WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.839 practical ways. Hey, everybody going to the Bible guys. There 4 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:17.000 you go. We're glad that you tuned in, and we 5 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:20.039 have something for everyone. 6 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:24.039 Today, something for everyone. So gather around, yes, gather. 7 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:28.519 Around and girls up. The title for today is Revival 8 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.519 in the Middle of a Mess. And who doesn't want 9 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:32.719 revival in the middle of a mess? 10 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.039 Yeah? I don't want messes, but hey, we're gonna have them. 11 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:35.880 Let's have a revival. 12 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:38.560 There's a mess everywhere somewhere always. 13 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:38.600 That's true. 14 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:40.640 You know they always say it's five o'clock somewhere. Yes, 15 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:42.359 there's a mess somewhere always. 16 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:47.759 Okay, Well, you know we are always scouring the internet 17 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.679 for the most reliable information we are and trying to 18 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:56.159 find the best news, the best special interest and you 19 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:57.399 know that we've articles. 20 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.679 We've done this a thousand times, and we just can't find. 21 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:02.920 One right right then, the Babylon b that's right. So 22 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:07.760 today what we have is a new archaeological and historical discovery. 23 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:09.599 It's amazing that we just feel like we needed to 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.599 bring to the people. So here it is from the 25 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:14.480 Babylon being. If you don't know, the Babylon b is 26 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:19.000 a parody site. It's my favorite parody site. Oh, by 27 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.480 the way, Yeah, everything's your favorite. Yeah, everything's my favorite. 28 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.680 So here's the title. Scholars now believe that the prodigal 29 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:28.159 son returned home after his father changed the Netflix password. 30 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.519 There is so if you remember, well, let's just read 31 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:35.159 the article JUDEA. New historical evidence may indicate that the 32 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:37.879 prodigal son returned home after his father changed the Netflix 33 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.200 password on him, according to scholars of the ancient world. Well, 34 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:44.040 most historians have typically agreed that the prodigal son returned 35 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:47.200 home because he ran out of money, newly discovered manuscripts 36 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.280 suggests that the prodigal son was actually forced to head 37 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.000 home after he realized that he could no longer access 38 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.519 his father's Netflix account. Quote. Contrary to all previous interpretations 39 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.719 of the parable, it really does seem like the prodigal 40 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.359 son was doing all right, eating swine food, at least 41 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:04.959 until he couldn't get into the family Netflix account anymore, 42 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:12.560 said doctor Isaas Joiner, an expert papparologist. Wow, Papyrus pthrus, Yeah, papyrisologists. 43 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.080 It was certainly difficult for him to keep going after 44 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.639 spending the entirety of his inheritance, but the kid didn't 45 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.039 truly begin to despair until he realized that he didn't 46 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.360 have to that he'd have to get his own Netflix account. 47 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.680 It was at that point that he realized the depths 48 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:28.800 to which he had sunk. According to the new texts, 49 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.560 the prodigal son returned home with his head hung in 50 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:33.960 shame at the prospect of confessing that he'd been mooching 51 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.840 off his father's Netflix for all the years away from home, 52 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.080 only to see his father running to him, bathrobe and microwave, 53 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:44.199 popcorn in hand, popped the finest buttered popcorn, and put 54 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.199 the nice blankets on the couch. For my son has 55 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.080 return The father reportedly cried out, Wow, for my son 56 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:51.919 who was lost has now returned. Slaughter the fat and 57 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:53.719 calf and turn on squid games. 58 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:54.599 Wow. 59 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:58.759 At publishing time, additional discovered manuscript's revealed that the elder 60 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:00.919 brother got angry at his brother's turn because he'd been 61 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.800 paying for the family subscription by himself all this time. 62 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:05.719 There it is, so, that's what it was. 63 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:06.599 Who knew? 64 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:07.520 Yeah, who knew? 65 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.120 Well, this is why this is why archaeology is so 66 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:11.840 important new discoveries. 