The Untouchable
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When Uzzah touched the ark of the covenant to keep it from falling, he made the fatal mistake of thinking the ground was more polluted than his own sinful hands. Today, R.C. Sproul considers the gravity of God's holy judgment.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | When King David recovered the Ark of the Covenant, he brought it home on an ox cart. |
| 0:05.9 | When the oxen stumbled, Azah reached out to steady the Ark, and God killed him. |
| 0:12.2 | Modern theologians look at that event in antiquity and say, see, here is a crass example of primitive, naive, mythologically oriented people |
| 0:26.7 | attributing to God something that God would never do. |
| 0:43.3 | Why would God punish Uzzar for making what seems to be a harmless mistake? Thanks for being with us for this Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:48.3 | as we turn our attention to another classic series from R.C. Sprawl, The Holiness of God, and answer that very question. For so many |
| 0:58.2 | Christians around the world, this series and the book were the first introduction to Dr. Sprole's |
| 1:03.6 | teaching ministry. So I would encourage you to share these episodes, and remember our YouTube |
| 1:08.6 | channel has every episode, if that's a more convenient way |
| 1:11.9 | for you to share the teaching. But I'd also encourage you to request a 40th anniversary edition |
| 1:17.7 | of the Holiness of God book, access to both the series and the extended edition of the |
| 1:23.3 | series and the study guide when you give a donation today at renewingermind.org. |
| 1:30.3 | You might be tempted to question the goodness of God when you see hard instances of his justice. |
| 1:36.8 | Where was God's grace that day when he killed Uzzar? |
| 1:40.1 | Here's Dr. Sprolder answer. |
| 1:57.0 | In the Old Testament, we encounter several events that show God's sudden outpouring of wrath on people. One of the most famous such incidences is the death of Uza. |
| 2:04.7 | You remember that story when after the Ark of the Covenant had been restored to Israel |
| 2:10.6 | and had been in storage for a while, David wanted to bring the Ark back to a central place of prominence in the city. |
| 2:22.6 | And so he had this procession emerge, which in this triumphant parade, the ark was going to be |
| 2:32.2 | brought back to the city. And the ark of the covenant was going to be brought back to the city. |
| 2:35.2 | And the Ark of the Covenant was being born by an ox cart driven by human beings, |
| 2:45.3 | and some folks were walking along beside this ox cart, |
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