Turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Daniel. Book of Daniel chapter four. You know, we live in a day of which men and women are told to let
God save them. It's a day when men and women
worship at the altar of human sovereignty, when they boast of free will. And they're told that God wants
to save them, but he can only do it if they'll
let him and He wouldn't dare do anything against their will. Let me read you a verse. It's
found in the book of Job. And here, Job is speaking of
God. Not God as men think he is, but
God as The Holy Spirit is making known to Job that he is. He says, but he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth." Now, men and women, imagine that
they can do what they please, but there's only one who does
what he pleases. The truth of the matter is, when
everything is said and done, if you're not saved, it's because
God didn't want to save you, period. Whatever he desires to do, that's what he does. He's not got a wonderful plan
for your life if you'd only let him apply that plan. Whatever he desires to do, that's
what he does. And if you'll look here in Daniel
chapter 4, we find a man who found that
out. He's not a man that could be
compared with anybody that's living in this day. You take the mightiest, the richest,
the most powerful person that lives in our day, they would
pale in insignificance to this man, King Nebuchadnezzar. By his own statements, he is
the originator and the builder, the designer of that great city
of Babylon. And he is, in our text, the example
of when human sovereignty meets divine sovereignty, when man's
imagined free will meets the will of God. And what happens to him has to
happen to every sinner that God saves. He has to be brought down in
order to be lifted up. He has to be shown that he's
nothing in order to be made something. He has to be stripped of all
his trash that he might have true treasure. He has to be emptied
if he is ever to be saved. And when you look down here in
Daniel chapter 4, he gives us the end of the matter. He makes his statements after
he has met the living God that he was not looking for. Verse 34, he says, and at the
end of the days, the days in which this king, this mighty,
brilliant king, has been brought down by Almighty God to be a
blubbering foolish, raving madman, likened to the beast in the field. At the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned
unto me, and I blessed the most And I praised and honored him
that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and
his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest
thou? Did you hear what this great
king not only willingly confesses, but what he is led by the Spirit
of God to confess so that each of us here could have it read
in our hearing? And this is something that every
person that God saves finds out in mercy, and it is what everyone
that perishes will find out when it is too late. And it can be summed up in the
last statements of that 35th verse. He says, and none can
stay his hand. And I do believe that that none
includes every son and daughter of Adam. Every person in this
earth who has ever lived or ever will live They fit in that category
of none who can stay or stop his hand. I remember reading
one time about a Welsh miner who heard an Armenian preacher,
and the preacher was talking about God casting men and women
into hell. And this rough Welsh miner stood
up and he said, God will never cast me into hell. And everybody just shrieked to
hear such a statement as that, but he came back with a wise
observation. He said, if he cannot save me
against my will, then he cannot cast me into hell against my
will. And this is what is raised up
in men and women through the preaching that is done in most
every place in our day. And that is that the will and
power and ability of man is exalted over the will and power and ability
of God. But salvation is a demonstration
of God's power. And it has to do with His authority
and with His ability. And it is part of the glory of
Christ that we read about in John 17 when he speaks to the
Father. And we are made known to hear
that the Father has given him power over all flesh. power over all flesh, that he
might give eternal life to as many as the Father hath given
him." The Bible talks about the grace of God. And grace is not
simply a benevolent gesture by God offering something. The Bible
is speaking of omnipotent grace, what some have called irresistible
grace. And they raise up such passages
in the Bible, whereas God and all the prophets say the same
thing, that men do by nature resist God. But what this book
shows us is that with regard to all that God has purpose to
say, That all that it is His will to save, though they resist
like all His grace and His power, they are unable to resist it
successfully. And that is their salvation.
