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4:24 [Music] good morning family will you rise as we prepare for worship our call to worship this morning comes from Psalm 145 will you read this with me it says my mouth will declare the Lord's praise let every living thing bless His holy name forever and ever let's sing All Creatures All Creatures of our God and lift up your voice and with [Music] hallelu hallelu th burning Sun with golden
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6:04 hallelu the rising morning praise [Music] reing Oh Praise Him Oh Praise Him Allelujah Hallelujah hallelu all the redeem all the redeemed Washed by his blood come and rejoice in his great love Oh Praise
6:51 Him [Music] Hallelujah Christ has defeated every cast all your burdens now on him Oh Praise Him Oh Praise Him Hallelujah hallelu [Music] hallelu and he shall return shall return turn in power to R Heaven and Earth will join
7:39 to Oh Praise Him [Music] hallelu shall fall all creatures of our God and king oh Oh Praise Him Oh Praise Him hallelujah hallelujah oh praise Him Oh Praise Him hallelu hallelu Hallelujah
8:25 [Music] praise him praise him praise him you may be [Music] seated you join me as we pray together this [Music] morning oh God what a joy it is to gather in your presence this morning to lift our voices in praise and to sing all Allelujah we give you thanks for what you have done for us in Christ redeeming us from from our sins drawing us into fellowship with you granting us a right standing before you giving us the privilege of enjoying communion and fellowship with one
9:12 another we pray oh God that this morning you would use this time to encourage us to strengthen Us by Your Word we thank you for Dr Hawkins we pray your blessings and enablement upon him as he shares your word with us this day thank you for these who lead us in singing and worship and praise and now oh God we pray that you might continue to bless and anoint the work across the southwestern campus in classrooms and meetings and activities we thank you for new students returning students and we pray that you would strengthen them for the task and responsibilities that are theirs in this new semester on this day we pray for many
9:58 across this campus who need your help your encouragement your comfort your care many Longing To cast their burdens upon you we pray that you might relieve their anxieties bring healing help hope we pray today for our good friend and Southwestern Ambassador Jimmy Draper as he goes through surgery today that You' be with the doctors and that you would help him we pray for future health and recovery so we commit this time to you and even this new semester once again we thank you for your every blessing to us in the Name of Christ we pray amen is a joy to see you today as we continue our Chapel Series today is the
10:44 Chancellor's chapel and we're happy to have Chancellor OS Hawkins as our speaker for today those of you who are new students may not have had the opportunity to get to know Dr Hawkins yet he serves as has served as Chancellor here since 2022 prior to that he served as president at guidestone Financial Resources uh leader in southern baptist life for 25 years in that place before that Pastor of key churches like First Baptist Church of Dallas First Baptist Church Fort Lauderdale Florida prolific author particularly the code series that has sold millions of books he is one of my favorite preachers and I'm looking forward to hearing him bring God's word
11:30 to us today he has been a great gift to the Southwestern Community over the last two and a half years and we're thankful to God for him and I know that you will hear him gladly on this day our text as we continue our time of uh reading scripture and worship this morning is found in First Peter chapter 1 we're going to read verses 2 through 4 according to the forn knowledge of God the Father through the sanctifying work of the spirit Spirit to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ May Grace and peace be multiplied to you blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ because of his great Mercy he has given us New Birth into a Living Hope through the
12:17 resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that is imperishable undefiled unfading kept in heaven for you this is the word of the Lord let's stand together and continue our worship and praise [Music] together in the darkness we were waiting without hope without light to from Heaven you came running there was Mery in your eyes to fulfill theem Prophet to
13:05 a verion came the world from a throne and endless glory to a crad in the praise the father praise the father praise the son praise the spirit three in one God of Glory mesty praise forever to the King of
13:56 Kings to reveal the kingdom coming and to reconcile the to redeem the whole creation you did notp the cross even in your suffering you to the other side knowing this was our Sal Jesus for you I praise the father praise the father praise the praise of
14:41 spirit three one God of Glory mesty praise forever to the king of King in the morning you Rose all of Heaven H his breath till the S was mov for good for the lamb had conquered them and theil was from their to and the anel who he know for the S and all who come to
15:30 the father I res and the Church of God was B [Music] theame through the shall not F his in his in his freom I am free for the love ofr Christ resurrected me praise the father praise the father praise the son praise
16:19 us one God all glory mesty praise for heaven to the king of King praise the father praise the son praise [Music] the God mesty praise forever to the king of King praise for heav to the
