1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,000 You have your Bible like for you to open it to habakkuk chapter 1 2 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:12,600 habakkuk chapter 1. You may think what is habakkuk? 3 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,700 It sounds like a loogie or the noise you make right before you 4 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,100 spit. It's it's it's true. 5 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:22,300 It does habakkuk is found in the Minor Prophets which is toward 6 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:25,500 the end of your Old Testament. It's after noon a home and 7 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:30,500 before Zephaniah. Again may be equally unhelpful, 8 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:34,400 I don't know, but I'm feeling a bit of extra energy today this 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,400 First time to preach in three weeks. 10 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:39,900 So you guys are really in for it today. 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,700 I apologize, but I'm happy to be here. 12 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:45,700 It's good to see you guys. I greatly miss being with you 13 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:48,800 last week. James, thank you once again for 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,500 stepping in and unfortunate circumstance. 15 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:55,000 And for preaching the word brother, it means a lot. 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,900 It's good to see you guys here today. 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,700 I hope your families are well habakkuk chapter one. 18 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,800 So there's a few things too. To talk about with the back, 19 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,500 I'll give you a little bit now and then I'll Prairie and I'll 20 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:12,100 give you a little bit more, but habakkuk is a an unusual 21 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:14,600 prophetic book. As we know, prophetic books, 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,800 usually prophetic books are written to the people of God to 23 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,500 tell something that God has spoken to them. 24 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:25,300 Now back is, is similar. God does tell habakkuk to write 25 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:28,000 down these oracle's write down, what you've seen, what you've 26 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,100 heard, but in habakkuk, we never see the people direct address 27 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:35,500 directly. Polly instead, it's a 28 00:01:35,508 --> 00:01:38,500 conversation between habakkuk and God. 29 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:43,800 And what habakkuk is doing, is he's questioning God, he's 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,000 questioning specifically, God's action or maybe even more 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,300 specifically the inaction of God, where, where are you? 32 00:01:53,300 --> 00:01:55,900 God? And so, the outline of a bacchic 33 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:58,800 is really simple to follow. It's only three chapters. 34 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,600 It's broken into three sections. If you have a study Bible or 35 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,500 something, it probably lays those out for you. 36 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:08,600 Are you they almost follow the chapter headings perfectly but 37 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,000 not quite what? We see in habakkuk are two 38 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,700 complaints and the prayer. The first complaint, there's two 39 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:18,400 complaints from habakkuk, there's two answers from God and 40 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:23,300 then there's a prayer and in the end and so habakkuk, first 41 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,600 complaint is what we'll be looking at today where habakkuk 42 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,500 is essentially asking God where are you In the middle of all of 43 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:33,900 this. And then God responds with a 44 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:35,300 response that I don't think, oh, back. 45 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,100 It was ready for. And so habakkuk, complains 46 00:02:38,100 --> 00:02:42,500 again, why are you doing this or how could you do this? 47 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:48,600 Why would you do this and God responds again and then 48 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:54,200 habakkuk, praise to God. The book of habakkuk teaches us 49 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:59,500 that the righteous live by faith or specifically what God says, 50 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:02,200 is that the righteous shall live by his faith? 51 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,600 It's a verse that the Apostle Paul uses three different times 52 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,800 in the New Testament, all in different letters to different 53 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,800 groups of people, and all reinforcing and different idea 54 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,300 about what the faith of the righteous is the first time. 55 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:25,100 Paul uses it as in Romans 1:17, or the first time we see it in 56 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:28,200 our new testament is in Romans 1:17 where Paul is talking, 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,300 specifically about justification that the righteous come alive. 58 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,600 By faith, the renewed by faith. The gospel specifically is the 59 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,200 power of Salvation to all who believe and so the righteous 60 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,200 live by faith. The second thing we second time, 61 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,900 we see it is in Galatians chapter 3, if you know anything 62 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:51,300 about the book of Galatians, the Galatians were guilty of running 63 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:56,100 back on their faith in Christ and turning back to Works. 64 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:59,900 They're turning to Works to sanctify. 65 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,200 Works to have faith. Then they're putting faith in 66 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:08,800 their own work so I should say. And so, in Galatians 3:11, Paul 67 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,500 uses this phrase, the righteous live by faith by letting them 68 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:17,200 know that the righteous are Sanctified by faith. 69 00:04:18,899 --> 00:04:21,700 So you have justification, which is the beginning of Faith, you 70 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:25,500 have sanctification, which is the process of Faith. 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,600 Thought from your first breath, as a new Christian to your final 72 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:37,300 breath. And then in Hebrews 10, verse 38 73 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,700 phrases used again. I know I said that all these are 74 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:44,500 used by Paul so that's putting my cards on the table as to. 75 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:49,100 I think the writer of Hebrews is most people don't I mean we 76 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,300 don't know who the writer of Hebrews is but that's that's a 77 00:04:51,308 --> 00:04:55,500 pretty widely held belief. Anyway there, he's talking 78 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:59,200 specifically about your glorification, the righteous 79 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,400 live by faith. And again he's encouraging the 80 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,900 Hebrews not to turn to works, but the Hold On by faith to 81 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:12,400 Christ until the very end. You will receive your due 82 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,800 reward. So it's talking about your 83 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,500 glorification. So what we see about this phrase 84 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:21,700 that the righteous shall live by his faith, is that the Christian 85 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:26,800 Life is a life of Faith. Amen, it's a life of Faith. 86 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,000 It's a life born of Faith. It's a life that's lived by 87 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,600 faith and it's a life that's consummated in faith. 88 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,700 It breathes his last breath in faith. 89 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:42,800 It goes to, its grave knowing that the grave has no, hold on 90 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:43,800 him. Amen. 91 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,800 And so from beginning to end the Christian Life is a life of 92 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,200 Faith received as a gift of God's grace. 93 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,300 But what do you do when your faith is rocked? 94 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,500 What do you do when your faith is in shambles or when your 95 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:08,100 faith is weak? Specifically, what do you do 96 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:14,600 when your faith is is rocked by world affairs? 97 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,400 What do you do when evil goes unpunished? 98 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:26,000 What do you do when good receives persecution and evil 99 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,100 receives reward? What do you do when it looks as 100 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:34,800 though the battle is being lost? What do you do when you're 101 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:40,700 pleading to God for mercy? And he appears silence Jasper, 102 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:43,900 Just prayed for the end of abortion. 103 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:48,100 It's a prayer that Louis likely all give a hearty. 104 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:51,400 Amen. To But if we are to look 105 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,900 honestly at the war on abortion, we would say we're losing. 