Habakkuk – The Injury of Injustice

Habakkuk – The Injury of Injustice

There’s a perception that the only place where injustice exists is in society at large, and we can easily forget that without care, it can creep into the church as well.  However, it is rarely a quick onset.  Unforeseen injustice is often a slow series of errors that reek of the hallmark from our enemy’s strategy. 

Observations:
Injustice among God’s people will occur when: 

  1. God’s reputation is abandoned 
  2. The leadership embrace cultural worship
  3. God’s Word is abandoned

Conclusions: 

  1. God is always watching, He KNOWS
  2. God allows for evil to punish evil
  3. God will discipline His people

Application: 

  1. Are you under the control of Jesus Christ? 
  2. Are you living your life as a resident or stranger?
  3. Is your confidence in the God who sees?

2 Timothy 4:1-3

“In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”

Proverbs 15:3

“The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good.”

Proverbs 3:11-12

“My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.”

1 Peter 1:17-21

“Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.”

Hebrews 11:13-16

“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”