Dear Christian friends: Triune God, Father Son and Holy Ghost. To Him give all praise and glory. Now this Sunday is called Trinity Sunday, the Sunday for the Triune God. On this Sunday we look back to Christmas, the Father, Good Friday and Easter, the Son, Pentecost, and Holy Spirit for our salvation. We worship this wonderful Triune God with heart and hands and voices.

But because of our sinful hearts and our weak faith we often do not feel eager to worship and praise the Triune God as He is worthy. We are very ignorant and awkward and shy in worshiping our God.

Our text shows how great God is and how He should be worshiped. In a vision Isaiah saw the great glory of the Triune God and how the angels in heaven perfectly and beautifully worship Him, and how the whole earth is full of His glory. From our text let us see:


First of all Isaiah saw the great glory of God. He writes in Isaiah 6:1, "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." Here Isaiah has a hard problem to explain about the Lord's great glory. He uses words and ideas that we understand among men on earth. He says the Lord sat on a throne.

Here on earth among us the man or woman who sits on the throne is chief overall, King or Queen. So the Lord is King over all heaven and earth. Not only does He sit on a throne, but this throne is "high and lifted up." With these words Isaiah wishes to show that God is very, very, very great.

He has all power; He is perfect in power in love and purity. There is no crookedness or weakness or wickedness in Him like we often see in the kings and rulers of this world.

So His glory and honor is very, very great. Isaiah writes, "His train (glory) filled the temple" and in verse 3 of our text the angels worshiping Him sing: "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts (thousands and millions, angels and people) the whole earth is full of His glory. Not only is the temple in heaven full of His glory, but the whole earth also.

And what is this glory of God? It is what the angels sing here: "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord." Three holies: one for the Father, one for the Son and one for the Holy Ghost. The glory of the Triune God is that He showed mercy to sinful, rebellious man and saved man from sin and everlasting death in hell.

The angels in heaven give glory to God because of His mercy and love to men. And when we preach His Word on earth men believe and give glory to Him. In every country and city on earth where His Word is preached there you will find always some who believe and give glory to Him. Even in red Russia and red China many believers still give glory to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Thus through Isaiah God shows His great and wonderful glory. Then God lets Isaiah see how the angels in heaven perfectly and beautifully worship Him. Isaiah says, "Above it stood the seraphims (chief angels) : each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory." (Isaiah 6:2-3) Truly, this a perfect and beautiful picture of how God should be worshiped.

Now we know that angels are spirits and do not have faces, feet and wings. But God let them appear as men with wings so Isaiah and us through his writing here could see how God is worshiped in heaven. These angels show wonderful respect and humility before God. With two wings they hide their faces and with two wings they hide their feet. Nice beautiful respect and honor before the great God. Then they sing very beautifully one to the other about His mercy and love for sinners in Jesus.

This surely ought to impress you and I. So often we come before God in Church to worship, but we are talking about other things, careless, self-righteous and not interested. We fail to show the right humility and respect to our God when we come before Him. And remember, these angels are holy, without sin and they nevertheless feel modest and humble before their God and Maker. They know He is their Maker and keeper.

For us God is not only our Maker and Keeper, Father; He is also our Savior, the Son who died for our sins and Comforter, the Holy Spirit who teaches us. We have much more reason to humbly worship God than the angels. But we don't know that. We are so blind and ignorant and awkward before God.

So was Isaiah until God let Him see His glory here. Then Isaiah was much impressed and trembled before God, saying, "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. (angels and men) (Isaiah 6:5)

Isaiah felt his sinfulness and shame before God and felt that God should cut him off. So you and I should confess our sins and feel unworthy before the Holy wonderful God.

But then God also impresses on Isaiah that He is full of mercy and forgives him his sin. In a very strange and wonderful way God shows Isaiah that He forgives sins. "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:
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.(Isaiah 6:6-7)

So God in wonderful ways today continues to announce His mercy and forgiveness to us. Through baptism and the Lord's Supper He offers each one of us personal forgiveness of sins. Now after God forgives his sin Isaiah is ready to join in preaching and showing God's glory. "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." (Isaiah 6:8) This is the best way to worship God by preaching and telling others of His truth, His holiness and His mercy.

So let us come before God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost everyday in prayer confessing our sins and worshiping Him in our thoughts, words and deeds. Let us say one to another at home and church: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts." Then we will share in making heaven and earth full of His glory. If we don't then we will share only in Satan's every-lasting shame and darkness!

Amen!