106 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:03,000 And so our cry is for Mercy or cry, is for Justice For The 107 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:09,800 Unborn. but even in looking at that, we might think God, where 108 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:15,500 are you? This is what habakkuk is facing. 109 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,400 He's facing very much similar questions to what we face today. 110 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,800 And so this is a great book and it's a great book because it 111 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,700 teaches us as Christians how to respond. 112 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:31,600 It's much like the Book of Job and many other stories in 113 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:38,400 Scripture. Habakkuk teaches us that the 114 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:43,300 righteous live by faith. And today, what I want us to see 115 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:49,400 is that the faithful turn to God and their distress, the faithful 116 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,700 turn to God and their distress. Let me pray for us. 117 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:57,700 Heavenly Father. We thank you that you are with 118 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:59,900 us today. We thank you Lord that your word 119 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:06,800 is good and right and true. And father, we ask that you be 120 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,500 near to us today as we open up your word. 121 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:13,700 And as we read, we ask Lord that you would help us to know your 122 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:18,200 presence. God, we can look into our own 123 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,400 world and have many many questions that go. 124 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:26,300 That go unanswered. We can wonder God, where are 125 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:28,000 you? We can feel alone. 126 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,300 We can feel as though we've been forsaken. 127 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:37,000 And not just us as Christians here and America but all over 128 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,299 the globe. as we look at the persecution of our brothers and 129 00:08:41,299 --> 00:08:49,100 sisters, Across the world. God, would you help us to be 130 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:51,100 faithful? Would you help us to live by 131 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:53,000 faith? Would you use this book 132 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,700 habakkuk? Did you use your word? 133 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:03,400 To help us to live father truly live strengthen our faith. 134 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:08,400 Bolstered Lord, help us to learn how to live in Babylon. 135 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,400 As men and women of God as boys and girls who are seeking your 136 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,200 face. In Christ's name. 137 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,100 I pray this prayer. Amen. 138 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:22,500 As many of your Bible, studies point out. 139 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:25,600 There's various things about the background of habakkuk that are 140 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:28,800 really important for us to understand as we understand, why 141 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,200 is habakkuk lobbying. These complaint grenades at God, 142 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,400 why is he doing this? And so a couple of the things 143 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,000 that you want to know is how bacchic is likely a contemporary 144 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,000 of the prophets, Zephaniah and Jeremiah, he lived in 7th 145 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,500 Century BC, the only hint that we have. 146 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:53,900 That date is the prediction of the Babylonian Invasion or the 147 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:58,100 invasion of the Chaldeans, as you see in Chapter 1 Verse 6, 148 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:01,500 which will read here in a moment, but it's really unclear 149 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,700 to us how far into the future. That would be the book. 150 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:09,600 Just doesn't give us a lot by way of dating ability. 151 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,100 The Babylonians do not appear yet in this to be an imminent 152 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,000 threats when habakkuk was riding. 153 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,400 But it seems as though he could see the writing on the wall. 154 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,900 It seems as though he had a maybe even had a vision. 155 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:28,300 I don't know from the Lord about what was coming. 156 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:32,500 He seems very aware of the potential threats. 157 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:38,800 And so habakkuk timeframe for riding is probably not as most 158 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,900 Scholars point out. Probably not later than the end 159 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:45,800 of Josiah's. Ranking Josiah's ring, which was 160 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:52,900 in 642 609 BC. Long time ago. 161 00:10:54,700 --> 00:11:00,700 Before Josiah was raining. As king Judah had radically 162 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,400 turned away from God. Under the leadership of the 163 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:10,400 extremely Wicked Kings Manasseh and Amon that the nation was 164 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:16,600 right, for punishments, Judah was supposed to be the nation of 165 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:22,300 God's people. But the people had become 166 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:27,100 morally and spiritually corrupt, they were worshiping by Al on 167 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:29,800 the high places, they were brutally. 168 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:36,100 Murdering is a better word than sacrifice of brutally murdering 169 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,100 their children as a sacrifice to Molech. 170 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,200 They were allowing the temple to fall into ruin and many other 171 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:49,300 such calamities. The place was not happy. 172 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,500 It was not full of joy. Jude experience. 173 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:55,900 The significance, though. Short-lived time of Revival. 174 00:11:55,900 --> 00:12:00,800 If you will during Josiah's rain when we're He restored, the all 175 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:06,200 here, instituted, the Feast of the Passover, he reminded them 176 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,600 of the word of God and tried to abide by it. 177 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:15,200 Tried to get the nation to abide by its Remember, The God Who had 178 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:20,100 delivered them so many times before. but the nation return 179 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:25,200 quickly to its evil ways following his death It was a 180 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,400 politically turbulent time as well. 181 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,200 There's much going on outside of Judah, not only within Judah, 182 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,700 but outside of Judah, Assyria had ruled Judah with a heavy 183 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:38,300 hand for well over 100 years inflicted punishments. 184 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,100 On them. But Assyria was beginning to 185 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:46,200 weaken. And soon Babylon would be the 186 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,100 world power. A backache probably lived to see 187 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:52,600 the following events. The destruction of Nineveh by 188 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,600 Babylon and 612 the Battle of haran and 609 in which King 189 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,300 Josiah died, as he tried to hinder the Egyptians from 190 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:06,200 reaching the battle. He probably saw the final defeat 191 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,400 of this, the Assyrians at the Battle of Kharkov, mesh and 605 192 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,200 and he possibly saw the Fulfillment of his own prophecy, 193 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,900 which is the Babylonian invasion of Judah in 605 and 597 and in 194 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:23,800 586 BC. Habakkuk. 195 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:30,400 It's seen a lot spiritually. Spiritual corruptness, it's in 196 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:37,200 political upheaval. A backache lived during a time 197 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:43,400 of great turmoil. And it, especially that turmoil, 198 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,200 especially resulted in the persecution of God's people. 199 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:53,100 Now, as I'm reading that, as I was studying this and one of the 200 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:56,500 reasons I want to present this book to you, I hope it's obvious 201 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:02,000 now that there's bears and this is something we want to be we 202 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,800 want to be careful of but this Bears many resemblances to our 203 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,700 own day and time. Not only in what we're seeing in 204 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,400 America but just world-wide right now. 205 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,500 Again I don't think that the nation of I want to make this 206 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:18,200 clear. The nation of America is not How 207 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,400 the nation of Judah. Right. 