67 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.599 Yes, And you know it's so great about this is 68 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:18.560 that it's it's sort of become a thing, right. All 69 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.400 the all the streaming services have sort of shut down 70 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:26.240 the the idea that you can use it from other homes. 71 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.400 So like, for instance, Disney, I've been sharing a Disney 72 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.919 account with my daughter in Florida for good gosh years, 73 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.240 years and years, and they just now were like putting 74 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:37.000 a kebash on them. 75 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.039 Yeah, and I'd like to do it anymore. Yeah, they 76 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:39.639 know where you're at. 77 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.039 Yeah, now they know where you're at. So they said, no, 78 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.039 it looks like you're sharing an account with somebody you 79 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.000 know that you don't live with, and blah blah blah blah. 80 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:48.280 So they're just not allowing it. And and so that's 81 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:49.080 pretty funny. 82 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:55.400 H there. It is so thank god for archaeologists and 83 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.319 researchers to discover the truths and really drive it home 84 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:00.560 and make it more limit past. 85 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:03.120 I like how they took the Prodigal Sun where he says, 86 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:05.199 put a ring on his finger and put a rob 87 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.280 put sandals on his feet, put a robe on his back. 88 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.840 They're like, no, no, no, get the butter and pop corn, 89 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.199 but make make sure you have the sprinkled cheese on it. 90 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.240 Yeah, that's right. And put nice warm blankets on the couch. 91 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.120 Yeah that's great. 92 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:20.319 Yeah. Do you like a blanket when you're watching a movie? 93 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:27.800 Uh? Most, mostly because my son and wife drive. The 94 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.959 temperature of our house. Our house normally is sixty eight 95 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.279 degrees and uh, and it's it's pretty cold. 96 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.199 Is that too cold for you? 97 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.480 No, it isn't. But sometimes, but for a good movie, 98 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:40.839 it'll be like sixty four sometimes, you know. Oh yeah, yeah, 99 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.160 and so and so Yeah, I like to put a 100 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.160 blanket on usually, so yeah, and I'd rather do that. 101 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:46.639 By the way. 102 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.079 Then, and you're you're a pajama's guy anyway, So you're 103 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:51.360 in your pajamas, snuggled up. Yeah, most of the time 104 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.519 with your blanket, watching your movie. And you got a 105 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:54.319 big TV too. 106 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:55.399 I do have a big day. Yeah. 107 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.240 Yeah. Well, you know, I bought the Jane's like a movie. 108 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.399 It's like a movie theater kind of have you. 109 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:00.879 Have you you know, you know I've seen it in person. 110 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.639 No, No, you just showed me pictures. Okay, yeah, his 111 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:04.959 TV is so big you had to show me three 112 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:06.079 pictures to get the whole TV. 113 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:09.720 No, no, I it turns out if you buy like 114 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.959 an LG or a High Sense or like a Visio, 115 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:16.399 you can buy incredibly giant TV's ye for pretty cheap. 116 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:18.360 And so my wife says, well, what if I think 117 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:21.040 craps out in five years? You know, like like you know, 118 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.240 you're spending you know, two thousand bucks or whatever it 119 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:26.040 is on this massive TV. Like what if it dies? 120 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.480 But it's so big. I'm like, I don't care. I'm like, 121 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:30.800 if it dies, it dies. 122 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:32.560 But it's like a movie theater. You got your own 123 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:35.399 movie theater. Yes, so then it's pop the popcorn, grab 124 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.279 the blanket. Yes, put on your fuzzy slippers and watch 125 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:39.720 a movie. 126 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:40.600 I don't haven't. 127 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:41.920 That's Chris's favorite Friday night. 128 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:43.759 I don't. I don't have fuzzy slippers, but I do 129 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:44.319 have slippers. 130 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:49.279 Yeah, okay, you have slippers. No, I hate slippers. Come on, 131 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.360 I hate them. People give them to me every year. 132 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.079 Somebody get new slippers, and I hate slippers. I don't 133 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:55.199 know what. 134 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:58.319 Wow. Yeah, yeah, I wear slippers around the house. I 135 00:05:58.360 --> 00:05:59.399 wear robes. I know. 136 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:01.920 I think where you talked about you're all about comfort. 