1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,360 I mean, thank you, pastor. It's a blessing to be with you. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:09,480 And I met your pastor back in 2023 when we were on a trip to 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,040 Israel and sensed very quickly a oneness of spirit. 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:19,000 And like Pastor Boots said, it's a blessing to to have like 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,160 minded friends in the ministry and to meet faithful men who are 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,520 standing for the Word of God across the globe. 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,880 So it's a blessing to be here. Thank you for the invitation to 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,520 come. It's much appreciated and it's 9 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,200 really an honor and a privilege to be with you. 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,320 OK, A number of folks during the trip have asked me where they 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,800 can find more of my sermons. And so I'll just mention a 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,440 website that might be a help to you. 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,840 It's called Baptist expositor.com. 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,440 So if you want to write that down, if you're looking for more 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,520 preaching from down under Baptist Expositor dot com. 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,280 Most of my preaching is through books of the Bible. 17 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,280 And so if you go to that website, you can click on the 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,680 Old Testament and find a series I've done to date on Old 19 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:06,800 Testament books. You click on New Testament, find 20 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:09,560 series I've done to date on New Testament books. 21 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:14,560 And then there's also a topical section with various series on a 22 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,320 number of different issues like music, tongue speaking and other 23 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:18,600 things. So I hope that'll be a blessing 24 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,040 to you and many of our folks back home. 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,240 Now listen to your pastor regularly since he's been and 26 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,280 Courtney Lewis as well, he's been over to preach and that's 27 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,560 fine by me. I tell our people, if you want 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,040 to listen to sermons, get tapped into a good solid man. 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,360 Obviously your primary instruction comes from your 30 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:36,960 local church and your own pastor. 31 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,440 That's always priority one. But if you're going to listen to 32 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,520 sermons, I encourage people there's no need to link up with 33 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,720 some false teacher online or some compromise preacher. 34 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,360 There's plenty of that out there. 35 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,400 Better to listen to someone who's on the same page and 36 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,920 someone who's going to tell you tell you something from God's 37 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,240 word. So if that can be a blessing to 38 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,840 you, then by all means, feel free to look that up. 39 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,160 And otherwise you can find us on sermonaudio.com. 40 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,440 Just look up the the website there and trust. 41 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,479 That'll be a blessing to. You turn with me to Isaiah 42 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:12,080 chapter 6. Isaiah chapter 6. 43 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,880 And the choir song was really timely this morning. 44 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,360 Believe the Lord is leading in relation to the message for 45 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,560 today on that wonderful theme of the holiness of God. 46 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,560 And we're going to be confronted with the holiness of God this 47 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,920 morning on in Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah chapter 6 as we look at 48 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:38,040 the theme personal revival and missions, Personal revival and 49 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,120 missions, there is a link between personal revival. 50 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:47,080 And missions Isaiah chapter 6. And we're going to read from 51 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:52,600 verse one through to verse 8. The Bible reads in the year that 52 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:58,400 King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high 53 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,720 and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 54 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,120 Above it stood the seraphims. Each had six wings. 55 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,360 With Twain he covered his face, and with Twain he covered his 56 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:16,640 feet, and with Twain he did fly. One cried unto another and said. 57 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:23,240 Holy, holy, holy. Is the Lord of hosts, The whole 58 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,920 earth is full of his glory. The post of the door moved at 59 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,240 the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 60 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,960 Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I'm a man of 61 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,200 uncling lips, and I dwell in the midst of the people of unclean 62 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,160 lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. 63 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,400 Then flew one of the Seraphim's unto me, having a live coal in 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,400 his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the old, 65 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,880 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched 66 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,560 thy lips, and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 67 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,880 Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying. 68 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,440 Whom shall I send? And who will go for us then said 69 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,760 I, here am I, send me. Let's pray. 70 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,560 Gracious God, Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity 71 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,480 to come into your holy presence this morning. 72 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,160 Lord, we come not upon the basis of our own works, our own 73 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,880 merits. We come only by the precious 74 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,880 blood of the Lord Jesus Christ into your presence. 75 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,080 Lord, we come this morning because You are the source of 76 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,640 all life and blessing and without You we can do nothing. 77 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,400 We need Your hand to rest upon us now for this time of 78 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,080 preaching. Still our hearts in Your 79 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,280 presence take away from our hearts anything that would 80 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:45,800 distract. Lord, we pray that Your word to 81 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,400 find a ready entrance into our lives. 82 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,720 We pray, Lord that You would move in our hearts today, that 83 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,560 You would revive us. Lord, help us to see You afresh 84 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,720 for who You are, the thrice holy God of eternity. 85 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:00,960 And we pray, Lord, that then we would be open to being used to 86 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:02,560 view in this great work of missions. 87 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,600 We pray. So bless us now we ask in Jesus 88 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,120 name, Amen. I don't know about you, but I 89 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,680 really want to see the Lord do a mighty work in these last days. 90 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,680 And as we talked about, I think it was on Friday night, how we 91 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,520 are living in a day-to-day where there is a dearth of labourers, 92 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,480 how we need labourers. And one of the reasons why, as 93 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,840 we're going to see in the passage today, one of the 94 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:29,200 reasons why we don't have labourers, I believe is because 95 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,320 of a lack of revival in our churches. 96 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,480 People are not hearing the call of God because of sin in their 97 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,520 lives. So we come to this very powerful 98 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,320 passage of Scripture and here we have the death of an earthly 99 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,280 king. And Isaiah 6 opens with a vacant 100 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,120 throne in Israel, but an occupied throne in heaven. 101 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,880 And while earthly leaders come and go, God remains unchanged, 102 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,960 unchangeable. God remains there on his throne. 103 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,120 He can never be impeached. He can never be removed. 104 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,160 He's the eternal, everlasting, unchanging God. 105 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,640 So the earthly king was dead, but the King eternal was on his 106 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,480 throne. His I died approximately 740 BC 107 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,960 after reign of 52 years. Overall, he was a good and godly 108 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:23,120 king, but like many many, many kings, that success went to his 109 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,800 head and he had a failure towards the end of his life. 110 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,840 Perhaps Isaiah was encouraged by the presence of Uzziah in his 111 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:34,440 life as a godly king. We don't know, but whatever. 112 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,440 At this particular time in Isaiah's life, Uzziah was 113 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:43,280 removed from the scene and God granted Isaiah a fresh glimpse 114 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,920 of his glory. And what I want you to see in 115 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,080 our passage this morning is that there are 4 clear steps that we 116 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,360 can trace in the life of Isaiah that led him down the path of 117 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,960 personal revival and toward usefulness for God. 118 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:03,720 Let's note those four steps that we also need in our in our 119 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,720 lives. Number one note in verse one 120 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,120 through 4 what I would call Isaiah's vision. 121 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,200 Isaiah's vision in one verse one through 4 in the year that King 122 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:18,240 Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and 123 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,880 lifted up what a glorious description we have here of God 124 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,560 seated in power and in majesty. God granted Isaiah a fresh 125 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,760 vision, a fresh glimpse of his glory. 126 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,760 In fact, it seems to me that very often in the Word of God, 127 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,920 when God was about, when God called a man to special service, 128 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:42,400 very often he gave that man a glimpse of his glory that would 129 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:46,280 have an would make such an impression upon that man as to 130 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,640 prepare him for a life of service. 131 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,480 And if there's something that we need in our day, we need to get 132 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,600 a fresh glimpse of the glory of God. 133 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,280 We need to get a fresh vision of who God is because today we're 134 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,720 living in a day where people have a very light view of God. 135 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,640 People have a very wrong view of God, and this passage brings us 136 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,240 back to the reality of. Who God really is. 137 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,960 Look for a moment at what Isaiah saw. 138 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,400 He was confronted, we could say, with the Highness of God. 139 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,760 He was confronted with the Highness of God. 140 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,400 As I seize God there exalted, exalted. 