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[58.64 --> 60.46] And do that with a bit of a story.
[60.58 --> 64.06] Now, some of you know the story of John Newton.
[64.64 --> 70.86] John Newton was an 18th century sailor and slaver on a ship called the Greyhound.
[70.86 --> 80.18] Now, at one time in the mid-18th century, they were sailing in the North Atlantic, and a storm rose up and had all but wrecked the ship.
[80.28 --> 93.48] The masts were broken, the sails were torn, and all of the sailors had spent hours and days using the pumps, the crank pumps, to try and empty out the hull of the ship, of the water that was gathering.
[93.48 --> 107.70] Newton has been exhausted from days of this labor, and so instead of taking a break, he ends up tying himself to the helm of the ship so that he might steer it, even as he struggles with exhaustion.
[108.66 --> 112.08] Now, Newton's story is a special one.
[112.08 --> 121.44] Newton, he had a reputation for profanity and coarseness and debauchery that shocked even other sailors during that day.
[122.08 --> 125.26] He was known as the Great Blasphemer.
[125.26 --> 133.96] Now, the story goes, actually, that Newton was an evangelist for unbelief at this time in his life.
[135.16 --> 142.08] But on that day, strapped to the helm of that ship, God did something to Newton.
[142.08 --> 151.68] And from that moment forward, and you can read about this in his journals as they tell a story of a man who is transformed and slowly being transformed.
[152.14 --> 162.06] And so he began to read the Bible regularly, and he began to read books published by other Christian authors to help teach him faith and discipleship and what that might be like.
[162.06 --> 169.78] And it took a few years, yes, but after a few years, he left the slaving industry and became a tide surveyor in Liverpool.
[169.78 --> 177.72] And then, in 1764, at the age of 39, which is just two years older than me, he became a minister.
[178.92 --> 188.88] Now, for the evening services and the little church that he served in Olney, he would publish hymns with his friend and fellow parishioner, William Cowper.
[189.60 --> 195.40] One of the hymns that they published has gone on to infamy, and it's called Amazing Grace.
[195.40 --> 205.24] God took a cussing, slave-trading, degenerate of a man, changed his heart, and turned him into a gospel preacher.
[206.70 --> 208.32] This is what God does.
[209.70 --> 209.90] Right?
[209.96 --> 212.46] Think of the story from the Bible of the Apostle Paul.
[213.04 --> 213.22] Right?
[213.24 --> 219.86] The Apostle Paul was, quite literally, in today's terms, a state-sponsored murdering terrorist.
[219.86 --> 228.82] And God made him into the greatest missionary that the world has ever known, and used him to author more than half of the New Testament.
[230.32 --> 233.36] In different ways, this is my story.
[234.42 --> 239.44] In a different way from that, this is your story, if you believe.
[240.30 --> 240.48] Right?
[240.52 --> 242.64] These are stories of transformation.
[243.12 --> 243.22] Right?
[243.24 --> 245.98] The gospel of Jesus transforms you.
[245.98 --> 248.42] Jesus changes your heart.
[249.70 --> 250.84] And that's this story.
[251.54 --> 257.80] That's the story that we're going to see and read the fruit of in Habakkuk 3.
[258.10 --> 261.32] And so if you have a Bible in front of you, I encourage you to open that up.
[261.92 --> 263.22] Turn to Habakkuk 3.
[263.34 --> 266.12] We will look more closely at some of the verses there.
[266.70 --> 268.60] It will be on the screen as I read it.
[268.60 --> 274.46] But of course, I always encourage you to have one open in front of you, or on in front of you, if you use your phone.
[274.46 --> 278.66] This is from Habakkuk 3, beginning at verse 1.
[280.18 --> 284.30] A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigenoth.
[284.30 --> 306.96] God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.
[306.96 --> 311.12] His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
[311.98 --> 314.06] His splendor was like the sunrise.
[314.44 --> 317.24] Rays flashed from his hand where his power was hidden.
[318.38 --> 320.06] Plague went before him.
[320.56 --> 322.10] Pestilence followed his steps.
[322.42 --> 323.96] He stood and shook the earth.
[324.28 --> 326.24] He looked and made the nations tremble.
[326.54 --> 330.46] The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed.
[331.46 --> 333.84] His ways are eternal.
[333.84 --> 340.32] I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
[341.24 --> 343.24] Were you angry with the rivers, O Lord?
[343.30 --> 344.96] Was your wrath against the streams?
[345.24 --> 349.94] Did you rage against the sea when you rode with your horses and your victorious chariots?
[350.14 --> 351.70] You uncovered your bow.
[351.88 --> 353.30] You called for many arrows.
[353.86 --> 355.70] You split the earth with rivers.
[355.86 --> 357.70] The mountains saw you and writhed.
[358.04 --> 359.58] Torrents of water swept by.
[359.58 --> 362.68] The deep roared and lifted its waves on high.
[363.88 --> 369.32] Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows,
[369.54 --> 372.08] at the lightning of your flashing spear.
[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.