Ep 067 The Mystery of Love

References:

• Isaiah 6:1-13
  • v 3 - holy: קָדוֹשׁ  (kaw-doshe') - sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart
    • Ex 19 - the people of God are holy (see 1 Peter 2:9)
    • 1 Sam 2 - Hannah’s song of praise (see Luke 1:49)
    • Holy, holy, holy - a trinitarian designation
  • vs 5-7 - The consuming fire of God’s holiness
    • Who can stand? Malachi 3:2
  • v 8 - the call
    • “Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord.”
    • I will go, Lord, where you lead me.
    • I will hold your people in my heart
  • vs 9-10 - God’s appraisal of the people
    • Referenced in each of the Gospels
      • Mt 13:14-15; Mk 4:10-12; Lk 8:10; Jn 12:39-41
      • The parable of the sower, the seed and good or not good soil
• What about you? What about us?
  • What kind of soil are you/we?
    • Foot path, rocks, thorns, fertile
    • Consider the seed
  • v 13 - Israel’s stump will be a holy seed.
    • Jesus the Messiah is the shoot that comes from the stump of Jesse - Isaiah 11
    • The holy seed of the vision finds its NT counterpart in the good soil of the parable.
• The Mystery of Love
  • In the year that King Uzziah died
  • I saw the Lord on His throne, exalted, high
  • Around Him six winged seraphs flew
  • Holy, holy, holy, Lord, are you
  • The mystery of love, it filled my eyes
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  • Then I knew my sin, that I was lost
  • Neither I, nor my people could pay the cost
  • He touched my lips with a burning coal
  • Let my loving forgiveness make you whole
  • The mystery of love, it filled my eyes
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  • Whom shall we send, He asked, who will go?
  • How my reply came out, I do not know
  • Here am I, willing to be used by you
  • You, indeed shall go and be my voice
  • Tell my people they must make their choice
  • Either you’ll be mine, or life is through
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  • Listen closely, but never understand
  • Watch carefully but not discern the plan
  • Don’t see or hear or ever guess
  • The greatest problem is your own stubbornness
  • The mystery of love, it filled my eyes
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  • How long, I asked, shall this go on
  • Will you bring your people to complete ruin
  • Are you saying, Lord, you will not intercede
  • Until their hard hearts are all laid waste
  • Their living trees cut down in every case
  • But in their stumps there lies a holy seed
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  • This ancient story is not irrelevant
  • We’re the stubborn ones to whom the Word was sent
  • Unstop your ears to hear, open your eyes
  • There’s no room for any heart compromise
  • The mystery of love will make you wise
  • The mystery of love, it filled my eyes
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      • “The Mystery of Love,”  
        • words and music by John Bromhal
        • ©2005 Bromhaljohn Music.  
        • All Rights Reserved.