,500 meant to be spread for the sake of the faith of God's people. 462 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,400 Another word, whoever reads this run and tell others make it 463 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,100 known quickly, encourage the Saints. 464 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:57,800 Amen. And that's what I'm trying to do 465 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,500 today is a Herald of habakkuk is doing Courage. 466 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:05,800 The Saints, the second purpose, I think that exists is that it 467 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,100 is a message of God's judgment on the wicked. 468 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:11,800 He is saying, I will not look favorably on them. 469 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,000 I will not allow Wicked to go unpunished wickedness to go 470 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,500 unpunished. And so the one who reads it, the 471 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:22,800 one who hears these words coming from God, who is standing in his 472 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,700 wickedness, has no faith in the Lord. 473 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,300 Us run from his wickedness and run to the Lord for salvation. 474 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:38,400 In verse 3, he says the vision awaits the appointed time. 475 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,500 Wait for. In other words, I have not lost 476 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:46,100 control of back. I've not forgotten you. 477 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,700 I've not forgotten my people, everything is happening. 478 00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:54,600 According to my predetermined plan, I am sovereignly 479 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,800 orchestrating the events for the good of my people and the glory 480 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,900 of my name. Therefore wait for it. 481 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:10,300 Hope in God. Historically, the Judgment 482 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,700 coming to Jupiter Judah would happen rather quickly. 483 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:20,900 But the punishment on the Babylonians, would not come for 484 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:26,500 about 5 more decades. God pronounces his judgment on 485 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:31,100 the Babylonians in verse 4. He sticks with that singular. 486 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,300 Personification. That habakkuk used, right? 487 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:38,600 The evil one, he refers to as he the wicked Nation nation is 488 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,600 puffed up the unrighteous and they might have the king of 489 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,700 Babylon in mine, but but God says, however, the righteous 490 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:50,600 shall live by his faith, it takes faith in God to exercise 491 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,500 patience and tribulation takes faith in God. 492 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:57,700 That exercise patience in turmoil and trouble in times of 493 00:31:57,700 --> 00:31:59,400 difficulty. And so God encourages Just uh 494 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,300 backing he encourages the Believers in Judah to live by 495 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:05,300 faith. But this is the kind of faith 496 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,400 that holds on to God. It's the kind of faith that 497 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,700 won't. Let go of his promises just as a 498 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:10,400 back. Extending. 499 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:13,600 This is who you are. I know this is who you are and 500 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,000 now God is saying, you're exactly right, hold on, to those 501 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,500 things. It is who I am. 502 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,700 I've not forgotten you. I've not forgotten that they're 503 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:27,100 evil. I've not overlooked it Faith 504 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:28,800 like this. Trust God. 505 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,700 In the middle of things, going off the rails. 506 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:37,000 The righteous shall live by faith in every situation. 507 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,000 And in verse 6, through 20 God declares 5 woes against the 508 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,300 Babylonians. There's five warnings here that 509 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,900 That we can break into five different ones because they all 510 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:56,300 have the phrase whoa in them. What was a way of warning? 511 00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:59,700 The evil ones with so it's a way of warning, the wicked Winds of 512 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:04,700 their wickedness. And he ensures his people that 513 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:08,300 he is fully aware of the wickedness by pronouncing these 514 00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:10,800 five woes. He calls every one of the things 515 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,400 that habakkuk is most concerned about, he calls them all out. 516 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,400 The the whoa sections, end with two sections. 517 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:26,400 That are statements about the glory and the greatness of God 518 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,100 in verse 14 and 20. And I think that's an 519 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,300 interesting way to look at these. 520 00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:32,600 But let's just look at the first one. 521 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:39,500 God says in habakkuk 26. She'll not all these, take up 522 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,200 their taunt, against him with scoffing and riddles for him and 523 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,800 say, woe to him. Who reaps up, what is not his 524 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:50,600 own for how long and loads himself with pledges will not 525 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,600 your debtors suddenly arise and those awake who will make you 526 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,000 tremble, then you will be spoiled for them because you 527 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,800 have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall 528 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,200 plunder you for the blood of, man, and violence to the Earth 529 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,700 to cities and all who dwell in them. 530 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,900 So God, his first woe is a condemnation of their greed. 