141 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,560 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord 142 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,600 sitting upon a throne. Don't miss these words. 143 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,840 High and lifted up. Is there any higher than our 144 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,000 God? Is that not our God this 145 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,400 morning? Our God is a God who is high. 146 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,080 In fact, he is above all. There is none higher than our 147 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,560 God. And we need to get back to that 148 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:49,520 high and exalted view of God because there's a move out there 149 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,840 today that says, well, we just need to bring God down to the 150 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,520 level of the people. Listen, folks, you will never 151 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,720 bring the eternal God down to our level. 152 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,600 He is high and he is lifted up. And the low views of God we have 153 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,840 in our day are destroying churches. 154 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,760 God is not a rap star. God is not a pop star. 155 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,480 God is not the man upstairs. He is the thrice holy God of 156 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,840 eternity. And if there's something we need 157 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,600 today, it's a revival of reverence for God. 158 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,800 God is not your buddy. God is not your boyfriend. 159 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,360 And many churches across Richmond today have, have, have, 160 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,520 have have a very low view of God. 161 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,960 You say, how do you know? Because they're dancing, they're 162 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,120 jumping around, and clearly they've lost sight of the. 163 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:36,720 Highness and the holiness of God. 164 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,880 As I 5715 For thus saith the high and lofty one, listen to 165 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,480 these words that inhabiteth eternity. 166 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,560 Can you even wrap your mind around eternity? 167 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,880 From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 168 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:03,120 God is so immense and God is so awesome and God is so powerful 169 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,520 that he is described as one who inhabits eternity. 170 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,880 I dwell in the high and holy place, says God with him also 171 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,320 that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of 172 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,200 the humble and to revive the heart of the the contrite ones. 173 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,360 And so here Isaiah got a glimpse of the Highness of God. 174 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,000 He saw God exalted in his sovereignty. 175 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:34,760 He saw God exalted in his. Majesty verse 6 verse one again. 176 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,600 And his train filled the temple. The train. 177 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,520 That comes from the word train comes from the the word there to 178 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,360 hang down. It's it's it, it was a feature 179 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,880 of of the ancient monarchs where they would have a long flowing 180 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:54,240 Rd. there a long flowing train, symbolic of their high position. 181 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,480 We have something similar today or, or something that might help 182 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:58,920 you to understand what the train means. 183 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,040 Doesn't mean a Choo Choo train. OK, OK, a bridle. 184 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,920 A bride often has a train, that big long thing that flows out 185 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,800 behind her there, and it's a, it's a symbol of, of, of glory 186 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,400 and beauty. And so here we find that God's 187 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,880 train, God's glorious robe, as it were, probably a robe of 188 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,280 light. OK, Isaiah's trying to describe 189 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,280 this majestic scene as he looks upon this exalted one upon the 190 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,320 throne, and he sees the glory of God as like a beautiful train 191 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,240 there filling the temple. And so Isaiah saw God in His 192 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,040 Highness, there exalted in his sovereignty. 193 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:39,040 He's the king upon the throne, and he saw God there exalted in 194 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,840 His Majesty. In fact, how can we even begin 195 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,120 to? Describe the majesty and the 196 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,960 glory of God. How can human lips begin to 197 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,440 describe what we see here? So he was confronted with the 198 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,040 Highness of God. We need to get back to a proper 199 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,840 view of who God is and His position. 200 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,000 He is higher than the highest. He is above all. 201 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,240 But as I was also confronted in this vision with the holiness of 202 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,960 God, the Highness of God, but also the holiness of God, look 203 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,400 at verse 2 through 4. Above it, referring to the the 204 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,040 throne, there stood the seraphims. 205 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,600 Each one had 6 wings. With twain he covered his face, 206 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,000 and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 207 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,000 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the 208 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,120 Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his 209 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,480 glory. And the posts of the door moved 210 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,160 at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with 211 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:43,920 smoke. How can we begin to describe the 212 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:49,480 holiness of God? The holiness of God and the 213 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,840 holiness of God is the major emphasis of the passage here. 214 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,200 And it's emphasized #1 in the seraphim's posture, the the. 215 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,360 Holiness of God is emphasized in the Seraphim's posture. 216 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,240 You see that in verse 2 above it stood the seraphim. 217 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,920 So as as Aziah describes this throne, he sees these beautiful 218 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:09,960 heavenly creatures with six wings positioned above the 219 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,240 throne of God. Very close to the presence of 220 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,680 God. And these creatures there, they, 221 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:18,560 with two of their wings they cover, they cover their feet in 222 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:20,960 the presence of God. With two of their wings they 223 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,840 cover their faces in the presence of God. 224 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,640 And with two they fly, symbolizing swiftness in 225 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,000 service, readiness to praise, readiness to do the will of God 226 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,680 there. But don't you get a picture 227 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:32,640 there of the holiness of God? Because remember, these 228 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,680 Seraphim's have never sinned. They are pure and sinless 229 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:40,080 creatures, and yet even as pure sinless creatures, they are so 230 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,920 full of reverence and so full of awe for the holiness of God that 231 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,840 they veil their faces. They dare not look upon God's 232 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,960 presence so, so profound is their respect and their 233 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,600 reverence for God. And they cover their feet again, 234 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,640 a symbol of their humility in the presence of God, and they 235 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,720 cry continually one to another. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of 236 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,520 hosts. That's quite different, isn't 237 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,680 it, to the modern church that says let me dance in Jesus 238 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,400 presence and, and let me lift myself up in the presence of 239 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,080 God. No, you find in the Bible when 240 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,520 people were truly confronted with the holiness of God, they 241 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,440 fell on their paces. And we need more of that in our 242 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,920 churches today. More of reverence for God, more 243 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,960 awe and wonder. Of the God we serve. 244 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,200 We've lost the fear of God. We've lost the awe. 245 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,720 We've lost the reverence for God in our day. 246 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,440 We need to get back to it. Where is the holy or in fear of 247 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:43,000 God in our day? Let's remember the God we serve. 248 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,240 He's at an eye. He's almighty. 249 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,560 He's all powerful. He's before all things. 250 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,240 He's the Creator. He's everlasting. 251 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,640 He's ever present. He's El Shaddai, God Almighty. 252 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,960 He's Elohim, God of power and majesty, The Creator. 253 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,800 He's God. He's glorious. 254 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,760 He's holy. He's high. 255 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,120 He's the high and lofty one. He's immutable. 256 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,480 He's immortal. He's invisible. 257 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,280 He's indescribable. He's unchangeable. 258 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,200 At the God we serve is the I am. He's just. 259 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,440 He's Jehovah, Jehovah Jaira, the Lord will provide, Jehovah Rafa, 260 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,480 the Lord who heals, Jehovah Nisi, the Lord, our banner, 261 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,160 Jehovah Shalom, the Lord is peace, Jehovah, Raah the Lord, 262 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:26,960 our shepherd, Jehovah to said, can you the Lord, our 263 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,720 righteousness, Jehovah Sabayoth, the Lord of hosts, Jehovah 264 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,320 Mekanoshim, the Lord who sanctifies, Jehovah Shema the 265 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,600 Lord is there, that's our God. He's king. 266 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,440 He's king of Israel, He's king everlasting. 267 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,160 He's king of kings and Lord of Lords. 268 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,720 He's marvellous, majestic, mighty God, most high God. 269 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,320 He's never changing. He's omnipotent or powerful. 270 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,200 He's omnipresent everywhere present. 271 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,200 He's omniscient, he knows all things, He's the only wise God. 272 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,480 He's perfect, he's pure, he's powerful, he's potentate, he's 273 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,640 provider, He's ruler, Redeemer, self existent, self efficient, 274 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,000 sovereign, sinless. The same yesterday, today and 275 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,400 forever. And he's victor over sin and 276 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,800 death and the grave. That's the God we serve. 