And that is why God gets all the glory. That's why he does
all that he wants to do, what he desires to do, and none can
stop him. None can stay his hand, whether
he be the beggar on the face of this modern day or Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon. None can stay his hand or question
him and say unto him, why? Did you do that? Turn over to
Isaiah chapter 6 because in Isaiah chapter 6 we find another example
of this. Isaiah chapter 6, beginning in
verse 1, where we find this man Isaiah, and he writes, In the
year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims,
each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face,
and with twain or two he covered his feet, and with twain he did
fly. And cried one, and cried unto
another, and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. And the post of the door moved
at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with
smoke. Then said I, 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 mine eyes have seen
the king, the lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims
unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with tongs 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 is purged. 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. What I want to try to say to
you this morning is some things about what we
find in this book, not only by plain statements, but also by
clear examples, when God comes in power. He does come to his people in
saving power. And if you notice here in Isaiah's
writing that there was a time when God came to him in power. He describes this time as the
year when King Uzziah died. And there are some who believe
that he's making reference to that death that finally came
upon Uzziah or it being now brought as he was as if he were dead
when he intruded upon the priest's office and God smote him with
leprosy. And so it's at this time that
God comes to him and reveals his power to him and in him he
says it is in the year that King Uzziah died. And every person that God saves
He will interrupt them on their course toward eternity and destruction
in hell and He will interrupt them and He will intercept them
at that hour and make known to them His power. That's exactly
what the Apostle Paul says. Because he says that he was before. In other words, before Christ
intercepted him on that road to Damascus, before Christ came
to him in power on that occasion, he said, I was before a blasphemer. There was a time and there is
always a time when God comes to his elect in this power, this
saving power to reveal his salvation. And there are four things in
this text this morning that I want us to note that I think have
application to this. Four things that take place in
a sinner when God comes to them in power. And the first thing
that I believe is made manifest here is that he comes in a powerful
revelation of himself. I can remember I can remember
when the Lord came to me, one of the first thoughts that entered
into my mind as I began to see him as he really is. And that thought is, God is not
who I thought he was. Oh no. In verse one, he says, in the
year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord, or Adonai, a reference
to the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, I saw also the Lord
sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled
the temple. Where was he? Where was this
God, most likely the pre-incarnate Christ, where was he when Isaiah
saw him? He was on a throne. Somebody
said, now you people preach this sovereignty of God stuff. No,
we don't preach the sovereignty of God. We preach the God who
is sovereign. And when God comes to us in power,
the one thing he does first is he reveals himself for who he
is. And when Isaiah saw him, he's
sitting on a throne, the absolute sovereign ruling, which is exactly
where he is and he's always been. He said, I saw him high and lifted
up. And Paul, in that first chapter
of Ephesians, when he is writing and talking about Christ, most
particularly in that 11th verse, he says, in whom also we have
obtained an inheritance being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who works all things after the
counsel of his own will. You mean to tell me that the
use of such words as luck or fate or chance, that they're
not really applicable truly to what's going on in this earth? You mean that with regard to
me personally, individually, that God Almighty is the one
who in my life and in all things concerning me is working all
things after the counsel of His will? That's exactly what I'm
saying. Somebody said, well, that's fatalism. No, that's God. I'm not saying
that things just happen. I'm not saying, as some say,
whatever will be, will be. That's not what I'm saying. I'm
saying, just like God says and what He reveals to everyone that
He saved, it is that He, from His high and lofty throne, who
has been there for all eternity and shall be, He is working all
things after the counsel of his own will. When Nebuchadnezzar was brought
to confess the things that he confesses by God, who is it,
or maybe I should say, how does he now see him and view him? He describes him as the Most
High. You know anything about the most
high? Here you got this high and that high and the other high
and there's no doubt among men they're higher than others are,
but here he talks about the most high. He's going to bring every
one of His people in grace to bow before Him as the Most High
and to see Him as high and lifted up. And here's the description
of Him here. It says that His garment, His
robe of glory or justice or righteousness, He said, His train filled the
temple. What does that mean? It means
there isn't any room for anybody or anything else. In that way
in which God is worshipped, in that temple that he is worshipped
in, in that temple that is a picture of his believing child, in that
temple that's a picture of his church, his train, his glory,
his attributes, fill the temple. There's not any room for boasting.
