There's a word in Scripture that stops us cold, not a complicated word, just four letters.

But it's a word so foreign to our everyday experience that most of us have quietly agreed to let it belong to another century.

The word is holy. And today, on

Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall takes us 28 centuries into the past, to a grief-stricken

young prophet, a dying king, and a moment in the temple that would change everything. What

does it really mean that God is holy? The answer may be

simpler than you think, and far more personally.

God's Word is alive and it's powerful and it's sharper than a two-edged sword.

And it is able to pierce to the division of soul and spirit between the joints and the marrow.

And it is a, it is a critic.

It is a critic, a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of our hearts. That's true of both

New and Old Testament. It's true of those ancient writings that are difficult for us to date

to this day, all the way to the first century.

We turned today some 2800 years back in time as we open our Bibles to the sixth chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah.

Isaiah 6.

An epicult moment in the life of a man whose life was marked by grief and loss.

And we'll read of that in the opening lines of this first verse of Isaiah 6.

May I read for you verses 1 through 8,

and because of our respect for the word of God,

may we stand together for the reading of the scriptures.

In the year of King Uzziah's death,

I saw the Lord sitting on the throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of his robe filling the temple.

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