Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
Mane Flenky
SERMON ELEVEN
SURRENDER TO GOD'S
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
—ISAIAH 6:8
PERHAPS of all the Old Testament prophets, none had a more awful and solemn mission than the prophet Isaiah; who spoke so plainly and fully of Christ and the grace of the Gospel. If we look back to the preparation for his call (Isaiah 6:56) we shall see the prophet deeply touched by a humbling sense of his own sinfulness and a comfortable sense of his acceptance with God. The prophet being thus prepared has the work and trust committed to him.
I. THE COUNSEL OF GOD CONCERNING ISAIAH'S MISSION.
Although God does not need to be counseled by others nor to consult with Himself, yet sometimes the wisdom of God, though never at a loss, is expressed by a solemn consultation, to show that what God does is the result of an eternal counsel.
A. The Consultants.
1. God in His glory. It is God in His glory, the same that Isaiah saw in the first verse, "upon His throne, high and lifted up." Not that he saw God's essence, no man has seen that or can see it, but such a display of His glory in