277 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:15,400 That's God. The holiness of God. 278 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,200 He's emphasized in the seraphim's posture that posture 279 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:24,920 of reverence in God's presence, and it's emphasized #2 in the 280 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:31,040 seraphim's praise. Verse 3 And they cried, and one 281 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:36,160 cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of 282 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,000 hosts. The whole earth is full of his 283 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,960 glory. And the post of the door moved 284 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,160 at the voice of him that cried in the house. 285 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:49,240 Was full of smoke. And so these heavenly creatures, 286 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:54,200 as they fly above the throne of God, they are continually crying 287 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,640 out, notice, one to another. I find that interesting. 288 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,520 No doubt the anthem of praise was directed towards God on the 289 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,360 throne. But notice, it's like they will 290 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,000 not allow each other to forget this attribute of God's 291 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,520 holiness. They're crying one to another as 292 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,319 it were, reminding each other holy, holy, holy Lord, God 293 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:12,680 Almighty. And isn't it significant that 294 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,400 out of all of God's attributes, the attribute that most 295 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,000 impressed these holy creatures was God's holiness? 296 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,480 God has many attributes, but there is a strong emphasis in 297 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,160 His Holiness in the Bible. Did you know that this is the 298 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,520 only attribute of God that is repeated 3 times in this kind of 299 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,640 pattern? Holy, holy. 300 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,480 Holy Lord, God Almighty, we don't read in the Bible 301 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,640 gracious, gracious, gracious, and God is gracious. 302 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,000 I'm not denying that. We don't read merciful, 303 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,080 merciful, merciful repeated in that way. 304 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,120 And God is merciful. We're not denying that. 305 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,800 But I'm just saying, if we're going to understand something of 306 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:55,080 the God we serve, we must understand that He is holy. 307 00:18:00,570 --> 00:18:02,610 What does holiness mean or what does it refer to? 308 00:18:02,930 --> 00:18:05,250 Well, it refers to the absolute purity of God. 309 00:18:05,370 --> 00:18:09,320 How can we even begin to describe the purity of our God? 310 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:14,840 Light of very light, holiness speaks of the otherness of God. 311 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,560 It means to be set apart is not God. 312 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,400 Is not God above his creation and over his creation and 313 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,560 separate to his creation. We could put it this way, there 314 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,720 is none like God. There is none like him. 315 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,080 The word holiness emphasizes the purity of God, the otherness of 316 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,800 God, and we could say the above Ness of God. 317 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,480 There's none like him. He's God alone. 318 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,320 You know, this vision had a huge impact on Isaiah because you 319 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,440 know what one of his favorite titles for God is in his book? 320 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,080 It's the Holy One and the Holy One of Israel. 321 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:56,840 As you read the book of Isaiah, you will find that about 30 322 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:02,120 times he refers to God as the Holy One and the Holy One of 323 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,000 Israel. In fact, there's very few of 324 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,520 those references outside of Isaiah. 325 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,720 There's just a couple elsewhere. Most of that, that title we find 326 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,040 the holy, the Holy One and the holy one of Israel. 327 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,800 That's found in the book of Isaiah. 328 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,440 I believe if you could, if you could have met Isaiah and said 329 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,880 Isaiah, what is God like? He would have immediately said 330 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:26,960 God is holy. Psalm 99133 the Lord reigneth. 331 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,840 Let the people tremble. He sitteth between the 332 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,040 cherubims. Let the earth be moved. 333 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,680 The Lord is great in Zion, and He is high above all the people. 334 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,920 Let them praise thy great and terrible name. 335 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:47,640 For it is holy. Look at the effect their praise 336 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,120 had upon the temple there. Verse four. 337 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,640 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, 338 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,320 and the house was filled with smoke. 339 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,600 There was a literal shaking. Whether Azar is actually seeing 340 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,560 this vision in the actual temple in Jerusalem possible. 341 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,360 Or perhaps he's been given. No doubt he's been. 342 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:08,400 He's been given a vision there in heaven itself. 343 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,400 Whatever we see here, the posts of the door, literally. 344 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,880 Convulsing at the mention of God's holiness. 345 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,720 There's a shaking there in the temple of the mention of God's 346 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,640 holiness. And while we don't look for a 347 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,600 physical shaking of a building this morning, we do need to have 348 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,040 our hearts stirred and we need to be shaken and in a good way 349 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,400 at the mention of God's holiness. 350 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:31,640 Oh, how we need a shaking in our day and we need a reviving and 351 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,360 we need a moving in our hearts. You say, how's that going to 352 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:36,160 come about? Well, it's going to start with 353 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:45,620 us seeing God for who he is. So we have eyes, eyes, eyes, 354 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:49,500 vision. What's your view of God this 355 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:57,480 morning #2 look now at eyes, eyes, confession, Isaiah's 356 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,280 confession. Look at verse 5 and I want you 357 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:06,640 to see the Word then, then the Word then in verse 5, and then 358 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,200 the word then in verse 6. Describe the effect this 359 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:19,440 powerful vision had upon Isaiah. Then said, I woe is me, for I am 360 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,320 undone, because I'm a man of uncling lips, and I dwell in the 361 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,560 midst of a people of uncling lips, for mine eyes have seen 362 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:33,200 the King, the Lord of hosts. Do you see the pattern here? 363 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,640 When as I got a correct view of God, he then got a correct view 364 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,560 of Himself. When Isaiah saw God exalted in 365 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,040 His Holiness, when Isaiah saw God exalted there in His 366 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,600 Majesty, he came away with a very accurate view of himself. 367 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,800 And that's what we need today. We need to see God for who He 368 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,480 is. We need to see God exalted in 369 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,480 His Holiness. And then we need to see 370 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,440 ourselves as we really are in His presence. 371 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,560 And Isaiah confessed 2 things. Lord, I am undone. 372 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:09,000 I am undone. That word undone is a very 373 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,280 powerful word. You drill into that word and it 374 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,400 has the idea of to be destroyed, to perish. 375 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:17,320 It's like as I said, Lord, I'm done, I'm finished. 376 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,080 I'm, I'm, I'm cut off. I, I, Lord, I perish. 377 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,040 This same Hebrew word is translated perish in Psalm 49, 378 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,000 verse 12, brought to silence Isaiah 15, verse one. 379 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,240 Cease. Jeremiah 14 verse 17. 380 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,800 Cut off Jeremiah 47 verse 5 and cut down Zephaniah one verse 11. 381 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,280 By the way, the King James Bible is a wonderful resource. 382 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,680 There you study a word, you find how the translators use that 383 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,200 word in other places, and it can give you a beautiful picture of 384 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,160 the spectrum of meaning in that. Word that the Holy Spirit gave. 385 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,080 And so he say, he's basically saying, Lord, I'm speechless. 386 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:03,320 Lord, I feel cut off. Do you know what happened? 387 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:07,760 Isaiah gained a deep sense of his nothingness and his 388 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,480 unworthiness in God's presence. You read the first five chapters 389 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,200 and he there was some powerful preaching there from Isaiah. 390 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,080 But this was a turning point in his life. 391 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,800 He came to realize that really he was nothing before God and we 392 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,320 have to come to that place. And again, society says the 393 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,080 opposite. This is society we live in says, 394 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,840 well, you just pump yourself up and you discover the inner 395 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,560 champion within you and you just need to release that champion. 396 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,360 Is that not the lot? That's a lot of the preaching 397 00:23:32,360 --> 00:23:34,760 out there on YouTube and the Christian television, so, 398 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,680 so-called. It's all about you pumping 399 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,120 yourself up and you, you've got what it takes. 400 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:42,400 No, If you really want to be used of God in this area of 401 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,000 missions, if you really want to be used of God in Christian 402 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,080 service, you have to come to the place where you realize that you 403 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,960 are. Nothing, and God must be 404 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:57,520 everything. Lord, I perish, I'm undone. 405 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:03,320 It's interesting, isn't it, that God often has to undo us before 406 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,800 he can use us. You know, God is in the business 407 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,400 of breaking us so that then we might be useful again. 408 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,960 It's the opposite to the way we think. 409 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,320 Well, here are my strengths. Here are my weaknesses. 