Solomon with great wisdom said,
where there is no vision, the people perish. Without a vision, you have no
purpose in life. Without a vision, there's no
driving force, no inspiration, no motivation. Where there is
no vision, the people perish. We need a vision. I want you
young people to have a purpose in life. I want you to set your
minds and your hearts with purpose for that which you would do for
God's glory and that which you would do for the benefit of others,
that which you do with your life. You need a vision. But I want
more than just a purpose for physical, monetary, material,
earthly things for you and for myself. I want you to have a
purpose in life or you'll ruin your life. A purpose in life or you'll destroy
your life. We need a vision. a vision of
the glory of Christ, the son of God. That's the vision you
need. That's the vision we must have. If God ever saves you by his
grace, he will do so by revealing his great mercy, love and grace
in Christ Jesus, the Lord. You cannot be saved except God
makes you to see and know Christ's glory. When he called Saul of
Tarsus in Acts the ninth chapter, he calls that man to see the
Savior's glory. If ever the Lord God calls any
of you young men to serve him in preaching the gospel, if he
calls you to preach the gospel, he will do so by the revelation
of Christ's glory. When he spoke to Moses in the
mount, he revealed his glory to him. When he spoke to his
servants time and time again, calling them to proclaim his
word, to deliver his message, he revealed his glory to them.
If you're truly inspired to devotion, to consecration to Christ, if
your religion's more than lip service, more than a word, if
you're inspired to devote yourself to the son of God, a creed won't
do it. A confession of faith won't do
it. Getting in the waters of baptism won't do it. If you're
inspired genuinely to consecration to the son of God, motivated
to live for him, for his honor and his glory, the only thing
that can give you that inspiration and sustain it is the revelation
of the glory of God in Christ Jesus. If ever the Lord God sends
revival to his church, it will be by the revelation of the glory
of God in his dear son. Where there is no vision, the
people perish. This is what Abraham saw. This
is what Moses saw. This is what Daniel saw in Ezekiel. This is what Peter, James, and
John saw in the mouth of Transfiguration. This morning I want you to turn
with me to Isaiah chapter 6 and let's read about this vision
that God gave to his prophet Isaiah. My subject this morning is what
did Isaiah see? What did Isaiah see? I hear men
frequently ask, Lord show us your glory. Some of you do, and
I do. Show us your glory. Show us your
glory. But what was it that Isaiah saw? Now, our Lord Jesus, we just
read in John chapter 12, the disciples coming to him and he
reveals himself in many, many ways. And John concludes at the
end of this thing that these folks went away and believed
not because of what is revealed here to Isaiah. And he tells
us that this is the place and the time where Isaiah saw Christ's
glory. Well, what was it that he saw?
Was it some kind of an emotional experience and no more than that?
Was it some kind of a direct vision that he had of something
physical? Let's see what he saw. What did Isaiah see? God the
Holy Spirit tells us plainly, these things said Isaiah when
he saw his glory and spake of him. So that which Isaiah saw,
that which is recorded in these 13 verses is the revelation of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. That which Isaiah
saw, that which is recorded in these 13 verses, is the revelation
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. A revelation
that made a radical change in this man. Now we don't know much
about Isaiah, Except that he was a prophet of God who lived
about 700 years before our Lord came into this world in our flesh
He prophesied during the days of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah
who were each kings of Judah in their time this man Isaiah
lived for a hundred and twenty years and he prophesied for 85
of those years He preached for a long time He preached for a
long time. But did you know that the writings
of Isaiah and these chapters we have before us right here,
the writings of Isaiah are quoted more frequently in the New Testament
than the writings of any other Old Testament scriptures except
the Psalms. The Psalms are quoted more than
any others, but Isaiah is quoted more often than anyone else in
all the Old Testament Scriptures except for the Psalms. That seems
to tell me that the things that are spoken of here are of great,
great importance. They're of great spiritual significance,
and we're assured by that that they have reference to the person
and work of our Redeemer and the gospel of God's grace in
him. When John the Baptist began his
ministry, he said, I'm the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, quoting from Isaiah. Our Lord
Jesus comes down to Nazareth where he was brought up. As his
custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day
and he got a scroll and turned to the passage in Isaiah 61 and
read, The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord
has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek and has sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. And then
he rolled the book back up again, rolled up the scroll. handed
it to the man in charge of the scrolls and he said, this day
is this scripture fulfilled right here in front of you. I'm the
one Isaiah was talking about. I am the one the prophet described. It was Isaiah that the Ethiopian
eunuch was reading. He had been up to Jerusalem to
the feast at Jerusalem. And by this time, Judaism was
just an empty shell. By this time, Judaism was like
going to a Baptist church today. By this time, Judaism was like
going to a religious convention today. It was just all show,
all ceremony, nothing else. Nothing else. Just talk about
God. No knowledge of God. No word
from God. No revelation from God. Judaism
was an empty shell of idolatry. And so the eunuch went up, hoping
to worship the Lord. And he came away just as empty
as he was when he went up. But as he's riding along, he's
reading the prophecy of Isaiah in Isaiah chapter 53. And as
he was reading that prophecy, God sent Philip down to preach
the gospel to him. And Philip, you see him walking
along the road, and Eunuch is reading, and must have been reading
out loud. He said, Lord hath laid on him
the iniquity of us all. For the chastiser of our peace,
he was stricken. And Philip said, do you understand
what you read? He said, how can I except some man showed me.
