The Tabernacle – Part 11
The Golden Calf
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON TIMELINE
· The Book of Genesis
· The Exodus
· The Tabernacle
· Introduction
· The Ark of the Covenant
· The Table and the Lampstand
· The Tabernacle Construction
· Tabernacle Framework
· The Bronze Altar
· The Outer Court
· Setting the Priests Apart
· Exodus 29:10 – Exodus 30:38 Sacrifices and ordination
· The Calling of God
· Keeping the Sabbath
· The Golden Calf
INTRODUCTION
Today we will talk about the unwillingness to trust in God.
Let’s catch up to where we are first.
Moses took his first trip up Mt. Sinai in Exodus 19 when God first tells Moses He is offering a covenant to the people of Israel. God states, IF they will keep the covenant God will make them His treasured possession and a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
If you remember in Exodus 19:8, the people responded, “We will do EVERYTHING the Lord has said!”
The second trip Moses took was to take Israels reply back to God. God then tells Moses that He will speak audibly to Moses in a thick cloud in front of the people so they will all put their trust in Moses as God’s chosen.
There were a coupe more trips, in Exodus 19:20 God told Moses to warn the people not to come close to the Mountain.
In Exodus 20:1-17 God spoke the 10 commands audibly to the people from the mountain, and they were so terrified they pleaded with Moses to be the intercessor and ask God to never speak to them directly again.
In verse 20 Moses tells them God was testing them so they would fear and not sin.
The fifth time Moses went up the mountain God gives Moses the civil law and ceremonial laws.
The sixth time in Exodus 24, Moses brings Aaron and his sons along with 70 elders of Israel to become the priests, Aaron being the highpriest.
After they had their sacrifice and meal together, God commanded Moses return again to receive the stone tablets God wrote with His own finger in Exodus 24:12.
Moses then stays 40 days and 40 nights.
Remember 40 is the number of testing, trial, probation.
· The prophet Jonah warned Nineveh, for forty days
· The prophet Ezekiel laid on His right side for 40 days to symbolize Judah's sins (Ezekiel 4:6)
· Elijah went 40 days without food or water at Mount Horeb
· Jesus was tempted by the devil many times during the 40 complete days he fasted just before his ministry began
· He also appeared to his disciples and others for 40 days after his resurrection from the dead
· The children of Israel were punished by wandering the wilderness for 40 years
· It rained 40 days and nights during the flood
So this is not the first time Moses went up the mountain. More like the sixth. Every time he went up, he came back down. Why would this time be any different?
However, it was different. He stayed for 40 days and nights.
And though God had proved His reliability, saving the Israelites, leading them, protecting them, then, Speaking His commands directly to them, there should have been no doubt about who Yahweh is, and what He is capable of.
They turned from God because they were unwilling to trust in Him. Their turning led them to idol worship to appease their stress, to give them comfort, to give them something to look upon and worship. This sin would cause 3,000 to be struck down by the Levites at Moses command as punishment, and even more to die by the Hand of God.
We too must be mindful to trust in the Lord and His Word, else we too fall into the temptation of sin, whether it be idols, or placing our trust into something other than Yahweh.
Today we look at Being Unwilling to Trust God
SCRIPTURE READING
Exodus 32 (Legacy Standard Bible)
1-5 “Then the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain. So the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Arise, make us gods who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” And Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. And he took this from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” And Aaron looked and built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”
TODAY'S MESSAGE
I. TRUST IN THE LORD (Proverbs 3:5-6)
a. Trust in Yahweh with all your heart
i. Depend on Him, nothing or no one else
1. Romans 11:33 “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!”
ii. Cry out to Him
1. Psalm 55:17 “Evening and morning and at noon, I will bring my complaint and moan, And He will hear my voice.”
iii. Run from evil
1. 2 Timothy 2:22 “Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.”
iv. Put Him first in your life
1. Proverbs 3:9-10 “Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine”
v. Measure yourself by God’s Holy Word
1. Proverbs 3:11 “My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke”
vi. Listen to the Holy Spirit
1. John 14:26 “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”
vii. Rest in Him (the Sabbath)
1. Matthew 28:20 “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
b. And do not lean on your own understanding
i. 2 Timothy 3:15 “and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
c. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and HE will make your paths straight
i. Through the Holy Spirit working within you, do not resist Him, do not quench Him, embrace Him and His work and your paths will be made straight.
ii. Straight? Clear, understandable, recognizable, easily traversed.
