No more than a month after they had received God's good instructions for how to live a life of love, the people of Israel forgot the Lord was the one good enough to rescue them, and they had replaced Him. But Moses couldn't give up on them; he wanted these people - these hard-headed people - to come to know the Lord like he did - to really know that the Lord was good. So after the people had turned away, when Moses stood and asked, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” he wasn’t calling to the perfect, to the people who had kept all the rules, to the people who had never struggled. No, he was offering a lifeline of grace to people who were in the midst of rebellion. Today, that lifeline of grace goes out again - no matter where you’ve been, no matter what you’ve done, no matter what you’ve replaced the Lord with. The Son of God has taken what you deserve so you can have another chance to know that the Lord is good.