THE SERIOUSNESS OF SIN

EXODUS 32:21-35

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THE CORRUPTION OF SIN [v. 21-25]

1. Shown in Passing the Buck [v. 21-23]

2. Shown in Stretching the Truth [v. 25]

"An excuse is a lie stuffed in the skin of a reason" - Billy Sunday

3. Shown in the Weight of Responsibility [v. 25]

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Ezekiel 33:6-7 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

II. THE CHALLENGE OF SANCTIFICATION [v. 26-29, 1 Cor. 10:1-12]

1. Will you Come? [v. 26, Mt. 11:28]

2. Will you Go? [v. 27, Mt. 28:18-20]

3. Will you Do? [v. 28-29, James 1:22-25]

III. THE COMPASSION OF SUPPLICATION [v. 30-35]

1. The Prayer of a Broken Heart [v. 30-32, Rm. 9:1-3, Dt. 9:4]

2. The Part of the Book of Life [v. 33]

Psalm 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Malachi 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Philippians 4:3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels
Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

3. The Path to the Brink of Disaster [v. 34-35]