17:09 King of [Music] Kings to trust in Jesus just to take him at his word just to rest upon his prise and just you know the faith the Lord oh how sweet to trust in
17:56 Jesus just to TR his cleansing blood and [Music] just to me the [Music] Hees how I trust how I more and Jesus Jes preious Jesus Oh Our gra to
18:48 [Music] tr sweet to trust in Jesus just from s to see just from Jus is taking life and rest and joy andace Jesus Jesus how I trust him how I him more
19:33 Heaven Jesus Jesus preious Jesus Oh for Grace to trust him more I'm so glad I learn to trust me preious Jes Jus save your friend and I know that thou with me will be is that a good promise the end
20:19 Jesus Jesus how I trust you how I prove Jesus Jes preious Jesus Oh for Grace to trust him oh for grace for Gra to trust God will you give us your grace to
21:06 trust you and walk with you and lean into your promises and your will is in Jesus name we pray thank you you may be seated well good morning thank you for the privilege you know my my Greek teacher was a man by the name of Dr Hubert Drumright who was the dean of theology here 50 years ago when I was an MD student and Dr drumr would always begin by saying thank you for the privilege of opening the book of God to the people of God for we know these words are always a
21:54 Savor of Life under life to all who receed them so with that admonition let's open our Bibles to the prophet Isaiah and the sixth chapter our Noble president in the convocation address two days ago talked about the community of Believers The Community of Faith here and the importance and the primary purpose of worship among Believers it led me to start thinking how do you know that you've truly worshiped how do you know that you've truly worshiped some of you are going to go out and Lead Worship in churches and
22:41 you know the pastor is the worship leader of the church and many of us are going to go out in various aspects music Ministry preaching Ministry and lead people to worship here's the question question for us how are you going to know that you've truly worshiped and I believe the secret of understanding that is found in three ways here in this of repeated passage of Isaiah's worship experience he begins in verse one by saying in the year that King Uzziah died don't just read past that I'm going to come back to it in a moment because it's very important in understanding the
23:27 context of which he's speaking so in the year that King Uzziah died Isaiah said I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up above him stood the seraphim each had six wings with two he covered his face and with two he covered his feet and with two he flew and one called to another and said holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory can you imagine that antifonal chorus singing back and forth to one another holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts and
24:14 the foundations of the thresholds Shook at the voice of him who called and the house was filled with smoke and I said wo woe is me for I am lost I'm undone I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king the Lord of hosts then one of the seraphim flew to me having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar that altar is a picture of the
25:01 Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ that burning coal is a picture of the blood of Jesus Christ and he touched my mouth and said behold this has touched your lips and your guilt is taken away and your sin is atoned for then I heard the voice of the Lord saying Whom Shall I S and who will go for us then I said he am I send me and he said go and tell this people
25:47 you know we talk a lot about worship we call places like this a worship center many churches call their Sanctuary their building where they meet to worship a worship center we we have worship Services we have we hand out worship programs uh we have a worship leader we we we sing We have a worship team often we we have we sing worship songs we experience worship we talk so much about that but how do we know that we have truly worshiped the New Testament word means just that we fall prostrate before
26:33 him like John did in Revelation one when he was confronted with the righteousness and the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and he said I fell down to his feet like a dead man you know so much of what we're about is made up of Triads the father the son the Holy Spirit we are each made up of spirit soul and body we only have three relationships in life all of us there's the outward expression the relationship we have with ourselves I mean with others we're made to connect with other people at the end of every great creative act God said it's good it's
27:20 good it's good and he made man he said something else he said not good it is not good what for man to be alone we're made to connect with each other in these outward relationships we have an inward relationship the relationship we have with ourself and then an awesome thought it separates us from all the other created order we have the capacity to enter into an upward relationship with God through Jesus Christ and these three relationships here's the bottom line you're never going to be properly related to anyone else until you're properly related to yourself and that's never going to happen until you discover how indescribably valuable you are to God come into relationship with God through Jesus Christ find your selfworth in him
28:08 and these three relationships manifests all through the scripture if I had time I I could Illustrated it over and over let me just give you two or three how about the fruit of the spirit Galatians 5:22 those characteristics of the spirit of God in our lives that are to be manifested in our lives those three expressions are are found there in in our in our relationship with with God that upward expression love joy peace that's that's what we're to express that's what the fruit of the spirit is as we relate to God love and joy and peace wi with with others patience kindness
