Aaron’s Reply

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Exodus 32:21-24
August 10, 2025

Sermon Notes

Exodus 32:21-24: “And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?” And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. 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.’ So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

Outline:

1. Introduction

2. A sobering question

• There is a representative responsibility in God-given leadership

• There was a great sin in the camp because there was a subtle sin at the top

• What of people in a leadership role today?

3. An evasive reply

• Aaron takes refuge in three “disguises”

• First disguise: “My sin is reasonable”

• Second disguise: “Their sin is greater”

• Third disguise: “Circumstances caused it”

• Our pathetic disguises

4. An enduring word

• What becomes of Aaron?

• Jesus, our great High Priest