Israel's Vision of God's Glory

Q: What does the Bible say about knowing God?

The Bible teaches that knowing God is essential for eternal life (John 17:3). The scriptural understanding of eternal life, as expressed in John 17:3, states that eternal life is not merely an existence but is fundamentally about knowing the true and living God and Jesus Christ. This signifies a profound relationship, indicating that mere acknowledgment of God's existence is insufficient; rather, true life comes through an intimate knowledge and experience of Him. This relationship transforms not just our beliefs but our entire being, directing us towards holiness and righteousness.

Q: How do we know God's sovereignty is true?

God's sovereignty is demonstrated throughout scripture, affirming His ultimate authority and control (Isaiah 6:1-3). The sovereignty of God is a core tenet of biblical theology that asserts God's ultimate power and authority over all creation. Isaiah 6:1-3 provides a magnificent vision of God's sovereignty, where the seraphim proclaim, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.' This highlights not only God's control over the universe but His holiness, which demands that He governs creation according to His righteousness. The overarching narrative of scripture consistently affirms that God's plans cannot be thwarted, showcasing His sovereign will in the affairs of humanity.

Q: Why is the holiness of God important for Christians?

Understanding God's holiness is crucial as it reveals our sinfulness and the need for repentance (Isaiah 6:5). God's holiness is foundational to Christian faith as it sets the standard for righteousness and reveals our own unworthiness. In Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah, upon seeing the holiness of God, declares, 'Woe is me! For I am undone.' This realization leads to a profound understanding of human sinfulness and the necessity of redemption through Christ. Recognizing God's holiness not only humbles us but compels us to pursue holiness in our lives, knowing that we are called to reflect God's character as those redeemed by His grace. The holiness of God thus serves as both a warning and an invitation—to acknowledge our need for Him and to embrace the salvation He offers through faith.

Q: What does the Bible teach about the priesthood of Christ?

The Bible teaches that Christ is our great High Priest who mediates between God and man (Hebrews 4:14-16). In the biblical framework, Christ's priesthood is foundational to understanding His role in salvation. Hebrews 4:14-16 emphasizes that Christ, as our High Priest, is uniquely qualified to mediate our relationship with God due to His divine nature and human experience. This priesthood is vital, as it assures believers that we have direct access to God through Him. Unlike the Levitical priests who offered sacrifices repeatedly, Christ's once-for-all sacrifice fulfills the requirement of atonement, providing eternal redemption for those who believe. This understanding cultivates a deep trust in Christ's sufficiency for our salvation and relationship with God.

Now, brace yourself. I don't
feel as bad as I sound. This is the first time I've tried
to speak out for two days and I'm happy. I can hear it. Can
you? There are several reasons why
I wanted to come here this morning and preach. And again tonight,
the Lord willing, I'll be away next Sunday, both
services. I'll not be here next Sunday. And I do not like to miss two
Sundays in a row. I feel like the pastor should
be in his pulpit and not be away from that pulpit any more often
than he has to be. Oh, incidentally, I'll be preaching
Wednesday night. I made an error. You didn't. I did, Martha. Tom Harding preached last Wednesday. The Lord willing, I'll be here
this Wednesday night. And also, I'll be preaching at
Pipe Bowl Thursday night. And then Saturday, Brother Don
Bell and I or flying to Montana. I've never been to the state
of Montana. I've never preached in Montana. But we're going there
to preach for four nights in Great Falls, Montana. Brother
John Mitchell is pastor there. I've known John a long time. But I've never preached for him.
And I'll be there on next Lord's Day. As I said, I'll be away
next Sunday, but another reason why I just must be here, it's
the Lord's Day. And as David said, I was glad
when they said to me, let's go to the house of the Lord. I just do not feel that my week
is properly begun. if it's not begun in this fashion,
in worshiping the Lord. David also said, I'd rather be
a doorkeeper in the house of God than dwell in the tents of
the wicked. And I have a responsibility to
my God. I have an example to set. And I want to fulfill that responsibility
with all my heart, don't you? And I want to be a good example
to others. And so, when we meet together today in
His presence to worship Him, I meet with you and I pray by
His grace that as long As the psalmist said, as long as he
gives me breath, that I'll use that breath to praise my God
and to worship him. Now, I'm going to speak to you
this morning on the subject, Isaiah's vision of God's glory. Isaiah's vision of God's glory. Now, I would say that my heart's
desire, above all things, in my prayer to God for all to whom
I preach, and you'll recognize that as being taken from the
words of Paul the Apostle, is that they might be saved, or
that they might know God. That's my desire for you, and
that's my prayer to God for you and for all to whom I preach
is that they might know the true and living God. It's not enough
just to acknowledge that there is a God. James was very careful
to say that the devil does that. It's not enough to acknowledge
that there is a God. That's not even honoring to him.
And that's not helpful to you. Eternal life is to know God.
It's to know God. David said, as the thirsty deer
panteth for the water brooks, my soul panteth, hungers for
knowledge of the true and living God. Not just a God, but the
true and living God. I learned in his great prayer,
John 17 says, this is life eternal, this is spiritual life, to know
God, the only true God, the only true God, to know the true and
living God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, that's life
eternal. And then 1 John 5, John wrote
these words, he said, and we know, And we know, listen, that
the Spirit of God has come and has given us an understanding,
that we may know him that is true, and that we're in him that is
true. And in his Son, Jesus Christ,
this is the true God, this is eternal life. I don't have any great desire
to build a following. I don't have any great desire to
build a large church. I don't really covet possessions
and acclaim, but I do. I do desire that those to whom
I preach may know God, the true and living God. And I'm not suggesting that any
human being can know God perfectly. I'm not saying that at all. I'm
not even suggesting that any of us can know God in the greater
part. Paul said we know in part. We
preach in part. We sink their glass dimly. But
at least we can walk in the light He's given us, can't we? We can walk in the light He's
given us. We can study and search those
things that He's revealed to us. I know the secret things
belong to God, but the revealed things belong to me. The disciple
said to the Lord, Jesus, show us the Father. He has seen me,
has seen the Father, so I can study the life of Christ. No
man knows God but the Son, He to whom the Son will reveal Him.
No man has seen God at any time the Son has declared Him. I can
come to Christ and make a study of Christ's words and teachings
and life and know God and walk in the light He's given me. Last week in In Cherokee, a dear
preacher brother, in front of several people, asked me a question. He said, he said, if you were instructing,
if you were instructing young preachers who had just been called
and sent of God to preach, who had just been given the task
of pastoring, leading people, where would you tell them this
preacher or those preachers, these preachers to begin? Where
would you tell them to start their ministry? And my answer, I said, I'll tell you what I'd
tell them. I tell them to begin their ministry
by preaching the majesty and the glory and the sovereignty
and the power of Almighty God. That's why I tell them to begin. Begin by preaching who God is. Who is God? That's where the
Bible starts, in the beginning, God. That's where it starts. In the beginning, God. Oh, for
holy, for holy are reverence, knowledge, understanding, fear
of God. I tell you, if we begin there,
if we begin there, I know Mr. Spurgeon said, that if a man
doesn't understand what happened in the garden, that he'll be
