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Introduction
Introduction
What does it mean to be a believer?
A person of faith?
A person who lives by faith.
· 3 times in the NT, we find this phrase – the righteous will live by faith – , ,
· This is a quote from - “but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Does this mean?
· Going to church?
· Keeping all the fasts?
· Believing the right doctrine?
· Praying to God in times of emergency?
· Expecting God to keep you health and wealth?
I think Habakkuk shows us a much richer and fuller understanding of what it means to live by faith.
· Habakkuk has been given a difficult message by the Lord.
God has asked him to accept this message and believe it, even though it is not the message that Habakkuk had hoped for.
· But Habakkuk accepts the message, and demonstrates his faith in his response to God’s message.
Asking God to make his glory known
A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet.
On shigionoth.
LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD.
Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
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This prayer indicates that the prophet now has no further arguments to make.
· He has made his complaint, heard God’s answer and come to realize that God is in control and will in his time punish the wicked.
· Now he leads God’s people to an acceptance of what the Lord has revealed to him.
It begins with worship
· The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.
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· He comes to recognize again how great God really is – and how small and weak he is.
I stand in awe
· God had told him that he would be amazed – “Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
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· Adopts an attitude of humility, submission, fear
· Leadership retreat in Thailand – Spiritual audit.
“Have I maintained genuine awe of God?”
· “Is the awe of God growing in me?
The awe of God inspires, it overwhelms, it intimidates my humanness, and it inspires worship.”
o I realized this was one area where I was not doing well.
o Over time, we can become too familiar with God.
We don’t treat him with the awe and respect and fear that he deserves
o A month of meditating on passages about awe and reverence in Scripture.
Make your glory known again
· I have heard what you have done in the past.
Do it again.
Encore!
· You promised, For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
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· I want that to happen.
· Like praying, “Your kingdom come.”
· Not a prayer for God to make things easier for Israel.
Habakkuk is fully accepting God’s plan.
He knows that if God will answer this prayer, life will be hard.
They will go through terrifying times.
Many of his people will suffer.
· But his concern – God’s glory
· Recognition that God’s glory would be seen in his wrath and punishment upon the wicked.
Recognition that this would also make life very difficult for Israel.
But Habakkuk, because he is a man of faith, wants this to happen.
This is his heart’s desire.
But don't forget to be merciful as you display your wrath.
· In wrath remember mercy.
In the midst of the storm, please give us indications that you still love us and won’t pour out your whole wrath on us.
· You are a great, holy, just God – you will punish the wicked
· But you are also a merciful God – you do not give us what we deserve
· Your mercy also demonstrates your glory
· Be merciful as you display your wrath.
Spare your people even though they are also deserving of punishment.
· Why can we ask God to be merciful?
Because of Jesus.
God’s wrath was poured out on Jesus.
So now we don’t experience God’s wrath.
· Dave Loewen’s response to the question, “How are you?”
o How are we expected to answer this question in English?
o Better than I deserve.
Meditating on what God has done in the past
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.
His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.
His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.
Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.
He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed— but he marches on forever.
I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
Were you angry with the rivers, LORD?
Was your wrath against the streams?
Did you rage against the sea when you rode your horses and your chariots to victory?
You uncovered your bow, you called for many arrows.
You split the earth with rivers; the mountains saw you and writhed.
Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.
Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.
You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one.
You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.
You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.
I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
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Habakkuk’s vision of God coming in wrath and power – 3:3-16a
· it is a time of tremendous upheaval
· But it is also a time of deliverance
· God is coming – and it is going to be amazing
He refers to various stories of what God had done for his people in the past
· 3:5 - Plagues & pestilence – reference to how God punished the Egyptians and the Israelites in the wilderness and during the time of King David
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