II. LOVE THE LORD (Matthew 22:37)
a. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart
i. We just looked at “trust in Yahweh with all your heart.”
ii. How do we “love?”
iii. It is not an emotion or feeling, those are PRODUCED by love. Love is “action”
1. I Corinthians 13 tells us everything love is and is not.
2. What it is is actions.
iv. So what is the “action” we are expected to give to the Lord to show love?
v. Jesus tells us.
vi. John 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
vii. Are you sure that’s what He is speaking of?
1. Matthew 28:18-20 “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
b. And with all your soul
i. The action here?
ii. Surrender to Christ, make Him your Lord so you can become His servant
c. And with all your mind
i. Submit your mind to the Holy Spirit within you!
ii. Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is dignified, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, consider these things.”
III. TURNING FROM THE LORD (Isaiah 59:2)
a. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and God
i. Sin breaks our relationship with Yahweh
1. Sin broke Adam & Eves
2. Sin broke Cain’s
3. And it is no different today, Sin causes separation from God
b. And your sins have hidden His face from you
i. This is why prayer is so important!
ii. We must pray for those who God has hidden His face from
iii. We pray for the lost so they may find way out of their iniquities! Salvation in Christ Jesus alone!
c. So that he does not hear
i. Yahweh cannot hear the prayers of the lost, except for “Lord save me!”
Romans 10:13-18 “for “WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”
How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard?
And how will they hear without a preacher?
And how will they preach unless they are sent?
Just as it is written, “HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO PROCLAIM GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!”
However, they did not all heed the good news, for Isaiah says, “LORD, WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT?”
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
But I say, have they never heard? On the contrary, they have; “THEIR VOICE HAS GONE OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH, AND THEIR WORDS TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD.”
We proclaim to the Good News (the Word of Christ and Salvation)
This brings about faith from hearing it.
This faith brings about their Salvation.
Jesus tells us this is why we are to;
Matthew 28:19-20
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to keep all that I commanded you;
and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
When we turn from God we sin. When we sin, we separate ourselves from God.
CONCLUSION
If everything we have read in Exodus, from the Passover to the building of the Tabernacle, is all a reference to Christ and the coming Salvation, then we must look at the bad along with the good in that very same light.
If there is blessings in keeping the commands of Yahweh in Exodus, then it is with the New Covenant that the Old foreshadowed.
AND, if there is punishment for breaking the covenant of Yahweh, then it too IS with the New Covenant that the Old foreshadowed.
We, as followers of Christ Jesus, grafted into the Body of Christ through the New Covenant, must be mindful in keeping “all that Christ commands,” as the Lord Himself states in Matthew 28.
This is not about perfection, but not giving up during the race. Not quitting the race to sit on the sidelines. We press on, sometimes running faster than other times, but still pressing on.
The Lord does not call us to be perfect, for only Christ was perfect. He calls us to trust in Him, and allow His Holy Spirit to continue a good work in us until the Day of Christ Jesus.
Isaiah 61:1-3 “The Spirit of Lord Yahweh is upon me Because Yahweh has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to captives And freedom to prisoners, To proclaim the favorable year of Yahweh And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all who mourn, To grant those who mourn in Zion, Giving them a headdress instead of ashes, The oil of rejoicing instead of mourning, The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, The planting of Yahweh, that He may show forth His beautiful glory.”
Let us be Willing to Trust Yahweh in all Things
Trust the Lord your God and be patient on His Timing.
NEXT WEEK
Exodus 35 and the Willing Hearts Contributing to Yahweh
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