26-0904A_IN HIS PRESENCE
Isa 6:1 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.
Isa 6:2 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.
Isa 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isa 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isa 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isa 6:8 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.
1Ch 16:26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1Ch 16:27 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
1Ch 16:28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
Joh 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
*... BUT WHEN WE EVER COME
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THEN WE SEE HOW LITTLE WE ARE.
IN.HIS.PRESENCE_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-4 SUNDAY_ 62-0909E
8 May the Lord bless His Word. I think that's a most striking Scripture. We find that, in the Presence of God, men recognize themselves to be sinners. We may feel pretty good when we're out different places, and feel like that we're pretty good people, but when we ever come into the Presence of God, then we see how little we are.
*THEN WE REALIZED HOW LITTLE
WE ARE WHEN WE REALIZE HOW GREAT HE IS, AND HOW CLOSE WE COME IN OF COMING TO
HIS PRESENCE.
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11 Then we realized how little we are when we realize how great He is, and how close we come in of coming to His Presence. Somehow another, it's always throwed a great effect upon people to come into the Presence of God. I've seen the time in my ministry when you'd see the Presence of God come into such a place that it would bring a person up and just reveal the life to them, and call out their sins of all kinds of immoral acts, and it bring such a holy hush amongst the people till they'd drop out of the prayer line before they ever come up to be prayed for, and run to the altar and get right with God before they come up into His Presence. See, there's something about coming into the Presence of God that causes things to happen. I've seen people laying in cots and stretchers.
*... AFTER JOHN HAD WALKED
WITH JESUS, TALKED WITH HIM, SLEPT WITH HIM, EAT WITH HIM, BUT WHEN HE SEEN HIM
STANDING THERE, THAT GLORIFIED STATE, HE SAID HE FELL LIKE A DEAD MAN AT HIS
FEET.
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26 What about the great Saint John of Revelations 1:7, when he was showed the vision, and looked, and heard a Voice speaking to him. And he turned to look to see the Voice, and he saw seven golden candlesticks. And One stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, with hair like wool, eyes like flames of fire, feet like pillars of brass; He was girded with a golden girdle around the paps, and He was called the Word of God. And when the great Saint John had walked with Christ, leaned upon His bosom, when he done all these things... As I said this morning, Paul's ministry exceeded any of them. Here, after John had walked with Jesus, talked with Him, slept with Him, eat with Him, but when he seen Him standing there, that glorified state, he said he fell like a dead man at His feet. Amen. Think of it.
*WE MIGHT THINK THAT WE KEEP
THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH AND RECITE ALL THE CREEDS, BUT ONCE LET US GET A LOOK AT
HIM, THE WHOLE THING'S CHANGED ALL THE WAY AROUND.
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27 We can come to church, and talk, and praise God, and so
forth, but, oh, brother, when we see Him coming, something will be different in
our hearts. We might think we do our religious duty by go to church and pay our
tithings. We might think that we keep the laws of
the church and recite all the creeds, but once let us get a look at Him, the
whole thing's changed all the way around. Yes, it's sure.
This great man, Saint John, a great man like that, the Bible said in Revelations 1:7, that, he fell as if he was a dead man. After three and a half years of fellowship with Christ, was one of the writers of the Epistles, rode behind Him, eat with Him at the table, slept with Him at the bed, and fellowshipped with Him wherever He went, but when he's turned to see Him, he had no more life left in him. He fell like a dead man to the floor, or to the ground. All right.
*HE SAID, "WOE IS ME,
FOR I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS," A PROPHET, A MIGHTIEST PROPHET OF THE
BIBLE, ONE OF THEM.
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29 We see Isaiah in Isaiah 6:5, as we've just read, this
great mighty prophet, he's one of the greatest prophets there is in the Bible.
There's sixty-six Books of the Bible; there's sixty-six chapters in Isaiah.
Isaiah starts off in Genesis, the middle of Isaiah he brings in the New
Testament, at the end of Isaiah he brings in the millennium; just exactly
Genesis, the New Testament, and Revelation; perfect. Isaiah was one of the
major prophets. But one day he had been leaning upon the arm of Uzziah the
great king, Uzziah had been taken from him, and he was down. He was a pretty
good fellow; he was a good righteous man, if that righteous king (a good king)
recognized him as a holy man and kept him in his temple.
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30 Isaiah saw visions. He was a prophet. Isaiah preached the
Word. He was a minister. Isaiah was a holy man. But
one day, standing in the temple, he fell into a trance and he saw the Glory of
God. He saw the Angels with wings over Their face, wings over Their
feet, flying with wings, crying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
Almighty."
That prophet realized he was nothing. He said, "Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips," a prophet, a mightiest prophet of the Bible, one of them. "I am a man with unclean lips, and I dwell among people with unclean lips, Woe is me, because I see the Glory of God."
*BUT WE RECEIVE A KINGDOM
WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD HIMSELF, AND GOD IS HIS WORD.
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35 This is evangelism. This is the time to shake people. This is the time that--that God said there'd come a time, He shook Mount Sinai one time but there'd come a shaking again, that He wouldn't only shake Mount Sinai, but He'd shake everything that could be moved. But did you notice the rest of the Scripture? "But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved." Hallelujah. Everything that can be shook will be shaken. The heavens will shake. The earth will shake. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall never pass away. For upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell will never prevail against It." Everything that can be shook will be shaken. But we receive a Kingdom which is the Word of God Himself, and God is His Word. He don't shake Himself. Amen. Oh, my. But we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved; it's unshakable, said Paul the Hebrew writer.
*NOT WHAT I CAN DO, WHAT I
CAN JOIN, WHAT I CAN SAY; BUT IT'S BY HIS GRACE THAT HE SAVED ME.
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38 Repentant sinners though, doesn't have any fear. Oh, no. A sinner that will repent, he knows that there's a bloody
Sacrifice waiting and standing in his place. That's what gives me the consolation.
I've seen the Glory of God. I've felt His power. I know the touch of His
hand. I know the touch of His chastisement. I know that He's God. And I know I'm undone, but there's One standing there for
me. Amen.
There's One Who stands
there and says, Father, lay all of his iniquity
upon Me, because he stood for Me down on the earth." Hallelujah.
Then I've walked to the throne of God, boldly,
having grace in my heart to know it's not by good works, but by His mercy I'm
saved. Not what I can do, what I can join, what I can say; but it's by His
grace that He saved me.
No wonder the poet
that caught that, screamed out, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that
saved a wretch like me. Once was lost, but now I'm found; blind, but now I
see."
