Theme: The importance of accepting God's gracious invitation to the feast of life.

COMMENTARY

Old Testament: Exodus 32:1-14
Moses is meeting with the Lord on Mount Horeb and is away from the people for a long time. The people suspect that something perverse has happened to their leader and so they petition Aaron to make gods for them. Taking their jewelry, he fashions a gold calf and proclaims it the object of their worship. Seeing this unfaithfulness, God wants to destroy the people and make a nation from Moses. Moses pleads with God to restrain his anger, reasoning that the Egyptians would say that God took his people out in the wilderness only to destroy them. The Lord changes his mind about the intended destruction.

Old Testament: Isaiah 25:1-9
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