Exodus 32:6
And they rose up early the next day and
offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to
eat and drink and rose up to play.
If your spouse were to cheat on you with
another person with your same name, would that make it any better? Israel
fashioned a god of their own liking in the shape of a golden calf, yet
retained the name of YHWH for it. So they could say in one sense that they
never stopped worshiping YHWH. But in another sense, they clearly had changed the
object of their worship. Many people today make the mistake of worshiping a
Jesus of their own making. They can say
with confidence and clarity, "I worship Jesus!" yet the object of
their worship is a figment of their imagination, an idol of their own mental masonry, a mistress bearing the name of their spouse.
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