The Anthem of the Angels
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Day and night, heaven resounds with the anthem of the angels: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory" (Isa. 6:3). Today, R.C. Sproul prompts us to remind ourselves constantly of our holy God.
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| 0:00.0 | Holiness is not simply a single attribute, but it captures and gathers together |
| 0:07.2 | all of the attributes of God together because the holiness points to the transcendent |
| 0:15.7 | majesty, the superlative greatness, the otherness that characterizes God and makes him unique |
| 0:26.7 | and makes him worthy of our worship. |
| 0:37.1 | Ask a random Christian how they would describe God and what answers do you think you would get? |
| 0:43.0 | I often hear Christians first impulse is to describe God as a God of love, a God of mercy, |
| 0:49.2 | a God of grace. How would you describe Him? Welcome to the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind |
| 0:56.8 | on your host, Nathan W. Bingham. In Isaiah 6, we get a glimpse into what |
| 1:02.8 | R.C. Sproul called the Anthem of the Angels. The declaration that God Almighty is holy, holy, |
| 1:11.6 | holy. Now we mustn't pit one attribute against another, so why is it that it's God's holiness |
| 1:18.7 | that the Seraphim highlight in Isaiah's vision? Here's R.C. Sproul with a key message from his widely |
| 1:25.4 | beloved Holiness of God series. It was in the 8th century BC when Isaiah was called by God to be |
| 1:37.6 | a prophet, one of the most important prophets of Old Testament history. We have seen that in the 8th |
| 1:45.2 | century that it was the year that King Uzziah died, the same year that the Roman Empire began with |
| 1:54.1 | the establishment and founding of the city of Rome along the banks of the Tiber River. It was in |
| 2:00.4 | that time in history that Isaiah had his experience where he was able to see into the very inner |
| 2:10.1 | chambers of heaven itself. And as we've already examined in the text that records this history, |
| 2:17.6 | the sixth chapter of Isaiah's book, Isaiah was able to see the Lord himself exalted and seated |
| 2:26.2 | upon the throne. And we've described the experience of the Seraphim who were endowed with two wings |
| 2:37.5 | to cover their faces, two wings to cover their feet, and two wings to fly. Now in our last session, |
| 2:45.2 | we looked at the significance of the structure of the Seraphim that I ended by saying that it wasn't |
| 2:53.6 | so much the nature of the Seraphim that grips our interest here as it was their message. We are told |
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