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Am I young? All right, great. How great is our God? I love that song.
Today, we're going to continue to see how great he is.
It's been an interesting season of Coming back, it's been like three to four months now that I've been back here in the US and I remember a year ago exactly today Actually, it was February 18th of 2024. I was in Bogota about to speak on the passage that we're gonna
Luca today, and I was receiving a bunch of messages in the morning. I was speaking in an afternoon message in an afternoon meeting in Bogota.
And I was receiving a lot of messages that day from people here at the chapel Saying that John had a stroke during the meeting, and it was a year ago.
And so I'm just happy to see John is still here with us and I remember just really like concerned that day and also because this passage talks about the passing of a king.
And so I was like, Lord, I hope it's not today. Allow me to see John once again, but it's It's just good that I'm coming to this text this morning again and remember that the Lord's faithfulness and that we can still be here today and that he's sitting on the throne. So I'm going to…
Talk about a passage. It's a very familiar passage. I've heard a ton of messages on these verses that we're going to look at today.
And usually it's a passage that encourages people to respond to God's call, right? Like the Lord is calling us to do action and that's what I've been learning throughout the years. People have encouraged me to do as well, to respond to the call of God, like in the mission and to do what the Lord has called us to do.
And so it's a very familiar passage for all of us, myself, and even though I've preached about this passage before, I think in this last year the Lord has been teaching me different things and has taken me on a deeper path with him. So I want to share that with you. I'm speaking to myself here as we look at this passage and I just want to invite you to read and just
See this passage and how the Lord will speak to us So I want to invite you to Isaiah chapter 6.
Isaiah chapter 6. We're going to… bean verses 1 to 8.
A.w. Tozer said once, what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us let me repeat that again. What comes into our minds When we think about god is the most important thing about us
That is what defines us. Know what we think about ourselves much.
But what we think about him and because that at the end, that thought about who God is.
Determines everything else, who you are, what you're going to do with your life, what decision you're gonna make.
How can you get involved in the church? Everything else. Someone said once to me, you know, we have a right perspective on God. We can see how great is our God.
But at the end, also, the real question is what we think about ourselves. What do you think about yourself?
And the reality is that we're very small and that's what we're going to see here today, something that the Lord has been teaching me.
Come with me too. Isaiah chapter 6 verse 1 to 8. I'm going to start reading and then we'll pray against that the Lord will speak to us in this morning.
Isaiah 6 verse 1 says, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the lawyer sitting upon a throne high and lift it up. In the train of his robe, feel the temple.
Above him stood the set of him. Each had six wings.
With two he covered his face and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
And one, call to another and said something that we've been listening all morning in the breaking of bread. Holy, holy, holy.
Is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory.
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called.
And the house was filled with smoke. And I said, woe is me.
For I am lost, for I am 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 burning coal that he had taken with tongues.
From the altar and he touched my mouth. And said, Behold, this has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us? Then I said, here I am, send me.
Lord, we thank you this morning. That we can come together once again.
We come before you humbly, Lord, knowing that you are holy and that we, Lord, outside of Christ, we… We have no hope, but thank you that you send your only son that the one perfect sacrifice to to forgive us from our sins, to experience these that I say also experience that our guilt has been taken away that our sin has been atoned for, removed, covered.
And that now we can be clothed with the righteousness of Christ. I pray, Lord, that you will speak to me. I need you. We come before you, Lord, a holy God, a great God.
We don't deserve to be here. We recognize that it's only by your mercy and grace And I pray that your spirit would be among us and speak to our hearts and that we would be transformed this morning once again, according to the image of our beautiful Savior Jesus Christ. In his name I pray. Amen.
So we're going to look at four different points here this morning. We're going to see the vision itself There is a vision that here I say is describing. We're going to see the effect that this vision had in his life? What was the cause that this vision uh
In his life. Third, we're going to see the intervention. We see an intervention very important here happening. And then finally we see a response in verse 8.
So we're going to look at these four points of this passage and then we're going to go into pointing out to our Lord Jesus Christ, of course, and how we can respond as well to this text. So let's just start with the first point.
The vision in verses 1 to 3 it says in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of his row filled the temple.
