the all in that passage we read, and then that hymn, bearing witness
of it. It would all do well to take
our spiritual shoes off. This is holy ground. recollection of a true prophet, a true prophet. There are many
false prophets gone out into the world. There were many back
then in Isaiah's day. But Isaiah was a true prophet,
and how I know that is that he bears witness of the true God, a true and living God. And since no man has seen God
at any time, the only begotten Son, Scripture says, which is
in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Isaiah saw
Jesus Christ. That's who he saw. That's who
he is declaring here in Isaiah 6. That's who he is telling us
that he saw. And the Lord he saw here is the
true Lord and Christ, the true one, so unlike the one men talk
about today. Let's look at it, beginning with
verse 1. Isaiah 6, beginning with verse
1. 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 in the year that King
Uzziah died. Now, this is important. The scriptures
mention this man named Uzziah, and he said there is something
that happened with this fellow Uzziah that caused Isaiah to
see the Lord as he did. Let's turn back to that, 2 Chronicles,
chapter 26. The book of 2 Chronicles, chapter
26, is this story of this king Uzziah. Something happened which
caused Isaiah to see the Lord as he did, in reference to this Uzziah.
Let me just give you a little background here. Uzziah was the
king of Israel at this time. He was a powerful king. He began reigning when he was
sixteen years old. sixteen years old, and he reigned
fifty-two years, till he was sixty-eight years old. Sixty-eight. Fifty-two years. And he was a good king. The scriptures
attest to the fact that he was a good king, that he endeavored
. . . Well, look at verse 5, the end of verse 5. As long as
he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. Verse 4, he did
that which was right beside the Lord. Well, he was a good king. He was a powerful king. It goes on to tell about his
power, his rule here in this chapter. Are you with me? I'm not just trying to tell you
a nice little story. You need to stay with me, all
right? But if you're going to see what Isaiah saw, you're going
to have to see who this fellow is and what happened. Now, this fellow was a good king,
he was a powerful king, and Isaiah liked him. Isaiah was a prophet
at this time, and Isaiah was taken up with this fellow. He
was a godly, seemed to be a godly king, and a powerful, unlike
any other king on earth at this time. His fame, his renown, his
power was all over the world, the then-known world. And Isaiah
was taken up with this fellow, impressed by him. Now look down in verse 16 through
18. But when Uzziah was strong or
powerful, his heart was lifted up in pride to his destruction. For he transgressed against the
Lord his God and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense
upon the altar of incense. And Azariah, the priest, went
in after him. went after him. He saw the king,
this powerful king, go into the tabernacle and the temple, and
this Azariah, who was the priest, who alone could go in there,
went in after him, followed him, and eighty men, eighty-one altogether, valiant
men, solid men, verse 18, they withstood him. They got in front
of the king and said unto him, This is not any of your business. This appertaineth not unto thee,
Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests,
the son of Aaron, that are consecrated or called or set as part to burn
incense. Get out of the sanctuary. You
trespass, neither shall it be for thine honor from the Lord
thy God." You are already in trouble, they say. Uzziah the king, though he was
a powerful man, he was a strong and godly man, per se, he took
it upon himself to be a priest. He said, since I'm king, I can
be a priest too. And he took it upon himself to
go in and offer a sacrifice before the Lord, burn in sin. That which
the scripture says only pertains to the priest. Hebrews 5 says,
No man taketh this honor upon himself, but
he that is called of God. It even talks about the Lord
Jesus Christ was called, consecrated. And this only pertains to God's
chosen priest. Now, listen, here's the point
I'm trying to make. Here's what we need to see. No
man has ever held the office of king
and priest. David was king and a prophet,
but he wasn't a priest. Samuel was a prophet and a priest,
but he wasn't a king. No man has ever held the office
of king and priest, but one. It was a fellow back in Genesis
who came to Abraham. He was called the King of Salem,
and it says there he was the priest of the Most High God that
day. And you remember he blessed Abraham. And Abraham gave tithes
to that man, and this man brought bread and wine to Abraham. Some of you are smiling. Who
is that man? Who am I talking about? Melchizedek, mentioned more than
nine times in the New Testament alone. This Melchizedek, he says,
is the only one who ever held this office of priest and king
and prophet. He was prophet, priest, and king. And the Scripture says that this
man is none other than the priest, the king of kings,
the Lord, that prophet of whom Moses wrote. Jesus Christ himself
in a body, an Old Testament appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ, because
that's what Hebrews talks about. Well, you see, only one that
can go in and offer up the sacrifice which God will accept is the
rightful priest. the king-priest, the prophet-priest-king
who represents the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one who
can go in and offer up this sacrifice for sin, to put away sin forever. No man takes this on himself.
