We have this really famous story in Exodus and I'm really excited about
actually preaching through it. It's it's kind of definitely a different we've
we've already seen Moses on the mountain and he's explained all the
stuff of the tabernacle and we've gone through several chapters where
we're just focusing on what they were supposed to make and and all the
outfits and all the spoons and forks and altars and just everything and now we're
finally to you know a real action-packed chapter so Moses gets done speaking with
the Lord on the Mount and he comes down and they've already corrupted
themselves they've already turned back to Egypt basically and started
practicing the practices that they had seen other people do and it's kind of a
big picture here a really good picture for us to see is the difference between what
how God wants things done and then how you know just because someone's saying
this is of the Lord doesn't mean that that's actually so because they
changed their gods and said these be thy gods O Israel and then they're eating
and drinking they're saying it's a feast of the Lord but is an actually
is it actually a feast to the Lord or is it a feast to idols that God had
just got done saying you're not supposed to make these and then you also have
the music you know they're there clearly there's music going on and it's
it's such bad music that Joshua was saying it sounds like you know war is
happening so like you kind of wonder like what kind of music is this and
I'll cover that later on I want to get too ahead of myself but you see the
Egyptian coming out of them you know in their quote-unquote church service so
let's look at verse number one and it says in verse number one there when the
people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people
gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him make us gods
which shall go before us for as this Moses the man that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt we want not what has become of him so again the
theme of this chapter really is the theme of the children of Israel you know
they're rebellion and they're this generation here is not a great
generation and God you know he obviously there's some great people in
this movement here but all these people later on are going to die in the
wilderness that are 40 years old and under so they really had a bad
rebellious heart but you know the children of Israel represent save people
and save people can go back to the world and their heart can go back to the
world and want to go back to the things that they've already done before
their sinful habits and sometimes it doesn't take very long and as a saved
person you can fall into pitfalls that's why it's so important to live
separated to be separated from the world and to just obey God and obey his
commandments and you know don't let your heart get called back to Egypt
because it's just kind of how what happens but you know we there's a lot of
enticements in this world and it seems like you know what here's another thing
to get out of it when the cats away the mice will play so Moses is gone
and so their leadership is gone and so you know it says they rose up to play
that doesn't it but that's a saying that like when the boss is away you
know then the mice are gonna play around and do whatever they want slack
off or you know just not be with it but and so they basically just throw the
man of God aside throw him under the bus because he's not there and say we
don't even know what happened to him but he's up on this mountain
getting the Ten Commandments and all that stuff but so they're just ready
to throw off the ways of the Lord and go back to Egypt and forsake the
laws that God just got done explaining to Moses so turn to Acts chapter 7 and
there's some commentary in the book of Acts in this chapter where Stephen is
preaching this great sermon and he kind of gives a history of Israel and I just
want to show you some verses where it's actually specifically talking about
this passage in the Bible and Acts 7 37 go ahead and keep your finger
finger or bookmark in Exodus chapter 32 because we're gonna come back to it
a lot but Acts chapter 7 verse 35 and a really important thing to
understand is that the New Testament gives commentary on the Old Testament
and so whenever you see commentary from the New Testament interpreting the
Old Testament for us that is that is the right interpretation so verse 35
the Bible says here in Acts 7 it says this Moses whom they refused
whom they refused saying who made thee a ruler and a judge the same did God
sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to
him in the bush so of course we know that God spoke to Moses out of the
burning bush but they refused him and so what is this a picture of well
as Moses is refused also because he does picture Christ the children of
Israel refused Jesus Christ when he also came to to be the ruler over them
also but anyway verse 36 says he brought them out after that he had
showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the
wilderness forty years this is that Moses which said unto the children of
Israel a prophet shall shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your
brethren like unto me him shall ye hear so that's out of Deuteronomy
chapter 18 and then verse 38 says this is he that was in the church of the
wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai and with our
fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us to whom our
fathers would not obey but thrust him from them in their hearts turned
back again unto Egypt so the Bible the New Testament is explained to us
here this is what happened to them their hearts turned back to Egypt and
even though they were literal slaves they're not necessarily getting paid
they're probably getting room and board but I mean in the end they're making
them do all this extra work because Moses was trying to free them in the
first place and they're getting whipped and they're getting mistreated and you
know they're they're killing their children they're only allowed to have
daughters and they were throwing the sons to the into the into the river
and killing them and they want to go back there but isn't that how the world
is today to these wicked women out there that love Planned Parenthood and
want to just get out and show people just how nasty they really are
about how they aborted their children I mean but the world again Egypt
represents the world in this book and all throughout the scriptures Egypt is
not really talked about in a high in high esteem at all it's usually that
picture and it says they turn their hearts back again into Egypt and we
ought to be careful as Christians not to turn our hearts back to Egypt and
want to go back to our old ways because the ways thereof are death I
mean sin bringing forth death and you know the the more you sin the quicker
you're probably going to die as a saved person so verse 40 saying unto
Aaron make us gods to go before us for as for this Moses which brought us
out of the land of Egypt we want not what has become of him and they made a
calf in those days and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoice in
the works of their own hands so very clear they made this calf and it is
an idol it's a it's a it's a graven image that God forbids and he really
just it's one of the sins that he hates the most is where you'll make
gods unto yourself like this and it says rejoice in the work of their own
hands then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven as it is
written in the book of the prophets oh ye house of Israel have you offered
to be slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of 40 years in the
wilderness yay he took up the tabernacle of Molech which is a false
God and the star of your God Rem fan now of course you see in Israel's
flag today it's this star and they call it the Star of David but there's
no place in the Bible where it mentions anything about a star you know being
something that there is supposed to be an emblem of their people and the
Jews today they don't even know where the star came from but you know
what the Bible tells us where it came from it's the star of their God
Rem fan and it says figures which he made to worship them and I will
carry you away beyond Babylon so God gives his commentary here and you know
that's like I just I can't understand why somebody would put an Israeli flag
in their church building and that that flag what's it represent an
unbelieving nation doesn't it so why would we put an unbelieving
nation flag in our church building I mean and just you know because the
people over there are by and by not Christian so but you know people want
to worship and lick the boots of Israel and it's like you know what
they're doing over there right now is not right either I mean obviously you