410 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,600 I'll you know, I'll focus on my I'll try and build my weaknesses 411 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,840 and and here's my strengths. Well, hang on. 412 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,400 Maybe the Lord might have to actually even break some of 413 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,800 those strengths that you might learn to rest on him and trust 414 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:34,760 him. Let. 415 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,760 God undo you in His presence. We have to come to the place 416 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,840 where we realize that in and of ourselves, we don't have what it 417 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,960 takes to serve God. We don't have what it takes to 418 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,240 do anything for God. That's the right kind of 419 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,800 humility we need in the presence of God, and that's the place of 420 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,240 usefulness when we come to realize that it's not us, it 421 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,440 must be God who does the work through US. 422 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:04,760 Lord, I am undone. We could say this is really a 423 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,480 death to self experience for Oz I. 424 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,120 You know, we need to learn what it means to say I perish as it 425 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:15,320 were, or I died in Christ and embrace the cross. 426 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,320 Do you realize that God views you as a believer, as one who? 427 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,920 This is the position, the position we have in Christ. 428 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,400 He sees you as one who, who, who died with the Son of God. 429 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,560 Galatians 220. I'm crucified with Christ. 430 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,160 Romans 66. There talks about the old man 431 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,400 was crucified with him there that the body of sin might be 432 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,360 destroyed. God sees you as one who was 433 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:36,760 buried with his Son and raised in your life in his Son. 434 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,680 And we have to learn to embrace the cross in service and say not 435 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,800 I, but Christ as I was confession. 436 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,360 He said I'm undone #2 He said I am unclean. 437 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,200 I am undone, I am unclean. Look back at look back at verse 438 00:25:55,200 --> 00:26:01,040 5, then said, I woe is me, for I am undone because I'm a man of 439 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,040 unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean 440 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,600 lips. For mine eyes have seen the 441 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:13,560 king, the Lord of hosts. You see how Isaiah got a sense 442 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,120 for his sinfulness in the light of God's holiness. 443 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,240 I am unclean you know you really have to come to that point in 444 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,680 your life for salvation before you ever become be used of God 445 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,280 in service. Just just make an application 446 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,680 here. You know you have to come to 447 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,000 that place in your life where you recognize that you are 448 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,480 unclean in your sin as I646 but we are all as an unclean thing 449 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,280 and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. 450 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,040 You've got to come to the place in your life where you realize 451 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,960 that you are what the Bible says, a Sinner for all have 452 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,360 sinned. Romans chapter 3 verse 23 and 453 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:53,760 come short. The glory of God the Bible is so 454 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,360 clear. Romans 310 as it is written 455 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,560 there is none righteous, no not one and we define sin according 456 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,760 to God's word. Read first John chapter 3 verse 457 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,760 4. Sin is the transgression or the 458 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,800 breaking of the law. All you have to do is run your 459 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,200 eye over the 10 commandments and you'll realize that you are not 460 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,560 a law keeper, you are a law breaker, and therefore you are a 461 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,320 great Sinner in the eyes of God. And for salvation you must come 462 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,040 to that place where you're willing to say, Lord, I am 463 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,440 unclean. And the only thing that can wash 464 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,320 me clean, the only thing that can make me whiter than the 465 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,040 whitest snow is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. 466 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,560 Oh how the Lord Jesus loves you. And he came and he died. 467 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,200 He lived a perfect life and he died a perfect death upon the 468 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,240 cross. And you must come as a guilty 469 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,640 Sinner, as an unclean Sinner. Oh, how filthy we are in our 470 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,560 sin. Oh, how dirty we are and how 471 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,280 depraved we are in our sins. We are unclean and we are naked 472 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:47,320 in the presence of God. But we come there and with that 473 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,440 spirit of repentance, acknowledging that we are 474 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,520 sinners before God, and then reaching out the empty hands of 475 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,680 faith, receiving by faith God's free gift of eternal life. 476 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,720 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. 477 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,040 And when you'll do that, he'll cleanse you. 478 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,360 He'll make you clean. He'll make you white as snow. 479 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:13,200 That's where it all starts. But you have to also come to 480 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,240 that place in a sense, like as I did as a believer when it comes 481 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,800 to Christian service. You see, there's the cleansing 482 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,000 for salvation, but there's also an ongoing work of cleansing for 483 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,080 service. Salvation happens once in our 484 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,360 lives. It's a one time event. 485 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:30,040 Save forever. Once saved, always saved. 486 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,480 But aren't you thankful that cleansing is not only available 487 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,520 for salvation, but cleansing is available for sanctification? 488 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,440 And if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive 489 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,920 us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 490 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,320 Aren't you thankful for the power of confession and the 491 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,280 power of. Cleansing in your life as a 492 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,640 believer that you might be usable for God. 493 00:28:53,220 --> 00:28:59,520 And so as I was acknowledging the fact that he's that is that 494 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,160 that he that he was, he's acknowledging here his sin and 495 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,640 his unworthiness to speak for God. 496 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,920 Notice that Isaiah was most conscious about his lips. 497 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,360 I understand that as a preacher, he's a man who's endeavoring to 498 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,320 speak for God. And whether you're called to be 499 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,400 a full time preacher or not, we're all called to speak for 500 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,360 God, aren't we? And it doesn't take very long 501 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,720 when you look at God's holiness to realize I have unclean lips. 502 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,280 Lord, how can you? And I'm still, I still wonder 503 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,840 this, how can God take unclean lips and use them to preach his 504 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,200 word? Well, the answer is cleansing, 505 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:44,120 as we're going to see in a moment, I am unclean. 506 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,840 Notice then he says, I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean 507 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,040 lips. See how Isaiah when he was 508 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,720 confronted with God's holiness, it brought him to a realization 509 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,320 of his own uncleanness, but also the uncleanness of those around 510 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,160 him. Now note the order he started 511 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,360 with his own sin first, then the sins of others. 512 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,400 And when you really get a sense of God's holiness in your life, 513 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,120 you will firstly see your own uncleanness before you see 514 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,280 everybody else's. But when you get revived in the 515 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,600 presence of God and you see God for who He is, it'll not only 516 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,840 give you a consciousness of sin in your own life, but you'll 517 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,120 become more sensitive to the sin around you. 518 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,920 You know, today we are so desensitized to the very vilest 519 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,720 of sins, and the holiness of God will bring sin into sharp 520 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:31,000 clarity. Do we not live in a wicked age? 521 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,280 Does that not break our hearts? Not only the sin in our own 522 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:39,320 lives, but how we live in a sinful generation, a generation 523 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,480 that blasphemes the name of God, a generation that has 524 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:47,040 popularized and normalized the vile sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. 525 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,760 And there's something wrong today where Christians don't 526 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,280 seem to care anymore about sin in the nation. 527 00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,520 You say what's happened? They've lost sight of how holy 528 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:05,440 God is. You know, our problem today, our 529 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,320 problem is we laugh about sin rather than mourn about sin. 530 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,000 Do you know our problem is today we're more interested in 531 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,200 covering up sin than confessing sin. 532 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,160 You know, a lot of churches today like that. 533 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,760 You know, pastor's been involved in calling some of that out. 534 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,720 God bless him for that. But there are a lot of pastors 535 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,600 out there. Their main interest is cover sin 536 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,120 over keep the keep cover over the child molestation. 537 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,760 Cover over the adultery in the fornication in the church. 538 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,320 Don't deal with it. Whatever you do, make sure 539 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,840 nobody finds out they've lost sight of the holiness of God. 540 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,320 I don't care if they call themselves independent. 541 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:37,840 Baptists don't care what they call themselves. 542 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,200 If you are covering over sin and not dealing with sin biblically, 543 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,920 you have lost sight. Of the holiness of God, there's 544 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:52,420 something wrong with you. The holiness of God not only 545 00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:56,260 produces A soberness about sin in my own life, but it also 546 00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:59,580 produces A sharpness to the sin of a nation. 547 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:10,040 Isaiah's vision, he saw God. Isaiah's confession, then said I 548 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,480 woe is me. Interesting, isn't it, how you 549 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,440 read Isaiah? And he was saying, woe to this. 550 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:18,440 You read the first five chapters. 551 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,760 Woe unto the drunkids, woe to this, but he came to that place. 