Worship Matters - Seeing God, Seeing Ourselves - Isaiah 6:1–8

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Well, good morning again. You know, if I took a quick time out right here and said, "I'll be back in just a second." and I ran across to the Starbucks over there and I said, "Hey, we're having church over here, but I just kind of got a a poll, a question to ask you." And so I'm in Starbucks and there's a number of people around the the the the coffee cafe there. And I said, "What is worship?" Can you imagine some of the different definitions that we might get from people? I mean, if I asked that question over at Starbucks, somebody might say, "Well, it's the service that you should be in right now. That's what worship is." Um, someone else might answer the question going, "Well, worship, isn't it when you go to church? Isn't that the singing part? Isn't that worship? Isn't that what you call worship? Um, someone else might say worship is prayer. You might even say some have someone in there going, "Hey, when people lift up their hands like this and during the church service, that's worship." But I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of people when I ask that question would look at me just going, I have no idea what worship really is. Like, I might know it when I see it, but I don't have a definition for it. I can't put words into it. It's just it's something that happens at church. And somehow they would contain that idea of worship to church. Now, here's what's interesting. If I didn't take a break and I didn't go over to Starbucks and ask that question, but I stopped and took a break in here and I said, "What do you think worship is?" There's a good possibility that we might all come up with some of the same very definitions that they did over there at Starbucks. Because I think sometimes there's a confusion. There's an unknownness what worship really is. It's like the little boy that came to church with his mom one day and it got part of that service where people were singing. He went to a particular church where people would raise their hands when they would worship, when they would praise, and when they would sing. And so the little boy looked around and he didn't want to be an outcast and he wanted to do like everybody else did at church. And so when everybody was singing raise their hands, he put both his hands up like this and he was singing right there at his mom. And then after about 15 seconds, his arm started getting tired. And so he put one arm down. He kept singing along with everybody else and he was putting up there and every once in a while they would kind of wave it. He'd wave it. But after about 15 more seconds, this arm got tired. So he dropped this ar this arm and put this arm back up and he's just trying to be like everybody else in the room. And after about 15 more seconds of this one, he put this one down and tried to put both of them back up. But both of them were tired. And he looked over to his mom and said, "Mom, how much longer do we have to do this?" And you know what? This little boy had this idea that in his mind he didn't understand what worship was. And so he thought it was something that you had to endure and not engage in. It's just this part of our service. It's part of our life. It's part of our church that you just do. But but but he never got the point going. But I understand what it is and so therefore I want to jump into it. And so if you're joining us this week, last week we began a brand new series and that series is entitled Worship Matters. And here's what we're trying to do over the next few weeks. We're trying to understand what a biblical perspective of worship really is. Because really, if we took a poll in here, we would get so many different answers. And I don't think any of the answers would probably be wrong. They're just a piece of what worship is. In fact, if you're taking notes, we've come up with just a really simple definition of what worship is, a biblical definition. And it says this, that worship is our wholehearted response to who God is. and what he has done. Worship is our wholehearted response to who God is and what he has done for us. In fact, if you've got your hand out there on the opposite side, we've got a little bit more of a detailed just kind of understanding. Let me read it for you. Here's what it says. Worship is the way our hearts and our lives so worship is more than singing. Worship is more than something we do for one hour a week. Worship is our way our hearts and our lives respond to God because of his gracious forgiveness. We express worship outwardly through music and singing, but also through prayer, through gratitude, through obedience, through generosity, and the daily choices that we make to put God first. True worship isn't confined to a moment in a service. It's a whole life oriented around God's worth. And last week we looked at this beautiful story from from the Gospels about this woman who comes in, a sinful immoral woman, a woman who wasn't well looked upon by society. And she came and she fell at Jesus's feet and she cried and she wiped his feet with her tears and she anointed expensive perfume that she'd purchased on his feet. It was her act of worship. This week, I want us to look at another narrative in scripture, another story in scripture that we're going to get an idea, a picture of what worship is, but instead of being in the New Testament, I want us to go to the Old Testament and we'll be looking at a guy by the name of Isa Isaiah. And that he encounters God's holy presence and it changes his response once he encounters God's holy presence. And so we'll be looking in just a little bit at Isaiah chapter 6. But before you turn there or look there we put up on the screen. Let me just give you some background because Isaiah is one of those Old Testament books that probably you haven't read. But if you have read it's like right over your head. Isaiah was an Old Testament prophet. He lived around 700 years before Jesus. And he lived in a time that all the religious people around him, all the Jewish people around him had really their their their religiosity had become more about actions than about their heart. They almost felt like God owed them something. They did all the all the oblig obligation things such as they would go to church, they would make their sacrifices. So on the outside they looked very religious, but they had a problem and that is their heart was turned away from God. They wanted God's blessings, but they didn't want his authority in their life. And so Isaiah was an individual, a prophet. And prophets back in those days were individuals that God anointed and said, "You go be my spokesperson." And so God chose Isaiah and he said, "You see all those people out there that claim to be my people? Those religious people, those God followers out there, they're looking the part on the outside, but they're not doing the part on the inside. And so God sends Isaiah to not only the nation of people. He sends them to the leaders and the kings of the people and says, 'You need to turn your heart to God and you need to repent. If you read the book of Isaiah, he preaches