Holy Standard | Philip Anthony Mitchell

hi and welcome to the victory Church podcast we're so glad you could join us if this ministry has impacted you in any way we'd love to hear all about it please send us an email at share and victory Church ATO org we pray this message will speak to your heart God Almighty welcome you to our spiritual family victory Church welcome you to what 11:30 worship experience we welcome you to a very important series entitled simply Yahweh the holiest name on earth the name of our God Almighty a name so holy the chills take out the vowels when they write it in honor and respect from him and what we are attempting to do in the series if you are a guest with us is that I a fallible human being a man flesh and attempting to communicate two other fallible human beings some understanding of the greatness of this being who we fully don't understand and and that while every sermon in this series is gonna fall short and properly articulate who God is yet I'm asking the Holy Spirit every week to give us increased revelation of who God really is for as much as our mind could understand that while there is no person that could properly articulate the fullness of who God is my prayer in this series my prayer this year honestly I'm just coming back from Jerusalem coming back from Israel is that as that there would be a cry that goes out from Zion an alarm sounded here at victory and as far as these messages will go a voice crying out in the wilderness concerning the perversion of American Christianity and the need for us to turn back to God Almighty not to just have services and speak friendly platitudes but to truly transition to God to respect him to honor him to venerate him turn to fear him to know that he is he's holy he's he's majestic he's all-powerful he's all-knowing he is he's grand he is he's beyond what we can fathom yet I'm doing my best to communicate the greatest attribute of his nature his holiness because I believe in this country because we see God wrong and because we don't understand his power and His Holiness we don't respect him the way he should be respected and we don't honor him the way he should be honored he is a homeboy he is dope he has a name on a t-shirt we bring him down to the level of things that men created where he should not be where he should not be he's beyond dope like that hat is dope and this car is doping and we bring his name down to this level and and what we don't realize in our culture's we desensitize ourselves to the greatness of who God is God is not dope God is holy God is not cold god is powerful God is not Gope he's mighty he's grand he's powerful he is the beginning and the end the first and the last the Alpha and the Omega the great I am the lily of the valley the bright and Morning Star he is the one before whom every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he is the Lord he is capital lor D he is Yahweh Jehovah God Almighty we are determined to keep crying aloud until we shake this city and this nation with the truth that our God is worthy to be venerated to be respected and to be hallowed to be lifted up and to push us from this American perversion that we call Christianity care in the West it's perverted competition of churches perverted if he in jealous of what everybody else is doing is perverted spending more time on social media to get a word from some false prophet instead of being a gods where all of that is perverted bringing God's name down to the level of disgust is perverted perverted having a title and no reference for God all this stuff is perverted messages that we preach the books that we write the songs that we all of it we bring glory to ourselves and build monuments to ourselves all of it is perverted it flies in the nostrils of Almighty God but we here at Victory Church we're not going to bow down to perverted Christianity in America no we don't want that I got six people that agree we all want that no we want revival we want spiritual renewal we want gospel truth we want purity of the world of POD we want Yahweh we want God himself we want so much of him that will be satisfied with him what we trying to do this year and we'll end this year in the book of Revelation three months and the greatest vision Jesus gave a man so in this second week I'm just doing my best to communicate to continue to build on the foundation of this great character of the Holiness God Almighty so eternal God holy God [Music] while we cannot fully understand the fastness of who you are the greatness of who you are these are these are words coming from a man yet I pray with the anointing I received in the Holy Land you would you would add that grace to these words that you would open the hearts of these my brothers and sisters and even the guests among us who was not yet in the kingdom of God I prayed that you would give our finite mind some revelation of your grandeur and your greatness she would draw us to yourself in this moment open our hearts silence the voice of the accused and silence the voice of our flesh and silence the voice of everything else that is a distraction for just a few moments help us to lean in to your presence we don't want entertainment you want your word we want to encounter you we want to grow we want to be transformed we do not want to keep leaving gathering it's the same help me God to communicate this message help you people to receive it Christ's name I pray amen thank you so much gentlemen thank you amen means so let it be ancient Egypt at one point in time in world history the most powerful nation on the face of the earth Empire known for his technological advances for its military might an empire known for his pantheistic gods many gods gods of the environment gods of the Sun God of the moon gods of water gods of fields the most powerful nation in history at one point in time one of the greatest empires