552 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,720 Woe is me. And you're going to find in the 553 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,600 Christian life, you know, when you when you got saved, you said 554 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,240 very much, Lord, save me from sin, but you're going to find 555 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:34,960 this. In the Christian life, you're 556 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,360 going to get to the place where you say, Lord, save me from me. 557 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,880 Lord, save me from sin. That's how you get saved. 558 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,720 Oh, but Lord, now as a Christian, save me from self. 559 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,320 Woe is me. In me, in my flesh, Romans 7 560 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,640 dwells no good thing. Lord, deliver me from the body 561 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,840 of this death. Lord, apply the cross to the 562 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:57,360 self life that I might be usable for you #3. 563 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,600 Look at our eyes cleansing, and you'll notice the word then 564 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:08,560 again in verse 6. Then flew one of the seraphims 565 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,200 unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken 566 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,560 with the tongs from off the altar. 567 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,600 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched 568 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,880 thy lips, and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 569 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,800 God saw sorry, as I saw God in His Holiness, and in His 570 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,080 Highness. Then said I Woe is me. 571 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,480 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me. 572 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,720 Verse 6. Laid it upon his mouth, my 573 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:37,600 mouth. Verse 7. 574 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,440 You see the sequence here? Confession leads to cleansing. 575 00:33:47,020 --> 00:33:49,860 Confession brought cleansing and ultimately equipping. 576 00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:53,140 Let's look at three points about this cleansing. 577 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:55,540 Firstly, we could say it was a fast cleansing. 578 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,680 A fast cleansing then flew one of the seraphims. 579 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,480 No doubt this seraphim was sent by God. 580 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,160 They are there to serve the purposes of God and the will of 581 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,440 God and one of them is dispatched very quickly there. 582 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,760 Aren't you thankful that when we come to God and we acknowledge 583 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,639 our brokenness, we've. Acknowledged our simpleness 584 00:34:11,639 --> 00:34:13,480 before God. Aren't you thankful that 585 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,400 straight away the heart of our God is to cleanse us in response 586 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,080 to our confession? I'm so thankful for that. 587 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,080 It tells you something about the grace of God and the love of God 588 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,440 and the and the goodness of God that God would be so willing to 589 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,120 cleanse us and to purify us in our Christian. 590 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:36,440 Lives the fast cleansing. It was a fiery cleansing. #2 is 591 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,600 a fiery cleansing. Look back at verse 6. 592 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,320 Then flew one of the Seraphim's unto me, having a live coal in 593 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,199 his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the 594 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:45,639 altar. Do you see here that the 595 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:49,199 Seraphim flew swiftly to the altar there in the temple, no 596 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,280 doubt the altar of sacrifice, the place where the lambs would 597 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,880 be slain and then burned upon the altar. 598 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,800 And I love the picture there. You see, the altar of sacrifice 599 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,440 speaks of the cross. It speaks of the Lord Jesus 600 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,000 Christ. Where are you going to find 601 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,520 cleansing at the cross? Where are you going to find 602 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:05,880 cleansing? At the feet of the. 603 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,200 Lord Jesus and here, as it were, the seraphim takes the blood 604 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:16,200 stained coal off the older, flies over there to to Isaiah 605 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,640 and applies that glowing coal to the lips of Isaiah. 606 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,040 Cleansing is applied. You know, I find it interesting 607 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,800 that the seraphim had to use a pair of tongs to touch the 608 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,280 coals. You know the the angels as as as 609 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,160 exalted as their position is, they don't know what it is to 610 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:39,080 receive cleansing as a Sinner. And the seraphim could not touch 611 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,360 this coal of redemption, as it were. 612 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,880 The seraphim could not touch this coal of cleansing. 613 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,920 But that coal of cleansing could touch Ozai. 614 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,320 Isn't it a wonderful thing to be cleansed? 615 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,640 It was a fiery cleansing. It was a fiery cleansing. 616 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,680 Number three, it was a focused cleansing. 617 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,920 Notice that the cleansing was applied to the specific area of 618 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,120 need. As I confessed, I'm a man of 619 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,040 unclean lips and God immediately applied cleansing to that area 620 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,560 of need. And that's that's how we need to 621 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,640 confess sin in our lives. Vague confession brings vague 622 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,200 relief, but specific confession brings specific relief. 623 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,760 Don't tell God about your sin in vague terms. 624 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,560 You tell him what he did, what you did. 625 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,000 Specifically. It's like with your children, 626 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,440 they, you know you, they've done something wrong and they try and 627 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,440 sort of generalize things and make it sound not too bad. 628 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,000 No, tell me what you did. What did you do, boy? 629 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:43,000 Tell God what you've done. He knows about it already 630 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,280 anyway. And when you're willing to tell 631 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,760 God what you've done, that's really what confession is. 632 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,560 It's to agree with God about your sin. 633 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,640 It's to confess plainly your sin. 634 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,840 When you confess your sin to God in that manner, God will apply 635 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:05,710 His cleansing. To that area of need, the word 636 00:37:05,710 --> 00:37:08,150 purged we see in the verse here. It's an interesting word. 637 00:37:08,150 --> 00:37:11,470 It comes from the Hebrew word translated repeatedly as 638 00:37:11,710 --> 00:37:19,400 atonement in the Old Testament. Purged sin atoned for. 639 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:26,520 Don't you see the picture here? Isaiah, as a man of God, needed 640 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,840 the touch of God, the special, special touch of God upon his 641 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:36,240 lips in order to give him the power to speak God's words. 642 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:38,880 I tell you, that's what we need today. 643 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,600 We need preachers whose lips have been touched with the fire 644 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,800 of God. We need preaching that is not 645 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,520 preaching that is spoken in demonstration of men's man's 646 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,520 wisdom, but is spoken in demonstration of the Spirit and 647 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,600 of power, that our faith would not stand in the wisdom of men, 648 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,080 but in the power of God. That's the kind of preaching we 649 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,160 need today. Oh God, deliver us from cold 650 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,000 preaching and dead preaching. God, give us some preaching 651 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,800 that's been fired with fire off the altar. 652 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,600 That's what we need today, not some strange fire, not some 653 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,240 charismatic fire, but the genuine power of God. 654 00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:14,320 There needs to be warmth and and our preaching needs to be alive 655 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,120 with the presence and the power of God. 656 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,080 And that comes by God's men getting in the presence of God 657 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,720 and realizing their unworthiness and their unusefulness really in 658 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:25,840 their humanity, and casting themselves upon God for His 659 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,280 cleansing and His equipping and His empowering. 660 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,360 For service how we need that touch? 661 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,000 Upon our lips. That's the thing that scares me 662 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,960 the most, frankly, as a preacher, that I could be 663 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,280 preaching even doctrinally accurate sermons, but with no 664 00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,680 power. It happens today. 665 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,680 There are preachers in pulpits, and give credit where credit's 666 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,160 due, they may even be preaching sound doctrine, but it's hollow 667 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,000 and it's empty. There's no touch of God upon it. 668 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:56,080 And we need to be, to be. Touched by the fire of God, as 669 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:56,560 it were. Amen. 670 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,400 That our preaching might be a glow for the Lord. 671 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:11,760 And so we see His cleansing #4 at Isaiah's Commission. 672 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:21,960 We've seen His vision, His confession, His cleansing, and 673 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:31,040 now His Commission. Look at verse 8 and verse 9 also 674 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:37,200 I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and 675 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:44,840 who will go for us? Then said, I, here am I send me. 676 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:50,280 And he said, Go and tell this people as I as Commission. 677 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:57,360 Now let me draw your attention to three important features of 678 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:03,040 this Commission #1. The sequence leading to this 679 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:07,320 call. The sequence leading to the 680 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,560 call. I believe the sequence in the 681 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,480 events of the passage are significant. 682 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,120 Isaiah did not receive this call at the beginning. 683 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:21,200 First he had to get a fresh vision of who God was that then 684 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,680 he might see himself as he really was. 685 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,800 There had to be a purging of sin out of his life, a clearing of 686 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,880 the blockage of sin in his life. And once Isaiah had received 687 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,400 that cleansing from God, once Isaiah had done business in the 688 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,000 presence of God, and it had and had experienced a measure of. 689 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,280 Spiritual revival. Then, and only then was he able 690 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,680 to hear God's call. Whom shall I send, and who will 691 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,880 go for us? That is very significant. 