En la Biblia se leía, "En el año en el que el rey Uzziah murió,
también vi al Señor en el trono,
alto y levantado, y su tren llenó el templo.
Sobre todo, los serapinos.
Cada uno tenía seis piernas, con el twaine cubrió su cara,
y con el twaine cubrió sus pies, y con el twaine volvió.
Y uno lloró a otro y dijo, "¡Jade, jade, jade es el Señor de los hostes!
La tierra entera está llena de su gloria."
Y el postre de la puerta se movió a la voz de él que lloró,
y la casa estaba llena de olor.
Y dijo, "Yo soy yo, por eso estoy terminado,
porque soy un hombre de lluvias inocentes,
y duelo en la mezcla de un pueblo de olor inocente,
porque mis ojos han visto al rey, el rey de los hostes.
Y luego se volvió una de las serifimas a mí,
teniendo un viejo colo en su mano,
que la tomó de los toques del altar,
y la coló en mi boca y dijo,
"Lo, esto ha tocado tus olores,
y tus iniquidades se han tomado y tu maldición se perdió".
También escuché la voz del rey diciendo,
"¿Quién voy a enviar, y quién va a ir a nosotros?"
Y luego yo dije, "Aquí estoy, envíenme".
Y él dijo, "Va y díganle a esta gente,
oí que sí, pero no entienden,
y vean sí, pero no perciban.
Hagan el corazón de esta gente feta,
y hagan sus oídas pesadas, y cerran sus ojos,
para que lo vean con sus ojos, y oídas con sus oídas,
y entiendan con su corazón,
y convertan, y se sanen".
"Y luego yo dije, 'Lords, ¿cuánto tiempo?'
Y él respondió, 'Hasta que las ciudades sean abastecidas sin habitantes,
y las casas sin hombres,
y la tierra sea exageradamente desolada,
y el Señor haya removido a los hombres lejos,
y que haya una gran persigüencia en medio de la tierra'.
Pero aún así, y será una tercera,
y se volverá, y se comerá,
como un árbol y como un ojo,
cuya sustancia está en ellos,
cuando castan sus leches.
Así que la silla hola será la sustancia de ellos.
Preguntemos.
Gracias, Padre de Jesucristo, por el Bible del Rey de Dios.
Le agradecemos por esta iglesia que nos ha dado el Señor.
Le agradecemos por el Pastor que nos ha dado el Señor.
Por favor, alejámosle hoy en la noche,
mientras Él pregunte su palabra a nosotros.
En el nombre de Jesucristo. Amén.
Amén.
Bien, estamos en el capítulo 6 de la noche,
y continuamos nuestra estudiación de la Biblia con el libro de Isaias.
Si yo fuera a llamar este capítulo,
yo lo llamaría 'La Comisión para aclarar los corazones'.
La Comisión para aclarar los corazones.
Este capítulo es muy popular.
Vengo de una iglesia de infancia.
He oído muchos serenarios de Isaias en el capítulo 6.
En realidad, la mayoría de los serenarios que he oído en el libro de Isaias
han sido principalmente de Isaias en el capítulo 6,
porque es el capítulo que tiene el verso
donde muchos misioneros usan
para confirmar su llamada al campo de misiones.
Y a veces dicen, "Aquí está mi Señor, envíenme".
Obviamente puedes hacer una buena aplicación secundaria a ellos,
pero la interpretación primaria de esto
no es necesaria ser un misionero para que la gente salga,
sino ser un misionero para encargar el corazón de una nación rebeliosa
que ha rechazado a Dios.
Vamos a ver ese verso en un momento.
Puedo cantar la canción solo para ti de "Aquí está mi Señor",
y solo estoy jodiendo.
No debería decir que estoy jodiendo porque podría hacerlo.
Depende de si el Espíritu me lleva en esa área.
Vamos a empezar el capítulo aquí.
Por supuesto, en el capítulo 5,
prege a ellos, pero aquí en el capítulo 6,
entra en una visión, y esto es principalmente un capítulo
sobre la visión de Isaias del Señor,
sentado en el trono.
Dice en la versión número uno,
"En el año en que el rey Uzziah murió,
también vi al rey sentado en el trono,
alto y levantado,
y su tren llenó el templo".
Ahora, antes de irmos a la actual visión
de lo que ha visto,
quiero que te notes que específicamente nos dice
que en el año en que el rey Uzaya murió
es en realidad cuando esta visión viene a florecer.
Ahora, por qué es importante?
Bueno, si te recuerdas del capítulo 1,
la ministra de Isaias, en esencia,
se expandía sobre el reino de cuatro diferentes reyes, ¿verdad?
Tienes Uzaya,
tienes Jotham, tienes Ahaz,
y luego tienes Hezekiah,
Uzaya siendo ese primer.
Ahora, lo que es significativo sobre Uzaya
y por qué es importante mencionarlo en este capítulo
es porque cuando estudiaste la vida de Uzaya,
él era realmente un buen rey.
Hació muchas fuertes exploiciones.
Fue un gran hombre en un momento.
Y en realidad, si estudias su vida,
verás que la Biblia habla sobre el hecho
de que hizo lo que era justo en el lado del Señor
como lo hicieron sus padres.
Y incluso dice que tenía una gran comprensión
de las visiones de Dios.
Y básicamente, lo que se refiere a eso
es que tiene comprensión de la Biblia.
La Biblia habla sobre lo que no hay visión,
que las personas pertenecen,
pero el que mantenga la ley, es feliz.
Así que la visión es usada en conjunción
para describir la ley de Dios.
Así que sabemos que Uzziah era un hombre
que entendía la Biblia,
que entendía las visiones del Señor,
y el resultado de eso es que la Biblia
dice que Dios lo hizo prosperar.
Y así que fue un rey muy sucesivo
debido al hecho de que sabía la Biblia,
que amaba la Biblia.
Y me recuerda a la p. 1,
donde se habla del hombre que se aleja
en la ley del Señor.
Dice, "En la ley de Dios no se medita día y noche.
Él debería ser como un árbol plantado por las ruedas de agua
que brindará sus frutas en su temporada.
Su ropa también se arrepentirá, y lo que sea que lo haga,
se arrepentirá."
Así que básicamente, lo que dice la Biblia es que cuando se aleja
en la Biblia, es como si Dios te diera el más poderoso toque,
donde todo se vuelve al oro.
