1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,000 Well, good morning to you guys. It's good to see you today. 2 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:20,200 I hope that you have had a good week, good weekend, and it's 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,600 good to see your smiling faces and all that. 4 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,700 My name is Kyle. If you're visiting with us, I 5 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:28,300 serve as the lead Pastor here, I want to say thank you so much 6 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:31,500 for for being here today. Glad that you're here. 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,200 If you have your Bible with you which I hope you do, you're in 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,100 church, we should bring our Bibles to church open to 9 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:41,700 habakkuk chapter 3. Habakkuk chapter 3. 10 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:46,700 You'll find that toward the end of your new testament, kind of 11 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:51,500 in the middle of the Minor Prophets there and comes just 12 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:53,700 after noon, a whom and just before. 13 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:56,300 Zephaniah. So we've been doing this for 14 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:59,100 three weeks now so maybe maybe it's getting easier to find it. 15 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,200 Habakkuk chapter 3, this series that we've been going through, 16 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:09,600 we've subtitled because it comes from verse 4 of chapter 2. 17 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 The righteous live by faith. God says there that the 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,500 righteous shall live by his faith. 19 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,300 And that's really the point of the book of habakkuk is this 20 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:25,900 learning to live by faith as a righteous person as someone who 21 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,900 loves the Lord, someone who's devoted to God, someone, who 22 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:33,600 would consider himself or herself to be God's people, 23 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,900 they've hidden themselves on this end of things. 24 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,100 Anyway, not habakkuk stay, but in this end of things hidden 25 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,700 themselves in Christ, and what this does This book does is it 26 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:47,500 explores habakkuk complaints to God. 27 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:50,100 So habakkuk goes to God and complains about a couple of 28 00:01:50,107 --> 00:01:52,500 things and I'll get to those in a moment. 29 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:57,000 It explores God's difficult to understand response. 30 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,000 And then what habakkuk learns in chapter 3, which is where we 31 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,600 are. Today, is where we'll conclude 32 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,100 our Series in habakkuk habakkuk learns. 33 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:09,699 A holy contentment, a holy contentment. 34 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,500 I got to have a fun conversation with the kids this week about 35 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:16,100 contentment. How many of you know that as a 36 00:02:16,108 --> 00:02:20,900 child and maybe even now you wanted things all the time, 37 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:23,000 right? Like you would get something and 38 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,300 you would play with it for a little bit and then in the next 39 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:30,900 moment, Possibly or the next day or the next week, he'd be like, 40 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,900 but I need this one or I need this version of writer. 41 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:37,800 This new thing is out, right? What doesn't really change in 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,900 our lives except as we get older except that discontentment shows 43 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:48,400 up in ways that maybe maybe seem to us less trivial, right? 44 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:52,400 Like, I don't want this circumstance in my life. 45 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,800 I want that circumstance. I don't want this persecution. 46 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:02,700 I want that piece. I don't want this disease. 47 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,600 I want that health. I don't want this marriage. 48 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:10,300 I want that marriage. I don't want this friendship. 49 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:12,800 I want that friendship. I don't want to be in this home 50 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:14,400 group. I want to be in that home group. 51 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,600 I don't want to see what I'm saying, and we think, because 52 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,800 we're adults and reasoning through things were very 53 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,500 spiritual people. Now, We think that what we're 54 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:29,700 doing is less trivial than wanting this or that toy as a 55 00:03:29,708 --> 00:03:32,700 child. Contentment is really hard to 56 00:03:32,708 --> 00:03:36,600 learn. And you cannot learn contentment 57 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:41,800 without going through major instances of discontentment. 58 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,700 Contentment doesn't come to you. In a moment's notice, you don't 59 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:52,900 wake up one day and say I've reached the moment of 60 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:58,800 contentment in my life. Contentment comes with trial and 61 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,100 sent. It comes with suffering, 62 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:03,300 contentment comes with having had something and then having 63 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,900 lost it. It comes with being high and 64 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:12,100 then experiencing great lows. Contentment comes in the School 65 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:16,100 of Hard Knocks as they say. Contentment is not easy. 66 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,899 It's not a fun thing to learn, it's nothing that we grow up. 67 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:24,000 Wake up, grow up, whatever saying I want to learn how to be 68 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:29,300 more content. A prayer that we probably don't, 69 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:32,700 pray that we should pray, is whatever it takes. 70 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:37,700 Lord, teach me a holy contentment. 71 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:44,000 So, scary prayer to say anything to the Lord, like whatever it 72 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,700 takes, teach me blank. Right? 73 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,000 But we should we absolutely should. 74 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:57,500 And so what we see today is that habakkuk learns contentment in 75 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:00,000 this back and forth with God that he's been through. 76 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:03,100 Let me pray for us before I before I start preaching. 77 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:07,700 Father we love you and we thank you for your word. 78 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:14,400 Got a I think you that you have not given us a book with 79 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:23,000 frivolous, happy dancing on rainbow words, that make no 80 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,500 sense for our lives. That make no sense in a broken 81 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:31,100 world that make no sense in a place where there is Decay and 82 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:35,700 destruction and death. But father, you have given us a 83 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:39,200 word, you've given us the word, you've given us. 84 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:48,300 A library in the form of a book. Of many words that speak to us 85 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,300 in every circumstance that we could ever experience in this 86 00:05:52,300 --> 00:05:55,300 life. And not only have you given us 87 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:57,500 the word which says how to deal with it. 88 00:05:57,500 --> 00:06:01,900 But you've granted to us your very own Spirit as we hide 89 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:03,200 ourselves in Christ. Jesus. 90 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,400 We walk by the spirit of God and he illuminates, your word for us 91 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:14,300 he gives us understanding where there is no understanding. 92 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,400 He gives us peace where there looks like there should be no 93 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,200 peace. He gives us hope where there's 94 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,500 despair. He gives us joy in the midst of 95 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:30,700 morning. It's inexplicable what you have 96 00:06:30,700 --> 00:06:33,300 done for us in the provision of your word. 97 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:37,300 And then the project provision of your spirits, the death and 98 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:44,800 resurrection of your son Jesus. Father, there is endless amounts 99 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,800 of Glory Your Glory available to us. 100 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,100 If only, we will seek your face. And so I praise you for the book 101 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:57,700 of habakkuk in it, we learn how to seek your face in the middle 102 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,300 of suffering and despair and disappointment and 103 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:05,600 misunderstanding. We learned how to go to you. 104 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,800 We learned how to come to you, how to recall who you are, and 105 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,500 the work that you're doing. Father, would you teach us today 106 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:16,300 as men? And women is boys and girls who 107 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,000 are seeking your face? Teach us. 108 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,500 Teach us just how the righteous live by faith. 109 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:33,800 Teach us how to walk with, holy contentment. as we trust in the 110 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:42,200 Providence of God, Heavenly Father, we adore you and we 111 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,300 praise you for the Salvation. We've received in Jesus Christ. 112 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,600 We ask these things in his name. Amen. 113 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Well previously on habakkuk. Habakkuk is a prophet to Judah. 