Living by Faith

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Living by Faith

• Habakkuk 22-20

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Habakkuk 22-20

• I. The Humble Person Waits on God (2-3)

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I. The Humble Person Waits on God (2-3)

• Now he waited seven days, according to the
  appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not
  come to Gilgal and the people were scattering
  from him. So Saul said, Bring to me the burnt
  offering and the peace offerings. And he offered
  the burnt offering. As soon as he finished
  offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came
  and Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.
  But Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul
  said, Because I saw that the people were
  scattering from me, and that you did not come
  within the appointed days, and that the
  Philistines were assembling at Michmash,
  therefore I said, Now the Philistines will come
  down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked
  the favor of the Lord. So I forced myself and
  offered the burnt offering.

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I. The Humble Person Waits on God (2-3)

• Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly
  you have not kept the commandment of the Lord
  your God, which He commanded you, for now the
  Lord would have established your kingdom over
  Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not
  endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man
  after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed
  him as ruler over His people, because you have
  not kept what the Lord commanded you.
• 1 Sam. 138-14

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Habakkuk 22-20

• I. The Humble Person Waits on God (2-3)
• II. The Humble Person Trusts in God (4-17)

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Habakkuk 22-20

• I. The Humble Person Waits on God (2-3)
• II. The Humble Person Trusts in God (4-17)
• III. The Humble Person Worships God (18-20)

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III. The Humble Person Worships God (18-20)

• Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a
  cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among
  the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the
  rain makes it grow. Then it becomes something for
  a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms
  himself he also makes a fire to bake bread. He
  also makes a god and worships it he makes it a
  graven image and falls down before it. Half of it
  he burns in the fire over this half he eats meat
  as he roasts a roast and is satisfied.

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III. The Humble Person Worships God (18-20)

• He also warms himself and says, Aha! I am warm,
  I have seen the fireNo one recalls, nor is there
  knowledge or understanding to say, I have burned
  half of it in the fire and also have baked bread
  over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I
  make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall
  down before a block of wood! He feeds on ashes
  a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he
  cannot deliver himself, nor say, Is there not a
  lie in my right hand?
• Isaiah 4414-16, 19-20

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Habakkuk 22-20

• I. The Humble Person Waits on God (2-3)
• II. The Humble Person Trusts in God (4-17)
• III. The Humble Person Worships God (18-20)

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Habakkuk 22-20

• It is Pride which has been the chief cause of
  misery in every nation and every family since the
  world began. Other vices may sometimes bring
  people together you may find good fellowship and
  jokes and friendliness among drunken people or
  unchaste people. But pride always means enmity -
  it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and
  man, but enmity to God.
• C.S. Lewis
• Mere Christianity

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Living by Faith

• Habakkuk 22-20