Any man who dares to try to come before this holy God, we're going
to see this holy God, and any man, I don't care who he is,
how powerful he is, how smart he is, what men think of him,
if he dares to go in before God with his works, in and of himself,
he'll be rejected. Look at it. Look at verse 19. and had a censer in his hand
to burn incense. And while he was wroth with the
priest, the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priest
in the house of the Lord. And the priest and all took him
and thrust him out, and he was a leper the rest of his day,
banished from the kingdom, living in a house by himself, and his
son took over as king. He was cast out, a leper, unclean. Isaiah said, when this happened, I saw the Lord. When this happened, I saw what
God's really like. When you read that, did you think,
well, what harm could there be in a man going in and wanting
to offer a little incense, offer his prayers? Maybe he's sincere,
he wants to go in. What harm is it as long as a
person is sincere, it's all right, isn't it? No. He must be sincerely
right. As long as the person who prays
to God, it doesn't matter how he prays, does it? Yes, it does.
There's only one you go through, the rightful priest, the rightful
intercessor, the rightful mediator. And there's only one mediator
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Not a woman named
Mary, the man Christ Jesus. Not a man named John, the man
Christ Jesus. Well, if a person does the best
that they can, surely God will accept that. No, he won't. It shall be perfect to be accepted.
And there's only one man who's done the best there can be done.
There's only one man who's ever lived a perfect life that God
will accept, the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone can go into the Holy
of Holies and be accepted by God. He's the one that goes in
there to represent all that come to God by him. He's the priest forever, after
the order of Melchizedek. So Isaiah was impressed with
this Uzziah fellow, and he thought, well, he's a great man, he's
sincere, and here he went in, and God smote him with leprosy
and cast him out. It's like everything he ever
did up to that point doesn't count for anything. It didn't. Isaiah said, I saw the Lord.
I saw God and how he really is. Let's look at how he is, all
right? Verse 1 says, He's sitting upon a throne. Now, the Jesus men are talking
about today, he's walking the halls of heaven, wringing his
hands. There's a song in our book, a
silly song, about Jesus weeps and loves us still. Jesus they're
talking about today is just crying and wringing his hands. He's
looking over the banisters of heaven, wanting men to accept
him, wanting so bad. He loves them all so bad and
just wishes they'd accept him as their personal Savior. And
there's nothing he can do. He's done all that he can do,
and the rest is up to them. And they just won't do it. He's
so fast. The God of the Bible, of Jesus
Christ, is sitting down, seated. There's a whole sermon
in this right here. Seated. The high priest of old
never sat down. He was always standing. Why?
His work was never finished. His work was never done. He had
to offer a sacrifice in the morning, sacrifice in the evening, and
the next day start over again, start over again, and keep continually
offering those sacrifices that could never make the comers thereby
perfect. But this man, Jesus Christ, the
God-man, says he entered into the Holy of Holies once. for
all, for all his people, not without blood, but with his own
precious blood, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Then
it says he sat down at the right hand of God, finished, the work
is finished. He is not waiting for men to
do anything. He has done it all. He is not waiting for men to
accept him. All that he died for will be accepted. He's not waiting for men to repent.
Everyone he died for he sends the Holy Spirit and says, Give them repentance. Give them
faith. Bring them to me. They're mine.
I paid for them. They're not their own. I bought
them. They've got a price on their head. They've got a blood
mark on them. Bring them all. You'll know them
by the blood." And he does. He comes with a gospel, and every
last one of them hear his voice and come. He's sitting down.
He's sitting down controlling it all. A man that's standing up, he's
got to stand up to work, not the Lord, and he sits down. How
does he work? He just speaks, and it's done. He said, Have I not said it,
and I'll do it. He's on a throne. What kind of
throne is it? It's a sovereign throne. A sovereign
throne. That means he runs a throne. Christ sits on a sovereign throne.
A king sits on a throne, and that is the place of all power.
That's the symbol of power. That's the place where only the
king sits, the one who reigns and rules and directs and controls
all things. The king sits on the throne. A sovereign throne. And he won't get up. Christ is not going to get up
from that throne until the last day. There's coming a time when
Christ is going to get up. Scripture says, when once the
master of the house has arisen. God's going to get up, Christ
is going to get up from that throne someday and shut the door like
the door on that ark, sealing all those in, sealing all those
in Christ by faith, sealing all those out that are not in Christ by faith.
