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Good morning guests, Chapelwood family, as well as our internet audience.

He is here.

God is both with us and for us and we tend to forget.

This morning we pray know God is present in your life.

We want to pray that your life would be changed by Jesus.

We pray that He removes the hindrances in your life and sets you free to truly live.

We know you need a relationship with Him like we do.

But what you need is for Him to give you life and an abundant life.

Let me pray for you this morning.

Pray - Great and glorious God who love us, as Your creation, we pray that upon the reading of Your word, You would cause our hearts to boldly love You, to diligently listen Your word, to completely accept what we hear, and then passionately live out Your word.

We gratefully ask this in Jesus’ life changing name.

Amen.

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As we turn at the 32nd Chapter of Exodus and see how When we are left to our own Devices we can make some major mistakes.

The kind that we can’t fix.

I’m talking about mistakes that affect us and those in our lives.

And they can not only shape this life, but direct the destination of our eternity.

Lets look at verses 1-6 as we see as we do we will see what happens When Left to our own Devices.

What happens when we are left to our own devices?

Does it always work out?

Are you getting the results you desired when you concoct you own plans?

Do you find more success when you ditch God’s divine for your life?

If you are honest your answer will be like mine.

And that answer is no.

No. My life runs of the track when I don’t follow God’s path for my life.

We Lose our Way

With Moses gone, the people were lacking leadership and vision.

Now there were people in place that should have provided direction and structure, but other people filled that momentary vacuum with ideas from their imaginations and the world’s suggestions.

Both were bad ideas and contrary to God’s directions.

They were so invested in false worship set it took off their jewelry to make icons of worship.

This contrasted the use of gold and silver in the creation of the tabernacle.

Instead they were given precious items from Egypt as they let the country for this.

Now they are personally sacrificing for false worship.

Now they created false celebrations that they claim are for the Lord, but really it is just so they can party and play.

Just like them our flesh wants to pursue pleasure.

And since our sinful hearts wander already, it is easy for us to set up false god and craft self-serving ideas.

We will create whatever we can to justify our sins and to feed our flesh.

Sometimes what we worship is an idea, sometimes what we worship is an outright false deity.

Other times it is an emotion.

We never find a lack of things to falsely worship.

We’ve never have that problem.

Our problem is that when we happy moments lapse, we tend to fall into loving in pursuing the wrong things.

We have a serious problem of loving the wrong things and investing in bad relationship.

We put effort and energy in things that break us down instead of build us up.

The most serious crime we have is giving our heart to anything or anyone other than God.

He have an issue of give the love and attention that He deserves to others.

Part of the reason we do this is we find ways to disconnect our hearts from God.

We untether ourselves from the Word of God.

And when we loosen ourselves from the truth we buy Satan’s lies.

We soak up every false philosophy the world has.

As we get lost along the way.

We stray from the truth We zigged and we zagged when we should have stayed true and on course with Christ.

God knew this would be a issue for us.

For our rebellion against God ----

When we lose sight of God, when we take our eyes off of Christ, when we ignore the Holy Spirit, and deny the guidance of the Bible we find ourselves committing sin.

I know I sin.

Don’t say your don’t.

yWhen we lose sight of God, when we take our eyes off of Christ, when we ignore the Holy Spirit, and deny the guidance of the Bible we find ourselves committing sin.

I know I sin.

Don’t say your don’t.

Our sin breaks the our fellowship with God.

It damns our soul.

It makes us eternally guilty before God.

I creates a wide chasm between God and us that we cannot fix.

It makes us at odds with God as His enemy.

For our rebellion against God ----

For our rebellion against God ----

For our rebellion against God ----

We Deserve God’s Wrath

The sin that came into Israel’s life was by choice.

The defiled themselves not only be demanding a deity to worship but they further corrupted themselves through worshiping it and sacrificing to it.

They created something to worship because their faith lacked.

They could not see God so they built one.

The writer of Hebrews reminds us that faith is trusting in the unseen.

Trusting in what we can see is hard because we want to be in control.

Having faith can be hard.

It can been difficult if we are putting our trust in flawed humans, people created programs, or our plans and not God’s.

Real faith is a constant outlook of trust and dependance on God.

Faith is us putting everything, fully in to God hands as we turn to Him.

We tend to have a faith problem.

And it because is simply a matter of in what or whom your faith rests.

Who are you trusting

Billy Graham said: “In August of 1949, I was so filled with doubts about everything that when I stood to preach and made a statement, I would say to myself: I wonder if that is the truth.

I wonder if I can really say that sincerely.

My ministry had gone.

“I then took the Bible up into the high Sierra Nevada mountains in California.

I opened it and got on my knees.

I pled, ‘Father I cannot understand many things in this Book.

I cannot come intellectually all the way, but I accept it by faith to be authoritative, the inspired Word of the living God!”

Have you come to the place where you have placed yourself under God’s authority?

Have you come to the place where you have trusted your life and soul to Him? Are you finding your security in life bu having faith in what our Sovereign God can do as Almighty Lord?

Or are you trying to hold on to reigns of life like you are on Mr. Toad’s wild ride because life and all its doubts is taking for a ride.

Faith is a constant outlook of trust as dependance on God.

Our faith in God will bring us peace.

It will silence the worry in your life.

It will quell the anxieties that roar in your mind.

In Christ you will find the peace that truly can not be comprehend by the world.

Listen to what a fellow believer wrote.

Listen to what a fellow believer wrote.

(ESV) — 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.