Woe Is Me, a Heavenly Vision
Dan Biser

Dan Biser (birth year unknown–present). Born in the United States, Dan Biser is a Baptist pastor and evangelist based in West Virginia, known for his fervent call for national revival in North America. He serves as a pastor at Zoar Baptist Church in Augusta and Open Door Baptist Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, focusing on prayer and repentance. Biser’s ministry emphasizes a deep burden for spiritual awakening, leading him to organize multiple prayer conferences titled “Broken Before the Throne.” His sermons, available on platforms like SermonIndex.net, address themes of holiness, judgment, and the need for the church to return to biblical fidelity, drawing from Scriptures like Jeremiah and Psalm 27. He contributes columns to Baptist Press, urging Christians to mourn national sin and prioritize God’s presence, as seen in his reflections on Psalm 27:7-8 and Jeremiah 30:17. Biser also hosts a blog and YouTube channel, sharing messages on revival and divine judgment. Little is known about his personal life, including family or education, as his public focus remains on ministry. He said, “The hour is late, the need is great; pray so as to prevail.”
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Isaiah chapter 6 presents a divine portrait of Isaiah's encounter with God, highlighting the prophet's humility and recognition of his own sinfulness in the presence of God's glory. The sermon emphasizes the need for personal surrender to God, acknowledging our unworthiness and the call to be willing vessels for God's work. It challenges listeners to respond like Isaiah with a heart that says, 'Here am I, Lord, send me.'
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Isaiah chapter 6, one of the shorter chapters in the book of Isaiah and only 13 verses in it, but it is probably one of the most divine portrait pictures that you and I can enter into to read this and to say, that's me, that's my opportunity here with this. So Isaiah's the prophet, you have the kings of Hezekiah, his son, and some of these kings that were ruined, some of them did good, some of them did evil, but here you got the prophet. And again, a prophet is someone that not only tells what has happened, the Word of God, but also sometimes will foretell what's coming. And not one of us, as I'm reading the book of Samuel in my Bible readings this morning, Samuel has seen King Saul disobey God three times. And he finally comes to him and he says on the last time that Saul, he told Saul, he said go out and he just said destroy all the Amalekites. Anything breathing, kill it. Now that sounds pretty simple, doesn't it? If it's living or breathing, kill it. Saul didn't do that. So Samuel shows up and he says, let me tell you what the Lord has said regarding you. Again, foretell. God is going to tear the kingdom away from you and give it to a man better than you. Again, you should know who was the man better than him. David. So he said, I found me a man after my own heart, because Saul, your heart's not right. Saul is a heart condition. Cardiology. We're in quack cardiology. In this, examine the heart. Wherein is the heart at this? Here's Isaiah the prophet. And he's ushered in before the presence of the God. I've envisioned it a thousand times. Shared it in my prayer here as we open up in prayer. I see God sits on the throne. Jesus, he sits with the right hand. There's the Holy Spirit. There's four beasts that fly around crying out the herald, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. There's the 24 elders that are there with the crowns of gold on their head. And any time that that is said before them to worship the Lord, they throw the crowns at his feet and they fall down and they say, worthy is the Lamb that was shed for me. Now again, I envision all that because I'm jealous. Why do they get to do that? You know, they'll go my way in there and say, you know, it's like you all fight for the front row here, you know. Let me up front. Let me up front. You know, we're trying to shift the foundation here to get a little tilt so gravity pulls you towards the front on this. But, you know, I'll go my way in there. Hey, you know, somebody says, why 24? Twelve times with Israel, twelve apostles, I don't know. But twelve and twelve is one of them numbers, multiple of twelve that's there in the Bible. Three, seven, twelve, and forty are repeated numerous times throughout the Bible that we ought to sit up and pay attention any time it's mentioned in there. So here's the twenty-four elders. Let me in there. I want to worship him. I want to get before the throne of grace. Now again, Hebrews 4, 16, let us therefore come boldly before the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find help in this time of need. Is this time of need? Yes. Let us be able to come before him then with boldness, confidence, not