A Reminder From Habakkuk

WEBVTT100:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240It's not always on our timetable tosee justice right, our part is to200:00:03.480 --> 00:00:07.200wait for it, to wait forGod's justice and to obey God in the300:00:07.240 --> 00:00:11.240season that we're in right, toobey the Lord and as it pertains to400:00:11.279 --> 00:00:15.880reaching out at these abortion centers andbeing a voice for the voiceless, easier500:00:15.919 --> 00:00:19.600said than done. But whether wesee results or not, whether we're mocked600:00:19.719 --> 00:00:23.440or not, um, we stillhave to be faithful in what the Lord700:00:23.440 --> 00:00:29.120has called us to. I amyours, I'm yours, I'm yours,800:00:29.480 --> 00:00:35.520and me Lord, I am yours, I'm yours. I'm Welcome to the900:00:35.560 --> 00:00:40.960Gospel Center Pro Life Podcast, apodcast designed to equip, encourage, and1000:00:41.079 --> 00:00:45.079challenge you in pro life ministry andalways with a focus on the gospel.1100:00:45.280 --> 00:00:59.920Stay tuned. I felt your passihtouch your heart. Welcome back to the1200:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.599Gospel Centered Pro Life Podcast. Appreciateyou guys joining us. This is Daniel1300:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.159Parks. I serve as the WestCoast regional Shepherd for Love Life and I'm1400:01:08.239 --> 00:01:15.319joined as always with Vicky cass York, who is our sidewalk out Reach training1500:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.840director and awesome title. I thinkI got the title right either way.1600:01:19.959 --> 00:01:23.959You guys know us If you've listenedto this podcast for any amount of time,1700:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.239you know that we've been doing sidewalkout reach for a good uh a1800:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.040good many years, probably combined thething you say, twenty five years.1900:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.599Yeah, so a quarter of adecade, a quarter of a century.2000:01:36.640 --> 00:01:42.280That sounds that sounds old. 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Soif you guys can help us with that,3800:02:46.719 --> 00:02:50.039that would be a blessing. Also, share this podcast episode with others3900:02:50.120 --> 00:02:53.919on social media. We would loveto get this out to others to help4000:02:53.080 --> 00:02:59.719encourage them. And so let's jumpinto our episode. Our title is why4100:02:59.840 --> 00:03:06.039we do what we do? SubtitleA reminder from Habakic. So we're gonna4200:03:06.080 --> 00:03:10.719be talking from the Book of Habakic, my favorite books. Okay, well4300:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.639it's uh one of the most hI guess I won't say neglected, but4400:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.120some folks don't even know. Maybepeople even listening right now are like,4500:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.680what, what's what's a Hebakic?Um, it's actually a book of the4600:03:23.719 --> 00:03:28.240Bible. It's in the Old Testament. It's one of Habakic was one of4700:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.240um what some people refer to asthe minor prophets. In my eyes,4800:03:31.439 --> 00:03:36.520though, when I see God's side, there is no minor prophets. They're4900:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.360just profits from God. Minor interms of short and it is short.5000:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.520Three chapters, I think in thewhole book. Yeah, quick read.5100:03:43.800 --> 00:03:47.240Yeah, so let's jump into avicky. What are we going to learn5200:03:47.439 --> 00:03:53.439from Habakic that we can apply tosubwalk ministry. Well, it's interesting.5300:03:53.520 --> 00:03:57.840Yesterday I was training several volunteers andthey asked me, well, what verses5400:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.520would you recommend we memorize to youin sidewalk outreach? And I told them,5500:04:01.560 --> 00:04:03.960you know, I have my favorites, and I told them what those5600:04:03.960 --> 00:04:08.879were. But I said, everytime you open the Bible, I promise5700:04:08.919 --> 00:04:13.960you, if you're looking for whatis going to guide you in speaking to5800:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.800the moms, God will give youversus they will pop out. This was5900:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.360a whole book that popped out tome. I was doing a Bible study6000:04:20.399 --> 00:04:27.160this morning and reading Habecic and didthe whole thing in the in this Bible6100:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.920study, and I thought, thisis like just telling us, um,6200:04:30.920 --> 00:04:36.480it's