Habakkuk 3

Beholding His Glory

Review Ch. 1 Wrestling

Ch. 2 Waiting / Watching – Vision- what God is going to do w/ Babylon

Ch. 3 – Worshipping

v.1-2 Let your work Live

Do what you see as being best –

Remember Mercy: Not getting what we do deserve !

Psa 136 – Give thanks for His mercy endures forever

Politician Picture didn’t do me Justice

Face like yours asking for Mercy

Napoleon have mercy –

Our God is a merciful God !!!

Mercies are new every morning – Can’t exhaust

V.3-4

These verses are interesting to me – Vision of the Lord – Coming – His Glory & Brightness

A)His Glory covered the Heavens – Isa 6 Train of his robe filled the temple – Everywhere

B) Earth was full of His Praise – Creation groans

1) They want to praise & can’t – we can & so often don’t

C) His Brightness was like the light – rays flashing from his hand – { Incredible Illumination

1) Paul – Damascus – Light brighter than the sun at noon time

D) But there His Power was Hidden –

1) Glory is Radiant – But Power is hidden – Shows us how Powerful God is

Brightness { Blinded Paul – That wasn’t a display of his Power : Moses face to shine –

A)Like the Sun – Bright – Sun glasses – no idea how powerful – until try to get close to it

B) There is a day – when Brightness & Power will both be on display – 2 Thes 2:8 – Destroy the Antichrist w/ the Brightness of His Power

C) God allows us to get close to Him – Behold Him in Jesus – Heb 1:2-3

3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power,

V.5-15 – Now there are 2 schools of thought concerning this Passage – Some think – Future

A)Talking about the 2^nd Coming of Christ – v.3 speaks of Him coming from Teman = Edom

B) Isa 63 we are told that when the Messiah comes he will move thru that area –heading towards Jerusalem in power & Glory

C) SO some view it as Future the 2^nd coming / but others View as past – speaking of God delivering Israel from Egypt – taking them to the promise land

D) So which is it ? I believe that it is both – God is saying to Hab. – Look back to see how I have worked & look ahead to see that I am coming

Result is this for Hab. – It was a reminder of the past & a revealing of the future – that he might be renewed in the Present

Lesson For You & Me – Review what God has done in the past – Past Faithfulness { So you can anticipate what He will do in the Future –

In Present set your heart at PEACE

Tonight some of you are worried about the Future

A)Think back on the past – God’s faithfulness

B) Amy Diabetes – Bummed – Past faithfulness

God is good – faithful He has always taken care of my family not going to stop now –

A)Aaron – 2 Lungs – X rays – How could you

B) Some of you look back on your past – BC days – any hope – God says – look what I have done

1) Be blessed w/ what I am going to do!!!

C) Simon – Peter – Finished Product

V. 16 We see Hab. – response to this Vision

A)He trembled at what this meant – God coming –

B) Like Hab. we can say Lord come quickly but we also need to remember what that means to those who are left behind

V. 17-18

A)Doesn’t matter how Bad things might get – Lord I know that you are on the throne & I will Praise you

B) This is so Key: Israel on the other of the Red Sea it is easy to Praise when going Good

1) But what about – When things are tough – He is still God

C)Job: Ch. 13 Though he slay me I will trust Him

D) What about You – Lord praise you rejoice in you worthy – you are true in all your ways v.19

Hab. goes from the Valley of Despair – Wrestling to the Mt top of Rejoicing & Worshipping

A)NEXT STUDY – JONAH – Powerful picture of the grace of God –

B) Jonah like Hab. – wrestled w/ God’s will – Comparison ends there

1) Jonah ran from God – had to learn in a Fish

C) Hab. ran to God – learns in the Tower –

Which example will Characterize your life !!!