The Glory of God
Speaker: Steve Jeffrey
Date: 19th September 2010
Passage: Isaiah 6:1-7
00:00:00 --> 00:00:08 Good morning friends, if you'd like to grab your Bibles, if you haven't got them open, I'd be very grateful if you did.
00:00:13 --> 00:00:17 More than me being grateful, it's actually crucial that you have your Bibles open.
00:00:19 --> 00:00:25 We want to see God's glory, we want to see God's glory in the face of Christ, and we get that by gazing upon the Word of God.
00:00:25 --> 00:00:27 So let me pray.
00:00:27 --> 00:00:46 Father God, we have just been warned from John 12 about the unbelief of the Jews who saw the Lord Jesus in all his glory, they saw his miraculous signs, they did it in their presence, and yet, Father, they did not believe.
00:00:46 --> 00:00:59 Their eyes were blind, their hearts were dead, and so Lord, we pray that you would rescue us from such unbelief, from an inability to hear, from an inability to see your glory.
00:00:59 --> 00:01:06 And as we come now, particularly, Father, I ask, Lord, that you would help us to be amazed at who you are.
00:01:06 --> 00:01:16 We ask, Lord, that you would give us that appropriate awe and reverence as we understand who you are.
00:01:16 --> 00:01:30 And if our view of you, Father, is smaller than who you are, Lord, I pray that you would so bless us with insight this day that our lives would be changed.
00:01:31 --> 00:01:37 We pray, Lord, that we might respond as Isaiah did, woe to me, I am ruined.
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 So bless us with such humility, we ask in Jesus' name.
00:01:42 --> 00:01:42 Amen.
00:01:42 --> 00:01:52 In the United States, you can buy a Jesus doll, pre-packaged, with a sawn-off shotgun.
00:01:55 --> 00:02:03 That's right, Jesus doll, sawn-off shotgun, buffed up, no shirt, just a pair of tight little shorts, lovely shotgun there.
00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 Now, if that's a bit butch for you, that's not the image of Jesus you want.
00:02:06 --> 00:02:07 You can buy the huggable Jesus.
00:02:07 --> 00:02:18 He's obviously much softer, and you can push him and squeeze him at certain points, and he says nice things to you, much like some of the teddy bears that we got at home.
00:02:18 --> 00:02:21 You push him and says, I love you, and all sorts of nice things like that.
00:02:23 --> 00:02:28 And so you can get the huggable Jesus, which you push, and it'll say nice and cute things which make you feel good.
00:02:28 --> 00:02:30 It's particularly helpful if you're feeling a little low.
00:02:30 --> 00:02:57 You can't help but think that in much of modern Christianity, we have domesticated God.
00:02:57 --> 00:03:09 You can't help but think that bit by bit, God's majesty has been chipped away with, and now he fits into nice little Christian products which sit on our shelves,
00:03:10 --> 00:03:15 which I pull off the shelf in order to give me a little bit of a boost when I'm feeling a little low.
00:03:16 --> 00:03:24 Jesus has been turned into a social worker who wants to hear from me how I'm feeling more than anything else.
00:03:24 --> 00:03:31 So I want to ask you this morning, what does the glory of Christ mean to you?
00:03:33 --> 00:03:35 What does the glory of Christ mean to you?
00:03:40 --> 00:03:45 You see, the big problem is that when you make little of God's majesty and his glory,
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 then you make little of your sin and your brokenness.
00:03:48 --> 00:03:52 The two are connected, intertwined.
00:03:52 --> 00:03:54 You cannot separate them.
00:03:55 --> 00:04:00 And I believe that this is the reason why much of the Christian church today is dying, dead, or impotent.
00:04:00 --> 00:04:04 So let me suggest to you that revival happens, and let me be frank,
00:04:04 --> 00:04:08 I want revival to come to St. Paul's and to my life and to yours.
00:04:08 --> 00:04:16 Revival happens in our lives when we see God majestic in holiness,
00:04:17 --> 00:04:21 and when we see ourselves as disobedient dust.
00:04:23 --> 00:04:29 Brokenness, repentance, unspeakable joy of forgiveness,
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 the taste of the magnificence of God,
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35 a hunger for his holiness,
00:04:35 --> 00:04:39 to see these things more and to live them more and more.
00:04:40 --> 00:04:41 That is revival.
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45 And it comes from seeing God.
00:04:46 --> 00:04:47 So let's do that now.
00:04:47 --> 00:04:48 Isaiah chapter 6.
00:04:49 --> 00:04:50 If you have not got a Bible,
00:04:50 --> 00:04:52 there should be one in the pews in front of you there somewhere.
00:04:53 --> 00:04:56 Or shift seats now
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59 to be with someone who's got one on their lap.
00:04:59 --> 00:05:02 And let us gaze at the glory of God.
00:05:03 --> 00:05:06 Isaiah 6, verse 1.
00:05:08 --> 00:05:10 In the year that King Uzziah died,
00:05:11 --> 00:05:13 I saw the Lord sit on a throne,
00:05:13 --> 00:05:15 high and exalted.