in who I am, but in who he is. Our problem for most people is that if you say, who is God? They struggle with that. Well, he is. Well, again, if I give you a, done this time and time again in Bible study, which as it comes to my mind, this might be a hallmark assignment for tomorrow night. So I'll give you an advance notice. You can go home and work on this this afternoon. Take a blank eight and a half by eleven and a half piece of paper, or whatever it is, and fill up, don't write big bold letters, but small things, and write front and back everything that you know about God. Name, attribute, deed, work, and put that on there. Most people in church, when I've done this, can't even fill up one side. They can't even come to mind of saying, I don't even know the names of God. Jehovah, Jehovah God, Jehovah needs it, Jehovah Salam, Elohim, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and just mention the Trinity. You start going through it. Robert Vernon Shane, one of the guys I'd love to read after this devotional, he said that the names of Jesus Christ in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, there are a hundred and a seven or a hundred and eleven names of Christ alone. Now go learn all that. You name them? Put them on the spot right there. Son of God, Son of Man, Christ, Messiah, Jesus Christ, Lord, Redeemer, Alpha, Omega, Beginning and the End, I'm the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, you know, Master. You go on and you start with these names, alphabetically, however you want to do it, whatever works best for you, but that is all causing you to adore Him, honor Him, revere Him. You don't have a knowledge of Him, it's very hard to know who to serve, to know who that you're loving. The more you know about Him, the more you're going to love Him in this. So this is a divine open picture of Isaiah. He gets to give us a glimpse into this glory that so few of us have ever really wanted to enter into or have entered into. It is my longing, my passion, it's my desire. I want to enter into this, but I also know that the fabrication, the lie, that's presented to most people, that they think, oh, they're going to come strolling with one hand in their pocket and come strolling into the presence of God, say, well, I'm here! Or the irreverent, you've heard this, I've heard this, and I mean, you talk about there are some things that makes me creepy-crawl, you know, when I hit that sciatic nerve, Tom, because it goes up that sciatic nerve right up, it makes me cringe when I hear it because it's so sensitive. I hate when someone takes the Lord's name and cuts through me like a hot knife. I mean, you talk about getting me madder, and the boys have seen me hawk. And that's one of them, when someone takes my Lord's name and cuts through me. It's one thing when I hear people do it irreverently in the church, you know, where they speak the name of God or they say, oh my God, but they ain't talking to Him or about Him. They're taking it irreverently. Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain. When I hear people pray, but they say it with vanity, they say it with haphazardness, it's not clear to them. You see, this divine picture allows for us to come before Him. And that little thing that comes up when someone refers to my Heavenly Father, my Lord, my Redeemer, my Savior, and they say the man upstairs. Oh, who are you talking about? Granddad? Grandma? Grandpa? No, we're talking about the Lord God Almighty, the great I Am, the one who was in the beginning. In the beginning, God. God. There was nothing else in the beginning but God. Who is this God? He is everything to a child of God. And so the more that you know about Him, the more you crave Him, the more that you want Him. And then pictures like this that we get in Isaiah chapter 6 reveals to us just a little bit more about how I need to respond, how you need to respond, and how He's going to respond. One thing is, is that the portal of heaven is open. Jesus said this constantly. If any man hungers, thirsts, not for what's in the fridge, not for what's on the picnic list for next week, if any man hungers or thirsts for what? For righteousness, for Him. Come, eat, drink, and you'll never hunger again. You'll never thirst again. That sounds like a pretty satisfying deal, doesn't it? Sounds better than a McDonald's vacuum mail. Probably ain't going to get anything. I know you're a supporter and lover of McDonald's, but hey, it ain't going to get no better. Just call. Just call. Okay. But the idea of this is that when we come to Him, He's satisfied. Don't you want to be satisfied? The church is supposed to say, amen. Cue cards. Amen. I got to tell my cue card horse. Clap. Rejoice. Praise the Lord. Amen. So, let's read Isaiah chapter 6 and see this grand and glorious opening of the portal of heaven. In the year the king