know Hamas didn't do something right either but I mean basically I don't
really have a side to cheer for because they're both doing wicked
things you know but obviously wiping out a whole a whole population is
pretty bad so and everybody's just oh it's fine for us to do that we can
defend our borders we can kill everybody in our borders but you know then
America you know we want to fight everybody else's border wars when we
don't even have our own border under control right but anyway verse 30 back to
verse 2 and Exodus chapter 32 so Aaron is the leader while Moses is gone if
you remember back a few chapters that Moses said hey if there's any issues
and take them to Moses and the other leaders I mean excuse me to Aaron and
the other leaders and so they go to mo they go to Aaron they say we don't
know what happened to Moses we're gonna go to Aaron now and Aaron is not
the leader he's a leader he is the high priest which is a high position but
Moses is in charge Moses is like the judge of them and he's in charge and
so they go to Aaron because why because they want to just be you know they
want to go and and and and placate to you know try to get placated with
Aaron and Aaron is not a very strong leader is as it as it shows in this
chapter but and that's why Moses is a leader so verse 2 and Aaron said unto
them break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives
of your sons and of your daughters and bring them unto me and all the
people break off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought
them unto Aaron now apparently the boys had picked up the Egyptian practice of
wearing earrings in their ears and you know in our culture today and when I
was a young a young lad and when if you had an earring in your ear you
were queer I mean especially if you had it in the right ear so you know
people will say well see men in the Bible wore earrings and that's okay
well I mean I think it looks queer it does and I've had I this ears pierced
right here I got a pierced when I was 16 years old a rebellious punk teenager
but I haven't put anything in there in a long time obviously so hopefully
it's all the way closed up but I don't think it's a manly attribute to
have earrings in your ears I mean if you look at Egypt of course the
Egyptians are always pictured you know there's a lot of art that's been
preserved from there and they the men wore earrings so you're like well
pastor Thompson is saying that the men wore earrings so that it should be okay
but here's the thing about the Bible just because something says something
that doesn't mean that what they were doing was right it doesn't it
doesn't it's not saying hey you know it's okay for you to for your sons
to wear earrings it's saying hey give me the earrings that your sons
are wearing so you can melt it down but there's no place in the Bible this
really states that wearing earrings is necessarily a sin but it does you
know it does have a negative connotation even in our culture today
and why is that because we had we came from a Christian culture and so now
earrings is a big deal and piercings and all kinds of tackle box things are
put in people's faces and you know they got the gauges in their ears now
so they want to look like a yabangi warrior or something and you know they
have these you know these little clear I don't know what you call it like a
glass window that so you can see people's teeth and I mean people just put
the weirdest things in their face and you know God doesn't I just don't think
that God wants us to mutilate our flesh now and again I'm not saying the
earrings on a girl are wrong but if both men and women are wearing you
know if everybody this guy in this church is wearing earring why don't you
guys wear earrings I don't see one person in here with earrings in their
ears it's a guy why don't you wear them because it looks gay that's why
it looks queer I mean when I was growing up in the 80s again it was a you know
but there were like my uncle was a sodomite and I didn't realize why he
was wearing earrings and then but at that time I mean that was just like
a telltale sign you know it's same thing if like a guy's wearing thumb
rings on a certain hand or something I don't know how they you know do all
these little communications these queers but they know how to find each other in
crowds by what they're wearing sometimes and so like when I was growing
up they'd say hey don't don't get an earring in this ear because people
think you're queer right who remembers that okay lots of guys all
right cool I know I know I'm not alone in this fight tonight but there's
a song that was done by it was during the MTV days when they actually played
music videos on there and it was it was that I want my MTV is a dire straits I
think sing the song and I'm not saying I'm not condoning their music or
whatever but they had a song and in one of those lyrics and there was see
the little faggot with the earring in the makeup yeah buddy that's his own
hair a little faggot got his own jet plane that little faggot he's a
millionaire and that song plays on the radio but back then they actually didn't
bleep out the words but it's because look we live in a different age if you
said that word out loud you know today people are like oh you're a bigot
you're this you're that but even the guys that were singing the music back
then we're saying that you get a earring you're a little faggot right I
mean that's because this culture was raised to believe that that it's just
kind of a queer thing so so he breaks off the golden earrings and like I said
just because someone's practicing something doesn't mean that the Bible is
condoning of it means they took that practice out of Egypt and and we're
still you know probably still dressing the same way in a lot of ways and
they had you know the like that picture of them being saved and and and
taken out of captivity out of slavery you know it takes a while for a
Christian once they get saved to kind of get that worldly stuff out of there
and so this is kind of a picture here of you know hey Aaron you know Aaron's not
definitely doing a lot of things right here he's doing a lot of things wrong
he's not a very good leader he like wants to go with what the people want
and that's the problem because Moses you know we're gonna see we saw what
Moses does he freaks out right but Aaron just like here let me just make
up some golden calf story or whatever let me see your earrings so I can
make a graven image it's like he's the high priest I just I don't
understand that but it's because you know and this is what happens when
leaders will take over sometimes and they'll bow to the will of the people and
instead of just preaching what the Bible says they will preach what people
want to hear and they and they'll avoid topics that will take the tithers
out of their church or offend somebody that has a queer cousin or something
they're afraid to just preach what the Word of God says and obviously dire
straits lyrics are not the scriptures okay I understand that but the point I'm
trying to make is that it was a stigma in this society to wear for men to wear
to not wear earrings if they were if they wore earrings they were
considered a queer when I was growing up now again I got mine done
when I was 16 years old and I regret that okay I'm not saying that it was a
good thing it was bad I also had my hair frosted like vanilla ice so is
that was that cool too I mean it's kind of queer ish too wasn't it I mean I
wasn't a queer at all but just look society just in imprints things on us
and we don't even realize that it's happening sometimes people you know they
just don't realize what they're doing wrong but when you get saved
then God wants you to clean it up and so one of these things obviously
that they probably didn't intend on but you know they took the earrings out of
their ears the guys did and praise God for that even though it was to make a
golden idol but there's just something I believe it's just something that they
picked up on in that culture so anyway verse 4 says and he received them at
their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made it a
molten calf and they said this be thy gods o Israel which brought brought thee
up out of the land of Egypt so I mean just a queer click the part quick
departure from the ways of the Lord and you know they go to the kind of
second-in-command and he just kind of just caves to whatever they want now the
Bible is very clear that having graven images is a wicked sin in Exodus 24
you can or 20 verse 4 you can turn there if you want but I'm gonna read a
few verses here thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image God's very
clear on this Exodus 20 verse 4 thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any
