00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:18 Men's Breakfast Recap

00:37 Encouragement for Men in the Church

02:46 Daily Bible Podcast Overview

02:56 Introduction to Habakkuk

04:30 Habakkuk's Complaint and God's Response

06:36 Discussion on Justice and God's Timing

11:41 Habakkuk's Second Complaint and God's Assurance

13:48 Habakkuk's Prayer and Trust in God

16:38 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Tuesday's edition

to the daily Bible podcast.

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Yo, yo yo we're back.

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And uh, both of us still,

nobody went on vacation again.

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So just, uh, we don't do that a lot.

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I mean, I just like it's happening

all the time and everybody.

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No, nobody's nobody's there.

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We're not planning.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're here.

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Uh, Hey, we didn't mention it

earlier, but Friday morning we

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had our first men's breakfast.

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Yeah.

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And it was great pancakes.

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Yeah.

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There was 15 guys there, 15 guys.

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It was great.

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It was a good time.

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What'd you guys talk about?

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We talked about what we kind

of cast a vision for it.

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Like, what do we want this to be?

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What was it going to be, uh, ask

them what they were looking for out

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of it and, and just be encouraged.

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Ladies, be encouraged that there are some

men who love Jesus a lot in the church

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and want to be strong and Gabby men.

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And that's what I walked away encouraged

by is guys that are saying, man, we want.

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To grow.

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We want to build relationships.

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We want authenticity with one another.

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And, uh, and that's

just such a good thing.

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It's a group of men that aren't interested

in just showing up and going through

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the motions and guys that want to, to,

to Excel in their walk with Christ.

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And so I was encouraged

by it and the food was.

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Okay.

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I mean it's it's I hop, it's not

like anything to write home about the

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coffee was I hop, so it's it's yeah.

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Also, they give you tolerable.

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The coffee cups were

like, they went on a diet.

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Yeah.

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We're like small cups, coffee cups.

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What are we doing?

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Just give us a full coffee cap, dude.

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I think that's where they, they can

afford to lose a lot of money on that.

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Right.

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It is how much money does it

cost to make a cup of coffee?

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And.

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I don't think it's the line.

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Look.

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Sometimes I'll meet over at first watch

with some people and there they give

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you like your whole pot of coffee.

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Here's the test pot for Jesse.

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You take notice.

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I hop.

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Yeah.

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Take notice.

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I mean, come on at the end of the day

coffee's shoes, dirty water, right?

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Like ashtray.

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Yeah.

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Well, I think it's really cool

that our church has at least

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some guys that are represented.

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I'm sure there's many more that can't

make it for this or that reason,

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but I would dare say, pastor Peter,

this is normative Christianity.

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This is not like, Hey, these guys

are exceptional varsity level.

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This is the way it's supposed to be.

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For sure.

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Men should aspire to be elder qualified

and to be the kind of men that can

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lead their families and lead their

communities to the place of flourishing.

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That's what God designed.

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Male leadership for.

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Yeah.

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And if you're out there wondering, you

know, if you're a guy out there growing.

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I didn't know about this or, or

I didn't think this was for me.

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It just like there were guys,

there were all different types of

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guys that were there this morning.

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And that was another thing that was super

encouraging is just to see that the.

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The intergenerational and just a lot

of guys from different backgrounds,

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you don't have to pass a theology

exam or anything like that.

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It's going to be a part of this.

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Nope.

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You just have to show up and

want to grow, want to learn.

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And, uh, we want to

pursue discipleship here.

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Yes.

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It's about food.

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Yes.

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It's about fellowship, but it's

also about the discipleship.

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Uh, and that's, that's

really our, our key goal.

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There is we read through

disciplines of a godly man together.

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We're going to be talking about some

key areas of life that we want to

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Excel still more as believers, as

followers of Jesus and benefit from

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the wisdom of other men in the church.

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As to how to go about that.

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So exciting launch to that.

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Looking forward to the next one

already, which is just a few days

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away now, the great opportunity.

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Don't miss it.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Another great opportunity is to

be in the Bible on a daily basis.

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And that's what we're here to do today.

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The daily Bible podcast.

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That's what we call the

works were clever like that.

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Yeah, good names.

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Uh, Hey, we're getting

geniuses Habakkuk or Habbakuk.

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Uh, so you want to hit.

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Have a cook.

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Okay.

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I have a cook.

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Okay.

