 Well, I pray that the Lord would speak this evening and he laid a message on my heart for quite some time And I want to share it with you tonight. So turn with me and your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 6 if you will And we're gonna look at Isaiah's vision of the holy one Isaiah chapter 6 and let's begin reading from verses We're gonna read from verses 1 through 10 It says in the year that King Uzziah died. I saw the Lord sitting on a throne High and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple Above it stood Seraphim each one had six wings With two he covered his face with two he covered his feet and with two he flew and One cried to another and said Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts The whole earth is full of his glory and And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke Then I said woe is me for I am undone Because I am 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 life coal Which he had taken with the tongs from the altar and he touched my mouth with it and said Behold this has touched your lips your iniquity is taken away and your sin purged Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said here am I send me and he said go and tell this people Keep on hearing but do not understand keep on seeing but do not perceive Make the heart of this people dull and their eyes heavy and shut their eyes Lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and Return and be healed now this evening I Want to share with you about this vision that Isaiah saw and I want to share with you three I believe for the church in this present time right now right here I believe these are the three most important things that right now we need to know and I believe when you leave this place If we all put these three things into practice I believe that revival will come But you know what many times we pray for revival for the church, but the church of Jesus Christ is composed of individuals and one of the things that God Years ago when we were living in Morocco and God just began to burden my heart and God just began to say we need to ask for revival and I told my family and I said you know what we're gonna start praying for revival and I'm not talking about revival out there. I'm talking about revival right here in my heart in me I want revival in my marriage. I want revival in my life. I want revival in my children May revival come and I believe that if we want Revival to come to the church of Jesus Christ there are three vital elements and we find them right here in this passage of scripture First is a vision of the holiness of God a vision of the holiness of God second is a vision of our own sinfulness and third a vision of The commission and the lostness of people These are the three components. These are the three things that if every Christian puts and applies to their life I guarantee it will revolutionize your life Because it has revolutionized my life. It has transformed me and God is continuing and I believe God wants to do a great Movement we just saying we just saying I see a generation rising up with selfless faith Would to God that we would be that generation. Why not? Why not and God can start here today right now. Amen, and So we're gonna look at this these three things we see in this vision of Isaiah But we're gonna look at a little background first here. It says in the year that King Uzziah died. I Saw the Lord sitting on a throne Now King Uzziah Very interesting story King Uzziah You're gonna find if you look in your Bibles at 2nd Kings chapter 15 and Also, you find him in 2nd Chronicles chapter 26 and In 2nd Kings chapter 15. He's also referred to as Azariah. Okay, so you don't get confused So his name is Azariah or he's also called Uzziah Now King Uzziah he and throne he went to the to the throne at 16 years of age Imagine 16 years of age and he reigned for 52 years on the throne We see that as we read through the the passages there in 2nd Chronicles 26 that Uzziah was a man who pleased the Lord He loved God he feared God The Bible also tells us that over time he became victorious in battles He became successful He became powerful and He even invented special weaponry which brought fame to him You find all of that as you read 2nd Chronicles chapter 26 But there is a turning point in in King Uzziah's life and that turning point is in 2nd Chronicles 26 verse 16 and It says this listen very carefully. It says but when he was strong his heart was lifted up To his destruction For he transgressed Against the Lord his God by entering the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense King Uzziah had done something Thinking himself great and he was puffed up with pride because now he became famous He saw all of these successes and so he thought it's no big deal if I go do the work of a priest But wait a minute up Uzziah. This is the work of the high priest If we're gonna do things if we're gonna serve God then we need to do things God's way not our way But King Uzziah took it upon himself to do that and he went into the temple and he burned incense and immediately The Bible says that God judged him and the priests came imagine. He's the king now This is the king you don't you don't tell the king what to do But the priests came immediately and they say you mustn't do that and they rebuked him And yet how dangerous it is when people in high positions Cannot be rebuked Cannot be spoken with the word of the Lord and refuse to listen to Godly counsel But King Uzziah refused to listen and the Bible says that God punished him because he compromised and Took lightly the character