137 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.360 I think I wear my robe every single day. 138 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.079 I don't even have a robe. 139 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.720 I wear a robe every single day. Okay, morning, all right, 140 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:11.000 I come downstairs in a robe. 141 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:13.759 So at a hotel, do you use the robe? 142 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:15.439 Strangely enough? 143 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.199 No, No, it's I was looking. Who uses that? Why 144 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.319 is it there? That's the thing that they don't have 145 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.120 an iron in here, but they put they give me 146 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:22.720 a robe. 147 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:25.399 I would say twenty percent of the time. Ten percent 148 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.439 of the time. Maybe I'll just be like, hey, I'm 149 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:29.600 gonna put on this robe, okay, and I'll and I'll 150 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:31.279 walk out in the balcony with my cup of coffee 151 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.279 or something, you know, with a robe or something. But like, uh, 152 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.519 why are you laughing? 153 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:40.279 It's just so funny, Okay anyways, yeah, yeah, Oh, I 154 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:41.360 mean that's awesome. 155 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:42.560 I like I like comfort. 156 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:46.839 Yes, you're right, I do so okay, No, no, no, 157 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:47.560 it's perfect. 158 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:48.120 I apology. 159 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:49.000 There's nothing wrong. 160 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:50.720 I apologize, Jeff, there is nothing. 161 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.480 You're just very intriguing to me. You're very interesting. You're 162 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.639 a different kind of animal, and I'm just very interested. 163 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:00.800 There's a lot of robe people out there. I'm not 164 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.079 dissing it. I'm just intrigued by it. Hey, listen, I 165 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.920 was barely housebroke when we got married. I now call 166 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.120 I now call all the robe people. I call them 167 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.600 right now to join forces with me and to respond 168 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.040 on YouTube or email us at info at the Bible 169 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.959 Guys dot com and say, hey, man, I wear a 170 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.920 robe and let me know i'd love to have because 171 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.720 we have what fifteen thousand unique listeners ish a month. Yeah, 172 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.759 so I would say, out of the fifteen thousand, I 173 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:33.399 want at least one hundred people to say I'm with you, man, I'm. 174 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.519 A robe big robe girl, a robe girl. Okay, yeah, yeah, 175 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.839 So I'm not making fun of it like I was saying. 176 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:41.360 So like all of my pets growing up were outdoor pets. 177 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:45.120 We didn't have indoor pets, right, and I was I 178 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:48.160 was barely housebroke when I got married. So all those 179 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.879 nice comfort creature comfort things, I just never developed the 180 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:52.480 habit for them. 181 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:53.839 Yeah, I gotcha, that's all. 182 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.720 So I'm very intrigued at learning how the other half live. 183 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.360 And you want to hear something hilarious. I never once 184 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:04.120 thought about this until literally just now. As kids, we 185 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:06.920 all had robes. So it was my mom and my 186 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.399 dad and all five kids, five boys, and I remember 187 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:14.639 like at one point in time having Scooby Doo robes. 188 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:17.279 I remember, you know, the under rugs and all that stuff. 189 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:19.839 Of course, but my mom had a robe and she 190 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.439 wore it every single day, and my dad had a rope. 191 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.800 Oh my goodness, we are a robe fan. 192 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.040 Yeah. Yeah, that's the saying that's how the other half lived. 193 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.920 Wow. Man, well we were super poor. Yeah, we just 194 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:31.800 had robes. 195 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:35.720 Richard nuts, we didn't have robes. Wow, that's pretty cool. 196 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:36.480 There you go. 197 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:37.960 I never once connected that. 198 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.879 See, there you go, people, This is how we dived 199 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:44.320 deep into the lives of the hosts on this show. 200 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:45.039 Yeah, that's right. 201 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.159 And now we're kind of covering some time because we're 202 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:48.519 only reading two verses today. 203 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.879 Yeah, there you go. How we're at the normal minutes 204 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:52.679 it goes about eight minutes. 205 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:55.679 Yes, so we are reading and everybody's favorite book of 206 00:08:55.720 --> 00:09:00.840 the Bible, right, Habacca. It's fun to say it's my 207 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:02.559 favorite book to say salsa. 