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 Well, we'll begin our worship by singing to God's praise. We're going to sing in Psalm 40, in the Scottish Psalter, Psalm 40, page 259 of the psalm books.

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 The tune is Earshire, a psalm that speaks about waiting on God, and that's going to be part of our theme today as we look at Habakkuk, continue our study in Habakkuk.

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 And waiting on God is always worth it, as we see even in this psalm.

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 The psalmist says, I waited for the Lord my God and patiently did bear. At length to me he did incline my voice and cry to hear.

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 He took me from a fearful pit and from the miry clay, and on a rock he set my feet, establishing my way.

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 So we'll sing from verse 1 to the end of double verse 5 to God's praise.

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 Amen.

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 I waited for the Lord my God and patiently did bear.

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 A prayer to be, and on a rock he set my way.

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 I waited for the Lord my God and patiently did bear.

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 May he shall see it and shall fear and on the Lord rely.

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 May he shall see it and shall fear and on the Lord rely.

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 O blessed is the man whose eyes upon the Lord rely.

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 O blessed is the man whose eyes upon the Lord relies.

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 Respecting not a crown nor such a stern, a stern, a stern to light.

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 O Lord my God and patiently did bear.

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 O Lord my God, who many are, how wondrous thou hast done.

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 Thy gracious thought to us were far above all thoughts are on.

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 And all my love are reckoned there, to hear them declare.

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 And speak of them, I put them on, and can be loved, or not.

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 Let's join together in a word of prayer.

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 Let us pray.

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 Our Father in heaven, we thank you for these words that we've sung that remind us of the goodness that there is in waiting upon you.

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 And as we come to worship you today, we pray that it will be a time when we wait upon you in that sense of what you might say to us, what you might do for us.

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 And we thank you that together as we come, we can rejoice in you that you are God, a God who has given to us all that we need, a God who has provided for us in your Son, Jesus Christ, a God who gives us all that we need on a daily basis.

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 And as we give thanks for this day and the beauty of the weather this week, the goodness to us in our homes and our families and all our friends, and above all the goodness that we have through your word that speaks to us.

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 And as we gather together for worship today here in the church and in the creche and Sunday school and tweenies, we thank you for your word and pray that as we hear it, you will bless it to us and that you will encourage us by it.

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 Build us up, Lord, whatever age and stage of life we are at, that we would know to love Jesus more and more every day of our lives and to serve him with all our hearts.

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 Thankful for all that he has done for us.

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 We ask all these things for the forgiveness of our sin.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 Well, again, it's been a beautiful week this week, another week to enjoy.

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 The glorious weather.

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 But in the midst of that, you see today that we've got a warning, a warning for thunderstorms this afternoon and heavy rain to come.

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 You think to yourself, where on earth is that coming from?

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 But that's what God's word so often does for us as well.

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 It reminds us of all the good things that we enjoy in life, but it always gives us a warning to not to ignore what God is saying to us and how God has loved us.

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 Do any of the young people, do you like doing jigsaw puzzles?

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 I'm sure many of the older people like doing jigsaw puzzles as well.

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 Maybe people have got jigsaw puzzles on the go just now.

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 Hands up if you're doing a jigsaw puzzle.

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 I'm sure there's one or two people with hands up somewhere.

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 Well, jigsaw puzzles can be good fun.

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 And I managed to get one this week, a Scooby-Doo jigsaw puzzle.

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 And it was quite cheap.

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 It's 250 pieces.

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 But the reason it was quite cheap was because there's a few bits missing.

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 So there's only 232 pieces.

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 But I'm sure it'll be fine, won't it?

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 I mean, what's the difference in 18 pieces missing?

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 You'll still be happy when it's done, even though there'll be gaps in the jigsaw puzzle.

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 Or will you?

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 It can be so frustrating.

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 If you've ever been doing a jigsaw puzzle and you find even just one bit missing,

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 it can be so frustrating because it's just not finished.

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 It's not complete.

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 And if you think, well, there's about 18 pieces missing.

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 What's that going to look like when it's finished?

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 Maybe Scooby-Doo's face might not even be there.

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 There'll be something important missing.

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 Well, Jesus reminds us in his word that he doesn't want anyone missing.

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 When it comes to making up the number of people that he wants to save,

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 he doesn't want anyone missing.

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 Not even one.

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 And there's a parable that reminds us of that.

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 And it says to us in Luke 15, Jesus speaks of the parable of the lost sheep.

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 There were a hundred sheep.

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 One was missing.

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 And did Jesus think, oh, well, that's fine.

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 We can manage with 99.

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 No.

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 He said, no, I've got to go and find that one sheep that's missing.

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 And so the search began until the sheep was found.

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 And that's what Jesus does for his people.

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 He doesn't want any to be lost.

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 He wants all to be saved.

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 And so missing pieces are important to him.

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 And he came to seek those who were lost.

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 He came to seek us because we were lost in this world without him.

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 He came to find us.

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 Now, if you think of Scooby-Doo and you watch Scooby-Doo, you start singing the song in your head, I'm sure, just now.

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 It says, Scooby-Doo-Bee-Doo, where are you?

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 And that's the kind of question that Jesus asks of us too.

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 Where are you?

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 Are you lost or are you found?

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 Are you safe with Jesus today?

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 And as we'll be looking in Habakkuk shortly, that's what we're going to be seeing there as well, where God is asking us, how are we living?

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 And where are you?

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 Are you lost or are you found?

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 Well, Jesus wants to find all the missing pieces because they're all precious to him.

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 We're all precious to him.

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 May God bless these thoughts to us.

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 We're going to say the Lord's Prayer together now.

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 Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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 Thy kingdom come.

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 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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 Give us this day our daily bread.

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 And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

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 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

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 For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.

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 Amen.

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 We'll sing again to God's praise.

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 This time Psalm 34 in the Sing Psalms version.

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 Psalm 34 is on page 40 of the psalm books.

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 Psalm 34, we're going to sing from verse 11 down to verse 18.

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 Come here, my children.

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 Gather round and listen to my word, and I will help you understand how you may fear the Lord.

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 Does anyone delight in life and long to see good days?

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 And keep your tongue from evil speech, your lips from lying ways.

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 The tune of Kilmarnock will sing from verse 11 to 18 to God's praise.

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 Come here, my children.

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 Gather round and listen to my word.

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 And I will help you understand how you may fear the Lord.

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 Does anyone delight in life and long to see good days?

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 Then keep your tongue from evil speech, your lips from lying ways.

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 Depart and turn from evil past, and practice what is right.

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 Decide to know the way of peace, your lips from lying ways.

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 The Lord's eyes are upon the just, he lifts us to deathly.

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 The wicked, he rejects and bought from their fair memory.

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 The righteous sky, the Lord responds, and pleases them when dispairs.

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 The Lord calls near the broken heart and rescues the deep air.

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 The Lord calls near the broken heart and rescues the deep air.

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 The wicked, the wicked, the wicked, the wicked, the wicked.

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 We're going to turn to read together in the book of Habakkuk.

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 As we continue our study in this book, our second part today.

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 Habakkuk, it's in the Old Testament.

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 You'll find it around page 948.

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 We're going to read in chapter 1, verse 12, down into chapter 2, verse 5.

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 Habakkuk, in verse 12, responds to God with these words.

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 Are you not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, my Holy One?

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 We shall not die, O Lord.

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 You have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

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 You who are of purer eyes and to see evil and cannot look at wrong,

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 why do you idly look at traitors and are silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

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 You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

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 He brings all of them up with a hook.

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 He drags them out with his net.

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 He gathers them in his dragnet, and so he rejoices and is glad.

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 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet.

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 For by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.

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 Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?

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 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower

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 and look out to see what he will say to me and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

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 And the Lord answered me, Write the vision.

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 Make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.

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 For still the vision awaits its appointed time.

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 It hastens to the end.

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 It will not lie.

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 If it seems slow, wait for it.

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 It will surely come.

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 It will not delay.

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 Behold, his soul is puffed up.

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 It is not upright within him.

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 But the righteous shall live by his faith.

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 Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest.

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 His greed is as wide as shoal.

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 Like death, he has never enough.

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 He gathers for himself all nations and collects all his own peoples.

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 Amen.

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 And may God bless that reading from his word.

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 Well, let's again just unite our hearts in a word of prayer.

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 Let us pray.

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 Lord, you are from everlasting, as Habakkuk said so long ago.

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 You are one who is unchangeable in holiness, in goodness, in mercy.

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 And we thank you for that.

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 For every way your word reminds us of who you are.

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 It reminds us that you are a just God.

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 But a God who will also bring justice to all people and nations.

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 And that means, O Lord, that there are times when we have to wait upon you, even as Habakkuk of old did.

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 And so we pray, Lord, that you will teach us to be a patient people, a prayerful people,

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 a people who trust in you as the only one who is able to help in the midst of a world that is full of troubles and pains.

