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[1514.90 --> 1523.00] Prayer when Jesus teaches you to pray. It's absolutely remarkable. When I pray, I have to deal |
[1523.00 --> 1528.90] with my sin first because I think God won't hear me unless I deal with my sin first. When Jesus teaches |
[1528.90 --> 1537.18] me to pray, he locates the confession of sin on the fifth out of six petitions showing that the basis of |
[1537.18 --> 1546.94] our prayer is not how good we've lived or how well we've confessed or how pure we feel before the Father. |
[1548.94 --> 1555.98] Right? And if you're not praying this way, Jesus is saying this, you're praying like a pagan. |
[1557.10 --> 1562.54] You really think he's hearing you better when you're feeling better about yourself? |
[1562.54 --> 1570.00] Do you really think that God is in heaven looking at your life and seeing that you sinned maybe a |
[1570.00 --> 1575.84] little bit less this week than last week and so your prayers will be more effective based on the |
[1575.84 --> 1583.64] fact that you've sinned a little this week, a little less this week than last week? That is paganism. |
[1584.60 --> 1591.74] This is the point that Jesus is making. Don't pray like a pagan who thinks they're heard on the basis of |
[1591.74 --> 1598.14] their life. Pray like a Christian who knows they're heard on the basis of Christ's life. |
[1599.10 --> 1604.70] And so that then leads us to the last point, the foundation of our prayer. |
[1606.36 --> 1610.60] Don't pray to win the approval of others, which shows you don't live in the approval of God. Don't |
[1610.60 --> 1615.20] pray like a pagan in order to win God's approval, which shows that you think he hears you because |
[1615.20 --> 1627.50] you've been good. Rather, he says, pray our father. He is your father in Christ. And by his spirit, |
[1627.66 --> 1635.98] we call cry Abba. And therefore, we're no longer slaves, but we're children of God. And we pray as |
[1635.98 --> 1643.64] children of God. There's someone who's, I don't know who said this, but who can actually wake |
[1643.64 --> 1650.56] the most powerful monarch up in the middle of the night simply to ask for a drink of water. |
[1651.84 --> 1658.78] But his child. Anyone else loses their head. But we are children of God. |
[1662.00 --> 1667.02] Dietrich Bonhoeffer has a wonderful book, the prayer book of the Bible, and he says this, |
[1667.02 --> 1674.74] the prayer book of the Bible, the Psalms. Read the Psalms, and you'll find how theologically astute |
[1674.74 --> 1681.90] they are in regard to this teaching. There are fewer prayers for the forgiveness of sins |
[1681.90 --> 1689.06] in the Psalms than we might expect, he says. Most Psalms, in fact, presuppose complete certainty of the |
[1689.06 --> 1694.34] forgiveness of sins. Christian prayer, he says, is diminished and endangered when it revolves |
[1694.34 --> 1700.10] exclusively around the forgiveness of sins. There is such a thing as confidently leaving your sin |
[1700.10 --> 1705.62] behind for the sake of Christ. Indeed, it may be troubling, he says, that in the Psalms, |
[1705.96 --> 1714.00] the righteousness of the author is spoken of as often as his guilt. Have you ever noticed that? |
[1714.58 --> 1721.36] Here's a small sampling. Psalm 5, you bless the righteous. 17, I in righteousness will see his face. |
[1721.36 --> 1727.90] 34, his eyes are on the righteous. 37, I've never seen the righteous forsaken. Psalm 64, let the righteous |
[1727.90 --> 1736.82] rejoice. 68, let the righteous be glad. How often do you appeal to your righteousness in prayer? |
[1739.98 --> 1744.66] Not a righteousness that you've earned, but a righteousness that has been given to you by God |
[1744.66 --> 1752.20] through Christ based on his life. How often do you appeal to your righteousness in prayer? |
[1752.20 --> 1757.44] And have we ever considered the possibility that perhaps our weakness in prayer is owing to the fact |
[1757.44 --> 1764.00] that we give much more time to our guilt in prayer than we do to our righteousness? The prayer does not |
[1764.00 --> 1773.16] begin with the confession of sin. The prayer begins, our Father, you have made me righteous and I am your Son. |
[1773.16 --> 1789.34] This is the foundation to our prayer. This is also the foundation to the Lord's table. |
[1789.34 --> 1800.80] Because we do the same thing at the table. We think in order to come to the table, we have to make sure |
[1800.80 --> 1808.12] we've lived a pretty sinless life. We don't want to come to the table if there's sin in our lives. We |
[1808.12 --> 1812.98] need to deal with all that. And of course, Paul did talk about the table and unity in the church, |
[1813.08 --> 1817.68] and there was fighting, and there was some people who were eating all the food and not leaving any for |
[1817.68 --> 1822.62] anyone else. And he's talking about how those things needed to be resolved within the church for the |
[1822.62 --> 1829.68] sake of unity in the church. But sin is not a reason to not come to the table. My friends, sin is the |
[1829.68 --> 1840.36] reason you do come to the table. And so if you're struggling with sin this morning, and by the looks of |
[1840.36 --> 1851.88] you, you all are, if you struggle with sin in your life, we're going to come to the table. We're going to |
[1851.88 --> 1858.72] confess our sin, to be sure. But we're going to come to the table, and we are going to partake. |