And that's all she wrote. But until then, he's And we're
seated with him, John. I like that. We're seated with
him in the heavenlies. What does that mean? When you
sit at the right hand of God, that's the place of acceptance,
isn't it? We're seated with him. Hey, Mephibosheth, we're seated
with him. How your legs is lame right now,
but they won't be. Nevertheless, you're seated at
the King's table with Christ, accepted, all those that are
in Christ. It's a judgment throne. It's a throne of judgment. Everything,
everything, like Barnard said, everything that writhes or wriggles
has to answer to King Jesus Christ. Everything. In Job it says Satan
had to come before him. Satan had to come before him
and get his orders. That's how powerful and sovereign
this Christ is. The devils take their orders
from him. They can't wiggle their finger unless he gives the order.
That's right! It's a throne, no, thank God,
of mercy. A throne of love, a throne of
grace. It says that all his children
can come to him as a father. Let us come boldly unto the throne
of grace, the throne of mercy, that we might obtain help in
time of need. We can come to this bowl of free
access. Why? Christ sits on the throne. Christ. But it's a throne. Make no mistake
about it. Jesus Christ sits on a throne.
He's not walking heaven's floor over you. He's sitting down. Job finished,
expecting till his enemies be. He needs a footstool. His one
thing he needs is a footstool. And he's waiting for God to bring
it. His enemy. To show his absolute power that
everything is under his feet. Isn't that marvelous? He's on a throne. On a throne. Look at the next thing. He's
high and lifted up. High and lifted up. The one that
came the first time, the Jesus that came the first time, was
meek and lowly. Thank God he was. He said, Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me. I am meek and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest of these souls. Thank God he was meek. Thank God he was lowly. Thank
God he humbled himself and became obedient to the law. He was born
of the law, made a woman, born of the law. Thank God he was. Thank God he humbled himself
and came down. Thank God that Christ left his
throne of glory and came down here to become a man, humbled,
assume a body and become a man. And he said, no man, a worm.
humble himself. Thank God he did, or we would
have no salvation. Meek and lowly. And Paul said
in Hebrews, we see Jesus made a little lower than the angels,
made a body. A body has to be prepared. He
said, we see Jesus made a little lower than the angels for the
suffering of death. He assumed a body once. Why? So that he could die. God can't
die. Man can. So Christ came down
here and became a man in order that he might die, all right?
After he did that, he ascended to the throne and sat down. He's
not meek and lowly anymore. We saw him then meek and lowly,
Jesus, you know. And sadly, that's how most men
still see him. That's not the way he is now.
Isaiah said he's high and lifted up. We saw Jesus down there. What
will you do with Jesus? Pilate and all of them said,
Crucify him! Kill him! The people said, Kill him! And
so they killed him. He's on a throne now, and the
question needs to be asked, What's this mighty King going to do
with us? He's not in men's hands now,
like they say he is. They're in his hands. He's high
and lifted up. He's not meek and lowly. He came
before riding a coat, the foal of an ass, a donkey, showing
his humility and to fulfill the scriptures. He's coming the next
time on a white horse, Revelation said. A white horse with an army behind him to conquer. Meek and lowly, no longer. My
Prince Charming is coming to get me." You're looking at Senderfella. He's coming to awaken me from
my sleep and take me home, but the rest he's going to destroy
with a sword of his justice, right in a white horse. Imagery? Mythology? No! This is the Lord. This is the Lord Jesus Christ
as he is, not like these pinhead preachers that talk about this
Jesus today. Wrong one. This is the right
one. Read on. There's more. Oh, there's
more. His train, it says, filled the
temple. His train filled the temple.
Now, there may come a day when they crown Bonnie Prince Charlie
over in England. I hope it doesn't happen. I don't
want to see that guy. But there's going to come a day,
maybe, when they take old Prince Charles over in England. They're
going to put a crown on his head, and they're going to put a robe
on his body, a big long purple robe, as royalty. And that robe,
you ought to, if you ever, you remember witnessing any of those
coronations, some of you old people may remember Queen Elizabeth.
You may remember King David being coronated. Charles does, he was there. But
they're going to put a robe on him that's going to be four miles
long. Not really, but it's going to
be long. And there's going to be people walking along behind
him, attending that robe, making sure it's just so right, and
beside him and behind him and carrying this and that and the
other. And it's going to be a bunch of hogwash, a pretense, a pretense
of royalty, of kingship, of power, of sovereignty. You get a mere
figurehead. He's no more powerful than that
woman sitting on the front of that boat. Are those men called
a figurehead? That's what a figurehead is.