and commandment of God in that he wanted to do a spiritual act with a disobedient heart He wanted to do what he wanted to do according to his terms And you know what I find that this is such a huge thing in the Christian life It is so easy For me to cover up spiritual acts and do spiritual things, but yet my heart is not right And God wants to speak to us today Beware of hiding your sin and unholy living behind external acts that appear spiritual Guys I have done it I Have done it. I have focused I Have been in ministry and I have focused and I have been serving and trying to reach these people out here with the gospel and Yet I find that my own wife and my children are not being ministered to And yet it seems that I'm doing a very spiritual thing But yet I am not putting my priority where priority priorities need to be and It is so easy for us as Christians to do that and That's why we need to listen to the counsel of the word of God. That's why we need to be Saturated in God's word and when we come to his word, we say Lord What is it that you want to speak to me Lord? Is there anything in my life Lord that you want to change? Lord, wash me Lord speak to me and that's why we're here tonight, aren't we and that's what and that's what King Uzziah needed to hear But unfortunately King Uzziah refused You know there there's an interesting passage as well in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 Versus 23 through 34 you find that Paul is speaking to the church in Corinth And he's saying when you come together and you have communion He says in that passage and he goes over the passage of remembering what Jesus said That take this bread and do this in remembrance of me my body broken for you And when you take this juice remembering that it is my blood shed for you, but Paul says something very interesting He says examine yourselves and he says judge yourselves lest you be judged And he says for many of you have fallen asleep What he means is there is not people have actually went to sleep and no he means that believers have Passed away and gone to be with the Lord Because the Lord judged them and basically took out their life because their hearts were not pleasing to him And so Uzziah here Was doing that and the Bible says that God judged him with leprosy And this was this was an amazing thing And this I believe we take we need to take this as a warning from the Lord and to say yes Lord May I be careful that I don't cover my spiritual acts with a disobedient heart And so here here is a looks and he says in the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up And I believe that these three three elements a vision of the holiness of God a vision of our sinfulness And a vision of the commission No disciple of christ can expect depth in his walk with christ Or a fruitful ministry without having these three vital elements You know, I think about the prophets you think about inoc You know the bible when you read genesis it doesn't tell us much about inoc But it says he he pleased god and god took him But if you jump to the book of jude the bible says that inoc Claim that the Lord comes with 10,000 of his saints Wow, we never saw where it says this in genesis, but the bible tells us that he had a vision Inoc had a vision and he preached Noah must have had a vision god spoke to noah and god said i'm going to judge the whole earth But you have found grace in my sight and what did noah do? Noah moved to action Moses had a vision There at the fiery bush god spoke to him and he says I have heard I have seen the affliction I have heard the oppression of my people and I've come to move and to be with you You see here isaiah has a vision you see in the book of ezekiel chapter one and chapter two read it You see a vision that ezekiel sees of the holy god and he sees these living creatures And he sees rainbows and fire and all of this amazing things of god You see daniel Daniel has a vision of god on his throne in glory And you see all of these men had visions of god And that's what we need we need god to reveal himself to us through his word But the first thing I want you to notice Is that as isaiah came Before the lord It says that king yuzaiah died And one of the things that I have learned In walking with the lord Is that before there's a call to serve There's a call to die There's a call to die You know, I believe that The lord spoke this to me a while back And I believe this I believe the gospel that we need to preach is not a gospel of one cross I believe we need to preach the gospel of two crosses It is christ that has paid the price for your sins But now in turn we must pick up our cross and follow him The problem is the the majority Of the western church and we see all of the the compromise Throughout the country and throughout the west is they're not preaching a gospel of two crosses They're saying come to jesus and he'll give you eternal life and he'll give you joy and he'll give you peace But what about your cross Jesus said if any man Desires to come after me Let him bear his cross And so you and I have been called to die And as isaiah looked Before the lord there it was this king that was on the throne. He was completely taken away And many times I know this That there must be a death to my own will There must be a death to my own plans My ways my reputation my ambitions my rights my schedule Have you given your life to the lord? Have you said lord all of my schedule is yours Lord all of my rights are yours My finances are yours lord. I give it all to you. My reputation is yours We have been called To die Remember the the story