Act II
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Intro.
Intro.
Review/ A holy complaint
I. Confidently Confused
I. Confidently Confused
A. Habakkuk’s Theology is what satbilizes his confusion
A. Habakkuk’s Theology is what satbilizes his confusion
1. Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my holy one?
1. Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my holy one?
a. Rhetorical-of course he is!
a. Rhetorical-of course he is!
So why would ask this in his prayer/complaint?
So why would ask this in his prayer/complaint?
b. Notice he is using the covenant name for God.
b. Notice he is using the covenant name for God.
Why does he use this?
Why does he use this?
His theology is stablizing is confusion. God you are eternal, you do not change. You are the same yesterday, today and forever.
His theology is stablizing is confusion. God you are eternal, you do not change. You are the same yesterday, today and forever.
We shall not die? Why not, because God, has made covenantal promises, that he intends to fulfill and Habbakuk is banking on the character of God.
God is in control of the judgement and discipline, Babylon and every other world power is on the leash of God.
2. You are of purer eyes than to see evil & cannot look at wrong
2. You are of purer eyes than to see evil & cannot look at wrong
a. God is holy
a. God is holy
b. Which causes perplexity
b. Which causes perplexity
Here we see Habakkuk is solid in his theology but clouded/confused in the moment.
Just a few verses he was complaining of all the injustice in Israel and yet he is saying God how can you use the wicked to swallow up the rightous.
Some may say he is talking about the rightous remnant, but I dont think he is.
God will tolerate sin and injustice for a while but then as says I will turn them over to wrath. I will give them up, yall want to do each other like that, will i will bring a babylonian empire that will do to you what you are doing to the people.
3. Clouded by the Cruelty of the Chaldeans
3. Clouded by the Cruelty of the Chaldeans
a. We are nothing
a. We are nothing
b. Chaldeans are strong and wicked
b. Chaldeans are strong and wicked
B. Habakkuk’s Demeanor
B. Habakkuk’s Demeanor
II. God’s Reply
II. God’s Reply
A. Your Role
A. Your Role
1. Write the vision
1. Write the vision
2. Communicate the vision
2. Communicate the vision
B. What God Speaks He accomplishes
B. What God Speaks He accomplishes
1. vision waits its appointed time
1. vision waits its appointed time
2. it will happen
2. it will happen
3.be patient
3.be patient
4. it will happen
4. it will happen
C. The Proud and the Rightous
C. The Proud and the Rightous
1. His soul is puffed up
1. His soul is puffed up
2. But the rightous will live by faith
2. But the rightous will live by faith
D. God’s three fold charge against babylon
D. God’s three fold charge against babylon
1. Drunkeness Leads to Discontentment
1. Drunkeness Leads to Discontentment
2. Devoted to Greed
2. Devoted to Greed
3. Driven by ambition and lust for conquest.
3. Driven by ambition and lust for conquest.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Are you grounded in theology? When bad things hapen are you driven to the Lord? Do you cling to him and his promises?
In our day, the revelation is complete, but our role in our day is to faithfully communicate God’s word to the believing community and to a dying world? Are we faithful in doing so?
The Chaldeans were a proud people, but I also think that verse 4 impacted Habakkuk to his core. Does it us? We are faced with Habakkuk’s dilemma, we will continue to be proud like the Chaldean’s or we will trust God even when we don’t understand whats going on? It’s almost like God told habakkuk this is how the Chaldeans live, do you want to be like them and think you know best or are you going to trust me and my ways?