No importa lo que haces en la vida cristiana,
si se aleja en la Biblia, solo sucede en todas partes.
No importa lo que haces.
Se aleja en tu trabajo,
se aleja en tu matrimonio,
se aleja con tus hijos,
se aleja en cualquier tipo de esfuerzo.
Siempre se alejarás,
a lo largo de que continúes el delirio en la ley del Señor.
Y con Uzziah, eso fue definitivamente el caso,
porque Dios lo hizo prosperar.
Y eso también nos da una lista de las cosas en las que sucedió.
Fue excelente en la guerra.
Defechó a los filistinos, los arabes,
y otras naciones extranjeras.
Y fue tan sucesivo en su guerra,
y creo que esto es en 2 Chronicles 20, 26 o así,
que fue tan sucesivo que
incluso los amarites empezaron a enviarles regalos,
porque no querían ese coche.
Así que ellos son como, "Hey, no nos vayas,
aquí están algunos regalos para jugar con Kate,
estamos geniales con ti, ¿verdad?"
Así que están enviando regalos.
Así que él está sucediendo en eso.
Era también muy industrioso
cuando llegó a hacer armas de guerra.
Y como se compone todos los diferentes
motores, y torres que construyó,
y todas las armas,
y cómo aumentó su poder militar.
Así que su poder militar estaba en par.
Él está sucediendo en la guerra.
Y también dice que era solo industrioso
en otras áreas.
Se convirtió en Wells,
se construyó paredes y abuelos,
y también dice que sucedió en un hobby.
Porque según a su historia,
él fue muy en la vida de ser un hombre de marido.
Así que fue en plantar vinagres.
Y en "Second Chronicles"
dice que amaba el marido.
Es como su pequeño hobby que tenía.
Incluso sucedió en esa área.
¿Por qué? Porque,
"Whatsoever you do shall prosper."
Así que,
"Whether it's like fighting wars or your hobbies,
anything, you're just going to prosper no matter what
because he loves the Lord."
And the result of this type of success on all fronts
is that his fame began to spread abroad.
The Bible says that he became well-known in the land.
In certain words, it talks about the fact
that he was just well-known.
But unfortunately, because of this,
his heart was lifted up to his destruction,
the Bible says.
So he became famous, he became popular, well-known.
He succeeded at his job.
He succeeded at his hobbies.
He succeeded against the enemies of God.
And what this caused him to do was
to become prideful, arrogant.
And the Bible says that pride cometh before destruction
and a haughty spirit before fall.
So he became prideful.
And what he ended up doing is going into the temple of God
and offering incense upon the altar of incense,
which is only designated for the priest to do.
So he pulled a Saul, right?
Because you guys remember Saul?
He was waiting for Sammy to come.
And then he offered the sacrifice,
which is only designated for the priest to do.
And then Sammy was like, what are you doing?
And he was just like, oh, I forced myself.
You took too long.
And then that's when God began to punish Saul.
And that's where really his decline started.
Well, the same thing with Uzziah.
He offered the incense on the altar of incense.
And then God essentially punished him
and struck him with leprosy, severe leprosy,
to the point where he was just never healed,
to the point where the Bible actually says
that he lived in several houses, or a several house,
meaning that he lived isolated from everyone else
until the day that he died.
And so his pride took him down.
And when you think about why he's being mentioned here
in conjunction with Isaiah and this particular vision,
well, when you read the chapter, you see that Isaiah,
when he sees the glory of the Lord,
he's greatly humbled.
He's just like, I am undone.
I'm a man of unclean lips.
And quite frankly, Isaiah's probably a super legit guy.
He's probably very righteous, very godly,
probably loves the Lord.
He's a man of great fortitude.
But hold on a second.
When he's compared to the Lord, though, he's humble.
And I think the reason this has given us
the description of Uzziah's death
is because of the fact that maybe he just didn't catch
a good glimpse of the Lord, which
is why he became prideful.
And it's a lesson to us all that no matter how successful you
become at whatever it is that you do,
no matter how good of a father you are,
how good of a mother you are, how good of a laborer,
a worker, or a church member you are,
compare yourself to the Lord before you think yourself
to be all high and mighty.
And take a glimpse of the glory of the Lord
through the word of God.
Compare yourself to the Bible.
Don't compare yourself among yourselves,
because that would be unwise, as the Bible says.
Why don't you go ahead and compare yourself
according to the measure of Christ?
And when you do that, you'll be like, well--
you'll be like Job.
He's just like, I'm vile.
He's like, I abhor myself, is what he said.
So Uzziah is a great story to start off, chapter 6,
because it's basically saying he doesn't want
Isaiah to go down that path.
And you can see how prophets and different men of God, who
God used greatly to see these visions
and to have these interpretations,
can become prideful.
I mean, think of someone like Paul,
who was given an abundance of revelation,
but he was given a thorn in the flesh because of it.
Why?
To keep him humble so that the power of Christ
can continue to rest upon him.
And so either you'll get a thorn in the flesh
or you can just humble yourself.
If God is using you greatly to see a lot of people saved,
if you are an outstanding church member,
an outstanding employee, maybe you employ others,
maybe you're making money, maybe you're just
good at what you do, maybe you're just good at your hobby,
stay humble.
Stay humble so that you don't end up like Uzziah.
And this is the reason why it's starting off
with the story of Uzziah, or the mention of his death,
because essentially his death is marking
the end of that punishment that Uzziah got because of his pride,
because he died of his leprosy.
So what does he see?
He sees the Lord high and lifted up.
And it says there that his train filled the temple.
What does it refer to as train?
Well, you think of like a bride when
she's coming down the aisle.
She has that train that follows her.
But I think a better description of what this is referring to
is his entourage.
It's all the heavenly hosts that surround him.
And the reason why I believe that that's probably
what it's referring to is because it goes right
into the description of the seraphims, which are angels.
So when it says that his train filled the temple,
it's just like all his hosts just fills up the temple of God.
And he is essentially the centerpiece of that area of heaven.
He's the most important thing.
And everything else around him kind of points towards him.
He is essentially great.
He is the Lord of hosts.
And he's high.
He's lifted up.
Now look what it says in verse number two.
It says here, "above it stood the seraphims.
Each one had six wings.
And with twain he covered his face.
And with twain he covered his feet."
Twain means two, both.
"And with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another and said, holy, holy, holy
is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory."
Dejemos pausar un minuto y debemos discutir los serifemios por un momento.
