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Habakuk 1:2
I.
The silence of God is one of the most difficult things that the believer has to contend with.
A. When you pray and it seems that God is not hearing.
1. O Lord how long shall I cry and you will not hear?
2. We have all experienced this kind of a test of faith in our lives.
a.
We pray for a situation and nothing seems to change.
b.
Or what is even worse, sometimes the situation even gets worse.
B. Habakuk was concerned about the moral conditions of the nation.
1.
The people had turned their backs on God.
2. They had forsaken the law of the Lord.
3. As a result, violent crimes were becoming common place.
a.
He speaks of the spoiling or the robberies.
b.
People had no conscience against taking something that belonged to someone else.
c.
It was not safe to go out on the streets.
4. The law was being slacked.
a.
That is the law enforcement agencies were not
able to keep up with the rising crime rate.
b.
There was not even a diligent attempt to
enforce the laws in many areas, because the
problem of lawlessness had become so great.
5.
There was a breakdown in the judicial system, and
true justice was not being served.
a.
If a criminal was apprehended, he would usually
get off with such a light sentence that there
was no real deterrent to crime.
b.
There was a breakdown of the social order.
6.
The forces of wickedness prevailed over the
righteous and therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
a.
The wicked gained control of the government,
they wrote the laws.
b.
The legislation seemed to favor the wicked, and
punish the righteous if they sought to stand up
against the wickedness.
C. The prophet was frustrated by what he was
observing because God did not seem to answer his
prayers for changes.
1.
Why do you even show me these things that are
Happening if you are not going to do anything about it?
2. I think his frustration is much like the frustration that we are feeling today as we watch the moral decline in our nation.
3. We are appalled by the legislation that is being
proposed, yet we feel so helpless to do anything
about it.
4. Jesus said that the children of this world, in
This generation, are wiser than the children of light.
a.
It would seem that they devised a strategy to
take over the public education system, so
that they could control the minds of the
children.
b.
They took over the media, so that they could
control the minds of the adults.
They learned
the effective use of propaganda, so that they
can form the opinions of the masses.
c.
You do not have true news reporting today,
you have a slanted view that is designed to
create a mind set in you.
5.
In the letters to the editors, they are not truly
representative of the letters that are received.
a.
When Dr. Shuller backed off from the support
Of a judge who he discovered advocated the
legalizing of drugs, and it was reported in
the papers.
b.
Later in the letters to the editors column of
the L.A. Times, they printed several letters
that blasted Dr. Shuller for his stand.
Absolutely no letters were published that
supported his stand.
I would be willing to
bet that there were many letters that
supported his stand, but the liberal
editorial staff chose not to publish them.
6.
The wicked encircle the righteous therefore wrong
judgment proceeds.
The common ignorant people draw
wrong conclusions.
If you did not have the wisdom
of the Holy Spirit, you would also be as
desensitized to the evil as the rest of the world.
II.
There is only one thing that is worse than the silence of God and the feeling that God is doing nothing, and that is: not
understanding God when He begins to work.
A. God told the troubled prophet that He was doing a
work in his days that if he were told, he would not believe it.
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