the world has ever known the book whoa history tells us that through the calling of a Jew named Joseph who brought his family down to Egypt when he was second-in-command at some point in time in world history he brought his father and his brothers down to the ancient Egypt and they lived in a part of Egypt called Goshen as they begin to have children and begin to multiply Pharaoh who world history does not tell us his name in the movies it's Rameses but the scripture does not tell us which Pharaoh it is but a very powerful Pharaoh gets wind of the growth of the people of God they begin to grow in such numbers and then he gets worried about them overthrowing Egypt he has mighty building projects he wants to accomplish and so he enslaves the people of Israel so that they can continue his building projects and by keeping them enslavement he protects his nation from being over and from this growing population of Jews living in Goshen history tells us not only African Americans have been enslaved for hundreds of years but our Judeo heritage that Christianity came from our brothers who some of them still don't believe in Jesus they also shared in the stain of slavery for some 400 years in Egypt northern Africa for a hundred years probably them Saints cried out to God and God did not respond and for 200 years they cried out to God and God did not respond and for 300 years they cried out to God and God did not respond and God did not respond because God is a God that will keep his word because he does not allow his word to fall to the floor it is not empty or void history tells us that God spoke to a man named Abraham and said your descendants your offsprings will be enslaved in a nation not their own for 400 years and in fact the 400 years I will come down and visit them and deliver them with a mighty hand and since God cannot break his promises some of those Perez fell on deaf ears in a generation until the time had come for God to fulfill what he had said in his word now 400 years later a Jew a israelite named Moses who's working in ancient Egypt kills a man who was persecuting one of his own brothers Moses gets found out for his murder and he flees ancient Egypt to a land called Midian out in the desert while Moses is out in the desert some 40 years later he has an encounter with God in a burning bush it's on fire but the leaves are not consumed God tells them take off the shoes where you stand for the place you stand is holy ground God communicates to this man named Moses a prophet with a stutter I like the fact that God calls people with issues right that God calls people who has issues and so he calls a man who has issues and he tells them I want you now to go back down to the most powerful nation on earth and you will communicate to that Pharaoh to release the Jews that are in slavery Moses communicates that he's a stutterer God tells him if you don't go I will kill you take your brother along with you he'll speak for you because I'm not gonna let you in security stop you from doing what I've called you to do that should be a blessing to somebody in this room come on somebody talk to me I'm not gonna let your insecurity stop you from doing what I've called you to do I already knew you had that issue when I told you right so you're gonna go down down to the most powerful nation on earth and you're gonna command that Pharaoh to let my people go now biblical history tells us that Moses goes down to meet with Pharaoh he gives Pharaoh the role the words of God and then history tells us that God does something very very strange he hardens the heart of Pharaoh so although watch God sends Moses to tell him let the people go the same god hard as that man hard to say don't let the people go because God works in presidents he works in Nations because what he's doing he's working throughout the whole earth to bring about his perfect will so so our hearts are still in his hands and so he hardens the heart of this Pharaoh that we don't know his name and Pharaoh says no I will not let the people go and then what happens next in world history is one of the greatest biblical and historical accounts attached to the name of Yahweh the Jews to this day still celebrate this great account one of the greatest things God has ever done in the history of mankind biblical history tells us that through ten powerful plagues God overthrows this mighty nation and if we study our history and our culture we quickly learned that each plague was God defaming or taking advantage of their love in a particular deity and so and so where they had the God of the Sun God blacked out the Sun that they will be darkness to show them that you are not God Yahweh is God and when they had a god of the water God filled that thing with blood to show them that your God of water Oh God at all I Yahweh and God and one plague after the another he brought shame to their little case geez right there lower case geez they're God's to show them that your gods have no power at all they were fashioned by your false beliefs there is only one God there is only one God there was only one card his name is Yahweh Jehovah God so he overthrew their little cage jeez cuz he knows how to tap o our idols and so he toppled the idols a pharaoh and after the last plague when he kindled the firstborn of all Egypt called the Passover when God told the Jews put the blood on the door and when I see the blood I'll pass over that you still celebrate that to this day which represented Jesus Christ although some of them reject that in world history after the Pharaoh lost his child he said enough with these people enough would their God he told Moses take your people and just leave now scripture tells us and history tells us that 600,000 men came out of Egypt with all of the gold and the plunder of the land 600,000 men the scripture says if we add the women and children because we know how to