God the Holy Spirit has been burning a text into
my heart for the last many, many weeks. You'll find it in John
chapter 12. As we've been going over this
passage of Scripture together, there's one statement in this
chapter that's just been constantly, constantly on my heart. I'll give it to you in just a
minute. Do you ever wonder why sometimes
you'll hear a preacher preach a message, preach many messages
perhaps, precisely orthodox? What he says is true. very factual, doctrinally correct. But it's as meaningless and as
dry and as useless as the inside of a lime sack. There's just
nothing there. Another man preaches from the
same passage on the same subject, declares the same truth with
passion. power, and life. One person takes up a profession
of faith, baptized, joined the church, attends church regularly,
every service. You can depend on them. You can
depend on them. They're always there. Always
there. Something needs to be done, ready
to do it. They need money raised, raise
the money. I would count on them. But the
religion really doesn't have much effect on their lives. It's
kind of changed the way they behave a little bit, but it doesn't
really control anything, doesn't really determine anything. Another
takes up a profession of faith and confesses Christ and believe
his baptism. He's in the congregation, every
service. Just like the other, you count
on him. Pendulum. Though Christ in the gospel literally
consumes his life. He's just completely taken up
with the Redeemer. Ready and willing at the master's
call to do anything. What's the difference? What's the difference between
the preacher whose religion is nothing except theory and the
preacher whose religion, I hate to use that word, James does
though, this is all right, pure religion. His religion is his
life. What's the difference between
the church member who, goes through the ceremonies and practices
religion and reads his Bible and as people say, say their
prayers. Oh, I hate that phrase. Let's say our prayers. But they
recite their prayers. They go through their ritual.
And the one whose life is consumed with Christ in the gospel, he's
hungry for the word, anxious to call on God and not just in
formality but continually crying for God's mercy. What's the difference? I'll tell you the difference.
I hope God will cause you to see it and hear it and understand
it and I pray that it'll make the difference in your life.
The difference is most people, most people who take up a profession
of religion, get a dose of religion. That's all. That's all. They've learned some facts, been
convinced of some doctrine, and decided the best thing for them
to do to be religious. And some people have seen the
glory of God. And if you ever see his glory,
you'll never get over it. If you ever see his glory, you'll
never get over it. All right, here's a text. John
chapter 12, verse 41. These things said Isaiah, that's
the word, Esaias, when he saw his glory and spake of him. What a remarkable thing for a
man to experience. Isaiah saw his glory. Do you? Have you seen his glory? Has
Christ been revealed in you? Or is your religion all fact
and doctrine and theory and creed and custom? Have you seen his
glory? The title of my message is found
right here in our text, When He Saw His Glory. Oh, what a subject. What do you
reckon happens when a person sees his glory? What transpires
in that man? What takes place? We read a little
bit in Daniel chapter 10 of Daniel's experience of this. You can read
it in the book of Ezekiel. You can read it about Jeremiah.
You can read it in Revelation of John. Many, many, many people
describing the scriptures, their experience of seeing his glory.
Turn back to Isaiah chapter 6. I want you to just hold your
hands right here at Isaiah 6. This is the passage to which
John refers when he says that Isaiah saw the Lord's glory When
he saw his glory the sixth chapter of Isaiah This gives us the historic
account Now I want us to read it together and we'll pick up
some highlights 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 he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and
said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth
is full of his glory. 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'm
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 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 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. Now this is certainly a picture
of a sinner's conversion. This is what happens when God
saves a sinner. He reveals Christ in you. He reveals the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ in you. This is a picture of the believer's
inspiration and motivation in life. Believers are not inspired and
motivated by the terror of the law. They're not inspired and
motivated by the promise of reward. Those are mercenaries, religious
mercenaries, that's all, that's all. The churches are full of
religious mercenaries, and the pulpits are full of folks who
are training religious mercenaries. Nothing else. Believers are motivated
and inspired by the revelation of Christ in you. That'll cause a man to leave
Earth Equality and go to a land he doesn't have any idea where
he's going. That'll cause a man to pick up his family when he's
20 years old and move to a foreign land and raise his family in
a foreign land and preach the gospel to people and never see
his own kin again. That'll cause a man when he's
50 years old to give up everything and go preach the gospel of God's
grace. They're inspired not by hope of some heavenly gain. They'll stand out a little higher,
have a bigger yo-yo than somebody else in heaven. They're not inspired
because they're afraid God's going to whip them if they don't
do what they ought to. They're inspired by the revelation
of God in Christ Jesus. This is certainly a picture of
God-sent revival. If you haven't yet grasped this
fact, let me state it plainly. what men call revival in the
past. What you read about in your history
books and people talk about great revivals of the past are nothing
on this earth, as best I can tell for the most part, except
the fleshly show of religion, nothing else, nothing else. You
read about what they talk about, the people experiencing it, they
talk about them rolling in the floor and acting like a bunch
of wild-eyed Pentecostals and, you know, waving their hands
and, sitting around doing nothing but read the Bible, as if God
wanted you, instead of working every day, sit around and read
your Bible every day. No, no, no. Revival is Christ's continually
revealing himself in me. Oh God, give it to them. so that we are continually drawn
out of ourselves to our Redeemer. Continually drawn out of this
world and its care to our Redeemer. Continually drawn to Christ and
His will and His knowledge and His glory. Certainly, as you
read this passage in its context, this is the making of a prophet.
