Part 5: God Want Us To Pray Like Moses Prayed Series

Great Prayers of the Old Testament

Part 5: God Want us to Pray Like Moses Prayed

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon by Rick Crandall

(Prepared October 19, 2024)

BACKGROUND:

*Please open your Bibles to Exodus 32, to see another great prayer in God's Word. In this chapter, Moses had been with the Lord on Mount Sinai for 40 days. It was the miraculous meeting where the LORD God used His own finger to write some of the most important Laws of all time: The Ten Commandments.

*And in Deuteronomy 9:9-10 Moses said, "When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly."

*Unfortunately, things had not gone well while Moses was with the LORD. Down at the foot of Mount Sainai, the LORD's people rushed to rebel against God. After all that God had done for them, they still turned back to the false gods of Egypt. The Bible tells us about it in Exodus 32:1-6:

1. Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for 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.''

2. And Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.''

3. So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

4. And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!''

5. So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, "Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.''

6. Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

*Church: They weren't playing kids games. They weren't playing ball. They were playing the wicked games that were often part of pagan religions. Those people had no idea how much trouble they were in. But we find out in vs. 7-14, and here we see how Moses saved the day.

7. And the LORD said to Moses, "Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

8. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!' ''

9. And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people!

10. Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.''

11. Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

12. Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people.

13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'''

14. So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

MESSAGE:

*Moses saved the day for his people. And he did it through prayer! Now Christians, God wants us to pray like Moses prayed. Let's look into this Scripture and see why.

1. FIRST: PRAY LIKE MOSES, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE BLIND TO THE DANGER THEY ARE IN.