speaking directly in my mind toside what counselors and and so we're looking6300:04:36.480 --> 00:04:41.680at it from from that perspective ofhow it can be looking at this book6400:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.480can first of all identify some ofthe struggles that we're going through as sidewalk6500:04:46.519 --> 00:04:54.199counselors and really as anyone walking withGod through life. But also how can6600:04:54.279 --> 00:05:00.920we avoid discouragement, disillusionment, anger, mistrust of God. I think it's6700:05:00.959 --> 00:05:05.879all those questions are answered in thislittle book. So starting off, maybe6800:05:05.959 --> 00:05:11.959Daniel, if you wouldn't mind readingum Habackic three seventeen to nineteen, because6900:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.800this is a fairly famous passage fromHabakic, and it's clearly a victorious all7000:05:17.879 --> 00:05:23.000Right, though the fig tree shouldnot blossom, and there'll be no fruit7100:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.800in the vines, though the fieldof the olives shall fail and the fields7200:05:26.879 --> 00:05:30.079produce no food. Though the flockshould be cut off from the fold,7300:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.279and there'll be new cattle in thestalls. Yet I'll exult in the Lord.7400:05:34.480 --> 00:05:39.360I'll rejoice in the God of mysalvation. The Lord God is my7500:05:39.480 --> 00:05:43.439strength. He has made my feethind's feet and makes me walk on my7600:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.240high places back at three seventeen throughnineteen. Right, So that's how the7700:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.560book ends is with this victorious verseof it and and we're going to go7800:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.160deeper into that verse. Yeah,so I'll sum it up, give my7900:05:55.360 --> 00:05:59.279quick commentary on these verses. Basically, Um, though things don't go my8000:05:59.360 --> 00:06:04.560way, I'm going to glorify Jesus. I'm gonna honor the Lord and uh,8100:06:04.800 --> 00:06:09.160because the Lord is on my sideexactly exactly. So that's kind of8200:06:09.199 --> 00:06:13.600a good summary of that, veryvictorious. But look at how the Book8300:06:13.800 --> 00:06:18.800of Habacic begins in Habackic one versetwo. Okay, how long, o8400:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.439Lord? Will I call for helpand you will not hear I crowd to8500:06:23.480 --> 00:06:28.120you violence? Yet you do notsaveback one too? I mean, how8600:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.720perfect is that for first sidebab counselors, Because I know I am not alone8700:06:33.000 --> 00:06:39.000in standing there in front of intenseopposition, hatred, anger, mocking people,8800:06:39.000 --> 00:06:45.480throwing things at us, um,you know whatever, the other things,8900:06:45.519 --> 00:06:50.839and I'm looking at them thinking,Lord, here's me proclaiming your word,9000:06:51.519 --> 00:06:57.800living my life as as righteously asI can before you. And this9100:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.360is your ministry, this is yourmission and to safety some born babies.9200:07:00.920 --> 00:07:06.639Where are you? Why are youallowing this violence, this bloodshed? I9300:07:06.639 --> 00:07:13.639mean, that's what happened. Habakukis calling out with with really a lot9400:07:13.680 --> 00:07:19.399of doubt. Long do I standhere and receive no help from you?9500:07:19.600 --> 00:07:24.360He's saying, from you, OhGod? Yeah, And you see the9600:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.399same thing, and some of David'spsalms, right, how long, Lord?9700:07:28.399 --> 00:07:31.519How long with the wicked prosper um? And so I think one of9800:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.680the points here is, of coursehe's God, he's the Lord. He9900:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.639deserves our worship, our praise oradoration. He does not deserve our accusations10000:07:40.680 --> 00:07:45.680and things like that. But healready sees what's in our hearts. Anyway,10100:07:46.079 --> 00:07:47.959the best thing that we can dois be honest with the Lord.10200:07:48.480 --> 00:07:51.360Now, David does the same thingin the psalms as he's talking, like10300:07:51.439 --> 00:07:56.720where are you Lord? The wickedpursue me? And he almost always ends10400:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.319just like a back it does.Ultimately, you're the Lord, You're God.10500:08:00.920 --> 00:08:03.680Now I am nothing in your sight? All right, I don't deserve10600:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.000you aiding me and helping me.So he's putting things in perspective, but10700:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.199he's still honest, David, andHebackick and the other prophets that Jeremiah the10800:08:11.240 --> 00:08:16.600same way. They're still honest withwhat they're feeling, still honestly, And10900:08:16.920 --> 00:08:18.920I think, and this is oneof the things that I encourage folks with.11000:08:20.000 --> 00:08:22.240You've heard me say this oftentimes whenwe've been out on the sidewalk.11100:08:22.519 --> 00:08:28.199An important thing that I like todo after that ministry on the sidewalk is11200:08:28.360 --> 00:08:33.600um to debrief. Just kind ofbring it all before the Lord, get11300:08:33.639 --> 00:08:35.399all those feelings and stuff out there, because I think it helps us to11400:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.879decompress. It helps us to justlet things, you know, let things11500:08:39.879 --> 00:08:41.799go and put those things in thehands of the Lord. So I think11600:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.120that's help fun. I think that'swhat Habakick is doing in the situation.11700:08:46.200 --> 00:08:48.840Yeah, he's being very honest.But one of the things that he cries11800:08:48.879 --> 00:08:56.000out, and you will not hearthat he feels unheard because he feels,11900:08:56.480 --> 00:09:01.639rightfully, that is what he desiresis good. He wants to bring about12000:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.240good, and he feels that he'snot heard. And I think one of12100:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.919the first thing that God reassures himwith is that he does here. God12200:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.320does here, and and so inum habak At one five, he says,12300:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.440look among the nations, this isGod. Now. In in response,12400:09:20.000 --> 00:09:26.600um, look among the nations,observe, be astonished, be astonished,12500:09:26.919 --> 00:09:33.120wonder because I am doing something inyour days. You would not believe12600:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.120it if if you were told so, I think um in that as as12700:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.840I was reading that passage, Iwas thinking, God does here, He12800:09:43.039 --> 00:09:46.960does understand, and he gives usthose verbs. I always look for the12900:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.759verbs when God is speaking what arethe things that we are told to do?13000:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.080Because I like having marching orders.I want to know what God expects13100:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.320of me in these situations. Andhe says observe or to a serve.13200:10:00.799 --> 00:10:05.519So first of all, I thinkwe're to be vigilant in looking for God13300:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.879is working and and and open oureyes to what that might be. It13400:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.000might not be what we expect,but He is working. So we're to13500:10:13.039 --> 00:10:18.120observe. We're to be amazed.We're to be amazed by what God is13600:10:18.120 --> 00:10:20.120going to accomplish. I thought,you know, how often am I thinking,13700:10:20.919 --> 00:10:26.240go ahead, Lord, amazed me. But that's the attitude. We're13800:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.000to have, be amazed at whatHe's going to accomplish, and and expect13900:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.080miracles. We're not going to believethem if we were even told expect miracles.14000:10:33.120 --> 00:10:37.360But then, um, it's usuallynot what we expect. The way14100:10:37.399 --> 00:10:43.320God operates. That has certainly beenmy experience and and I thought, you14200:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.360know, maybe if you want toread those those next few verses in Habacic,14300:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.559because Hebacic continues then to kind ofquestion God in um in chapter one14400:10:50.679 --> 00:10:56.399versus, and I broke. Ididn't have us go through every verse,14500:10:56.519 --> 00:11:00.120but the ones that were kind ofthe most pertinent, and in verse is14600:11:00.159 --> 00:11:03.720six eleven and thirteen, we're theones. Okay, yeah, So for14700:11:03.799 --> 00:11:09.480behold, I'm raising up the Chaldeansthat fierce and impetus. How do you14800:11:09.519 --> 00:11:16.320say that impetuous? Impetuous? Thoseare people who just are They are just14900:11:16.480 --> 00:11:22.279flying forward, doing whatever they wantwithout thought, Reckless, impetuous people who15000:11:22.320 --> 00:11:28.279march throughout the earth to seize dwellingplaces which are not theirs. And they15100:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.840will