Professor: Rushdoony Dr. R.J.R.
Subject: Systematic Theology
Genre: Speech
Lesson: 15 of 19
Track: #15
Year:
Dictation Name: 15 The Seraphim
[Rushdoony] Let us worship God. Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the message which we heard from Him and declare unto you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. Let us pray.
We come to Thee our Father according to Thy word and confident in prayer, for Thou hast commanded that we should come to Thee to cast our every care upon Thee and to make all our wants and wishes known to Thee through Jesus Christ, and so we come. We pray our Father for our country, deliver us from the hands of ungodly men, cleanse us and make us again a godly and a free people. We pray for Thy suffering saints the world over that Thou wouldst deliver them and confound the power of humanistic statism. Bless us in faithfulness to Thee, and grant now that by Thy word and by Thy word we may behold wondrous things out of Thy law. In Jesus name, amen.
Our scripture lesson is from Isaiah the sixth chapter, Isaiah six our subject The Seraphim.
“In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
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.
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
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.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.”
Our subject this morning is the seraphim. I wish my voice were up to the subject,