The Vision of the Holy God
This sermon by Garry Eriks expounds Isaiah's vision of God's holiness (Isaiah 6:1-4), preached at a PRC synod in 2017. Through the historical context of King Uzziah's fall and Isaiah's prophetic calling, Eriks emphasizes the importance of believers fixing their focus on God's transcendent holiness amid spiritual opposition and decline. The message applies the doctrine of sanctification and God's holy character to encourage faithfulness in the face of resistance to God's Word.
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. Above it stood the seraphims: 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 unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke....
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