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Introduction
Habakkuk means = to embrace, or to wrestle.
One of the 12 minor prophets, who we don’t know much about.
The book was written before 605 B.C. before the Babylonians became a significant threat at the battle of Carchemish in 605.
By 597 the Babylonians had captured Jerusalem and taken the King of Judah captive, leading us into the book of Daniel.
So Habakkuk is the lead up to the book of Daniel historically.
It’s a story about a prophet who cry’s out to God because he doesn’t like when he sees around him, but when he receives his answer form God he wrestles with God over the process.
A Prophet Perplexed: Why Does God Permit Injustice?
(1:1–17).
A. Prophet’s first protest: A cry for deliverance from violence and iniquity (1:1–4).
What do you do when what you see with your eyes is so different then what you believe with your heart?
The prophet cry’s out for help, asking for injustice to be taken care of, the violence to end.
B. God’s first reply: The worst is yet to be (1:5–11).
God’s reply is interesting, instead of delivering His people from their poor behaviour, he tells Habakkuk that He is going to put them through hard times, using the Babylonians as their difficulty.
The Babylonians are horrible people, worse then God’s people, so Habakkuk is confused about why God would do such a thing to His own people.
Review “the Dip” Illustration Drawing.
Todays scripture picks up where we left off last week.
Habakkuk is wrestling with God over why He would take His people into the dip, instead of protecting them from the hardship.
Prophet’s second protest
A. How can a holy God use such a cruel instrument as this evil people?
(1:12–17).
Habakkuk is beside himself, what He knows about God doesn’t match with what God is doing.
No one wants to go through the dip, yet God can and will walk us through it.
The apostle Paul pleaded with God regarding an issue he calls “a thorn in his side”, something that is hindering him in ministry.
Sometimes we plead with God to take away our suffering, yet for some reason He tells us we have to go through it.
In order to experience a deeper intimacy with God we must learn to live in the dip.
So how does Habakkuk the prophet live in the dip?
A Prophet Perceiving: The Righteous Shall Live by Faith (2:1–20).
A. God’s second reply (2:1–5).
He waits for a revelation from God. Habakkuk states his issues, then waits, listens, and pays attention to what God has to say.
1. Revelation comes to one prepared to wait, listen, and pay attention.
(2:1).
when we are in the dip, we must press into God, not pull away.
We ask God to reveal to us our next steps.
One of the challenges to this is we often expect a certain outcome, and when we don’t receive that outcome we think God remained silent.
But that’s not true, the wanted outcome caused us to only listen for what we want to hear.
In the dip you have to embrace the suffering, be still, wait, listen and pay attention to everything around you.
You will hear from God, He will show you.
2. Revelation must be easy to understand (2:2).
It won’t be complicated, often when the answer we receive from God seems complicated it’s because we are approaching His answer through the lens of what we determined we want.
3. Revelation will prove true in God’s time (2:3).
When God reveals your path it will come to be.
His revelation always proves to be true, sometimes we don’t see it until we look back.
The reality is we have a choice in the dip, we can embrace it and wait, or we can attempt to get what we want.
This passage shows us both side of this story.
Go d calls us to live by faith, that is what will walk us through the dip.
But when we have a determined outcome in mind and we don’t get what we want, we struggle with faith.
4. Persistent faith—not pride, parties, or plunder—is the distinguishing mark of the righteous (2:4–5).
The apostle Paul understood what it takes to journey through the dip.
Paul knew that he needed to press in on Jesus rather then live the way he wanted in order to find contentment in the dip.
God goes on to explain to Habakkuk what happens to those who decide to walk away, those who decide to live their life without faith.
B. God taunts His materialistic enemy (2:6–20).
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First taunt song: Woe because of pride and ambition (2:6–8).
2. Second taunt song: Woe because of arrogance and greed (2:9–11).
3. Third taunt song: Woe because of cruelty (2:12–14).
4. Fourth taunt song: Woe because of drunkenness (2:15–17).
5. Fifth taunt song: Woe because of idolatry (2:18–19).
These five things explain what it looks like to walk away from God, to seek our own agenda instead of His agenda.
When we are in the dip and we don’t wait on God we push for the answer it produces pride, arrogance, greed, cruelty, idolatry, and even drunkenness.
These are all the things that our agenda can lead to.
God calls everyone to worship Him, it is our worship that brings us out of the dip.
6. Conclusion: A call for universal worship of the holy God (2:20).
Conclusion
Faith is what gets us through the dip and brings us to maturity in Christ.
The book of Hebrews shows us what this looks like based on history.
All of these people in history lived by faith, and God brought them through the dip and they grew because of it.
But none of these historical people had Jesus like we do, we have been equipped for endurance to run the race better then any of the historical Biblical people.
Thats right you have something Abraham didn’t, you have something Moses and David didn’t.
You have the cross of Jesus Christ and the Spirit living in you.
Big Idea: When it seems like our lives are in the dip, press into Jesus, listen and watch.
Don’t decide what the outcome should be, just press in, and wait.
Live you life by faith and God will bring you through the dip.
The reward will be a closer relationship, a deeper intimacy with our creator.
God wants all of us to journey through things with Him, not control the issues but to trust Him through the issues.
That is faith, trusting God when we can’t see the finish line.
Just keep running, you will get there.
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