Lenten Sermon Series: More Than Enough - Part 5 Exodus 32

1. COVE NA NT

2. “I am the LORD your God, who brought you
out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
Exodus 20:2

3. “You shall have no others gods before me.”
Exodus 20:3

4. “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the
form of anything in heaven above or on the
earth beneath or in the waters below.
Exodus 20:4

5. You shall not bow down to them or worship
them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous
God…”
Exodus 20:5

6. The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on
the mountain and stay here, and I will give you
the tablets of stone, with the law and
commands I have written for their instruction.”
Exodus 24:12

7. Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and
Moses went up on the mountain of God. He said
to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come
back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and
anyone involved in a dispute can go to them.”
Exodus 24:13,14

8. When Moses went up on the mountain, a cloud
covered it, and the glory of the LORD settled on
Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the
mountain, and on the seventh day the LORD
called to Moses from within the cloud.
Exodus 24:15,16

9. To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked
like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
Exodus 24:17

10. Then Moses entered the cloud as he stayed
went up on the mountain. And he stayed on the
mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 24:18

11. When the people saw that Moses was so long in
coming down from the mountain, they gathered
around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods
who will go before us.”
Exodus 32:1

12. “As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out
of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to
him.”
Exodus 32:1

13. Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold
earnings that your wives, your sons and your
daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”
Exodus 32:2

14. So all the people took off their earrings and
brought them to Aaron. He took what they
handed him and made it into an idol cast in the
shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool.
Exodus 32:3

15. Then they said, “These are your gods, O Israel,
who brought you up out of Egypt.”
Exodus 32:4

16. GOD’S
TIMING

17. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this
place, you and the people you brought up out
of Egypt,
and go up to the land I promised on oath to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…

18. … Go up to the land flowing with milk and
honey.
But I will not go with you, because you are a
stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on
the way.”

19. Then, Moses said to him, “If your Presence
does not go with us, do not send us up from
here.
How will anyone know that you are pleased
with me and with your people unless you go
with us?

20. What else will distinguish me and your people
from all the other people on the face of this
earth?
And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very
thing you have asked…”
Exodus 33

21. … because I am pleased with you and know
you by name.”
Then, Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”
Exodus 33

22. Then have them
make a
sanctuary for
me, and I will
dwell among
them.
Exodus 25:8

23. Then have them
make a
sanctuary for
me, and I will
dwell among
them.
Exodus 25:8

24. The Word became
flesh and made his
dwelling among us.
John 1:14

25. The Word became
flesh and made his
dwelling among us.
John 1:14

26. We have seen his
glory, the glory of
the One and Only,
who came from the
Father, full of grace
and truth.
John 1:14

27. We have seen his
glory, the glory of
the One and Only,
who came from the
Father, full of grace
and truth.
John 1:14

28. And the people
continued to
bring freewill
offerings
morning after
morning.

29. So all the skilled
craftsman who
were doing all
the work on the
sanctuary left
their work and
said to Moses,

30. “The people are
bringing more
than enough for
doing the work
the LORD
commanded to
be done.”

31. “The people are
bringing more
than enough for
doing the work
the LORD
commanded to
be done.”

32. Then Moses
gave an order
and they sent
this word
throughout the
camp: “No man
or woman is…

33. … to make
anything else as
an offering for
the sanctuary.”
And so the
people were
restrained from

34. bringing more,
because what
they had was
more than
enough to do all
the work.
Exodus 36:7

35. bringing more,
because what
they had was
more than
enough to do all
the work.
Exodus 36:7

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