Habakkuk 1:1-17
1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
2 O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,and you will not hear? Or cry to you
“Violence!” and you will not save?

3 Why do you make me see iniquity,
and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before
me; strife and contention arise.

4 So the law is paralyzed, and justice
never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes
forth perverted.
The Lord’s Answer
5
“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am
doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.

6 For behold,
I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march
through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
7 They
are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from
themselves.

8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the
evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come
from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.

9 They all come for
violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.
10 At
kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress,
for they pile up earth and take it.

11 Then they sweep by like the wind and

go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”
Habakkuk’s Second Complaint
12 Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall
not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O
Rock, have established them for reproof.

13 You who are of purer eyes
than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous
than he?
14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling
things that have no ruler.

15 He brings all of them up with a hook; he
drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he
rejoices and is glad.

16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes
offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is
rich.
17
Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing
nations forever? ESV

James 1:2-4
Testing of Your Faith
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,
3
for
you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
4 And let
steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing. ESV
Matthew 1:6
'and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of
Solomon by the wife of Uriah, ' ESV
Isaiah 53:4-5
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was
pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon
him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds
we are healed. ESV

1. God invites us to _________ with him, to ________ and _________
what is really in our hearts.

Three Options:
1. We _________ ___________.
2. We _________ ___________.
3. We ______ in and ________ it. We __________with God.

2. We might not understand what God is doing but there is always a
___________ and a _________.
3. Habakkuk doesn’t stop ___________________ God, and neither
should we.