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Through the hills I

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set me free.

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Truth set me free.

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Oh. Truth

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6

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PM CST.

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Thank you for joining us tonight.

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Each night this week, we will be live

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streaming our revival service here at Mountain View

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Baptist Church.

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The message each night will be brought by

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brother Alan Carr, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist

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Church in Lenoir, North Carolina.

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Pastor Carr is also an instructor at West

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Lenoir School of Ministry,

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teaching homiletics,

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life of Christ, and manuscript evidence. We appreciate

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brother Carr for traveling to Sylvania, Alabama to

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bring us our revival messages this week. Here's

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brother Carr.

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Alright. Appreciate the singing tonight.

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Paul told the Colossians in Colossians 3 16

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to sing to one another in Psalms and

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hymns and spiritual songs.

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And you've heard all 3 this evening, Psalms,

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hymns and spiritual songs. Thank you. Appreciate the

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singing, appreciate the privilege to be back in

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the Lord's house.

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Appreciate you being here. Some of these preachers

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coming in. Thank you. It's good to see

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you men. Don't get to see you very

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often, a lot of miles between us, but

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it's also good to see you

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on occasions like this.

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But I'd rather any of you be preaching

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than me. How about that?

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How about that? You know what I mean?

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That's the truth. Hope you had a good

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day.

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Appreciate the Lord letting us come together as

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we are. I enjoyed the meeting last night

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and look forward to what the Lord has

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for us

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this evening.

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And I want to apologize

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for being, I'm kind of limited in my

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mobility. I worked in a well,

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a well house all day Saturday. I was

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talking to brother James back there about it.

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And I don't know why they build those

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so little.

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You stuff, you stuff a pump and a

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tank in there and there's not enough room

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for anybody to stand up much less work.

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And I had to work on one all

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day about 6 hours, I guess, Saturday, and,

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I am sore.

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I'm so sore it's hard to walk,

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but praise the Lord, that's a sign of

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my age, isn't it?

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Amen. Thank you, brother. I'm glad there's one

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honest believer in this house.

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Turn if you will to Isaiah chapter number

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Isaiah chapter number 6 and I'll be quite

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honest with you, I always approach this passage

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with a whole lot of trepidation

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and fear,

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to me this is one of the most

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in the word of God.

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It is comparable, in my mind, comparable to

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Philippians 2:5

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through 11, where the glories of the incarnate

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Christ are

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revealed.

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Because here we have the glories

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of God revealed.

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And we're going to talk about it, what

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it means for us.

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And we're going to talk about tonight what

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the church needs most.

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You probably have some idea of what you

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think the church needs.

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We need more people.

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That's what we need.

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Had a preacher call me today and he

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said our church needs more money.

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Don't we all? They're not making their budget

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and I'm gonna have to make some drastic

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and money's what we need.

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what we need.

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So let's read this, the first eight verses

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preach from and I'll try to cut out

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about half of it so get you out

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by midnight anyway.

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Isaiah 6,

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Isaiah writes, in the year that King Uzziah

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I saw the lord sitting upon a throne,

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high and lifted up

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and his train filled the temple.

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Above it stood the seraphims.

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Each one had 6 wings.

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With twain he covered his face and with

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twain he covered his feet

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and with twain he did fly.

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And one cried unto another and said

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holy holy holy

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is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth

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is full of his glory.

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The posts of the door moved at the

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voice of him that cried

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and the house was filled with smoke.

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Then said I, woe is me

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for I am undone because I am a

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man of unclean lips

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and I dwell in the midst of a

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people of unclean lips.

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For mine eyes have seen the king the

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lord of hosts.

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Then flew 1 of the seraphims unto me

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having the live coal in his hand,

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which he had taken with the tongs from

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off the altar.

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said lo, this hath touched thy lips and

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thine iniquity is taken away

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and thy sin purged.

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Also I heard the voice of the Lord

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saying whom shall I send

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and whom will go for us?

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Then said I, here am I,

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Send me.

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Now verse 1 mentions the death of King

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Uzziah.

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King Uzziah died in 7 40 BC

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and he was the 10th king of the

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southern kingdom of Judah.

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godly man.

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He was heavily heavily influenced by the prophet

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and unlike many of the other kings of

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his day, he never really fully departed from

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the worship of the true and living God.

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And under his influence, the southern kingdom

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achieved power, wealth, and success unlike

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any that experienced

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since the days of Solomon,

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but made proud of his success

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and by his blessings from the lord,

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Uzziah

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did something he should not have done.

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He made the fatal mistake of offering incense

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in the temple. You find that story in

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2nd Chronicles

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chapter number 26.

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That was a job that belonged solely to

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the priesthood

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and because of his arrogant regard for God's

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will and God's law,

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God struck Uzziah with leprosy

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and he was a leper until

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Just a quick reminder here, disobedience to the

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God to God is serious

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and it can in fact be fatal. It

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was in his case,

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but Isaiah apparently is disturbed by the death

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of king Uzziah,

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and king Uzziah had reigned for 52 years

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and his reign was marked by a time

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of prosperity

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and social and religious stability,

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and so his death ushered in a period

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of uncertainty,

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change, and doubt.

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writing these words perhaps

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is that Uzziah's death was to be a

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of a spiritual

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discovery,

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because up until this moment Isaiah, who he

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was heavily connected to court,

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he had his attention focused on king Uzziah,

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but now Uzziah is dead

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and Isaiah's attention is forced back to God

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in a very direct and powerful way.

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And what must have been a difficult time

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in the life of the prophet,

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it became a time of a great blessing,

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because the man who had Isaiah's attention

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is now dead.

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has a fresh

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encounter with God.

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And what happened to him needs to happen

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to

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every one of us. So let's face it.

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We all have distractions

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in our lives, don't we?

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There are times of doubt,

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confusion,

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fear, depression,

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and a host of other things.

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We all go through periods where our attention

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is on other people and other matters besides

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the Lord.

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Life is filled with many distractions.

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Some of those distractions can develop us or

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they can defeat us

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and what they accomplish in our life is

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always determined

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as to what or who has our attention.

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We're distracted by many many things.

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Ask yourself tonight,

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what has your attention?

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But not only can people be distracted by

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things in this world,

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even the church is not immune from being

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distracted.

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The church can be distracted by many many

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things

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and churches can lose their focus.

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They can go off mission.

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They can forget what worship is about.

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They can lose sight of what

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makes up preaching.

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They can get caught up in the latest

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church growth fads and they forget how to

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seriously and earnestly seek and worship almighty God.

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But the bottom line is that we as

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a church and we as individuals,

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we need a healthy spiritual focus

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on the heavenly.

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Our eyes need to be set higher than

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anything or anyone in this world

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and we need to do as Paul said

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in the late in Colossians 3 rather,

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and set our affections on things above and

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not on things below.

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And I think observing Isaiah during this pivotal

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time in his life, I think it reveals

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some truths you and I need to hear,

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these truths are what we really need more

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than anything.

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So let's talk about these truths and talk

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about what I believe, and it's just me

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now, what I believe the church

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needs most.

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And I want to say first this evening

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out of verses 1 through 4,

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one of the things the church needs most

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is we need to see

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what Isaiah saw.

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It's that simple.

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We just need to see what Isaiah saw.

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Now what did Isaiah see? Well he tells

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us in verse 1 that he saw God's

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He said in the in the year that

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King Uzziah died,

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I saw also the lord sitting upon a

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throne

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high and lifted up.

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Now one day Isaiah is worshiping in the

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temple

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and while he's there worshiping something takes place.

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Something which had never happened before

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or probably since in that temple.

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The earthly symbols of worship vanished and the

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glories

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of God in heaven became real.

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And perhaps

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perhaps for the first time in his life,

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Isaiah becomes aware of how lofty,

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transcendent,

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and glorious

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God is. We're gonna find out that Isaiah

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had a wrong view of God.

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And I feel like many here in the

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21st century

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definitely have a wrong view

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of God.

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Well during this time in his life

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Isaiah is calls to understand a very important

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truth.

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He understands that while the human king Uzziah

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might be dead,

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the lord God almighty

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still reigns.

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The king of Judah might be lying in

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a tomb,

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but the undying

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sovereign God of glory still

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holds court

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in heaven.

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And he saw God

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in his sovereign power.

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He saw him sitting upon a throne.

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He saw him high and lifted up.

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He saw the God who rules over his

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creation with absolute control and power. He saw

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almighty God.

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He saw the God who controls the movement

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of every speck of dust in our universe.

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And beloved, it's hard to panic when you

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know God's in control.

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It doesn't matter what you're looking at. If

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you understand that God has it, then why

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you need to worry about it? Why you

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need to fret about it? You can rest

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in the power and the presence and the

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will of the Lord God Almighty.

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Now you'll notice Isaiah as he talks about

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the Lord.

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He uses 2 different names for him.

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In verse 1 he calls him Lord,

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capital l, lowercase

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o r d.

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In verse 5 he calls him

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Lord with all

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capital letters. You say what's the difference? Well

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the first one translates the word

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Adonai,

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And Adonai

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refers to the sovereign one,

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or the one who is in complete control

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of everything.

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That word lord speaks of God's control.

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Then you have the word lord in verse

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5.

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And that translates the Hebrew word which we

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think is as high as pronounced, but it's

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Yahweh.

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And Yahweh is the covenant name of God.

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Yahweh is his proper name.

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In fact in Exodus 3 God told Moses

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this is my name forever.

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And if you wanna know God's personal name

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it is Yahweh.

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And it identifies

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him as the God who exists

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and who causes

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all existence.

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It speaks of him as personal.

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It identifies

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him as the uncalled cause

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of everything.

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He is the God who keeps covenant with

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his people.

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It talks about God's essential

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nature.

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He is a God who can be

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depended upon.

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So Isaiah saw something that was very

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unique.

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He saw the eternal all powerful

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sovereign God

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in his glory

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in heaven.

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Now Isaiah's upset

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by the death of Uzziah, a man he

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admired much,

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but when he saw the glory of almighty

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God,

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Isaiah was made aware that someone greater than

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Uzziah

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was still there

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and he was still in control

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of everything.

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I don't know about you, but we need

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that reminder from time to time.

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Sometimes it seems as though

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life is coming apart at the seams, doesn't

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it?

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And when that happens don't we need to

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be reminded that it is God not us

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who controls things?

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What may seem to be a tragedy to

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us may in fact be the greatest thing

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that ever happened to us.

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I'm often reminded of Job and I won't

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spend much time on it but he lost

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everything.

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But in the end, he got more than

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he ever had and he had a new

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understanding of God

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and who he was to the Lord.

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Amen. Unlike Carrie Underwood who tells us that

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Jesus should take the wheel,

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I wanna remind you that he's not gonna

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take the wheel

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because he's always been driving the car.

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You don't need to worry. God is in

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control.

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And when we become distracted by sin and

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by the world and by

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other people, we need to be reminded of

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who God is.

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I mean, when we find ourselves walking the

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wrong path in life,

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we need to be reminded of who

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God is.

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When we find ourselves

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growing cold

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spiritually,

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not enjoying church, our worship, our our devotional

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time, whatever.

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When our flame has become an ember,

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we need to be reminded of who God

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is.

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And when life gets bigger in our minds

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than God, we need to be reminded of

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who God is.

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And I will tell you just briefly that

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he is the only God.

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There is none beside him.

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He is the Lord God

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almighty.

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And God has never flagged nor failed

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in his power

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nor has he ever failed to accomplish his

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will and divine purpose

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and he never will.

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There are countless times though when you and

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I need to be reminded because God gets

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little

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in our minds.

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There are a lot of ways God can

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accomplish this.

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In Isaiah's case it was the death

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of a king he admired,

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but for us it might even be that

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we have to suffer a loss of some

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kind to sharpen our focus.

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God may choose some other path for us,

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but whatever it's gonna take God will do

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it

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if it's necessary

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for us to see him

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as he really is. Isaiah

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saw his position on the throne,

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high and lifted up.

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But we need to see that.

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Something else we need to see, I think

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you'll notice in verses 1, 2, and 3,

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he also saw God's personality.

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Now when he has this vision of God,

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he sees heaven engaged

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in the worship of the true king.

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The bible talks here about the seraphim.