sweep through like the wind andpass on, but they will be held15200:11:31.879 --> 00:11:37.720guilty, they who strength is theirGod. Your eyes are too pure to15300:11:37.759 --> 00:11:41.600approve evil, and you cannot lookon wickedness with favor. Why do you15400:11:41.639 --> 00:11:46.960look with favor on those who dealcredulously? Why are you silent when the15500:11:46.960 --> 00:11:52.240wicked swallow up those more righteous thanthey? So that was a back at15600:11:52.279 --> 00:11:58.320one six eleven and right, right, So I think if I were to15700:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.200summarize that his cry is, whyare you using the wicked people and why15800:12:03.279 --> 00:12:11.799are they prevailing? Um? Andyou know that that's a kind of a15900:12:11.840 --> 00:12:18.679strong rebuke to God what he's doing. But what I noticed in that as16000:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.519as Abekak is crying out to Godis is that God does not reprimand him16100:12:24.679 --> 00:12:30.159or smite him dead or um.But he also doesn't really provide an immediate16200:12:30.200 --> 00:12:35.159answer. But he lets Rebecca havethose doubts. And I think for me16300:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.919that was freeing as I was readingthat and thinking about that that, Um,16400:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.039sometimes we do have doubts. Sometimeswe are out there when there have16500:12:43.200 --> 00:12:48.440been no saved babies, when wefought that for their lives and and we're16600:12:48.440 --> 00:12:52.679still not seeing fruit. I thinkit's natural to have doubts. And and16700:12:54.639 --> 00:13:00.399I don't know for me, thoseverses helped to helped me to not the16800:13:00.519 --> 00:13:05.159verses, but the fact that Goddidn't didn't say, habaca man up,16900:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.279stop complaining. Yeah, Yeah,I mean I think there is you know,17000:13:11.600 --> 00:13:18.360there's this kind of um difference,I would say in grumbling and complaining.17100:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.159And again, what we talked aboutwhen we started off, just being17200:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.679honest, being honest with our feelings, being honest with what we see.17300:13:24.799 --> 00:13:26.360I mean if we think about,of course, we do think about what17400:13:26.399 --> 00:13:30.720we see on a regular basis,what we're dealing with on a regular basis.17500:13:30.720 --> 00:13:35.120And were talking about the Caldeans andhow violent and and impetuous they were.17600:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.840Uh, we see that every dayat the abortion clinics. We see17700:13:39.879 --> 00:13:41.320that, of course, with theabortion workers, with the abortionists, with17800:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.919the moms and dad's going in andkill their children. It's tough to watch.17900:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.120And sometimes again we scratch our headsand wonder, like, God,18000:13:48.240 --> 00:13:52.960why why did we not see justicelike we know that we should, right,18100:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.960Why why are these people allowed?Why are why are these places allowed18200:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.639to remain open? God? Wouldare you doing? Why are aren't you18300:14:01.639 --> 00:14:03.159shutting him down? Because we knowthat he could? Yeah, And I18400:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.159think we come away just like witha backic and anyone else who's walking with18500:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.720the Lord and in a fallen worldwith wicked things going on, and we18600:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.720come away with like, we reallydon't know why God allows this stuff.18700:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.679Um, but we know that he'sgood, right, we have his word.18800:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.320Um, we know his character andhis nature, the fact that he18900:14:22.399 --> 00:14:28.080rescued and saved us, and um, so we just always have to come19000:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.559back to his goodness. He's agood God in spite of what we see19100:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.480right right, which he does getto eventually in like like you in introduced19200:14:35.559 --> 00:14:41.679this whole topic, just like Daviddid. But um, but you know,19300:14:41.799 --> 00:14:45.519kind of what I want is animmediate answer, and eventually God does19400:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.679give an answer, and even inthat short book he does. He