So You Want To Go Back To Egypt

SO YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO EGYPT

Exodus 32: 1 – 7

1 And 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, Up, 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 wot not what is become of him. 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. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 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, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves Exodus 32:1-7

In our walk with God, we sometimes forget that we need to wait on Him to give us the correct steps in our lives. Truth is we go out and map out our own course.

I would like to take a few minutes and look at the men, women and children of the Hebrew children of Abraham that had been in bondage in Egypt under pharaoh’s command.

These people were tired of waiting on Moses, he had went up into the Mountains to receive the tablets of Gods law, written with the very fingers of God.

As I studied for this message I noticed 4 things that had happened to them and how it affected their way of thinking.

1- The first thing I noticed was their unfaithfulness

In the first verse they had lost their faith in Moses. Here they came to Aaron an said to him, “let us make Gods for “this” Moses… yes, the very man that God had chosen to lead them out of Egypt, we do not even know where he is.

Noticed how they said, “this Moses”.

First, they had lost respect and trust in him.

A good example would be as I have heard and I am sure you have too. Children calling their mom and dad, old man or old woman. Is that a way to show respect to your parents? I never could bring myself to ever call or say that about them. They were the ones that brought me into this world, cared and protected me.

I owe them that respect.

Today church, I believe we have about a 40 minutes faith limit. When a preacher has preached over 30 minutes the congregation start thinking, when is this ever going to end? I have to go home and cook, or we need to get to the restaurant before the other church people do. I just wish he would hurry up and finish.

40 minutes and we are ready to get up and go home.

Are we just like those Hebrews out there waiting forty days? They just can’t wait on God to finish what needs to be done.

Here their unfaithfulness brought them to a point of forgetting the miracles and events that had happened to them to get them to this point.

Here their faith waned to the point of changing their God. Forgetting how God had used Moses to deliver them from bondage back in Egypt.

#2- The second point I want to make, not only were they Unfaithful but Uncertain.

These people were unclear, unsure of where Moses was. They did not want to wait any longer, they had seen enough to start making up their own mind on how to do things.

A good example would be, how many times have we prayed and seek God to move on our behalf? If it did not happen as quickly as we had wanted or as we thought it would, we start to be uncertain as to Gods ability to do as we had prayed for.

We start putting things in our own hands and begin relying on us to go ahead and move on.

Listen church, God hears every one of our prayers. I do believe God answers our prayers in three ways. A) Yes. B) No. C) Not Yet