WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.940 If you've just joined us for the first time tonight, we're partway through the Old Testament 00:00:05.940 --> 00:00:07.660 book of Habakkuk. 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:14.660 It's a pretty straightforward, it's a short book, it's pretty straightforward, it's interesting, 00:00:14.780 --> 00:00:15.700 it's highly practical. 00:00:16.780 --> 00:00:22.339 It's about how to face evil times, hard times. 00:00:22.339 --> 00:00:28.780 There might be evil times on an international scale or a national scale, they might be in 00:00:28.780 --> 00:00:34.679 fact quite personal evil times when they hit us and everything kind of comes crashing 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:35.840 down in our world. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.000 How do we stand in that moment? 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:45.320 And this book is here to help us be prepared for when those times come as they will for 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.920 all of us at some point and as they had for Habakkuk himself. 00:00:49.500 --> 00:00:51.680 We go right back to the beginning of Habakkuk. 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:58.100 He complains to God about the evil and the injustice that he sees in his own nation. 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:03.660 In Judah, which is being perpetrated by God's own people. 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:08.640 And he wants to know why God seems to be okay with it, why God's not doing anything about 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:09.079 this. 00:01:09.859 --> 00:01:11.939 And these are God's covenant people. 00:01:12.579 --> 00:01:22.620 And so for Habakkuk, he would be concluding that God's promises, which was to bless all 00:01:22.620 --> 00:01:27.680 the nations are not going to be fulfilled because God's people are corrupt here. 00:01:27.820 --> 00:01:31.719 And he wants to see God's glory displayed to the end of the earth. 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:35.160 And it's not happening because God's people are corrupt. 00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:41.439 And God's response to Habakkuk came back really quickly and said, yes, I see the injustice. 00:01:41.700 --> 00:01:43.400 I see the corruption. 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:44.980 It really bothers me too. 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:49.000 And I do have a plan to fix it. 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:51.700 But if I told you the plan, you wouldn't understand the plan. 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.180 And Habakkuk says, oh, come on, you know, tell me the plan, you know, please, please, please, 00:01:56.219 --> 00:01:56.500 please, please. 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:58.439 And God says, okay, here it is. 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:07.080 What I'm going to do is I'm going to use the evil, ruthless, merciless schoolyard bullies, 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:11.199 the Babylonians to come on in and to wipe out Judah. 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:11.979 That's what I'm going to do. 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:12.879 They're going to judge them. 00:02:12.939 --> 00:02:15.159 I'm going to use the Babylonians to judge Judah. 00:02:15.379 --> 00:02:17.780 And Habakkuk is like, what? 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:19.800 You're kidding me. 00:02:19.939 --> 00:02:29.079 How can such a wicked people be used by you to execute your judgment on people who are less 00:02:29.079 --> 00:02:30.079 wicked than them? 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:31.360 That makes no sense. 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:39.720 And so all of a sudden, Habakkuk's complaint about the injustice and evil that he sees over 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:44.040 there, it gets quite personal for him, because what he realizes is that when the Babylonians 00:02:44.040 --> 00:02:49.320 come to town, they're not just going to pick out, you know, the bad people. 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:50.700 They're going to take on everyone. 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:57.800 And so Habakkuk realizes that means that he is going to get caught up in God's judgment 00:02:57.800 --> 00:02:59.080 on those people over there. 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.460 It makes no sense to him. 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:03.960 And you can kind of understand it. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:06.480 Some of you might remember this. 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:14.280 Malcolm Naden was the most wanted person in New South Wales up until his captured arrest 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:15.780 in 2012. 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:24.580 He was on the run from June 2005 to March 2012 when he was finally captured in his little 00:03:24.580 --> 00:03:28.300 remote cabin way out in the middle of nowhere past Gloucester. 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:35.700 Now, imagine you were one of the people and he'd existed in all this forest area for some 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:36.020 time. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:37.880 And I'm trying to pin him down where he was. 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:44.460 And in the time he was there, he was stealing from farmers and all that kind of stuff. 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:50.240 Now, imagine you're one of the farmers who's got a property out there somewhere between Gloucester 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.500 and Armidale and you know this guy's wandering around. 00:03:54.620 --> 00:03:56.020 You want him caught. 00:03:56.480 --> 00:03:57.540 No doubt about it. 00:03:57.620 --> 00:03:59.879 You want this guy to be brought to justice. 00:04:00.040 --> 00:04:03.140 He's stolen from you and stolen from a bunch of your mates. 00:04:03.139 --> 00:04:08.159 And then all of a sudden you hear that New South Wales police have come up with a new plan 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.839 to finally get Malcolm Naden. 00:04:12.099 --> 00:04:21.759 And that is we are calling in Donald Trump to do a missile strike everywhere from Kempsey 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:26.879 West to Armidale down south to Gloucester. 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.019 Just blanket the whole area with nuclear missiles. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.339 And you go, well, it has its strengths, that plan. 00:04:36.339 --> 00:04:45.060 You know, you finally get the guy who's embarrassed you by escaping from you seven times in the 00:04:45.060 --> 00:04:45.519 past. 00:04:47.159 --> 00:04:49.039 Feral animals is a problem in that area. 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:50.599 So you get rid of all the feral animals. 