Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church
No Where To Go But Up
Isaiah 6:1-5
This happened in the year that king Uzziah died.
There were a few good kings.
Outside of David and Solomon, Uzziah was in that top 3.
He reigned 52 years.
Uzziah sought God, and that's what made him different.
2 Chronicles 26 tells a lot about his life.
Uzziah was king at 16.
As long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
Towards the tail end of his life Uzziah got lifted up with pride and crossed a line he shouldn't have crossed. He got leprosy and had to live out his life in seclusion.
2nd half of vs 1 : I SAW THE LORD!
1. Connection between tribulation and revelation.
Who is your Uzziah : Levi's first ever teaching.
Who are you looking to fulfill things that only God is supposed to fill in you.
That's not rated to hold what you put in it.
Only God is capable of holding the weight of your soul!
In the pain I'm posturing you to receive a new revelation.
Matthew 5:3 MSG
Less of you, more of God!
2. Connection between praise and power
Isaiah 6:4 the cause was praise, the effect was power.
Smoke is a picture of the glory of God.
HOLY : every time the angels passed they see a new thing in God.
Your worship can never get old if you're praising God for something new He's showing you.
Worship starts in heaven and the effect is felt here on earth.
Look up to God from your problems and then look back and see God' glory all around it!!
"The national glory of Israel died out with king Uzziah, and has never revived to this day." Franz Delitzsch
6 wings - only 2 used to carry out their mission, so 4 were used to worship!
Worship God - you become like what you worship!
"I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly at the turn of the road upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with...the scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him." C.S. Lewis
3. Connection between humility and wholeness.
Isaiah falls on his face and says his greatest natural ability (his tongue - writing - speech) is terrible compared to Who I see.
Don't lose yourself in your own story, find yourself in His story.
4. Connection between availability and opportunity.
Here am I, send me!
The world needs people who have the spirit of a volunteer.
John 12:41
John repeats what Isaiah said after his own encounter.