about the coming of Jesus, the coming of the Messiah. But he said, before the Messiah comes, we got to get our stuff in order and we need to turn our hearts back to God. And so when we get to Isaiah 6 and reread it just a moment, it is Isaiah's moment that God calls him into giving this message out. But God does it in a unique way. It's not like God spoke down from heaven going, "Hey Isaiah, I need you to do something." Isaiah actually has a dream or a vision. And in this dream and vision, he is brought up into heaven and he is in the presence of a holy God. And so I want us to look at it together. We'll have the words up here on the screen. It will be there in your in your notes there. But here's what we're going to discover as we read this short few verses in Isaiah chapter 6 that it is this moment of worship because you can imagine when you come into God's presence, you better worship, right? You better kind of change how you respond to things. But here's what we're going to discover in this moment of worship that Isaiah has before a holy almighty God. There are really four movements that take place. The first movement that takes place is going to be awareness. He's going to like, "Whoa, this is different. Okay, I'm not just hopping down the road and think about God like I'm in his presence. And after the awareness, you're going to see conviction. After conviction, you're going to see forgiveness. And after forgiveness, you're going to see mission." But we're going to break all of those down here in just a second. But I want you to watch for those as we read these. You're going, "Keith, why are we reading something that was like almost 3,000 years ago? What does that have to do with worship today? Because those same four movements that Isaiah experienced in his encounter with God, this moment of worship over three almost 3,000 years ago are the same four movements that you and I should experience in our own worship. And so, let's go to Isaiah chapter 6. And so, the first one, if you're taking notes and you're writing down there, it is awareness that Isaiah has this awareness. It is that moment that God reveals his holiness. So here's what it says. It was in the year king Uzziah died and I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne. So this is the dream that he's encountering. He saw God. He was sitting on a lofty throne and the train of his robe filled the temple. Attending him were mighty serapom. These are like big angels that we're going to learn about. Big seraraphim each having six wings. And with these two wings they covered their faces. With the two they covered their feet and with two they flew. And they were calling out each other as they were flapping and flying around in the presence of God. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies. And the whole earth is filled with his glory. And their voices shook the temple to its foundations. And the entire room was filled with smoke. Almost sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, doesn't it? In fact, in fact, as you try to you read this and you try to picture it, I thought it might be helpful just to kind of see some some some man-made pictures of what this might have looked like. Imagine this. The lofty throne of God and God sitting on the throne and his train is filling it. Can you imagine today if you would have came in to worship God, the God that we don't see, the God that we know that's here, but you walk up and instead of having the whole choir loft up here, instead of having the baptistry up there, that is what you walked into. not a photograph of it, but you walked into the almighty God sitting on a throne and his train like you can't even step around because the train of his glory is just filling this room. Can I ask you a question? Would it have changed your disposition when you walked in here today? Probably. So, another visual that we get out of there are the seraphims. like any artist that I looked online trying to draw pictures or or show what this looks like. I don't think it does it justice. I think as Isaiah is writing this down in in in the book that we read now, he's just trying to find human words to describe a heavenly experience. But can you imagine this heavenly being and six wings, two wings are of the eyes of the of the angel, two wings are covering the feet and the other two wings are flapping. But what Isaiah experienced in this dream, this vision was not just one serum. The Bible says it was filled full of seraphones. There were many of them. So imagine you walk in and there's a throne of God. There's this train God sitting on the throne and all these just angel beings, angelic beings are just flapping around. Again, you walk in going, "Oo, this is not your normal s Sunday morning service. I may not just come in going, excuse me, that's my seat. I always sit there. You may come in with just a whole different perspective of what might take place today. And then Isaiah says this, the room is filled with smoke. In the next service, our traditional service, we never have our haze machine because we have so many people that just don't like the smoke or the haze feel in there. I don't know how I'm going to have to get over this to preach this on the second service that that's what heaven's going to be like. But it wasn't for effect. The smoke that Isaiah described was really God's presence. So Isaiah walked in this one. And here's what he saw in the dream. His perspective was changed. He didn't just kind of lolly guy going, "Hey, God. Hey, I see you up there on the throne." And high-five him. And I'm glad we have a relational I'm glad we have a personal just relationship with Jesus. But sometimes we bring him down to our level instead of us seeing the perspective of who he really is at his level. I'll never forget years ago my wife and I took our kids to Disneyland for the first time. I think my daughter was in kindergarten. She was at the age where Disney princesses were her life. She would watch every movie. She had every costume. So when we told her we're going to Disneyland and we get to see all the princesses in real life, her eyes just got so big. And my son, who was in first grade at the time's like, "Just let us ride. I don't care about the Disney princesses. And I'll never forget, we walked in, and if you ever been to Disneyland, you walk down Main Street and there's the castle and there's a bridge that you cross to get to the castle. So, we're like, let's go to the castle first. And as we're walking over to the right was Cinderella. Like, if you've been to Disneyland or Disney World, they find these ladies, these young women. They look just like a Cinderella in real life. And I'll never forget my daughter stops and her eyes like whoa. And like Cinderella's 30 yards away, but she's not moving because this is like Cinderella in real life. And she is so overwhelmed. She is so taken back. This is not the cartoon Cinderella that she sees on TV. This is like the real deal. And she's like, "Whoa." And I looked over at my son. He's about 10 feet away. He's looking at Cinderella. I'm going, Jordan. Cinderella, look. Do you know what he's doing on the side of the bridge? Dad,