wrong in the rest of his theology. And I agree with that as far
as man's concerned. But I believe if we're going
to begin this thing, a pursuit of God or a desire to know God,
we're not going to begin with man at all. We're going to begin
with God. Who is God? And I want you to
look at Isaiah chapter 6, and I'm going to handle something
this morning that needs to be said. I want you to turn to Isaiah
chapter 6. All the seriousness of this.
Isaiah chapter 6. Who's Isaiah to begin with? Well,
he's a prophet of God. He lived 700 years before Christ.
He prophesied for 85 years. He prophesied during the reign
of four different kings, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. And his writings, Isaiah's writings,
are quoted more often in the New Testament than any other
of the Old Testament writers except the Psalms. When John the Baptist began his
ministry, he began it quoting Isaiah. That's right. When the Lord Jesus Christ came
down to Nazareth and stood up and conferred the religious leaders
of that town, he quoted Isaiah. Isaiah 61. It was Isaiah the eunuch was
reading when God sent Philip to him to preach the gospel.
So Isaiah, prophet of God, mightily used of God. Isaiah, a man who
saw God, and a man who can tell us something about the God whom
he saw. Well, he says here in verse 1,
in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Isaiah said when King Uzziah
died, I saw the Lord. Well, another question I've got
to answer is, who's this Uzziah? Well, I know you want to know
too, so let's turn to 2 Chronicles chapter 26. This is very important. 2 Chronicles chapter 26. Uzziah
was the king of Israel. And I tell you, he was a great
king. He was a good king. Isaiah admired King Uzziah. One passage said he wrote down
everything he did. He was a great king. God greatly
used him. 2 Chronicles 26, verse 1, that
all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years old,
and made him king in the room of his father, Amaziah. And he built Eloth, and restored
it to Judah. After that, the king slept with
his fathers. Sixteen years old was Uzziah
when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in
Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jekeliah
of Jerusalem, and listen, and he did that which was right in
the sight of the Lord according to all that his father Amaziah
did. Let me tell you something. Instead
of reading all of this, this man was a good king. This man
was a good king, King Uzziah. He was a man who honored God,
who loved the people. He cared for the little people.
He did things for the farmers. He did things for the widows.
He did things for all the people. God's prophet loved him. The
people loved him. Fifty-two years he reigned over
God's people. In verse 15, I skip over there. And he made in Jerusalem engines
invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks
to shoot arrows and great stones withal. His name spread far abroad,
for he was marvellously helped till he was strong. Now watch
what happened. But when he was strong, His heart
was lifted up to his destruction. For he transgressed against the
Lord his God. What on earth did he do, preacher?
What on earth did he do? Did he set up idols? No. Did he sell out the people? No. Did he sell out to the emirs
and betray the people? No. Did he tear down the temple? No. Did he command the people
not to worship God anymore? Nope. What all did he do? He went into the temple with
a sacrifice and offered it to the Lord. What's the matter about
that? Wait, you'll find out. Listen to it. He transgressed
against the Lord his God and went to the temple of the Lord
to burn incense upon the altar. The incense. What's wrong with
that? That's the job of the priest.
The king never offered sacrifices. The king never burned incense.
The prophet never offered sacrifices. The prophet never burned incense.
That's the job of the priest. The high priest of God. who is
a picture of Christ, who's a type of Christ. Christ is the only
priest. His blood is the only sacrifice. No man comes to the Father but
by me. You see, Christ hadn't come to
the earth yet. This is 700 years before Christ
came. And all these, this tabernacle,
this temple, these sacrifices, this priesthood, were pictures
of Christ. The king himself is a picture
of Christ who reigns. The prophet himself is a picture
of Christ who reveals the Father's will. But the priest is a picture
of Christ who offers a sin offering, and a blood offering, and an
atonement, and a sacrifice, who alone comes into the presence
of God with His blood, who walks the winepress alone, who offers
His blood alone, who is the one mediator between God and man
alone, who only can save us, who only can atone for our sins,
who only can bring us to God. You see that? And when men believed
that and let that span and had faith in it, they were believing
in Christ. But when a man violates this,
like the king is about to do, he's saying, I don't need Christ.
I'm big enough now, and I'm good enough, and I'm strong enough
to come to God on my own. I'll bypass Christ. I don't need
a substitute. I don't need a Savior. I don't
need a set offering. I'll come to God myself. And
that's what he's doing. Verse 13, And Azariah the priest
went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the Lord, eighty
of them, valiant men. And they were stood aside of
the king. They loved their king. They admired their king. But
this is not the king's business. This is the priest's business.
This is Christ's business. This is the Son of God's business.
And they withstood him, and they said to him, King Uzziah, verse
