Many live for things.

Genesis 13 - Lot chose the good land desptire the ungodly people that lived there.

Ecclesiastes 2:3-11 - Solomon decided that all the pleasures of earth were vanity.

II Timothy 4:10 - Demas was guilty of materialism.

II Peter 1:9

Many live for popularity.

Many live for riches.

I Timothy 6:9-10

Many live for physical self.

Some live for Christ.

Jonah: You can’t hide from God.

Psalms 139:1-12

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 - God is aware of everything that we do.

Matthew 12:36 - God hears every idle word.

Hebrews 4:13 - Everything is open and laid bare before God.

I John 1:9-2:2 - We must face what we’ve done and confess.

Stephen: Be willing to serve.

Acts 6:1-5 - Stephen chosen to serve.

Acts 7:51-58 - Stephen stoned for preaching the truth.

I Timothy 3:1 - Elders must desire the work.

II Corinthians 8:10-11

Abraham: Stand on God’s promises.

John 8:39-40

Hebrews 11:8-10

Romans 2:6-11 - God promises to render to each of us according to our deeds.

II Timothy 1:5 - Timothy’s faith came from the teaching of his mother and grandmother and from his own study. Like him, we must study to build our own faith.

II Timothy 1:6 - Timothy had a spiritual gift he had received from Paul.

I Timothy 4:14 - The gift was through the agency of Paul with the approval of the elders. Some point to these two verses as a contradiction in the Bible, but a study of the original wording clarifies the issue.

II Timothy 1:8 - We are to be joyful if we must suffer for the gospel.

II Timothy 1. This is not teaching that obedience is unnecessary as some claim. We must still be obedient, but we can’t be obedient enough to merit our own salvation. We must still rely on God’s grace.

I Peter 1:20 - Our salvation was planned before creation of the world.

II Timothy 1. Timothy was to hold fast to what he was taught and teach it to others.

The book of Habakkuk is unique in that the prophet takes his concerns about Juday to God. This is the only book of prophecy in which this is true.

God told Habakkuk that He would use the Chaldeans to punish Judah for their sin.

Habakkuk 2: God pronounces five woes on the Chaldeans

Habakkuk 2:6-8 - because of human bloodshed and violence to the land

Habakkuk 2:9-11 - because they got evil gain for their house

Habakkuk 2:12-14 - because they built a city with bloodshed

Habakkuk 2:15-17 - because they made their neighbors drunk

Habakkuk 2:18-19 - because of their idolatry

Psalms 11:4 - The Lord is in His holy temple.

Habakkuk 3: Habakkuk prays to God

Habakkuk pleads for mercy from God in His wrath.

II Timothy 1:16-17 - Paul offered a similar prayer on behalf of Onesiphorus

Habakkuk 3:18-19 - Habakkuk rejoices in the Lord, even though disaster was coming.

See Hebrews 13:6