of abraham Here god had promised this son and god had given him isek the promised child And yet what an amazing thing that all of a sudden then god would come to him and say in genesis chapter 22 Now I want you to offer your son isek on the altar And it's like man lord, this is the promised son. You're giving me. Yes But now I want you to give up your son for me And so god wants us to know he wants us To give him everything and oftentimes god will remove the thing that we love the most In order to see and know do I truly want him and him alone is jesus all I need Or is it sometimes really just words i'm saying And I find that god he wants to work in our lives and do that But secondly we see here that he was seated on a throne high and lifted up The lord is superior to all others Including myself The lord is enduring and eternal when people and circumstances fail me And we too often place our eyes and focus on earthly and temporal things Rather than the heavenly and eternal things. Isn't that what we heard this morning through the message? Lord this great multitude is before me. I don't know what to do But my eyes are upon you And that's what we need to do. That's what isiah did. He got his eyes off of the death of usiah off of this Perhaps disappointment I loved him. He served you. He was a good good king But god took him away and now isiah has to put his eyes up on god the high and lifted what lifted up one Is your god the lord god of abraham isek and jacob Or is our god too small I think we have to ask that question Is your god too small What god are we serving? What god are we serving the missionary william carry to africa said this He said expect great things from god And attempt great things for god and i believe that with all my heart I believe if every day i live in light of The the amazing character of god Then we are to expect imagine how that would revolutionize your prayer life That you know you have access into the presence of god You know that by his blood he has made you his child And you can come and whatever is according to his will he will give it to you Jesus says that he says ask of me That i may give to you according to the father's will But do we do that do we claim his promises But the lord wants us to expect great things from him Then we see here it says the train of his robe filled the temple And in verse two above it stood the seraphim Each one had six wings with two he covered his face With two he covered his feet and with two he flew We see these amazing creatures the seraphim Literally the seraphim means fiery burners Fiery burners And the seraphim these particular beings We don't even know if they're angels or what they are but they are these beings are only Here in this one place in scripture the seraphim are found right here We find the cherub or the cherubim appear many times throughout scripture As in the garden of eden you find remember when god put the cherub before The tree of life with a sword and with fire to block it from adam and eve coming back to the tree And we find that was over the mercy seat on top of the the The ark of the covenant the ark of the covenant there was the cherub and placed over that But we have three other visions recorded in scripture in ezekiel chapter one In ezekiel chapter 10 of the cherubim and we also have in revelation chapter four It speaks of the living creatures But one of the most amazing thing is as you read all these passages and you look at these amazing beings One common thing among all these creatures around the throne of god is fire fire And one of the things that I see is that the lord god and we will see this in scripture the lord god Is characterized by fire You know fire is an amazing thing you know Which of us when we see like a fire burning in the forest you don't like stop your car and just look at that and go Oh my goodness Or you just see this explosion of fire It's something that just draws the human attention But how amazing that the lord throughout scripture is characterized by fire This glorious mysterious majestic and awe inspiring god And you know what my brothers and sisters this Is the picture of god that the church has lost sight of How many of us as christians how many are actually Come to god in worship and and know him as the god Who is an all-consuming fire Who is awe inspiring who is majestic who is glorious Look at these scriptures in hebrus chapter 12 if you want to write these down Hebrews 12 28 through 29 It says therefore since we are receiving a kingdom Which cannot be shaken Let us have grace By which we may serve god acceptably with reverence and godly fear For our god is a consuming fire I believe so so often sometimes we just we rush through scriptures But I believe how often do we need to just stop and just meditate On this god who is an all-consuming fire In isaia 33 verse 14. This is a very interesting passage The sinners in zion are afraid Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites Who among us shall dwell with a devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Now if we stop right there Most of us will think he's referring to hell But he answers the question in verse 15 and he says he who walks Righteously and speaks uprightly In other words, he's referring to god God is everlasting burnings. God is a devouring fire And we we spoke already about exodus chapter 3 where god revealed himself in that fiery bush Remember also in exodus 24 when the lord was a consuming fire on the top of the mountain And the children of israel just saw that cloud and that smoke and they saw this god who was an all-consuming fire Remember