How much of your confidence, how much of your stability is invested in your earthly leaders and heroes?

What happens when your heroes fall?

This was the question the people of Israel wrestled with, and it was in that crisis that Isaiah met the God and the King of Israel

who was all together, holy, who had no shadow of turning in him, no possibility of falling, no possibility of disappointing.

Where do you place your hope?

As Christians, we should answer, of course, in the Lord, but we can be tempted to look to other things, other powers to money,

as our source of security.

Anything less than the Lord, though, will fail us, will disappoint.

You're listening to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind as we feature messages from RC Sproul's classic and perhaps most well-known series, The Holiness of God.

Kings, bosses, fathers, friends, they will let us down, only God who is all together holy as you heard RC Sproul describe in the preview of today's episode

cannot lie, it doesn't change, and he will never let us down.

And it is upon the backdrop of the fall of a hero that God chose to reveal himself to the prophet Isaiah.

Who was that hero? Well, here's Dr. Sproul from The Holiness of God.

I was sitting in a table at the library of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in the early 60s, working on a term paper.

And if you've ever been to a seminary library or university library, any kind of library, you know that there is one absolute rule for behavioral protocol in a library.

And that rule is silence.

Well, here I was working on this paper and everyone was in there being quiet.

The only sounds that you could hear would be that of pages turning.

When somebody walked into the middle of the room and spoke out loud with words that completely disrupted all of the study that was going on.

In fact, instantly all of the work that was going on among the students in the library at that moment ceased because of the announcement.

The person who walked in that day in November said out loud, the president has been shot.

And we sat there in stunned disbelief, but only for a second until we moved out of our chairs rushed out of the library, went over to the dean's office where there was a radio on the counter.

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