Udderly Wrong: A Moo-ving Tale of Spiritual Rebellion | Exodus 32 | Rescue
Summit Life with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear Ministries
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We tend to read the story of the Israelites making the golden calf and ask, “How could they?” But we fail to realize that what the Israelites were guilty of, idolatry, is the very thing that is behind all of our other sins. Today, Pastor J.D. shows us not only the danger of idolatry in our lives, but how we can escape it. Ultimately, what is bad news for those who reject Christ is actually good news for those who follow him: You become like what you worship.
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to listen, want you to Pastor J.D. Greer. |
| 0:29.2 | Have you ever read a Bible story and thought, I would never do that? Only to realize later you kind of already have. |
| 0:36.0 | The story of the Israelites and the golden |
| 0:37.6 | calf could feel that way. We wonder how they could turn so quickly. But what they were really |
| 0:42.9 | guilty of, idolatry, is something that shows up in our lives more often than we'd like to admit. |
| 0:48.1 | Here's Pastor Jody with a message. He's humorously titled, Utterly wrong, |
| 0:53.1 | The Moving Tale of Spiritual Rebellion. and the golden calf, which I have lovingly retitled, utterly wrong, the moving tale of spiritual rebellion. |
| 0:56.8 | A moving tale of spiritual rebellion. |
| 0:58.8 | Write that down, John Mullen. |
| 1:00.0 | That's gold, okay? |
| 1:01.6 | As you are turning there, for the first several years of our marriage, mine and Veronica's marriage, I drove a 2003 Honda Pilot. |
| 1:10.8 | It was such a great car. |
| 1:12.0 | It was reliable, it was comfortable, it was sporty. |
| 1:14.5 | I loved it. |
| 1:15.3 | And I'd bought it. |
| 1:16.1 | It salvaged and rebuilt, so it had been a great deal. |
| 1:19.4 | Well, one afternoon, just toward the start of spring, I hopped into it. |
| 1:24.0 | And when the AC kicked on, I heard this awful grinding sound. And the compressor seemed to |
| 1:30.8 | almost tremble for a minute. But listen, I told you, you know, the car had been wrecked and rebuilt, |
| 1:35.6 | so it was always making funny noises. And usually, if I just ignored them long enough, |
| 1:39.6 | they just went away. I'm not saying that's best car care practice, but it worked on that Honda. |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I was out of town for the next couple of days, and so I didn't drive it. And when I got home and drove it again, |
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