lay down some babies and if we add the women and children you have a number about 2 million to 3 million Jews that come out of the nation of Egypt now history tells us when they come out of Egypt they wander through the desert of Sinai being led by Moses being led by God a cloud by day a pillar of fire by night God in their front God in their back God leads them now and then he leads them through a narrow mountainside and he leads them to this place right here our body of water an ocean and now they travel all this way through the desert and now they come up on his body of water now they have no place to go and now they're standing right here on this body of water this picture was taken in Egypt and the other side of that body of water in Saudi Arabia modern-day Saudi Arabia it's in this exact spot two million people were camped out staring at the Red Sea the Gulf of Aqaba the tip of the northern tip of the Red Sea now their journey has come to an end at the northern tip of the Red Sea and they see across these mountains and now they are there they are stuck there in that place scripture tells us that Pharaoh realizes that he made a mistake letting all my free labor go and I need to go back and reclaim them and so he gathers his entire army 600 choice chariots other chariots all of his horsemen all of his soldiers he mounts up on horses and he goes after the children of Israel and then the Bible tells us something happens while they camped out right here they're staring at the sea Pharaoh is pursuing them from behind and then the history tells us in Exodus chapter 14 listen what the scripture tells us happens next as Pharaoh approached the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians marching after them they were terrified and cried out to the Lord they said to Moses was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us out here to the desert to die it's interesting how God would deliver us from something and then because everything is not perfect when we get out of it we want to run back to the thing that held us bound get freed from drugs and then things are not happening we run back to the thing that kept us bound get freed from some vise things are not working on we want to run back to sometimes we don't stay with God long enough to see what he would do in our life if we would stop keep running back to where we came from and just keep moving forward let me prophesy to some - rule you don't have nothing to go back to when you going back to you've been washed this delivered and you've been washed it set free why are you trying to go back to the old person you was man you might as well kill that part of your Instagram you're not that person anymore some of us need to archive half of our IG you not that person anymore you don't came out of Egypt somebody said I came out of Egypt then why are you trying to go back hardship trial God didn't answer this prayer you don't have nothing to go back to what have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt didn't we say to you in Egypt leave us alone let us serve the Egyptians it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die here in this desert then Moses answered the people do not be afraid stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring to you today some of us be so troubled in our spirit but we need to learn how to watch stand firm I don't know how this is gonna happen but stand firm I don't know how that doors gonna open but stand firm sometimes we need to just keep our feet planted long enough to see what God would do on our behalf you don't need to know how he's gonna do it you just need to trust him that he's able to do it somebody say he's able stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today I like this next point the Egyptians you see today that enemy that's been harassing you for how many years that monkey does bit on your back for how long that thing that's had you battle for how long he said the enemy you see today you will never see again the Lord will fight for you I like the fact that all my battles are not mine and when they cursed me out it's not my battle and when they fire me is not my battle and when they abandon me is not my battle and when they're not loyal is not my battle sometimes I just need to zip it and stay on my knees and let God do the rest of the world [Applause] you need only to be still then the Lord said to Moses why are you crying out to me well we there's an army behind us and an ocean in front of us why are you crying out to me because there's some things we asking God to do that is in our power to do he gave you things he gave you gifts he gave you an anointing there's some things we keep crying out to God for do that he gave you the power to do some of you have no idea what would happen if you pray if you take a step of faith if you would only believe if you would change your diet you believe for a miracle you just need to change your diet there's some things in our power to do and when we do them we see the salvation of the Lord why are you crying out to me Moses he says tell the Israelites move forward move on where God through an ocean move on raise your staff and stretch it out over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through on the sea on dry ground I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them they're gonna follow them into this ocean right and I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army sometimes we'd be in the middle of a trouble not knowing that God is not trying to he's not just trying to take us out the trouble he's trying to bring glory to himself and I will get glory watch this Pharaoh and all his army through his chariots and his horsemen the Egyptians you will now that the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh capital L Ord when I gain glory through Pharaoh his chariots and his Horseman's watch this