Gospel—R. Reeves
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On the cross, On the cross for us, He shed his precious blood. On the cross, On the cross #23.
Dear friends, will you please turn with me tonight to the?
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6th chapter of the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah Chapter 6.
The Gospel is found in the Old Testament.
And though we find the gospel many places.
Given to us in the Old Testament.
Sometimes in type, sometimes in in very, very plain terms.
I suppose that the book of Isaiah gives us the gospel.
In as plain a terms in the Old Testament as we can find anywhere.
And so may the Lord help us tonight as we go over a few of these verses in Isaiah Chapter 6.
May the Lord help us see and enjoy.
The Gospel message concerning his Son.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse one.
In the year that King Uzziah died.
I would like to stop at that point and make a few remarks.
This was a special time in the life of Isaiah.
A time that had a great effect upon him.
It was in the year that King Uzziah died.
Death had entered the circle with which Isaiah was familiar.
Isaiah was a servant of God.
And he knew very well King Uzziah.
There are some things that we need to know about Uzziah.
Will not turn to the passage in Second Chronicles which tells us about this man, this great king.
But it would be very profitable for all of us to spend a little time.
Reading that at our leisure.
I'm not sure exactly what chapter it is in Two Chronicles. Perhaps the 24th chapter of the 26th?
But there we have a lot that God has to say about this man, Uzziah.
I would only like to say about him that there's a very solemn, solemn message that we need to know about him something very definite that would solemnize our hearts.
Uzziah was a great man.
He was an industrious man.
He was a man that God richly blessed.
He was a unique man.
He was a builder. He built great things.
He was a farmer, a cattle raiser, and the word of God is pleased to tell us that he loved husbandry, he loved his cattle, he loved his horses.
And the Word of God is pleased to tell us about Uzziah, that he was an engineer that his.
Man under his authority built engines to accomplish great things. And the word of God tells us about Uzziah, that he was a great warrior, a great soldier. And so he was a remarkable man. And it says about him that he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
But then his heart was lifted up in pride, and he fell into the snare of the evil 1.
And we find this great man even taking upon himself to enter the temple.
To offer incense, to do the thing that was not his right to do. And then, dear friends, we find that the judgment of God falling upon this great man, we find the word of God, tells us that the Lord smote him.
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Yes, sometimes God's hand comes down in a stroke of judgment.
It was sold with Uzziah.
The Lord smote him.
And we find that he was stricken with leprosy, and remained A leper until the day of his death.
And no doubt for that reason.
Uzziah was a great lesson to Isaiah.
And so we have a sobering thing brought before us.
In this first verse in the year that King Uzziah died.
In other words, dear friends, we see the hand of God acting strongly.
We see that God is not dead. We see that God is alive and has control of all things and his power is felt.
I do trust that.
If there's someone in this room tonight with whom the Lord is speaking, that you may not allow this time to pass without yielding to the Lord.
Of all the things that impress me as a young man, most solemnly dear friends.
It's this that there are times and seasons.
In our lives.
There are times when the Lord begins to speak to our souls.
There are times when God works in the hearts.
And consciences of young boys and young girls, men and women and all. I plead with any in this room, if they happen to be here at that time when God is speaking to your conscience, I plead with you with all that's within me, that you might listen.
To what God has to say.
And so there are solemn things to think about. To Isaiah, it was solemn that Uzziah had died under the judgment of God.
But let's go on in that first verse.
I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne.
High and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
We need to remember.
The greatness and the majesty of the Lord.
In these days of freedom of expression.
When even our own children are told in the schools to give expression to the.
Free thoughts that come to their minds.
There's often a tendency for us to forget the majesty of God.
To forget that there is a God in heaven and we are merely His creatures.
There's a tendency for us to forget how small we are.
And oh, how good it is for us at times to get out into the country.
On a clear night and just simply look up into the sky and.
And see the immensity of God's creation and all beloved Friends. When we do that, we realize how very, very small we all are. What are we, friends but worms of the dust?
Some of us have had the privilege of making.
A flight in some of the latest airplanes that man has invented.
I remember once flying as high as 39,000 feet. That's a long, long way up.
Perhaps they fly higher than that, but all beloved's friends, you don't have to even get that high.
Before when you look down upon the earth.
Man has faded into insignificance.
And he has faded into the dust. He can no longer be seen. Oh, it's good for us to realize how small we are.
My friends, we are very small, and it's good to remember that God is great. The Lord is high and lifted up, and we do well to speak reverently. When we think of God the living God. Well, it uses the word Lord here.
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Well, that's the title of Jehovah that we find often in the word of God.
And my friend.
I would like to tell you.
A very simple fact that has been a great blessing to me.
And that is that, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is Jehovah.
