Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2009-11-18 ILC Chapel — Trust in God and live…

2009 Chapels -
Trust in God and live by faith in salvation through Jesus.

 

Date : 2009-11-18
Speaker : Professor John Pfeiffer

Habakkuk 1:4–6 (Listen)


  So the law is paralyzed,
    and justice never goes forth.
  For the wicked surround the righteous;
    so justice goes forth perverted.

The Lord‘s Answer


  “Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
  For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.
  For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
  who march through the breadth of the earth,
    to seize dwellings not their own.

(ESV)

Habakkuk 1:12 (Listen)

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint


12   Are you not from everlasting,
    O LORD my God, my Holy One?
    We shall not die.
  O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment,
    and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

(ESV)

Habakkuk 2:4 (Listen)


  “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
    but the righteous shall live by his faith.1

Footnotes

[1] 2:4 Or faithfulness

(ESV)

Hymn: TLH 381, st. 3: I Know my Faith is Founded

Hymnary.org Organ Audio

3. In faith, Lord, let me serve Thee;
Though persecution, grief and pain
Should seek to overwhelm me,
Let me a steadfast trust retain;
And then at my departure
Take Thou me home to Thee
And let me there inherit
All thou hast promised me.
In life and death, Lord, keep me
Until Thy heaven I gain,
Where I by Thy great mercy
The end of faith attain.