208 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,700 But what we see is the persecution of God's people 209 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:27,100 because evil is prevailing and what we see is God's people are 210 00:14:27,108 --> 00:14:33,400 God's man God's Prophet coming to God saying where are you? 211 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:45,400 And I feel that deep in my soul. I do, I'm sure many of you do. 212 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:54,900 The people are worshipping false gods. 213 00:14:56,700 --> 00:15:03,100 The people today worship, many false gods, Many of the people 214 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:05,500 who are worshiping the false gods in habakkuk. 215 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,100 Are people who once considered themselves, God's people, and 216 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:14,000 today many of the people who are worshiping false gods and our 217 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,800 time are those who once considered themselves, God's 218 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,700 people, the people are sacrificing children. 219 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:28,200 To Molech. This is not unlike the 220 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,800 modern-day Gina side. We soften by simply calling it a 221 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:40,500 boarding, a clump of cells. And so, somebody making tests 222 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:43,100 for what God, our babies being offered to. 223 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:46,800 Well, I would say it's the god of their own comfort and 224 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,800 entitlements, it's the god of their own belly. 225 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:57,500 Pun intended, right? They destroyed the temple. 226 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,600 The place that was initially meant for God's residents his 227 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:04,500 worship. We know that today on the 228 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:08,000 backside of the death and resurrection of Christ, the 229 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,400 sending of the holy spirit that we are the Temple of the Holy 230 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,100 Spirit, God resides in us not in buildings or tents to be moved 231 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:20,100 around but no less today. Are Christians and local 232 00:16:20,100 --> 00:16:23,100 churches being destroyed by the wicked. 233 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:31,500 Amen. And so a backache looks at the 234 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,800 mounting and the further incoming destruction. 235 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,800 He sees what's going on. He says God, where are you? 236 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:47,600 Where are you? I want everybody to listen to me 237 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,900 for just a second because I think this is one of the most 238 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:52,900 important things we learn from habakkuk. 239 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:57,300 I think it's one of the things we have to remember, We have to 240 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:03,600 remember this. Believers, you are not promised. 241 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:09,000 You are not promised by God to be saved from Babylonian 242 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,800 captivity. You are not promised by God to 243 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:18,300 be saved from Babylonian persecution and Earthly rule. 244 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:34,300 You may experience it. in many ways, we are experiencing But 245 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:37,100 what you are? Chao. 246 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,700 Is that you have a refuge in God? 247 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:47,400 Always. And you are shown in this book. 248 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:52,700 How Christians are to live faithful to God when under 249 00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:58,900 Babylonian rule in captivity? That's what the bakic teaches 250 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:01,200 us. And I think the challenge goes a 251 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:08,200 bit further than that parents. You have been given the 252 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:15,300 god-given rights to raise children, who will be arrows in 253 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:18,300 the hands of warrior Psalm says and 127. 254 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:25,300 To fight. Against the Babylonian rule. 255 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:36,500 Believers, you are lights in the world that is ruled by Darkness. 256 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:47,300 I was talking with a dear brother the other day and and 257 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:54,100 one of the things we were discussing is just how maybe sad 258 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:59,800 is a good word. it is that we live at a time right now where 259 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:09,200 Christians men, Old men men who in Titus 2 or supposed to be 260 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:15,000 leading the charge for young men, training, young men. 261 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:21,000 I hear old men lamenting Oh, I'm so glad I don't have to raise 262 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:31,200 four children in this world. And I think that I've reached 263 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,700 the moment where my response will change. 264 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,200 Used to it was just kind of a soft chuckle in like a, I 265 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,700 understand. But how? 266 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:52,600 How cowardice is that statement? As a belief as someone who 267 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:56,500 professes to Believe In The Sovereign Rule and authority of 268 00:19:56,500 --> 00:20:03,100 God? And so my response, that least 269 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:06,400 the gut feeling I have the confidence, I have in Christ. 270 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:12,400 Is that not how terrible is it? But how fortunate in my eye? 271 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,700 To get to raise children in this world. 272 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:23,100 Praise God for the opportunity. Praise God for it. 273 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:30,300 You see, you don't choose. Babylonian rule. 274 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,600 It's not something you just wander into one day or wake up 275 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,000 one day saying man I would love to live under the rule of the 276 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,800 Babylonians. It's chosen for you by the 277 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,400 faithless naseeb generations that have gone before you. 278 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:53,300 And what you're responsible for, is your faithfulness in the 279 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:55,500 generation that you're currently dwelling in. 280 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:02,700 How will I change the future? So you don't do this just as 281 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:06,700 parents just one that's one application points. 282 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:09,600 You don't have to be a parent to raise arrows. 283 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,600 You raise Arrows by raising disciples, amen, disciples. 284 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,300 Don't have to be your children. If you're a parent those are 285 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:19,100 your first disciples. Absolutely. 286 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:22,600 If you're not a parent God hasn't solved for whatever 287 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,100 reason to make you a parent yet and maybe he never does then 288 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:28,800 he's given you an incredible opportunity to be a disciple 289 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,700 maker either way as a child of God. 290 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:36,500 And so you get to make disciples You to make disciples. 291 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,300 And so again, I think one of the main things about habakkuk is 292 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:45,100 that Babylonian rule happens. And you might look at Americans. 293 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:47,200 Oh man this is really tough. What we're going through blah 294 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,600 blah, blah of a change over the last 100 years. 50 years even 20 295 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,100 years. It's like nothing we've ever 296 00:21:55,100 --> 00:22:00,000 seen sure, I don't disagree with you, but do you realize how 297 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,400 fortunate we've been to live in America? 298 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,500 There were brothers and sisters all over the world who have 299 00:22:04,500 --> 00:22:07,000 never experienced the freedom we've experienced. 300 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,800 And yet in persecution, the church thrives the church grows. 301 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:17,200 In fact, persecution has a way of weeding outs, unbelievers, 302 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,100 separating the wheat, from, the chaff. 303 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:21,600 How do we know who's in, and who's out? 304 00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:23,900 Let them endure persecution and we'll find out. 305 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,500 You'll know for sure then who's in and who's out? 306 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:37,300 So voting matters standing for the right things matters. 307 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,500 Absolutely. But what matters most is your 308 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:44,700 day-to-day to commitment to the Lord to serve him as his 309 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,800 disciple to grow in Christ likeness and to make other 310 00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:51,100 disciples. That's what matters. 311 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:56,700 Because you have to prepare people to live under Babylonian 312 00:22:56,700 --> 00:23:00,900 rule. And, and weather. 