00:04:50.819 --> 00:04:51.359 That's good. 00:04:52.039 --> 00:04:58.639 There's a whole lot of other cash crops that are not quite legal yet in this country. 00:04:58.859 --> 00:05:02.699 And you'd kind of wipe them out and all the hippies that are planting them as well. 00:05:02.699 --> 00:05:09.719 And so you kind of, you know, you solve a bunch of problems, but you also destroy everything, 00:05:09.819 --> 00:05:13.639 including me, the person who wants justice being done. 00:05:13.719 --> 00:05:15.000 And I'm getting caught up in it. 00:05:15.939 --> 00:05:21.459 And this appears to be God's strategy to deal with the injustices and the corruption of his 00:05:21.459 --> 00:05:22.740 people in Judah. 00:05:23.899 --> 00:05:27.180 And so Habakkuk now has a second complaint. 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:30.519 And his second complaint is bigger than his first complaint. 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.079 And he states it in verse 13 of chapter one. 00:05:34.599 --> 00:05:40.719 Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? 00:05:41.899 --> 00:05:48.199 And then in verse 17, a couple of verses later, he's got another question about the Babylonians. 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:59.979 And he says, is he to keep and emptying his nest, destroying nations without mercy? 00:06:01.579 --> 00:06:04.560 Is he just going to keep going? 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:10.699 Babylon just going to get away with it consistently and just keep destroying everything? 00:06:12.579 --> 00:06:15.000 In other words, Habakkuk saying, what about the Babylonians then? 00:06:15.699 --> 00:06:16.599 You're going to judge Judah. 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:17.520 What about the Babylonians? 00:06:17.540 --> 00:06:18.600 Are they just going to get away with it? 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:21.640 And God says, no, you've got to be patient. 00:06:22.640 --> 00:06:27.640 I'm going to deal with the Babylonians, but it's not ultimately going to happen in your time. 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:33.340 And so in verses six to 20, which is where we're up to today, is God's answer. 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:34.840 And there's three things we want to look at. 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.700 God judges all sin and evil, the source of all sin and evil. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:42.200 And thirdly, God's solution to our sin and evil. 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:46.219 So firstly, God judges all sin and evil. 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:56.699 What you see in verses six to 20 is, or six to 18 especially, is Babylon is mocked as an empire. 00:06:56.980 --> 00:07:05.079 It is mocked in five separate statements of woe, curses, five curses that have come upon Babylon. 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:11.919 And even though Babylon in its time looked invincible, certainly in Habakkuk's time, it looked invincible. 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:22.879 God would ultimately bring Babylon to nothing in 539 BC when the Medes and the Persians came in and destroyed Babylon. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:37.240 Now, each of these five woes that you see in these verses details the crimes that are perpetrated by Babylon and God's response to those crimes. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.519 And so we'll have a look at the first one, verses six to eight. 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:45.219 Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion. 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:47.399 How long must this go on? 00:07:47.939 --> 00:07:50.360 Will not your creditors suddenly arise? 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:54.060 Will they not wake up and make you tremble? 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.720 Then you will become their prey. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.040 Because you have plundered many nations. 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:02.920 The peoples who are left will plunder you. 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.620 For you have shed human blood. 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.800 You have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them. 00:08:11.080 --> 00:08:14.280 So this is directed to Babylon's practice. 00:08:14.280 --> 00:08:20.240 In fact, it would be directed to anyone who have acquired goods dishonestly. 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:24.939 And what happens to those who acquire their goods dishonestly? 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:26.240 It says here, the tables are turned. 00:08:27.580 --> 00:08:31.400 The victims become the victor. 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.100 And notice especially verse eight. 00:08:35.100 --> 00:08:43.300 Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. 00:08:43.299 --> 00:08:56.719 And so what God does here is he relays to Habakkuk the very basic principles of his justice. 00:08:57.719 --> 00:09:03.359 And that is the punishment always fits the crime. 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.180 The punishment always fits the crime. 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:15.779 And a little bit later in this section, it talks about God's justice coming around in circles. 00:09:15.779 --> 00:09:20.600 The punishment fits the crime. 00:09:21.059 --> 00:09:25.179 And you see the pattern right through these five woes. 00:09:25.179 --> 00:09:31.639 So in verses nine to eleven, we have the plotter who exploits for personal gain. 00:09:32.019 --> 00:09:37.139 And he does it so that he might gain things for himself or gain things for his nation or for his royal household. 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:45.460 It's a direct attack on the Babylonian empire and the rulers of the Babylonian empire. 00:09:46.460 --> 00:09:52.559 And what this is about in verses nine to eleven is about the pursuit of glory. 00:09:53.699 --> 00:09:59.460 They are doing everything in order to bring glory to themselves. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:00.480 They destroy nations. 00:10:00.580 --> 00:10:01.259 They shed blood. 00:10:01.259 --> 00:10:06.919 They plunder and pillage in order to clothe themselves in glory. 00:10:08.659 --> 00:10:09.980 And what's their punishment? 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:15.659 Verse 10 says that they will have shame instead of glory. 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.740 Then in verses 12 to 13 is the promoter of violence. 00:10:20.860 --> 00:10:26.139 The foundation of Babylonian society was the blood of their enemies. 00:10:26.539 --> 00:10:28.480 And their punishment is in verse 13. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:34.560 Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire? 00:10:35.820 --> 00:10:40.659 They were building an empire by destroying other empires. 