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 And we thank you that there is your goodness around us too.

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 That you promise us in your word that as we put our trust in you, as we seek to live by faith,

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 that you have promised your goodness and mercy to follow us all the days of our lives.

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 That you have promised for your people a place of everlasting rest,

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 a place that Jesus has gone to prepare for all his people.

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 And we await his return that is promised in the word of God as well.

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 And we thank you that in your promises and in your word that we have the word that we can lean upon and rely on.

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 And help us, Lord, that when there are times when we feel discouraged,

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 when there are times when we feel our faith is lacking,

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 when we feel the way difficult, when we feel that the challenges are just too many for us,

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 remind us that in God we have one who is a strength and a help to all of his people.

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 That you are with us, Lord, that is your promise.

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 That you have come, O Lord, that we might know the forgiveness of our sins

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 through Jesus Christ himself giving his life for his people on the cross.

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 That he died and rose again.

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 And that he has ascended now to the right hand of God the Father.

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 And, Lord, we pray that our knowledge of him will become more and more.

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 And that the more we understand,

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 the more that we would see the hope and confidence that there is in the Lord.

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 And we pray that for all your people,

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 near and far around us, Lord,

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 that your kingdom will come in power as we have prayed.

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 That you will remember us, Lord, in your mercy.

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 That you will come and do good to the people of this world.

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 For we know, Lord, that your mercy is great.

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 And we thank you that despite the wickedness of man,

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 despite all that is wrong in our world,

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 that you are the God who is about the business of reviving,

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 the business of saving,

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 and building his church.

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 And we thank you for every reminder we hear of that,

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 even as we have had in this past week,

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 when we've heard from Derek Maxwell

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 about the work of the Slavic Gospel Association.

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 We thank you for the many challenges that we heard about,

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 but above all,

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 the encouragement that God is at work.

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 What we are reminded of here in Habakkuk in his days,

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 when there seemed to be so much turmoil,

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 nationally and internationally.

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 We see it in our own day.

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 And yet, just as Habakkuk was reminded

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 that God is doing a work,

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 that we were reminded that that goes on to this day,

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 that God, you are working in nations and lands

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 in ways that we can so often find impossible to understand

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 and mysterious in so many ways.

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 And yet we praise you,

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 that you are bringing salvation in the midst of all things.

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 And so we pray, Lord,

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 that you will build your church,

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 that you will continue to call people to yourself,

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 that people will come to find that salvation that there is in Jesus,

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 that hope that he gives for now and for eternity.

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 And so we thank you that your word is powerful and mighty to save,

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 and that your word, as it goes out today here

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 and throughout all the churches and gatherings of your people

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 around our nation and the world,

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 that your voice would be heard,

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 that your name would be praised,

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 and that glory would be yours.

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 So hear our prayers, Lord,

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 and continue with us as we seek to live our lives to your glory.

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 Help us in our homes, in our families,

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 in our workplaces, in our community,

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 that we would be your people,

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 that we would show forth the wonder of salvation,

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 that we would remind others of their need of Christ.

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 Help us to be that salt and light that this world needs.

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 And we pray, Lord,

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 to that end that you would bless us in all that we do in your name.

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 Thankful for every opportunity we have to serve you among our young people,

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 with our community,

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 with our congregation,

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 in all the different ways that we see need around us.

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 Lord, we thank you for opportunities that we have to serve.

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 We thank you that we have been reminded too in this week of the fact that the gospel is for all people,

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 no matter what our situation in life is,

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 as we were reminded on Friday evening and yesterday morning in our training sessions,

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 that the wonder of the gospel is that it ministers to all people.

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 And we pray, Lord,

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 that you will help us and build us up to be encouragers to one another

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 and to be a people who seek for the gospel to be shared with all around us.

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 So we pray, Lord,

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 that you will be with us,

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 that you will help all who have particular needs at this time.

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 We remember those who are unwell,

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 those who are awaiting surgery or having gone through surgery recently,

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 those who are in hospital or their own homes,

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 who are feeling unwell at this time.

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 Lord,

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 may you surround them,

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 may you uphold them and strengthen them.

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 Remember those who mourn as well.

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 We pray,

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 Lord,

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 for your comfort and your grace towards them.

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 We pray,

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 Lord,

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 that you will heal hearts that are,

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 are broken,

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 that you would come as the shepherd who is always there.

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 We pray too,

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 Lord,

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 to remember our nation as we have seen a new first minister and deputy first minister appointed in this past week.

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 We pray for Mr. Swinney,

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 Lord,

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 that you would help him in his role and in all the challenges that he faces.

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 We pray for him,

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 Lord,

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 that you will uphold him and strengthen him for it.

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 And above all,

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 Lord,

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 that you will minister to his heart,

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 that you will be his God,

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 that you will lead him and guide him and help him to stand up for your truth.

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 We are thankful too for Kate Forbes and her appointment.

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 We pray for her in the midst of all the attacks that she has come under and will come under,

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 Lord,

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 that you will shepherd her and guide her,

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 give her the strength that she needs and give her the confidence to serve you with all her heart.

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 And we pray for our parliaments,

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 that they would be places of your peace.

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 And we so often see anger and abuse being hurled.

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 We pray,

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 we pray,

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 we pray,

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 Lord,

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 that they would become places where the good of your people and the glory of your name would be what would be important.

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 And so we pray,

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 Lord,

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 that you will hear our prayers and that you will continue with us in this day and in the days ahead,

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 that you will go before us,

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 guide us and protect us.

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 And as we ask all,

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 we ask it with the forgiveness of our sins.

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 In Jesus' name,

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 Amen.

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 We're going to sing again before we turn back to Habakkuk in Psalm 5 in the Scottish Psalter,

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 page 203.

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 We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 7.

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 The tune is Strathcathro.

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 Psalm 5 at verse 1,

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 Give ear unto my words,

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 O Lord,

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 my meditation way.

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 Hear my loud cry,

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 my King,

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 my God,

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 for I to Thee will pray.

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 We'll sing from verse 1 to verse 7 to God's praise.

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 Lord,

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 Lord,

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 thou shalt bearly hear my voice,

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 I e'erly will I lay.

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 Lord,

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 thou shalt bearly hear my voice,

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 I e'erly will I lay.

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 Lord,

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 thou shalt bearly hear my voice,

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 I e'erly will I lay.

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 may ye'erly fear,

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 I erely may.

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 I erely hear my hand,

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 And what that does in wickedness delight,

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 Neither shall we dwell with thee,

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 Nor fools stand in thy sight.

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 All that hell through a time of grace,

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 God's love, the carriers be,

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 The bloody and deceitful man

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 A forerest by thee.

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 What I went to, thy house will come,

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 Then thine upon that face,

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 And I will worship,

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 Then I fear,

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 To watch thy holy race.

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 I'll turn with me back to our reading in Habakkuk.

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 We can read again in verse 4 of chapter 2.

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 Habakkuk chapter 2 at verse 4.

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 Behold, his soul is puffed up,

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 It is not upright within him,

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 But the righteous shall live by his faith.

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 You see in this verse,

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 There's a comparison between two different kind of people.

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 There are those who are puffed up,

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 Who are trusting in themselves,

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 But then the Lord says,

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 But the righteous shall live by his faith.

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 What do you think of God in the midst of our world

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 That has so much chaos going on?

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 That's the question that Habakkuk had to face up to in his own day.

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 As we saw, as we began our study last week,

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 There was so much going on around Habakkuk,

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 Both nationally and internationally,

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 That led to him to cry out to God with this question,

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 How long shall I cry for help?

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 And you will not hear.

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 How long do we have to cry out?

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 That's the kind of cry that we can feel ourselves today.

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 And what do we think of God

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 In the midst of the chaos and turmoil

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 That we so often see around us today?

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 Reading through Habakkuk is challenging.

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 It's a hard read.

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 There are so many things that are going on.

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 And we think,

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 Well, surely God would come

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 And just change things immediately for his people.

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 That he would bring peace for them.

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 That he would bring a change in their circumstances.

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 And yet God seems to allow things to go on

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 And on and on.

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 And we can come to the point where we think,

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 Well, where is God?

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 And what is he doing?

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 And that's a challenge that we have

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 That Habakkuk had in his day.

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 And when we look through this book,

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 As we see this interaction that Habakkuk had with God

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 As he was bringing his complaints as it is to God

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 And hearing God's responses,

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 We saw that it's a challenge

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 And yet God is working.

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 As you read through Habakkuk,

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 As I was making clear last week,

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 You find these nuggets,

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 These precious verses that remind us

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 That God is not standing still.

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 That God has not abandoned his people.

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 That God has not forgotten us.

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 That God is doing a work.

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 We saw that in verse 5 of chapter 1 last week.

