Clipped Wings | 8.27.23 | Sunday AM | On Fire Christian Church

Clipped Wings!

1. Wing clipping is the process of trimming a bird’s primary wing feathers or remiges so that it is not fully flight-capable
2. “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and 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.” Isaiah‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭2 ‬‬‬

1. 1. Reverence-Humility and Obedience

3. “Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” Revelation‬ ‭4‬:‭6‬-‭8‬ ‭‬‬‬‬

1. 1. Full of eyes front and back and their wings has eyes around and within
   2. This should be inscribed within every believer to have a continual gaze upon the Lord with continual reverence and at the same time continual humility and always a readiness and passionate obedience to the promptings of the Spirit
   3. Eyes before them to behold Christ and His Glory
   4. Eyes are meant to see!
   5. Eyes behind them to be guarding against the enemies of God trying to rob such great revelation of God

4. The Revelation vision adds eyes to this revealing, warning us of end time temptations

1. 1. Temptations are sly and subtle
   2. Seemingly to the one under them if they are on the verge of sleep will fall into enemy hands

1. 2. These eyes beholding the glory are a sign of eyes that can see and not blinded.
   3. We are called to never loose sight of His throne
   4. Compromise will blind
   5. “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”. II Timothy‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬‬‬‬‬

5. “The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” Revelation‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‬‬

1. 1. Because of their attendance to this great revelation they could not stop serving through obedience.
   2. Obedience was as natural as breathing
   3. They inhaled the breath of God and exhaled obedience
   4. As long as you are beholding Him you can never stop. There is no rest! You never retract! Go backwards!
   5. Backsliding is blasphemous

6. “Do not quench the Spirit.” I Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭19‬ ‭NKJV‬‬‬‬‬

1. 1. Quench-to put out or extinguish or suppress
   2. Quenching the Spirit is a manifestation of lost sight of the throne
   3. The Spirit brings life John 6:63
   4. Suppressing the Spirit is to not walk in Obedience to the Spirit which takes place through fleshly appetites overriding our spirit because of our faint vision of the throne. Our loss of reverence and humility clips our wings to fly!