THE CLARITY OF THE CALL

Gemane G. Getteh

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Isaiah 6:1–5

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Introduction

Isaiah 6:1–5 (NKJV)

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.

2 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.

3 And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”

4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because 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 call of Isaiah into prophetic ministry is rather a little different from how most of other prophets were called. significantly God presented Himself to Isaiah through a vision. Isaiah testifies “I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,” (6:1).

A critical question then maust be asked, “why did God consider it important to a vision of Himself to Isaiah before commissioning him?

while the bible seem to be silent on this, a few reasons can be gleaned from the context:

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) (D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13)

1. For strengthening of Isaiah’s Faith.-Isaiah needed to know beyond any doubt who the LORD is and the extreme importance of the message being given to him.

2. To Humble Isaiah. - He needed to be shown just what terrible sinners he and the people were, especially when seen in the light of God’s glory and holiness (vv. 3, 5).

3. To stire in Isaiah a sense of urgency to proclaim God’s warning of coming judgment.

4. To prepare Isaiah for the challenging and difficult ministry.

The people’s hearts were hard, their ears deaf, and their eyes blinded to the truth of God’s Word that He alone is the only living and true God

He was to minister to a people with perverted values, a people who called evil good and good evil. They were given over to sin and wickedness.

Whatever be the reason, i want to summarise this theophany into Three Essential Elements Necessary to Serve God

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

1. A vision of the LORD (vv. 1–4).

In order to serve the Lord, a person needs a vision of the Lord. A person must know the Lord and understand who He is before he can adequately serve Him (John 17:3).

This was true of Isaiah and it is true of every genuine believer.

But what xactaly did Isaiah see?

I. The Presence of God.

“I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and ||his train filled the temple (V.1).

“I was there with Him. i saw him. I saw Him sitted. I saw His throne, I saw His Highness and His exalted nature. I saw His Majesty, no king is like Him. No throne is like His. He is the Kings of kings and the Lord of lords.

let me take deep into Isaiah moment. I was taken into a vision and i saw the one who sat on the throne. so clear was the vision that i saw it was him who was prophesied by prophet

Micah 5:2 “2 “But out,... Bethlehem shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.””

It is Him who Moses said, Numbers 24:17: “I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel.”

Isaiah 7:14 “14 Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Isaiah 9:6 “6 “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

Mathew 1:23 testfies “His name Immanuel means God with us!

John 1:1 “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

1 John 1 “The same we have heard, the same we have seen with our eyes, the same we have looked upon, and our hands have handled. this one is the one Isaiah saw—

John 12:41

“41 For These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.”

John 17:5 (NKJV)

5”And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”

While in patmos John says i saw Him glorified,

Revelation 1:12-16 “13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;

1 Timothy 3:16

“16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.”

II. The Prowess of God

Meaning-skill, or expertise in a particular activity or field, or, Mastery.

Isaiah 6:2-3

“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. 3 And one cried to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!”

In the presence of God there is embeance of purity of holiness. His presence is holiness. the colour theme is holiness, the discourse is holiness, the music is holiness. Isaiah says i saw the Seraphims, and as they minister to Him all cry, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: The whole earth is full of his glory.”

you see friends, Holiness is the very essence of God’s being. The Hebrew term qadosh (Holy) means to be set apart, separated, distinctive, different, transcendent. also purity and perfection.

The LORD is totally set apart, entirely different from all beings throughout the universe, including mankind. God is seperated from evil and sin. seperated from wickedness and filthness. separated from hate and gossipings, seperated from pride and self centredness, seperated from eartly entanglements. seperated from tribalism and racism.

God alone is “majestic in holiness”

Exod. 15:11

“Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the ||gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness.”

1 Samuel 2:2 (NKJV)- “No one is holy like the Lord.”

but most importantly, those things that God separates to Himself become holy, too. These objects of the Lord’s choosing are set apart from the world. the earthly sanctyary had three compatment, the outer court, the holy place , and the most holy place. that which became holy of the sanctuary was chosen of God. The untensils of the sanctuary were holy because they were seperated by God. the priests were holy because they were seperated by God. the levites were holy because they were seperated by God. when He seperated Israel for Himself from among other nations they beacame holy unto Him. Deuteronomy 7:6 “6

“For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.”

Ezekiel 44:19

“ When they go out to the outer court, to the outer court to the people, they shall take off their garments in which they have ministered, leave them in the holy chambers, and put on other garments; and in their holy garments they shall not sanctify the people.”

