11/29/2020 – Sunday Morning Service
Habakkuk 1-3
Sermon Topics
– Peace is not the subtraction of the problems from life; it is the addition of power to meet those problems. (Hab. 2:4)
– We are not to Fold up and Give up, but we are to Look up and Stand up.
How do we give thanks during difficult days?
- Faith Does Not Live by Explanations but by Promises (Hab. 1:1-2)
- What Were the Problems Habakkuk was Facing?
- Heaven’s Silence (Hab. 1:2)
- Earth’s Sinfulness (Hab. 1:3-4)
- Hell’s Success (Hab. 1:5-6)
- Just because it doesn’t make sense to you does not mean it doesn’t make sense.
- What Were the Problems Habakkuk was Facing?
- Faith Does Not Live by Appearances but by Providence (Hab. 2:1)
- Habakkuk had a place that he could get ALONE with God… and you need a place as well.
- When we get in our place alone with God and begin to listen… we notice our “Sighing” stops and our “Seeing” begins.
- What did Habakkuk see by Faith that God Provides?
- The Reliability of the Scripture (Hab. 2:2-3)
- The Resources of the Saints (Hab. 2:4)
- The Retribution of the Sinner (Hab. 2:5-6)
- The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind extremely fine.
- Warnings Against Material Corruption (Hab. 2:6)
- Warnings Against Moral Corruption (Hab. 2:12,15)
- Warnings Against Spiritual Corruption (Hab. 2:19)
- The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind extremely fine.
- The Reign of the Savior (Hab. 2:14,20)
- God is in control; there is NO panic in Heaven.
- Faith Does Not Live by Circumstances but by Praise (Hab. 3:1-3)
- What do YOU do in Dark Days?
- Remember God’s Glory
- Rejoice in God’s Goodness (Hab. 3:17-18)
- If your joy is rooted in anything that can be touched or tampered with, you have an unstable joy!
- Rely on God’s Grace (Hab. 3:19)
- What do YOU do in Dark Days?
We may never know that God is enough until we know that God is all we have.
“The just shall live by faith!” – Without faith you have nothing to hold onto!
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