September 7, 2021 Norwood Messages

The King We Need in Disorienting Times

From Isaiah 6

📖 Isaiah 6:8 (ESV) And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”

Isaiah 5:20 “woe to those who call evil good and good evil…”
Isaiah 5:21 “woe to those who are wise in their own eyes…”
Isaiah 5:22 “woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink”
Isaiah 5:23 “woe to those who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny the innocent his rights”

1. Isaiah’s encounter with King him.

📖 Isaiah 6:1 (ESV) In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.

📖 2 Chronicles 26:15 (ESV) In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.

📖 2 Chronicles 26:16-22 (ESV) But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

📖 Isaiah 6:5 (ESV) “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am 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!”

We will not see “ ” until “ ” king is removed from our life.

Two things describe Isaiah’s reorientation:

1. Outward .

📖 Isaiah 6:5 (ESV) And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips

2. Inward .

📖 Isaiah 6:6-7 (ESV) Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”

2. Isaiah’s encounter King him.

📖 Mark 10:45 (ESV) For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

📖 Luke 22:26 (ESV) let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.

When we come to Christ, the Church is no longer about , its mission is through us.

3. Isaiah’s encounter with King him an .

📖 Isaiah 6:9-10 (ESV) And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “ ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ 10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”…