114 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,900 He's in the southern Kingdom of God's people, this happened 115 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:05,400 after that. The Kingdom of Israel was split 116 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,700 into two after David's, son Solomon, it was after his death 117 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:13,100 but it was his great sins that led to the splitting of the 118 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:16,000 Kingdom. And the people of Judah and the 119 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,300 southern Kingdom, the people of Israel were in the Northern 120 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:20,700 parts of this. The people of Judah, here are 121 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:25,300 increasingly becoming more and more vile people of Israel were 122 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:31,700 doing the very same things. Turning from the one true Living 123 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,799 God, the one who had brought them out of the bondage of the 124 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:37,600 Egyptians, the one who had delivered them time and time 125 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,400 again, the one who had established his Covenant with 126 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,400 them through their forefathers. They've turned on the one true 127 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:49,800 Living God and they're turning to false gods, dead, Gods gods, 128 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,700 made of wood and stone and precious metals gods, that don't 129 00:08:54,700 --> 00:09:00,700 breathe God's that don't speak. God's that don't save, they've 130 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,700 turned to them. And the reason is because the 131 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:07,700 persecution from these evil Nations, these Pagan Nations, 132 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:11,100 the persecution is is heating up, its getting strong. 133 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,800 And in their despair, in their persecution. 134 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:22,200 They think to themselves, if we'll just turn, if we'll just 135 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:28,200 adapt, if we'll just adopt more of this worldly influence. 136 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:33,500 Well, we'll survive. We might not only survive. 137 00:09:33,500 --> 00:09:37,800 We might actually Prosper as they are seemingly prospering. 138 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,900 They're trying to avoid the pressure of the Pagan Nations 139 00:09:44,100 --> 00:09:50,600 trying to avoid the persecution. Brothers and sisters turning 140 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,100 away from God. Bowing down to false gods bowing 141 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:56,000 down, though. Worldly Kings. 142 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:01,800 Will never ever be enough to make persecution or tribulations 143 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,500 pass over you? Amen. 144 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:10,200 If you bow the knee to a false god, if you bow, the knee to 145 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,700 worldly Powers who were standing and direct Rebellion to God. 146 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,400 Right. You will not. 147 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,000 You will not forego persecution. It's silly to think so, but you 148 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,300 can understand how you might think in a moment of great heat. 149 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:32,300 If I'll just do this, my family could be saved. 150 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,900 But I mean, it was more vile than maybe, even what we're 151 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:41,700 thinking of they were literally offering children as sacrifices 152 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:50,000 to save their own skin. The truth is when you bow the 153 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,500 need to false gods. You invite Now The Sovereign 154 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:58,500 just righteous discipline of a holy God of a living God. 155 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:05,500 So, I want you to remember that. Because when the mobs come after 156 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:08,800 you for Faithfully standing on the truths found in God's, holy 157 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,600 word, you'll need some fortitude about you. 158 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,500 You'll need something to stand on, trust God. 159 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:18,900 And this is what the back of learns. 160 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:23,600 Trust the Lord, I back, it goes to God and he complains about 161 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:27,100 the rise of the Chaldeans, or the Babylonians and the 162 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:30,400 persecution is growing. And it's possible that that 163 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,800 habakkuk had maybe a vision of what was coming. 164 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,100 We don't know that for sure. but we do know that this moment, the 165 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:40,500 Chaldeans didn't look like a massive threat, but it's just a 166 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:47,700 few decades away that they were And he comes to God in the 167 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,300 middle of this persecution as its kind of beginning to heat up 168 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:55,900 and he says where are you God? Your holy people are suffering. 169 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,900 Where are you? Do you not care for them? 170 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,000 Do not care for your people. Do you not care that a more 171 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,300 wicked people? The more wicked nation is 172 00:12:07,300 --> 00:12:11,200 persecuting your own people, which is the less Wicked nation 173 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,900 of the to God. Where are you? 174 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:17,400 It's really kind of an age-old question, right? 175 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,600 Where is God when evil men Prevail? 176 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,900 Where is God? When evil seems to take the day. 177 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:28,900 When evil seems to get the W, where is God, when God's people 178 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:31,200 are taking the L, right? Where is he? 179 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:37,500 If God is good then why do why does evil go unpunished? 180 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,800 Why does it go unhindered? And God responds to a backing. 181 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:46,300 He says this, he says I'm doing a thing aback that you would not 182 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:52,200 understand even if I told you I'm raising up the Chaldeans the 183 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,400 Babylonians as judgment against my people. 184 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:03,100 Wow, so this more wicked nation is now persecuting. 185 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:09,100 This seemingly less Wicked nation and we have a kick thinks 186 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:10,700 to himself that it's a less Wicked Nation. 187 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:14,000 Because there still are there still is a faithful. 188 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,100 Remnant of people who love the Lord who are devoted to God. 189 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,900 But because judah's being persecuted and they live in 190 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:22,900 Judah, they're experiencing the persecution. 191 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,100 Does this sound familiar to any of us? 192 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,100 It looks very similar to what we see brothers and sisters across 193 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:37,600 the globe experiencing today. You need look no further than 194 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:42,100 our northern border to see persecution against Christians 195 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:46,000 churches. By a government. 196 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:49,200 And I'll talk about Missouri about Canada. 197 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,200 Think of Missouri. What's going on in Missouri. 198 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,900 The person that you should in Canada is going wildly 199 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:05,000 unreported. thank God for truckers because Canadian 200 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,900 pastors, haven't done much, but a few have A few have praised 201 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:15,900 God for them. So God responds to habakkuk and 202 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:18,400 he says, I'm doing this thing that you won't understand. 203 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,000 And I'm doing it as a judgment against my people, and the 204 00:14:25,008 --> 00:14:27,800 people of Judah thought, again, surely their safety and 205 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,500 submitting ourselves to these evil Nations. 206 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:32,800 If only we turn from our God and we bow to their gods, and we 207 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,000 will be safe, will prosper in the land, just as they do. 208 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,000 You can imagine this is what's going through their minds, is a 209 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,600 more powerful, more. Wicked Nation comes on you, and 210 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,700 you see the numbers Rising against you. 211 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:48,900 And you think and if we just bend the knee on this one thing, 212 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,900 by the way, this is happening in churches all across America. 213 00:14:55,700 --> 00:15:01,700 Bending the knee to the rise of false gender ideas, false, 214 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:06,300 marriage ideas, false racial ideas. 215 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:13,200 We can't bend the knee to society to the world. 216 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:17,900 We must stand on the truth of God and stand boldly on the 217 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:22,900 truths of God. People of Judah thought. 218 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:25,400 Surely surely there's safety in this. 219 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,700 I don't know if you guys ever saw the movie Kingdom of Heaven. 220 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:32,700 Is it really kind of went unnoticed. 221 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:36,500 It came out and I think in 2005 and it depicts the Christian 222 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:39,300 Crusades of the 12th century. It's got Orlando Bloom in it, 223 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,700 Liam Neeson's in it. That's about all I can remember. 224 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:47,700 As far as characters, you might recognize But in the movie that 225 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:49,900 Orlando Bloom plays this character named Bailey and he's 226 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:54,300 a blacksmith from France and he, he finds himself in a position 227 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:59,300 to lead the charge and defending the city of Jerusalem from the 228 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:02,900 impending. Attack of the Muslims. 229 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,200 That attack was going to be led by a Muslim Sultan name 230 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,100 salahuddin. The movie kind of flew under the 231 00:16:12,108 --> 00:16:14,700 radar, but it's got some really epic moments in. 232 00:16:14,700 --> 00:16:18,000 It's really incredible quotes, and if you haven't seen it, I 233 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,200 encourage you to watch it parents. 234 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,000 You may watch it first before you let the kids see it, but 235 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,500 Moments before the final battle though. 236 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,300 Bail-ins. He's rallying the troops. 237 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:31,600 He's inside the walls and he's making preparations. 238 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,200 He's getting them. Ready for what's coming? 