Everything changes for Isaiah right here. Everything changes. In the previous chapter, Isaiah,
woe is you, woe is you, woe is you. That's what preachers learn in
seminary. That's what you get in the prophet
school. But then he saw the Lord. And now it's woe is me. Woe is me for I'm undone. This
man, Isaiah, was a prophet of God who lived about 700 years
before our Lord's incarnation. He lived for 120 years. And for nearly 85 of those years,
he was a prophet. He prophesied in the days of
Uzzah and Jotha, Mahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. All right,
look at verse 1. Here's the first thing we're
told. This vision, this revelation
of Christ was given to Isaiah in the year that his cousin,
King Uzziah, died. Uzziah, if you want to read about
it in 2 Chronicles 26, was a remarkable king. He was a king who was very
successful. He served the Lord greatly. He
was apparently admired by Isaiah, if not all of Israel. He reigned
in Jerusalem for 52 years. And in all of those years, he
did that which was right in the sight of God until he got big. After a while, Uzziah became
strong, or he thought he was. Strong in himself. I'll deal
with that a little bit tonight if you want to come back, those
who think themselves strong. But the Lord strengthened Uzziah
and helped him until he became strong. He made him prosper. until he became strong. And then
when Uzziah began to think real highly of himself, he went in
to the temple of God and went to the altar of incense and burned
incense before God bypassing the priest. He just stepped around
him. He stepped around him. I'm the
king. I'll go in here and worship God
and God will accept what I bring on my terms. And when he took
the censer, the priest of God, Athali, I believe was his name,
he along with 80 other priests confronted the king right there
in the temple and rebuked him and said, this is not your business. You don't belong here. Get out
of this place. And King Uzziah was fit to be
tired. He was angry. His blood rushed
to his face. And while standing there with
the incense in his head and staring at God's priest, despising them,
leprosy broke out in his face. God smote him with leprosy and
he fled from the house of God as he was thrust out by God's
priest. and died a leper under the curse
of God. You see, you won't bypass God's
sacrifice and find acceptance with God. You will not be accepted
of God even if you're the king of Judah. You will not be accepted
of God even if you're admired by God's prophets and God's preachers. You will not be accepted of God
even if it appears that the Lord has blessed you all your life.
You will not be accepted of God except through God's priest and
God's sacrifice, Jesus Christ the Lord. There's no other acceptance
for sinners. His blood and His righteousness
alone. He says, I am the way. You can't
come any other way. I am the truth. You can't know
any other truth. I am the life. There is no other
life. Only by Christ do sinners come
to God. Is there a connection between
Uzziah's death and Isaiah's vision? Probably. Probably. You see,
God destroyed this man who was Isaiah's comfort. He depended
on him. This is his cousin. Isaiah was
in the king's court under the king's protection. He was not
just an ordinary prophet in the king's court. He was the king's
cousin. And when God destroyed the king
on whom Isaiah depended, God revealed to him the King on whom
we must depend. All right, next thing. Let's
read verses one through four and see the revelation of God
that was given to his prophet when Isaiah saw the Lord's glory. 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 us stood the seraphims,
each one had six wings, and with twain, that is, with two he covered
his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one 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. Our text in John 12, 41 tells
us that this revelation of the triune Jehovah is the revelation
of Jesus Christ, the revelation of the glory of God in Christ
Jesus. It is the enthroned Christ, the
sovereign Christ of all authority, power, and glory that Isaiah
saw. He saw the Lord Jesus as the
enthroned mediator. the exalted Redeemer, the almighty,
all-powerful Savior, King of His people, having power over
all flesh to give eternal life to as many as the Father had
given Him. Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus exactly
as John saw Him in Revelation chapters 4 and 5, sitting on
His throne. Sitting on His throne, having
in His possession all the glory that is the reward of His finished
work. all the glory given to him as
the God-man mediator because he has redeemed his people by
the sacrifice of himself. This passage and John's inspired
explanation of it with one sweet sentence, these things said Isaiah
when he saw his glory. This explains the revelation
of God throughout the scriptures. In Exodus 33, We're told that no man can see
God's face and live. No man can see God's face and
live. Not you, not me, nobody. We're told in 1 Timothy 6 and
verse 16 that God is such that he cannot be seen with the eye. You can't see him. You can't
see. God is spirit. God is... Now I know we live in this silly
religious age that folks talk about seeing the Holy Spirit
and seeing this and that. God's spirit. You can't see a
spirit. You can't speak to a spirit.