It's this image sitting on the front of a boat out there. You
remember those? That's all a figurehead, you
know, an image. This is no figurehead. It says
his train filled the temple. His train. You know, the word train is skirts,
robe. His robe fills the temple. As
a matter of fact, it just covers that place, his robe. and everybody,
and there's nobody holding it and attending it, they're all
under it. That's the robe of Christ's righteousness. It's
a royal robe, a royal robe of his righteousness, and it covers
his people, and his attendants are innumerable, cherubs, pharaohs,
angels, men. This is all Also, this is a picture
of the Church right here, this picture. It's a prophetic picture
of Christ reigning in Zion, sitting on the throne. Isn't that what
it said in Psalm 2? I set my King on my holy hill
of Zion. Christ is seated right now in
the midst of his people, on the throne, in their hearts, and
his train, his rule, his glory, his power, his person, his work
just fills there. the church, fills us. He's trained, fills the temple,
fills his people's hearts with praise and joy and love, the
love of God shed abroad in their hearts. Verse 2. And above this
throne, it says, stood the seraphim. Oh, this is wonderful. Above
it the throne stood the seraphims, each one had six wings. Now,
there were two It says, one cried unto another. So there's two
of them, one on this side and one on that side. Does that sound familiar? Somebody knows. Back there in
Exodus, God gave the orders concerning an ark of covenant, upon which
was a mercy Let's go back there and preach
that, where the blood was poured. That's a picture of Christ who
is the gospel, who is the mercy seat. And God gave orders to
build that ark so that there were two cherubs, seraphs, cherubs
facing one another, golden-winged cherubs. That's what this is
a picture of. It's all Christ. It's all Christ. And these seraphims,
it says, each one had six wings. With two, he covered his face.
That's humility. Oh, I hear these people. I hear
these religious people, you know, that they've never seen the Lord.
But they talk about seeing Him, and they just rush up, you know,
into His presence. You don't do that. If you've
ever seen the Lord, you cover your face. The angels do that. They don't
have sin. They don't have sin. And they
cover their eyes in humility. It says with two they cover their
feet, their lower parts, their body. What's that? That's humility.
That's modesty. That's what that is. There's
none of that today, is there? Goodness gracious. Modesty. They're wearing a robe, and they're
covering themselves. And the next thing, with two,
they fly. That is, they spread the tidings
of what? His glory. And listen to what
they say. Here's their cry. Look at verse
3. That's significant, isn't it? Verse 3. How'd it get to be verse 3, Sam?
Verse 3, this is their cry. Three times they cried there.
They cried one to another, holy, holy, holy. Three times is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. Holy, holy, holy. Three times
holy. Why do they say it three times?
Because these three, this one God is three. And these three are one. It's
the Holy Father, it's the Holy Son, it's the Holy Spirit, the
triune God, the Holy Trinity. That's who it is, the thrice-holy
God. And this is the true and living God. Listen to me. If
you haven't heard anything up to this point, you'd better get
this. This is the true God that they
declare right here. This is how he is. This is his
chief attribute. This is God's chief characteristic. You want to know how God is,
what God is like? One word will describe Him above
all other. As a matter of fact, every other
attribute or characteristic is found in this one. What is it? Holy. Holy. Holy. This is his glory. That's what
they said here. That's what they said. This is
his glory. No, the whole earth is full of
his glory. Now listen, everybody who sees
this God of the Bible will see him first and foremost and principally
as holy and sovereign. not love. Not love. There was some local yokel called a preacher
in the paper that ran like a four or five week series on The love
of God, and his first one, he began it by saying, this is the
chief characteristic of God. This is how God is. You want
to know how God is? This is how he is. God is love.