It's good to remember.
The glorious person of Jesus. He is Jehovah.
And friends, we do well to give him every right and title that is rightfully his.
I know that it's not possible for our human minds to understand all that pertain to his glorious names.
We realize that in the word of God, even God the Father so to speak is term Jehovah. But all my friends soul is the Lord Jesus Christ given that glorious name and we do well to recognize it. We do well to recognize that the one we're speaking about tonight is the Lord Jesus Lord be found in Isaiah 6.
Yet, friends, we are talking tonight about that blessed one that we know as the Lord Jesus Christ.
So in verse one, we've found something about His Majesty as God.
But now let's go on in verse 2.
Where we have the throne brought before us, it says. Above it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet. And with twain he did fly, and one cried into another, and said holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
All what a statement.
What a description of that glorious scene.
My words can't describe it.
But friends, what a majestic scene it was.
The glory of God, The glory of the Lord. It was there. And these unusual creatures that we have brought before us in this verse, they're called Seraphim.
We don't know much about these creatures.
The only thing we know about them is what God has been pleased to tell us.
There's this about them that the Seraphim are.
Living creatures created by God.
And when we find them in the Bible, we have brought before us usually something about the holiness of God, the holiness of the nature of the Lord.
Well, they have 6 wings.
And with two of those wings, they covered their face in humility or in reverence, I should say.
With two of those wings covering their face in reverence, as they were there in the immediate presence of the Lord.
With two of those wings, they covered their feet in humility.
And with two of their wings, they were ready to be speed along on any mission that the Lord should give them. Mysterious creatures they are but there we find them in the presence of the Lord, in the majesty of His throne, crying holy, holy.
Holy is the Lord of hosts.
I would like to ask a little question at this point.
How would you like to enter into that scene?
My friend, how would you like to be invited to that scene over which the cherry bombs were crying? Holy, holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts. Or is there that holiness in your life that would permit you to enter into a scene like that without fear?
Oh, I can say that there was a time in my life.
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When I thought about the holiness of God.
And I knew of my own unholiness.
And all it would have been the last thing on earth I would have wanted to happen to have been invited into that holy place, because I felt so unable, would have felt so unable, to enter into a holy scene like that.
Friend, would you like to be called into the presence of God?
Within the next 5 minutes.
You girls and boys in this room, would you like to be called into the presence of God?
Tonight.
With the holiness of His presence, be a pleasure to you.
Perhaps you tell me. Well, I'm always. I've always done the best I can.
I'm a church member. I read my Bible. I say my prayers. I've had a Christian, Daddy and Mama. But, friends, be that as it may, my question is this, Would you, would you feel comfortable?
To have been called into the presence of the Lord tonight.
Is there not within your soul yet that pang of conscience that says all is not well in my soul?
Not too long ago, I stood at the bedside of a deer relative of mine who was breathing.
What were to be her last breaths in this world?
And as I looked upon that.
Weakened body unconscious.
One thought came to my heart, and it was this.
It is well.
With my soul.
Friend, can you say that tonight? It is well with my soul.
Oh, I do trust that during the course of this meeting you may be enabled by the grace of God to say it is. Well, it is. Well, with my soul. It's all we have, the holiness of God's presence.
We have the whole earth moved and full of his glory. So what is the effect upon Isaiah of this scene of glory?
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Then said I woe is me.
For I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips.
Notice dear friends.
That this great man, Isaiah.
When he saw the holiness of God.
He could only think of his own wretched condition.
You know a gospel preacher.
Often feels very inadequate.
In facing a group like this.
He just longs in the very depths of his heart to be able to say something.
That would give his hearers to feel themselves in the presence of the Lord.
Yes, dear friends, I would love to say something tonight.
By the spirit of God, I would love to see something said here tonight that would give each and everyone in this room to realize.
That it is not my presence that counts. It is not the presence of certain friends that you may have here in Kentucky.
That count that all my friends made the Lord help each one of us.
Realize what we are in the presence.
Of the Lord.
Isaiah could only think of his wretched condition. Woe is me.
For I am undone.
Because I am a man of unclean lips.
You know, I'm so glad to see that Isaiah did not begin to criticize his neighbors.
I'm glad he didn't say. Well, I'm not so bad as there are other people. I'm a lot better than most, all my friends. That may be all right as we compare ourselves with others in this world.
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We can usually find most everywhere someone who in some things are worse than we are. Can't we?
Yes, we can usually find someone that is worse than we are in some things, and we do just well at that, as long as we forget the whole story. But oh, Isaiah was not doing that when he found himself in the bright light of the Lord's presence, he said, Woe is me, for I am undone. Oh, may the Lord tonight bring you into the presence of the light of his glory.