Isaiah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon the throne, high and lifted up, and His train had filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim. Again, seraphims are just angels. Each one had six wings. The plane He covered His face. Most times you see angels and talk about the angel's wings. There's only two, isn't it? That's a lie. You know why? Because the Bible says there are six. Six wings. Two to cover the face. Two to be on the shoulder blades. Two down around the heel of that to cover the feet. The plane He covered His face. In the plane He did fly. One cried unto another and said, this is the great herald song that's in heaven. It's on page number one. Holy, holy, holy. Lord God almighty, isn't it? Is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. Now, you look out here on this earth, and I'm sure you saw it coming in. People doing everything on Sunday, but what's it supposed to be doing? Cuckoo. Amen. The arts. Business is over. The picnic is, and everything else that's going on, and God has forgotten. The Lord God, all the earth is filled with His glory. So, I've got to stop and ask myself, when I'm looking at such a reprehensible, evil generation, how do I see God's glory in this earth? One answer is that I see, and again, whether I pass it, I see the body of Christ. In the body of Christ, there are those that are false converts, but there are also those that are true children of God. That is the work of redemption. All the earth is filled with Christ's redemption. You know what redemption is? Amazing grace to save a wretch like me. Me, sinner, heathen, provoker, disobedient, rebel, born in sin, practiced sin, loved sin, followed sin, knew sin. He redeemed me from that. It says, I take your sins and I cast them as far as the east is from the west, and I remember them no more. I look at my Jesus at the right hand of the Father, and I see the nail scars, and I see the feet that was pierced, and the brow that was pierced, and that blood spilt and shed for what purpose? What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins to lose all my guilty sins. I'm redeemed, and the earth is filled with that because I went across the Taiwan, and I was in Sweden, and I was in Spain, and I've been in these nations of Ukraine, and Belarus, and Russia, and all of that, and everywhere else on just what I found, the redeemed. Boy, I'm telling you, when you look at that at the end times when Christ sounds that trumpet, and the eastern skies split, and he says, and the dead in Christ which have already died and are buried, they shall be raised, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to be with the Lord for a short period of time. You know that verse? We will be with him forevermore, the saints, the redeemed. I love my brothers and sisters, and I love those that love me because we look at all the earth is filled with his glory in the creation. I love it. I love the ways of animals. I drive over across the hollow, and out there in the fields out there going from Junction over to Romney there, especially in the evenings if I'm driving through there, I see the deer out. I don't know how many, by God's grace and mercy, I haven't seen a deer in my life, but I've seen a deer in my life. I've seen a deer in my life. We've come back from Fort Ashby, and I've seen the deer, deer, and horns. I get crazy that way in the deep. I love it. I love it, not just to kill them, not just to, oh, boy, you should have seen what I know. It's the way of creation. I don't care if it's insects. I'll watch insects all the way. I'll watch a spider spin its web and sit there and all of it and say, God did that. I'll watch the sun rise, the sun set, the moon come up, the moon descend, and I look at all the stars and the heavenly hosts, and I say, God, you did that. You don't know that Psalm 8, go, it's six short verses there, eight verses in that Psalm 8. Lord, you made all the heavens and the earth and the moon and the sun and the stars and all that is there. Praise your name. This is the glory of God in all the earth. These are just a few of those things. Full of his glory. See God's glory in this creation, this thing called life. See it in your own life, personal. When is the last time that you can look at something in your heart, your mind, your soul, and say, that's the glory of God? Well, one is you look in the mirror. Every man, woman, and child is made in the image of God. There's your creation. Every one of us has a soul deep down within us that God gives us as a gift. A gift. What you do with that gift is ever so important to show his glory. There are those that are evil, and they have mourned, destroyed that gift, that corrupted their soul. I talk about dead men walking, where they cross that line, and it doesn't matter how many sermons they preach to. It doesn't matter who prays for them. It doesn't matter who weeps