313 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,200 Whether it comes or not faithfulness is the only way to 314 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:11,100 live in it. And so back is a book that's 315 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:14,800 about the Judgment of God. On God's people. 316 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:22,900 And how he uses. evil people to exercise, his judgement on 317 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:27,900 seemingly are people who think they are good, but that way, 318 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:40,100 Look at verse 11. The Oracle that habakkuk the 319 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:43,300 prophet saws, so in Chapter 2, he sold a write this down. 320 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:45,300 So that's his that's his introduction. 321 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:51,600 Here's the Oracle that I saw. Now here's his complaints in 322 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:56,600 verse 2, through 4 O Lord. How long shall I cry for help 323 00:23:56,900 --> 00:24:02,500 and you will not hear or cry to you violence, and you will not 324 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:06,200 save. Why do you make me see iniquity? 325 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,100 And why do you idly look at wrong? 326 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:14,700 Destruction and violence are before me strife and contention 327 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,100 arise. So the law is paralyzed and 328 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:22,600 Justice. Never goes forth for the wicked. 329 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,600 Surround the righteous so Justice Goes Forth, perverted 330 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,200 When you can hear in his voice right though. 331 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:38,200 The pain, the suffering, the doubt, the fear, the Calamity, 332 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,700 that's all around him, and God why? 333 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,200 Why are you silent? Where are you? 334 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,000 Before we get into God's reply, I want you to see at least three 335 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,600 things that that I think back it does that show us how the 336 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,600 faithful go to God in their distress. 337 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:04,500 Because you can go to God in your distress in a sinful way. 338 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,100 And you can go to God in your distress and a righteous way. 339 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:14,300 And I think a back it comes largely in a righteous way. 340 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,200 Here's a few things that I think helped us see that the first is 341 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,000 that habakkuk remembers his Covenant with God. 342 00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:25,800 How do we know he remembers his Covenant with God? 343 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,500 He didn't name his Covenant. Did he? 344 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:31,000 He didn't say God, I'm one of your Covenant people. 345 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,300 I mean mentions the righteous so maybe that's a hint but the very 346 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:37,300 first hint we have is that he uses the Covenant name for God 347 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:43,900 lord. it says, oh Lord, this This is how the Covenant people 348 00:25:43,900 --> 00:25:49,300 of God address God. And so the use of the name Lord 349 00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:52,300 emphasizes his relationship with God. 350 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,800 And what we need to take from this is that the presence of 351 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,800 evil the presence of suffering or not negating. 352 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,200 His relationship with God. They're not taking it away these 353 00:26:03,300 --> 00:26:05,600 tumultuous times that he's experiencing. 354 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:12,700 Don't make him run from God. They make him run to God, right? 355 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,700 Oh Lord! Where are you? 356 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:24,400 He's running to God. God's faithful people turn to 357 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,100 him during their distress. Well the first thing is we need 358 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:30,200 to see they remember their Covenant with him. 359 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,000 O Lord. Where Are You? 360 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:38,600 O Lord. You see, in using the Covenant 361 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,800 name of God. He's also recalling past works 362 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,200 of God. He knows that he can call on God 363 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,300 because he has the past works of God to point to and say, God 364 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:49,700 hears for you were faithful to deliver your people. 365 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,200 Where are you now? This is why remembering your 366 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,200 Covenant matters. Is why knowing your scriptures 367 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,000 matters? You were not alone when you 368 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,700 question where is God you stand in a line of great great 369 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:06,500 company. Many Believers across thousands 370 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:09,300 of years who are saying the very same thing. 371 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:16,100 Oh Lord where are you? It's like a thing. 372 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:20,700 I observed here about habakkuk dealing with the Lord. 373 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:24,100 And this way is that he deals honestly with God. 374 00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:26,900 First thing is you remembers his Covenant but the second thing is 375 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:31,300 that he deals honestly with God, he doesn't sugarcoat his 376 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:37,100 complaints. What would it matter boys and 377 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:40,200 girls would it matter? If he had tried to hide his 378 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,600 thoughts from the Lord, or does the Lord know everything? 379 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:47,600 Any boy or girl want to take a shot at the young ones? 380 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,200 Yeah it's God know everything. Yeah he does. 381 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,100 All right, God knows all things. So we can't hide our thoughts 382 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:59,500 from him. Now, the boys and girls are 383 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:01,200 shrinking down there. She's like, please don't call 384 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:08,700 him me. So habakkuk comes honestly 385 00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:11,000 before the Lord. He says, how long shall I cry to 386 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,500 you? In other words this has been 387 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:14,600 going on a while. This isn't his first prayer. 388 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:18,300 How long shall I continue to do this? 389 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:20,800 Lord. Where are you? 390 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:26,300 Why do you idly look at wrong? In other words, why do you 391 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:30,900 twiddle your thumbs? While wrong is being done to 392 00:28:30,900 --> 00:28:37,200 your people. Habakkuk is observing the 393 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,400 spiritual Corruption of God's people. 394 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,300 He's observing the tumultuous political pressure going on all 395 00:28:45,300 --> 00:28:51,000 around him in the world and the prophet begins to doubt, maybe. 396 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,400 Maybe doubts, beginning to creep in. 397 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,600 Maybe the mockers are getting to him, you know, the outside 398 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,300 voices. Who say, where is your god when 399 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:02,300 they look at evil, right? This is one of the great 400 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:07,200 atheistic questions of the day. If God is good, and if God 401 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,700 exists, why is there evil in the world? 402 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,600 I'm sure habakkuk was hearing similar. 403 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:21,600 Thoughts. The prophet begins to doubt 404 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,800 potentially whether there will be Justice against evil, whether 405 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,100 there will be Mercy shown to the faithful. 406 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:33,400 Where are you? God, how long shall I cry to 407 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,300 you? Are you going to show your 408 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:36,100 people? Mercy? 409 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:39,600 Have you, forsaken us? Where are you? 410 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,500 God, will you allow evil to go unpunished? 411 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,400 I'll back. It goes on to make some 412 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:55,900 accusations against God. He says the law is paralyzed And 413 00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:59,800 he says, justice never goes forth. 414 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,700 These are heavy accusations against the Lord. 415 00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:11,300 Well, the one thing, the prophet recognized for sure, is that the 416 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:16,400 Mosaic law had no perceivable effect on the people, it wasn't 417 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,200 changing the nation, the, the Mosaic law, The Ten 418 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,700 Commandments, right? And all the rest had no 419 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:27,800 perceivable effect on the world. People were still evil God's 420 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,600 people even were turning away from God and turning to idol 421 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:36,500 worship. What's commandment number one? 422 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,100 I shall have no other gods before me. 423 00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:44,200 Commandment number two, don't worship. 