28:55 goodness and with ourselves faithfulness gentleness self-control these three these three evidences of the fruit of the spirit manifests himself they're also there these same three evidence show up in the proof that you're being filled with the spirit of God we're all indwelt with the spirit of God who come to know Christ but the one of the commands of the spirit of God is to be filled with God's spirit Ephesians 5:18 how are you going to know the proof what's the proof that you're being filled with the Holy Spirit Well some people think it's certain gifts like Paul might have mentioned in Ephesians 4 Romans 12 or in
29:41 that discourse in 1 Corinthians 12:14 those Miracle gifts and yet he wrote to those same people at Corinth in chapter three and said what I wanted to write to you as mature but you were just babes I wanted to give you the meat of the word but you couldn't even take the milk you were spiritually immature it wasn't a sign of being filled with the spirit of God what is the sign the three areas the Ephesians 5:18 you know that it says be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Holy Spirit what a contrast be not drunk with wine you know a drunk preacher is in no condition to preach he gets up here and slobbers and stams right well a n Spirit-filled
30:28 preachers in no condition to preach either but what's the proof that you're filled with the Holy Spirit well there's an inward proof it's the next verse verse 19 of Ephesians 5 speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord you'll have a song in your heart you'll have a joyfill life with a song in your heart if you're being filled with the Holy Spirit what what's the upward evidence your relationship with God it's the next verse verse 20 giving thanks always unto God the father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ you'll have this attitude of Thanksgiving about you when you're filled with the spirit how are other people going to know what's that outward
31:14 expression the next verse verse 21 submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God you'll live in relationship with other people esteeming others as better than yourselves proofs of the Holy Spirit these three evidence show up over and over and over and over and over in scripture and I I've introduced that to say that's how you know you're going to worship you've been to worship that's how you know you've truly worship it's evidenced in these three particular areas first of all in this text there is this upward evidence how you know how you'll know that youve worshiped you will see see the Lord in
32:00 his Holiness you'll see God in his Holiness Isaiah caught this Vision a of God and and and that antifonal choir was singing Holy Holy Holy Holy that word means set apart he's different he's separate he's holy he's Transcendent Incorruptible inscrutable glorious so holy is he that habc says he cannot look upon sin no wonder Darkness enveloped the earth when Christ was burying our sin in his own body on the
32:46 cross he's a holy holy God he is not your good buddy he's not someone you have such little little reverence with in a youth rally that you can run up and give him a high five Isaiah's first inclination when he saw God in his Holiness here W to whip out his iPhone and run up there to the throne try to get a selfie with he and God because God is Holy and you'll know that you've worshiped when you in this upward evidence leave that experience of worship having seen God in his Holiness because worship is
33:32 not about [Music] you it's about him for the last many years I've preached in a different church almost every Sunday all over the country and I've sit in many many worship Services heard many many people leading in music and worship I remember at church not long ago I was in there and it just dawned on me every every song We sang was about what I was doing me we sang One chorus and we repeat this phrase at least 30 times I worship you I it's all about what I'm doing worship is not about you it is
34:19 about Him worship is Christ centered not man centered and there's a new trendy gospel around some places in Christianity Today that's seeking to replace very subtly the New Testament gospel you see this new trendy gospel is consumed with man's self-fulfillment how can we be fulfilled how can we be self-fulfilled happy the new the New Testament gospel isn't about self-fulfillment it's about self-denial Jesus said if anyone comes
35:04 after me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow after me Paul said I I'm crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me this new trendy gospel is centered on man and his need of happiness and joy and fulfillment and the New Testament gospel is centered on Christ his Plan of
35:49 Redemption for each of us it's centered on the gospel that God loves you and that Jesus suffered and died on the cross for your sins he paid your sin debt in full he didn't make a little down payment so that you have to work and strive yourself the rest of the way he paid it in full he was buried he rose again on the third day he was seen by hundreds thousands nobody ever saw Buddha or confucious Muhammad rise from the dead and the good news is that if we'll trust in Jesus
36:36 Christ in the Forgiveness of those sins he will save us it's the gospel and the New Testament gospel is centered there this was born out of a crisis the first words in this text say in the year that King Uzziah died don't read past that he was the 10th king of Judah you know the northern kingdom had not one good King the southern Kingdom had a few good Kings and even though Uzziah ended not well there were so many good things he did he brought prosperity to the kingdom of Judah he he re he repaired walls he