in acts chapter 2 when pentecost came what does the bible say there were tongues of fire on each of the heads of the disciples In luke chapter 3 John the baptist says when jesus comes he will baptize with the holy spirit and And fire in revelation chapter 1 when the apostle john Stood before the glorified and exalted christ What does the bible say described the eyes of jesus? a flame of fire And then it says in second peter chapter 3 verse 7 That god is not going to destroy all of the universe and the earth with water as he did But he will burn it up with fire This fire It's a fire that consumes This fire is a fire that purges And this fire is a fire that shines incandescently This is the fire of god you know you think about the sun And what's interesting is the sun Can have different effects depending on the material What will sun do to clay it will make it harder But what does sun do to wax? It melts it And when the bible says that god is an all-consuming fire This is the most amazing thing Because the bible says that Those who are not in christ those who have not come on god's terms God is an all-consuming fire And the bible says that he is a god who will at the judgment day he will consume his enemies And that's why we just even this morning we were encouraged by the scripture that god I don't have to fight god is my defense. He is your defense God will take vengeance on his enemies But what is our responsibility to pray and to seek god's heart? And to say lord make me a shining light in this world But the bible says clearly that god is a consuming fire And yet at the same time as a christian What will the fire of god do to me when you and i spend time in the presence of god That fire will purge you It will purge you It will cleanse you and it will wash you And that fire shines incandescently I think it's one of the most amazing and glorious pictures when the bible says that god was a pillar of cloud by day And a pillar of fire at night You know, you can just imagine the children of israel there with their little children and the little kids Coming and saying mommy. What is that? Imagine to say that Is the shekinah glory of god? And just seeing that that fiery pillar burning Incandescently What an amazing amazing god we serve But going on in verse three We see here and one cried to another and said Holy holy holy Is the lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory The seraphim here proclaimed emphatically This holiness of god We find that this is also in revelation chapter four verse eight Where it says the four living creatures Each having six wings Were full of eyes around and within and they do not rest day or night Saying holy holy holy Lord god almighty who was and is and is to come It's amazing But these seraphim are proclaiming god's holiness They don't say love love love They don't say powerful powerful powerful But the attribute That they speak of is holy holy holy is the lord of hosts The word holy it means set apart pure Consecrated dedicated And it means cut off Listen to some of these scriptures that that speak of the holiness of god because this is a theme throughout scripture That god wants to grab our attention and to understand that this is so important Exodus chapter 15 verse 11 It says who is like you oh lord among the gods Who is like you glorious and holiness Fearful in praises doing wonders In psalm 96 verse nine Psalm 96 verse nine Oh worship the lord in the beauty of holiness Trimble before him all the earth Psalm 99 verses one through three The lord reigns let the peoples tremble He dwells between the cherubim Let the earth be moved The lord is great in zion and he is high above all the peoples Let them praise your great and awesome name He is holy And again proverbs nine verse ten It says the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom And knowledge of the holy one Is understanding In joshua 24 19 joshua said to the people you cannot serve the lord for he is a holy god He is a jealous god. He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins In hebrus 7 verse 26 Speaking of jesus it says for such a high priest Was fitting for us Who is holy harmless Undefiled separate from sinners and has become higher than the heavens And in first timothy 6 15 through 16 Speaking of god, it says which he will manifest in his own time He who is the blessed And only potentate the king of kings and lord of lords Who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light whom no man has seen Or can see to whom be honor and everlasting power Amen And i believe in this day and age that we're living If there's anything that we need as the church of jesus christ We need A new fresh Revelation of the holiness of god We need to understand what the scripture says that our god is holy Because when you look outside the church guys There is an unholy world And if the world looks in on the church and if they see the church no different than the world Then where has the holiness gone? Where will they find holiness? Right now the world is rejoicing They rejoice in their sin and they're celebrating But what does the heart of god do? God breaks God weeps as he wept over jerusalem And god wants to pour his heart into all of us That we will feel the heart of god That's what we want But this should disturb us I tell you when i read these passages it disturbs me Because god is amazing. He's holy. He's awesome How in the world god would you allow me would you bring a sinner into heaven? Well, I want to read to you This old christian hymn This was something that even that even aw tozer said Is probably one of the most