531 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,500 It's a condemnation of their greed, all the ones who you made 532 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:23,000 subject to, you will rise up and destroy you later on your greed, 533 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,600 will get you by your greed, you've caused a lot of harm. 534 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,500 And by your greed, you will reap a lot of harm. 535 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,000 Back to 9 through 11, woe to him, who gets evil gain for his 536 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,400 house to set. His nest, on high to be safe 537 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,300 from the reach of harm. You have devised, shame for your 538 00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:43,800 house by cutting off many people's you have forfeited, 539 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,199 your life with the stone will cry out from the wall and the 540 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,400 beam from the wood from the woodwork respond. 541 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:56,100 God condemns them again. Now he's condemning them for 542 00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:58,600 relying on what they have greedily obtained. 543 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,300 All of their possessions, their houses they've set themselves in 544 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:04,300 high places. They think that they are 545 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:08,800 protected. Because they have destroyed 546 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,600 everything in their path. They think they are the most 547 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:15,300 Mighty, they're trusting in chariots, the psalmist, might 548 00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:18,600 say. But the righteous Trust In The 549 00:35:18,607 --> 00:35:25,000 Name Of The Lord, Back to 12 through 13, woe to him who 550 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,700 builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity. 551 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,400 Behold. It is not from The Lord of hosts 552 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,400 that people's labor merely for fire and Nations weary 553 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,300 themselves for nothing. So now God condemns them once 554 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:40,300 again. This time for their violence for 555 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:45,800 their Injustice against others, the way they have harshly dealt 556 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:52,000 with plundered. Murdered so many Habakkuk 2:15. 557 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:56,300 318, the next set of woes woe to him who makes his neighbor's. 558 00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,100 Drink, you pour out your wrath and make them drunk in order to 559 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:03,300 gaze at their nakedness. You will have your fill of shame 560 00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:07,500 instead of Glory drink yourself and show your uncircumcision. 561 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:11,500 The cup is in the Lord's right hand, that sorry, the cup in the 562 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,000 Lord's. Right hand will come around to 563 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,900 you and utter shame will come up on your glory. 564 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,300 The violence done to Lebanon, will overwhelm you. 565 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,800 As will the destruction of the Beast that terrified them for 566 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,900 the blood of, man, and violence to the Earth. 567 00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:27,700 Two cities, and all who dwell in them. 568 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:33,100 What profit is an idol. When it's maker, has shaped it. 569 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:36,300 A metal image, a teacher of lives for his maker, trust his 570 00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:44,400 own creation. And into 15 through 17, I got 571 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,800 ahead of myself with into 15 through 17, God condemns Babylon 572 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,500 for its violence, against its neighbors, and to 18 and 19. 573 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:55,200 He then begins to condemn them for their Idol making and verse 574 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,600 19. He goes on to say, woe to him 575 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,100 who says, to a wooden thing awake to a silent Stone arise. 576 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,700 Can this teach he says, behold is overlaid with gold and silver 577 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:08,400 and there is no breath at all in it. 578 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,600 He's condemning the Babylonians for putting their trust in Idols 579 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,500 for worshipping, lifeless things. 580 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,000 God condemns Bible on for its idolatry. 581 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:25,300 The interesting thing to me about those woes, based on what 582 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:28,300 we looked at last week, and what we learned about the state of 583 00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:32,300 Judah at this time, why were they coming coming under the 584 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:35,200 Judgment of God? Well, they were guilty of all of 585 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:41,100 these very same things. they were guilty of idol worship, 586 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,700 they were guilty of sacrificing their children, They were guilty 587 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:48,900 of greed. They were guilty of plundering. 588 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:53,400 I mean, they were guilty of all of these same things. 589 00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:02,100 Judah was not being punished, unfairly Beautiful is only 590 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:04,700 getting. More. 591 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,400 A stronger version I guess of what they themselves were 592 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,000 already guilty of. And you got to think that 593 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,400 probably Judah did that probably rebelled against God? 594 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,200 They turned to Idols, they adopted the way of the 595 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,900 Babylonians. Why Probably to save themselves 596 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,400 and hopes of saving themselves. It's a, it's a conforming to the 597 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,500 world. Hoping that the world does not 598 00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:37,300 destroy you. It's foolishness the world will 599 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:42,900 always destroy you. this is why Christ says, if any of you wants 600 00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:47,100 to save himself, he must lose himself. 