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:47.420 And God says you are building an empire which is just simply going to be firewood for my fire. 00:10:47.419 --> 00:10:58.099 In fact, James 5.5 in the New Testament speaks of rich oppressors who have fattened themselves up for the day of slaughter. 00:11:00.819 --> 00:11:02.439 The punishment fits the crime. 00:11:03.079 --> 00:11:04.759 Again, verse 15. 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:13.319 We have the immoral woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wine skin till they are drunk so that he can gaze on their naked bodies. 00:11:13.939 --> 00:11:18.139 You will be filled with shame instead of glory. 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:20.899 Now it's your turn. 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:24.399 Drink and let your nakedness be exposed. 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:29.279 The cup from the Lord's right hand is coming around to you. 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:33.740 And disgrace will cover your glory. 00:11:35.740 --> 00:11:43.419 In other words, what they did is they puffed themselves up with glory by bringing shame to everyone else. 00:11:44.100 --> 00:11:47.220 They made themselves feel better by putting down everyone else. 00:11:48.059 --> 00:11:52.179 And instead of glory, they received shame themselves. 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:56.159 And the last woe is in verses 18 to 20. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:57.839 It refers to the idolater. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:05.879 And idolatry, according to the Bible, is when we worship something that is less than us and certainly less than God. 00:12:06.219 --> 00:12:08.059 It's not just something that's less than God. 00:12:08.179 --> 00:12:10.159 It's something that is less than us. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:12.860 It's speechless. 00:12:13.319 --> 00:12:14.219 It's powerless. 00:12:14.539 --> 00:12:15.819 And therefore, it is useless. 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:22.939 And these Babylonians, they created idols to give them wisdom and guidance. 00:12:22.940 --> 00:12:27.760 And their punishment, when the time comes, when they need it, it says here, silence. 00:12:28.520 --> 00:12:29.400 No help. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:38.840 What you notice through here is that the punishment fits the crime. 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:53.920 And it's by that principle alone that both God's people, Judah, and the Babylonians will be judged by the same principle. 00:12:55.340 --> 00:12:56.700 God is committed to justice. 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.660 The wicked are not going to get away with their evil. 00:13:00.259 --> 00:13:02.980 God is going to hold them accountable for their actions. 00:13:02.980 --> 00:13:06.220 And he will punish them accordingly. 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:10.480 So that's good news for Habakkuk. 00:13:13.620 --> 00:13:18.300 But secondly, let's look at what the real issue here is. 00:13:18.680 --> 00:13:20.879 I've kind of alluded to it a number of times. 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.620 But what's the real issue here for the Babylonians? 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:26.820 What is their source? 00:13:26.940 --> 00:13:29.720 What is the sin which is beneath the sin for them? 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:33.320 Because the sin is they've gone bloodshed, they've gone and plundered and pillaged. 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.620 But what's the real driving thing that's underneath all of that? 00:13:38.899 --> 00:13:45.980 And I think it's really essential for us to get to this point because it is so easy for us to sit back at this point and go, 00:13:46.540 --> 00:13:48.560 Ah, Babylonians, absolutely. 00:13:49.019 --> 00:13:53.259 I mean, ruthless suckers, awful people. 00:13:53.259 --> 00:13:59.620 And frankly, they got what they deserved in 539 BC, if that's when you told me they were around. 00:13:59.939 --> 00:14:01.019 And that's when they got destroyed. 00:14:01.319 --> 00:14:03.639 And they got exactly what they deserved. 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:05.259 But I would never do these things. 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.620 I would never do the stuff that's talked about here. 00:14:08.179 --> 00:14:10.600 And so this is not my sin. 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:11.720 This is not my failure. 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:12.639 That's their failure. 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.779 It's Michael Naden's failure and a bunch of other people's failure, but not mine. 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:16.639 This is not me. 00:14:16.700 --> 00:14:17.279 I'm a good guy. 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:24.519 That is, until you look at verse 4 and verse 18. 00:14:25.379 --> 00:14:27.539 Verse 4, it says, 00:14:27.839 --> 00:14:31.059 The enemy is puffed up. 00:14:31.139 --> 00:14:32.179 We looked at this last week. 00:14:32.259 --> 00:14:33.120 James showed us this. 00:14:33.539 --> 00:14:37.419 It is inflating yourself. 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:45.519 It is having an inflated view of yourself, puffing yourself up that others might glory in you. 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:50.179 It goes on in verse 5, straight after. 00:14:50.460 --> 00:14:59.840 It says that he, Babylon, is arrogant, never at rest, because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied. 00:15:01.179 --> 00:15:06.659 He gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the people. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:08.639 That's what it means to be puffed up. 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:20.019 Greedy, never at rest, constantly dissatisfied and gathering all things for my glory. 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:26.399 In Babylon's case, they wiped out people for their own magnificence. 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.980 And at the center, they're proud, they're arrogant, and they are empty. 00:15:31.980 --> 00:15:33.920 They gather in the nations themselves. 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.039 They conquer, they kill for their own glory. 00:15:36.139 --> 00:15:43.220 They are, in fact, what they're doing here is they are using and abusing people for their own promotion. 00:15:45.539 --> 00:15:51.200 And I wish that I had more time to unpack how we all do that. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:55.480 Maybe in a moment we will. 00:15:57.780 --> 00:16:05.280 In verse 16 says that everything that they did, they were doing it that they might clothe themselves with glory. 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:18.919 You see, at the heart of the evil Babylonian culture, at the heart of every culture, and at the heart of every life, 00:16:19.699 --> 00:16:31.179 is arrogance, pride, that leads to a life of pursuing personal glory at the cost of others, and certainly the cost of God. 00:16:31.179 --> 00:16:36.039 Now, many of us don't immediately see that in ourselves. 