Greetings everyone and thanks for joining me for this edition of our Sunday School preview. This Sunday’s lesson is entitled “Consequences for Injustice” and is found in Habakkuk 2:6-14.
Last week we were introduced to the prophet Habakkuk who prophesied concerning God’s judgement against Judah and the Chaldeans used to carried out that judgement. In the text the prophet makes it clear that those who prosper by evil will have to answer for their evil even when their evil is used by God as an instrument in His divine will and plan.
Those who take by unrighteous means things from others are building up a debt they cannot pay back at the cost of their eternal souls. What goes around, comes around is another way of saying people will reap what they have sown.
Whatever is acquired by unrighteous means is like something covered in blood which cannot be hidden. It is a house of shame that cries out so everyone can see it as such. The comfort gained through such ill-gotten gain will not last.
All those who have profited so should beware because there shall be a day of reckoning. It is the Lord who shall hold all accountable for what they do. All of our works shall be tried in the fire of His judgement.
Unrighteous works will only be fuel for the fire of judgement. In the end, such works would have been all for nothing. Why, because they held no eternal or lasting value. The people on the earth will see the judgement of God which in turn will glorify His name.
The Chaldeans took what was not theirs. They destroyed that which others had built. They trampled over the rights and lives of other people. They behaved as if they did not have to answer to anyone for their actions.
They trusted in the things they fashioned and created to get and keep what they took. In many ways, people today are acting out the same mentality as the Chaldeans. They have put God out of their mind and doing whatever they want and taking whatever they can get their hands on. They have little or no regard for anyone besides themselves.
And just like the Chaldeans, all their effort is for nothing. Nothing they have belongs to them or will remain with them. They have expended all of this energy to no good end. For in the end, we all must answer to God for what we have done with His things and how we have treated and regarded others of our own kind.
The Chaldean empire didn’t last. The Persians came and did to them what they had done to others. God allows nations to rise and God allows nations to fall. God allows people to carry on and heap to themselves things they don’t own and can’t be paid for with money.
As believers, we must not never forget nor cease to live by the laws of the Lord because there is an eternal consequence for doing or not doing what we know to be lawful and right. Well, I hope you will attend SS this coming Sunday and share your thoughts with your class. If you have any comments or questions, be sure to place them in the comment section of this preview. So, until next time remember to fear God and keep His commandments.
Pastor Jordan
