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God’s Transformation of the Church – “The Hard Way” Habakkuk – Part 1 of 3
Pay attention to the word of the prophets II Pet 1:19
Habakkuk’s purpose: give understanding for the transformation
of God the Father’s wife (unfaithful Jerusalem of the earth) Ezk 16
because of the old Covenant (earthly)
Pay attention to the word of the prophets II Pet 1:19
Habakkuk’s purpose: give understanding for the transformation
Vision - 1998 Acts 2:17
3 angels released Terrorism Financial meltdown Pandemic for the transformation
of God the Father’s wife (unfaithful Jerusalem of the earth) Ezk 16
Of God the Son’s bride (unfaithful Jerusalem of above) Gal 4:26; Rev 18:4; 19:7; 21:2
because of the Old Covenant (written on stone; earthly)
Because of the New Covenant (written on minds and hearts; heavenlies)
3 Part Series from Habakkuk • Part 1 – the two complaints and God’s responses • Part 2 – the righteous will live by faith • Part 3 – joyful Hab 3:16-19
Habakkuk’s 1st Complaint • Hab 1: 2 How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
• He accuses God of being insensitive, unjust, and oppressive, because God does not bring justice in his timeframe.
God’s Response • Hab 1: 5 "Look at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. 6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling places not their own.”
God says he will bring justice – the Babylonians
Premise • Christians are trying to experience life through what destroys – idolatry and oppression – and in most cases we don’t even know it because we are deceived. • God intends to separate His Church from what destroys in order to bring her to Him alone that we might experience true life.
What do I mean by idolatry and oppression in Christians?
Two Greatest Commandments
Love the Lord your God with all your heart Love your neighbor as yourself and with all your soul and with all your mind
Opposite of the Two Greatest Commandments
Love something else with all your heart Love yourself at your neighbor’s loss and with all your soul and with all your mind
Definitions of Idolatry and Oppression
IDOLATRY Love something else with all your heart OPPRESSION Love yourself at your neighbor’s loss and with all your soul and with all your mind
Idolatry and Oppression always go together • Where there is idolatry, there is oppression to gain and protect what is loved. • Where there is oppression, there is no love of God. • Idolatry is folly, the greatest addiction of all.
Under the New Covenant greed is idolatry • Col ossians 3 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, whi ch is idol atry. 6 Because of these, the wrat h of G od is comi ng. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
Greed (idolatry) in the Church? • But has today’s Church, and I am mainly talking about the U.S. Church of conservative Christians, returned to greed? • The answer depends upon how one defines greed. Most (or all) conservative Christians define greed as related to those who have much more than they themselves do. They think of greed, as “how much one has”, rather than “how much one wants.” But greed is a desire, not a material good.
The delusion behind greed is discerning what “need” is. • The Spirit says (I Tim 6:6-10) “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many grief's.”
God’s view
Rich (The “American Dream”) Material Goods
Content with Food and Clothing Poverty
God’s view
Satan’s deception Rich
Rich Material Goods
Need
(The “American Dream”)
Content: Food and Clothing Poverty
Poverty
Greed is the Enemy of Generosity • Greed is the desire to have what God has not freely given you.
• Generosity is the desire to give what God has freely given you in order to make others spiritually wealthy.
• Greed wants to increase your standard of living.
• Generosity wants to reduce your standard of living.
• Greed is a win-lose world view.
• Generosity is a lose-win world view.
God’s method of comparing Ezk 16:44-59)
• God compares the righteousness of the three cities. Jerusalem was the worst. Samaria was half as bad as Jerusalem. Sodom was not as bad as Jerusalem. • How can this comparison be true? The reason, I believe, is that God requires more when he gives more. Thus Jerusalem’s enormous shortcoming made both Sodom (and its homosexuality) and Samaria (and its Baal worship) appear righteous. God did not overlook Sodom’s evil (fire from heaven) or Samaria’s evil (deported by Assyria.) But God reserved Babylon, the most evil nation (Ezk 7:24) of the world, for Jerusalem’s judgment.
What evidence is there that the USA Church of conservative Christians is greedy? The evidence is in the debt incurred to obtain more than food and clothing.
• Rom 13: 8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.
The controversy among Christians over Rom 13:8 is whether this means “no debt” or only debt that cannot be repaid. But even if one takes the latter view, the person who holds debt is assuming he or she knows what tomorrow will bring (i.e., tomorrow I will have the money to make the debt payment.) But Jas 4:13-16 makes it clear this “boasting” is evil.
• Jas 4: 13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Assumption or Presumption • Eccl 7: 13 Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? 14 When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future. • Eccl 9:11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. 12 Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
Habakkuk’s 2nd Complaint
• Hab 1 :12 O Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O Lord, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish. 13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
• He cannot fathom God’s solution. • Why would God use those more wicked to bring justice?
The three angels released by God from the throne • Manifesting in Terrorism Financial meltdown Pandemic • God will use what is wicked to separate His Church from what destroys, that we might be holy devoted to Him who gives true life.
