When we consider the glory of the heavens, the universe, and the earth and the stars and that this majestic creation was only the work of God’s hands and fingers, we should be astounded by the glory of God manifested in creation. Not just the glory of God, but we should be humbled and astounded that the Lord would condescend to visit and bless and love and save bankrupt sinners like me and you.
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When we consider how the just are to live by faith, we need to examine the great cloud of witnesses from Heb. 11 to see examples that we can follow of how to live by faith. Many of the men and women in the hall of fame of faith were in situations where it did not make sense, they were perplexed, but they trusted God in faith anyway. We need to follow their example and trust God in faith regardless of how confusing things might look to our natural sight.
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From September to November 2025, Pastor David preached through the Book of Habakkuk. One of the major themes of the New Testament is how the just are to live by faith (Rom. 1:17). For us to properly understand how to live by faith and trust God even when it doesn’t make sense and even when the circumstances around us look bleak and dark, we must study the original setting of this verse in Habakkuk’s life, where he was called to live by faith in a culture that was wicked and going to get even worse. We must learn to trust God and live by faith, even when things don’t make sense to us and walk by faith, not by sight.
In Jer. 29, a few years after Habakkuk, there are still 57 years left of the Babylonian captivity. The encouragement to those in Babylon is to build houses, plant vineyards, marry your children, and to grow so that they would increase in Babylon. Many of those encouraged to be faithful in captivity would never see the return to Jerusalem, but they needed to remain faithful for the benefit of the next generation. We need to commit to teach the next generation so they will have a blessed kingdom to inherit when we are gone.
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Congregational Singing – Saturday Morning
Congregational Singing – Saturday Afternoon
The King of Glory Coming Down – Elder Tim McCool
A Tale of Two Kings – Elder Tim McCool
Sealed With the Holy Spirit of Promise – Elder Morgan Sims
The Unbelieving Wayside Child of God – Elder Buddy Abernathy
In the concluding chapter of Habakkuk, we see this man’s personal revival of faith. He goes from burden, complaining, perplexity, to prayer for revival, then ends up at faith, joy, and praising the Lord by singing. In like manner, we can have our faith revived and end up at joy despite what circumstances we are in when we trust God in the midst of trials.
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Elder Tim McCool contrasts the king of Sodom who makes of think of the devil and the world with Melchizedek, the king of Salem, the king of righteousness, who points us towards Jesus Christ. Which king do you want to serve? We should seek to serve Jesus Christ, the king of righteousness who loves his children and walks among them.
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Elder Buddy Abernathy considers two types of believers and two types of unbelievers, particularly the children of God who have been blinded by the devil lest they should believe the glorious gospel of Christ. Many children of God can get distracted by the temptations of Satan to not believe the true gospel as they ought to.
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Elder Tim McCool gives us the picture of the ascent of the ark back to Jerusalem from Psalm 24. That points us towards the true picture of the ark, which was Jesus Christ who was our mercy seat to bring forgiveness for the broken law. As we seek up today unto Mount Zion, we invite the King of Glory to come down and fellowship and commune with us.
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Elder Morgan Sims reminds us that what children of God need is the simple truths of the milk of the word of election, predestination, and God’s sovereignty in salvation. In addition, we are especially sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise when we believe in the gospel of our salvation.
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