Nothing reveals more clearly what your heart's attitude is towards God than how you use His name.

There's no way that you can be a person who has been grasped by the character of God, the holiness of God,

and turn around and use his name in a blasphemous way. What is God like? If you were to ask people who don't go to church that question, I suspect

very few would say holy especially in light of how

freely and frequently people in the West blaspheme. Sadly if we polled people who do

attend church their answers would likely be similar.

This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. The Port portrait of God painted for us in the pages of scripture

is of a God who is majestic and holy. And today, R.C. Sprawl will consider several episodes in biblical history that remind us of this truth,

including the Prophet Isaiah's vision into the inner chamber of heaven.

So what did Isaiah see? Here's Dr. Sprawl.

I had the opportunity to visit Rome, the Eternal City.

And I think the most dramatic moment for me in my visit to Rome was in looking at the

Roman Forum, the ruins of the Roman Forum where the Senate sat and met to decide the policies of the Roman Empire.

And they had all of these busts remaining from the famous Caesars, from Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus,

Nero, Flavian, Dioclavian, Diocletian, Titus, and all the rest of them.

And then right across the street, there was this little known area that you had to go down below ground into what was originally

a cistern, eun out of the rock, a place that held water for the city. But in that hole in the ground,

in that sister, was the place where the apostle Paul was held prisoner while he was awaiting his execution from Nero.

I thought I'm standing in the place here where Paul was in chains and where Paul who doesn't have a monument to him

here in the forum represented something that far outlasted the power of Imperial Rome.

And I remember that the city of Rome, according to legend and according to the

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