The Creator-Warrior God Series

2. Ex 15:3, Isa 42:13, Zeph 3:17, Rom 8:31-35, Ps 68:19-21, Luk 12:32, Job 16:14

3. Illustration: Delivering Kaitlann from the crying in the crib to a place of rest, A little over a month before he died, the famous atheist Jean-Paul Sartre declared that he so strongly resisted feelings of despair that he would say to himself, “I know I shall die in hope.” Then in profound sadness, he would add, “But hope needs a foundation.” I always tell people that “as long as God is alive, there is hope for a marriage.”

4. This is the foundation of our hope—that we serve a God who is preparing our deliverance. Remember also that He is always right on time. And no circumstance is beyond his abilities. And it may not be the deliverance that we have prayed for, but it is the best. I was reading Tozer this week and He was talking about the inscrutable wisdom of God, and how that no other plan could be imagined that was better than God’s plan. Trust in His love, power, and purpose to deliver you. We must always remember the second possible outcome of believing that God is our Creator-Warrior, He may defeat your enemies, but He may defeat us! Remember that Habakkuk’s first complaint was all the sin that Judah was getting away with. Remember that all deliverance or delay of deliverance is designed for the glory of God, not for the ease of the believers.

C. The Power of God (v. 13b-15)

1. Habakkuk again looking to a situation of deliverance that is to come. Remember that the fall of Jerusalem has not even taken place yet. But it is almost like Habakkuk is there, seeing it in a vision. And he is talking about how God will crush the head of the enemy. He also speaks of how God would use all the weapons that the enemy had used to crush Him.

2. Est 7:10, Dan 6:24, Rom 11:33-36, Rev 6:10, 14:10,

3. Illustration: “Rather than being terrified at the strength of their enemies, God’s people ought to rest confidently in the assurance that the strength of the enemies’ power only displays their capacity to destroy themselves.”—Roberts, “God refuses to stand above the fray and idly watch human injustice run amok. God crosses time and space to enter into the sinful messiness of human existence to save those who are most victimized by the world’s ways.”—Brown, second half of the quote from Piper’s Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, p. 40-41

4. Jonathon Edwards once said that it was his purpose in preaching to raise the affections of his hearers to the highest possible realm in truth. He believed that it was not enough for God to be intellectually or even religiously known, but that what was known about God should be rejoice in and loved for God to actually gain the most glory from it. This is the message of Habakkuk in this text. Come, look, and see GOD! Trust in His power! Rejoice in Him! Expand your knowledge and love of Him! Don’t look at circumstances, but look at Him! Believe His promises, and live accordingly. Gotta stop because I am crossing into next week’s message.

A. Closing illustration: Psalm 97

B. Recap

C. Invitation to commitment