4. The same loving heart which opens
towards the chosen people is fast closed against those who continue in their
rebellion against God. Jesus hates all wickedness, and especially idolatry. The
text while it shows our Lord’s abhorrence of sin, shows also the sinner’s
greediness after it. Professed believers are often slow towards the true Lord,
but sinners hasten after another god. Theirs is a case in which the more
they haste the worse they speed, for Their sorrows are multiplied by
their diligence in multiplying their sins. Moses broke the golden calf and
ground it to powder, and cast it into the water of which he made Israel to
drink, and so shall our cherished idols become bitter portions for us, unless
we at once forsake them. Our Lord had no selfishness; he served but one Lord,
and served him only. As for those who turn aside from Jehovah, he was separate
from them. Sin and the Saviour had no communion.
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