239 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:40,000 Which is likely death. and there's this priest who's been 240 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,700 with them kind of the whole time and he's he's just the most 241 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,100 sissified priest there that there could have been, right? 242 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,900 Just no backbone, no willingness to stand for truth. 243 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,300 And this priest is looking at what's going on and he sees that 244 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:03,500 deaths coming and he tells bailing he's bailing trying to 245 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:05,700 Rally everyone together. The precious begins to holler 246 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:09,800 out convert to Islam Today and beg God's forgiveness tomorrow. 247 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,000 Convert to Islam Today. Beg God's forgiveness tomorrow. 248 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,599 I suspect that it's possible the people of Judah maybe felt that 249 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,099 I think people think that today if I'll Just Surrender some 250 00:17:27,099 --> 00:17:30,600 things now I can I can ask forgiveness later. 251 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,200 Yeah. Well you might do that, you 252 00:17:34,208 --> 00:17:37,000 know, we're thinking kind of in global political type things 253 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,500 were thinking in spiritual attacks and that sort of idea. 254 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,000 But just think about your own life and The Temptations you 255 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:48,100 face each day and Tatian to get angry temptation to to look upon 256 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:52,100 someone lustfully the temptation to say things, you ought not say 257 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,100 the temptation to gossip, that them take whatever whatever your 258 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:57,800 temptation is. Like you know you know what your 259 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,400 struggle is. You're aware of it. 260 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,300 And it's so easy to think because we're grace-filled 261 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:08,000 people. We're men and women who have 262 00:18:08,008 --> 00:18:10,300 been saved by the grace of God. It's so easy to think in those 263 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:16,500 moments. Well, You know, his Mercy is 264 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:19,800 more, his grace is more if I just bend the knee. 265 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:26,400 Now to this Then I'll experience Grace later, my forgive and 266 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,100 Amaya, pleading for forgiveness. I'm not saying that God won't 267 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:36,200 show you Grace when you repent, but that's not the definition of 268 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,900 repentance repentance. Is to turn away from that. 269 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:45,800 Evil thing to turn to the Lord. And so, anyway, this priest says 270 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,900 convert to Islam Today and big God's forgiveness for tomorrow. 271 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:55,000 Balian looks at him and he says you have taught me a lot about 272 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:59,200 religion, your eminence. He's taught me a lot about 273 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:05,200 religion. When converts or die becomes the 274 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,900 options available faithful Christians. 275 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:11,700 Must respond the way Paul responded in Philippians chapter 276 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:14,500 1 to live as Christ, but to die is gain. 277 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:22,100 Amen. But Judah largely wasn't doing 278 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,500 that. And so in God's grace, and God's 279 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,100 mercy, he says I'm going to discipline my people. 280 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,500 Now the the discipline of God is an exercise of Grace. 281 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,900 Now, the in the same way that a child doesn't understand the 282 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:45,100 grace of a parent and discipline in the moment, because spankings 283 00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:49,600 hurt right there, okay, to still talk about spankings today. 284 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,400 I do, I'm not sure. Okay, I'm safe and Safe Company. 285 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,400 It's like beatings spankings way, God intended. 286 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,000 But it's hard in a moment to understand Grace. 287 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,300 So a parent must go through Great Lengths to explain on the 288 00:20:05,308 --> 00:20:09,300 front end and on the back end, I'm not talking about the back 289 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,700 end. I'm about the end of that 290 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:15,500 moment. That this is an act of Grace 291 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:20,800 from God, for you. That Daddy stands in the place 292 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,700 of the one who is supposed to discipline you commanded by God 293 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:27,200 to do so so that you become a child, who loves the Lord. 294 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:32,400 And your sin, your discipline in this moment, reveals your need 295 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,500 for a savior not just discipline it reveals a deeper need. 296 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:39,000 You have a need for a savior. So there's a lot of great things 297 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,900 that happen in discipline when it's done in a Godly Manner. 298 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:44,600 And this is what God is doing, is exercising, discipline in a 299 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:50,800 Godly manner, I'm going to step in and discipline my people for 300 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:56,500 their evil but their sinfulness Bacchic still doesn't like it 301 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:00,300 isn't like God's first response to his first complain and so he 302 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:03,900 goes to God again. He says, wait a minute how how 303 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:07,400 could you use a more wicked people to punish a less Wicked 304 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,700 people now explained over the last two weeks? 305 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,200 I don't think bacchic was sinning and going to God with 306 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,800 these questions. He's recalling the Covenant name 307 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:18,400 of the Lord. He's declaring you God or my 308 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,300 Lord. And and he's remembering who God 309 00:21:21,300 --> 00:21:24,200 is and because he knows whose God is he struggling to? 310 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,100 What's going on? This is not sinful to do this. 311 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:30,500 It's sinful to turn from the Lord. 312 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:33,800 It's sinful to do what these people in Judah were doing. 313 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:36,900 It's not sinful to ask God questions and to wait on 314 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:41,400 responses to trust him in the silence, which is what a 315 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,400 backache does at the end of a second question. 316 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,800 See since I will go to my watch post and I will wait on you. 317 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,600 Wait. And so back at wants to know how 318 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,800 can you use a more wicked people to punish a less Wicked people? 319 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,900 How can you look idly at evil? God, this is not your character 320 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:04,700 Shirley And again, God responds by saying I'm using them for my 321 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:07,600 good purposes. However, their day of judgement 322 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:12,600 is coming, evil will not Prosper forever. 323 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:17,400 God says, but the righteous shall live by his faith. 324 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,500 If he's an okay guy back to for there. 325 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:23,800 What God gets out his at my Justice will reign. 326 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,500 He says my glory will cover the Earth as the water covers. 327 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:32,100 The sea my glory. Will cover the Earth as the 328 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:34,400 water covers the sea. We establish last week but 329 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,900 that's That's all the see his water right? 330 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,600 I sit enthroned in the heavens. God says R. 331 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,600 I am enthroned in the heavens. She got is what he's saying. 332 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,400 Is that in my Providence? I'm ordering these things 333 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,400 according to my good purposes but I have not forgotten. 334 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:02,800 Evil evil will received just punishment and he calls out 335 00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:08,400 these men and names their sins for them with five woes there in 336 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:14,400 chapter two. When the Lord said those three 337 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,200 things they're in habakkuk Chapter 2 where he says, the 338 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,300 righteous shall live by his faith in verse for my glory will 339 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:22,900 cover the Earth and verse 14, and I'm in throne, in the 340 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:25,900 heavens there. In verse 20 of chapter 2, 341 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:32,200 something clicked in habakkuk mind, something, clicked deeper 342 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,600 than his mind, that was in his soul habakkuk felt these words. 343 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:43,600 He knew these words, he understood these truths, Might 344 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:49,600 say illumination happens. Habakkuk responds. 345 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:54,400 Then in prayer Expresses in this prayer that we're about to read 346 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:59,500 a deep dependence on God, and and he displays for us. 347 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,100 What? Holy contentment looks like. 348 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:07,000 The last chapter reveals the transformation that has occurred 349 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,800 in the depths of habakkuk Soul habakkuk, sprayer is filled with 350 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,700 praise. It's filled with petitions. 351 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:16,100 It's filled with remembrances of God's past works. 