The Danger Of Impatience (Faithful Commitment)

Questions

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What is the difference between being faithful and being commited?

How long has Moses been on the mountain with the LORD God?

What is Moses doing on the top of the mountain with the LORD God?

Why was the golden calf made? What is the significance of it being a golden calf?

Is there anything wrong with saying that Moses brought the people up out of the land of Egypt? Why or Why not?

Who made the golden calf? Why is this significant?

How was the golden calf made?

Of what what the golden calf made? Why is this significant?

What is wrong with making the golden calf?

Is there anything wrong with a “visible” man made God?

How does one make a golden calf and confuse it with the LORD God who saved them?

How does one make a feast of the LORD while at the same time worshiping a golden calf? What does this say about liturgical worship, offerings, and “sacrifices”?

What does it mean when says “the people ...rose up to play”?

What does the LORD mean in when he tells Moses “...your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves”?

How does the LORD respond to the people’s rebellion? What does this say about the LORD?

How does Moses respond to the people’s rebellion when talking to the LORD? What does this say about Moses?

What is the LORD’s response in response to Moses’ response? What does this say about the LORD?

What is the aftermath of the people’s rebellion?

How does Moses respond when he get’s near the camp and sees what is happening?

What is the significance of the tablets being broken at the foot of the mountain?

What is the significance of Moses making the people drink the power/water mixture of the burned an ground up golden calf? & So how does the LORD judge your faithfulness?

Why does Moses ask Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them”?

What is Aaron’s problem? ? What do you think about Aaron’s response? What does this say about Aaron? What does this say about godly leaders?

What is the primary consequence of sin and rebellion against the LORD?

What type of commitment does the LORD require of us? &

How does Moses remedy the aftermath of the people’s rebellion? How has the LORD remedied the aftermath of our rebellion? &

No physical or natural relationship can be as close as that which binds us to Christ and his people (). Our love and loyalty to Christ must come first, even though this brings deep division where men would most hope for harmony and understanding ().1

1 Cole, R. A. (1973). Exodus: an introduction and commentary (Vol. 2, pp. 229–230). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

Finally, the gold dust sprinkled on the water of the wady, flowing down from the mountain, the water that Israel must drink, reminds us of the ‘water of bitterness’ to be drunk by the wife suspected of unfaithfulness (). As Israel has in fact been unfaithful to YHWH, her heavenly ‘husband’, so the curse will indeed fall upon her (verse 35; cf. ).1

1 Cole, R. A. (1973). Exodus: an introduction and commentary (Vol. 2, p. 228). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

Play=make sport for, toy with, jest

Corrupted= be marred, be ruined, i.e. pertaining to an object being in a ruined state, acting perversely

Moses left the people in the hands of the elders and Aaron and Hur while he was up on the mountain with the LORD

12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” 13 So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God. 14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.” 1

1 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights

15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. 1

1 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.