424 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,900 Idols, don't make any thing in my image and worship it. 425 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:54,800 The people have disobeyed, the first two Commandments. 426 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,300 And he looks and he says, the law must be paralyzed. 427 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:08,100 It's not working. And so the prophet thinks that 428 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:13,400 God silence is causing Injustice to fester and to grow like a 429 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,200 wound. That's becoming infected. 430 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,900 It's getting worse and worse and it's affecting the whole body. 431 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:29,400 And he's not wrong. This festering, it is growing. 432 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,600 The wicked were surrounding the righteous. 433 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:40,500 He says And throughout the history of God's people from 434 00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:47,300 Genesis to revelation. Into where we are today. 435 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,100 The children of God have often expressed these same complaints 436 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,800 job made the very same complaints to God. 437 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,900 Job even tries to justify himself in the process and which 438 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:08,200 he receives a hearty rebuke, From God. 439 00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:13,300 And from a friend, there is a rights Israelites wondered where 440 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:17,700 God was during their Wilderness journey is God, even Among Us, 441 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:28,700 they said, so the the righteous bring their distress to the 442 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:30,800 Lord. That go to the Lord in their 443 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,600 distress but they do it by remembering his Covenant name, 444 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:36,900 remembering their Covenant with him. 445 00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:42,100 And they do it by dealing honestly with God. 446 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:47,200 The third thing that I think of bacchic recognizes that I think 447 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,800 we must recognize and this is one of the things that keeps us 448 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,200 from being sinful and our approach is that habakkuk 449 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,800 understood the sovereignty of God in all this. 450 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,000 Again, I think this is one of the things that grounds us. 451 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,600 It's one of the things that helps us remain humble. 452 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:09,500 Before the Lord, how long will I cry to you for help? 453 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:14,200 And you will not hear or cry to you violence, and you will not 454 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,000 save. Why do you make me see iniquity? 455 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,600 And why do you look idly at wrong? 456 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:25,100 You see all the use the word you in there? 457 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:32,400 He's holding God responsible. But it but he's holding God 458 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,500 responsible because he knows that God is sovereign. 459 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:41,000 He knows that God that the sovereignty of God means is it 460 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,100 means that God is the supreme ruler of all things. 461 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:49,600 Not merely objects or persons but he is the ruler of every 462 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:55,200 events of History. Nothing happens apart from the 463 00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,800 hand of God. And his Sovereign rule by 464 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,600 definition is not subject to anything or anyone outside of 465 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,100 himself. It is his own God works all 466 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:12,400 things together for the purpose of his own Glory. 467 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,199 And His glory will spread throughout the Earth that will 468 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:19,300 cover the earth. Isaiah says, as the waters, 469 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:23,900 Cover the Earth. Psalm 115 3. 470 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:27,500 The psalmist there says our God is in the heavens and he does 471 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,699 all that. He pleases she got is not 472 00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:36,800 forwarded in his plans, not once not at all. 473 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,300 And so habakkuk, recognizing this truth, he goes to the 474 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:47,699 source He seeks answers for his complaints from the only one who 475 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:54,000 could give an answer. You see the presence of evil 476 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,100 gives the appearance of the absence of God, but it does not 477 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:01,300 prove the absence of God. All right. 478 00:35:03,100 --> 00:35:06,000 Especially as evil grows, especially as it begins to kind 479 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,200 of overwhelm God's people. It can. 480 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:17,100 It can look, Like God is absent. But the righteous walk by faith, 481 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:18,900 they don't walk by sight. That's what First Corinthians 482 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:23,200 tells us or we may say as it said here that the righteous 483 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:29,800 live by faith And not by sight. Another words, the righteous man 484 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,400 or woman the righteous boy or girl does not. 485 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,300 Look at the events going on around him and decide whether or 486 00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:39,800 not he or she is going to remain faithful to God. 487 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,300 The righteous person looks at the events going on around them 488 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:48,500 and says, no matter what I'm going to remain faithful to the 489 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:52,100 Lord. He is worthy of my faithfulness 490 00:35:52,100 --> 00:35:56,000 because he is always faithful and steadfast and love. 491 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:02,400 Never relented. Habakkuk teaches us how we 492 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,400 properly bring our complaints to God. 493 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,100 It is true that the faithful turn to God in their distress 494 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:11,900 with the faithful do. So in faith, they don't do it as 495 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:16,200 unbelievers. Unbelievers mock, God, 496 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:23,700 unbelievers mock, his people unbelievers scoff, Someone uses 497 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:27,400 this illustration so perfectly. It talks about not sitting in 498 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,500 the presence of scoffers, not standing in the way of Sinners 499 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:41,000 not, not being like the mockers, But this is what unbelievers, do 500 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000 they mock God and they mock his people. 501 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,500 They look weak. Look at them believing in their 502 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:49,900 fairy tale. God, who is non-existent? 503 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:52,900 He's clearly non-existent. Because evil is present if he 504 00:36:52,900 --> 00:36:54,800 were really good. There would be no evil. 505 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,500 Right. And that's what they say, right? 506 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:05,800 Agreeing It's really just a straw man argument. 507 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,800 Believers on the other hand, They come to God in faith. 508 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,100 And so just to kind of reiterate what I've just told you 509 00:37:17,300 --> 00:37:20,500 believers do that. They come to the Lord by and 510 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:23,300 Faith by remembering their Covenant with him. 511 00:37:24,300 --> 00:37:26,300 If you missed that the first time around, that's step one. 512 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:31,900 Remember your Covenant with God, he is your Lord because he saved 513 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:36,100 you by his grace through faith. If you were in Christ, Jesus. 514 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,100 It's because of the work of God Almighty. 515 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:45,800 On your behalf, do not forget your salvation Just because the 516 00:37:45,808 --> 00:37:51,600 world is burning around you. Believers deal. 517 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:56,400 Honestly with God. It's okay to question God. 518 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,400 What are you up to? What's going on? 519 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:02,900 It's normal to feel alone at times. 520 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:08,800 It's normal to wonder. It's normal to doubt your 521 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,500 finite. You're not infinite. 