352 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:22,800 And as we look at the prayer, it teaches us, It instructs us. 353 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:29,200 How to pray? What our prayers should look 354 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,400 like as men and women, who love the Lord, and who are going 355 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,000 through, really difficult moments that we often don't 356 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:45,200 fully understand. So let's let's look at this 357 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:51,300 prayer. A brief word about this. 358 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:54,300 And what I kind of want us to see is that a backpack sprayer 359 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:56,600 is a wonderful display faith that leads to this holy 360 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,400 contentment. And so my big idea for you today 361 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,900 or my thing. I want you to kind of write down 362 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:02,700 as a summation of what we're looking at. 363 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:07,400 Is this the righteous live by faith Displaying holy 364 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,600 contentment in God's Providence, the righteous lived by faith 365 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,800 displaying contentment in God's Providence. 366 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:22,900 So, let's look at first one. A prayer of habakkuk the 367 00:25:22,900 --> 00:25:27,400 prophets. According to she guy owned by 368 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,300 says she guy own? Is that how you would have 369 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:33,100 pronounced? That really shit? 370 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,200 Okay, it's like, man, that's amazing, Dad. 371 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:43,200 Good job. yeah, I mean I went to Blue Letter Bible.com for the 372 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:50,200 pronunciation of that. She, I own But notice, I mean, 373 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,700 in verse 1, we're already getting so much information 374 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:55,900 about this. The first the word she got on a 375 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,500 only twice. I forgot to write down the other 376 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:03,600 reference in Psalms but it appears in Psalms maybe 18, I 377 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,500 could be way off on that. But it's only twice its here in 378 00:26:07,508 --> 00:26:12,500 habakkuk. And then once in Psalms And so 379 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:15,200 because we see it in Psalms because we see it here tied to 380 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,500 something, that is musical is verse 19 says, so to the 381 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:21,800 choirmaster with stringed instruments, we know that what 382 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:27,900 is happening, here is a song. Habakkuk is written something. 383 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:30,900 Now, remember, he goes on behalf of the people of Judah, right? 384 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:34,600 I mean, he goes on his own because he's questioning things, 385 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,900 but he understands that there are people here in Judah who 386 00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:38,900 love the Lord and are questioning things. 387 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:41,200 And what's the best thing you can do for people who are 388 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:46,000 questioning things about God, About world events about things 389 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,700 going on their loss. It's to give them God's words to 390 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:52,700 put God's word on their lips to put it in their hearts. 391 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,900 Amen. Now, you and I we benefit from 392 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:00,500 having the written word collected for us. 393 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,300 But in habakkuk today, that would have had the Torah. 394 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,800 It's the first five books of the Old Testament. 395 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,900 They would've been able to read about the past works of God, 396 00:27:12,900 --> 00:27:15,700 which is why habakkuk in this prayer is going to recall the 397 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:19,400 past works of God. You see bacchic writes this down 398 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:23,600 in the form of a song so that the congregation can sing it 399 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,800 together. So, the congregation can 400 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,900 rehearse in songs, the truths of God. 401 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:37,500 Singing is deeply spiritual? But there's a reason music of 402 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:39,700 all kinds can make you feel certain ways. 403 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:43,500 It's deeply spiritual. Even unchristian, music is 404 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:45,600 deeply. Spiritual can be a spiritual 405 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,400 experience, all right, that's why it matters the songs. 406 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,400 We say, that's why we go to Great Lengths, to make sure the 407 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,700 songs were seeing are rehearsing the truths of God's word. 408 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,200 We want you to know the truth of God's word. 409 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,500 In song, we also want you to hear it preach. 410 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:02,300 But once, you know, it in song, so that as a congregation, we're 411 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,900 rehearsing God's truths together. so that when stuff 412 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:11,200 hits the fan, You and I can recall the truths of God 413 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:16,000 together. You and your home can say I need 414 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,600 to turn on, only a holy God, and listen to that. 415 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:23,100 The sing along with it, I need to sing. 416 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,600 Is he worthy with my family tonight because goodness were 417 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,800 struggling. Right. 418 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,300 This is what songs are for. There is spiritual warfare. 419 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:36,600 It's Warfare. And this is what habakkuk is 420 00:28:36,608 --> 00:28:39,100 doing the Congress. I said, way more about that than 421 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:42,100 I meant to, but this word is depicting. 422 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:45,700 It's largely believed to depict a highly passionate or emotional 423 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:50,100 poetic form like a song. And clearly, because he says to 424 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:52,100 the choirmaster with stringed instruments, it's a salt. 425 00:28:52,100 --> 00:28:55,100 It's meant to be sung. I will not sing it for you 426 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:56,500 today. I will only read it. 427 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:59,000 Allen busted me out. Last week, I'm not a singer. 428 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:03,500 All right? It's a prayer meant to be used 429 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:08,800 and the worship of God. Verse 20, Lord, I have heard the 430 00:29:08,808 --> 00:29:10,800 report of view. I'm just going to read through 431 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,900 16. So we kind of get the idea of 432 00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:15,900 what's going on here. Oh, Lord, I've heard the report 433 00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,200 of you and your work. Oh, Lord. 434 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,200 Do I fear in the midst of the years? 435 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,700 Revive it. In the midst of the years, make 436 00:29:23,700 --> 00:29:26,900 it known in Wrath. Remember mercy? 437 00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:32,200 God came from tomorrow on and the Holy One from Mount Paran 438 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:36,100 C'est. Le The word Sailors just used 439 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:39,500 oftentimes for the musical break a pausa, could be a moment of 440 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:42,800 silence, a moment of reflection could be a, you know, a guitar 441 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:49,900 solo, it could be. But but but the idea here is 442 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:54,200 that you're reflecting on the works of God. 443 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:59,400 You're pausing his Splendor covered the heavens and the 444 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,700 Earth was full of his praise. His brightness was like the 445 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:08,300 light rays flashed from his hand and there he failed his power 446 00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:14,300 before him went pestilence which is like a like a disease or a 447 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:16,800 plague. He mentions plagued their necks 448 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,400 and plague followed at his heels. 449 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:23,800 He stood and measured the Earth he looked and shook the nation's 450 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,400 then the Eternal mountains were Battered, the Everlasting heels 451 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,500 sink low, his were the Everlasting ways. 452 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:34,800 I saw the tents of cushion and affliction. 453 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,200 The curtains of the land of Midian did Trimble. 454 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,500 Was your wrath against the rivers. 455 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:44,100 Oh Lord, was your anger against the rivers or your indignation 456 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:47,200 against the see. When you rode on your horses, on 457 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,000 your chariot of Salvation, you strip the sheath from your bow 458 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:59,700 calling for many arrows. C'est Le You split the Earth 459 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,700 with rivers, the mountains saw you and rised, the Raging Waters 460 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,900 swept on the Deep gave forth its voice. 461 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:14,300 It lifted, its hands on high, the Sun and Moon Stood Still in 462 00:31:14,300 --> 00:31:18,300 their place at the light of your arrows, as they sped at the 463 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:22,900 flash of your glittering spear. There is recalling the Battle of 464 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:25,900 Joshua when the sun literally Stood Still. 465 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,600 You March through the Earth and fury, you thresh the nation's 466 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,400 and anger. You went out for the Salvation 467 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,700 of your people for the Salvation of your anointed. 468 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,200 You crush the head of the House of the wicked laying him bear 469 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:52,500 from thigh to neck C'est Le You pierced with his own arrows. 470 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:56,600 The heads of his Warriors who came like a whirlwind to scatter 471 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,000 me rejoicing as if to Devour the poor in secrets, you trampled 472 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,600 the sea with your horses, the surging of Mighty Waters. 473 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:11,200 I hear and my body trembles my lips quiver at the sound 474 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:17,100 rottenness enters into my bones. My legs tremble beneath me yet I 475 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:20,000 will quietly wait for the day of trouble. 476 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:23,500 To come upon people who invade us. 477 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,400 Wow. Wow. 478 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:31,800 You can see that the way that he goes to God, right? 