Expliquemos lo que se refiere a.
En la Biblia, obviamente tienes la mencionación de los ángeles, ¿verdad?
Y los ángeles pueden describir un mensaje actual que es un mensaje humano de Dios,
como un evangelista, o se refiere a un ser celestial, más específicamente en la Biblia,
que se refería a ser un "chereubim" más a menudo, o un "seraphim" como lo vemos en la Isla de la Sexta.
El "chereubim" está mencionado varias veces en la Biblia.
El "seraphim" es el único que está mencionado.
Ahora, ¿qué es un "chereubim"? ¿O qué son "chereubims"?
"Chereubim" es singular, "chereubims" son plurales, ¿qué son?
Bueno, cuando miras la descripción de estos ángeles,
entiendes que el renacimiento lo hizo mal, ¿verdad?
Porque el renacimiento son un par de católicas
dibujando lo que creen que es un ángel, ¿verdad?
Y decís "¿por qué dices eso?"
Porque son literalmente pequeños, fatos,
náufragos con huesos.
No lo veo en la Biblia, eso suena mal.
"¿Por qué lo haces?"
"Oh, eso es correcto, porque estás lleno de pedofiles."
"Eso es, y eso es lo que piensas."
Y ellos lo llamarán un "chereubim".
Lo llamarán un "chereo" o "chereubims".
Y estoy seguro de que has visto esas fotos.
¿Sabes?
Estos...
¿Sabes?
Los chingados chingados, o lo que sea, con las piernas.
Y la gente se tomaría a la cara de valor y creería que eso es exactamente lo que es un "chereo".
Pero no es así.
Y aquí está la cosa es que, ¿sabes?
La Biblia da una descripción muy clara de lo que estos...
"creatores vivientes", como la Biblia los llama,
se ven en realidad.
Y puedes hacer un deep dive en eso, en Ezequiel 1, en Ezequiel 10.
Y hay otras partes de la descripción que hablan sobre ellos.
Pero, esencialmente, lo que son
es que tienen una apariencia,
una apariencia antropomórfica,
que significa que tienen piernas, torsos,
y incluso las manos de un hombre.
No significa que sean hombres,
sino que tienen esa apariencia.
Y así que es muy antropomórfica en la naturaleza,
pero tienen pernas para los pies, ¿de acuerdo?
Tienen pernas para los pies,
tienen pernas, torsos, y incluso las manos de un hombre.
Y entonces, estos cherubes también tienen cuatro fases, ¿de acuerdo?
La Biblia dice que tienen la cara de un hombre,
y en la derecha la cara de un lino,
a la izquierda la cara de un ojo,
y luego la cara de un eagle.
Dijo, si tiene la cara de un hombre,
entonces ¿por qué se llama una criatura viva?
Bueno, hay ciertas criaturas que parecen a hombres.
Pienso en los apes y los monstruos,
y hay incluso, he visto como peces,
¿sabes lo que dicen?
Es casi como si tuviera esta feature facial de un hombre,
pero es porque viene de la misma creadora, ¿de acuerdo?
Y estos no son hombres.
La Biblia les llama bestias y/o criaturas vivas.
Entonces tienen estos cuatro fases,
y la razón por la cual es porque representan simbólicamente, ¿qué?
Los Gospels, ¿de acuerdo?
Matthew, Mark, Luke y John son representados por el Hijo del hombre,
tienes a la lina, tienes a la ox, y, por supuesto, tienes al eagle representado en el libro de John.
Entonces tienen estos cuatro fases, muy...
...que es asombroso pensarlo, si realmente piensas en ello.
Y tienen cuatro brazos, ¿de acuerdo?
Dos de ellos que cubren su cuerpo,
y los otros dos que se resbalan, como esto.
La Biblia también describe a ellos
como su movimiento como la apariencia de una luz de luz.
Entonces, es una criatura que mueve con una gran rapididad,
son muy rápidas, son como si se atraparan, ¿de acuerdo?
Y no se vuelven, ¿de acuerdo?
Entonces, cuando se mueven, es tanto hacia adelante, hacia atrás,
de lado a lado,
por el hecho de que siempre se enfrentan de la forma correcta,
así que es como...
No sé, ¿no hay una pieza de brazos que mueve así?
¿De acuerdo con eso?
¿Hay una pieza de brazos que solo va hacia adelante, hacia atrás,
de lado a lado?
O el perro. Como puedes ver, soy un perro cuando viene el pecho,
porque no lo sé.
Pero, ya sabes, eso es como se mueven, ¿de acuerdo?
Y, según Ezequiel 1,
también están acompañados con estas
supernaturas ruedas dentro de las ruedas,
y estas ruedas, en definitiva,
residen en el espíritu de esa criatura viva,
y están llenas de ojos dentro y fuera.
Cuando la criatura viva mueve,
en definitiva, la sigue, va a donde sea que vaya.
¿De acuerdo?
Estas son las terribas que se describen en la Biblia.
Ahora, cuando piensas sobre eso,
luego aplica eso a cada vez que se menciona en la Biblia.
Por ejemplo, en Genesis 3,
cuando Adam y Eve se han evitado del jardín de Eden,
ves que Dios pone los cherubim
para guardar el árbol de la vida, ¿verdad?
Así que no vienen después
y intentan comerlo y vivir para siempre.
Así que tienes a estos criaturas presente,
mirando así,
y, por supuesto, tienen las espaldas que están girando.
Y la prueba de que estos son ángeles actuales
y que los cherubim y los ángeles se usan anónimamente en la Biblia,
es el hecho de que están describidos como cherubim en el capítulo 3,
pero luego cuando vas a la revelación del capítulo 9,
describiendo a esas mismas criaturas que están en el río de Eufrates,
están describidos como ángeles.
Así que básicamente se usan anónimamente
para describir a estas criaturas vivas, a estas bestias.
Y así que tienes estas criaturas,
y así que el tipo de ángeles que las personas traen allá,
estos seres celestales, no son nada en comparación con
cómo Dios los describe en la Biblia y cómo se ven.
Y a ese punto puedes realizar
que es por eso que las personas están asustadas cuando las ven.
Eso hace sentido.
Porque si esa cosa aparece a ti y se ve así,
sí, probablemente te caerás en la cara de la muerte.
Y eso simplemente se ve asustador.
Ahora, los serifemes, por otro lado,
son básicamente lo mismo exacto como los cherryabims,
con pocas excepciones.