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That word means the burning ones

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And the seraphim apparently are

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pure living flames of eternal praise.

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And they're flying about the throne of God

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proclaiming

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God's infinite holiness.

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And these angelic beings are sinless and yet

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they're humbled in the presence

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of almighty God. Could you imagine what that

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must have looked like?

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You've got this great awesome God

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exalted upon a throne and flying round about

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him

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are the angels of seraphim, the burning ones

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and they're calling out praises to God. Now

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how many are there? I don't know. But

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when John looked into heaven and he wrote

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about it in Revelation 5, he said there

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are 10,000

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times 10,000

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and thousands of thousands.

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Literally there are myriads and myriads and

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millions of angels in glory

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and every single one is engaged in the

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worship

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of God almighty.

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I just want to remind you

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heaven is a place reverberating

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with a continual

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loud prolonged

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perfect

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wonderful worship of God almighty.

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And what a blessing it'll be to enter

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that city someday

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and join our feeble voices with those

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of the seraphim. We can't begin to imagine

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that.

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But as these seraphim fly about verse number

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3 says they're

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crying

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one to another.

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And they say holy, holy, holy

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is the Lord God of hosts.

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The whole earth

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is full of his glory.

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When it says they say to one another

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that is referring to

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antiphonal

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praise. That is

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one will say it and another will take

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it up and another will take it up

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and another will take it up and another

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will take it up and another will take

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it up. So imagine

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millions of angelic voices

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one after the other crying holy,

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holy,

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holy.

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And they shout to one another

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about the holy,

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majestic,

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glorious holiness and splendor

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of our Lord.

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Now you'll notice they invoke the adjective holy

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three times.

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They say he is holy,

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holy,

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holy.

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The word holy means to be

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separate or

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sacred.

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And when they cry holy, holy, holy,

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they're not saying it's holy, plus holy, plus

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holy.

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They're crying God is holy,

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times holy,

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times holy.

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It's as if they're saying

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he's perfect

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times perfect

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times perfect.

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He's separate times separate

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times separate.

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He's glorious times glorious

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times glorious.

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He's pure

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times pure

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times pure.

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The only other place in the bible you

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find three adjectives

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strung together in this construction like this is

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in revelation 4:8,

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where you see another vision in heaven and

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even over there they're crying

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holy

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holy

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holy.

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It seems to me that even the angels

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of heaven

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00:22:31,454 --> 00:22:32,674
may lack the sufficient

571
00:22:33,054 --> 00:22:33,554
vocabulary

572
00:22:34,414 --> 00:22:35,875
to properly describe

573
00:22:37,054 --> 00:22:38,275
the God of glory.

574
00:22:38,815 --> 00:22:40,755
And our feeble efforts, how

575
00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:43,315
far do they fall short

576
00:22:43,615 --> 00:22:46,035
when we try to praise God?

577
00:22:46,859 --> 00:22:49,019
Oh Lord help us. We got a lot

578
00:22:49,019 --> 00:22:51,039
to learn about praising the Lord.

579
00:22:51,579 --> 00:22:53,660
Matter of fact, in our day and time

580
00:22:53,660 --> 00:22:55,339
we just got to learn to praise him

581
00:22:55,339 --> 00:22:55,839
again.

582
00:22:56,299 --> 00:22:57,980
Not a whole lot of that going on

583
00:22:57,980 --> 00:22:59,440
in our churches nowadays.

584
00:23:00,205 --> 00:23:02,445
Oh no. It's a rare day when you

585
00:23:02,445 --> 00:23:03,265
see somebody

586
00:23:03,725 --> 00:23:05,105
get beside themselves

587
00:23:05,644 --> 00:23:08,285
and just have a conniption fit and go

588
00:23:08,285 --> 00:23:11,644
wild praising Jesus. You don't see that much

589
00:23:11,644 --> 00:23:12,144
nowadays.

590
00:23:13,130 --> 00:23:15,549
You used to, but you don't much anymore.

591
00:23:16,730 --> 00:23:18,909
But why do the angels cry

592
00:23:19,450 --> 00:23:19,950
holy

593
00:23:20,569 --> 00:23:21,549
holy holy?

594
00:23:22,490 --> 00:23:25,149
You notice they don't say God is love

595
00:23:25,210 --> 00:23:26,190
love love,

596
00:23:26,954 --> 00:23:28,734
but God is love. Right?

597
00:23:29,755 --> 00:23:32,414
They don't say he's grace grace grace,

598
00:23:33,115 --> 00:23:34,734
but he's a God of grace.

599
00:23:35,674 --> 00:23:39,115
They don't say mercy mercy mercy or wrath

600
00:23:39,115 --> 00:23:42,259
wrath wrath, though God is all of those

601
00:23:42,259 --> 00:23:43,720
things and more besides.

602
00:23:45,059 --> 00:23:47,240
Apparently here God's holiness

603
00:23:48,099 --> 00:23:49,080
is emphasized

604
00:23:49,619 --> 00:23:50,359
as his

605
00:23:50,980 --> 00:23:51,480
primary

606
00:23:51,859 --> 00:23:52,359
quality.

607
00:23:53,299 --> 00:23:54,680
I'll come back to that.

608
00:23:55,544 --> 00:23:56,605
Even the seraphim,

609
00:23:57,625 --> 00:23:58,524
these sinless

610
00:23:59,384 --> 00:24:00,365
holy angels,

611
00:24:01,384 --> 00:24:01,884
they

612
00:24:02,505 --> 00:24:04,684
are careful to honor the holiness

613
00:24:05,625 --> 00:24:07,325
and the purity of God.

614
00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:09,679
The bible says they have

615
00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:10,880
6 wings.

616
00:24:11,819 --> 00:24:13,599
They use 2 of them to fly,

617
00:24:14,140 --> 00:24:16,319
and with 2 they cover their feet,

618
00:24:16,859 --> 00:24:19,119
and with 2 they cover their faces.

619
00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,440
Well why in the world

620
00:24:22,204 --> 00:24:23,904
do these holy beings

621
00:24:24,605 --> 00:24:26,865
in the holy presence of God

622
00:24:27,404 --> 00:24:29,025
in a holy space,

623
00:24:29,644 --> 00:24:31,984
why do they feel the need to cover

624
00:24:32,684 --> 00:24:33,585
their feet?

625
00:24:34,380 --> 00:24:36,799
I think they do it because anywhere

626
00:24:37,180 --> 00:24:38,320
they might light

627
00:24:38,779 --> 00:24:41,599
they're gonna be landing upon holy ground.

628
00:24:42,380 --> 00:24:45,279
Because anywhere God manifests himself

629
00:24:46,220 --> 00:24:48,240
the ground becomes holy.

630
00:24:49,045 --> 00:24:51,305
Remember Moses in Exodus 3?

631
00:24:51,924 --> 00:24:54,325
He's out there watching his father in law's

632
00:24:54,325 --> 00:24:55,384
sheep one day,

633
00:24:55,765 --> 00:24:58,184
and he passes by a bush

634
00:24:58,644 --> 00:24:59,865
that's on fire,

635
00:25:00,325 --> 00:25:02,025
but it's not burning up.

636
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,799
And the bible said he turned aside to

637
00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:07,279
see it. Well I would too. That's something

638
00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:10,580
to see. Right? He starts walking over there.

639
00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:12,900
And the Lord says Moses,

640
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,180
take your shoes off your feet

641
00:25:16,664 --> 00:25:19,244
for the ground whereupon you stand

642
00:25:20,105 --> 00:25:21,485
is holy graham.

643
00:25:22,025 --> 00:25:24,045
Now Moses might have said what?

644
00:25:24,505 --> 00:25:26,605
I've passed by here a 100 times.

645
00:25:26,985 --> 00:25:27,884
And this is

646
00:25:28,184 --> 00:25:30,690
just sand and dirt. It looks like it's

647
00:25:30,690 --> 00:25:33,589
always looked. It was holy that day

648
00:25:34,049 --> 00:25:36,630
because that's where God was.

649
00:25:37,170 --> 00:25:39,190
And because he was there,

650
00:25:39,650 --> 00:25:41,109
it made it holy

651
00:25:41,410 --> 00:25:42,470
and these angels

652
00:25:42,929 --> 00:25:44,549
have respect for that.

653
00:25:45,075 --> 00:25:47,174
But with 2 they cover their faces.

654
00:25:47,634 --> 00:25:48,934
Why do they do that?

655
00:25:49,794 --> 00:25:51,714
It would seem to me that even the

656
00:25:51,714 --> 00:25:52,615
holy seraphim

657
00:25:53,234 --> 00:25:55,974
cannot bear to look upon the full effulgence

658
00:25:56,355 --> 00:25:56,609
or

659
00:25:57,170 --> 00:25:58,869
brilliance of God's glory.

660
00:25:59,250 --> 00:26:02,630
They're sinless but even the angels are humbled

661
00:26:03,009 --> 00:26:04,950
in the presence of God.

662
00:26:05,410 --> 00:26:07,670
Isn't that something we're missing today?

663
00:26:08,609 --> 00:26:11,269
Bible talks about our day in Romans 1.

664
00:26:11,924 --> 00:26:13,605
It says, there are no fear of God

665
00:26:13,605 --> 00:26:14,825
before their eyes.

666
00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:18,005
That's where we are today. Nobody fears God

667
00:26:18,005 --> 00:26:18,505
anymore.

668
00:26:19,205 --> 00:26:21,125
Not in the church. Not out of the

669
00:26:21,125 --> 00:26:21,625
church.

670
00:26:21,924 --> 00:26:23,545
We've lost our fear

671
00:26:24,085 --> 00:26:25,945
and respect to the majesty

672
00:26:26,730 --> 00:26:28,349
and the glory and holiness

673
00:26:29,049 --> 00:26:30,269
of almighty God.

674
00:26:31,369 --> 00:26:33,390
Isaiah may have finally understood

675
00:26:34,170 --> 00:26:35,390
that while Uzziah

676
00:26:35,769 --> 00:26:37,390
might have been a good king,

677
00:26:38,170 --> 00:26:39,869
the Lord was a holy,

678
00:26:41,075 --> 00:26:42,375
infinite, perfect, and

679
00:26:43,634 --> 00:26:44,134
transcendent

680
00:26:44,434 --> 00:26:44,934
God.

681
00:26:45,714 --> 00:26:47,815
Isaiah may have come to understand

682
00:26:48,595 --> 00:26:50,615
that God and God alone

683
00:26:51,234 --> 00:26:52,295
deserve praise,

684
00:26:52,674 --> 00:26:53,974
honor, and glory.

685
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,900
We need to learn that lesson too.

686
00:26:57,599 --> 00:26:58,900
Now would to God

687
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,019
that we tonight could grasp God

688
00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:04,419
in all of his holiness,

689
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,539
his glory, his wonder,

690
00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:09,015
his majesty,

691
00:27:09,394 --> 00:27:10,615
and his power.

692
00:27:11,394 --> 00:27:12,375
If we could

693
00:27:12,914 --> 00:27:13,974
it would transform

694
00:27:14,434 --> 00:27:15,335
our worship

695
00:27:15,954 --> 00:27:18,934
and every part of our lives.

696
00:27:20,130 --> 00:27:22,529
The late RC Sproul once wrote, I don't

697
00:27:22,529 --> 00:27:24,450
agree with everything he said, but he said

698
00:27:24,450 --> 00:27:25,910
this and I agree.

699
00:27:27,089 --> 00:27:29,029
He said any effort

700
00:27:29,570 --> 00:27:31,190
to understand God

701
00:27:31,970 --> 00:27:33,990
apart from his holiness

702
00:27:35,394 --> 00:27:36,214
is idolatry.

703
00:27:37,474 --> 00:27:38,855
How true is that?

704
00:27:39,555 --> 00:27:41,714
If your God is only a God of

705
00:27:41,714 --> 00:27:42,214
love,

706
00:27:42,835 --> 00:27:44,454
you worship an idol.

707
00:27:45,075 --> 00:27:47,075
If your God is only a God of

708
00:27:47,075 --> 00:27:47,575
wrath,

709
00:27:48,035 --> 00:27:48,855
you worship

710
00:27:49,474 --> 00:27:50,295
an idol.