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 This nugget that we saw in the middle of verse 5,

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 For I am doing a work in your days

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 That you would not believe if told.

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 He was doing a work.

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 He was not standing still.

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 And yet it was a work that was hard to understand.

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 As God was bringing the judgment of a nation,

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 The Chaldeans,

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 An army that was wicked,

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 An army that would bring destruction

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 And disarray to God's people.

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 God is saying,

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 I am working in this way,

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 In a mysterious way,

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 That you will not understand.

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 But that you will see my hand in.

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 And so we are reminded today ourselves

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 That we can see that God is working.

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 In the midst of all the chaos of this world,

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 God is still working.

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 And today we want to see another nugget,

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 Another precious text for us

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 That reminds us of how we are to live

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 In this world of chaos.

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 And that we are to live by faith.

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 That this is the key to our lives,

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 To the Christian life,

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 That the righteous shall live by faith.

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 So here is another nugget for us.

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 The righteous shall live by faith.

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 It's a verse that's quoted three times

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 In the New Testament by Paul.

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 You have Romans chapter 1,

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 Galatians chapter 3,

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 Hebrews chapter 10,

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 This very text quoted.

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 And it's quoted to remind people

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 About how we are right with God.

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 How we are justified with God.

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 It is not through our works.

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 It is not through what we do.

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 We are made right with God by faith.

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 And the more we understand of this,

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 The more peace with God

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 We would have in the midst of all the chaos.

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 There was a man called Martin once.

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 And he wanted to be right with God.

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 He was searching God.

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 For God.

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 But he was fearful of God.

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 Because he heard of God as a just God.

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 A righteous God who condemned sin.

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 And Martin knew in himself that he was a sinner.

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 Because everywhere he looked in his life,

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 All he could see was sin.

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 And this left him almost terrified.

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 In despair.

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 And one day he said to himself,

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 How can I speak to a holy God?

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 For I am just dust and ashes.

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 And full of sin.

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 And I am speaking to the living God.

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 The eternal.

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 And through God.

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 How can I speak to him?

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 And in this fear he began a search.

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 As to how he could be right with God.

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 And his search for this took him in different directions.

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 He tried serving God with all his heart.

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 He tried spending time in prayer and service to God.

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 In the hope that he would find this peace with God.

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 And yet all he could see was his own sinfulness.

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 How he couldn't possibly do anything to please God.

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 And so then he began to think,

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 Well if I confess my sins before God.

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 Then I can be right with God.

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 And he would spend up to six hours a day in confession.

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 Pouring out his heart about all the sins in his life.

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 And yet as soon as he had finished doing this.

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 The thought that it would immediately come to him is.

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 What if I've forgotten a sin?

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 And this would trouble his heart.

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 And then he began to be troubled and nagged by other questions.

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 He was questioned like.

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 What about the sins I don't even know I've committed?

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 There must be things I've done.

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 And I don't even realize that they're sins.

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 And how am I going to be right with God?

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 And so his life was in turmoil.

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 He was struggling to find a way to God.

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 He tried pleasing him himself.

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 Or finding a way to please him through others.

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 And it just got worse.

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 Until he threw himself into God's word.

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 And there he found the answer.

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 And it was through his studies in the book of Romans.

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 And especially chapter 1.

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 That it opened his eyes.

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 He was looking at the justice of God.

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 And how he could be right with God.

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 And then his eyes fell upon these words of Romans 1.17.

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 Quoting Habakkuk 4.

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 The righteous shall live by faith.

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 And it was like a rebirth.

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 He described it.

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 He said,

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 It felt like I had just come through the very gates of heaven itself.

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 And had found this peace with God.

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 Martin had found this nugget.

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 This precious truth that gave him peace and made him right with God.

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 The righteous shall live by faith.

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 It's not what we do.

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 But faith in what has been done for us.

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 Who was this Martin, you might ask?

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 It was Martin Luther.

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 In the 1500s, when he came to this point to find this nugget.

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 The righteous shall live by faith.

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 And through him as an instrument in God's hand.

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 The reformation began in Europe.

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 The gospel began to be opened up to many.

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 To realize it's not about law.

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 It's not about making payment to God.

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 It's not about what we do.

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 It's about faith.

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 And the gospel became alive in Europe.

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 The gospel flourished.

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 The nugget made all the difference to him.

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 And has made all the difference to so many.

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 And it will make all the difference to you as well.

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 The righteous shall live by faith.

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 I want us to think of this text in three ways today.

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 Three things that Habakkuk shows us here as we think of what living by faith means for ourselves today.

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 And the three things are this.

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 We see that there is a watching.

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 There is a waiting.

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 And there is a warning.

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 So we are going to go through these three things.

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 First of all beginning with the watching.

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 Habakkuk as we saw last week.

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 Had this complaint against God.

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 In the midst of all the troubles that he was seeing around him.

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 He asks God.

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 How long will I cry out and you will not hear?

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 But God's response was as we said.

00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:28.879
 I am doing a work.

00:38:29.319 --> 00:38:30.879
 That you would not believe.

00:38:31.259 --> 00:38:32.619
 If I told you.

00:38:33.579 --> 00:38:36.159
 And this work was a mysterious work.

00:38:36.219 --> 00:38:38.179
 A strange work in so many ways.

00:38:38.279 --> 00:38:40.699
 That God was raising up the Chaldeans.

00:38:40.799 --> 00:38:41.920
 The Babylonians.

00:38:42.279 --> 00:38:43.000
 A nation.

00:38:43.179 --> 00:38:43.759
 A power.

00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:45.920
 An enemy to God's people.

00:38:46.900 --> 00:38:48.279
 An enemy that was powerful.

00:38:48.279 --> 00:38:52.579
 And that would bring so much devastation to them.

00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:58.039
 And it's a confusing time for Habakkuk.

00:38:58.139 --> 00:39:00.639
 Trying to understand the ways of God.

00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.159
 That seems so different to the ways he might expect.

00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:08.879
 And it's the kind of day that we find ourselves in.

00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.339
 And you see as we read in verse 12 down to verse 17.

00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.579
 There's this talk of the way that God is working.

00:39:19.699 --> 00:39:21.599
 The way that he has brought this response.

00:39:21.799 --> 00:39:22.839
 He says in verse 14.

00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.360
 And you make mankind like the fish of the sea.

00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:29.440
 And then there's this hook.

00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:33.900
 There's this net that just seems to gather up God's people together.

00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:37.180
 And it's a judgment coming on God's people.

00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:41.019
 It's the symbol of the Chaldeans.

00:39:41.019 --> 00:39:43.860
 Just bringing devastation to God's people.

00:39:44.100 --> 00:39:46.840
 Gathering them in as a reward to themselves.

00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:48.760
 And living of them.

00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.539
 Becoming rich of other people.

00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.980
 And it's like the world we live in today.

00:39:54.980 --> 00:39:56.620
 Where people are not precious.

00:39:57.539 --> 00:40:02.800
 People are just things that can be used to bring power and wealth to others.

00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:05.519
 Where life is not precious.

00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:09.480
 And where we see it so much around us.

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:13.480
 There's this just ongoing devastation all around us.

00:40:13.659 --> 00:40:16.860
 People's lives being lost on a daily basis.

00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:18.639
 And the cry is to God.

00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:20.340
 Do you not care?

00:40:21.699 --> 00:40:23.420
 Are you not seeing what is happening?

00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:26.059
 And how long will we go on crying?

00:40:26.059 --> 00:40:31.219
 Well God is saying I am doing a work.

00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:34.579
 And as Habakkuk is hearing this.

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:38.079
 He comes to this end of this second complaint.

00:40:38.219 --> 00:40:40.360
 Where he's seeing all this devastation.

00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:43.019
 And he says in verse 1 of chapter 2.

00:40:43.099 --> 00:40:45.400
 Well this is what I am going to do.

00:40:46.759 --> 00:40:47.880
 And what he says is.

00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:51.679
 I will take my stand at my watch post.

00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:56.219
 And it's not standing in the huff.

00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:00.919
 This is not Habakkuk turning his back on God.

00:41:01.339 --> 00:41:03.719
 Well I'm just going to go and stand at my post.

00:41:03.819 --> 00:41:05.759
 And I'm going to watch and wait and see.

00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.279
 This is actually a trusting in God.

00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:13.559
 I will take my stand at my watch post.

00:41:13.659 --> 00:41:15.460
 And station myself on the tower.

00:41:15.799 --> 00:41:18.119
 And look out to see what he will say to me.

00:41:18.199 --> 00:41:19.519
 That's what God will say.

00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:23.960
 And what I will answer concerning my complaint.

00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:30.699
 Habakkuk is talking about the watch tower.

00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:31.719
 The watch man.

00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:33.900
 And in the Old Testament.

00:41:34.139 --> 00:41:36.320
 This was the place where a guard would be set.