You can't touch a spirit. God's spirit. There's no way
for flesh and spirit to communicate. except God who is spirit. Assume our nature and make himself
known to us, not just as a man, but in a man and through a man. So that every revelation in the
scriptures where we see a man seeing God, a man talking to
God, God talking to a man. Throughout the Old Testament,
The angel of the Lord appears to men. Abraham worshipped him. He spoke to Abraham, revealed
his secrets to Abraham. Moses saw him and heard his voice
in a bush that burned and was not consumed. He took off his
feet, his shoes off his feet, and the Lord revealed himself
to him by his name Jehovah, which he had not yet used to make himself
known to any other. When Moses was about to lead
the children of Israel to possess the land of Canaan, he said,
I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And in Exodus chapter 34, the
Lord came down and showed him his glory in the man, Christ
Jesus, our Redeemer. You mean, Brother Don, that Christ
as a man existed before this? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. His
human flesh was actually created in time, but he stood before
God as our God made mediator from everlasting. And it comes
in what's called a pre-incarnate revelation of himself. Manoah
and his wife saw the angel of the Lord do gloriously. And Manoah
thought, well, We're going to die. His wife said, no, no. If God intended to kill us, he
would have shown us these days. He would have shown us these
days. Christ is the revelation of God. All of God that men can
know. All of God that we shall ever
see today, yesterday, tomorrow and to eternity is Jesus Christ,
the God man. In this man dwells all the fullness
of the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in a body. So that all the fullness of God
is revealed in him. Hold your hands here in Isaiah
and turn to John chapter 1. Let me show you this. John chapter
1. John's explaining to us who Christ
is. This one who's called the Word.
This one who is the communication of God, the Word. John chapter
1 verse 18. No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. That word declared is an interesting
word. It would normally be translated exegesis. exegete. He hath exegeted him. What is
that? Well, that's what a preacher's
supposed to do when he opens the scriptures. He opens the
text, discovers the meaning of the text, and then he shows you
what the text means. He shows you the message of the
text. This is what Jesus Christ, by
his incarnation, his obedience in righteousness unto death,
by his sacrifice of himself, his resurrection, and by the
gospel revealed by him, this is what he does. He takes all
that God is and shows him to you. He takes all that God is
and reveals him to men. What did Isaiah see? Look back
here in Isaiah chapter 6. He saw Christ triumphant and
victorious sitting on a throne. Oh, what a picture of our Redeemer
sitting on a throne. Mark, the only time he's seen
standing, the only time he's ever seen standing was to receive
his servant Stephen back into glory. He said it. He said it. Sitting in the ease
and serenity of total dominion. Now listen to me. Listen to me.
God help you to hear me. You who know God, rest easy. Our Savior is always in absolute
control. Absolute control. Do you know
who broke that Piping that all that and what is it seven miles
in the sea five miles down where you broke it. He did You know
who gave me in the good sense to make it stick it down there
start with he did and if it's kept, you know He will or the
devil did that he's God's devil We we depend on Obama he's God's
devil too That's exactly what I meant to
say. And I intend for it to be heard all over the world. All
over the world. God's in control of this world.
