God's Holiness & The Most Important Thing About You | Isaiah 6 Explained

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Jonny Ardavanis

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Why does worship feel shallow? Why does preaching feel flat? Why has passion for God gone cold? The answer might be simpler — and more uncomfortable — than you think: a low view of God.

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In this episode, we open in Isaiah 6 — widely considered the greatest passage on the holiness of God in all of Scripture — and trace it through the story of King Uzziah, the seraphim, Palm Sunday in John 12, and the return of Christ in Revelation 19. What we find is a thread that ties the whole Bible together: God is a holy King, and understanding that changes everything.

Topics we cover:

What A.W. Tozer meant when he said your view of God is the most important thing about you
King Uzziah — what pride, prosperity, and a low view of God's holiness cost him- The seraphim in Isaiah 6 — who they are and why they cover their faces
What "Holy, Holy, Holy" actually means (and why it's the only attribute tripled in Scripture)
The connection between Isaiah 6 and Palm Sunday in John 12- Why God is not self-deprecating — and why that's actually good news
The difference between a quantitative and qualitative view of God
Revelation 19 and the return of the King

Referenced: Isaiah 6, 2 Chronicles 26, John 12, Revelation 4 & 19, Tozer, Sinclair Ferguson, RC Sproul, Spurgeon, Michael Horton

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sometimes people ask why is maybe worship so trivialized or trendy?
0:04.0	Why is preaching weak and flat and why is passion for God lost at sea?
0:09.0	Well, the answer all of those questions would be that we need to elevate and magnify our understanding of who God is.
0:14.0	And a low view of God leads to low views of holiness, his holiness, which would consequently lead to low views of our sin,
0:22.6	which would lead to low views of the cross of Jesus Christ, which would lead to low views of grace.
0:27.6	And if your view of grace is low, then it isn't amazing to you, even if that's what you might sing.
0:41.3	Hank, how we doing? Doing great, Johnny.
0:42.5	I have a question for you.
0:43.6	Go ahead.
0:44.4	First, how are you doing?
0:45.4	I'm doing well.
0:47.0	What is the scariest airplane experience you've had in your life?
0:51.8	Probably there was a point in I was flying from a little airport in Nepal
0:57.2	to another tiny airport in Nepal at the Himalayan Plateau.
1:01.1	And I remember that the plane was shaking so much
1:05.1	and there was an elderly woman next to me.
1:07.2	I have a photo of it.
1:08.4	I might even post it over this section.
1:11.6	Look here.
1:12.6	Yeah. She is holding my hand and praying. And I'm like, she was scared.
1:18.6	So anyways, it was one of those or there's been a couple like internationally that have been like, you know, the little puddle jumpers, the Cessnais.
1:23.6	Why do you ask?
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