likeness of anything excuse me that is in heaven above or that is in the
earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down
thyself to them nor serve them fry the Lord thy God I'm a jealous God
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate me so I mean he kind of goes on
a little tangent here not all the Commandments does he kind of give
this commentary but he hates graven images he hates that people make them
he hates that people bow down to them and it says and showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments so idol worship is kind
of you know part of the downward spiral of society that's why it's
mentioned in Romans 1 as kind of one of those catalysts they kind of lead
people down the downward spiral to reprobation where they just no longer
could be saved and so it's it's part of the formula it's when people
start taking and worshiping animals and combining them like the Egyptians did
and they have all these paintings on their walls of these false gods and God
basically just destroyed all their gods in Egypt the children of Israel saw
it happen because you know they worship frogs and all these different
kinds of you know animal combinations with human beings and called them
their gods and God himself just kind of struck down every single God that
they had and showed who the who the real God really is but yet these
people are just going back in their hearts to Egypt because they miss the
leeks and garlic they miss the the good southern food or whatever it was there
and they you know they probably enjoy the music I mean what what is targeted
in this chapter you know the things that they're wearing or not wearing later
on and then the music and the and and the religious practice that they're
doing a religious ceremony aren't they they're doing some kind of church
service and these it's wrong so and do you see that happening today where
religious services are going wrong absolutely that's why we like to stick
with the fundamentals that's why we like to be old-fashioned because we
want to please the Lord and when you start bringing the world into the
church that's when people start having the problems that's when churches
start becoming not churches so verse 5 and when Aaron saw it he built an
altar before it and Aaron made proclamation said tomorrow is a feast to
the Lord confusing isn't it and they rose up early on tomorrow and offered
burnt offerings and brought peace offerings and the people sat down to
eat and drink so they have this feast that God didn't call him to do
it's to you know these golden calves and it says and rose up to play now
what does that mean exactly well they rose up to you know I don't know if
it's to play music or to just play and you know whatever they're doing is not
right so they're playing around or whatever but it says they rose up to
play and so they're kind of enjoying this this this service thing that
they're having that's to a false to false gods like literal calves golden
calves they're worshiping something that was made by Aaron he even built an
altar I mean it sounds like Aaron's facilitating all this stuff and that's
what happens when you get the wrong kind of leadership in a church or you
know that the the weak leader is gonna just do whatever the people want
and that's why we have to have strong leadership in churches and not
allow these you know pansy sissy leaders to get up and run things so
you know that these churches you know there's churches out there that are
run by deacon board so the pastor's hands are tied they design the church to
be like that but where in the Bible does it say that the deacons are
supposed to run the pastor it doesn't say that at all there's no verse you
can find it as a matter of fact the deacons were made we read about those
verses this morning they were put it they were ordained for what reason to
help the pastor did not have to do certain things because he was there
they were supposed to be preaching and praying and and doing those other
things and so the deacons were were put into place to serve the church and to
do the daily ministration for the widows but today you know you have
these elder plurality of elders running churches and you have and which
is not also and also not found in the Bible and then you have deacon boards
running the Bible and then whatever deacons so the deacons take power
basically and it's usually not it's not deacons that are biblically
qualified they're the best business people in the church and they have the
most money or something so the pastor's like oh they're good with money so
let's just make them the deacons but those deacons would have to be you
know there has to be a vote on what the pastor wants to do so if the
pastor's like say he's just not going soul winning and he's like you
know what I need to do soul winning and then the deacons don't like that
well they can just remove them they can just fire that pastor and bring in
someone that they can puppet control and look this is how independent Baptist
churches are run today a lot of them and it's wicked it's wrong because when
when do you see Moses going to the deacon board to ask what he's supposed
to do no God he spoke to God face to face and Moses was out telling the
people what God said and that's what a pastor supposed to do and sometimes
the pastor has to say no sometimes the pastor has to say no golden calves no
golden earrings no worldly music and someone has to be in charge and it
was one man his name was Moses and when Moses went off to go just commune with
God and do you know the godly things he's supposed to be doing his brother
you know goes all liberal and this is what happens a lot of Baptist
churches there'll be a strong powerful Baptist preacher that does a good job
and then in one generation one fool destroys everything that that person
has done I mean just think about pastor Jack Hiles I mean well look at what
that church had turned into you know his wicked son-in-law takes over and
run you know basically it's never been the same since and then you have you
know I mean I'm sure that there's just multiple you know churches where
the man of God was there and then now it's just nothing because the Aaron
comes in and takes over and gives the people what they want and you know
there's whole church movements that do this what does that say it's
Saddleback I think what's the guy's name that runs Saddleback it's like one of
them huh Rick Warren yeah and he wrote that book called the purpose-driven
Church or whatever and in that in that manual that book that he writes
he this is one of the practices he does when he goes to start a church in
an area he does a questionnaire of what kind of music do you guys like
and then whatever the most popular music is in that area then he tailors
the services to go after the music that people like it's not it's not even
talking about save people just what kind of church would you like to go to
and like this isn't something that God deals in ever in the scriptures
where he's just like hey it doesn't matter what I want because I'm God
what do you guys want no God tells us what we need God tells us what we
should want God tells us how to do things the right way now look at verse
number seven it says and the Lord said unto Moses go get thee down for thy
people which thou brought us out of the land of Egypt have corrupted
themselves they they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
commanded them they have made them a molten calf and have worshipped it and
have sacrificed there unto and said these be thy gods o Israel which have
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt so God's telling Moses hey you
need to get down there and take care of business because they've corrupted
themselves to the point where they're already like breaking you know this
commandment to not bow down to worship idols they're sacrificing to it
they're you know you're not supposed to make them bow down to them or
serve them you're not supposed to serve the idols because isn't it weird
how people will serve a statue that's what they do I mean go into any
Chinese restaurant and fat Buddha is there with some orange peels by him and
some drink offerings and we don't think anything of it because it's just normal
to us but there I mean they say that they don't worship Buddha but why
is he why is there a statue of him holding offerings in his hands and
stuff and they like I mean he can't drink it it's not like they go they
close the shop down at night and then little Buddha fat little Buddha
drinks the drink offering that they gave him and eats the oranges or
something that stuff just sits there and rots because it's not real but to them
it is and they serve that that idol we saw like a brother Jesse well was
that like a Hindu or Buddhist style it was a statue where there it's holding