Not you. Not men. Not devils. Not the elements of nature. God
our Savior. And do you know how He controls
it? You know how He controls it? Man, I get in my truck and
I drive down the road and I'm just as easy as I can be. But
you know what I do when a rabbit runs out in front of me? React. He never reacts to anything. Do you get that Larry? He never
reacts to anything or anybody. He performs it all. He rules
it all. He governs it all. Everything
that is, has been, or shall be, is not only by His permission,
but by His decree, and is absolutely necessary to the accomplishment
of His will in the salvation of His people for the glory of
His name. Isaiah saw Christ triumphant,
sitting on a throne. Not a little old weak, mamby-pamby,
sissified, thing people call Jesus, who wants you to let Him. Let the Lord. What kind of Lord
do you let do anything? Isn't that stupid? Let the Lord
have His way. If He's the Lord, He has His
way. And if He don't have His way, He's not the Lord. It's
that simple. If He's God, He always does what
He will. If He doesn't always do what
He will, He ain't God. Well, that's not what I think of God.
I told you, your God's just a good luck charm. He ain't God at all.
He's just an item. You might as well have your rabbit's
foot in your pocket and pull that thing out and rub it. Well, let's see
what the rabbit's foot will do today. God rules. God rules. Here's something else Isaiah
saw. He saw Christ in his infinite glory possessing the reward of
his obedience. Back in Psalm 2, the psalmist
records the Lord God speaking to his son as our mediator. He
says, ask of me and I'll give you the heathen for your inheritance.
And the scriptures over and over again in the prophets speak of
the triune God giving Christ dominion, not as God, but as
the God-man, our mediator. As the reward of his obedience,
the Father has given him this glory. He has power over everything. And at the name of Jesus, every
knee shall bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things
under the earth. And every tongue confess that
Jesus is Christ to the glory of God, the Father, that he is
Lord indeed. Sooner or later, you will find
out that he's Lord. You will either find out now being conquered by his grace,
or in the day of his judgment, you will find out being conquered
by his justice. One of the two. Sooner or later,
you're going to bow to the Son of God. You're not going to make
him your Lord. Oh, no. Won't you let Jesus be
your Lord? In this religious world, you'd
send them all to bedlam if it was anything but religion. Let
Jesus be. Let Jesus do. He's Lord. He's Lord. And you're going to
bow to him. Like it or not, he's Lord. He's boss. He's in control. He owns you. He's the master
of your faith. He's the controller of your destiny.
Not you. Not you. And you're going to
bow to him. Isaiah saw Christ's glory as something universal.
His presence, his glory, his train filled the temple. Filled
the temple. Christ is all. He's all. Every revelation of God to the
human eye, the human ear, and the human heart is Christ. He's the exalted King of Kings
and Lord of Lords. The unrivaled Lord and King of
the universe. He's called here the Lord of
Hosts. The Lord God of Sabaoth. He has and constantly exercises
power over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as the
Father has given him. Now, here's the third thing.
Around the throne, Isaiah saw seraphims. Who are these seraphs? Some say
they're a unique body of heavenly creatures. Some rank the angels,
the cherubim is the highest order, and then the seraphim, and then
just the regular peon angels. No, the seraphims are represented
as cherubs in other places, and they're represented as living
creatures in Revelation chapter 4. These seraphims do not represent
some kind of an angelic order, though certainly there is an
angelic order of creatures. But the seraphs, always spoken
of in plural, the word is always plural throughout scripture.
The seraphs are clearly representative of gospel preachers. Clearly
of gospel preachers. How can you be sure of that?
Because God doesn't send angels to preach the gospel to you.
God doesn't send angels to assure men of sins, forgiveness of sins,
pardon of iniquity, purge. God doesn't send angels to preach
the gospel. Well, I know I'm saved because
there's an angel came and stood on my bedpost one night and I
was laying there in a drunken stupor and I'd never been the
same since. Well, you probably haven't, but you ain't saved.