God’s Response • Hab 2:2 Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. 4 "See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright-- but the righteous will live by his faith--
the righteous will live by his faith quoted in Rom 1:17 Gal 3:11 Heb 10:38
Next week - Part 2 • Part 1 – the two complaints and God’s responses • Part 2 – the righteous will live by faith • Part 3 – joyful Hab 3:16-19
Pay attention to the word of the prophets II Pet 1:19
Habakkuk’s purpose: give understanding for the transformation
of God the Father’s wife (unfaithful Jerusalem of the earth) Ezk 16
because of the old Covenant (earthly)
Pay attention to the word of the prophets II Pet 1:19
Habakkuk’s purpose: give understanding for the transformation
Vision - 1998 Acts 2:17
3 angels released Terrorism Financial meltdown Pandemic for the transformation
of God the Father’s wife (unfaithful Jerusalem of the earth) Ezk 16
Of God the Son’s bride (unfaithful Jerusalem of above) Gal 4:26; Rev 18:4; 19:7; 21:2
because of the Old Covenant (written on stone; earthly)
Because of the New Covenant (written on minds and hearts; heavenlies)
3 Part Series from Habakkuk • Part 1 – the two complaints and God’s responses • Part 2 – the righteous will live by faith • Part 3 – joyful Hab 3:16-19
Habakkuk’s 1st Complaint • Hab 1: 2 How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
• He accuses God of being insensitive, unjust, and oppressive, because God does not bring justice in his timeframe.
God’s Response • Hab 1: 5 "Look at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. 6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling places not their own.”
God says he will bring justice – the Babylonians
Premise • Christians are trying to experience life through what destroys – idolatry and oppression – and in most cases we don’t even know it because we are deceived. • God intends to separate His Church from what destroys in order to bring her to Him alone that we might experience true life.
What do I mean by idolatry and oppression in Christians?
Two Greatest Commandments
Love the Lord your God with all your heart Love your neighbor as yourself and with all your soul and with all your mind
Opposite of the Two Greatest Commandments
Love something else with all your heart Love yourself at your neighbor’s loss and with all your soul and with all your mind
Definitions of Idolatry and Oppression
IDOLATRY Love something else with all your heart OPPRESSION Love yourself at your neighbor’s loss and with all your soul and with all your mind
Idolatry and Oppression always go together • Where there is idolatry, there is oppression to gain and protect what is loved. • Where there is oppression, there is no love of God. • Idolatry is folly, the greatest addiction of all.
Under the New Covenant greed is idolatry • Col ossians 3 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, whi ch is idol atry. 6 Because of these, the wrat h of G od is comi ng. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.
Greed (idolatry) in the Church? • But has today’s Church, and I am mainly talking about the U.S. Church of conservative Christians, returned to greed? • The answer depends upon how one defines greed. Most (or all) conservative Christians define greed as related to those who have much more than they themselves do. They think of greed, as “how much one has”, rather than “how much one wants.” But greed is a desire, not a material good.
The delusion behind greed is discerning what “need” is. • The Spirit says (I Tim 6:6-10) “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many grief's.”
God’s view
Rich (The “American Dream”) Material Goods
Content with Food and Clothing Poverty
God’s view
Satan’s deception Rich
Rich Material Goods
Need
(The “American Dream”)
Content: Food and Clothing Poverty
Poverty
Greed is the Enemy of Generosity • Greed is the desire to have what God has not freely given you.
• Generosity is the desire to give what God has freely given you in order to make others spiritually wealthy.
• Greed wants to increase your standard of living.
• Generosity wants to reduce your standard of living.
• Greed is a win-lose world view.
• Generosity is a lose-win world view.
God’s method of comparing Ezk 16:44-59)
• God compares the righteousness of the three cities. Jerusalem was the worst. Samaria was half as bad as Jerusalem. Sodom was not as bad as Jerusalem. • How can this comparison be true? The reason, I believe, is that God requires more when he gives more. Thus Jerusalem’s enormous shortcoming made both Sodom (and its homosexuality) and Samaria (and its Baal worship) appear righteous. God did not overlook Sodom’s evil (fire from heaven) or Samaria’s evil (deported by Assyria.) But God reserved Babylon, the most evil nation (Ezk 7:24) of the world, for Jerusalem’s judgment.
What evidence is there that the USA Church of conservative Christians is greedy? The evidence is in the debt incurred to obtain more than food and clothing.
• Rom 13: 8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.
The controversy among Christians over Rom 13:8 is whether this means “no debt” or only debt that cannot be repaid. But even if one takes the latter view, the person who holds debt is assuming he or she knows what tomorrow will bring (i.e., tomorrow I will have the money to make the debt payment.) But Jas 4:13-16 makes it clear this “boasting” is evil.
• Jas 4: 13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Assumption or Presumption • Eccl 7: 13 Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? 14 When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, a man cannot discover anything about his future. • Eccl 9:11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. 12 Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
Habakkuk’s 2nd Complaint
• Hab 1 :12 O Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O Lord, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish. 13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
• He cannot fathom God’s solution. • Why would God use those more wicked to bring justice?
The three angels released by God from the throne • Manifesting in Terrorism Financial meltdown Pandemic • God will use what is wicked to separate His Church from what destroys, that we might be holy devoted to Him who gives true life.
God’s Response • Hab 2:2 Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. 3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. 4 "See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright-- but the righteous will live by his faith--
the righteous will live by his faith quoted in Rom 1:17 Gal 3:11 Heb 10:38
Next week - Part 2 • Part 1 – the two complaints and God’s responses • Part 2 – the righteous will live by faith • Part 3 – joyful Hab 3:16-19
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