00:05:16 --> 00:05:19 And the train of his robe filled the temple.
00:05:19 --> 00:05:21 Above him were seraphs,
00:05:21 --> 00:05:21 each with six wings.
00:05:22 --> 00:05:23 With two wings they covered their faces.
00:05:24 --> 00:05:25 With two they covered their feet.
00:05:25 --> 00:05:26 And with two they were flying.
00:05:26 --> 00:05:28 And they were calling to one another,
00:05:28 --> 00:05:29 holy,
00:05:30 --> 00:05:30 holy,
00:05:31 --> 00:05:32 holy
00:05:32 --> 00:05:35 is the Lord Almighty.
00:05:36 --> 00:05:39 The whole earth is full of his glory.
00:05:40 --> 00:05:41 At the sound of their voices,
00:05:42 --> 00:05:44 the doorposts and thresholds shook
00:05:44 --> 00:05:48 and the temple was filled with smoke.
00:05:49 --> 00:05:53 There are at least seven glimpses of God
00:05:53 --> 00:05:55 in those first four verses.
00:05:55 --> 00:05:57 So let's look at those seven things.
00:05:57 --> 00:05:59 Firstly, God is alive.
00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 King Uzziah is dead,
00:06:03 --> 00:06:04 but God lives on.
00:06:05 --> 00:06:06 Psalm 90, verse 2.
00:06:06 --> 00:06:07 Before the mountains were born,
00:06:07 --> 00:06:10 or you brought forth the earth and the world,
00:06:10 --> 00:06:12 from everlasting to everlasting,
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15 you are God.
00:06:15 --> 00:06:17 God was the living God
00:06:17 --> 00:06:19 when this universe banged into existence.
00:06:20 --> 00:06:21 He was the living God
00:06:21 --> 00:06:22 when Socrates drank his poison.
00:06:22 --> 00:06:24 He was the living God
00:06:24 --> 00:06:25 when Captain James Cook
00:06:25 --> 00:06:27 first put his boot on Australian soil.
00:06:28 --> 00:06:30 He was the living God in 1966
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32 when Time magazine put out a front cover
00:06:32 --> 00:06:32 which said,
00:06:32 --> 00:06:33 God is dead.
00:06:35 --> 00:06:36 And he will be the living God
00:06:36 --> 00:06:39 10 trillion ages from now
00:06:39 --> 00:06:43 when all of our collective puny potshots
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00:06:44 --> 00:06:46 against his reality
00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 will have sunk into oblivion
00:06:48 --> 00:06:51 like a pebble in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
00:06:51 --> 00:06:53 He is alive.
00:06:55 --> 00:06:57 In the year that King Uzziah died,
00:06:58 --> 00:07:00 I saw the Lord.
00:07:01 --> 00:07:04 There is not a single head of state
00:07:04 --> 00:07:06 in all of the world
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00:07:07 --> 00:07:09 who will be ruling in 100 years.
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 The turnover in world leadership
00:07:12 --> 00:07:14 is 100%.
00:07:14 --> 00:07:18 In a brief 120 years,
00:07:19 --> 00:07:20 this planet will be populated
00:07:21 --> 00:07:24 by more than 10 billion new people,
00:07:25 --> 00:07:26 brand new people,
00:07:26 --> 00:07:27 and all of us
00:07:27 --> 00:07:30 and the current 6.5 to 7 billion of us
00:07:30 --> 00:07:30 at the moment
00:07:30 --> 00:07:33 will have vanished off the face of the earth
00:07:33 --> 00:07:34 just like Uzziah.
00:07:34 --> 00:07:38 But not God.
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 He never had a beginning
00:07:43 --> 00:07:44 and therefore depends on nothing
00:07:44 --> 00:07:45 for existence.
00:07:46 --> 00:07:47 He will never have an end.
00:07:47 --> 00:07:48 He always has been
00:07:48 --> 00:07:50 and he always will be
00:07:50 --> 00:07:51 alive.
00:07:53 --> 00:07:54 Secondly,
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 I saw the Lord seated
00:07:57 --> 00:07:58 on a throne.
00:07:58 --> 00:08:01 We see that God here
00:08:01 --> 00:08:02 is authoritative.
00:08:03 --> 00:08:04 It is no mistake
00:08:04 --> 00:08:06 that throughout the Bible
00:08:06 --> 00:08:08 there is no vision of heaven
00:08:08 --> 00:08:09 where you ever catch
00:08:09 --> 00:08:11 a glimpse of God
00:08:11 --> 00:08:12 ploughing a field,
00:08:13 --> 00:08:14 cutting the grass,
00:08:14 --> 00:08:15 shining his shoes,
00:08:16 --> 00:08:17 filling out reports
00:08:17 --> 00:08:17 or loading a truck.
00:08:20 --> 00:08:22 Heaven does not require maintenance.
00:08:23 --> 00:08:26 God is never at his wit's end
00:08:26 --> 00:08:27 in his heavenly realm.
00:08:27 --> 00:08:29 He sits.
