Faithful and Forgiving
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I threw the gold into the fire and out came this calf. |
| 0:05.7 | Exodus 32.24. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:13.9 | Faithful and forgiving was written and read by James Banks. |
| 0:21.7 | Exodus chapter 32, verses 15 through 24. |
| 0:27.3 | Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his |
| 0:32.0 | hands. |
| 0:33.1 | They were inscribed on both sides front and back. |
| 0:36.9 | The tablets were the work of God. The writing was the |
| 0:40.1 | writing of God engraved on the tablets. When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, |
| 0:47.1 | he said to Moses, there is the sound of war in the camp. Moses replied, it is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat, |
| 0:57.0 | it is the sound of singing that I hear. When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the |
| 1:03.2 | dancing, his anger burned, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces |
| 1:09.5 | at the foot of the mountain. |
| 1:15.7 | And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire. |
| 1:22.6 | Then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the Israelites drink it. |
| 1:30.8 | He said to Aaron, what did these people do to you that you led them into such great sin? |
| 1:39.0 | Do not be angry, my lord, Aaron answered. You know how prone these people are to evil? |
| 2:01.2 | They said to me, 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. So I told them, whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off. Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf. |
| 2:06.2 | Faithful and forgiving. |
| 2:14.0 | It's not my fault, so says Hans Solo in The Empire Strikes Back, when his ship is attacked and there seems to be no escape only because a repair hasn't been made. |
| 2:18.8 | When he says it, you wonder if he bears at least some responsibility for his predicament, |
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