over them. It doesn't matter how fast they are. A dead man is going to die, and they're going to hear their three awful words depart from them. Because they tarnished the gift of the soul. Those that cherish the soul, they nourish, they know that it's essential. They know it's eternal. And they work at this to make it in the glory of God. These are the saints. These are the ones that God pours out his Holy Spirit upon them, and draws them after him, and says, come follow me. And they say, yes, I will. Full of his glory. Verse 4. And the post for the door, it was moved at the voice of him. This was the voice of God speaking. And it shakes the very foundation and the pillar of the house of the Lord, in the powerful voice that cried. And the house was filled with smoke. And the smoke is his glory and his incense that's offered up. That's the reason I said, even I said last week, and I say it again, there is nothing greater that you could ever come into than to come into a room full of smoke and to say, not because of a candle burning or incense or something, but the glory of God is abiding there. And you walk into it, and you say, God's here. And it just covers you, fills you in the midst of it. Verse 5. Now, as he is introduced, Isaiah has walked into the presence of God. The voice, the smoke that filled the room. Pay attention now to Isaiah's response. This is that irreverent man upstairs. Well, I'm here, Lord. Aren't you glad to see this irreverent concept of meeting God? Here's the greatest thing. Here's the prophet Isaiah. Now read what he does. Then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of people of unclean lips. For my eyes, they have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. There are two names of God right there, the King and the Lord of hosts, both capitals. Then flew one to Sarah from both the 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 he said, Lo, this has touched your lips, and thy iniquity it has taken away, and thy sin it has purged. And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? Then I answered, and I said, Here am I, Lord, send me. And he said, Go, tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not, see you indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fast, make their ears to be heavy, shut their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and they could be converted, and that they be healed. Then I said, How long, Lord? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate. And the Lord hath removed men far away, and there be a great forsaken in the midst of the land. But yet in it shall be a tent, and it shall return, shall be eaten as a teal tree, and as no substance is in them, when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. Let us pray. That's the Father I just asked of you. So many thoughts come rushing in with this passage. So short of a chapter, and yet so dynamic. Lord, again, give us eyes to see, give us ears to hear, give us hearts to be moved, Father, through your presence and your will. And may we understand, Father, our true plight before you. Woe is me. I'm an unclean person. We live in a generation of uncleanness. Purge us, O God. The fire from above, purge us by the blood of Christ. Lord, again, it is the atonement that we give praise to you for that can make our iniquities to be passed away and all of our sins to be purged. May we not be lovers of sin, Father, but may we be lovers of you. In the name of Jesus Christ, I cry out to you. Amen. Verse 5, that word, woe, again, King James, I don't know any other translation other people use than that. A hundred times used in the Bible, that word, woe. The Bible says to the boys, woe. They think I'm talking about pulling a horseback or something like that. Woe, in that. But this W-O-E, woe, is a crisis. Man, woe unto me. I've just stepped into the presence of God and I'm in trouble. You know why? Because you realize who God is and you realize too many people try to justify themselves. Well, I'm not that bad. Well, I certainly ain't as bad as that person. I always make comparison to that. They go out here and do a good deed and they break their arm and pat themselves on the back saying, look at me, look at me. And in all the vision of God and all the sight of God, God looks down with disdain upon them. He says, I don't care how good you think you are. Without me, you're nothing. And that's the reason is that when we come to Christ, it is everything about it. My mind corrupted by this world, my heart that I justify myself while I think I'm a pretty good person. My whole existence is in spite of God reprehensible. There is none right. No, not one. There is no, no one good. I like that. When I walked into Pastor Paul and I said, well, how are you good people? And Steve's probably one of the first ones to bark up at it. He said, there ain't none here. And then he'll