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[372.98 --> 377.56] In wrath you strode through the earth, and in anger you threshed the nations.
[377.98 --> 382.50] You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one.
[382.50 --> 385.48] You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness.
[385.60 --> 387.74] You stripped him from head to foot.
[388.62 --> 391.28] With his own spear you pierced his head.
[391.46 --> 396.70] When his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched
[396.70 --> 402.80] who were in hiding, you trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.
[402.80 --> 408.12] I heard, and my heart pounded.
[408.38 --> 410.38] My lips quivered at the sound.
[410.50 --> 413.58] Decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled.
[414.50 --> 424.14] Yet, I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
[425.08 --> 426.44] This is the word of the Lord.
[426.44 --> 426.50] Amen.
[432.80 --> 436.68] As I said, this is a story of change.
[438.14 --> 442.52] And in chapter 3, there is a change that takes place.
[442.56 --> 447.18] With your Bibles, look back to chapter 1, the very first words of the book, right?
[447.26 --> 448.92] Chapter 1, verse 1 says,
[449.30 --> 451.96] An oracle Habakkuk received.
[453.00 --> 456.24] And then, if you've been with us for the last couple weeks, right,
[456.24 --> 461.58] you've seen that Habakkuk expresses himself in the form of two complaints.
[461.58 --> 466.62] And as we've seen, he's pretty bold and brazen in those complaints.
[466.66 --> 469.32] And he's really struggling, right?
[469.34 --> 473.34] He complains, and he cries out, and he calls for justice.
[473.76 --> 480.26] At one point in the story, in the text, he even seems to challenge God, right, to call him out.
[483.32 --> 489.60] And in case it hasn't been clear over these last few weeks, God can handle that.
[489.60 --> 493.08] God wants your complaints.
[494.30 --> 495.72] His shoulders are big enough.
[496.56 --> 497.82] He can handle your challenge.
[498.16 --> 499.42] He can handle your frustrations.
[499.54 --> 500.70] He can handle your anger.
[501.34 --> 507.42] And so, like Habakkuk, like Job, like so many of the psalmists that we can read, give it to him.
[508.38 --> 508.62] Right?
[509.02 --> 511.86] If you're mad at God, tell him.
[511.86 --> 515.48] If you don't get it, ask him.
[516.14 --> 516.36] Right?
[516.38 --> 523.02] If you are righteously indignant, or perhaps it's better to say, if you're right pissed off, yell at God.
[524.08 --> 525.26] He can take it.
[526.24 --> 527.40] He can handle it.
[527.72 --> 527.92] Right?
[527.96 --> 529.14] He is big enough.
[529.28 --> 530.24] I promise you.
[530.24 --> 533.98] And let's be clear, okay?
[535.54 --> 541.18] Yelling at God is the language of faith for those facing injustice.
[542.88 --> 546.74] Yelling at God is the language of faith for the brokenhearted.
[548.68 --> 552.76] Yelling at God is better than walking away in apathy.
[552.76 --> 564.84] By analogy, I would rather my friend get loudly angry at me and yell at me than seethe in silence and never talk to me.
[566.82 --> 571.20] But, but know this.
[571.70 --> 572.52] Remember this.
[573.02 --> 573.16] Right?
[573.22 --> 578.76] If God is big enough to handle your anger and your yelling, and he is.
[578.76 --> 579.26] Right?
[579.30 --> 587.96] If God is big enough to handle your anger and your yelling, that means he is also big enough to have reasons beyond your comprehension.
[589.06 --> 589.60] Right?
[589.62 --> 590.86] It can only be both.
[591.78 --> 592.10] Right?
[592.12 --> 601.68] You can't complain to God that he should be doing something different, but then reject the possibility that God is, in fact, doing something different.
[601.68 --> 610.00] I think that's the lesson that Habakkuk has learned by the time he gets to chapter 3.
[610.96 --> 611.44] Right?
[611.48 --> 616.50] That's the lesson that Habakkuk has learned from listening to God speak in chapter 2.
[617.52 --> 617.92] Right?
[618.00 --> 621.74] As we said, there's something that has changed here.
[621.84 --> 625.12] Something has changed between chapter 2 and chapter 3.
[625.38 --> 625.62] Right?
[625.64 --> 630.86] The book starts with his complaints and with God's oracle, and then chapter 3 is something else.
[630.86 --> 633.06] And look at the superscription.
[633.44 --> 633.60] Right?
[633.66 --> 635.84] It's verse 1 in the text that we read.
[635.90 --> 639.14] Now, real quick, let me just put on my Bible teacher hat for a moment.
[639.22 --> 639.86] Let's just pause.
[640.32 --> 642.80] I don't know what your Bibles might say.
[642.98 --> 649.98] Mine, the NIV, has a heading that begins chapter 3 saying Habakkuk's Prayer.
[650.04 --> 652.06] That's written there in italics.
[652.22 --> 653.72] That's put in there by the editors.
[654.52 --> 654.64] Right?
[654.68 --> 658.06] That's not part of the text as God's infallible word.
[658.10 --> 659.36] That's put in there to help us.
[659.36 --> 665.84] But verse 1, right, what's called the superscript, that's part of the authoritative text.
[665.96 --> 669.44] And there we read a prayer of Habakkuk.
[670.40 --> 676.00] And I want to suggest to you that that line is God telling us that this is something different.
[677.56 --> 678.06] Right?
[678.08 --> 683.44] That Habakkuk's posture has changed from protest to prayer.
[683.44 --> 684.44] Right?
[684.48 --> 689.04] From wrecked and whining to wrecked and worshiping.
[689.92 --> 690.04] Right?
[690.10 --> 696.24] Habakkuk has had a change of heart and not a change of circumstances.
[697.56 --> 704.82] Habakkuk has had an encounter with the living God speaking directly to his heart that affects how he sees everything else.
[704.82 --> 711.42] And not just how he sees everything else, but what and how he does everything else.
[711.42 --> 711.70] Right?
[711.74 --> 715.92] In short, an encounter with the living God changes everything.
[715.92 --> 721.88] And that's what this word is.
[722.52 --> 723.20] Right?
[723.28 --> 730.04] God speaking into your life and situation to give you new eyes to see by and a new purpose to live for.
[730.60 --> 731.22] Right?
[731.26 --> 733.90] That's what this worship is for.
[734.46 --> 735.10] Right?
[735.16 --> 741.46] For God carrying you into his presence by the power of the Spirit and breathing new life into your dry bones.
[741.46 --> 743.64] That's who church is.
[743.64 --> 743.96] Right?
[744.02 --> 753.70] A community of broken people raised up in new birth into a living hope with the mission of God coursing through us and out to all the world by us.
[754.58 --> 756.90] That's what's happening in Habakkuk.