This Holy Moment Reveals Why I Should Attend Church Series

Introduction

Holy Moments are those just God and me moments. They can occur in the privacy of your prayer closet or even in a room with a thousand people. It is that time that God gets your attention, and it is just God and you engaged in a conversation.

The Bible is full of Holy Moments. We have looked at three so far, and from each we have learned a different lesson. And today is no different as we look at another famous Holy Moment. This one occurs in the Jewish church house which they called the Temple. The temple was always bustling with activity, but God got Isaiah alone. And we who read about this Holy Moment from God’s Scripture, let us see what we can learn from it.

Turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 6:1-8.

Scripture

Isaiah 6:1–8 NKJV

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!”

4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

5 So I said:

“Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King,

The LORD of hosts.”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

“Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin purged.”

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

“Whom shall I send,

And who will go for Us?”

Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

Point 1

Isaiah’s Holy Moment reminds me that I come to church to cast my burdens on God.

Isaiah 6:1 NKJV

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.

King Uzziah of Judah was not just any king; he was a good king, and probably the only one that Isaiah knew. King Uzziah was a boy king who rose to the throne at age 16 and Uzziah reigned over Judah for 52 years. He was like the spiritual patriarch of Judah. He was a righteous king. And now he was gone, and the fact that he begins Chapter 6 with the words “in the year King Uzziah died” tells me that Isaiah is mourning the death of his king. There is uncertainty for the future of Judah because it is too soon to know how his son Jothan will reign in Judah. Will Jothan continue governing righteously like his father or will he be more like the Northern Kings of Israel and be wicked? There are the drumbeats of war on the horizon because the prophets of the Northern Kingdom were preaching that the Northern Kingdom would fall into capacity because of the disobedience of the people. Will the Southern Kingdom of Judah find themselves in the same fate? The death of the king brought uncertainty to Judah.

So, Isaiah goes to the temple to pray. The church house is the perfect place to pray and to cast all your cares upon God.

In fact, he tells us in 1 Peter 5:7 (NKJV)

7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

And what makes the church house special is that when Christian gather and pray with one another, there is really power in that prayer.

Matthew 18:19–20 NKJV

19 “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Isaiah was in the church house praying because he had lost his king.

It amazes me today that when a person dies today, Christians instead of being in the church house avoid the church house. Isaiah’s king had died, and we find Isaiah in the church house.

As pastor, I almost do not like to have a funeral in the church house because I hear people tell me quite often this statement: every time, I walk in the church, I can still see the body of my loved one in that coffin up in the front of the church. Surprisingly, that person does not see that deceased loved one when they enter Walmart although they shopped there together for years; or their favorite restaurant where they frequently ate together, nor you have thrown out that favorite chair that loved one sat in when visiting your house. Know what I think-the devil has you right where he wants you.