Estas excepciones serían que en vez de cuatro huesos tienen seis,
dos cubren sus pies, su cuerpo,
perdón, dos cubren sus pies,
dos cubren su cara y los otros dos se flotan.
Y la otra excepción es que no tienen cuatro caras,
solo tienen una de esas cuatro.
Tienen una con la cara de un hombre,
una con la cara de un liano,
una con la cara de un ox,
y otra con la cara de un ego.
Y la razón por la que sabemos es por el hecho de que
estos serifemes son mencionados en Revelación 4,
y esa es la misma descripción exacta que ofrece.
Así que son básicamente lo mismo,
con la excepción de esos dos detalles particulares.
Los serifemes tienen cuatro huesos,
mientras los serifemes tienen seis,
y no tienen cuatro fases,
solo tienen una cada de esos fases particulares
que están mencionados allí.
Y aquí está la otra excepción de los serifemes,
porque parece indicar que los serifemes
son los que son los ministros de derechos,
o ministros de los que deberían ser heros de la salvación.
Son los que están protegiendo la Tierra de la Vida,
y son los que están dando los tareas,
mientras que la Biblia parece indicar que los serifemes,
el único trabajo que tienen, y no estoy diciendo que es sólo esto,
pero según a esta pasada, es que son la cancha de Dios, básicamente.
Están ante el Señor, y cantan "¡José, José!"
Probablemente no así, pero es la forma en la que cantaríamos.
"¡José, Señor Dios!"
Es lo que cantan todo el tiempo.
No pegue con mp3s o Soundcloud o lo que sea.
Solo tiene a los ángeles que se ven antes de él.
Así que esa es la descripción, en caso de que estéis preguntando sobre los ángeles.
Cuando estudias el libro de la revelación,
parece indicar que hay al menos 102 millones de estos criaturas volando.
Obviamente es un reino espiritual, no volando físicamente.
Pero, hey, eso es buena comida de pensamiento.
Espero que hayas aprendido algo allí.
Entonces, tienes a estos serifes y están cantando ante el Señor.
Y en el versículo 3, uno lloró ante el otro y dijo, "¡Joder, Joder, Joder!"
Y por cierto, no se dice que están gritando, no se dice que están llorando.
¡Joder, Joder, Joder!
Llorar significa que están gritando como una trompeta.
Y tú dices, ¿por qué están diciendo eso?
Pues por el hecho de que están alineando a la diapositiva,
que está hecha de tres personas.
Dios el Padre, Dios el Hijo, Dios el Espíritu Espíritu.
Por lo tanto, están diciendo, ¡Joder, Joder, Joder!
Y así, están alineando a la diapositiva.
Y déjame leerte, en realidad, de Revelación 4.
No tienes que ir allí.
Puedes escribirlo, si quieres.
Verso número 6 dice,
"Y antes del trono, había un mar de glas, como un cristal.
Y en el medio del trono, y alrededor del trono,
fueron cuatro bestias llenas de ojos, antes y detrás.
Y el primer bestia era como un liano, y el segundo bestia como un capo.
Y el tercero bestia tenía la cara de un hombre.
El cuarto bestia era como un héroe flotante.
Y los cuatro bestias tenían cada uno de ellos seis huesos por encima de ellos.
Y estaban llenos de ojos dentro,
y no descansaban día y noche,
diciendo, '¡¡Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
que era y es, y es que viene!'"
Así que, sabes, el cielo es muy alto, sabes.
El templo del Señor es muy alto, es muy brillante.
Tiene estos, sabes, cantantes particularmente,
estas criaturas que cantan ante Él.
Y esta es la descripción que nos ha dado la Biblia
con respecto a lo que esto parece.
Ahora, mirad el primer número 4 de Isaias 6.
Así que tenemos la descripción del Señor del Hoste en su trono.
Es glorioso, su tren está llenando el templo.
Tiene estas criaturas magníficas y viviendas
gritando "Joder, Joder, Joder" cantando ante Él.
Una imagen muy poderosa aquí, ¿verdad?
Dice el primer número 4, "Y el poste de la puerta se movió en la voz de Él que lloraba y la casa fue llena de olor".
Ahora, la vi y pensé "Wow, eso es bastante interesante".
Porque básicamente lo que está diciendo es que Isaias está en el poste de la puerta,
viendo el trono de Dios.
"¿Por qué? ¿Qué es tan significativo?"
"OK".
Bueno, o sea, piensa en esto.
Está en la puerta, porque solo hay una forma de llegar al trono de Dios,
y eso es por la puerta.
¿Y qué dijo Jesús en John 10?
"Soy la puerta".
Él es el camino al trono de Dios.
"No hay hombre que venga con el Padre, pero por mí", dijo.
Yo soy la forma, la verdad y la vida.
"No hay hombre que venga con el Padre, pero por mí".
Y para que veas al Padre, y obviamente nadie puede ver al Padre,
pero para que veas al Padre, tienes que ir por el sol.
Para que tengas vida eterna, para estar en el cielo, tienes que ir por la puerta.
Y en realidad, déjame leerlo a ti desde John 10.1.
Dice, "Verily, verily I say to you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold,
but climates some other way, you know, like Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism,
and all those other isms, that's the other way.
The Bible says it's the same as a thief and a robber. Why?
Because you're trying to rob God of his glory.
Anybody who goes to heaven based upon their faith in Jesus Christ, they cannot boast.
Right? Because they did no work.
So these people are trying to rob God of their glory, of his glory.
They're trying to boast in their labors and in their works.
But obviously, you know, they're not even going to get past the door post.
Because as soon as they die, they're going to lift up their eyes in hell being in torment.
But he's making this point, the same as a thief and a robber.
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice.
And he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out.
When he put forth his own sheep he goeth before them.
And the sheep follow him for they know his voice.
And a stranger will they not follow but will flee from him
for they know not the voice of strangers.
This parable spake Jesus unto them, unto them being the Pharisees.
But they understood not what things which he spake unto them.
Which I always thought was funny.
You know, because he's saying like, a stranger will they not follow.
It says, you know, his sheep know his voice.
And then the Pharisees are like, I don't understand what you're saying.
Like, well, point prove it.
It's like when you try to quote verses to someone and they're just like,
that's not what it means.
It's like, well, you're just proving that you're just not saved.
Then said Jesus unto them again, verily, verily I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep.
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers,
but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door by me.