00:16:36.379 --> 00:16:37.219 You know, I do good things. 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.519 I recycle, and, you know. 00:16:40.719 --> 00:16:46.539 It's so much easier to identify it in other people when you see it in other people. 00:16:47.299 --> 00:16:50.379 You know, the self-aggrandizement, the promotion, that sort of stuff. 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:56.459 And I suspect that few, and I know this is not a, but here's a good example. 00:16:56.460 --> 00:17:01.879 Few would surpass the great, you know, boxing legend Muhammad Ali. 00:17:03.300 --> 00:17:11.059 One person said of Muhammad Ali that Muhammad Ali thought the sun came up each morning in order to hear him crow. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:17.860 This guy roared on about how he was the greatest. 00:17:18.420 --> 00:17:24.960 He bragged consistently about his good looks, and he declared that nothing was impossible for him. 00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:34.740 And, in fact, he was bragged about himself until, ultimately, Parkinson's took away his ability to speak. 00:17:37.900 --> 00:17:42.740 Here's a couple of his more memorable quotes, and, frankly, Google them, because there's a... 00:17:42.740 --> 00:17:46.620 You know, you can get yourself a cup of coffee and sit back and just read them. 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:49.259 Here's a couple of them. 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:52.740 I'm young, I'm handsome, I'm fast, I can't possibly be beat. 00:17:52.740 --> 00:17:54.599 I'm hard... 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.839 It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am. 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.359 Bragging is when a person says something that they can't, and they can't do it. 00:18:04.620 --> 00:18:06.680 I do what I say. 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:08.579 But I love this one. 00:18:09.339 --> 00:18:13.660 I am the most recognized and loved man that ever lived. 00:18:15.019 --> 00:18:16.740 I mean, you could just, you know, anyway. 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:20.720 He qualifies it just a little bit. 00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:31.779 He says, because there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far in villages far away didn't even know about them. 00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:33.819 So he qualifies it a little bit. 00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:39.200 You know, maybe if Jesus was around when I'm around, you know, we could negotiate that a little bit. 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:41.960 Incredible. 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.039 Anyway, pride isn't easy. 00:18:44.340 --> 00:18:49.000 When it's on display like that, it's kind of easy to see and not as easy to see in our own hearts. 00:18:49.740 --> 00:18:57.539 But the reason the Babylonians did what they did and the reason why we do what we do, 00:18:57.539 --> 00:19:07.740 even if it's preaching and singing and moving ahead in our career and creating artworks and sport, 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:17.980 is because we are to a great degree insecure and trying to cover ourselves with honor and glory. 00:19:17.980 --> 00:19:26.960 The great tennis player, Chris Ebbett, was in one year, and she was a great tennis player, 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:35.620 but she said in one interview that the driving force behind her playing tennis and her passion to win 00:19:35.620 --> 00:19:39.740 was that when I won, I felt beautiful. 00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:47.480 And in one way or another, that's us. 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.440 I grew up being a fern for my practical skills. 00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:55.440 As a child, I'd pull lawn mowers apart. 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.140 This is what I do on my kind of after school stuff. 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:04.319 And, you know, weekends, I pull lawn mowers apart and play with all the dad's tools and lose them and stuff like that. 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:08.019 And in the early days, I didn't quite know how to put it back together again. 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:10.319 And so that kind of frustrated dad a little bit. 00:20:11.779 --> 00:20:14.839 And when I got my first car, I bought this junk car. 00:20:14.919 --> 00:20:16.659 It had grass growing up through the windscreen. 00:20:17.419 --> 00:20:21.480 And I regularly, you know, modified, rebuilt it. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:22.259 The engine pulled out. 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.799 The gearbox pulled out this thing consistently. 00:20:25.700 --> 00:20:31.899 And I would have considered it in an embarrassment to take my car to a mechanic. 00:20:31.900 --> 00:20:36.380 It was a matter of pride for me because I kind of, I know things practical. 00:20:36.600 --> 00:20:37.600 I know things mechanical. 00:20:38.080 --> 00:20:40.800 I built a whole extension on a house when I was 15. 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:49.080 I went from cars and lawn mowers to repairs on bulldovers and excavators and, you know, all kinds. 00:20:49.140 --> 00:20:50.700 I could just do this stuff. 00:20:51.700 --> 00:20:58.900 And when I was first married to Nat, she wasn't aware of my skill in this regard. 00:20:58.900 --> 00:21:04.500 And so it was important for me to tell her that I was so good at this. 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:12.340 And we had this, we bought this really cheap, junky car off a friend of ours, a second car. 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:15.740 And they said to us when we bought it, you know, it needs a new clutch. 00:21:15.780 --> 00:21:17.680 And I'm like, yeah, clutch, you know, nothing. 00:21:17.780 --> 00:21:18.860 I can do that in an afternoon. 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.740 I can pull a gearbox out and put a clutch in it easy. 00:21:21.740 --> 00:21:26.440 And anyway, so I got this car in the garage, jacked it all up. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.039 And I'm under the car and I'm pulling things apart. 00:21:29.819 --> 00:21:33.640 And Natalie appeared at the garage door. 00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:38.259 And she said to me, do you know what you're doing? 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:47.059 I mean, it was important to teach her that I knew what I was doing. 00:21:47.059 --> 00:21:53.240 And so, but that comment to her in that moment, it's like, how do I know? 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:54.619 You know, I'm under the car. 00:21:54.679 --> 00:21:55.319 The car's jacked up. 00:21:55.339 --> 00:21:56.119 I've got overalls on. 