There's not any room for us glorying ourselves. There's not any room
for man's part or man's work or any such thing as that. And
he is worshipped here and seen here as he always is by his people
in his central and chief attribute. Somebody said, well, I know what
that is. I believe in the love of God. Look down at verse 3. Here are
these angelic created beings who dwell in the presence of
God, who surround his throne, and they are there to do his
bidding. They're his messengers. And it
says that they cry one unto another, then they said, holy, holy, holy
is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. Now I know what the Bible says.
It says God is love. And without a doubt, God is love. And he goes on to tell us that
the love of God is in Christ Jesus. So if we are outside of
Christ Jesus, we not only are not possessors or enjoyers of
the love of God, but we have no part in the love of God and
the wrath of God abides on us. many, many more times than it
says God is love. And all you got to do is break
out of concordance and look for yourself many, many, many more
times than it says God is love in this book. It says God is
holy. It gives us this threefold declamation
and praise of the triune God in that attribute which is essential
to him. He's holy, holy, holy. Christ called the Father the
Holy Father. The angel said that holy thing
that will be born of your womb is none other than the Son of
God. He's holy. The Spirit of God
is said to be the Holy Spirit. The scripture even has come to
be called the Holy Bible. I can tell you this, while the Bible says God is love, You and I in ourselves, it does
not say God loves us. But it does say God is holy. Holy. If he loves, it's a holy
love. If he does something, it's a
holy doing. He's not in one particular land
called the Holy Land, wherever he is. He said, that's holy. He's what makes it holy. Whatever
set apart unto him is holy. That's why his people are called
holy. Moses says, who is like unto
thee, O Lord? Who is likened to thee among
the gods? Who is likened to thee glorious
in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Thus revealing
in all that said here that all that God does. Now you think
about this. Well, you get like most people
are and you kind of fix you up your own salvation and your own
little relationship with God. and then you tag it on to him
and say he's the one that's done it. All that God does, since
he is holy, has to be done in a way and a manner that is consistent
with his holy self. So when he was worshipped there
in the tabernacle of Israel, when he was worshipped in the
temple, When he said that he would dwell between the cherubims
over the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant, where was it
at? It was in the Holy of Holies. Isaiah said in the year that
King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up. And I saw
that he, his glory filled the temple. There was no room for
anything else. And I heard those angelic creatures
declaring that which is central to his glory over and over and
over again, holy, holy, holy. That's why men like to talk about
the love of God so much. because they hate to face what
evidently and obviously must be if he is first of all gloriously
holy. Turn over in Isaiah chapter 45
a minute. Isaiah 45. Now I want you to listen to what
God says. And the truth of the matter is, we may shut our ears
and we may shut our minds, we think, to what God says, but
God speaks to our hearts and he speaks with a voice that we
cannot shut out. He speaks to our conscience and
we cannot escape it. Isaiah 45 verse 18. For thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens. Why do men want to try to make
up a phony thing like evolution? Because if God created it, that
means that we are possessed by him and we have to do business
with him. For thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens. No, it just blew up with a big
bang, and here it is. How stupid. You're walking down
the street, and all of a sudden you reach down, and you pick
up a watch, and it's ticking beautifully, and it says Rolex
on it, and you're so glad to have it, and you just say to
yourself, well, isn't this amazing? This thing just happened to be.