his hands out it has these like symbols in his hands but it was a dog
it was like a puppy dog or something boot a Buddha statue puppy dog never seen
that before but you know obviously there and when people put those kind of
statues outside their house there what are they telling you this is my god Oh
Israel this is you know when you come to the door you know a lot of
times they have those Buddha statues and stuff because that's what they
believe and they're they're going after idols and God hates that it's
just ridiculous they're not really gods they're not they're just an idol
that somebody made with their hands and so you could understand why God's
the one that made everything and provides all these great wonderful gifts
for us in a world that we can live in it's it's made you know for us and and
he makes sure that we have the Sun I mean the rain rains on the just and
the unjust right so even people that hate God still get to partake of the
benefits of the world that he's made and then to have them you know say
this is my god this is statute it upsets him and it makes him angry he's
jealous he's a jealous God and jealousy isn't isn't a sin see if jealousy is
used in this world today like oh you're just jealous but really that's they
mean envy but jealousy for you know your spouse is normal but today what
what is society what does Egypt tell us today about being jealous if
you're jealous for your spouse oh there's something wrong with you
you're just too jealous no you should be jealous God tells us to be jealous of
our spouses and he is jealous when his people you know commit spiritual
fornication or spiritual adultery with the things of this world it upsets
them so verse number eight says they have turned aside to them quickly out
of the way that I've commanded them so and then it says these be thy gods
Israel towards the end of that verse there but who said that who's the actual
person that said that to the children of Israel it was Aaron he said that to
the children of Israel these be thy gods Oh Israel after he makes it
after he collects the things to make it he's the one that says that and as a
leader you just can't leave someone in charge that's not a good leader you
have to have somebody that has you know a little bit of strength and a
little bit of backbone and so like if I'm away you know this church has never
fallen apart when I've been away because we have good men and good leaders
and they're just not gonna let and obviously some things I know what you
guys do when I'm not here you're wicked but I know that sometimes things
get a little more lax around here but that's just the way it is but you
know I haven't had full-blown you know church splits as I was gone some
place hopefully that never happens but you know I don't want to put Aaron in
charge because I don't want some weak leader to just start giving the people
everything they want you know so we have to make sure that as God's you
know like as a pastor I don't want to put people in charge that are wishy-washy
in this kind of way and that this is but this is the kind of pastors
that are turning out these days so Aaron should have smashed that rebellion
Aaron should have said what are you talking about you idiots what did God
just say to you and instead he's just he's taking part in what they did like
literally facilitating their idol worship but I mean do I think Aaron
was saved absolutely I think he was saved he just wasn't a strong leader he
was the type of leader that you don't want in charge and that's why God
obviously picked Moses instead of him so because who's the older brother
Aaron's the older brother isn't he but that theme that you see in
scripture is the younger brother usurping the older brother and it kind of
pictures Christ you know being picked over the Old Testament you know he's
the you know he's the younger well he's the only begotten son but you
see that picture though Jacob and Esau and you see it here with Aaron and
Moses Joseph and his brethren you know Joseph ends up being picked as the
highest and he's the second to last born so but there's a reason why but Aaron's
the one that you know Aaron pictures Christ in the way that he is the high
priest and he's the one that's allowed to go in but I mean it's
definitely not of merit I mean to me it's like I think that most people
say well Aaron's no longer qualified to be the high priest because I mean he
literally made idols literally let them get naked and dance around or
whatever so he should have smashed it he didn't smash it and this is you know
again the a good example what happens when bad leadership takes over so look
at verse 9 the Bible says and the Lord said unto Moses I have seen this
people and behold is a stiff neck people now therefore let me alone that
my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them and I may
and I will make a V a great nation so God's ready to just right now after
the children of Israel just came out of Egypt basically to hit the reset button
and kill everybody and people like well the God of the Old Testament you
know he was he was just mean you know he was different well the God of
the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament also okay and if you
haven't read the book of Revelation he put some pretty serious curses on the
people in the end times also and God is just he's not gonna play around when
it comes to stuff like this so he's upset because of what they've done and
he's ready to just say hey Moses I'm gonna take you and I'll make a V a
great nation and he was one of the children you know he's a child of
Israel you know so he wouldn't have been wrong in doing that it's still you
know gonna happen but of course I'm sure he knew that Moses was gonna be
like Christ and he's gonna make intercession so that that's the
picture here is in verse 11 it says and Moses besought the Lord his God and said
Lord why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people which thou hast
brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a
mighty hand so I mean if you picture this as salvation then yeah God saved
them took them out from being slaves in Egypt just like we were slaves to
our sin and so it's like well God you brought them out why are you so mad
at them like you kind of know what they're gonna do but to me it's kind of
a weird question though because he's like well Moses knows what why God's
mad it's like why are you mad at him it's like and then Moses about to
explode here any minute here but the picture here for us though is that
Moses is an intercessor like Jesus Christ was an intercessor and Moses
loved the people even though they rejected him just like Christ you know
people as a whole people reject Christ but he still loved each and every
person and died for each individual that's ever been born and that ever
will be born on the face of the planet so Moses even though like he's
gonna have uprisings that happen his own brother has made gold I mean how
embarrassing like he just memory he just ordained his son I mean his his
brother and his sons to be in the ministry and then it's like Moses is
making a calf the next day it's like what are you doing you know but anyway
so let's look at verse number 12 it says wherefore should the Egyptians
speak and say for mischief did he bring them out to slay them in the
mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth turn from my fierce
wrath and repent of this evil against thy people and again evil doesn't
always mean that you're like wicked or something but it can mean that but evil
actually means to do harm so what was the harm that God was gonna do he
was gonna kill all of them and restart with Moses and Moses is
pleading for their case he's an intercessor for the children of
Israel that don't deserve it obviously and you know we don't deserve
to be saved either honestly and you know the only difference between us and
someone that's not saved is the fact that we believe in Christ and he saved
us and so they're saved and unsaved that's the difference but Moses then
Moses goes back to you know he goes back to Genesis and verse 13 says
remember Abraham Isaac and Israel thy servants to whom thou swearst by thine
own self and said unto them I will multiply your seed as the stars of
heaven and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed
and they shall inherit it forever and the Lord repented of the evil which he
thought to do unto his people now that word repent you know obviously I've
preached about this a lot of times I'm just gonna briefly mention this but
see the Lord repented but it says of the evil so people will take stuff
like that you know verses like report the word repent and apply it to us as
that every time a man repents that he's repenting of their sins but God
doesn't have any sin so that that's not what this is saying God changed his
