WHERE IS GOD WHEN EVIL PEOPLE SUCCEED? (1 OF 2)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Habakkuk 1:1-7, Habakkuk 1:9-17, Habakkuk 1, Habakkuk 2:1-20
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Where is God When Evil People Succeed? (1 of 2)
Series: The Right Way to Question God
Scott Maze
Habakkuk 1:1-17, Habakkuk 2:1-20
Today, we begin a short book toward the end of the Old Testament that is 2,600 years old but the questions it asks are highly contemporary. It's a book that deals with questions of injustice. It's the question you deal with in your everyday life. A father wants to know why his wife of twenty plus years is leaving him. A mother wants to know why she has given birth to a stillborn child. A lady looks back at the years she has given to her ex-husband who left her and kept her from their children. After the hurt of many years, she has been given the news from her physician she has cancer. She wants to know why? It's the problem of injustice.
Pollster, George Barna was once commissioned to inquire of people what one question they would ask of God if they had the opportunity and know that God would give the answer. By an overwhelming majority, the most urgent question was this - ''Why is there so much suffering in the world?''
Today is also a day set aside this one Sunday to talk about child abuse in churches across the River Valley. A day called Step Up, Speak Out. Child abuse is just one form of injustice that we see in our day. And the prophet Habakkuk saw it in his day.
1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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.
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,
...
Series: The Right Way to Question God
Scott Maze
Habakkuk 1:1-17, Habakkuk 2:1-20
Today, we begin a short book toward the end of the Old Testament that is 2,600 years old but the questions it asks are highly contemporary. It's a book that deals with questions of injustice. It's the question you deal with in your everyday life. A father wants to know why his wife of twenty plus years is leaving him. A mother wants to know why she has given birth to a stillborn child. A lady looks back at the years she has given to her ex-husband who left her and kept her from their children. After the hurt of many years, she has been given the news from her physician she has cancer. She wants to know why? It's the problem of injustice.
Pollster, George Barna was once commissioned to inquire of people what one question they would ask of God if they had the opportunity and know that God would give the answer. By an overwhelming majority, the most urgent question was this - ''Why is there so much suffering in the world?''
Today is also a day set aside this one Sunday to talk about child abuse in churches across the River Valley. A day called Step Up, Speak Out. Child abuse is just one form of injustice that we see in our day. And the prophet Habakkuk saw it in his day.
1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
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.
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,
...
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