In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, knowing holy God.

What is it about God that causes people to shun him, avoid him, detour around him, distance 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 Uzair 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 the 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. And so when they try to stop him,

he gets into this big rage. And as he begins to shout and rage at them, leprosy breaks out on his

head. And so he ends his life in a very sad way. And if you turn to Second Chronicles for a moment, turn to Second Chronicles

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