He said, scoot over, I'll show you. And preached the gospel
of Christ to him. Preached to him the glory of
Christ, making him to know what Isaiah wrote of and what Isaiah
saw. All right, let's look at this
sixth chapter of Isaiah. God reveals himself to Isaiah
as he is pleased to reveal himself to every sinner he saves by his
grace. God revealed himself to Isaiah
as he is pleased to reveal himself to every sinner he saves by his
grace. Salvation comes not by your decision. Salvation comes not by your learning. Salvation comes not by a preacher's
ability to somehow psychologically manipulate you and talk you into
getting a dose of religion and saying I believe in Jesus. Salvation
comes by the revelation of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ in you Making you to know God in his son This is life eternal
that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ
whom thou has sent Now, let's look at this these 13 verses
and I'll show you five things as we move through them this
morning first Isaiah saw God in his true character. He saw God as he really is in
his glorious sovereignty and his infinite holiness. This religious
generation knows nothing about that. This religious generation
doesn't have a clue who God is. doesn't have a slight notion
who God is. The God that is preached on from
the pulpits of churches all across this country, throughout this
world, the God that's preached in this generation no more resembles
the God that's spoken of in this book than a gnat resembles an
angel. Isaiah had a vision of the glory
of Jesus Christ. And when he did, he saw God in
his true character, in his absolute holiness, in his glorious sovereignty
as God. Let's look at it. Isaiah chapter
six, verse one. Now, the chapter begins in the
year that King Uzziah died. Uzziah was a great king, great
king. great king. We would be greatly
blessed to have such a man ruling our nation. He was a great king.
He reigned in Jerusalem for 52 years. And we're told in 2 Chronicles
that in all those years, he did that which was right in the eyes
of the Lord. He did what was right. He didn't
know God, but he did what was right. He did what was right. He was Isaiah's cousin. Well
as the king and Isaiah, I'm certain loved admired maybe idolized
Uzziah But this man Uzziah died under the visible and outwardly
declared curse of God He died as a leper Because this man Uzziah
the great great king of Judah dared to presume that that he
could go to God's house and offer incense before the Lord himself. He dared to presume that he could
bypass God's priest. He dared to presume that he could
bypass Jesus Christ, God's high priest, God's righteousness,
and God's sacrifice, and come to God on his own. And he goes
to the house of God to burn incense, and God killed him. God killed
him. That same year when Isaiah lost
his great king, whom he adored, his cousin, who had done so much
good, you can imagine the devastation. Lost him under the public display
of divine judgment because of his wickedness, because he attempted
to approach God without Christ, God's substitute, God's son,
our savior. You go ahead and try coming to
God on your own. You dare presume God will accept you as you are.
You dare imagine that God will receive you in your righteousness
for your goodness sake. God will send you to hell like
he did Uzziah and he will make it a public declaration of his
justice in the end. In the year that King Uzziah
died, Isaiah says, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. God destroyed
the king of Judah that he might make Isaiah to know the king
of glory. God destroy whatever he will.
to make you know the king of glory, to make you know the son
of God. God destroy whatever plans, whatever
pursuits, whatever possessions, whatever desires you may have,
that he may make you to know his dear son, our savior. What's he talking about here?