37:23 he uh reinforced their security and there was so many things 52 years he reigned on the throne of Judah most he was all most of those people had ever known was good King y Uzziah and now he's dead he died and Leadership was not there and the throne was empty often worship experiences emerge out of such times of uncertainty sometimes Of Heartache sometimes of great sorrow Isaiah said I saw the Lord and he
38:09 was Seated on the the Earthly Throne was empty but Isaiah said I saw the Lord and you know what he wasn't running around ringing his hands saying what am I going to do what we going to do down there no he was Seated on the throne the Earthly Throne was empty but he was Seated on the throne somebody might need to hear this today that God is in control that the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro over this whole world to show himself strong in behalf of those whose hearts are fixed on him he's not abdicated his throne the Lord Jesus is not surprised by anything that's ever happened in your life read the gospels
38:55 you're not going to read one time where he ever came came up on a situation and said whoa I didn't see that coming or man that was a surprise he is a sovereign Lord and he's high and he's lifted up and he's holy he's holy Isaiah said my eyes have seen the Lord you want to know if youve worship you'll see God in his Holiness you'll walk out with a sense of awe you will have been brought Before the Throne of God to see that he is in control that he is Lord of all that he's separate he's set apart that he is Holy
39:42 before God before you so that's the upward image you'll see God in his Holiness you won't run out of there like you've been into some rally sometime wanting to give him a high five he's a holy God here's the here's the inward evidence how are you going to know inwardly you'll see yourself in your own helplessness you'll see God in his Holiness but I'll tell you something else you'll know you've worshiped when you see yourself like you really are in your own helplessness look what Isaiah said when he saw that glimpse of the Holiness of God what did he say whoa who wo whooe is me I'm undone he
40:31 started confessing his sin I'm undone I I'm a man of unclean lips I'm dwelling among a people of unclean lips if you go to your church service or your worship service or you sitting here and you're looking around saying man this I hope so and so gets this message they need it you've never worshiped is you've never worshiped most of us judge our own Christian Life by somebody else's standard how we measure up to somebody else how we out measure somebody else that's not our standard our standard is seen here it's in the
41:16 Holiness of God it's in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ Isaiah is saying uh there's no excuse woe is me I am undone this goes against the grain of a lot of teaching today but you've not worshiped until you come to that place when you see God for who he really is you know what'll happen you'll see yourself for who you are what about job when job saw God in his Holiness what did he say I abhor myself he said and I Repent in sackcloth and in ashes what did Simon Peter say in the gospel when he got a glimpse of the Holiness of Christ he said depart from
42:03 me Lord for I am a sinful man Peter said that what did John say he said it on the aisle he fell down at his feet as though we were a dead man you see the closer you get to a holy God the more we see ourselves like we really are it's like this great light that shines and when we're a long way from that light imperfections don't show up but the closer we're drawn to that light the more we like Isaiah begin to see when we've been in the Holiness of God in worship we see ourselves as we really are you need a good illustration of that
42:48 take a chronological Journey with the Apostle Paul through his letters and see how he progressed the closer he got to the heart of God the more he saw the glory of God the more he realized the Holiness of God he came back from his first missionary journey and he wrote the galatian epistle in your new testament probably in about 48 ad and what did he say in there he said Paul I'm an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ seven years later he wrote to the those at Corinth in Corinthians in about 55 ad and he said in 1 Corinthians 15:9 he said I'm the least of all the
43:35 apostles he said he went from being an apostle to saying he was the least but that's not all five years later he wrote that cyclical letter that went around that we call Ephesians in our New Testament and in Ephesians he said I'm Paul I'm less than the least of all the saints forget about being a Apostle forget about being least of the of the Apostles I'm less than the least of all the saints and then when he was almost translated to Glory before being beheaded outside the city Gates of Rome he writes to Timothy and what does he say to Timothy in that first letter I'm Paul I'm the chief of
44:21 Sinners I'm the chief of Sinners anybody here today see yourself like that if you've seen the Holiness of God you'll begin to see yourself as you really are and with Isaiah you'll say woe is me I'm undone I'm a man of unclean lips that's confession agreeing with God the saying that the word means saying the same thing as God says that's what God Said your sin is not some little viice you laugh off or excuse used by saying everybody's doing it or minimized by saying it's not as bad as so and so it is so serious it necessitated the
