{"id":10674,"date":"2016-08-17T00:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/visionof-god\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:54:18","slug":"visionof-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/visionof-god\/","title":{"rendered":"VISION\nOF GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>God had planned a great task and a vital ministry for Isaiah. But as a young man involved in the court life of a successful king, he seemed satisfied with this world and with things as they were. We can say that Isaiah\u2019s attention was too strongly focused on King Uzziah.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>How was the Lord going to get Isaiah\u2019s attention and show him the importance of the world to come? The same way He so frequently does it. He removed the object of Isaiah\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Suddenly, Uzziah, the great and successful king, was gone, taken by death. Isaiah must have been deeply affected, not only as he thought of his own life and career, but as he pondered what Uzziah\u2019s passing would mean for the nation of Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I suspect Isaiah stood in tearless grief and looked down at the face of the lifeless king.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The next thing Isaiah did, however, was the wisest thing he could have done. He raised his eyes from viewing the face of the dead king, and suddenly the Lord enabled him to fasten his gaze upon the eternal King of Kings! Isaiah testified that he saw the Lord sitting upon a throne. He saw God\u2019s glory filling the Temple. He saw the seraphim, those created heavenly beings, worshiping God.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He heard the adoring ascription of praise around the heavenly throne: \u201cHoly, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Isaiah 6:1\u20138<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Men Who Met God,<\/i> 99, 100.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b>W<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God had planned a great task and a vital ministry for Isaiah. But as a young man involved in the court life of a successful king, he seemed satisfied with this world and with things as they were. We can say that Isaiah\u2019s attention was too strongly focused on King Uzziah. How was the Lord &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/visionof-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VISION<br \/>\nOF GOD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}