So a little bit of context. Why does Isaiah add the fact that You know, in the year that King Uzziah died, what's the point? Why is he adding that? Is that important? And yes, it is. The context of what's happening here, when this vision is happening, it happens at a time of uncertainty and expectancy.
Why? Because the King Uzziah died and this king was a great king. He did a really good job. He reigned for 52 years. So it was a time where these people were stable economically, everything was going well. There was wealth all around.
But now these are pretty sad news. The king has died.
And so what's next? There is uncertainty. And sadly, the end of King Hosea, it's not the best. 2 Chronicles 26, 16 says, but when he was strong, talking about this king.
He grew proud to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
So at the end, we see that this king had a proud heart and at the end he was unfaithful to the Lord. He had leprosy and ended up dying.
And all these people with after these outstanding reign and ruling over these people This is where the people now are like, now what's going to happen. Now let's understand a little bit of who Isaiah is approaching to. We see that the people here during this time in verse 8 of chapter 5
If you read just one chapter before in verse 8 it says, Woe to those who join house to house who are at field to field until there is no more room and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. So all we can tell is that Isaiah lived or was speaking to a people that were full of materialism, going after the physical stuff, the wealth
And they forgot that the Lord. They forgot the Lord, these people, and were influenced by the world. And we can see that in verse 11 where he says In the same chapter five there, woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may run after a strong drink
Which are late into the evening as wine inflames them. So people that were drunken. Then he continued to say in verse 18 to 21, Woe to those who draw inequity with courts of falsehood, who draw sin as with car ropes, who say, let him be quick, let him speed his work, that we may see it.
Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and let it come that we may know it. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.
Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes Instrued in their own sight. Woe, woe, woe to those So we see that Isaiah is approaching here, talking to people that forgot the Lord. They were influenced by the word. They were saying, you know, what the Lord said is bad, they call good. And what the Lord said that is evil, they call good.
So it's not too different to our world where our young people all around us, we are, you know, all over the place. We say like, no, that's okay. You can do that. That's not too bad.
You know, you can forget the Lord. Forget that's how the enemy has worked throughout generations and up to this day. And to that context is when I say is having this vision of the Lord. So this is a little bit of the context so we can understand how powerful this vision is.
A moral political decline in Judah, so idolatry, the rich were abusing the poor, entertainment was expanding all over the place.
Now this outstanding king is no longer with us. And now what? That's the expectancy. There is disappointment, uncertainty. There is fear from these people. People are overwhelmed. Now what's going to happen? We finally had a good king and now he's gone.
Maybe some of us here today different situations in our lives also feel uncertain. What's next? What's going to happen?
You know, currently I'm not able to work, and so I'm waiting on some paperwork. And it's hard. Now what? But we know during those times of expectancy, trials or uncertainty, right? That's where here we see instead of uh seeing that as a wilderness time, I love how the Lord uses those time to speak to us. It reminds me of
You know the word for wilderness in the Old Testament when the Lord texts them and it's the promised land. And when you look at the promised land, everything is going to be green, but not really. There's like 70% of the land is wilderness. And that's the place that God chose for his people to speak to them. I don't know much Hebrew, but I do know that that word for wilderness is medibar.
Which means place to speak. And it's in those times with the Lord, I love to see that, but I don't love to be in those positions where these situations are happening around us.
A year ago, I remember not knowing what was going to happen with John. And I was at this church and I was like, I don't know, I have somebody in the US who's not doing well and I don't know what's going to happen, but it's during this time that the Lord decides to speak, that the Lord shows himself to Isaiah. So maybe during that time today of sadness, of wilderness and congratulations. That's what the Lord is going to speak to you. Now let's look at the vision itself.
Zaya is not on the throne anymore. But it says, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne. I love that.
Not… Uzziah's not on the throne anymore, but what he sees… Is the Lord sitting on one.
That's where he sees the Lord sitting on one. Not just any throne. He says about this throne that is high and sublime and lifted up.
So I love that. Any situation we can go through is used by God to remind us that he is sitting on the throne and not us.
