1. Covenant Series # 16
So Great a Sin
Exodus 32

2. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
A. Background Information
1. The Covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15)

3. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
“So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.”
(Exodus 2:24)

4. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
A. Background Information
1. The Covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15)
2. The Deliverance from Egypt (Exodus 14:13-31)

5. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
“Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.”
(Exodus 14:18)

6. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
A. Background Information
1. The Covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15)
2. The Deliverance from Egypt (Exodus 14:13-31)
3. The Second of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:4-6)

7. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
“You shall not make for yourselves a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God am a jealous God.”
(Exodus 20:4-5)

8. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
A. Background Information
1. The Covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15)
2. The Deliverance from Egypt (Exodus 14:13-31)
3. The Second of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:4-6)
4. The Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 24:4-8)

9. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
“Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, ‘All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient’.”
(Exodus 24:7)
“And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, ‘This is the blood of the Covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words’.”
(Exodus 24:8)

10. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
A. Background Information
1. The Covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15)
2. The Deliverance from Egypt (Exodus 14:13-31)
3. The Second of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:4-6)
4. The Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 24:4-8)
5. The High Expectation of God (Exodus 29:46)

11. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
B. The Rejection of God (Exodus 32:1-6)
1. The Contrast with 29:46 (v 1)
2. Aaron’s Failure (vv 2-6))

12. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
C. The Intercessor (32:7-14)
1. The People have corrupted themselves (vv 7-9)
2. God’s Judgment (v 10)
3. The Intercessor’s plea (vv 11-12)

13. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
“Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.”
Exodus 14:18

14. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
C. The Intercessor (32:7-14)
1. The People have corrupted themselves (vv 7-9)
2. God’s Judgment (v 10)
3. The Intercessor’s plea (vv 11-12)
4. The Covenant Comparison (vv 13-14)

15. Covenant Series # 16
So Great a Sin
Exodus 32
Moses reminds God of the unconditional covenant He made with Abraham not the conditional covenant He made with Israel

16. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
D. The Great Sin (32:15-30)
1. The descent into sin (vv 15-18)
2. Confession (vv 19-20)
3. Confronting the sin (vv 21-24)
4. Expressing Repentance (vv 25-30)

17. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
E. The Intercessor Returns (32:31-35)
1. Moses confesses the sin on behalf of the people (v 31)
2. Moses Pleads for Mercy (v 32)
3. The Lord responds in measured judgment ( vv 33-35)

18. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32 F. Application
1. Corporate Judgment
2. Individual Judgment
3. On Whose Side?

19. So Great a Sin Covenant Series # 16 Exodus 32
We determine which side we are on by our acceptance or rejection of Jesus Christ as our Saviour and Lord. (John 1:12; 3:36)

20. compassionate and merciful
Covenant Series # 16
So Great a Sin
Exodus 32
The Lord is very
compassionate and merciful
James 5:11

21. Covenant Series # 16
So Great a Sin
Exodus 32