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Beholding the King
by Rod Cooper
Text: Isaiah 6:1-8
Topic: What happens when we see God
Big Idea: Once we've seen God the King, we worship, confess our sin, and go where He sends us.
Keywords: Worship; Reverence; Holiness, divine; Omniscience of God; Conviction, of sin; Confession; Service, motivation for; God, majesty of
Introduction
- Some dates change your life. For Isaiah, a significant date was 740 B.C., when King Uzziah died and Isaiah saw the Lord.
When the king died, Isaiah saw the Lord.
- Sometimes our world goes from calmness to chaos in the twinkling of an eye.
- But Isaiah learned that even though King Uzziah died, the divine King was still on the throne.
- God allows chaos in our lives to help us see where we put our trust—we can't afford to trust in humans.
- Isaiah saw God sitting high on his throne, with a complete perspective on life.
- Isaiah 6:1
Once we've seen the King, we worship.
- Like the seraphim in heaven, we need to be available to him and worship with adoration.
- Once we've done these two things, we will experience God's presence in our lives.
- Illustration: Cooper remembers smelling his mother's vegetable soup cooking as a boy-when he tried to taste it midday, she told him to wait for the ingredients to release their juices, producing a wonderful aroma and flavor at mealtime. Cooper compares this fragrance to the sound of our worship to God's ears.
Once we've seen the King, we confess our sin.
- The natural response when we experience God is to feel convicted of sin, as Isaiah did.
- Once we confess, God cleanses us of our sin.
- Illustration: Once grown and finished studying, Cooper lived at home, during which time his mother asked him to assume garbage duty. But one week he forgot, and as the trash became smellier, so did his relationship with his mother, until he did his job the next week and restored the peace.
Once we've seen the King, we go where he sends us.
- We are to respond with an attitude of gratitude, saying, "Here am I, God. Send me."
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