And he's such a blessing to me,
one of my favorites. And just his comments on the
end of chapter 6 really blessed me, so I started reading it and
got a great blessing from it. One of the most powerful passages
in all of God's Word. Those of you who know it well,
you remember probably the first time you ever heard a man preach
from this with some power. I listened to my pastor preach
from this when he was in his prime. And I told Mom, I said,
he burned the barn down. And it was a blessing to me,
so glorifying to our Lord. Isaiah is the prophet, and he
is quoted more than any other prophet. Isaiah has been foretelling
in the previous five chapters. He has been forewarning the people
of God of the certain destruction and captivity that they're faced
with and how relevant is that to what we've been looking at,
what we've been thinking about. I'll back up in other places.
Because in chapter 1, you know these chapters well, you should,
that the Lord in chapter 1 said, I brought up a people who rebelled
against Me. He said, the ox knows his owner,
the ass knows his master's crib, but My people don't know, they
don't consider. He said, they were rebellious
children, a nation full of iniquity, a sinful nation. He said, the
whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint. You know those
verses. And that's what he's been talking about for the first
five chapters. And he describes the wicked and
sinful state of the nation that he lived in as just like ours. But here, Isaiah himself, receives
great mercy and consolation in the midst of these warnings about
a remnant. In the last two verses in Isaiah
6, the last verse, he says, there shall be a remnant. In the midst
of this great forsaking throughout all the land, there shall be
a remnant. A holy seed will be the substance or the root therein. So this gave me great comfort. Verse 1, in the year that King
Uzziah died, Isaiah said, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. I saw the Lord. Now who he's
speaking about is the Lord Jesus Christ. No doubt about it, because
our Lord even said that in John 12. Well, go there with me real
quickly. John chapter 12. There's no doubt
who He is speaking of here, the Lord Jesus Christ, because Christ
said no man hath seen the Father at any time. He said the only
begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath
declared it. Look here in John chapter 12.
Our Lord quotes Isaiah. And in verse 37, He says, Though
he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed
not on him, that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spake in chapter 53. Lord, who hath believed our report?
And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore,
they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, he had blinded
their eyes, hardened their heart, that they should not see with
their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted,
and I should heal them. These things said Isaiah when
he saw his glory." Whose glory? The Lord Jesus Christ. "...and
spake of him." Read on. Nevertheless, among the chief
rulers also, many believed on him, or said they did. But because
of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should
be put out of the synagogue. For they loved the praise of
men more than the praise of God. And Jesus cried and said, He
that believeth on me believeth not on me, but on him that sent
me. And he that seeth me seeth him
that sent me." So that's who Isaiah saw. Like he said of Moses,
Moses wrote of me. Like he said of Abraham, Abraham
rejoiced to see my day. And he saw it, and he was glad.
Salvation is to see the Lord Jesus Christ as He is. This is
life eternal that they might know Thee, the only true God. Or what did John say? He said,
we know that He has come. The Son of God has come and given
us an understanding that we might know Him that is true and that
we are in Him that is true. This is eternal life and this
is the true God. Christ, God with us. And salvation is to see Him,
not with a vision of these eyes. Nobody has ever seen the Lord
since he left. Nobody. Paul. Saul of Tarsus did. But anyone
that says they have all of these visions that people imagine is
just that. An imagination. Because you can
tell by the way they talk about him. Jesus. That's not Isaiah's. When he saw the Lord, He saw
him high and lifted up. Look at the first thing he said
about him. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne. Sitting upon a throne. Sitting. Now when you're sitting, what
does that mean? Your work is done. Like the high
priest of old, he never sat down. There was no chair in that temple. No chair in that tabernacle was
there. His work was never finished. He continually made sacrifices,
all day, every day, because sins were never put away. They were
always remembered. But when Christ came, Scripture
said, when He had by Himself purged our sins, what did it
say He did? Sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty on high. having obtained eternal redemption.
The work was finished and he sat down, satisfied, seated. And it also says that he is seated
and satisfied, expecting his enemies to be made his footstool. He's not pacing around. He's
not anxious and hoping and waiting. He's certainly not outside anybody's
heart's door. We're going to see what the voice
of the Lord does to a door in a minute. He's not pacing. He's
seated. His work's done. Known unto God
are all His works from the beginning of the world. He's waiting for
it all to be accomplished. The world is scurrying around.
