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09/14/2026

GRANDPARENTS’ DAY
As you can tell from our up-coming opening text, this week I was still studying Paul’s writings to Timothy. We can read in 2nd Timothy 1:5 that while writing to Timothy, Paul writes “Timothy, I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which was first lived in your grandmother Lois and then in your mother Eunice. I am persuaded it now lives in you.”
Folks, Timothy’s mother and his mother were both Jews and believers in Jesus. Don’t you find it interesting how Timothy’s mother and grandmother were such strong believers that they were able to influence Timothy for the Lord? Doesn’t that indicate to you the Christian influence we can be to others.
Folks, that still happens today as many Christians influence others including family members to the Lord. What about you? In what direction are you influencing your family, friends, and your acquaintances?
Beloved, as you sit there pondering this part of the Lord’s message let me try to keep your interest up by telling you that in Proverbs 17:6, Solomon says. “Children’s children are a crown to the aged and parents are the pride of their children.” Folks. what about you?
Are you now conducting yourself in such a way so that your children, your grandchildren, and your great grandchildren can learn Christian values from you? Can you think of anything better than to lead them to the Lord? We should never give up.
Folks, I pray you feel that down through the years, you have grown spiritually and have matured to the point where you are now even more concerned about the salvation of others and that includes your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren.
Grandparents, how do you feel about being a grandparent? Did it make you feel any older when that grandchild came into your life? Did you feel a need to get wiser? Has becoming a grandparent caused you to feel a bit more responsible for the spiritual growth of your family?
YES, I sure enjoy being a grandfather. It has been a pleasure to watch our children grow up and even a greater pleasure to watch our grandchildren and great grandchildren grow up.
Folks, the truth of the matter is I enjoy watching our grandchildren and our great grandchildren grow up much more than I enjoyed watching their parents, our children grow up.
Maybe that is because, as a grandparent, I don’t feel the stress and strain, or the financial worries a child brings on. Maybe it’s because I have more time to spend with my grandchildren and great grandchildren than I had to spend with their parents.
AND, it’s because I don’t feel like I have to be as strict with our grands and greats as I was with their parents and thus I can spoil them. Being a grandparent and a great grandparent has many blessing and as our text points out many responsibilities.
Beloved, I am sure we all know that, as a Christian, we are responsible for our neighbor, but let’s never forget we have a great responsibility as a parent, a grandparent, and a great grandparent.
In today’s world, where people are so busy trying to make a living and going from place to place, let’s always remember that it won’t do any good for you to gain the entire world, if in doing it, you don’t take the time to, at least try to make sure your children and your grands are saved.
With times as hard as they are, sometimes, only grandparents have time to take the grandchildren or great grandchildren to church. Sometimes only the grandparents have time to read the Bible to their grandchildren or great grandchildren and train them up in the ways they should grow.
Sometimes it is the grandparents who introduces the child to the Lord. Folks, I don’t care who introduces someone to the Lord, as long as it gets done. We can’t just sit around and not try to do something about someone who is lost whether it is a child, an adult or one of our grands.
Beloved, there is only one place in the Bible where the title “grandmother” is used. The title “grandfather” is not used at all. When we use those titles today, we need to understand the importance of the grandparents in a child’s life including leading their grandchildren to God.
For the most part, today’s grandparents can still have a tremendous influence in their grandchildren’s life. I feel we grandparents can still lead our grandchildren to God or away from God, by the lives we live and the examples we set. We grandparents are specially blessed because we can set a Christian example for our grandchildren who look up to us.
Beloved, Paul told Timothy the faith he had, came to him, from his grandmother who had passed it to his mother, who passed it on to him. This shows us the great influence grandparents can have on their grands and many others. I am talking to all of you grandparents and you parents, all of us should be witnesses for Christ, and many times it’s through the lives of the older family members that the children learn about the Lord.
Beloved, the Bible tells us in Proverbs 22:6 that it is the parents place to raise their children in the ways of the Lord. God has placed upon parents, grandparents, and great grandparents the priestly vocation of communicating our Christian heritage to our children and our grands.
It is important we realize that there are many different types of influences our children, grands, and greats are exposed to. Parent, grandparents and great grandparents are no longer the sole role models for their children.
The many different forms of mass media like cell phones, I-Phones, plus peers, T-V’s and the schools, teach values to our children. And many times, those values are not the values our children or grands should have.
