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Open up your Bibles or Bible apps to Isaiah.
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Psalms, Proverbs, Ecc, SoS, Isaiah
Isaiah was a prophet.
This means he took relayed God’s message to God’s chosen people.
And the history of these chosen people of God, the Israelites, is that they continually flip flopped.
They followed God and then walked away from God… over and over again.
Now is someone did this to you or me, we would get to a place where we were done with them…we just you wait...
The Vision
read v1a.
Since King Uzziah is mentioned, we immediately have questions about him.
First of all, Uzziah was a king of Judah for 52 years.
He did a lot of good and was considered a Godly king.
But, he made a poor decision towards the end and was cursed with a skin disease and quarantined for the rest of his life.
This reference of the king is meant to give the time frame or when Isaiah’s vision was, about 740 BC.
Since King Uzziah is mentioned, we immediately have questions about him.
First of all, Uzziah was a king of Judah for 52 years.
He did a lot of good and was considered a Godly king.
But, he made a poor decision towards the end and was cursed with a skin disease and quarantined for the rest of his life.
This reference of the king is meant to give the time frame or when Isaiah’s vision was, about 740 BC.
this reference is meant to give the time frame or when Isaiah’s vision was.
read v1.
So from this verse we can deduce a few things.
Isaiah saw a temple and a throne with God on it.
Now look at this…God was so big that them hem of his rob filled this temple.
(Explain hem…) Now, I don’t know exactly how big this temple was, but even it was a big as this room here, if just the hem of a rob filled it, we would be at the foot of a massive figure, a giant…
To go with this, the Lord’s throne was high and lofty.
This visual is ties to God’s character, He is supreme-above all, and holy-set apart.
He is the king on his royal throne.
To go with this, the Lord’s throne was high and lofty.
This visual is ties to God’s character, He is supreme-above all, and holy-set apart.
And this would make us feel…very small.
Maybe even insignificant.
I think this would make anyone feel…very small.
Maybe even insignificant.
read v2.
Reading about the wings, it’s easy to miss that these Seraphim were flying above Isaiah…as if they were waiting in service to their master.
Now let’s get to the wings…so they had six of them.
Let’s understand the significants of their actions.
2 wings covered their faces, because even they were not worthy to look upon God.
2 wings covered their feet.
The thought here is that to have your feet out in the presence of guests was seen as unclean.
So out of respect for God and submission to Him, they covered them.
Their last 2 wings where what they used to stay in the air, flying of hovering.
Notice they didn’t cover their ears.
Their role was to wait for the divine word of God and obey it.
read v3.
What does it mean in the Hebrew language when something is repeated three or more times?
It’s emphatic, it’s done to draw attention and make a strong point.
So here, not only is God Holy…not only is He Holy Holy…but He is Holy Holy Holy!!
And they said this over and over and over and over…it continued without ceasing.
God is separate and set apart from everything else in existence.
He is totally, completely, and absolutely the holiest one ever…yet…His glory fills the whole Earth.
So what is holiness and glory?
These are something we hear about, but it’s not often explained.
First, “Holiness is the essence of God’s nature and God himself is the supreme revelation of holiness.”
Holiness is the essence of God’s nature and God himself is the supreme revelation of holiness.
Smith, G. V. (2007). .
(E. R. Clendenen, Ed.) (p.
190).
Nashville: B & H Publishing Group.
In other words, God’s holiness is that He is separate and incomparable to anything else anywhere.
God is so pure that He is the complete opposite of sin.
He is perfect in goodness and righteousness.
This is God’s holiness…and His holiness is revealed in His actions.
It is part of who He is at His core.
Now...God’s glory in the manifestation of His holiness.
If holiness is who God is, then His glory is what we see.
Holiness is inward and glory in outward.
Holy is who He is and His glory is how we see His holiness.
So when the Seraphim say, “Holy, Holy .
Holy is the LORD of Armies, his glory fill the whole earth.”
They are saying God is holy...perfect and righteousness... and this show as His glory filling the whole earth.
read v4.
So…we don’t know how many Seraphim there were, but we do know that their praise was so loud that the whole place shook to the foundation.
That’s pretty loud.
I bet if we our praise got anywhere near that loud here in our service we would get complaints.
All I have to say about that is make sure you take ear plugs to heaven, because it seems like God like His praise LOUD!!!
So about the smoke…we know from verse 6 that there is an altar there and altars are places that you burn sacrifices.
It’s assumed that this smoke is coming from this.
Application:
In what situations are we in awe of God? Have you experienced his holiness and his glory?
Why or why not.
You can definitely see how everything happening so far would cause sensory overload to anyone.
Visually there is the huge throne and the huge God’s huge robe.
Then there are these strange creatures singing super loud…shaking the whole place.
And lastly there is the smoke filling everywhere, causing Isaiah to feel closed in.
All this plus the realization of how holy God is and how unworthy Isaiah is to be in His presence and in this place.
The necessary first step before any true confession of sin is having an understanding of the glory and holiness of the Almighty God who rules the heavens and the earth.
To get to where God wants you to be, you have to recognize and understand who God is.
Only then will you motivated to change.
Why will this motivate you?
Lets go back to Isaiah.
In this next passage, Isaiah realized he is...
The Unworthy
You can definitely see how everything happening so far would cause sensory overload to anyone.
Visually there is the huge throne and the huge God’s huge robe.
Then there are these strange creatures singing super loud…shaking the whole place.
And lastly there is the smoke filling everywhere, causing Isaiah to feel closed in.
All this plus the realization of how holy God is leads Isaiah to realize how unworthy He is.
Not just how unworthy he is to be in His presence and in this place, but more...
But you can see how all this is sensory
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