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For your waiting pleasure

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Who likes to wait in line?

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Sometimes waiting is pleasant, but oftentimes it is not.

For Habakkuk, it was not pleasurable and not even fully understood.

How about for Job, do you think it was fun and pleasurable?

Can you think of a time it has not been pleasurable waiting?

But what if waiting is exactly what God has ordered?

What if waiting includes some suffering (Rom8:17; Php1:29)

Suffer with Him, so that . . . .

glorified with Him

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to suffer for His sake.

Suffering is a part of Christian life, it may not be pleasant and we know there is no denying it.

Tonight we are going to look at some waiting and some suffering as exampled by Habakkuk.

Habakkuk’s Complaint

Look at the passage, what do you see, what do you notice, what sticks out to you?

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What is Habakkuk’s complaint?

Now, consider do we put demands on God?

As we look at this passage may we prayerfully consider (Php4:6)

(expand on this) keep in mind we are talking about a complaint, and the reality is Habakkuk is complaining about God’s inaction, as he see’s it.

what are we as Christians to do? Pray, make our requests known, and wait.

Now that brings us to God’s response

God’s Response

God hear’s our prayers doesn’t He?

He responds to our prayers, though we may not hear the response at times, or like the response, there really is no such thing as unanswered prayer is there?

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Hab1:

Questions to consider in this section

What is God telling them?

What is God doing?

What is this happening?

God is telling them He is raising up the Chaldeans against them.

He is using them as a tool against them.

Now, can God, will God use tools to get your attention?

If so, give an example.

Habakkuk’s first response

Habakkuk’s response is basically God You are too holy to use unholy people to do this.

Can we make that same judgement at times, when God raises up a tool to be used to get our attention.

An unconventional tool used in an unconventional way.

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Can you think of others God has used?

Pharoah

A Benjaminemite named Saul

A murder named David

What about in your own life?

God’s Charge

In this section God gives a charge and gives a reason with a purpose, don’t miss out on it.

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Hab2

Points to glean from this section

What is God’s charge to Habakkuk?

Why did He give the charge?

What was the desired result of the charge?

What were the people doing that brought the charge in the first place?

Can we do that too?

Do we trust in our works and our ways at times without trusting or turning to God to see if it is His way?

In reality God wanted to get their attention to get them to know they are trusting in the wrong things, just as we can at times.

His desire is for them to repent (change directions) and return to Him just like the wayward, the fallen, or even the complacent Christian will do, repent and return to first love.

Habakkuk’s Prayer; Change of heart

Repent, change your mind, change your heart, change your direction.

That is what we see happen in this section.

We can also see something that does not happen, but there is still hope that it will happen.

See if you catch it.

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So Habakkuk has a change of heart, He now understands reverential fear of the Lord and turns to Him to rely and trust in Him.

He knows God is just and as they are waiting for Him, waiting for deliverance, because He is just, there is suffering due to choices they made along the way, or compromises they made.

Notice the prayer is offered up before the deliverance, the thanksgiving is given before the deliverance, the praise is given in hope, in expectation, in faith knowing the Lord is faithful and will deliver.

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