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Title: A Window into Biblical Worship
Text: Isaiah 6:1-8
Theme: True Worship \\ \\ INTRODUCTION: We often look at the scriptures and don’t bother to study the background and temperature of the climate and culture of the time.
To the Jews, Isaiah was the greatest of the prophets.
The commentator Karl Delitzsch called Isaiah the “universal prophet.”
Probably no other Old Testament document has been more deeply studied than the Book of Isaiah.
Certainly none has had more books and articles written about it.
The New Testament alludes to it over 250 times and quotes Isaiah specifically at least 50 times!
The year was 739 b.c.
According to tradition this may have been the actual year in which, on the banks of the Tiber River across the Mediterranean, Rome was founded!
In Judah it was the year King Uzziah died.
For Isaiah, it was the year he saw the Lord.
These events were turning points for both Judah and Isaiah.
For Judah Uzziah’s death marked the beginning of the end of peace and prosperity.
Assyria had begun to expand westward.
Israel joined with Syria to stave off an attack and then tried to force Judah into a coalition with them against Assyria.
Judah refused to go along, so Israel and Syria attempted to replace Judah’s king with a man of their own choosing.
Finally, King Ahaz of Judah called on Assyria for support against his two local enemies, only to find himself threatened by this voracious helper.
Ultimately, Israel became a puppet state and then suffered complete destruction (722 b.c.), and Judah was left exposed on her northern and western flanks.
Within the land there was a deepening spiritual decline.
Uzziah had begun as a godly king, and “as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success” (2 Chron.
26:5).
Growing military success, however, made Uzziah proud.
He turned away from God, was struck with leprosy, and retired to a separate house for his final years.
Jotham, his son, ruled for him.
Jotham “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord” (27:2) and during his 16-year reign enjoyed continued political and military success.
But he had little influence on the practices of Judah’s people.
The Bible tells us that they “continued their corrupt practices” (v.
2).
The sins against which Isaiah would cry out were deeply entrenched in the lifestyle of Judah as well as of Israel!
Uzziah’s death was symbolic.
He who had begun so well and had found prosperity in obedience had been struck by the dread disease of leprosy.
An appearance of health and strength remained for a time, but the disease was at work within the body of the king; its marks became more and more visible as the ravages of that dread sickness took their toll.
Finally, destroyed within and without, Uzziah died; his pride and his disobedience brought judgment on him.
Isaiah pointed out that Judah was also diseased, just like her king, because she too had deserted the Lord.
In this context we read the account of Isaiah’s call.
We see that Isaiah’s spiritual eyes were opened.
His eyes were focused on his spiritual need.
This encounter with God resulted in Isaiah’s becoming the great prophet that he was.
Big Idea: True Worship Involves Three Steps.
\\ \\ \\
1A.
ISAIAH SAW GOD – vv.1-4
1B.
Isaiah saw a *big* God – v. 1
1C.
He caught a glimpse of the power of God.
He saw God sitting on a throne.
Isaiah saw God as
the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Isaiah pictured God in this way.
He said, “the train of His
robe filled the temple” (v. 1).
Isaiah saw God as the biggest thing he could imagine.
2C.
ILLUSTRATION: Brent & I driving in a car.
Brent asked “Dad, Are you stronger than God?”
Just has Isabella for 2 weeks.
She is fearless around Grandma and Grandpa.
Go up steps that
are bigger than her, etc.
3C.
Application: For Isaiah God could meet any need.
Today’s Christian often puts a straitjacket
on God because he does not see God as the enormous, all-powerful God that He is.
*We*
* need our spiritual eyes opened.*
2B.
Isaiah saw a *holy* God vv.
2-3
1C.
King Uzziah died in 740 B.C. and was one of Judah’s greatest leaders, even though in his
latter years he was disciplined for disobeying God (2 Chron.
26:16–21).
A great king may
have left his throne on earth, but the greatest King was still seated on the throne of heaven.
2C.
Holy, Holy, Holy – קָדוֹשׁ קָדוֹש קָדוֹש
1. Definition: Separate, apart, of things, awe-inspiring, to be treated with caution.
2. Message: “And they were calling to called back and forth one another: to the other, Holy, holy, holy Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel-Armies. His bright glory fills the Lord Almighty; the whole earth.is
full of his glory.”
3. ILLUSTRATION: Chuck Swindoll at a Conference with 40,000 pastors.
\\ 2A.
ISAIAH SAW HIMSELF.
6:5-7
1B.
Isaiah saw his *unworthiness* – v. 5
1C.
Woe to me
2C.
I am ruined
2B.
Isaiah saw his *sinfulness *– v. 5
2C.
Unclean - religiously, with idols, sacrificing children to idols, ceremonially, by contact with
carcasses of unclean animals, by leprosy, by contact with the dead.
3C.
Application: He realized that he was a sinful creature and, in the presence of holy God, this
was overwhelming.
All of us, when we come face-to-face with God, feel so unworthy.
Those who are the closest to God are the ones who feel the most unworthy, because they are the ones who sense most the holiness of God.
This feeling is revealed when Isaiah said, “I am a man of unclean lips” (v.
5).
He realized his unworthiness.
At this point God was able to work with Isaiah.
Only after we realize our unworthiness can God make us into the mighty vessels we should be.
3B.
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