And that's a great reminder for us that he is sitting on the throne above the other kingdoms We are so limited. Nothing is under our control, but he is sitting on the throne.
That's something I often forget and that's why this passage is a good reminder for myself and I hope for all of you too.
Now, when we look at the description of this vision, it's a little hard even for a Spanish speaker to understand, but it says that the train of his robe feel the temple.
The train of like it's kind of like the border like right at the corner of the place It doesn't say that the whole mantle, but it says the edges of the mantle.
And that's interesting because the edges are enough just to fill the temple with his majesty. Not even the whole thing, just the the edges of it are enough to fill up the temple with his majesty. Now we see that this is kind of an apocalyptic language that is kind of difficult for our minds to understand and imagine.
But what is intended here in this passage is not that you and I can visualize what I say I saw.
Is now for us to try to imagine. I'm not going to ask you to close your eyes and, okay, I'm going to describe this and try to figure out in your minds. No, that's not the point of this passage.
We can understand that no one on this earth can be compared to the grayness, splendor, and majesty of our Lord. That's the whole point of this vision.
Now, the stability of the universe, people around them are unstable. Now we don't have the king. But what I say is seeing that the stability of the universe depends on the fact that The Lord is sitting on the throne that he is holding everything.
Know another man. And above the law we see in verse 2 above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings.
With two, he covered his face and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
So there is Seraphim. I don't know much of… the difference between, you know, you hear like angels orphan cherubims, all these we were singing earlier in the breaking of bread. But these seraphims above the Lord, they have six wings instead of being something there are creatures that are fearsome.
They say that I was doing some research about it and they're the most powerful creatures God had made because they are the closest to the throne of God.
You know, he says that they're closed. They might have been like very powerful creatures and yet Even though they're very powerful, they cover their faces. They are aware of who they have in front of them. They have this reverence. They do not have an incomplete image or assumption of God. And the only thing left to uncover is their mouths to worship that. It's hard to picture, but they're covering their eyes, they're covering their bodies, they're covering their feet.
Which is crazy their feet Yeah, the fit is the most humble part that we all have. We go everywhere. It's like in the New Testament, they used to wash the feet. It was like very humble place.
And that's what Jesus washes, which is interesting, is the one thing that maybe smells and like, you know, you want to cover and like even that, like everything, they're covering themselves. Their mouths are the only ones that are open to worship.
And that's what we see here. They're flying and they're saying in verse 3 and one call to another and said holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts The whole earth is full of his glory.
Holy, holy, holy. Three times. I love that we have songs that we have been singing and we have been reminded of His Holiness this morning. I love how the Spirit works in that. But why holy? Why holiness?
Or doesn't it say love, love, love? Or what doesn't he say? Merciful, merciful, merciful.
What does it say? Holy, holy, holy? And we know that the answer is because without God's holiness, we cannot understand his love without his holiness we can have no idea of his mercy.
All of that the other characters of God that even neil was reading in the breaking of bread All of that involves the very essence of a perfect God, a one without blemish, without sin that is Three times holy, not only one, three times holy. And this is an emphasis, right? Hebrew and Greek, they don't have exclamation marks like we do in English or Spanish. But the fact that it's a reputation is to make an emphasis. They're underlining, they're highlighting something about God. It's like using these exclamation, but
Hebrew repeated, you know, holy, holy, holy in the New Testament, the Lord says, truly, truly, I say to you. It's important. It's an emphasis.
Holy but what does holy mean and we know set apart this idea of this song is that there is nothing that can compare to the Lord, that his transcendent, that God is infinitely higher than anything else or Bing.
When I think about this attribute of God, which I know, I mean, like I grew up here in like God's holiness.
But to be honest, I think I've taken it pretty lightly. Yeah, I got it solely got his… different and when we look at our lives and we say like we're not holy at all. It's all the opposite. And these attributes of God
That he communicates with us It's interesting that he also wants us to share that attribute with them.
Isn't that interesting? I love when he says in 1 Peter 1.16, be holy as I am holy.
Is that attribute that God wants us to be part of?
That we can share with him. Now, to be honest, there are other attributes that when I think about God, I think that I want to share all their attributes with God by his holiness.