The world is doing this. Our Lord, He that sitteth in
the heavens, laughs. He's expecting everything to
be fulfilled exactly as He purposed it. When you're seated, you're
patient, you're expectant, your work is finished, and that's
our Lord. And it says, He was seated. I
saw Him sitting upon a throne, reigning and ruling over all. Reigning and ruling, not hoping
and wishing, but reigning and ruling over all. The Lord God
omnipotent reigneth. And he said, I saw him high and
lifted up. High and lifted up. Now, our
Lord Jesus Christ was meek and lowly. And I take issue with
so many good men that I love to read when they still speak
of Him as being meek and lowly. They mean well, but they're wrong.
Our Lord is not lowly. Meek in a sense, but lowly? No. Isaiah said he's high and
lifted up. How high? High above all principalities
and powers and rulers overall. He's high. He's the King of kings,
Lord of lords. He was meek and lowly as Paul
wrote or whoever wrote Hebrews. He said we see Jesus made a little
lower than the angels. We see a man named Jesus, but
he is now Exalted and honored. He was made
lowly for the purpose of dying, but we now see Him crowned with
glory and honor. High and lifted up. King of kings. Lord over all. High above all.
And lifted up, exalted, honored by the Father, seated at the
right hand of the Majesty on high. How different is the Lord
Jesus Christ than this Jesus being preached today? This is
the difference, and this is how you know if you know Him, if
this is the Christ that you know and worship and fear and bow
before. All God's elect see His glory
like Isaiah. All God's people see Him like
this. The disciples that Christ chose,
He took them up on a mountain one day, didn't He, and peeled
back that covering, and they saw Him as He is. When Christ
came, He was God incarnate, that is, God in flesh. And He robed
Himself in a common body, common-looking man. Isaiah wrote and said, He's
a root out of dry grain. We're going to look at that Sunday
morning, how He was a child, a babe, an actual babe in the
arms of a mother. But the disciples, the Lord took
them up on that mountain one day and He peeled back that covering,
as it were, like the veil in the temple, to see His glory.
And they all fell on their faces, didn't they? And it says they
trembled. They were so afraid. They saw
Him as He is. And as He is, He is high and
lifted up. Robed in light, the Lord dwelleth
in light. And he who had no beauty that
we should desire him, no form or comeless, he hath beauty now. My, my. Bathed in light, beauty
and glory and honor. And it says His train filled
the temple. His train, that's many things
actually. His glory, His robe, Righteousness,
His kingdom, filled the temple, His entourage as it were, all
of those who waited on Him, innumerable company of angels and cherubs
and seraphs. We can't enter into this at all.
High and lifted up. Verse 2 says, And above this
throne stood the seraphim. And does this remind you of the
ark? Well, each one had six wings.
There were two seraphims, like those angels that were over the
ark, one on each side, which things the angels desired to
look into. Each one had six wings, and it
says, with two, they would cover their face. That's modesty. I mean, humility. Humility. Afraid to look on Him. With two,
He covered His feet. That's modesty. Modesty, though
the angels were without sin, yet they still covered their
lower parts, didn't they? Oh my, what does that say about
man and his glory and what should be his shame? And with twain
he did fly. So this is a sense of urgency. They covered their face in humility. They covered their lower parts
in modesty. And with two, they flew with
a sense of urgency about this message. And what was their message?
What did they cry? Verse 3, ìAnd one cried unto
another and said, ìHoly, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory.î Holy, holy, holy. Every one of Godís elect, every
one of Godís people who sees the Lord Jesus Christ, who hears
the truth and sees Christ as He is by faith, they know that
His chief attribute is holy. They all know this without exception.