711
00:27:51,259 --> 00:27:54,000
Until you come to place where you understand

712
00:27:54,779 --> 00:27:56,240
that God is holy

713
00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:59,500
and every one of his attributes, his other

714
00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:00,000
attributes

715
00:28:00,539 --> 00:28:02,159
flow out of his holiness,

716
00:28:02,865 --> 00:28:04,325
you have no grasp

717
00:28:04,785 --> 00:28:06,244
of who God is

718
00:28:06,625 --> 00:28:09,105
nor do you have any ground upon which

719
00:28:09,105 --> 00:28:11,045
to give him true biblical

720
00:28:11,505 --> 00:28:12,005
worship.

721
00:28:13,904 --> 00:28:15,924
And our failure to grasp

722
00:28:16,509 --> 00:28:17,970
the holiness of God

723
00:28:18,670 --> 00:28:20,769
explains why we treat him

724
00:28:21,230 --> 00:28:22,049
and everything

725
00:28:22,429 --> 00:28:23,650
to do with him

726
00:28:24,029 --> 00:28:25,170
so lightly.

727
00:28:28,029 --> 00:28:30,130
It explains why we tolerate

728
00:28:30,589 --> 00:28:31,089
sin

729
00:28:31,785 --> 00:28:32,765
in our lives.

730
00:28:34,265 --> 00:28:37,085
It explains why we talk and act

731
00:28:37,705 --> 00:28:39,005
the way we do.

732
00:28:40,184 --> 00:28:42,205
It explains our shallowness,

733
00:28:43,785 --> 00:28:44,765
our pettiness,

734
00:28:46,319 --> 00:28:47,299
our selfishness,

735
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:49,859
our sinfulness,

736
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,579
and our immaturity.

737
00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:55,859
Because if we really understood

738
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,740
the wholeness of God

739
00:28:59,674 --> 00:29:01,994
we would take to heart what Peter said

740
00:29:01,994 --> 00:29:03,295
in 1st Peter 1:16.

741
00:29:03,994 --> 00:29:06,714
God said be ye holy, why? For I

742
00:29:06,714 --> 00:29:07,454
am holy.

743
00:29:08,474 --> 00:29:10,255
God wants us to emulate

744
00:29:10,954 --> 00:29:11,855
his wholeness

745
00:29:12,730 --> 00:29:13,950
as much as possible.

746
00:29:14,890 --> 00:29:17,149
Now we're heading somewhere. Stay with me.

747
00:29:18,569 --> 00:29:19,069
Understanding

748
00:29:19,529 --> 00:29:20,909
the holiness of God

749
00:29:21,769 --> 00:29:24,349
would radically alter our lives.

750
00:29:25,355 --> 00:29:27,934
We would never come into his presence

751
00:29:28,875 --> 00:29:29,375
irreverently.

752
00:29:30,555 --> 00:29:32,414
We would only approach him

753
00:29:32,715 --> 00:29:34,575
in an attitude of humility

754
00:29:35,275 --> 00:29:36,894
and sincere worship.

755
00:29:37,670 --> 00:29:40,390
We would only come before him with clean

756
00:29:40,390 --> 00:29:40,890
hands

757
00:29:41,589 --> 00:29:42,809
and holy hearts.

758
00:29:43,910 --> 00:29:44,809
Our God

759
00:29:45,109 --> 00:29:46,089
is holy.

760
00:29:47,109 --> 00:29:49,049
Don't you ever forget that.

761
00:29:49,775 --> 00:29:52,914
May God drill that into your soul tonight

762
00:29:53,454 --> 00:29:55,154
that the God we worship

763
00:29:56,095 --> 00:29:56,914
is holy.

764
00:29:58,255 --> 00:30:01,214
The angels close their praise in verse 5

765
00:30:01,214 --> 00:30:01,875
by saying

766
00:30:02,414 --> 00:30:03,474
the whole earth

767
00:30:04,230 --> 00:30:05,930
is full of his glory.

768
00:30:06,950 --> 00:30:08,970
God manifests his glory

769
00:30:09,430 --> 00:30:11,130
not just in the exalted

770
00:30:11,910 --> 00:30:13,529
worship center in heaven,

771
00:30:13,910 --> 00:30:16,089
but in all the earth around us.

772
00:30:17,384 --> 00:30:18,684
Everywhere you look,

773
00:30:19,305 --> 00:30:19,805
this

774
00:30:20,105 --> 00:30:20,924
all perfect,

775
00:30:21,785 --> 00:30:22,684
all powerful,

776
00:30:23,465 --> 00:30:24,765
all holy God

777
00:30:25,465 --> 00:30:27,644
who needs no one but himself,

778
00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:29,720
who is eternally

779
00:30:30,099 --> 00:30:30,599
satisfied

780
00:30:31,220 --> 00:30:33,240
in himself in the godhead,

781
00:30:33,940 --> 00:30:36,279
who needs nothing but himself.

782
00:30:37,140 --> 00:30:39,559
He chose to create this world.

783
00:30:40,420 --> 00:30:42,359
In our world every animal

784
00:30:42,984 --> 00:30:44,684
from the animals that walk

785
00:30:45,224 --> 00:30:47,144
the earth and those that swim in the

786
00:30:47,144 --> 00:30:49,404
sea to those that fly in the air

787
00:30:49,625 --> 00:30:51,964
and to those that burrow under the dirt,

788
00:30:52,105 --> 00:30:52,924
they exist

789
00:30:53,224 --> 00:30:54,764
for the glory of God.

790
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,779
Every tree

791
00:30:57,319 --> 00:30:58,460
and every plant

792
00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:00,700
growing around us exists

793
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,619
for the glory of God.

794
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,200
The sand that fills the desert and mark

795
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,819
the boundaries of the ocean

796
00:31:08,119 --> 00:31:11,164
exists for the glory of God. The briny

797
00:31:11,164 --> 00:31:13,484
salt water in the sea and the fresh

798
00:31:13,484 --> 00:31:16,444
salt water on land, it all exists to

799
00:31:16,444 --> 00:31:16,944
glorify

800
00:31:17,565 --> 00:31:18,065
God.

801
00:31:18,525 --> 00:31:21,345
Every valley and every mountain stands

802
00:31:21,804 --> 00:31:22,944
for his glory.

803
00:31:23,609 --> 00:31:26,589
And the stars that sprinkle the black velvet

804
00:31:26,890 --> 00:31:29,549
of the night sky like a trillion diamonds,

805
00:31:29,769 --> 00:31:33,210
they are there to glorify God. Every night

806
00:31:33,210 --> 00:31:33,710
God

807
00:31:34,009 --> 00:31:37,369
unrolls a canvas and he says look upon

808
00:31:37,369 --> 00:31:38,109
my glory.

809
00:31:38,674 --> 00:31:40,294
Look upon my greatness.

810
00:31:40,674 --> 00:31:42,694
Because the bible said the heavens

811
00:31:42,994 --> 00:31:44,294
declare the handiwork

812
00:31:44,674 --> 00:31:46,994
of God, the glory of God rather. And

813
00:31:46,994 --> 00:31:49,015
the firmament showeth his

814
00:31:49,394 --> 00:31:49,894
handiwork.

815
00:31:51,154 --> 00:31:53,414
And all the planets moving with precision

816
00:31:54,089 --> 00:31:56,910
throughout our solar system and billions of others,

817
00:31:57,289 --> 00:31:59,309
they all exist for his glory.

818
00:32:00,169 --> 00:32:02,410
Maybe we should just walk outside the night

819
00:32:02,410 --> 00:32:03,549
and examine it.

820
00:32:04,089 --> 00:32:05,869
If the clouds have gone away,

821
00:32:06,325 --> 00:32:08,244
we might look up and see the glory

822
00:32:08,244 --> 00:32:10,484
of God and we might just could have

823
00:32:10,484 --> 00:32:12,725
rapture practice out in the parking lot. Wouldn't

824
00:32:12,725 --> 00:32:13,625
that be a blessing?

825
00:32:14,164 --> 00:32:16,585
Just jump for joy and worship him.

826
00:32:17,445 --> 00:32:18,345
Even you,

827
00:32:19,205 --> 00:32:20,025
you exist

828
00:32:21,230 --> 00:32:22,369
for God's glory.

829
00:32:23,630 --> 00:32:24,369
The Westminster

830
00:32:24,670 --> 00:32:26,369
Shorter Catechism says,

831
00:32:26,910 --> 00:32:28,990
in answer the question what is the chief

832
00:32:28,990 --> 00:32:30,130
glory of man?

833
00:32:30,670 --> 00:32:33,250
The answer is man's chief end

834
00:32:33,710 --> 00:32:34,930
is to glorify

835
00:32:35,390 --> 00:32:35,890
God

836
00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:38,455
and to enjoy him forever.

837
00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,875
And even us, we humans who are here

838
00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:43,815
to glorify God, what do we do?

839
00:32:44,434 --> 00:32:47,495
We erect our monuments to ourselves, don't we?

840
00:32:48,195 --> 00:32:50,434
We build our kingdoms and we put up

841
00:32:50,434 --> 00:32:53,369
our buildings, when we erect our statues, and

842
00:32:53,369 --> 00:32:56,190
we honor our heroes, and all of that

843
00:32:56,410 --> 00:32:58,250
is an attempt to leave our mark on

844
00:32:58,250 --> 00:33:00,250
a world we know we will not be

845
00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:01,309
in very long.

846
00:33:01,849 --> 00:33:04,009
And we live our short lives trying to

847
00:33:04,009 --> 00:33:06,590
make a name for ourselves and we're blind

848
00:33:07,474 --> 00:33:09,494
to the glory of God that exists

849
00:33:10,674 --> 00:33:11,894
all around us.

850
00:33:12,914 --> 00:33:14,275
I'll tell you we ought to learn that

851
00:33:14,275 --> 00:33:15,654
we can see God everywhere

852
00:33:16,755 --> 00:33:18,295
and give God the glory

853
00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:19,575
he deserves.

854
00:33:21,170 --> 00:33:22,929
Talk about going to church and we say,

855
00:33:22,929 --> 00:33:25,089
boy I hope God shows up today. What

856
00:33:25,089 --> 00:33:25,990
you talking about?

857
00:33:26,529 --> 00:33:28,150
He's here before you got here.

858
00:33:28,609 --> 00:33:29,429
Show up?

859
00:33:29,809 --> 00:33:31,170
He don't have to show up, he'd been

860
00:33:31,170 --> 00:33:32,625
waiting for you to show up.

861
00:33:33,025 --> 00:33:34,545
He was he was with you before you

862
00:33:34,545 --> 00:33:36,785
got here. He was all around you while

863
00:33:36,785 --> 00:33:39,105
you made your way over here. The glory

864
00:33:39,105 --> 00:33:42,005
of God has been manifesting itself to you

865
00:33:42,065 --> 00:33:44,144
forever and ever as long as you've been

866
00:33:44,144 --> 00:33:45,045
in this world.

867
00:33:46,224 --> 00:33:48,240
But we just don't see it do we,

868
00:33:49,119 --> 00:33:50,179
Because we're blinded

869
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,339
by too many distractions.

870
00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:55,519
But notice in verse 4, he saw something

871
00:33:55,519 --> 00:33:57,039
else about God and I gotta get through

872
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:58,579
this because I got more to say.

873
00:33:59,519 --> 00:34:01,220
He saw God's presence.

874
00:34:02,134 --> 00:34:04,394
The bible says that when all this happened,

875
00:34:05,014 --> 00:34:06,954
he said the house was filled

876
00:34:07,734 --> 00:34:08,635
with smoke.

877
00:34:09,734 --> 00:34:12,714
Smoke in the bible sometimes is a symbol

878
00:34:13,255 --> 00:34:14,954
of the presence of God.

879
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,239
It even tells us up in verse 1

880
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,659
that his train or his robe

881
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,920
filled the temple. So the central figure in

882
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,059
this whole place

883
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,179
is God.

884
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,940
And when the seraphim

885
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,635
spoke the bible said the posts of the

886
00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:31,815
temple shook on their foundation.

887
00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:33,574
And again Isaiah

888
00:34:34,034 --> 00:34:35,974
is reminded of a clear

889
00:34:36,355 --> 00:34:37,414
powerful truth.

