Here Am I Lord, Send Me
Here again is our text verse from Isaiah
6:8, “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 volunteered to go forth preaching God's
Word. This is a wonderful passage of Scripture. In Isaiah 6:5 we find Isaiah
acknowledging his transgressions before God, living amongst a sinful and
rebellious nation (just like America today). Isaiah 6:5, “Then said I,
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 mine eyes have seen the King,
the LORD of hosts.” In verse 7 Isaiah is forgiven of his sins. Then in
verse 8 Isaiah volunteers to serve the Lord, to go forth preaching the Word
of God to Israel.
Isaiah cried out to God, “HERE AM I; SEND
ME.”
What a precious Scripture. Every believer ought
to have the same heart's attitude as Isaiah... “I'll go Lord. Here I am,
please send me.” Romans 10:15, “And how shall they preach, except
they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that
preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” One
of the saddest testimonies in the Bible, which is so true in the world
today, is found in Philippians 2:20-21 spoken by the frustrated
Apostle Paul, “For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for
your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus
Christ's.” The world hasn't changed in 2,000 years, people are still as
selfish today as they were back in Paul's time. It's hard enough to find a
genuine born-again Christian, let along finding a believer who loves Jesus
Christ and wants to center their life upon the things of Jesus Christ.
The world is going to Hell. What are you doing
about it? Do you care? You should as a Christian, because God cares (1st
Peter 5:7), and He has asked for you to care too, by committing your life to
God (Romans 12:1-2), and becoming a soul-winner (Luke 8:15; Proverb 11:30;
Psalm 126:5-6). This Scripture has nothing to do with salvation. Eternal
life is a free gift that you simply receive by faith in Jesus Christ, God's
only begotten Son, Who came into the world to
SAVE SINNERS.
Ezekiel 22:30, “And I sought for a man among
them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the
land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” God couldn't find
even one man who cared about the injustices being committed in the land, who
would stand before God in PRAYER to make up the gap. There's a giant gap in
America today. Wickedness is everywhere, and God wants to get the truth out
to everyone of the coming judgment against sinners; but the gap remains
empty because there are too few men of God like Billy Sunday and John the
Baptist to bring America back to God. A quote comes to mind by the greatest
preacher of the 20th century, Pastor Jack Hyles...
"Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled,
Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible preaching! It is the
hope of the church! It is the hope of the nation! It is the hope of the
world!"
—Pastor
Jack Hyles
(1926-2001)
Just as in Ezekiel's time, there is a gap
between God and the land of America, and not enough men of God to fill it.
Read why God sought for a man to stand in the
gap in Ezekiel's time. This sounds like the United States today...
Ezekiel 22:27-29,
“Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to
shed blood, and to destroy souls,
to get dishonest gain.
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity,
and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the
LORD hath not spoken. The
people of the land have used oppression,
and exercised robbery,
and have vexed the poor and
needy: yea,
they have oppressed the
stranger wrongfully.”
I can't help but think about how our nation's
leaders have committed blatant treason, Communism, allowing U.S.
corporations to eliminate our jobs, relocating jobs to foreign soil to
exploit slave labor and avoid U.S. regulatory laws. They have shed innocent
blood “TO GET DISHONEST GAIN.” They have “EXERCISED
ROBBERY.”
Then on top of that, the
dirty rotten Federal Reserve Banksters connived the ARM (Adjustable Rate
Mortgage) scam, knowing that they control the interest rates and were going
to raise interest rates (while simultaneously eliminating tens-of-millions
of jobs by
opening our nation's Mexico border and continuing to allow corporations
to
relocate American jobs to foreign soil).
In other words, the
Banksters devised
a wicked plot by which to sucker homeowners into refinancing their
mortgage, thinking they'd save some money; when in reality the Banksters
knew all along that they were going to raise interest rates in a declining
economy where jobs are deliberately being taken away from Americans, so
THERE'S NO POSSIBLE WAY FOR HOMEOWNERS TO PAY THEIR MORTGAGES. Just as
Ezekiel 22:29 says, they have “EXERCISED ROBBERY.” This is what God was
upset over. This is why God was seeking for a man to “stand in the gap
BEFORE ME” for the land. Oh how we need men of God today to
get down on their knees and pray, and to aggressively go soul-winning, and
to rise up against the evildoers and workers of iniquity. If not us, who? If
not now, when? If not here, where? Here am I Lord, send me!
And this is the most evil part,
the Banksters just hired thousands of scum lawyers to process the
foreclosures a.s.a.p. to ensure that you lose your home. There are MILLIONS,
and I mean MILLIONS, of foreclosure homes all across America. meanwhile
President Obama just gave away Billions more taxpayer dollars to the United
Nations.