quote Romans chapter three, verse 10 through 23. He said, ain't none of us good here. We're all, we're all far off the mark. We're all waiting. Ah, but in Christ, he who is good, Christ, he makes us right. He makes us good. Not from this. Not from you. Not because you sang the song. Not because you read the verse. Not because you're in church today, but because you're in Christ today. He makes us good. And without Christ, you enter into this thing. Look at all my faults. Look at all my failures. Look at all my folly. Look at all my sins. And Satan joins right in on that. You know, there's a little image over there in the book of Zechariah, where, where it says that God was a high priest was standing there before God, another heavenly vision that's opened up there. And he's being judged and he's standing there in rags and, and, and, uh, old dirty cloth and that. And Satan standing at his right hand, accusing him. You ever had somebody accuse you? Satan accuses the brother of everything that we've ever done, thought, said, look how evil they are, Lord. You know, Satan has been, has to appear before God all the time. Job teaches us that. And Satan comes and God says to him, where have you been? Well, I've been down in College of West Virginia and I've met your people and they ain't such a great people. And God says, you're absolutely right. But remember Joe, but have you considered my servant, Joe, that there is none like him who serves and involves, who gets up and meets you. See, God knows our actions and reactions and Satan knows our actions and reactions. And when we give Satan fuel for the fire, he throws gas on it and multiplies it about tenfold. Now it is, is that in that image, when I realized before God, woe is me, I am undone. I'm not the man that I'm supposed to be. I'm not the Christian that I'm supposed to be. I'm falling short. And I, as I might, with my strength and my abilities, guess what I want to do? I'm still going to fall short. But when I get alone and I get into his presence, in his word, I empty myself of self. I fill me with the Savior. He takes over and he gives me a healthy appetite. The boys have asked me this periodically. How do you stay on path? How do you keep the fire burning? You know, there's maybe one of the songs in here that you don't know, set my soul on fire, burn it deep within me. Millions grow in darkness, waiting for the word. Set my soul on fire. How do you keep passionate about the things of God? This vision of Isaiah here, when I get before him, is one of those things I use as a catalyst to keep me where I'm supposed to be. I'm going to stand before God. I want to answer. You know what I want to answer for? Everything. Whether you've done good or evil. Paul says over in the book of Romans, he says, we will all give an account of every good thing and every evil thing. Now, in every evil thing, as we've talked about before, how am I going to have to answer for that if I've already asked God to forgive me and confess it and repent of it? Well, we know that, like good old White owl, that God says, I blocked that out. I remember it no more because the blood covers it. But when Joshua the high priest was standing in rags and dirty cloth and Satan accusing him, he says, just like the prodigal son, he says, take that old dirty thing off of him. Here is a robe of righteousness, a cloth that's pure, that Christ is the one who gives. It's Christ's righteousness, not my righteousness. If I'm trying to be righteous, trying to be good, then I'll die in the self-righteousness. God despises self-righteousness. But if I take Christ's righteousness, pure and undefiled, and close myself in it, when God looks at me, he does not see me in my folly. He sees Christ in his righteousness, and that's acceptable to him. Strive as people might. Do good deeds. Be a good person and all that. You're still going to come back to the same picture. Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. All these abominations that I've talked about, this spherical warfare, rebellion, transgenderism, homosexuality, all these issues that are attacking and assaulting our society today. That's the Bible. This is the unclean nation that I live in, the unclean state that I live in, and all these things that we're living against today. This is my cry. Lord, we're so filthy. We're so impure. We're so tainted. And as a hearty amen goes up from the heavenly host. Amen. He says, but God looks down and he says, but my blood is sufficient to the soul that's broke, to the soul that we need, the soul that laments. What a precious and glorious gift of glorious, they said there, the glory that filled it, the fullness of glory. The mind that understands this, eyes that see this, ears that hear this, and I want to be elevated. I've got to live out here, walk out here, function out here in this filthy world, but somewhere I get elevated