18, it appertained not to you, Uzziah, the burnt incense, to
the Lord, but to the priest, to the sons of Aaron, the consecrated,
the burnt incense. Get out of the sanctuary. You've
trespassed. Neither shall it be for your
honor from the Lord. God won't honor this. And Esau was angry. It is awful
what pride will do to a man. It is awful what lifted up with
pride. And he had a censer in his hand
to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priest, the
leprosy even rose up in his forehead, right there before the priest,
in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar. Hazel arrived as chief priest,
and all the priests looked upon him, and behold, King Uzziah
was leprous in his forehead. And they thrust him out from
thence. Listen how far this man has fallen. And what was his great offense? He bypassed Christ. He refused
to come the way God said come. He was going to usurp the office
of the Redeemer. And they thrust him out, yea,
he himself hasted here and ran out, because the Lord had smitten
him. And Isaiah was a leper until
the day of his death. Go back to the text. My, there must be a connection
here between the death of King Uzziah and Isaiah's seeing the
holiness of God, must be a connection. Because Isaiah says in the year
he died, under the circumstances, the circumstances under which
he died, gave me the sight of the Lord. I hope they'll give
us some understanding of the Lord and His holiness. I listen
to preachers and they seem to say, many of them, the same thing
that I'm trying to say. They say it's just one way of
salvation, that's Christ. Well, why is it just one way? And they say that Jesus Christ
died on the cross and shed his blood, and God will not receive
you anyway but through that blood. Well, why? I don't think we tell
people why. We tell them to believe on Jesus,
tell them why. Is God just being arbitrary? Is He just being obnoxious? Jesus
is just saying, well, you come my way, you don't come at all.
No, His way is the only way. And not only the only way, because
He says it's the only way, but it's the only way because it
is the only way. It's the only way God can be
God and receive you and me. That's what I'm saying. It's
the only way God can be who He is, and you who you are, and
get the two together. That's the reason it's the blood
of Christ. That's the reason this man, this
man Isaiah, violated. He not only violated the way,
but he indicated that he wasn't clear on why the way was the
way. Isn't that right? If he had had a good understanding,
of why that one way was that one way, then he wouldn't have
tried to go around that way. God, you see, the Lord God will
not suffer even the best among men to violate His holiness. That's the king, Uzziah. Let
me show you another individual, a lot more famous than Uzziah.
Turn to Exodus chapter 4. I'll show you something here. Exodus chapter 4. Exodus chapter
4. Now, now listen to this. This
is very important. Exodus chapter 4. Now Moses, Moses had been up on the mountain,
and he'd seen the bush that burned but was not consumed. God had
spoken to him and told him he was going to lead Israel out
of Egypt. And Moses was married. He was
married to a woman named Zipporah. Z-I-P-P-O-R-A-H. Zipporah. She was a headstrong
woman. And Moses was of the people of
Israel. He was Abraham's seed. And God
had given to Abraham the covenant. And he'd given Abraham the sign
of the covenant, the token of the covenant, which was circumcision.
And he said every male in the land of Israel is to be circumcised.
And that's the picture of Christ. Christ circumcised the hearts.
Circumcision is not in the flesh, that's just a picture. Circumcision
is the heart. The Lord God takes out the old
stony heart and gives us a heart of flesh. The Lord God circumcises
the heart. He breaks the heart. He smites
the heart. He humbles the heart. He brings
the heart to himself. Operates on the heart. And Moses
had a boy by that woman, Zipporah. And I just imagine what took
place if she just told him, you're not going to do that to my son.
That's just what I imagine. Because Moses didn't do it. He
didn't circumcise his son. Here's Moses, prophet of God, who had a son whom he refused
to circumcise because his wife put the pressure on him. And what Moses did, he says,
I don't let him pray. Listen. It's as important as
that king going around that the priest and going into the temple.
It's God's sign, it's God's token, it's God's covenant, it's God's
cross that we're dealing with. And so when Moses left the burnt
of God, this thing went on just like nothing had happened. And
I tell you, you may ignore the cross, you may ignore Christ.
You may ignore God's circumcised heart, and nothing happens. But one day, God will meet you. One day. Just like He did King
Uzziah, and they stood there and watched the leprosy. And he'd been king 52 years before
this came out. And God met Moses. Listen, Exodus
4 verse 24. And it came to pass, by the way
in the inn, Moses and Zipporah stopped at an inn, a hotel, spent
the night on their way to Egypt. And God met him and sought to
kill him. Put you in there and God's going
to kill this man that he's designated to lead Israel to Egypt? Yes,
sir. Yes, sir. You mean God's going
to kill Moses over this? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. God Almighty will not suffer
the best man to violate His holiness in the office of His Son. He'll
kill him. And God sought to kill him. And
then Sephirah, she saw what was happening, and she knew what