00:08:30 --> 00:08:32 And he sits on a throne.
00:08:33 --> 00:08:34 All is at peace.
00:08:36 --> 00:08:37 All is in control.
00:08:39 --> 00:08:41 The throne is his right to rule.
00:08:42 --> 00:08:44 We do not give God authority
00:08:44 --> 00:08:45 over our lives.
00:08:46 --> 00:08:46 He has it
00:08:46 --> 00:08:48 whether we like it or not.
00:08:48 --> 00:08:49 What utter folly
00:08:49 --> 00:08:51 it is to act
00:08:51 --> 00:08:54 as though we had any rights
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00:09:00 --> 00:09:01 Few things,
00:09:01 --> 00:09:01 I believe,
00:09:01 --> 00:09:02 are more humbling.
00:09:03 --> 00:09:04 Few things give us
00:09:04 --> 00:09:06 more of a sense
00:09:06 --> 00:09:08 than the raw
00:09:08 --> 00:09:11 of the raw majesty of God
00:09:11 --> 00:09:13 than that he is
00:09:13 --> 00:09:15 utterly authoritative.
00:09:18 --> 00:09:19 After him,
00:09:19 --> 00:09:20 there is nowhere to run.
00:09:22 --> 00:09:23 There is no appeal.
00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 Nowhere else to turn to.
00:09:28 --> 00:09:29 Thirdly,
00:09:29 --> 00:09:30 we see here
00:09:30 --> 00:09:31 that God is all-powerful.
00:09:32 --> 00:09:32 The throne
00:09:32 --> 00:09:34 of his authority
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00:09:35 --> 00:09:36 among many thrones.
00:09:37 --> 00:09:38 It is high
00:09:38 --> 00:09:39 and lifted up.
00:09:39 --> 00:09:40 I saw the Lord
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00:09:41 --> 00:09:42 high
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00:09:45 --> 00:09:46 That God's throne
00:09:46 --> 00:09:46 is higher
00:09:46 --> 00:09:47 than every other throne
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00:09:49 --> 00:09:50 superior power
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00:09:51 --> 00:09:54 no opposing authority
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00:09:55 --> 00:09:55 the decrees
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00:09:57 --> 00:09:58 What he purposes,
00:09:58 --> 00:09:59 he accomplishes.
00:09:59 --> 00:10:00 God says a little later
00:10:00 --> 00:10:01 in Isaiah 46,
00:10:02 --> 00:10:03 I make known
00:10:03 --> 00:10:04 the end
00:10:04 --> 00:10:04 from the beginning,
00:10:05 --> 00:10:06 from ancient times,
00:10:06 --> 00:10:07 what is still
00:10:07 --> 00:10:08 yet to come.
00:10:09 --> 00:10:10 I say,
00:10:11 --> 00:10:12 my purposes
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00:10:14 --> 00:10:15 all that
00:10:15 --> 00:10:16 I please.
00:10:16 --> 00:10:21 in Daniel 4.35,
00:10:21 --> 00:10:22 speaking about God,
00:10:23 --> 00:10:23 he does
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00:10:27 --> 00:10:27 of heaven
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00:10:29 --> 00:10:29 the peoples
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00:10:33 --> 00:10:34 To be gripped
00:10:34 --> 00:10:36 by the all-powerful
00:10:36 --> 00:10:37 sovereignty of God
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00:10:37 --> 00:10:38 marvellous
00:10:38 --> 00:10:39 because he's
00:10:39 --> 00:10:40 with you
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00:10:41 --> 00:10:42 absolutely
00:10:42 --> 00:10:43 terrifying
00:10:43 --> 00:10:44 because he's
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00:11:11 --> 00:11:13 fourthly,
00:11:13 --> 00:11:14 we see that
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00:11:14 --> 00:11:15 magnificent,
00:11:15 --> 00:11:15 he is
00:11:15 --> 00:11:16 gorgeous,
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00:11:16 --> 00:11:17 glittering,
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00:11:17 --> 00:11:18 dazzling.
00:11:18 --> 00:11:18 I saw
00:11:18 --> 00:11:19 the Lord
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00:11:20 --> 00:11:21 high and
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00:11:22 --> 00:11:23 train of
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00:11:26 --> 00:11:27 Now you
00:11:27 --> 00:11:27 may have
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00:11:32 --> 00:11:33 as many
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00:11:37 --> 00:11:37 why I
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00:11:38 --> 00:11:40 but also
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00:11:42 --> 00:11:43 when she
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00:11:51 --> 00:11:51 that
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00:12:06 --> 00:12:07 time
00:12:07 --> 00:12:07 but what
00:12:07 --> 00:12:08 would it
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00:12:08 --> 00:12:08 if she
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00:12:30 --> 00:12:30 the fact
00:12:30 --> 00:12:31 that God's
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00:12:34 --> 00:12:35 not St.