then the angel of God who had been traveling in front of the Israel army withdrew and went behind them the pillar of cloud I don't even know how you see this and later on they still abandon God that's a whole nother sermon right the pillar of the cloud also more if I saw a cloud lead-in me I'm inclined to just follow that God it should be hope for us modern-day Christians Jews saw signs and wonders that still don't believe we've never seen him but yet we believe pray for the salvation of the Jews the cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel throughout the night the cloud brought darkness into the one side and the light to the other side so neither went near the other all night long then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea again and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land the waters were divided and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on their right and a wall of water on their left the Egyptians pursued them they're crazy and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea during the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and the cloud at the Egyptian army and he threw them into confusion now watch this part very carefully because people doubt the Bible is true look what the next verse says he made who made he made who made he made who made watch he made the wheels of their chariots to come off made the wheels of their chariots to come off pop off the chariots and land on the ground so that they had difficulty driving and the Egyptian said let's get away from the Israelites the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt that when we stand still and let God fight our battle he will vindicate you you don't have to vindicate yourself next three verses then the Lord said to Moses stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and their Horseman's Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and at daybreak early in the morning the sea went back to its place the Egyptians were fleeing toward it and the Lord swept them into the sea last verse the water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea not one of them not one survived now there are people to this day doubt this account they say the Bible's not true because these things are like fairy tales all the stuff y'all be preaching yeah I don't have no evidence for this but I want to tell you my brothers and sisters science and archaeology just catches up the things the Bible already said all science and archaeology does when properly uses confirm everything in the Bible so on my way to where I'm going which I'm trying to get back to Isaiah I want to pause and just go to school for just a second right I'm headed towards Isaiah but I need to just do this so let me give God some props in the middle of this message for just a second so the scripture tells us an army follow Israel into the Red Sea give me back the picture of the Red Sea and and followed them into this body of water and according to the Bible this body of water where we're standing there on the side of Egypt on the other side is modern-day Saudi Arabia according to the Bible at some point time in the world history God parted that body of water and the people of Israel went through on dry ground people doubt that man excavation teams man like back in the 80s or the 70s wanted to take a deep-sea dive in this channel right here right and and and I want to show you what this channel looks like when you pull back the water so here's the topographical map on one side is Egypt on the other side is modern-day Saudi Arabia now if you stare at this picture very carefully you'll notice that this body of water is deep on the left side it's deep on the right side but just underneath the surface of the water where you cannot see what your natural eye unless you part the water is under water bridge that's elevated in the middle of this strip of the Red Sea well they didn't know that but Yahweh the creator of heaven and earth he knows everything in the earth he led them to the exact place where they can cross over to the other side on underwater land bridge that they couldn't see until the water parted and so when you look underneath the Red Sea in the Gulf of aquabug between Egypt and modern-day Saudi Arabia there's this land bridge that they walked across this Lamberth he said well pastor I don't believe that but some archaeologists went diving there and I want to show you some things that they found there these pictures are grainy because they were taking decades ago and they were taken underwater so when the archaeologists went down what kind of things that they find at the bottom of that exact strip right there how about this first image right here something encrusted in coral if we stare at that what does that look like it looks like a chariot wheel to me coral only grows on objects so something is in the coral and when they unearth that it was a chariot wheel [Music] he also said he took 600 of his choice chariots means they had gold on their rims how about this image right here a gold chariot wheel found at the bottom of the Red Sea or what about the ones that were not choice wheels how about this one another chariot wheel found at the bottom of the Red Sea chariot wheels with no chariots but it said he made the wheels too to pop off their chariots so that they couldn't drive so there should be cherried wheels all over them so man the wheels is not enough evidence how about a whole chariot now unless you have a different explanation outside of the Word of God the Bible says God parted God parted the Red Sea his people went through on dry ground and army followed them and God swallowed that army to see there is no other way this stuff could have got there except the Bible is true when not only did they find cherries but how about these type of bones on the left side a femur bone normal on the