00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:38.259
 Over a city.

00:41:39.219 --> 00:41:40.519
 An important place.

00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:43.820
 An important place where they would watch out for the enemy.

00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:46.159
 Or things that were going on round about them.

00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:49.399
 Excuse me.

00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:50.679
 And if action was needed.

00:41:51.739 --> 00:41:53.539
 Something could be done.

00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:54.899
 The watch tower.

00:41:55.099 --> 00:41:57.539
 And the watch man was an important role.

00:41:58.799 --> 00:42:00.500
 And so what Habakkuk is saying here.

00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:02.619
 Is not I'm literally going up a watch tower.

00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:05.859
 But I am going to watch for God.

00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:08.199
 I'm going to set a guard.

00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.119
 And look out for God.

00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:12.460
 I'm not going to turn my back on God.

00:42:12.460 --> 00:42:16.699
 But keep watching to see how he will respond.

00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:20.039
 And how he will act.

00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:26.619
 And what he is doing here is the righteous shall live by his faith.

00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:30.659
 He is watching in faith.

00:42:31.819 --> 00:42:34.019
 He is doing what he can.

00:42:34.019 --> 00:42:36.699
 He is not turning his back on God.

00:42:36.780 --> 00:42:38.500
 Or losing hope in God.

00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:42.820
 But he is watching and trusting.

00:42:43.300 --> 00:42:45.360
 That God will work.

00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.059
 And it's a reminder to ourselves today.

00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:52.719
 We are not to be a people.

00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.099
 Who turn our back on God.

00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:57.219
 We are not to be a people.

00:42:57.219 --> 00:42:58.940
 Who listen to the voice that says.

00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:00.559
 If God was real.

00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:02.940
 He would have done something by now.

00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:04.820
 If God was real.

00:43:04.900 --> 00:43:08.200
 He would not allow this devastation and destruction.

00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:10.380
 That we see all around us to take place.

00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:15.340
 We are to be a people who live by faith.

00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:19.760
 A people who realize that God is working in our day.

00:43:20.300 --> 00:43:23.980
 In a way that we cannot believe even if he told us.

00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:27.360
 The mysterious ways that we see around us.

00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:28.840
 That we don't understand.

00:43:29.139 --> 00:43:32.200
 But we are still to live by faith.

00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:37.480
 We are still to take our place in the watch post.

00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:42.220
 And that means just setting our heart towards God.

00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.539
 Keeping on in prayer.

00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:48.320
 Keeping on in meeting together.

00:43:48.639 --> 00:43:52.240
 Keeping on in worshipping and crying out to God together.

00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:55.200
 On Wednesday evening.

00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:58.220
 We are reminded of that in a powerful way.

00:43:58.219 --> 00:43:59.799
 When Derek spoke to us.

00:43:59.799 --> 00:44:02.859
 Of the work of the Slavic Gospel Association.

00:44:03.259 --> 00:44:06.379
 He was speaking of the war in the Ukraine.

00:44:06.619 --> 00:44:08.599
 And the devastation and despair.

00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:11.119
 Heartache that it has brought.

00:44:13.799 --> 00:44:16.480
 But yet he was saying there is still hope.

00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:19.980
 In the midst of the terror.

00:44:20.139 --> 00:44:21.420
 The church.

00:44:21.539 --> 00:44:24.159
 The people of God are still being blessed.

00:44:25.119 --> 00:44:26.599
 At one point he said.

00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:29.300
 The closer you get to the front line.

00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:31.740
 The fuller the churches get.

00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:36.519
 People are still at their watch post.

00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:38.159
 In their watch tower.

00:44:38.820 --> 00:44:40.039
 Looking to God.

00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:42.460
 But they have not turned their back on God.

00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:46.940
 What a powerful reminder to ourselves.

00:44:47.579 --> 00:44:50.380
 To keep our place at the watch post.

00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:52.759
 To keep our place.

00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:54.239
 Looking to God.

00:44:55.019 --> 00:44:57.019
 Trusting in God.

00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.199
 We have something to believe in.

00:45:01.420 --> 00:45:03.500
 Someone to believe in.

00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:05.820
 That makes all the difference.

00:45:05.820 --> 00:45:09.200
 That as God is speaking through Habakkuk.

00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:10.440
 About the challenges.

00:45:10.600 --> 00:45:12.500
 But the deliverance that can come.

00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:14.820
 He is reminding us today.

00:45:14.820 --> 00:45:16.780
 That we too have a deliverance.

00:45:17.300 --> 00:45:18.059
 A deliverer.

00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:18.940
 A redeemer.

00:45:19.900 --> 00:45:20.940
 The Lord Jesus.

00:45:23.340 --> 00:45:24.220
 Habakkuk's name.

00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:26.580
 It means embrace.

00:45:27.640 --> 00:45:30.440
 That God has not forgotten us.

00:45:30.820 --> 00:45:32.100
 And that we can still look.

00:45:32.500 --> 00:45:33.519
 For this God.

00:45:33.620 --> 00:45:35.460
 And as John Calvin once put it.

00:45:35.460 --> 00:45:38.400
 Faith is not a distant view.

00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:40.720
 But a warm embrace.

00:45:41.079 --> 00:45:41.920
 Of Christ.

00:45:43.460 --> 00:45:44.000
 Faith.

00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:45.679
 Keeps us close.

00:45:46.240 --> 00:45:47.119
 Psalm 130.

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:48.360
 Speaks of it.

00:45:48.960 --> 00:45:50.039
 I wait for the Lord.

00:45:50.139 --> 00:45:51.119
 My soul waits.

00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.260
 And in his word.

00:45:52.340 --> 00:45:53.000
 I hope.

00:45:53.659 --> 00:45:55.300
 My soul waits for the Lord.

00:45:55.380 --> 00:45:56.519
 More than the watchman.

00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:57.500
 For the morning.

00:45:57.760 --> 00:45:59.500
 More than the watchman.

00:45:59.720 --> 00:46:00.659
 For the morning.

00:46:02.240 --> 00:46:03.740
 My soul waiting.

00:46:03.739 --> 00:46:04.779
 For God.

00:46:04.779 --> 00:46:04.799
 For God.

00:46:04.799 --> 00:46:04.819
 For God.

00:46:04.819 --> 00:46:06.099
 In hope.

00:46:06.779 --> 00:46:08.019
 That is Habakkuk.

00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:09.539
 At the watch post.

00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:11.500
 So let us.

00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:13.359
 Keep faith.

00:46:13.899 --> 00:46:15.019
 As we watch.

00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:16.099
 For God.

00:46:17.539 --> 00:46:19.619
 The second thing we see here.

00:46:19.779 --> 00:46:20.659
 Is that there is.

00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:21.639
 A waiting.

00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:23.539
 And we see this.

00:46:23.619 --> 00:46:24.399
 In the way the Lord.

00:46:24.619 --> 00:46:25.839
 Answers Habakkuk.

00:46:25.919 --> 00:46:26.319
 In verse.

00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:27.080
 Verse 2.

00:46:27.080 --> 00:46:28.240
 To verse 4.

00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:30.140
 Watching and waiting.

00:46:30.140 --> 00:46:31.800
 May seem to have a sense of.

00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:33.519
 Uncertainty for us.

00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:35.980
 So we watch and wait.

00:46:35.980 --> 00:46:37.120
 For something to happen.

00:46:37.220 --> 00:46:38.039
 There is a sense of.

00:46:38.500 --> 00:46:38.960
 Wondering.

00:46:39.260 --> 00:46:40.600
 Will it actually come.

00:46:41.059 --> 00:46:41.680
 To pass.

00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:44.000
 And you can imagine.

00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:45.080
 Habakkuk here.

00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:46.600
 Having that mind.

00:46:47.640 --> 00:46:48.200
 After all.

00:46:48.240 --> 00:46:49.120
 He has already said.

00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:49.760
 To God.

00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:50.580
 How long.

00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:52.100
 Will you not hear.

00:46:52.300 --> 00:46:52.559
 So.

00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:53.719
 This waiting.

00:46:53.860 --> 00:46:54.820
 Will be wondering.

00:46:55.099 --> 00:46:55.159
 Well.

00:46:55.279 --> 00:46:55.920
 Will God.

00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:56.860
 Do something.

00:46:58.739 --> 00:46:59.500
 But now.

00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:00.119
 As God.

00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:01.000
 Has responded.

00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:01.639
 And said.

00:47:01.739 --> 00:47:01.880
 Well.

00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:02.559
 This nation.

00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:03.579
 Is going to come.

00:47:03.739 --> 00:47:04.239
 And almost.

00:47:04.539 --> 00:47:05.179
 Just gather.

00:47:05.340 --> 00:47:05.920
 Your people.

00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:06.360
 Away.

00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:07.299
 From this place.

