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[757.24 --> 761.48] His heart is being changed with an encounter with God. |
[761.58 --> 761.66] Right? |
[761.74 --> 769.04] Habakkuk is learning to trust God's ultimately unsearchable plan for establishing his kingdom. |
[769.04 --> 780.20] And in his learning to trust in God's plan, he begins to offer a prayer of trust and a prayer of confidence that grows with reverence and awe at who God is. |
[781.40 --> 784.14] And that's our goal as we dig into this text. |
[784.66 --> 784.78] Right? |
[784.86 --> 792.02] Learning how to trust God's plan and purpose for establishing his kingdom and giving ourselves in trust and confidence. |
[792.18 --> 797.18] And thereby increasing our capacity for reverence and awe. |
[797.18 --> 798.98] So we're going to see that. |
[799.30 --> 800.48] We're going to dig in here. |
[800.60 --> 804.52] And in these verses of Habakkuk, I want to show you two things. |
[805.22 --> 812.42] And so in the time that we have left, part one of that will be what I'm calling the responsibility to remember rightly. |
[813.10 --> 819.02] And then part two will be viewing our lives through valued virtues. |
[819.02 --> 825.30] So the responsibility to remember rightly and then viewing our lives through valued virtues. |
[825.66 --> 831.82] And before we dig too far into that, I want you to quickly notice a sort of theological principle operating here. |
[831.94 --> 832.14] Right? |
[832.18 --> 841.52] There's a reciprocal relationship between a changed heart and the responsibility to remember rightly and to view our lives through these virtues. |
[841.52 --> 843.26] And what I mean is this. |
[844.04 --> 844.32] Right? |
[844.40 --> 846.88] First, God changes your heart. |
[846.96 --> 849.42] That is his gift of regeneration. |
[850.02 --> 850.20] Right? |
[850.22 --> 855.52] He changes your heart and with that comes the responsibility of faith and the formation of faith. |
[855.52 --> 855.96] Right? |
[856.00 --> 862.70] We respond to God changing our heart by digging into his word, by worshiping him in life and with the church. |
[862.70 --> 870.62] And we respond by becoming part of a community of heart changed people who are learning to view our lives through these virtues. |
[871.58 --> 875.30] But at the same time, the reverse works as well. |
[875.30 --> 876.06] Right? |
[876.22 --> 884.58] As we learn to view life through certain virtues, as we learn practices of remembering rightly, our hearts are changed. |
[886.08 --> 891.92] In theological terms, what we're talking about is the relationship between justification and sanctification. |
[891.92 --> 895.38] Justification happens in response to the word. |
[895.82 --> 899.58] Sanctification happens in responding to the word. |
[900.38 --> 900.58] Right? |
[900.64 --> 908.42] Your heart is changed and your heart is changing through discipline and discipleship being transformed by the Holy Spirit. |
[910.04 --> 919.56] And so, what does it mean for us and Habakkuk with the responsibility to remember rightly? |
[919.56 --> 923.66] What is the responsibility to remember rightly? |
[923.82 --> 926.02] And so, look at verse 2. |
[926.38 --> 927.42] The first part of verse 2. |
[928.32 --> 928.98] Habakkuk says, |
[929.46 --> 931.50] Lord, I have heard of your fame. |
[931.70 --> 933.96] I stand in awe of your deeds. |
[934.34 --> 935.10] Oh, Lord. |
[935.38 --> 935.56] Right? |
[935.60 --> 938.40] I've heard of your fame and I stand in awe of your deeds. |
[938.70 --> 942.28] Habakkuk is remembering what God has done. |
[942.28 --> 955.82] He is learning to look at part of what God has done in the past through the lens of a worldview and a theology that says God is sovereign over all creation. |
[955.82 --> 959.84] That he is big enough to handle our anger and our frustration. |
[959.84 --> 965.52] But also, that he is big enough to have a purpose beyond our comprehension. |
[965.52 --> 968.78] That's what it means to remember rightly. |
[969.40 --> 969.60] Right? |
[969.64 --> 974.82] That even as we see part of the picture, we know that there are details beyond our sight lines. |
[975.60 --> 975.80] Right? |
[975.84 --> 981.96] Even if we could see those details, right, we wouldn't understand them or be able to make sense of them. |
