God's Sovereignty

If God is Sovereign, Why is evil allowed to thrive?

Religious people - People who play church

They profess Christ with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lives. That is what an unforgiving world simply finds, unforgivable.

They profess Christ with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lives. That is what an unforgiving world simply finds, unforgivable.

“ I want to take you, by way of holy Scripture, into the presence of someone for whom life did not make sense, someone whose horizon foretold appalling and dreadful suffering for himself and God’s people, and yet who learned a divine perspective on suffering and trials—a perspective that altogether transformed him from a complainer and a questioner into a faith-filled worshiper of God.” HABAKKUK

The main question of Habakkuk is - Why is evil allowed to thrive?

Background on Habakkuk - 600 B.C. Egypt had taken Judah. Prideful Israelites living in sin. Pride cause God’s chosen people. Arrogant and full of sin, just like today.

God’s Sovereignty is always working -

God’s sovereignty at work -

Habakkuk calls out to God -

God answers -

He is eternally alive/ vs idols -

God’s plan - to discipline them by the attacking Babylonians

Ultimately the wicked will Pay -

Answer to if God is sovereign, why is evil allowed to thrive

but the Just shall live by his faith

“This encounter transforms Habakkuk’s heart before God. For as the third and final chapter of this brief book begins, the prophet we now see bears no resemblance to the man we saw in chapters 1 and 2. He has been transformed from questioning to praying, from confusion to certainty, from being perplexed to fully trusting in God.”

My Prayer - God transform my heart, renew your spirit in my heart

None of Habakkuk’s circumstances had actually changed, but yet for his heart, everything had changed.

- When ____ Christ is in His holy temple

“the prophet we now see bears no resemblance to the man we saw in chapters 1 and 2. He has been transformed from questioning to praying, from confusion to certainty, from being perplexed to fully trusting in God.”

Excerpt From: C.J. Mahaney & Mark Dever. “Humility.” Apple Books. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/humility/id421585927?mt=11

Elation Colour Chorus 48

Pride in your life or in a nation = God allowing things that seem contrary to his nature. Ultimately all we need to know is God is in his holy temple.

Excerpt From: C.J. Mahaney & Mark Dever. “Humility.” Apple Books. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/humility/id421585927?mt=11