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Synonyms: prophet, uzziah, major prophet

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Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... rest of this autobiographical account, but they are not. They fix the time of this spiritual experience. In this, they give us a particular historical setting. These opening words tell us that there are events in our lives too, that ignite a reaction, a response. King Uzziah is dead! That announcement, in 742 B.C. in Jerusalem, put terror into the hearts of some. Why? All kings must die. Yet the title, "King," is a reference to power. When the king died, the power was gone. It happens with all great people ...

2. Lighting A Fire In A Cold Room

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... . At least I'm not a hypocrite." Jotham never understood why the people acted corruptly under his leadership and why, ultimately, all the spiritual fruit fell off the vines in his kingdom under his son Ahab and his daughter-in-law, Jezebel. Yes, Jotham's father, King Uzziah, went to worship, but he quit when the priest and his associates would not let him light the fire, swing the incense, and smoke up the Holy Place for his own ends. That decision, to light the fire for the fire's sake, on the part of ...

3. God Is Not Dead

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... in the right way. I want to give you a biblical illustration of this. It is found in the life of a king, whose name was Uzziah. Uzziah was a good king who made a bad mistake. We read about it in 2 Chronicles 26:16, “But when he was strong his heart ... he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals.” For the first time in the family of Uzziah we see full-blown idolatry. Here we have false worship. I wish I could stop there, but listen to v.3: “He burned incense in the ...

4. High and Lifted Up

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... a heavenly King. One king had died as all kings do, one King lives forever as no king can. Notice carefully how he sees the Lord. He does not see the Lord pacing back and forth, wringing his hands, barking out orders, breaking out into a cold sweat because King Uzziah had died. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he was "sitting on a throne, high and lifted up." Isaiah saw clearly what we need to see completely in these difficult days in which we live, and that is God is on the throne. His hand is on the throttle. He ...

5. The Ascension Day Experience

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... times often, it gives us guidance on how to proceed. In the First Testament, we are told that Uzziah was only sixteen years old when he became King of Judah. He remained on the throne for an incredibly long 52 years. In 2 Chronicles 26, we read details ... experience. In the midst of those hurting times, a prophet of God reassured the people with a vision. “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple” (Isaiah 6: ...

6. Whom Shall I Send, and Who Will Go for Us?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... and the similarities stand out? Does not the evil we see outwardly displayed in others exist also in us as a hidden darkness? The prophet's confession of unclean lips catches our attention. We think of the ritual uncleanness of the leper king, Uzziah. The confession suggests an uncleanness of language, an impurity of speech, pollution and contamination in our very hearts where our thoughts and values shape the words that come forth from our lips. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Jesus ...

7. Daring To Trust The Roots

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... being in covenant with their God. And in the midst of these four kings of Judah, in the seventh and eighth centuries before Christ, Isaiah the prophet sought to bring faithfulness and hope to his people and to the kings whose ear he had from 742 to 701 B.C.: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah (cf. Isaiah 1:1). Now you may not remember the names of these four kings, and you may even forget the prophet Isaiah's name, but I doubt very much that you will be able to forget the image which he used to solidify hope ...

8. The Call of Holiness

Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... was smitten when he threatened to kill the eighty priests, who were already warning him to leave. But, after being stricken with leprosy, he left the temple and moved outside the city, while his son, Jotham, reigned as king. A year later Uzziah died and was "buried by himself in his own gardens." What a tragic ending to an illustrious and spiritually productive life and career! Not only was that tragic, but Israel's eyes were focused on the mighty Assyrian King, Tiglath-Pileser, who was moving quickly ...

9. Up Close & Personal: Seeing Clearly

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... the exact hour, and the exact minute to when it happened and what had happened. You have to understand the background of the story to see why it was such a big deal. One of the kings who reigned during the ministry of Isaiah was a man named Uzziah. He was one of the more successful kings of Judah. He had strengthened the defense of Jerusalem, turning it into a fortified city that was able to fight off her enemies. He had led the nation to economic prosperity. God had favored the land with peace, prosperity ...

10. Send Me!

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... his own time. Little wonder then that he dates his vision in the Temple by the time when the great King Uzziah died. Uzziah began his reign in 783. He became king when he was only six years old, and he ruled for almost fifty years as a great and good ... king. He ruled so long that the fortunes of the nation and the rule of Uzziah almost seemed as one. He developed the nation’s agriculture. Throughout his reign there was prosperity in the land. His leadership inspired ...

11. Portrayal of Holiness

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... off immediately at the Lord's command. God's otherness is contrasted with all things earthly in this vision. He is other than any earthly king, even when that human king has been as great as Judah's Uzziah. Uzziah had enlarged Judah's territory, expanded her army, and improved her agriculture. But when Uzziah died of leprosy, Isaiah saw the real King, the Lord of heaven and earth. "The King mine eyes have seen!" he cries out (in the order of the Hebrew words), "the Lord of hosts!" That King of the universe ...

12. The King and I

Isaiah 6:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... ; one is a moral king, one is an immortal King; one is a human king, one is a heavenly King. One king had died, as all kings do, one King lives forever as no other king can. Now these were troubled days for Isaiah and the nation of Judah. Uzziah, a good king, Isaiah's friend, had died. Judah was facing invasion from the Assyrian army from the north. Things looked very bleak. Someone has well said, "When the outlook is bleak, try the uplook." When Isaiah looked up, he saw clearly what you and I need to see ...

