I’ll never win any points with conservative
Biblical scholars or preachers for drawing parallels between Exodus 32 and a Led Zeppelin
song. This I did in this linked
post. Nonetheless, the comparison served well. It was the catalyst that
bought about the penny dropping – the how to exposit the Golden Calf narrative in a sermon.
For the narrative is ultimately a love story.
{Next in series on sin}
It
is not a love story of the Mills & Boon type nor of
the type wonderfully portrayed by in-real-life-married actors in the quirky
French comedy La Fée. It is instead a
tragic love story in that the husband’s love is spurned.
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For
the Almighty God, God of the covenant communicated to Abraham, who freed the
people from captivity in Egypt, is rejected by his spouse – the Israelites – in
favour of a god that the spouse creates with their own hands. It is the tragedy
of a loving God watching his spouse worship something of creation rather than
the creator. It is the tragedy of watching Aaron, as second to Moses, acquiesce
to the people’s request rather than attesting to God’s decrees.
And,
it is a love story because God is slow to anger in that in his righteousness he
could have smite the people for their evil. For Moses fasts in prayer for the
people that Moses may endeavour to best make right that which is wrong.
The
sermon will fall together well as a love story. It is a segment of the
definitive love story – that God sent his only Son.
For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish
but have eternal life.
Shalom,
Ozhamada
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