Can I say, like, what if, Lord, can I share your omnisms Can I know when will I receive a work permit? Can I know when this is going to happen? Can I know?
Can you share that with me instead? Can you share your omnipresence?
I'm his family in Colombia. I miss the people that I want to be around. Can I be everywhere with the people that I love too? I love the people here. I love people there. Can I just be everywhere? Can I share that?
Or what about his immutability? You know, we get older. You know, it's like, can I just like, you know, be finally like one and, like, not move it everywhere and Can I just share that?
You know, the sad thing here is that many times we want to imitate those attributes of God. We want to know what's going to happen tomorrow. We want to know where we're going to be and all these things.
And we refuse to imitate I refuse to imitate those that he allows us to share with him his holiness, his love, His goodness.
And my encouragement for myself and for you this morning, let's not try to be God. He has shared some clear attributes that you and I can be part of.
If he hasn't shared like his omniscience omnipresence, immortality, it's because we need to depend on him. We are not God. And that's the whole point here in Isaiah.
I'm going to go into later. He's the Lord of hosts and that's what he says later. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. And I was thinking about this. This word hosts is even hard for me to pronounce. I know I sound funny. But it's armies. You know, there's an army. It implies that there is a battle.
But this law is above any thousand of armies. That's what he's saying. Nothing can stop him.
And he has overcome already. And he says that he's the whole earth is full of his glory.
I love that. If we weren't infected with this sin, with this sin that bothers us every day.
You know what? I think we will see evidences of gods incomparable in majesty and glory and we would be just worshiping him all the time. When it rains, when it's sunny, when it snows, you know, it's like, oh, my car again. But look at how wide it is. I don't get to see that in Colombia, but when I was thinking this, like I woke up the other morning, it's like everything is white. It's like.
You can look at the car outside and say like, wow, it is very white. I know you guys have been here maybe your entire lives but For me, it's like, it is really white. That night is like, the night seems like clear. The ground is…
Like, you know, even the darkness is not that dark. It's like, wow, it's really white That reminds me of that verse in Isaiah says that our sins are white as snow. I wish my brothers in Colombia would understand that, how wide it is, you know? But we just take it for granted. I was like, I had two options that morning when I left. I was like, wow, everything is
So white. And then I see my cars like And I have to like, you know, like, I don't like the snow and the roads and I cannot go anywhere, you know? So that's how evil we are too. We're like, we are not happy with anything.
But that's what he says the whole earth, the snow, the rain, the sun, when it's hot, when it's cold, everything.
Is full of his glory. I love to see that. I'm sorry, Lord, that we don't see that, that we are infected and we tend to forget. And I appreciate the glory of God in those visible things around us.
Take it for granted. But this is what these seraphims are saying holy holy holy the lord the whole earth all of it is full of his glory. And we get to know him and worship him as well.
So that's the vision. Again, my point here is let's look at is not to try to imagine what with the same vision that I see I had, but how great our God is.
How great are godies as we were seeing. And the second point here is the effect that this vision had in verses four and five and let's read verses 4 and 5. It says, and the foundations of the thresholds shook at their voice, at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
And I said, woe is me, for I am lost. For I am 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.
The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voices. What the angel sang and said to each other made the foundation stumble. That's insane. That's how powerful this is.
The house is filled with smoke. You just say like, why?
Like smoke you know why is there smoke here? What's the whole point of, I don't know, when I read this at first, I was like, smoke, like what's the point with this smoke thing?
And there is a reason why. And I don't want you guys to miss this. Most likely with the smoke of an incense that was used in the temple for sacrifices.
And that will have an implication later that I don't want to go into yet.
But seeing the Lord on the throne in such a majestic way, like should the depths of I say as hard, not only the building.
Not only like the whole room was full of smoke and everything was like shaking But I say as hard. That's what the Lord is going to go to now like that's what we see his response in verse 5. And I said.
Loe is me. Woe is me, for I am lost, he says, for I am a man of unclean lips.
And I dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.
Now I say Ashore is also shaking here. He didn't say like, the fact that he says like, whoa is me, right? In Spanish is aide them.