13. Expressing The Inexpressible

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... temple that day. Here he was, a religious man, to be sure, but no preacher. Actually, he was a functionary in the king's court, a White House bureaucrat, if you will. It was an unhappy time in the nation's life. The good king Uzziah had died. Uzziah's reign had been a time of great material prosperity. To secure the caravan route along the Mediterranean coast, he had built cities and military outposts and armed his troops with the most advanced weapons. He had refortified the walls of Jerusalem with towers ...

14. Permission To Daydream

Joel 2:28-32, Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... writing that gives us solid clues as to the exact time of his ministry, and he is not mentioned outside of his own writings. The best scholarly guess is that Joel prophesied in Judah during the reign of King Uzziah (792-740 B.C.). These were days of great prosperity and national success. Uzziah expanded his territory and seized control of the caravan routes in the area. He improved fortifications in the kingdom and reorganized the army. It was a time that harkened back to the reign of Solomon in terms of ...

15. Satisfaction Gauranteed

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... of the great eighth century B.C. prophet, Isaiah, and we're not done yet. But as a bit of an interlude, as we move into the New Year, I want us to listen to the great prophet Jeremiah. Isaiah received his call from the Lord "the year that King Uzziah died" (Isaiah 6:1ff), which was in 740 B.C. Isaiah responded immediately when God called. "And who shall I send, and who will go for us?" Remember Isaiah's response? "Here I am. Send me." Isn't it great that God uses every kind of person? God called Jeremiah ...

16. Step Five - Integrity

Jn 4:16-24 · 1 Jo 1:5-10 · Is 6:1-8

Sermon

John A. Terry

... and asked, "What awful sin have you committed?" He said, "I'm a terrible gossip!" The Old Testament text tells about the struggle some 2,700 years ago of the prophet Isaiah as he faced the nature of his wrong. It happened the year the Uzziah, king of Israel, died. Uzziah was the greatest king of Israel since Solomon ruled hundreds of years before. Now he was gone, the nation's throne was empty and the nation's future was unsure. This is the story of Isaiah's confession and his calling, not Isaiah's theory ...

17. Staying Close

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... stages has never fully developed. Let's consider those three stages for a few moments. Let's begin with discovery. DISCOVERY is that time when you first became aware of the presence of God in your life. For Isaiah it came in the year that King Uzziah died. The death of Uzziah was a traumatic moment in Isaiah's life just as the death of John F. Kennedy or Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a traumatic event in many American's lives. It is not unusual for the death of someone we greatly admire to make us conscious ...

18. Once In A Lifetime

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... dollars. No, Isaiah's once-in-a-lifetime experience was a little more profound. Isaiah saw God. Isaiah and his people had lived through good times under the rule of King Uzziah. It was a period of peace and stability. And it was also a time of unprecedented prosperity. The people felt affluent and secure. But suddenly King Uzziah died and everything changed overnight. The people no longer knew what to expect. There was uncertainty about the future. There were even threats of war. The way of life that they ...

19. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... Isaiah really saw that day. Scripture tells us he saw seraphim, which means fire-spirits. In Isaiah's day, a seraph was an effigy for a foreign god, something like a Sphinx, part-human, part-animal with six wings. Judah wasn't an independent country, and Uzziah was a practical king. He paid tribute to Assyria by allowing the Assyrians to set up seraphim in the temple courts as a reminder of who was really in charge. Though, with his human eye, Isaiah had often seen these ugly monstrosities, with his eye of ...

20. Three Men Changed by God

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... way. Our lessons for the day tell about three men who experienced God’s grace in extraordinary ways. It’s interesting how similar their stories are despite their different stations in life. Let’s begin with the prophet Isaiah. “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne,” writes Isaiah, “and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet ...

21. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the frather of Manasseh, and Mannasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at ...

22. Called! Cleansed! Sent

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... finally used is the question of whether we hold anything sacred. The texts for today assume that it is still possible for us to acknowledge God's holiness and stand in awe. The first lesson is from the call of Isaiah in chapter six: "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty." This is a traditional picture of an oriental ruler, high on a throne. Still, it is not a lot that Isaiah sees, because the hem of his robe filled the temple (v. 1) and covers everything. The ...

23. Seeing With New Eyes

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... of Judah, northern Israel was about to fall to the Assyrian onslaught. Judah itself was paying tribute to Assyria in a desperate attempt to prevent its own destruction. Social corruption and religious apathy were rampant. Political leadership was in disarray. Finally, King Uzziah, the symbolic representative of the rule of the Lord, had just died. The very identity of the Hebrews as the people of God was in jeopardy. Indeed, the entire nation had reached a major turning point. Was the foundation of their ...

24. Your Reflection In God's Mirror

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

James McLemore

In this first chapter of the book, Isaiah examines the nation of Judah as it looked during the reign of four kings: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. As he examines them, he reflects on what Judah looks like when God looks at the nation. He tells Judah that when God looks at you, you don't look like yourself. Your name is Judah, and you are the people of Jerusalem. Judah means the " ...

25. The Man With Two Umbrellas

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

William L. Self

... the flock and said, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel' " (Amos 7:15). He spoke with passion against the years of dark doings in high places, wealth breeding laziness, rampant injustice. But Isaiah was a friend of kings, cultured and courtly. "In the year King Uzziah died I saw the Lord." Mourning the fall of the king, he heard the voice of God. His answer was, "Here am I. Send me." Jeremiah, brooding about vocational direction, heard the voice of God saying to him, "Before thou camest forth out of the ...

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