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00:12:39 --> 00:12:40 God
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00:18:10 --> 00:18:15 the word holy carries us to the brink
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00:19:04 --> 00:19:06 and so the Bible speaks of things like
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00:19:19 --> 00:19:20 the only definition I can describe
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00:21:01 --> 00:21:04 he is not holy
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00:21:06 --> 00:21:08 God is not only holy
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00:22:05 --> 00:22:08 we have sailed
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00:23:38 --> 00:23:39 that's what
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00:24:00 --> 00:24:01 is his
00:24:01 --> 00:24:01 glory
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00:24:03 --> 00:24:04 seraphim
00:24:04 --> 00:24:04 say the
00:24:04 --> 00:24:05 whole earth
00:24:05 --> 00:24:05 is full
00:24:05 --> 00:24:05 of his
00:24:05 --> 00:24:06 glory
00:24:06 --> 00:24:06 it is because
00:24:06 --> 00:24:07 from the
00:24:07 --> 00:24:07 heights of
00:24:07 --> 00:24:08 heaven
00:24:08 --> 00:24:08 you can
00:24:08 --> 00:24:09 see all
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00:24:10 --> 00:24:11 whole universe
00:24:11 --> 00:24:12 and you
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00:24:12 --> 00:24:13 this universe
00:24:13 --> 00:24:15 reflects the
00:24:15 --> 00:24:15 splendor and
00:24:15 --> 00:24:16 the holiness
00:24:16 --> 00:24:17 and the glory
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00:24:18 --> 00:24:20 from down
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00:24:21 --> 00:24:22 view of
00:24:22 --> 00:24:23 this god
00:24:23 --> 00:24:23 is limited
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00:24:25 --> 00:24:26 because we
00:24:26 --> 00:24:27 have exchanged
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00:24:28 --> 00:24:28 god
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00:24:34 --> 00:24:37 according to
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00:24:37 --> 00:24:37 chapter 1
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00:24:43 --> 00:24:45 the curtain
00:24:45 --> 00:24:45 of heaven
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00:24:46 --> 00:24:47 i gets
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00:24:49 --> 00:24:49 does he
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00:24:51 --> 00:24:55 woe
00:24:55 --> 00:24:56 to me
00:24:56 --> 00:24:58 i cried
00:24:58 --> 00:25:01 i am
00:25:01 --> 00:25:01 ruined
00:25:01 --> 00:25:05 woe
00:25:05 --> 00:25:06 to me
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00:25:08 --> 00:25:14 not
00:25:14 --> 00:25:16 don't hear me
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00:25:16 --> 00:25:17 say this
00:25:17 --> 00:25:21 god
00:25:21 --> 00:25:23 i've done
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00:25:23 --> 00:25:24 shouldn't have
00:25:24 --> 00:25:24 done and
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00:25:26 --> 00:25:26 shouldn't have
00:25:26 --> 00:25:27 done and
00:25:27 --> 00:25:27 didn't do
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00:25:28 --> 00:25:28 done and
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00:25:40 --> 00:25:40 of unclean
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00:25:46 --> 00:25:47 seen the
00:25:47 --> 00:25:47 king
00:25:47 --> 00:25:48 the lord
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00:25:50 --> 00:25:50 happened a
00:25:50 --> 00:25:51 little bit
00:25:51 --> 00:25:51 earlier in the
00:25:51 --> 00:25:52 scriptures what
00:25:52 --> 00:25:52 does it say
00:25:52 --> 00:25:53 you may not
00:25:53 --> 00:25:55 gaze upon
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00:25:55 --> 00:25:56 and live
00:25:56 --> 00:25:57 is i
00:25:57 --> 00:25:58 expected to
