Sunday Sermon: Three Visions

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Three Visions

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted,seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
    the whole earth is full of his glory.”

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

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!”

The 3 Looks

  • Upward Look: Isaiah Looked up and saw the holiness of God where sin doesn’t have any room.

  • Inward Look: Isaiah looked inward, he saw how sinful he was inside. One of sees the holiness of God knows the sinful self.

  • Outward Look: See the world around you, the ones who are going to eternal damnation

Sunday Sermon: Our Residence Is God’s Campsite

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Our Residence Is God’s Campsite

“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.

-Exodus 12:2

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians. For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them. Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments.

-Numbers 33:1-4

Sunday Sermon: Christ Jesus And The Day of Atonement

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Christ Jesus And The Day of Atonement

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
— John 1:29
“When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!””
— John 1:36

The Day of Atonement

The Lord said to Moses, “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to the Lord. Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God. Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. It is a day of sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.”

  • Deputation of Jesus Christ - “appointed to undertake a mission or take part in a formal process on behalf of a larger group.”

  • Identification of Jesus Christ - John the Baptist identifies who Jesus is to the world.

  • Glorification of Jesus Christ - John 2:11 The Wedding at Cana “This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.”

Sunday Sermon: We Are The Fragrance of Christ - Part 2

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We Are The Fragrance of Christ - Part 2

“ But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.”
— Acts 11:19-22