Woe is me. He didn't say like. Oops. You know, he was like woe is me? What am I gonna do i say i was saying woe to this in the chapter. We read at the beginning in chapter 5. He's saying, woe is those. Woe is those who do this woe of those who die. Woe, woe, woe to those, to everyone around them. Whoa.
But now he comes here and says. Woe is me. After seeing God in his majesty He says, woe is me.
That has a, you know, my whole point with Isaiah 6, you know, maybe a year ago when I was speaking this same passage, I was You know, it's very great passage to invite people to the mission and to get involved in the Great Commission and go make disciples, go leave this place. And yes, there is a part of it. But that's only one line in Isaiah 6.
Look at what's happening here in this encounter with god He's going up to the depth of my heart to say like, woe is me, you know? It's easy as a servant of Christ and serving the Lord in Colombia and doing all this
Great things for the Lord. It's so easy to look around me and say like oh what are them? What are them woe is this family what is these people what is those? What is that? Just like Isaiah. Isaiah, but when he sees his glory.
The first thing that jumps in his face It's his own sin.
I am a waste, he's saying in his nearest expression. He's perceived his iniquity compared to the Lord.
And thus, again, I'm speaking to myself here. I don't want to say like no woe juanes, watch out. You know, that's what the whole point of this text is, for us to really Come before the Lord, see his glory.
Say like, woe is me. Once I recognize that, then we can all come together like being aware of our sin, help each other, keep going, and then we can say, send me. But that's the priority first. There is something that needs to happen first and it's this realization of me and God.
Understand how broken I am and how much I need him.
That's what happens here with Isaiah. He says that he's a man with unclean lips.
You know, and these were unclean is very key in the Old Testament. As the lepers, you know, remember that they were to shout that they were unclean.
They had to say unclean, unclean, unclean, right? Which is interesting because we know what our Lord Jesus Christ is going to do with those lepers later. But Isaiah also looked at himself like a mortal leper.
He said, I'm nasty. And that's my question. Do we look ourselves like that?
It's so easy again to miss the point and like look around me But again, me, the whole point is us here before this amazing and holy God.
Do we look at ourselves like that? Like, Laura, I fell you again.
I fail you again. And I tried again, but I fail you again.
And I say, I said, woe is me again. He dwelt in the midst of a people of unclean lips too.
So he sees himself and he also recognizes himself people around him, his family maybe, his friends, there is this burden to see that both me and the people around me are far from the glory of God.
And are willingly. Like to go against him.
Why did his heart tremble now is the question. Why did his heart tremble?
And we see that because his eyes saw the king, the Lord of hosts But who is that?
Who is that? I hope that those who are in the back are paying attention, not pulling up their phones please i'm focusing here. This is very key right now for all of us.
But look at this. Who is this lord of hosts that he's seen?
Who is this law of hosts that he has in his looking ads like who is this person? And we will see it later.
I don't want to go there yet. Let's go to the third point the intervention in verses 6 and 7.
It says, then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal.
That he had taken with tongues from the altar. He touched my mouth and said behold This attach your lips Your guilt is taken away and your sin atone for. A seraphim, one of these powerful creatures, is sent with a burning call taken from the altar.
But just wait a second. When did I say I asked for forgiveness for his sin?
We don't see it here, right? He acknowledged his sin and he repent genuinely.
Many times I think like we can ask the Lord for, oh, forgive me for my sin. Forgive me. I missed it again. Forgive me for this without actually having a genuine conviction of who he is, his holiness.
And how repented I should be of my sin. You know, it's very easy. It's like, Lord, I fail you again. Forgive me. But like, let's look at his glory. I love how he just had this clear vision of God and his own brokenness And as a response, of course, God sees that his genuine heart and will give him something that he doesn't deserve, of course.
He shows him grace and mercy. But wait, what a call. I've been… For years, I've heard this passage. I go back and why I call?
And the fact here is that this is taken from the altar and that allows us to understand that there had to be a sacrifice going on.
Told me that there was a sacrifice, there is smoke, there is incense in the room, there is a sacrifice going on at this point. And it is from that sacrifice Where a burning coal is taken to touch, Isaiah slips.