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00:25:59 --> 00:26:00 this god
00:26:00 --> 00:26:02 in chapter
00:26:02 --> 00:26:03 five isaiah
00:26:03 --> 00:26:04 pronounced woes
00:26:04 --> 00:26:05 this amazing
00:26:05 --> 00:26:05 thing happens
00:26:05 --> 00:26:06 in chapter
00:26:06 --> 00:26:07 five he
00:26:07 --> 00:26:08 pronounced woe
00:26:08 --> 00:26:08 after woe
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00:26:12 --> 00:26:13 as it says
00:26:13 --> 00:26:13 in verse
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00:26:14 --> 00:26:14 have no
00:26:14 --> 00:26:15 regard for
00:26:15 --> 00:26:16 the deeds
00:26:16 --> 00:26:16 of the lord
00:26:16 --> 00:26:17 no respect
00:26:17 --> 00:26:18 for the work
00:26:18 --> 00:26:19 of his hands
00:26:19 --> 00:26:21 but isaiah
00:26:21 --> 00:26:22 gets a glimpse
00:26:22 --> 00:26:22 of the glory
00:26:22 --> 00:26:23 of this god
00:26:23 --> 00:26:24 and what does
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00:26:24 --> 00:26:25 hang on a
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00:26:26 --> 00:26:26 hold that
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00:26:27 --> 00:26:27 people over
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00:26:27 --> 00:26:28 to see this
00:26:28 --> 00:26:33 forget about
00:26:33 --> 00:26:34 their woes
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00:26:35 --> 00:26:37 their curses
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00:26:38 --> 00:26:39 me
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00:26:42 --> 00:26:43 confronted with
00:26:43 --> 00:26:44 the glory of
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00:26:52 --> 00:26:52 god
00:26:52 --> 00:26:54 and friends
00:26:54 --> 00:26:55 is that not
00:26:55 --> 00:26:55 the experience
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00:26:59 --> 00:27:00 he's been
00:27:00 --> 00:27:00 out fishing
00:27:00 --> 00:27:01 catches nothing
00:27:01 --> 00:27:02 jesus takes
00:27:02 --> 00:27:02 him out
00:27:02 --> 00:27:03 gets a load
00:27:03 --> 00:27:04 of fish
00:27:04 --> 00:27:05 up on the
00:27:05 --> 00:27:05 boat and
00:27:05 --> 00:27:06 he doesn't
00:27:06 --> 00:27:07 go wow
00:27:07 --> 00:27:08 fantastic
00:27:08 --> 00:27:08 all this
00:27:08 --> 00:27:09 fish i can
00:27:09 --> 00:27:10 finally buy
00:27:10 --> 00:27:10 that house
00:27:10 --> 00:27:11 i can finally
00:27:11 --> 00:27:12 get off and
00:27:12 --> 00:27:13 finish my
00:27:13 --> 00:27:13 masters of
00:27:13 --> 00:27:14 fishing i can
00:27:14 --> 00:27:15 finally get the
00:27:15 --> 00:27:15 superannuation
00:27:15 --> 00:27:16 thing sorted
00:27:16 --> 00:27:17 out and i can
00:27:17 --> 00:27:17 go and retire
00:27:17 --> 00:27:19 down to egypt
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00:27:19 --> 00:27:19 else
00:27:19 --> 00:27:24 forget the
00:27:24 --> 00:27:24 fish
00:27:24 --> 00:27:26 fish
00:27:26 --> 00:27:28 he looks at
00:27:28 --> 00:27:29 jesus and
00:27:29 --> 00:27:31 this is how
00:27:31 --> 00:27:32 when simon peter
00:27:32 --> 00:27:33 saw this he
00:27:33 --> 00:27:34 fell at jesus
00:27:34 --> 00:27:35 knees and
00:27:35 --> 00:27:36 said go away
00:27:36 --> 00:27:38 from me lord
00:27:38 --> 00:27:40 i am a
00:27:40 --> 00:27:40 sinful man
00:27:40 --> 00:27:44 peter saw
00:27:44 --> 00:27:46 glory and
00:27:46 --> 00:27:46 we're confronted
00:27:46 --> 00:27:47 with jesus
00:27:47 --> 00:27:48 peter's own
00:27:48 --> 00:27:48 sinfulness is
00:27:48 --> 00:27:49 the thing that's
00:27:49 --> 00:27:50 exposed again
00:27:50 --> 00:27:52 the apostle john
00:27:52 --> 00:27:52 had a similar
00:27:52 --> 00:27:53 experience revelation
00:27:53 --> 00:27:54 chapter one i
00:27:54 --> 00:27:55 turned around to
00:27:55 --> 00:27:56 see the voice that
00:27:56 --> 00:27:57 was speaking to me
00:27:57 --> 00:27:58 and when i turned i
00:27:58 --> 00:28:00 saw seven golden
00:28:00 --> 00:28:01 lampstands and
