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8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 31 And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 4 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Feb. 2023 Summary and Goal Habakkuk is a remarkable book that records the dialogue between a confused yet…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 4 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Feb. 2023 Summary and Goal Habakkuk is a remarkable book that records the dialogue between a confused yet…

When You See Darkness... Back in the day, when we had Bibles that had paper pages, it was not difficult to see the personal Bible of fellow Christians. What I mean by that is that if you were to take a person’s Bible and hold it up, it would be easy to see what their personal canon was, that is the books…

Habakkuk’s Complaint Lsat week, we looked at the first part of Habakkuk, where he stated his complain to God, and his complaint was that all around him, he saw people doing evil. People were doing offensive things against God. And he was not simply looking outside his own community, he was looking at…

A troubling time. Judah just like Israel was under judgment from the Lord because of ungodly choices and living. They were looking like the world instead of being a light to the world. This is a oracle addressed in similar fashion as: Zephaniah and his prophesy to Judah (640-609 B.C.) Nahum pronouncing…

Intro: Questions! We all have them! Much of the time we value them because we were created with a desire to know. If you have a 2 or 3 year old all the questions can be annoying. Answers to our questions give us the opportunity to make adjustments and shape our lives. We can get with reality, or choose…

Habakkuk 1:6-13 God sees the big picture. God’s ways are not our ways. God is not in the comparison business.

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Habkkuk chapter 1. We will begin reading in verse 12 and we will read all the way through verse 4 of chapter 2. We began our study of Habakkuk last week with Habakkuk’s first complaint to the Lord. Habakkuk found himself…

12 Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord , you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof. 13 You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

What do we do as believers when things happen in our life, things outside of our control, and we look at those things and we say, “God, this doesn’t make any sense”? How do we respond? Or maybe we say it this way, “God, I sure would have done things differently if it were up to me.” (Side note- aren’t…

Intro Text - Habakkuk 2.1- 3 Title - Visions Demand Action Background Habakkuk ministered to a stubborn people - Judah Habakkuk cries out to God how long this situation will continue God promised to discipline His people through Babylon God tells Habakkuk to write the vision so that those who reads it…

Vision vi•sion \ˈvi-zhən\ noun 1 a: something seen in a dream, trance, or ecstasy especially : a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation b: a thought, concept, or object formed by the imagination 2 a: the act or power of imagination b (1): mode of seeing or conceiving (2): unusual discernment…

God responds to Habakkuk that the rightous shall live by faith.

How can I be happy? Good morning and welcome to CrossWay. Today's sermon, from the book of Habakkuk, is a continuation of our sermon series in the minor prophets titled, Eternal Questions From the Minor Prophets. Don’t let the word minor fool you. It merely means that the writings of these prophets,…

Introduction The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. O Lord , how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.…

What happens when I don’t like the answer God gives? We all hit points in life when we would rather be the ones making the rules, and Gods calls us back to remember that he is in control—even when it doesn’t feel that way.

Introduction Habakkuk means = to embrace, or to wrestle. One of the 12 minor prophets, who we don’t know much about. The book was written before 605 B.C. before the Babylonians became a significant threat at the battle of Carchemish in 605. By 597 the Babylonians had captured Jerusalem and taken the…

Prayer God wants to communicate with us God was the one who came down to the garden to see Adam The phrase “God said”, was spoken 41 times in the old testament 1,239 prophecies All of scripture is “breathed by God” God wants to communicate with us. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow…

Turn in your Bibles to Ps. 99:1-9 I have my work cut out for me today, I get to try to explain through the help of scripture, The Holiness of God. An impossible task to say the least. The word “holy” appears in the NKJV 669 time from Gen. - Rev. But what makes this topical description of God so challenging…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…