Many are Called, but Few are Chosen

This week's lectionary starts with Exodus 32 and the story of the golden calf at Sinai and the "stiff necked people" who thus act perversely or corrupt themselves. God's "wrath may burn hot against them" but Moses' intercedes for his people as recounted in Ps 106:23 "Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach" by making the appeal to God about the covenantal promises that God Ex 32: "swore to (your people) them by your own self". Ex 32: 14 "And the LORD changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people. We discuss how Jesus/Yeshua intercedes for us similarly. In Mathew 22:1-14 Jesus tells the parable of the king's wedding feast for his son and the guests who chose not to attend. Mt 22:8-9 And the king said 'The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet." Later at the feast the king told his attendants that a guest who was not wearing a wedding robe was to be bound and thrown into the outer darkness. And Jesus concludes Mt 22: 14 "For many are called, but few are chosen." We discuss what this means.