SUNDAY NOTES 7.12.26
Today’s Setlist:
Take You At Your Word
Rest on Us
Fall Like Rain
Center
SERMON NOTES
Habakkuk week 2
“God is Working in the Chaos”
Verses We Love (Out of Context)
Matt 18:20:
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Matt 28:20:
And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Philippians 4:13:
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
John 16:33
In this world you will have trouble
Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well
Matthew 6:19
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Habakkuk 1:5-11
“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. I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own. They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand. They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them. Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”
Habakkuk 1:12-17
Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you have ordained them to punish. Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler. The wicked foe pulls them up with hooks, catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food. Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
The World Is More Broken Than We Often Realize
Habakkuk laments real violence, real injustice
Sin and evil are universal — Romans 3:23.
God never rebukes him for the complaint. Noticing evil isn't the problem.
God Is Always Working, Even When His Work Confuses Us
God's answer: Babylon. Not judgment on the wicked out there but judgment that starts at home.
Habakkuk assumed God should judge their evil before His own people's evil.
"We all want justice...
until justice points in our direction."
Faith Waits When
Understanding Cannot
"Faith isn't formed after God explains everything.
Faith is formed while you're waiting for the explanation."
