Isaiah 6 Entering The Presence Of The Lord Series

Isaiah 6

Entering the Presence of The Lord

Seated on a Throne vs. 1

Our Worship vs. 2-4

Our Unworthiness vs. 5-7

Intro:

What a joy it is to be here

Very honored that David asked me to teach

He is in South Africa ministering the a group of pastors down there

Sometimes you don’t know the impact your church is having outside these doors but your church is reaching the nations with the Gospel

Your church has impacted ours

We have had multiple people attend the Bible College

Our youth dept has attended camps with yours

Beyond that Andrea has led worship and Pastor Keith has come and taught

Thank you

Isaiah 6 is one of the most famous chapters in the whole Bible

Why? Because Isaiah has a vision of God in the throne room

Just reading it should move you

Isaiah sees God seated on the Throne of Heaven

The experience of having a glimpse of the majesty of God’s glory dramatically impacted him and caused him to understand God’s purpose for his life in a new way.

The same can happen for us. We experience the presence of the Lord and it changes us

Today we are going to look at Entering the Presence of the Lord

While we may not see a vision of God physically we can enter the holy of holies

As soon as the veil was torn in the temple access to God was granted

The question we need to ask ourselves is do we want to enter?

Read Isaiah 6:1-7

Transition: King Uzziah

King Uzziah was on the throne when Isaiah began his ministry

He began his reign when he was only 16 years old, and he reigned 52 years.

Overall, he was a good king, and 2 Kings 15:3 says, he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

He brought stability and prosperity to Israel and his death was a great loss

Isaiah felt the loss of this great king to the country

Not only did the country lose a great king but it is believed that Isaiah’s dad Amoz was brothers with Amaziah, Uzziah’s dad… so it was a personal lost

At one of Isaiah and Israel’s lowest moments God reveals himself

It is amazing how we can be at our lowest points and God makes himself known

It is often at those moments he ushers us into his presence

But we don’t need to be down in the dumps to experience His presence

I want to show you how to enter in

Seated on the Throne vs. 1

The first step in entering the presence of God is to realize He is seated on the Throne

vs. 1 I saw the LORD sitting on a throne:

Where was the LORD when Uzziah died? The LORD was sitting on a throne!

God was still enthroned in heaven, and was still in charge of Israel

There is a throne in heaven, and the LORD God sits upon it as the sovereign ruler of the universe!

This is central fact of heaven; that there is an occupied throne in heaven.

Sovereign kings sit on thrones. Judges sit on thrones.

Those with proper authority and sovereignty sit on thrones.

God is high and lifted up, we don’t lift him up, he already is

For us to experience God we have to realize that he is above our problems and this earth

He is in complete control and nothing surprises him

There is a quote from the Chuck Smith devotional Wisdom for Today

“The next time you find yourself shackled by worry or confusion or pain, look up. Take your eyes off of your problems and place them on God. Sing to your creator and watch your dark prison change into a house of praise.”

Many times we don’t experience God because our eyes aren’t looking too him

We are focused on all the other things besides looking up to heaven

Praise and worship aren’t on our lips, WE mutter and complain or fret and worry

But God is high and lifted up above all of that and we have to picture Him seated on the Throne

For us to experience God we have to see God seated on throne high above our problems

This is a trust issue

We often don’t want to trust God with our lives because we want to keep control of what goes on

That is a false sense of reality… you are not in control

High, not in unreachable, but in authority

He wants us to look to him and recognize his power and authority

How powerful is he?

Finally we see the train of his robe filling the temple

Back in the day the length of your robe showed how prosperous you were as a ruler