up above it that God says, now you're in my room. Now, me and you are just as close as what you and I are in the proximity of this room. We abide in the same room and the Holy Spirit floods the heart and the mind and the soul, gives you an appetite. Nothing else will satisfy. Nothing else is going to make you right, but being in the presence of God. And even though we might enter in and say, well, it's me, he takes us and he says, there's a tender heart. There's a humble soul. And that's the one that recognizes just what they are in the sight of God and in the presence of God. But if you see in the churches today, you see it in the world today, it's the same attitude. I'm not so bad. I'm trying. Yeah, I believe in God. Well, the devils believe in God. Does that mean they can get out of hell because they believe? No, they're still there, aren't they? You know, how many people sitting in churches today will justify this? Well, I'm on the church roll. I got a baptismal certificate. Well, guess what? Took a shower also, got wet. What does that have to do with anything? If the life never changed, if the soul is never surrendered, they're still found in contempt in the sight of God. But the soul that empties himself out. This is where Isaiah was. I'm not what I'm supposed to be. God has given me this great gift called life. Great exercise of a church like this to be able to come, pray, and understand while other nations in this world. You imagine living in Saudi Arabia today. No churches. No Bibles allowed. I remember when they was back when my brother was in the Gulf War and they were trying to smuggle Bibles in there and they were stopping them at the airport gates, burning them once they were coming in there. No Bibles. Would you like to take, remember that guy, that missionary that crossed from South Korea into North Korea and he had Bibles there and he left one in the hotel room and before he got to the airport they had arrested him and threw him in the jail and they fought and fought to get him out. All because he left a Bible in the hotel room. Would you like to be living in North Korea right now? What an assault. Whoa, whoa to these kind of people. Here we are with all the freedom in the world to speak it, to live it, to express it. How much are you growing in Christ? How close are you growing? And when you can see this heavenly vision and you realize how much, full of His glory, how much He's done and how little we've done is to cry, woe is me. That's distressed. I'm in trouble. How much more then that I need Him. When I surveyed the wondrous cross, all the blood flowing from His head, His hands, His feet, and I realized that was His love for me. My sin, my fault, my sin, woe is me. I'm in trouble. Lord, there's no one that can save me but You. You are the great Redeemer. Here's this plea. Now once you realize how much God has done for you and God asks the heavenly question, who shall I send? Who will go to me? Church, Christians. Raise the right hand to hear my sin made. And I stand here for the rest of the afternoon and tell you story after story and account after account of those who said, can my sin be made? Somebody sent me that quote from C.T. Studd over in England and he's got that famous poem, song that was given, only one life will soon be passed, only what's done for God will last. And when I am dead, how glad I shall be when I've burned out my life in service to Thee. Now he was a soccer player over there in England back in the late century and got radically saved in the revival, on fire for God, had a booth of money, millions, gave it all up, gave away all his possessions and he went over to the area park and he became a missionary and that's how he spent the rest of his days. Man, he was on fire. But he realized, whoa, there's me, I'm in trouble. But when he came to the Savior, he said, here am I, send me. William H. Kearns became a missionary, went over to Indy, one of the first missionaries to go into that place. David Livingston, if you've all ever heard, David Livingston, I presume, the famous little quote of that, and he went down, left his stately place in England, went down into Africa with a tribe of people in the 1800s, wild country, never a European down in there hardly, and a lion tore off half his shoulder, the zine that he fought, the tribesmen that was wanting to kill him and all this, and it was the power of God that changed and shifted him because he said, here am I, Lord, send me. His wife said, oh, I can't be separate from you, I want to go down there. And he said, there's too much disease, there's too much threat of death here, stay at home, keep the children, stay at home. No, she wouldn't listen. She had to come down there. He buried his wife, buried his children because of the disease and all that. But he said, here am I, Lord, send me. And he kept going and he kept going. And when he