God lives outside of time from our perspective we can think that God looked forward 700 years and forgave Isaiah based on the death of Jesus, but the real fact Christ Jesus was the lamb slain before the foundation of the world and in God’s mind it was a done deal, an accomplished fact – and on the basis on the death of His own son, God said your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for
In effect Isaiah hears the gospel and after this, Isaiah in effect gives God a blank check in v8 out of deep gratitude to God
This passage can be summed up in 4 words: God, Guilt, Grace, Gratitude
These words can also describe growth in the Christian life and should be descriptive of every Christian who is growing
We should be growing in our awareness of the holiness of God, and in response we should be growing in our sensitivity to sin in our lives
The gospel should then become more precious to us – we should become desperate for the gospel
We do not appreciate the gospel and how it applies to us until we become desperate for the gospel
When we experience the gospel in light of our sin then we respond in gratitude to God