601 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:53,000 Christ says Lose Yourself for my sake and you will find life, but 602 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,400 if you seek to save your own life it will be destroyed. 603 00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,800 But God assures habakkuk, the Babylonians will not get away 604 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:06,200 with their sinfulness. Either the nation of Judah 605 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,000 needs. This judgment is like we talked 606 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,900 about last week, the discipline of the Lord is good. 607 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000 It's one of the hardest things to talk with people about in 608 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,200 counseling. It's one of the greatest 609 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,900 realizations I ever came to and it was it's been a few years 610 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:29,700 back now. I remember thinking to myself as 611 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:36,000 as Sin as being exposed, it stinks, It's not fun. 612 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:44,000 But what Grace, what Grace from God, to want, to expose our sin 613 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:47,800 that we might be rid of it and turn ourselves to the Lord. 614 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:52,100 Finally. And then if your sins not 615 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:55,200 exposed, if your sin doesn't come under judgment, if you 616 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,800 don't receive discipline from the Lord as a loving father 617 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,500 disciplines his children, Then you'll continue to run out into 618 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:06,800 traffic. You'll continue to touch hot 619 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,100 stoves, you'll continue to stick, screwdrivers and light 620 00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:11,800 sockets. All right. 621 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:16,500 The discipline of the father is good for us, the discipline of a 622 00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:26,000 righteous father is wonderful for us. in verses 14 and 20, I 623 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:32,400 mentioned that he issues the statements about his glory that 624 00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:35,000 are really fascinating. Look at verse 14. 625 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:39,700 I think what he's doing in verses 14 to 20 is he's giving 626 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:44,700 Isaiah promises to hold onto in the middle of this. 627 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,600 Let me tell you something, I back. 628 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:47,900 Sorry. I said Isaiah, let me tell you 629 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:50,400 something. Habakkuk that you can hold onto 630 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,600 in the middle of this. In verse 14, he says for the 631 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,200 Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the 632 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,900 Lord as the waters, cover the sea. 633 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:07,700 Amen. As the waters, cover the sea. 634 00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:10,900 The sea is water. Absolutely. 635 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:18,100 What a thought? It doesn't look like the world 636 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:19,700 that habakkuk is currently living in. 637 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:23,100 And habakkuk. No doubt thinks what in the 638 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:25,200 world but didn't look at verse 20. 639 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,400 They're making Idols, they're guilty of this in verses 18 and 640 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,600 19. And then in verse 20 says, but 641 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,700 the Lord remember the, he condemns them for Idol. 642 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:41,700 Making these Idols are lifeless. There's no breath in them and 643 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:45,000 then verse 20 says, but the Lord is in his holy Temple. 644 00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:49,500 Let all the Earth keeps silence before him amazing. 645 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,800 There's a wonderful contrast, I think between 18 and 19 and then 646 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,200 verse 20 and 18, 19, you have Idols which are silence. 647 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:03,200 You have Idols, which are lifeless. 648 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,900 They're inactive their week, the can't do anything for you, you 649 00:42:06,900 --> 00:42:10,500 sacrifice to them in vain, it's of no benefit to yourself. 650 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,000 And then, in verse 20, you have the Living God, who is active 651 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:19,000 and strong and he's saying I'm sitting in throne in heaven, I'm 652 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:25,300 ruling over the Earth perfectly. He is the one who is worthy of 653 00:42:25,300 --> 00:42:27,700 all honor and praise. He's the one who's worthy of our 654 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:29,900 adoration. He's the one who's worthy of our 655 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:39,400 devotion, he will not be mocked. And all the Earth must keep 656 00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,500 silent before him. God says, but all the Earth 657 00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:49,100 keeps silence before him. No one can bring a charge 658 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:53,700 against God, that will stand. No one can put God in his debt. 659 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,600 You will. It, if you will keep silence 660 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:04,400 before the Lord. If you will watch his mighty 661 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:10,800 works, if you will seek to know him, you will see that his glory 662 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,700 is unmatched. The knowledge of the glory of 663 00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:21,000 the Lord, will fill your life. If only you will trust him. 664 00:43:23,300 --> 00:43:26,300 Brothers and sisters. The, I want this passage of 665 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:28,800 God's word to serve to strengthen your faith. 666 00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:32,600 I wanted to deepen, your faith in Christ Jesus, deepen. 667 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,400 Your faith in the Lord because what's happening is God, is 668 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,700 showing habakkuk and he and then showing her back. 669 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:42,100 He's showing each one of us that evil may have its day in 670 00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:44,800 prosperity, but it will never ultimately Prosper. 671 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,900 It will not stay prosperous, evil, will come to an end. 672 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,000 It will not Prosper because God is good. 673 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,300 God is holy God is righteous, he's just he's Everlasting. 