That is not his chief attribute. Now, he's glorious in love, and
we dare not diminish his love. Oh, my. Oh, my, the love of God,
how rich and pure, how measureless and strong! It shall forever
endure, the saints' and angels' song. prescribed by trade, to write
the love of God above would drain the ocean dry. And could the
scroll contain the holy, so stretched from sky to sky, the love of
God?" Marvelous, wonderful, matchless love, eternal, everlasting, saving,
sovereign love. But it's holy love. It's holy love. The Scripture
says, "...the righteous Lord loveth righteousness." His love is holy love, righteous
love. Listen to me. Love is not his
chief attribute. This is not what the angels cried,
did they? Did the angels cry when they declared God? Did they
cry, love, love, love? Is that what they cried? No. Holy. Holy. Holy. Isaiah, the book of Isaiah, he mentions
the love of God about five times. He mentions the holiness of God
fifty-four times. The book of Acts, love is not
in it one time. When the apostles And preachers
were going out through the world to declare the message, to declare
the gospel, to preach the word of God. They didn't say love
one time. Not one time did they go out
and say, God love you. Not one. Not one time did they
say, Jesus died for you. But over and over and over again
they said, God is holy. Christ is on the throne. This
was the message at Pentecost. Christ is on the throne. You
better bow and repent. And like I said, I would not
diminish the love of God, but the holiness of God is his chief
attribute. The holiness of God. Listen,
outside of Christ—listen to this very carefully. Outside of Christ,
God is a consuming fire. He's not love at all. It says
here, the whole earth is full of his glory, his essential glory,
holy, holy, holy. His love, God's love is in Christ. Romans 8, 39 says, nothing shall
be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ. The love of God is in one place,
in Christ. The mercy, the forgiveness, the
grace, the love of God was found in that ark. Forgiveness of sin
was where the blood was. Right? Whoever was under the
blood was under the love of God and the mercy of God, the grace
of God. Whoever was without that place
was under the wrath and condemnation of God. Right? So the love of
God is in Christ. The holiness of God is everywhere. Listen to me now. The love of
God is not seen in hell. Right? The love of God is not
in hell. That's not a picture of the love
of God. What is it a picture of, though? The holiness of God. Holy. Holy. Holy. Well, verse 4 says, "...the post
of the door moved at the voice of him that cried." The post
of the door moved. Well, I was going to have you
turn to Psalm 18, but don't turn to Acts. I'll tell you what, do turn to
Acts chapter 4, OK? Acts chapter 4. It says, "...the
post of the door moved at him that cried, and the house was
filled with smoke." Over in Acts chapter 4, when I read this about
the post, the house being filled and the post moving and trembling. I thought of Sinai, Mount Sinai,
you know, where the Scripture says the mountain trembled and
it was covered with smoke. I thought of that. But we haven't
come to Mount Sinai, Hebrews says, which trembled, which no
man can approach unto. Not Mount Sinai, but to Mount
Zion, the church of the living God. Look at Acts 4, verses 24
through 28. They lifted up their voices.
This is the church crying unto God with one accord, and said,
Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth and sea,
and all that in them is. And then they go on to quote
Psalm 2, who by the mouth of thy servant David hath said,
Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered
together. against the Lord and against his Christ, of a truth
against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed," Lord,
that is, both harried and punished, piled with the Gentiles and the
people of Israel, gathered together, to do whatsoever thy hand and
counsel determined therefore to be done." They are declaring
Christ in all his glory and all his power and all his sovereignty.
They see him high and lifted up. The church, the early church,
they see him as he is. That men are in his hands now. And look what happened. Look
at verse 34. When they had prayed, the place was set, where they were assembled. And
they were all filled with something. Not smoke, but the Holy Spirit. And they spake the word of God
with boldness. What filled them up? Huh? Some preacher cavorting around
on stage, you know, acting like a fool. The crowd just filled
them up and sent chills down their spine. I mean, the choir
sent chills down their spine. Is that it? The miracles they
received? No. It was a sight of Christ
on the throne. And it says they were shaken
to their boots. Fear and trembling took hold
of the people. Fear and trembling. That's the
first thing a sight of Christ does. The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom. And then the filling of the Holy
Spirit, who takes the things of Christ and just fills you
plump full until you say, my cup's running over. He prepared
me a table, and my cup's full. My heart's full. That's what
this is all about. And the moving of this door is
a stony heart removed. Just like Lazarus, when he went
to Lazarus' tomb, he's got to go to the tomb of everyone who's
dead and trespasses in sin, and he's got to cry out, and the
post of that door got to move. The stone's got to be rolled
away. The stony heart removed. And then the filling of the Holy
