Isaiah 6:8 Cross References

Isaiah 6:8

8: Then I heard the Lord asking, "Whom should I send as a messenger to my people? Who will go for us?" And I said, "Lord, I'll go! Send me."

But Moses pleaded with the LORD, "O Lord, I'm just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I'm not now, even after you have spoken to me. I'm clumsy with words."
"Who makes mouths?" the LORD asked him. "Who makes people so they can speak or not speak, hear or not hear, see or not see? Is it not I, the LORD?
Now go, and do as I have told you. I will help you speak well, and I will tell you what to say."
But Moses again pleaded, "Lord, please! Send someone else."

Now stand up! For I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant and my witness. You are to tell the world about this experience and about other times I will appear to you.
And I will protect you from both your own people and the Gentiles. Yes, I am going to send you to the Gentiles,

The LORD says, "People who never before inquired about me are now asking about me. I am being found by people who were not looking for me. To them I have said, `I am here!'

"But the Lord said to me, 'Leave Jerusalem, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"

But after they had argued back and forth among themselves, they left with this final word from Paul: "The Holy Spirit was right when he said to our ancestors through Isaiah the prophet,
'Go and say to my people, You will hear my words, but you will not understand; you will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.
For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes--so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.'
So I want you to realize that this salvation from God is also available to the Gentiles, and they will accept it."

Just think! Though I did nothing to deserve it, and though I am the least deserving Christian there is, I was chosen for this special joy of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.

But my life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus--the work of telling others the Good News about God's wonderful kindness and love.

And they left their nets at once and went with him.
A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, mending their nets. And he called them to come, too.
They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.

Has any nation ever heard the voice of God speaking from fire--as you did--and survived?
Has any other god taken one nation for himself by rescuing it from another by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, awesome power, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your very eyes.
"He showed you these things so you would realize that the LORD is God and that there is no other god.
He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.

Toward evening they heard the LORD God walking about in the garden, so they hid themselves among the trees.
The LORD God called to Adam, "Where are you?"
He replied, "I heard you, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked."

Then God said, "Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life--the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals."

And the LORD said, `Who can entice Ahab to go into battle against Ramoth-gilead so that he can be killed there?' There were many suggestions,

Come, let's go down and give them different languages. Then they won't be able to understand each other."

As they flew their wings roared like waves crashing against the shore, or like the voice of the Almighty, or like the shouting of a mighty army. When they stopped, they let down their wings.

Then the LORD God said, "The people have become as we are, knowing everything, both good and evil. What if they eat the fruit of the tree of life? Then they will live forever!"

The moving wings of the cherubim sounded like the voice of God Almighty and could be heard clearly in the outer courtyard.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"

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