522 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,800 The Bible, clearly states, that his ways are higher than our 523 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,700 ways. His thoughts are greater than 524 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:20,200 our thoughts. How could you think on the same 525 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,000 level of God, you can't. So, what is your natural 526 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,500 response going to be? It's going to be times of doubt 527 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:28,900 and fear. Worry, anxiety. 528 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,800 Bring those to the Lord Faithfully. 529 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,200 Third thing they do is they understand the sovereignty of 530 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,700 God. God is completely in control of 531 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:49,400 all things at all times. Nothing happens. 532 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:54,900 Apart from his hand. R.c., Sproul, the late Caster 533 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:57,300 r.c., Sproul. He had this wonderful quote, he 534 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:01,400 said if there's one Maverick molecule, if there's one 535 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:06,100 molecule that decides to do its own thing and all the universe, 536 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:10,700 then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, he 537 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:17,700 is not God. So faithful Christians, may not 538 00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:20,600 understand why something happens, we make question it, 539 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,500 but you can trust that all things happen. 540 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:27,600 According to God's Sovereign Rule and so when a Christian 541 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:29,400 does, is it Christian learns to pray? 542 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:39,400 Then like this God help me. Help me see your glory. 543 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:43,800 During all of this helped me. See your Sovereign hand at work 544 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,300 and all of this helped me to overcome my fears and my 545 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:55,200 frustrations and my doubts. Help me God That's how you 546 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,600 Faithfully Pray when you're seeking answers. 547 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:05,200 Prayers like that over and over again though. 548 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,300 They may not receive the answer you're looking for. 549 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,100 But you may not have all the knowledge of God in a moment. 550 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:20,000 Prayers like that produce Joy. Prayers like that, produce 551 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,700 strength prayers, like that produce, comfort, and peace, and 552 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:28,400 faith during times of distress prayers, like that, helped you 553 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:32,000 and the Brotherhood of Christians keep marching 554 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,800 forward. You recognize and moments of 555 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,400 dependents that you are not alone. 556 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:43,800 God gives you all sorts of things that you cannot handle, 557 00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:53,200 so that you will depend on him. If God only gave you things, you 558 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,700 could handle, you would be God, not him. 559 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:01,300 God doesn't want you to be God, he created you to worship and 560 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:04,300 glorify his name, not yours. Amen. 561 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:08,000 So you come under, Babylonian rule, you come under Babylonian 562 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,100 impact, you come under the impact of Sinners. 563 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:14,200 You come under persecution, you come under Strife, you come 564 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,300 under difficulty, so that you will learn to praise the name of 565 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:21,000 the Lord, most high above every other name. 566 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,000 It teaches you to be humble it, teaches you. 567 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:34,800 To not think by my strength, look how awesome I am. teaches 568 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,100 you to trust and The Only Name That's worthy of trust, the name 569 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:47,100 of Jesus Christ, Our Lord And that happens in those prayers, 570 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:52,800 whether it's about personal distress or Global distress. 571 00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:56,400 Would you look at God's response? 572 00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,300 I promise to be a bit shorter here. 573 00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:09,200 Habakkuk 15 through 11. Look among the Nations and see 574 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,300 wonder and be astounded. God says, for I am doing a work 575 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,800 in your days that you would not believe if told for behold I'm 576 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,700 raising up the Chaldeans. That's the Babylonians that 577 00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:26,300 bitter and Hasty Nation, who marched through the breadth of 578 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:29,100 the earth to seize dwellings that are not their own. 579 00:42:29,100 --> 00:42:32,300 That means they're coming to take y'all stuff. 580 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,600 Right. It's like done every other 581 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,700 persons. They're coming for you. 582 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,900 They are dreaded and fearsome their Justice and their dignity 583 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:50,800 go forth from themselves. Their horses are swifter than 584 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,800 leopards more Fierce than the evening. 585 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:57,200 Wolves, their Horsemen press proudly on their Horsemen come 586 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,500 from afar. They Fly Like an Eagle Swift to 587 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:04,500 devour. They all come for violence, all 588 00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:09,400 their faces, forward together, captives like sand. 589 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,000 You ever taken a handful of sand and just hold it. 590 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,100 And who knows? How many? 591 00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:20,200 Potentially millions of grains of sand. 592 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:26,400 You're grabbing in one handful. All their faces are forward. 593 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,900 The captures likes, and at Kings, they scoff at rulers, 594 00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:34,300 they laugh. They're not afraid of any ruler. 595 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:38,700 They laugh at every Fortress for they pile up Earth and take it. 596 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:41,400 This means that this is kind of a neat. 597 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,300 God is telling of a battle tactic that they had where they 598 00:43:44,300 --> 00:43:48,500 would pile up the ground in front of fortresses, in order to 599 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:53,100 get over the Fortress and take the place, I mean, they're 600 00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:58,900 moving dirt literally to get into your place and season and 601 00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:06,100 you and your family. I think about the spiritual 602 00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:09,400 significant that Suzy kind of survey the landscape. 603 00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:15,600 The Babylonians are piling up ground all around us today. 604 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,000 And I don't mean necessarily in a physical sense, I mean more in 605 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:27,600 a spiritual sense. They're coming for Christianity. 606 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:33,500 They've already begun. You're raising children and a 607 00:44:33,508 --> 00:44:37,200 time where? You might even but your children 608 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,500 will certainly see. Barring a great Revival, of 609 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:43,900 course. That that anything that 610 00:44:43,900 --> 00:44:48,200 professes to be Christian is hate speech. 611 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:55,000 Condemnable likely. My Punishment of law. 612 00:44:57,900 --> 00:45:00,700 This isn't fear-mongering I think you need to know how to 613 00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:03,900 raise your children. How to raise disciples? 614 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:07,000 How to think about your own Christianity and just how 615 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:13,400 serious this is. In these days. men, it's time 616 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,800 for you to stop sitting on the sidelines, if you are I don't 617 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,900 know any other way to put it. We need you, women, we need you, 618 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:27,000 we need faithful men and women to run after the Lord, God above 619 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,800 all else. Harder Than You, Train Your 620 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,000 Body. Harder than you train for work. 621 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,800 Harder than you train anything else. 622 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,000 You need to train yourself for godliness because it matters 623 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,700 right now in your life more than it's ever mattered before. 