2nd Chronicles 7:14, “If my people,
which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. NOW MINE EYES
SHALL BE OPEN, AND MINE EARS ATTENT UNTO THE PRAYER THAT IS MADE IN THIS
PLACE.” Here again we are taught from the holy Scriptures about
the necessity, urgency and importance of PRAYER. God said that His eyes
and ears are open and attent, to the PRAYER
made in this place. Isaiah acknowledged his sins in Isaiah 6:5, God
forgave him in verse 7, and then Isaiah said in verse 8, “HERE AM
I; SEND ME.” If Americans would get right with God, then they'd
all be crying out for God to use them to do His good will. Believers
don't care because they're not right with God.
There is a woeful gap in America between the
God of the Bible and our nation. The very mention of “SIN
CITY” Las Vegas is evidence enough of the utter wickedness, rebellion
and decadent
spiritual state of our nation morally. America has become a garbage pail
of sexual smut,
cursing
in God's name,
blaspheming
the holy name of Jesus Christ,
adultery,
homosexuality,
abortion,
divorce,
thieving,
lying, and
oppressing families (download
MP3).
Psalm 94:16, “Who will rise up for
me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the
workers of iniquity?”
Who will rise up? God still asks the same
question today. God sought for a man to stand BEFORE HIM to fill in the gap
in Ezekiel's time, but couldn't find anyone; and so God brought judgment
upon Jerusalem and commissioned Ezekiel to preach to the Jews in captivity.
God took Ezekiel by the Spirit into Jerusalem, to see the wickedness
happening in the temple. The temple priests were actually worshipping the
sun, a form of witchcraft (Ezekiel 8:16). Every sin imaginable had been
occurring in Jerusalem, and they even claimed it was God's will for them to
commit such wickednesses as murder and adultery (Jeremiah 7:9-10). This is
America today. People attempt to justify the horrible abominations of
abortion, homosexuality, teaching the lies of Evolution to children,
divorce, stealing people's homes, strip clubs, pornography, taking advantage
of people financially, et cetera.
Sin can never be justified.
Throughout the Scriptures we evidence that God
has always sought for his children to pray and seek His face. Isaiah
volunteered to go forth preaching against the wickedness of the thieves,
oppressors and the wicked. God told Ezekiel that He sought for one man in
Jerusalem, but couldn't find anyone. In the days of Noah, Noah had preached
the righteousness of Christ for 120-years, but not even one person got
saved. Not one person listened to Noah's preaching. Only Noah and his
immediate family got on the ark. How sad! No one else made it. You'd think
that somewhere during 120-years of preaching the Gospel that someone would
have came to Christ; but no one did. That's why God had decided to destroy
the world by flood. We see how wicked the people were, when not even one
would repent over 120-years of listening to God's man preach the Gospel. It
is so tragic!
Jesus said that the world would once again
become as it was in the days of
Noah before the flood (Matthew 24:37-38). People today don't listen.
They're arrogant, cocky, rude, and filled with hatred for Christianity
altogether. Judgment Day is coming (Hebrews 9:27).
America Needs More Voices!
America could be saved if we had more men like
John the Baptist and Billy Sunday, men who preached uncompromisingly against
sin. It's bad enough that America lacks true men of God who preach
against sin—it's much worse that professed Christians all across America
are embracing witchcraft,
homosexuality,
abortion. Here's a church that even
participated in a PRO-abortion march. Christianity Today is
Pro-homosexual.
This is the apostate condition of America's so-called "Christians" today,
and it is repulsive. America needs voices! The Bible says that
there was a "voice" (singular) crying in the wilderness. In these
times of increasing apostasy, it is becoming necessary for Bible-believing
Christians to STAND ALONE, just as did John the Baptist. It eventually
cost John his life. Truth has few friends these days.
"This whole society is rotten and
Godless. The
wrath of God is upon America. Mark my
word: if God’s Word be true, this nation is headed for the dust."
—Pastor
Tom Malone (1971)
I AM A VOICE
(MP3 sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles from 1983 |
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John the Baptist
(MP3 sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles |
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"Who will rise up for
me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of
iniquity?" —Psalm 94:16
HOW
TO GO TO HEAVEN
First, let me give you a brief history of Old Testament Israel. The book of
Isaiah (748-700 B.C.) concerns the Northern kingdom of Israel, whose capital
was Samaria. Israel began with king Saul, then David, then his son Solomon.
When Solomon died there was civil unrest because his son Rehoboam intended
to heavily tax and burden the people (1st Kings 12:11), so they revolted
(1st Kings 12:19) and the nation of Israel divided into two. Solomon's son
remained in Jerusalem with two of the tribes, but Jeroboam journey with ten
of the tribes to the North to go their own way. An easy way to remember this
is: Rehoboam remained; but Jeroboam journeyed.