Beloved, when we measure the time children are being influence by others outside the family, it’s no wonder parents feel embattled and it is no wonder those children who just grow up with no proper Christian influence end up being lost.
Parents and grandparents should live up to their responsibility to communicate and live the values of their Christian heritage. Here a while back, more than three hundred thousand parents were interviewed in a survey concerning what they felt was the greatest threat to the family. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT THE THREAT WAS?
The number one issue was not cell phones, I phones, television, or drugs, it was not permissive s*x, divorce, or even mothers working outside the home. The vast majority of those parents said they thought the greatest threat to family life today is inattentive parents.
Kids are not being raised, they are just growing up. This is why in today’s stressful world, grandparents and great grandparents are called upon more and more to fill the ever widening, gap.
Beloved, children are great learners. Sometimes when you think the child is just playing, in all reality they are listening, watching and learning. They are learning all the time.
Children are learning what it means to be an adult, and parents and grandparents are still the primary source of this learning for children. Folks, this idea that children learn the most from their peers is wrong. If their parents or grandparents are doing their job they will learn from them.
Let me stress, this is true only if parents do not forfeit their responsibilities to be the primary source of learning and influence for their children and grands. If parents forfeit this right, them grandparent must step in and do their part in sharing a Christian influence with the youth.
Beloved, the Bible tells us, for the most part, when the day comes when the child grows up and goes his or her own way and if they happen to stray from the Christian ways of their parents, usually they will come back to their Christian values as they get older.
Beloved that is if they have been taught Christian values in the first place. Many adolescents will reject the values of their parent for a while in order to test them. They have to find out if their parents or grandparents live those values and if those values are for them. It’s painful and uncomfortable for the parents and grandparents to watch this, but usually it’s not a crisis.
Beloved, the crisis occurs when parents or grandparents forfeit or give up their responsibility to stand up for Christian VALUES and instead yield to some worldly influence to instruct their swayable children or grands.
Parent, grandparents, you can give your children and or grands an appreciation for right and wrong if you have the courage to and want to.
You can tell them what is good and true and beautiful, and you can equip your children, and or grands who look up to you, to find their own way in the world and still live as Christians. You can do this, if you have the courage, want to, and will take the time and make the effort.
Beloved, might I add, most children and grands will pay a lot of attention to their grandparents if their grandparents will only pay attention to them. Too many grandparents think once they become grandparents, they are too old to cut the mustard and be of any teachable use.
Some grandparents want to give up, sit back, and not take on any responsibilities. Sometimes it seems there are some older people who think they are the only ones who get tired.
The only thing I’ve got to say about that is, CHET IS RIGHT, when he says its better getting older than not getting older. Folks getting older is a part of the process of life. In the due course of time, old age will come to most of us. Others will never live long enough to see old age and that is too bad.
Folks, the only way to prevent old age and getting old is for you to die young. To that end statistics tell us in this past generation there are more and more young-people between the ages of 25 - 44 who are not living older.
They are not living long enough to get old. What do they have to show for their life? What do you have to show for your life?
Ladies, you can’t say I didn’t warn you so listen up and be careful. Did you hear that on November 29, 2023, a 70-year-old woman became the world’s oldest mother when she gave birth to twins? I don’t think there are many older women who want to have something like that to show for their life.
Modern day medical practices are helping some older people live older and older. Therefore, what will it be like to be old is a question many of us must face. Yet, not all of us will answer the question in the same way.
Funny isn’t it, everyone wants to live a long, long time, but nobody wants to get old. Why do we glorify the youth and think of old age more in terms of its liabilities than its assets. Isn’t just the opposite true? I believe the older you get the more you can appreciate life and the world around you.
Too many people consider old age as a time of failing powers of both the mind and the body. BUT look at the advantage of wisdom many older people have. As one of those older people, let me tell you, we should not see old age as a time of the lessening of the satisfactions and the joys of life.
We should not be afraid of the later years. A couple of the reasons for dreading old age are the feelings of being set aside and getting removed from active pursuits of life.
To a degree, age is an attitude of the mind, you are as old or young as you think you are. AND RIGHT NOW I, never mind. However, old age should not be burdensome or unhappy. Old age can have beauties and assets not attainable by the youth. Old age is a portion of life.
It is the perfection of a pattern. It is the fulfillment of what went before, the period of completion and rounding out of live. As such it need not be looked forward to with fear or dismay, rather with pleasurable anticipation.
