SERMONS ON HABAKKUK
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Habakkuk: The Honest Prophet
by Jerry Vines
Now when you study the prophets of God in the Old Testament you will discover God used men with different personalities to be the channel through whom he gave his message to the people. For instance, there is Jeremiah. Jeremiah was very sensitive person. By personality he was very sensitive. Even though there were times when Jeremiah would thunder out the judgment of God. He had a heart that caused him to weep and grieve because of the sins of the people. Then there was old Jonah. Old Jonah was the reluctant prophet. He knew what the Lord wanted him to do he just didn't want to do it. And so he rebelled against the...
Debating God (2 of 3)
by James Merritt
1. Even though we know we can't do it we all have tried at one time or another. Even though we know it won't work we've all taken our shot at it. Even though we know deep down it really doesn't do any good we do it anyway. I am talking about bargaining with God. We've all done it. We've all tried to bargain with God to get God to meet us on our terms: ''God, if you'll do this I'll do that'' or ''God if you will just come through this one time I promise I'll do this or do that.'' That desire goes all the way back to the first man whoever lived. 2. Adam was walking around the Garden of Eden moping and pouting and God said, ''What is wrong with you...
In God We Trust: The Book of Habakkuk
by Jonathan McLeod
Have you ever played the game Frustration? (There is a more popular version of the game called Trouble.) Frustration can be a frustrating game. In order to move your pieces out of the start position, you need to ''pop'' a one or a two. Sometimes you can pop the dice over and over again and never get a one or a two. Meanwhile, everyone else's pieces are quickly moving around the board. In frustration you cry out, ''How much longer until I get a one or a two!'' Then sometimes when you finally do get a one or a two, another player's piece lands on yours sending you back to start. And you complain, ''That's not fair!'' Habakkuk the prophet was...
How to Get up When You're Down (5 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, please turn to the Book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk's toward the end of the Old Testament. If you start at the end, Malachi, and just keeping taking a left, you'll finally hit Habakkuk. Habakkuk has a great word for us today. Some of you may remember that in the late 80s, early 90s, there was a company that had a commercial on television. The company was called Life Call. It was a medical alarm company. And they produced a product, and they had the commercial to promote the product, but the product was very, very good. It was a little pendant that elderly people who lived alone and disabled people who lived alone...
Habakkuk: Wrestling with God (16 of 20)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Some think God wants meek little believers who quietly accept whatever he sends their way without any doubts, any questions, and certainly without any complaints. I think they are wrong! God wants believers all right! But he is especially pleased with men and women who have enough gumption to be honest. He is looking for people who know him so well or want to get so close to him that they are willing to risk voicing their doubts and raising hard questions. God doesn't even mind when we talk back as long as we are willing to listen when he answers. Consider the stories of two men who wrestled with God...
Victory Comes through the Valleys
by Ernest Easley
Now take your Bible and open it to the table of contents. You'll find there the books of Bible listed in alphabetical order. Look down the list to the books beginning with the letter ''H.'' The first one listed is Habakkuk (sometimes pronounced : Habakkah, Habakook). We not only struggle pronouncing it and locating it, we know very little about it! So .. let's begin by finding the page number the book of Habakkuk appears in your Bible and then turn there please. Habakkuk is considered a minor prophet but He is anything but minor in meaning! He is the doubting Thomas of the Old Testament and for good reason! He...
Trading Your Doubt for a Shout (2 of 4)
by Ken Trivette
Have you ever been worried about something? For those who say ''no,'' the rest of us know that you have a problem with lying. We are all guilty of worrying about things. There are times when our worry has a foundation to it. I think of the parents who received a letter from their son who was at summer camp: Dear Mom and Dad: We are having a great time here at Lake Typhoid. Scoutmaster Webb is making us all write our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and was worried. We are OK. Only 1 of our tents and two sleeping bags got washed away. Luckily, none of us got drowned because we were all upon the mountain looking...
The Other Side of Faith (11 of 17)
by Larry Osborne
Looking back at your notes from this week's teaching The Other Side Of Faith, was there anything that particularly caught your attention, challenged or confused you? MY STORY 1. Larry listed three things that faith is not. As you look at the list, which one do you think people are most likely to think is a part of biblical faith? Is there one that you identify with more than the others? 2. This weekend, we heard about how to complain to God. How comfortable are you with the idea that it's okay to complain to God? When do you think complaining goes too far and becomes whining? DIGGING DEEPER 1. We heard this weekend that faith is...
How to Stay Together While the World Falls Apart
by Adrian Rogers
I want you to take God's Word, please, and find the Book of Habakkuk. I'll give you about five seconds to do that. I'll give you a hint; it comes right after the Book of Nahum, so that ought to make it very easy for you to find. Now, we call Habakkuk the minor prophet. I want to say there's certainly nothing minor about the message about the prophet Habakkuk. So I want you to turn to this book, and keep it open there in your hands because we're going to be referring to it. As a matter of fact, there are three chapters, and we're going to look into all three chapters today. We're speaking today on this subject, ''How to Stay Together While...
Why?
by Terry J. Hallock
At moments of crisis one question often becomes dominant. That question is ''Why?'' and the One of whom it is asked is God. We are now in such a time and we are asking The Lord that question, ''Why?'' Why did He allow such tragedy to occur on Tuesday, September 11, 2001? Why did He permit people whose hearts are filled with hate to cause such death and destruction? Why were innocent men, women and children the victims that day? ''Why, Lord? Why?'' The Old Testament prophet Habakkuk faced such a time and asked such a question. ''How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, 'Violence!' but...