692 00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,160 You know why I, I believe this with all my heart. 693 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,400 You know why so many there's, there's such a dearth of labours 694 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,240 today. Do you know why so many are not 695 00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:59,360 hearing the call of God? I don't believe it's because God 696 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,280 stopped calling. I believe that people can't hear 697 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,040 the voice of God and can't hear the heart of God in relation to 698 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,720 missions because their lives are so full of sin. 699 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:14,520 And when your life is full of the blockage of sin, you're not 700 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:18,320 going to have any interest in reaching a lost world for Jesus 701 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,600 Christ. You're not going to have the 702 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:24,360 kind of heart you need to have to reach the World when your 703 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,240 life is full. Of sin. 704 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:32,320 Sin is stopping revival in our churches. 705 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:37,160 Sin is what's stopping young men from surrendering to the call of 706 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,000 God. You say why so little revival in 707 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,760 our day? Why so few laborers? 708 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,080 Because the average young man today is full up to his eyeball 709 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,280 eyeballs with pornography. And how are you going to 710 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:52,520 possibly hear God's call to you? How are you possibly going to 711 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,480 hear God's voice about the great need of the harvest fields of 712 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,320 the world if you're full of pornography? 713 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,640 You know why so little zeal for missions today? 714 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,600 Because the average independent Baptist watches way too many 715 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,960 dirty movies. The average independent Baptist 716 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,080 today watches way too much trash on television. 717 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,120 How many times do you have to hear? 718 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,480 How many times do you have to hear the name of your blessed 719 00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,360 Saviour Jesus Christ blaspheme before you will shut that 720 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,080 program off? How many immodest scenes do you 721 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,280 need to see? How many dirty scenes do you 722 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,560 need to see before you will say enough? 723 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:34,720 Enough in light of the presence of God. 724 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:37,520 Might be good to go home today in light of this message and 725 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,360 think about the holiness of God and think about what you have on 726 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,520 your computer. Think about your Netflix 727 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,360 subscription. In fact, a little suggestion for 728 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:45,680 you. Just get off of Netflix. 729 00:42:45,680 --> 00:43:00,240 Disconnect from that. Won a revival today. 730 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,440 Sin. Dirty movies. 731 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,960 How many? How can you as a Christian? 732 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,880 How can you as a Christian watch some movie with some lewd 733 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,040 inappropriate scene in it? How is that OK? 734 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:26,240 It happens in our churches. Is it really God honoring for 735 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:28,880 you to play that video game going around blowing off heads 736 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:29,360 all day? Amen. 737 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,960 And hacking people to pieces. In fact, I remember back, I 738 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,480 remember somewhere in the Bible about the world being full of 739 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,840 violence before Noah's flood came. 740 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:40,000 Do you remember anything about that? 741 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,760 Yes. Amen. 742 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,640 Why no revival today? Because some of you are wrapped 743 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,040 up in the online sewers of social media. 744 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:55,400 And let's just be honest this morning, while some use some of 745 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,240 those platforms in a disciplined and character way, most of 746 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:03,880 social media is a sewer. Instagram. 747 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,720 It's called Instaporn in the world. 748 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,160 That's its nickname, Insta porn. Why? 749 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,840 Studies have been done by family research groups that find 750 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,320 literally within seconds, you can access an almost limitless 751 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,560 supply of pornographic imagery and links to more and more 752 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:19,720 pornography. Because guess what? 753 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,280 Those massive big pornography companies have embedded 754 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:29,520 themselves in those major sites. Word to parents. 755 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,760 If you let your teenager have an unrestricted smartphone with 756 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,960 unrestricted access to the Internet, you are a fool. 757 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:42,560 Yeah, that's true. You are a fool. 758 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,480 In fact, I've seen enough as a pastor to date to say this. 759 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,960 If you give your teenage boy a smartphone with unrestricted 760 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,480 access to the Internet, you've basically signed their spiritual 761 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,320 death warrant. That's true. 762 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,120 You see, that's a bit dramatic, I'm telling you. 763 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,560 I struggled enough as a teenager with my thought life without the 764 00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,040 TV in the home. I struggled enough as a teenager 765 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,000 with my thought life without a smartphone. 766 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,680 And if I had lived, if I had grown up as a teenager in the 767 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,360 smartphone age and my parents had given me one, I'm about 768 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,520 99.99% sure I would have looked at the wrong thing. 769 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,480 What do you? Think your teenage is going to 770 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,640 do with that smartphone with unrestricted access to the 771 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,280 Internet in their bedroom? You know the strange woman has 772 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,240 found her way into the bedrooms of most independent Baptist 773 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:36,120 homes today. The digital strange woman. 774 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,120 And I'm not trying to sound like I'm some sort of prophet. 775 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,760 It would not surprise me at all if there's a man under the sound 776 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,760 of my voice in this building who has a problem with pornography. 777 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:55,120 That's you. You need revival and you need 778 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,880 help. So I could never come forward. 779 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,000 My pastor will smash me. No, he'll try and help you. 780 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,280 But the longer you go on with that in your life, it's going to 781 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,920 clog up the wellsprings of revival in your life. 782 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,960 And as long as you spend more time on Facebook than having 783 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,800 your face in God's Book, there will be no revival. 784 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,120 That's the reality today. The average Independence Baptist 785 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:21,280 spends way more time on Facebook than they do having their face 786 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:29,580 in God's Book. And you sit there before the 787 00:46:29,580 --> 00:46:32,860 service, browsing social media. Couldn't you have one day off? 788 00:46:34,020 --> 00:46:37,220 Couldn't you have one day off and just have one day for the 789 00:46:37,220 --> 00:46:38,620 Lord? That wouldn't hurt you, you 790 00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:41,520 know. I'm not against technology and 791 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:42,960 the appropriate use of technology. 792 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:44,400 You say why are you preaching this? 793 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,560 Because I'm seeing the digital world destroy many families, 794 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,120 destroy young men, and don't think you're exempt as a young 795 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,320 woman. Oh well, it doesn't affect me. 796 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,040 I'm a woman. Yes, it's affecting our young 797 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,920 girls and the self harm culture that's being promoted on TikTok 798 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,920 and the pornographic culture that's being promoted on TikTok 799 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,440 and the pornographic culture that's being promoted on 800 00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,280 Instagram. We're living in a world that is 801 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,440 going to hell in a sea of vile imagery. 802 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,560 And if ever there was a day where we need to get a hold of 803 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,680 the holiness of God and to translate our understanding of 804 00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,320 the holiness of God into practical life, it would have to 805 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,720 be in 21st century America, 21st century Australia, where we have 806 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,920 more access to the sordid sins of the wicked nature there than 807 00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,680 at any other time in human history. 808 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,560 Literally today, within a few taps, you can be into the depths 809 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:45,680 of depravity. I'm tired of seeing good 810 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,800 Christian young people get destroyed and sometimes they're 811 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,880 in really good homes. But somewhere mum and dad lost 812 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,480 the plot. Thick as a brick. 813 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:59,600 Thick as a brick. And I've even seen, Listen, I 814 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,840 can tell you about a young man right now, and he grew up in a 815 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,680 clean home, homeschooled, no television. 816 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,520 And yet somewhere the parents dropped the ball with the laptop 817 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,520 and he was getting up at night and accessing the depths of 818 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:16,280 iniquity on his mother's unprotected, unsupervised 819 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:24,720 laptop. This is a little bit fresh in my 820 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:27,520 mind because of the conference I just preached at for brother 821 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,560 Courtney. But his sister, there I was 822 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,440 preaching on some of these things and she said I'm, she 823 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,360 said, I want you. I want you to know you're free 824 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:35,800 to share this story with other people. 825 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,880 She said what you said is true. We home schooled our children, 826 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,440 but I had a laptop. My daughter found out the 827 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,640 password to that laptop and unbeknownst to me, when I would 828 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,520 go out to the shops or go to do something or be out of the home, 829 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:51,200 she was getting into that laptop. 