finally died, dined by the queen, that is the 9th of England, and he said, bury my body in London. They cut out his heart and they took it down to Africa and they put it underneath one of the trees down there because he said, my body belongs to England, but my heart belongs to Africa. Here am I, Lord, send me. I remember my first mission trip, I was talking about going across seas. Saturday night prayer meeting over there at the door of Baptist in Augusta. I'm there at the altar. There's about five or six of us there at the altar and we're praying. And I'm under conviction. We need to do more for mission. We need to do more for mission. Lord, send them. Not send me, send them. Lord, give us a missionary. Send someone across seas that I can go and do. And on my way home that night, I felt pretty good about that prayer. Lord's going to take us and use us as a mission church. Wonderful. Do it, Lord. On my way home. I'm listening to Josh McDowell on radio, Christian radio. And he said, go on to Russia, go on to Moscow, go on to the Ukraine, go on to Belarus, come for this 10-day mission trip. And immediately, and I'm in that, in my Ford truck, and immediately the Holy Spirit spoke. That's where I wanted to do this. And he gave that number at the end of the announcement there, 1-800 whatever it was. And I just kept quoting it all the way from Augusta back to Burlington. We had company home that night or something. I don't even know what was going on. I come in, and that's back when they still had rotary phones. I come right in, went right to the phone, and dialed that number. And said, George, what are you doing? I got to take care of this. Because God said, yes. I went on my first mission trip. Because I didn't say, here am I, send me. I said, send them. And God said, no, I'm going to send you. And I was blessed, blessed experience, blessed time. You and I are living in a day and a half of a people of unclean lips. And we have the gospel message. It's woe, woe is upon us, woe is upon them because they're sinners. Seven billion people on the face of this planet, only one billion of us, and all the rest are sinners. Lord, here am I, send me. Let me have a word to speak to them. They have ears to hear, and they have eyes to touch, the fullness of His glory. You and I are supposed to come in here on Sunday. We're supposed to elevate. We're supposed to stand where the presence of God is glorious, glorious and kind. And then we got to come back down and go back out to school, go back out to work, go back out to family and friends, and show them what we've been through. A message to tell. A guy asked a question last night on social media, and he said, I'm getting ready to go to church tomorrow. And he said, well, I go to church and hear about God. Well, I go to church and see the glory to the Father, to see His glory. Lord, open it up. Let us see you sitting on the throne and Christ at the right hand. Let me hear the heavenly voice speak. Come show us then who will go for us. Oh, Lord, send Philip. Send him. He's young, but he's good. I ain't got time for that. You see, the truth of the cross says here am I. It's personal. Lord, it's me. Here am I. Send me personally. I can pray for you, but it's all about my relationship with Him, your relationship with Him. You got an answer. Are you a man or a woman of unclean lips? And our prayer for those that you see out there that have no knowledge of Him, that's the world we're living in. How they ever want to hear anything unless they hear it from us. Divine opportunity, divine moment that God gives us. And we have a heavenly vision like Isaiah said.
Woe Is Me, a Heavenly Vision
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Dan Biser (birth year unknown–present). Born in the United States, Dan Biser is a Baptist pastor and evangelist based in West Virginia, known for his fervent call for national revival in North America. He serves as a pastor at Zoar Baptist Church in Augusta and Open Door Baptist Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, focusing on prayer and repentance. Biser’s ministry emphasizes a deep burden for spiritual awakening, leading him to organize multiple prayer conferences titled “Broken Before the Throne.” His sermons, available on platforms like SermonIndex.net, address themes of holiness, judgment, and the need for the church to return to biblical fidelity, drawing from Scriptures like Jeremiah and Psalm 27. He contributes columns to Baptist Press, urging Christians to mourn national sin and prioritize God’s presence, as seen in his reflections on Psalm 27:7-8 and Jeremiah 30:17. Biser also hosts a blog and YouTube channel, sharing messages on revival and divine judgment. Little is known about his personal life, including family or education, as his public focus remains on ministry. He said, “The hour is late, the need is great; pray so as to prevail.”