JOHN: The fear of the Lord and humility run hand in hand. Okay? The person who truly fears God, let me tell you something, you become much more humble. A lack of humility in a person’s life is a lack of the fear of the Lord. If you look at, if you look at Isaiah. Isaiah’s a, he’s a, he’s a godly man, he’s a preacher of holiness, of righteousness. I mean if you look at his book, Isaiah 4, 5, chapters 4 and 5, “Woe to the ungodly, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, Woe to the drunkard, right? When it comes to Isaiah 6 and he gets one glimpse of the Lord, it’s no longer “Woe is the drunkard—” it’s “Woe is me.” And you know what he says?
He says “I’m coming apart at the seams,” that’s literally what he’s saying. Because for the first time in Isaiah’s life, even though he’s a preacher of righteousness, he realized who it really was he was serving and for the first time in his life he realized who he was before this holy God. Because you’ve have to remember these seraphim are massive angels. And when he saw the Lord, these seraphim were covering their faces and one was crying to the other, “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Now we wrote a song and people sleep when we sing the song, it’s a hymn, “holy, holy, holy,” and people, half the people are sleeping, right? That is not what they’re doing. They are responding to what they see. Every moment another facet of His holiness is being revealed. Okay? His greatness is being revealed and all they can do is cry “Holy.” Now they’re not crying “holy, holy, holy” three times.
That’s a Hebrew form of writing. I’ve got an expert here in Sid. Whenever the Hebrews want to emphasize a word they’d write it twice. Like when Jesus said “Verily, Verily, I say unto you.” Right? If you were in that room He would have said “VERILY, I say to you.” When He said “Not everybody who says to me, Lord, Lord.” You would have heard it like this, “Not everybody who says to me LORD is going to enter the kingdom of heaven.” They go whoa, we got to emphasize it. They write it twice. They would, we today we boldface, we italicize, right? We put all caps. The Hebrew writers would write it twice. Very rarely does a Hebrew writer elevate it to the third degree. Okay? You see it in the Book of Revelations when the angels go “Woe, Woe, Woe.” They don’t go “Woe” three times. They are railing “Woe” so loud that John writes it three time because Hebrews really respect words. Okay? And so they won’t ever—you know we overemphasize, Naaa— (slaps table) you got to eat at an “In and Out Burger.” IT’S AWESOME! Right?
AUDIENCE: (LAUGHING) JOHN: That movie was AWESOME! And so I come along and say God is awesome and you go so was my burger and so was the movie. What does awesome mean? Full of awe. See we use words so loosely today we lose the power of them. The Hebrews they were so careful, so very rarely does a Hebrew elevate to the third degree. Right? So, so here’s Isaiah. He is before the throne of God. It has to be a spiritual vision, he couldn’t have been there in his body. And he’s there in the spirit, he’s groveling on the floor, these massive angels are not singing a song, they’re responding to what they see.