624 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:50,400 Man, I love you. I really expected more. 625 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:55,600 I'm insane. Not for me but because you see 626 00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:02,100 the desperation of this. But know that you don't beat the 627 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:06,600 air as a boxer, beats the air, you don't train for something 628 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,000 that you're not gifted to train for the. 629 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,400 Holy Spirit has filled you with life and godliness for this very 630 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,800 time. And as you turn from sin as you 631 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,900 turn from your own desires and you turn to the Lord, he fills 632 00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:25,300 you up. With the fruit of the spirit. 633 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,100 And you get to go into battle with the Lord's army. 634 00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:39,800 As a Christian, it's a man or woman with Christ written across 635 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,900 your heart. It matters. 636 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,100 God in verse 11. He says then they sweep by like 637 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:55,100 the wind and go on another words. 638 00:46:55,100 --> 00:47:02,600 I just It's like the destruction of a F5. 639 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:07,800 Tornado on a small town. There's just nothing left, the 640 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,100 suite by like the wind and they go on guilty men. 641 00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:14,600 Here's where the righteous hangs. 642 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:20,000 His hat guilty men, whose own might is their God. 643 00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:25,900 You should God and his response, he doesn't tell, he doesn't tell 644 00:47:25,900 --> 00:47:28,400 habakkuk what he wants to hear. This is not what habakkuk came. 645 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,700 Looking for back at came looking for immediate relief. 646 00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:34,500 Immediate Mercy, he doesn't get it. 647 00:47:34,500 --> 00:47:36,800 What he says is, oh, it's about to get worse. 648 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,700 But what you can trust is that they are guilty men. 649 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000 And there might is their own God. 650 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:52,100 God has judged them right even though he's letting them. 651 00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:55,800 Act. He's using them as an act of 652 00:47:55,800 --> 00:48:03,200 judgment against Judah. God is saying, I'm among you. 653 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,800 I'm with you. I'm here to help you. 654 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:10,400 I will bring them Justice. But I'm going to do it through 655 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,800 this violent and prideful Nation. 656 00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:16,100 I'm going to use them, and that's why he says you would not 657 00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:19,000 believe it. Even if told the prophet refused 658 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,000 to believe that a just, God would use the sinful Babylonians 659 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,800 to deal with his people. But again, God's sovereignty is 660 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,800 on display. He says, I am raising up the 661 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,300 Chaldeans. He doesn't say the child beans 662 00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:32,300 are coming. He says, I am raising up the 663 00:48:32,308 --> 00:48:36,500 Chaldeans for this purpose. This is The Sovereign Judgment 664 00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:41,700 of God on his people. God controls everything. 665 00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:44,900 He uses Nations even for his own purposes. 666 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:49,000 The god of habakkuk is the same God, we serve today. 667 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,300 He knows the Chaldeans are bitter and Hasty Nation. 668 00:48:53,300 --> 00:48:57,100 He calls them that he says they're guilty yet. 669 00:48:57,100 --> 00:48:59,700 He will use their character to punish Judah. 670 00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:04,000 They've dominated the world. They're destroying lives through 671 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,700 murder, in captivity. Their own might, is their God, 672 00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:12,500 according to the Lord. And it's in that that you see a 673 00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:15,500 glimpse of their impending, judgments. 674 00:49:16,500 --> 00:49:20,100 God's response doesn't silence habakkuk for long. 675 00:49:20,100 --> 00:49:24,000 He will see next week, his second complaints there. 676 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,600 Habakkuk essentially says, how could you do this? 677 00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:33,800 God, how could you use an evil and perverse people? 678 00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:39,000 To exercise judgment. On your people. 679 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:50,900 Let me wrap this up for us. That this perplexing response 680 00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:52,100 through this perplexing response. 681 00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:55,900 God, challenges, not only habakkuk Faith, but ours as 682 00:49:55,900 --> 00:50:00,400 well. That God can bring about good 683 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,100 from Evil. Is a theme that Echoes down 684 00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:06,000 through the whole Bible. You see it? 685 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,700 One of the first times you see, it is. 686 00:50:08,100 --> 00:50:10,800 Well let me see it everywhere. You see in Genesis 3, but 687 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,600 Genesis 50 is one of the times where it's so plain to us as 688 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,500 Joseph. There makes a statement to his 689 00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:18,800 brothers after they sold him into captivity. 690 00:50:19,100 --> 00:50:23,200 He lives in prison for a while. He becomes a dream, he's able to 691 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,800 interpret dreams for Pharaoh, he gains a lot of prominence of 692 00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,000 gains, a lot of authority. And he's able to deliver God's 693 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,300 people. And this is what he says to his 694 00:50:30,300 --> 00:50:32,800 brothers, as they realize what they've done the place they've 695 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,000 given him and now he's saved them and they're repenting of 696 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,400 it. He says, as for you, you meant 697 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,500 evil against me, but God meant it for good. 698 00:50:42,700 --> 00:50:54,200 God used evil in my life for good. it takes a ton of faith 699 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:58,400 and yet a small minutiae Faith at the same time to be able to 700 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:05,600 say God used evil for my good. But that's what Joseph does. 701 00:51:06,700 --> 00:51:10,500 The Apostle Paul reaffirms this, he expounds on it for the sake 702 00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:15,300 of time, I can't read it all goodness sake of time while 703 00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:18,400 Romans 8:28. And we know that for those who 704 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,300 love God, all things work together for good. 705 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,300 For those who are called according to his purpose. 706 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,800 That's that's the Apostle Paul essentially restating what 707 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:34,200 Joseph said in Genesis 50 but then in 29, through 38, sorry, 708 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,900 39. He He just expounds on it. 709 00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:43,100 He goes so much further. Encourage you to read that if 710 00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:46,300 you're struggling. The best thing though, about 711 00:51:46,300 --> 00:51:51,900 God's have back response to habakkuk is that it also really 712 00:51:51,900 --> 00:51:55,500 hang with me, just for a minute here, it also foreshadows the 713 00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:59,100 ultimate good. It foreshadows when we look 714 00:51:59,100 --> 00:52:01,300 forward to something, right? It tells us something that's 715 00:52:01,300 --> 00:52:05,400 coming and this is what happens in this God saying. 716 00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,900 I'm going to use something evil for your good. 717 00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:14,500 God is foreshadowing. The ultimate moment of when evil 718 00:52:14,500 --> 00:52:22,400 is used for good, and that's in Eternal salvation, Eternal 719 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:27,600 salvation. Your Eternal salvation was 720 00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,800 accomplished through the ultimate Evil. 721 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:39,700 There is only one man who ever walked the face of the Earth. 722 00:52:40,900 --> 00:52:48,700 who was punished, put to death, unrighteous Unjustly. 723 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,900 Everyone else whether in so you can make that set me right now. 724 00:52:52,900 --> 00:52:55,400 There's probably evidence of somebody who was, you know, 725 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,500 received the death penalty who wasn't really guilty. 726 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:01,200 Well, maybe they weren't guilty of that crime, but they're 727 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,900 guilty before God. Right? 728 00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,800 And so, this is why all men die. But not all men. 729 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:12,000 Stay dead. There is eternal salvation in 730 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,600 Christ, Jesus. And that comes through the 731 00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,300 ultimate Evil. The execution of the sinless Son 732 00:53:18,300 --> 00:53:23,500 of God upon a cross. I don't know if you recall, I 733 00:53:23,500 --> 00:53:27,000 want to recall for you Acts chapter 2 verse 22, through 24 734 00:53:27,300 --> 00:53:31,100 Peter is towards the end of his sermon on the day of Pentecost, 735 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:36,900 and he makes a seemingly wild statement about what's just 736 00:53:36,900 --> 00:53:39,800 taking place to Jesus Christ, and this is what he says. 737 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:45,200 He says, men of Israel. Hear these words, Jesus of 738 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:50,800 Nazareth, a man attested to you, by God, with Mighty works, and 739 00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,200 wonders, and signs. That God. 740 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:57,100 Did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. this 741 00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:01,600 Jesus, Peter says, And he's standing before a crowd of 742 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,100 people who are just there listening intently at what in 743 00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:07,600 the world is just happened to the disciples as they begin 744 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,500 speaking in tongues and their proclaiming, the excellencies of 745 00:54:10,500 --> 00:54:13,000 God and languages, they didn't previously know. 746 00:54:14,700 --> 00:54:18,700 And so he has a captive audience especially of men of Israel. 