If any man enter in, he shall be saved.
Any man, by the way, right?
The gift is available for all.
He shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.
So he's at the door post and he's seeing the Lord's throne
and obviously that door is referring to Jesus Christ.
Look at verse five.
So we see his vision there and now we're going to get into his cleansing.
What is the effect of seeing God's glory?
He says in verse five, "Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone."
So notice he's not like, because this is how people act
when they feel the presence of God.
They feel the presence of God, they just want to lift up their hands
and have limp wrists and, you know, you need to strengthen your wrists
is what you need to do, okay?
God doesn't want limp wrists when being worshipped.
What is that? It hurts my wrists to do that.
And that's not a proper reaction to the glory of God.
So what is a proper reaction?
Here's two things, one of two things you should do.
Fall on your face is dead, and it's not like, oh, no,
it's just like, you just like fall over.
That's basically what you do.
You look at the instances, especially in the book of Revelation,
they fall on their faces as dead.
There's just near, it's a near death experience.
You know, all these churches like, show us your glory.
It's like, you're just going to disintegrate.
You just discombobulate you once you see the glory.
See, it's not, the glory is nothing to mess with.
And you're not like, oh, man, you know, here I am to worship or whatever.
That's probably where they got that verse.
They probably got it from here, right?
That's not what Isaiah is doing.
He's not singing some liberal song.
He's not repeating it seven times over.
There's no purple lights in heaven.
There's no smoke machine.
Actually, there is smoke coming from his nostrils.
That essentially signifies the wrath of God.
Because it's the smoke from his nostrils that kindles the flames of hell, the Bible says.
Now, if churches actually said that when they had their smoke machines, okay, I would permit that.
I feel like this symbolizes the smoke from his nostrils that kindles the flames of hell.
I approve.
So no one's waving their hands around.
What is he doing?
What was me?
He just feels inadequate.
He feels sinful.
He's just like, I'm just undone.
Undone means like he's falling apart because that is the proper reaction.
And you know what?
He didn't have to make himself feel that way.
That's the natural byproduct of seeing God's glory.
When you compare yourself to the holiness of God, that is just the natural reaction that the spirit gives when you view that.
You know, and obviously we don't behold the glory of God per se visually, but when we read the Bible, you know what should cause us to do is be humble.
Should humble us and recognize like, you know, by the way, the more you read the Bible, the more you realize how undone you really are.
I mean, if you've read the Bible throughout your Christian life and read it a couple of times and read it once a year or whatever it may be, whatever your goal is,
I'm sure there's times when you read it and you're just like, I'm just not there yet. You read it and you're just like, man, I have so much to work on.
Man, I fall short. You fall short of the glory of God. You're just like, and here's the thing, the more you learn the Bible,
the more you know the Bible, the more you realize you don't really know.
It's always the people who don't know enough Bible that think that they know a lot of Bible.
They're then boast about knowing the Bible quite a bit, but it's when you've actually been a Christian for quite some time,
read the Bible a lot, then you start realizing, I actually don't know as much as I thought I knew.
You become undone. He says, then said, I woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips.
I mean, think about it. You know, I'm sure he's not out there saying perverse things,
but compared to the righteousness and the holiness of God, he's just like, I'm unclean all around.
I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips,
for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
Now, this is further proof that who is he looking at? Jesus.
Because he says, mine eyes have seen the King, and he's not referring to God the Father,
because no man has seen him and lived.
The Bible says, you know, the Word of God, He is the express image of the Father.
God's glory resteth in him, according to John chapter one.
So that's what he's beholding, beholding the King.
And so, you know, Isaiah feels the sense of uncleanness.
He feels a sense of inadequacy.
And you know what? There comes a point in your Christian life when you're reading the Bible,
you get to points like that when you're reading it.
Or when you're serving God, you're like, I'm just not doing enough.
I don't know enough. I haven't read enough.
I just haven't done enough. I'm inadequate.
You know, I'm not where I feel like I need to be.
But that is what reading the Bible and seeing the glory in the Bible does to you.
It doesn't, no one reads the Bible just like, I knew all this.
Next, you know, what else? I know this, I know this.
No, you walk away, the more you consume, the more you realize like, oh man, so much more to learn.
And then when you think you know everything, then you come across, you know, the same chapter you've read like five, six times.
And then you learn something new. You're like, I've just never seen that.
And then you just feel like an idiot. I've been there.
Versus like, how did I not see this?
How many times have you heard a sermon by a pastor who uses the verse and you're like, well, I've never seen that.
I've read the Bible so many times.
It's like you're undone because you're beholding the glory of the Lord in the word of God.
And that is the effect of God's word on your heart, is that it should humble you.
It should cause you to be a base, not prideful and arrogant.
And by the way, one sure way to avoid becoming prideful and arrogant when you're reading the Bible is make sure you obey the Bible.
Because someone who just is a hero of the word, but they're not a doer, they're deceiving themselves, they get knowledge.
And what does knowledge do? It puffs it up.
The charity edifies. So when you have knowledge coupled with charity, boom, you got a good mixture there.
You can be humble and still serve God.
So he says, I'm a man of unclean lips.
He's basically saying, you know, I'm just sinful.
Let me read to you from Romans 3, verse 10 says that as it is written, there's none righteous, no, not one.
There is none that understand it. There is none that seek it after God.
They are all gone out of the way. They are all together become unprofitable.
There is none to do with good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulcher with their tongues. They have used deceit.
The poison of asps is under their lips.
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Destruction and misery are in their ways.
And the way of peace have they not known.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Now we know that what thinks whoever the law sayeth,
it sayeth to them who are under the law,
that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God.
When you recognize God's standard of holiness,
you realize like I'm not there.
I don't meet those qualifications.
And in order for God to use Isaiah,
he has to be at that point.
And you know what?
Uzziah should have gotten to that point.
You know, once he accomplished all those things,
he should have got a glimpse of the glory of the Lord
and recognized I'm inadequate too.
I have not done enough.
And in fact, if it wasn't for the Lord,
I wouldn't be able to accomplish what I'm accomplishing.
That's what he should have said.
But instead, he became prideful, he became arrogant,
he was lifted up, and therefore he was punished in a vase.
Look at verse number six.
"Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,
which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
And he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips,
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged."
And obviously this is figurative, this isn't literally happening.
This is a vision.
And essentially what I believe this signifies is the fact that God
is touching his lips so that he can now preach the word of God.