amazing words penned by the human hand And it describes god's holiness and how he brings us into fellowship with him This hymn is by thomas binney from 1826 and it's called eternal light He says eternal light eternal light How pure the soul must be When placed within thy searching sight it shrinks not but with calm delight Can live and look on thee The spirits that surround thy throne may bear the burning bliss But that is surely theirs alone since they have never never known a fallen world like this Oh, how shall I whose native spear is dark whose mind is dim Before the ineffable appear and on my naked spirit bear that uncreated beam There is a way for a man to rise to that sublime abode An offering and a sacrifice a holy spirits energies an advocate with god These these prepare us for the sight of holiness above The sons of ignorance and night May dwell in the eternal light Through the eternal love and god In all of his holiness What an amazing thing that god has come down God has descended god has come amongst us and walked in the flesh And god took the punishment for our sins So that we can be in his presence forever What an amazing thing But we desperately I believe need an encounter with the holy one of israel Because I believe when we come into his presence and we understand his holiness It produces in us the worship and the adoration that he deserves But we are called Remember as christians we are called not to be of the world But we are called to be in the world, but we are not called to be of the world But god has called us to holy living And so moving on to verse four it says and the posts of the door Were shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke Then I said Woe is me For I am undone Because I am 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 Here he says woe is me for I am undone That word undone means to be cut down destroyed Brought to silence And the immediate result of seeing the holy one is seeing how unholy and unworthy I am Here one of the most anointed prophets in the bible used by god To give us some of the most amazing prophecies of jesus Yet he says woe is me And so here we have I believe the second element in the christian's life That we would see a vision of our own sinfulness You know sometimes it's so easy to see the sin in others and to see the sin out there But what about the sin in here? What about the sin in here? Because you know what when I begin to deal with my own wretchedness Now I'm going to be a broken person You're going to be a broken person and that's exactly where god wants us to be So that now I am no longer on the throne, but now he is on the throne Because just like john the baptist says he must increase But I must decrease and that's exactly where we want him to be But we see this throughout the scripture notice in nehemiah chapter nine Nehemiah nine verses 33 through 34 Here is nehemiah gathered with all the people of israel And they're calling out to god and nehemiah says this to the lord However, you are just in all that has befallen us For you have dealt faithfully, but we have done wickedly Neither our kings nor our princes our priests nor our fathers have kept your law Nor heeded your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them And we all know the story of david As he had committed adultery with bathsheba and then murdered your raya her husband And the king david comes broken before the lord in repentance in psalm 51 And what does david say he says lord for you do not desire sacrifice Or else I would give it You do not delight in burn offering The sacrifices of god are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart These oh god you will not despise And that is exactly what isiah is showing us here He came before god and when he saw the presence of a holy god He was humbled He was undone. What could he say of himself here? I'm a prophet of god, but now I've seen the holy one Is holy I am not One of the things that I believe the lord impressed on my heart Is we must beware of putting a priority On what I do for god Rather than what I am before god Let me say that again Beware of putting a priority on what you do for god Rather than what you are before god It's the same thing as we saw with usiah It is so easy for me In my heart To have bitterness towards someone It's so easy for me to have unforgiveness towards someone And yet what does jesus say In the beatitudes You know one of the most convicting passages in scripture. I believe is the beatitudes And even as the lord has led pastor david to take us through the beatitudes It has been revolutionary in my life It has been revolutionary Because jesus says there I love it Jesus says if you come to the altar With your sacrifice and there know that you have something against a brother or a sister He says leave the altar Go and be reconciled And then return and then offer your sacrifice to the lord But you know what the way the world is is completely opposite It is so easy to hide behind us and we can just raise our hands. Yes. I love you lord I give you all in my heart. Everything is yours. And god's like What about that unforgiveness in your heart? Yes lord. I give you everything What about that that evil thought? What about the pornography that you look at at home? But lord, I love you And it's so easy to do that And as i'm speaking to you i'm speaking to myself May we even if it's necessary you know what an amazing thing that would be Do you know when revival is going to come to us? When maybe we will leave the church and get up and we'll go make things right with a brother and with a sister Because guess