mind the word repent actually means to change your mind that's what it actually
means and you can change your mind about your sin you can do that but
that's not what's required of salvation which is what a lot of
preachers will get up and say they'll say well you got to repent of
all your sins or you got to repent of your sins to be saved it's like no
that's not what the Bible says the Bible says believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved so our faith is what saves us the faith in
Christ and his shed blood for us and the fact that he died and rose again
and lives liveth evermore and he ever liveth to make intercession for
us just like Moses is doing here in that picture but you know the word
repent has become kind of a buzzword and sometimes you know there's a
spectrum of course of people saying repent of your sins and they might mean
you know you just have to admit that you're a sinner but again I mentioned
that this morning that's not what that's not what you're saying though
it's confusing to people and I don't think we should be confused and I
think that we should be straightforward with our language but the fact that God
repents of evil here you know everybody knows that God's not a sinner so
that's not what it's saying so that means he changed his mind and decided
not to kill all of them and start a new nation with Moses does that make
sense now it's this man Moses you know the one that they're talking bad about
and constantly complaining about and questioning his leadership at every
turn was really the only thing right here standing between God's wrath and
the destruction of this whole nation I mean think about that Moses could have
said yeah you're right you know just make just make me one of you know but
he didn't do that you know his intercessory prayer saved a bunch of
rebels and a lot of you know some of them end up being reprobates and wicked
people and they didn't even realize it you know this guy they're gonna
constantly complain about later he's interceding for them to God right now
and saying hey don't do that God you you promised that you know to Abraham
Isaac and Israel and you swear by your own self and said you'll multiply
their seed as the stars of heaven now of course Jesus Christ is that seed
that it's talking about and Jesus Christ was born out of that line and
he's born of the tribe of Judah so yeah if he would have done this that would
have changed everything so but but again Moses is here just sticking up
for a bunch of people that really just want to throw him in the trash we
don't even know what happened to Moses you know just willing to just throw
their leader into the dirt for you know and and he's a great leader you
know he's one of the greatest leaders and one of the greatest men in the
whole Bible and then you have a whole generation that he pastored over that
were trash I mean there were some pretty bad people in this group and you
know we deserve wrath just like the children of Israel deserve wrath but
we have an intercessor for us that's the Lord Jesus Christ and we've
done a lot of wicked things and you know we would be in the same mess that
these people were if it wasn't for Christ so look at verse 15 it says
Moses turned and went down from the mount and the two tables of the
testimony were in his hand remember God wrote on these tables of stone with
his own fingers the the law right and it says the tables and the tables
were written on both their sides on the one side and one on on the other
were they written and the tables were the work of God and the writing was
the writing of God graven upon the tables again with his own finger but you
know for these people that like to say that you know the Bible is just a
book written by men well how about the fact that it says that it's the
work of God the tables were the work of God they weren't Moses didn't write
this down obviously Moses wrote things down later but it is the Word of God
what what is written on there was the Word of God written by his own
finger and it says the writing was the writing of God so who wrote the Bible
you know these bozos like to say oh well you know it's just a fairy tale
that men made up to control people I guess I'm controlling all of Vancouver
by having our church service tonight everybody in battleground I'm
controlling them through you know us having a Bible like that's just not
true it's just it's just a thing that they've heard somebody say their
atheist uncle said at the Thanksgiving table or something and it's just like
there's all these sayings that people say these unsaved people that passed
down from generations like how about the saying well you know we don't talk
about religion or politics at this table where did that come from I'm sure
it's been said for a long time you know why it's probably said because
politics will destroy a family you know if they're opposing then their
politics and religion can destroy a family and and sometimes you know
things need to get destroyed I guess but it's probably a good idea not to talk
about politics I mean my whole family is pretty much liberals and they love
to go back and forth with me at holiday things I mean I don't even get
invited by the holiday things anymore but but it used to be kind of a fun
thing to do you know but people that scene religion and politics are not
shouldn't be talked about is that's just like some boomers saying from from
probably after World War two or who knows it might have been longer than
that but I mean I think it's it's because of how much chaos it causes
because it's so funny you see this today I have family members that won't
even talk to me today just because of something I said about politics earlier
on because I don't really care you know about that so much anymore but it's also
because of the God I believe in and so nothing divides quicker than politics
and religion and and so that's the reason why it's being said but what
I'm talking about here is that people will just you know the Bible's been
translated all these different times okay well you know what do you mean by
that you're just saying that like it doesn't make sense because it's been
translated so many times I mean you know the King James was translated once
it was translated from the Greek and Hebrew so and obviously a lot of the
work had already been done by great men before the council that did it 54
scholars of the highest intellect who are proficient in speaking multiple
languages I mean I guarantee you that the people that do the translations
nowadays they probably can't even speak in any of those languages I mean did I
say guarantee they probably in the most I mean they're not like Lancelot
Andrews who knew like 21 different languages and could speak Greek and
Syriac and all these languages like he's speaking English and and just so
fluent in there they would have whole conversations in Greek in their
councils when they were translated the Bible King James spoke Greek King
James spoke French King James understood Hebrew he actually translated
from the original tongues his own a French version of the Bible did you
know that he actually translated and then you know when he writes letters
to his son and things like that he's he's kind of just trans you know he
probably if he could speak Greek fluently then he could probably read
it fluently and then translate on the fly with some of the verses that I
mean some of them don't match like the King James because the King James
come out at that point but he was a smart man and people just act like Oh
King James he just he just wanted everything changed because he wanted to
have absolute power it's funny though because King James wasn't known to be a
tyrannical ruler at all in fact it made the people mad that he wouldn't
you know that he wasn't an Englishman and he wasn't some lustful power
hungry King like all the other ones were and so they called him the wisest
fool in all Christendom because he didn't want to get into wars that
wasn't his thing I mean he founded the new world I mean pretty much he
sent the colony to Jamestown I mean he King James was not the kind of
King that King John was that Henry the eighth was I just found this out
the other day about the coin shaving you know when you have a quarter and it
has like you know you'll see that quarters have like ridges on them and
stuff like that I never knew this and I but I just I just never thought
about it but because they used to clip coins and actually Henry the eighth used
to just like take you know the silver and shave some of it off so he could
put more because he just was spending himself into oblivion and you
know so those little edges on on quarters and things like that got put
into place so you couldn't shave the coins anymore is that am I kind of
accurate on that a little bit yeah so yeah so the machine stamp so you