And then I believe, friend, that from your soul will come words like this.
War with me, for I am undone.
I am reminded of that account found in Luke's Gospel. I believe it is where that man who realized he had sinned, when he got into the presence of the Lord, he could only bow his head and smite his breast and say, God be merciful to me a Sinner.
All this is necessary.
Without this my friends in a measure.
Without this, there is no salvation for us. I have never heard of a soul being saved against his will. Never.
Never heard of a soul being saved against his will.
And my friend, I love to think of that little line of the song which says the only fitness he requires.
Is to feel your need of him. Oh, may the Lord make you feel your need.
Tonight of the Lord Jesus Christ may the brightness and majesty of His presence.
Bring from your heart words like this. Woe is me, for I am undone.
Because I am a man of unclean lips, it makes no difference What?
Is the condition of those around me. The condition remains within my own heart.
And friend, you know your own heart better than anyone else except the Lord.
And he goes on to say, I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Yes, it was that glimpse of the glory of the Lord that gave him to see his own uncleanness. You know, I've got three children and I love them very dearly. And the Iowa soil is black and it's dirty.
And I find that my children look much dirtier to me after a day of play.
When I bring them inside under the light, all while we're playing together outside in the backyard, they may be smudged from head to foot, and they often are.
But all when we bring them into the light of the home.
Then we see the dirt as it really is, and the beloved friends. It's only when we find ourselves in the presence of God that a true estimate can be placed upon our true condition in His presence. You know this. This thing happened with Isaiah, but the same thing happened with a multitude of other servants that we find in the word of God. It was so with Job.
He said I repent in dust and ashes. He said that after he had said.
Mine eye seeth thee. It was after Job got a glimpse of God's greatness and his glory that he repented in dust and ashes. So it was with the Apostle Peter, who found himself in the presence of the Lord. And he said, depart from me, for I am a sinful man. Oh Lord, well, this is what we need.
May the Lord bring this to pass.
Tonight, in your heart, if you're here yet.
Unsaved.
Well, this seems to be a dark picture, but friends, this is a gospel meeting, and the gospel is good news.
And I love the gospel. It's God's good news.
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Now let's go on to see.
The positive and the blessed side of this picture.
Verse six Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me.
A messenger, messenger from God, The immediate throne of God.
Directly to Isaiah, then flew.
One of the Seraphims unto me, Notice how fast he came.
You know, God is so anxious.
To reach the need of those who feel their need, he flew.
We often wish that we would see people more feel their need of Christ.
And I believe, beloved friends, that this is what we need to see.
I would love to know.
That because of this meeting, I would love to know that someone.
Was made to feel their need of Christ.
For then I would feel that the meeting has been profitable and blessed of the Lord.
And it's when Isaiah found his true condition that the Seraphim rapidly came to meet his need, then flew one of the Seraphims under me. Now notice what he has having a live coal in his hand.
Which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
All that's a precious, valuable verse.
And how much it speaks of.
A live coal.
Something burning?
And where did he get this coal? Where did this coal come from, friend? Did it come from the throne?
Didn't come from the throne.
Ah, if that messenger from the Lord had come with something from the throne.
It could have done nothing but condemned and judge this poor man. But all I'm so glad to see in the word of God that this call is burning. Coal did not come from the throne, but it came from the altar. The altar.
What does the altar bring before us?
Friends, the altar was the place where the lamb was killed.
The altar was the place where the blood flowed.
The altar was the place and the only place that could supply a live coal to meet the need of Isaiah.
1900 and some odd years ago.
The Lamb of God.
Died on Calvary's cross.
That you and I might be washed from our sins.
It was the Son of God, dear friends, that stretched out his arms in love all that cross.
Calvary's cross is the altar.
The Lamb of God is the Lord Jesus.
And my friends, He cried. It is finished. He suffered all the burning judgment of God.
On that cross.
So that that live coal could be dispensed to the needy heart.
Oh yes, Calvary's cross is the altar. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lamb.
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.
Friends, it's only at Calvary that blessing can come.
It does not come from the throne, for the throne could only judge us.
But all we have our need met from the altar.
It's the Blood of Jesus, the precious blood of Christ, that alone.
Can wash away our sins. No amount of religion.
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No amount of good works.
My friend, only that which happened at the altar, when that sacrifice was made, only through the value of the precious blood of Christ, can the need of a Sinner like you and like I am.
He met, and so he took that call from off the altar, and laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away.
And thy sin first.
It was very personal with Isaiah.
It touched his lips.
He touched his mouth.
You know, of all the things that we have in our bodies that are especially personal, it certainly is our lips and our mouth.
This matter speaks to us of the personal need of Isaiah and the personal dealing that Isaiah had with the Lord.
I would like to say tonight that I thank the Lord.