479 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,700 I mean your work O Lord, do I fear? 480 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:37,600 He he starts with just again every time he comes before the 481 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,300 Lord, it's it's recalling. The Covenant name of God. 482 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,200 But in this specific moment, he recalls the specific actions of 483 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:49,700 God and establishing that Covenant He recalls the battles, 484 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:53,000 he recalls the deliverances the mighty deliverances, The Parting 485 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,200 of the Red Sea, as the Egyptians are coming to destroy the 486 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,800 Israelites. Did you Rage Against The Waters? 487 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,600 Lord? No. 488 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,600 Was God, raging against the Red Sea and that moment not at all. 489 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:14,800 The Red Sea was used in as an instrument of his Rage Against 490 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,000 the Pagan Egyptians, right? It was used as an instrument of 491 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,000 his Deliverance. For his people, the Israelites. 492 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,400 And so he recalls all these things and he's like I hear them 493 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:34,300 and my body trembles Recalling, how great you are in my body. 494 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,900 Trembles my lips. Quiver at the sound. 495 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:41,200 Now, remember, habakkuk doesn't get here in a moment. 496 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,500 We don't know how long these prayers these interactions were. 497 00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:47,200 We don't have any of that for us. 498 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,700 But what we know is that habakkuk was in a struggle in 499 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:55,300 chapter one that he is now in chapter 3 resolving to exercise. 500 00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:58,300 Holy contentment, because of the god, he has encountered. 501 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,200 You see that? You're not promised. 502 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:09,100 You're not promised? No hardship. 503 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,500 You're not promising those struggles, but you promised 504 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,500 peace in the middle of struggles. 505 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:18,900 Your promised hope in the midst of despair. 506 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:26,400 Because God is with you, even in discipline, he's with you. 507 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:35,100 And no you see, contentment is. As I said in the beginning, it's 508 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:39,100 a hard thing to learn It's not enjoyable at all. 509 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:42,199 There's so much pain to this but when you come out on the other 510 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,199 side, Having learned contentment. 511 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,199 Whew, that is a breath of fresh air. 512 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:57,100 My friends. it's a feeling of Peace as we can, we can rightly 513 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:04,300 say, holy spirit's amazing, it's not in my notes, not not 514 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,400 something I've thought of before, but here it is, we can 515 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,100 rightly say. So I'm saying that because this 516 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:13,500 is, this is the Lord, not Kyle, but in Philippians 4:6, you're 517 00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,900 encouraged to be to not worry about anything to be prayerful 518 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,600 and everything. Amen, to make your petitions to 519 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,900 the Lord with Thanksgiving. And it says, in the God of 520 00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:28,200 Peace, will rule your hearts and Minds. 521 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:32,800 Or a peace that surpasses understanding will rule your 522 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,200 hearts and Minds. Do you know that in Philippians 523 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,800 4:11 through 13? I was actually going to read it 524 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,100 later in the sermon, but Philippians 4:11, 313. 525 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:46,200 Paul is saying they're all of, you know, Philippians 4:13, 526 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,700 right? I can do all things through 527 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,900 Christ, who does what strengthens me. 528 00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:59,900 That comes after 4 6 and 7 and 48 which tells you what to think 529 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:03,700 about and then in for 11 and 13. Paul says, I've been high. 530 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:05,600 I've been low. A lot. 531 00:36:05,700 --> 00:36:10,200 I've had nothing but I have learned that I can do all things 532 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,200 through Christ, who strengthens me? 533 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,600 He says, I've learned contentment. 534 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:22,800 Consent. Not noticed that before in 535 00:36:22,808 --> 00:36:26,500 Thompson here, preaching for six seven and eight directly tied to 536 00:36:26,508 --> 00:36:29,500 for 11 through 13. There's no doubt in my mind the 537 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,100 peace that surpasses all understanding is wholly 538 00:36:32,100 --> 00:36:35,200 contentment and God. Holy contentment in his 539 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,500 Providence that he brings me high he brings me low I can do 540 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:40,100 all things through Christ who strengthens me. 541 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:49,100 Amen. So back to verse 2, he begins by 542 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:52,500 recognizing the holy and righteous purposes of God and he 543 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:54,700 does. So with reverence for God with 544 00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:59,100 It's not only a reverence for God, it's a reverence for God's 545 00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,200 Providence. He he says your work O Lord. 546 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,300 Do I fear your work O Lord. Do I fear? 547 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:09,800 It's a reverence for God but it's a reverence for a reverence 548 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,900 for his providential work that your hands are doing things. 549 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:22,500 I don't comprehend And I fear you have a fear here is reverent 550 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,300 fear. Let me explain to you what fear 551 00:37:26,500 --> 00:37:30,700 is and especially in the Old Testament in Proverbs 9, and 10. 552 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:33,600 We read this, that the fear of the Lord, is the beginning of 553 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,700 wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is inside the fear of 554 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:40,000 the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom. 555 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,500 And so, what we're understanding is that the pathway by which we 556 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,400 get to Holy contentment where we can endure all things the 557 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:53,800 pathway to get there is in It is in a reverence a humble. 558 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,800 Let me add humble to this humble reverence before the Lord. 559 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,700 Now, how do you achieve humble reverence if you're not also 560 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:06,300 going through suffering? If you're always Mighty, if 561 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:09,300 everything is always working out for you, if you're always good. 562 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,200 How do you achieve a humble reverence? 563 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:19,800 You can't at least the likelihood is so much more slim. 564 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,800 Because his chest, are you going to beat your own whose muscles? 565 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:29,500 Are you going to flex your own right by my great hands? 566 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:35,800 The people of God were warned and Deuteronomy chapter 8, not 567 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,800 to say by the might of by the strength of my own hands. 568 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,600 I've gotten this wealth but it is God who has given me the 569 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,900 ability to make wealth is God who has given me the ability to 570 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:48,600 land to dwell in the land that I did not own. 571 00:38:49,300 --> 00:38:51,900 That did not make the live in houses. 572 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:57,200 I did not create right. Was their entering the promised 573 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,500 land? He incurs him do not ever say by 574 00:38:59,500 --> 00:39:02,500 the might of my own hands. I have done this. 575 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,400 And so humble reverence leads to Growing wisdom. 576 00:39:08,500 --> 00:39:12,100 You approach the Lord humbling irreverent before him, you 577 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:16,200 understand that he alone? Jesus says in Matthew chapter 578 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,700 10, not to fear as he sending the disciples, and he says, do 579 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:24,100 not fear the ones who can kill body only, but fear of the one 580 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:28,300 who can destroy Body and Soul The courage in your room or fear 581 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:30,600 before the Lord, remain humble before the Lord. 582 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,900 Humble, reverence leads to Growing wisdom as faithful men 583 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:42,000 or women continually put the Lord and his truth above his 584 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,200 self or herself. And doing that more and more 585 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,700 over time. What happens is you grow in the 586 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,000 knowledge of God Almighty? You do not grow in your own 587 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000 understanding of who you are. You grow in your understanding 588 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,800 of who he is. But you also grow in your 589 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,400 understanding of what he is like his character. 590 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:07,800 His promises his past work, his future plans and that 591 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,900 simultaneously produces this thing in you that is comforting 592 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:16,300 it promotes peace. Contentment that the world can 593 00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:19,900 understand and yet it is terrifying. 594 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:26,200 Because you see, before you a holy God, you think what how can 595 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,300 you be at both? How can you have both peace and 596 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:33,100 be terrified simultaneously? It's a good question. 597 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,700 Good question, I will ridicule the question. 