Title: Prayer of Intercession (Ex 32:30-35)
Content Faith is an inward thing that is invisible to the naked eye, but prayer is the measure that shows the growth of that faith outwardly.
When faith is young, at the stage of infancy receiving the help of other people's prayers, then in adolescence, when you voluntarily pray for one's problems to God, and then, not only your own problems, but also other people's problems to God as your own. This is the mature stage of praying intercession.
1. Corruption in Israel
The Lord God called Moses, the representative of Israel (Exodus 24:18), to the top of Mount Sinai, just as Moses went into the cloud and went up on the mountain, and stayed on the mountain for forty-one and forty nights . He stayed forty days to give the law.
The people of Israel had to pray and wait in reverence until Moses came down from the mountain (Exodus 32:1). But when the people saw that Moses was slow to come down from the mountain, they gathered together and came to Aaron, saying, “Get up, get a god to guide us for us As the saying goes, “This Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, does not know what has become of it.” Without being patient and waiting, he asked Aaron to make an idol. What is the cause?1) Spiritual ignorance and forgetfulness of the grace received from God
2) They did not listen carefully to the word of God.
3) I did not completely liquidate my past life in Egypt.
4) It was because the ultimate purpose of faith was more selfish than the glory of God.
Not only the people of Israel made golden idols, but even in today's age, materialism has driven people away from God, corrupted public officials, and brought plagues such as the Hanbo Incident.
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