00:28:01 --> 00:28:02 among the lampstands
00:28:02 --> 00:28:02 was someone like a
00:28:02 --> 00:28:03 son of man dressed
00:28:03 --> 00:28:05 in a robe reaching
00:28:05 --> 00:28:06 down to his feet and
00:28:06 --> 00:28:08 a gold sash around
00:28:08 --> 00:28:09 his chest his
00:28:09 --> 00:28:10 head and his
00:28:10 --> 00:28:11 hair were white
00:28:11 --> 00:28:12 like wool as
00:28:12 --> 00:28:12 white as snow and
00:28:12 --> 00:28:13 his eyes were like
00:28:13 --> 00:28:16 blazing fire his
00:28:16 --> 00:28:16 feet were like
00:28:16 --> 00:28:18 bronze glowing in a
00:28:18 --> 00:28:19 furnace and his
00:28:19 --> 00:28:20 voice was like the
00:28:20 --> 00:28:21 sound of rushing
00:28:21 --> 00:28:22 waters in his
00:28:22 --> 00:28:23 right hand he held
00:28:23 --> 00:28:24 seven stars and
00:28:24 --> 00:28:25 out of his mouth
00:28:25 --> 00:28:26 came a sharp
00:28:26 --> 00:28:27 double-edged
00:28:27 --> 00:28:28 sword his face
00:28:28 --> 00:28:30 was like the sun
00:28:30 --> 00:28:31 shining in all
00:28:31 --> 00:28:33 its brilliance
00:28:33 --> 00:28:36 when i saw him
00:28:36 --> 00:28:40 i fell at his
00:28:40 --> 00:28:41 feet as though
00:28:41 --> 00:28:42 dead
00:28:42 --> 00:28:45 this is the same
00:28:45 --> 00:28:46 john
00:28:46 --> 00:28:48 who used to lean
00:28:48 --> 00:28:50 against jesus
00:28:50 --> 00:28:53 and when he sees
00:28:53 --> 00:28:55 jesus in all his
00:28:55 --> 00:28:57 resurrected glory
00:28:57 --> 00:29:00 it's not
00:29:00 --> 00:29:00 g'day
00:29:00 --> 00:29:04 he falls down
00:29:04 --> 00:29:05 as though
00:29:05 --> 00:29:05 dead
00:29:05 --> 00:29:08 and then he
00:29:08 --> 00:29:09 placed his right
00:29:09 --> 00:29:10 hand on me and
00:29:10 --> 00:29:11 said do not be
00:29:11 --> 00:29:13 afraid i am the
00:29:13 --> 00:29:14 first and the
00:29:14 --> 00:29:15 last i'm the
00:29:15 --> 00:29:16 living one i was
00:29:16 --> 00:29:17 dead and behold
00:29:17 --> 00:29:19 i'm alive forever
00:29:19 --> 00:29:21 and ever
00:29:21 --> 00:29:24 i'm not dead
00:29:24 --> 00:29:26 i'm still reigning
00:29:26 --> 00:29:29 but it ought not
00:29:29 --> 00:29:30 be a surprise to
00:29:30 --> 00:29:31 find that peter
00:29:31 --> 00:29:31 and john's
00:29:31 --> 00:29:33 experience is the
00:29:33 --> 00:29:33 same as that as
00:29:33 --> 00:29:35 isaiah because
00:29:35 --> 00:29:35 they got a glimpse
00:29:35 --> 00:29:36 of the same
00:29:36 --> 00:29:36 god
00:29:36 --> 00:29:37 did you see what
00:29:37 --> 00:29:38 was read out to
00:29:38 --> 00:29:39 us mike read out to
00:29:39 --> 00:29:40 us a moment ago
00:29:40 --> 00:29:40 from john
00:29:40 --> 00:29:41 chapter 12
00:29:41 --> 00:29:43 isaiah said this
00:29:43 --> 00:29:44 because he saw
00:29:44 --> 00:29:47 jesus's glory and
00:29:47 --> 00:29:48 spoke about him
00:29:48 --> 00:29:52 isaiah got a glimpse
00:29:52 --> 00:29:54 of jesus
00:29:54 --> 00:29:59 this one that we
00:29:59 --> 00:30:00 just spoke about
00:30:00 --> 00:30:02 is jesus
00:30:02 --> 00:30:03 not the little
00:30:03 --> 00:30:04 package jesus with
00:30:04 --> 00:30:05 the sawn off
00:30:05 --> 00:30:05 shotgun not
00:30:05 --> 00:30:06 huggable jesus
00:30:06 --> 00:30:09 the real jesus
00:30:09 --> 00:30:12 isaiah saw jesus
00:30:12 --> 00:30:13 glory in chapter 6
00:30:13 --> 00:30:15 jesus is god's
00:30:15 --> 00:30:16 holiness gone
00:30:16 --> 00:30:19 public what
00:30:19 --> 00:30:20 isaiah saw is
00:30:20 --> 00:30:21 what peter saw
00:30:21 --> 00:30:22 and what john
00:30:22 --> 00:30:23 saw and this
00:30:23 --> 00:30:25 same jesus is
00:30:25 --> 00:30:26 the one who
00:30:26 --> 00:30:27 calls you and
00:30:27 --> 00:30:28 me to follow
00:30:28 --> 00:30:31 him if the
00:30:31 --> 00:30:32 magnificent
00:30:32 --> 00:30:33 creatures in
00:30:33 --> 00:30:34 the throne room
00:30:34 --> 00:30:34 throne room
00:30:34 --> 00:30:35 approach with
00:30:35 --> 00:30:37 caution with
00:30:37 --> 00:30:38 reverence and
00:30:38 --> 00:30:39 awe and respect
00:30:39 --> 00:30:41 how much more
