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Heart Lyrics Versus Holy Commands (Exodus 32:1-33:6)

PODCAST Heart Lyrics Versus Holy Commands December 28, 2025 | Jake Thomas Jake Thomas discusses the importance of worshiping God correctly, using the story of Israel’s idolatry in Exodus 32 as an example. He highlights how, impatient for Moses’ return, Israel created a golden calf, prompting God’s anger and Moses’ intercession. Thomas emphasizes the need to worship God as He is, not as we imagine Him, and warns against idolatry and apathy. He notes that Moses’ intercession spared Israel, but their sin still had consequences. Thomas concludes by urging true worship and rejection of false gods, drawing parallels to modern-day spiritual practices and the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus. TRANSCRIPT_______________________________________________+ The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Good morning, please open your Bibles to Exodus 32 and we’re gonna be in verse one. So if you did the reading for this week, I’m sorry, but you’re all set for next week. But when we Exodus 32 starting in verse one, I’m gonna repeat a lot to help you out, since I got no visual aids for you. Now, whenever I ride in a car with my mom, the two of us always listen to music together, and it’s great. I love my mom, but she does something that drives me absolutely nuts. For all the songs we listen to, she sings what she calls heart lyrics, which are different than the actual lyrics and that they’re just wrong. They’re not the lyrics. For example, it’s like, if we listen to the song, call me, maybe I would sing as is correct. Hey, I just met you. This is crazy. She was saying, Hey, I just met you. You’re so crazy, which is just not how the song goes. It’s not it, it’s not right. And she also doesn’t believe in lyric police either. So it’s just like, she’s like, full steam ahead, just heart lyrics all the way, like mom. That’s just not the song. It’s funny story, right? But I actually believe that we do something similar with God in our lives. We do what feels right as opposed to what is right, don’t we? How often do we lie because the telling the truth is hard or scary? How much we’re willing to compromise our beliefs to date someone who isn’t a believer because they’re physically attractive, even though they’re spiritually weak, or we lash out at people around us in anger because kindness and peace doesn’t seem fair or what they deserve. In that moment, we often do what we feel is right, not what God tells us is right, or even we don’t even ask him what is right, Lord. So we’re supposed to worship God by obeying Him, but how often we just sing heart lyrics instead of his commands and obeying his commands. Now, what do we do? Right? How can we fix the song of our heart, the crookedness of our heart? How can we recognize and we’re out of key and direct ourselves back to him. Well, today, in a strange story about a statue of a cow, God’s word actually gives us direction for our hearts, and it helps us keep focused on him and get back to loving him. So here’s our big idea, just so you don’t miss it. We’re going to repeat a lot today. We need to worship the only God the right way. We need to worship the only God the right way. So if you’re taking notes, Cheryl worked really hard on these, I’m so sorry, just take this nice side and just turn around. We’re going to work on the back today. So in our story, we have three scenes, and that first scene is going to be called the fools sing. The fools sing. So you want to look at with me. We’re going to be in 32 and we’re going to start in verse one. When the people saw that Moses was so long and coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, Come, make us Gods who will go before us, as for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him, Aaron answered them. Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me. So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. He took what they had handed him and made it into an idol, cast in the shape of a calf, fashion it with a tool. And they said, these are your gods Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord. So the next day, the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. After they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry, And the Lord said to Moses, Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them, and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrifice to it. And I’ve said, these are your gods...