habakkuk 1 – ptr. henry brown – 4pm afternoon service
TRANSCRIPT
Habakkuk’s name means to “embrace” or “wrestle.”
1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received. 2 How long, LORD, must I call for
help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but
you do not save?
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why
do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction
and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice
never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
5 “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.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
5 “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.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless
and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole
earth to seize dwellings not their own.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
7 They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a
law to themselves and promote their own honor.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
8 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;
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
9 they all come intent on violence. Their hordes
advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like
sand.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
10 They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building
earthen ramps they capture them.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—guilty
people, whose own strength is their god.”
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
12 Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You,
Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my
Rock, have ordained them to punish.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; 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?
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no
ruler.
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
HABAKKUK 1:1-14
WHERE ARE YOU, GOD?
HABAKKUK’S DRIVING QUESTION
HABAKKUK’S DRIVING QUESTION
WHY DOESN’T GOD SEEM
FAIR?
HABAKKUK 1:2-3
HABAKKUK 1:2-3
2 How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not
listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not
save?
HABAKKUK 1:2-3
HABAKKUK 1:2-33 Why do you make me
look at injustice? Why do you tolerate
wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and
conflict abounds.
means to “EMBRACE” or to “WRESTLE.”
HABAKKUK
HABAKKUK
HABAKKUK 1:3-5
HABAKKUK 1:3-53 Why do you make me
look at injustice? Why do you tolerate
wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and
conflict abounds.
HABAKKUK 1:3-5
HABAKKUK 1:3-54 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice
never prevails. The wicked hem in the
righteous, so that justice is perverted.
HABAKKUK 1:3-5
HABAKKUK 1:3-55 “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.
HABAKKUK’S PROBLEM WITH GOD
HABAKKUK’S PROBLEM WITH GOD
YOU DON’T SEEM
TO CARE.
YOU DON’T SEEM
TO CARE.
YOU AREN’T DOING MUCH
WHEN YOU COULD.
WHAT YOU ARE DOING DOESN’T
SEEM FAIR.
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
JAMES 1:2-4
JAMES 1:2-4
GOD’S RESPONSE
GOD’S RESPONSE
5 “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.
HABAKKUK 1:5
HABAKKUK 1:5
TAMAHH (taw-mah')
a sudden alarming amazement, to be
astonished, to marvel.
UTTERLY AMAZED
UTTERLY AMAZED
6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless
and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole
earth to seize dwellings not their own.
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
7 They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a
law to themselves and promote their own honor.
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
HABAKKUK 1:6-98 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;
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
HABAKKUK 1:6-9
9 they all come intent on violence. Their hordes
advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like
sand.
A DEEPLY COMMITTED BELIEVER
CAN EXPRESS SIMULTANEOUS
QUESTIONS AND FAITH.
A DEEPLY COMMITTED BELIEVER
CAN EXPRESS SIMULTANEOUS
QUESTIONS AND FAITH.
HABAKKUK 1:12-14
HABAKKUK 1:12-1412 Lord, are you not from
everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You,
Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my
Rock, have ordained them to punish.
HABAKKUK 1:12-14
HABAKKUK 1:12-1413 Your eyes are too pure to look on
evil; 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?
HABAKKUK 1:12-14
HABAKKUK 1:12-14
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no
ruler.