right side a crusted female bone a femur bone pulls from the bottom of the Red Sea the bones of men many men and the bones of horses don't need to belabor this point then what the history tells us God leads them out of the Red Sea they set up two pillars to ramona more realize what God did God leads them now what is modern-day Saudi Arabia to the base of a mountain then the scripture tells us that God sets up a border at the base of the mountain and he tells Moses don't let anyone come past this border from if they come past this border my holiness will cause them to die God was so holy so pure so powerful if any person full of sin step past that border God said they were done so he set up a border and the people in camp two million of them around a mountain in modern-day Saudi Arabia Mount Sinai history tells us he calls Moses up to the top of the mountain Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he spends 40 days up there fasting with God history tells us according to the Scriptures that God was having communion with Moses and one point time Moses says enough show me your glory he says you can't see my face for if you see my face you will die for no one can see my face and live I'm too holy he says I put you in the rock you stand there turn around I'll pass by you you'll see my back and the back of God passed by Moses and I told you last week his face was shining with so much glory that people asked him to put on a veil now what happens next history tells us according to the scriptures that God was now about to reveal his holiness to his people and he was about to lay down on them a standard for living and on the side of the mountain with the finger of God Almighty the fire of his hand he begins to write in a language that I do not know and he carves out on the rock words he carves out on the rock words the first person that ever wrote the scriptures was God and then men took up the pen after that so god carves out scriptures he carves out something on the rock he burns them and then he takes them out the rock and he hands Moses these two tablets the Bible says and on these tablets were these words from Exodus and God spoke all these words watch I am the Lord Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt out of the land of slavery you shall not have any other gods before me you shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the waters below you shall not bow down or worship them for I the Lord your God am a jealous God punishing the children for the sin of the father's father's we better know that your life you live now can affect your grandchildren that's why we need to be conscious of the legacy we're building he's a legacy of wretchedness or a legacy of righteousness the decisions we make now will affect our offspring some are suffering right now because a father was not in place suffering right now because some grandfather was not in place suffering right now because some man was not in place men let's rise up and leave a godly legacy for our wives our girlfriends our children and our children's children I thought I would get some more brothers to agree with me on that right there but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my Commandments you shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy six days you shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is Sabbath to the Lord your God or it shall not you do any work neither you nor your son nor your daughter nor your main servant your maidservant nor your animals nor your aliens within you aliens are foreigners in your gates for six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and on that he and and all that was in them but he rested on the seventh day therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy holy a time of rest during the week that is holy honor your father and mother so that it may be long and it's a honor them if they're good no criteria for honor just respect them but they are junky honor them but they abandoned me honor them he says no matter what they do don't disrespect your father and your mother it'll be better for you to keep quiet and stay away from them than to dishonor them he didn't say you had to obey them weren't you an adult he just said respect them you shall not murder you shall not commit adultery you shall not steal he says you shall not give false testimony against your neighbour you shall not covet your neighbor's house you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his maidservant his maidservant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor when the people saw the Thunder and the lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke they tremble with fear they stayed at a distance and they said to Moses because they saw the power of God even last night when we heard the Thunder I was saying to the v-groove leaders I had a meeting with them last night I said man God whispers and the earth responds with thunder and when we hear thunder that shakes the house man that's just a mumbling of God's lips that the next time we hear thunder that shakes your house that's just the mumbling of God's lips he whispers and the thunders they stayed at a distance for Moses speak to us yourself and if we will listen but do not have God speak to us or we will die now let me put these Commandments back up on the screen together and I want to show you something very powerful from what we call the moral law the Ten Commandments if you stare at these Ten Commandments the moral law you will quickly realize that we can't keep them proof let's run the entire church through the Ten Commandments you shall have no other gods before me that is if you've ever loved anything more than me you and you have already broken this commandment that renders almost all of us in this room guilty okay you shall not make for yourself an idol man some of us love Beyonce more than we