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:57.899 How do I not know what I'm doing here? 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.019 It's plain obvious to everyone that I know what I'm doing. 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:02.759 Such a challenge to my ego. 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:06.919 Such a challenge to my worth and my sense of manhood and my pride and my glory. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:13.159 And I was very, very unhappy about being questioned in this moment. 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:20.960 And so I got out from under the car and I walked inside and proceeded to tell her how good it was at this. 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:23.920 I've been doing this for years and I could do it with my eyes closed. 00:22:24.340 --> 00:22:26.060 And how dare you question me? 00:22:26.140 --> 00:22:28.259 And I'm doing it to save money and because I can. 00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:33.200 And so I packed up my bruised ego and I went back under the car. 00:22:34.040 --> 00:22:35.040 And I was sitting there. 00:22:35.060 --> 00:22:35.720 I was fuming. 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:39.040 I'm going to prove to her exactly how good I am at this sort of stuff. 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:41.579 And she's going to appreciate me so much more. 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.659 And I'm going to just, at the end of this day, this car is going to be fixed. 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:47.200 And she's going to be in the driver's seat. 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:52.839 And she's going to feel the clutch on this car like she's never felt a clutch before operate in a car. 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:59.159 And by the end of the day, we're going to sit over dinner and we are going to glory in my ability to fix this car. 00:22:59.460 --> 00:23:00.359 That's what's going to happen. 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:09.339 So I get under the car and I'm pulling bolts out and rip this. 00:23:09.740 --> 00:23:12.419 And what I did was I pulled the wrong set of bolts out. 00:23:13.379 --> 00:23:19.599 And when I pulled it out, I pulled out the housing off the gearbox instead of pulling the whole gearbox off. 00:23:19.979 --> 00:23:23.539 And as I did that, I'm lying underneath this thing. 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.299 And all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 00:23:26.419 --> 00:23:29.139 Bits are hitting me, falling out of the gearbox. 00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:33.680 And there's ball bearings rolling all over the floor. 00:23:34.140 --> 00:23:38.759 And at that point, I realized, oh, I can't fix that. 00:23:41.259 --> 00:23:43.180 I cannot fix that. 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:46.259 And so I'm like, what do I do? 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.000 This is lose-lose. 00:23:48.360 --> 00:23:49.320 The car's broken. 00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:51.520 Nat knows I can't fix it. 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:51.880 What do I? 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.080 And so I scraped up all the bits and threw them in the bin. 00:23:54.079 --> 00:24:00.199 I rang the wrecker and said, how much will you give me for this car that has no gearbox working in it? 00:24:00.399 --> 00:24:01.419 500 bucks, deal. 00:24:01.539 --> 00:24:02.519 Pick it up this afternoon. 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:04.939 And so it was gone by the end of the day. 00:24:05.779 --> 00:24:11.859 And the core issue in that moment was my pride. 00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:13.759 The core issue. 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:19.180 And I did what I, I had such pride in my ability. 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:24.539 And when that happened, I realized this is beyond my ability now. 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:30.200 And my, I went from glory to shame. 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:40.960 And having to go back in and instead of taking that for a drive around in the car, start looking for another one instead. 00:24:42.940 --> 00:24:50.319 Pride, pride in that moment resulted in me not treating her well. 00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:53.980 And it resulted in my shame at the same time. 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:58.600 Pride is a refusal to let God be God. 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:02.599 It's to grab God's status for ourselves is what it is. 00:25:03.199 --> 00:25:06.500 It's independence from him and it's reliance in our own resources. 00:25:07.419 --> 00:25:13.399 This is a cosmic, delusional fantasy of fantasies. 00:25:14.379 --> 00:25:17.339 It leaves us restless and empty at the center. 00:25:18.159 --> 00:25:19.480 We live lives of anxiety. 00:25:19.699 --> 00:25:21.099 We live lives of arrogance. 00:25:21.339 --> 00:25:22.779 We live lives of bluff. 00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:31.639 And we look everywhere for people to puff up our shaky egos. 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:36.579 I now go to a mechanic. 00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:38.639 Not for everything. 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:39.960 Not for everything. 00:25:40.879 --> 00:25:42.519 But I now go to a mechanic. 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:50.960 Pride is the foundation of sin and the source of all evil in our world. 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:57.279 Pride is the thing that let me treat Nat that way. 00:25:57.500 --> 00:26:01.700 And pride is the thing that resulted in Malcolm Naden murdering people. 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:03.619 It's pride. 00:26:03.619 --> 00:26:07.059 And I want to ask you, can you see yourself in that? 00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:14.279 And if you can't see yourself in that, then just keep coming to church and keep understanding 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:20.799 Christian faith and the Christian gospel and how Jesus deals with that in our lives. 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:31.779 And pride is at one end of the passage, at the beginning of the passage, and idolatry is at the other end of the passage in verse 18. 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:38.419 You see, pride and idolatry are the two bookends of all of Babylon's sin in between. 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:43.399 All Babylon's sinful actions are bookended by pride and idolatry. 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.720 See, when you live independently of God, there's never a vacuum. 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:53.180 Something else is worshipped instead. 00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:57.660 We are worshipping beings and something else comes in and takes that position. 