Hill Country Bible Church Dripping Springs Sermons

Most Christians understand imputed righteousness (we are declared righteous by God through faith in Jesus) but we struggle to understand imparted righteousness (living a righteous life). We must understand that the same thing that saves us also keeps us.

Legalism leads to fear and fear leads to hypocrisy. Our hypocrisy condemns us but grace justifies us.

We must contend for the purity of the gospel and never compromise a single point. Anything we add or subtract from the gospel makes it no gospel at all.

In this passage the amazing, powerful, counter-intuitive grace of God is on display. Paul gives us a picture of God's transforming grace by relating his own story. Paul was transformed by his encounter with Jesus.

Paul writes to churches that are being tempted to trade the simplicity of the gospel for a false message of works. We need to learn how to recognize legalism in our lives and fight against it with the truth of the gospel.

How do you find joy in trials? Habakkuk has discovered the secret and leads us to the answer.

This week we looked at Habakkuk 3 where we are called to rely on God, remember who He is and rejoice in Him. In doing that we learn to look up to God instead of our circumstances.

If God is infinite, sovereign, all-powerful, all knowing and can do whatever He pleases, then what do we do with pain, suffering, loss and hurt? What do we do with those things since God is good and He is sovereign and those things exist? The Bible says we’ll have one of two reactions to that kind of thing.

What does it mean "to wait on the Lord"? How do we do that in the midst of struggles and suffering?

In moments of hardships and trials, we are going to have questions. Habakkuk show us that we can bring these questions and complaints to God. What we can’t do is come puffed up before God when his ways don’t make sense. We are not peers. We cannot take the position that God must do things in our understanding.