890
00:34:37,875 --> 00:34:38,375
Uzziah

891
00:34:38,835 --> 00:34:39,655
is gone,

892
00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:41,734
but God

893
00:34:42,539 --> 00:34:43,760
is still here.

894
00:34:45,019 --> 00:34:47,760
Our nation's gonna be in an uproar tomorrow.

895
00:34:51,660 --> 00:34:53,920
I don't care who wins or who loses.

896
00:34:55,420 --> 00:34:56,719
There's gonna be trouble.

897
00:34:58,394 --> 00:35:00,315
We're not gonna walk away from this one

898
00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:02,335
as easy as we have some others.

899
00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:05,594
But did you know it doesn't matter who

900
00:35:05,594 --> 00:35:07,054
goes in the white house?

901
00:35:07,835 --> 00:35:08,974
Did you know that?

902
00:35:09,835 --> 00:35:11,914
I read in Daniel 2 where God sets

903
00:35:11,914 --> 00:35:12,735
up kings.

904
00:35:13,869 --> 00:35:15,090
Whoever we get

905
00:35:15,789 --> 00:35:16,769
is who God

906
00:35:17,150 --> 00:35:19,250
wants us to have for this period,

907
00:35:20,190 --> 00:35:22,190
but my fear is we'll get who we

908
00:35:22,190 --> 00:35:22,690
deserve.

909
00:35:25,550 --> 00:35:27,329
Think about that one for a while.

910
00:35:30,594 --> 00:35:32,135
And whoever it is,

911
00:35:33,155 --> 00:35:35,494
God is gonna use them to accomplish

912
00:35:36,034 --> 00:35:37,014
his purpose.

913
00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:40,375
So when you stay out of church tonight

914
00:35:40,434 --> 00:35:42,934
to watch the election returns come in,

915
00:35:45,050 --> 00:35:46,110
Don't be disappointed

916
00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:47,309
when somebody

917
00:35:47,849 --> 00:35:49,469
you don't want gets it.

918
00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:52,650
But instead of being down and out about

919
00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:53,150
it,

920
00:35:53,690 --> 00:35:55,150
just look around you

921
00:35:55,849 --> 00:35:58,110
and see the glory of God

922
00:35:58,844 --> 00:36:00,385
and give God worship

923
00:36:00,925 --> 00:36:02,144
because it's gonna

924
00:36:02,684 --> 00:36:03,585
be okay.

925
00:36:04,445 --> 00:36:06,445
And whether we have a Trump or a

926
00:36:06,445 --> 00:36:08,385
Harris in the white house,

927
00:36:08,844 --> 00:36:11,485
God is still on the throne of the

928
00:36:11,485 --> 00:36:11,985
universe

929
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,019
and he and he alone

930
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:15,300
is calling

931
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:16,179
all

932
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:17,300
the shots.

933
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:19,860
We need to see

934
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:21,940
what Isaiah

935
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:22,900
saw.

936
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,860
I've never seen that. Have you

937
00:36:26,815 --> 00:36:28,414
caught a glimpse of it a time or

938
00:36:28,414 --> 00:36:28,914
2?

939
00:36:30,175 --> 00:36:31,535
See a little bit of the glory of

940
00:36:31,535 --> 00:36:32,035
God?

941
00:36:32,655 --> 00:36:34,094
I'll tell you briefly. I don't want to

942
00:36:34,094 --> 00:36:35,775
get too caught up, because it's already after

943
00:36:35,775 --> 00:36:36,594
7 o'clock

944
00:36:37,614 --> 00:36:39,135
and I got to be careful, because I

945
00:36:39,135 --> 00:36:40,355
preach a long time.

946
00:36:42,069 --> 00:36:43,510
Look at this girl who grew up in

947
00:36:43,510 --> 00:36:45,769
our church, she came as a, well

948
00:36:46,550 --> 00:36:47,750
I don't know how to put it other

949
00:36:47,750 --> 00:36:49,670
than to say her parents are just, they

950
00:36:49,670 --> 00:36:51,449
just trash all her life.

951
00:36:52,389 --> 00:36:55,589
Drugs and alcohol and prison just meanness all

952
00:36:55,589 --> 00:36:56,250
the time.

953
00:36:57,485 --> 00:36:59,644
And those kids went out of foster care,

954
00:36:59,644 --> 00:37:02,065
foster homes, and all kind of stuff, and

955
00:37:02,285 --> 00:37:04,605
they finally landed with us. They were living

956
00:37:04,605 --> 00:37:05,265
with their

957
00:37:05,644 --> 00:37:06,144
grandmother.

958
00:37:07,485 --> 00:37:08,465
She got them.

959
00:37:08,940 --> 00:37:11,099
Her dad's still in prison. Her mother's out.

960
00:37:11,099 --> 00:37:13,099
She's right with the Lord now. She's living

961
00:37:13,099 --> 00:37:14,239
for Jesus, and

962
00:37:14,619 --> 00:37:17,099
she's coming to our church, and God's helping

963
00:37:17,099 --> 00:37:17,599
her.

964
00:37:18,539 --> 00:37:20,159
But there's 3 of these kids

965
00:37:21,339 --> 00:37:23,760
and the middle one's a girl. She's 19

966
00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:24,480
now.

967
00:37:25,414 --> 00:37:27,994
I've been praying for her a long time.

968
00:37:29,414 --> 00:37:29,914
And

969
00:37:30,215 --> 00:37:32,215
she came to me one day crying about

970
00:37:32,215 --> 00:37:34,135
her situation, asked me what to do and

971
00:37:34,135 --> 00:37:36,215
I was talking to her about the lord

972
00:37:36,215 --> 00:37:38,280
and about salvation and she said

973
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,920
she didn't really understand so we spent some

974
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,780
time talking about it in the office

975
00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:44,519
and she said I need to know more.

976
00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:46,199
I said go home, read the gospel of

977
00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:48,059
John, then read the book of 1st John.

978
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,140
And I said do that.

979
00:37:50,534 --> 00:37:51,974
She came back to me about a week

980
00:37:51,974 --> 00:37:53,574
and a half later and she was smiling,

981
00:37:53,574 --> 00:37:55,114
the first time I ever seen her smile

982
00:37:55,414 --> 00:37:57,255
and the first time she ever approached me

983
00:37:57,255 --> 00:37:57,994
in public.

984
00:37:59,494 --> 00:38:01,335
She came up to me smiling, I said

985
00:38:01,335 --> 00:38:03,335
what's wrong with you? She said God saved

986
00:38:03,335 --> 00:38:03,835
me.

987
00:38:04,559 --> 00:38:05,539
Said well hallelujah.

988
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,579
A couple years ago and she's lived it.

989
00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:10,579
Here lately she's got

990
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,960
in, got she fell in love with a

991
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:13,460
boy.

992
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,820
And she's made some decisions

993
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,660
that are contrary

994
00:38:19,664 --> 00:38:21,525
to her profession of salvation.

995
00:38:22,864 --> 00:38:24,644
And she comes to church now,

996
00:38:25,344 --> 00:38:26,945
and I know this is in her life.

997
00:38:26,945 --> 00:38:28,385
She don't know that I know it, but

998
00:38:28,385 --> 00:38:29,204
I know it

999
00:38:29,585 --> 00:38:31,364
because family told me.

1000
00:38:31,905 --> 00:38:33,510
I ain't said nothing to her,

1001
00:38:33,989 --> 00:38:35,210
but I just preached.

1002
00:38:36,469 --> 00:38:38,489
Sunday morning, I saw her break.

1003
00:38:39,829 --> 00:38:41,369
She broke down in the pew,

1004
00:38:42,230 --> 00:38:44,010
wept her way up to the altar,

1005
00:38:44,630 --> 00:38:46,409
and made things right with God.

1006
00:38:48,425 --> 00:38:50,204
And I said that to say this,

1007
00:38:51,144 --> 00:38:53,724
I saw God's glory when he saved her.

1008
00:38:54,824 --> 00:38:56,844
And I saw it again on Sunday

1009
00:38:57,784 --> 00:38:59,784
when he helped her make the changes she

1010
00:38:59,784 --> 00:39:00,684
needed to make.

1011
00:39:01,144 --> 00:39:03,085
Have there been times in your life

1012
00:39:03,590 --> 00:39:05,449
when you've seen the glory of God?

1013
00:39:06,230 --> 00:39:07,690
Maybe in a church service,

1014
00:39:08,550 --> 00:39:10,250
maybe in your devotional time,

1015
00:39:10,869 --> 00:39:13,190
maybe like I talked about last night just

1016
00:39:13,190 --> 00:39:15,670
driving in the car and God got in.

1017
00:39:15,670 --> 00:39:16,730
Isn't that a blessing?

1018
00:39:17,675 --> 00:39:19,994
When God lets you see a little bit

1019
00:39:19,994 --> 00:39:22,474
of his glory and he makes it real

1020
00:39:22,474 --> 00:39:23,135
to you.

1021
00:39:23,514 --> 00:39:25,855
And every one of those times is transformative.

1022
00:39:26,954 --> 00:39:29,034
Thank God for the times he's fanned the

1023
00:39:29,034 --> 00:39:31,434
flames of in my life of love and

1024
00:39:31,434 --> 00:39:31,934
worship.

1025
00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:34,599
Thank God when he's letting me have a

1026
00:39:34,599 --> 00:39:36,599
little glimpse and I pray God would do

1027
00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:37,579
that among us,

1028
00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:41,260
because if we did we'd have genuine revival.

1029
00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:44,940
We know more about him than we

1030
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:46,300
do now.

1031
00:39:46,755 --> 00:39:49,074
We would do more for him than we

1032
00:39:49,074 --> 00:39:49,815
do now

1033
00:39:50,514 --> 00:39:52,694
and we'd be better in both our worship

1034
00:39:52,755 --> 00:39:54,534
and in our Christian walk,

1035
00:39:55,074 --> 00:39:57,494
because the church needs to see what Isaiah

1036
00:39:57,635 --> 00:39:58,135
saw.

1037
00:39:58,914 --> 00:40:00,914
But now look down in verses 5 through

1038
00:40:00,914 --> 00:40:01,414
7.

1039
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:04,570
I want to say something else we need

1040
00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:06,909
is we need to sense what Isaiah sensed.

1041
00:40:07,610 --> 00:40:09,550
This is interesting. Look at verse 5.

1042
00:40:09,849 --> 00:40:11,710
He sensed his spiritual condition.

1043
00:40:12,010 --> 00:40:14,650
Now Isaiah sees all this and he's not

1044
00:40:14,650 --> 00:40:15,390
a Baptist.

1045
00:40:16,505 --> 00:40:19,065
Oh no, he's not a fundamental Baptist. I'll

1046
00:40:19,065 --> 00:40:19,885
tell you why.

1047
00:40:20,184 --> 00:40:22,744
If he had been a fundamental Baptist he'd

1048
00:40:22,744 --> 00:40:24,824
have been shouting and running laps around the

1049
00:40:24,824 --> 00:40:26,844
temple giving God praise.

1050
00:40:27,785 --> 00:40:29,324
But that ain't what he did.

1051
00:40:30,425 --> 00:40:31,405
What'd he do?

1052
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:32,819
He said,

1053
00:40:35,119 --> 00:40:35,859
then then

1054
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:37,780
said I,

1055
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:39,940
woe

1056
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,179
is me.

1057
00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:44,260
Fry them undone

1058
00:40:45,344 --> 00:40:47,684
because I'm a man of unclean lips

1059
00:40:48,144 --> 00:40:50,244
and dwell in the midst of a people

1060
00:40:50,545 --> 00:40:53,505
of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen

1061
00:40:53,505 --> 00:40:55,045
the king the lord

1062
00:40:55,344 --> 00:40:56,085
of hosts.

1063
00:40:57,309 --> 00:40:59,949
You see it's a strange thing, but if

1064
00:40:59,949 --> 00:41:02,929
you ever see God as he is

1065
00:41:04,109 --> 00:41:06,849
in that same moment you don't see you

1066
00:41:07,230 --> 00:41:08,369
as you are.