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Notice the word Lord here is
written in lowercase letters, not in all capitals. When you
read the word Lord in the scriptures written in all capitals, that's
an indication that it's referring to the name Jehovah, the Lord
God revealing himself as Jehovah, our Savior. The word translated
Lord here is the word Adonai, referring to the triune God,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But no man can see God. God's
a spirit. You can't see God. Nobody's ever
seen God except the only begotten son, which is in the bosom of
the father. He hath declared him. The word
was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld in him the
glory, the glory as of the only begotten son of God, full of
grace and truth. So that in Christ, who has come
to make God known, He who is the Word shows us God. And we see God in the person
and work of His Son. He's the Word of God. In Him
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. So throughout
the Scriptures, every time you read in the Word of God, in the
Old Testament, that God appeared to a man. Manoah and his wife
saw the Lord. God walked with Adam in the cool
of the day. Every time in the Old Testament Scriptures, you
see the Lord God revealing himself to a man or to a group of men. It is Christ Jesus, the incarnate
God, the pre-incarnate God, making himself known to men in his redemptive
glory as our substitute. So that the Lord speaks here,
and Isaiah says, I saw the Lord, I saw God. What did he say? He saw Jesus Christ, the crucified
Son of God, sitting on a throne. He saw Jesus Christ, having finished
redemption, exalted to the right hand of the majesty on high,
sitting on a throne. Well, I thought Jesus was man. He is. He's a man who is God. And Isaiah speaks by divine inspiration
and says, I saw the Lord. How did he see it? He saw him
sitting. Sitting. Sitting in the ease of total
dominion. Sitting in the ease of total
sovereignty. Sitting unruffled. Sitting quietly. Sitting with absolute confidence. Sitting, waiting till his enemies
are made his footstool. Sitting, waiting till all things
are put under him. Sitting, waiting till the father
at last makes everything to be in subjection to him and bow
to him. Sitting. Well, but how is this
going to be accomplished? He's sitting. But how can you
be so sure? He's sitting. Well, how do you
know the Lord's purpose will prevail? He's sitting. He's sitting. Do you get the picture? He's
sitting. Sitting. When I'm disturbed and
uneasy and think I can control things or do something about
things or get out of hand, I fret and fidget and pace and wiggle
and squirm. When the Lord makes me to understand
everything's all right. I quit pacing and wiggling and
squirming and sit still. Understand, children of God,
while we live in this world, whatever your circumstances,
whatever your trial, whatever your heartache, whatever your
adversary, our Savior is sitting on his throne. All is well. He's sitting on the throne, on
the throne. The throne of the universe. The
throne of the universe is the throne of Christ, the God-man,
our mediator. The reigns of the universe are
in the hands of that one whose hands were pierced for me. He's
sitting on a throne. What throne is this? How is this
throne described? Isaiah has a picture here, a
vision of the very same thing that John saw in Revelation 5.
chapters 4 and 5, the very same thing that Ezekiel saw in Ezekiel
chapter 1. It's a picture of that which
was represented symbolically in the tabernacle and in the
temple of the Holy of Holies. But what was in there? There
wasn't a throne in there. Oh, yes, there was. Oh, yes,
there was. There was a mercy seat over the
Ark of the Covenant. where God said, I will meet you
on the mercy seat. That mercy seat covered the broken
law. That mercy seat is the place
where the high priest went in once a year with the blood of
the Passover lamb and sprinkled atonement blood on the mercy
seat, covering, removing, ceremonially, symbolically, the sins of the
people confessed on the head of that Passover lamb. Well,
that's not a throne, that's a mercy seat. That mercy seat's a throne. It's called the throne of grace.