Obviously, as we know and we rejoice every Sunday This is a pre-figure of the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ that he's going to do later. But when God opens our eyes to see his holiness and Praise God for that that's why I can be standing here we can be here together. When he opens our eyes to see his holiness and how sinful we are
It is not to destroy us. He could have destroyed Isaiah right there.
Right on the spot, just boom, gone. Of how holy he is, but to give him life, to give him grace mercy Based on his holiness and his love What a great guy we have and now we see that this goal touches Isaiah's mouth.
His iniquity is taken away. His scenes are atone, which, you know, can be a deep theological word, but in its simple form, it means that he was reconciled.
There is this idea of covert. His sins are covert. Now he's reconciled. He's reconciled because he has experienced the effect of a sacrifice in his life.
What a relief. Now, have you experienced that? And you and me can say amen experience the powerful of a sacrifice of the living God made man coming to this earth And the perfect sacrifice that now not only our lips
Everything our hearts our entire life is reconciled to him what a great God again. I don't want us to take this for granted since we come weekend after weekend.
Now I want to go to the last point here is the response today's reality so we have seen so far the vision how great our god is the effect that that had in Isaiah his brokenness, recognizing his own sin and we see the intervention of the Lord here coming doing something with that and that repented heart and finally we see the response here in verse
And just verse 8, this is the last verse and it says and i heard the voice of the Lord saying.
Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said, here I am.
Send me. So there's a question here. It says, I heard the voice of the Lord.
After he has this encounter with God, after he has been reconciled, his sins have been forgiven, his guilt is taken away Now it's like goodbye no now he can hear the voice of the Lord. That's beautiful. Think about it. He has a relationship, a close relationship with the Lord.
That now he can hear the Lord's voice. The Lord allows him to hear a conversation between the trinity Isn't that beautiful? And why do I see the Trinity? Because here the Lord says the question is, whom shall I send? That's a singular form.
And it's not that God is concerned. I was like, oh, now what like should I say now? Or he has to raise these questions like, you know, what am I gonna do now? No, he's just God wants to put a question in the heart of Isaiah like
Okay, I say, and now when shall i send Does God need in us? No, of course not. But he wants to have that question in his heart. He hears this conversation with the trainee because he says, and who will go for us?
It's a plural verb right here or like a plural form here the treaty is involved in the purpose of God of bringing salvation of bringing restoration of bringing this deliverance from a guilt of sin the whole tree right here. And Isaiah is like hearing the voice of the Lord is beautiful. I love that. And his answer naturally to this is like.
He said, here I am, send me. I don't think he said like… Laura, here I am.
I'm the answer to your question. Of course not. He humbly knows, recognizes his brokenness, how unclean he is.
Now that he has been atoned for, that his guilt is taken away, he comes and says, like.
Nort, here I am. If you want, I'm here I love that the humbleness. Of course, how else would you respond to that Not knowing that we don't deserve this holy God to have a relationship to hear his voice, to live with him.
I wonder, how was I say I able to say to live this life of serving the Lord for 50 years. He was a man with the struggles similar to ours like I'm pretty sure he had fears, he had temptations, he was overwhelmed.
But I do believe that this vision that he had, this encounter with god change at all. His understanding of God, his dependence on God's grace and mercy daily not because he was very equipped and very good for the work of being a prophet for these people that were deaf and were blind as
Isaiah later says. I love that. I don't, you know, I gotta confess, it's so easy to miss this.
So easy to just, you know, you speak Spanish, you're going to your people, you know what to do, you know the gospel, you know the doctrine.
You want two emails. You have the right. So go, go say it.
What's hard about it but then you realize, Lord, I cannot change people's hearts. I cannot change people's lives. How can I bring unity to our church, a struggling church?
I cannot do anything because, yeah, it's not about us, how well equipped we can be.
It's about how humble and how daily and I keep learning and people worry me and like you can and you hear everywhere but that's the key i hear the voice of the Lord. I hear the voice.
Every single day. Now, this is the same in our daily lives like how can I do this? How can I make my son obey? How can I do this that he's going through this or she's going through it like Lord what can I do? Nothing.