208 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:04.279 Yeah, Sasa, I love saying sausage. 209 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:09.080 Habak Hubacca chapter three and these are in the Book 210 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.639 of Habak. These are my two favorite verses. No, I'm 211 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:16.000 not joking. Stop, they are my two favorite verses. Habakuk 212 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:19.200 is praying, and it says, I have heard all about you, Lord, 213 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.240 I am filled with awe by your amazing works in 214 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:25.360 this time of our deep need, help us again as 215 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.919 you did in years gone by, and in your anger, 216 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:29.360 remember your mercy. 217 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.960 Miss you missed the opening sentence in verse one. 218 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:37.879 This prayer was sung by the prophet habak Yes, that's 219 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:38.600 there now. 220 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:41.159 Well it's it's a prayer with some Yeah, that's that's 221 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.080 that's cool. It's a cool little tid. 222 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:45.600 Like the entire book of Psalms, these were all prayers. 223 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.279 Yeah, prayers that were song. Yeah, people used to sing 224 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:48.919 prayers all the time. 225 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.720 Well, if our people in churches would realize that when 226 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:55.639 we're worshiping, singing worship songs, we're just singing prayers. 227 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:56.320 Yeah, that's right. 228 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.399 Right, So we're reminding God what he's done in our 229 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.440 life and we celebrate that, or we're pleading with God 230 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.200 for his presence or his his care whatever, Father, bless me. 231 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.960 Indeed you're all that in need. 232 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:10.919 There you go. Oh wow, that's a callback. 233 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.919 Yeah yeah, expand my horizon what I see? 234 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:18.879 There you go? So this song was This prayer was 235 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.320 sung by the prophet habakk and Habakuk was a contemporary. 236 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.360 If you're trying to place him in the Bible, Isaiah 237 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:31.039 Daniel were in his his time slots right, And uh, 238 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.399 is that is that right? Let me let me find 239 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:33.679 it out. 240 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.279 Well, it's a it's a six hundred ish b c. Right, 241 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.120 And it's it's right around the time that Jerusalem was 242 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:43.879 where a Babylon was going to invade Judah, and and 243 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.279 and and the prediction was to destroy the temple in Jerusalem. 244 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:53.879 And Habacchik was probably a priest. Yeah, and uh indicates 245 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.759 certainly that he knew the scripture as well. He was 246 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:03.320 a competent theologian. He definitely had faith God, and so yeah, 247 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.200 he basically was a person who wrestled. In fact, the 248 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:11.480 word tobaccack, my little note says Habakik means literally to 249 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.679 embrace or to wrestle, and in this book it says 250 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:18.919 he did both. He wrestles with God concerning the problem 251 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:21.320 of how a holy God can use a wicked nation 252 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.200 like Babylon to chasen the people of Judah, and then 253 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:28.080 by faith he embraces God and clings to his promises. 254 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.919 Habaccik also wrestles with the spiritual decline of the nation 255 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.399 and why God wasn't doing something about it. Haebekk wanted 256 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.639 to see that people revived, but God wasn't answering his prayers, 257 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.120 at least not the way that he expected. 258 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:47.279 Right, So it wasn't Isaiah, It's Jeremiah and Daniel in Ezekiel. 259 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.559 It's kind of been that time slot. So Isaiah was 260 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:53.120 not a contemporary there. I just looked that up. So 261 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:57.039 to summarize what you just identified, it would have been 262 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:59.799 one and fifty years. Yeah. So he was frustrated with 263 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:04.799 the fact that he had seen northern Israel be defeated. 264 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.639 But Judah, now four kings in a row are living wicked, 265 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.759 just like the people in northern Israel were, and yet 266 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.879 God wasn't changing them, and they weren't coming to revival 267 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.519 and all these things. But then he's frustrated or confused. 