The first pronouncement of the prophet Isaiah is not against Damascus, not against Israel,

not against Judah, not against the scribes, not against the Pharisees.

His first prophetic oracle is delivered against Himself.

For when He sees the unveiled glory and holiness of God, He cries out,

Woe is me.

We live in an age of self-esteem.

The world wants people to feel better, to feel better about themselves.

So reading Isaiah chapter 6 and this self-proclamation of woe by Isaiah can come as a shock, woe is me.

So why did He say that when He encountered God?

That's what we'll be considering today on renewing your mind.

Not only do we need to know who God is, because as R.C. Sproul would say,

there has been an eclipse of God, we need to know who we are too, and who we are by nature.

What the Bible says about man is radically opposed to the views of our day.

Here's Dr. Sproul as he takes a deep dive into the woe is me of Isaiah 6.

As we continue our study of the holiness of God,

we remember that we have been looking closely at the circumstances that surrounded the call of the prophet Isaiah to his ministry.

And we have seen the historical background with the tragic life of King Isaiah.

We have seen the response of the heavenly creatures, the seraphim, to the dazzling glory of the holiness of God.

We've considered the statement that the whole earth is full of his glory and even looked at the various responses that people have towards this glory.

How, for the most part, we go through life and miss it even though it's staring us in the face.

But what is important for our consideration now is the response of Isaiah himself to that experience of looking into the inner chamber of heaven and seeing the glorious display of the holiness of God.

Let's look back at the text and see Isaiah's response.

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