He's purging him from uncleanness so that he can be a vessel unto honor
meet for the master's use and prepare him to every good work.
Verse number eight, now he gives him the commission.
So he sees this vision, he's greatly humbled by it, God cleanses him.
And by the way, when you're humbled, you have a tendency to just
confess stuff that you just forgot about.
You're just like, "Forgive me, Lord, I've had a foolish thought,"
or "I've said this," or whatever.
You just start cleansing yourself, right?
So now he gives him the commission, verse eight.
"Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?' Then said I, 'Here am I!'"
Send me.
I can't tell you how many missionaries have used this verse, right?
Because in the old IFB, in order for you to go to a mission field,
you have to be called.
And I don't know how that calling is, you know what I mean?
But it's embedded in us that you have to have that calling.
And I think to a certain extent, some people will say that they were called into the ministry,
or called to the mission field,
only because they've heard that so much that that's what they think they should be saying,
and they kind of convince themselves of that.
And I'll give you an example. When I first got saved,
I remember thinking to myself, "I want to preach."
And I was like, "I want to preach. I want to be a preacher.
One day I want to be a pastor." Those are the words that I would say.
But when I would express that to my leaders, they would say, "Oh, you're called to preach."
And I didn't really think of anything of it, but I was just like, "Yeah, I want to preach."
But the more you talk to people about it, the more they'll say, "Oh, so you're called to preach."
So it's one of those, like, these manipulation tactics or something where it's just like, "Yes, I am called to preach."
And then you just kind of go with that.
But really what the Bible says is that if any man desire the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.
And obviously God's calling us to serve him just period.
And the pastorate is not the only office that a Christian can serve in.
You can serve God at all capacities, and in fact your life is a service unto God.
And there are specific areas that certain people can serve in, but certain people cannot.
And so they often say, you know, God called me to the mission field.
It's like, you know, what do they say? Why do you need a calling when there's a command?
It was often said, which is great. You don't need a calling when you have a command.
It's just like, I'm just trying to see if I'm called to the mission field.
Read Matthew 28. There it is. Read Acts 1-8. There it is.
It's like, oh, I'm called to go to the 1040 window.
I don't see 1040 window on here. I just see all nations.
Supposed to go everywhere.
But they'll say, you know, I was reading my Bible and I was just...
The wind blew the page to Isaiah chapter 6.
And then I was drinking coffee and the coffee spilled right on that verse right there.
And it said, I looked down and said, Lord, is this it?
Here am I standing, who will go for us? And then the song starts.
Here am I, I will go, I will reach the lost untold.
And then you're just there, you're like, man, God's never called me.
I will reach the lost... How does the verse go?
I will tell them of the crimson flow, here am I.
I'm getting chills just thinking about it.
And then you're just like, you know, because I love missions and I'm just like crying.
I'm just like, wow, little Cambodian needs.
And then no one told me it was like a stock photo, you know?
The guy never saw that little Cambodian kid.
Fuck, that's from Google, Google Images.
Now that's probably AI, you know?
And, you know, so they'll use this.
And, you know, for years, they've always used this for years.
Like, I'm sure to this day they still do it.
But they never, like, finish the chapter.
It's a lot darker.
I like how real the Bible is, you know what I mean?
Because it is a powerful, it's powerful, you know, because it's not...
God's not like, you know, who will go first, like, he doesn't know, like, it's only Isaiah there, right?
He's saying that to provoke Isaiah to say, you know, like, here am I, I'll go.
And Isaiah has an unsavory ministry.
He's going to preach to rebellious people is what he's going to do.
He's going to preach to people who are not accepting of him.
And not accepting of him, but they're not accepting of God.
And he's actually being sent and commissioned to go harden the hearts of Judah.
So that God would have a reason to punish them.
Think about that.
That's a lot different than Jeremiah sent me to go win the little Filipino kid to Christ.
Who's going to reach the little Thai boy and the little African in the jungles of the Congo?
And then they play the song.
But this isn't about the little African who doesn't have any clothes on and the Aborigines or whatever.
It ain't about that.
It's actually about Judah.
And I'm sure the Lord is fine with people applying it to missions.
Because, hey, if it gets you out, then go.
That's what you need.
I put Matthew 28, but I guess you want to use Isaiah 6 or something.
Matthew 28 is pretty clear, but if you want to use Isaiah 6, okay.
That's about something else.
And you know what?
If we ever give this interpretation to an old IP church, they'd be very offended.
They'd be very offended.
Because it's like their life verse.
And the verse always comes up at the end of the video, and then you're like, "Take my money."
I'm going to give, and you just put a crazy amount, and people sign their life away.
To try to give to that little African kid who the guy doesn't even know.
It's a stock photo. It's stock photo. That's why it looks so good.
No, he's actually looking for someone to go and preach hard.
That's actually what he's looking for.
He's like, "Who will go for us to preach hard sermons?"
Now, if you were to give the real interpretation, you'd have a lot of missionaries like, "Here am I!"
And then it's like, "To preach hard sermons." I don't know if I'm called to that.
To preach against the sodomites. They're like, "I don't find a verse, I don't have a live verse for that."
I do! I got life chapters, amen! 'Cause at the end of the day, that's what he's talking about.
So if you were to propose this and say, "Who will go for us to go preach against the wickedness of this world?"
To go preach the Word of God to a rebellious nation, I guarantee you wouldn't have a whole lot of volunteers for that.
A lot of people would be like, "Well, you know, we need to be loving."
Yes, we need to be loving, but God wants us to preach hard, so do it.
"Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." Here am I, send me. I'll do it.
Who will preach against the Catholic Church? Here am I, send me.
Who will preach? Who's going to preach in June? Here am I, send me. I'll sing a song.
That's what he's volunteering for. Verse 9 says, "And he said, 'Go and tell this people,
hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed.'"
What did he say? "Less means so that they don't convert."
He's like, "Harden their hearts so that they don't convert, because I want to punish this nation."
Oh, there goes your missions video. Just erase the missions video, because this is a different message.
According to that crowd, this is not a very loving thing to do, Lord. What do you mean?
"Less they see with their eyes, don't you want them to see with their eyes?"
"Less they hear with their ears, don't you want them to hear with their ears?"
"And understand with their heart, don't you want them to understand and convert?"
"Don't you want them to convert and be healed? Don't you want them to be healed?"
Yeah, but they've had their chance already, though.
