God Loves Us More Than “Fairness”


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God Loves Us More Than “Fairness” RELENTLESS LOVE | Habakkuk | Ben Parkinson, Teaching Pastor All of Scripture is about mankind’s need for forgiveness and God’s willingness to provide it through Jesus Christ. Even the Minor Prophets! Through the Minor Prophets, we see that God’s love pursues the rebel heart by calling us to repentance, warning us of judgment, and offering us hope and restoration through faith in His coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. The message of Habakkuk: God loves us even more than He loves “fairness.” • Habakkuk’s complaint: How long will God let His own people walk in rebellion without correcting them? (Hab. 1:2-4) • God’s answer: Not much longer, and I’m so powerful, I’m going to use the Chaldeans to humble them and bring them back to Me. (Hab. 1:5-11) • Habakkuk’s response: That’s not fair! The Chaldeans are way less righteous of a people than we are. (Hab. 1:13) • God’s reality: No one is righteous, except those who accept my gift of righteousness by faith in my coming mercy! (Hab. 2:4) • God’s promise: Just because I use a wicked nation for my perfect purpose doesn’t mean I can’t then judge them for their wickedness. That’s how glorious I am! (Hab. 2:16-17) • Habakkuk’s worship: Even if our discipline from God is going to be more than I imagined, by someone way worse than I imagined, I will rejoice in His perfect plan to ultimately love and save us! (Hab. 3:17-19) What does Habakkuk mean to us today? • Do you believe that God is actually loving you when He uses someone “worse” than you to grow and mature you? • Do you believe that God doesn’t see humans in terms of “better” and “worse?” But in terms of “those I have shown mercy” and “those I am letting remain in rebellion?” • Praise God He doesn’t love “fairness” as much as we do! Worship Him because of His glorious mercy! Habakkuk Memory Verses: Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. HABAKKUK 3:17-9

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