Sermon Outline:

Be Careful Not to Fall (Exodus 32:1–9, ESV)

• We Fall When We Disobey the Word of God (Exodus 32:1a)

^1a When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us.

• We Fall When We Fail to Trust God's Purposes (Exodus 32:1b)

^1b As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 

• We Fall When We Forget GOD's Grace (Exodus 32:2)

² So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

• We Fall When We Fail to Use Our Gifts to Glorify God (Exodus 32:3–4)

³ So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. ⁴ And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 

• We Fall When We Distort The Worship of GOD (Exodus 32:5–6)

⁵ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.” ⁶ And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

• We Fall When We Exchange The Glory of God (Exodus 32:7–9)

⁷ And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. ⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’” ⁹ And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.