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Welcome visitors
Introduction:
A right view of God's majesty.
Taking time to sit in awe of who God is and what He has done for us.
An experience with God doesn't vaccinate us from sin.
Our experiences must be an ongoing, abiding relationship.
Understanding the seriousness of committing to God.
Counting the cost of discipleship
I love where God brought Russ in this passage last week.
We have seen this slow build-up throughout this entire story.
Everything that God has done was leading up to this exact moment.
God has done all this work to restore the relationship with Israel.
This is the big ask for Israel.
God has laid out all the cards and asked Israel if they want in.
As you discussed last week, Israel says together, yes, they will do all that the Lord has commanded.
In response, God calls Moses up the mountain to literally put all of it in writing.
This is the moment, just like when buying a house or a car, when you verbally agree to the terms, and the salesman goes to draw up the paperwork.
While Moses up on the mountain, it all falls apart.
A vigilant pursuit of God is paramount in our lives.
Moses is up on the mountain with God.
Moses is up on the mountain with God.
Paint the picture: God is still present.
The clouds are on the mountain, and they can see it, but somehow, they lose sight of what is happening.
Now, before we start judging Israel, let's take a moment and consider our own lives.
How often do you lose sight of what God is in the middle of doing in your life?
We are so quick to get bogged down (explain bogged down) and become completely unaware of God's activity.
How many times, just this week, have you thought about your call to join God in setting people free?
This is a real question you need to answer for yourself.
What has taken your attention?
What has caused you to lose focus?
Have you made our collective call a priority?
Those things that cause us to lose our focus, some of them are important.
Some are not.
We allow ourselves to get consumed with things that don’t have any eternal significance and we end up giving that insignificant thing priority over everything.
If we are not spending time with God and allowing Him to refocus us we are going to get distracted by life and often not even realize it.
We must be vigilant in pursuing God because the enemy is going to be vigilant in leading us away from God.
Church, we can no longer allow ourselves to make excuses.
As a culture, we are good at rationalizing things.
We rationalize why we don’t have time in our schedules.
we rationalize why we need that extra sleep.
Every one of us knows,
I could go on and on but the point I’m making and what we see happening is Israel doesn’t go to the father.
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Israel has a legitimate concern.
In there defense, God has killed a lot of people.
In fact, God has been explicit with Israel that if they are to come too close, they will be killed.
Maybe Moses messed up, and God killed him.
That's not too far of a stretch, BUT rather than trying to find out, they let fear take hold, jumped to a conclusion, and demanded action.
Instead of asking and/or being patient, they take control.
This is the very thing that causes us to stray from God's leadership.
Things get uncomfortable, we get nervous or afraid, and instead of running to God for comfort and courage to be faithful, we run from God and create a solution on our own.
Being a father my kids run to, not from.
If we are spending time with God, growing our relationship, when hard things come up our responses will be different then they currently are.
If Israel really knew God instead of drawing back from Him, this wouldn’t have phased them.
The same is true for us.
Knowing God, by experience, is going bring peace during difficult circumstances.
How can we help one another make spending time with God a priority?
Our abiding in God needs to inform and determine our actions.
This is our favorite trick.
We, just like Israel, try to take our idea and make it look like it was God all along by interjecting our ideas into what God has spoken.
This is our favorite trick.
We take something we want, call it God, and then move forward.
Who can argue with someone that says it’s God’s will?
We can!
This is the very reason that our church has been structured the way it is.
We all have the same Holy Spirit in us and if we are all asking the same question, we are all going to get the same answer.
This is system what has and will continue to safe guard us from dissension.
Isreal didn't remove God from their worship; they added a calf to it and called it a god too.
Isreal didn't remove God from their worship; they added a calf to it and called it a god too.
Why do we do that?
Why did Israel?
It all goes back to the beginning.
We are lied to and told that God isn't enough.
How do you make most of your decisions?
Do you ask God or do you just decide and then ask God to bless it?
We become convinced that what God is doing isn't sufficient for MY problem.
I want to point out something really obvious.
Do people still say duh?
Is there a different expression now?
I’m not going to ask you to notice it because Russ hates it when he says that.
As you read this passage, who isn't struggling with fear and uncertainty and why?
Moses isn't, and I'll tell you why.
He's with God!
Just take a moment and think about that.
I'll wait.
Everyone else in this story is panicking, yet no one speaks up and asks Aaron to seek God.
If you are struggling in any area of your life, this is the answer.
Abide in Christ.
If fear, anxiety, or uncertainty is holding you captive, the fix is being in the presence of God.
The fact that Israel wasn't in God's presence was precisely the issue.
They were near it, but not in it.
You living near someone who is regularly in God's presence isn't sufficient.
You cannot abide or grow in faith through another's experiences.
Do you know why?
When we are living vicariously through someone else, we put more stock in what they say than in what God says.
God's call to leadership doesn't make a person infallible.
When we are relying on someone else to hold the place in our lives that is reserved for God, we are setting ourselves and that person up for failure.
Russ made this same point last week, so I won't beat a dead horse, but it is a big part of this story.
Israel had their faith, not in God, but in the leaders God gave them.
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