No. There's a wise design behind
that. There's a craftsman who made
it. It didn't just happen. It didn't
evolve. It wasn't one day a pile of metal
that just popped into existence. No. Thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth and made
it, he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed
it to be inhabited. What does he say? I am the Lord. You say, well, I don't believe
all this Jesus business. I don't believe all this God
business. I don't believe the Lord business. Won't change a thing. You realize
that? The height of a sinner's arrogance
is to imagine that just because they don't believe something,
it doesn't exist. You know, there are a lot of
people who don't believe there's ever been a man sent to the moon. I can tell you this, I don't
really know whether there has or not, but if there has, they're
not believing it won't change it, will it? I am the Lord, and there is none
else. I have not spoken in secret in
a dark place of the earth. I said not unto the seed of Jacob,
seeking me in vain. I, the Lord, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. Somebody said, you think you're
right and everybody else is wrong. Nope. I know God is right and
everybody else is wrong. Assemble yourselves and come,
draw near together ye that are escaped of the nation. They have
no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and
pray unto a God that cannot say. My little granddaughter's been
sick, and I want all of the Lord's people
to pray for her. Someone asked my dear wife if
they could put her name on their church prayer list. Bless her
heart. That little meek gal told them
that she'd rather that they didn't. Why? because they pray unto a
God that cannot save. Tell ye and bring them near,
yea, let them take counsel together, who hath declared this from ancient
time, who hath told it from that time, have not I the Lord? And there is no God else beside
me. a just God and a Savior, there
is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else." Just one. Almighty God. The God of the
Bible. Not the God of the Koran, not
the God of any other holy book. The God of the Bible, the Creator
God, the singular God, He allows no rival. It's not faith, it's
not God's, it's God. He's the only God there is. He's
the only God that there is. There's no salvation in anyone
else or by anyone else. He said, look unto me and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I'm God and there's
none else. And I've sworn by myself, the
word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not
return that unto me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall
swear. Confess. Surely shall one say, in the
Lord have I righteousness and strength. Even to him shall men
come, and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. And in the Lord shall all the
seed of Israel be justified and shall glory. Now how can God How can God make such declarations? How can He be so, as we always
said, so cocksure about everything? How can He speak of somebody
being saved, that this seed be saved and justified? How can
He talk about doing this and that and the other? Because He's God. When he comes in power, this
God who's of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, when he has
come in the revelation of himself through the gospel, and we're
made to know and find out who he is, we find that he is that
high and holy, absolute sovereign God who does what he will in
heaven and in earth, and none can stay his hand. Here's the second thing. When
God comes in power, he comes in a powerful revelation of the
sinner to the sinner's self. That's why I know so many of
these people. I call them gum-chewing Christians. They had never come
anywhere close to the living God. Because when God comes in
power, he comes and brings to a sinner the revelation of what
that sinner is in his sight. As a matter of fact, the only
way that we ever find out how we really are is when God enables
us to see and believe what he says that we are. You ain't what mama and daddy
and grandmama and reverend so-and-so and whoever they are. You're
not how they are. You're not how you feel you are
before God. You're not what you think you
are. You are what God says you are. Look back here in Isaiah 6 in
verse 5. Whenever, you know, it says in
his light we'll see light. When he shines the light of his
glorious truth concerning himself, it's like when you open the door
of that old shed behind the house that hadn't been opened in 20
years. Maybe on the outside it don't look too bad. And all of
a sudden you begin to crack that door and open that door, it begins
to swing open. And the more light that gets
in, the worse it looks, the more cobwebs, the more rust, the more
broken down stuff. And that's the way it is when
God comes in power to a sinner, revealing what we are as sinners. What we find out is that we're
not sinners simply because of what we do. Sinners has to do with what we
are. That our sin didn't begin at
birth and it certainly didn't begin at some age of accountability. It began when our father Adam
fell and his whole race fell in him and it says that in him
all sin. How far did they fall? God kicked them out of his presence. He chased them out of the garden.
