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HABAKKUK 1 – PTR. ALVIN GUTIERREZ – 10AM MORNING SERVICE
The document is a summary of the Book of Habakkuk from the Bible. It describes how the prophet Habakkuk struggles with why God allows injustice in the world. God responds that He will use the ruthless Babylonians to judge other nations, which will amaze Habakkuk. Though questions remain, Habakkuk also expresses faith in God's ultimate sovereignty and justice. The overarching message is that believers should live by faith even when God's plans seem unclear.
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- 9. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 1The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received. 2 How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
- 10. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 3Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- 11. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 5“Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. 6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
- 12. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 7They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
- 13. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 9they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand. 10 They mock kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them.
- 14. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 11Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”12 Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
- 15. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? 14 You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
- 16. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 15The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
- 17. HABAKKUK 1:1-14 17Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
- 18. HABAKKUK’S DRIVING QUESTION WHY DOESN’T GOD SEEM FAIR?
- 19. HABAKKUK 1:2-3 2How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
- 20. HABAKKUK means to“EMBRACE” or to “WRESTLE.”
- 25. ORACLE MASSA' (mas-saw') an utterance, a doom, a burden
- 26. HABAKKUK 1:3-5 3Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
- 27. HABAKKUK 1:3-5 5“Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
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- 29. YOU DON’T SEEM TO CARE.
- 30. YOU AREN’T DOINGMUCH WHEN YOU COULD.
- 31. WHAT YOU AREDOING DOESN’T SEEM FAIR.
- 32. JAMES 1:2-4 2Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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- 34. HABAKKUK 1:5 5“Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
- 35. UTTERLY AMAZED TAMAHH (taw-mah') a sudden alarming amazement, to be astonished, to marvel.
- 36. HABAKKUK 1:6-9 6I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own. 7 They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.
- 37. HABAKKUK 1:6-9 8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; 9 they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.
- 38. A DEEPLY COMMITTEDBELIEVER CAN EXPRESS SIMULTANEOUS QUESTIONS AND FAITH.
- 39. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 11Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”12 Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
- 40. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? 14 You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
- 41. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? 14 You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
- 42. HABAKKUK 1:1-17 15The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
- 43. HABAKKUK 1:1-14 17Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
- 44. HABAKKUK’S BIG IDEA The book of Habakkuk offers us a picture of a prideful people being humbled, while the righteous live by faith in God (2:4).
- 45. HABAKKUK’S BIG IDEA It reminds us that while God may seem silent and uninvolved in our world, He always has a plan to deal with evil and always works out justice eventually.
- 46. HABAKKUK’S BIG IDEA The example of the prophet Habakkuk encourages believers to wait on the Lord, expecting that He will indeed work out all things for our good (Romans 8:28).