Sermon Audio: Making Sense of Today’s News (Part 1 of 2)
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Habakkuk 1:1-11
Duration: 24:18
Size: 11.1 MB
Making Sense of Today’s News (Part 1 of 2)
Habakkuk 1:1-11
The questions I want to ask today are these:
“How should we think about these events?”
“How do we make sense of today’s news?”
“And how does today’s news fit into the grand scheme of history?”
The message of Habakkuk is one of the most helpful portions of Scripture to help us make sense of today’s news.
I. God’s Ways Are Often Mysterious (1:2a,5-6)
A. God’s Inaction (1:2a)
God seems to be strangely silent and inactive in some circumstances.
We have cried out to God but nothing seems to happen.
B. God’s Unexpected Providences (1:5-6)
Sometimes God gives unexpected answers to our prayers.
We see a certain situation and circumstance and we think that God should act in a particular way.
C. God’s Unusual Instruments (1:6)
God sometimes uses strange instruments to correct his people and his Church.
We must understand that the plain teaching of Scripture is that God may use very strange instruments indeed, and sometimes the very last instrument we would have expected.
Return next week for Part 2.