now watch this. He had this commonplace attitude. So what? Let's go on to something fun, exciting, like one of the rides that I see. And my daughter was like, whoa. And I wonder how many times in our awareness of God's presence in our lives, we may not see the throne. We may not see the smoke. We may not see the angelic beings, but God's presence is still just as real today. And I wonder how many times that we walk into service or we walk into our own special time with him or whatever environment it is. and we feel look and ex and and act more like my son who's going is there isn't there something better we can move on to than my daughter who's going wow look at it you see this renewed vision I believe the reason that God had to take Isaiah up into heaven and see God he had to give him a renewed vision of who he was because the world standards had brought down the vision of God so low they were more about religion igion than relationship. They were more about religion than true devotion. Like I said, they kept going to the temple, the culture of the day. They would offer their sacrifices. They would show up every time there's supposed to be a service. They would do all the outward actions, but somehow in the in their mind, somehow in who they were, they had lost, watch this, the wideeyed wonder of God. He became more their homie than he was their holiness. And here's what happened in Isaiah. A man of God chosen by God that God's going, "You've got to be my mouthpiece piece to speak to these people." So therefore, Isaiah had to be cut above everybody else. But here's what happens. No matter who we are, it seems like society and the people around us can just so bring us down and we begin to think and act and respond like the lowest com denominator. And so in this moment, God had to say, Isaiah, I've got to lift you out from the lowest common common denominator of people and bring you up, and I want you to experience who I really am. You see, this wideeyed wonder of God renews our perspective. We are reminded that God is sovereign and God is holy and we are not. And so when it comes to worship, worship begins with an awareness of God. Worship begins with seeing God who he really is. Can I ask you a very convicting question? When you came in the doors today in a gathering of worship, remember worship goes way beyond this room, right? But let's just use this room today for an example. When you came into this room today for a gathering of corporate worship, did you come in with the idea, it's the same old, same old, we'll do it again, rinse and repeat. Or did you come in with a perspective of God going, God, let me become and let me see a wideeyed wonder. Renew in me who you are. Not who the world says you are. not who the world makes you out to be, but God allow me to see who you really are. An awareness. And one of the reasons I believe that we as individuals, whether it's corporately, individually, here on our own, the reason we've lost this sense of worship is that we've lost the sense of wideeyed wonder in our lives of who God is. And that begins with an awareness of God. Here's the second thing as you look at look at worship. Here's the second just kind of movement of worship. It's conviction. Conviction. We recognize sin as sin. We recognize a sin in our own lives. Isaiah 65, he said this. He went on as he's accounting this story. Isaiah said, "Then I said, after seeing this, you know, the throne, the angels, and all this going on, he said, then I said, it's all over. I'm doomed for I'm 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. When Isaiah sees God, he becomes aware of his holiness. When he becomes aware of God's holiness, he becomes aware of his sinfulness. He knew he wasn't on the same plane. He knew that his perspective shifted from God's greatness to his own brokenness. Remember Isaiah is cut above the rest. Okay? Like if you're going to go pick the goat of the day, Isaiah would have been one of them. That's why God chose him to be a prophet. Yet the goat, one of the most spiritual religious walking people of the day, the moment he was in God's presence, he realized how broken he really was. In fact, that little phrase that he said just how bad he was. It's all over. I'm doomed from a sinful man. I love the way it's translated the message. Here's what it says in the message. Doom. It's doomsday. I'm as good as dead. Every word I've ever spoken is tainted. Blasphemous even. And the people I live with talk the same way, using words that are corrupt and desecrate. And here I've looked God in the face. When Isaiah sees God clearly, he finally sees himself clearly. Now, it's like this. If you walk into dim room and everything looks fine. You walk into the living room and it's not pitch black, but the lights are low. You look going, "Man, this looks pretty good." You can't see the pair of shoes sitting over by the couch that somebody didn't put up. You can't see the dust on the coffee table. You You can't see the two or three th rugs throws that have been laid on the couch and not folded up. But you look in the room going, "It looks pretty good." And all of a sudden, you turn on a bright light and what do you see? You see the you see the shoes. You see the the the the blankets that no one put up. You see the dust on the on on the coffee table. What's the difference? The difference the light was shine on it. The light didn't cause the shoes to be out of place. The light didn't cause the the the throws, the the blankets to be where they're