He says He's marching through the land, He says that it's marched through the land in indignation, that it's threshed the heathen anger.
God's the God that is filled with anger.
Did you know that the Bible says God is angry with the wicked every day?
Today? Second, is it? 21st? 22nd? I don't know.
November 22nd? Did you know that God is angry right now?
On November 22nd, 2006, God's angry with the wicked right now.
Tomorrow, He's going to be mad. Mad yesterday. He's mad today.
God is a God that's filled. Why is He so filled with anger?
Well, if you realized what sin really is, you'd be angry too.
You see, God is filled with anger not just because He's just a hothead.
God is filled with anger today because He knows that the wicked that He's angry with every day are hurting other people.
That makes Him angry. Doesn't it make you angry to see someone hurt someone else?
It reminds me of when Moses saw two of the Jews striving.
He got so angry that he actually killed a man with his bare hands.
It wasn't right for him to do that.
But he was just so angry when he saw one man smiting another man, beating another man.
He had a slave and just whipping him to the ground.
He was so angry to see someone abused and hurt.
And God says, "I know all the abuse that goes on that you don't know about."
In a world where you only see the Budweiser ad, you think that's what beer is about.
The Marlboro man, you think that's what cigarettes is about.
You see all the pretty faces, all the beautiful facades, all the Brad Pitt and the Tom Cruise
in every grocery store, and you think, man, sin is so cool.
I just wish I could be Brad Pitt.
I wish I could be like Tom Cruise.
I just wish I could be like Britney Spears.
It's so great to be like them because you don't know how miserable and stupid they're like.
One day, we'll be their home.
You know, hopefully they get saved in the meantime.
Be a blessing.
But chances are, let's face it, chances are they're going down.
Hell, when they die.
I'm going to tell you something.
So deceptive.
It's so pretty on the outside.
Sin hurts people.
It hurts other people.
My sin doesn't hurt anybody.
Yes, your sin hurts other people.
Your sin hurts other people.
A dad who's a drunk, his whole family's going to suffer.
Smoke cigarettes?
Your whole family and friends are going to suffer when they have to watch you suffer.
When they watch you reap what you've sown, it's going to hurt them inside.
He sees all the pain.
He sees the real picture of what's in his life.
And he says, one day I'm going to put a stop to it.
And this is how I'm going to do it.
I'm going to describe it in Habakkuk chapter 3.
And I'm going to march through the land and indignation,
thrash the heathen.
The Bible says at the beginning of the book of Nahum,
the Lord is furious.
He's enraged because he says,
I hate because you don't understand how bad sin is.
You don't understand how much it's hurting you.
And you don't understand how much it's hurting other people.
Throughout the Bible, this great theme of other people being hurt by your sin.
Throughout the Bible, look at Achan.
This is reading to the kids.
It was night before last.
We read Joshua 5 through 7 right before bed.
We're reading, stole the money from God, sons and his daughters.
And they killed all of them.
Now look, did that sweet little daughter of Achan do anything wrong?
She did.
She suffered for Achan's sins.
Isn't that terrible?
Isn't that sad when you read about that?
Think about all throughout the Bible, you see a girl like Tamar.
Every time I read that story, it just makes me sick.
It makes me, I feel exactly like Absalom.
It makes me want to hate Amnon.
Because I see this young, sweet girl Tamar abused.
And at a whim, her home was ruined.
In the house of her brother Abba, God's angry with the wicked every day.
That's why God marches through the land and says,
"Why did God bring his judgment to so many people?"
Sin, and if you knew how bad it was,
if you understood the extent of how bad sin is, you wouldn't blame.
And that's part of what the book of Habakkuk is teaching us.
At the end of all, Habakkuk says, "You're right, God, bringing all this wrath on us."
But he says, "You're right, what we deserve."
Verse number 13, the Bible says, "Thou winnest forth the salvation of thy people,
for salvation with thine anointed."
See, of course, we see that God takes care of His people.
When He brings down His wrath to a city like Sodom and Gomorrah, well, He gets lawed out.
He knows how to keep His people safe.