1067
00:41:09,234 --> 00:41:11,494
And seeing him as he is

1068
00:41:12,034 --> 00:41:12,695
is wonderful,

1069
00:41:13,554 --> 00:41:15,574
but seeing you as you are

1070
00:41:15,954 --> 00:41:17,094
ain't so wonderful.

1071
00:41:17,954 --> 00:41:21,394
Now Isaiah realized there was a problem in

1072
00:41:21,394 --> 00:41:22,214
his heart.

1073
00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:24,599
He said basically

1074
00:41:25,300 --> 00:41:26,840
I have a dirty mouth.

1075
00:41:27,460 --> 00:41:28,519
He's a prophet.

1076
00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:30,679
He makes his living

1077
00:41:31,219 --> 00:41:32,679
using his mouth.

1078
00:41:34,179 --> 00:41:36,519
I've got a dirty mouth and I live

1079
00:41:36,905 --> 00:41:40,364
amidst the people who have dirty mouths too.

1080
00:41:40,824 --> 00:41:42,664
He said, oh we've been talking about God,

1081
00:41:42,664 --> 00:41:44,425
but we haven't said the right things about

1082
00:41:44,425 --> 00:41:46,505
him. We've talked about him, but we don't

1083
00:41:46,505 --> 00:41:49,144
even know him. We describe him, but we've

1084
00:41:49,144 --> 00:41:51,885
never seen him, and now I do.

1085
00:41:52,989 --> 00:41:54,050
I see him

1086
00:41:54,590 --> 00:41:56,289
and I see how dirty

1087
00:41:57,150 --> 00:41:57,650
I

1088
00:41:58,030 --> 00:41:58,530
am.

1089
00:41:59,789 --> 00:42:02,030
If we ever find ourselves in the presence

1090
00:42:02,030 --> 00:42:02,690
of God

1091
00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:05,809
the same thing will happen to us.

1092
00:42:06,734 --> 00:42:09,214
Drawing close to God and seeing him as

1093
00:42:09,214 --> 00:42:12,914
he is reveals the wickedness in our lives.

1094
00:42:13,775 --> 00:42:15,295
Don't you know he thought he was doing

1095
00:42:15,295 --> 00:42:16,734
good when he went to the temple that

1096
00:42:16,734 --> 00:42:17,234
day?

1097
00:42:17,534 --> 00:42:19,694
He's gonna go pray for the nation because

1098
00:42:19,694 --> 00:42:21,154
the great king was dead.

1099
00:42:21,559 --> 00:42:23,320
He gets there and he has a personal

1100
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:24,539
encounter with God,

1101
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,500
and now he's suddenly aware of how wretched

1102
00:42:27,559 --> 00:42:28,300
he is.

1103
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,480
He says, woe in me, woe is me

1104
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:32,380
for I

1105
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,219
am undone.

1106
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:35,980
That word undone,

1107
00:42:36,994 --> 00:42:38,855
it means to devastate,

1108
00:42:39,954 --> 00:42:41,494
to annihilate, to

1109
00:42:43,074 --> 00:42:43,574
disintegrate.

1110
00:42:44,755 --> 00:42:47,175
He saw God and it devastated

1111
00:42:47,474 --> 00:42:47,974
him.

1112
00:42:48,355 --> 00:42:51,170
He saw God and it felt as though

1113
00:42:51,230 --> 00:42:52,530
he would be disintegrated

1114
00:42:52,989 --> 00:42:53,809
or annihilated

1115
00:42:54,510 --> 00:42:56,289
in the presence of God.

1116
00:42:56,989 --> 00:42:57,969
Then he pronounced

1117
00:42:58,349 --> 00:43:00,530
a a prophetic woe upon himself.

1118
00:43:00,989 --> 00:43:02,210
He cursed himself.

1119
00:43:02,565 --> 00:43:05,605
He said I'm a cursing man because I

1120
00:43:05,605 --> 00:43:06,264
am so

1121
00:43:06,565 --> 00:43:07,065
wicked.

1122
00:43:08,005 --> 00:43:10,025
Same thing happened to Job, you know.

1123
00:43:10,885 --> 00:43:13,284
Back in his book, I mean listen, he's

1124
00:43:13,284 --> 00:43:15,764
he's begging God to come, just come and

1125
00:43:15,764 --> 00:43:18,460
talk to me. Just come and tell me

1126
00:43:18,460 --> 00:43:20,619
what you're doing. And God shows up in

1127
00:43:20,619 --> 00:43:21,360
chapter 38.

1128
00:43:22,460 --> 00:43:24,860
And for the next 4 chapters, Job receives

1129
00:43:24,860 --> 00:43:26,079
the worst tongue lashing

1130
00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:29,660
anybody ever received in the bible. And at

1131
00:43:29,660 --> 00:43:32,015
the end of it, Job said this. He

1132
00:43:32,015 --> 00:43:33,635
said I abhor myself

1133
00:43:34,094 --> 00:43:34,835
and repent

1134
00:43:35,295 --> 00:43:37,535
in dust and ashes. And why did he

1135
00:43:37,535 --> 00:43:39,315
say that? He said because

1136
00:43:39,695 --> 00:43:42,914
I have seen God and I realize how

1137
00:43:42,974 --> 00:43:46,420
wicked and ungodly I am. Who am I

1138
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:47,480
to question Him?

1139
00:43:48,260 --> 00:43:50,199
Who am I to serve Him?

1140
00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:51,960
Happened to Abakkuk.

1141
00:43:52,340 --> 00:43:54,420
The prophet Abakkuk was demanding God, he said,

1142
00:43:54,420 --> 00:43:56,260
now God you get down here and you

1143
00:43:56,260 --> 00:43:58,454
tell me what you're about to do. I

1144
00:43:58,454 --> 00:44:00,855
demand that you show up. He said, I'm

1145
00:44:00,855 --> 00:44:02,454
going to stand on my watch. I don't

1146
00:44:02,454 --> 00:44:04,135
mean he's a short guy, it just means

1147
00:44:04,135 --> 00:44:05,815
he's going to wait till God does so.

1148
00:44:05,815 --> 00:44:07,655
I ain't leaving till you come talk to

1149
00:44:07,655 --> 00:44:10,315
me. And when God did, what did Habakkuk

1150
00:44:10,454 --> 00:44:13,619
say? He said, My belly trembled, my lips

1151
00:44:13,940 --> 00:44:17,220
quivered and the voice ruggedness entered into my

1152
00:44:17,220 --> 00:44:19,880
bones and I trembled in myself.

1153
00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,720
You realize how wretched he was.

1154
00:44:24,579 --> 00:44:27,545
When Jesus walked across the water and got

1155
00:44:27,545 --> 00:44:29,864
in the boat with the disciples, the bible

1156
00:44:29,864 --> 00:44:31,005
said they feared

1157
00:44:31,385 --> 00:44:31,885
exceedingly.

1158
00:44:34,105 --> 00:44:37,224
Simon Peter's fishing one day at the lord's

1159
00:44:37,224 --> 00:44:40,105
command and they ain't catching nothing. And the

1160
00:44:40,105 --> 00:44:42,025
lord told him to cast in a certain

1161
00:44:42,025 --> 00:44:44,719
place and they called so many in about

1162
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:48,000
some 2 boats. And Peter fell on his

1163
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,900
knees in that boat and he said, depart

1164
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:51,699
from me

1165
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:54,260
for I am a sinful man.

1166
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,619
By the way, depart's a command. He commanded

1167
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:58,260
God,

1168
00:44:58,605 --> 00:45:00,144
get out of my boat,

1169
00:45:00,445 --> 00:45:02,065
get out of my side,

1170
00:45:02,364 --> 00:45:04,304
get away from me. Why?

1171
00:45:05,244 --> 00:45:07,264
Because he knew what he was

1172
00:45:08,284 --> 00:45:09,184
in the presence

1173
00:45:10,204 --> 00:45:11,105
of a holy

1174
00:45:11,565 --> 00:45:12,065
God.

1175
00:45:12,764 --> 00:45:14,224
And here's the thing church,

1176
00:45:15,539 --> 00:45:18,019
until you and I see God as he

1177
00:45:18,019 --> 00:45:18,519
is

1178
00:45:19,619 --> 00:45:21,960
we will remain haughty and proud.

1179
00:45:23,219 --> 00:45:25,800
We will continue to walk in our sins.

1180
00:45:26,914 --> 00:45:27,894
We will remain

1181
00:45:28,195 --> 00:45:30,295
distant from almighty God.

1182
00:45:31,715 --> 00:45:33,795
But when we come face to face with

1183
00:45:33,795 --> 00:45:34,695
who he is

1184
00:45:35,315 --> 00:45:36,534
and who we are,

1185
00:45:37,074 --> 00:45:38,775
it will produce humility,

1186
00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:40,579
brokenness,

1187
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:42,980
and confession.

1188
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,579
And every encounter you have

1189
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:48,340
with the holy

1190
00:45:49,039 --> 00:45:51,700
either pulls you in closer to God

1191
00:45:52,045 --> 00:45:55,344
or it pushes you farther away from him.

1192
00:45:55,965 --> 00:45:57,804
But Isaiah, do you notice he didn't cry

1193
00:45:57,804 --> 00:45:59,025
out, woe is my neighbor?

1194
00:46:01,005 --> 00:46:03,244
Woah is my neighbor. It's a good thing

1195
00:46:03,244 --> 00:46:04,625
I don't know many of you folks.

1196
00:46:05,519 --> 00:46:07,039
Few I've met here and there along the

1197
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:09,219
journey of life, but I don't really know

1198
00:46:09,519 --> 00:46:10,579
anybody here.

1199
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,480
I don't know what you do. I don't

1200
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,920
know how you tick. I don't know how

1201
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,079
your mind works. I don't know anything about

1202
00:46:16,079 --> 00:46:16,579
you.

1203
00:46:17,039 --> 00:46:18,644
But I promise you this,

1204
00:46:19,284 --> 00:46:21,445
if I spent just a short time with

1205
00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:21,945
you,

1206
00:46:23,045 --> 00:46:25,045
you would see things in my life that

1207
00:46:25,045 --> 00:46:26,344
you disagreed with.

1208
00:46:27,204 --> 00:46:29,045
And I would see things in yours that

1209
00:46:29,045 --> 00:46:30,265
I disagreed with.

1210
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,000
And I could walk away from that encounter

1211
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,260
saying well, at least ain't like them.

1212
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:38,300
Yeah.

1213
00:46:38,599 --> 00:46:40,300
Don't tell me you don't do it,

1214
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,920
because you do. And if you say you

1215
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,219
don't you're a lying hypocrite.

1216
00:46:45,454 --> 00:46:47,295
I dare to prove you wrong, because everybody

1217
00:46:47,295 --> 00:46:47,954
does it.

1218
00:46:49,614 --> 00:46:51,554
But it's about time

1219
00:46:52,015 --> 00:46:54,434
that we got honest about who we are.

1220
00:46:55,534 --> 00:46:58,335
And just because we're baptists in the south

1221
00:46:58,335 --> 00:47:00,820
and we're serving God and we care the

1222
00:47:00,820 --> 00:47:03,480
right bible and we say the right things

1223
00:47:03,539 --> 00:47:06,659
and sing the right songs, it doesn't mean

1224
00:47:06,659 --> 00:47:07,480
we're right.

1225
00:47:08,739 --> 00:47:09,960
And we need to be honest

1226
00:47:10,820 --> 00:47:12,359
that we're a hot mess,

1227
00:47:12,974 --> 00:47:14,195
every one of us.

1228
00:47:14,655 --> 00:47:16,434
And seeing God as he is

1229
00:47:17,055 --> 00:47:18,994
will force us to see ourselves

1230
00:47:20,015 --> 00:47:21,155
as we are.

1231
00:47:24,575 --> 00:47:25,394
It's interesting

1232
00:47:25,855 --> 00:47:26,994
to read the bible

1233
00:47:28,070 --> 00:47:29,849
and see how people reacted

1234
00:47:30,550 --> 00:47:32,329
to the presence of God.

1235
00:47:33,429 --> 00:47:35,110
It's not like it is in our day.

1236
00:47:35,110 --> 00:47:37,429
You know maybe you said this. That's happened

1237
00:47:37,429 --> 00:47:38,789
at our church. You know you go in

1238
00:47:38,789 --> 00:47:41,110
and you have one of those blowout Sundays.