not supposed to be. The light didn't cause dust to be on the table. The light exposed those things for where they were. And that's exactly what happened to Isaiah. When he was in God's presence, the very lips that he would use to speak about God became the very lips that he was aware of that didn't look like God. So when we move in worship from awareness to conviction, it is because we're in the presence of a holy almighty God and our life doesn't change. We just see our life as he sees it. I I think it's interesting that the very area of his whole entire body that Isaiah looked at and realized were his lips. He didn't say, "Oh, I'm in the presence of God. My hands are so dirty. I did this with them and I did this one with them. He didn't say, "Oh, look at my feet. They carried me over to sin." He said, "Look at my lips." I I think Isaiah understood the very thing that we learned about when we just went through the book of James that James talked about that our mouths control our whole lives. If we could learn to control our lips and the things that we say, we could control probably the rest of our body. Think about this for a second. When you think about just our lips, our mouths, the taintedness, the dirtiness, the ungodliness of our lips, our gossip, our complaining, our criticism, our angerfilled speech, our prideful speech, our careless words. And we recognize that the very little part of our lives that we pay the least attention to may be the dirtiest part of our lives. Now understand this that this moment, the second movement of conviction. God never convicts us to leave us there. God's purpose of this movement is not to for us to look in the mirror going, "Oh, I'm such a horrible person. Doomed if I am. My lips are so unclean. My hands are unclean. My legs are unclean. Everything about me is unclean. Whoa, whoa, whoa is me." Conviction is never designed by God to leave us there. The conviction is designed by God to move us from there. You see, when it comes to conviction and confession, confession is designed to be healing, not shameful. And so, the third movement that we're looking at as Isaiah is in the presence of God. It goes from awareness to conviction. The third movement is forgiveness. Look in verse six and 7. The forgiveness, the removing of our guilt. Here's what it says in verse six. Then one of the seraraphim, as Isaiah is recording this, one of the seraraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. So imagine you're in this room and there's the throne and there's a seraraphim and one of them goes over and he takes a hot coal off an altar and he flies over to Isaiah. This is one of those dreams that you wake up going, I wish I would never dream this. And he flies to Isaiah. And the Bible says he takes that hot coal with a pair of tongues tongues and he touches my lips with it and he said, so imagine you're in the presence of God. There is an angelic being grabs his tong, grabs this great glowing hot coal and brings it over and touches the lips and he says, "See this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven. Makes me cut it out when I do worship. Awareness, conviction. I'm moving to to to forgiveness. It sounds like it's awareness, conviction, and punishment, right? I mean, a hot coal on your lips. That sounds like, oops, these things I've messed up for the last time. Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. But here's what we have to understand. At this moment in this narrative, at this moment in the presence of God, the hot cold coming off of the altar was not designed, not meant. It doesn't symbolize punishment. It symbolizes forgiveness. Go back with me for a second when we talked about earlier when we did communion in Jesus's blood and his his his body and it was a sacrifice on an altar. the altar of the cross. In Old Testament, when sacrifices were made for the forgiveness of people's sins, it was always done on an altar. Here's what we have to understand on this. When God is consistent in the symbolism throughout scripture, because the coal comes from an altar, it symbolizes forgiveness. I love the story part of this. Guess who initiates the cleansing? When Isaiah says, "Oh, I'm so sinful. My words are so dirty. I'm so tainted. and everything that I say. And he doesn't sit there going, "God, what do I do? I'm so bad." No. Here's what the story says. The minute he understood and his conviction took place, who initiated the forgiveness? The man on the throne? A holy God. That's a beautiful thing because here's the deal. Somehow our world has convinced us. Somehow we've understood in the churches that we go to that forgiveness comes because I need to do something because of my sin. There's nothing that we can do for unforgiveness. And God's not sitting back on his throne going, "Well, I see he noticed it. I'm going to give him a 30 days or so and see if he can kind of feel guilty enough. And maybe after 30 days and he'll feel guilty enough, maybe then I'll forgive him." No, no, no, no. The minute we move from awareness to conviction, God initiates the forgiveness. Jesus volunteered to go to the cross for our sins. Isaiah didn't sit there and going something God is there anything I can do can I go like do some some some just like workbased stuff so you can get rid of this ugly mouth of mine God goes no no no I'll take care of it for you you're forgiven I love Micah 7 19 here's what it says you will cast talking about God you will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea

You will cast all of our sins into the depths of the sea. It's like this. There's something you feel guilty for, something you've done, something you've become aware, something you're convicted of, and you're going, "God, I am sorry for this." God takes it and he hurls it into the very deepest, darkest part of the ocean. And then he puts a sign up that says, "No fishing allowed." is there. Scripture talks about God blotting out our sins. First John 1:9 says this, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins." God did not bring Isaiah up into the dream to show him how dirty, sinful, tainted his lips were his whole entire life to say, "Now just wallow in it for a while, Isaiah." He brought him up there. So once Isaiah is convicted and becomes aware of his sin that God can initiate and he does the forgiveness. Isaiah couldn't have earned it. God's Isaiah couldn't have talked him into it. All that Isaiah could do was receive it. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. And it takes us to the last movement. So, you have awareness, you have conviction, you have forgiveness, and here's an interesting thing. It takes a little turn. Something we're not expecting. It goes to mission. If you're taking notes, you can write that down for the fourth movement when it comes to worship. Mission. Mission is this. God sending us out in the world. Look with me at Isaiah 6:8. Then after all this had transpired when he saw the the god on the throne when he saw the seraraphim when he was like I'm in your presence God I'm aware that you're holy and I'm not and when the conviction took place and the forgiveness took place then this is what happened then I heard the Lord asking whom should I send as a messenger to this people who will go for us and I said here I am send