can't just take a quarter and peel some of it off I mean obviously you
know the money we use nowadays isn't real money but and it's that's a whole
subject for another time it's kind of fiat money or whatever but it's
anyway so we'll get verse number 15 I kind of went off in the weeds there
for a minute but see actually no we're past that okay so I mean God is the
author of the Bible the Bible says that right there in Exodus right that it was
the work was his work and the words written were his words so verse 17 says
and when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said unto
Moses there is a noise of war in the camp I think it's a very interesting
way that Josh is inter Joshua is interpreting this he says he heard the
noise okay and that's what a lot of music is today it's just noise and a
lot of this just ungodly satanic music now rap music is completely changed and
now there's all these sodomites doing the rap music and stuff it's
just it's really changed but the point is is that Joshua he heard this noise
of the people as they shouted and said unto Moses there's a noise of war in
the camp so he hears the music that they're that they're playing and that
they're singing to and he thinks that there's a fight going on why does he
think that I mean are they singing you know the hymns or something the
hymns of the faith there well if someone came in and heard us singing
do you think they're gonna go well it sounds like there's a war going on in
there you know that's not what he's gonna say so I mean just like they
took the earrings out and the dress and all this other stuff they
probably took the music out of Egypt too and haven't gotten rid of that stuff
either and so Joshua he's hearing what he perceives to be war so I don't know
if Pantera was playing a concert for them or something you know just like I
mean that's like that's what kind of what I think of but I also think of
you know in in history when wars are going on a lot of times there's
trumpets that are that are blown but there's also drums and drums are one
of those things have you ever heard you know the drums of war that saying
because drums is you know kind of like one of those things that they would
march to a beat to right and I'm not it doesn't say that there's drums
here but it does sound like the noise of war so and their people are
shouting so it's kind of sounds like I mean maybe rock and roll has been
around a lot longer than we realize or something I don't know but it says
and he said it is not Moses corrects him here he says is not the voice of
them that shout for mastery neither is it the voice of them that cry for being
overcome you know and cry is talking about like yelling out loud right but
the noise of them that sing do I hear so Moses interprets this for
Joshua says this isn't a fight or a battle or a war happening this is
people singing music they're singing a song and it doesn't sound like it's a
godly song if you think it's war I mean just play any which I'm not
recommending this but any heavy metal rock band and turn it up really loud
it's just drums and loud screaming and yelling and you know they have this
thing called death metal you ever heard of death metal well that's just
like the screamo type you know music that whatever but I'm not sure you know
obviously they didn't have amps and stuff back then but whatever it is it's
ungodly it's something that was mistaken for war and Moses is like no
this is people singing songs they rose up to play right and so I just
think it's really interesting that that's the conversation that happens
like how how can you confuse godly music you know it's a feast to the
Lord right but look this is what happens in churches all the time today
is that it turns into a rock concert to the point where people are changing the
lyrics to highway to hell which is an AC DC wicked rock band to we're on the
highway to heaven and they're playing that exact tune those exact things
except for they're on the highway to heaven you know and you know they'll
play Bon Jovi living on a prayer which is not I don't think that was
written for Jehovah God I don't think that that's what it was intended for but
you know people will say well it's not it's not the music pastor that the
pro is the problem it's you know the all music it can be godly the music
can be godly but it's what the words say that matter but is that what
it's what you see here in this in this verse no it's it's it is that
does matter because if you can't tell the difference between godly hymn music
or Psalms being sung and that sounds like war to you then you know it's
just like everything they're doing here is wrong it's all it's almost
like he came to like some you know modern-day church they're going back
to some modern-day church service it's it's kind of what it is you know so
you know to say that Christian rock is okay how can you say that because it's
based upon the world's music it's something you can't just take something
out of Egypt and make it Christian that's just not how it works look at
a church like this we want people to see a difference we want people to see
a difference in the way we dress in the way that things are laid out in the
music that's played here and sung together as a congregation it doesn't
sound like war and it doesn't sound like rap music or rock music because
God said to come out from among them and be separate saith the Lord he didn't
say tailor everything to what people want that's Aaron's Baptist Church and
I know my name is Aaron so it just you know vexes me about that but do
you understand what I'm saying like it shouldn't be you know Aaron's
Baptist Church allows Pantera apparently to be played or AC DC or whatever
they're listening to here it allows you know all this idol worship and
sacrificing to other gods it's just basically the opposite of everything
God wants us to be doing in the Christian life people shouldn't come in
here and wonder whether they stumbled into a rock concert or not they
shouldn't be wondering that and when they see how we're dressed they
shouldn't say well I can't believe they dress like that because look the
world does notice just because we came out of the world that we have a hard
time differentiating when we're going back to it doesn't mean that other
people do and I don't you know people can be like oh yeah I want that
kind of music that's because that's all they know they're just going to
non-denominational churches because they think well well of
course it's non-denominational so that's kind of what probably God wants
but really that those denominations turn into their non-denominational is
actually our denominational I mean they really do become a
denomination called non-denominational they just say they're
non-denominational but they really are denominational I mean and
they're playing and they're catering to what the world's
standards are and what the world wants and again we should be
wanting to do what God wants not playing Christian rock or Christian
rappers we shouldn't have Christian rappers coming up and doing things
in church services like Lecrae the son of Bozor or whatever or
you know these just it's a lot of these guys are just fake they're
just people that couldn't make it in the real Christian are not the
non-Christian world and so but they're good enough to make
Christian records that's really what it is I mean Katy Perry
couldn't cut it you know doing gospel stuff so she became you know
Satan's one of Satan's minions she was too good I guess for the
Christian music or whatever according to her handlers but she
literally said I sold my soul to the devil Bob Dylan I sold my
soul he didn't say I sold my soul the devil but he said you
know I you know I sold my soul or whatever and then the
interviewer is like what do you mean by that he's like who
did you sell your soul to he's like you know the big guy and
he's talking about the devil and he says that he can't even write
music anymore you know Bob Dylan's like known as this
great this great musician or whatever but all that stuff he
basically was saying that was given to him and I know that
I'm delving into things right now that are just like
disputed but when they say it out of their own mouth are
they all just lying is Eminem lying when he says he
sold his soul to the devil or all these musicians and it's
like and our people just love to have that that kind of
music and love to go back to Egypt and that's what they're
doing right here they're going back to Egypt and they're
playing the music that they learn there and it's
unacceptable and as Christians we shouldn't accept
this stuff Christian metal Christian pop all this other
stuff Christian rap is crap and Christian rock is crock but
now we're about to see Moses blow a gasket at this
point like just a few minutes ago he's like God don't