00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:06.339 And every culture and every life that is not based on the glory of God is based on an idol. 00:27:07.680 --> 00:27:09.880 It's based on a replacement God. 00:27:11.100 --> 00:27:13.720 And it will take... 00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:19.700 Idolatry is taking something that is good and making that good the ultimate. 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:19.819 It becomes the ultimate. 00:27:20.460 --> 00:27:21.860 It becomes the ultimate. 00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:25.799 And we do it because of pride. 00:27:26.660 --> 00:27:33.420 If running fast is the way to feel good about yourself, then running becomes the ultimate for you. 00:27:34.019 --> 00:27:36.920 Until you run yourself into the ground. 00:27:37.620 --> 00:27:39.039 Because it will never satisfy. 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:52.119 Every one of us takes a good thing and makes it the ultimate and we look to it to give us the applause, the honour, the acclaim that only God can give us. 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:59.539 And it creates seeds of destruction and it never satisfy. 00:27:59.679 --> 00:28:01.000 There is no rest. 00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:07.019 And pride is in the heart of every human and it's the source of every evil. 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.439 That is, the point is that we are no different than the Babylonians here. 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:17.539 And we deserve God's punishment just as much as they deserve God's punishment. 00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:24.279 So what is the solution here to all of this? 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:28.259 You see, Habakkuk knew everyone in the world was a sinner. 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:30.119 He knew he was a sinner as well. 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:36.039 He also knew the holiness of God prevents him from ignoring that sin. 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:39.480 So how are we going to do this? 00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:42.720 Everyone's a sinner and God's holiness means I can't ignore it. 00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:52.119 And Habakkuk taught, as we saw last week in chapter 2 verse 4, that the only thing that can save us is faith. 00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:54.119 Is the only thing that can save us. 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:56.379 And faith in what? 00:28:57.579 --> 00:29:00.460 If you go into chapter 3, which is what we'll be doing next, 00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:06.519 is that we see that it's faith in God's mercy is the only thing that can save us. 00:29:06.819 --> 00:29:07.880 Trusting his mercy. 00:29:09.299 --> 00:29:15.180 But Habakkuk couldn't see ahead how God would preserve those two things. 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:21.740 How God would preserve his holy hatred for sin and for pride. 00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:25.620 And his merciful forgiveness for sinners. 00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:29.059 Who trust him at the same time. 00:29:29.059 --> 00:29:30.839 How's God going to hold those two things together? 00:29:33.179 --> 00:29:37.839 You see, because sin, like every single debt, requires a payment to be made. 00:29:39.179 --> 00:29:39.960 It's a penalty. 00:29:40.099 --> 00:29:40.779 It has to be paid. 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:49.319 And pride and guilt and shame cannot be dealt with unless someone pays for it. 00:29:49.419 --> 00:29:50.519 Someone has to pay for it. 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:52.059 There's a debt that's been accumulated. 00:29:52.059 --> 00:29:55.779 And just to say, well, a loving God to just go, forgive it. 00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:57.259 You know, forget about that. 00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:00.500 No relationship works like that in this world. 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:03.079 Not a single relationship works like that. 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.240 A price has to be paid. 00:30:06.639 --> 00:30:09.559 Either you extract it from the person who owes it to you, 00:30:09.619 --> 00:30:11.659 or you bear it yourself. 00:30:11.660 --> 00:30:19.019 And you say, I forgive you, but you've still got to pay the price. 00:30:19.019 --> 00:30:28.660 And the only way God can pardon us and not judge us for our sin 00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:32.279 is by absorbing the payment that he requires himself. 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:38.379 And that is exactly what that passage in Hebrews tells us that was read out. 00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:40.079 Hebrews 9.26. 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:46.059 He, this is Jesus, has appeared once and for all at the culmination of the ages 00:30:46.059 --> 00:30:48.939 to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:53.460 Just as people are destined to die once and after that to face judgment, 00:30:54.059 --> 00:30:58.559 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many. 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:06.399 So Jesus, the innocent, does away with our sin by willingly dying where we should have. 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:12.680 Jesus quite literally turns God's anger away from us 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:16.040 by taking it upon himself. 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:19.759 He diverts it to himself. 00:31:21.560 --> 00:31:23.759 Our destiny was to face the judgment of God, 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:26.000 to get from him what we deserve. 00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:30.200 Instead, because of Jesus, the second half of verse 28 says, 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:33.200 he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:36.880 but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:42.900 So the future for everyone who Jesus turns the anger of God away from 00:31:42.900 --> 00:31:45.779 is salvation instead of judgment. 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.360 And there are those here who are waiting for Jesus. 00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:54.380 They're the people that Habakkuk, earlier in chapter 2, 00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:58.460 James talked about those who are waiting patiently by faith. 00:31:58.460 --> 00:32:01.539 But there are also by implication here, 00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:04.579 those who are not waiting patiently by faith. 