Beloved, whether our later years of life are or will be happy or unhappy depends largely upon ourself and our care giver. Did you know the Bible contains many encouraging and uplifting perspectives concerning getting older. It shifts getting OLD away from the decay of the body and mind to highlighting old age as a time of peak fulfillment and purpose of life.
The books of Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, and both books of Timothy provide a lot of information on the benefits of living long enough to get old.
You will find in the Bible, reference to older people setting the example for younger ones. I encourage everyone to go home today and study these books.
You might also study the 17th verse of the 103rd Psalm which says, “But from everlasting to everlasting, the Lord’s love is with those who fear Him and His righteousness with their children’s children.”
Beloved in the 12th verse of the 132nd Psalm God says, “If your sons keep my covenant, and the statues I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne forever and ever.
Folks, look at the promises that are ours if we remain faithful to the Lord and do all we can to teach His ways to our children and our children’s children. Look at the blessings that will be theirs if only we will do our part.
Beloved, in God’s message to us today God is telling all of us we are to go home and tell our families how much the Lord loves us and has done for us and how He has had mercy for us, and how if we will follow His plan of salvation and are faithful unto the very end we will have a home in heaven and if they will do the same, so will they. It is your decision, and it is now our time of decision

09/07/2026

LABORING FOR THE LORD
Text - Luke 10: 1 - 24
When Mary and I moved down here in October of 1987, we brought with us several (sealed) quart jars of Honey. It’s all gone now. Would you believe honey would keep that long? Actually, archaeologist have dug up clay jars of honey that were more than 3,000 years old, and the honey was still good.
Beloved, about 60 years ago, among other things, I was raising Honey Bees and selling their honey. Those nine-bee hives were enough to keep me busy. Folks, I never became a master at raising bees, but I was good enough at raising bees, that we had enough honey for our house hold and supplemented our income by selling some of the Honey and Cone those bees produced.
If you are wondering if I was ever stung, the answer is “YES”. I don’t think a day ever went by when, if I was working those bees, I didn’t end up getting stung. And I never got used to being stung.
Did you know the stinger of a bee is only one-tenth of an inch long. The other nine-tenths of the inch of that stinger you felt was pure imagination.
Now, let’s get on with today’s message. On Monday evening as I was prayerfully thumbing through the Bible, I was led to the 10th chapter of Luke.
In verses 1 through 24 we can study about Jesus sending 72 disciples out before Him in pairs of two. Those disciples’ job was to tell the people in the towns that Jesus was about to visit about Jesus.
First, Jesus appointed His disciples, and then He gave them directions concerning how He wanted them go out two by two and witness about Him, and prepare the way for Him.
Beloved, these disciples were not unique in their qualifications. They were not better educated or serving at a higher status than the other disciples. What equipped them the most was their faith in Jesus, their dedication to Jesus’ mission, and their love for Jesus and their brothers and sisters in Christ.
In Luke 10: verses 2 & 3 Jesus pointed out to His disciples, the same thing He is pointing out to us today. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. And that they should ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest field. Then Jesus said, “ Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”
Beloved, these verses relate to a happening which is not recorded by any other Gospel writer. The happening I am referring to is our Lord’s appointment of these disciples who were to go out and go to witness for Him. The instructions with which these disciples were sent out are deeply interesting and they deserve our close attention.
The first point in our Lord’s charge to the disciples of that day and to us today is the importance of prayer and intercession in His followers’ life. This is the leading thought with which our Lord opens His address to His disciples.
Jesus bids them to pray to the Lord and ask Him to send forth laborers into His harvest field. Folks, prayer is one of the best and most powerful means of helping the cause of Christ in the world. And what makes it so special is the fact that prayer is a means that is within the reach of all of us. Each one of can pray unto the Lord.
Beloved, not all Christians have money. Not all Christians have great intellect, gifts, or extensive influence among men. But all Christians can pray for one another and for the success of the furthering of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So, there is no reason why we can’t be laboring for the Lord through Prayer?
Beloved, the second point in our Lord’s charge to His disciples was in regards to the dangerous nature of the mission in which they were about to engage in. Folks, Jesus does not withhold any of the information about the dangers and trials that are before us.
He does not enlist us under false pretenses or prophecy. He does not promise us great success or a bed of roses. Do you notice what Jesus says in regards to this matter? Jesus said, “I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.”