Now, God doesn't send angels to preach the gospel, but here
there was a seraph who came, took a live coal with tongs from
off the altar, a live coal of the burning sacrifice, and laid
it on Isaiah's lips with his own hands, and said to Isaiah
the prophet, this now has touched your lips. Your iniquity is forgiven. Your sin is purged. The seraphs then represent gospel
preachers. They cover their faces in modesty. and humility before God. They don't walk around trying
to impress you with their modesty and humility. There's another sermon that's
got to be said. This religious age teaches folks to show people
your love for Christ, show them your Christianity, show them
your devotion. Do you know what our Lord tells
you? He says, don't show it. Don't try to show it. Well, I
want people to see Jesus in me. If they didn't see Jesus in Jesus,
they ain't gonna see Him in you. Live according to your faith. Don't make any attempt to show
people modesty and humility, not before men. This is modesty
before God. These seraphs cover their faces
because they recognize they are but the chief of sinners. Every
man who sin of God to preach the gospel does all of them they
cover their feet conscious of their sin and imperfection conscious
that their walk and their conduct and their behavior and their
ways are are Totally inconsistent with everything they know to
be right and true because they're but sinners Oh wretched man that
I am is the relentless cry of that heart that knows and speaks
for God. With two, they fly. Swiftly fly, carrying the gospel
of God's grace wherever God may send them. Swiftly fly to do
His will. And they cry, holy, Holy, holy
is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. Certainly, there's a reference
here to the Trinity of persons in the Godhead. We worship one
God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one glorious being, God Almighty. There are three that by record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these
three are one. We worship one God in three persons. So explain that. If I could explain
that, I wouldn't worship it. I'd sell it, like most people
do. No, we worship one God in three persons. And that one God
revealed in Jesus Christ, our Lord. And this one God is holy. So holy that without holiness,
no man shall see the Lord. That's not a little bit of holiness.
That's not the best you can do holiness. That's not the holiness
you can get conferred on you. That's not the holiness that
some man can give you or you can achieve for yourself. Oh
no. No, this holiness, perfect holiness. God said, be holy if
I am holy. Another translation of that in
another place is called, be perfect if I'm perfect. Perfect. You
mean, preacher, God requires perfection? You got it. Perfection. Perfection. And that can only
come by grace. That's the gift of God's grace
through Christ Jesus the Lord. By his obedience unto death as
our representative, he brought in everlasting righteousness.
And by his death as our substitute, he put away the sins of his people. The prophet says the whole earth
is full of his glory. The whole earth is his and the
glory of God and his wisdom and power is revealed everywhere.
We've seen that many times. In the last day, all the events
of creation will prove to have been for God's great glory. The
greatness and glory of our God, however, that Isaiah is speaking
of here, that fills the whole earth, this is talking about
God Almighty making himself known by the gospel. And Isaiah is
declaring, as God's servants throughout the ages have declared,
that this gospel must be preached among all nations. And God will
somehow, by the marvelous working of His providence, cause men
and women in every corner of the earth to hear the gospel
of His grace. He'll do it. We're seeing it
fulfilled in our day. This message right here. will
be heard by people literally all over the world. How come? Because God's got his elect everywhere,
everywhere. He got his elect in every nation,
kindred, tribe, and tongue, in every realm of society, among
all races. And he gathers out his elect
as he will from the north, south, east, and west. And when he's
done, The knowledge of the glory of
the Lord will fill the earth like the waters cover the sea. Oh, I can hardly imagine that. I don't care what time of day
you turn on the news. That's not all I turn on. Maybe that's
some old program. I don't care what time of day
you turn it on. Turn it on. And the whole earth is full of
the knowledge of corruption, violence, corruption, indecency,
adultery, and fornication, and homosexuality, and bestiality,
and murder. Not just things, not just things
performed, but taught and encouraged by men who don't know God. by
men in high places, when the wicked rule, the righteous weep. But there is a day coming, oh
my God, there's a day coming, when the knowledge of the glory
of God will cover the earth like waters cover the sea. That's right, that's right. And
the post of the door moved at the voice of him. The house was
filled with smoke. Now remember, this is still part
of Isaiah's vision. What's he talking about? Perhaps
he's talking about the shaking and removing of the legal dispensation,
the shaking and removing of the temple, its service and its worship
at the death of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the preaching of
the gospel. Gospel preaching destroys carnal religion. It just destroys. When Christ
fulfilled the law, all the priesthood, all the ceremonies, all the sacrifices,
all the visible ordinances of worship, all of them, all of
them were done away. So that those things became abominable
before God. You mean, you mean for the priest
to go in there and Pretend to be offering an altar sacrifice
on God's altar that which God ordained back in Exodus Became
an abomination. Yeah Because that which God ordained
in Exodus was but a picture of him who was to come so that all
carnal worship all images and icons and idols and The stuff,
you know, all that stuff, religious symbols and religious garb, that
stuff that men have to have. Well, it's not really an idol.
It just makes me feel close to God. That's what you call an
idol. Three is called an idol. Well, just this. I just need
this to help me worship God. That's the reason it's forbidden.