00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:08.179
 And take them.

00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:09.679
 Into bondage.

00:47:09.759 --> 00:47:10.340
 And slavery.

00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:11.079
 And captivity.

00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:12.719
 So you have all.

00:47:12.739 --> 00:47:13.420
 Of these things.

00:47:13.500 --> 00:47:14.119
 You can imagine.

00:47:14.279 --> 00:47:14.960
 As questions.

00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:16.320
 Only increasing.

00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:18.500
 How long.

00:47:19.340 --> 00:47:20.099
 How long.

00:47:20.299 --> 00:47:21.099
 Will this.

00:47:21.299 --> 00:47:21.739
 Go on.

00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.779
 But it is not.

00:47:25.219 --> 00:47:25.799
 To lose.

00:47:26.199 --> 00:47:26.559
 Hope.

00:47:27.279 --> 00:47:28.519
 Just like Psalm 130.

00:47:28.820 --> 00:47:29.139
 Says.

00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:29.940
 The watchman.

00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:31.139
 It is waiting.

00:47:31.259 --> 00:47:31.639
 In hope.

00:47:31.759 --> 00:47:32.779
 And so Habakkuk.

00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:33.799
 Is waiting.

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:34.440
 In hope.

00:47:34.759 --> 00:47:35.340
 As well.

00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:36.840
 And that's what.

00:47:37.099 --> 00:47:38.000
 Faith does.

00:47:39.059 --> 00:47:39.559
 Faith.

00:47:39.759 --> 00:47:40.059
 Looks.

00:47:40.279 --> 00:47:40.820
 To God.

00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:41.779
 In a sense.

00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:42.739
 Of anticipation.

00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:44.199
 That God.

00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:44.980
 Will act.

00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:45.619
 That God.

00:47:45.619 --> 00:47:46.579
 Will do.

00:47:48.340 --> 00:47:48.900
 A preacher.

00:47:49.139 --> 00:47:49.460
 Called.

00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:50.019
 George.

00:47:50.139 --> 00:47:50.579
 Campbell.

00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:51.079
 Morgan.

00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:52.199
 He once.

00:47:52.420 --> 00:47:52.880
 Put it.

00:47:52.940 --> 00:47:53.480
 This way.

00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:55.239
 Waiting for God.

00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:56.460
 Is not laziness.

00:47:57.299 --> 00:47:58.299
 Waiting for God.

00:47:58.380 --> 00:47:59.079
 Is not going.

00:47:59.239 --> 00:47:59.860
 To sleep.

00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:01.579
 Waiting for God.

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:03.019
 Is not an abandonment.

00:48:03.019 --> 00:48:03.679
 Of effort.

00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:05.099
 No.

00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:06.159
 Waiting for God.

00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:06.980
 Means first.

00:48:07.139 --> 00:48:07.679
 Activity.

00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:08.599
 Under command.

00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:09.880
 Second.

00:48:10.420 --> 00:48:11.099
 Readiness.

00:48:11.179 --> 00:48:12.219
 For a new command.

00:48:12.319 --> 00:48:13.039
 That may come.

00:48:13.759 --> 00:48:14.599
 And thirdly.

00:48:14.739 --> 00:48:15.639
 The ability.

00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:16.400
 To do nothing.

00:48:16.400 --> 00:48:17.579
 Until that command.

00:48:18.059 --> 00:48:18.699
 Is given.

00:48:18.699 --> 00:48:21.599
 Waiting for God.

00:48:21.919 --> 00:48:23.039
 In faith.

00:48:23.659 --> 00:48:24.279
 You think of it like.

00:48:24.819 --> 00:48:25.379
 The dog.

00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:26.519
 Who is trained.

00:48:27.779 --> 00:48:29.399
 He's given a command.

00:48:29.819 --> 00:48:30.439
 To wait.

00:48:30.759 --> 00:48:31.339
 To sit.

00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:34.839
 And he's to wait.

00:48:34.939 --> 00:48:36.239
 For another command.

00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:38.099
 And he's to wait.

00:48:38.319 --> 00:48:39.500
 With patience.

00:48:39.899 --> 00:48:41.419
 And a well trained dog.

00:48:41.419 --> 00:48:42.379
 Will do that.

00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:44.599
 But an impatient dog.

00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:45.299
 Will just go.

00:48:45.419 --> 00:48:45.980
 It'll bolt.

00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:46.579
 It'll do.

00:48:46.859 --> 00:48:47.819
 Its own thing.

00:48:47.820 --> 00:48:48.660
 And that's the way.

00:48:48.760 --> 00:48:49.900
 We so often are.

00:48:50.260 --> 00:48:52.280
 When it comes to waiting on God.

00:48:52.340 --> 00:48:53.080
 We don't have.

00:48:53.260 --> 00:48:54.300
 That patience.

00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:56.059
 We want to do it.

00:48:56.460 --> 00:48:56.980
 Ourselves.

00:48:56.980 --> 00:48:57.880
 To take something.

00:48:57.960 --> 00:48:59.400
 Into our own hands.

00:49:01.019 --> 00:49:02.160
 But the Lord.

00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:02.840
 Says.

00:49:03.100 --> 00:49:04.080
 To wait.

00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:07.380
 In the middle of verse 3.

00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:08.000
 There it says.

00:49:08.100 --> 00:49:09.280
 If it seems slow.

00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:10.740
 Wait for it.

00:49:10.780 --> 00:49:12.380
 It will surely come.

00:49:12.680 --> 00:49:14.120
 It will not delay.

00:49:14.500 --> 00:49:15.460
 God is saying.

00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:16.320
 Wait.

00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:16.380
 Wait.

00:49:17.820 --> 00:49:18.660
 He's saying.

00:49:18.780 --> 00:49:18.980
 Wait.

00:49:19.080 --> 00:49:19.860
 To Habakkuk.

00:49:20.240 --> 00:49:21.100
 And he's saying.

00:49:21.240 --> 00:49:21.539
 Wait.

00:49:21.900 --> 00:49:22.740
 To ourselves.

00:49:24.260 --> 00:49:25.460
 And there's two things.

00:49:25.539 --> 00:49:25.960
 For us.

00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:27.480
 In these words.

00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:29.019
 Of the Lord's response.

00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:31.220
 Two things.

00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:32.019
 When it comes.

00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:33.160
 To faith.

00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:33.920
 And the first is.

00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:35.440
 If God has said it.

00:49:35.860 --> 00:49:36.600
 It will.

00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:37.320
 Come.

00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:38.080
 To pass.

00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:40.019
 Even when things.

00:49:40.100 --> 00:49:40.840
 Seem impossible.

00:49:41.380 --> 00:49:42.039
 To us.

00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:44.099
 George Muller.

00:49:44.099 --> 00:49:44.139
 George Muller.

00:49:44.139 --> 00:49:44.159
 George Muller.

00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:45.380
 Was a man of faith.

00:49:46.099 --> 00:49:46.320
 He.

00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:47.900
 He ran orphanages.

00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:51.019
 That had many young people in them.

00:49:52.019 --> 00:49:54.519
 And often he had to wait in faith on God.

00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:55.519
 But he was praying.

00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:55.880
 And he said.

00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:56.739
 Well if I've prayed.

00:49:56.860 --> 00:49:57.960
 God will answer.

00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:00.360
 And so often God answered.

00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.059
 In marvelous ways.

00:50:02.139 --> 00:50:02.739
 His prayers.

00:50:03.579 --> 00:50:04.360
 And he said.

00:50:04.500 --> 00:50:07.820
 This faith does not operate in the realm of the possible.

00:50:07.820 --> 00:50:12.519
 There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible.

00:50:13.860 --> 00:50:14.980
 Faith begins.

00:50:15.500 --> 00:50:17.900
 Where man's power ends.

00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:24.120
 And God would deliver his people in Habakkuk's day.

00:50:24.539 --> 00:50:26.900
 He would deliver them from their enemies.

00:50:27.860 --> 00:50:28.680
 It would take.

00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:29.700
 As you read through.

00:50:30.100 --> 00:50:31.519
 About 90 years.

00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:32.780
 For it to happen.

00:50:34.300 --> 00:50:36.380
 But then they were freed.

00:50:36.380 --> 00:50:38.079
 90 years.

00:50:38.860 --> 00:50:41.420
 Do we have the patience to wait that long?

00:50:43.420 --> 00:50:45.519
 We want God to do it now.

00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:48.360
 But in God's bigger picture.

00:50:48.640 --> 00:50:51.240
 We can go back to verse 5 of chapter 1.

00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:51.640
 And say.

00:50:52.059 --> 00:50:54.160
 I am doing a work in your days.

00:50:55.340 --> 00:50:56.500
 He is still working.

00:50:56.579 --> 00:50:59.440
 We don't know how long it's going to take.

