LISTEN
This sermon was preached by Andy Brownlee at the Ladybarn site of Christ Church Manchester on Sunday 26th March 2017.
SERIES
This message was the first part of the ‘Faith In Hard Times’ series on Habakkuk, preached at Christ Church Manchester’s church in Ladybarn in Spring 2017. The full series included the following sermons:
- Why Doesn’t God Do Something? (by Andy Brownlee) – Habakkuk 1
- Living and Waiting by Faith (by James Everall) – Habakkuk 2:1-4
- How to Face Evil (by Andy Brownlee) – Habakkuk 2:2-20
- Facing Financial Hardship (by Andy Brownlee) – Habakkuk 3:17-19 and Deuteronomy 26:1-11
- Have Faith Anyway (by J Adams) – Habakkuk 3
BIBLE VERSES
This sermon was based on Habakkuk 3:17-19 and Deuteronomy 26:1-11.
Habakkuk Rejoices In the Lord
17 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, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. 19 God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.
Offering of Firstfruits and Tithes
1″When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, 2you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there. 3And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’ 4Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.
5″And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders. 9And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God. 11And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.
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