598 00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:40,400 I think it's a good question. Yeah, any of you recall, the 599 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,800 story of Jesus and his disciples again in Matthew this time in 600 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,500 chapter 8 where the disciples are in the boat with Christ, 601 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,200 there's a storm raging around them. 602 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,100 The disciples are in a lot of fear, guess we're sleeping 603 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,300 Jesus. And those disciples are sitting 604 00:40:58,300 --> 00:40:59,900 there and they're thinking to themselves. 605 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,800 We've seen this man. Heal people, we've seen him 606 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,600 feed, people wishing him do all raised people from the dead. 607 00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:10,700 We have seen this man do all kinds of things. 608 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:18,000 All kinds of things and they are terrified and they go and they 609 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,100 wake the Lord get off. What is going on out here? 610 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:27,800 You we need your help. Do you remember what the Lord 611 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,100 says to them? He says why are you afraid? 612 00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:36,600 Oh you of little faith. Why are you afraid of you of 613 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:42,100 little faith? and then he rises and he speaks 614 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:46,100 to the storm which is immediately calmed, peace be 615 00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:52,000 still and it's still The Cycles are standing there and this is 616 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,800 this is why I say you can have both peace and be terrified. 617 00:41:57,700 --> 00:42:00,500 The disciples were standing there there, Marvel at him. 618 00:42:00,500 --> 00:42:04,600 The scripture says in Matthew chapter 8 and they say this what 619 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:09,400 sort of man is this that even the wind and the waves of the 620 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,100 wind and the Sea obey, his voice? 621 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:16,700 What sort of man is this some translations? 622 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,500 Say what manner of man is this? It's the same thing that 623 00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:23,100 happened to Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 6, as he gets his vision 624 00:42:23,100 --> 00:42:25,700 into the heavenlies and he sees the Lord there. 625 00:42:25,700 --> 00:42:32,200 And he says, Behold, I am a man of unclean lips. 626 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,600 We read there that he was undone. 627 00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:41,000 He was terrified before the Lord because he recognized, I'm not 628 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,900 fit, I'm not wholly. He is altogether. 629 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:47,200 Holy which means he's altogether different and I don't belong in 630 00:42:47,207 --> 00:42:50,400 his presence. And disciples have the same 631 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:54,200 recognition Abacus going through the same thing here. 632 00:42:54,200 --> 00:43:01,000 Where I'm at, peace But I'm but I recognize that you can do 633 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,400 whatever you wish. Amen. 634 00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:07,300 And I'm not going to question you anymore. 635 00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:10,300 I'm going to trust you going to trust you. 636 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:16,200 Habakkuk also, begs for Mercy, he recognizes In This Moment. 637 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,400 The grace of God, he says in your wrath, remember Mercy? 638 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:25,000 Habakkuk saying please, I know that we deserve the Wrath, I 639 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,000 know that we deserve the discipline but please remember 640 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:33,200 Mercy, Lord. In the midst of your judgments 641 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:42,700 on your people, remember Mercy. He goes on to say despite 642 00:43:42,700 --> 00:43:45,100 everything going on around him, he goes on to, he's able to then 643 00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:49,200 say or ask really that God's will be done. 644 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,900 That his perfect will be done. He says this he says in the 645 00:43:52,900 --> 00:43:56,900 midst of the years, revive it in the midst of the years, make it 646 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000 known. So in the middle of all of these 647 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:05,900 things, Do your will. In the midst of these painful 648 00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:09,700 years, whatever they may look like do your will make it known. 649 00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:14,800 The prophet was faced with God's unsearchable, wisdom and in 650 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,300 response. He says he humbles himself and 651 00:44:18,300 --> 00:44:22,700 he says you do your thing God. I understand. 652 00:44:23,700 --> 00:44:25,700 It's best. I can understand, I understand. 653 00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:29,100 And so no one can bring a charge against God. 654 00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:32,800 No one could put God in his debt and habakkuk the prophet. 655 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,700 He knows this, and what he understands that God is building 656 00:44:36,700 --> 00:44:40,000 or establishing his kingdom, even if he doesn't understand 657 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,500 the route that God's taking to get there, Right. 658 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,300 So, we offers a prayer to God that expresses his trust and 659 00:44:49,300 --> 00:44:52,100 offers a prayer to God that expresses confidence and has 660 00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:56,300 reverence to it. He's in all of God, he's undone 661 00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:00,000 in the, in the midst of this interaction. 662 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,500 He's had with the Lord. And he knows that God executes 663 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:07,300 his righteous judgment. He knows that God will do what 664 00:45:07,300 --> 00:45:09,800 he says, according to his own wisdom, according to his own 665 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:14,300 will, and so habakkuk displays a holy contentment in the 666 00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:17,300 Providence of God by expressing trust. 667 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,700 He does so by recalling God's faithfulness in the past. 668 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:23,600 He recalls future promises. I told you guys last week in 669 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,300 Chapter 2 When God says that, my glory will fill the Earth and I 670 00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:31,900 sit in throne in the heavens, he is giving Isaiah to things that 671 00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:34,300 he can. Hold on to the righteous shall 672 00:45:34,300 --> 00:45:37,000 live by his faith. Here's two things that you 673 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,900 should show. Deep faith in my glory will fill 674 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:44,500 the Earth. And I sit enthroned in the 675 00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:46,900 heavens. I've not been thwarted. 676 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:48,600 My plans. Haven't been stopped. 677 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:51,800 I've not forgotten you. You can trust me. 678 00:45:52,100 --> 00:46:00,500 Amen. And so he recalls these things, 679 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:03,200 and all of these things is recalling them in the middle of 680 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,200 this current trials, in the middle of the tribulation, in 681 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,600 the middle of not here, he doesn't hear anything about when 682 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,200 this will end. And it goes on for decades. 683 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,300 He doesn't hear anything about when the Babylonians will 684 00:46:14,300 --> 00:46:16,700 finally get theirs. Right? 685 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:23,100 Didn't hear anything about that? We trust God and that trust it 686 00:46:23,107 --> 00:46:26,700 creates this holy contentment. And when you have wholly, 687 00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:29,700 consent moments in the Lord and the middle of great problems, 688 00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:34,800 you will not lose heart. In the midst of your troubling 689 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:39,700 days, in the midst of your difficulties, he recalls, 690 00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:42,200 Israel's deliverance from Egyptian bondage, he recalls 691 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,900 their safe Passage through the Red Sea. 692 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,700 He recalls their defeat of the Canaanite enemies, the 693 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:49,800 establishment of the promised land, I mean he goes through it, 694 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:56,100 recalling the actions. The god of the Covenants. 695 00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:00,900 In verse 13. He mentioned something that's 696 00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:02,800 really amazing. He mentions the words. 697 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,000 You're annoying. It Says, you went out for the 698 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,700 Salvation of your people for the Salvation of your anointed. 699 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,700 This word, this reference is a reference to the davidic king. 700 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:22,400 Your anointed is a reference to the davidic kingdom, to the 701 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,700 people that he represents. Which recalls God's covenant 702 00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:28,800 that he made to David and second Samuel seven. 703 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,400 So again, we're just recalling. The Covenant works of God here. 704 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,300 What's really amazing about this? 705 00:47:36,300 --> 00:47:41,000 Is this word that's used here is the Hebrew word from which we 706 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,700 get Messiah. So Hebrew word, from which we 707 00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:50,700 get Messiah. How many of the Messiah is the 708 00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:55,200 final davidic are the Messiah, is the one who's going to 709 00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,300 represent God's people, but that Messiah had not yet come in 710 00:48:00,300 --> 00:48:02,600 habakkuk today. And this is why. 711 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,200 When Matthew and Matthew chapter 1, he's writing to the Jews 712 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,900 largely. This is why he introduces 713 00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,900 Christ. As the son of Abraham, the son 714 00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:14,400 of David, Because he's recalling the covenants. 715 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,300 We went over this as we talked about it but there are big 716 00:48:16,300 --> 00:48:21,100 picture series but he's recalling the Covenant that God 717 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:25,700 made with Abraham that he re-establishes with David. 718 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,400 That there will be one born one who rules. 719 00:48:29,700 --> 00:48:33,400 There will be no end to his Reign and hearing habakkuk. 