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Text: Exodus 32: 7-8

MEDITATION

Exodus 32:7-8

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 moulded 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!’”

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. God’s Word to Moses

a. He must go down from the mountain immediately.

b. God alerted Moses to what was happening on the ground.

c. Of course, God knew what was happening though He was giving the Tabernacle plans to Moses.

i. He is God.

ii. He is omniscient.

iii. He is also holy.

iv. The worship of God cannot be done using an idol to represent Him.

v. Nothing can be used to portray God in any way.

2. Description of the problem

a. Corruption

i. The people had corrupted themselves spiritually.

ii. They had corrupted themselves morally.

b. Turned aside from God’s way.

i. They had been instructed by Moses.

ii. God had spoken to the people directly (Exodus 20).

iii. They had turned away from what they had been taught.

c. Idolatry

i. They had made a golden calf.

ii. They had worshiped it.

iii. They had made sacrifices to it.

iv. They have proclaimed the golden calf their god!

v. It was the golden calf god who had led them out of Egypt.

经文：出埃及记 32：7-8

沉思

《出埃及记 32：7-8》
7耶和华吩咐摩西说：“下去吧，因为你的百姓，就是你从埃及地领出来的，已经败坏了。

8他们快快偏离了我所吩咐的道，为自己铸了一只牛犊，向它下拜献祭，说：‘以色列啊，这就是领你出埃及地的神！’”

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 上帝对摩西的吩咐

a. 他必须立即下山

b. 上帝通知摩西山下的情况

c. 虽然上帝在指示摩西造幕幔的法则，但祂当然也知道山下的状况

i. 祂是上帝

ii. 祂无所不知

iii. 祂也是神圣的

iv. 崇拜上帝不能以偶像来代表祂

v. 世上没有任何事物能代表上帝

2. 问题的形容

a. 败坏

i. 人们在属灵上败坏了自己

ii. 他们道德中败

b. 偏离了上帝的道

i. 他们已经接受摩西的教诲

ii. 上帝已直接向人们说话《出埃及记 20》

iii. 他们偏离了之前所学的

c. 拜虚神和偶像

i. 他们铸了一只牛犊

ii. 他们敬拜它

iii. 他们向它下拜献祭

iv. 他们宣称牛犊是他们的神！

v. 他们认为牛犊是带领他们出埃及的神