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JULY 1, 1917. LESSON I. Isa. 6:1-13. (Memorize vs. 6-8). G olden T ext : “Whom shall I send, and who’ will go for us? Then said I, Here am I ; send me.”—Isa. 6 :8. DAILY BIBLE READINGS Mon., June 25—Isaiah 6. (The Lesson).
Tues., June 26—Isaiah 1:2-9. Wed., June 27—Isaiah T :10-20. Thurs., June 28—-Isaiah 5:1-10. Fri., June 29—Isaiah 9:8-10:4. Sat., June 30—Isaiah 7:1-14, Sun., July 1—Isaiah 11 :l-9. EXPOSITION AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
, v. 1. “In the-year that King Uzziah died I saw also (omit also ) the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted, up, and His train filled the temple." The passage, which we are studying today gives Isaiah’s own description of his call to special service. He may have prophesied before this (cf. ch. 1:1) but from this time on his ministry ^took on a new form and new power. Many minister gets a new vision of. God, and thus his ministry gains a new meaning. The greatest need of every man today is a real vision of God. We do not so much need correct'theories about God as a vision of God Himself. We must see the -Lord if we are to be grpatly used of Him. It is the work of the Holy Spirit to give to us a real vision of the Lord (Acts 7:55, 56; John 16:14) ; but the Holy Spirit gives us this vision through the Word in which He is presented to us. How can we reconcile the statement here made that Isaiah “saw the Lord” with the statement of .John 1:18 that “no man hath seen God at any time” ? There seems to be a flat contradiction between the, two statements.
The' answer, however, to the question 'is simple. ' No man hath seen God as He if in His invisible essence at any time. In His essence he is the “invisible (i.e., unsee able) God” (Col. 1:15). “Him no man hath seen, nor can see” (1 Tim. 6:16). But this God who in His essence, i.e., as He is in His inmost being, is invisible, has manifested Himself at various times in visible forms or similitudes (Num. 12:8). The supreme visible manifestation of God was Jesus Christ Himself (John 1:18; 14:9). So real and true and perfect were these manifestations of God that it could be said that one who saw these manifes tations had seen God (John 14:9). But it could be said with equal truth, ‘‘No man hath seen God .at any time.” Two state ments which, so far as their language is concerned, flatly contradict one another, may both be absolutely true. If anyone should ask me if I had seen the hack of my headKI could reply, “No, I never saw the back of my head,” and that would, of course, be perfectly true. But I could also reply “Yes, I have seen the back of
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