720 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,700 You have a reference to the anointed one. 721 00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:41,000 And renewing God's faithfulness in Israel's history, habakkuk 722 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,500 can face his fears with faith. You can face his fears with 723 00:48:45,500 --> 00:48:51,600 trust in the God of all history. What the? 724 00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:57,900 At the high point in human history, the most amazing point, 725 00:48:57,900 --> 00:49:01,600 the most amazing thing that's ever taken place on Earth. 726 00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:09,000 The Messiah did come God. The son became man. 727 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,900 Dwelled among them. He lived among them. 728 00:49:12,900 --> 00:49:16,400 He died for them. For all who would call on his 729 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:17,900 name. He died for them. 730 00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:25,600 And on that cross on that cross God in his wrath remembers 731 00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:30,500 Mercy. I'm not saying he saved his son. 732 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,500 He saved his people through his son. 733 00:49:35,300 --> 00:49:40,000 At the Cross of Christ, God's Wrath is poured out on Christ. 734 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,500 Isaiah 53. We read that it was the will of 735 00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:51,000 the Lord to crush him. And so his wrath. 736 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,700 God's Wrath God, the Father pours out his wrath on his own 737 00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:58,300 son so that we who trust in Christ might be washed clean. 738 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,000 In an astounding Act of Mercy. Grace. 739 00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,300 Undeserved on ironed. So you and I are the 740 00:50:12,300 --> 00:50:16,400 beneficiaries of a stronger Revelation than what habakkuk 741 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:24,300 had So often we think, man, if the Lord would just show up and 742 00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:26,300 talk to me the way he talks to habakkuk. 743 00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,400 Wow. Of course I'd have holy 744 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,200 consents. Brothers and sisters, the Lord 745 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,100 shows up in your home. Every time you open this. 746 00:50:39,500 --> 00:50:42,500 He shows up in your life every time you open his word and you 747 00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:47,400 read it and choose to believe it, the Lord turns Hearts 748 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,700 through his word. The same way, he was turning 749 00:50:50,700 --> 00:50:52,700 Hearts through his word here in habakkuk. 750 00:50:54,800 --> 00:51:00,500 His word is our greatest hope and so we live in an age of 751 00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:03,800 stronger, Revelation, what I mean by stronger is this more 752 00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,400 revealed? We don't even have to wonder who 753 00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,500 the anointed one is. It's being prayed for here. 754 00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:09,400 We know it's Christ. Jesus. 755 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:13,700 Is that we place our hope in him? 756 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,800 And in his resurrection, he gives us. 757 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:24,400 The ability to come boldly to the throne of grace, Hebrew 758 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,500 says, and in that moment, as you come boldly to the throne of 759 00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:29,400 grace, you go boldly to the Lord. 760 00:51:29,500 --> 00:51:33,800 You know, that you have a savior, you have high priest who 761 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,500 sympathizes with you in your weakness. 762 00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:39,600 He was tempted in all the ways you are yet without sin. 763 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,200 And so the argument goes, well, he was tempted in all the ways. 764 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,300 I am yet without sin. How can he sympathize with me? 765 00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:52,500 It's a good question. But here's the answer. 766 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:59,900 God, the son, Jesus Christ. Went all the way to the end of 767 00:51:59,900 --> 00:52:06,100 Temptation and did not sin. And you might make it five 768 00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:10,400 minutes before you give him 10 minutes before you give in. 769 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:18,200 God, son, drinking fool. And so he sympathizes with you 770 00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:22,600 and all of your weaknesses and he bids, you come to the throne 771 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:27,000 of grace and find Mercy and Grace in your time of need calm. 772 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,700 Come the writer of Hebrews tells us in Hebrews 7:25 that Jesus 773 00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:36,900 Christ is able to save to the uttermost as finally forever. 774 00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:42,600 That's with out, doubt, he's saved to the uttermost, all who 775 00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:47,500 call upon his name, or all who go before him come to him. 776 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:57,400 Amen, he saves to the uttermost. Everyone comes to God through 777 00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,700 Jesus Christ. I'm see God through Jesus Christ 778 00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:07,400 and so we have a hope in Christ that is undefiled It's not 779 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,000 defiled. Your circumstances, getting a 780 00:53:10,008 --> 00:53:12,500 filing your doubts. Can't the file that your fear 781 00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:15,000 cannot defile. It, you have a hope that is 782 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,900 sure, quote Hebrews again, Hebrews 6 he says that this hope 783 00:53:18,900 --> 00:53:22,300 is a sure and steady anchor for your soul. 784 00:53:24,700 --> 00:53:29,500 Praise God. It's kept in heaven for you. 785 00:53:31,700 --> 00:53:36,200 The enemies of God or not infiltrating heaven to take away 786 00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,300 the hope that God has for you. The enemies of God are not 787 00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:44,500 prying back, the hand of God as he holds you according to John 788 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:48,800 chapter 10. When he holds you, no one can 789 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:53,500 snatch you away from him. All of this leads habakkuk into 790 00:53:53,500 --> 00:53:59,900 a new verse to his Prayer song. Maybe this, these verses are the 791 00:53:59,900 --> 00:54:03,100 only part that's a song again, we're not really sure, but 792 00:54:03,100 --> 00:54:07,200 because it starts with that odd word that begins with an S 793 00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,500 there. In verse 1, we can rightly 794 00:54:09,500 --> 00:54:14,000 deduce that this is probably all This is probably all song. 795 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,700 This is what he says. He says though the Fig Tree 796 00:54:16,700 --> 00:54:21,700 should not blossom. More fruit be on the vines, the 797 00:54:21,700 --> 00:54:26,700 produce of the olive fail and the fields, yield no food. 798 00:54:27,100 --> 00:54:29,900 The flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the 799 00:54:29,900 --> 00:54:33,400 Stalls means there's nothing right. 800 00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:37,200 There's no food. There's no survival. 801 00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:45,500 There's nothing but death. He says yet, I will rejoice in 802 00:54:45,700 --> 00:54:48,100 the Lord. I will take joy in the god of my 803 00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:53,300 salvation. God, the Lord is my strength. 804 00:54:54,700 --> 00:54:58,100 He makes my feet. Like the deers he makes me tread 805 00:54:58,100 --> 00:55:03,800 on my high places. To the choirmaster, the string 806 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:07,300 instruments. But I did that, he makes my 807 00:55:07,300 --> 00:55:08,500 feet. Like the deers you makes me 808 00:55:08,500 --> 00:55:11,300 tread on high places. What did habakkuk look like in 809 00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:16,600 verse 16. He says there in 16, he says, I 810 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:18,400 hear in my body, trembles my lips. 811 00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,300 Quiver at the sound. Rottenness entered into my 812 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:22,700 bones. My legs trembled beneath me. 813 00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:32,300 You've ever surveyed deer on landscape of any, any kind of 814 00:55:32,300 --> 00:55:34,400 terrain? It's amazing. 815 00:55:35,100 --> 00:55:38,600 It sure it's steady. And this is what he's saying. 816 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:43,500 The Lord makes me sure. He makes me Steady In the middle 817 00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:48,600 of difficult Rocky terrain, he makes me tread on high places 818 00:55:48,900 --> 00:55:55,000 even though I feel very low. Back at now understands that, 819 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,800 even if all food is removed, even if death is at my front 820 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,700 door yet, I will rejoice in the Lord. 821 00:56:02,700 --> 00:56:05,600 I will take my joy. I will take joy in the god of my 822 00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:10,100 salvation. God, the Lord is my strength. 823 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,900 One commentator kind of sums up these things. 824 00:56:17,100 --> 00:56:21,400 He says this is a bit lengthy so I'll just recite it like it's a 825 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,400 I'll read it to you like I'm preaching it still the 826 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:28,300 recounting of God's faithfulness and Israel's past which is what 827 00:56:28,300 --> 00:56:31,500 we see in verses 1 through 15. Draws our minds to the Great and 828 00:56:31,500 --> 00:56:35,100 Mighty Deeds of the Lord on behalf of his people down 829 00:56:35,100 --> 00:56:37,000 through history. All right? 830 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:37,900 So it's just what we've been saying. 831 00:56:37,900 --> 00:56:40,800 We re Calling All The Works of God here and he seemed down 832 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,100 through history that God has been faithful. 833 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:47,200 He goes on to say in all these deliverances these Provisions, 834 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:51,100 they foreshadow the ultimate Mighty deed of History, which is 835 00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,500 the coming of Christ, when the fullness of time had come, which 836 00:56:54,500 --> 00:56:57,100 is how Paul describes in Galatians. 4:4 when the fullness 837 00:56:57,100 --> 00:57:01,300 of time had come Christ came, the ultimate fulfillment of 838 00:57:01,300 --> 00:57:03,300 God's. Covenant promises to his people 839 00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:08,100 is found in Jesus through his life, his death, his 840 00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:10,400 resurrection. He delivers us from sins 841 00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:12,200 bondage. He brings us safely through 842 00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:16,300 death to life and thus, he Feet are greatest enemies which are 843 00:57:16,300 --> 00:57:20,900 Satan sin and death. And at the end of History 844 00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:25,300 Christ, will establish Us in the Eternal Promise Land Of Heaven. 845 00:57:28,300 --> 00:57:31,100 He goes on to write. This is why even amid many 846 00:57:31,100 --> 00:57:36,400 difficulties and uncertainties, we can continue to quietly wait 847 00:57:36,500 --> 00:57:40,800 as a bacchic says in verse 16 and rejoice in the Lord. 848 00:57:42,100 --> 00:57:45,200 And prayer looking to him as the god of my salvation. 849 00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:50,200 When life, crumbles all around us, we need not despair. 