Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 26th.

God's holiness can feel overwhelming, like he's distant or out of reach.

But the incredible truth is we are invited to draw near.

Let's discover how you can truly know our holy God.

What is it about God that causes people to shun him, avoid him, detour around him, distanced

themselves from him, become angry with him, hostile toward him, and even hate God.

How could somebody feel these things when we say that God is a God of love and goodness and mercy and kindness taught us?

Where do all these negative attitudes come from?

Why do people feel that away?

Well, I think there's one attribute about God that people don't usually think about. They don't want to

think about. They don't like thinking about it. And that is the holiness of God. And that's what I want

to talk about in this message entitled, when we think in terms of our attitudes toward God and

all the things that we could think, the wonderful privilege of knowing

holy God. And I want you to turn, if you will, to Isaiah. And in the book of Isaiah, that's Isaiah,

Jeremiah, Zechia, those big prophets there for some of you who may be a new Christian, don't

know where that is in your Bible. And I want you to turn to the sixth chapter. And while you're

turning, I want to give you a little background of what's happening. King Uzziah was one of the best

kings that Judah ever had. Came to the throne at the age of 16, reigned for 52 years. Started out well.

Did a fantastic job, strengthened the city, built up their military, fortified their

city, lots of expansion. Then he comes to the latter years of his life with all of his wealth and

power and he becomes very prideful. One day he goes into the temple and he begins to assume the

rights that God had only limited to the high priest and to the priest.

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