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That's that's why we

just say Habbakuk yeah.

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Yeah.

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Or Habakkuk it's a, has anyone

said Habakkuk, it's a different

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one to spell a double K you don't

find the double K too often.

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And everything well, that's,

that's, that's Hebrew for you.

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Yeah.

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I I've never met a Habakkuk.

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If you met a Habakkuk.

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Um, not yet.

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No.

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You know it, but why not?

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I know it's a great dude.

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I like this guy.

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He ends a great dude.

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I okay.

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So th that's the thing he, he

comes, I think his, his winning

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attribute is his authenticity.

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I think this is legit Christy.

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Uh, but believing believes is

not Christianity at this point,

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but I appreciate it's hard.

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I don't think he's right, obviously,

but I appreciate it's hard.

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No, for sure.

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And I I'm with you.

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I think he's, he's brash.

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He's bold.

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He's not afraid to say what he's thinking.

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Does he remind you of anybody?

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You know what?

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I don't know what you're implying to that.

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I'm just, I don't know.

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Uh, anyways.

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Uh, Habakkuk, we, we

don't you'll notice it.

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Doesn't say he prophesied during

the reign of such and such.

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Uh, this is.

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Before Babylon comes.

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And so is this before the 6 0 5?

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Yeah, it appears so.

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The best guests.

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For instance, if you have an ESB

Bible, you'll see that they're going

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to suggest that this is somewhere

in the six 40 to six, 15 timeframe.

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I think we're safe to say this is prior

to Babylon's arrival on the scene.

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Even at 6 0 5.

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I don't think Babylon has shown up yet.

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Because God's language here to the prophet

is going to say, I'm bringing them in.

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And that's a little bit shocking to a, to

Habakkuk in the context, but he's Florida.

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Yeah.

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But he at least knows

he's heard of Babylon.

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I don't think this is like

way before this in the seven

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hundreds or anything like that.

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I think he at least knows.

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Uh, the what Babylon is, but it

opens with Habakkuk's complaint

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is as the ESV has referenced there

and it's an appropriate title.

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Um, because Habakkuk is

going to do just that.

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He's going to bemoan the current

circumstances and he asks some pretty.

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Pretty indicting questions.

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He says, Lord, how long am I going

to cry for helping you don't hear me.

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Verse two or cry violence.

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And you won't save.

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Y notice how many times he says why he

says it a couple of times here, he says, A

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few times later, but he asks a lot of why.

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Why do you make me see inequity?

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Why do you ideally.

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I look at wrong.

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Why are you not doing anything?

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And even says, look, justice is perverted.

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The loggers out paralyzed.

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Um, So the, the profit here

is, is saying things are bad.

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God.

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And what are you doing?

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And the Lord answers him there.

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And he says, look among the nations

and see, wondering, be astounded.

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Uh, this is the entry says.

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Habakkuk.

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Do you think I'm idle verse five?

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I am doing a work in your days.

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Notice the connection there.

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So, so Habakkuk, initially charges

God with not doing anything.

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Uh, and that's some of the brashness, the

boldness, the speaking what's on his mind.

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Right?

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Uh, and God responses.

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Uh, Habakkuk is quite the opposite.

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I am doing something in fact, what I'm

doing, and then he goes on to explain it

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is I'm bringing Babylon against Israel.

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I'm bringing Babylon this

wicked, this he, the nation.

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At this violent nation, this, uh, this

nation whose might is there, God, verse

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11, I'm bringing them to judge you.

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And so, uh, that's that's, this

is kind of the opening here.

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Habakkuk complains about the evil

that's in the land, and God says

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I'm going to respond to that by

bringing Babylon and judgment.

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Which to be clear is

who the Cal deans are.

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You've seen this before at this point.

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Cal DNS, anytime you see that, so that

the land of Khoudia possessed Babylon

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or Babylon was in the land of Khoudia.

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So sometimes you'll see

the language of Babylon.

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You'll see the language of Cambodia.

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Now or here at the Cal

DNS, it's the same idea.

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It's like Texas north, Texas, and that's

kind of a, you know, , I don't know

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if you call someone to select me in.

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Selenium prosper and prosper.

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Anyway, you get the idea, but

it's something to look at here

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is, again, I appreciate this.

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It's not, you should not talk

to God in a disrespectful way.

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And I don't think Habakkuk is, but he is

saying, God, this is what it seems like.