674 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,200 He will see to it that it comes to an end. 675 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,800 He is Sovereign Lee orchestrating all things for his 676 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,300 own purposes. His righteous judgment may seem 677 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:13,700 slow to us but it will surely come if we will. 678 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,500 Wait New Testament Believers in Exile in the book of Peter. 679 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:20,100 He's right. Adding two new testament 680 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:23,000 churches that were in Exile. And in second Peter chapter 3, 681 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,700 he writes to them concerning this very thing about evil, 682 00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:28,700 which was prevalent. Prospering evil. 683 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,400 And this is what Peter says, how God responds through Peter to 684 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,500 the concerns of his people and second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, 685 00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:39,300 he says but do not overlook this one. 686 00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:43,800 Fact beloved that with the Lord one day is a thousand years and 687 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,000 a thousand years as one day, the Lord is not slow to fulfill his 688 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,400 promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you. 689 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,000 Not wishing that, any should perish, but that all should 690 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:01,800 reach repentance. You see God doesn't measure time 691 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,300 like we do. He's outside of time. 692 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,300 He's infinite and we are fa nights. 693 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:16,300 His judgment is sure, but he waits so that many might come to 694 00:45:16,300 --> 00:45:20,000 know his salvation through Christ Jesus, he's Gathering his 695 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,100 people and so there's no, there's no shortage of Earthly 696 00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:26,200 kingdoms that rise to power in one breath and then fall in the 697 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:31,100 next, but our hope is never in Earthly kingdoms, it's never an 698 00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:36,100 Earthly Kings. God's righteousness, will always 699 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,000 Triumph in the engine. The knowledge of the glory of 700 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,900 Lord will cover. The Earth is the same as the 701 00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:47,600 water covers the Seas. I was promised in habakkuk 702 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,800 Chapter 2 is ultimately fulfilled in Christ. 703 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:57,100 Jesus. God's righteousness, will 704 00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:01,200 Triumph. On the last day when Christ 705 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,600 returns as king of kings, and Lord of lords to execute the 706 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:09,500 righteous Judgment of God, every knee will bow. 707 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:12,100 And every tongue will confess that he is Lord to the glory of 708 00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:15,900 God, the Father Paul writes in Philippians 2, 10 and 11. 709 00:46:18,500 --> 00:46:25,000 Christ came first. As a baby, the live, a lot of 710 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,100 perfect life, as a Son of God, to satisfy the demands of the 711 00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:33,300 law to atone for the sins of the people of God. 712 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,400 Resurrected, he stands before his disciples in Matthew chapter 713 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,900 28 and he says all authority on Heaven and Earth has been given 714 00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:49,000 to me. And so now Christ Reigns as king 715 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:54,100 of kings, Lord of lords. He will. 716 00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:59,300 Judge. Righteously on that last day. 717 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:04,100 And the evil that seems to Prevail today will have its day 718 00:47:04,100 --> 00:47:06,400 of judgment. It will not go on prevailing. 719 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:10,700 It's in the perfect life of Christ. 720 00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:12,800 It's in his sacrificial death, that's in his Victorious. 721 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,800 Resurrection as Eternal Reign that the glory of God is finally 722 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:21,400 revealed to all Humanity that we finally get the full picture of 723 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:26,000 the glory of God. And so God calls his people and 724 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,800 habakkuk chapter 2. He calls his people in Romans 725 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,600 chapter 1, Galatians chapter 3, Hebrews chapter 10, using this 726 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:37,300 very same phrase, saying the righteous shall live by faith. 727 00:47:38,700 --> 00:47:41,800 He causes people to live by faith and it's by faith that you 728 00:47:41,808 --> 00:47:45,200 embrace the grace of God that was revealed in Christ Jesus. 729 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:49,700 It Is by faith that Believers walk through life, but it's not 730 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,100 a blind faith. It's not just some hopeless 731 00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:54,300 Faith. It's not some it's not built on 732 00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:56,700 fairytales, it's not built on wild stories. 733 00:47:56,700 --> 00:47:58,200 It's a faith. That's rooted. 734 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,400 In the promises of God, it's a faith. 735 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,400 That's rooted in the character of God, it's a faith. 736 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,700 That's rooted in the word of God. 737 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,800 Brothers and sisters. I encourage whether old or young 738 00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:18,400 exercise a deep-rooted trust in Christ. 739 00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:23,500 Trust the providential work of God trust that God is ever 740 00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:28,900 present trust that he resides in heaven and that God is Not 741 00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:35,000 stifled by the wicked. He's not his plans are not 742 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,200 thwarted by the wicked. He doesn't look upon witnessing 743 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,500 down my plan. Didn't it didn't work out again. 