Look at Revelation 4 with me, and this is the same vision that
John saw on the eye of Patmos, the same vision that Daniel saw
in Daniel 10, the same vision that Ezekiel saw, the same one,
because he is the same yesterday, today. and forever. The same
high and lifted up Lord. Holy, holy, holy. Look at Revelation
4 with me, verses 2 and 3. John says, immediately I was
in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat
on the throne, and he that sat was to look Look upon like a
jasper and sardine stone, and there was a rainbow round about
the throne, and sight like an emerald." Verse 5, and out of
the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices. There
were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are
the seven spirits of God. Verse 8, and the four beasts
around the throne had each of them six wings. about Him. And they were full of eyes within,
and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord
God Almighty, which was and is and is to come. And they fell
down and worshipped Him that lived forever and cast their
crowns before Him, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord. Holy, holy,
holy, holy. Oh my, the Lord Jesus Christ
is not in love with all people. He's holy though. He's Lord over
all. And Scripture says He's angry
with the wicked every day. But we shall see who He loves.
We shall see. Verse 3 in our text says that
when the angels spake, now this wasn't the Lord speaking and
yet the Lord spoke through this seraph. When one of them cried
unto the other and said, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts,
Lord over all. The whole earth is full of His
glory. The whole earth is full of His glory. Everything that's
made was made by Him. The sun, the moon, the stars,
the trees, the water, the wind, the waves, the birds, the wild
asses, everything does His bidding. It's all full of His glory. And
when he cried this, verse 4, the post of the door moved. The post of the door of the house
moved at him that cried. The house was filled with smoke.
What house was that? What house is that? Well, we're
the house of the Lord. We're the temple of God. When the Lord speaks through
the gospel with power, You know, Scripture talks about in Revelation
about knocking, the Lord knocking at the door of His church. But
people, when the Lord moves with power and speaks with power,
His people, their hearts tremble. And their hearts are broken.
And it says they're filled with smoke. The house was filled with
smoke. Have you ever been in a house
filled with smoke? It fills you, doesn't it? It
fills your eyes. It fills your ears. It fills
your nose. It fills your mouth. You're overcome
by it, aren't you? You can't stay in it long. Well,
that's the glory of the Lord. When you see something of His
glory, you'll be filled. You'll be overcome with it. You'll
see it with the eye of faith. You'll hear it with the hearing
of faith. And you'll smell that sweet savor
of Christ and His sacrifice. And it will be in your mouth
even, the glory of the Lord. If you've ever seen Christ and
His glory, you'll be filled with His glory. Smoke. Shekinah glory. Well, Isaiah said what every
single sinner that sees the Lord as He is says, when they first
get a sight of Him, verse 5, Isaiah said, Woe is me. Woe is me. Isaiah in the first
five chapters was saying, Woe is unto you this place. Woe is unto you that place. And
well, he should. And well, he should. But when
Isaiah himself saw the Lord, he said, Woe is me. Woe is me. He said in verse 5, woe is me,
I'm undone, I'm cut off because I'm a man of unclean lips and
I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Why does he
think this? Because mine eyes have seen the
King, the Lord of hosts. And this is the reaction of every
single person who sees and hears the Lord Jesus Christ and His
glory preached from His Word as He is, a sovereign and holy
God, a God in whose hands our breath is. And we realize immediately
how sinful we are. And we think, he's going to judge
me and he's going to cut me off right now. That's what every
single sinner who first sees the Lord comes to the conclusion
of. I'm a sinner, he's holy, and he's going to cast me out
of his presence. He's going to damn me. Why does he say his lips, a man
of unclean lips, goes out of the abundance of the heart to
mouth speaking? And you know the thing that the
Lord held the children of Israel accountable for more than anything
else was murmuring and complaining. They would sit in their tents
with the food that God had given them in their mouths. murmuring
about it. It goes out of the heart, the
mouth speaketh. As a man thinketh in his heart,
so is he. And it comes out the mouth. And
these lips are the greatest source of our trouble, our mouths. So he said, I'm a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
Oh people, isn't it true? Isn't it such an indictment against
the day we live in? Everybody is so full of words.
And God said, gave the command, God is in the heavens and thou
art on the earth, therefore let thy words be few. And since men
don't believe Him, they're spouting off left and right. Oh my, let
us be like Job, put our hands on our mouth. with our hands on our mouth.
Like Isaiah, I'm a man of unclean lips. And I dwell in the midst
of a people of unclean lips. Woe is me, he said, I'm cut off.
