What Are You Looking For?
This has been a series on the vision for 2020 • Sermon • Submitted
0 ratings
· 4 viewsIn the passage of Habakkuk God says to Habakkuk look and see that man is puffed up in himself. Today as we look around what do we see.
Notes
Transcript
What Are You Looking For?
Defining the word look: verb - direct one’s gaze in a specified direction, have an outlook in a specified direction.regard in a specified way, examine investigate,
Words associated with the word look:
See, Notice, Be aware of, Watch, Watch Our, Look Out
See, Notice, Be aware of, Watch, Watch Our, Look Out
Don't close your eyes, Don't turn your head, Focus On, Pay Attention to, Have situational awareness
Don't close your eyes
For the music director, according to Mahalath.
A maskil of David.
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity.
There is none who does good.
God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind
to see whether there is one who has insight,
one who seeks God.
All of them have turned back.
They are altogether corrupt.
There is none who does good;
there is not even one.
Do not evildoers know,
they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?
They do not call on God.
There they are very fearful
where no fear had been,
because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Oh, that from Zion would come salvation for Israel!
When God returns the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Don't turn your head
Focus On
Pay Attention to
Have situational awareness
— 53 For the music director, according to Mahalath. A maskil of David.
A maskil of David. 1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good. 2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God. 3 ⌊All of them⌋ have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one. 4 Do not evildoers know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on God. 5 There ⌊they are very fearful⌋ where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. 6 ⌊Oh, that from Zion⌋ would come salvation for Israel! When God returns the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity.
There is none who does good.
2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind
to see whether there is one who has insight,
one who seeks God.
3 ⌊All of them⌋ have turned back.
They are altogether corrupt.
There is none who does good;
there is not even one.
1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good. 2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God. 3 ⌊All of them⌋ have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one. 4 Do not evildoers know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on God. 5 There ⌊they are very fearful⌋ where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. 6 ⌊Oh, that from Zion⌋ would come salvation for Israel! When God returns the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
4 Do not evildoers know,
they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?
They do not call on God.
5 There ⌊they are very fearful⌋
where no fear had been,
because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
6 ⌊Oh, that from Zion⌋ would come salvation for Israel!
When God returns the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Harris, W. H., III, Ritzema, E., Brannan, R., Mangum, D., Dunham, J., Reimer, J. A., & Wierenga, M. (Eds.). (2012). The Lexham English Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Focus:
Look!
-- Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright.
Point 1: Look and see the ways of the foolish!
1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.
Point 2: Look and see what God sees!
Point 2: Look and see what God sees!
++-- 2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.
Point 3: Look at yourself!
--
Point 3: Look at yourself!
++-- 22 But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, 23 because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at ⌊his own face⌋ in a mirror, 24 for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed ⌊in what he does⌋.
--
++Life Application: As you look at the depravity of the world make sure that you have dealt with the depravity in your world!