Beloved, for so long as the Lord’s church stands, Christians must expect to be like ‘lambs among wolves.” We must accept the fact that there will be people who will not want anything to do with us because our presence makes them feel uncomfortable or guilty.
There are people who don’t want to invite us to their gatherings because our presence might keep them from having the kind of fun they want to have or keep them from doing things they want to do.
The Apostle Paul tells us that all of us who strive to live a godly life will suffer persecution in one form or another. But that should not make a difference in our labor for the Lord because we are to do the best we can with what the Lord has given us the blessing to do it.
In 2ND Timothy 2: verse15 Paul writes, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”
Beloved, if we were to take Paul’s words seriously, they would be some mighty tall marching orders, wouldn’t they? Can you live up to those orders? Do you attempt to live up to those orders in your life outside the church? Years ago, there was a church going, businessman who many people said was anything but a Christian.
This man was an active member of the church. He taught a Sunday School class and served on the church’s finance committee. But he was a different man outside the church. The working conditions at his place of business were far from ideal. He treated his people terrible and he paid some of the lowest wages in town. Many people had no idea that he was a Christian.
Time and time again he would make a big deal out of the fact that he had pledged a great deal of money to his church, or to some other worthy cause. But none of those pledges were fulfilled.
Before long the entire town knew that this man was not a man of his word. One day someone mentioned to the man that what he professed in church was a far cry from how he lived his life.
The man replied, “What I believe has nothing to do with the way I run my business. Church is church and business is business. Religion should be kept in the church and business should be kept outside the church.”
I hope you do not agree with that man’s opinion. No one should keep their faith separate from their home life and business? As far as that is concerned, no one should keep their faith solely inside the walls of the church building and not worry about taking it to work, or play, or any other area of their life? People should know you are a Christian by the life you live in and out of the church.
Folks, how far outside those doors does your Christianity go? Is your faith, a faith that deals only with spiritual matters and spiritual things while you are in church? I pray not. I pray you think that as a Christian, it really does matter what we do with our life outside the church?
Beloved, the Bible is not on the side of separating one’s faith from one’s life. In fact, I get the impression from studying God’s Word that being spiritual and being pregnant are alike in the fact that either you are or you are not.
Folks, the Son of God that is written about in the Bible came to this world to be the Redeemer of all of a man’s life, not part of it.
Jesus is the Lord of all of our life, our work, our play, our home and everything else or else He is not Lord of any of it. If our Christianity, if what we believe, does not spill over into the way we live our life outside these walls, then we are not nearly the Christian we should be.
We need to realize that on Judgment Day God will examine what kind of a Christian witness, what kind of a worker, we have been for Him in our life. We need to build our life around His will, as it is expressed in and through His Word.
Folks, God’s Word tells us how He expects us to live for Him and serve Him. Christians who ignore the guidance found in the Word of God will certainly be ashamed of what they have to show for their life at the time of the Great Judgment Day.
Folks, along these same lines let me assure you that consistent and diligent study of God’s Word is vital to a Christian’s growth. That is why it is so important for Christians to come to church.
Otherwise, we will be lulled into neglecting God and our true purpose for living and we will have nothing meaningful to show for our life. Right now, you have time to make a meaningful difference.
Do you have a specific place where you want your Christian light to shine? Folks, among other places our faith should be seen by others where we live our life and it should make a difference in our life.
Timothy was a young man just entering the ministry when Paul wrote to him in 2nd Timothy 2: verse 15 saying, “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”
Paul then went on to give some good advice to Timothy about such things as staying away from those who were a bad influence. Paul told Timothy to work for the Lord with diligence, endurance, and faithfulness to the Word of God. Folks, that’s what we need to do so we can reveal our faith through our life.
Beloved, what we do, reveals what we believe. Timothy went into a profession that was pleasing to God. He was going to be doing his best to “rightly” divide “the word of truth.” He was going to be a witness for the Lord.
In response to God’s call to him, Timothy was going to go out and proclaim the Word of God. In doing that work, Paul told him he was not to be ashamed of what he was doing or of the Word of God.
Timothy was going to be doing something honorable. And his work would be a testimony to everyone saying, “here was someone whose beliefs are strong enough and deep enough to compel him to be a laborer who was not ashamed of his vocation.”
Beloved, Paul told Timothy, “Do your best to present yourself to God as a workman who has no need to be ashamed.” Folks, I think we all can agree that Timothy was doing something that was honorable, but why was he doing it?