45:08 cross and so this beautiful picture here that that Isaiah is giving us of confession and then forgiveness of he sends it away exactly what it says in this text that his sins were sent away in forgiveness you'll know you've worship when you come to the place of seeing God in his Holiness seeing yourself in your own helplessness and coming to that place where you've confessed your sin before God and gotten free of sin and then there's a third evidence what about that outward expression once you've seen God in his
45:54 Holiness seen yourself in your own helplessness you'll begin to see others in their hopelessness that's what happens in the text he hears in verse eight after being confessing his sin to God and being cleansed he hears the voice of God do you know the Bible says uh that without the confession of sin we cannot hear the voice of God he gets clean before God and now he hears God saying whom whom shall I send and who will go for us he hears the voice of God and he answers here am I now the ESV says here
46:39 I am I'm not going to argue the syntatic or the linguistic nature of what it was because I can't but I can just tell you for me I like the authorized version because to me when he says here I am that speaks about location you know I say where's Carl Bradford and he stands up and says here I am that's location Dr Bradford sitting right there but when I hear here am I to me that speaks of dedication surrender here here am I here am I send me Isaiah first dedicated himself
47:27 here am I surrendered before you cleansed of my sin you know we talk so much about commitment today those old pre our old preachers didn't preach about that they preached about surrender here am I first he dedicates himself then he dedicates himself to service send me and then what does God say go and tell this people true worship will always lead us to an Evangelistic heart to be interested in the things that God is interested in and Jesus said in the Gospel of Luke I came in chapter 19:10 I came what to seek and to save
48:14 those who are lost and if you want to know you've truly worshiped you'll see God in his Holiness you'll see yourself in your helplessness but your eyes will be open to those around you that are hopeless without Christ lost without Christ lost Beyond hope lost Beyond time lost Beyond Christ lost Beyond eternity lost forever lost we don't use that word anymore we call them unreached people groups are Seekers Jesus called them lost and when you've really worship you'll recover the fact that those around you without Christ are lost Beyond hope and lost Beyond Christ and
48:59 lost Beyond eternity and you'll hear him say go and tell this people some never get to the place of go you know why the go always follows the woe no wonder some of us don't go we've not got gotten to the place where we've seen him in the beauty of his Holiness and caused us to see ourselves falling so short in the righteousness of Christ and coming in genuine repentance and confession to be cleansed and then we hear the voice of
49:46 God whom shall I send who will go for us and then we're at a place where we can answer here my Lord I surrender all all to thee my blessed savior here am I and then we can complete the phrase send me and then it says then he'll hear him say go and tell this people perhaps as I close your Uzziah has died that thing or that someone in whom you put so much trust has died maybe you've moved here from across
50:33 the world or across the continent to study here and it seems like your Uzziah has died that thing you trusted in that one that was so close God has not abdicated his throne look he's still Seated on the throne High and lifted up how will you know you worship and if you lead people to worship how will you know they have worshiped you'll see God in his Holiness it'll lead you to see yourself in your helplessness coming clean before him you will see others in their hopelessness and be about the business
51:20 of what Jesus was about seeking to save the Lost somewhere in this room the spirit of God is saying Whom Shall I S Whom Shall I S who will go for us you'll know you've worshiped when you respond here am I every piece of me I Surrender here I Lord send me send me send me and he'll tell you the same
52:05 thing he told Isaiah okay go and tell this people father seal these words in our hearts that we might know we have truly worshiped you is our prayer in Jesus name amen let's stand as we respond to the word that been brought to us this morning thank you for the cross [Music] Lord thank you for the
52:52 price you paid bearing all my sin and shame in love you came and give Amazing Grace and thank you for the love Lord thank you for the wash me in your cleansing FL now all I know your forgi and embrace Worthy is the
53:43 Lamb Seated on the throne Crown you down with many crown you re Victor I am lifted up Jesus of God The Treasure of Heaven Cru [Music] Worthy is the
54:32 Lamb Worthy is the say thank you for the cross Lord thank you for the cross thank you for the pr you bearing all my sin and shame love you and amazing thank you for this love thank you for
55:17 theh me in your cow now all I know you're for foress and give Worthy is the Lamb SE all the we prown you now we you now with ground you re Victor [Music]
56:05 Jesus Son of [Music] God The Treasure of Heaven [Music] Cru Worthy is the Lamb [Music] Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is [Music] the reive this benediction from Hebrews
56:52 13 now may the God of Peace who brought forth our lord Jesus from the dead equip you with everything good to do his will that we may be pleasing in his sight to him be glory forever and ever amen go in his peace [Music]
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