does19500:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.120give an answer of a of afuture retribution. What is going to happen19600:14:52.159 --> 00:14:56.480down the road. And that's inHabackic too, And I think there are19700:14:56.480 --> 00:15:01.519some really important things that we canpull out of his response there. So19800:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.879do you want to read that one? It's Tobacic two versus two to four19900:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.440and then eight. Yeah. Sobehold asked for the proud one. His20000:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.480soul is not right within him,but the righteous will live by his faith.20100:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.519Then the Lord answered me and said, record the vision and inscribe it20200:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.120on the tablets, that that theone who reads it may run. For20300:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.000the vision is yet for the appointedtime. It hastens towards the goal,20400:15:26.080 --> 00:15:31.080and will not fail, though itterries, wait for it, for it20500:15:31.120 --> 00:15:35.320will certainly come and will not delay. Because you have looted many nations,20600:15:35.559 --> 00:15:39.399all the remainder of this people's willloot you because of human bloodshed and violence20700:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.759done in the land to the townand all its inhabitants. Haback it too20800:15:45.919 --> 00:15:50.120two through four in verse eight.Yeah. So one of the first things20900:15:50.120 --> 00:15:56.480that popped out to me is isthat God made a distinction between there's the21000:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.960wicked his soul is not right withinhim, and then the righteous. But21100:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.519but the righteous will live by hisfaith. And I think he did that21200:16:06.240 --> 00:16:10.399for sometimes we can get confused outthere. Are we wrong? Are we21300:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.039doing something wrong? Are we notbeing blessed by God? And I think21400:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.360God is telling Herbaca, It's okay, you know, yes, I am21500:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.000using the wicked. He is evenusing the wicked for his good purposes.21600:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.159But um, but he wants Herbacicand all of us to be clear.21700:16:26.639 --> 00:16:32.279If we're in the Lord, weare the righteous ones and there will just21800:16:32.440 --> 00:16:37.480then he says, um. Well, the action verbs again, first record,21900:16:37.960 --> 00:16:44.799record the vision. And to methat was thinking from again the sidewalk,22000:16:45.559 --> 00:16:52.279the call to the church too.Don't be silent speak it uh,22100:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.080take action. Uh talk about thefact that there are a million babies every22200:16:56.120 --> 00:17:03.720year being slaughtered by abortion and umand make sure others see that in the22300:17:03.799 --> 00:17:08.680record, it should be on recordthat Christians have stood up and spoken against22400:17:08.799 --> 00:17:15.759this terrible thing. So that wasone thing, and then um, and22500:17:15.799 --> 00:17:22.559then his advice or uh, Iguess his encouragement though it carries though the22600:17:22.599 --> 00:17:29.079retribution though the the when justice willcome, but it might not be immediate,22700:17:29.119 --> 00:17:33.160though it carries wait for it,for it will certainly come. And22800:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.960again to me, thinking about beingthere on the sidewalk, you think,22900:17:38.039 --> 00:17:42.119when is all this going to end? And he's telling us, I think23000:17:42.160 --> 00:17:49.160the violence they're specifically talking about humanbloodshed and violence, and it will end,23100:17:49.200 --> 00:17:55.920he says, um, And therewill those who have perpetrated that will23200:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.599be called to account. Yeah.I mean that's the surety of God's justice.23300:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.720Right. Ultimately, God will rightall the wrongs, and it's not23400:18:03.759 --> 00:18:10.240going to be in our timing,right. Um, a day is as23500:18:10.279 --> 00:18:12.000a thousand years, and a thousandyears as a day to the Lord.23600:18:12.039 --> 00:18:18.319The Lord doesn't move on our timetable, and so his word is true.23700:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.000His word will come to pass thatthe heavens and the earth pass away.23800:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.680His word remains um. But again, it's