love God so almost all of us who American Christians have already broken that one that renders us watch guilty you should not misuse the name of the Lord your God how many times have you something stubbed your toe you like Gd or something didn't work out right GT how many times I would say Gd God deed Gandhi Gandhi would take God's name his holy name and bring it down to a curse word with disgust guilty right guilty remember the Sabbath day and keep us holy how many of us work seven days and never rests workaholics guilty right honor your mother and father we didn't have to stop yeah cuz many of us have already disrespected our parents right you shall not murder I'll never kill someone but Jesus expanded these when he came and says even if you hate someone in your heart you're guilty of murder so if you've ever hated someone you've already broken that one right he says don't come in adultery oh I've never stepped out my marriage but Jesus expanded that one he said if you've ever looked with lust all the men in this room we are guilty before God ever so women - oh what no no nothing Oh Oh you should not steal I've never stolen anything never robbed anything you took that pen from your office that didn't belong to you put paper clips in your purse that didn't belong to you gone places and taking things that they didn't say was free guilty don't give false testimony don't lie I'll just bend that just to get out of this Jam yeah don't covet social media has helped all of us break that law don't be jealous of what somebody else's have I want their church I want their wife I want their car what the IG feed I want their followers I want this I want one and and and what let's just stare at these for just a moment watch stare at them stare at them you know what you see in them you see the righteousness and the holiness of God or mine and it is by these standards the wake of his holiness he will judge all human beings in the end all human beings will have to stand underneath the weight all unrepentant human beings will have to stand underneath the wind so when we stand before God if we have not repented we have to bear the weight of his moral law the weight of his holiness the weight of his righteousness and look we can't keep them he is so holy he is so righteous that even his holy standard communicates to us that we need something from him that we cannot provide on our own inter Isaiah the passage we started last week Isaiah chapter 6 a man who lived 700 years before Jesus was born a prophet a Jew now who was also familiar with the moral law but in the year that a great king died one King is removed and another king is about to reveal himself he says in the year that Uzziah died I saw the Lord seated on a own high and exhausted and the Train of his robe it filled the temple and if you missed last week's message you need to listen to that when I unpacked the first four verses above him with Sarah's beans made of fire each with six wings and I told you God creates creatures for their environments fish with gills for water birds with the air but you've never seen a giant bird with six wings not needed here but in the presence of Almighty God where it is holy and pure they have wings to fly but because it is so holy up there they have wings to cover their face didn't that look upon the holiness of God and they have wings to cover their feet because the ground is holy they are fashioned for their environment with two wings they covered their faces with two wings they covered their feet and with two wings they were flying and they were calling to one another holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty holy and they fly around him holy here's the Lord God Almighty holy and I told you last week when God wants to use emphasis he said things twice truly truly but this is the only place referring to his character we see the Annunciation goes three times holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty the whole earth is filled with his glory verse four and that the sound of their voices the doorposts of the threshold shook and the Temple was filled with smoke and last week I said to you and blew my mind when I was studying this that as they cried out holy holy holy an inanimate object with no eyes no ears no heart no conscience had to respond to the holiness of God and so although it could not speak the doorpost and a door could not speak the floor yet because it was in the presence of holiness it had to respond so it just shook in the presence of God now watch what happens next Isaiah seize the holiness of God he gets a revelation that God Almighty is holy he's not dope he is not a name on a bracelet he is not my homeboy he is not just some some some platitude this great mighty being who is the creator of all things he is holy he is sovereign he's majestic he is great Isiah gets a glimpse of his holiness he gets a revelation of the holiness of God and how there's a sinful fallible man named Isaiah respond to the holiness of God give me a house give me a car let me put you on a t-shirt open this door his first revelation that God is holy what is his first prayer as he realizes that God Yahweh is holy Isaiah cries out whoa to me I cry I feel this every time I study every during the week I am ruined he said I am a man of unclean lips and I live among the people of unclean lips and my eyes have seen the king the Lord Almighty Isaiah gets a revelation of the holiness of God and he does not thank him for anything he sees the holiness of God and in that moment he realizes how sinful he is before a holy God and he cries out woe is me woe unto me the word war will see in Revelation at the end of the year is a word of cursing a word of damnation a word of death as they said when I realized how holy God was and when I realized how sinful I am I realized the only thing I deserve in front of a holy God is death and