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Introduction
What has happened to the fear of the Lord?
This is a very important question for us when reading through this portion of Holy Scripture.
The book of Habakkuk is a book about God.
More specifically about what He does when His people rebel in sin and idolatry.
The fear of the Lord was not present among His people.
They forsook the Lord.
They offered sacrifices to other gods and they became idolaters.
But what would have happened if they had remained reverent, fearful of God?
If a people remained fearful of the Lord
Psalm
But what happened to those who did not fear Him? Who have forsaken Him?
The opposite of .
The opposite of Psalm 128.
Cursed is anyone who doesn’t fear the Lord, who does not walk in his ways!
They shall not eat the fruit of the labor of their hands.
They shall not be blessed, and it will not be well with them.
Their wives will not be like a fruitful vine within their house.
Their children will not be like olive shoots around their table.
The man who does not fear not the Lord will be cursed.
The Lord will not bless them from Zion!
They will not see the prosperity of Jerusalem.
They will not see their children’s children.
Peace will not be upon Israel.
This is what happens to a people who do not fear the Lord.
The fear of the Lord will bring with it blessing.
But not fearing the Lord will bring with it the accursed.
It will bring disaster and ruin.
What do we see in our world today?
We see a world that does not fear the Lord.
A church that once cherished Christ and His word, to turn from fearing Him and doing what He commands, this will bring disaster and ruin.
Which will be Jesus removing the lampstand as an act of judgement.
This is what is happening in this book.
God is not removing Himself but He is involving Himself with judgement.
But not fearing the Lord will bring with it the accursed.
God responded with judgement on the sin and idolatry of His people.
So God responded with judgement.
He did by using a pagan nation to overcome the covenant people of God.
This prompted questions from the prophet.
We will see in our passage God’s response to the prophet’s questions and we will see that it it does bring correction.
After asking his second series of questions the prophet said in,
The prophet is waiting for God to reply.
And that is how we are to look at our text today.
We will use the questions he had for God as our outline in .
And what captures this most is His wrath.
Main Idea
God's character and involvement towards sin is judgement and correction.
Habakkuk 1:
Q1: Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
S1: We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge; and You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
Outline
1: Questions about God's character in judgement and His response.
a. Verse 12 is the foundational when it comes to God’s response in .
b. Verse 13 (2 questions and 1 statement)
Q1: Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
S1: Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, and You cannot look on wickedness with favor.
Q1: Why do You look with favor on those who deal treacherously?
Q2: Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they?
those more righteous than they?
S1: We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge; and You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
S1: Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, and You cannot look on wickedness with favor.
2: Questions about God's involvement in judgement and His response.
a. Verses 14-17 (2 Questions and 2 statements)
Q4: Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them?
S3: The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, drag them away with their net, and gather them together in they're fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
S4: Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their fishing net; because through these things their catch is large, and their food is plentiful.
Q5: Will they therefore empty their net and continually slay nations without sparing?
S4: Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their fishing net; because through these things their catch is large, and their food is plentiful.
Main Idea
God's character and involvement towards sin is judgement and correction.
Q1: Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
a. Verse 12 is the foundational when it comes to God’s response in .
S1: We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge; and You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
1: Questions about God's character in judgement and His response.
b.
Verse 13 (2 questions and 1 statement)
a. Verse 12 is foundational when it comes to God’s second response in .
S1: Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, and You cannot look on wickedness with favor.
Why is this foundational to our text today?
Q1: Why do You look with favor on those who deal treacherously?
Q1: Are You not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
If you remember, this was a rhetorical question.
Meaning that the question wasn’t necessarily one to get an answer but instead it was asked to make a point.
The point being made was similar to Malachi’s point in
Malachi
Because God does not change, meaning that His character and promises won’t change, then it follows that His people would be preserved since He had made promises to them.
Thus the next part of the verse which is a statement that is made.
“We will not die.”
S1: We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge; and You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
The prophet acknowledges that God has appointed the Chaldeans to judge for the purpose to bring correction to God’s covenant people because they had forsaken God.
This is the foundation of God’s second reply here in our text.
That while God is using the Chaldeans as an act of judgement, God will preserve His people through it because God is bringing correction not destruction.
God is answering the questions asked by the prophet about the Chaldeans overcoming God’s own covenant people.
The prophet was challenged by this due to the suppression and evil committed by the Chaldeans.
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