You can’t have your calf and eat it Exodus 32   Introduction:  A covenant making God & his covenant people  

You can’t have your calf and eat it The covenant broken   A golden calf created (v1-6) God’s anger (v7-10)    “…I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, [but] my covenant they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.” —Jeremiah 31.32

You can’t have your calf and eat it The covenant broken   A golden calf created (v1-6) God’s anger (v7-10)    “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” —Exodus 20.2 “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” —v4, v8

You can’t have your calf and eat it The covenant broken   A golden calf created (v1-6) God’s anger (v7-10) Moses the mediator (v11-14) Moses’ anger (v15-19) A golden calf eaten (v20) Judgement & surprising mercy   No repentance (v21-26) Judgement (v27-29) Moses the mediator (v30-34) Judgement (v35-33v5) “Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.’ We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.” —1 Corinthians 10.7-8

You can’t have your calf and eat it The covenant broken   A golden calf created (v1-6) God’s anger (v7-10) Moses the mediator (v11-14) Moses’ anger (v15-19) A golden calf eaten (v20) Judgement & surprising mercy   No repentance (v21-26) Judgement (v27-29) Moses the mediator (v30-34) Judgement (v35-33v5) Repentance (33v6)

You can’t have your calf and eat it Conclusion:   God’s people sin Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did… Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction. —1 Corinthians 10.7, 11

You can’t have your calf and eat it Conclusion:   God’s people sin We need a mediator We need to turn to him today