And our God rules this universe according to his mercy revealed
in the mercy seat. The Lord Jesus, John, sees him
as a lamb as it had been slain, rising up out of the midst of
the throne. Isaiah sees him here sitting
upon the throne, this throne of grace, this throne of mercy,
high and lifted up, not the throne high and lifted up, He is. The
Lord Jesus is. Because he's finished the work
God's given him. He's finished the work he came
to do. Redemption's accomplished. And we're told that his train
filled the temple. I really don't know how to get
a grasp on those words in this opening verse. When Moses asked
to see the Lord's glory, the Lord said, I'll put you here
in the cleft of the rock and I'll put my hand over you and
I'll pass by and you can see my back parts. Of course, that
was a revelation of Christ our Redeemer in back parts, that
which you could see upon the earth, the train. The lady gets
married, she has on a wedding dress and she has a train flowing
behind it. Well, with a king, that train
flowing behind him is an indication, a token, a symbol of his regal
authority, power, might, and wealth as the king. Maybe that's what he's talking
about. He's saying, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, sitting
on His throne, easy, sitting on His throne in absolute sovereignty. And I saw His riches and His
glory and His majesty and His might and His authority as King
of the universe. Look at verse 2. Above it stood
the seraphims. Now, there's a lot of talk about
seraphs. in music. Folks refer to seraphs
often in music. Celestine Allen just mentioned
it in one of the Wesley songs I sang just a little bit ago.
Seraphs. Let me tell you how often they're
mentioned in the scriptures. Got any idea? One time. That's all. And they're only
mentioned in the plural, not in the singular. Seraphs. What's that mean? The word means
burners. Burners. Now, these seraphs,
the seraphim that Isaiah saw are exactly the same beings that
Moses was commanded when he made the altar and made or made the
mercy seat to cover the Ark of the Covenant. You remember there
were to be cherubs on each end. Facing each other the wings touching
as they look down upon the mercy seat their eyes always on atonement
Their eyes always on Christ crucified their eyes always on the mercy
of God through the blood of Christ to his people So these seraphim
and the cherubs are the same turn to Revelation chapter 8
I'll show them to you our chapter 4 rather. I'll show them to you
again Revelation chapter 4 John has this vision, very same
vision Isaiah saw. He saw heaven open, the throne,
one sitting on the throne. He saw the 24 elders around the
throne. And then he sees something else,
verse six. And before the throne, there
was set a sea of glass, like a crystal, and in the midst of
the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full
of eyes, four living creatures. Now they're not two, but four. The seraphs are burners. The seraphs are those cherubs
looking down on the mercy seat, always with their eye on Christ.
And they have three wings, or six wings, covering with two
their face, and with two their feet, and with two they fly.
The same as the seraphims. The same as these beasts. Or
if you have a marginal translation, living creatures. Living creatures. These seraphs, then, represent
these four living creatures before the throne that John sees. These
are the angels of the churches, Bob. These are the men sent of
God to preach the gospel, who lead God's people to Christ and
lead them in the knowledge of Christ and lead them in worship.
Read on. They're full of eyes. There are
four of them because God has his people in all the four corners
of the earth. They're full of eyes, given wisdom
and knowledge and understanding to feed his people with knowledge
and understanding. full of eyes before and behind.
And the first beast was like a lion. Like a lion. What do you think? What do you
think about a lion? Bold. Scared of nothing. And Alan, if a man sent of God
to preach the gospel, he's bold as a lion. He's bold as a lion. Not that's just his personality.
He's bold as a lion because he represents the God of glory and
the gospel of truth. He's bold. And the second beast,
like a calf, strong for work, laboring in the word and in the
doctrine, laboring in the cause of Christ. If I could say anything to my
brethren who preach the gospel, See to it that you don't allow
yourselves to become easy and comfortable in a lifestyle that
you cease from labor, but rather labor in the word and in the
doctrine. And the third beast had the face
of a man. A man who's tender and compassionate,
a man who cares for men, a man who knows himself to be just
a man. And the fourth was like a flying eagle. flying swiftly
to do the will of God, flying at God's command, at God's appointment,
wherever God sends. And the four beasts had each
of them six wings, just like these back here in Isaiah 6.
And they were full of eyes within, and they rest not day nor night,
saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty. All right, look
back at Isaiah six. Let's see if that's not what
we see. Isaiah six verse two above it stood the seraphims.