268 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:23.840 Why would God let the apparent success of Babylon be 269 00:12:23.960 --> 00:12:26.480 the tool, right, And so he comes to the end 270 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:30.519 of the book and he's really kind of acknowledging, Hey, God, 271 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:36.600 I'm not God, you are right, and so you know 272 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:39.720 he's a conclusion by the wayeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, And 273 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:42.200 so he basically comes down to the conclusion that only 274 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.720 by faith can we ever have real answers to what 275 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:49.919 we're looking for. Right, And so he responds after God. 276 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.440 He brings his concerns directly to God. I love the 277 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:56.639 fact that God's not offended by questions. If you have 278 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.399 a bunch of questions, A lot of people feel like, oh, 279 00:12:58.440 --> 00:12:59.759 you know, I don't have much faith because I have 280 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:03.360 a lot of questions Habacca. God decided to put Habakkuk's 281 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.000 whole letter his whole book in the Bible, celebrating the 282 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:08.759 fact that Habaka had a lot of questions, kind of 283 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.519 challenging God, God, why are you doing this this way? 284 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:12.639 I don't understand why you're doing it this way? And 285 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:14.960 instead God just is patient with him. He keeps showing 286 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.519 him the way. And then we don't have to be 287 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.879 afraid to ask questions of God either. Right. So the 288 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.399 problem is not with God in his ways, but it's 289 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:26.120 with our limited understanding of him. And so then finally, 290 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.200 what you have happened in chapter three is Habaka settles down. 291 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.399 After all of his challenges to God, he settles down. 292 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.080 He goes, Okay, I get it the way you used 293 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.919 to do, would you do that now? Would would you 294 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.080 bring back the revival we used to have? Would you 295 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.639 go back and don't forget how you used to treat 296 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.960 us and how you used to bless us, and don't 297 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.720 don't do whatever it takes to get us back to 298 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.240 the point where we are are ready to hear from 299 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:54.639 you again, because I heard all about you, and I'm 300 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.720 filled with awe by what you used to do? And God, 301 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.080 would you do that in our landing again? Would you 302 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:04.200 bless us again? Would you? And so a big part 303 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.159 of building Habakic's faith was looking back at what God 304 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.679 did in the past, and then he began to desire 305 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.519 that God to do that again in his generation. 306 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:15.240 You know that I actually have felt like seasons that 307 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:19.200 there have been long seasons of my life where I 308 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:22.679 felt like Hubacic in this prayer right here, Like like 309 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.639 I remember back in the early two thousands when I 310 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.399 just had a you know, sort of a crisis of faith. 311 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:31.919 I guess you could say I was debating whether even 312 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.639 to stay in the ministry because I loved the ministry 313 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:36.840 portion of it. I just didn't like the leadership of 314 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:38.759 the churches that I was under at the time. Right 315 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.720 my experience underneath leadership just wasn't good at that point, 316 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.039 you know, you know, moral failure after moral failure, and 317 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.240 I just didn't appreciate that part of it. And I 318 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:51.320 thought to myself, I'm just going to go back into sales. 319 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.000 I'm just going to try my best to earn a 320 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.600 bunch of money, I guess. And anyway, it was just 321 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.200 a big crisis of faith. But there were there were 322 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:05.320 I mean, I would say years where I felt like 323 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:07.919 I was in a one sided relationship with God. In fact, 324 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.080 I prayed that out loud in my car dealership. I 325 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.360 actually said, God, I'm in a one side relationship. I said, 326 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:15.679 throw me a bone. Like, all I'm trying to do 327 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.039 is serve you. Could you at least throw me a bone? 328 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:20.480 And what I was really saying was sort of this, 329 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.000 which is, I remember when you used to bless me. 330 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:26.600 I wonder I remember what it like when when it 331 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.240 felt like I had favor right And I feel like 332 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.759 I know people right now who are are that way. 333 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:38.759 They just feel like they're in that season where they're like, hey, listen, 334 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.039 God is good. I have faith. But it seems like 335 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.440 there was a point in time where God was, you know, 336 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.720 showing up and it's been years and we just pray, 337 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:49.360 we pray, we pray, and it feels like he's, you know, 338 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:53.600 not blessing. But the reality is, I know now God 339 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:56.440 was with me every step of that way. Right. God 340 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.799 never left me, God never abandoned me. God never took 341 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.120 his favor off of me. You know, I went through 342 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:06.720 a hard time that I wouldn't wish on any of 343 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:10.440 my enemies. Right. But it seems like what he's praying though, 344 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:13.039 is he's saying, like, hey, bless me like he did before. 