Is God in control 5 Worship Habakkuk 3

Is God in control? 5. Worship! Habakkuk 3: 16 -19

From why to worship n Chapter 1: 1 -17 n Chapter 2: 1 -5 n Chapter 2: 6 -20 n Chapter 3: 1 -15 n Chapter 3: 16 -19 Why? Wait! Woe! Watch! Worship!

1. Respect for the Lord n ‘I heard and my heart pounded…’ Habakkuk 3: 16 n Similar responses in the Bible: – Job: ‘I will say no more’ – Isaiah: ‘Woe to me. . ’ – Peter: ‘Go away from me Lord – John: ‘I fell at his feet as though dead’

2. Rest in the Lord n ‘Yet I will wait patiently…’ 3: 16 n ‘Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. ’ 2: 3 n God’s ultimate purposes in Christ: Eph 1: 10

3. Rejoice in the Lord n ‘Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour’ v 18 n ‘Yet’ – Habakkuk 3: 16, 18 – ‘though he slay me, yet I will hope in him – We are hard-pressed but not crushed’ n Job: blessed be the name of the Lord

4. Rely on the Lord n ‘The Sovereign Lord is my strength’ n My grace is sufficient … ‘ 2 Cor 12: 9, 10 n ‘He enables me to go on the heights. ’ v 19 n ‘High places’: God is in control

Worship n Respect for the Lord n Rest in the Lord n Rejoice in the lord n Rely on the Lord

‘And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered…

‘No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ’