1 00:00:10,163 --> 00:00:13,653 Joshua Kehler: Isaiah chapter six. 2 00:00:13,943 --> 00:00:14,083 What? 3 00:00:14,083 --> 00:00:21,963 I'm 4 00:00:22,963 --> 00:00:24,713 gonna do something a little weird here. 5 00:00:24,713 --> 00:00:28,733 Oh, I bet you didn't see that coming. 6 00:00:29,283 --> 00:00:30,843 I just want to start in verse eight. 7 00:00:30,893 --> 00:00:33,843 We'll go through, basically, we're going to focus on the first seven 8 00:00:33,843 --> 00:00:37,473 verses, but I want to open with this. 9 00:00:37,483 --> 00:00:38,613 This is fascinating. 10 00:00:38,623 --> 00:00:40,023 It's a good little intro. 11 00:00:40,413 --> 00:00:43,923 Verse eight, Isaiah chapter six, And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom 12 00:00:43,923 --> 00:00:46,773 shall I send and who will go for us? 13 00:00:46,813 --> 00:00:49,853 Then I said, Here I am. 14 00:00:50,783 --> 00:00:51,583 Send me. 15 00:00:52,583 --> 00:00:56,303 And he said, All right, go and say this to the people. 16 00:00:56,303 --> 00:00:58,533 Keep on hearing, but do not understand. 17 00:01:00,058 --> 00:01:01,698 Keep on spit to perceive. 18 00:01:03,798 --> 00:01:10,828 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes, 19 00:01:10,838 --> 00:01:15,308 lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with 20 00:01:15,308 --> 00:01:18,088 their hearts, and turn and be healed. 21 00:01:19,088 --> 00:01:20,598 Then he said, How long, O Lord? 22 00:01:21,277 --> 00:01:25,518 And he said, Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without 23 00:01:25,518 --> 00:01:29,998 people, and the land is desolate waste, and the Lord removes people far away, 24 00:01:29,998 --> 00:01:33,888 and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land, and though a 25 00:01:33,908 --> 00:01:38,747 tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak 26 00:01:38,758 --> 00:01:41,508 whose stump remains when it is felled. 27 00:01:42,828 --> 00:01:46,308 The holy seed is its stump. 28 00:01:46,898 --> 00:01:47,398 There is still hope. 29 00:01:49,148 --> 00:02:00,018 I just want to open by, here's a man who sees and has unprecedented hope 30 00:02:00,728 --> 00:02:03,178 in the political agenda of his king. 31 00:02:04,328 --> 00:02:09,937 Finally a good king, finally a good reign, and then all that falls to pieces. 32 00:02:10,388 --> 00:02:14,678 His whole world crashes on his expectations, because the king goes 33 00:02:14,678 --> 00:02:20,438 in and thinks, I'm like a priest, too, and gets leprosy and dies. 34 00:02:20,748 --> 00:02:24,238 And in the year that King Uzziah dies, he goes to church. 35 00:02:24,278 --> 00:02:28,398 And I don't think he went to church expecting an experience and an 36 00:02:28,398 --> 00:02:30,578 encounter with God, but he had one. 37 00:02:31,508 --> 00:02:40,317 and he had such an encounter that God says, Who wants to sign up to be 38 00:02:40,317 --> 00:02:41,988 a failure for the rest of your life? 39 00:02:42,988 --> 00:02:49,958 I want Someone to raise their hand to preach my good news 40 00:02:50,018 --> 00:02:51,418 and it will make hearts harder. 41 00:02:52,418 --> 00:02:54,448 You will never have a successful sermon. 42 00:02:54,808 --> 00:02:56,888 You won't have the handshakes at the back door. 43 00:02:57,428 --> 00:03:01,418 You are going to preach and people are going to be offended by everything 44 00:03:01,418 --> 00:03:05,288 you say because it's the truth and it's going to harden them in the 45 00:03:05,288 --> 00:03:06,998 way that I need them to be hardened. 46 00:03:07,478 --> 00:03:10,398 Because the same sun that melts the ice hardens the clay. 47 00:03:11,933 --> 00:03:15,963 And both things are God's will at work. 48 00:03:17,613 --> 00:03:24,843 And Isaiah has such an encounter that he says, me, here I am. 49 00:03:25,483 --> 00:03:26,073 You can hear him. 50 00:03:26,073 --> 00:03:26,963 He's here I am. 51 00:03:26,973 --> 00:03:28,063 Wave my hand. 52 00:03:29,163 --> 00:03:29,663 Send me. 53 00:03:29,693 --> 00:03:31,803 Can I be a part of your great mission? 54 00:03:31,823 --> 00:03:37,063 What happened to make and to commission? 55 00:03:38,008 --> 00:03:39,448 And that's what we'll talk about today. 56 00:03:40,008 --> 00:03:41,817 Father, we thank you for your word. 57 00:03:41,817 --> 00:03:43,868 We thank you for, this season. 58 00:03:43,968 --> 00:03:48,698 We thank you that we're reminded to behold the light. 59 00:03:49,698 --> 00:03:51,468 We thank you that we're reminded that, 60 00:03:51,567 --> 00:03:53,398 the darkness has not overcome the light. 61 00:03:54,398 --> 00:03:55,298 It's not a battle. 62 00:03:55,298 --> 00:03:56,348 It's not a tug of war. 63 00:03:58,248 --> 00:04:03,578 It is your steady kingdom invading into this universe. 64 00:04:04,578 --> 00:04:09,838 Where every place the soul of your foot treads, you say mine, and you bring 65 00:04:09,848 --> 00:04:12,988 healing and flourishing and beauty. 66 00:04:15,608 --> 00:04:17,197 So we just say, thank you, Lord. 67 00:04:17,197 --> 00:04:20,567 We thank you for being present amongst us. 68 00:04:21,908 --> 00:04:23,318 We're not a group of drift. 69 00:04:24,318 --> 00:04:29,758 We're not, but you're a very present help and very engaged. 70 00:04:31,103 --> 00:04:34,113 In the day to day of all of our lives. 71 00:04:35,643 --> 00:04:36,963 So we thank you. 72 00:04:36,963 --> 00:04:37,923 We thank you for your church. 73 00:04:37,923 --> 00:04:40,553 We thank you for your church that's gathered all throughout the city. 74 00:04:41,553 --> 00:04:45,603 So good to have brothers and sisters of all shapes and sizes. 75 00:04:46,793 --> 00:04:50,633 All of you take the ones that wound you because at the end of 76 00:04:50,653 --> 00:04:51,953 the day, you're still family. 77 00:04:53,523 --> 00:04:56,433 thank you for those brothers and sisters too, Lord, this morning. 78 00:04:58,293 --> 00:05:03,973 We praise you, we commit this time to you, Lord, may your kingdom come on earth 79 00:05:03,983 --> 00:05:09,383 as it is in heaven, and may your name be hallowed in all of our hearts this 80 00:05:09,383 --> 00:05:13,823 morning, in Jesus mighty name, Amen. 81 00:05:13,823 --> 00:05:16,207 Amen. 82 00:05:16,207 --> 00:05:18,548 so there's the series, don't watch it. 83 00:05:18,548 --> 00:05:21,588 It's called true detective, season one. 84 00:05:22,328 --> 00:05:28,207 Brilliant, but the reason I bring it up is the whole season is there's a 85 00:05:28,288 --> 00:05:35,788 guy, the main protagonist who is a nihilist and he's just nothing matters. 86 00:05:35,828 --> 00:05:37,888 Anything you do doesn't count. 87 00:05:37,898 --> 00:05:44,578 He espouses his, Theology through the show, and, as he takes on detective 88 00:05:44,578 --> 00:05:51,707 cases and deals with like horrible suffering and terrible evil and just 89 00:05:52,548 --> 00:05:58,218 crazy circumstances, that is how he deals with his, is this Nile face that's 90 00:05:58,348 --> 00:06:04,153 like just all through he is consistent with his character in everything. 91 00:06:04,153 --> 00:06:09,033 And they've got another guy who's a flake, who's his partner, and you're like, Oh 92 00:06:09,033 --> 00:06:12,873 gosh, you're a terrible foil for this nihilist, cause he wins every argument. 93 00:06:12,873 --> 00:06:16,543 And you're just like, man, through the whole show. 94 00:06:16,543 --> 00:06:21,773 And then you start to find out he's that way because he Lost his daughter. 95 00:06:22,263 --> 00:06:26,293 And so he set his face and this is how he's dealing with the evil in the world. 96 00:06:26,293 --> 00:06:30,153 And that he can say that, there's no purpose, everything's just random. 97 00:06:30,663 --> 00:06:33,923 And then you get to the end, he gets wounded, he's in a hospital. 98 00:06:34,503 --> 00:06:37,043 And there's this crazy turn in the show. 99 00:06:37,043 --> 00:06:41,113 I did not expect where I literally gasped at the end. 100 00:06:42,693 --> 00:06:45,473 Because I was like, this is HBO. 101 00:06:45,483 --> 00:06:46,133 What are you doing? 102 00:06:46,373 --> 00:06:47,473 you're not supposed to do this. 103 00:06:47,473 --> 00:06:49,113 You're not supposed to write something like this. 104 00:06:49,893 --> 00:06:52,533 So he just gets out of the hospital being wounded and shot. 105 00:06:53,653 --> 00:06:57,793 And this to his partner, Rust is his name. 106 00:06:58,373 --> 00:07:00,873 I tell you, Marty, been up in that. 107 00:07:02,283 --> 00:07:05,643 I'm not going to do justice to the acting, so just remove 108 00:07:05,643 --> 00:07:06,773 that from your expectations. 109 00:07:07,863 --> 00:07:08,593 I'm sure you didn't have them. 110 00:07:08,593 --> 00:07:10,983 I tell you, Marty, I've been up in that room looking out of those 111 00:07:10,993 --> 00:07:15,033 windows every night, here, just thinking it's just one story. 112 00:07:15,973 --> 00:07:17,283 It's the oldest story. 113 00:07:18,082 --> 00:07:19,233 Marty says, what's that? 114 00:07:19,363 --> 00:07:23,183 Russ says the nihilist light versus dark. 115 00:07:24,848 --> 00:07:27,598 And Marty says, and this is how the whole season ends. 116 00:07:27,678 --> 00:07:29,658 Literally, this is the last conversation. 117 00:07:30,018 --> 00:07:32,668 I could not, I was shocked. 118 00:07:32,668 --> 00:07:34,128 I rewound it multiple times. 119 00:07:35,898 --> 00:07:39,498 He says, I know we ain't in Alaska, but it appears to me that the 120 00:07:39,498 --> 00:07:41,188 dark has a lot more territory. 121 00:07:42,078 --> 00:07:45,368 And Russ says, yeah, you're right about that. 122 00:07:46,748 --> 00:07:50,138 And then he says, but you're looking at it wrong, the whole sky thing. 123 00:07:51,143 --> 00:07:52,873 Because he's looking up at the stars. 124 00:07:53,183 --> 00:07:53,763 It's night. 125 00:07:53,773 --> 00:07:55,203 He's out of the hospital. 126 00:07:56,043 --> 00:07:59,813 And they're just sitting there and the whole sky is filled with stars. 127 00:08:00,813 --> 00:08:02,203 And Marty says, how's that? 128 00:08:02,473 --> 00:08:03,653 How do I have it wrong? 129 00:08:04,093 --> 00:08:05,853 And this is the last line of the whole season. 130 00:08:07,493 --> 00:08:11,803 once there was only dark, if you ask me, the light's winning 131 00:08:12,803 --> 00:08:14,223 because the stars are invading. 132 00:08:15,443 --> 00:08:17,193 And I was like, what? 133 00:08:18,513 --> 00:08:19,343 Are you kidding me? 134 00:08:19,533 --> 00:08:21,223 that's like the story of this? 135 00:08:21,293 --> 00:08:29,863 That's this He looks up and it's dark has more territory like It's got more land 136 00:08:30,613 --> 00:08:32,313 But the way he says you got it wrong. 137 00:08:32,323 --> 00:08:37,832 You're reading this wrong There's an invasion happening And what's beautiful 138 00:08:37,832 --> 00:08:42,482 about night when the Sun sets is you can see it Because the light's coming 139 00:08:42,482 --> 00:08:48,113 in, the night's evading the darkness, so Amazing, that's what we're talking about. 140 00:08:48,113 --> 00:08:54,913 We're talking about an advent, this idea of the light, the 141 00:08:54,913 --> 00:08:56,673 coming light, the dawn, right? 142 00:08:56,733 --> 00:08:59,633 That things seem dim. 143 00:08:59,643 --> 00:09:02,023 They seem like a dusk. 144 00:09:02,033 --> 00:09:04,603 They seem we talk about the overlap of the ages. 145 00:09:04,613 --> 00:09:09,343 We're in the already and the not yet, the kingdoms come, but it's not fully present. 146 00:09:09,463 --> 00:09:16,333 and so there can be this, where are we in terms of, getting our foothold and 147 00:09:16,333 --> 00:09:20,293 our grasp on, Where we're at in history. 148 00:09:21,683 --> 00:09:28,193 and so we begin in our Christianity in this season, in Advent, in waiting. 149 00:09:29,473 --> 00:09:33,173 We do not begin with our own frantic energy or effort. 150 00:09:33,263 --> 00:09:37,293 We do not begin with the merriment of Christmas or the triumph of Easter. 151 00:09:37,303 --> 00:09:42,243 When we celebrate Advent, what we're doing Waiting. 152 00:09:42,503 --> 00:09:44,933 We do not begin with the work of the church or the mandate 153 00:09:44,933 --> 00:09:45,733 of the Great Commission. 154 00:09:45,733 --> 00:09:47,973 Instead, we begin in a place of yearning. 155 00:09:47,973 --> 00:09:49,633 We wait for our King to come. 156 00:09:50,593 --> 00:09:54,743 And we Christians believe, however, not just in one coming 157 00:09:54,743 --> 00:09:56,453 of Christ, but in three, right? 158 00:09:57,163 --> 00:09:59,233 The coming of Christ in the incarnation, which we're 159 00:09:59,233 --> 00:10:01,463 celebrating in, at Christmas, right? 160 00:10:02,533 --> 00:10:06,713 Theologians have sometimes called this the Adventist redemptious, the 161 00:10:06,713 --> 00:10:10,903 coming of redemption, the coming of Christ in what scripture terms. 162 00:10:11,188 --> 00:10:15,838 The last days of the second one, which is we're yearning for his second coming. 163 00:10:16,508 --> 00:10:18,038 But here's what I want to focus on. 164 00:10:18,038 --> 00:10:23,108 The third way that we yearn for the coming is through the Holy Spirit's 165 00:10:23,108 --> 00:10:28,328 work and through the word and the sacraments of communion, right? 166 00:10:28,848 --> 00:10:34,778 That the Holy Spirit pours himself out into us and that we experience. 167 00:10:35,063 --> 00:10:40,173 A profound encounter of the God who has taken up residence in us. 168 00:10:40,583 --> 00:10:46,383 Because, what I say in, and why I went to Isaiah, is what we need in this 169 00:10:46,383 --> 00:10:55,573 day of age of Like political craziness of, man, it seems like the left is 170 00:10:55,573 --> 00:10:59,293 divided from the right on every issue. 171 00:10:59,323 --> 00:11:04,883 And, people within the church are divided and all this is that what we need in the 172 00:11:04,913 --> 00:11:07,073 advent that I want to yearn for us today. 173 00:11:08,103 --> 00:11:11,123 As we yearn, as we look back on the one that He came in His 174 00:11:11,123 --> 00:11:18,793 incarnation, that promises His future, is that He shows up today. 175 00:11:20,228 --> 00:11:24,208 And the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit, as he brings the 176 00:11:24,228 --> 00:11:29,668 glory of God to rest on our hearts, and that might be the fix that fixes 177 00:11:29,668 --> 00:11:32,168 everything, that changes everything. 178 00:11:32,878 --> 00:11:37,558 So much we yearn for God changed the city, or God changed this 179 00:11:37,578 --> 00:11:40,678 person, or God put this person in office, or God take this person. 180 00:11:41,548 --> 00:11:45,908 Great prayers, but so much of what we'll see in this story is that 181 00:11:46,078 --> 00:11:51,028 Isaiah shows up to church, and he encounters God, and God changes him. 182 00:11:52,348 --> 00:11:55,388 And then through him, God changes everything. 183 00:11:55,963 --> 00:11:58,063 to give us, guys, Isaiah 53. 184 00:11:59,553 --> 00:12:00,563 What are you going to do with that? 185 00:12:00,593 --> 00:12:03,893 that's like the greatest book, probably the greatest chapter of the Bible. 186 00:12:04,633 --> 00:12:06,553 Anyways, let's go. 187 00:12:07,163 --> 00:12:11,013 so that's the Advent that I want us to long for. 188 00:12:11,013 --> 00:12:14,803 So as I thought about the Advent, like the longing for the 189 00:12:14,803 --> 00:12:17,313 future, hope, our anchors rooted. 190 00:12:17,803 --> 00:12:22,193 You know our hope in the future and what that's going to be actually changes 191 00:12:22,213 --> 00:12:28,433 how we act and live now I also want us not to forsake That sometimes god 192 00:12:28,578 --> 00:12:34,398 shakes the house and shows up at Pentecost with tongues, cloven tongues 193 00:12:34,398 --> 00:12:36,768 on the head or that he, overwhelms. 194 00:12:36,768 --> 00:12:37,778 there's the story of, D. 195 00:12:37,778 --> 00:12:37,908 L. 196 00:12:37,908 --> 00:12:41,998 Moody who, prayed and prayed and he's God, I just need you to show up in my life. 197 00:12:41,998 --> 00:12:44,038 I just, please Lord, I beg of you. 198 00:12:44,038 --> 00:12:45,198 That's the only thing I long for. 199 00:12:45,758 --> 00:12:48,998 and God shows up and he said, He came so strongly upon me that I 200 00:12:48,998 --> 00:12:50,518 had to ask God to stay his hand. 201 00:12:50,628 --> 00:12:51,668 I could not. 202 00:12:52,438 --> 00:12:53,018 Too much! 203 00:12:53,018 --> 00:12:54,343 Whoa! 204 00:12:54,343 --> 00:12:55,668 Whoa! 205 00:12:55,668 --> 00:13:01,928 it's like where Moses, he glowed from being in the presence of the Lord. 206 00:13:03,438 --> 00:13:07,038 And the best is, they're like, oh, he's losing his glow, let's put a veil on him. 207 00:13:07,598 --> 00:13:09,818 Make him seem like he's got the connection. 208 00:13:10,368 --> 00:13:12,948 we got to maintain that appearance and that's something I want to talk 209 00:13:12,958 --> 00:13:16,298 about to you today is authenticity 210 00:13:17,298 --> 00:13:22,148 Because I Isaiah encounters that It's a funny thing authenticity because it's 211 00:13:22,148 --> 00:13:28,448 the thing our whole culture wants Now more than anything But if you say you 212 00:13:28,448 --> 00:13:33,248 want people to be authentic, that's literally the opposite because then 213 00:13:33,248 --> 00:13:35,218 they're performing to be authentic. 214 00:13:35,218 --> 00:13:38,878 It's this weird category and we've even absorbed that into the church where 215 00:13:38,878 --> 00:13:40,808 we're like, let's just be authentic. 216 00:13:40,998 --> 00:13:45,628 and sometimes you're like, eh, but when you encounter God, like 217 00:13:45,628 --> 00:13:54,258 Isaiah does, you can't help but be, you're like, whoa, whoa is me. 218 00:13:54,258 --> 00:13:55,238 I'm undone. 219 00:13:55,428 --> 00:13:57,358 Like I'm coming apart at the seams. 220 00:13:58,398 --> 00:13:58,868 That's authentic. 221 00:13:58,868 --> 00:14:00,418 That's. 222 00:14:00,968 --> 00:14:01,648 That's reality. 223 00:14:01,718 --> 00:14:05,728 we're gonna see how dark it was, where Isaiah went, who Isaiah saw. 224 00:14:05,938 --> 00:14:06,698 I wonder who he saw. 225 00:14:07,278 --> 00:14:09,008 what happened as a result. 226 00:14:09,218 --> 00:14:11,668 pretty easy outline today. 227 00:14:11,758 --> 00:14:13,808 And actually, I want us all to talk about this. 228 00:14:14,428 --> 00:14:15,798 this is a familiar passage. 229 00:14:15,828 --> 00:14:18,238 This is a sacred, these are sacred stones. 230 00:14:18,848 --> 00:14:22,368 I feel like I'm not the only one who's made a monument here. 231 00:14:22,938 --> 00:14:28,028 But that there's like stories behind these verses and I would 232 00:14:28,028 --> 00:14:31,638 love to hear them and be equipped and built up from you guys as well. 233 00:14:31,638 --> 00:14:33,588 So jump in at any point. 234 00:14:34,108 --> 00:14:34,958 I'll just go. 235 00:14:35,208 --> 00:14:36,988 very few couple points. 236 00:14:36,988 --> 00:14:38,848 I don't have a ton on this. 237 00:14:39,288 --> 00:14:40,138 I'm just going to let it. 238 00:14:40,698 --> 00:14:44,368 a flow and, I want to start with how dark it was. 239 00:14:44,798 --> 00:14:46,768 It starts with the year that King Uzziah died. 240 00:14:46,958 --> 00:14:47,658 I just want to set that up. 241 00:14:47,658 --> 00:14:48,318 Verse 1. 242 00:14:49,508 --> 00:14:57,328 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne. 243 00:14:58,328 --> 00:15:00,828 Man, there's so much in this one, this first verse. 244 00:15:00,958 --> 00:15:04,708 again, Uzziah was a good king. 245 00:15:05,818 --> 00:15:07,708 there'd been a lot of bad kings. 246 00:15:08,018 --> 00:15:11,603 that brought in Child, Sacrifice. 247 00:15:12,333 --> 00:15:16,873 bring your kids to Moloch, and that will help you be and have a better life. 248 00:15:16,883 --> 00:15:23,653 roll your baby that was alive into the arms of a burning stone idol into the pit. 249 00:15:24,153 --> 00:15:26,263 Like that, there's Moloch, okay? 250 00:15:26,538 --> 00:15:30,018 Ba'al and all these other things that the Israelites had 251 00:15:30,018 --> 00:15:32,848 seen from, people around them. 252 00:15:32,848 --> 00:15:34,948 We want to be like them. 253 00:15:34,948 --> 00:15:36,918 We want to blend in. 254 00:15:36,918 --> 00:15:39,928 And God is constantly fighting and saying, No, you're my people. 255 00:15:40,328 --> 00:15:47,328 I want to rescue you from your self destruction and from your terrible 256 00:15:48,058 --> 00:15:54,158 Leadership and ability to lead yourselves like we are bad at it You know, it's 257 00:15:54,158 --> 00:15:59,758 so funny because the good king is the person who almost like stumbles into 258 00:15:59,758 --> 00:16:05,078 the Word of God They're like, oh, hey, here's what it says and it's like Things 259 00:16:05,078 --> 00:16:07,958 flourish right at least for the Kings. 260 00:16:08,268 --> 00:16:13,288 I think of the king who I think it was Josiah who like Recovered the Word of God. 261 00:16:13,298 --> 00:16:15,228 They're like, hey, what's this? 262 00:16:15,228 --> 00:16:17,108 You It's the word of God to us. 263 00:16:17,108 --> 00:16:19,258 And they're like, should we do it? 264 00:16:19,338 --> 00:16:20,668 They're like, let's do it. 265 00:16:21,158 --> 00:16:25,808 And all of a sudden, there's all this blessedness and stuff that happens. 266 00:16:26,008 --> 00:16:29,728 And not because it's a cause and effect thing, but because it's a creator. 267 00:16:31,433 --> 00:16:32,553 designer thing. 268 00:16:33,903 --> 00:16:38,393 A creator made the world to function and flourish in a certain way, and if 269 00:16:38,393 --> 00:16:44,373 you follow those instructions, if I take a, hammer to try to fix a window, 270 00:16:44,623 --> 00:16:46,233 that's against the instructions. 271 00:16:46,233 --> 00:16:46,913 It's not going to work. 272 00:16:46,913 --> 00:16:48,123 It's going to lead to brokenness. 273 00:16:48,133 --> 00:16:51,883 If I'm trying to, Get that window flattened out or seated right in the 274 00:16:51,883 --> 00:16:56,103 sill with a hammer, it's gonna, no, the instructions say something else. 275 00:16:56,103 --> 00:16:58,873 Use a suction cup, just guide it, just, something. 276 00:16:59,283 --> 00:17:03,453 And so in the same way, the Creator has also created and designed us 277 00:17:03,453 --> 00:17:07,713 to flourish in a environment, and this is the way that we flourish. 278 00:17:07,742 --> 00:17:10,512 And Josiah finds that and he's and so it's almost like these good kings 279 00:17:10,522 --> 00:17:12,733 stumble into this, but there has been. 280 00:17:13,242 --> 00:17:15,173 bad king after bad king. 281 00:17:15,193 --> 00:17:18,223 and again, I want to remind us, this isn't four years of kings. 282 00:17:18,983 --> 00:17:20,183 It's not eight years of kings. 283 00:17:22,042 --> 00:17:23,123 It's 60 years. 284 00:17:23,863 --> 00:17:24,983 It's your whole life. 285 00:17:26,373 --> 00:17:30,973 The king you got is the environment and the culture that you grew 286 00:17:30,973 --> 00:17:32,213 up and lived and died in. 287 00:17:33,693 --> 00:17:37,383 here's a godly man growing up in a godly ish. 288 00:17:38,153 --> 00:17:43,233 They're not because you read through the prophets and other places. 289 00:17:43,653 --> 00:17:44,843 They became complacent. 290 00:17:45,693 --> 00:17:46,293 They. 291 00:17:46,618 --> 00:17:47,578 became proud. 292 00:17:48,418 --> 00:17:49,828 They became judgmental. 293 00:17:50,008 --> 00:17:52,138 They became, they became Laodicea. 294 00:17:52,838 --> 00:17:54,908 it's so hard to, 295 00:17:55,908 --> 00:18:02,628 in success, not neglect the one who is giving you life and to think that 296 00:18:02,638 --> 00:18:04,088 you're the one who is the life giver. 297 00:18:04,708 --> 00:18:09,078 And You've got this situation where, man, it's got the king and the stuff, 298 00:18:09,078 --> 00:18:12,138 and hey, we've got a right, and you can look back in your history, and you say, 299 00:18:12,158 --> 00:18:17,358 man, 250 years of terribleness, now we're on the right track, we're doing 300 00:18:17,358 --> 00:18:20,738 the Lord's things, it seems like we're winning in the land, there's relative 301 00:18:20,768 --> 00:18:25,503 peace, and all of a sudden, Assyria starts to come up on the scene, Babylon's 302 00:18:25,523 --> 00:18:29,953 becoming this, army in the background, and then, And then your king, you're 303 00:18:29,953 --> 00:18:33,873 like, the one you're like, man, this is the guy, I've campaigned for him. 304 00:18:33,873 --> 00:18:37,053 I've spent my days off, handing out flyers, and telling him about 305 00:18:37,053 --> 00:18:38,393 how good this, king is and stuff. 306 00:18:38,683 --> 00:18:42,393 For some reason, he gets into his mind that he's gonna go in before the Lord and 307 00:18:42,403 --> 00:18:43,773 do something that the priest is gonna do. 308 00:18:43,773 --> 00:18:50,503 He all of a sudden thinks that he can, he's somebody that he's not, and dies. 309 00:18:51,413 --> 00:18:56,660 And Isaiah is a prophet to Jerusalem and they're watching the northern 310 00:18:56,660 --> 00:19:00,893 ten tribes fall to Assyria. 311 00:19:01,293 --> 00:19:05,323 And so it's and now Syria is like gaining in power and strength in their way. 312 00:19:05,323 --> 00:19:10,163 Like it's, we had this guy, he seemed like he had all the political correct, 313 00:19:10,183 --> 00:19:14,033 connections and everything was good and worked out and we're good, we're just 314 00:19:14,033 --> 00:19:18,813 doing our thing and now all that falls to the wayside and in a day and in a 315 00:19:18,813 --> 00:19:25,403 moment it's like, Israel's gone, Israel can be gone and we can feel that way too. 316 00:19:25,403 --> 00:19:26,263 We feel like. 317 00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:31,323 Hey, relatively, we've been this kind of country with these, this kind of 318 00:19:31,323 --> 00:19:36,733 morality and, we've tried to choose good leaders ish and, and this happened 319 00:19:36,733 --> 00:19:42,213 and, and all of a sudden we feel like things are coming apart at the seams. 320 00:19:44,068 --> 00:19:48,768 And that can be like a good explanation of how I think of a majority of 321 00:19:48,778 --> 00:19:53,268 people feel at this Climate right now this cultural climate that things 322 00:19:53,268 --> 00:19:58,398 are coming apart at the scenes that it's There's not the cohesiveness. 323 00:19:58,408 --> 00:20:00,228 It's not like one strand is breaking. 324 00:20:00,228 --> 00:20:05,698 It's like Everything's falling apart however, you want to and everybody has 325 00:20:05,698 --> 00:20:09,403 a different kind of take here, but if your take is like You What's happening 326 00:20:09,403 --> 00:20:14,523 in schools, or what's happening, in, political power and offices, or, what's 327 00:20:14,523 --> 00:20:20,383 happening in, places of, influence, in the country, like, all this, we can 328 00:20:20,393 --> 00:20:26,703 look at it, and I just want us to, get in Isaiah's shoes, if we feel that way, 329 00:20:26,923 --> 00:20:29,643 and be like, it's all coming apart. 330 00:20:30,643 --> 00:20:34,803 It seems and that's the takeaway, that's the, that is, in the year that King Uzziah 331 00:20:34,803 --> 00:20:38,493 died That is his going into the temple. 332 00:20:38,503 --> 00:20:42,753 He's going in and that's on the foremost of his mind, things 333 00:20:42,753 --> 00:20:44,093 are coming apart at the seams. 334 00:20:44,143 --> 00:20:47,313 that is the like, he, that is the context. 335 00:20:47,803 --> 00:20:53,043 Because the first five chapters he's so sure of himself. 336 00:20:54,058 --> 00:20:56,848 He's pronouncing woes to every country. 337 00:20:57,118 --> 00:21:00,028 He feels Israel is in the superior place. 338 00:21:00,028 --> 00:21:02,648 He's woe to you, Bethlehem, woe to you. 339 00:21:02,648 --> 00:21:06,508 And, he's just he's like a gunslinger, fresh out of Bible college, wet behind 340 00:21:06,508 --> 00:21:11,488 the ears, And he's just woe to you, you know, God's bringing his judgment. 341 00:21:11,498 --> 00:21:12,838 We're the shining light. 342 00:21:12,928 --> 00:21:14,788 And then everything comes apart at the seams. 343 00:21:14,878 --> 00:21:18,048 Do you guys know that we've had moments like that? 344 00:21:18,058 --> 00:21:19,148 We've had 9 11. 345 00:21:19,148 --> 00:21:25,913 We've had take your breath away moments where it's oh, like 346 00:21:25,913 --> 00:21:27,773 the foundations are shaken. 347 00:21:28,143 --> 00:21:32,673 Everything that I've known and depended on and counted for, that's gone. 348 00:21:32,683 --> 00:21:33,993 It's new territory. 349 00:21:34,273 --> 00:21:35,093 Everything's different. 350 00:21:35,103 --> 00:21:37,093 What do you do in that circumstance? 351 00:21:37,463 --> 00:21:40,883 And, Isaiah, he, a lover of the Lord 352 00:21:41,883 --> 00:21:45,803 goes into the temple to have a church service. 353 00:21:46,803 --> 00:21:49,023 In the year that King Uzziah died, 354 00:21:50,023 --> 00:21:52,113 I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne. 355 00:21:53,113 --> 00:21:54,203 He was high. 356 00:21:55,053 --> 00:21:56,383 He was lifted up. 357 00:21:58,003 --> 00:22:01,803 And the train of his robe filled the temple. 358 00:22:02,853 --> 00:22:04,263 how about that service? 359 00:22:04,453 --> 00:22:06,493 Lord, give us that service today. 360 00:22:06,563 --> 00:22:07,753 that's what we yearn for. 361 00:22:07,753 --> 00:22:09,353 We want you to show up in this place. 362 00:22:09,583 --> 00:22:15,653 I'm going in, I'm going to the temple, and All of a sudden, he 363 00:22:15,653 --> 00:22:19,273 sees a vision of the glory of God. 364 00:22:19,393 --> 00:22:22,153 And you remember, this isn't unusual, this is Solomon's, 365 00:22:22,583 --> 00:22:24,183 when he dedicated his temple. 366 00:22:24,493 --> 00:22:27,283 the priests were, creating it, and they said they were 367 00:22:27,283 --> 00:22:28,423 overwhelmed, they had to stop. 368 00:22:28,433 --> 00:22:32,033 Because the glory was so strong, it was like a cloud of God's glory. 369 00:22:32,273 --> 00:22:33,083 What is glory? 370 00:22:33,083 --> 00:22:35,943 It's weight, kavod, in Hebrew, right? 371 00:22:36,083 --> 00:22:36,953 It's weighty. 372 00:22:37,373 --> 00:22:43,203 I like to, The explanation, the tangible weightiness of God's divine attributes. 373 00:22:43,463 --> 00:22:49,493 What that means is you can say God loves you, but when you have a moment in your 374 00:22:49,493 --> 00:22:54,623 life and you sense that God grabs you by the collar in the middle of where 375 00:22:54,623 --> 00:22:58,063 you're at with all the distraction and he pulls you to his heart and 376 00:22:58,063 --> 00:23:03,853 you can sense it and then you feel the infinite arms of God wrap around 377 00:23:03,873 --> 00:23:10,868 you and you feel secure invincible, like beloved, like That's glory. 378 00:23:11,398 --> 00:23:12,238 That's the glory of God. 379 00:23:12,258 --> 00:23:14,118 that's what we want when we pray. 380 00:23:14,368 --> 00:23:15,928 God, let your glory come. 381 00:23:15,928 --> 00:23:17,578 God, reveal your glory. 382 00:23:17,578 --> 00:23:23,448 We want other people, our neighbors, experience the tangible weightiness 383 00:23:23,448 --> 00:23:25,058 of God's divine attributes. 384 00:23:25,738 --> 00:23:26,898 His mercy. 385 00:23:27,408 --> 00:23:32,368 His holiness that he's not ah, sin, yeah, it's all good, just breathe a little. 386 00:23:32,368 --> 00:23:32,728 No. 387 00:23:32,728 --> 00:23:33,608 The fire. 388 00:23:34,108 --> 00:23:38,048 that he absorbed into himself to take it from us. 389 00:23:38,448 --> 00:23:43,258 So Isaiah thinking about a throne and who's going to occupy the throne. 390 00:23:44,258 --> 00:23:45,598 And that's the idea, right? 391 00:23:45,778 --> 00:23:48,718 So that's what we go to, especially us who are in, every 392 00:23:48,718 --> 00:23:50,308 four years, our throne changes. 393 00:23:51,598 --> 00:23:54,508 Who's going to occupy the throne and we can obsess over it. 394 00:23:54,628 --> 00:23:59,768 I have spent way too many hours at work watching news. 395 00:23:59,778 --> 00:24:03,348 People say the same exact thing for eight hours a day. 396 00:24:03,978 --> 00:24:05,578 I'm like, I don't have to listen to podcasts. 397 00:24:05,578 --> 00:24:06,488 I'll just listen to news. 398 00:24:07,278 --> 00:24:09,328 I'll expand my education. 399 00:24:09,478 --> 00:24:10,438 Oh my gosh. 400 00:24:10,928 --> 00:24:13,748 and, and they obsess over who's going to occupy the throne. 401 00:24:14,748 --> 00:24:17,918 Guys, there's a lot of God's people right now who are obsessed over who's 402 00:24:17,918 --> 00:24:21,008 going to occupy the throne with hopes. 403 00:24:22,983 --> 00:24:26,853 that is going to bring some kind of salvation that's going to bring some 404 00:24:26,853 --> 00:24:33,658 kind of peace And the thing about a good king, how old are you for a good king? 405 00:24:34,358 --> 00:24:35,338 Nobody hates a good king. 406 00:24:36,038 --> 00:24:37,788 David, man after God's own heart. 407 00:24:39,748 --> 00:24:44,298 They had a lot of baggage, but man after God's own heart, right? 408 00:24:44,828 --> 00:24:47,458 When there's somebody good in leadership, right? 409 00:24:47,458 --> 00:24:47,838 The whole thing. 410 00:24:47,848 --> 00:24:50,308 The place flourishes and there's some flourishing with it, but 411 00:24:50,378 --> 00:24:55,648 the thing is that it's only a human being who always will fail. 412 00:24:57,418 --> 00:25:05,558 You can never ever bank or rest any weight of your hope on an earthly king. 413 00:25:06,398 --> 00:25:10,618 And so when Isaiah shows up at the temple, he sees a vision of 414 00:25:10,618 --> 00:25:14,833 the Lord sitting on the throne. 415 00:25:16,183 --> 00:25:18,833 And the first thing that Isaiah realizes is, 416 00:25:19,833 --> 00:25:20,453 you're the king. 417 00:25:21,453 --> 00:25:27,303 And no matter who sits after Uzziah, you're the king. 418 00:25:28,303 --> 00:25:36,053 And even if it's a terrible, no good king, you're the king. 419 00:25:37,053 --> 00:25:44,503 Every time we look on this earth and there's any turmoil and angst 420 00:25:44,563 --> 00:25:50,853 in our hearts over, there should be some turmoil and angst over, God, 421 00:25:50,913 --> 00:25:52,273 please bring your righteousness. 422 00:25:52,313 --> 00:25:55,783 Please bring somebody who cares about justice because good Kings, 423 00:25:55,833 --> 00:25:59,973 there's a flourishing that's built into humanity, but there has to be a 424 00:26:00,283 --> 00:26:03,473 leaning into you, you are the King. 425 00:26:05,203 --> 00:26:10,613 And you're not waiting for a future throne You're not waiting to occupy it at some 426 00:26:10,613 --> 00:26:15,033 time in the future You're not waiting for the second coming to step into your throne 427 00:26:15,213 --> 00:26:20,253 and to rule and reign in righteousness Jesus the Lord Christ the Lion of the Lamb 428 00:26:20,253 --> 00:26:28,055 of the tribe of Judah he sits ruling right now in all power that would blow Billions 429 00:26:28,055 --> 00:26:34,098 of nuclear, bombs away like Right now on his throne of righteousness ruling and 430 00:26:34,098 --> 00:26:43,748 reigning perfectly so Yes So we come with Isaiah and the year that King Uzziah died 431 00:26:44,188 --> 00:26:49,948 My hopes died in human beings and humanity And all that they could do, and guys, 432 00:26:49,948 --> 00:26:54,788 we do this with pastors, we do this with churches, we do this with, organizations, 433 00:26:54,788 --> 00:26:57,898 we do this with, this is gonna be the thing, this is gonna be the key. 434 00:26:58,948 --> 00:27:03,648 Goodness, God uses these things, they're never the things, because God 435 00:27:03,648 --> 00:27:06,838 is the thing, He's the one, He is it. 436 00:27:06,838 --> 00:27:09,198 All, 100%, complete. 437 00:27:09,508 --> 00:27:12,418 If we get to be a part of that at all, hallelujah. 438 00:27:12,498 --> 00:27:12,848 Never. 439 00:27:13,713 --> 00:27:16,563 ever, and wives, you know this, never put your hope in your husband. 440 00:27:17,253 --> 00:27:18,663 Don't put them on a pedestal. 441 00:27:19,973 --> 00:27:20,443 Don't do that. 442 00:27:21,173 --> 00:27:21,963 That's not good. 443 00:27:22,523 --> 00:27:26,513 that's a lot of, marriage therapy right there. 444 00:27:26,533 --> 00:27:27,663 Boom, done. 445 00:27:28,003 --> 00:27:31,113 that's four, four or five years right there. 446 00:27:31,113 --> 00:27:31,993 Boom, you're done. 447 00:27:32,233 --> 00:27:38,593 Don't put your, don't put your patience on because they are only on their best day. 448 00:27:39,123 --> 00:27:44,393 The best day that I ever loved my wife and serve her unselfishly is a dim shadow 449 00:27:44,693 --> 00:27:50,293 of Christ serving us like he is the king. 450 00:27:51,253 --> 00:27:54,573 We put all our hope in him, never a human being. 451 00:27:55,133 --> 00:27:58,463 If you're ever surprised that a Christian falls, I do this all the time. 452 00:27:58,513 --> 00:28:02,253 I'm like, Oh, I had too much expectations of people. 453 00:28:02,353 --> 00:28:03,153 There I go again. 454 00:28:03,533 --> 00:28:04,773 this person fell up. 455 00:28:04,853 --> 00:28:05,693 There I go again. 456 00:28:05,693 --> 00:28:11,213 I'm expecting to, If, I was I was telling a friend, it's so bad, 457 00:28:11,233 --> 00:28:15,533 okay, let me just tell you, I was like, it just seems like everybody's 458 00:28:15,533 --> 00:28:17,453 falling, is anybody gonna make it? 459 00:28:19,113 --> 00:28:22,643 And they were like, if you're God's work, I think you're gonna make it. 460 00:28:22,763 --> 00:28:26,423 And I was like, oh man, I walked into that one, that's horrible, just like, 461 00:28:27,913 --> 00:28:32,498 but anyways, like that whole Like, guys. 462 00:28:33,378 --> 00:28:34,358 Memorize this. 463 00:28:35,063 --> 00:28:42,483 in the year that my hopes for peace in Stockton because I voted for the 464 00:28:42,483 --> 00:28:48,003 governor or I voted for the mayor or I had this or I'm part of this group 465 00:28:48,013 --> 00:28:53,253 and I'm part of this in that year that all died because it always dies because 466 00:28:53,253 --> 00:28:58,543 human beings die no matter how good they are or they always fall short because 467 00:28:58,543 --> 00:29:02,583 human beings always fall short because there's none righteous but God himself 468 00:29:03,583 --> 00:29:08,023 I saw the Lord sitting on his throne. 469 00:29:09,913 --> 00:29:12,813 Man, that, you see how that just starts to preach. 470 00:29:13,813 --> 00:29:15,423 Such a contrast. 471 00:29:16,213 --> 00:29:17,203 So beautiful. 472 00:29:17,293 --> 00:29:17,633 Okay. 473 00:29:18,103 --> 00:29:21,443 So I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne. 474 00:29:21,853 --> 00:29:22,703 It's a good throne. 475 00:29:23,353 --> 00:29:29,243 In fact, he says it was high and lift it up because again, he's 476 00:29:29,243 --> 00:29:30,623 thinking about the earthly throne. 477 00:29:30,633 --> 00:29:32,503 He's The kingly throne and guess what? 478 00:29:32,773 --> 00:29:35,473 The thrones are vying to occupy space. 479 00:29:36,013 --> 00:29:38,203 Assyrian is coming up and it's their throne. 480 00:29:38,203 --> 00:29:40,273 Powerful enough to occupy our throne. 481 00:29:40,453 --> 00:29:41,653 And Babylon's coming up. 482 00:29:41,653 --> 00:29:45,883 Are they gonna occupy like it's a whole tug of War of Thrones and he looks 483 00:29:45,883 --> 00:29:48,043 up above the throne, above thrones. 484 00:29:48,768 --> 00:29:52,928 Ooh, that's gotta go into our hearts too, like the throne above throne. 485 00:29:52,958 --> 00:29:54,788 We're not tug of waring. 486 00:29:54,968 --> 00:29:58,698 The church is never at tug of war, never a tug of war. 487 00:29:59,448 --> 00:30:00,438 We literally. 488 00:30:00,748 --> 00:30:06,648 are established and live and breathe in the victory of the risen son of God. 489 00:30:07,918 --> 00:30:13,358 Every step that you take with your foot in the city, wherever you go 490 00:30:13,568 --> 00:30:17,368 is given to you by God because he is the Lord and the authority of the 491 00:30:17,368 --> 00:30:19,188 world and the universe right now. 492 00:30:19,838 --> 00:30:22,358 Like you have a boldness. 493 00:30:22,358 --> 00:30:25,738 He says, go make disciples be bold. 494 00:30:25,748 --> 00:30:27,018 He's like snakes. 495 00:30:27,178 --> 00:30:30,658 Yeah, whatever this, whatever, like everything that you're afraid of. 496 00:30:31,533 --> 00:30:35,113 It's gone banished to the furthest realm boom. 497 00:30:35,203 --> 00:30:43,843 You are my ambassador empowered with my like who I am and who My character 498 00:30:43,853 --> 00:30:47,583 is to take you have you know what an ambassador does he goes in and he makes 499 00:30:47,583 --> 00:30:53,893 negotiations with places and has the like full weight of the Power of the 500 00:30:53,893 --> 00:30:59,973 kingdom out of this world like this is so off topic, but it's hey Yeah, 501 00:31:00,653 --> 00:31:07,113 like this throne is the throne above thrones You're not in competition with 502 00:31:07,113 --> 00:31:09,733 the other thrones as the people of God. 503 00:31:10,843 --> 00:31:15,103 You are establishing an alterative kingdom, an upside down kingdom. 504 00:31:15,393 --> 00:31:16,223 It looks different. 505 00:31:17,193 --> 00:31:20,043 You're going to serve as you go high. 506 00:31:21,043 --> 00:31:25,863 You might lose your life to see thousands of lives saved, 507 00:31:26,863 --> 00:31:29,883 like it's totally different in its economy. 508 00:31:30,883 --> 00:31:36,293 You're to be very greedy about your generosity. 509 00:31:37,293 --> 00:31:39,563 I don't know if that makes sense to you, but you're supposed to 510 00:31:39,563 --> 00:31:42,963 just splurge, be just out and out. 511 00:31:42,963 --> 00:31:46,763 but then you care a lot about who you are as a temple. 512 00:31:48,273 --> 00:31:50,183 As the very presence of God living inside of you. 513 00:31:50,243 --> 00:31:55,173 Anyways, in the year that King Uzziah died all hope's gone, I saw the 514 00:31:55,173 --> 00:31:57,983 Lord sitting on a throne, not just any throne, but the throne above 515 00:31:57,983 --> 00:32:03,203 thrones, high and lifted up, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 516 00:32:04,203 --> 00:32:10,713 One of the amazing things is King Jesus loves being King Jesus. 517 00:32:11,713 --> 00:32:14,023 Like he loves being celebrated as king. 518 00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:20,358 he loves us praising him as king and because that is where security is. 519 00:32:20,358 --> 00:32:22,578 Is that there actually is another kingdom. 520 00:32:22,578 --> 00:32:26,678 That there actually is, he did secure and conquer Satan, sin, and death. 521 00:32:26,918 --> 00:32:28,818 And I love, he lets his train fly. 522 00:32:28,828 --> 00:32:33,238 He's just Every bit of your doubt, every bit of your fear, every bit of your 523 00:32:33,238 --> 00:32:37,908 stress, every bit of your worry, every bit of every person of who you are as 524 00:32:37,918 --> 00:32:40,288 my temple, my train is going to invade. 525 00:32:40,608 --> 00:32:42,388 My glory is going to invade. 526 00:32:42,398 --> 00:32:43,538 I'm going to fill it. 527 00:32:43,568 --> 00:32:49,188 I'm going to wipe out every bit that isn't of me. 528 00:32:49,218 --> 00:32:53,778 Like I want my royalty to invade that you would know that 529 00:32:53,778 --> 00:32:56,798 you know who you are in me. 530 00:32:57,293 --> 00:33:01,483 You are not just, There was a guy who was a prophet, and he was 531 00:33:01,483 --> 00:33:04,333 good, and he sacrificed for us, and now our lives are hidden in him. 532 00:33:04,713 --> 00:33:06,413 cool, okay, that's great. 533 00:33:06,513 --> 00:33:07,773 Human being 2, 000 years ago. 534 00:33:07,963 --> 00:33:15,763 No, from the eternal, uncaused cause, the very, Impetus of creation, the 535 00:33:15,763 --> 00:33:24,283 word that became flesh, you are in him wrapped in the royal robe and the royal 536 00:33:24,283 --> 00:33:27,713 garments, like every bit of you is in him. 537 00:33:27,763 --> 00:33:31,603 I heard a story about the Rolls Royce when they first came out, their whole 538 00:33:31,613 --> 00:33:33,543 thing was like, our cars don't break down. 539 00:33:34,543 --> 00:33:38,306 And, there was a guy who bought one, he was wealthy and he's he broke down. 540 00:33:38,376 --> 00:33:39,836 So he called them and he's Hey. 541 00:33:40,611 --> 00:33:42,041 Hey, my car's broken down. 542 00:33:42,891 --> 00:33:49,421 They flew a helicopter full of mechanics to his location, and 543 00:33:49,421 --> 00:33:50,921 they had it fixed under an hour. 544 00:33:51,061 --> 00:33:53,071 And then those mechanics flew back. 545 00:33:53,711 --> 00:33:58,401 So him being a businessman, because he could buy Rolls Royce or whatever, A 546 00:33:59,141 --> 00:34:00,781 week went by and he didn't hear anything. 547 00:34:00,871 --> 00:34:02,411 And two weeks went by and he didn't hear anything. 548 00:34:02,411 --> 00:34:05,291 And three weeks And finally he called them and he's Hey, I want to settle my debts. 549 00:34:05,301 --> 00:34:06,361 How much do I owe you? 550 00:34:06,361 --> 00:34:07,841 It costs a lot to fly. 551 00:34:08,221 --> 00:34:11,110 Mechanics buy helicopter to come fix my vehicle. 552 00:34:11,420 --> 00:34:12,741 And they said, I'm sorry, sir. 553 00:34:12,741 --> 00:34:17,860 We have no It's the full recollection of anything wrong with your vehicle. 554 00:34:18,860 --> 00:34:19,581 Yeah. 555 00:34:20,581 --> 00:34:22,121 But beyond that for a Christian! 556 00:34:23,161 --> 00:34:25,110 It's not just no recollection! 557 00:34:25,610 --> 00:34:29,971 It's the full recollection that your royalty, that your beloved, that 558 00:34:29,971 --> 00:34:35,291 your adored, that your cherished, your, his precious treasure, like 559 00:34:35,291 --> 00:34:40,231 his I don't know, I just hope we read this passage, like I hope we read it 560 00:34:40,231 --> 00:34:45,190 this week and we're just like, man, each word preaches to us, right? 561 00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:50,701 The train of his robe, the kingliness of Jesus, that he comes 562 00:34:50,710 --> 00:34:52,041 back on a white horse, right? 563 00:34:52,071 --> 00:34:56,141 With his, the name tattooed on his side, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 564 00:34:57,141 --> 00:35:00,291 That he is, man, and we're his. 565 00:35:00,321 --> 00:35:02,261 Okay, The train of his robe filled the temple. 566 00:35:02,271 --> 00:35:03,761 Above him stood the seraphim. 567 00:35:03,821 --> 00:35:04,891 Each had six wings. 568 00:35:04,891 --> 00:35:06,311 With two he covered his face. 569 00:35:06,331 --> 00:35:07,641 With two he covered his feet. 570 00:35:08,001 --> 00:35:09,131 And with two he flew. 571 00:35:09,751 --> 00:35:15,081 And one called to another and said, Holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. 572 00:35:15,131 --> 00:35:17,661 The whole earth is full of his glory. 573 00:35:19,096 --> 00:35:24,346 And so you have this picture and you have these beings that are created 574 00:35:25,116 --> 00:35:28,256 to be in the presence of the Lord. 575 00:35:28,956 --> 00:35:33,806 They don't worship because that's just all they have to do, but because they're in 576 00:35:33,806 --> 00:35:35,306 the presence of the Lord, they worship. 577 00:35:36,306 --> 00:35:42,486 And in Hebrew, that idea of holy, that is a way to emphasize. 578 00:35:42,796 --> 00:35:46,136 And so there's places where it says pure gold. 579 00:35:46,816 --> 00:35:49,176 In the literal Hebrew, it's gold gold. 580 00:35:50,876 --> 00:35:51,986 They don't say pure gold. 581 00:35:51,996 --> 00:35:53,126 They just say gold gold. 582 00:35:53,256 --> 00:35:57,776 when it says like they fell into pits or like great pits, it says pit pits. 583 00:35:58,136 --> 00:35:59,806 They literally went into pit pits. 584 00:36:00,716 --> 00:36:07,186 because the repetition is what expounds the importance or the, the beauty 585 00:36:07,186 --> 00:36:08,476 and the significance of something. 586 00:36:08,486 --> 00:36:15,021 You remember when David, when he lost Absalom, he says, Absalom, Absalom. 587 00:36:16,281 --> 00:36:19,551 That repetition means his heart is broken. 588 00:36:19,581 --> 00:36:23,801 It's that, it shows the significance of his suffering, and of his 589 00:36:23,821 --> 00:36:26,331 longing, and of his pain. 590 00:36:26,381 --> 00:36:27,151 That repetition. 591 00:36:27,151 --> 00:36:30,411 So anywhere in Hebrew where you see any kind of repetition, and then 592 00:36:30,411 --> 00:36:35,681 when we translate it in English like that's amazing, you think of Jesus. 593 00:36:36,671 --> 00:36:41,011 Now that's not Hebrew, but Jesus as he grew up and he looked 594 00:36:41,011 --> 00:36:42,421 at Jerusalem, what did he say? 595 00:36:43,791 --> 00:36:48,501 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how I long to gather you as a hen gathers her 596 00:36:48,501 --> 00:36:51,311 chicks, but you would not, you miss this day that you've been created for. 597 00:36:51,781 --> 00:37:04,936 And so, holy, holy, holy is translating, this is a new, fantastic, Eternal 598 00:37:04,936 --> 00:37:09,286 revelation that I've never seen before and I'm going to sit for 599 00:37:09,286 --> 00:37:12,936 the next thousand years to think about except now I've gone one. 600 00:37:13,246 --> 00:37:18,886 Holy, this is a fantastic, eternal, amazing revelation as I 601 00:37:18,906 --> 00:37:23,316 even glimpse into the face of God through the wings, covered face. 602 00:37:23,336 --> 00:37:24,646 I can't even look at him directly. 603 00:37:24,646 --> 00:37:25,491 I have to look at the face of God. 604 00:37:25,641 --> 00:37:28,301 the shadow or just the light or the glory. 605 00:37:28,301 --> 00:37:29,311 I can't face. 606 00:37:29,571 --> 00:37:32,701 Oh, there's another, there is a new revelation. 607 00:37:33,041 --> 00:37:38,181 And so sometimes we think like wrongly that when we get to eternity, it's 608 00:37:38,181 --> 00:37:39,931 going to be like this, we saw Jesus. 609 00:37:39,931 --> 00:37:40,751 What's next? 610 00:37:42,251 --> 00:37:45,731 Now, can you imagine how, the greatest moment you've ever had your 611 00:37:45,731 --> 00:37:48,971 mind Blown like where you're like, whether it's the sixth sense and 612 00:37:48,971 --> 00:37:52,301 you're sitting in the theater and you're like, Oh my gosh, he's dead. 613 00:37:52,831 --> 00:37:58,211 Or you're like, Kaiser Soze, or whatever it is like your mind just, or whether it's 614 00:37:58,221 --> 00:38:03,516 something with the, Now, take that moment where you just had this, tiny tickle in 615 00:38:03,516 --> 00:38:04,316 your brain and you were like, Brrrrrrrr! 616 00:38:05,806 --> 00:38:09,876 Magnify that, and I can't say a billion, because we can't even 617 00:38:09,876 --> 00:38:11,706 compliment, a hundred times. 618 00:38:12,706 --> 00:38:14,186 And have that happen every second. 619 00:38:15,186 --> 00:38:19,286 Have The best thing you've ever tasted in life Have you ever been 620 00:38:19,286 --> 00:38:21,896 somewhere and you're like, I could die! 621 00:38:22,446 --> 00:38:22,876 I could die! 622 00:38:23,006 --> 00:38:23,496 Right here! 623 00:38:24,916 --> 00:38:25,946 Wow, that is generous. 624 00:38:26,946 --> 00:38:27,566 You are kind. 625 00:38:28,496 --> 00:38:29,176 But you're like 626 00:38:29,451 --> 00:38:30,571 You're like, I'm good. 627 00:38:30,791 --> 00:38:31,941 I'm good with life. 628 00:38:31,941 --> 00:38:35,781 Like every, could you imagine that a hundred times that every 629 00:38:35,781 --> 00:38:39,591 second, like encountering the face of Christ in the glory. 630 00:38:39,926 --> 00:38:44,466 that is what these angels are just like, they're like, I can't get too 631 00:38:44,466 --> 00:38:46,426 much otherwise it's going to consume me. 632 00:38:46,816 --> 00:38:49,466 I will be obliterated in goodness. 633 00:38:49,776 --> 00:38:53,056 I, I just, I'm just going to look and peek through the feathers. 634 00:38:53,116 --> 00:38:57,296 I'm going to see and I'm going to shout with all of my heart and all my being 635 00:38:57,316 --> 00:39:00,006 because God is not going to put up with something that is not with all of 636 00:39:00,006 --> 00:39:01,376 his heart and being in his presence. 637 00:39:01,656 --> 00:39:03,446 It's got to be pure and full of faith. 638 00:39:03,616 --> 00:39:09,576 Fury and passion and they say holy your holy your other there's no one 639 00:39:09,576 --> 00:39:13,496 like you There's nothing in all of creation that's ever existed the 640 00:39:13,496 --> 00:39:18,876 greatest star that's ever hung in the sky Doesn't even hold a candle to you. 641 00:39:19,176 --> 00:39:23,056 There's none other like your goodness You're so moral and good and 642 00:39:23,066 --> 00:39:27,106 everything you do from the beginning to the end every choice you've ever 643 00:39:27,106 --> 00:39:29,136 made is Oh, I see another glimpse. 644 00:39:29,136 --> 00:39:35,326 Your beauty is spectacular that's Before the person we get to do that and that's 645 00:39:35,336 --> 00:39:42,536 why when we encounter that in this human frail flesh Are we like John dies? 646 00:39:44,196 --> 00:39:48,036 The beloved he's like the one who's leaned on Jesus's chest when Jesus 647 00:39:48,116 --> 00:39:55,746 unzips His humanity and revelation and he stands before him John's like Boom! 648 00:39:56,356 --> 00:39:59,436 And it's amazing and he's Oh, no, I got a book for you to write. 649 00:39:59,436 --> 00:40:00,696 Come on, get back up. 650 00:40:01,146 --> 00:40:02,226 we'll give you some life here. 651 00:40:02,571 --> 00:40:09,701 like, when Jesus zips his glory in front of the Mount of Transfiguration to, to 652 00:40:09,701 --> 00:40:12,401 Peter, James, and John, they also fall. 653 00:40:12,581 --> 00:40:13,431 Boom! 654 00:40:14,531 --> 00:40:18,471 And they wake up later, and they're like, Hey, should we should do 655 00:40:18,471 --> 00:40:19,881 something to commemorate this. 656 00:40:19,931 --> 00:40:24,361 We should make a temple, a little tabernacle altar for, for 657 00:40:24,361 --> 00:40:26,391 Moses, and Elijah, and Jesus. 658 00:40:26,391 --> 00:40:27,171 And God's Boom! 659 00:40:27,191 --> 00:40:28,781 I've got a PSA I'm gonna put out. 660 00:40:29,991 --> 00:40:31,691 Here, Jesus. 661 00:40:32,691 --> 00:40:38,561 So these angels, guys, so this is why Isaiah, what's amazing is sometimes 662 00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:41,921 we go to church to come back together. 663 00:40:42,211 --> 00:40:46,201 And what we learned from this story is Isaiah goes to church and he falls apart. 664 00:40:47,251 --> 00:40:50,701 he sees circumstances as coming apart at the seams. 665 00:40:51,701 --> 00:40:56,001 And what God knew he needed was for him to come apart at the seams. 666 00:40:57,001 --> 00:40:58,441 I feel like we could speak on this all day. 667 00:40:58,441 --> 00:40:59,471 I'm just going to end. 668 00:40:59,631 --> 00:41:01,471 Holy, holy is the Lord God. 669 00:41:02,471 --> 00:41:03,841 The whole earth is full of his glory. 670 00:41:03,871 --> 00:41:05,701 Can we just write that down? 671 00:41:05,701 --> 00:41:09,271 Can we tattoo that on our eyelids? 672 00:41:09,351 --> 00:41:12,441 I know that's a horrible idea, but like guys, 673 00:41:13,441 --> 00:41:20,251 Antarctica with its massive amounts of ice, it's desolate 674 00:41:20,251 --> 00:41:23,601 silence, it's long, dark winters. 675 00:41:24,601 --> 00:41:26,471 are bursting with the glory of God. 676 00:41:27,471 --> 00:41:28,081 The desert, 677 00:41:29,081 --> 00:41:35,061 with its long, terrible summers, are bursting with the glory of God. 678 00:41:36,061 --> 00:41:40,731 To the depths of the ocean, to the, our solar system beyond, 679 00:41:40,731 --> 00:41:42,071 we just talked about the stars. 680 00:41:43,071 --> 00:41:46,061 The earth is full. 681 00:41:46,916 --> 00:41:47,696 of his weightiness. 682 00:41:49,666 --> 00:41:52,026 And he's not hard to find. 683 00:41:53,026 --> 00:41:55,456 He's destined the times and the places for you to live. 684 00:41:55,456 --> 00:41:56,226 Act 17. 685 00:41:56,676 --> 00:41:58,356 He's not far from any. 686 00:42:00,346 --> 00:42:05,496 Which we'll come to because he actually sends us to let people know. 687 00:42:06,546 --> 00:42:09,236 the whole earth is full of his glory. 688 00:42:10,236 --> 00:42:11,146 Your house. 689 00:42:12,321 --> 00:42:18,551 When you're having a hard time with your wife, and there's stress, and your 690 00:42:18,551 --> 00:42:25,171 kids know it, and you feel like, I can't get peace, and I wish there was peace, 691 00:42:25,461 --> 00:42:28,811 I made the wrong decision, I said the wrong thing, I stepped into this, your 692 00:42:28,811 --> 00:42:30,791 house is filled with the glory of God. 693 00:42:31,791 --> 00:42:37,141 When you pull up to that place, and you're like, Man, I do not have peace about it. 694 00:42:37,201 --> 00:42:38,631 I should not be here. 695 00:42:38,961 --> 00:42:42,861 At this time of night, at this location, and I'm here. 696 00:42:43,861 --> 00:42:45,441 It is filled with the glory of God. 697 00:42:45,491 --> 00:42:46,771 God goes before you. 698 00:42:46,771 --> 00:42:50,651 The earth is filled with the glory of God. 699 00:42:50,921 --> 00:42:54,941 And And the foundations and the thresholds shook, and the voice of him who called, 700 00:42:54,951 --> 00:43:01,771 and the house was filled with smoke, and I said, Woe is me, for I am lost. 701 00:43:03,451 --> 00:43:06,871 For I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell amidst the people of 702 00:43:06,871 --> 00:43:12,951 unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, the lord of hosts. 703 00:43:13,011 --> 00:43:13,821 here it is. 704 00:43:13,961 --> 00:43:15,211 he's he gets this vision. 705 00:43:15,221 --> 00:43:19,001 He sees the king on the throne, the king that matters, and what happens? 706 00:43:19,041 --> 00:43:19,681 He's undone. 707 00:43:20,681 --> 00:43:25,091 And to get to the rescue God so often undoes us from everything we've depended 708 00:43:25,091 --> 00:43:29,281 on what does he say I'm a man of unclean lips Why does he point out his 709 00:43:29,281 --> 00:43:33,921 lips because he's a preacher and he's been preaching and he's been talking 710 00:43:33,921 --> 00:43:37,731 and he's been saying woe to you woe to you this country and woe to you 711 00:43:37,731 --> 00:43:40,231 over here and woe to you and realizes. 712 00:43:40,311 --> 00:43:44,746 Oh wait Woe is me! 713 00:43:44,756 --> 00:43:45,216 Wait! 714 00:43:45,746 --> 00:43:45,876 Oh! 715 00:43:46,206 --> 00:43:48,396 I'm not the one to stand in judgment. 716 00:43:48,406 --> 00:43:52,826 I'm the one who needs to be rescued. 717 00:43:53,826 --> 00:43:55,026 As good as I think I am. 718 00:43:55,346 --> 00:43:58,986 Which is amazing because he literally, he's looks at all of Israel. 719 00:43:58,986 --> 00:43:59,466 I love it. 720 00:43:59,506 --> 00:44:03,066 And he's just oh, we're all looking at everybody else. 721 00:44:03,116 --> 00:44:05,676 Every other country and blaming them. 722 00:44:05,676 --> 00:44:05,776 I love it. 723 00:44:07,366 --> 00:44:11,146 Oh, it's because of these people coming in, or it's because of your wickedness, 724 00:44:11,146 --> 00:44:13,956 or it's because of you bringing this in, or it's because of, we're 725 00:44:13,966 --> 00:44:15,776 literally a people of unclean lips. 726 00:44:15,776 --> 00:44:20,466 We literally sit and we stand in judgment and we pronounce woes to others when we 727 00:44:20,466 --> 00:44:26,636 should say woe is us and he's undone and God heals them because what does he do? 728 00:44:26,636 --> 00:44:28,346 He takes a coal off the altar. 729 00:44:29,346 --> 00:44:30,186 And what does he touch? 730 00:44:30,186 --> 00:44:31,146 He touches his lips. 731 00:44:31,176 --> 00:44:35,196 Because so often what you repent of is where God meets you with his healing. 732 00:44:36,196 --> 00:44:42,406 for me, I know, My story, you guys know it, but, I literally, for years 733 00:44:42,416 --> 00:44:45,666 struggled, with that sense of approval. 734 00:44:46,466 --> 00:44:50,936 And because something happened in my life that I felt dirty and disgusting, 735 00:44:52,276 --> 00:44:55,526 I found that religion was the best way to get that sense of approval where I 736 00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:57,696 felt like I wasn't dirty and disgusting. 737 00:44:59,016 --> 00:45:00,486 so I became good at religion. 738 00:45:01,486 --> 00:45:02,186 Really good. 739 00:45:02,246 --> 00:45:03,916 I would, I. 740 00:45:04,896 --> 00:45:09,036 Not really good, because, my marriage suffered, and the only time my 741 00:45:09,036 --> 00:45:12,426 wife has ever said, yeah, I was a little sketchy, a little shaky. 742 00:45:13,546 --> 00:45:14,356 I was, what? 743 00:45:14,676 --> 00:45:18,086 Cause, we've said from the beginning, we joke about a divorce, what's that? 744 00:45:18,086 --> 00:45:20,406 I don't understand that word, We'll literally murder each 745 00:45:20,406 --> 00:45:21,516 other before we divorce. 746 00:45:21,886 --> 00:45:25,566 But, not sure if that's a better solution, but. 747 00:45:26,566 --> 00:45:26,836 I don't know. 748 00:45:27,836 --> 00:45:29,256 It's a Billy Graham thing. 749 00:45:29,256 --> 00:45:29,776 All right. 750 00:45:30,646 --> 00:45:35,706 Um, but the time it was because I was trying with all my heart, I was working 751 00:45:35,746 --> 00:45:39,856 80 hours a week with chronic migraines as a youth pastor, sleeping in the 752 00:45:39,856 --> 00:45:41,296 office, throwing up in the office. 753 00:45:41,981 --> 00:45:45,431 Passing out and off like I've got to do this. 754 00:45:45,431 --> 00:45:46,091 I've got a show. 755 00:45:46,101 --> 00:45:51,261 I've got you know, And anybody who would get close to my idol would I'd be raw, and 756 00:45:51,261 --> 00:46:01,091 I'd be relentless with and so I Counseled I'm a pastor I counseled kids who were 757 00:46:01,091 --> 00:46:07,166 like I struggle with this I do this and I just want to say You too What do we do? 758 00:46:07,626 --> 00:46:09,026 Let's cry out to God together. 759 00:46:09,996 --> 00:46:10,596 But I didn't. 760 00:46:10,676 --> 00:46:12,176 I said, here's some scriptures. 761 00:46:12,196 --> 00:46:12,866 Read this. 762 00:46:13,736 --> 00:46:14,486 Pray this. 763 00:46:15,486 --> 00:46:16,836 Until God met me one night. 764 00:46:17,836 --> 00:46:22,366 Sometimes we think repentance looks like, God, I'm sorry for No, I think 765 00:46:22,366 --> 00:46:24,316 repentance is coming back home. 766 00:46:26,166 --> 00:46:30,846 When you finally hit the brick at the end of the road, you're like, for me, it was. 767 00:46:31,846 --> 00:46:32,256 Okay. 768 00:46:32,256 --> 00:46:35,316 The only thing I'm consistent at is failure. 769 00:46:37,206 --> 00:46:37,806 That's all I got. 770 00:46:39,276 --> 00:46:39,606 That's it. 771 00:46:39,616 --> 00:46:41,076 That's in my life. 772 00:46:41,566 --> 00:46:45,246 It's the only, because I prided my life on what I'm good at. 773 00:46:45,536 --> 00:46:48,206 I'm good at preaching and I'm good at teaching and I'm good at this. 774 00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:50,456 I'm good at leading and I'm good at discipleship. 775 00:46:50,456 --> 00:46:52,526 I'm good at all being a Christian. 776 00:46:52,526 --> 00:46:55,906 I've got so many categories, 30 of them filled. 777 00:46:56,066 --> 00:46:56,936 I'm good at being a husband. 778 00:46:58,201 --> 00:47:01,901 When I failed that, any category you fail if you need that to be your identity, 779 00:47:02,251 --> 00:47:05,061 holy moly, it's like apocalypse now. 780 00:47:05,661 --> 00:47:09,961 I'm good at all these things, and then finally it was like, it's so freeing 781 00:47:09,961 --> 00:47:14,451 to say, actually the only thing I'm good at is not being good at anything. 782 00:47:15,451 --> 00:47:16,591 And God met me that night. 783 00:47:16,631 --> 00:47:18,821 Like Isaiah, my room shook. 784 00:47:19,501 --> 00:47:20,261 I don't think it shook. 785 00:47:20,271 --> 00:47:23,761 Cause I was with a, I had somebody else stay in there and I asked him, I'm like, 786 00:47:23,771 --> 00:47:26,051 did you experience anything last night? 787 00:47:27,201 --> 00:47:31,241 but he like verbally, like I probably wasn't verbal cause my friend 788 00:47:31,241 --> 00:47:36,921 didn't hear it, but like he said, if you fail every day, I love you. 789 00:47:37,921 --> 00:47:40,421 And the train of his robe filled the temple with glory. 790 00:47:41,421 --> 00:47:43,311 And I saw the king, I lifted up 791 00:47:44,311 --> 00:47:48,051 and my foundation shook 792 00:47:49,051 --> 00:47:50,031 and everything changed. 793 00:47:51,031 --> 00:47:57,411 And I saw, like, how beloved I was and cherished because of Christ, 794 00:47:57,781 --> 00:48:01,141 I wish I could package that and get a pill, but that's just, 795 00:48:01,141 --> 00:48:02,701 we're saying that's the gospel. 796 00:48:02,761 --> 00:48:08,581 I, language changed for me, color changed for me, beauty changed for me. 797 00:48:08,631 --> 00:48:19,331 every thing changed because of the throne and the train of his robe. 798 00:48:19,981 --> 00:48:22,781 And that he took the coal off the altar. 799 00:48:23,621 --> 00:48:24,711 And it was an altar. 800 00:48:24,761 --> 00:48:26,471 It means there's a sacrifice. 801 00:48:26,871 --> 00:48:28,431 It means I don't just get this for free. 802 00:48:28,431 --> 00:48:32,681 I don't slide in because of my good personality and my earned behavior. 803 00:48:33,071 --> 00:48:38,191 There was something dying on that altar so that I could be purified. 804 00:48:38,321 --> 00:48:41,501 that was so full and in front of me. 805 00:48:41,551 --> 00:48:47,671 I've had things impact me from the outside, but then something This, like 806 00:48:47,671 --> 00:48:50,961 Isaiah, like you, changes everything. 807 00:48:51,781 --> 00:48:52,621 Color is different. 808 00:48:52,631 --> 00:48:53,701 The universe is different. 809 00:48:53,711 --> 00:48:54,131 Like 810 00:48:55,131 --> 00:48:56,911 everything's different. 811 00:48:57,111 --> 00:49:01,011 And and it's because of the, it's because of the sacrifice. 812 00:49:01,061 --> 00:49:03,141 Like I'm approved 813 00:49:04,141 --> 00:49:07,411 because Jesus won that righteousness for me. 814 00:49:07,936 --> 00:49:13,516 Because he lived so perfectly, so right, so great, so beautifully. 815 00:49:13,916 --> 00:49:17,266 We should read the Gospels and we should like, we should do the Arsenio Hall. 816 00:49:17,266 --> 00:49:20,406 I know it's a loud callback, but or an old one, but like we should just 817 00:49:20,416 --> 00:49:24,246 be fist, like, who, who, who, do you ever read the Gospels like that? 818 00:49:24,256 --> 00:49:28,061 Some people, Christians read the Gospels and they're like, feel burdened. 819 00:49:28,401 --> 00:49:28,561 What? 820 00:49:29,631 --> 00:49:31,441 Jesus is like doing it. 821 00:49:31,791 --> 00:49:35,251 He's showing you how to live and he's creating this beautiful, 822 00:49:35,641 --> 00:49:37,121 artwork for you to live into. 823 00:49:37,121 --> 00:49:41,291 And I just, I can't not read the gospels that way. 824 00:49:41,291 --> 00:49:47,841 And so here, boom, the coal, from the altar and, touches his lips. 825 00:49:47,881 --> 00:49:50,521 And I think, when you encounter. 826 00:49:51,686 --> 00:49:54,746 God, in such a way, and I think he wants to encounter us in this way. 827 00:49:54,856 --> 00:50:01,116 One final thing, let's be done, we've, we're, we need to be done, is, I just, 828 00:50:01,266 --> 00:50:05,736 his response, okay, verse 7, And he touched my mouth and said, Behold, this 829 00:50:05,736 --> 00:50:10,836 has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for. 830 00:50:10,856 --> 00:50:12,206 Now that word atoned means paid. 831 00:50:12,266 --> 00:50:14,396 Isaiah's I don't think he really understands what's 832 00:50:14,396 --> 00:50:15,436 happening at that point. 833 00:50:15,816 --> 00:50:20,366 But he, maybe gets some grasp, he starts to write Isaiah, Isaiah 53. 834 00:50:21,561 --> 00:50:25,411 He's getting some glimpse at this, messianic figure who's going to come 835 00:50:25,411 --> 00:50:27,431 and rescue the suffering Savior. 836 00:50:27,481 --> 00:50:28,111 amazing. 837 00:50:28,201 --> 00:50:29,061 But I love this. 838 00:50:29,141 --> 00:50:33,101 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? 839 00:50:34,691 --> 00:50:36,471 And I said, here I am, send me. 840 00:50:37,471 --> 00:50:39,001 Go and say this to these people. 841 00:50:39,291 --> 00:50:39,791 And I just, 842 00:50:40,791 --> 00:50:43,961 we really wrestle with, at this point in our lives, Are 843 00:50:44,091 --> 00:50:45,401 we still called to Stockton? 844 00:50:45,411 --> 00:50:46,451 Should we be here? 845 00:50:46,461 --> 00:50:48,201 this city's terrible. 846 00:50:48,221 --> 00:50:49,361 It's not beautiful. 847 00:50:49,431 --> 00:50:50,261 we could be anywhere. 848 00:50:50,261 --> 00:50:52,321 I've lived by the two, a mile from the beach. 849 00:50:52,321 --> 00:50:52,941 That was amazing. 850 00:50:52,941 --> 00:50:56,701 I used to drive and the sun would rise as I drove next to the ocean. 851 00:50:57,261 --> 00:51:00,011 And birds would come and follow my vehicle. 852 00:51:00,321 --> 00:51:02,351 And it was, I can't. 853 00:51:03,041 --> 00:51:05,641 This was Ventura, driving to like Carpinteria. 854 00:51:05,776 --> 00:51:12,076 So he would drive right along the coast every morning as the sun rose. 855 00:51:12,146 --> 00:51:17,996 I, for your mental health, like the smell of the trees and the like, 856 00:51:19,586 --> 00:51:22,226 it, you're just like, I'm happy. 857 00:51:22,676 --> 00:51:23,206 Like I'm happy. 858 00:51:23,796 --> 00:51:25,246 I don't want to play video games. 859 00:51:25,246 --> 00:51:26,416 I want to be outside and ride a bike. 860 00:51:26,646 --> 00:51:28,326 you know, yeah. 861 00:51:28,886 --> 00:51:31,006 An encounter like this, though, 862 00:51:32,006 --> 00:51:34,726 he is the treasure and he's what you want. 863 00:51:34,736 --> 00:51:36,276 And it doesn't matter where you are. 864 00:51:38,026 --> 00:51:42,166 It doesn't matter how hard it is or how much sacrifice is involved. 865 00:51:43,486 --> 00:51:50,016 When you meet the Lord on his throne and you get wrapped up in his train. 866 00:51:51,016 --> 00:51:52,346 You're like a giddy kid. 867 00:51:52,716 --> 00:51:56,316 Isaiah here, like the language can't really capture it for us in English. 868 00:51:56,326 --> 00:51:58,886 He's here I am, me, send me. 869 00:51:59,956 --> 00:52:05,596 He's like, yeah, you're the only one in here, Isaiah, you but he's so excited. 870 00:52:05,706 --> 00:52:08,476 He's like, here I, and he's like, well, do you want to hear your assignment? 871 00:52:08,526 --> 00:52:12,406 You're going to be a failure the rest of your life, but you'll be with me. 872 00:52:14,166 --> 00:52:15,906 Yeah, I'm going to be with you Isaiah. 873 00:52:16,906 --> 00:52:17,396 I'll do it. 874 00:52:18,236 --> 00:52:22,616 I think too, one of the main things God is communicating is he is not safe. 875 00:52:23,556 --> 00:52:28,776 He is a polarizing power in your life. 876 00:52:29,356 --> 00:52:33,456 You either crown him as king of kings and lord of lords, or you 877 00:52:33,466 --> 00:52:36,646 crucify him as a crazy person. 878 00:52:36,956 --> 00:52:39,696 He is not neutral. 879 00:52:40,086 --> 00:52:45,011 And like people hear me, And the same sun that melts the ice, some will be 880 00:52:45,051 --> 00:52:49,891 melted and drawn into my kingdom and rescued and saved, will harden them 881 00:52:50,071 --> 00:52:53,451 and they'll become angrier because of the message that you've communicated. 882 00:52:53,701 --> 00:52:56,241 But what can't happen is nothing. 883 00:52:56,471 --> 00:52:58,001 Because I am not a neutral being. 884 00:52:58,031 --> 00:52:59,151 I am not a neutral being. 885 00:52:59,391 --> 00:53:02,091 I am not an independent running for president. 886 00:53:02,121 --> 00:53:05,081 Like I'm not just somebody you're like, Oh, you might get some votes. 887 00:53:05,691 --> 00:53:12,841 I am the Lord of glory and what you choose now in this moment that you've heard about 888 00:53:12,841 --> 00:53:19,221 me as implications for all of eternity, all of your eternity and possibly others. 889 00:53:19,271 --> 00:53:25,551 yeah, Isaiah, it says me and I just, I think sometimes in the church, we 890 00:53:25,551 --> 00:53:29,431 like co opt this idea of mission and we're like, come on guys, we got to, 891 00:53:29,491 --> 00:53:32,451 this Saturday we're going to, we're going to do mission, we're do mission. 892 00:53:32,761 --> 00:53:36,021 I think we need to spend more time encountering the glory of God because 893 00:53:36,021 --> 00:53:40,821 I think more of us would say me, send me, I'm here, I'm available. 894 00:53:41,321 --> 00:53:45,011 I think we need more of that and less of the arm bendy twisty and like. 895 00:53:46,431 --> 00:53:50,201 signed up on this and maybe those are good impetus to actually get 896 00:53:50,201 --> 00:53:51,771 involved and to see a bigger thing. 897 00:53:51,771 --> 00:53:54,361 But I think the thing at the heart of it. 898 00:53:55,191 --> 00:54:01,901 is to see the glory of God who rescues and seeks and saves sinners of whom we are 899 00:54:01,901 --> 00:54:04,581 chief, like Isaiah said, I'll woe is me. 900 00:54:04,701 --> 00:54:05,701 I'm undone. 901 00:54:06,051 --> 00:54:08,801 I'm the one who's professing and preaching. 902 00:54:08,951 --> 00:54:10,441 And I'm the one who's unclean. 903 00:54:10,661 --> 00:54:14,221 And then God says, yeah, but I'm going to purify that and make that something 904 00:54:14,231 --> 00:54:17,761 in a strength that although you're going to fail all along the way, from man's 905 00:54:17,761 --> 00:54:21,481 perspective, I am with you and I'll never leave and I'll never forsake you. 906 00:54:21,801 --> 00:54:24,551 And you will write scripture. 907 00:54:25,551 --> 00:54:32,781 That will cause people to get such a surge of courage before they're licked 908 00:54:32,901 --> 00:54:37,901 up by the flames and consumed as they're martyred for the name of Christ. 909 00:54:38,951 --> 00:54:42,571 is that a failure if nobody ever, downloads your podcast? 910 00:54:44,541 --> 00:54:53,721 If you encourage thousands of people to see what the true treasure is at 911 00:54:53,721 --> 00:54:55,521 the moment that it matters the most? 912 00:54:56,521 --> 00:54:59,101 And Isaiah, just because that one moment, I'm in. 913 00:55:00,231 --> 00:55:02,541 And I love his story because he's just I'm in, I'm good. 914 00:55:03,031 --> 00:55:05,401 Where else do we see the temple trembling? 915 00:55:06,401 --> 00:55:07,891 and somewhere in the Gospels. 916 00:55:08,891 --> 00:55:09,991 There was an earthquake. 917 00:55:11,721 --> 00:55:13,241 It was at Christ's crucifixion. 918 00:55:14,861 --> 00:55:15,891 Because of the altar. 919 00:55:16,551 --> 00:55:19,861 And all the other altars with all the other coals, they 920 00:55:19,861 --> 00:55:21,281 pointed forward to that one. 921 00:55:21,751 --> 00:55:26,501 And that was the one where even it says the dead walked because 922 00:55:26,511 --> 00:55:28,901 that was like such a huge ordeal. 923 00:55:28,901 --> 00:55:30,601 There was so much turmoil. 924 00:55:30,851 --> 00:55:36,796 but the temple was shook and What did God do in that moment? 925 00:55:36,966 --> 00:55:37,406 He didn't just 926 00:55:37,571 --> 00:55:38,451 Get to one man. 927 00:55:38,461 --> 00:55:42,461 He used one man to get to all people because he shook the temple so hard. 928 00:55:42,711 --> 00:55:46,631 It ripped the veil, the separation from the top down. 929 00:55:46,891 --> 00:55:49,711 And he said, now I, you can have me. 930 00:55:49,981 --> 00:55:50,981 I am available. 931 00:55:50,991 --> 00:55:52,531 I am the way, the truth and the life. 932 00:55:52,531 --> 00:55:58,501 No man comes to the father, except through me, Jesus came and he saved. 933 00:55:58,541 --> 00:56:00,801 So that's what we celebrate today. 934 00:56:00,801 --> 00:56:02,141 His body broken guys. 935 00:56:02,161 --> 00:56:03,681 The only way we're whole. 936 00:56:04,141 --> 00:56:08,091 Any semblance of wholeness, any leaning into that wholeness, 937 00:56:09,431 --> 00:56:12,631 is because the eternal beloved savior, who is the uncaused cause. 938 00:56:13,706 --> 00:56:20,576 who sits on his eternal throne bearing his scars was wounded severely so that 939 00:56:20,576 --> 00:56:24,926 you could be rescued was broken to pieces so that you could be made whole was 940 00:56:25,096 --> 00:56:31,586 distanced so that you could be brought in he was torn so he put back together 941 00:56:32,426 --> 00:56:37,776 so that where we feel like we're coming apart he brings us back praise jesus 942 00:56:38,276 --> 00:56:43,026 that is our hope those are the pinpricks in the darkness and we say like rust 943 00:56:43,036 --> 00:56:48,246 from true detective i think you've got this right I think the light's winning 944 00:56:49,066 --> 00:56:56,796 and that must be our hopeful posture who regularly Get our marching orders 945 00:56:57,386 --> 00:57:01,526 At the throne of the king of kings and the lord of lords and not the thrones 946 00:57:01,526 --> 00:57:08,066 of other men They will always disappoint You'll always be sad But if we see jesus 947 00:57:08,076 --> 00:57:14,436 high and lifted up and we wrap ourselves regularly in his train The world's ours 948 00:57:15,896 --> 00:57:19,426 and light is invading the darkness. 949 00:57:19,656 --> 00:57:19,966 Let's pray. 950 00:57:21,426 --> 00:57:22,706 Lord, thank you for this passage. 951 00:57:22,706 --> 00:57:23,916 Thank you for Isaiah. 952 00:57:24,016 --> 00:57:32,636 Thank you for, man, just your story, your brilliance and seeking and rescuing 953 00:57:32,636 --> 00:57:36,556 and your concern and your care for, 954 00:57:37,156 --> 00:57:38,376 every detail of our lives. 955 00:57:38,376 --> 00:57:39,936 And so Lord, we just, we praise you. 956 00:57:39,936 --> 00:57:40,446 We thank you. 957 00:57:40,446 --> 00:57:45,876 We pray right now, Lord, show us your glory. 958 00:57:45,876 --> 00:57:47,886 We say like Moses, that's what Moses did. 959 00:57:47,886 --> 00:57:50,416 He's Okay, Lord, show me your glory. 960 00:57:51,416 --> 00:57:55,626 And so Lord, we pray that the tangible weightiness right now of 961 00:57:55,626 --> 00:57:59,796 your divine attributes would wrap us like that robe that train would 962 00:57:59,936 --> 00:58:08,316 fill us and wrap us and that we would know that we know that we are yours. 963 00:58:09,906 --> 00:58:17,406 God, I pray And I thank you that you gave us the symbol of communion. 964 00:58:17,426 --> 00:58:23,776 And I just pray you to even take up the symbol in our lives, as we partake of 965 00:58:23,776 --> 00:58:28,016 it, as we ingest it, Lord, like that you would invade our lives, Lord, with 966 00:58:28,016 --> 00:58:37,096 that reality broken to be whole, a new covenant in your blood, invincible, 967 00:58:38,096 --> 00:58:39,826 not something you're going to retract. 968 00:58:41,691 --> 00:58:47,291 And Lord, we praise you today, and we worship you, in Jesus name, amen.