00:50:59.960 --> 00:51:02.760
 But we are to wait upon the Lord.

00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:04.580
 And God.

00:51:04.720 --> 00:51:05.620
 As he has said.

00:51:05.700 --> 00:51:07.040
 Will deliver his people here.

00:51:07.140 --> 00:51:07.620
 He did.

00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:09.280
 God who said.

00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:11.640
 I will send a savior for this world.

00:51:11.860 --> 00:51:12.780
 He has done it.

00:51:12.860 --> 00:51:13.380
 And the son.

00:51:13.540 --> 00:51:14.440
 Jesus Christ.

00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:16.440
 Jesus who said.

00:51:16.500 --> 00:51:17.760
 He would die on the cross.

00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:18.460
 And rise.

00:51:18.740 --> 00:51:20.060
 Again on the third day.

00:51:20.240 --> 00:51:21.100
 He has done it.

00:51:21.140 --> 00:51:21.920
 It is finished.

00:51:22.680 --> 00:51:24.540
 And he has ascended to heaven.

00:51:24.539 --> 00:51:28.920
 And we await the promise of a savior from there.

00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:30.679
 That he will come again.

00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:33.860
 And we are to wait in faith.

00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:37.519
 Philippians 3 verse 20 says.

00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:39.179
 Our citizenship is in heaven.

00:51:39.460 --> 00:51:41.239
 And from it we await a savior.

00:51:41.400 --> 00:51:42.920
 The Lord Jesus Christ.

00:51:43.420 --> 00:51:45.259
 We are a people who are waiting.

00:51:45.500 --> 00:51:46.539
 On the Lord's return.

00:51:46.539 --> 00:51:47.019
 Return.

00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:50.380
 But we are a people who wait on the Lord.

00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:52.559
 To work in different ways.

00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:54.579
 In our lives individually.

00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:55.639
 In our congregation.

00:51:56.219 --> 00:51:56.779
 Collectively.

00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:57.500
 In our nation.

00:51:57.599 --> 00:51:58.340
 In our world.

00:51:58.679 --> 00:51:59.440
 We wait.

00:52:01.820 --> 00:52:03.900
 But we wait because we believe.

00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:05.639
 God will do.

00:52:06.980 --> 00:52:08.059
 It seems slow.

00:52:08.579 --> 00:52:09.279
 Wait for it.

00:52:09.380 --> 00:52:10.800
 For it will surely come.

00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:12.480
 It will not delay.

00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:15.039
 God does not ignore.

00:52:15.579 --> 00:52:17.480
 The cries of his people.

00:52:19.179 --> 00:52:20.820
 So if God has said it.

00:52:21.179 --> 00:52:22.079
 He will do it.

00:52:22.980 --> 00:52:24.639
 But the second thing we see about waiting.

00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:26.500
 Is that we have the word.

00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:27.960
 To wait upon us.

00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:28.360
 Well.

00:52:29.240 --> 00:52:31.019
 The Lord answered me in verse 2.

00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:31.400
 And says.

00:52:31.820 --> 00:52:32.480
 Write the vision.

00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:34.360
 Make it plain on tablets.

00:52:34.900 --> 00:52:36.480
 So he may run.

00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:38.159
 Who reads it.

00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:39.559
 Write this down.

00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:40.079
 He says.

00:52:40.219 --> 00:52:41.780
 And make it plain.

00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:44.699
 Do we over complicate.

00:52:45.240 --> 00:52:45.900
 The gospel.

00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:47.380
 And faith.

00:52:48.159 --> 00:52:49.059
 There are times.

00:52:49.240 --> 00:52:49.860
 Yes we often.

00:52:50.420 --> 00:52:51.559
 We want to study.

00:52:51.740 --> 00:52:52.920
 And to dig deep.

00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:54.099
 Into the word of God.

00:52:54.179 --> 00:52:55.880
 And understand more of it.

00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:57.840
 Because it gives us assurance.

00:52:58.099 --> 00:52:58.820
 And confidence.

00:53:00.300 --> 00:53:01.280
 But the gospel.

00:53:01.659 --> 00:53:02.760
 Is to be plain.

00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:05.340
 Make it plain.

00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:06.000
 He says.

00:53:06.300 --> 00:53:07.619
 To Habakkuk here.

00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:09.440
 Write this down.

00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:10.599
 So that people.

00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:12.280
 Will understand.

00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:14.280
 And the gospel.

00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:16.059
 Is to be made plain.

00:53:16.059 --> 00:53:17.019
 To us.

00:53:17.019 --> 00:53:17.840
 As well.

00:53:18.579 --> 00:53:20.039
 And it is clear to us.

00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:20.300
 In the.

00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:21.980
 In the word of God.

00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:22.940
 Just how clear.

00:53:23.300 --> 00:53:23.780
 It is.

00:53:23.860 --> 00:53:24.760
 Think of the texts.

00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:25.460
 Of the Bible.

00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:26.199
 That so often.

00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:27.740
 Stand out for us.

00:53:28.420 --> 00:53:29.440
 Even this text.

00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:30.480
 In verse 4.

00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:31.159
 The righteous.

00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:31.980
 Shall live.

00:53:32.219 --> 00:53:33.039
 By faith.

00:53:33.099 --> 00:53:34.000
 It is plain.

00:53:34.420 --> 00:53:35.460
 It is clear.

00:53:36.579 --> 00:53:36.940
 Yes.

00:53:37.019 --> 00:53:37.940
 There is depth.

00:53:38.139 --> 00:53:38.400
 To it.

00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:39.400
 But there is a simplicity.

00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:40.660
 To it as well.

00:53:40.660 --> 00:53:41.800
 The righteous.

00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:42.639
 Shall live.

00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:43.900
 By faith.

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:45.900
 In the New Testament.

00:53:46.099 --> 00:53:47.019
 Jesus spoke.

00:53:47.099 --> 00:53:48.000
 With Nicodemus.

00:53:48.220 --> 00:53:49.360
 Who came to him.

00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:50.440
 Looking for answers.

00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:51.220
 In life.

00:53:52.539 --> 00:53:53.300
 And what answer.

00:53:53.420 --> 00:53:54.860
 Did Jesus give to him.

00:53:55.200 --> 00:53:56.660
 That wonderful text.

00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:57.559
 In John 3.

00:53:57.700 --> 00:53:58.260
 16.

00:53:58.420 --> 00:53:59.039
 For God.

00:53:59.260 --> 00:54:00.519
 So loved the world.

00:54:00.599 --> 00:54:01.200
 That he gave.

00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:02.340
 His only son.

00:54:02.680 --> 00:54:03.260
 That whoever.

00:54:03.420 --> 00:54:04.539
 Believes in him.

00:54:04.579 --> 00:54:05.420
 Will not perish.

00:54:05.420 --> 00:54:06.619
 But have.

00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:08.559
 Eternal life.

00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:11.180
 Depth to it.

00:54:11.740 --> 00:54:12.740
 But simplicity.

00:54:12.740 --> 00:54:13.519
 As well.

00:54:14.900 --> 00:54:15.460
 Paul.

00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:17.300
 And the Philippian jailer.

00:54:17.380 --> 00:54:18.340
 In Acts 16.

00:54:18.980 --> 00:54:20.039
 The Philippian jailer.

00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:21.099
 Comes with a question.

00:54:21.260 --> 00:54:21.619
 Sars.

00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:22.880
 What must I do.

00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:23.780
 To be saved.

00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:25.760
 Is it a complicated.

00:54:26.159 --> 00:54:27.599
 A complex answer.

00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:28.000
 No.

00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:28.500
 He said.

00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:30.200
 Believe in the Lord.

00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:31.300
 Jesus Christ.

00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:32.500
 And you will.

00:54:32.700 --> 00:54:33.380
 Be saved.

00:54:33.920 --> 00:54:34.780
 It is plain.

00:54:34.780 --> 00:54:36.180
 It is clear.

00:54:36.460 --> 00:54:37.500
 It is simple.

00:54:38.460 --> 00:54:39.580
 Believe in the Lord.

00:54:39.680 --> 00:54:40.800
 Jesus Christ.

00:54:41.100 --> 00:54:42.660
 And you will be saved.

00:54:43.700 --> 00:54:45.300
 We have this word.

00:54:45.780 --> 00:54:47.460
 Plainly before us.

00:54:47.980 --> 00:54:49.640
 The righteous shall live.

00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:50.920
 By faith.

00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:53.660
 How are you right with God.

00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:55.240
 In your anxieties.

00:54:55.420 --> 00:54:56.060
 And your worries.

00:54:56.180 --> 00:54:56.840
 And your fears.

00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:58.540
 Just like Martin Luther had.

00:54:59.540 --> 00:55:01.080
 How are you right with God.

00:55:01.680 --> 00:55:03.440
 The righteous shall live.