not always on our timetable to23900:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.240see justice right. Our part isto wait for it to wait for God's24000:18:30.279 --> 00:18:36.039justice and to obey God in theseason that we're in right to obey the24100:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.400Lord, and as it pertains toreaching out of these abortion centers and being24200:18:38.400 --> 00:18:42.720a voice for the voiceless. Easiersaid than done. But whether we see24300:18:42.759 --> 00:18:48.440results or not, whether we're mockedor not, um, we still have24400:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.079to be faithful in what the Lordhas called us to. Just like back,24500:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.279it can me imagine being a back. Imagine me and Jeremiah the prophet,24600:18:53.359 --> 00:18:59.079or is Heyah the prophet having toprophesy and and tell about God's judgment24700:18:59.799 --> 00:19:03.599and the need for repentance in themidst of a wicked generation of wicked people24800:19:03.640 --> 00:19:08.759that were worshiping idols and sacrificing theirchildren to idols. It's like unto what24900:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.839we're involved in now, right,and these men they had to be faithful,25000:19:12.839 --> 00:19:18.480and so we're called to be faithful. Where it says the the just,25100:19:18.799 --> 00:19:23.119the righteous will live by faith,we are called to do what we25200:19:23.240 --> 00:19:27.599do not based on feelings and emotions, and again easier said than done,25300:19:29.160 --> 00:19:32.960but in faith, believing again thatGod is good, He's called us to25400:19:33.039 --> 00:19:38.519this, and that our faith inHim ultimately reflects on his faithfulness. We25500:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.279have faith in him because we believethat he's faithful and he's going to right25600:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.960the wrongs. Yeah. And anotherthing in that passage is that talks about25700:19:45.960 --> 00:19:52.759an appointed time, and we oftendon't like waiting for whatever that appointed time.25800:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.440But we don't know the time.We don't know why he chooses what25900:19:56.519 --> 00:20:00.279time frame he chooses. But hesaid is that there will be a time26000:20:00.799 --> 00:20:06.960when judgment will come, and andwait for it and be faithful in the26100:20:06.960 --> 00:20:08.599inner room. But um, andthen the outlines I don't know if we26200:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.359want to read that. The nextpassage is kind of a long one,26300:20:11.359 --> 00:20:15.799but um, he does outline Godoutlines what's in store for the wicked,26400:20:17.240 --> 00:20:22.559and and it's it's terrible. Imean it's terrible, but great, great,26500:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.680great calamity, you know, insummary, disgrace, nakedness, violence,26600:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.799devastation. But then also in thepassage, and this is also Tobecic26700:20:30.880 --> 00:20:37.279too, between versus twelve and twenty, talks about that at that time,26800:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.640as all his judgment is coming uponum, the wicked, all the earth26900:20:41.680 --> 00:20:45.480will be filled with the knowledge andglory of the Lord, it says,27000:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.720So I was thinking of that.The use of the word all. I27100:20:48.759 --> 00:20:53.519assume that means the wicked and thejust they will all know at that there27200:20:53.519 --> 00:20:57.839will be a time when all willnot only know God but be filled.27300:20:57.960 --> 00:21:03.680The whole earth will be filled withHis glory, and UM the wicked with27400:21:04.039 --> 00:21:08.359you know the consequence they can nolonger deny. They're going to have those27500:21:08.519 --> 00:21:14.519terrible consequences of their actions, andthe righteous are going to see what they27600:21:14.559 --> 00:21:19.839have longed for UM all along becauseit was aligned with what God wants wants27700:21:21.000 --> 00:21:26.400So um uh for me? Whatwhat really was the overwhelming I called it27800:21:26.440 --> 00:21:32.079in the article that accompanies us,the nugget of truth that sustains me.27900:21:32.880 --> 00:21:37.799UM was in that um the Ithink it was first nineteen and Hebecic two.28000:21:38.400 --> 00:21:44.200But the Lord is in his Holytemple, Let all the earth be28100:21:44.359 --> 00:21:48.759silent before him, and that Ijust really just meditated on that phrase.28200:21:48.920 --> 00:21:53.640But the Lord is in his HolyTemple, and if we can trust this,28300:21:53.880 --> 00:22:00.640no, this live that reality,He's there, He's