Isaiah

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Faced with the holiness of God, Isaiah finally saw himself for who he really was: a sinner in need of cleansing. Today, R.C. Sproul considers the significant moment when God purified Isaiah's lips before appointing him to be a prophet.

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0:00.0	In the Old Testament, the prophet Isaiah saw a vision of God seated on his throne.
0:05.4	On this experience, Isaiah not only discovered who God is, but he also discovered who Isaiah was.
0:13.9	And so he is crushed by the contrast between his impurity, his corruption, and the perfection of
0:23.7	the God that he is saying in this vision. That moment when Isaiah realizes his sinfulness is a
0:36.8	powerful example of repentance. In light of God's holiness, Isaiah saw himself for who he really was.
0:44.4	Today, unrenewing your mind, Arcee Sproul explains why this prophetic Old Testament
0:49.2	passage means so much to New Testament Christians. This morning we're going to look briefly at a
0:58.2	major prophet of the Old Testament. In fact, a prophet that many believe is the most important
1:03.2	prophet of the Old Testament. And I'm thinking, of course, of the prophet Isaiah, whose name is a
1:09.8	compound of the Hebrew words that mean the Lord is my salvation. And of all of the prophets of the
1:18.5	Old Testament, who for the most part were called from obscurity and out of the wilderness and
1:24.0	were given the word of God to announce to the people, Isaiah is quite different from them as he
1:30.4	comes from the aristocracy. He was obviously a highly educated person and fit into the upper
1:38.0	strata of the economic and social climate of the nation as it were. He hobnobbed with the
1:45.4	kings of the day and was seen as an ambassador to the royal court. Although after a while,
1:52.4	some of the tone of his messages to the kings took away some of his acclaim. In fact,
1:58.5	though he prophesied chiefly in the 8th century BC, he lived into the early years of the 7th
2:05.2	century BC. And according to tradition, he was martyred under the king Menassus of that period.
2:14.5	Now, Isaiah's book is so important because it is so heavily messianic in its prophetic orientation.
2:24.8	That is, the prophet Isaiah had much to say about the character, the person, and the work
2:31.0	of the Messiah who was to come. And even though we turn to the book of Isaiah for this future
2:38.5	prediction and foretelling of the glorious manifestation of God to the people of Israel,
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