830 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,680 She got onto social media and she got tangled up in 831 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,800 lesbianism. So what happened to her? 832 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:04,080 She's seriously messed up. She's in her 30s now and still 833 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:05,480 hasn't found her way back to the Lord. 834 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,360 She may not even be saved, but it happened in a good home, 835 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,760 schooled home, an overall godly home. 836 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:17,040 But the parents were unwise and didn't think. 837 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,840 And she said you share that story to warn others. 838 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:23,640 You know, you need to think as a parent about every device in 839 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,680 your home. And if that device has 840 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,640 accountability and protection on it, and that includes you as a 841 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:30,720 wife, well, it doesn't affect me. 842 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:32,160 I'm a woman. Firstly, that's a lie. 843 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,000 You have a sinful flesh and you can get wrapped up in the in the 844 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,640 whole thing. In fact, many women get caught 845 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,240 up in emotional affairs you might not be so attracted to. 846 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,280 Naked pictures. But you can get caught up in 847 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,800 some emotional affair with some old school contact who's not 848 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:50,680 your husband. Plus you should be setting a 849 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:54,600 good example for your children. Plus, you don't want your kids 850 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,320 to maybe somehow get. Access to that phone and get 851 00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,960 into things because kids work out technology very quickly. 852 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,720 My kids have told me things about my iPhone and features 853 00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:04,600 that I didn't even know existed and they barely touched the 854 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:12,800 thing. Guess what, if you don't give 855 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,800 your teenager an iPhone, they will live. 856 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:23,040 They'll live. Your son won't die. 857 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,240 In fact, don't we want our kids to just enjoy their childhood? 858 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,400 I'm thankful that overall I enjoyed my childhood. 859 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,240 So poor. Oh, you poor guy, you didn't 860 00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:34,640 have ATV. What did you miss out on? 861 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:36,760 Well, I missed out on having my mind scarred. 862 00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,280 That's worth missing out on. I missed out on a whole learning 863 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,480 a whole bunch of evil things you say. 864 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,960 What did you do? We climbed trees, we fell out of 865 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,280 trees. We dug holes, we fell in. 866 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,960 Holes. We broke arms, you say? 867 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,360 That was wonderful. Well, not the breaking of the 868 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:53,920 arm part, but you know, I didn't break. 869 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,440 I'm actually the only one who didn't break a bone. 870 00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,880 I helped my younger brother break one on accident. 871 00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,320 Yeah, it's always an accident, isn't it? 872 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,800 But somehow the older brother's got some hand in it. 873 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,240 So we were jumping, we were jumping off this box and 874 00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:08,400 grabbing onto a bar, and I just moved it back to give him a 875 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:11,360 high, you know, just moved the box back a bit and he jumped 876 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,920 again, sailed past, broke his arm in two places. 877 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,080 I didn't tell Mom and Dad about that until later. 878 00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:19,880 I thought I'd admit that detail from the report. 879 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,440 It's great to see children enjoying simple things. 880 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,760 So what do your kids do? We take them to the fruit and 881 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,320 veg shop we go to. We get our we get our fruit and 882 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,840 veg from a little Indian grocer because it's about half 1/4 of 883 00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:35,440 the process of the major grocery stores. 884 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,240 They just love it. Think man, these kids are 885 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:39,840 homeschooled. They get excited over fruit and 886 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:45,720 veg. Why no revival? 887 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,800 Ungodly music. Do you really? 888 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:50,480 Think you're going to hear hear Ma send me? 889 00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,200 Well, you've got that stuff pounding in your ears with its 890 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,360 sensual beat and its sensual lyrics. 891 00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,520 Do you really think you're going to have a heart for missions, 892 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,960 young ladies, while you're listening to Taylor Swift? 893 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,840 Taylor Swift has zero wisdom for your life. 894 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,160 I mean, how ridiculous. Basically singing about your 895 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:13,160 dysfunctional life and this love life you find it. 896 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,320 You know you're looking for what other stupidity? 897 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:23,560 And Ariana Grande and and Doctor Dre and and and and Kanye West 898 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,400 and $0.50 and and and Snoop Dogg. 899 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:34,240 How stupid is Snoop Dogg? And I know I got into rock music 900 00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:37,600 as a teenager and it had a profound effect on my heart. 901 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,960 When I was a teenager. It was the Backstreet Boys. 902 00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,840 Oh, the Backstreet Boys. What a bunch of idiots. 903 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,560 Well, Pastor, I'm glad you haven't mentioned the oldie 904 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,080 Goldies. Elvis, The Beatles. 905 00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,120 Do you know how much do you know how much destruction those men? 906 00:52:59,240 --> 00:53:01,640 Do you know how much they destroyed America? 907 00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,400 Do you know how much they undermined the moral fabric of 908 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,120 your nation? And not just our nation, but 909 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:08,920 Australia? In fact, The Beatles came. 910 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,040 Back in the 1960s to Adelaide and you can see footage of it 911 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:15,320 and it had a profound effect. I mean I think about a million 912 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,960 people showed up or something to try and see them and it had a 913 00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,840 huge effect. Australia was never the same 914 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,840 again. My grandmother, who is from the 915 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,520 World War Two generation, said everything changed in the 60s. 916 00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,200 It was the IT was the decade of rebellion. 917 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,000 Against authority and rock'n'roll. 918 00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:36,120 And men like Elvis and The Beatles were no Saints. 919 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,200 They were wicked men. They were serial adulterers, 920 00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:41,800 serial fornicators. And just don't listen to that 921 00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,760 stuff. How are you going to have 922 00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:48,360 revival when you're listening to rock'n'roll music? 923 00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,600 Why no revival? Violent video games. 924 00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:02,320 Apart from anything else, you're wasting a lot of time. 925 00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:07,560 And I'm not saying that there aren't some. 926 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,120 Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that there aren't 927 00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,280 some wholesome programs and things that we can watch as a 928 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:14,120 family. We do that as a family, even 929 00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,120 some films, not against that. But the point is we're careful. 930 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,120 We're watchful. You have to just be careful in 931 00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,320 this digital age and make sure we're not allowing things into 932 00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,800 the home that can white Ant the spiritual lives of our children. 933 00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:33,800 You know, D or Moody back in his day, How many of you have heard 934 00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,520 of D or Moody? Great evangelist here in 935 00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,640 America, from America, Chicago area there. 936 00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,560 You know what he preached against in his day? 937 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:45,440 He was preaching against the Sunday paper. 938 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,080 He said people go home after the morning service and they fill 939 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,280 their minds with all these silly articles and things. 940 00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:54,760 And he said they come back Sunday night. 941 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,760 And he said if I if Gabriel himself showed up to preach, he 942 00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,640 wouldn't make a dent on them because their heads are so full 943 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,400 of the trash from the newspaper. What do you say today where the 944 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,520 average independent Baptist can't get off of Facebook on 945 00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,920 Sunday, can't stop looking at Insta porn? 946 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,400 I mean, Instagram on Sunday. I'm. 947 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:17,040 Serious. That's why there's no revival. 948 00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,880 You know, independent Baptist. Love talking about revival, love 949 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,360 shouting about revival, but I find they don't really like 950 00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,360 dealing with the. Issues that are stopping revival 951 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,000 and I find it's independent Baptist. 952 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,880 When things go quiet, that usually means we're on to 953 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:35,280 something, usually means we're getting down to dealing with the 954 00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,720 issues. I know I've grown up in 955 00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:40,480 independent Baptist churches and I love independent Baptist 956 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,240 churches, but I know the culture and. 957 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,880 Amen and Amen and Amen when? Things go quiet. 958 00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,800 That usually means we're getting down to business. 959 00:55:53,950 --> 00:55:55,910 Well, no revival. Lewd literature. 960 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:00,600 This is a big danger. It's been well said. 961 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,680 What images do for men, literature does for women. 962 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,760 You get wrapped up as an older woman, maybe in all those slushy 963 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,840 romance novels as a wholesome there are wholesome love 964 00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,080 stories, and not against those. There's even wholesome love 965 00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,760 stories in the Bible. But I'm talking about steamy, 966 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:25,840 slushy, sensual, immoral stuff. No wonder there's no concern for 967 00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:26,840 missions. How are you going to have any 968 00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,080 concern for missions while you're reading that junk? 969 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:34,400 Why no revival? Immorality and perversion 970 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,520 amongst God's people. Why no revival? 971 00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,520 Well, because of idolatry in the area of sports. 