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Hebrews 11:36-38 (NIV) – [36] Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. [37] They were stoned; THEY WERE SAWED IN TWO; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— [38] the world was not worthy of them.

Isaiah 6:1 (NIV) – [1] In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple.

1. Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus.

“In the year that King Uzziah died, Isaiah had a vision of the King of kings. We learn from John 12:39-41 that the King he saw was none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Believer’s Bible Commentary)

John 12:39-41 (NIV) – [39] For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: [40] “He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.” [41] Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.

2. Jesus is on the throne.

Psalms 47:7-8 (NIV) – [7] For God is the King of all the earth; sing to him a psalm of praise. [8] God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne.

Revelation 21:5-7 (NIV) – [5] He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” [6] He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. [7] He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

3. Jesus is high and exalted.

Philippians 2:5-11 (NIV) – [5] Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, [7] but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. [8] And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! [9] Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, [10] that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, [11] and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

4. We are His temple.

“…a vision of God represented as an Eastern monarch, attended by seraphim as His ministers of state (1Ki 22:19), and with a robe and flowing train (a badge of dignity in the East), which filled the temple.” (Jamieson, Fausset, Brown)

Revelation 1:12-18 (NIV) – [12] I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, [13] and among the lampstands was someone “like a son of man,” dressed in a ROBE reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. [14] His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. [15] His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. [16] In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. [17] When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. [18] I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.”

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV) – [16] Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? [17] If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV) – [19] Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; [20] you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.