WHEN HEAVEN CALLS
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Pastor Wes Morris
Isaiah 6:1-8 (NLT) It was in the year King Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. He was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the Temple.
Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. They were calling out to each other, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
Their voices shook the Temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke. Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”
Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
√ GOD’S CALL DOESN’T BEGIN WITH AN ASSIGNMENT - IT BEGINS WITH AN ENCOUNTER.
Isaiah 6:1 (NLT) ...I saw the Lord.
√ THE CLOSER WE GET TO GOD, THE MORE CLEARLY WE SEE OUR NEED FOR GRACE.
Isaiah 6:5 (NIV) “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips...”
Luke 5:8 (NIV) When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”
You are more sinful than you ever dared believe, and yet more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than you ever dared hope.
-Tim Keller
√ GRACE DOESN’T JUST COVER OUR PAST - IT CALLS US INTO OUR FUTURE.
Isaiah 6:8 (NLT) Then I heard the Lord asking, “Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
WHEN HEAVEN CALLS
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
- Frederick Buechner
I. START WITH SURRENDER.
Romans 12:1-2 (MSG) So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it.
II. STRETCH OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE.
II Corinthians 5:14-15 (TLB) He died for all so that all who live—having received eternal life from him—might live no longer for themselves, to please themselves, but to spend their lives pleasing Christ who died and rose again for them.
What makes me feel most alive?
What problems or people do I feel drawn to help? (What breaks my heart?)
How could God use me to make a difference?
III. SAY YES TO THE CALL.
Isaiah 6:8 (NLT) Then I heard the Lord asking, “Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
Ephesians 2:10 (NIV) For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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