Pray. Depend on the Lord. But make sure you're, you know, at the end that let him to say something. Don't shout your mouth. And I'm not asking here, maybe I can say like, yeah, go talk to your neighbor, go do all these great things.
If the Lord leaves you, yes, of course, we are called to that.
But let's not forget that it all starts at home, right?
With your kids, you know that maybe Stella, I hope is not the only opportunity where you are investing in them, that you are praying with them daily, that you're encouraging them to be in the word. Don't lose heart. Keep doing that. The Lord will bring that into fulfillment in its due time.
I remember my dad when I was a teenager just You know, telling me over and over again, be in the world. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
There was this one time that it really i'm not proud of this but i got so tired of my dad just insisting me in reading the word not tired of my dad just just really telling me like be in the world being there was like He got it one night. I remember we went from a Bible study. I was really like kind of…
Higher SQL, but I was like, you know what? You go do that with your guy. It was the hardest thing I ever said. I remember I came to the house like, I was convicted by the Spirit, honestly. And it was awesome. I was probably, what, 13, 14. And he comes and tells my mom and she's like.
There is no way he said that. And I was sitting on the couch he's like, what did I just say?
You know, and my dad kept praying for me and and praise god like i'm just maybe talking here to those parents that fathers that are struggling with their kids but like you know like keep going like I don't I don't expect here that, you know, once we our families here at the chapel continue to be in this unity answering the Lord's call where we are with the people. Naturally, you'll see that we're going to invest in other families around us and that will come naturally. But I want to encourage you guys as we are serving with the youth, sell a kid, sell on Friday and all these conferences, that we might be on the same page as we are in this
Broken worlds full of unclean lips and unclean influence for our kids. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's not lose heart. Here we see the Lord sitting on the throne and And let's run there to him. I wonder, that's the only key, that we may hear his voice and communicate it to others
Now, I do want to close this passage and not just leave it here in Well, that was a really cool.
Vision that i say i had What is the point of this passage?
Why do we have this scene of interaction between God and a man like Isaiah?
What is behind these and God's redemptive story for humanity? Do we need to have a vision maybe?
Do we need to go to bed tonight and have like this amazing vision of god How can we experience his holiness and majesty?
What do we need to see to humble ourselves before God and bow down before him by surrendering our lives to him? What do we need?
How can I be cleansed of my wickedness, selfishness, pride, and be forgiven of my sin?
By an infinitely holy, holy, holy god Is that possible?
And brothers and sisters, praise God, we don't have to have a vision. Like I say, I had to see his majesty, his holiness.
His grayness because in fact We have something more surprising that I say as vision.
Because we have the whole Bible. We have the whole scripture now. And now we know things that Isaiah didn't get to see. If you go with me to Matthew chapter 13, Jesus is saying something amazing. Of course, this is pointing out to our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew chapter 13 verses 16 and 17, the Lord Jesus is telling his disciples Matthew 13, 16 and 17.
He's telling about the purpose of the parables and the Lord Jesus says here Matthew 13 16 and 17, he says… But blessed are your eyes.
For they see and your ears for they hear. For truly I say to you many prophets and righteous people long to see what you see and did not see it.
And to hear what you hear and did not hear it. Blessed are your eyes.
I say I wanted to see this and they got to see it. Are you excited that you know the whole story after that Jesus went up, the disciples spread out the gospel, what he promised is being fulfilled even on this day and we get to be part of that.
Now, let's take a look to John chapter 12, 13 and 41 as we see how our amazing Jesus is the reason of this, why we have Jesus in his most wonderful that i mean not most wonderful, but he's the reason of why the vision is so wonderful
John chapter 12 verses 36 to 41. This is going to be interesting because John here is going to quote Isaiah chapter 6 But John chapter 12 Verses 36 to 41.
It says, while you have the light, believe in the light that you may become sons of light.
When Jesus has said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Though he had done so many signs before them listen to this they still did not believe in him.
So that the word spoken by the prophet isaiah might be fulfilled and guess where he's quoting from. That's the second part of Isaiah chapter 6 where it says, Lord, who has believed what he heard from us.