From Timothy’s testimony we know he was fulfilling his calling because he saw in it an opportunity to serve God. Timothy saw an opportunity to witness for the Lord and to bring others into the Kingdom of God. Timothy served God through serving others.
Beloved, we ought to see our work or walk in life as an opportunity to serve God and others. Our walk in life ought to be an offering to God. What we do should make this a better world because we were here doing the Lord’s will in our life.
Beloved, if through our walk in life we are not living as a Christian and helping others to come to know Jesus as their Savior and the Lord of their life, we need to ask ourself “What was our life all about? What will we have to show the Lord when Judgment Day comes?”
If we are not contributing to the Christian betterment of others, then we need to seriously examine what we do and why we are doing it, because each of us needs to be laboring for the Lord.
Paul said, “Do your best rightly handling the word of truth.” Folks, Timothy was told to do his best. He was not told he had to be perfect. And despite what anyone else says, neither do we.
Paul knew Timothy was going to make mistakes. He knew Timothy would forget and overlook things and put off things and not perceive things. He knew Timothy would not be a perfect witness.
He knew there would be times when Timothy would preach a great sermon, but no one would listen. Paul knew there would be times when Timothy would say and do the wrong thing and probably make someone angry. But, folks, I again stress that Paul did no tell Timothy he had to be perfect, Paul told him he was to do his best in rightly handling the word of truth.
What about you? What are you doing outside the church? Too many of us have separated our faith from our life in the world. What we believe and do in church on Sunday, we don’t live Monday through Saturday.
Too many people keep God all boxed up in their Church building all week long. Just as soon as church is over, they leave and live their life in such a way that no one could ever guest they were a Christian. Folks, we have got to let the Lord’s Word sink in and help us become the person God wants us to be.
When people follow the ways of the world, they find their life incomplete. This may be the reason their life is not as full as they want it to be. This might be the reason they struggle through life with discouragement, a feeling of being incomplete and disappointment.
This might be the reason why there is no real lasting joy and happiness in their life. Folks, for us to really be happy and content in life, we need to be doing the Lord’s will where and how the Lord wants us to be doing it.
We need to be laboring for the Lord. We must realize that what we do, why we do it, and how we do it, are our testimony as to whether or not we believe God is indeed the Lord of all of our life.
Beloved, is the One who gave you your life, the Lord of your life? Are you laboring for Him? Does He know you love Him by what you do for Him? I pray people know you are a Christian by how you live your life seven days a week. But it is your decision. And our decision time is before us
As we prepare to close this message and leave, I encourage you to ask God to help you labor for Him in accordance to His will. Don’t be a secret Christian.

08/30/2026

GOING TO CHURCH
TEXT: Isaiah 6:1-8
For those of you who were here last Sunday, I hope you remember that part of our message was about us preparing for Judgment Day, and how we need to be praying for the guidance, forgiveness and mercies of God.
We were also told about our need to be concerned about the soul salvation of others. And yes, last Sunday I tried to sing words to songs that I won’t be singing today.
Beloved, the Lord’s message to us this morning has to do with us going to church and how “The Lord’s Church” is made up of people not buildings. Yes, I know I also brought up some other issues last Sunday, and I hope you were motivated enough to go to your Bible and look them up for yourself this past week. However, that was your responsibility.
As your pastor, your minister, your shepherd, your evangelist, or whatever, one of my responsibilities is to deliver sermons each week that are based on God’s Word. We all need God’s guidance in our life.
It is not my responsibility to entertain you, but if it was, I would tell you about that time when a man was pulled over for speeding by the police. When the officer asked the man what his hurry was the man told the officer the lady sitting in the back seat was his mother-in- law and after living with him and his wife, her daughter, for the last three months, out of nowhere she got angry and demanded that he take her back to her house immediately. And the man said, he was trying to get her back to her home as fast as he could before she changed her mind. The officer handed the man his driver licenses back, and said, “Follow me, I’ll give you a police escort.”
Beloved, my first question to you is, why do people go to church? Is it to fellowship and share their feelings with their brothers and sisters in Christ? Is it to sing songs and get closer to the Lord? Is it to study and learn from God’s Word so you can grow in knowledge and understanding of God and His will? Is it to give and gain Spiritual support? Is it all of this and much more?
Folks, the next question is “Why SHOULD people go to church”? Are the answers the same as or close to the same answers as given to the first question? Don’t we also come to church to receive the Lord’s guidance as well as give encouragement to others and get encouragement from others
Beloved, you can’t tell it from the current 79 percent of Americans who don’t go to church, but there are many important reasons for a person to go to church.