kill them all you know repent of this evil you're
going to do under your people and then he like sees
them look what it says in verse 19 and it came to pass
as soon as he came nine to the camp he saw the calf
and what the dancing Oh about to hit another topic
here dancing and it's and so when he saw the calf you
know obviously that makes him you know he's like
triggered you know just he sees the calf and then he
sees what the dancing so we already know they're
playing music and now they're dancing but it says and
Moses anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of
his hands and break them beneath them out so all those
words that were front and back on both tables of
stone he just like he breaks the original
manuscripts into a billion pieces or whatever we'll
never know what the real 10 commandments actually said
because Moses destroyed them and that's the way
people think these days about these original
autographs what are you talking about God's word is
eternal it just got they got rewritten Moses made more
they're exactly the way that God made them but God
made those first ones God wrote those originals but
just because you know Moses broke them doesn't mean
that he lost some of the words are lost but that's
what the modern scholars will tell us is that oh we
only we only believe what's in the original
autographs well there's none in existence today
there's no originals in existence so we have to trust
that God kept his word and that he said he would
preserve his word from this generation forever so we
have to you know that's just kind of like a little
interlude about this but he breaks the original 10
commandments and why because he's mad why is he
mad because he saw the calf it's a it's an idol so he
has what's called righteous indignation here and people
say well it's not good to be angry no it's not good
to be soon angry you know Moses is pretty patient
he's the meekest man on the face of the world
on the face of the earth he's the meekest man
but he had a temper problem when he blew his stack
he did blow his stack hard and you know somebody
just might get killed and buried in the sand or
something but Moses you know he already is known
to kind of have this little bit of a temper but
when he sees the calf that's wicked as hell
they'd already said God already said not to make
that stuff and then he sees what the dancing
you're like pastor you're gonna tell me right now
the dancing's wrong whatever this kind of dancing
was was wrong whatever this was because he's mad
because he sees the calf and the dancing isn't that
what the Bible says so why would he be mad if dancing
just okay well it's not it's not the dancing
it's the music you're dancing to man you can dance
any way you want that's the same argument people
use for music the music can be wicked too folks
if it's not it's if it's you know some ungodly
sounding thing that sounds like war it's it's not good
and if it's you know if it's causing you to dance
in a worldly Egyptian style way here then it's it's
enough to make Moses break the original autographs
now the Bible does say there's a time there's a time
to there's a time to dance okay but it's not talking
about you know the mambo and you know all these
it's not talking about all these different dance
I mean do you think that they're dancing the polka here
is that what you think or they're they're bar
you know what is that called when you do the good night
it's the old style yeah square dance yeah
they're probably not square dancing they're probably not
line dancing you know they're probably probably not
doing the boot scoot boogie here I don't know what
they're doing but you know what it was it was enough
to make Moses's anger wax hot now when I see
little children just kind of dancing to whatever
you know it's it's pretty cute it's innocent I mean
my granddaughter rocks out to the hymns she's just
kind of like does this kind of thing and she's smiling
while she does it but if I turned up mega death
to the ultimate do you think that she'd be back there
doing the same thing no she'd probably try to run
and hide because she thinks that the war's happening
in the camp and it's loud it's just too much
but when that music that ungodly music causes you
to dance I mean there's dance clubs and whole places
dedicated to dancing every Friday night every Saturday
and probably now every night of the week any day
that ends with a Y people have an excuse to go out
and drink alcohol and what do they like to do
they like to dance and they like to dance close
and they like to you know take a lot of their clothes
off and show a lot of skin while they're dancing
so you can say well dancing is not wicked well
whatever this kind of dancing was it was wicked
would you agree with that isn't that what you know
why would Moses be mad about it if it was just
good dancing no they're dancing to whatever screamo music
was going on before and they're whatever they're singing
so you know and Moses is mad at this ungodly music
and he's mad at the dancing because it's worldly
because it's Egyptian right I mean that's the conclusion
that I draw with my fundamental mind but I mean whatever
but worldly dancing is not okay worldly music not okay
look at second Corinthians chapter six verse 14
I will actually well actually I don't have time for that
but I did read I did kind of quote the verse
where it said come out from among them and be separate
saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing
and I will receive you because we shouldn't be saying
you know because it says like what Concord have Christ
with Belial what does Christ and the devil have to do
with each other they don't have anything to do
with each other what part with he that believeth
with an infidel or him that believes with him
that doesn't believe we're supposed to come out
from among those things just like God said
you he didn't just leave the children of Israel
in Egypt he said you got to go out of here right
and so just like the children of Israel had to leave
there and God set up his own way of worship
in his own rules in his own laws but they had
to get out of there but they brought a lot of that stuff
with them they had a lot of baggage from their past life
and they just really always wanted to go back to it
and the Bible talks about people
that are earthly sensual and you know sensual
is a word that means relating to or involving
gratification of the senses and physical
and other types of pleasure that you know
I'm not gonna mention out loud here but
when music is sensual when dancing is sensual
then it's not godly because we're supposed you know
and judges are yeah judges one Jude 119 says
they that be they that who separate themselves
sensual not having the spirit so you know
being sensual is not has nothing to do
with the things of the Spirit of God
just like alcohol you know this though
you can have two different spirits
to be filled with the Holy Spirit or what
be not drunk with wine wearing those excess
so you know when you start drinking alcohol
and you start mixing that with music
ungodly music and start mixing that with dancing
bad things start to happen
holes start getting taken off
and things that are ought not to be done get done
now look at verse 20
Moses goes scorched earth here
so he's already upset he destroys the the Ten Commandments
and then it says in verse 20 and he took the calf
which they had made and burn it in the fire
and grounded the powder and strutted upon the water
and made the children of Israel to drink it
drink of it excuse me and Moses said unto Aaron
what did this people unto thee that thou has brought
so great a sin upon them
and Aaron said let not thy anger
the anger of my Lord wax hot thou knows the people
that they're set on mischief
so another thing that bad leaders do
is they blame the people instead of blaming themselves
because you know the buck really stopped there with Aaron
but he just allowed them to steamroll
look at verse 23 for they said unto me
make us gods which shall go before us
for as for this Moses the man that brought us up
out of the land of Egypt we want not
what has become of him
and I said unto them whosoever hath any gold
let them break it off
so they gave it gave it me
then I cast it in the fire and there came out this calf
so his story is that he just kind of threw this stuff
in fire and poof this this calf just came out
magically out of nowhere right
I mean Moses but I mean he's the older brother
most of the time the older brother is not afraid
of the younger brother
but Moses must have just had this look on his face
like okay this is the one fight that I'm not gonna win
but you know to the fact where he's just like
now he's just bald face lying about what happened
so and usually people like to cover a lie
to cover up for what they're doing something wrong