[981.96 --> 986.54] But what we can see, what we can remember is enough. |
[986.54 --> 996.96] What we can rightly remember is proof enough, is cause enough to drive us to the virtues that we'll outline in a moment. |
[997.74 --> 1002.48] Now, quickly, let's look at what Habakkuk is remembering. |
[1003.42 --> 1005.92] In verse 3, he prays, |
[1005.92 --> 1009.56] God came from T-Man, the Holy One from Mount Peren. |
[1009.96 --> 1013.88] Now, T-Man is a city or a region in southern Edom. |
[1013.88 --> 1020.40] Mount Peren, the location is not precisely known, but based on the stories and the general references, |
[1020.88 --> 1022.88] we know that it is to the southeast of Israel. |
[1023.72 --> 1030.60] Actually, we have a map that we can put up on the screen for you that will help you see these place names |
[1030.60 --> 1035.36] and the purpose, once you see them all together, of mentioning them. |
[1036.50 --> 1039.14] So with that map, you can see in verse 5, |
[1039.14 --> 1044.28] quickly, Habakkuk mentions plagues and pestilence that go before him. |
[1044.28 --> 1049.36] It's probably recalling of Egypt, right, and the ten plagues in the Exodus story. |
[1049.94 --> 1052.54] Verse 7 mentions Cushan and Midian. |
[1053.22 --> 1058.54] Cushan is a part of the southern Transjordan region, same with Midian. |
[1058.54 --> 1067.54] In fact, Midian, or at least two certain Midianites, is where Moses flees from Pharaoh |
[1067.54 --> 1070.42] when God speaks to him in the burning bush. |
[1071.72 --> 1077.78] Now, take that all together, and what Habakkuk is seeing, what he is remembering, |
[1078.34 --> 1083.12] is God coming from the region that on your map there is in that little circle, right? |
[1083.12 --> 1086.88] The region where Mount Sinai is located. |
[1088.06 --> 1090.70] All right, Sinai, if you remember the story, if you know the story, |
[1090.76 --> 1094.18] is where God meets Moses, where God meets the people. |
[1094.36 --> 1097.32] Sinai is the climax of the story of the Exodus. |
[1097.56 --> 1102.74] Sinai is the place where, for the first time in generations upon generations, |
[1102.74 --> 1108.56] the people see the glory of God, where the glory of God descends and dwells with its people, |
[1108.56 --> 1113.72] where it did so and affected the face of Moses every time that he came into God's presence, |
[1113.78 --> 1117.66] such that he radiated God's glory and had to wear a veil, right? |
[1117.66 --> 1128.62] These place names in the prayer situate Habakkuk in a historical reality of God's redemption before his people. |
[1128.62 --> 1136.42] And then, as if buoyed by remembering rightly, |
[1137.60 --> 1143.66] Habakkuk switches almost into this beautiful poem in verses 8 through 15 |
[1143.66 --> 1145.62] that we're not going to look at line by line, |
[1145.74 --> 1148.44] but I encourage you to come back to it sometime this week. |
[1148.84 --> 1153.88] And it comes across as a sort of description of reality |
[1153.88 --> 1161.18] as Habakkuk is almost seeing the world and world history through God's eyes, right? |
[1161.20 --> 1165.14] It's a poetic and theological account of God's working in the world |
[1165.14 --> 1169.70] to deliver Israel from Egypt and from the armies of Pharaoh who chased them. |
[1170.42 --> 1173.62] Now, in this, Habakkuk might also be seeing, |
[1173.62 --> 1178.16] as history sort of layers on itself when God stands above time, |
[1178.56 --> 1183.62] is also seeing God carrying David through battles against the Philistines |
[1183.62 --> 1187.68] or God securing victory for the Israelites in the time of Hezekiah |
[1187.68 --> 1190.78] and the advancing armies of Sennacherib, |
[1190.90 --> 1193.62] who marched through Israel towards Jerusalem |
[1193.62 --> 1196.82] only to be utterly destroyed by an angel of the Lord |
[1196.82 --> 1199.44] coming into their camp as they gathered around the walls |
[1199.44 --> 1202.78] such that 185,000 soldiers were killed. |
[1203.54 --> 1209.38] And Sennacherib eventually went back to his home city of Nineveh |
[1209.38 --> 1213.40] where he was a leader and he was killed by his sons. |
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