Jesus tells us in John 4: verses 23 & 24 “Yet, a time is coming and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him, must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.”
Beloved, our worship of the Lord must be genuine and true. We should pray for and accept God’s Holy Spirit’s guidance and help, as we worship the Lord, so that our worship is acceptable to the Lord. While we are worshipping, we need to be prayerfully telling the Lord about our love for Him and our thankfulness for all the blessings He has bestowed upon us.
Before we get to church, we need to prayerfully seek the Lord’s guidance and help in worshipping Him. We need to ask the Lord to help us push the things of the world aside and help us prepare our heart and mind for worshipping Him. Our church’s opening activities, including our song service, is intended to help us prepare for worshipping the Lord.
Let’s not worry about what anyone is wearing or what anyone’s hair looks like or the such. Let’s worry about how our attitude, our Spirit, our soul and being looks to God. Let’s let the Lord’s Spirit come inside of us and dwell within us and bless us with the Lord’s guidance.
Let’s ask the Lord’s Holy Spirit to move within us and help us to be at peace, satisfied and content as we grow in our love for the Lord and our love for our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Beloved, do you need to be asking the Lord to help you do what you can about situations in your life and then have the confidence, faith, and strength to turn the rest over to Him and trust that He will work all things out right in His own time and His own way?
Let’s be especially sure that we ask the Lord to help us overlook the speck of sawdust that we think we see in the eye of others and not be judgmental. Only God knows the heart of man.
Beloved, the Bible tells us in Matthew 18: verse 20, that Jesus Himself said, when two or three or more come together in the Lord’s name, He will be there with them as they worship the Lord.
Folks, I know worshipping the Lord can be a private and personal matter that can be done privately, anywhere. But let me again say, it is important that we understand that in the Bible we are told God expects His people to come together and worship Him. Check out John 4: verses 21 through 24.
Let’s not forget that the writer of Hebrews 10: verses 24 & 25 tells us, “Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deed. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another --- and all the more ---- as you see the DAY approaching.”
Beloved, the word “worship” is important enough for it to be used 155 times in the Bible. People coming together and worshipping God has been going on since almost the creation of humanity.
The faithful go to church to worship OUR living God, who is the Creator of heaven and earth and all that’s within it. Let me again stress that in John 4: verse 23, Jesus said, “Yet a time is coming and has now come, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” Can you feel God seeking you?
Beloved, for a person to truly worship God, they must approach God in the right frame of mind. If your heart and soul is all caught up in worldly distractions, and is not right with God, your worship of Him will not be right. So, what does all of this have to do with Isaiah 6: verses 1-8?
Isaiah 6: verses 1-8 tells us that when it comes to worshiping God, our frame of mind is vitally important. We have got to leave the distractions, the concerns, the worries, the things of the world outside that door.
Your worship must not be polluted by the worldly distractions the devil will send into your mind as he tries to lead you astray. It is your place to be sure your worship is genuine and true? You must open your heart, mind and soul to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Let Him help and lead you in your worship of the Lord and help you sense the Holiness of God?
One of the greatest tragedies of our day may well be the fact that we have lost a sense of the holiness of God. I am afraid that many of the people of our world have become so self-serving, and so impress with themself that it is hard for them to humble themselves and accept the holiness of God.
I encourage you to seek to develop an awareness of the holiness of God and His presence within you during this worship service this morning. We need to let God’s Holy Spirit come within us and help us to feel the Lord moving within us as He guides our worldly and spiritual life. Folks, if we ask Him, God’s Holy Spirit can guide us and help shape our life.
Beloved, each one of us needs to catch a personal vision of the glory of our Holy God.
We need to try to grasp an understanding of God’s righteousness and purity. We need to understand that in all of His purity, justice, and righteousness, God will not let any sin be in His presence.
Beloved, God is still in control of all that there is and let’s never forget that He loves mankind so much that He gave His only begotten Son to redeem us through the shedding of His blood on the cross of Calvary. So let there be no doubt that God cares about you.
Folks, I truly believe that it would be very helpful for each of us, if in our worship experience we were able, in our mind’s eye, to see God in all of His greatness and grander sitting on His throne like Isaiah did.
Beloved, from our text we can see that immediately after seeing the glory of our Holy God, Isaiah caught a vision of how man’s nature compares with the nature of God and it wasn’t pretty.