I've seen the Lord. Does that sound familiar? There
was a man and his wife, a man named Manoah. Manoah, Samson's
father and Samson's mother. What's her name? His wife. But
they saw the Lord, didn't they? And Manoah said, we're going
to die. We've seen it. He realized something
of their sinfulness and the holiness of the Lord. And every one of
God's people, without exception, you see, the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is
understanding. Because repentance of sin is
the first thing. It's the first thing. It's a
missing note in modern day preaching because they're preaching a God
who doesn't punish sin. They're preaching a God who's
not holy, a God who's nothing but love and they have nothing
to worry about, nothing to repent of. And so repentance is missing. Nobody's preaching it. But God
has not left Himself without a witness. And His men preach
it here and there, here a little, there a little. They preach the
fear of the Lord, which brings repentance. Our Lord said, when
He has come, the Holy Spirit, He will convince a people out
of the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, all concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ. And Isaiah the prophet, he's
a fine man. Isaiah the prophet, he's a moral
man. Isaiah the prophet, he's one
of the finest men walking the earth at this time still. Isaiah
says, I'm cut off. And you know what precipitated
this? Verse 1, he began, and I didn't
pass over this, I was waiting. He said, In the year that King
Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. Isaiah lived through, I think
it was five or six kings, Hezekiah and let's see, one, two, three,
four, four kings. Uzziah was a great king, a prosperous
king, a mighty king, one of the mightiest up to that time. Uzziah
was prosperous. The Lord made him prosper greatly. But he got so lifted up with
pride that one time he went into the temple And he told the priests,
stand aside, I'm going to go into the holy place and offer
up a sacrifice. He took it upon himself to do
what only the high priest could do. And he went in that place
and it says God smote him as a leper. And they drug him out
of that place and he lived the rest of his days in a leper colony,
cut off, no more the king. Cut off. He proposed to do and presumed
to do what only the high priest can do. Now what that is showing
us is there's only one way into the presence of a holy God. There's
only one person can go into the presence of God for us. There's
only one way that we will be accepted by God. It's by the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself who by Himself went into
the Holy of Holy and offered up this sacrifice for His people.
And anybody that thinks they can come to God any other way
than by Jesus Christ alone will be cast out of God's holy presence.
It doesn't matter who it is. There's only been one prophet,
priest, and king, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. He's all
of those things. King Uzziah died. David. And
this made Isaiah tremble. Isaiah was probably somewhat
impressed with this man. He was a godly man, Isaiah. Seemed
to be a believer. Oh, he made a deadly mistake. And Isaiah trembled when he saw
this. He saw the holiness of the Lord. God won't spare the
King of Israel. David one time was bringing the
ark back, remember? Bringing the ark back. And David forgot. He wasn't seeking
the Lord properly at this time. And he put the ark on a cart.
He put the ark on a new cart. He thought, this will be good.
And remember? And that ark was coming back
on that cart and it began to waver a little bit, stumble.
And Uzzah, one of those young priests, just put his hand up
to steal the ark to keep it from falling. As it were, he just
touched the ark and God killed him right there. Yes, He did. And David, it says, was afraid
of the Lord that day. Afraid of the Lord. They took
that ark down and put it in the house of Obed-Edom. And David
was afraid of the Lord. He didn't know. He was trembling.
He saw something of the holiness of the Lord. What does that show?
That you don't add anything of yours to Christ. I mean, you
add the slightest thing to what Christ has done, God will cast
you out of His presence. If you attempt to add any of
our works to Him, He doesn't need our help, people. We need
His. Salvation is of the Lord. It's not a cooperation, but it's
an operation of God. So he said, when I saw Uzziah
die, oh my, it made me tremble. And then I heard the voice of
the seraphim singing, holy, holy, holy. Then, verse 6, then flew
one of the seraphims unto me. Flew unto me, having a live coal
in his hand. hot, burning, red-hot coal he
took with the tongs from off the altar. And it says, ìHe laid
it upon my mouth and said, ìLo, this hath touched thy lips,î
good news, ìthine iniquity is taken away, thy sin is purged.î
And I can't help but think, he's smiling when he's sitting there. Isaiah is trembling. But this
seraph came with this coal from the altar of God and laid it
on his lip, smiling, and said, your iniquity is taken away.
