2. We Love You!

3.  Please don’t talk when others are talking.  Please raise your hand if you would like to ask a question.  Please keep your hands and feet to yourself.  You must ask to leave the room.

4. Shemot/Exodus 30:11-34:35 “The Golden Calf”

5.  Moses was like a parent.  Perhaps they thought he had run off.  They started to worry and fear.

6.  They were trusting in Moses instead of the LORD.  The people need to “see” something to know God was near.

7.  “Come, make us a god who will go before us…”  Aaron probably did not think making a “god” was a good idea.

8.  To build the “god” the people would need to give their gold rings.  Aaron took the gold and made it into a calf.  “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

9.  An idol is something that people use to represent or remind them of god.  The people were using the calf as a reminder of the LORD.  But the God of Israel is different because He cannot be made into an item or image.

10.  Often times people will worship the item by bringing gifts and sacrifices thinking they are worshiping God.  They forgot the promises God made if they would obey Him.

11.  God told Moses the people were sinning.  He wanted to destroy them and start all over with just Moses.

12.  He pleaded with God to forgive the people.  Moses talked about the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.  God changed His mind and decided not to destroy the Jewish people.

13.  Moses was furious!  He was so angry he broke the tablets.  This was a physical action that represented what the people were doing with the LORD’s commandments.  They were breaking them by disobeying them.

14.  Aaron claimed the calf appeared by itself when they threw gold in the fire.  The people were out of control and going crazy.

15.  Moses demanded that the people choose between God and the idol.  The tribe of Levi gathered together to him.

16.  Moses instructed the tribe of Levi to pick us a sword and kill every person who worshipped the idol.  The idol was crushed into powder and Moses made the people drink it.  Even though Moses was angry with the actions of the people, he still loved them.

17.  God to forgive them.  The people were trying to find God in a person like Moses or a thing like the golden calf.  The LORD cannot be found in anything that is physical or created by a person.

18.  An idol is anything that is more important to us than the LORD.  Many things can become more important to us than Yeshua.  Yeshua wants us to love him and keep him as first in our lives.

19. Luke 6:46 “Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?”

20.  Our Hebrew word this week is “Egel Maseikhah”  In English this means the “Molten Calf”.  Calf – Egel  Molten - Maseikhah

21.  The people became impatient and fearful while Moses was on the mountain.  Aaron and the people made an idol to represent the LORD.  God told Moses to stop the people and they were punished.