744 00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:47,200 You see the wicked unbeknownst to themselves. 745 00:48:47,700 --> 00:48:49,900 Serve the providential purposes of God. 746 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,200 The wicked unbeknownst themselves are glorifying. 747 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,100 The god that they say, that they hate so much. 748 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:04,400 For bringing glory to God. He accomplishes everything, 749 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,400 according to his own righteousness, according to his 750 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,500 own wife wisdom. The righteous shall live by 751 00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:19,000 faith in every situation. In Psalm chapter 2, we have 752 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,200 this. Wonderful Psalm that goes so 753 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:29,500 well with the end of this. Me read it to you worship team. 754 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:31,900 You guys can come as I'm reading this says this. 755 00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:36,800 Why do the nation's rage? And the people's plot in vain. 756 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:43,000 The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers. 757 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,000 Take counsel together against the Lord and against his 758 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,000 anointed saying. Let us burst their bonds apart 759 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,200 and Cast Away their cords from us. 760 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,200 In other words, the rulers of the world are saying. 761 00:49:53,300 --> 00:50:00,200 Let us destroy God and his people. and then in verse for 762 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:09,800 the psalmist writes, he who sits in the heavens, laughs He holds 763 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,400 them in derision. Then he will speak to them in 764 00:50:13,408 --> 00:50:15,700 his wrath and terrify them in his Fury saying. 765 00:50:15,700 --> 00:50:18,100 As for me, I have set my king on. 766 00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:21,600 Zion my Holy Hill, you think your Authority my purposes? 767 00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:26,000 Haha, as for me I set my king upon my Holy Hill. 768 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,900 I will tell of the decree. The Lord said to me, you are my 769 00:50:30,900 --> 00:50:33,200 son today. I have begotten, you ask of me 770 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,200 and I will make the nation's your heritage and the ends of 771 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,300 the Earth, your possession. You shalt break them with a rod 772 00:50:38,300 --> 00:50:41,900 of iron and dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel. 773 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,300 And then the warning back to the Kings now. 774 00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:49,500 Therefore o Kings be wise, be warned, a rulers of the earth, 775 00:50:49,500 --> 00:50:54,000 serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling kiss, the 776 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,800 son, lest he be angry and you perish in the way for his wrath 777 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,200 as quickly. Kindled blessed are all who take 778 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:10,400 refuge in him. Amen, take refuge by faith in 779 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:11,600 the Lord. Amen. 780 00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:15,800 Unbelievers, you're in here today and you say, I don't 781 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,900 believe in Jesus Christ. I don't believe any of this. 782 00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:26,100 I'm unsure of it. I encourage you to Bow before 783 00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:29,500 the Son of God today, the surrender your life to him, to 784 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:33,500 turn away from your wickedness. It will not Prosper. 785 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,300 It will come under the Judgment of God. 786 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,000 But a few will today turn from your sin turn to the Lord Jesus. 787 00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,400 You can be saved. And when the Lord looks at you, 788 00:51:43,500 --> 00:51:48,400 he will look at his son Christ in you and you'll be saved from 789 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:53,000 your sins forever. Forever. 790 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,200 You will not come under the Judgment of God. 791 00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:59,500 You'll receive the blessing, the reward of eternal life. 792 00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:06,200 Brothers and sisters in here. Let us not waver in our faith 793 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:12,100 during these tumultuous days. Let us trust in the Lord Our God 794 00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:13,500 above all else. Amen. 795 00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:17,100 Did you stand your feet while I pray for you. 796 00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:19,200 Father, we love you, we thank you. 797 00:52:19,207 --> 00:52:21,900 Lord, for your kindness toward us, we thank you for your mercy, 798 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,600 your grace, which we've received and we've seen perfectly in 799 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,900 Jesus Christ. Heavenly father, would you help 800 00:52:29,900 --> 00:52:34,600 us have a deep-seated faith? A faith that goes beyond. 801 00:52:35,100 --> 00:52:38,400 What we see that is rooted in what? 802 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,300 We know from your word, it's rooted in, what we know about, 803 00:52:41,300 --> 00:52:45,600 your, your character, it's rooted in your promises that no 804 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,900 matter what the world looks like right now, the knowledge of the 805 00:52:48,900 --> 00:52:51,300 glory of the Lord will cover the Earth. 806 00:52:54,500 --> 00:52:58,900 And though, it looks like the idols of man or prevailing there 807 00:52:58,900 --> 00:53:02,500 breathless there lifeless, and our God. 808 00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:10,200 Is enthroned in the heavens. Father, would you grant us the 809 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,100 strength each day to walk this life by faith? 810 00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:18,600 Help us to not be worried about tomorrow and help us to trust 811 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:23,800 you today to live for you today. Help us to know that all of our 812 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,300 strength comes from Christ, Jesus. 813 00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:33,300 That our only hope is Christ. And father, when we stand 814 00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:37,100 before, you on that day, it will be because of Christ. 815 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,100 Lord, we love you in Christ's name we pray. 816 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:42,500 Amen. Lord, we love you in Christ's 817 00:53:42,500 --> 00:53:44,100 name we pray. Amen.