Your sin is purged. Now what's this all about? Well,
these seraphs represent the Word of God, two of them, the Law
and the Prophets. These seraphs represent the Word
of God, the prophets and the apostles. These seraphs represent
the preachers of the gospel, pastors and teachers, preachers
of the gospel, all of whom declare Christ as He is, holy, holy,
holy. And at the same time, to every
sinner, to every trembling sinner, to every repentant sinner, to
every single one that calls on the name of the Lord for mercy
and for salvation, like Isaiah who thought he was cut off. The
Lord will send a preacher of the gospel with one word. It
just takes one word. Just one word from God from the
altar. One word taken alive coal. It's called the live word and
the living word. One word laid upon your mouth. Like blood, one word, it is the
blood that make the atonement for the soul. Like, look, look
unto me and be you saved, all the ends of the earth. I'm holy,
yes, but just look. Look, the story has it that Spurgeon
was checking out the acoustics of a big building he was going
to preach in. And there's nobody in the building
but him, he thought. And he walked up on the stage
and all he did was quote that verse to try to test the acoustics
of that. He said, look unto me. And be ye saved, all the ends
of the earth, for I am God, there is none else." That's good, he said. And he
walked off. And later on in that meeting,
the janitor of the church came to him and said, I was there
that day up in the balcony when you cried out that verse. And
the Lord pierced my heart. One word, live coal from the
altar, from God's mouth, as it were. Look, come, Christ said,
come unto me, all ye that labor and heavy laden, I'll give you
rest. Grace. By grace are you saved. That will purge your iniquity.
That will put away your iniquity. It's the only thing that will.
Believe. Not work. Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Believe. And he said,
Thine iniquity is taken away. Your sin is purged. Christ said
then to his disciple who thought Peter, remember our Lord, was
washing their feet. And he said, Wash me all over,
Lord. Wash me all over. He said, You're clean. He said, ìYouíre clean everywhere.î
ìHow, Lord, how?î He said, ìNow are you clean through the Word
that Iíve spoken unto you.î ìWhy are you clean?î ìBecause I said
so.î Like that woman caught in the act of adultery. Christ said,
ìForgiven with the Word.î Thereís a Word from the altar, ìForgiven,
forgiven, purged.î Well, look, it said He laid this coal on
his mouth. What does that mean, preacher?
Well, this is what it means. You see, the Word is nigh thee,
even in thy mouth. It's in thy mouth and in thy
heart. That is the Word of faith which we preach. See, with the
heart, man, believe it. With the mouth, confession is
made. So if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from
the dead, Thou shalt be saved. Your sins are gone. Believe. Confess. Lord, I believe. Gone. Sins are gone. You believe
that? That's a word straight from the
altar. Straight from the altar. A lively oracle. A lively oracle. That's the Word of God. Thine
iniquity is taken away. And He laid it on His mouth. Well, look at verse 8. So he
said, Isaiah, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall
I send? Who will go for us? Then said
I, here am I, send me. Here am I Lord, send me. Like the woman at the well. Do you remember when the Lord
revealed Himself to her? He said, He that speaketh to
you, I that speaketh to you, am. She dropped her water pot
and went running. What's she running to do? Tell
everybody. Tell everybody, come see a man.
Is not this the Christ? Isaiah is urgent, is willing. Thy people shall be willing.
Here am I, send me. So he sent him. In verse 2 he
said, Go, tell this people. But, and this is what we all run into,
isn't it? And this is partial proof. The message we have is the truth,
because men won't receive it. Read these with me, verses 9
through 11. It says, Go and tell this people,
Hear ye indeed. You have ears, but you don't
hear. Understand not. You see indeed. You see it written.
And they saw Christ when He was on this earth, but they didn't
perceive. They just didn't believe. Why? Because verse 10, our Lord
says He's blinded them. He's shut their ears. Make the
heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy. Shut their
eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart and be converted and be healed. Isn't that what you've run into
as you've gone out with this message? And not for an excuse,
but to explain why we lose some zeal. And that's a shame, isn't
it? Losing zeal. We quit talking
to people. We shouldn't do that because
God has a remnant. They're going to hear it. And
we need to keep telling people this message. But one thing that
explains anyway why we quit talking to people, we think, what's the
use? They're not going to hear me.