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I think the commend ability here

is the honesty and the integrity

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behind Habakkuk's approach.

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Yeah.

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Uh, and so I think

there's something to that.

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Another thing I want to draw

your attention to is this sense

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that he's saying, God, you're

not bringing forth justice.

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And I think this is a common.

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A common complaint that even people

today have God, you're not doing

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things when you should do them.

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And I think one thing we have

to notice is that got a rarely.

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Uh, rarely judges immediately.

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God's justice is typically delayed.

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In fact, for most people, justice

is not going to be experienced until

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the eschaton until the last days.

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When he finally writes all wrongs in

their perfection, in their entirety

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until then even justice on earth is

going to be partial at best unless

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someone thousand needed Christ.

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In which case justice is served and

completed at the cross through Christ.

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Sacrificial atonement, but here, now

your complaint and maybe Habakkuk's

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or maybe friends who would say

Christianity is not a good religion.

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We say God is not just, if he lets

murderers and our pistes and other

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people live and they, you know, they

go to prison for years and they're

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fed by the state and yada yada, yada.

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Um, God's justice is often not immediate.

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Um, that's an important point.

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And I think that would save you a

lot of pain that Habakkuk feels.

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If you can remember that God doesn't

deal with us with immediate justice.

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He doesn't do that with a lot of people.

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Well, and his justice is.

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So much greater than any sense

of justice that, that we could

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ever bring to fruition here.

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Right?

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Um, Yeah.

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I mean the most we can do

here is the death penalty.

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Yeah.

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And that's that's it.

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And for so many people

who have lost loved ones.

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And then the person that

commits that crime is taken

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out through the death penalty.

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There's still like an emptiness there.

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That's not satisfying.

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That's not satisfying deserve

to suffer and be so, okay.

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Let's talk about that then civically

at the, at the government level.

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Is it true?

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Justice delayed is justice denied.

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At the, so I, at the God level,

we know that's not true because

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he's going to write our rocks.

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He's going to recognize it.

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But at the government

level, Uh, is it true?

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Just delayed.

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Is justice denied.

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I'm not sure I.

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I unpack what you're driving out there.

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So I think, especially I heard it most

recently in the George Floyd riots.

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Okay.

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This is a couple of years ago now

where people were saying, look.

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These people who are innocently murdered.

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Need to have their justice

demanded of them right now.

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So the, yeah.

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What's the guy's name who uh,

was primarily held responsible

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for George Floyd's murder.

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And Eric you're talking

about, I don't know.

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So the police officer, they're

saying like, he's in jail right now.

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He's enjoying a cushy

life or he's not in jail.

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Right?

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Justice delayed is justice tonight.

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Your, this is not justice, unless

justice is swift and immediate.

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It's not true justice.

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Right.

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Okay.

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I'm tracking with you.

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I would say I don't agree with

that because I think there

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is due process for a reason.

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I think there's due process to

make sure that we do have all

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the facts and that we understand

everything that's happened in that.

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You don't have false accusations

brought, I mean, Been in Jeremiah, right?

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Jeremiah was accused of

deserting to the Babylonians.

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That's why he was thrown in

Jonathan's house to begin with that.

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Wasn't actually what took place.

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So that's not, that was swift

justice in, in quote, unquote, the.

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The eyes of those that were charging

him, but that's not justice.

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Cause it was wrong.

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It wasn't right.

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It didn't actually happen.

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So I think in God's economy,

justice is always perfect

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because he knows what is right.

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And he knows what is wrong and

he knows exactly what happened.

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I think we're left to, to say, okay,

sometimes we need to be slower with

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justice to make sure that we get it right.

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Especially when we're dealing with

the bigger ticket items, like a

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death penalty or life imprisonment

or anything like that, we need to

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make sure that we have all the facts.

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And I've considered them accurately.

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And that's a fair point.

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What about for those people

who are on death row?

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They've been convicted.

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They've been, you know, They've

been given a verdict by their peers.

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And they've been given the death

penalty and they're on death row for.

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Years, dozens of years.

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In fact, that's the, that's the

ordinary experience of things.

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If you're going to be in death row,

you're going to spend at least a few years

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there, if not potentially tens or dozens.

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Well, and I think that that does point

to the deficiency of our system, right?

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Because if, if.

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The person that they sinned

against that they committed a crime

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against if the, the loved ones of

that person died before they die.

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Well, then.

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They never have that sense of justice.

