Pastor Jason
- Five Greatest Disappointments
5 - Disney’s Live Action Remake of Snow White
4 - Y2K
3 - The Pontiac Aztec
2 - Every song Elvis ever sang (except the Christian ones)
1 - The Atlanta Falcons in 2016 Superbowl
Exodus 32:1-6
1When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” 2Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” 5When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” 6So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
When people saw Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron
God brought them this far but now God isn’t doing what they want Him to do, they’re disappointed.
When the Children of Israel couldn’t feel God, they tried to fashion God.
If your feelings are the barometer for God’s moving then you will frequently find yourself disappointed.
Their disappointment led to disobedience
The danger is that when it doesn’t work out the way or at the pace we think it should, we leave the faithful God and return to the familiar gods.
When God isn’t moving on your timeline, what idol do you reach for?
Exodus 32:2-4
2Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
- Desperation makes you trade the promise of God for a cheap replacement.
Exodus 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.”
Aaron took unholy things and tried to frame it in a holy way.
When we take unholy things and try to put holy labels on it, it’s idolatry.
What if we saw the disappointment as a divine appointment.
Exodus 32:7-8
7Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
- We work through disappointment by releasing how we think God should work and embracing how He is actually working.