They're not going to hear me. And somebody will. And you just don't know. Isaiah
said this, Lord, how long is this going to go on? Verse 11.
How long? How long? And the Lord answered,
until the cities be wasted without an inhabitant, the houses without
man, the land be utterly desolate. Did not our Lord Himself say
He hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed
them unto man? Didn't He say that? And He said in verse 12, men
will be removed far away and there will be a great forsaking
in the midst of the land. Let me read this to you. You
know these verses, but Paul wrote to young Timothy and said, The
Spirit speaketh expressly, or very plainly, And in the latter
times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits. He said evil men and seducers
will wax worse and worse. Well, that's now. Never been
worse. Give heed to the doctrines of devils, speak lies and hypocrisy. He said over in 2 Timothy, Chapter
3, perilous days, perilous times shall come. He said they'll not
endure sound doctrine, turn away their ears from the truth and
the fables. He told young Timothy, you preach
the Word. End season, out of season. Though it goes out of
season, you keep preaching the Word and exhort with all long-suffering
and doctrine. They won't want to hear it, but
somebody will. I have a people. A woman just wrote me a long
letter. I hope she's sincere. I certainly hope so. But she's
been listening and she lives in Wyoming. And she says the
Lord has revealed Himself to her and that she has no place
to attend and is wondering where to go and wants to move somewhere
where the Gospel is. God has a people. He has a sheep. They're few. Many are called. Few are chosen. But He does have
some. And they're here and they're
there. And God says, I'll bring them. I'll say the North, give
up. They'll come from the North.
Buffalo. They'll come from the South,
the East and the West. He'll bring his people and they'll
sit down like Mary at his feet to hear the gospel. He united
to his people. And this is what he says in closing.
He says in verse 13, Though there is a great forsaking, yet in
it all, in the midst of all this apostate world, unbelieving world,
there will be a tenth. A tenth. Just a remnant. Didn't Paul say much about that? A remnant. Isaiah, a remnant.
And Paul echoed it, a remnant according to the election of
grace. The election will obtain it. A remnant. A tenth. Just
a little bit. Nevertheless, it will return. What does that mean? That God
will grant repentance. Repentance means to turn. That
God will cause them to come to Christ. That God will free them
from captivity and bring them to Christ to hear the truth and
be set free by the Son. They'll be eaten, verse 13. What does that mean, eaten? That
means they'll be devoured by the adversary. They won't be
wasted away. They'll be like a teal tree and
an oak tree. The substance is in and the root
of the matter, though they cast their leaves, though it appears
that they're dead. It was Sardis that I meant to
quote Sunday. The letter to the church at Sardis,
he said, you have a few names, a few names, and strengthen those
things that remain. So it appears to be dying, but
no. No. Why? Because substance is
in it. The holy seed is the substance
thereof. What's that? Holy seed. That's
the gospel. That's Christ. That's the word
of truth in them. So, if Isaiah the great prophet
and preacher despaired of the land and the nation that he lived
in, what about us? What about this place we live
in? It's far worse. We're in the last of the last
days. We're long after Isaiah. Thousands of years. If Isaiah
the prophet, one of the best of men, needed mercy, where does
that leave us? If he was fearful and still fearful
of the Lord whom he was very conversant with, where does that
leave us? And yet, he took great comfort in that
there was a remnant according to this election. Blessed be
the name of the Lord. And you know some of the rest
of the book of Isaiah. Oh, my. The rest of the book. And we're going to look at it
Sunday, chapter 7. He said, I'm going to show you
a sign. I'm going to show you a sign that is the sign of God's
mercy to sinners. God with us. Okay, stand with
me. Our Lord, thank You for Your
Word. Thank You for Your truth, the truth that sets us free,
the Gospel of our salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ who is
the Gospel, who is the Word made flesh. O Lord, send Your Word
with power. Cause Your people to hear it.
We know You will. Cause us to hear it. You have
said, To this man will I look. To this woman, to this person,
he that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word. O Lord, make us both a fearful
people and a believing people. Make us both a careful people
and yet people without care but people full of faith. O Lord,
make us a watchful people but make us a resting people. O Lord,
forgive us of our sins. For Christ's sake, amen.