was happening, and she knew why, John. She took a sharp stone,
Moses evidently was on the floor gasping for breath at the hand
of God, cutting off his wind. And she grabbed a knife and circumcised
that boy. And took that knife and threw
it at the feet of her husband and said, you're a bitter man.
That shows her nature, doesn't it? That's the reason I say she
was behind all of this. But he ought not have been listening
to her. And God let him go. And God let
him go. Oh, I could preach a sermon on
that right there. God let him go. God let him go. Charlie, that's right down your
alley. God let him go. My friend, all you got to do
is admit who you are. Admit who he is. Admit who Christ
is, and come to the cross, and God will let you go. Why are
we so hard headed? Why are we so stubborn and proud?
I was saying, now there was a king that God killed because of this
sacrifice business, and there was a prophet whom God was going
to kill, on account of this sacrifice business. Now here's a priest
that God did kill. You know who he was? Aaron. Aaron himself. Turn with me to
Numbers 20. Aaron himself. Numbers 20. First priest of the
Most High God. First sacrifice. First Passover. All this. Everyone himself. That's the reason Paul said,
necessities laid upon me, I must preach the gospel. Woe is unto
me if I don't preach the gospel. I don't dare compromise the gospel. I wouldn't have. Numbers. Numbers, chapter 20, verse 8. God said to Moses, Numbers chapter
20 verse 8, Take your rock, gather thou thy assembly together, thy
and Aaron thy brother, you and Aaron, and you and Aaron speak
to the rock before their eyes. Now what is that rock? That rock
is Christ. That rock had already been smitten,
remember? First prayer. God gave them water
out of that rock and told Moses to smite it, and the water came
out. Now he says to Moses, speak to the rock. Christ isn't smitten
but once. He doesn't die but once. He doesn't
suffer but once. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. We don't have to offer a mass
here. We don't have to crucify Christ
again. We don't have to have the bread
and the wine becoming the body and blood of Christ. It's already
been shared. Already suffered. One sacrifice.
Now he says, speak to the rock. before their eyes, and he'll
give you water, and you shall bring forth to them water out
of the rock. So shalt thou give the congregation
and their beast drink." And Moses took the rock from before the
Lord as he commanded, and Moses and Abram gathered the congregation
together before the rock, and he said to them, listen to this
fleshly thing, Here and there, you rebels, Must we fetch you
water out of the rock? And Moses lifted up his hand,
and with his rod he smote it not once, but twice. And the water came out. The congregation
drank, and the beast also. He got away with it. No, he didn't
either. He thought he did. Everything went along okay. And
the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, because you didn't believe
me, to sanctify me in the eyes of
the children of Israel. Therefore you will not bring
this congregation into the land which I have given them." Now
look at verse 26. We'll get down to the end. Verse 25. Take Ava. And Eliezer, his son, bring them
to the Mount Ore and strip Alan of his garments. Oh, what a humiliation. That broke my heart when I read
that. They put all that on Alan. He was the high priest representing
Christ, representing the Lord Jesus. They had on the miter,
holiness to the Lord, the high priest garments with the the
names on the breastplate, and all this clean, beautiful linen
in gold and purple, blue, went into the Holy of Holies. He'd
been there so many times as a representative of the people, as a picture of
Christ, and now he stands before them, and they strip him of his
garments, and put him on his son, Eliezer.
And Aaron would be gathered unto his people and died. Moses did
as the Lord commanded. And they went up into Mount Or
in the sight of all the congregation. And Moses stripped Aaron of his
garments and put him upon Eliezer his son. And Aaron died there
in the top of the mountain. And Moses and Eliezer came down
and left his body there. What did he do? He violated the sacrifice of
Christ. He violated the picture. I'm
telling you, he didn't just ignore the Son. He didn't ignore the
Son. He just violated a type, that's
all. We go back to my text now. In the year that King Uzziah
died, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord upon a throne. I lifted up, and His throne filled
the temple. And above His throne stood the
seraphims. Each one had six wings, with
two he covered his face. In the presence of God's holiness,
not even the seraphims would look upon Him. They covered their
faces. With two he covered his feet
in humility. And with two he did fly. And
they all cried one to another, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. The holiness of God. The infinite,
immaculate, indescribable, unchangeable holiness of God. There's no way we can see it,
just believe it. Paul went to the third heaven.
He said, I heard things that's not even lawful or possible to
tell you about. The presence of God, holiness
of God, and the post of the door. moved at the voice of him that
cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Take your Bible sometime
and read over there on Exodus, the giving of the law, the mountain with its lightning
and thunder and smoke and holiness. Read about it, God's presence
dwelling in a light to which no man can approach. holiness
of God, the power of God. Well, watch this now, verse 5. Then said I, how did that affect