So he wants to send Isaiah to preach in the hearts of Judah, who's just perpetually rejected him
and talked all this smack to him.
Remember a couple chapters ago, they were just like, "Make haste."
Remember those drunkards in a couple chapters ago where they were just like, "Make haste. Go and judge us. Let's see it."
They were provoking God, and so God's like, "All right, who's going to go for me?"
Isaiah's like, "I'll do it."
He's like, "All right, go harden that person's heart. Go preach to them, close their eyes, close their ears.
I don't want to heal them. I don't want them to convert. I want a reason to just whoop them."
That's what he's saying. I'm reading it in its context. That's out of context.
You don't even know what that means if you think that's out of context.
That's literally what it's saying.
And in fact, hold your place or go to Matthew chapter 13.
Matthew chapter 13. This is the message.
Now again, you know, I'm not against using it for missions.
I think that's a great verse to use, you know.
I think it's a great verse for soul winning. Here am I, send me.
I saw for a man among them who should make up the hedge and stand in the gap,
but I found none. Hey, here am I, send me. I think that's great.
But I do think like the main interpretation is a little more base, though.
I think that one's just, I'll go with that one. I'll pick another verse from Missions.
This one, I want to keep this way because this is a hard truth and it's awesome.
You know, I think of my pastor friends. These are like my pastor friends.
My pastor friends are like Isaiah. They're like, here am I, send me, you know?
And you know what? Yeah, they're doing missions, but they're not using Isaiah 6 to do missions.
They're using Isaiah 6 to preach against the wickedness of this world.
Look at Matthew 13. This is the parable of the seed and the sower.
I'm not going to go over the whole parable. He gives the parable, then he gives the explanation to it.
In verse 9 he says, "Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. And the disciples came and said unto him,
Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" Them is who? The Jews.
"He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
But to them it is not given." I don't want them to know.
"For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and each shall have more abundance.
But whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that that he hath."
What is he saying? You know, someone who responds to the truth will be given more truth.
But if you have truth and you're rejecting truth, God won't even take away the truth that you already have.
Jesus said that. Let's read on.
Verse 13, "Therefore speak I to them in parables, because they see and see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith," Isaiah of course, that's what he's referring to,
"which saith, By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive, for this people's heart is wax gross."
"Their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
Skip down to verse number, actually let's skip reading, "But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear."
"For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them, and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them, hear ye therefore the parable of the sower."
Verse 19, "When anyone heareth the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one and catcheth the way that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the wayside."
Now, a very common interpretation of this is that when someone doesn't understand the word of God, it's like that raven that comes and steals that truth out of their heart.
But this is not what that's teaching. The raven works for God. Because the person who refuses to understand the Bible, because the Bible is easy to understand especially when it comes to salvation.
Especially when it comes to who is Christ. The person who refuses to understand, God sends the raven to go snatch the seed that's in that person's heart.
Why would he do that? Oh, because he takes away even that which he hath. So the raven works for Jesus.
And God is saying, "I'm giving them this parable, but you know what, the reason they don't understand is because I sent the wicked one to go remove that seed out of their heart because I don't want them to believe, because they've rejected me."
That's what he's saying. I mean, that's not popular, but that is what he's saying.
Now, that should motivate us, number one, to go give the truth to everyone, amen, and get people saved, and get people responding to the truth.
But the truth is that when we're out there preaching the gospel, sometimes we are hardening the hearts of someone who's out there who hates the Lord and doesn't want nothing to do with him.
And it's no skin off my back because I'm not the one sending the wicked one, I'm not the one sending the raven.
God is sending him to go snatch the seed out of that person's heart. Why? Lest they should be converted and be healed.
That's powerful. That's what Jesus said. That's how he rolls.
He's not willing that any should perish. We know that. He wants people to be saved.
But folks, let me just remind you of something. God knows the inner recesses of the heart of everyone better than anyone.
He sees the rain. So you may think, oh man, we need to give this person a chance,
which I'm just going to preach to everyone because I'm going to assume just everyone needs the word of God.
And that's my job to go preach the word of God, go preach the gospel.
But you know, God is looking in the hearts of everyone and saying, this person hates me.
This person has been given the truth over and over and over again.
Let that truth come to him and then the wicked one will come and snatch that out of their hearts because I don't want them to be saved.
And what is that called? Repurbation. Repurbation.
That's why people are like, oh man, you know, just pray for these, you know, these false teachers and these false prophets for them to be saved.
I pray for the wicked one to continue to snatch the seed out of their heart.
Continue to pray for the ravens to come and just snatch the seed out of their heart so even that which they have can be taken from them.
Why? Because they're shutting up the kingdom of heaven to everyone. They're hindering people from going in.
Now, I don't reprobate people because I don't have that ability and that's not a verb per se.
But here's the thing is that I just preach the Bible and when I'm at the door, I'll preach the gospel to anyone who's willing to listen to it.
And if they don't want it, then you know what? I'm done.
And look, I'm done just like, "Oh man, this guy is a raving satanist and he just rejected me. I'm just heartbroken."
I'm not heartbroken over that.
You know, I'm heartbroken over the person who may not have all the mental faculties to be able to understand the gospel because of past decisions they've made and maybe they destroyed their brain or something.
You know, I'm grieved over people who are lost in false religion out there. Absolutely.
But you know what? I have a bias towards the truth though.
And you know what? I don't believe this whole, "Oh man, you guys are just driving so many people away from Christ by your message."
The message doesn't do that.
Actually, I'm sorry. Let me repeat myself. Yeah, the message actually does do that.
You know why? Because sometimes the message will repel people who hate the message.
And you know what? I can say it nicely or I can say it coarsely.
The message is still going to have the same effect.
And there's people out there that when they receive it, they hate it, they don't want it.
And you know what? I'm not going to waste my time trying to win people who have rejected the truth.
Jesus told me to wipe the dust off my feet and don't cast my pearls before swine and just move on to the next.
You know, let me just say this. Stop trying to win your buddy who's been rejecting the gospel you've been preaching to them for the last four years or whatever.
We grew up together though.
So what? You know, someone out there who's actually willing to give you the time of day and is starving for that gospel presentation
and you're wasting your time with someone who's just closing their eyes and their ears and they don't want to be saved.
Oh man, but we're just great friends. We've just always known each other.
So what? We should have a bias towards truth, we should have a bias towards the Lord.
