Isaiah 6:1-8 | Lord, Send Me | Matthew Dodd

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1. Happy New Year! Each New Year, we’re confronted by a question, “What do I want to change about my life?”
ILLUS - Top Three New Year’s Resolutions.
2. The obvious reason people want to change is because they don’t like what their lives have become; they want their lives to be different.
3. But I think there is a better question for us to consider at the start of this New Year, “What does God want to change about my life?”
4. You see, God has a plan for our lives; there is a reason why we are here.
5. This means there are things that God wants to change about us because He knows what’s best for us, and what’s best for us is to live according to the pattern He purposed for us when He created us.
6. We only get one shot at this thing called “life,” so we need to know what God wants to change about us and what God wants to do through us so that we may go and do His will.
Matthew 6:10, Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
7. But many people also wonder, “What is God’s will for my life? What does God want me to do with my life?”
8. During our study, we will discover God’s plan and purpose for our lives.
9. God is still calling people and He is still asking, “Who will go?”
10. My prayer is that after this message, all of us will say, “Lord, Send Me!”
Isaiah 6:1-8
Transition - Before we can say, “Lord, Send Me,” we need God to change our vision of who God is. What I mean is. . .
I. We Need a Biblical Vision of God (1-4)
A. God is King (1)
1. Uzziah became Judah’s king when he was sixteen and he reigned fifty-two years.
(2 Chronicles 26)
2. Uzziah walked uprightly before God and Judah was blessed under his leadership.
a. Judah prospered financially.
b. Judah was secure with fortified cities.
c. Judah had military success, possessing an elite army of over 307,000 soldiers.
3. But when Uzziah died Judah felt exposed and vulnerable.
a. Perspective: the U.S. has had ten presidents in the last fifty-two years.
b. Isaiah the prophet also felt insecure, so God gave him a vision.
4. Isaiah “saw the Lord.”
a. “Lord”, Adonai means “sovereign,” “master.”
b. “sitting on a throne” reveals that God is the King of kings.
c. “lofty and exalted” means God is transcendent and eternal.
d. “train of His robe filling the temple” speaks of God’s majesty.
5. What was God’s message to Isaiah?
6. Judah’s throne was vacant, but the throne of heaven was occupied; it was then, it is now, and it always will be.
7. The Apostle John declared that Isaiah saw Jesus Christ seated on the throne; a preincarnate appearance of God the Son.
John 12:41, These things Isaiah said, because he saw His glory, and he spoke of Him.
APPL - During these troubling days, you may feel exposed and vulnerable.
• God does not want you to feel that way.
• God does not want you to remain in a place of insecurity.
• The remedy for our insecurity is a biblical vision of God, like Isaiah.
• Do not trust in princes.
• Look to God. He is our help and our hope.
Psalm 146:3-5, 10, Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God; the Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!
Transition - The next thing we must understand about God before we can say, “Lord, Send Me” is. . .
B. God is holy (2-4)
1. The seraphim are only mentioned here in the Bible.
a. The word “seraphim” means “to burn.”
b. Seraphim burn in their zeal for God.
2. Seraphim have interesting anatomy, they have six wings.
a. Two wings cover their eyes which means they are forever reverent before God.
b. Two wings cover their feet which means they are forever submitted to God.
c. Two wings to fly which means they are forever serving God.
3. And the seraphim forever proclaim the excellencies of God; continually calling out to one another from worshipful hearts.
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