Habakkuk 2

And so for us, we've got to choose how we get into this and how we How we respond, what is our human response to God's faithfulness? And so today, episode 188, I'm going to jump in a couple of different directions, but I want to...

I want to have some anchor thoughts based on Habakkuk 2 and verse 4, but I'll read it to you in context because you'll know the passage, probably recognize the passage, I would imagine, when Habakkuk has got a vision from the Lord, and then the Lord answers his lament, you could say, and the Lord said to Habakkuk, Write the vision, make it plain on the tablets, so he may run who reads it.

For still the vision awaits its appointed time.

It hastens to the end.

Righty, I'm back with you.

I just had to finish my coffee and enjoy the end of the Chemex that was in the glass.

What I want to do now is I want to just briefly talk about Habakkuk 2 verse 4.

Because the Hebrew word, the righteous shall live by his faithfulness, the word used there, faithfulness, is emunato.

Habakkuk stationed himself on watch.

So even Habakkuk 2:1, right? There's so many scripture references here, but it says here in Habakkuk, and I'm going to read this one to you, "I will stand at my watch and station myself on the watchtower, and I will keep watch to see what he will say to me and what I will answer when I am reproved." So I was like, "What does it mean?" What, the Lord's reproving him, right? It sounds a little harsh, but it means a divine call to correction or to guidance.

So here, Habakkuk himself is saying, "I'm going to stand at my watch." So he's standing at that watch where he's watching, he's seeing, he's guarding, he's...

You know, he's like, "What is it that the Lord is going to show me at the time he has called me to stand on this watch?" And he stationed himself on the watchtower, which that is like a, a place, a lookout.

He's like, what? They're more evil than Judah.

Like, why would you punish evil with even worse evil, right? And God's message here is, you know, in Habakkuk 2, verse 2, it says, write the vision and make it plain on tablets.

So he's like, I am not changing my mind.

The vision is the vision.

Amen, amen.

Well, if you have your Bible, please open it up with me to the book of Habakkuk.

Um, I know you've probably not been to that book in a minute and you might be wondering where it's at.

It's right after, uh, it's a minor prophet right after Nahum right before Zephaniah, if that helps you out at all, or maybe you got your app or you'd like to read it off the screen, but Habakkuk chapter two, Habakkuk chapter two, just three verses this morning.

verses 1 through 3.

We're going to continue to talk about vision.

Some of y'all haven't even thought about a Christmas list, but I wanna prepare you for a new season.

Is that all right? Okay, stand to your feet.

He goes, write it down, make it plain so people can run with it, so people can move with it.

And then he says, Habakkuk 2, verse three and four.

Look at this, verse three and four.

You'll see it up there on the screen.

and it will not delay.

God doesn't say, here's the exact time that this pain ends.

The frustration that you're feeling for Habakkuk, it was political frustration.

He's like, this isn't fair.

All right.

Habakkuk 2 verse 1.

I will stand my watch and set myself as a ramp and I will watch and see what the Lord would say unto me.

Shaking requires watchmen.

Huh? A big post-it note, right? Because, he said, the righteous shall live by faith.

In Habakkuk 2, he says, and the Lord answered me.

And he said, he said to you all, right? He said to every one of you.

He said, write the vision and make it plain upon the tables that he may run that readeth it.