From the very depths of my heart for giving me a Christian father and a Christian mother.
I thank God for that.
I do not have words, Friends.
That I can use.
To adequately express the gratitude of my soul tonight that God gave me a Christian father and a Christian mother.
I thank God for that blessing, but at the same time I want to tell you that it was not my Christian father that saved my soul. It was not my Christian mother that saved my soul. It was the Lord Jesus.
My friends, it was very personal and real with me.
God made me feel my need, my desperate need of Christ.
God made me see my unholiness, my uncleanness.
And the time came when it was very real and personal with me.
When I put my trust in the Lord Jesus.
As my own Savior and I speak tonight to those who may be here that have Christian fathers.
And Christian mothers, thank God for that blessing. It's an unspeakable 1.
But don't be misled.
You must accept the Lord Jesus.
For yourself.
This hath touched thy lips, Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Friends, because of what happened at the altar of Calvary, sins are forgiven.
When it speaks about the Lord Jesus, it says to him give all the prophets witness that through this man.
Through his name whosoever believeth on him shall receive forgiveness of sins. Yes, through the Lord Jesus sins are forgiven through his precious blood. For the word of God says the blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
It's a wonderful thing, dear friends, to know for sure that your sins are forgiven. All this is an unspeakable blessing to know for sure that your sins are all forgiven. Isaiah knew it because God said it, and this is the only way that anybody can know it is because God says it. I remember the case of the woman in the 7th of Luke who heard the words from the Lord Jesus.
Her sins, which are many, are forgiven.
My friends.
You can have the assurance tonight that your sins are forgiven.
If you'll put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, thine iniquity, iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged.
What a wonderful thing.
To have your sins forgiven.
And may the Lord tonight use these words to convict and convert, so that others may know the joy of sins forgiven. Now I would like to say a word about verse 8.
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Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?
Then said I, Here am I. Send me.
Once we have our sins forgiven.
Once we're saved.
Then we have the opportunity of doing something for the one that saved us.
Isaiah wanted to please the Lord. Isaiah wanted to serve the Lord after he knew that his sins were forgiven.
And you know no one can serve the Lord until his sins are forgiven.
I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?
Then said I hear my send me.
Where? Well, I don't know. I don't know where he went. But this, I know that he was willing to go.
We find the record in God's word about a man by the name of Andrew.
Who had a similar desire? And you know where the Lord sent him.
He sent him to find his own brother.
Oh, he didn't send him to the North Pole. He didn't send him to the South Pole. He just sent him home to talk to his brother about the Lord And my friend, if you think the Lord wants everybody to go to the lost tribes of Africa, or the lost tribes of India, or the lost tribes of South America.
I think that you'll have a difficulty in the Word of God finding such to support your idea.
I believe the Lord would have every child of God.
Willing to do his bidding to go next door to go upstairs and talk to brother.
Ah, this is the place where we can begin to serve the Lord.
There was a man who was cleansed in a marvelous way in the Bible of a great affliction.
And the Lord Jesus said to him, go home.
Go home to your friends and tell them how great things.
The Lord has done for you and has had compassion upon you.
Well, are you here tonight, a believer in the Lord Jesus?
Can you say your sins are forgiven? Thank God for that.
Then ask the Lord to send you someplace where you can speak for him or do something for him, and you'll be amazed.
At how accurately he can send you to do a little thing for him.
It may not even be to speak a word. It may be to serve in a quiet act of blessing. And we thank God for every such servant that God has. You know, I've often thought about it this way. If everybody that was saved in the state of Kentucky were called upon to go to Iowa to preach the gospel, who would bear witness for the Lord in Kentucky?
And if everybody that were saved in Iowa were called upon to.
Go to the Belgian Congo to preach the Gospel. Well then who would bear witness for the Lord in Iowa? And if those over there in Nigeria that know the Lord, if every one of them were called upon to come to the state of Illinois to preach the gospel, then who would bear witness for the Lord in Nigeria?
Well, beloved friends, the truth is this.
If you know the Lord Jesus as your savior.
You're in a condition that you can be used of him and blessing, and he may just send you down the street. He may just send you to your brother or your sister with a message of God's love and grace and.
It'll be the joy of your heart to carry that message. For there's no sweeter message on the tongue of man than the message that God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And I'd like to close with those lines from the little hymn that the children often sing. Tell it again. Tell it again.
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Salvation story Repeat Ore and Oregon.
Till none can say of the children of men nobody ever told me before.
Shall we sing the 1St and the last stanza of #10?
There is a savior on high in the glory. A savior who suffered on Calvary St. A savior is willing to save. Now as ever, His arm is almighty, his love great and free. Number 10 The 1St and the last stanzas only.
There is a savior on fire.