damnation then Isiah realized God was so holy and so pure and that he was so sinful that the only thing he deserved from God was death and damnation God you are so I'm not even worthy to know you I'm worthy of death because of my sin I'm worthy of death because of my wrong man that's not American Christianity that's the cry watch this word a curse word in the American church that's the cry of repentance that's the cry of a human being that gets a revelation that God is so holy so mighty his standard is so high he's so pure that when I weigh up his holiness against my sinful life the only thing I deserved from him is death I deserve nothing from him except death and damnation and how does God about to land this plane respond to a repentant isaiah does he crush him does he ignore him you know how God responds to a repentant isaiah emotions to the being of fire the Seraphim he says then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hands which he had taken with tongs from the altar the altar in heaven burning with fire and coals on they're full of fire and as we read the scriptures we understand that this coal represented the righteousness and the holiness of Yahweh so hot was this fire so holy and pure that the angelic being can't even touch it with his hands and has to use an object to touch this righteous coal he grabs a coal from the altar and then the scripture tells us in verse 7 with it he touched my mouth and he said see this has touched your lips your guilt has been taken away your sin has been atoned for when Isaiah had crowd and touched his mouth why did he go to his mouth first of all the things he could have grabbed but he realized he grabbed his mouth I'm sinful because the Bible says from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks the mouth reflects the expression of who we are and I say I realized that he was sinful before a holy God and in his repentance and in his riving God does not crush him under the weight of that holy standard you know what God extends to Isaiah this powerful word that we don't appreciate he extends to him grace he does for Isaiah when he could not do for himself Isaiah could not stand underneath the weight of God's holiness and His Majesty his high standard as they realized I cannot weigh up against his holiness and in repentance he says I deserve nothing from God except death but that's not American Christianity because we think we have a right to everything God has we are self entitled we think he has we have a right for him to answer we have a right for him to move we have a right for him to give us the house the car the boyfriend the girlfriend we have a right for him to bless the business we feel like we have a right to God himself we forget that we are sinful creatures that's gonna be crushed in the judgment under the weight of a holy standard that we cannot keep watch and no man can escape that standard why don't people preach this in America that you have people sitting in churches every Sunday playing in church far from Jesus not realizing that they're speeding towards a court date in which they will have to stand and give an account against that holy righteous standard and the weight of God's holiness is going to crush them to the point of damnation but Isiah having received grace knowing full well that he could not respond to the holiness of God how does he respond to God's grace how does a sinful human being who knows he's going to be crushed under the weight of God's holiness how does an unworthy unrighteous human being respond to the weight of God's holiness and the love of His grace to say I atoned for your sin I take it away you have been justified before me how does Isaiah respond to that I say it says in verse 8 then I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us Father Son and Holy Spirit and I said here am I send me as they haven't I keep reading this in my private time Isaiah gets a revelation of his sin against the holiness of God and he does not respond with God with a laundry list of what I want you to do his cry towards God who saved him from something he could not save himself from it's God because I am so sinful and because you're gonna crush us under the weight of your holiness but because you extended your grace to me and atone for my sin I have no other response to such a holy being and his love and His grace but to hurl myself into his service what more can I do with my life but to give it for the glory of the one who extended to me what I could not extend to myself is this not a picture of the work of Jesus Christ then the work that all of us who was saying we won't even lift our hands for selfish we won't thank God for what is them we are constantly making him for stuff bikini for worship him for years and what he has done we're full of apathy and prod we're full of entitlement we think we all we even think we have a right to God you don't even have access to him apart from grace and to think that all of us who were safe was feeling for damnation to be crushed under the weight of a holy God Yahweh his standard that we cannot keep he decided to take a coal from the altar the Holy Spirit is saying although Lena can't keep my law I'm gonna burn her heart with the coal from this altar and rescues her from the Dominion of dr. Melissa who can't stand to meet the weight of my holiness I'm gonna take the coal of the Holy Spirit and burn my heart and rescue her from the Dominion of Philip who blasphemy and did not know me although he is full of sin I'm gonna take a call from the altar in a bathroom of the apartment I'm gonna fire his heart and rescue him from the Dominion of darkness [Music] and Danielle and Nadine and Chanel in Israel one after one of the one he says I'm sending coals into the earth I'm a burn a heart with repentance and rescue them from the Dominion of darkness and I will give them what they cannot give