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Um, but that is just another

reminder that our ultimate desire

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for justice can't be earthbound.

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It's got to be a man.

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We have to entrust that to the Lord.

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That's the harder thing.

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It's to understand band.

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If that person on death, death row

truly repents and puts their faith in

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Christ, then we have to transfer this

understanding to justice was still

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served, but it was served at the cross.

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That's something points,

not an eternity in hell.

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Huge.

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And that's just it.

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If that makes us uncomfortable, all that

does is betray the fact that we don't

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fully appreciate the gravity of the cross.

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Right.

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I mean, th the person imagine your

loved one being taken from you.

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And your desire for justice and

your, your hatred against the

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person that committed that crime.

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And then understand that's

the rat that was poured out.

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On Christ for your, your sin and my sin.

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Hmm.

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That's that's the.

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That's the sticky one.

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For sure.

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Amen to that.

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I think that's one of the things

that people get most they get.

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I mean, the atheist in particular upset.

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I mean to tell me

someone can murder, dude.

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And they could just, you

know, oh, will you forgive me?

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God, and God forgives me.

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And then you're off Scott free.

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They find that morally

reprehensible, right?

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Yeah.

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I guess we can go down a rabbit hole

with that, but I appreciate the point.

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That's a big deal.

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Yeah.

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Well, Rebecca hears the Lord

loud and clear and he responds

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and says, uh, Come again.

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And he says basically almost

you're not allowed to do that.

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In fact, the use of the word idol again.

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And yet this time you accuses God

of ideally looking at traders,

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verse 13, the Babylonians.

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You remained silent when the

wicked swallows up a man more

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righteous than he is about.

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Habakkuk's retort to God is.

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Oh, wait a minute.

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Uh, yeah, things are bad here, but

the Babylonians are worse than we are.

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And you can't use a nation worse than we

are to judge us because that's, that's

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wickedness that, that you're condoning.

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Basically the wicked are

prospering at our expense here.

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And so he protests.

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And then boldly says in the

beginning of verse two, I will

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stand at my watch post and station

myself and wait to hear from you.

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God.

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I've.

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W, what do you say to that?

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Almost?

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It's kind of like, gotcha.

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Um, and, and so the

problem is arms crossed.

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Totally.

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What you got now, buddy.

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Exactly.

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And there's, and that's why there's

a little bit of Jonah in Habakkuk.

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Yeah.

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There's just a little bit of Jonah.

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I see it.

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I'm with you.

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And yet.

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Habakkuk responds to the right way.

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Cause the Lord comes back to

Habakkuk and says, Habakkuk.

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Uh, you need to understand what's

going on in and understand that you

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can't fully wrap your mind around it.

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And this is what he

gets into a chapter two.

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He says in verse three, the vision of

weights, it's a point of time at hastens.

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It will not live.

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It seems slow.

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Habakkuk wait for it.

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If you're not fully comprehending

and grasping everything I'm

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doing, just wait, just trust

that it's all coming to fruition.

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And that's where he says here.

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Wine is a trader and arrogant

man who is, is never at rest.

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His greeters is why, why does she feel.

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Um, Verse four.

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I'm sorry.

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I jumped over five verse four.

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His soul is puffed up the

pride, the arrogant one.

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But the righteous shall live by faith.

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And so that's the call

in Habakkuk right now.

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Habakkuk.

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In the short term, you're not going

to fully understand everything going

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on, but, but wait for it, trust the

righteous is going to live by faith.

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And that's where the

rest of the book goes in.

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Chapter three, Habakkuk basically

acknowledges cause in the

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rest of chapter two, God says.

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The Babylonians are coming to get justice.

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I will punish them to there.

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They're not going to get off.

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Scot-free.

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Uh, I'm going to come for them.

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They will have to pay the

penalty for their sins as well.

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And then in chapter three, and this is

what makes Habakkuk's so commendable,

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he gets it and any praise to God and he

praises God's past deliverance in Israel.

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And he prays and says to the Lord, he

says in your wrath, remember mercy.

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And he's asking for God's mercy in the

midst of the judgment that's impending,

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he understands his inevitability,

and then he concludes with one of the

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most amazing sections in the profits.

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One of the reasons why it's my, one of

my favorites is he just concludes saying,

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Lord, if even if you take everything

away, I'm still going to trust you.

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I'm going to choose to live by faith.

