Oakwood Church

Habakkuk 1:12-17
“O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish. Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? You have made men like fish in the sea, like sea creatures that have no ruler. The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad. Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food. Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?”

A. The LORD calls me into a personal relationship with Himself

Habakkuk 1:12
“O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD...”

B. My God and Rock can do anything

Habakkuk 1:12
“… you have appointed and you have ordained.”

Habakkuk 1:14
“… you have made.”

C. My Holy One is righteous

Habakkuk 1:3
“Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrong?”

Habakkuk 1:13
“… whose eyes are too pure to look on evil …”

Dilemma: How can God use the wicked to discipline me?

Habakkuk 1:13
“Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

A. I am not good

Habakkuk 1:13
“Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

A. I am not good

Romans 3:23
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

A. I am not good

Isaiah 64:6
“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

A. I am not good

Romans 6:23
“The wages of sin is death…”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

B. I am not worthy

Habakkuk 1:12
“… we will not die.”

Exodus 19:3-6
“Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said,
“This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation…’”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

B. I am not worthy

Deuteronomy 7:6-8
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

B. I am not worthy

1 Peter 2:9
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
belonging to God.”

Delusion: My view of myself is not how God sees me.

C. I am no better than others

Habakkuk 1:13
“… swallow up those more righteous than themselves?”