Isaiah 6: 1-4 Research Paper

Isaiah 6:1-4

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

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

Introduction

- Glory has idea of weight, heaviness o We see it in God’s holiness

 He is holy – other, different to us

• In magnitude and in nature

1. Mystery

- Did you notice Isaiah speaks about o The robes, temple, cherubim and

42 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.”

• This is a reference to Isaiah 6:10, so John records Isaiah speaking about Jesus, even though here he refers to him as Adonai

• In fact Isaiah could only have seen the son, not God the Father or Spirit, or all the trinity as one essence because John writes in John 1:18, “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.

 But if you look at Acts 28:25 and 26, “And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: 26 “ ‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

• These words are here ascribed from Isaiah 6:10 to the Holy Spirit o In addition in v3 Holy is used three times

 It’s a suplative in

If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved

• Jesus said I am the way o There is no way to approach this Holy God, this pure God, but by Jesus Christ

• OT, how do you come to God? o Confession, priests, at certain times, at a certain place, with lots of blood, death and sacrifice, complex rules and regulations, and punishment for those who didn’t follow his meticulously.

 Friends, that’s not just OT stuff

 Is the glory of Jesus that Isaiah is seeing here

• All the complexity has not gone in the NT o Don’t treat it as a light thing to have access to God

• Only some are given the right to be called sons of God o Those who believe o Those who trust in Jesus o Those who repent and turn from their sins o Those God has justified

 And they come because of Jesus who is now the Great High Preist

 He is our advocate with the Father

 He is the mediator between God and man

• Its only through his broken body and spilled blood that we come to the Father

• Think of what you heard this morning as Michael showed us the 7 churchs in Revelation 2-3 o I will vomit you out of my mouth o I will remove your