I just have a feeling that Adam and Eve weren't wanting to go
very much. They weren't wanting to leave
that paradise, but God cast them out of the garden, which was
his presence. He cast them out of the garden
and he put flaming swords there at the entrance to keep them
from trying some way back in. Verse five, he says, Isaiah says,
then said I, there it is again, then said I, what? When God came
in power and showed me who he is. especially in his glorious
holiness and righteousness, he said, then said I, woe is me. You know, a sinner finds it very
easy to say, woe is thee, woe is thee. But when God comes in
power, he says, woe is me. What's wrong with you, Isaiah? I'm undone. I don't know all
that means, but it means that I'm not done. I'm not right. I'm not acceptable to God. I'm
not pleasing to God in myself. For I am undone because I'm a
man of unclean lips. Why did he say that? Does that mean he looked like
my granddaughter after she's eaten one of those blueberry
muffins and it's all over her lips? No. He says, out of the
heart, the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. and that a
sinner has no truth to speak about God, has nothing but lies
to speak about himself, and all that he says as far as what he
states as the ground of his acceptance before God reveals his heart. Not right with God. He said,
whoa, it's me. I'm a man of unclean lips. and
I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. How do you know
that? For mine eyes have seen the king."
Paul said, be careful that you're not found among those who judge
themselves by themselves. I'll tell you this. I'm as good
as that preacher is. What a low standard you have.
Or I'm as good as this one is or that one is. That one who
says they're a really good Christian, I'm as good as they are. That's
not God's standard. You got to be as good as the
Lord Jesus Christ. Job said, I've heard of thee
by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee, wherefore
I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. You know, we
can cruise along through this world thinking we're pretty good.
Good as so and so. I'm good as Randy. I'm good as
Jim. To be accepted by God, you've
got to be as good as his son. When God gives us a description
of ourselves in the first chapter of this book of Isaiah, he describes
us as one big leprous sore. Nothing but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores that have never been treated, mollified
with ointment, or bound up. And he said, that's what we are
from our head to our toe. Nothing but sin. Vile, helpless,
hopeless, wretched in ourselves. And the fact that all our works All our works, God describes them as dead works. They bring forth death. They don't gain you a place in
heaven. They don't gain you a reward
from God. They're dead works. Why? Because they're sin, and sin,
when it's finished, brings forth death. And the only way we ever know
these things is when God comes to us in power. We know that
rather than justify us before God, they are to be repented
of. Like Paul in Philippians 3, he's
repenting of the very things that men and women hold up before
God and men as their justification. That all our works of religion
were nothing but iniquity. Oh, they said, we've preached
in your name, and we've cast out devils in your name, and
we've had crusades, and we've won a lot of souls to Jesus,
and we've built great buildings, and we've fed the poor, and we've
helped the sick. We've done all these things.
He said, depart from me, ye that work iniquity. All our righteousnesses are as
filthy racks. And we are, though it is a theological
term, it is true to this book, we are all totally depraved,
which does not mean that we are outwardly as bad as we could
be. Thank God for restraining mercy. But that sin has so permeated
every facet of our being Will, heart, mind, body, nothing but sin. And old Job said one day, he
said, I've heard of you by the hearing of the ear. But now mine eye seeth thee,
wherefore I repent in dust and ashes. There's nothing that we can do
to save ourselves. There's nothing that we can give
to God that he'll accept. He said, you will not come to
me that you might have life. No man can come to me except
my father which has sent me. The third thing is when God comes
in power, there'll be a powerful revelation of the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Look at this sixth verse. Here's Isaiah confessing what
he confesses, and then it says in verse 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. The Holy Spirit, now I'm for
the preaching of the clear, solid gospel. I'm for men standing up and with
courage and clarity preaching Christ, preaching the gospel. But my friend, It's only when
the Spirit of God takes the truth of God and brings it in a revelation
to a sinner's heart, it's only when God comes in power that
they are given understanding of the gospel and faith to believe
on Christ. a wicked man that says that I
do not believe in the necessity of the new birth. You see, the truth is Christ
said to Nicodemus, not only of the necessity being concerning
the case of Nicodemus himself, but also the necessity involved
in it being according to the will and purpose of God, he said,
you must be born again. If you're ever saved, you must
be born again. But I'll tell you something else.
