Sermon: Only It Wasn’t
The law is not given for legalism but for love.
The shape of the law is love;
The purpose of the law is love;
The essence of God is perfect love;
The goal of creation is…wait for it…love.
And not cheap love or toxic love or teenage love or any other kind of synthetic, dupe, knockoff, imitation love on the market. Love at its purest, most real.
These commandments are two sides of the same coin, mutually interpreting one another, constantly spurring the other side on to fidelity and steadfastness.
Sermon + Commentary: Idols, Invitations, and the Immortal
Israel wanted images of their new gods. Their God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses was invisible. The living God could be seen through fire and cloud, plague, passover and parting the sea, but the people wanted something they could look at. In their short-sighted haste, they trade the invisible for the visible, the one true God for a false idol, the omnipotent for the impotent.
From the Archive: Idols, Invitations, and the Immortal
Their God has been going before them, but they want something different.
Israel wanted images of their new gods. Their God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses was invisible. The living God could be seen through fire and cloud, plague, passover and parting the sea, but the people wanted something they could look at. In their short-sighted haste, they trade the invisible for the visible, the one true God for a false idol, the omnipotent for the impotent.