sitting on the28400:22:00.640 --> 00:22:07.359temple. He is he is Lord, he is in control, he is28500:22:07.480 --> 00:22:12.759on the throne. I think ithelps us to trust he's got it,28600:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.319He's got it, and we canrest in that knowledge. Yeah, I28700:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.039mean, I think that is ultimatelywhere our minds need to rest, in28800:22:22.079 --> 00:22:26.400our hearts need to rest, isthat Jesus is still on his throne.28900:22:26.640 --> 00:22:29.279He's still the King of kings andLord of lords, in spite of what29000:22:29.319 --> 00:22:33.039we see and what we experience,in spite of the discouragements, in spite29100:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.279of even the victories. Right,all of all of this is under Jesus29200:22:37.400 --> 00:22:40.160feet. He is the King ofkings and Lord of lords. And if29300:22:40.200 --> 00:22:44.079we belong to him, then we'vegot no need to worry. Yeah,29400:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.160right, yeah. So he comesto his conclusion at the end one of29500:22:48.200 --> 00:22:52.799my favorite again passages which we readat the beginning, but in as a29600:22:52.880 --> 00:22:57.440part of that and and this isthen the final chapter Habekic three. Um29700:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.599uh, He's says, oh,Lord, revive, revived your work in29800:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.920the midst of the years, inthe midst, in the midst of the29900:23:07.000 --> 00:23:12.680years, make it known in wrathremember mercy again. That one really popped30000:23:12.680 --> 00:23:19.920out at me because as a sidebarcounselor watching the devastation that the opposition is30100:23:21.319 --> 00:23:26.359causing, that the wicked are causingto those innocent lives, we're filled with30200:23:26.559 --> 00:23:33.960wrath. And God talks about hiswrath in the prior passages, but in30300:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.720wrath, remember mercy. And Ithink that was a shifting point for Harbackic.30400:23:38.160 --> 00:23:45.799He was not consumed anymore like hisinitial questions with judgment and wrath against30500:23:45.799 --> 00:23:51.440the wicked. There's that one sentencethat says, don't forget God's mercy.30600:23:51.880 --> 00:23:56.880Um. I think as sidebar counselors, and what I've seen with UM so30700:23:56.920 --> 00:24:06.319many of the trials and struggles issometimes a preoccupation with the opposition, how30800:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.119evil they are, how wicked theyare, and what happens is as we30900:24:11.200 --> 00:24:15.200talk about that more, I noticemore pictures being taken of them, more31000:24:15.359 --> 00:24:22.759stories about them. I just thinkit brings everyone down to where Habakic started31100:24:22.279 --> 00:24:30.039in this chapter as opposed to UM, just what is our mission? Keep31200:24:30.039 --> 00:24:37.960our eyes on the Lord, obeythe Lord, um the don't pray for31300:24:37.039 --> 00:24:42.400the wrath of God on that theopposition, because you know they, Um,31400:24:42.559 --> 00:24:48.880they're lost and it's awful, what'sgoing to happen to them? Have31500:24:49.039 --> 00:24:53.640mercy as God had mercy on us, and keep our focus back on Goddess,31600:24:53.720 --> 00:24:59.119on the throne and UM and nomatter what. And then he gets31700:24:59.160 --> 00:25:03.400into that beautiful passage we read atthe beginning. No matter what, all31800:25:03.440 --> 00:25:08.960those things fail, the fruit,every sustenance of an agrarian society, all31900:25:10.000 --> 00:25:15.440of that will fail. Doesn't matter. Our eyes are still trust on the32000:25:15.480 --> 00:25:21.160Lord and trusting that um that ultimatelyhe is good, and we we can32100:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.200put our faith in our hope andour trust in Him and him alone,32200:25:23.920 --> 00:25:29.079not in the fruit. Yeah,yeah, amen, Yeah. I think32300:25:29.079 --> 00:25:33.599it comes around to what we've saidoftentimes in this podcast and in our trainings32400:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.599is our fixation cannot be on thehorror of abortion. That doesn't mean that32500:25:37.640 --> 00:25:41.160we lose the gravity of that.We certainly need to be reminded, remind32600:25:41.240 --> 00:25:45.920ourselves of the gravity of what we'redealing with in the murder of innocent children32700:25:45.680 --> 00:25:49.640can and mass up to a milliona year, and certainly we have to32800:25:49.640 --> 00:25:55.319grapple with that. But it can'tbe our fixation. We can't constantly think32900:25:55.359 --> 00:25:59.000about it, because then we'll bemotivated by hatred for abortion, hatred for33000:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.920the