That's reason God says idolatry. That's just over. It's shaken. And when a man hears the gospel
of God's grace, it's crushed and broken. More than that, the
shaking certainly refers to the shaking of your conscience when God speaks. When God speaks, you'll be shaken
in your soul, shaken in your conscience. And nobody can give
you peace but the one who does the shaking. Now look at the
fourth thing. In verse 5, Isaiah makes a confession. Woe is me, for I am undone. I'm a man of unclean limbs. Isaiah
saw himself as he really was. And I tell you what, if you ever
see yourself before God, you will be reduced to silence
before Him. Silence. What can I say? I've
seen God, and I'm nothing. Now, you can look at men, and
you can say, God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are.
Boy, you don't see me out drunk on Saturday night. I'm at home
taking care of my family. I thank thee that I'm not as
other men are. You don't see me out robbing a bank. No, sirree,
I work hard for my money. I thank thee that I'm not as
other men are. As long as you're looking at men. You can look
at the law. the written letter of the law,
hang the Ten Commandments up over your door, have them hanging
in the kitchen and the living room, have them hanging in the
closet, have them hanging in the bathroom, have them hanging in
the courthouse, have them hanging in front of the school building,
have them hanging in every room in your office, have them hanging
up everywhere. And you mark them off. I've done that, I've done
that, I've done that, I've done that ten times every day. I've
been good. As concerning the law, I'm blameless. Merle Hart, you showed me where
I broke it. You show me. You show me. Yes, sir. That's exactly what you can say,
looking at men and looking at the letter of the law. Oh, my
God. If ever you see the cost of redemption,
when God made his own son to be sinned for us and he drew
out his sword and slaughtered his son in the fury of his holy
justice, because his son was made sin. That's me! I'm undone. My lips are filled there. And
the reason my lips are filthy is because they speak what's
in my heart. Not just me. I realize that everybody
around me is in the same boat I'm in. I dwell in the midst
of a people of unclean lips. Unclean. I believe in the basic goodness
of man. I know, because you think you're good. I believe there's
just, I believe all men basically good. I know you do. Cause you
think you're good. You don't really believe that
about other folks. You just say that cause you think you're good.
You think you're good. You give yourself a chance. You
don't really express what you think about other people. I know I've heard,
I listened to him. Every you find out who God is,
you'll find out you're nothing but sin and everybody else just
like you. That's what you pass on to your
sons and daughters, generation after generation. We're seeing. All flesh is grass, withering,
fading grass, soon to be burned. Here's the fifth thing, verses
six and seven. I've got to be quick. Angel came with a live coal in
his hand. He took it off the altar. where
the paschal lamb was burned. Sacrifice to God. You know who
that is, don't you? That's Christ, our Passover sacrifice
for us. This live coal from the continually
burning altar, this live coal speaks of Christ's sacrifice
with ever living efficacy. That which is brought now by
the preaching of the gospel and applied to the hearts of chosen
sinners by God's spirit. so that now this man who knows
himself nothing but sin, nothing but sin, he has the gospel applied
to him. I've tried to preach the gospel
to you, and I've been praying that God calls some of you to
hear it. Oh, Ron, if a person hears it,
If right now you hear it again, right now, I'll tell you what's
going to happen. God causes the Word to sink into your heart
by the power of His Spirit in your conscience. You hear Him
say, your iniquity is taken away. Your sin is purged. Gone. Gone. by the merit of Christ's
sacrifice, by the sacrifice of God's own darling son who died
in our room and in our stead. And then when the prophet tells us about what God did for
him in his grace, he said, I heard God speak. I heard God speak. Whom shall I send? One God. And who will go for us? Three
persons. The Lord Jesus speaks and says,
who'll be my servant? Who'll serve me? Do you know what God's people
are? Every last one of them. Every last one of them. They're
God's servants. Willing servants. Willing servants. I'll serve the Lord if He'll,
no, no. God's people are God's servants. They willingly serve
Him, willingly. Somebody asked me not long ago
if I would go here or go there, do this or that. I'm 60 years
old now. Got those two grandbabies and
those two people they live with. Love them dearly. Would you go down to New Guinea?
That quick. If I believe that's where God
had me to go. That quick. Glad to go. Crying all the way. How come? How come? Because I've
seen the Lord. My iniquity's gone. By the sacrifice
of God himself, it's purged. Here am I. Send me. David, can you sing that song?
I saw Christ is all. How would you sing? You got that?
Come sing it. We'll be dismissed with that.