1239
00:47:41,110 --> 00:47:43,594
You know what I'm talking about? People praising

1240
00:47:43,655 --> 00:47:46,074
God and testifying. It's great.

1241
00:47:46,934 --> 00:47:49,335
And when it's all over everybody kinda leaves

1242
00:47:49,335 --> 00:47:51,494
and you'll hear them say well, that's a

1243
00:47:51,494 --> 00:47:54,635
good service. We didn't have any preaching today.

1244
00:47:55,489 --> 00:47:56,710
I'm like what?

1245
00:47:57,809 --> 00:47:59,489
Isn't the word of God supposed to be

1246
00:47:59,489 --> 00:48:01,670
what we're about here? You know, I mean

1247
00:48:02,849 --> 00:48:04,690
isn't it a good day though when we

1248
00:48:04,690 --> 00:48:05,829
encounter ourselves

1249
00:48:06,449 --> 00:48:07,349
in the word

1250
00:48:08,144 --> 00:48:10,945
and the preacher preaches and we feel like

1251
00:48:10,945 --> 00:48:12,784
we could hide in the shadow of a

1252
00:48:12,784 --> 00:48:14,164
snake we're so low,

1253
00:48:14,545 --> 00:48:16,784
isn't that a good day? I would say

1254
00:48:16,784 --> 00:48:18,485
that is a better day.

1255
00:48:19,744 --> 00:48:22,144
Because we'll leave after that worship service patting

1256
00:48:22,144 --> 00:48:24,010
our self on the back saying, man, we

1257
00:48:24,010 --> 00:48:25,789
did it today. Boy, we glorified

1258
00:48:26,170 --> 00:48:26,670
God.

1259
00:48:27,929 --> 00:48:29,769
But when the word of God rips all

1260
00:48:29,769 --> 00:48:31,690
that stands out from under you and leaves

1261
00:48:31,690 --> 00:48:34,269
you laying flat on your face before almighty

1262
00:48:34,329 --> 00:48:36,670
God, that's the best day in your life.

1263
00:48:37,635 --> 00:48:40,515
The best day on your life. But nobody

1264
00:48:40,515 --> 00:48:42,155
in the bible ever ran around and shouted

1265
00:48:42,155 --> 00:48:43,974
and praised God when they saw him.

1266
00:48:45,235 --> 00:48:47,015
Every one of them fell on their face

1267
00:48:48,755 --> 00:48:49,574
in repentance

1268
00:48:50,835 --> 00:48:51,574
and brokenness.

1269
00:48:52,969 --> 00:48:54,809
So do you really want God to show

1270
00:48:54,809 --> 00:48:55,710
up at church?

1271
00:48:59,049 --> 00:49:00,269
If he ever does,

1272
00:49:01,690 --> 00:49:02,750
you'll know it.

1273
00:49:03,530 --> 00:49:05,769
I was preaching along these lines. I'll tell

1274
00:49:05,769 --> 00:49:07,049
this real quick and I got one more

1275
00:49:07,049 --> 00:49:08,855
thought. Well a couple more, about 4 or

1276
00:49:08,855 --> 00:49:09,755
5. Shouldn't

1277
00:49:11,014 --> 00:49:12,394
take more than an hour, hang on.

1278
00:49:13,815 --> 00:49:15,675
I was preaching along these lines

1279
00:49:16,534 --> 00:49:18,614
at a church up in Ashe County, North

1280
00:49:18,614 --> 00:49:20,394
Carolina some years ago.

1281
00:49:21,175 --> 00:49:22,554
It was very odd.

1282
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,400
And I was talking about God and our

1283
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:27,260
reaction to who he is and

1284
00:49:27,799 --> 00:49:29,579
who we are in his presence.

1285
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,839
And that service you know you could tell

1286
00:49:32,839 --> 00:49:34,280
where the nursery was. All you could do

1287
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:35,339
is follow noise.

1288
00:49:36,364 --> 00:49:38,444
And the babies they were all on stun

1289
00:49:38,444 --> 00:49:39,984
that night. It was on.

1290
00:49:40,764 --> 00:49:42,864
And there's a lot of movement and distraction

1291
00:49:43,164 --> 00:49:44,625
in the church that evening,

1292
00:49:45,565 --> 00:49:47,264
and it was really odd.

1293
00:49:48,190 --> 00:49:50,190
I got to talking about God and who

1294
00:49:50,190 --> 00:49:53,410
he is and how holy and glorious and

1295
00:49:53,630 --> 00:49:56,750
separate God is and even the babies got

1296
00:49:56,750 --> 00:49:58,610
quiet. You couldn't hear nothing.

1297
00:49:59,789 --> 00:50:00,289
Nothing,

1298
00:50:01,324 --> 00:50:02,625
There was not a sound.

1299
00:50:03,404 --> 00:50:04,944
Nobody was saying amen.

1300
00:50:06,444 --> 00:50:07,824
Nobody said nothing.

1301
00:50:09,085 --> 00:50:10,224
I finished preaching.

1302
00:50:11,324 --> 00:50:12,704
I nodded to the pastor.

1303
00:50:13,164 --> 00:50:14,464
He shook his head

1304
00:50:14,780 --> 00:50:16,460
and I just got down and began to

1305
00:50:16,460 --> 00:50:16,960
pray.

1306
00:50:17,339 --> 00:50:18,880
There wasn't a song sung,

1307
00:50:19,260 --> 00:50:21,900
there wasn't a word said, people filed out

1308
00:50:21,900 --> 00:50:24,079
of their pews, they filled up the altars,

1309
00:50:24,300 --> 00:50:26,619
and they prayed quietly. And when they got

1310
00:50:26,619 --> 00:50:28,000
done, they left.

1311
00:50:29,485 --> 00:50:31,244
When I got up, they wasn't nobody left

1312
00:50:31,244 --> 00:50:32,304
but me and the preacher.

1313
00:50:32,925 --> 00:50:34,465
Everybody else just left.

1314
00:50:34,925 --> 00:50:35,744
What happened?

1315
00:50:36,445 --> 00:50:39,344
I think they sensed someone bigger than them

1316
00:50:39,885 --> 00:50:41,505
in that place that night,

1317
00:50:41,965 --> 00:50:44,079
and he was there. And the rest of

1318
00:50:44,079 --> 00:50:45,519
that week now we had a good time.

1319
00:50:45,519 --> 00:50:47,679
We had souls saved. I mean, listen. And

1320
00:50:47,679 --> 00:50:49,679
it all goes back to that night when

1321
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:50,179
people

1322
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,500
made things right with God.

1323
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,659
That's not because I was preaching,

1324
00:50:55,039 --> 00:50:56,500
it's in spite of that.

1325
00:50:57,045 --> 00:50:59,045
It was just that God wanted to glorify

1326
00:50:59,045 --> 00:50:59,545
himself

1327
00:51:00,484 --> 00:51:01,464
in that church.

1328
00:51:02,565 --> 00:51:03,944
And it amazed me.

1329
00:51:04,804 --> 00:51:07,704
But he also sensed not only his sinful

1330
00:51:07,764 --> 00:51:08,264
condition,

1331
00:51:08,724 --> 00:51:10,585
but if you look at 6 and 7,

1332
00:51:11,739 --> 00:51:14,380
he sensed his spiritual cleansing. The bible says,

1333
00:51:14,380 --> 00:51:16,780
then flew 1 of the seraphims unto me,

1334
00:51:16,780 --> 00:51:19,260
having a live coal in his hand, red

1335
00:51:19,260 --> 00:51:20,000
hot coal,

1336
00:51:20,539 --> 00:51:22,539
which he had taken with the tongs from

1337
00:51:22,539 --> 00:51:25,085
off the altar, and he laid upon my

1338
00:51:25,085 --> 00:51:27,324
mouth and said lo this hath touched thy

1339
00:51:27,324 --> 00:51:30,045
lips and thine iniquity is taken away and

1340
00:51:30,045 --> 00:51:30,944
thy sin

1341
00:51:31,565 --> 00:51:34,204
purged. Aren't you glad God doesn't just point

1342
00:51:34,204 --> 00:51:35,105
out our sins?

1343
00:51:35,885 --> 00:51:37,885
But God also makes a way for our

1344
00:51:37,885 --> 00:51:38,385
cleansing.

1345
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,679
The angel picks up a coal off the

1346
00:51:41,679 --> 00:51:42,179
altar

1347
00:51:43,119 --> 00:51:44,099
and this altar

1348
00:51:44,639 --> 00:51:47,519
is filled evidently with these coals and he

1349
00:51:47,519 --> 00:51:48,819
takes it with a tong

1350
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:52,414
and he places it on Isaiah's lips, red

1351
00:51:52,414 --> 00:51:54,914
hot coat, on the very point that identify

1352
00:51:55,295 --> 00:51:56,355
Isaiah identified

1353
00:51:56,894 --> 00:51:58,594
as the point of his need.

1354
00:52:00,094 --> 00:52:01,695
Toss it on his lips, but didn't hurt

1355
00:52:01,695 --> 00:52:02,195
him.

1356
00:52:03,375 --> 00:52:04,515
It healed him.

1357
00:52:05,449 --> 00:52:07,769
And the angel didn't use tongs because it

1358
00:52:07,769 --> 00:52:08,589
was hot.

1359
00:52:09,289 --> 00:52:10,909
He used tongs because

1360
00:52:11,529 --> 00:52:12,670
it was holy,

1361
00:52:13,529 --> 00:52:15,929
because it came from the altar. A place

1362
00:52:15,929 --> 00:52:16,670
of sacrifice

1363
00:52:16,969 --> 00:52:17,710
and atonement

1364
00:52:18,155 --> 00:52:21,195
and and forgiveness. And that call points to

1365
00:52:21,195 --> 00:52:23,934
Jesus who is the ultimate sacrifice

1366
00:52:24,315 --> 00:52:25,375
for our sin.

1367
00:52:26,635 --> 00:52:29,135
It isn't live coals that cleanse us,

1368
00:52:29,994 --> 00:52:31,934
it's the precious blood of Jesus

1369
00:52:32,789 --> 00:52:34,170
that cleanses us.

1370
00:52:35,110 --> 00:52:37,849
Thank God for his death on the cross.

1371
00:52:38,469 --> 00:52:41,050
Thank God for the shedding of his blood

1372
00:52:41,110 --> 00:52:43,590
that cleansed me from my sin. And I

1373
00:52:43,590 --> 00:52:45,855
have the promise in the word of God

1374
00:52:45,855 --> 00:52:46,594
of ongoing

1375
00:52:46,894 --> 00:52:48,994
cleansing and that is the amazing

1376
00:52:49,534 --> 00:52:51,934
grace of God. And if we ever get

1377
00:52:51,934 --> 00:52:55,054
honest with God, listen, God already knows what's

1378
00:52:55,054 --> 00:52:57,215
in us and he knows what kind of

1379
00:52:57,215 --> 00:52:59,969
people we are. But if we would get

1380
00:52:59,969 --> 00:53:03,190
all this before him in brokenness and humility,

1381
00:53:03,890 --> 00:53:05,269
confession and repentance,

1382
00:53:05,890 --> 00:53:07,510
he would cleanse us

1383
00:53:08,610 --> 00:53:09,510
and he would

1384
00:53:09,809 --> 00:53:10,789
heal us.

1385
00:53:12,875 --> 00:53:14,554
The fact is the closer you get to

1386
00:53:14,554 --> 00:53:15,934
God, the worse you look.

1387
00:53:17,034 --> 00:53:17,614
It's true.

1388
00:53:18,954 --> 00:53:20,554
The closer you get to God, the more

1389
00:53:20,554 --> 00:53:22,175
wicked you'll know you are.

1390
00:53:23,675 --> 00:53:25,295
And when that understanding

1391
00:53:25,755 --> 00:53:26,574
hits you,

1392
00:53:27,590 --> 00:53:29,610
you're gonna wanna bow before God

1393
00:53:30,710 --> 00:53:32,390
and you're gonna want to get cleansed of

1394
00:53:32,390 --> 00:53:33,210
your sins.

