(NLT) Isaiah 6:1 It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple. 2 Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
3 They were calling out to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies! The whole earth is filled with his glory!” 4 Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”
8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”…
8 …I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
cleanses our sin.
(NLT) 2 Corinthians 5:21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Jesus
us out.
(NIV) John 20:21 …“Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
(NIV) Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
(NIV) Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
(NIV) Matthew 28:20 …And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Questions to consider/apply:
- What do you think it was like for Isaiah to receive this unique vision from the Lord?
- Why was it the “holiness” of God that brought Isaiah to his knees?
- What did Isaiah’s calling look like? And how do you think his calling relates to ours?
- Do you think its easy to neglect God’s calling on your life, why or why not?
- How is God calling you, personally? Where do you feel Him leading? How can our group support you in it?