The Holy Trinity (2025)

Isaiah 6:1-7

A Blessed Trinity day to you my Brothers and Sisters in Christ as we glorify the Triune God our Heavenly Father who created us, God the Son who redeemed us , and God the Holy Spirit who sanctified us and made us God’s own children. This is one of the profound mysteries of the faith and one that we struggle to put into words as we live in the world and try to discern what exactly is happening.

Our Majestic God

Isaiah was taken before God’s throne.

Now in the light of Christ, we have this hope and assurance that we have access to the Father through the work of Jesus on the Cross who has made atonement for our sins, but the Messiah had not yet come during the days of Isaiah, and the land had been greatly polluted by idols. Now the temple built by Solomon still stood in Isaiah’s time but this, it ,

It was a glorious vision.

For Isaiah saw God enthroned in heaven above, and the temple that he beheld made the Temple that Solomon had built cheap by comparison as Isaiah saw the majesty of God and the seraphim which means the burning ones flew around the throne singing God’s praises, and Isaiah

He realized the danger.

Quite often we think we want to see God in his glory, but you see here that this prophet and this man appointed by God to speak God’s Word to God’s people cried in fear for he was a sinner from a people that had sinned against God.

Sinners Before God

Isaiah was unclean.

Now this is a distinction today that is lost on us. For the Old Testament Ceremonial laws had to be followed that you might receive the blessing of God’s holiness and remain amongst God’s people. It affected the food you ate, how you handled some illnesses, and how you had to be clean before you could approach God. For if that which was unclean came into contact with God who is holy, it would bring judgment and death to you. Isaiah knows that he is in danger, for if the high priest could only enter into the holy of holies on earth once a year after sacrifices and cleansing had been accomplished what did that mean for this man who now witnessed God upon his majestic throne? Death must surely be his end for the time of Judgment has come upon him, but then one of the Seraphim went to the altar and with tongs brought back an object.

A coal touched his lips.

When it touched Isaiah’s lips, what does the text say? Your guilt is taken away, your sin is atoned for, this man that was unclean became clean in God’s sight.

God cleansed Him.

It wasn’t because Isaiah did great or mighty works, it wasn’t because Isaiah made a decision, God spared Him, by taking that which was upon the Altar that His sin might be gone and that Isaiah might be acceptable in God’s sight. Well, Why do you and I care about this? Well where is this temple today?

The House of God

We have a picture of Church.

Here we have a man who confesses before God that he is unclean, unworthy, a sinner, and from a people that do not glorify God. Your confession of sins is the same as Isaiah. For who amongst us is worthy to stand before the throne of God, who can say that they deserve to stand in the presence of God based upon their works, their merits, their accomplishments, we have all fallen short of the holiness of the Triune God that created the universe, and gives life, breath, and food to all creatures, and orders our lives, can you dare hope to be forgiven as Isaiah was? Yes, for God shows grace and mercy to the humble, and lowly, and a broken and contrite heart he will not despise. So confess your sins in truth that you might be prepared to receive the blessings of God. For you might have noticed the words the angels sin here are familiar.

Why do we sing holy, holy, holy?

When do we sing it in the Church service? Right before the Lord’s Supper. Why then, out of all the moments in Church that we could we sing this song of those holy angels that surround the throne of God in heaven above. Because the one who offered Himself in Sacrifice for you, who became sin for you that you become the righteousness of God, descends from the heavens above and comes to you, for what is taken from the altar and touched to your lips.

It’s not a coal, but Christ.

Whose body was given into death for the forgiveness of your sins, and whose blood was shed for the remission of your sins, and you who came to church with your sin, with your guilt, and with your shame receive of that Holy Sacrifice that was offered on Calvary to atone for our sins that we might be clean and acceptable in God’s sight. For while our eyes are closed that majestic sight that Isaiah beheld, what he saw that day happens every time we have communion.

Coram Deo

Why are sinners before God?

The world thinks that this is pure folly for why would those who have broken the Law, who have rebelled against God then come before the throne of God on a Sunday morning. Because there is no one else who can save us, no one else who can right our sins, no one who can take away our guilt and wash away our sins.

God cleanses you.

He makes you clean and acceptable that you might have a place in God’s Kingdom and dwell with him for all eternity. Do not minimize nor forget that for without Him there is no salvation. Do not let Satan convince you stay away from that place where forgiveness is offered for all have to stand before God’s judgment throne one day, better that we do while we may receive mercy. For God does not desire the death of the wicked, but that they might repent, and live.

This is the love that God has for you.

It is why God called the prophets like Isaiah, and why Christ called the Apostles, and why Churches have called Pastors that this message of salvation might echo throughout the land to know of God’s steadfast love and mercy. For the

The Trinity is United in Love for You

The Father sent Jesus

For the Father knew that we could not make atonement for the sin. There only needed to be one perfect person to make full atonement for mankind, and since we could not fulfill the Law,

Jesus laid down His life.

and submitted to the will of the Father that He might be the sacrifice laid upon that altar in heaven above that coals might be touched to our lips in the Supper and we might be acceptable in God’s sight. Then that we might believe this the Father and the Son sent the Spirit and the .

The Spirit created faith.

For this is too good to true that God who was offended reconciled the world to Himself and paid your debt in full? So the Spirit worked through the prophets, and the Apostles that we today might have the sure and certain Word that saves us. By revealing to us God’s Law, which leads us to confess we are a people of unclean lips and the Good News that Jesus Christ has suffered, died, rose, and ascended that you might be holy and acceptable on the day of Judgment.

My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, today we observe Father’s day, and this love that the Father in heaven for us, his children who erred, who have fallen, and feared His wrath, his disappointment, and carried that shame that we should have been better than we are, and yet He turned to us a Father’s heart, and accepted the Blood of Christ, who became our brother, as a means to forgive us. We were unclean for we had sold our inheritance and were no longer worthy to be called the children of God have been given the Spirit that He might be our Father, and we His children, and that we might have a place in His home once again. Let us rejoice that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desired our salvation that we might be able to enter the presence of God with joy and celebration and live in the Kingdom that Christ has won and prepared for God’s children. In Jesus name. Amen.