1395
00:53:34,309 --> 00:53:36,090
Now the church needs to see

1396
00:53:37,429 --> 00:53:39,909
what Isaiah saw. Have you ever really seen

1397
00:53:39,909 --> 00:53:40,409
that?

1398
00:53:41,714 --> 00:53:44,135
The church needs to sense

1399
00:53:44,755 --> 00:53:46,214
what Isaiah sensed.

1400
00:53:47,154 --> 00:53:48,214
I'm not okay,

1401
00:53:48,994 --> 00:53:50,454
and you're not okay.

1402
00:53:51,875 --> 00:53:53,414
I'm a cracked pot,

1403
00:53:54,549 --> 00:53:56,329
and I need a lot of mending.

1404
00:53:56,949 --> 00:53:57,929
How about you?

1405
00:53:59,030 --> 00:54:00,969
I've been saved 41 years

1406
00:54:01,670 --> 00:54:03,989
and I promise you I have a lot

1407
00:54:03,989 --> 00:54:04,650
of problems.

1408
00:54:05,429 --> 00:54:07,849
I still deal with my flesh.

1409
00:54:08,925 --> 00:54:10,305
I wish I did it,

1410
00:54:11,485 --> 00:54:12,385
but I do.

1411
00:54:13,324 --> 00:54:14,525
You don't know how you know how it

1412
00:54:14,525 --> 00:54:15,265
goes. Right?

1413
00:54:15,885 --> 00:54:17,805
It starts off small when you first get

1414
00:54:17,805 --> 00:54:18,305
saved.

1415
00:54:18,765 --> 00:54:21,244
I mean there's some big changes because I

1416
00:54:21,244 --> 00:54:22,844
got saved, I was half drunk when I

1417
00:54:22,844 --> 00:54:23,505
got saved.

1418
00:54:24,230 --> 00:54:26,230
Had a bad mouth, liked to drink, do

1419
00:54:26,230 --> 00:54:28,069
some drugs and different things and God saved

1420
00:54:28,069 --> 00:54:29,690
me. All that went away.

1421
00:54:30,469 --> 00:54:33,030
Quit cussing, no more alcohol, no more drugs,

1422
00:54:33,030 --> 00:54:35,609
all that stuff was just gone. Just gone.

1423
00:54:35,909 --> 00:54:37,510
But then it was the little things, you

1424
00:54:37,510 --> 00:54:39,315
know. God said, now you ought to work

1425
00:54:39,315 --> 00:54:41,494
on this and he'd identify something.

1426
00:54:42,034 --> 00:54:43,255
I'd work on that.

1427
00:54:43,795 --> 00:54:45,315
Then he had something else ready for me

1428
00:54:45,315 --> 00:54:46,675
to work on, then I'd work on that,

1429
00:54:46,675 --> 00:54:48,675
then he had something else. And 41 years

1430
00:54:48,675 --> 00:54:50,695
later, it's still going on.

1431
00:54:51,074 --> 00:54:52,295
And they get harder

1432
00:54:52,849 --> 00:54:53,510
and harder

1433
00:54:54,130 --> 00:54:54,869
and harder.

1434
00:54:55,809 --> 00:54:56,869
That's the process

1435
00:54:57,650 --> 00:54:58,390
of sanctification.

1436
00:54:59,570 --> 00:55:01,329
Has nothing to do with me being saved

1437
00:55:01,329 --> 00:55:02,710
as far as getting saved,

1438
00:55:03,409 --> 00:55:05,409
but has everything to do with me becoming

1439
00:55:05,409 --> 00:55:07,090
more Christ like in you too. That's how

1440
00:55:07,090 --> 00:55:07,750
it works.

1441
00:55:08,364 --> 00:55:10,224
So we need to see what he says,

1442
00:55:10,525 --> 00:55:12,765
see what he saw, say what he He

1443
00:55:12,765 --> 00:55:14,684
has said what he says and finally we

1444
00:55:14,684 --> 00:55:15,965
need to say what he said. I'm done

1445
00:55:15,965 --> 00:55:16,945
here, verse 8.

1446
00:55:17,965 --> 00:55:20,625
When this happened to Isaiah he speaks up

1447
00:55:21,260 --> 00:55:22,940
and he tells us he heard the voice

1448
00:55:22,940 --> 00:55:24,940
of the Lord saying, whom shall I send?

1449
00:55:24,940 --> 00:55:26,239
Who will go for us?

1450
00:55:27,179 --> 00:55:28,480
And then said I,

1451
00:55:28,859 --> 00:55:29,839
here am I,

1452
00:55:30,619 --> 00:55:31,119
send

1453
00:55:32,139 --> 00:55:34,855
me. Now wait a minute, wait just a

1454
00:55:34,855 --> 00:55:35,755
minute, Isaiah.

1455
00:55:36,375 --> 00:55:37,835
This is verse 8,

1456
00:55:38,775 --> 00:55:40,795
hear my Lord, send me.

1457
00:55:41,414 --> 00:55:43,654
In verse 5 you're telling us how bad

1458
00:55:43,654 --> 00:55:46,694
you are. You done cursed yourself and told

1459
00:55:46,694 --> 00:55:48,635
us you had a dirty mouth.

1460
00:55:48,989 --> 00:55:51,329
Why should God send you to do anything?

1461
00:55:51,949 --> 00:55:53,730
Because God had cleansed him.

1462
00:55:54,590 --> 00:55:56,429
And he's telling God by saying here am

1463
00:55:56,429 --> 00:55:58,610
I, send me. He's saying I'm available,

1464
00:55:58,989 --> 00:55:59,730
I'm available.

1465
00:56:00,110 --> 00:56:02,664
He's saying the holy seraphim serve him and

1466
00:56:02,664 --> 00:56:05,144
he made me holy and now I want

1467
00:56:05,144 --> 00:56:07,384
to serve him too. He goes from woe

1468
00:56:07,384 --> 00:56:09,864
is me to here I am, send me.

1469
00:56:09,864 --> 00:56:12,105
In just a couple of verses, in a

1470
00:56:12,105 --> 00:56:15,144
single moment of grace he is transformed and

1471
00:56:15,144 --> 00:56:17,670
changed and he's made into a man God

1472
00:56:17,670 --> 00:56:20,889
can use for his glory in that generation.

1473
00:56:21,269 --> 00:56:23,429
And that's what happens to us. It is

1474
00:56:23,429 --> 00:56:26,469
our sin that prevents us from being useful

1475
00:56:26,469 --> 00:56:28,949
to God. But when that sin is cleansed

1476
00:56:28,949 --> 00:56:29,690
and forgiven,

1477
00:56:29,994 --> 00:56:32,714
we're made ready for service and we can

1478
00:56:32,714 --> 00:56:35,275
preach and we can witness and we can

1479
00:56:35,275 --> 00:56:37,755
sing and we can serve and we can

1480
00:56:37,755 --> 00:56:38,734
honor God

1481
00:56:39,994 --> 00:56:41,054
after we are

1482
00:56:41,594 --> 00:56:42,094
clean.

1483
00:56:43,910 --> 00:56:45,690
That sin that haunts your mind,

1484
00:56:46,789 --> 00:56:48,730
that sin you wish you could forget,

1485
00:56:49,670 --> 00:56:52,150
that sin that hangs over your life like

1486
00:56:52,150 --> 00:56:53,210
a black cloud,

1487
00:56:53,990 --> 00:56:56,570
a sin that fills your mind with guilt,

1488
00:56:57,110 --> 00:56:57,930
the sin

1489
00:56:59,164 --> 00:57:01,184
that sin that troubles you.

1490
00:57:01,885 --> 00:57:03,344
If you know Christ

1491
00:57:04,125 --> 00:57:07,984
that sin was placed upon him at Calvary

1492
00:57:08,684 --> 00:57:09,824
and it's gone,

1493
00:57:10,525 --> 00:57:11,025
gone,

1494
00:57:11,565 --> 00:57:12,065
gone

1495
00:57:12,684 --> 00:57:13,184
forever.

1496
00:57:14,369 --> 00:57:15,510
And you stand

1497
00:57:17,250 --> 00:57:18,789
forgiven and your past

1498
00:57:19,809 --> 00:57:21,029
no longer matters.

1499
00:57:23,010 --> 00:57:24,389
Aren't you glad he paid

1500
00:57:25,170 --> 00:57:26,230
for your sin?

1501
00:57:27,174 --> 00:57:28,855
That doesn't mean I don't have to go

1502
00:57:28,855 --> 00:57:31,094
back and say lord I'm sorry, because he

1503
00:57:31,094 --> 00:57:31,994
expects me

1504
00:57:32,534 --> 00:57:34,534
to deal with my sins on a regular

1505
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:35,034
basis.

1506
00:57:35,974 --> 00:57:38,074
But I know as far as my standing

1507
00:57:38,214 --> 00:57:38,954
is concerned

1508
00:57:39,734 --> 00:57:40,795
God has justified

1509
00:57:41,094 --> 00:57:41,594
me

1510
00:57:42,099 --> 00:57:44,260
and he has declared me to be right

1511
00:57:44,260 --> 00:57:45,319
in his eyes

1512
00:57:46,019 --> 00:57:46,839
and nothing

1513
00:57:47,300 --> 00:57:49,719
can change my positional standing.

1514
00:57:50,739 --> 00:57:52,260
On a daily basis though I got to

1515
00:57:52,260 --> 00:57:54,260
go say lord I did it again. He

1516
00:57:54,260 --> 00:57:55,960
said, oh I know, I saw it.

1517
00:57:56,585 --> 00:57:58,444
I heard it. I know all about it.

1518
00:57:59,545 --> 00:58:00,824
He said, Go and not do it again.

1519
00:58:00,824 --> 00:58:02,184
Don't do it no no more. Yes, sir

1520
00:58:02,184 --> 00:58:03,625
Lord I'll do my best. Don't do your

1521
00:58:03,625 --> 00:58:05,244
best. He said, Do my best.

1522
00:58:05,625 --> 00:58:07,545
And I'm still working on me, do your

1523
00:58:07,545 --> 00:58:09,244
work on you, right?

1524
00:58:10,050 --> 00:58:10,550
Listen,

1525
00:58:11,010 --> 00:58:11,750
if David

1526
00:58:12,050 --> 00:58:14,369
can be used of God, if Matthew, if

1527
00:58:14,369 --> 00:58:16,449
Paul can be used of God, he can

1528
00:58:16,449 --> 00:58:17,190
use you.

1529
00:58:18,130 --> 00:58:19,969
And Isaiah said, I'm available. Lord, here I

1530
00:58:19,969 --> 00:58:20,949
am send me.

1531
00:58:21,650 --> 00:58:22,550
Then he said,

1532
00:58:23,054 --> 00:58:23,954
Lord, I'm agreeable.

1533
00:58:24,574 --> 00:58:25,074
Send

1534
00:58:25,694 --> 00:58:28,335
me. Now Isaiah didn't have an easy task,

1535
00:58:28,335 --> 00:58:28,994
did he?

1536
00:58:29,775 --> 00:58:31,775
God tells him in these next verses you're

1537
00:58:31,775 --> 00:58:33,214
gonna go to the people and tell them

1538
00:58:33,214 --> 00:58:34,755
but they're not gonna understand.

1539
00:58:36,335 --> 00:58:38,014
Now listen to a thing you have to

1540
00:58:38,014 --> 00:58:38,514
say

1541
00:58:39,110 --> 00:58:40,570
but you're gonna go tell them.

1542
00:58:41,190 --> 00:58:43,190
And he went and they didn't listen to

1543
00:58:43,190 --> 00:58:44,570
him just like God said.

1544
00:58:45,030 --> 00:58:47,050
In fact, tradition says that Isaiah

1545
00:58:47,349 --> 00:58:50,309
was killed by under king Manasseh by being

1546
00:58:50,309 --> 00:58:51,449
sawn in half.

1547
00:58:53,255 --> 00:58:54,775
That's what they say happened to him, I

1548
00:58:54,775 --> 00:58:55,355
don't know.

1549
00:58:56,055 --> 00:58:57,594
He was martyred because

1550
00:58:58,055 --> 00:58:59,114
he wouldn't compromise.

1551
00:59:00,055 --> 00:59:02,454
He was a man who rubbed shoulders with

1552
00:59:02,454 --> 00:59:03,114
a king.