The New International Version (Chapter 44)

“so that the people are not consecrated through contact with their garments.”

English Standard Version (Chapter 44)

“And ithey shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.”

The Holiness of God is TRANSIMITTABLE!

Exodus 29:37

“Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and sanctify it. And the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar must be holy.”

That contact with holy transfers holiness to the profane.

Isaiah got in contact with the holiness of God, and when God asked who shall i send, he was quick to say, here am I O Lord send me.

It is when and ONLY when we are in the presence of God shall we get CONTACT with His holiness. “be ye Holy as Iam Holy!” To mean, you have no holiness of your own. you have it as you recieve from me. come to me for transmission of holiness. come to me for transfer of holiness.

It is for this reason God had to leave heaven to have contact with humanity, that He could TRANSMIT His holiness to the sinful and hopeless world. He became sin, that we may become holy. this is justification and sanctification through faith.

The clarity of the call will be attained when we seek for the presence of God.

2. A Conviction of Unworthiness

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

Confronted with the vision of the LORD in all His majesty and holiness, Isaiah was stricken with a profound sense of unworthiness.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

He suddenly realized the horrible nature of sin when contrasted with the majestic light of God’s glory and holiness. How filthy, polluted, defiled, dishonorable, and corrupt sin is. Because the LORD is so high and exalted, so pure and righteous, sin stinks within His nostrils

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

Thus, when Isaiah saw the holiness of God, he realized just how impure and unclean he was.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

Although he had placed his trust in the LORD years before, in this renewed call to the ministry Isaiah saw how utterly undeserving he was to serve the LORD. Feeling deep anguish within his soul, he cried out, “Woe” (v. 5).

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

This is a cry of alarm, a sense that some terrible calamity is about to happen. Obviously he sensed that God’s brilliant holiness was about to strike him dead.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

He cried out in distress, “I am undone” (nidmeyti). This word means to be ruined, cut off, destroyed, doomed to die. If God dealt with Isaiah in strict justice, he was a doomed man.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

He cried out in distress, “I am undone” (nidmeyti). This word means to be ruined, cut off, destroyed, doomed to die. If God dealt with Isaiah in strict justice, he was a doomed man.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

“I am undone” (nidmeyti). This word means to be ruined, cut off, destroyed, doomed to die. If God dealt with Isaiah in strict justice, he was a doomed man.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) (D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13)

Isaiah was crushed with a deep conviction of his sin and felt urgency to confess every sin of ommission and commision.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

But the wonderful truth is this fact: the LORD never leaves His people bearing the weight of guilt and sin, not when they confess and turn away from their sins.

He says, “come to me all who heavy ladden and i will give you rest.”

Isaiah 1:18 “18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”

1 John 1:9

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

The hot, burning coal symbolized the burning away of sin, the purifying and cleansing of sin. The fact that the hot coal was taken from the altar was a reminder that sin was forgiven through the blood of the sacrifice, the sacrifice that was always offered upon the altar.

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Lu. 13:3).

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ex 15:11.Exod. 15:111 Sam. 2:2; Rev. 15:4). The uniqueness of His holiness is stressed in the repetition of the seraphic cry: “Holy, holy, holy” (Isa. 6:3; cp. Rev. 4:8).

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord” (Ac. 3:19).

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Pr. 28:13).

Isaiah I (Chapters 1–35) (King James Version) D. The Call of God’s Prophet Isaiah: Three Elements Necessary to Serve God, 6:1–13

“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon” (Is. 55:7).

Yes this Camp meeting is the seasonto return to the Lord. this is the day the Lord has done. Let us be glad and rejoice in it for in this presence of God sin will appear excengly sinful, and the cry of Isaiah wil resound in many a heart, “woe unto me for i am undone!”

Leadership Ministries Worldwide, Isaiah (Chapters 1–35), vol. I, The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide, 2005), 106.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 6:3.

Oh that today the church can position itself to be in the presence of God. to see His Majesty, to

He saw the glory of Jesus. He saw his majestsy. he saw His exataltions.

Leadership Ministries Worldwide, Isaiah (Chapters 1–35), vol. I, The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide, 2005), 105.

Leadership Ministries Worldwide, Isaiah (Chapters 1–35), vol. I, The Preacher’s Outline & Sermon Bible (Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide, 2005), 104.

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