747 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,400 Who just days earlier, put to Death Christ Jesus. 748 00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:28,600 And this is what he says, this Jesus. 749 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,800 Delivered up according to the definite plan and for knowledge 750 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:41,300 of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of Lawless men. 751 00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:50,400 Wow. You see what? 752 00:54:51,300 --> 00:54:56,200 Peter is saying, he's saying that the hands of Lawless men 753 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,700 put to death, the only person who ever fulfilled the law, who 754 00:55:00,700 --> 00:55:03,200 only who they only person ever kept it perfectly the only 755 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:08,400 sinless person to live And that they did that, according to the 756 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:13,000 definite plan and foreknowledge of God, it was not a part from 757 00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:15,900 the hand of God. The decree of God. 758 00:55:15,900 --> 00:55:21,400 God worked evil. The greatest evil for your 759 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:22,200 greatest. Good. 760 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:26,000 That you might be saved from your sins by belief in him. 761 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:32,900 Amen. Peter goes on God raised him up. 762 00:55:32,900 --> 00:55:37,900 Loosing the Pains of death because it was not it was not 763 00:55:37,900 --> 00:55:40,600 possible for him to be held by it. 764 00:55:41,900 --> 00:55:46,500 Praise God. And so what we see is that in 765 00:55:46,500 --> 00:55:53,100 the unfathomable wisdom of God, on that cross, Justice and mercy 766 00:55:53,300 --> 00:55:59,400 met Justice and mercy met Jesus receives the penalty. 767 00:56:00,100 --> 00:56:03,100 That the justice of God requires for sin, which is death. 768 00:56:03,100 --> 00:56:06,300 According to Romans 6:23 for the wages of sin is death. 769 00:56:06,300 --> 00:56:10,500 Jesus received the penalty and the justice of God for sin. 770 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:15,500 And we receive through faith, God's mercy, and forgiveness of 771 00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:18,300 sin and the promise of eternal life. 772 00:56:18,300 --> 00:56:23,200 Amen. Justice and mercy meet. 773 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,400 Paul in Romans chapter 3 says, but now the righteousness of God 774 00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:29,900 has been manifested apart from the law of the law and the 775 00:56:29,900 --> 00:56:32,900 prophets bear witness to it. The righteousness of God through 776 00:56:32,900 --> 00:56:37,500 faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe for there is no 777 00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:41,200 distinction, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 778 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:44,200 All are justified by his grace as a gift through the 779 00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:48,400 Redemption. That are in that is in Christ. 780 00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,700 Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation. 781 00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:56,200 That is a payment a substitute by his blood to be received by 782 00:56:56,500 --> 00:57:00,500 faith. If you were going to be saved 783 00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:04,000 from your sins today, it will not be through your works. 784 00:57:04,300 --> 00:57:05,800 It will not be through your evil. 785 00:57:05,900 --> 00:57:07,800 It will not be through. Fleeting your own case. 786 00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:10,900 It will be by humbling yourself before the Lord and placing your 787 00:57:10,900 --> 00:57:13,400 faith in Jesus Christ for the Forgiveness of your sins. 788 00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:17,200 Repent, repent. Repent of your sins, turn to 789 00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,400 Christ and live eternally with Jesus. 790 00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:26,700 Pleaded of you. And then help us make disciples. 791 00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,500 Help us spread the light of the Gospel into all the Earth. 792 00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:41,200 It says that this was to show God's righteousness, he can't be 793 00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,500 accused of being unrighteous because he's righteous because 794 00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:47,400 in his Divine forbearance, he had passed over former sins. 795 00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,600 It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he 796 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:55,900 might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in 797 00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:59,400 Jesus. You see, if God Justified people 798 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,400 apart from the sacrifice of Christ, that would not be just 799 00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,000 That would be unjust to overlook sin. 800 00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:13,600 Instead he condemns Jesus to death so that he can righteously 801 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,600 justify us by faith in Christ Jesus. 802 00:58:17,300 --> 00:58:20,200 Praise God. And this is why we can continue 803 00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:25,800 to have faith amid frustration. God's providential use of people 804 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,500 and events is both purposeful and personal. 805 00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:32,000 It's meant for your good. It's meant for the good of his 806 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,500 people. The righteous will never be. 807 00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:44,000 Forsaken ever. Believers in here today, live by 808 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,300 faith. In Jesus Christ. 809 00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:52,900 Walk by faith in Christ. Not by the side of your 810 00:58:52,900 --> 00:58:56,200 circumstances. Go to God and your distress. 811 00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,000 Whether that distress is personal or Global trustee. 812 00:59:01,900 --> 00:59:06,200 Unbelievers. All have sinned and fallen short 813 00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,700 of the glory of God and are justified by his grace. 814 00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:12,800 As a gift through the Redemption that is in Christ. 815 00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,700 Jesus, God put forward as a propitiation by his blood to be 816 00:59:17,700 --> 00:59:26,000 received by faith receive Jesus Christ today by faith in him. 817 00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,100 Amen, me pray for you. Heavenly Father, we love you. 818 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,400 We thank you, Lord, for your kindness and your goodness 819 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,100 toward us. And ask Lord that you would help 820 00:59:36,100 --> 00:59:39,600 us too. Turn to you in order to stress 821 00:59:40,100 --> 00:59:43,700 to honor you as only, you can be honored. 822 00:59:45,900 --> 00:59:48,400 Help us to live lives. That glorify your name, Above 823 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:55,300 All Else, Above All Else. Father, forgive us of our sins. 824 00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:00,800 Forgive us Lord of perpetuating the sins of our forefathers. 825 01:00:02,700 --> 01:00:09,100 Forgive us. Lord for being unaware, even Of 826 01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:10,900 sin. That's inherited. 827 01:00:10,900 --> 01:00:18,800 Warrant Lord, would you help us to see our sin and to repent of 828 01:00:18,900 --> 01:00:21,100 that? We might be faithful men and 829 01:00:21,100 --> 01:00:24,300 women that we might be faithful boys and girls of Jesus Christ. 830 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,400 God, we don't know what's in store for the world at all. 831 01:00:32,700 --> 01:00:34,300 We don't know what's in store for our day. 832 01:00:34,300 --> 01:00:36,300 We don't know what's in store for our lifetime. 833 01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:40,700 But we know that we have the honor. 834 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,000 We have the opportunity to live for you. 835 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:47,900 Above all else, to serve your name and all that. 836 01:00:47,900 --> 01:00:53,800 We do to glorify you in this earth help us to do that. 837 01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:59,300 Personally. but you first, in all things to trust you Above 838 01:00:59,300 --> 01:01:07,100 All Else, And God help us Make Disciples of all nations of all 839 01:01:07,100 --> 01:01:11,100 people, whether they live down the street from us or the live 840 01:01:11,100 --> 01:01:14,700 across the globe. Bless our efforts, Lord help us 841 01:01:14,700 --> 01:01:18,000 to serve you. We thank you Lord for the 842 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:23,400 opportunity of granted to us. Lord, we ask that you would save 843 01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:27,200 Sinners by your grace to do it through your word. 844 01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:31,100 You do it through your calling, what they would hear your call 845 01:01:31,100 --> 01:01:33,800 and could not run from it any longer. 846 01:01:36,700 --> 01:01:40,700 May we see hearts change right here in Magnolia Columbia 847 01:01:40,700 --> 01:01:44,400 County. Lord, may you grow your church? 848 01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:51,500 Grow your people in this place? That we might glorify your name. 849 01:01:54,100 --> 01:01:59,700 We love you submit ourselves to you, amen? 850 01:01:54,100 --> 01:01:59,700 We love you submit ourselves to you, amen?