The Importance of Choosing Wisdom on Your Own Terms

The golden calf becomes the icon moment for the whole history of Israel's idolatry. In some way, creating or worshipping idols is really connected to choosing the wisdom on your own terms. We think we're like getting our own freedom but instead we're really just kind of creating allegiances with whatever the other power structure or force is. The high place in Hebrew is called Bommot. Jeroboam when he goes and he breaks off the northern tribes from the southern tribes. This is in Second Kings chapter 12. He makes a new temple and he installs two golden calves and says these are your gods of Israel who brought you up out of Egypt. And then he sets up in