972 00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,080 Now, is sports simple in and of itself? 973 00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,200 No. Can it have some time in our 974 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:52,200 lives? Probably a tiny bit, but that's 975 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,920 quite different to the average independent Baptist who knows 976 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:57,200 way more about the names of the sports stars than they know 977 00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:58,840 about the names of the heroes of the faith. 978 00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:04,800 And I'd much rather actually have my kids look to godly 979 00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:09,400 preachers and things as their heroes than some baseball player 980 00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,560 or football player who may be good on the field, but he lives 981 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:19,200 like the devil off the field. It's great we had your pastor 982 00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:23,120 over and a lot of our young men now have got what they call the 983 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:27,480 Steve Boots haircut. The Pastor Boots haircut started 984 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,080 a new trend. I don't mind. 985 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:32,320 I'd rather young men get excited about a preacher from America 986 00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,560 than get excited about some idiot playing soccer. 987 00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,720 So do you see the sequence leading to the call? 988 00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,680 There was this work of spiritual revival in Isaiah that then 989 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:48,280 brought him to the place of readiness to hear God's call. 990 00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:51,240 The blockage of sin was removed. We need to do some business with 991 00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:52,920 God this morning. Maybe you at the end of this 992 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,120 service need to come forward and you need to get on your face 993 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,320 before God and say God, there's some music in my life I need to 994 00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,200 get off my iPhone. There's some unclean shows that 995 00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:02,000 I'm involved with. I'm going to disconnect from 996 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,560 them. And that includes, by the way, a 997 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,320 lot of these trashy podcasts. And they may not be. 998 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:10,160 Even very sinful, but they're just useless as far as eternity 999 00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:14,160 is concerned. Ladies, Candace Owens is not a 1000 00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,520 good role model for you. She just spews out endless 1001 00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:22,160 gossip and trash and speculation and and conspiracy. 1002 00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,000 Don't waste your time on those kinds of people. 1003 00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:33,160 Andrew Murray. Wisely observed, great advances 1004 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:37,280 in missions are always connected with a deep revival of spiritual 1005 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:40,520 life and a high devotion to the Lord Jesus. 1006 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:45,440 Great advances in missions are always connected with a deep 1007 00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:50,760 revival of spiritual life and a high devotion to the Lord Jesus. 1008 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,400 The sequence leading to the call, we need to wrap up the 1009 00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,600 sensitivity to the call. Look back at verse 8. 1010 00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,520 Look back at verse 8 also, I heard the voice of the Lord 1011 00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:03,120 saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? 1012 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,240 Do you see that there's a new sensitivity in ours eye now, now 1013 00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,160 that he's dealt with sin in his life, now that he's confessed 1014 00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,040 sin in his life and. Experienced God's cleansing. 1015 00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:16,640 Now there's a new sensitivity to this great work upon the heart 1016 00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,400 of God. And when you get close to God, 1017 00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:20,720 you will find that missions is on His heart. 1018 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,320 And now he hears this question that is upon the heart of the 1019 00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,440 eternal God. Whom shall I send and who will 1020 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,200 go for us all? How we need some young men today 1021 00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,680 who would hear that call, hear the call of God. 1022 00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,400 Whom shall I send and who will go for us? 1023 00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:41,760 And all that? We would have more men today who 1024 00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,920 would fall on their knees and say, here am I send me. 1025 00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:49,920 That same question comes ringing down to us today. 1026 00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,320 God's heart has not changed and he's still asking, whom shall I 1027 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,320 send and who will go for us? Maybe there's a young man on the 1028 00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,000 sound of my voice this morning. Maybe you've got your life 1029 01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,120 mapped out and you think you're going to have this career and 1030 01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:03,720 you're going to pursue money and do this. 1031 01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,600 Maybe you need to come to that place this morning of saying. 1032 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:12,000 Lord, here am I, I'm willing, you said, but I'm not sure if 1033 01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:13,600 I'm called yet. We'll at least say, God, I'm 1034 01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,840 willing. Make yourself available and see 1035 01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:22,960 what God will do. The sequence leading to the 1036 01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,920 call. The sensitivity to the call. 1037 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,400 Finally the surrender to the call. 1038 01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:31,320 The surrender to the call. Also I heard the voice of the 1039 01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,640 Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? 1040 01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:41,600 Then said, I here am, I send me. It's interesting to me that God 1041 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,600 did not directly address Ozai here. 1042 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,280 He simply allowed Ozai to hear the Godhead expressing that 1043 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,320 searching question. Whom shall I send and who will 1044 01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:55,840 go for us as I would need to voluntary, voluntarily surrender 1045 01:00:55,840 --> 01:01:00,560 for this task? God's not going to force you 1046 01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:03,600 either. But there is no greater 1047 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,840 privilege than the privilege of being a preacher of the Word of 1048 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,240 God. And maybe as a young man, you 1049 01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:15,560 need to beg God, make me a preacher, abuse me. 1050 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:22,560 God, here am I send me. But you can't say here am I send 1051 01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,080 me until you first confessed. I am undone. 1052 01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,520 I am unclean. In many ways, I think that's the 1053 01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:31,800 burden of the message this morning. 1054 01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,840 The blockages of sin in our lives must be dealt with. 1055 01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:42,640 Then and only then, will we really be able to do something 1056 01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,000 for the Lord in the area of missions. 1057 01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,440 Let's have every head bowed, every eye closed, every head 1058 01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:50,400 bowed, every eye closed. Let me ask you this morning, are 1059 01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,160 you saved? Have you come to that place in 1060 01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:59,400 your life? Of being willing to admit I am a 1061 01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:06,920 Sinner, I need Christ. Forgive me, Lord, for my sin. 1062 01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:08,920 Cleanse me in my blood. Would there be any this morning? 1063 01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:10,600 Well, every head is bowed and every eyes closed. 1064 01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,040 The piano begins to play with. There'd be anyone here this 1065 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,160 morning who would just be willing to put their hand up and 1066 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,840 say, Pastor, If I'm honest this morning, I'm not 100% sure that 1067 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:22,840 I've been saved from my sin. If I was to die today, I'm 1068 01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,320 really not 100% sure where I would go, where I would spend 1069 01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,280 eternity, but I'd like to deal with that today. 1070 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,600 If that would be you only Pastor and I are looking around. 1071 01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,600 Would you just raise your hand? If that's you this morning, 1072 01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,680 Pastor, pray for me. And I'd like to know more about 1073 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:39,920 how I can know for sure that my sins are forgiven and that I 1074 01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:41,160 have eternal life. Would that be you? 1075 01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:42,600 Anyone here? Would you just raise your hand? 1076 01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:46,480 If that's you, I need to know where I'm going to spend 1077 01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,880 eternity. Pray for me as you close. 1078 01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,480 Anyone at all. Maybe you're here today and you 1079 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:58,400 say, pastor, I know I'm saved, but if I'm honest, there's some 1080 01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:03,160 pretty serious sin in my life. Maybe not even serious sin, just 1081 01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:06,400 a sinful habit. All sin is serious, isn't it? 1082 01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:09,760 To God? The Lord spoken to me this 1083 01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:13,840 morning about clearing out some blockages in my life that have 1084 01:03:13,840 --> 01:03:15,560 been stopping up the worlds of revival. 1085 01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,680 If that would be you, I'm not going to come after the service 1086 01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:18,840 and ask you to tell me what it is. 1087 01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:21,360 But would you be willing just to humble yourself and raise your 1088 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:22,600 hand and say, pastor, pray for me? 1089 01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:25,120 There's some things in my life that God has spoken to me about 1090 01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:26,280 that I need to deal with. Yes, Amen. 1091 01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:28,720 Anyone else, just raise your hand and slip it back down. 1092 01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:31,000 Amen. Pastor, pray for me as you 1093 01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,680 close. There's some sin in my life. 1094 01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,280 There's some issues in my life that I mean. 1095 01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:38,520 I need to deal with. Maybe parents, you've raised 1096 01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:39,880 your hand. So pastor, pray for me. 1097 01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:41,720 There's some changes in my home I need to make. 1098 01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,560 God's convicted me about some things I've allowed in my home 1099 01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,280 that need to change. Would you raise your hand if 1100 01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:50,920 that's you, Amen. I'm going to have a pastor come 1101 01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,240 and finish the invitation as he sees fit. 1102 01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,200 But let me encourage you as the invitation is given. 1103 01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,320 If the Lord has dealt with your heart, what better place to 1104 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,400 start that work, of allow that work of revival to start, but to 1105 01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:05,520 come forward in the local church and do business with the Lord as 1106 01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,080 we bring our service to a close. Thank you.