Isaiah 6:1-8 | The Promised Presence

Sermon Notes

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
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1. THE LORD ON THE THRONE
2. ISAIAH REPENTS
3. THE LORD CLEANSES
4. THE LORD SENDS

CRADLE | Sentimentalized
CROSS | Trivialized
CROWN | Forgotten

Isaiah 1:11–12
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the LORD;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?

Isaiah 1:16–17
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil, learn to do good;
seek justice, correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.

2 Chronicles 26:15
And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

2 Chronicles 26:16
But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction.

Robert Webber
Unfortunately, we frequently fail to see what Isaiah saw. We allow the goals, ambitions, and everyday responsibilities of life to be so central to our thoughts that we fail to shut down and center on the Holy One, the Creator, the one who is high and lifted up above all that is. Isaiah saw above the details of his own life and the issues of his nation. By faith he went to the very heart of human existence itself. Like Isaiah we need to get beyond the form of our worship. We need to experience the presence of the one who stands over us to judge us, heal us, and restore us to life.