Great to be together. It's good to see you.
And we were just thankful just to see one another and the time
of sickness and people have been affected by this virus and
certainly we care for them, we pray for them that they become
better, but it's good to assemble this morning together
as gods family, to Give Him worship to give him honor and
Glory. We see a neat thing happen.
Kind of within this scene here that we're going to talk about
this morning with Isaiah and I want to read verses 1 through 8
just to introduce our thoughts this morning of what happens
here with Isaiah. It says, beginning in verse 1 of
Isaiah chapter 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the
Lord sitting on the throne high and lifted up and the train of
his robe, filled the temple above it, stood seraphim.
Each one had six wings with two. He covered his face with two, he
covered his feet and with two he flew and one cried to another
and said holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
And the post of the door were shaken by the voice of him, who
cried out and the voice was filled with smoke and the house
was filled with smoke. And so I said, woe is me for.
I am undone because I have a man of unclean lips and I dwell in
the midst of a people of unclean lips for my eyes, have seen the
king, the Lord of hosts. Then one of the seraphim flew to
me having in his hand, a live coal, which he had taken with
the tongs, from The Altar, and he touched my mouth with it.
And said, behold this has touched your lips, your iniquity
is taken away and your sin purged.
Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send?
And who will go for us? Then I said, here, am I Send me.
And we have just In this passage here.
One of the most significant things and events that happens
in the life of Isaiah. And so we find Isaiah.
He's called to be a prophet of the Lord here at on this
occasion. He sees this Lord, he sees the
Lord, he's there sitting on his throne and the angels.
They're they're worshiping their, their proclaiming, the
glory of the Lord. And I left this scene, as it's
painted for us. There's the Lord, he's high.
He's lifted up showing his Holiness.
He's showing his reign. He's pictured here as being
higher than any other thing than the Angels.
They're they're proclaiming that the whole earth is full of his
glory and certainly it is And you see a similar praise, that's
happening when you go to the Book of Revelations, Revelations
chapter 5, but on a grander scale with the numeral
innumerable host of angels that are gathered there.
In that particular scene that John is witnessing and their J,
Angels, gathered around. Jesus proclaiming his glory and
honor. And when you it's a blessing to
be able to see seems like this inscription Picture and just a
glimpse of what's beyond and how great it's really going to be to
be with the Lord and to worship Him.
Seeing the Majesty of the Holiness of the Lord with Isaiah
here. Seeing how greedy is Isaiah
acknowledged I'm a nobody. I'm a sinner, I'm unclean.
I am undone. He saw himself as unworthy here
in the context as he standing before the Lord.
And that's how we might see ourselves sometimes as we might
picture ourselves before the Lord, because we are, we're
really I'm worthy. We are unworthy to be in his
presence. We are unworthy to even be
called his children. And the reason for that is
because the sin in our lives compared to the Holiness of God.
That causes us to put things in such a perspective.
But here in Isaiah, when you look at what happens, one of
these seraphim, one of these angels flew over to Isaiah
touched his lips with the hot coal from The Altar and Proclaim
your iniquity, your sins. They've been taken away.
You've been forgiven? Perhaps maybe this made Isaiah
feel better. Maybe it gave him a boost of
confidence seeing that his sins had been forgiven after.
Considering himself, not to be worthy a sinner before the Lord.
now forgiven, And having understood that and the Lord.
Now, asking the question, whom shall I send and who will go for
us? It seems to me from the response
here that Isaiah did not skip a beat.
He was ready, having the understanding of what the Lord
had done for him. Singing, I'm going to go for you
here. Am I send me?
I want to do. What your will is?
I want to be sent forth. To live a life for you and to
Proclaim. To proclaim a you to other
people. and, Maybe, I don't know, put yourself there in
Isaiah shoes there for a moment. I mean, how would you respond
seeing what great thing that the Lord has done for you?
How would you respond? Would there be the type of
excitement excitement that Isaiah shows here?
To be able to go and be a servant.
Maybe perhaps, would you be hesitant?
Maybe considering the dedication.
It's going to take the time that the sacrifices That might be
involved. so, you can have mixed responses here, but Isaiah
Isaiah is willing to be sent. You know, when we talk about
being sent, I'm not really talking about being sent to a
foreign place. Of course, we send some of our
Brethren to work in foreign lands or in foreign places and
they do great work. There and churches are are being
established churches are being strengthened because of the
dedication of mana and families that go.
But maybe being sent to our neighborhood, maybe being said,
to the people who are around you at work or around you at school.
Is their fear is their hesitancy.
Are we as eager or not? As eager?
As Isaiah to be sent. Well, let me discuss just
briefly this morning. Just a few.
A few things that might hinder us from having the type of
attitude that Isaiah had within this context here.
And I want to, first of all, talk about Moses.
Moses beat example of really what not to do.
And Moses, he was kind of in a similar situation where God
wanted him, he wanted him to, to speak to Pharaoh.
So that is people could be set free and Moses wasn't quite.
