Seek the Presence of the Lord - Don Pruitt

And Isaiah chapter six beginning of verse 8.

The Bible said 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 and it's stood above it stood the seraphim.

Each one had six wings with 20 covered his face with Twain.

He covered his feet with 22 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 I said, what was 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 seraphim's

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 have touched

on the lips and thine iniquity is taken away.

And that sin is purged. Also, I heard the voice of the

Lord saying, whom shall I send? And who will go for us?

And then said, I here, am I send me?

the vision of God seen by Isaiah In, this passage is his original

call to being the great Messianic Prophet that were

familiar with I've often wondered as I considered this

thought as to why Isaiah skull would happen in chapter 6.

And finally, I've come to the conclusion that the reason that

it didn't come until chapter 6, as Isaiah just wasn't ready for

it. The Messianic Prophet said that

he saw the Lord sitting upon a stump on the throne.

He had never seen anything like this in his life.

Called into the very presence of the Lord God of all the

universe. Not only was God sitting upon a

throne but he was high and lifted up.

I want to say Brethren that the movement toward God, He's always

in that direction. It is high.

And lift it up the ancient Kings Thrones were Majestic and golden

Solomon's. Throne was glorious at the

summit of six steps for he was high and lifted up.

But not like this, throne. This was illuminated by the

presence of God. And it was the essence of

Brilliance as Jehovah. God said on the magazine fit

magnificent, Throne, the skirts of his robe, filled the temple

and Isaiah had never seen anything like that.

Either. The room was full.

Of the Lord God it was a holy place, above him, stood the

seraphim. Majestic creatures.

Standing for no one can sit in the presence of God, and each of

them had six wings. And I think the idea of the six

wings, probably describes their ability for a very rapid flight

to be able to carry out, the will of God wherever that might

be. And whatever the situation may

be one pair of wings covered his face in the glory of God, two

Wings covered his feet soil by his daily work.

And the third was a pair of wings than a Told him to just

hover in The Nearness of God, that he might be called.

And ready when the Lord needed him, one of the Angels Cried.

Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts and the whole earth is

full of his glory, but we can't forget that Isaiah started by

saying that this was in the year that King Uzziah died.

The time of this Vision happened in a time that the Ancients

would always remember the year that Uzziah died.

Isaiah remembers when God called in.

Do you remember? When you answered that call.

This call came to Isaiah the year that Uzziah died.

He was 759 BC, that was two thousand seven hundred and

seventy-eight years ago and uses I was a great king for Judah.

Second Chronicles chapter, 26 tells us that he became King

when he was 16 and that he reigned in Jerusalem for 52

years and he was one of the great Kings because the people

of God had drifted far away and he had brought them back to Joe.

About verse 16 says, but when he was strong, as heart was lifted

up to his destruction. What a note?

For us to make to our self. He went into Temple Lord.

In his exultation to burn incense on the altar.

Uzziah was a king. He was not a priest.

But he was so full of himself that he thought he could do

anything, the high priest and 80 other priests resisted him.

But the King was so angry. And with a sensor, still in his

hand, little spots. Begin to rise on his forehead.

And he got leprosy. And he was taken from the temple

of God to isolated house. And died in that house.

Rather than you cannot approach God in Pride and Disobedience.

Isaiah could never forget this moment it was the year that King

Uzziah died. Where were you when President

Kennedy was assassinated? That was something that we

probably all. Remember, I was in Miss floods,

chemistry class, my junior year and Del City High School.

I will never forget when that announcement was made.

Isaiah would never forget this occasion because it was the year

that Uzziah died. The seraphim said, holy holy,

holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his

glory. What is holiness?

And in the Greek term means separation to God.

And I think this is God's most outstanding characteristic.

It is his uniqueness. It is his Oneness.

I like to call it his other notice.

Because there was no other like him and never will be.

Leviticus chapter 11 and verse 45 says, for I am the Lord that

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bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God, and

you shall therefore be holy for. I am Holy First Peter, chapter

1 Peter 1:15

1, verse 15 and 16 says, but as he is, which has called you is

Holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is

written be holy. For I am.

Holy. Brother, this is one of the real

cores of scripture. When God called us from the

world of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he called us to be a

holy people. And one of our lessons, this

morning was about the details. You can clearly see that and

Isaiah's call, God is Holy his Essence, separates him from

everything else. And so when the call of God goes

out, it comes to us. We're invited to come to him in

verse 4 says that the post of the doors, moved at the voice of

him that cried and that the house was filled with smoke.

Don't ever forget, Brethren that when Heaven speaks things Shake.

The doors. To the room where God was shook.

When the voice of Heaven spoke and Isaiah said it was filled

with smoke for our God is a consuming fire.

Do you remember when Moses was at Mount Sinai and got the law?

There was earthquakes and fire and smoke.

Same thing. Isaiah seize on this occasion.

Do you remember the vision of God in this life?

whether it is natural or aesthetic, Cannot but produce

and the beholder, a deep feeling of our own unworthiness.

She's not a person in this room tonight.

Who deserves the salvation of Jesus Christ.

And he had, isn't it amazing? That God has seen fit to call

each of us. his kingdom and don't you dare miss the idea

that when he called Isaiah and any other He calls him to do the

work of God. Exodus chapter 3 and verse 5,

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God said to Moses draw, not nigh hither.

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place where thou

stand. Is Holy Ground.

When you look at their six and that passage, you'll find why he

decided it was Holy Ground. It was not wholly because the

Bush was burning and not consumed, it was not wholly

because of Any miracle that happened, it was holy because

God was there. And Isaiah finds the same thing

in this passage. Isaiah came saying that the

people had sinned with their lips and that they were undone,

they could not stand in the presence of God.

You know, when you look at Christian life, I don't really

know a quicker way that you can lose your influence then with

your mouth. Isaiah had sin with his lips.

And because of that, he said, I'm undone.

And that's what made me. Draw the conclusion.

That the reason that the call of Isaiah is in chapter 6, instead

of chapter one, Because he wasn't ready in chapter one.

His wasn't ready, are you? You really ready?

To serve God are for one reason or another.

Do you find yourself undone? as Isaiah said, he was, And

because of that, he could not stand in the presence of God,

he's out in the hall. Looking through the door, you'll

notice he's not said anything about the face of God.

He's not seen it all. He's seen is the illumination of

the almighty God and the robes that fill the room.

He recognizes the presence of God, but he has not seen him.

Isaiah is in the temple of God. When this happens.

He's in the presence of God. Isaiah did what we all need to

do and keep doing. And that's going back to the

house of God. We need to just keep going back

to the house of God. We keep seeking the presence of

God. Secondly, Isaiah confessed, his

sins and wasn't? He honest when he described

himself, while he blame society, the society wasn't much

different than he but nonetheless, he acknowledged his

sins before God and before his mission for God?

Watch to begin. In verse 6 and 7 then flew.

One of the seraphim's unto him having a live coal in his hand,

which he had taken with a tongs from off the Altar.

And he laid it, upon my mouth and said, Lo this is touched thy

lips. And thine iniquity is taken away

in my sin, Is purged. Can you imagine just picture

that picture that angel taking a hot coal off the altar of

incense and flying over by Isaiah and placing it on his

tender lips. Sacrifice was painful.

But efficient. And it was declared that that

had made him clean. And it was only then that he

would become the great Messianic prophet.

Rather than we need to repent. We need to confess.

We need to go back to the temple and we need to seek the presence

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