Each one had six wings with two. He covered his face, embarrassed,
ashamed of what he is, would not look upon God covering his
face with humiliation. And with two, he covers his feet.
his dirty, filthy feet as a man. And with two, he did fly, flying
to do God's will. And these seraphims cry, holy,
holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. Speaking of the great glorious
Trinity, yes, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Speaking of the
great Trinity in absolute holiness, hallowed, hallowed, hallowed,
sanctified, sanctified, sanctified. Our God is holy. and the whole
earth is full of his glory. He's the Lord of hosts. That
means this one sitting on the throne, this one who is God our
Savior, sitting in the ease of total sovereignty, he's the Lord,
he's the boss, he's in control over all the hosts of heaven
and earth and hell. Nothing as out of his reach,
nothing beyond his control. This one who is holy, The whole
earth is full of His glory. It's revealed in His wisdom and
power and creation. Man, just walk outside. When I get done here, y'all walk
outside and just look up in the sky. Just look up in the sky
and try to convince yourself that popped out of some kind
of an ooze. Just go ahead and try to convince yourself of that.
And if you do, You ought to be locked up in
a nuthouse, but at least feel sorry for you. His glory, the wisdom and power
of God is seen everywhere. But his glory that fills the
earth is the gospel proclaimed by these seraphs going into the
four corners of the earth, the gospel of the grace and glory
of God in Christ Jesus. Watch this and the post the door
moved at the voice of him that cried When the Lord Jesus came He fulfilled all the prophets
all the types all the ceremonies of all the scriptures He fulfilled
all the law and when he came He destroyed Judaism. He destroyed
Judaism. I meant to say that just like
I did. He destroyed it. Judaism was left as nothing but
darkness, left as nothing but idolatry. Judaism no more resembles
Christianity than Islam or Hinduism as it stands today. It's utter
darkness, utter darkness. He tore down the post of the
temple and it crumbled around him. because he came to fulfill
all and he is the fulfillment of all. When the Lord Jesus comes
in his glory, in the saving operations of his grace, he doesn't come
and tap on your heart's door saying pretty please won't you
let me in. No, no he'll come and knock the door down post
and all. And the first time you know he's
around, he's already inside sitting on his throne and he brings his
welcome with him. He comes in omnipotent saving
power. Now, look at the next thing Isaiah
saw. First, he saw God as he really
is in his glorious sovereignty and holiness. And then he saw
himself as a guilty, helpless, doomed, damned, lost sinner. before this holy God who could
do with him as he would. Then said I, woe is me. Woe is me. Please listen to me now. Please listen to me now. If Christ ever reveals himself
to you, it won't be some flippant matter
with you. The revelation of Christ will
lay you in the dust before him. It will lay you in the dust before
him. Isaiah said, I saw the Lord.
Oh, I'm a damned man. I'm lost. I'm undone. I'm reduced to silence. I'm reduced
to nothing. I've got nothing to say. I'm
at your mercy. Woe is me. Why is that? I'm undone. Because I'm a man
of unclean lips. Not unclean because he Put something
unclean To his lips Unclean because of what came out of his lips Unclean because of the filth
oozing up from his heart Coming out of his mouth into all the
world by his head and by his doing and by his speaking and
by his being I'm an unclean man I'm a vile, filthy wretch before
this holy God who sits on his throne and cannot look upon iniquity. I'm undone. Job said, I have
heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye
seeth thee. That's the difference. That's
the difference. I tell you all I can about it.
I preach to them all I can, wherever I go, preach to folks about it,
but I can't make you see it. Oh, but if God takes the scales
off your eyes and causes you to see, you'll speak like Job,
I heard before. But now my eyes see you for myself,
wherefore I abhor myself. The revelation of God will make you despise everything
you are. Words can't be found sufficient
to describe the abhorrence. I abhor myself and repent in
sackcloth and ashes. Daniel saw this same vision,
this revelation of the great glory of God. He saw this man
with a linen garment with an acorn in his hand or by his hand. And he said Daniel was alone
in the vision. So Daniel alone saw the vision.
He said, therefore, was I left alone and saw this great vision. And there remained no strength
in me. For my commonness was turned
in me into corruption. Oh, I want that for you. I want
that for you, Lord. I want everything on this earth
for you. God make yourself known and calls everybody here to see
their beauty as an oozing cesspool of iniquity. And leave no strength,
no strength in me that I might find all strength in my Redeemer.
Number three, having seen his own depravity,
this man Isaiah saw the complete depravity of Adam's fallen race. Then said I, woe is me for I'm
undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. And
I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Everybody around
me is just like I am. The whole world's full of sin.
Everybody's depraved. Everybody's corrupt. And they
can't help me. The world can't help me to know
God. The world can't help me toward
God. The world can't help me out of
my uncleanness because the whole world is under the wrath of God.