what? It doesn't matter what people think of me. What matters is what god thinks of me And if I live pleasing to the lord You will be a great man or a great woman before god because the bible says Of john the baptist that he was great in the sight of the lord and you know what my prayer is God make me great in your sight not great in the sight of man But I want to be great in the sight of the lord. Do you? Amen My prayer is that god will make every one of us great But what is greatness? That is the key question When we say lord make me great in your sight. What is greatness? right now Right now pastor syed is in a prison in a filthy dark Isolated cell away from his wife and his children And it is to the glory and honor of god You ever thought about that? And you know sometimes, you know even myself I found myself praying and right away I want to pray lord save syed take him back home bring him to his family But are we saying lord if it is your will? Because we find paul the apostle in philippians chapter one saying It was actually to the furtherance of the gospel that i'm in this prison Because many have come to christ and actually that's what god's doing right now with syed And so maybe it is pleasing to the lord that he's there Now maybe yes god wants to deliver him then praise him But if god wants to keep him then may it be But I pray that we can pray that for ourselves lord May you be glorified whatever it takes lord And I challenge you As I challenge myself I challenge you to say lord Be glorified at my expense Whatever it takes Because guess what? We want revival, but revival is costly I'll never forget. I was at a voice of the martyrs conference A couple years ago and there was a man speaking from syria and he was a pastor And he said we were in syria And as a church we were praying and we were saying god send revival send revival send revival And god answered us But i'll never forget what he said then he said but god answered us with a bloody revival Because then there was war And isis came in And began to take people out and there was death and there was blood But let's never forget that this book right here is a bloody book Men and women have given their lives to preserve the scriptures for me and for you And so I just pray that lord if you want to bring revival to me Then lord may I be willing whatever it takes To follow you Whatever it takes But I have to mean it Because I've learned if you're serious Then god's serious, but so often to be honest with you. I'm not really serious Many times we're not serious But if I mean business Then god means business with me And that's why he says in james drawn near to me and I will draw near to you Because god does not force himself on us He says you draw near to me and I'll never forget what a brother told me in bible college He said you can have as much of god as you desire You can have as much of god as you desire But here is isiah And he sees himself before god and he says lord What was me? I am undone And this brought humility of heart to him and this humility inspired great worship And this humility in us will inspire worship because I understand what it cost god to redeem me and save me I'll never forget that passage where the bible says that these 10 lepers Came and jesus healed all 10 lepers remember that? But remember only one returned And said and fell down at the feet of jesus and said thank you Thank you You know, I pray that every day lord that I would be that leper That we would be that leper that one that came back and said lord jesus I love you Thank you for saving me Thank you for saving me Because when we understand that god is holy and that i am unworthy And yet he has come to me and he has saved me from my sins I tell you Revival will come to your heart Revival will come to your home Revival will come to your marriage to your children because when your children begin to see mom and dad Crying for the lost Weeping over your bible and living for christ They will follow christ They will follow jesus But one of the most beautiful things here notice isaias says for my eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts And I believe lord every day I say lord may may today. I don't want to leave my house until lord I have seen the king I want to see the king through his word and through his spirit But he goes on in verse six. It says then one of the seraphim flew to me having in his hand a live coal In which he had taken with the tongs from the altar and he touched my mouth with it and said behold This has touched your lips Your iniquity is taken away and your sin purged Also, I heard the voice of the lord saying Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said here am I Send me So first we see a vision of the holiness of god second we see a vision Of his own sinfulness And thirdly we see a vision Of commission The lord says whom shall I send? And who will go for us? The person who draws near To the holy one of israel and who sees his own unworthiness And receives the cleansing that god provides Will doubtless sense the weight and burden and urgency of his commission The missionary to china hudson taylor many of you have heard of hudson taylor He said this the great commission Isn't an option to be considered But a command to be obeyed And I believe if if we're spending time with god Then it is inevitable that I will feel the burden Of the lost around me There's no way that I can't I'll never forget when god began to burden my heart I was 16 years old and god began to burden my heart For the muslim people Because people ask me all the time they say how did you end