00:30:41 --> 00:30:42 you and me
00:30:42 --> 00:30:44 in following
00:30:44 --> 00:30:45 the one
00:30:45 --> 00:30:46 this one
00:30:46 --> 00:30:47 jesus
00:30:47 --> 00:30:52 but you know
00:30:52 --> 00:30:52 what the great
00:30:52 --> 00:30:53 news is
00:30:53 --> 00:30:55 is when jesus
00:30:55 --> 00:30:56 says to his
00:30:56 --> 00:30:56 disciples
00:30:56 --> 00:30:58 praise in the
00:30:58 --> 00:30:58 hearing of his
00:30:58 --> 00:30:59 disciples father
00:30:59 --> 00:31:00 the time has
00:31:00 --> 00:31:02 come to glorify
00:31:02 --> 00:31:02 your son
00:31:02 --> 00:31:05 let let your
00:31:05 --> 00:31:06 holiness really
00:31:06 --> 00:31:07 go public now
00:31:07 --> 00:31:09 and he went
00:31:09 --> 00:31:10 to the cross
00:31:10 --> 00:31:11 and in that
00:31:11 --> 00:31:12 jesus humbling
00:31:12 --> 00:31:13 himself to the
00:31:13 --> 00:31:13 death of the
00:31:13 --> 00:31:16 cross is the
00:31:16 --> 00:31:17 reason why we
00:31:17 --> 00:31:17 can stand in
00:31:17 --> 00:31:18 his presence
00:31:18 --> 00:31:21 god in his
00:31:21 --> 00:31:22 ultimate display
00:31:22 --> 00:31:23 of glory is the
00:31:23 --> 00:31:23 reason why we
00:31:23 --> 00:31:24 can actually stand
00:31:24 --> 00:31:25 and gaze upon
00:31:25 --> 00:31:26 his glory and
00:31:26 --> 00:31:27 not be crushed
00:31:27 --> 00:31:28 due to his
00:31:28 --> 00:31:29 perfect humility
00:31:29 --> 00:31:30 and perfect
00:31:30 --> 00:31:31 sacrifice we no
00:31:31 --> 00:31:31 longer need to
00:31:31 --> 00:31:32 fear this god
00:31:32 --> 00:31:34 is judge when
00:31:34 --> 00:31:35 osiah called
00:31:35 --> 00:31:36 out i am
00:31:36 --> 00:31:38 ruined god
00:31:38 --> 00:31:38 deals with that
00:31:38 --> 00:31:39 situation by
00:31:39 --> 00:31:40 atoning for his
00:31:40 --> 00:31:42 sin so that he
00:31:42 --> 00:31:43 can stand in his
00:31:43 --> 00:31:43 presence
00:31:43 --> 00:31:46 in the boat
00:31:46 --> 00:31:48 jesus says to
00:31:48 --> 00:31:48 peter don't be
00:31:48 --> 00:31:49 afraid he says
00:31:49 --> 00:31:50 exactly the same
00:31:50 --> 00:31:51 thing to john
00:31:51 --> 00:31:52 don't be afraid
00:31:52 --> 00:31:53 it is only
00:31:53 --> 00:31:54 possible to stand
00:31:54 --> 00:31:55 in his presence
00:31:55 --> 00:31:56 because god makes
00:31:56 --> 00:31:58 it possible for us
00:31:58 --> 00:31:59 to stand in his
00:31:59 --> 00:32:01 presence god wants
00:32:01 --> 00:32:02 to dwell with
00:32:02 --> 00:32:03 people like you
00:32:03 --> 00:32:06 and me and the
00:32:06 --> 00:32:06 safest place in
00:32:06 --> 00:32:07 the world and i've
00:32:07 --> 00:32:08 said this a number
00:32:08 --> 00:32:08 of times i want to
00:32:08 --> 00:32:09 keep coming back to
00:32:09 --> 00:32:10 it the safest place
00:32:10 --> 00:32:11 in the world is at
00:32:11 --> 00:32:12 the foot of the
00:32:12 --> 00:32:13 cross with your
00:32:13 --> 00:32:15 face in the dust in
00:32:15 --> 00:32:16 humble submission
00:32:16 --> 00:32:19 that is what gets
00:32:19 --> 00:32:21 the gaze of the
00:32:21 --> 00:32:22 sovereign eternal
00:32:22 --> 00:32:23 god that is what
00:32:23 --> 00:32:24 draws his attention
00:32:24 --> 00:32:27 it is my hope and my
00:32:27 --> 00:32:28 prayer that this
00:32:28 --> 00:32:29 church that we
00:32:29 --> 00:32:30 will get such a
00:32:30 --> 00:32:31 glimpse of the
00:32:31 --> 00:32:32 glory of christ
00:32:32 --> 00:32:33 that we will
00:32:33 --> 00:32:34 declare war on
00:32:34 --> 00:32:37 pride let us be
00:32:37 --> 00:32:39 vigilant my friends
00:32:39 --> 00:32:41 let us never forget
00:32:41 --> 00:32:43 that it is humility
00:32:43 --> 00:32:45 that draws the gaze
00:32:45 --> 00:32:46 of this glorious god
00:32:46 --> 00:32:47 it is humility is the
00:32:47 --> 00:32:49 only way that we can
00:32:49 --> 00:32:50 stand in the presence
00:32:50 --> 00:32:51 of this glorious god
00:32:51 --> 00:32:52 it is not our small
00:32:52 --> 00:32:53 groups it is not our
00:32:53 --> 00:32:54 budget it is not the
00:32:54 --> 00:32:55 size of our church