1553
00:59:04,135 --> 00:59:06,555
But then he started rubbing shoulders with God

1554
00:59:07,369 --> 00:59:08,910
and everybody hated him

1555
00:59:09,369 --> 00:59:10,349
and he died.

1556
00:59:10,809 --> 00:59:12,489
Listen, God may never ask you to do

1557
00:59:12,489 --> 00:59:12,989
that,

1558
00:59:13,369 --> 00:59:15,050
but God has asked a lot of his

1559
00:59:15,050 --> 00:59:15,869
people. Right?

1560
00:59:16,410 --> 00:59:18,110
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,

1561
00:59:18,650 --> 00:59:20,030
they denied Nebuchadnezzar's

1562
00:59:20,489 --> 00:59:21,949
command and they were cast

1563
00:59:22,275 --> 00:59:24,594
into a fiery a burning fiery furnace to

1564
00:59:24,594 --> 00:59:25,414
serve the lord.

1565
00:59:25,954 --> 00:59:29,074
Daniel refused to stop praying. He went into

1566
00:59:29,074 --> 00:59:31,474
alliance then to serve the lord. The widow

1567
00:59:31,474 --> 00:59:33,234
of Zarephath had to give up the last

1568
00:59:33,234 --> 00:59:35,269
of her food to serve God.

1569
00:59:35,570 --> 00:59:37,809
Elijah stood up to a wicked king and

1570
00:59:37,809 --> 00:59:38,630
his rebellious,

1571
00:59:39,410 --> 00:59:43,269
his rebellious wife to serve almighty God. Stephen

1572
00:59:43,329 --> 00:59:45,590
witnessed to a bunch of self righteous

1573
00:59:46,050 --> 00:59:47,429
Sanhedrin and Pharisees

1574
00:59:48,050 --> 00:59:50,525
and he was stoned to death. Paul turned

1575
00:59:50,525 --> 00:59:51,585
his back on everything

1576
00:59:52,045 --> 00:59:53,025
to serve God

1577
00:59:54,285 --> 00:59:56,625
and many others have died for the lord.

1578
00:59:57,885 --> 00:59:59,565
God may never ask you to pay so

1579
00:59:59,565 --> 01:00:00,465
high a price.

1580
01:00:01,565 --> 01:00:02,945
The pastor, he might

1581
01:00:03,739 --> 01:00:05,519
ask you to preach the lord

1582
01:00:05,980 --> 01:00:06,480
faithfully

1583
01:00:07,579 --> 01:00:09,440
to people who refuse to hear

1584
01:00:09,900 --> 01:00:10,719
or obey.

1585
01:00:12,780 --> 01:00:14,619
He might put you in a Sunday school

1586
01:00:14,619 --> 01:00:18,079
class for years years without you seeing any

1587
01:00:18,485 --> 01:00:19,864
reward for your labor.

1588
01:00:20,804 --> 01:00:22,644
Your job may just be to raise your

1589
01:00:22,644 --> 01:00:24,344
children to know and serve God.

1590
01:00:25,125 --> 01:00:26,664
Your job may be to faithfully

1591
01:00:26,965 --> 01:00:28,804
live out your faith by being a church

1592
01:00:28,804 --> 01:00:31,465
member and witnessing to folk at every opportunity.

1593
01:00:31,684 --> 01:00:32,184
Whatever

1594
01:00:32,500 --> 01:00:34,840
your job is, it's important in the kingdom.

1595
01:00:36,019 --> 01:00:37,619
But the whole point tonight and I could

1596
01:00:37,619 --> 01:00:39,320
have just said this in I guess

1597
01:00:39,700 --> 01:00:41,000
about 6 words

1598
01:00:42,260 --> 01:00:43,800
and saved all this time,

1599
01:00:45,140 --> 01:00:45,960
our God

1600
01:00:47,385 --> 01:00:48,844
is a holy God.

1601
01:00:50,744 --> 01:00:51,644
His people

1602
01:00:52,505 --> 01:00:54,285
are to be a holy people

1603
01:00:55,304 --> 01:00:58,445
and he is glorious beyond our ability

1604
01:00:58,905 --> 01:01:00,364
to describe him.

1605
01:01:02,289 --> 01:01:03,589
He forgives sinners

1606
01:01:05,010 --> 01:01:07,909
and he uses the forgiven to reach others

1607
01:01:08,369 --> 01:01:09,510
like he did Isaiah

1608
01:01:10,130 --> 01:01:11,589
and he'll use you too.

1609
01:01:12,130 --> 01:01:13,349
So what do we need?

1610
01:01:14,045 --> 01:01:16,144
In a true vision of who God is.

1611
01:01:17,164 --> 01:01:19,905
We need to ask God to strip away

1612
01:01:20,684 --> 01:01:23,265
the delusion we have in our mind about

1613
01:01:23,405 --> 01:01:24,465
who we are

1614
01:01:24,925 --> 01:01:26,545
and to show us exactly

1615
01:01:27,570 --> 01:01:28,070
what

1616
01:01:28,690 --> 01:01:29,510
we are.

1617
01:01:31,969 --> 01:01:34,309
Need a heart that's aware of our sinfulness.

1618
01:01:35,809 --> 01:01:38,710
Need a willingness to submit to God's will

1619
01:01:39,635 --> 01:01:41,734
and then serve him with every

1620
01:01:42,275 --> 01:01:42,775
fiber

1621
01:01:43,554 --> 01:01:44,454
of our being.

1622
01:01:45,394 --> 01:01:46,934
So what do you need tonight?

1623
01:01:48,594 --> 01:01:49,655
If you were honest,

1624
01:01:51,074 --> 01:01:53,175
you need a clear vision of God

1625
01:01:54,190 --> 01:01:55,949
so you can see a clear vision of

1626
01:01:55,949 --> 01:01:56,449
yourself.

1627
01:01:58,269 --> 01:02:00,190
Because I promise you every one of us

1628
01:02:00,190 --> 01:02:02,930
lives behind a thin veneer of hypocrisy

1629
01:02:04,190 --> 01:02:06,110
and we think we are better than we

1630
01:02:06,110 --> 01:02:06,610
are.

1631
01:02:08,315 --> 01:02:09,454
We do, don't we?

1632
01:02:10,315 --> 01:02:12,494
Oh yeah, I'm a saint of God.

1633
01:02:12,954 --> 01:02:14,734
Oh yeah, do you live like a saint?

1634
01:02:15,674 --> 01:02:17,514
I'm a child of God. Do you live

1635
01:02:17,514 --> 01:02:18,894
like God your father?

1636
01:02:21,380 --> 01:02:22,360
Think about it.

1637
01:02:23,300 --> 01:02:24,360
Think about it.

1638
01:02:24,820 --> 01:02:26,840
Aren't there areas in your life

1639
01:02:28,180 --> 01:02:29,400
that could be improved?

1640
01:02:31,619 --> 01:02:32,840
There are in mine.

1641
01:02:34,244 --> 01:02:35,684
And so I guess if I had anything

1642
01:02:35,684 --> 01:02:37,605
to say is this, if God has let

1643
01:02:37,605 --> 01:02:39,525
you see him tonight and you've seen you,

1644
01:02:39,525 --> 01:02:40,984
you need to come deal with that.

1645
01:02:41,684 --> 01:02:43,605
And if you've not seen God, perhaps you

1646
01:02:43,605 --> 01:02:45,525
ought to come and pray, God let me

1647
01:02:45,525 --> 01:02:47,764
see you as you really are if you

1648
01:02:47,764 --> 01:02:48,264
dare.

1649
01:02:49,679 --> 01:02:51,199
This is gonna change your life when he

1650
01:02:51,199 --> 01:02:51,940
shows you.

1651
01:02:53,199 --> 01:02:55,519
You ain't never gonna be the same, I

1652
01:02:55,519 --> 01:02:56,420
promise you.

1653
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,019
I don't know what you need to do,

1654
01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:02,739
but if you need Christ, come to him.

1655
01:03:03,894 --> 01:03:05,335
If you need to repent of sin as

1656
01:03:05,335 --> 01:03:06,554
a believer, do it.

1657
01:03:07,255 --> 01:03:09,094
If you just want to magnify God and

1658
01:03:09,094 --> 01:03:11,094
praise him for being who he is, it's

1659
01:03:11,094 --> 01:03:12,795
a great place to do that too.

1660
01:03:13,574 --> 01:03:15,414
We're gonna bow before God and pray and

1661
01:03:15,414 --> 01:03:16,234
then the services

1662
01:03:17,159 --> 01:03:18,760
yours to do with as God would have

1663
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,359
you do. Let's pray. Father thank you for

1664
01:03:20,359 --> 01:03:21,339
the word of God.

1665
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,039
I pray that you'd help us tonight to

1666
01:03:24,039 --> 01:03:25,819
see you as you really are.

1667
01:03:27,239 --> 01:03:29,420
Father manifest yourself to us.

1668
01:03:30,039 --> 01:03:31,339
Show us your glory.

1669
01:03:32,184 --> 01:03:33,644
Show us your holiness.

1670
01:03:35,464 --> 01:03:37,005
Cause us to be made

1671
01:03:37,704 --> 01:03:38,764
to see you,

1672
01:03:39,625 --> 01:03:40,764
so that we might

1673
01:03:41,065 --> 01:03:41,885
see ourselves,

1674
01:03:43,704 --> 01:03:45,565
so that we might be broken

1675
01:03:46,610 --> 01:03:47,989
and brought to a place

1676
01:03:48,769 --> 01:03:49,989
of humble repentance.

1677
01:03:51,329 --> 01:03:53,670
Father, help us to lay aside our masks

1678
01:03:54,530 --> 01:03:55,510
and our pretenses

1679
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and help us to get real about who

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we are

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in the sight of God.

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Father, we may look good next to our

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01:04:04,195 --> 01:04:04,695
neighbor,

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01:04:05,555 --> 01:04:07,175
but next to you we're horrible.

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Help us to deal with that.

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01:04:10,355 --> 01:04:11,875
You know what needs to happen in this

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01:04:11,875 --> 01:04:12,375
church.

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01:04:13,019 --> 01:04:14,940
Father, I believe these people love you and

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01:04:14,940 --> 01:04:15,679
want to serve

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01:04:16,219 --> 01:04:18,140
you. And I pray God you'd help them

1691
01:04:18,140 --> 01:04:19,820
to do that. And one of the best

1692
01:04:19,820 --> 01:04:21,039
ways to help us

1693
01:04:21,500 --> 01:04:23,039
is by letting us see you

1694
01:04:23,739 --> 01:04:26,219
reveal yourself to us. We ask it in

1695
01:04:26,219 --> 01:04:26,960
your name.

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01:04:27,795 --> 01:04:28,295
Amen.

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01:04:28,675 --> 01:04:30,135
You mind God tonight.

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01:04:31,714 --> 01:04:34,855
Special thank you to Carter Pridemore, Brian Harris,

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01:04:34,994 --> 01:04:36,054
Waverly Henderson,

1700
01:04:36,434 --> 01:04:39,570
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Partain for our

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01:04:39,570 --> 01:04:41,510
theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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01:04:41,890 --> 01:04:44,230
I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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01:04:46,690 --> 01:04:48,309
Monday at 6 PM CST.

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01:04:48,610 --> 01:04:49,590
Thank you for listening.

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In my darkest hour.

1707
01:04:55,355 --> 01:04:58,074
I traded my black heart for joy, for

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01:04:58,074 --> 01:05:00,735
something real, something with power.

1709
01:05:02,795 --> 01:05:05,054
Truth set me free.

1710
01:05:05,755 --> 01:05:07,889
Truth came to me.

1711
01:05:08,449 --> 01:05:11,349
I once was blind, and now I say,

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01:05:11,809 --> 01:05:12,309
truth

1713
01:05:12,769 --> 01:05:14,069
set me free.

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01:05:15,010 --> 01:05:15,510
Oh,

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01:05:16,289 --> 01:05:16,789
oh.

1716
01:05:17,809 --> 01:05:18,309
Truth

1717
01:05:18,769 --> 01:05:20,069
set me free.

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01:05:21,089 --> 01:05:21,589
Oh,

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01:05:22,449 --> 01:05:22,949
oh.