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[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. |
[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. |
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