[1859.28 --> 1866.28] And we are going to consider all that Christ has done on our behalf. For this is a reminder of his |
[1866.28 --> 1873.72] death, which was for our sin, his life, which earned our righteousness. And we're going to think about |
[1873.72 --> 1879.50] the great grace of God, which he has conferred to us through Christ. And so we're going to sing |
[1879.50 --> 1887.36] amazing grace, I believe, right now. And then we will partake of the bread and the wine. |
[1887.36 --> 1899.58] As the team comes forward. Gracious Father, we thank you for all that you've done for us in Christ. We |
[1899.58 --> 1904.92] thank you that we can come to you in prayer, and we can call you Father. Yes, we confess sin. |
[1906.42 --> 1913.10] But we don't want to be remembering sin and reminding you of all this sin that you have forgiven us of, |
[1913.10 --> 1919.84] and focusing on it to the neglect of the righteousness of Christ. Father, we are sinners, |
[1919.84 --> 1926.38] and we come with our sin to you this morning. But we thank you for the righteousness that is ours in |
[1926.38 --> 1930.14] Christ. Your grace is amazing. Amen. |
• Introduction to Habakkuk 3 |
• Story of John Newton's transformation from a slaver to a minister |
• Similar transformation story of the Apostle Paul |
• Explanation that these stories illustrate the power of God's transforming work in individuals' lives |
• Reading and explanation of Habakkuk 3, verses 1-17 |
• Habakkuk's struggles with God over injustice and suffering |
• The importance of expressing complaints and frustrations to God |
• God's ability to handle anger, yelling, and challenges from His people |
• Habakkuk's transformation from protest to prayer in chapter 3 |
• The need for a change of heart rather than circumstances when dealing with adversity |
• Habakkuk's encounter with God changes his perspective and actions |
• The relationship between a changed heart and the responsibility to remember rightly and view life through virtues |
• Habakkuk learns to trust God's plan, offers prayers of trust and confidence, and grows in reverence and awe for who God is |
• The importance of remembering what God has done, looking at past deeds through a sovereign worldview |
• Remembering God's fame, deeds, and sovereignty over creation |
• Understanding that there are details beyond human comprehension but trusting that they are enough to drive virtues and action. |
• Habakkuk mentions plagues, pestilence, Cushan, and Midian to situate God's redemption in a historical reality. |
• The prayer situates Habakkuk in the region where Mount Sinai is located, referencing God meeting Moses and the people at Sinai. |
• The place names in the prayer have a poetic and theological account of God's working in the world to deliver Israel from Egypt. |
• Habakkuk sees God carrying David through battles against the Philistines, securing victory for the Israelites in Hezekiah's time, and punishing Sennacherib. |
• The unjust leaders of Judah will face justice from God in exile to Babylon, with Babylon then facing justice in the form of Cyrus the Persian. |
• Joseph's story and the concept that God can turn evil into good |
• The stories of Job and Paul, who trusted in God despite suffering |
• The idea that God is able to overcome even death and transform it into a source of salvation |
• The importance of remembering that God knows us individually and has control over our lives |
• The need for people to be present with each other and support one another in their struggles |
• Viewing life through the lens of valued virtues, which helps us see our circumstances in a new light |
• Habakkuk's message of hope, faith, and love as virtues to navigate life's struggles |
• The importance of remembering rightly and being part of a community that does the same |
• God speaking directly through scripture, emphasizing the language of virtue and vice |
• Trusting in God's plan and purpose for establishing his kingdom and giving oneself in trust |
• Worshiping God even in times of wrecked moments with a changed heart |
• The importance of sharing one's story of transformation through faith in Jesus |
• Sharing the gospel with others, including family, friends, and neighbors |
• Overcoming struggles and darkness by holding on to faith in Jesus |
• God's presence and love being available even in times of hopelessness and doubt |
[0.00 --> 7.62] We're going to take some time today and look at Habakkuk 3. |
[8.04 --> 10.60] We're going to read verse 1 to 16, and we'll get to that in a moment. |
[10.70 --> 17.00] First, let me just acknowledge that what you're seeing on screen this week looks a little different than what you have seen in the past. |
[17.58 --> 32.10] We are ever adapting and trying to find ways to better communicate and better translate the message across the air and through your screens into your living room and find ways to do that well. |
[32.30 --> 35.88] And so we've put together this side set. |
[36.00 --> 38.44] I'm still here in church, in the sanctuary. |
[38.64 --> 42.32] There are, you know, nine other people here with me as well. |
[42.32 --> 48.78] But it just looks a little different, and we hope it looks a little bit better as you are sitting where you are. |
[49.84 --> 58.38] Before we read together, I just want to introduce kind of where we're going, and then we'll read so you can see that along the way. |
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