Isaiah cried out, “Woe is me.” Folks, Isaiah saw that mankind was unclean and so he said, “I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.”
And Isaiah also saw that he was personally unclean which caused him to profess, “I am a man of unclean lips.” Folks, do you see what happened to Isaiah? Upon seeing the Holiness of the Lord and listening to the praise of the angels, Isaiah humbly realized that he was unclean before God. Folks, do you realize just how unworthy we are in the presence of our Holy God? We come far short of His Glory.
Do you realize that is why it took the sacrificial death of God’s only Begotten Son on the Cross of Calvary, to atone for our sins? Folks, like Isaiah, we need to realize that in and of ourself we have no hope of measuring up to God’s standard of holiness. In and of and by our self, we will never be good enough to be acceptable in the sight of God.
Beloved the good news is, we don’t have to stand in front of God by our self, we can stand there in the company of Jesus Christ, if He is the Lord and Savior of your life. Authentic worship makes us painfully aware that we need the Lord’s forgiveness and cleansing grace because we are a sinner and as such, we come far short of the glory of God.
While we are worshipping the Lord, we should also become aware of how much the Lord has done for us and how the least we can do is to show Him our gratitude and love by publicly worshipping Him.
Folks this kind of worship also makes us aware of the fact that though some sins might be temporarily fun, in the long run, the wages of unforgiven sin is death and it is only through the Grace of God, the power of the blood of Jesus Christ that can free us from the burden of our sin.
When our heart is into worshipping God, as we should, we will see the necessity and availability of the cleansing power and grace of God. Folks, because of the nature of man, sometimes it takes different situations in a person’s life, for that person to come to that point in their life where they realize their need for Jesus Christ.
When that situation happens or the times comes, then that person will need to be ready to cast himself or herself on the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Folks, in 2nd Corinthians 5: verse 21 we can read that Jesus “knew no sin, so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
Beloved, through the grace of God, Isaiah was cleansed from his sin and his iniquity was taken away. Folks, how did that cleansing come about? We know that when Isaiah’s lips were touched with a live, burning coal, he was told that his sins were forgiven. But folks, it wasn’t the symbolic burning of the live coal that cleansed Isaiah, it was God.
And in response to God’s cleansing grace, Isaiah humbled himself and submitted himself entirely to God. Folks, our authentic worship of God will not occur until we confess our sins and accept the cleansing and forgiveness offered to us by God through Jesus Christ.
Beloved, maybe you have humbled yourself and repented for your sins. But, have you humbled yourself to the point where you truly seek to do God’s will in your life instead of serving yourself? God has created you and me for a purpose. As we look at this world we live in, let’s face it, we have a job to do.
Beloved, Isaiah heard God ask, “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?” Is the Lord asking that very question of you right now
Isaiah didn’t hesitate he immediately said “Here am I. Send me.” Folks, did you notice that before Isaiah was sent, it was necessary for Isaiah to go through the cleansing process before he could fulfill the task to which God was calling him.
Folks, before we can accept God’s call for us to witness for Him to those around us, we must be humbled and cleansed just as Isaiah was. We must humble our self before God, confess our sins, seek His forgiving grace, and follow Jesus in holy baptism.
Beloved, God’s universal question to all of mankind is the same today as it was in Isaiah’s day. God is still asking “Who will go for us?” Jesus addressed that question in The Great Commission when He said to His disciples in Matthew 28: verses 19&20, “Go therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”
Beloved, Acts 1: verse 8 says during Jesus’ Ascension, Jesus said, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the Earth.”
Beloved, after you have worshiped the Lord in Spirit and Truth, you should realize that as a Christian you have a commitment that must be fulfilled.
Isaiah responded to God’s call “to go” with a genuine commitment that was more than feelings. Isaiah’s commitment was a commitment to act. Isaiah said, “Here am I, Lord, send me.”
Folks, I encourage you to respond in the same way today. If our worship is truly authentic, then our commitment will also be authentic. If we have truly worshipped the Lord as we should, then upon seeing the holiness of God, we should be dissatisfied with ourselves, we should seek His forgiveness and cleansing grace and we should be prepared for service.
But it doesn’t stop there, God intends for us to spring into action, and go tell others what He has done to redeem the world in and through Jesus Christ.
Folks, it is time for our worship service to come to an end and it is time for you to make a decision and then the time comes for proper action on your part.

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