so obviously Aaron knows he did something wrong
look at verse 25
when Moses saw that the people were naked
so again here's the the other part
like I said you know when when the you know
everything goes back to the world
then this is the other thing
you know people it says the people were naked
for Aaron had made them naked
unto their shame unto their enemies
so you know I mean they're naked
they're dancing and they're singing wicked songs
and they're worshiping a golden calf
I mean it doesn't get much worse than that
in God's eyes so it says then Moses stood
at the gate of the camp and said
who is on the Lord's side let him come unto me
and all the sons of Levi gathered themselves
together unto him and he said unto them
thus saith the Lord God of Israel
so who's telling him to do this
God's telling him to do this
put every man his sword by his side
and go in and out from the gate to gate
throughout the camp and slay every man his brother
and every man his companion and every man his neighbor
and these are the ones that aren't on the Lord's side
because he said who's on the Lord's side
come and stand with me and anybody who's not
they're getting killed right
and the children of Levi did according to the word
of Moses and there fell of the people that day
three thousand men so it's the opposite
of what happens in the book of Acts
the book of Acts three thousand people get saved
in chapter two but here you have
in this wicked church service you have
three thousand men getting killed
for Moses said said consecrate yourselves today
for the Lord every man upon his son
and upon his brother that he may bestow
upon you a blessing this day
and it came to pass on the moral
that Moses said unto the people
you have sinned a great sin
and now will go up unto the Lord
paired venture that means perhaps
I shall make an atonement for your sin
and Moses returned unto the Lord and said
oh this people have sinned a great sin
and have made them gods of gold
yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin
and if not blot me I pray thee
out of thy book which thou hast written
and the Lord said unto Moses
whosoever has sinned against me
him will I blot out of my book
now people will use this passage here
to say that you can lose your salvation
but if you understand how the book of life works
everybody is already written into that book
and then if you don't get saved
your name gets taken out of it
but also if you are some kind of reprobate
that's unsavable then he just blots it out then
and so everybody's in the book of life
but you don't lose your salvation
if you don't have salvation
but your chance to be saved is removed
that's what God's talking about here
and so if everybody starts out in the book of life
with the chance to be saved
the ability to be saved
then your name is blotted out
if you don't end up getting saved
or you end up becoming a reprobate
so and there's lots of verses I could go to
but Revelation 3 five
I'll just read it for you real quick
it says he that overcometh
shall be clothed in white raiment
and I will not blot out his name
out of the book of life
but I will confess his name before my father
and before his angels
so the blotting out is like what does blot mean
it means to take ink or just something
and remove that name or whatever that is
so that you can't see it anymore
and so sometimes you can kind of scratch something out
and still read it
but when it's talking about blotting something out
it's like your name is completely removed
so that means it had to be there in the first place
but not everybody's saved from the moment they're born
so if you understand it in the way
that your name is starts out there
as in you have the chance
because God is not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance
and that he wants you to be saved
he did the works for you to be saved
and you got that chance
but once it becomes impossible
for you to be saved anymore
blots it out
so pretty simple
and if you want to write these down
you can study them later
I got to get done here
Philippians 4 three talks about
Paul's fellow laborers who are in the book of life
Revelation 13 eight talks about
those whose names are not written in the book of life
because there's some people whose names
are already removed out of it
so talking about the people
that take the mark of the beast
once you take the mark of the beast
your chance to be saved is over
once you mess with this book
and change it in any way
the plagues of the Bible
of what God says in the Bible
your name is gonna be taken out of the book of life
if you blaspheme the Holy Spirit
your name is taken out of the book of life
it's blotted out
it's like when you see redacted things
like a lot of the stuff that you're seeing
from the Jeffrey Epstein files and all that
where they just blot out like whole pages
and whole sections
it's because they don't want you to see that
and so that's what God does
when someone loses their chance to be saved
by doing some kind of abominable thing
they've blasphemed the Holy Ghost
like the Pharisees in the New Testament
they blaspheme the Holy Ghost
and he says you have no forgiveness in this life
nor the life to come
you can't be saved anymore
and people just they freak out about this kind of doctrine
they're like what do you mean
they can't be saved anymore
that's what it means
and so there you can push God too far
where he says you know what
I'm taking their name out of the book
and that's what he's telling Moses
he said well Moses is saved
so he says I want you to replace
and take blot my name out
and so here's another intercessory thing
that relates him to Christ
he says blot my name out of the book
and God's like no
because Moses is saved
he can't blot his name out
and he says those that have sinned against me
those people all blot their names out
and so what he means by that
is the ones that are reprobates
the ones that have pushed God too far
he'll blot their names out
but he can't blot Moses's name out
because once you're saved
you're always saved
that's why
because when Jesus said
I'll give unto them eternal life
I'll give unto them everlasting life
that literally means forever
so how can you lose something that lasts forever
it's an oxymoron
it doesn't make sense
okay so now back in
let's finish up this last couple verses here
so Exodus 32 verse 34 says
therefore now go lead this people into the place
which I have spoken unto thee
behold mine angel shall go before thee
nevertheless in the day when I visit
I will visit their sin upon them
and the Lord plagued the people
because they made the calf
which Aaron made
you know so this shows
that even though we may get forgiven and shown mercy
that God will still punish the sin
so you see how they're they're plagued
and he's talking about visiting their sin later on
and that can happen with us too
so don't think that just because
nothing happened right away
or that God didn't punish you right away
that there isn't a punishment coming
so the best thing to do
is to forgive other people
for the things that they do unto you
when they you know especially when they ask you to
and not hold grudges like that against people
but to fall on God for mercy
for the sins that we commit on a daily basis
and don't forget to go to God
and confess your sins before him
because there's nobody in this room
that doesn't commit sin
but you know God's gonna let us
not have as harsh of a punishment
you know he'll be merciful to us
when we are humble and ask him for forgiveness
so I really had some other verses
I want to show you about the blotting out thing
but you know it's pretty self-explanatory
I mean and people that think
you can lose your salvation
like I said they'll go to those verses
but that's they just don't understand
that your name's already written in there
and then if he blots it out
that means you've lost your chance to be saved
and it's not you can lose it
because he said Moses can't lose it right
Moses he won't blot him out why
because he was saved
and so that's Exodus 32 let's pray
Lord we thank you so much for this great church
and for the word of God in this great chapter
Lord I pray that you just help us
to take these things to heart
Lord let us not go back to Egypt in our mind
or in our practice
I pray that you just help us
Lord to forsake those things
and even though some of those things are hard
we've come out of Egypt
we've come out of bondage
but sometimes Lord it's easy to go back
to the way that we were
and our hearts to go back
to the things that we used to do
and I just pray that you'd help us Lord
and strengthen us
that we wouldn't be a people
that would disappoint you Lord
and if we do disappoint you I pray
that we would fall on you for mercy
and you'd be merciful to us
for the sins that we commit against you Lord
in Jesus name we pray amen.