850 00:57:50,300 --> 00:57:52,400 God has not abandoned his purposes. 851 00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,300 He remains with us even in the trials and struggles. 852 00:57:55,700 --> 00:57:59,700 Jesus Christ, has brought us to himself, we are restored to God. 853 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:02,600 He'll cannot touch us for we say. 854 00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:08,100 God, the Lord is my strength and we will rejoice in God. 855 00:58:12,100 --> 00:58:15,300 And Romans chapter 8, Paul's recalling just the grace, the 856 00:58:15,300 --> 00:58:19,700 massive amount of Grace. It has been displayed in Christ 857 00:58:19,700 --> 00:58:23,500 Jesus. And he says this, he says, what, 858 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:25,700 What then shall we say to these things? 859 00:58:25,700 --> 00:58:28,600 It's amazing salvation. We have if God is for us, who 860 00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,900 can be against us, He who did not spare his own son, but gave 861 00:58:32,900 --> 00:58:36,600 him up for us all. How will he not also with him? 862 00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:40,800 Graciously, give us all things who shall bring any charge 863 00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:47,000 against God's elect. It is God, who justifies who is 864 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:51,000 to condemn Christ? Jesus is the one who died, more 865 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,400 than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God who 866 00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:58,600 indeed his inner seating for us brothers and sisters. 867 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:02,600 The very Son of God is now interceding for you. 868 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,700 This is why he's able to save to the uttermost all who draw near 869 00:59:05,700 --> 00:59:10,700 to God through him. Who shall separate us. 870 00:59:10,700 --> 00:59:14,000 Paul goes on to writing chapter 8 of Romans who shall separate 871 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:18,800 us from the love of Christ, shall tribulation, or distress 872 00:59:19,300 --> 00:59:26,100 or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword. 873 00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,200 As it is written for your sake, we were being killed all the day 874 00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,300 long. We are regarded as sheep to be 875 00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,900 slaughtered. No, he says, in verse 37, and 876 00:59:36,900 --> 00:59:40,800 all these things we are more than conquerors through him, who 877 00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,200 loved us for. I'm sure that neither death nor 878 00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,400 life nor angels, nor rulers nor things present, nor things to 879 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:51,900 come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all 880 00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:56,300 creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God 881 00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,100 in Christ Jesus. Our lord. 882 01:00:06,500 --> 01:00:10,400 There's nothing. That should fortify your faith 883 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,500 like the words there. At the end of Romans 8. 884 01:00:16,100 --> 01:00:18,200 I mentioned Philippians 4 earlier, this is what Paul 885 01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,400 writes of 11 through 13. He says where I've learned in 886 01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:24,000 whatever situation I am to be content. 887 01:00:25,100 --> 01:00:28,700 Whatever situation I am to be content but God I don't like it 888 01:00:28,900 --> 01:00:32,200 be content. But you don't understand this 889 01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:36,000 really horrible thing. That someone's done, be content. 890 01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:45,700 Be content. but call you really don't get it like contentment. 891 01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:51,300 And simply but I've got these bills that are due contentment. 892 01:00:54,700 --> 01:00:57,000 I've got these desires that are going unfulfilled. 893 01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,300 Contentment. Be content. 894 01:01:03,700 --> 01:01:08,800 I know how to be brought low. Paul says and I know how to 895 01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:14,800 abound in any and every circumstance, somebody say any 896 01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:23,000 and every circumstance, I've learned the secret of facing 897 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,100 plenty and hunger, abundance and need who. 898 01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:28,800 I mean he just keeps piling it on here like nobody can look at 899 01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,800 this and say, well Paul, you really don't get my situation. 900 01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:35,700 It's kind of hard to say to somebody who was Shipwrecked 901 01:01:35,700 --> 01:01:37,500 multiple times bitten by a Viper. 902 01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:41,900 Eventually but headed stoned multiple times. 903 01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:48,000 Persecuted often, right? It's hard to look at that guy 904 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:52,100 and say, but you don't get it. In verse 13, he says I can do 905 01:01:52,100 --> 01:01:56,100 all things through him. Who strengthens me, praise God. 906 01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:02,200 The book of habakkuk ends with a prayer, that's a song. 907 01:02:03,900 --> 01:02:08,100 The bacchic started with worry, he started with fear, he started 908 01:02:08,100 --> 01:02:11,800 with doubt, he had lots of questions as he was looking at 909 01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:18,700 everything happening around him. and then as he takes those 910 01:02:18,700 --> 01:02:25,100 questions to the Lord, he changes his viewpoints was no 911 01:02:25,100 --> 01:02:29,000 more of this. God, this is happening over here 912 01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,900 and golly. These people over here acting 913 01:02:31,900 --> 01:02:35,900 like fools, they're sacrificing kids to Molech that the 914 01:02:35,900 --> 01:02:38,000 Babylonians are encroaching on this end. 915 01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,900 Another Idol. Really guys, Looking at 916 01:02:41,900 --> 01:02:45,400 everything around him. And then in his These acts of 917 01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,100 doubt and fear and all those things he does. 918 01:02:48,100 --> 01:02:54,300 What every faithful man or woman boy, or girl of God, should he 919 01:02:54,300 --> 01:02:59,500 goes in prayer to the Lord? And he says, God, I don't 920 01:02:59,500 --> 01:03:02,500 understand. I don't know where you are. 921 01:03:03,700 --> 01:03:07,800 Once God tells him, I'm here. In fact, this is from my hand 922 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:11,000 and it's for your good he's like how can this be for my good? 923 01:03:13,900 --> 01:03:15,800 God says, the righteous shall live by faith. 924 01:03:15,900 --> 01:03:18,100 Not forgotten. My people have not forgotten 925 01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:21,300 Justice. My glory will fill the earth. 926 01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:27,500 I sit enthroned in the heavens. He started by looking all around 927 01:03:27,500 --> 01:03:33,900 him, but he ends in worship. Jensen worship because he looked 928 01:03:33,900 --> 01:03:35,600 to God and he looked at God's wisdom. 929 01:03:38,300 --> 01:03:39,900 Look to God and he looked at God's wisdom. 930 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,000 This last chapter displays holy contentment. 931 01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:45,900 It's the same thing you see. In job is something we threw out 932 01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:47,400 the Psalms. This is the same thing. 933 01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:51,000 You saying, Paul for from Paul, in chapter 4, you see it 934 01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,500 throughout scripture, it's no different. 935 01:03:53,500 --> 01:03:57,500 The message is the same trust the Lord, in all circumstances. 936 01:04:00,500 --> 01:04:04,200 And you will experience, holy consent. 937 01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:10,900 Holy contentment is a huge sign of Christian maturity. 938 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:16,200 I won't say it's the peak. That's probably a bit too 939 01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:17,400 strong. I don't know that we ever 940 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,900 arrived at like this peak of Christian maturity but holy 941 01:04:19,900 --> 01:04:25,400 contentment is a huge development in Christian 942 01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,300 maturity. When you start to trust the 943 01:04:28,300 --> 01:04:32,200 providential plan of God so much so that you can walk and 944 01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:36,600 contentment. Now, you're doing something that 945 01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,900 the world will look at centers, will look at it and they'll say 946 01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:42,700 what in the world is wrong with you. 947 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:47,200 I want some of what you're having, all right? 948 01:04:49,300 --> 01:04:52,600 Basically, what habakkuk says is, though, today is awful and 949 01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,100 tomorrow is only going to get worse. 950 01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,300 I will rejoice in the god of my salvation. 951 01:04:59,500 --> 01:05:01,800 This is what Paul is saying in Romans 8 and Philippians 4. 952 01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:09,200 Our faith is not concerned about the what ifs of Life are because 953 01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:15,100 our faith teaches us that. Even if the worst happens, our 954 01:05:15,100 --> 01:05:20,100 God still Reigns. My God, still Ryan's. 955 01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:25,500 The righteous live by faith. Displaying a holy can sentiments 956 01:05:26,500 --> 01:05:29,100 in God's Providence me pray for you. 957 01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,000 Heavenly Father we love you. We thank you Lord for your 958 01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,200 kindness toward us. Thank you for your word. 959 01:05:38,500 --> 01:05:44,700 God, I pray that you would use your word now, to illuminate, 960 01:05:44,700 --> 01:05:48,400 the hearts and the minds Souls of those who were here today, 961 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,000 But help them to see your face more. 962 01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,900 Clearly helped them to trust you more fully. 963 01:05:56,300 --> 01:05:59,100 Help the Lord to find contentment and their 964 01:05:59,100 --> 01:06:03,500 circumstance and maybe contentment is letting go of 965 01:06:03,500 --> 01:06:06,700 something. Maybe it's repentance. 966 01:06:09,900 --> 01:06:14,800 Maybe it's forgiveness, maybe it's trust. 967 01:06:20,300 --> 01:06:23,400 Father, we know that it is tied to seeking your face. 968 01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:30,500 Seeking your wisdom. Seeking your word and to trust 969 01:06:30,500 --> 01:06:33,200 that you help us Lord to do that. 970 01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:39,700 Help us to do that. Father, if there is anyone in 971 01:06:39,700 --> 01:06:43,800 here who is an unbeliever, I pray that you would help them. 972 01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,900 Through this word that's in heard today to help them. 973 01:06:47,900 --> 01:06:51,300 See. Jesus Christ is the only way to 974 01:06:51,300 --> 01:06:54,400 Salvation. The only way, we are guaranteed 975 01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:58,400 salvation, to the uttermost is to come to you, father, through 976 01:06:58,700 --> 01:07:04,600 your son. What would you draw them to you, 977 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:08,900 by your spirits, grant them salvation and faith? 978 01:07:10,500 --> 01:07:16,200 Help them to know you today. And my father we love you as we 979 01:07:16,207 --> 01:07:20,700 declare the in song these words and only a holy God Lord, help 980 01:07:20,700 --> 01:07:23,100 us to sing it with conviction today. 981 01:07:24,300 --> 01:07:29,600 Of us to trust you help us to be encouraged As we sing together 982 01:07:29,900 --> 01:07:32,200 in Christ's name, I pray. Amen.