The View from Heaven

Exodus
Written By Dave Royes

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Speaker: Dave Royes
Scripture: Exodus 32:7-14
July 20, 2025

Sermon Notes

Exodus 32:7-14: “And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’“ And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”

But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wearh burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’“ And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing to his people.”

 Outline:

1. Introduction

  • A post-salvation people with idolatrous hearts

  • Hearing from the Person in charge

  • God despises false worship yet raises up a mediator

2. God’s wrath stirred up

  • A stiff-necked people quick to turn aside

  • Beware of acting on intuition, while being passive to revelation

  • God declares His wrath to get Moses to pray on the people’s behalf

3. God’s man raised up

  • He exhibits God’s character

  • He appeals to God’s glory

  • He pleads God’s covenant

4. God’s forbearance lifted up

  • God’s relenting is not an injustice

  • The wrath-bearing sacrifice for those who believe

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