So eager to do just that in fact to remember that God was
speaking to Moses. He appeared to him through the
burning bush and God had this to say to him in Exodus chapter 3.
Verse number 10, it says come. Now therefore For and I will
send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt. Now based upon what the Lord
wanted for one and Moses to do our, he wasn't quite excited
about that because he responds this way in verse number 11.
But Moses said to God, who am I? That I should go to pharaoh and
that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt.
And so the first excuse that Moses gives is that he didn't
feel worthy enough to fulfill this task or maybe he didn't
think he was the right man for the job.
And when you look at Isaiah, yes, he did not consider himself
to be worthy or yet. He was still willing to obey the
Lord, though, with Isaiah. And maybe maybe we could feel
like that at times. Maybe we think that there's
someone else who is perhaps more adequate to share the gospel
with others than maybe myself. But when we begin to doubt in
ourselves that we were never going to carry out what God
wants us to do then, yes, we might not be worthy to tell of
the greatness of a savior who saved mankind, but God wants us
to tell of the truth of the scriptures.
He wants us to tell of the good news.
And the reason why he wants us to do that, is he beat.
He desires everybody to be saved.
Everybody. There's another excuse that
Moses gives to God and will continue on.
Now in Exodus chapter 3 now in verses 12 and 13.
It says so he said I will certainly be with you.
The Lord is assuring Moses. Don't worry, I'm going to be
with you when this happens when I send you out to pharaoh, and
this shall be a sign unto you that I have sent you.
When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you saw serve God.
On this mountain, the Moses said to God indeed when I come to the
children of Israel and say to them, the god of your father's
has sent me to you and they say to me, what is his name?
What shall I say to them? So here is excuse, number two,
from Moses that he wouldn't know what to say. after being sent,
he was afraid that he wouldn't have all the answers if Pharaoh
resisted I'll let you in on a little secret.
We don't know everything. And we don't have to know
everything. It is okay to say I don't know.
It is. Okay.
I say this all the time when at in my profession talking to
people with their computer problems, some things I really
don't know. But Google is my friend and
Google will tell me. And people are good with with
you telling them, I don't know. Because you get back with an
answer but honesty plays an important part in this and so
you could take the same approach with others.
It, if they ask you a question regarding a belief, if they ask
you a question regarding maybe a scripture, Or particular passage
that you don't have the answer answer to it's okay to say well
I don't know but I'll tell you what.
Let me get back to you on this. Let me go home.
Let me study this and I'll get back to you on this and people
are okay with that, in fact what it does, it sets up a study or
sets up, another study with them, And so you're able to
discuss that maybe even more things could come up through the
Bible study people, appreciate honesty and the reality is, we
can't know everything, we really can.
Sometimes it does take studying to find the answer, but we
should never be afraid to be set because we might not know what
to say or we might not have all the answers.
And that's what Moses is trying to do here.
He used another excuse. Let's go to Exodus chapter 4,
verses 10 through 12, then Moses said to the Lord O my Lord, I am
not eloquent neither before before nor since you have spoken
to your servant but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.
So the Lord said to him who has made man's mouth who has made or
who makes the mute the death, the seeing of the blind have not
I the Lord now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and
teach you what you shall say. So a third, excuse that Moses
gives here is that I am not really a good speaker.
I am not a good presenter. I'm not going to be very
effective with pharaoh. I am really the not the right
guy for the job. Something, maybe we get
tongue-tied. Sometimes when we're nervous or
afraid we might forget what to say.
No one is perfect. And very few of us have just the
right things to say. But I like what Paul wrote about
this when he referred to himself, presenting the gospel.
And this is in First Corinthians chapter 2, verses 1 and 2 says,
and I Brethren when I came to you, did not come with
Excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you, the
testimony of God. What he says for, I determined
not to know anything. Among you except Jesus Christ
and him crucified. and I think there's a key when Paul is
saying this to these Brethren here, he wasn't worried about
being an eloquent speaker among people or among the brethren All
he was concerned about, was the message?
And that message was Jesus. And really, that should be our
Focus. That should be our attitude,
just share, the good news about Jesus and and the truth of the
scriptures. And don't worry.
About how good or not. Good.
You are in relating information to other people.
The message is going to shine through whatever you say.
It's about the message. And not the messenger.
And lastly, Moses, he pleaded this with God.
In Exodus chapter 4 verse 13. But he said O My Lord please
send by the hand of whomever else you may soon and after all
the excuses that he gave God Mosley, simply ask God, please
just find somebody else. He tried to talk his way out of
it. He was convinced, he was not the
man for the job. But we can look at what Moses
did before the Lord and say, let's not be like that.
Let's not give those types of excuses when it comes to our own
individual responsibilities. And sharing God's word and
proclaiming it. Let's not reason or try to
convince ourselves that were not able to do it, or we are not the
person to do just that let others do it, you know how God
felt. After Moses gave these excuses,
or said these things to him. When you look at the next verse
in verse number 14, it tells us that God was angry at Moses for
offering all these excuses for trying to get out of his duty.