00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:04.680
 By faith.

00:55:04.780 --> 00:55:07.160
 Believe in the Lord.

00:55:07.160 --> 00:55:08.300
 Jesus Christ.

00:55:08.300 --> 00:55:10.380
 And you will be saved.

00:55:11.580 --> 00:55:12.960
 We wait.

00:55:13.240 --> 00:55:14.180
 In a God.

00:55:14.300 --> 00:55:15.160
 Who has promised.

00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:16.160
 To work.

00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:17.800
 And who has given us.

00:55:18.040 --> 00:55:18.680
 His word.

00:55:19.140 --> 00:55:20.360
 As we wait upon him.

00:55:20.740 --> 00:55:22.220
 That we can trust in.

00:55:22.600 --> 00:55:24.460
 And find security in.

00:55:24.900 --> 00:55:25.519
 The righteous.

00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:26.580
 Shall live.

00:55:26.980 --> 00:55:27.880
 By faith.

00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:28.740
 Thirdly.

00:55:28.740 --> 00:55:29.740
 And finally.

00:55:29.740 --> 00:55:30.740
 And finally.

00:55:30.740 --> 00:55:30.940
 Thirdly.

00:55:30.940 --> 00:55:31.619
 And finally.

00:55:31.619 --> 00:55:32.140
 Here.

00:55:32.460 --> 00:55:33.380
 We have.

00:55:33.880 --> 00:55:34.519
 A warning.

00:55:36.160 --> 00:55:37.519
 Habakkuk is watching.

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:39.539
 The Lord is saying.

00:55:39.700 --> 00:55:40.360
 To wait.

00:55:40.900 --> 00:55:42.340
 But then in verse 4.

00:55:42.539 --> 00:55:43.880
 There is a warning.

00:55:45.260 --> 00:55:46.400
 We have the word.

00:55:46.660 --> 00:55:48.160
 Plainly speaking to us.

00:55:48.260 --> 00:55:48.800
 This warning.

00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:49.619
 In verse 4.

00:55:50.059 --> 00:55:50.619
 And it's saying.

00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:51.740
 How are you going.

00:55:51.739 --> 00:55:52.699
 To live.

00:55:55.259 --> 00:55:55.859
 Behold.

00:55:55.959 --> 00:55:56.599
 His soul.

00:55:56.699 --> 00:55:57.539
 Is puffed up.

00:55:58.119 --> 00:55:58.459
 It is.

00:55:58.759 --> 00:55:59.399
 It is.

00:55:59.399 --> 00:56:00.519
 Not upright.

00:56:00.939 --> 00:56:01.619
 Within him.

00:56:02.699 --> 00:56:03.799
 He's speaking here.

00:56:03.799 --> 00:56:04.099
 About.

00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:05.919
 The Chaldeans.

00:56:06.259 --> 00:56:07.459
 The wicked army.

00:56:07.659 --> 00:56:08.239
 That would come.

00:56:08.379 --> 00:56:08.839
 And invade.

00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:09.379
 And live.

00:56:09.539 --> 00:56:10.279
 For themselves.

00:56:11.279 --> 00:56:12.039
 Pride.

00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:13.679
 And self-importance.

00:56:13.899 --> 00:56:15.319
 Was all that mattered.

00:56:15.619 --> 00:56:16.039
 To them.

00:56:16.899 --> 00:56:17.539
 God.

00:56:17.539 --> 00:56:18.739
 Was nothing.

00:56:20.539 --> 00:56:21.279
 They are living.

00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:22.779
 Puffed up.

00:56:25.380 --> 00:56:26.980
 And you think of the world.

00:56:27.279 --> 00:56:28.159
 We live in today.

00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:28.960
 And you see how.

00:56:29.259 --> 00:56:30.659
 God is mocked.

00:56:31.279 --> 00:56:32.440
 God is ridiculed.

00:56:32.539 --> 00:56:33.699
 The Christian faith.

00:56:34.019 --> 00:56:35.179
 Is something that is to be.

00:56:35.179 --> 00:56:36.840
 Condemned to the past.

00:56:38.679 --> 00:56:39.860
 How sad.

00:56:40.099 --> 00:56:40.779
 It is.

00:56:42.579 --> 00:56:43.400
 And you think of.

00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:44.259
 Very.

00:56:44.860 --> 00:56:45.380
 Clever.

00:56:45.579 --> 00:56:46.579
 Smart people.

00:56:46.579 --> 00:56:47.079
 People.

00:56:47.860 --> 00:56:48.279
 People.

00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:50.079
 With degrees.

00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:51.139
 And doctorates.

00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:52.480
 And so many different things.

00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:54.039
 And yet no thought of God.

00:56:54.980 --> 00:56:55.960
 Stephen Hawking.

00:56:56.079 --> 00:56:57.219
 He once said this.

00:56:58.179 --> 00:56:59.559
 I believe the simplest.

00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:01.019
 Explanation is.

00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:02.480
 There is.

00:57:02.719 --> 00:57:03.539
 No God.

00:57:04.500 --> 00:57:06.199
 No one created the universe.

00:57:07.059 --> 00:57:08.579
 No one directs.

00:57:08.579 --> 00:57:09.519
 Our fate.

00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:11.360
 And this leads me.

00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:12.239
 To a profound.

00:57:12.579 --> 00:57:13.179
 Realization.

00:57:13.340 --> 00:57:14.559
 That there probably is.

00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:15.199
 No heaven.

00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:17.000
 And no afterlife.

00:57:17.359 --> 00:57:17.679
 Either.

00:57:18.319 --> 00:57:19.919
 We have this one life.

00:57:20.019 --> 00:57:20.779
 To appreciate.

00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:22.039
 The grand design.

00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:22.839
 Of the universe.

00:57:23.439 --> 00:57:24.199
 And for that.

00:57:24.579 --> 00:57:26.399
 I am extremely grateful.

00:57:27.699 --> 00:57:28.779
 How sad.

00:57:30.460 --> 00:57:31.599
 That that is all.

00:57:31.980 --> 00:57:32.500
 There is.

00:57:33.500 --> 00:57:34.619
 This one life.

00:57:34.619 --> 00:57:39.699
 There is no God.

00:57:39.699 --> 00:57:39.719
 There is no God.

00:57:39.779 --> 00:57:40.259
 He said.

00:57:41.019 --> 00:57:41.839
 And probably.

00:57:42.339 --> 00:57:43.299
 No heaven.

00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:45.799
 There is no hope.

00:57:46.339 --> 00:57:47.460
 In these words.

00:57:50.059 --> 00:57:51.599
 To live puffed up.

00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:52.319
 Is to live.

00:57:52.739 --> 00:57:53.859
 Without God.

00:57:55.559 --> 00:57:56.719
 That is a warning.

00:57:56.940 --> 00:57:57.359
 To us.

00:57:58.359 --> 00:57:59.539
 But it is a warning.

00:57:59.539 --> 00:58:00.319
 That leads us.

00:58:00.619 --> 00:58:01.039
 To think.

00:58:01.139 --> 00:58:01.819
 Well there must.

00:58:01.820 --> 00:58:03.100
 Be another way.

00:58:04.340 --> 00:58:05.280
 And that is.

00:58:05.660 --> 00:58:07.420
 The way that we are looking at here.

00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:08.120
 The righteous.

00:58:08.580 --> 00:58:09.200
 Shall live.

00:58:09.720 --> 00:58:10.760
 By his faith.

00:58:12.640 --> 00:58:13.220
 Faith.

00:58:13.380 --> 00:58:13.980
 That keeps.

00:58:14.260 --> 00:58:14.840
 A people.

00:58:15.059 --> 00:58:16.080
 Worshipping God.

00:58:16.780 --> 00:58:18.059
 Even on the border.

00:58:18.700 --> 00:58:19.760
 Of a conflict.

00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:20.380
 And war.

00:58:20.460 --> 00:58:21.120
 In the Ukraine.

00:58:23.019 --> 00:58:23.760
 A faith.

00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:24.519
 That keeps.

00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:25.280
 Us going.

00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:25.920
 In the midst.

00:58:26.019 --> 00:58:26.620
 Of sadness.

00:58:26.900 --> 00:58:27.400
 And sorrow.

00:58:27.760 --> 00:58:28.360
 In the midst.

00:58:28.420 --> 00:58:29.000
 Of joy.

00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:29.760
 And happiness.

00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:31.599
 That we have a savior.

00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:33.320
 To rejoice in.

00:58:34.500 --> 00:58:35.300
 A faith.

00:58:35.420 --> 00:58:36.360
 That Martin Luther.

00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:36.980
 Found.

00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:38.980
 That made all the difference.

00:58:39.059 --> 00:58:39.800
 In his darkness.

00:58:41.300 --> 00:58:42.039
 It brought him.

00:58:42.099 --> 00:58:42.619
 To see.

