Sermon Outline 7.26.2026

Text: Habakkuk 1:12 – 2:5
Title: Write, Wait, Live
“If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. … but the righteous shall live by his faith.” — Habakkuk 2:3–4

I.  The Argument from God’s Own ____________   (Habakkuk 1:12 – 17)

• Habakkuk stacks covenant names: everlasting, my Holy One, O ____________.
• His problem with God is built out of his ____________ of God.
• Babylon “sacrifices to his ____________” (1:16) — he worships the tool that caught his prosperity. Name yours.

 
II.  The Tower and the ____________   (Habakkuk 2:1 – 3)

• He files the complaint expecting to be corrected.
• Write it — ink outlasts ____________. Make it plain — legible at a ____________.
• “It will surely come” is a doubled verb: “____________, it will come.”
• God writes the “if it seems ____________” into His own promise.

 
III.  Three Words to ____________ On   (Habakkuk 2:4)

• The ____________ — by his ____________ — shall live.
• Exodus 17:12 — Moses’ ____________ held steady until sundown, because someone was holding them.
• Genesis 15:6 — Abram ____________ the LORD, and it was counted to him as ____________.
• Quoted three times: Romans 1:17 (____________), Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38.

 
IV.  Arrogance & Acquisition   (Habakkuk 2:4a – 5)

• The ____________-up soul is a churchgoing possibility — you can recite a catechism about faith and still trust in yourself.
• The opposite of living by faith is living by ____________ — grasping because the soul cannot trust.
• Habakkuk never ____________ Babylon fall. The promise outlives the prophet — and he is content that it should.

V.  The Coming One ____________   (Hebrews 10:37 – 39)

• Hebrews reads Habakkuk 2:3: “the coming ____________ will come” — the vision that surely comes is a ____________.
• He came once at the appointed time; He will ____________ again at the appointed time. You live between the two — on the tower.

Big Idea:  The righteous live by ____________ while ____________ on God.

This week for Family Worship:
1.  God told Habakkuk to write His promise down and read it while he waited. Why does a written promise help on days when we can’t feel it? (Habakkuk 2:2)
2.  Is a promise true before you can see it come true? Who makes it true? (Habakkuk 2:3)
3.  What are the three words God gave Habakkuk on the tower? Can you say them together? (Habakkuk 2:4)
4.  When Moses’ arms got tired, who held his hands steady? When your faith gets tired, who holds you? (Exodus 17:12)

Memory verse for the series: “But the righteous shall live by his faith.” — Habakkuk 2:4.