Rev. Dustin Beck, pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda, TX joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Exodus 32:1-14. How should people rightly worship the one true God? The entirety of God’s W...

Rev. Dustin Beck, pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda, TX joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Exodus 32:1-14. How should people rightly worship the one true God? The entirety of God’s Word can be looked at through this lens. The LORD spent the previous seven chapters giving Moses instructions so that His people would worship him rightly in His tabernacle. Yet at the very moment Moses prepares to come down the mountain, everything comes unraveled for Israel. Their idolatrous desire for an idol to touch and see bore awful fruit. Ears that should have been open to hear the Word of God were closed. Gold that should have been crafted into a beautiful mercy seat was melted and formed into a diminutive calf. A man who should have served as a priest to the true God served as the lackey for a statue. Though the LORD’s name was used, idolatry still snuck in. The LORD responded with righteous anger, justly ready to destroy these people who had grossly broken the covenant they had sealed only forty days earlier. Moses, serving as a type of Christ, stood in for the people. He appealed to the LORD for Israel based on the LORD’s reputation among the nations and the LORD’s promises to His people. The LORD relented for the sake of His merciful promises, which He never changes for the sake of His Son, Jesus Christ. Here is the answer to the question of right worship. Right worship is faith in Jesus, our crucified and risen Savior.