And you know what? Our job is to be like Isaiah, just preach the word of God and whatever happens, happens.
And I'm not saying like we go out there like, "Alright, time to go harden some hearts, amen?"
You know on Sunday after church or after morning church you're like, "Alright, soul winning team, let's go harden some hearts."
No, we want people to be saved. That is the default setting of our attitude is that we want people to be saved.
We hope to get people saved. My heart yearns to get people saved.
When I talk to people at the door, my heart yearns that this person would be receptive.
And as I'm waiting for that person to come to the door, I'm praying thus within myself.
Lord, please, please, I hope this person is softened towards the gospel.
I hope they give me the time of day. I hope you give them understanding.
And you know what? If they're rushed or whatever, you know, that hurts.
Especially when you know that they're receptive.
Or how about times when you preach the gospel to someone and they're like right there and then someone just snatches them away.
A mom, a dad or something, that hurts.
But if some libtard Satanist just wants to mock God, I'm not shedding any tears over that.
I'll shed tears of laughter when their fear cometh as a desolation because they've mocked God.
And you know what? I'm not going to tell them that though.
Obviously I'm not going to be like keep laughing, you know, laugh your way to hell, sucker.
I'll say it in my heart, you know what I mean?
And then I'll comment that to my soul-winding partner and then we'll laugh on our way to the next door.
But there I'll just say alright, well there's the invite, if you ever have a question let us know.
I want to talk to people who want the truth, you understand that?
You know, that's why I'm not, that's another reason why I'm not for debating
because you're debating someone who doesn't want the truth.
I only want to give the truth to people who want the truth.
That's what Jesus told us to do.
And you know what, the people who don't want it, well they'll just become hardened towards it and so be it.
Because there's a commission to get people saved but there's also a commission just by default
that you will harden the hearts of some people when you go out there, that's just a fact.
Because the gospel is not hard to understand, the easiest thing to understand.
The gospel, the message of salvation is the easiest thing to understand.
Go back to Isaiah if you would, Isaiah chapter 6.
So he's like, "Here am I, Lord send me."
And he's like, "So what's the topic? What would you like me to preach on?"
The love of God, you want me to preach on Old Testament laws, he's like reprobation.
I want you to just make everyone mad and just preach the hell out of them.
You're like, Isaiah's not like, "Well, you know, we don't want to drive people away, though."
You're going to scare people away from the lie, you're being a bad testimony.
I'm so sick and tired of people online. You're causing people to go away from Christ.
You don't even soul win. What are you talking about?
When's the last time you got your lazy, blessed assurance off your stinking phone
and actually gone to go preach the gospel to someone? Never.
So don't tell me about the love of Christ. Our church, First Works,
goes out on a weekly basis to go preach the gospel
and that's our expression of love, according to the Bible.
But these people online, oh man, you're just such a bad testimony.
That's not what the person who got saved said. That's funny.
That's not the testimony of those 76 people who got saved last month.
Interesting that that kind of happened that way.
Look at verse 11. So he gets this commission. Look what it says.
Then said, "Lord, how long?" He's like, "And how long is this sermon going to be?
How long do you want me to preach for?" And he answered,
"Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man,
and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord has removed men far away,
and there be a grave forsaken in the midst of the land."
Okay, question. He's just writing this down. He's like, "Cities be wasted without inhabitant."
There's a list that he gives him here. He goes, "This is how long I want the sermon to be until everything's just destroyed."
That's a long sermon. That's a very long sermon.
You know, I'm looking at the clock here. I have a clock to work with. He doesn't need a clock. He just needs to look at the land.
The next day he wakes up, he's preaching. He's like, "Everything's still intact. I'm still preaching."
Comes back the next day, hasn't happened yet, still preaching, but then ultimately everything gets destroyed.
He's like, "All right, I'm about to land the plane." I mean, that is an awesome answer.
He didn't say 30 minutes. He didn't say an hour. He says, "Until everything's just destroyed."
Do you think God, maybe he's a little mad? I think he's a little upset. What do you think?
He sounds like he's a little irate with Judah. Like, "So how long do you want me to preach?"
He's like, "Until everything's just destroyed." And I don't even want to see people walking on the street.
But of course, God is well balanced. He's a man of great judgment, righteousness, and wrath.
But just remember, God is love, though. And this is why he says in verse 13,
"But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten as a teal tree,
and as an oak whose substance is in them. When they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof."
What is he saying? There's still going to be a remnant.
Because obviously, within Judah, the whole nation is wicked.
But you know, there is a group of people there who still love the Lord.
They're worshiping God. They're going against the grain.
They're not following the gods of all of their neighbors.
They fear God. They love the Lord. And you know what? He's going to preserve them.
Because God's not going to just destroy them with the wicked. He's going to save them.
And so what do we have here?
The chapter here is very powerful because it requires Isaiah to see the glory of the Lord.
And in light of that, be humbled because he's going to be used for a great task.
To just preach to a lot of people. And you know what? Everyone's going to be mad at him.
And when you preach the truth, people just get mad at you.
And it's every one of our tendencies to want to be liked.
And so we have to fight that urge and just say the truth anyways.
And here's the thing. As a pastor, we all have this commission.
I could ask the Lord, "How long, Lord?"
And it's just like until everything is just made desolate.
Plain and simple. Until the world ends, basically.
Or until I end.
So I'm going to be preaching until the day that I die.
Or until the rapture takes place.
At which point everything is destroyed.
Do you know what I'm saying?
And so this is the chapter, Isaiah 6.
Great chapter. I love it.
Missions is great, but this mission is greater though.
And we can do both. Amen. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for this powerful chapter.
Bless us as we go on our way, Lord.
And help us have love in our hearts as we preach the gospel and get people saved, Lord.
And there's many people out there who need the truth of the gospel.
They need to know the love of Christ.
Help us, Lord, to convey that to them.
Not because of how we say, but because of what we're saying.
Because of the scriptures we're quoting, Lord.
That you may receive all the honor and glory.
But in like manner, Lord, help us to just preach the gospel to everyone.
And there might be someone out there who becomes hardened towards the word of God.
It would not be our will for that person to become hardened.
We want people to be saved, but obviously you want them to be saved more than we do.
And if they reject of the light, Lord, we know that according to your word,
the natural byproduct of that is their heart becomes hardened.
And I pray that you'd help us, Lord, to have longevity in our church.
To do the work of the ministry. We love you. We thank you.
We pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
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