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:11.840 The destiny of the proud and the idolatrous who continue to hold God at one end 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:16.259 and pursue idols, whatever it might be, 00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:21.660 is in the very next chapter in Hebrews 10, verse 26. 00:32:21.660 --> 00:32:22.300 It says, 00:32:22.360 --> 00:32:25.640 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we receive the knowledge of the truth, 00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:29.580 no sacrifice for sins is left, 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:33.860 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and a raging fire 00:32:33.860 --> 00:32:35.640 that will consume the enemies of God. 00:32:36.420 --> 00:32:39.380 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy 00:32:39.380 --> 00:32:41.040 on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 00:32:41.660 --> 00:32:44.400 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.820 who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:49.700 who is treated as an unholy thing, 00:32:49.700 --> 00:32:51.880 the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, 00:32:52.299 --> 00:32:55.000 and who has insulted the Spirit of grace. 00:32:55.700 --> 00:32:57.880 For we know Him who said, 00:32:58.080 --> 00:32:59.759 It is mine to avenge, I'll repay. 00:33:00.059 --> 00:33:01.980 And again, the Lord will judge His people. 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.580 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:10.220 And on that day when it comes, 00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:18.259 it will appear clearly to all who, 00:33:20.259 --> 00:33:27.679 to everyone how utterly naive it was for millions upon millions 00:33:27.679 --> 00:33:31.619 and millions of people to live their lives 00:33:31.619 --> 00:33:36.719 as though the God who made this world for His glory 00:33:36.719 --> 00:33:39.599 would never call them to account 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:42.739 on how little He has meant to them 00:33:42.739 --> 00:33:44.759 as they pursued glory for themselves. 00:33:49.699 --> 00:33:53.759 That squares clearly with the teaching of the Bible 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:57.099 and it squares clearly with reason itself. 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:02.700 And so I urge you to ask yourself, 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:07.359 Am I ready to take my stand in the divine courtroom 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:11.860 and hear the judge pass an eternal sentence on me? 00:34:11.860 --> 00:34:15.340 There will only be two verdicts, 00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:17.019 one of two verdicts, 00:34:17.019 --> 00:34:18.200 on that day. 00:34:19.900 --> 00:34:21.579 And one or two of them, 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:23.820 one or each of them will be passed, 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.539 one or the other will be passed on every person 00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:28.320 who has ever lived, 00:34:28.460 --> 00:34:32.740 either condemned or justified by faith in the Lord Jesus, 00:34:33.579 --> 00:34:34.660 hell or heaven, 00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:37.740 eternal death or eternal life. 00:34:37.739 --> 00:34:42.319 For those who are by faith waiting for Jesus, 00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:46.779 there is hope, however, in these verses. 00:34:47.919 --> 00:34:51.919 And what they do is that they shape the way 00:34:51.919 --> 00:34:53.939 that we wait for Jesus now. 00:34:55.319 --> 00:34:58.159 And if you understand these two hopes, 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.179 even in the most darkest times, 00:35:02.319 --> 00:35:05.079 the most difficult times as Habakkuk is currently facing, 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.599 you will be able to stand. 00:35:07.799 --> 00:35:08.860 You'll be able to face it. 00:35:08.900 --> 00:35:10.739 You can face anything with these two hopes. 00:35:10.739 --> 00:35:13.639 The first is in verse 20. 00:35:15.139 --> 00:35:19.059 And it is that in all the darkest of times, 00:35:19.279 --> 00:35:21.639 God is sovereign. 00:35:22.940 --> 00:35:24.719 The Lord is in his holy temple. 00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:27.559 Let all the earth be silent before him. 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:32.079 Now, this is the God who is the exact opposite 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.199 of the lifeless idols of Babylon 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:36.980 in the verses previously. 00:35:37.799 --> 00:35:40.739 This is not a dumb, lifeless idol. 00:35:41.219 --> 00:35:45.039 This is the God who it says is in his holy temple. 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:47.739 That is, he is the one who exists 00:35:47.739 --> 00:35:50.079 and rules over all things. 00:35:51.659 --> 00:35:55.980 It says that no matter how bad things get in life, 00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:57.320 God is in control, 00:35:57.740 --> 00:35:59.420 even when we don't understand it 00:35:59.420 --> 00:36:00.940 as Habakkuk doesn't understand it. 00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:02.900 He is not gone, 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:05.940 even when we totally scrap our lives. 00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:09.420 Even God, this God can even turn that around. 00:36:11.800 --> 00:36:13.139 Bad things will happen, 00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:16.400 but God is in it, controlling it, 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:19.079 bringing it about for his good purposes. 00:36:19.240 --> 00:36:22.519 He never, ever leaves his throne. 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:26.420 And so the second part of that verse, 00:36:27.860 --> 00:36:30.079 let all the earth be silent before him, 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:31.840 is a call for Babylon, 00:36:32.759 --> 00:36:33.980 a call for Judah, 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:38.880 and a call for us to submit ourselves to him 00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:39.900 and his good, 00:36:40.739 --> 00:36:44.860 even at times not understandable plans 00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:45.940 as we wait for him. 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:49.079 That's what it means when it says, 00:36:49.860 --> 00:36:51.579 all the earth be silent before him. 00:36:51.579 --> 00:36:52.619 It's literally, 00:36:53.299 --> 00:36:54.039 shh, 00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:58.079 submit yourself to this God. 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:04.739 But the ultimate hope in this passage 00:37:04.739 --> 00:37:07.000 is in verse 14. 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:09.940 For the earth be filled with the knowledge 00:37:09.940 --> 00:37:11.360 of the glory of the Lord 00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.420 as the waters cover the sea. 