Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2018
- Devotion 2: Due Jan 8, Take lessons learned from Devotion 1 as you write this. Re-read the instructions (this lists your Devotion 2 Book Choices). Start this early to make it good!
Journal 5-5: Study Packet, Page 14; Time to get creative!
- Think about one of the laws that we have looked at in this unit that applies to us today
- - Do NOT pick one of the 10 Commandments
- - Use Study Packet pages 8 & 9 to help
- Draw a 3-panel comic strip of you &/or others rightly living out the application of this law to other people.
- - Clearly explain the application both with the art & with “word bubbles” for talking or use captions
- We discussed how Aaron may have thought he was 'okay' and 'not making an idol' because often ancient cultures used a calf to represent what their gods stood on...
Ex. 32-40: God Restores & Prepares His People: Study Packet, Page 2
The Golden Calf: Moses has been gone for over a month…
- Israel gets Aaron to fashion a golden calf idol
- - Then they throw a party that gets crazy (out of control)!
- God knows…
- - He told Moses that Israel corrupted themselves
- - - They are a stiff-necked (stubborn)
- God threatens to destroy them!
- - - He says He will instead make a nation out of Moses
- - - Moses asks God to have mercy—and He does!
- Returning to Israel...
- - Moses breaks the 10 Cs
- - - How? By throwing them on the ground
- - - This shows what Israel is spiritually doing!
- - - - What laws did they break? 1, 2, & 3, for sure! God was not first, they made an idol, and they vainly claimed that was the god that led them out of Egypt!
- - Moses destroys the golden calf
- - - Burning it, grinding it up, & throwing it into water!
- - Moses confronts Aaron
- - - Aaron denies responsibility,
- - - - He blames the people, saying they made him do it
- - - - He lies, saying he put gold in the oven & "out popped this calf!"
- The Levite tribe repents & joins Moses to end the riot
- - 3000 people are killed before the riot stops!
The Covenant is Restored: God disciplines with mercy
- Moses returns to God to seek atonement for the people
- - Atonement: The method God provided to deal with human sin and bring them back into a relationship with Himself.
- - - Since God is righteous, He must judge & punish sin
- - - But because He loves us, He provided a method for us to live!
- - One was ‘atoned for’ by offering an animal sacrifice to God
- - - This did this with faith that God accepted it as a substitute for their own punishment of death.
- - - Jesus ultimately offered Himself as the sacrifice for our sins, fulfilling the animal sacrifice system:
- - - - “Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God” – Heb. 10:11-12
- God threatens to not personally be with Israel anymore
- - If they keep sinning, they may be destroyed!
- - Moses asks God to change His mind—and He does!
- Moses asks God to show him His glory—And He does!
- Two side notes…
- - God would speak to Moses, ‘face-to-face’
- - - Like a man speaks to his friend
- - Many times, after being in God’s presence—
- - - Moses’ face would glows w/light!
- - - Why? Because God used light to show His glory
- - - - Moses was in God so much, God’s glory was reflected by him
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