God was mad. We don't want the Lord mad at
us. We don't want the Lord
disappointed at us because we would rather have someone else
do it and not tuck to take on that responsibility.
So, after seeing really what not to do, when we're called, I want
to take a look back and Isaiah and see what motivated and drove
him to be so willing to answer that call from the Lord.
You know, when you consider how Isaiah reacted to the vision, At
first being unworthy to be fought before the Lord.
It is remarkable as to why Isaiah was so willing to be a
messenger of God. And I believe it was a reaction
on Isaiah's part to the event that his sins in general, had
been taken away and his iniquity was removed as well.
And so he understood what the Lord had done for him.
He had that realization of what the Lord had done for him and he
was willing then to devote his service to the Lord because of
the mercy. And because of the grace that
had been shown to him by the Lord when he didn't deserve it.
And in that same light, We are so many years removed from
Isaiah. But we read in scripture, the
Messiah Jesus himself came to this world, he lived as a man
who was free from sin, he died on the cross, he was buried and
was resurrected from the dead on the third day.
And we find that the reason why all this happened, why Jesus
went through all these things. Was for me.
It was for you. It was for the whole world.
To have their sins washed away. It was a way for God to extend
his love and mercy and Grace upon people.
And I know, you know that But to know it to the point to drive
you and it put it forth into action and to be excited about
it as Isaiah was excited about the mercy and the Forgiveness
that he had received to be willing to be sent out. and for
us to have that same Drive, the song upon this realization.
That prompts us to obey the gospel and become a servant of
the Lord is what happened with our.
That's exactly the case with Isaiah with it.
He had been forgiven want to be that servant I love what what
what David wrote regarding Psalm 51 and I want to read verses 10
through 15 here. and it really, I love looking into David's
heart when he writes these Psalms because we relate, We can
relate in one way or another, no matter who reads.
This, his Psalms create a me, a clean heart o God and renew.
A steadfast Spirit within me. He says, do not cast me away
from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your
generous Spirits. I love verse 13.
Then I will teach crimes a transgressor.
Your ways and sinners shall be converted to you deliver me from
the guilt of Bloodshed. Oh God, the god of my salvation.
And my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
O Lord. Open my lips and my mouth shall
show forth. Your praise.
As David wrote, here we are to be a people who are being who
are willing to be sent in order that those who are lost, might
hear the saving message of the cross for again, he says here, I
will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be
converted to you. And that's a great great
opportunity for everyone of us to do that, we have a chance to
let others know that Jesus died for them, so that their sins
would be forgiven. And as our sins had been for
have been forgiven, they could be saved as Jesus has given us
that opportunity to be saved in eternity, in heaven.
And so, having this realization now, I know we've heard it over
and over and over about the Glorious.
The good news of Jesus Christ, how great the Lord is that he is
able to save us that he even wants us to be his children.
Having understood that compared to, what we once were, or will,
we would be without him having that drive.
Now, that Zeal, that Isaiah had a long with the rest of God's
Messengers. You know, you had the apostles.
You read what they went through in the book of Acts.
Those people knew what I meant to be saved.
Those people knew. Of the cost.
But they were so thankful for what the Lord had done for them
and it drove them to many trials.
Persecutions. Many threats.
To not preach that message. They still proclaimed it though.
They still proclaim the message of the Cross because to them it
was a joy. To them.
It was a blessing to them. Was it was a privilege. and the
scripture says, They did it. They found this blessing to be
found worthy to save others because of the truth of the
Gospel. Telling others about the saving
power of Jesus and it really shouldn't be embarrassing to us.
It should not be difficult to us.
But to counter the blessing and a privilege that.
For one thing, we ourselves have been saved but also others can
receive that same grace and mercy that God has shown So
Isaiah he was ready. Isaiah was willing to proclaim
the Commandments of the Lord, the apostles, they devoted their
lives to saving souls and in retrospect to all those who have
dedicated their lives to Towing the world of the saving power of
Jesus, we should be a people to preach the truth.
And to stand up for the truth and not be ashamed of the truth.
There's an old song that we have sung through the years.
I love to tell the story. It will be my theme in glory to
tell the old old story of Jesus and his love.
Is that your attitude? Is that your drive?
To love to tell the story. It should be, if it's not we're
in a new year. New year, brings new resolutions
new goals, for people. If you're one of those
individuals that sets goals or seds resolutions, perhaps, this
could be one of them if maybe, or maybe the strengthen it, or
maybe if you haven't done so resolved to do that, Resolve to
do that. Precious Souls need to know the
truth. We needed to know it and we've
been saved by it. Why not share it, why not?
And so let us always have the drive.
Always have the attitude of here.
Am I send me? Send me.
And I hope that through our study this morning.
That maybe maybe renew a spirit within you.
Maybe challenge you, whatever it is.
I hope that you've been edified through the teaching of the word
this morning and that God has been glorified through our
teaching as well with the study of his word.
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