345 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:15.960 I don't know why you're not blessing me in these moments, 346 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.440 But that doesn't make God any less present. It doesn't 347 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:24.559 make God's promises any less reliable. Right, And sometimes we 348 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:28.080 don't understand those seasons of life, but God is with you. 349 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.399 So if you're in that season right now, just know this. 350 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:32.720 There will be a time where you'll look back and 351 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.080 understand that God was with you every single step of 352 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.399 the way, even though it may not feel like it. 353 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.240 And that's sort of the indication of a back. Yeah. 354 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.600 So he's praying on behalf of the whole nation here, 355 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:50.480 and he's remembering days when the people were following God 356 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:54.039 and honoring God and how good that time was, and 357 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.159 God was blessing them, and they were so prosperous, so 358 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:01.799 so great. But now all thephes coming through Habacco during 359 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:05.519 this time is that judgment is coming, right, and he 360 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.799 really humbly accepts. As you keep going through chapter three, 361 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:14.400 he accepts the fact that God, God's judgment is coming, 362 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.400 and he accepts the fact that, okay, in order to 363 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.920 get Judah's attention, God's going to have to discipline them, 364 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:27.240 discipline them. And so while Habakkuk was honoring God, the 365 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.000 rest of the people were not, and so Habaka kind 366 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.160 of surrenders to this idea. It's going to be rough 367 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:37.000 for a while. So God, remember your mercy even in 368 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.480 your judgment. Remember your mercy during this time. And Habakuk 369 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.440 is saying, God, if this judgment is what it takes 370 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.160 to get us back to where we used to be, 371 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:49.680 I'm good with that. Do it. That's what he's saying. 372 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:54.200 And there's a tremendous amount of surrender for people to say, God, 373 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.640 do in my nation whatever you need to do to 374 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:58.640 get us back to where we used to be when 375 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.279 we honored you, respect you, and you're able to pull 376 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.559 your blessing out on us, and so you know, he 377 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:05.440 talks about the sun and the moon stands still. You 378 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.680 marched across the land in anger and trample the nations 379 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.920 and your fury where it's pretty rough stuff. And then 380 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.240 he says, I trembled inside when I heard this on 381 00:18:12.279 --> 00:18:14.640 My lips quivered with fear. My legs gave way beneath me, 382 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:17.680 and I shook him terror. So he knew. And this 383 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.319 is you know, verse what sixteen He said, I will wait. 384 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:22.799 He mentions the sun stands still. 385 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.319 Yeah, yeah, that's pretty yeah. And then he says, I 386 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:28.000 will wait quietly for the coming day when disaster will 387 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:31.039 strike the people who invade us. Even though the fig 388 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.559 trees have no blossoms and there's no grapes on the vines, 389 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:36.359 even though the olive crop fails and the fields lie 390 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.759 empty and barren, even though the flocks die in the 391 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:41.599 fields and the cattle barns are empty. Yet I will 392 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:43.759 rejoice in the Lord, and I will be joyful in 393 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.839 the God of my salvation. The sovereign Lord is my strength, 394 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.319 and he makes me as surefooted as a deer, able 395 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.240 to tread upon the height. So he's saying, hey, God's 396 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.400 going to take care of me even though judgment's coming 397 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.480 on the nation, God's going to take care of me 398 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.160 and my only hope, my only trust is nam But 399 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.720 he's kind of saying, God, if that's what it takes 400 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:03.279 to get us back to the way we used to 401 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:06.240