The whole world under the judgment of God. The whole world unclean
before God. In Adam we all died. Isaiah recognized the utter depravity
and corruption of all the race, and he declares it, saying, for
mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Number four,
look at verses six and seven. By the goodness and grace of
God, Isaiah saw and experienced complete forgiveness of sin by
blood atonement. Then flew one of the seraphim,
unto me. Remember? Remember who they were? Remember who they were? God says to one of his preachers,
take some tongs in your hand and take that live coal off the
altar and fly down to Isaiah and lay it right on his lips
and tell him he's forgiven of all his sin. He didn't literally do that,
did he? Of course not. Of course not. Isaiah's describing
something altogether spiritual. One day, you'd been hearing the
gospel, hearing the gospel, hearing the gospel, hearing the gospel,
And one day you heard it. What happened? God sent one of
his angels with a live coal from off the altar. What's that? The
altar of sacrifice where Christ our Passover is offered for us
and burned under the wrath of God for us. And the live coal
is speaking of the living sacrifice of our Redeemer ever perpetual
and ever accepted and ever effectual. represented in the gospel of
God's free grace. We come and preach the gospel
and all I can do is hold it out here. Oh, but if God speaks, if God speaks, he'll lay the
gospel effectually to your heart and cause you to believe on the
Son of God. What's he saying? He says, Lo, this hath touched thy lips,
thine iniquity is taken away, thy sin is purged. You see, when God gives the sinner
life and faith in Christ, when God makes the gospel effectual
to you, He speaks peace to your guilty conscience and causes
your guilt to flee away. Larry, the redemption was done
at Calvary. It was done before the world began, but you didn't
know anything about it till he came and spoke peace to your
soul by the gospel. By the gospel. Would you do something for me?
Would you do something for me? I'm going to leave here just
a few minutes, drive down to Kingsport, over to Rome Mountain. I'll be preaching to a few folks,
both places, next four nights. Would you do me the kindness
of praying that God will send me with his word to his chosen
to gather his elect for the glory of his son. Would you do that
kindness for Frank as he comes here to preach tonight? Oh God,
send him to speak to me. Send him to speak to these eternity
bound souls. Send him that I may hear and
see my Redeemer. One last thing Isaiah saw. Verses
8 through 13. I just have to give it to you
and quit. You can elaborate on the verses for yourself. Isaiah, when he saw the Lord
in his glory, saw the purpose of God perfectly fulfilled by
Christ Jesus, Jehovah's righteous servant, our covenant surety. Look at verse eight. Now I know
this is commonly thought to represent Isaiah and his willingness to
go preach the gospel, volunteering to go preach. Let me tell you
something about volunteer preachers. We don't want them. We don't want them. God will
never use them. God will never use them. All
God's servants are volunteers, made willing in his power, made
willing and gifted by his grace, but volunteer preachers, you
don't want them. You don't want them. This is
not what that's talking about. This is not what it's talking
about. Look at the word with which verse eight begins, also.
Rex, that means I'm changing gears. I'm fixing to tell you
about something else. I've told you about the vision
I had of Christ's glory. Now let me tell you what I heard
when I saw His glory. Watch this. Also I heard the
voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? One God. And who will go for us? Three persons. Father Son and
Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Steps forth in covenant mercy
in the council of peace before the world began and said here
am I? Send me I'll go do it. Oh I come in the volume of the
book. It's written to me. I'd like
to do thy will. Oh my god, and he came and accomplishes
the will of God Saving all his people. Read the next verses. The people out of whom he came. He preached and preached and
preached. Miracle after miracle, wonder after wonder until he
hardened their hearts and blinded their eyes and stopped their
ears so that they could not hear. So that he might send the gospel
to the four corners of the earth so that you might hear. and I
might hear, so that he might gather his elect out of the nations,
and his elect are spoken of as that holy seed, that tent part
for which he reserves all the world. Hurt not the earth. Don't touch
them till the 144,000 have been sealed in their fard. Then we'll
burn it up. That's how long this world stand.
until Christ has fulfilled all the will of the triune God in
the saving of his people for the glory of his name. That's
what Isaiah saw when he saw his glory. Have you seen his glory? Oh, God, make you to see his
glory for Christ's sake. Amen.