Spirit. That's what this is. All right, now look at the next
verse. This is the reaction of every person who sees Christ,
every last one without exception. There are no exceptions. Anybody
who's seen the true God, the true Christ, the true living
God, the true Christ, anybody who's saved, this is their reaction. This is what they're going to
say when they see him in the gospel. When they hear him preach,
when they hear him with their ears and their eyes sees him
like Job said, this is it. Look at verse five. Then said
I, Lo is made. I am undone. Everyone. Woe is me. Job said, when Job saw it, I
quoted that, Job said, I've heard of you, now my eye sees thee. And he says, wherefore, I abhor
myself. I hate myself. Daniel, Daniel,
no more moral or upright man ever lived on the planet. Daniel
said when he saw that vision of Christ, it was the same vision
standing at John Saul and Patmos, very same. And Daniel and Ezekiel
saw the same vision. And Daniel said, My comeliness
melted into corruption. Saul riding his white horse,
somebody, boy, when the light shone, he hit the dust, didn't
he? He's eating dust. John, the beloved John, who rested
on the bosom of Christ himself, says, When I saw him as he really
is, I fell at his feet as a dead man." Peter, when he saw him,
he was so full of braggadocio and all that before he saw Christ
glorified. But when he saw Christ glorified,
he said, Depart from me, I'm a sinner. And everybody who's seen the
true and living Christ, who's ever really been touched by him
and seen his glory, they say, I'm a wretched, no good, hell-deserving
sinner. Without exception. And you know what happens They get a cold placed on their
lips. Oh, God sends an angel, a messenger
with the gospel. What is that cold? Read on down
there. He says, "...that then flew one of the seraphim." Well,
look at verse 5. He said, "...my eyes have seen
the King." That's why I see myself. Man will never see himself until
he sees Christ. Man will never see himself as
he is until he sees God as he is. They'll never be saved until
he sees the one who does the saving. And it says, Then there is the
sight of Christ, and then there is repentance. Oh, I'm no good. And here comes the gospel. Verse 5, I say, Then flew one
of the seraphims unto me, just like an angel sent from heaven.
having a live coal. He's come right from the altar.
What's the altar? That's where the lamb was killed.
And a coal burning under the altar, that's where the body
was burned. That's where the blood dripped. That's a saturated,
live, burning coal full of blood. And just puts it on his mouth.
Look at it. Blistered lips is what he got.
Blistered lips. Well, he can't say much, you
know. He can just bow and say, Thank you. Lo, this hath touched
thy lips. Verse 7, laid it upon my mouth,
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips. And what is it? Thine
iniquity is taken away, thy sin is purged. Why? The sacrifice
was made. He brings tidings, glad tidings
of good things, of joy, comfort for the people. Comfort ye, comfort
ye my people. Tell them their iniquities purged,
their sins all gone, that Christ went to Calvary and bore their
iniquity away. Their sins are put away. Far
as east is from the west, he separated them from us. And he
puts that gospel on there. Why does it say the lips? Well,
with a heart man believeth, but with a mouth confession is made.
It's what we're talking about, Margaret. Every man, every woman
who sees Christ as He is, and then sees themselves as they
are, and then God comes with a gospel and shows them how iniquity
is taken away, Christ only, their heart starts bubbling in gratitude
and praise and worship, and their lips just can't contain it anymore.
And what do they say? Oh, here am I. Send me. I'll go. I'll tell them. What are you going to tell them,
Isaiah? Well, that I accepted Jesus and my personal Savior. What are you going to tell them,
Isaiah? I'm going to tell them when King Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord. I lifted up. You know, Isaiah
kept saying, woe is you, woe is you, woe is you in the first
five chapters. Then he saw the Lord and said,
woe is me. And then from there on out, what
was his message? What's Isaiah all about? Isaiah
40. Isaiah 42, behold my elect. Isaiah 53, he was wounded for
our transgression. And on and on the story goes.
Isaiah had a lot to tell. It took him several chapters
later to tell it. And there was one story. His
story. Not Jewish history. His story. Whose story? The one he saw.
The king. That's what Christ said in John
12. These things spake Isaiah when he saw his glory and spake
of him. That was his message from then
on. And so it is with everyone that's seen the same one. preacher
or people or like, no matter who it is, that they've seen
this one, they'll talk about him. Not themselves. They'll
say, if the guts say anything about themselves or people, they'll
say, woe is me, I'm undone, I'm unclean, and so is everybody
else. They'll say, I dwell in the midst
of a people of unclean lips, and everything is an unclean
thing. But they'll say, look to him.
Look to Him. You seen Him? I believe some
of you have. I know some of you have. And
I hope everybody in here does. This is eternal life, Christ
said. This is the will of the Father that everyone that seeth
the Son and believeth in Him should have everlasting life.
and I'll raise him up at the last John Denver really going
to see how we will see same. Set without. All right brother Joe you got.
Sixty two. In number sixty.