When King David recovered the Ark of the Covenant,

he brought it home on an ox cart.

When the oxen stumbled,

Auzah reached out to steady the Ark,

and God killed him.

Modern Theologians look at that event in antiquity

and say, see, here is a crash example

of primitive naive, mythologically oriented people

attributing to God something that God would never do.

Why does God punish his own children so severely

for making what seemed to be harmless mistakes?

This week on Renewing Your Mind,

we are concentrating on Dr. R. C. Sproul series,

The Holiness of God.

Many people question God's goodness

when they see hard instances of his justice.

Where was God's grace that day when he killed Auzah?

Dr. Sproul answers this difficult question

in the message entitled The Untouchable.

As we continue our study now of the holiness of God,

we recall that in our last session,

we began to look at the problem of God's justice

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