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.199 It just, 00:37:15.759 --> 00:37:18.039 in amongst all the darkness of this section, 00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:19.799 there's just two glimpses. 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:21.800 And what this one is saying 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:24.280 is that a day will come 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:29.760 when all evil kingdoms will be removed. 00:37:30.720 --> 00:37:31.360 In fact, 00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:33.260 all evil will be removed. 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:34.660 All sin will be removed. 00:37:35.019 --> 00:37:37.140 And only God's kingdom will remain. 00:37:37.560 --> 00:37:39.240 All rival kingdoms will be removed. 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:39.800 And in fact, 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:41.140 if you go into Revelation, 00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:42.720 the end of the Bible, 00:37:43.240 --> 00:37:44.640 17, 18, 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:47.139 it talks about Babylon there. 00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:47.679 And Babylon, 00:37:48.379 --> 00:37:49.539 it's a judgment of Babylon. 00:37:49.759 --> 00:37:52.279 It's symbolic for all evil kingdoms 00:37:52.279 --> 00:37:53.920 finally coming to their end 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:55.819 as God ushers in 00:37:55.819 --> 00:37:58.119 his glory filling everything. 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:03.219 This is finally fulfilled. 00:38:03.379 --> 00:38:05.099 Verse 14 is finally fulfilled 00:38:05.099 --> 00:38:06.239 when Jesus returns. 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:09.179 His is the only glory 00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:10.159 that will last forever. 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.440 And this verse tells us 00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.179 that despite how hard things are 00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:16.119 right now, 00:38:16.259 --> 00:38:18.259 someday we're going to soak in this. 00:38:19.899 --> 00:38:21.920 We're going to soak in his glory. 00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:24.899 Jesus took our shame 00:38:24.899 --> 00:38:28.379 so that when we put our trust in him, 00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:31.779 our heavenly father clothes us 00:38:31.779 --> 00:38:34.460 with the honor and the glory of Jesus. 00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:34.679 Jesus. 00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:34.799 Jesus. 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.179 So what glory are you pursuing? 00:38:44.839 --> 00:38:46.239 In a few short weeks, 00:38:46.359 --> 00:38:48.139 there will be glory 00:38:48.139 --> 00:38:50.259 for one team 00:38:50.259 --> 00:38:51.059 as they're crowned 00:38:51.059 --> 00:38:52.399 the FIFA World Cup champions 00:38:52.399 --> 00:38:53.639 and potentially 00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:55.460 for all their fans as well. 00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:57.719 And in that moment, 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.399 it will be exhilarating for them. 00:39:00.819 --> 00:39:01.339 Not for me. 00:39:01.399 --> 00:39:02.019 I don't really care. 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:03.299 But it'll be exhilarating for them. 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:06.399 And yet, 00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.000 it will be a glory 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.119 that will pass. 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:11.539 It will be a glory 00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:12.480 that will pass. 00:39:15.619 --> 00:39:16.920 It will be brief. 00:39:17.539 --> 00:39:18.059 It will come. 00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:18.659 It will go. 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:19.960 We all have our moments 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:21.019 where it comes and goes. 00:39:22.879 --> 00:39:23.559 And like 00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.539 all the pride-driven glory 00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:28.699 we attempt to clothe ourselves in, 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.039 it just disappears. 00:39:32.339 --> 00:39:32.899 It's just brief. 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:33.599 It just goes. 00:39:36.319 --> 00:39:37.940 And what each one of those 00:39:37.940 --> 00:39:39.739 soccer players and fans needs 00:39:39.739 --> 00:39:40.739 and what we all need 00:39:40.739 --> 00:39:42.319 is something that lasts forever. 00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:45.179 A glory that is exhilarating, 00:39:45.279 --> 00:39:46.079 that lasts forever 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:48.799 and that gives us true rest 00:39:48.799 --> 00:39:51.000 even when we're 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:52.419 in the middle of hardships 00:39:52.419 --> 00:39:53.899 and we're not receiving the glory 00:39:53.899 --> 00:39:54.779 we think we should receive. 00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:58.079 Rest for our souls now. 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:01.699 We seek our own honour 00:40:01.699 --> 00:40:04.859 and therefore we deserve shame. 00:40:04.859 --> 00:40:08.139 And Jesus took our shame 00:40:08.139 --> 00:40:10.719 so that we would be clothed in his honour. 00:40:11.759 --> 00:40:13.399 It's the great exchange. 00:40:14.339 --> 00:40:16.019 It is the only glory and honour 00:40:16.019 --> 00:40:16.960 that can really, 00:40:17.279 --> 00:40:19.019 truly satisfy our hearts. 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:21.139 It's the beauty 00:40:21.139 --> 00:40:23.179 and the magnificence of a God 00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:25.799 who knows how bad 00:40:25.799 --> 00:40:26.679 and how deep 00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:29.019 and how ugly our shame is 00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:31.980 and yet chose to clothe us 00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:33.639 with glory and honour. 00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:38.820 That's what each one of us needs. 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:40.480 The honour of God, 00:40:40.619 --> 00:40:41.860 the applause of God, 00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:43.579 the love of God. 00:40:43.579 --> 00:40:46.059 And a day is coming, 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:48.759 according to verse 14, 00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:52.940 when his glory will be everywhere 00:40:52.940 --> 00:40:55.079 and those of us 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:56.940 who are waiting on him 00:40:56.940 --> 00:41:00.739 will soak in it forever.