Isaiah? Then said I, where is me? Where
is me? I'm undone. What's he saying?
I'm cut off. I'm ruined. I'm reduced to silence. How did he come to this conclusion?
He'd seen the holiness of God. You know, a man may look at others
and say, well, I think I'm not like other people. Yeah, we can find some folks
that are worse than us, outwardly anyway, can't we? We say, I'm
not like you. We can look at others and say,
well, I think I'm not like other people. We can even look at the
law and say, well, I've never done a lot of those
things. I've never killed anybody. I never worshipped an idol. We might go down that list there
and say, well, like that rich young man, oh, he said, I kept
for my youth that. And we may look at our good deeds
and say, well, I fast, I pray, I give alms to the poor. But
my friends, when a man or a woman, and this is why I say, to young
preachers and pastors, start with God. Start with the glory
of God, the character of God, the attributes of God, the holiness
of God. For when a man gets a glimpse
or is exposed to the holiness of God, then he'll see himself. He'll see himself. He can't help
but see himself. And I'm not seeking to destroy
your confidence in your esteem, self-esteem. A man's got to have
some confidence in his ability that God's given him and his
gifts. You know, I come up here and
preach on Sunday. Well, I'm not up here because
I have perfect faith. I'm not up here because I have
perfect love. I'm not up here because I know
God perfectly, but God's given me some gifts and ability to
tell others what He says in His Word, and I have confidence I
can do it. And I'm not trying to destroy
your confidence and your ability. I'm not trying to destroy your
self-esteem, your fine pants and fine people. What I'm trying
to say to myself and to you, In the sight of God, with whom
we have to do, we are sinners. We're imperfect. That's what
I'm saying. It's in God's sight. His perfect
love enables me to see my imperfect love. See that? His holiness,
when I see His holiness, I'm able to see my My evil and my
sin, and when I see His power, I see my weakness. When I see
His light, I see my brightness. You understand what I'm saying? I don't have to be perfect to
associate with you because you're imperfect. I don't have to be perfectly
holy to feel comfortable with you because you're not perfectly
holy. But what I'm saying to you and to myself is this, that
no man is going to ascend into the presence of God who is not
like God. Who is not like God. Who shall
stand in His presence, he that hath clean hands and a pure heart. And we don't have that. And I
say this is what, I say if you read chapter five before chapter
six here, five times he said, woe is them, woe is them, woe
is them, woe is you. He was worrying everybody. Because
he felt like he was a pretty good fellow. But then that happened
to King Uzziah, who was a pretty good fellow. And Isaiah got shook
up. And Isaiah then saw the Lord
in his holiness. And he says, I'm cut off. I'm
undone. I'm unclean. And not only am
I, listen, I got unclean lips. Why do you say it's lips? Out
of the heart the mouth speaketh. What the mouth speaks is what
you are in here. As a man speaks in his heart,
so is he. And this is where the offense
is. It's the mouth. It's the lips. And he said, I'm
a man of unclean lips, and everybody around me is a man of unclean
lips. Why? I've seen the King. That's what
made the difference. I've seen the King. I've seen
the Lord of hosts. That made the difference. That
made the difference. We're not going to see sin until
we see God. And we're not going to see mercy
until we see sin. And when Isaiah, listen to me,
when Isaiah received some understanding, of the character of God, the
holiness of God, the awesome holiness of God. You see, God
made man upright. God made man his own image, and
man's fought out many inventions, and he departed from that image.
And your friends have separated you and your God, and two can't
walk together except they be agreed, and God's not moving.
He can't move. He doesn't come down. And you've
got to come out. What are we going to do? I'm
going to come out. That's what Isaiah said. I'm
undone. And everybody around me is undone. Wait a minute. Verse 6. Then, and that's when
it happens. That old then is a big then.
I saw the Lord. I saw myself. I saw everybody
around me. And then flew one of those seraphims. Someone from heaven, a messenger
from heaven. Who is that? That's our Lord
Jesus Christ. He came down to this earth. God
in human flesh came down to this earth, became what we are, that
we might become what He is. He took our sin and gave us holiness. He took our guilt and gave us
pardon. He took our hell and gave us
heaven. He took our imperfections and
gave us righteousness. He came down. And he flew down
having a live coal in his hand, which he took from the tongs
of the altar and laid it on my mouth. And he said, Lo, this
has touched your lips, and your iniquity is taken away. And your sin is purged. That's
how it's purged. God, in His perfect holiness,
sent His divine Son into this world, in our nature, and did
for us what we couldn't do. And on that cross, He took our
sins and our guilt and bore it in His body, bore the wrath of
God, the judgment of God, the fire of God, paid the debt. and
touched her lips. He touched me. He touched me
and made me like himself.

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What does the Bible say about knowing God?

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