themselves atonement for the weight of my holiness that's gonna crush every person who has not repented how in God's name can to believe not throw themselves to the service of the one who rescued them how in America can the believer who has been rescued cannot venerate him how do we not bow down and lift holy hands in his presence how do we never worship him for who he is apart from what we want him to do how do we not recognize that we're full of sin and we're blasphemous and we will be crushed under the weight of His Holiness apart from the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ this is American Christianity where is reverence for the being that extended His grace in the middle of my sin where's respect for him where is honor for him where's reverence for His Holy Name dis my brothers and sisters man then I pray those of us who are Christians will remember what we was before he found us before I was prophet before I was pastor before I was fill in the blank I was a sinner separated from Jesus separated from the grace of God and being ready to be crushed under the weight of his holiness that time I drove home drunk that car accident that I didn't die you think about how many days you slept and woke up because of his grace outside of His grace where you could have been crushed by the weight of His Holiness in judgment how did he respond atone for your sin we don't love him you don't worship him how in God's name can the person who saved from the wrath that is coming in and we have been freed from the prison of the law underneath the grace of Jesus how and God's name do we not respond to his word do we not support his work do we not lift up our hands we don't worship we don't praise we're bored with the being that delivered us from the weight of His Holiness oh I would and every Christian in this room with we just begin to thank him for your rescue I would in this room that we would remember how sinful we was and begin to love him I got one person on they feet that we will begin to honor him for the rescue that he provided to us you could not save yourself and you could not atone yourself [Music] and praise God for clap but does that translate to a revelation in the heart and Yahweh is holy and apart from Jesus his holy standard will crush me in the judgement how can I not throw myself into the adoration and praise of his name and the service of God Almighty this is the perversion of American Christianity how about we say God I want you what if the next prayer is just I just want you I want to know you I want to walk with you I want to love you I want to talk with you I want to lay down at night on the floor and shed tears because of what you have done for me I want to love you and enjoy you for what you have done one day I will be in glory with the seraphs bowing down with them for the endless ages of eternity because of the rescue you provided for me how can I throw myself into your work in your service he's holy holy holy and we will be crushed under the weight of his holiness it was not for His grace and His mercy that rescued us Mary all the more respect him and venerate him and live for his glory may we respond as I say it did here I am here am i Lord I see the brokenness of my city send me I see the perversion for social media but send me I see the issues in my family but send me I see my friends that don't believe in you but send me send me send me God I Lord will go for you I will do what you want me to do I will go where you want me to go I will worship and respect your holy name send me that is my prayer for you that you will get a reminder the holiness of God his righteous standard and His grace that pulls you from underneath the law and made you free in the Lord Jesus Christ my prayer is that someone will whisper to him in this moment here am i Lord I see the work that is needed in the earth and I would somebody's heart would be broken over the condition of our society but I don't even know how to end this sermon because we don't care when we leave church we're gonna drive by broken neighborhoods and get on social media and see wretchedness and ungodliness and the mockery of our God and I just wanna had 300 people in this room that would care enough to say Lord enough is enough send me God I will rep you on social media I will rep you in school I'll rip you on the child I rep you in a business I rep you in the field I rep you in my home I'll rip you in my marriage Here I am dust at me [Music] send me God I will not remain silent I will cry aloud [Music] eternal God and ever wise by the Holy Hour we feel no real tangible presence in this room the weight of your Shekinah glory and your holiness we your children who have been saved by your unmerited grace will we have an honest moment right now may we repent for where we have had idols and idolatry and where we have treated you like a G where we have disrespected you and dishonored you and felt entitled to you maybe all the more lift up the name of Jesus the Savior who shed the blood necessary for us to be atoned a sin and may we care all the more about the brokenness all around us under the weight of your holiness when we look around our homes how a marriages our jobs our businesses social media I wish cities our nation and when we cry out to you God I see the brokenness and the moral decadence of man I see what's happening to government and then we cry all the more here am i Lord send me I will care about what you care about I pray that for the believer in the room right now we truly hope this message resonated with you and encourage you in Christ if this ministry has been a blessing to you please support the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the giving option that works best for you and again thanks for tuning in and we look forward to singing

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Published: Sun Jan 20 2019