If it's the will and purpose of God as one of his elect, as
one that he loved with that everlasting love to save you, you must be
born again. If the Father chose you, if the
Son came into this world and died in your place on that cross,
you must be born again. And you can guarantee it, the
Spirit of God concerning all those he chose and all those
Christ died for, the Spirit of God will come in power through
the truth and gospel of Christ and reveal it to them. Christ said, When he, the Spirit
of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth, for He shall
not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He
speak, and He'll show you things to come. He shall glorify Me,
for He shall receive of Mine and show it unto you. All things
that the Father hath are Mine, therefore said I, that He shall
take of Mine and show it unto you. I walked into business the other
day and the lady that, I think she somehow has found out I'm
a preacher. That's always kind of, changes everything. But she was
telling me about somebody in their family dying. And just
in that, oh, she said the Holy Spirit was in that house. How do you know that? How do you know if the Spirit
of God has given new birth to a person? You say, well, they've
quit smoking and drinking and all these things. Well, just
about every religion in the world has some kind of reformation
to boast of. How do we know if the Holy Spirit
has come to us and give us new birth? Because that birth is
manifested in faith. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, when the Spirit of God
comes in power, he takes by this gospel the things of Christ and
shows them to us. He doesn't tell. I had some folks
call me. They were going to move in our
area, then the military. They wanted to call me and talk
to me. They're church shopping, you know. And so I met them one
day at where they wanted to, and I listened to what they had
to say. And one of the questions they asked me, they said, what
would you say is the difference between the true gospel and the
false gospel? I said, well, just to really
make it very simple, I think it can be distinguished in two
words. The false gospel is a gospel
that tells sinners what they're to do. The true gospel tells
sinners what Christ has done, finished, accomplished. It tells them how sins are put away,
how God is worshipped, how God can be just and justify a sinner. Somebody said, well, we believe
the gospel. Well, Romans 1, Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the
gospel, for it is the, what? Power of God unto salvation. And therein is the righteousness
of God revealed. The spirit of God, when he comes
in power to a sinner, showing God for who He is to us, showing
ourselves in our wretchedness and sinfulness, He reveals through
the gospel the righteousness of God in Christ. that God is
worshipped and he puts away the sins of his people in a just
manner. He justifies his people through
the blood of Jesus Christ and he is therefore righteous in
doing so. And they are made the righteousness
of God in him. I made that decision years ago
where I walked down that aisle and I got dipped in that pool
and I shook the preacher's hand. What's that got to do with the
righteousness of God? How can God be right to put you
in his holy heaven who's nothing but sin and crucify his son on
the cross who knew no sin? that God saves only through a God-appointed,
provided, accepted sacrifice. Daniel, the same man Daniel,
that wrote of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel said, when I saw this
vision, He said, my comeliness turned
into corruption. That's what happened to Paul.
That's what happens to every sinner God saved. Our comeliness
turns into corruption. We're like that emperor in the
fairy tale. who had been told and told and
told by these lying fellas that they had made him a new, beautiful
garment. And so he paraded them, they
paraded him out in the kingdom, buck naked as we say, because
he didn't have any clothes on. They appealed to his pride. They said, only certain special
people can see it. And God talks about his children.
In that picture in Ezekiel 16, in which he talks of that, them
being in themselves as an infant, aborted and cast out in the field.
Then he brings her to be shown as what he makes his people in
Christ. And he said, her renown went
forth for beauty. Because it was perfect through my comeliness, which
I put on her. That's the imputed righteousness
of Jesus Christ. And then lastly, just quickly, When
God comes in power, there's a powerful bringing into submission of the
sinner to Christ and of a confession of Christ. Verse 80 says, by the way, did
you notice the picture here? How was his sin purged? How was
his iniquity taken away? He said that seraphim went to
the altar and got the coal off the altar and purged his lips,
touched his lips. That altar is a picture of a
sacrifice already offered and accomplished. It's through the sacrifice of
Christ that he puts away our sins. And then he says this in
verse eight, and 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.