up in morocco? Like where did this how did this come about? Well, it started By myself alone in my room with the bible And it started there and it will start there with you where god will begin to burden you Maybe not for morocco, but god will burden you for a person He will burden you for a city He will burden you for a family And god will burden you And I believe the first thing that you need to do is to begin to pray and intercede and say god use me to reach them Use me and the lord will But isiah was burdened and now the lord turns with the question. He says whom shall I send? And you can almost hear the voice of the lord Echoing down through eternity and god still asks that Who is willing to go? Whom shall I send? God is willing, but I need to be willing We see in acts chapter 13 Where it says as they ministered to the lord and fasted the disciples The holy spirit said now separate to me barnabas and sol for the work to which I have called them And then in verse 4 it says so being sent out by the holy spirit They went down to salucia and from there they sell to cyprus God had set apart paul sol and barnabas And I pray god is calling us I believe that in this room tonight There may be some of you that god is calling to go Places that maybe no one could imagine going God wants to send us God wants us to go into the darkness and to rescue people from the darkness and bring them into the light In matthew chapter 9 verse 37 It says jesus said to his disciples the harvest Truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few Therefore pray the lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest And in romans chapter 10 verses 12 through 15 He says for there is no distinction between jew and greek For the same lord over all is rich to all who call upon him For whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved And then paul asks several questions He says how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent As it is written how beautiful are the feet Of those who preach the gospel of peace Who bring glad tidings of good things And god wants to give us a vision of the lost God wants to burden us tonight And i want to leave you with a with a one of the most inspiring stories That affected my life i want to share this with you as i close And it's a story of the moravian movement The moravian missionaries which was one of the most amazing missionary movements That swept throughout the world And it all started with one man Count Zinsendorf Who in germany began to have a burden and he was gathering the people together And he he gathered the church and the church came to pray And there was division there was bitterness there were issues But as they began to meet and they began to pray the lord met them there in 1727 in germany And began to burden that group of people as they met to pray And there were young there were old but they met together and god began to pour out his spirit in a radical way So much so That that prayer meeting lasted 100 years For 100 years That particular room was never empty Day or night People met there for 100 years and prayed But what happened from that prayer movement Young german boys began to get a burden To reach the slaves of the west indies Because there were british british slave owners that had taken these slaves from africa and taken them to the west indies And they would never again see another human face They were there and they were going to live there and die there in the west indies Well these german young men got such a burden to reach These slaves in the west indies that they literally did this They went to the slave market there in germany And where people would would auction off slaves to buy These german boys went and stood on the block and they said i'm selling myself And these men would go what and they said yes i'm selling myself To be a slave So that i might reach those men and those women that will never hear the gospel And i'm selling myself and so these men began to auction them off auction them off And when they auctioned them they gave them the money and they said who do we give it to Well you give it to to the to the man who sold himself And what that young boy did he's he took that money and gave it to his pastor and he says with this Send more And as they got on those ships and they began to go away and they knew they would never again come back To their families As they went departing from that harbor History says That they raised up their hands and they said may the lamb that was slain Received the reward of his sufferings And these young men ended up being slaves With these men in the west indies And in those days They used them like oxen because there were no oxen but they used men to plow the fields And these german boys were in between these men and as they plowed the fields imagine they Were preaching the gospel one on one side and one to the other They had given their lives literally Solding sold selling themselves into slavery To bring them the gospel And history tells us that they had a symbol in their church in germany And the symbol was this There was an ox in the middle And on either side of the ox there was an altar and there was a plow And underneath it read sacrifice Or service ready for either And i pray this i pray that god Would be glorified at our expense That god would move us To reach this lost World that god would give us a vision of the holiness of god And that god would give us a vision of our own unworthiness That we would say yes lord here i am lord send me Wherever you want me to go lord i am yours. I don't belong to myself. I belong to you amen