Habakkuk

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When evil prevails and God seems absent, what should His people do? Today, R.C. Sproul follows the anguish of the prophet Habakkuk to the Lord’s assuring reply: The righteous shall live by faith.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

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0:00.0	To live by faith means to live by trusting God.
0:07.0	And that means, dear friends, by trusting what God says.
0:17.0	The Apostle Paul says in Romans 117, as it is written, the righteous shall live by faith.
0:25.6	Well, translate it another way, the just shall live by faith.
0:30.0	I'm glad you're joining us today for renewing your mind.
0:33.3	I'm Nathan W. Bingham.
0:35.2	As it is written, Paul said.
0:37.2	And what he was saying was as it was written
0:40.3	in Habakkuk. And God used this text, Paul's quotation from Abakic, in significant ways in the
0:47.4	history of the church, especially during the Protestant Reformation. So what was God saying to
0:53.5	Hebacacac, and what had he said to God that led to this great Reformation. So what was God saying to Hebackek? And what had he said to God
0:56.0	that led to this great Reformation truth being recorded for God's people? Here's Dr. Sproll
1:02.5	to continue his series, Great Men to Live By. The life and message of the prophet Habakkuk.
1:12.6	Habakkuk's book is very short. It's considered one of the minor prophets because of the size of that book, which is only three short chapters.
1:22.6	And Habakkuk has often been considered in some degrees an abbreviated version of the prophet Isaiah.
1:33.8	Habakkuk speaks of the impending judgment that God is bringing to the southern kingdom, Judah,
1:41.1	and presumably he utters his oracle very shortly before the actual implementation of
1:48.7	that judgment comes to pass. Let's look at the first chapter of the book to get a little bit of
1:54.5	the flavor of Habakkuk. The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw, isn't that a strange combination of words?
2:06.9	An oracle is usually something that one speaks or one hears, but obviously the message that he
2:13.9	pronounces is one which he first of all gets through a vision from God.
2:18.6	And it begins with a complaint by the prophet,
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