THE POWER OF INTERCESSORY PRAYER
Exodus 32:1-14
ALWAYS FOCUS ON THE
GOODNESS OF THE LORD
Moses was called to the mountain to receive
the Stone Tablets and
complete detailed instructions on building the
Tabernacle.
The Israelites quickly forgot the power of God
that brought them
out of
on their behalf.
BE ALERT FOR THE DEVIL’S
INFLUENCE
V:1 When 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
2 Aaron answered them,
"Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons, and your daughters
are wearing, and bring them to me." 3 So all the people took off their
earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He 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, O Israel, who brought you up out of
A. Without a Godly leader,
men will quickly turn to their fleshly desires.
1. As long as Moses was with the
Israelites, they followed his lead.
2. There is always someone waiting to take
your place and move
in a different direction undermining
what you have done.
B. You can take a man out of
slavery, but you may not be able to
take slavery out of the man.
1. Ingrained in the Israelites were the
idol gods they had worshipped
for four hundred years in
2. It did not take much persuading to go
back to
their previous ways of slavery.
C. Aaron having been a spokesman
for God during the exodus
should have been the first to say no to
their ungodly
plan.
1. Aaron was left in charge of the Israelite.
a. He failed to give Godly advice.
b. Instead, he yielded to the
majority.
2. When your mind is not on God, Satan
will take the opportunity
to destroy you.
3. The idea of an idol god to lead them
is odd according to their
recent experience.
a. They had never seen an idol god
do 10 plagues.
b. No idol good every parted the
c. No idol good ever talk to them
from a cloud,
4.The
gold was given to them by God from the Egyptians
as they left
5. They claim that the idol god which
didn’t exist, brought
them out of
6, We have to be careful that we don’t
put our time, possessions,
and families before the living
God.
7. Anything that we put first before
God becomes an idol.
YIELD NOT TO THE
TEMPTATION OF THE CROWD
V: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 ." 6 So 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.
A. Aaron got caught up in his
own glory after fashioning the golden calf.
1. He along with all of
the first commandment they swore to God to keep.
2. We have to be careful that we don’t get
caught up in the emotions
of the crowd and sin against God.
B. Aaron took the sins of
and worshipping what he made with his
hands.
1. They sacrificed burnt offering to the
dumb idol and had a party
celebrating their foolishness with what
the Living God had
blessed them with.
2. They broke the 2nd commandment by doing
so.
3. How often do we had a party using what
God has given us
disrespecting Him at the same time?
4. Satan has a field day with our
disobedience.
GOD WILL REVEAL YOUR NEED
FOR PRAYER
V:7 Then the Lord said to
Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of
A. God sees all that we
do.
1. He is aware of our thoughts before we
sin.
2. He allows our temptations to test our
obedience to Him.
B. God makes known our
disobedience to His leaders for our
chastisement.
1. God tolerates us while He disciplines
us.
3. Our disobedience does not change His
will for us.
But suffer His wrath
INTERCEDE FOR OTHERS IN
ALL YOUR PRAYERS
9 "I have seen these
people," the Lord said to Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people.
10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may
destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation."
11 But Moses sought the favor
of the Lord his God. "O Lord," he said, "why should your anger
burn against your people, whom you brought out of
A. We grieve the Lord when we
sin against Him.
1. The wages of sin is death which He
could execute at any time.
2. God loves us enough to put in place
prayer warriors to
intercede for us doing our sin.
3. Notice God voiced His desire to Moses to
destroy
4. God also voiced His desire to start a
new nation with Moses,
B. Moses could have thought only of himself
and agreed with God
To destroy
1. Moses loved His nation enough to plead
with God for
their lives.
2. Although Moses had reason enough to
abandon
their constant complaints, he reasoned
with God to save them.
3. Moses became
4. As leaders and parents we must be in
constant prayer for those
God has placed under our care.
C. Moses knew the plan of God
for
to Abraham.
1. God’s promises was the basis of Moses
prayer of intercession
for
2. There is nothing wrong with reminding
God of what He has done
for you and others.
3. There is nothing wrong with reminding
God of His promises.
4. God needs no reminder, but He wants to
hear our prayers,
5. God acts on our intercessory prayers.
6. In fact. I think God puts us in a
position to intercede to test
our love for others.
7. Reminding God of the victory over Satan
is another reason
to intercede for others.
8. All have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God.
a. We all need to pray for each other.
b. I think I exist today because of the
prayers of the church.
CLAIM GOD’S PROMISES FOR
YOU AND THE CHURCH
V:13 Remember your servants
Abraham, Isaac, and
A. We have to study the Bible
to know God’s promises.
1. We should meditate on God’s promises,
and realize that
those promises apply to us.
2. The promises to Abraham were made 430
years earlier,
yet they applied to Moses and the
nation of
B. We are descendants of
Abraham.
1. The promise God made to Abraham was
made to us along
with
Gen 17:4-5
"As for me, this is my covenant
with you: You will be the father of
many nations. 5 No longer will you be
called Abram; your name will
be Abraham, for I have made you a
father of many nations. “
2. The “many” includes all of the
3. Did the Lord change His mind about
destroying
or did He use Moses as the
intercessor for
4. God’s will for us does not change
because of our sins.
but our sins will cause us to suffer
loss.
THANK GOD FOR HIS COMMANDS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor of Greater
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