00:58:42.780 --> 00:58:43.460
 The joy.

00:58:43.739 --> 00:58:44.880
 Of salvation.

00:58:45.079 --> 00:58:45.739
 The righteous.

00:58:46.500 --> 00:58:47.139
 Shall live.

00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:48.460
 By faith.

00:58:49.539 --> 00:58:51.260
 This is what it is.

00:58:51.619 --> 00:58:52.579
 To trust.

00:58:53.659 --> 00:58:54.199
 Faith.

00:58:54.199 --> 00:58:55.239
 Is trusting.

00:58:55.780 --> 00:58:56.360
 In God.

00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:57.619
 No matter what.

00:58:57.619 --> 00:59:00.099
 As someone put it like this.

00:59:00.859 --> 00:59:01.279
 Trust him.

00:59:01.380 --> 00:59:02.639
 When dark doubts.

00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:03.440
 Assail thee.

00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:04.380
 Trust him.

00:59:04.460 --> 00:59:05.559
 When thy strength.

00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:06.299
 Is small.

00:59:06.900 --> 00:59:07.380
 Trust him.

00:59:07.460 --> 00:59:08.400
 When to simply.

00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:09.159
 Trust him.

00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:10.739
 Seems the hardest.

00:59:11.319 --> 00:59:12.019
 Thing of all.

00:59:12.779 --> 00:59:13.339
 Trust him.

00:59:13.759 --> 00:59:15.019
 He is ever faithful.

00:59:15.619 --> 00:59:16.159
 Trust him.

00:59:16.359 --> 00:59:17.400
 For his will.

00:59:17.460 --> 00:59:18.199
 Is best.

00:59:18.619 --> 00:59:19.139
 Trust him.

00:59:19.619 --> 00:59:20.299
 For the heart.

00:59:20.299 --> 00:59:20.960
 Of Jesus.

00:59:21.739 --> 00:59:23.299
 Is the only place.

00:59:23.759 --> 00:59:24.539
 Of rest.

00:59:25.819 --> 00:59:26.359
 Do you.

00:59:26.360 --> 00:59:28.099
 Trust him.

00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:29.240
 Today.

00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:30.420
 We began.

00:59:30.539 --> 00:59:31.079
 By thinking.

00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:32.079
 Of how Martin's.

00:59:32.140 --> 00:59:32.880
 Luther life.

00:59:33.120 --> 00:59:34.480
 Was transformed.

00:59:34.840 --> 00:59:35.800
 By this nugget.

00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:37.200
 The righteous.

00:59:37.700 --> 00:59:38.340
 Shall live.

00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:39.559
 By faith.

00:59:40.460 --> 00:59:41.539
 He later said.

00:59:42.220 --> 00:59:42.460
 God.

00:59:42.539 --> 00:59:43.120
 Our father.

00:59:43.120 --> 00:59:44.519
 Has made all things.

00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:45.900
 Depend on faith.

00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:47.160
 So that whoever.

00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:48.099
 Has faith.

00:59:48.200 --> 00:59:49.019
 Will have everything.

00:59:49.700 --> 00:59:50.260
 And whoever.

00:59:50.680 --> 00:59:51.900
 Does not have faith.

00:59:52.420 --> 00:59:53.099
 Will have.

00:59:53.539 --> 00:59:53.880
 Nothing.

00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:56.480
 How are you living.

00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:57.480
 Today.

00:59:58.480 --> 00:59:59.599
 Are you living.

00:59:59.980 --> 01:00:00.660
 Puffed up.

01:00:00.980 --> 01:00:02.480
 In your own pride.

01:00:03.559 --> 01:00:04.400
 Are you living.

01:00:04.900 --> 01:00:05.940
 In fear.

01:00:06.500 --> 01:00:07.059
 And worries.

01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:07.920
 And anxiety.

01:00:08.099 --> 01:00:08.960
 About your sin.

01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:13.519
 The answer is.

01:00:14.059 --> 01:00:15.059
 This nugget.

01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:16.579
 The righteous.

01:00:17.099 --> 01:00:17.840
 Shall live.

01:00:18.579 --> 01:00:19.780
 By his faith.

01:00:19.780 --> 01:00:21.320
 Come.

01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:23.040
 And live.

01:00:23.560 --> 01:00:24.400
 In this way.

01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:25.820
 May God bless.

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:27.019
 These thoughts.

01:00:27.260 --> 01:00:27.600
 To us.

01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.180
 We're going to conclude.

01:00:31.300 --> 01:00:31.880
 By singing.

01:00:32.260 --> 01:00:33.440
 To God's praise.

01:00:33.560 --> 01:00:34.080
 In Psalm.

01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:35.560
 55.

01:00:38.560 --> 01:00:40.180
 In verse 19.

01:00:41.460 --> 01:00:42.760
 Psalm 55.

01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:43.720
 At verse 19.

01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:45.000
 Page 72.

01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:46.200
 Sing.

01:00:46.340 --> 01:00:47.100
 Psalm's version.

01:00:47.100 --> 01:00:47.220
 Psalm.

01:00:49.780 --> 01:00:51.019
 My God.

01:00:51.019 --> 01:00:51.040
 My God.

01:00:51.120 --> 01:00:51.700
 Enthroned.

01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:52.400
 Forevermore.

01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:53.040
 Will hear.

01:00:53.480 --> 01:00:54.440
 And will repay.

01:00:54.580 --> 01:00:55.140
 Those men.

01:00:55.260 --> 01:00:56.260
 Who have no fear.

01:00:56.260 --> 01:00:56.820
 Of God.

01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:57.320
 And never.

01:00:58.040 --> 01:00:58.560
 Change.

01:00:58.700 --> 01:00:59.240
 Their way.

01:00:59.760 --> 01:01:00.760
 In verse 22.

01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:01.080
 Says.

01:01:01.140 --> 01:01:02.240
 Oh cast your burden.

01:01:02.240 --> 01:01:03.000
 On the Lord.

01:01:03.540 --> 01:01:04.400
 And he will care.

01:01:04.500 --> 01:01:04.980
 For you.

01:01:05.380 --> 01:01:06.360
 He'll never let.

01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:07.540
 The righteous fall.

01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:08.540
 But bring him.

01:01:08.740 --> 01:01:09.260
 Safely.

01:01:09.820 --> 01:01:09.980
 Through.

01:01:10.100 --> 01:01:10.340
 We'll sing.

01:01:10.420 --> 01:01:11.600
 These three stanzas.

01:01:11.820 --> 01:01:13.019
 To God's praise.

01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:13.560
 And the tune.

01:01:13.560 --> 01:01:14.240
 As bellman.

01:01:14.240 --> 01:01:14.340
 Amen.

01:01:14.340 --> 01:01:14.400
 Amen.

01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:14.840
 Amen.

01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:14.900
 Amen.

01:01:14.900 --> 01:01:15.400
 Amen.

01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:16.340
 Amen.

01:01:16.340 --> 01:01:16.840
 Amen.

01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:16.900
 Amen.

01:01:16.900 --> 01:01:16.920
 Amen.

01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:17.019
 Amen.

01:01:17.019 --> 01:01:17.400
 Amen.

01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:17.840
 Amen.

01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:18.400
 Amen.

01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:18.880
 Amen.

01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:18.900
 Amen.

01:01:18.900 --> 01:01:19.900
 Amen.

01:01:19.900 --> 01:01:20.900
 Amen.

01:01:20.900 --> 01:01:21.900
 Amen.

01:01:48.900 --> 01:01:50.900
 Amen.

01:02:18.900 --> 01:02:26.139
 But in his heart must go.

01:02:26.139 --> 01:02:35.920
 Oh, pass your burden on the Lord.

01:02:36.300 --> 01:02:43.460
 And he will give for you.

01:02:43.460 --> 01:02:52.639
 Till never let the righteous fall.

01:02:53.099 --> 01:02:59.519
 And bring him safely through.

01:03:02.099 --> 01:03:05.199
 After the benediction, I'll go to the door to my right.

01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:06.460
 We'll close with the benediction.

01:03:07.260 --> 01:03:10.440
 Now may grace, mercy, and peace from God,

01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:13.639
 Father, Son, and Holy Spirit rest upon

01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:16.740
 and abide with you all now and forevermore.

01:03:17.139 --> 01:03:17.519
 Amen.

01:03:40.440 --> 01:03:58.740
 So, you can here to.

01:03:58.920 --> 01:03:59.200
 Thank you.

01:03:59.300 --> 01:04:01.220
 I will be glad you've ever met.

01:04:01.220 --> 01:04:01.519
 Thank you.

01:04:01.659 --> 01:04:02.780
 Thank you.

01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:03.200
 Thank you.

01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:04.200
 Thank you.

01:04:04.500 --> 01:04:05.200
 Thank you.