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GRACE, Exploring Its Riches



                                     the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it
                                     stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two
                                     he covered his face, with two he covered his feet,
                                     and with two he flew. And one cried to another and
                                     said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The
                                     whole earth is full of His glory!” And the posts of
                                     the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried
                                     out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I
                                     said: “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 my eyes have seen the
                                     King, The LORD of hosts.”


                               Notice that the prophet Isaiah had been in ministry and had
                               been prophesying for a few years. In a manner of speaking,
                               he was already in church and doing God’s work. But this
                               encounter with God left him admitting that he was unclean
                               and unworthy of speaking for the Holy God until he was
                               cleansed.  Many  who  preach  to  people  on  God’s  behalf
                               today may be in need of such a divine encounter that will
                               produce a turnaround in their own lives first, then in the
                               lives of those who hear them. On the day of Pentecost many
                               came to repentance because the preacher, Peter himself, had
                               experienced repentance earlier in his walk with God.


                               ii. Repentance Precedes Divine Ability to Walk with
                                   God
                               No one is permitted to make any claim of the Holy Spirit’s
                               baptism, anointing in the Holy Ghost, or the call of God



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