abortion industry, hatred for proaborates, for abortion doctors, or or33100:26:03.960 --> 00:26:07.240whatever. We cannot be motivated byhatred for anyone or anything. We have33200:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.720to be motivated by a love forGod and a love for our neighbor.33300:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.799And our fixation needs to be noton the horror of abortion. But what33400:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.079we often say is the beauty ofJesus, awesomeness of who this Jesus is,33500:26:19.319 --> 00:26:25.079who came to this earth, thisfilthy, stinking, rebellious earth,33600:26:25.640 --> 00:26:29.799allowed himself to be crucified by theby the hands of men that he created,33700:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.039so that he could bring redemption.Right. And so we see ultimately33800:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.079in the horror of the Cross,we see redemption. Right. We see33900:26:37.079 --> 00:26:42.079God reconciling the world to himself throughthe death barrel and resurrection of Jesus.34000:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.359But it was only through the horrorof the cross that that would take place.34100:26:47.200 --> 00:26:51.160And in the same way, andthere's um and I think back,34200:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.559it sees that, of course wetalked about David. David sees that the34300:26:53.599 --> 00:26:59.880redemption of God in spite of men'ssin and rebellion against against the Lord,34400:27:00.400 --> 00:27:04.240God's willingness, God's mirth mercy.The Bible says, mercy triumphs over judgment.34500:27:04.599 --> 00:27:10.519God's willingness to give mercy in lieuof judgment. Now he's going to34600:27:10.640 --> 00:27:14.359ultimately bring judgment. We can takehope in that. As the righteous,34700:27:14.400 --> 00:27:18.000we certainly look for judgment and justiceto come. Right. Justice implies that34800:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.319there's gonna be judgment, right.Um, So we want to look for34900:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.599judgment to come because we want tosee justice. But before that we delight35000:27:26.640 --> 00:27:29.720in mercy. And so any bitof mercy. I mean, heck,35100:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.400we've seen pro abortion people. Wewe had, um, I don't know,35200:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.359it's been a year and a half, two years ago. I think35300:27:36.400 --> 00:27:40.400when we interviewed Kevin who used tobe one of the pro abortion escorts,35400:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.519Like, God can do that stuff. God can save these pro abortion people.35500:27:42.599 --> 00:27:47.640God can save abortion doctors. Wewere just at a conference in Washington35600:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.720State, right with Dr Anthony Levantina, and it's awesome what the Lord did35700:27:51.720 --> 00:27:56.000in his life to save him fromthat wicked practice. And so we can35800:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.799take joy in the fact that ourGod, though he's a God of justice,35900:27:57.880 --> 00:28:00.759is also a God of mercy.See, and it can help position36000:28:00.920 --> 00:28:06.480us properly before God again to befixated on the Lord rather than on the36100:28:06.519 --> 00:28:10.960rebellion against him. Right. Yeah, So, Lord, in your wrath,36200:28:11.240 --> 00:28:15.720remember mercy and so, um,I just want to encourage you guys.36300:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.440Hopefully this was encouraging. Some ofour podcasts are practical, some of36400:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.400them are like this where we're digginginto the heart issues and so we hope36500:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.519it's encouraging to you guys. Ifyou guys have um maybe something along these36600:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.519lines, Maybe you need encouragement insome area, or have some questions about36700:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.960sidewalk out reach, we'd certainly bemore than willing to answer those questions.36800:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.000You can reach out to me Danielat love life dot org, reach her36900:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.519Vicky with why at love life dotorg. We'd love to hear from you,37000:28:41.200 --> 00:28:47.759But until next time, God blessGod, bless you all. Give37100:28:47.839 --> 00:29:00.200me out love for love, giveme out for gratitude. I know it37200:29:00.279 --> 00:29:18.000will cost me my life. Nothing'stoo precious since I met you. M. M.