Homiletic Magazine Isaiah 6:1-13 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.… I. THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH IT WAS GIVEN A VISION. Why was it recorded? Not to indulge the conceit of the prophet, nor even chiefly to certify him to the Jews; but because of the messages to them which it so vividly conveys, and the representative interest of the experience to all spiritual minds. II. THE STATE OF MIND THE VISION PRODUCED. (Ver. 5.) Fear, dejection, self-humiliation. Both personally and as representative of the Jewish nation he was convicted of sin. is the invariable result of close intercourse with God. Our inborn sin is brought to light and rebuked. And the more Christlike we are the more will our brothers' sin likewise weigh upon our hearts. It is in this very experience that our preparation for service begins. III. HOW THIS WAS DEALT WITH. The fact of sinfulness is not denied by Him to whom it is confessed. It is tacitly confirmed by what takes place. Yet how tender and considerate is the silence of the Judge of all the earth! At once He institutes and sets in operation a mediatorial agency. Such guilt and impurity no water can cleanse: fire is needed, fire from the Consuming Fire. IV. THE CALL. I. Couched first in a universal question, — "Whom shall I send?" etc. 2. After the prophet's response the call is more direct and personal: "Go, and tell this people," etc. the more general call to us consists, as it did to Isaiah, in the sense of our neighbours' need and our own duty with regard to supplying it. But if a Christian It in earnest, and willing to surrender himself to the commandment of his Lord, more specific direction will not be wanting. V. THE RESPONSE. (Ver. 8) "Then said I, Here am I; send me." A sacrifice and a petition. (Homiletic Magazine.) Parallel Verses KJV: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. |
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