God Unleashed (Hab 3:8-15)

God is love. No question. Equally, God is just. No question. We hear about God's love today. Rarely do we hear (or want to hear?) about His justice. He must and He will respond to sin. Where there is sin there are sinners (those who habitually act contrary to God's prescribed standard and purpose; those who have rejected Jesus and His offer of forgiveness).

1. Look at the verbs: "cleave" (split), "march," "trample," "strike" (smash), "pierce," "tread on."
2. Look at the nouns: "anger," "wrath," "chastisement," "indignation" (avenging wrath).
3. Look at the result: God's wrath upon His enemies brings deliverance for His people.
4. Look at the hope: Jesus "smashed the head (Satan - Gen 3:15) of the house of evil" (Hab 3:13) "to lay him open from thigh to neck" (to deprive him of his weapons: sin, death and condemnation). Jesus used Satan's own weapons against him, conquering each one. Read Romans 5:12-21. You don't have to experience the wrath of God! (1 Thess 5:9).