See, sometimes when it comes to worship, we make it about ourselves. Oh, I I I don't like to worship at church that I didn't like those songs that Daniel sang. Oh, that's not my style. I think I'll go to another church to worship. Oh, yeah. God is just when I look into all that's going on in the world and thinking about worshiping God. It seems like if God was big enough, he would take care of all the problems and the wars in the world and so I'm not really sure I'm into worshiping God. Oh, worship is something that maybe some people do, but it's really not a thing I like to do. And we make worship about ourselves. When it comes to authentic true worship, when we become aware of his holiness, when we are convicted in who we are, when God offer his forgiveness, part of um the next part, the next movement of worship is not about me, it's about him. And God calls out who will I send, who will go for me. It's about living our life for the world to see a clear picture of what we just experienced.

And Isaiah's response, "Here I am. Send me." Notice he didn't kind of shrink back going, "Well, let me see what he wants first." He didn't shrink back going, "Can I take some rest for a little bit?" Because this has been pretty kind of like, "God, I'm kind of tired of this whole thing with you today. That was really good, but can I take a few days off?" The minute God said in this movement of worship, "Who will I send?" Isaiah bump jumped up and said, "Send me. Send me. Send me." His response was immediate. It was voluntary. He doesn't ask where or how hard it would be. He didn't ask what the outcome would be. He didn't even ask what he was supposed to do. He simply just said this. Send me. I want you to experiment with me for a second. I want you to take your hands just like this. Okay? And we're going to Here's what the experiment is going to be. I'm about to have you all say together, "Send me." Okay? Both your hands out like this. I want you to grab them in a fist. Okay, hold them tight like you're holding on to something. Can you feel the tension when you hold your hands like this? Can you feel it in your chest? Okay, hold them tight and say, "Send me." It kind of got clogged, didn't it? Like you have so much tension, so much in you. Send me. How do you like the lips don't really work and express what the heart is saying, what the mind is saying when we're like this? Now, do me a favor. Hold him up like this. Go like this. Now say, "Send me." Do you see the difference? There's a posture, a posture of our life that we live our life in such a way that no matter where we are, at home, at the office, at school, at play, at church, that we are walking going, "God, I worship you. Send me

When the neighbors, the new neighbors move in next door, God send me. When the neighbors that you've lived next door to for 10 years and you can't stand because they're loud, obnoxious, Lord, send me. When you go to work and you don't even like your work and you don't like your boss, you're going, "This is a waste of my time, but I got to have the paycheck. Send me."

When you go home, when you're still fighting with your spouse, send me. When we're singing in here on a Sunday morning, send me. See, there's no prescribed posture of worship. But sometimes when we're singing together in a season of music worship, the reason people raise their hands or put their hands or the little boys going, I don't know why I'm doing it. send me.

We don't really worship unless it ends with send me. If it never ends with send me, we didn't worship. We just took care of ourselves.

But when we say send me, we worship. I want us to end in a different way today. So, you're going have to kind of follow me on this one. Okay? Would you stand up where you are? We'll take this little incremental steps together. We're going to end in a song, but I'm going to put you so far out of your so far out of your comfort zone. Okay? So, bear with me. You're like, "Oh, this is your chance to say, "Send me." Okay? I'm going to invite you. We've moved the table. It's still over there this week. I'm going to invite everybody just to come fill this area up, but would you just move this way? Just come. Like I said, I'm taking you out of your comfort zone. Come on, people. Just come up here for a second. And we may have to stretch out, but just come. We want to be a little bit closer on this one. I wish you could see be from my perspective. Watch the um eye rolls and the really some of your spouse like get up here. Get up here. Come on. Come closer. Don't be bashful. Come on. Come on. We're going to fill this area right here. Okay. Come here. Come on. Don't be shy. Yeah. I got too much gap right here. Fill this. Come on. Come on. If you don't want to be up this close, just push the person in front of you. Okay?

And I want to lead you in a recap of what we just talked about. That Isaiah was taken up in a dream. It's not a dream, but sometimes we need to kind of reposition ourselves out of our ruts to see God clearly. I want you to imagine we gathered up here and just for a second I want you to imagine the throne and the train of his glory and smoke fills this room and crazy angelic beings with all these wings are flapping around. You're not at church, you're in his presence.

What does that awareness do?

It's not the same old same old Sunday.

And God wants us to have that kind of awareness all day, every day.

And when we gather corporately, he wants us to have that kind of awareness.

And then there's glory and a holy, holy God. The angels are saying, "Holy, holy, holy." Isaiah said the room shook not because their wings were flapping because his holiness was so overpowering.

You become aware and then you're convicted he's God and we're not.

But that conviction is not to shame us. That conviction is to heal us. So, I want you to close your eyes for a second and imagine

this angelic being with a hot coal and he touches your lips not to punish you but to give you grace. Whatever it is that you're hanging on to, whatever that thing you feel guilty of, that whatever that habit is you can't release, he comes says, "I want to forgive you." And he graces you.

And then open your eyes. Do me a favor. Put your hands like this and say with me, "Send me." We're going to sing a last song with a posture of the movement of worship.