Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.
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… The pivots on the threshold shook at the voices of those who called and the house filled with smoke. And I said, Woe is me. I am lost. For I'm a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips. Yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. the seraph touched my mouth with it and said, now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us? And I said, here am I. Send me. this is the word of God for you, the people of God. Thanks be to God. So this story, the story of God tapping Isaiah on the shoulder, is one of the most famous call stories in the good book. …
… he realized in a heartbeat that he was not holy, not holy, not holy. And he said, woe to me. I am ruined, for I am a man of unclean lips. And not only that, I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty. mighty. This is the gospel, by the way, just one more time. The gospel is seeing the holiness of God and understanding the predicament of man. It's seeing how holy God is and then understanding the predicament of our sinful state. And Isaiah, when he sees this, he doesn't go, oh, I have a plan. I think I know how to get up there. I think I know how to get into that. I think I know how to navigate that or negotiate that. I think I can figure out a way to improve my condition enough that I can go in there where the holy, holy, holy is. No, he knows in a heartbeat, I'm done. …
I want to speak from this thought today. You better recognize. You better recognize. Father in heaven, we bless you. Hallelujah. We honor you. We feel the weight of your glory, the weight of your presence. You are here with us and you have purpose to do great things in our midst. The opening of the blind eyes, the deliverance of the captives, the healing of the sick, hallelujah, and so much more. And so have your way, hallelujah. God, your servant, thanks you for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and full access to the secrets of heaven that I might feed your sons and daughters. And may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. I thank you for not only us coming in, but how we're going to leave out. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Do me a favor. Give God a shout. Greet somebody as you take your seat in God's house. Hallelujah. Let's go to work, baby. I want to, I want to, yes, sir, I want to continue with something that we started. I was going to say Wednesday night, but Wednesday night was a continuum of the things that have been happening in our movement and our midst really since we concluded 30 years of ministry. Yeah. Because it became emphatically clear that we had stepped into another era, another wave of grace and glory for our church. …
… by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke so i said this is isaiah woe is me for I am undone. Oof. Because I am a man of unclean lips, and not only that, but my whole tribe, I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Watch this. For my eyes, back to my eyes. Turn to somebody and say recognition. for my eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts we're going to come back to it there's a connection between what you see and what you speak we see eyes and lips there's a connection between your eyes and your mouth and he says i'm a man of Unclean Lips and watch this and everybody in my spiritual community has unclean lips too and I know this now because my eyes so what I see determines how I speak and what i speak determines what happens and what i speak reveals what's in my heart if i've got a doubt heart my lips will speak doubtful things if i have a heart full of faith my lips will things of faith and death and life is in the power of the are you tracking with me so how you see god will determine what you say which will reveal where your heart is. …
… Isaiah looks at him he is in verse five he says and i said woe is me i am lost for i'm a man of unclean lips and i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts okay that doesn't sound real strong to you but you've got to understand the word when he says woe to me it was like the strongest term he could use so use your imagination it was just like this Oh. And then he says, when he says, I am lost or I am ruined, that word in the Hebrew means I'm about to be destroyed. See, Isaiah got it. When he saw God, he's just like, oh, he's going to kill me. He says, because I know the things that have come out of my mouth and all the people that are around me, I know what our life is like. And I just saw the king. See, Isaiah knew. …
And the foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke and I said woe is me I'm lost I'm a man of unclean lips I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips from my eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts that's Isaiah gets one glimpse of God and just thinks he is going to kill me because I know what I've done I know what I've said he sees the angels the angels are covering themselves from head to toe. The high angels, what does that tell you? When you've got high angels that are covering themselves up from head to toe because they can't look upon this holy God. Okay, that's what's going on in heaven. Meanwhile, down here on earth, we have people questioning God, thinking it's no big deal to face him at the end of their lives. I mean, do you understand the arrogance on this earth. Understand why we cry, Lord, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. …