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore, they cannot believe or again Isaiah said, according to Gise 6, he has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart lest they see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn it will heal them.
I say I said these things because he saw his glory and he spoke of him. Wait, what?
Do you pay attention to that verse 41? Isaiah said these things CS6 because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
He spoke of Christ. Brothers and sisters, you and I know that that majestic God whom Isaiah saw in the temple and whom the seraphims were praising with reverence and fear, was the one who became men to die in our place on that cross of Calvary.
And that's what we've seen. Behold our God sitting on his throne. Come, let us adore him. Behold, our king nothing can compare calmly and adore him. These are the songs that we sing Sunday after Sunday.
And I love that. I love that. That is the Lord. There is a vision. Stephen read in Revelation chapter 5 this morning.
I'm not going to go there, but guess what? John is having this vision again.
John is also having a vision of one sitting on the throne of one who is worthy to open these seals and Guess who it was? Jesus again. I loved to see that. I hadn't seen that 800 years Before you know, before John's time, I say I was having this vision of the Lord sitting on the throne. Then 800 years later, John is having this vision of the Lord sitting on the throne looking towards the end of the story, the end times.
And now we are 2,000 years after. Here and the Lord is still sitting on the throne. What a great God we have.
Let's appreciate the Holy One of God when we see his holiness, his greatness in christ Our inner being inner being.
Must be shaken to come before him. Myself, I need to don't get used to this knowledge of Jesus and Christ and God. No, it has to affect our hearts to come daily humble before the Lord in repentance recognizing that how inequity has been removed.
But wait, there is need to introspection here in identifying the scene in our life.
Today, what do you need to bring before the throne of grace and receive mercy in time of need?
That's what I say. Yeah, he says like, oh, wow, yeah, Jesus is awesome. Great. He's sitting on the throne, but you need to respond to it.
I don't know what it is. I know what I need to bring to him today. What about you? Let's remember that our sins are forgiven and that we have been clothed with his righteousness. Now we are holy as he is holy because of trace. So now we can say with all joy and humbleness lord
Here I am. Send me. But that's going to come later. You know, let's start with our own hearts.
I say I responded to his encounter with God. John did too. Everyone in the Bible were able to see his glory and respond to God's majesty. But you?
What is going to be your answer today? We saw Isaiah's answer, but the question is, what will be your answer today? And as a church.
How should WBC, Babo Chapo, respond to this amazing God? And I just want to close reading Ephesians 1, 18, 23, and then I'm gonna I encourage you guys to sing a song with with us A song called Holy Forever. If you want to stand up for that one, it's okay. You know what? Why don't we all stand together to read Ephesians?
118. I love this passage here because this whole Paul is praying for Ephesians and that's how I love. Pay attention to the seating on the throne, how the Lord spoke to us today And think of our beautiful chapel, a beautiful group of believers
Knowing again humbly, knowing that each one of us here, before we look at the person next to us.
Each one of us here need this holy God. So I'm going to read Ephesians 1.
18. I'm going to start actually in verse 15 to 22.
Then I'm going to pray and then we're going to close with a song.
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith, Wauwatosa Bible Chapel in the lord jesus and you love toward all the saints.
I do not cease to give thanks for you. Remembering you in my prayers.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. The father of glory may give you the spirit of wisdom.
And of revelation in the knowledge of him. Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened That you may know what is the hope to which he has called you.
What are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints?
And what is the immeasurable grayness of his power toward us who believe?
According to the working of his great might. That he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him listen to this at his right hand in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age.
But also they want to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church.
Which is his body the fullness of him fulfills all in all.
Lord, we thank you. We thank you so much that we can come before you this morning.
Oh, Lord, we are so lost. Our lips, our hearts need so much of your work in us. And I pray, Lord, again, as just Paul.
Was running to defeations that we would understand, open our eyes to see your glory, your holiness, and that we may be transformed by your spirit. Thank you that you are seated on the throne and we get to call you our king forever and ever in Jesus name.
Amen. So same with me, please. Holy Forever. It's a new song. We don't have it in the hymn book but we have the presentation and then the meeting is dismissed after.