"Spirit" Tagged Sermons

Forms That Cannot Reach God

Two parallel stories, 5:1-6:12 and 6:13-7:2, both reenact the exodus pattern in miniature, judgment followed by deliverance. Neither the forms nor the symbols involved, the ark, the cart, the golden images, ever actually reach the essence of God himself. The law works the same way: it points toward the Spirit without ever becoming it.