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The way that you call me to here

in verse four of chapter two, and

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what a sweet approach at me is,

it's just like his heart melts.

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Under the kindness of God or not.

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That's a piece of kindness.

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It's the fact that he's trustworthy.

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Yeah.

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And he has to, at some point

open his hands and say, God, I.

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I'm not gun.

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Like I don't, I don't know.

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I don't know the right thing to do.

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I can't figure this out while you're

doing it this way, but man, I trust you.

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And I think that's.

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So the difference between Habakkuk

and Jonah is Jonah just keeps

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his arms cross and says Walsh.

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I'm just going to be

mad about this, right.

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Habakkuk let's his heartbeat crushed

and broken under the weight of knowing.

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God's in control.

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I can't, I can't stop

this even if I wanted to.

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So who am I to fight against it?

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I'm just gonna submit to his

wise and good leadership.

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And that's the heart of a

genuine convert right there.

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Yep.

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I.

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I think Jonah you're kind of left.

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Wondering what did Jonah do?

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Yep.

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I suspect because his books in there

at some point down the line, he

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repented we're, you know, we suspect.

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Habakkuk UC has repentance and that

repentance is a soft, tender hardness.

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It says, God, you're in control.

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And I suspect that for a lot of us.

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When bad things happen, we're going

to have to say God, you're in control.

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I hate doing this.

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I don't know if you ever do this PPG,

but I often that often I don't want

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to oversell this, but I will sometimes

put myself in a place where I'm

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thinking about worst case scenario.

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Yep.

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What was the worst case?

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B.

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And can I live with that?

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Can I turn my heart and

attention to God in that moment?

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And I, I dunno, I don't want to get

too morbid here, but I just think about

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in my mind, what's the worst thing.

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And then I kind of put myself

there and say, Lord, I don't

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know if I could handle that.

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I don't know what would happen.

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That happened, Lord, I don't

know what I would do, right.

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Terrified of things like that.

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But I put myself there because I think

it's important that I just kind of test

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my heart is my trust in the right place.

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Or am I too invested in things

that God has graciously given me?

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You know, people that I love

and they're gracious gifts that

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I should appreciate and respect

and honor and all those things.

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But man, my ultimate trust

has to be in the Lord, which

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is why I love Habakkuk, man.

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It just takes me there and

that resonates so deeply.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I love his transparency.

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I love Habakkuk feels like a real guy.

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Oh, yeah.

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Got it.

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What's going on.

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And then the Lord tells him

and he's like, wait a minute.

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That doesn't make sense.

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And then God says, I get it.

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Doesn't make sense, but trust me.

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And then in the end he goes,

okay, I'm going to trust you.

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Yeah, it's a simple message

in a book that I think.

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Is, you mentioned this in yesterday's

episode, just how great it is to

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read all these things in concert with

one another so that we understand

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the background and everything.

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Oh yeah.

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And so now we, we do understand the

background color and, uh, And it just

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helps us appreciate this book even more.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's pray.

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And then we'll be done with another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, we thank you for a book like Habakkuk

that reveals to us that we are allowed.

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If I can use that language, to be honest

with you, which seems silly because you

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are the God of someone 39, you know, a

word before it's even on our tongues.

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Uh, and so we're, it's not like

we're fooling you if, if we choose

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not, to be honest with you in the

way that we're struggling or the.

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The fears that we have,

the anxieties that we have.

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And certainly even right now, during this

season and given the political climate

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and even the geopolitical climate.

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We can be like a backer can sit here and

say, God, it seems like evil's winning.

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It seems like justice paralyzed.

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And it seems like.

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We're on the losing end of things.

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And yet we want to acknowledge

the fact that you are in control

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and you are ordaining everything.

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Moving the chess pieces.

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You are.

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Uh, doing everything in

accordance with your perfect will.

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And so we want to trust you like

Habakkuk does, and we want to be able to.

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To be the righteous that live by

faith and, uh, and that's not easy.

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And so we confess that

readily, but it's not easy.

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And so we want to be like the father who

says, Lord, I believe help my unbelief.

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Increase that in us and enable us to live.

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Uh, just more confident

in your protection, your

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provision, your sovereigncy.

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Uh, even than we do today.

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An increase in that on a day that in.

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On a daily basis.

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In Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I guess keep honoring your

Bibles tune in tomorrow.

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For another episode of the daily

Bible podcast, we will see you then.

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Bye.