00:32:55 --> 00:32:57 it's not how great the
00:32:57 --> 00:32:58 music is it's not the
00:32:58 --> 00:32:59 strength of the
00:32:59 --> 00:33:00 preaching it's not the
00:33:00 --> 00:33:01 number of congregations
00:33:01 --> 00:33:02 it's not how precise
00:33:02 --> 00:33:04 our liturgy it's not
00:33:04 --> 00:33:05 how well people people
00:33:05 --> 00:33:06 speak of us it's not
00:33:06 --> 00:33:07 even how well we speak
00:33:07 --> 00:33:08 of our history it is
00:33:08 --> 00:33:09 not the eloquence of
00:33:09 --> 00:33:10 our prayers this is
00:33:10 --> 00:33:12 what is i god says at
00:33:12 --> 00:33:14 the end of isaiah this
00:33:14 --> 00:33:16 is the one i esteem in
00:33:16 --> 00:33:17 other words this is the
00:33:17 --> 00:33:19 one who draws my
00:33:19 --> 00:33:20 attention this is the
00:33:20 --> 00:33:22 one who i look highly
00:33:22 --> 00:33:24 upon he who is humble
00:33:24 --> 00:33:25 and contrite in spirit
00:33:25 --> 00:33:28 and trembles at my
00:33:28 --> 00:33:29 word
00:33:29 --> 00:33:36 i am thoroughly convinced
00:33:36 --> 00:33:38 that there could be no
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 effective christian growth
00:33:40 --> 00:33:41 in our lives
00:33:41 --> 00:33:43 that there can be no
00:33:43 --> 00:33:45 effective ministry or
00:33:45 --> 00:33:46 mission flowing out of
00:33:46 --> 00:33:49 this church without the
00:33:49 --> 00:33:50 cultivation of humility
00:33:50 --> 00:33:52 in the heart and the
00:33:52 --> 00:33:53 weakening of pride in our
00:33:53 --> 00:33:58 lives and so friends
00:33:58 --> 00:34:01 someday this all
00:34:01 --> 00:34:03 powerful sovereign god
00:34:03 --> 00:34:04 will blow
00:34:04 --> 00:34:11 and he will turn away
00:34:11 --> 00:34:13 every single completing
00:34:13 --> 00:34:17 glory and he will make
00:34:17 --> 00:34:19 his holiness known in
00:34:19 --> 00:34:20 awesome splendor to every
00:34:20 --> 00:34:24 creature but there is no
00:34:24 --> 00:34:27 need to wait you see we
00:34:27 --> 00:34:28 don't have to be satisfied
00:34:28 --> 00:34:30 with the cheap frills now
00:34:30 --> 00:34:33 we don't have to exchange
00:34:33 --> 00:34:34 god's glory for something
00:34:34 --> 00:34:35 else
00:34:35 --> 00:34:38 osiah job ezekiel jeremiah
00:34:38 --> 00:34:42 peter john and many of you
00:34:42 --> 00:34:45 have humbled yourselves to
00:34:45 --> 00:34:47 go hard after the holy god
00:34:47 --> 00:34:50 and have developed a taste for
00:34:50 --> 00:34:51 his majesty
00:34:51 --> 00:34:56 and so to you and all the
00:34:56 --> 00:34:57 rest who are just beginning
00:34:57 --> 00:34:59 to know it and just beginning
00:34:59 --> 00:34:59 to feel it
00:34:59 --> 00:35:02 i hold out this promise from
00:35:02 --> 00:35:02 god
00:35:02 --> 00:35:04 this god who is
00:35:04 --> 00:35:06 ever alive
00:35:06 --> 00:35:08 authoritative
00:35:08 --> 00:35:10 all-powerful
00:35:10 --> 00:35:11 spectacular
00:35:11 --> 00:35:13 gorgeous
00:35:13 --> 00:35:14 revered
00:35:14 --> 00:35:15 holy
00:35:15 --> 00:35:17 and glorious
00:35:17 --> 00:35:20 from
00:35:20 --> 00:35:20 is
00:35:20 --> 00:35:20 is
00:35:20 --> 00:35:21 is
00:35:21 --> 00:35:23 what the high and
00:35:23 --> 00:35:24 lofty one says
00:35:24 --> 00:35:26 he who lives forever
00:35:26 --> 00:35:28 whose name is holy
00:35:28 --> 00:35:31 i live in a high
00:35:31 --> 00:35:33 and holy place
00:35:33 --> 00:35:36 but also
00:35:36 --> 00:35:38 with him
00:35:38 --> 00:35:39 who is
00:35:39 --> 00:35:42 contrite and lowly
00:35:42 --> 00:35:42 in spirit
00:35:42 --> 00:35:45 in order to revive
00:35:45 --> 00:35:46 the spirit of the lowly
00:35:46 --> 00:35:48 and to revive
00:35:48 --> 00:35:49 the heart of the
00:35:49 --> 00:35:50 contrite
00:35:50 --> 00:35:51 amen
00:35:51 --> 00:35:54 to
00:35:54 --> 00:35:58 so
00:35:58 --> 00:35:59 the
00:35:59 --> 00:36:00 the
00:36:00 --> 00:36:00 it
00:36:00 --> 00:36:01 we
00:36:01 --> 00:36:05 know
00:36:05 --> 00:36:06 the
00:36:06 --> 00:36:07 the