Sunday School Lesson

1. Exodus 32:1-6, 11-14
Rebellion
October 22, 2017
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA
What’s the number one thing?
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The Glory of God!
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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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2. October Memory Verse
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
17 The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior Who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in His love He will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Exodus 32:1-6, 11-14
Rebellion
Exodus 32:1-6 NASB
The Golden Calf
1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the
mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us
a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from
the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2Aaron said to
them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and
your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 Then all the people tore off the gold
rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took this from their
hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and
they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
5 Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a
proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.” 6 So the next day
they rose early and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the
people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus 32:1-6 NASB
Exodus 32:11-14 NASB
Moses’ Entreaty
11 Then Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does Your
anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of
Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians
speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains
and to destroy them from the face of the Earth’? Turn from Your burning anger
and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people. 13 Remember
Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and
said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all
this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall
inherit it forever.’” 14 So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said
He would do to His people.
Exodus 32:11-14 NASB

3. This section of the book of Exodus teaches us about:
1) Intercession
2) The Presence of God
Intercession:
We see Moses interceding for the Children of Israel to the point that he asks God
to blot him out from His book if He doesn’t forgive this great sin concerning the
golden calf.
Exodus 32:32 NASB
32 But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your
book which You have written!”
Paul in the New Testament.
Romans 9:2-3 NASB
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I
myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my
kinsmen according to the flesh,
Do we have great sorrow and unceasing grief for our own flesh and blood who
are lost? For our neighbors and co-workers who don’t know Christ personally?
If not, how do we come to have that burden for the lost?
John 14:14 NASB
14 If you ask Me (Jesus) anything in My name, I will do it.
This section of the book of Exodus teaches us about:
1) Intercession
2) The Presence of God
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4. Adrian Rogers
9/12/1931 – 11/15/2005
Bellevue membership grew from 9,000 to 29,000.
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How to Practice the Presence of God
The Adrian Rogers Legacy Collection
When we worship our Lord, we're to worship in spirit and in truth but worship is not
in a particular locale.
Worship is anywhere that we breathe the name of Jesus.
We are temples of God and the Lord lives in us and dwells in us.
Many of us are not conscious of the presence of God in our lives even though
we do the best we can.
We have certain duties that we perform; we have certain rituals that we go
through; we have certain beliefs that we adhere to.
But, God is not a bright, burning, living reality in our lives.
This morning we will talk about how to have a personal and a vital relationship
with God.
We're going to be in the Old Testament,
but don't think that because we're in the
Old Testament that this lesson doesn't
apply to us.
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5. The Bible says clearly and plainly, concerning those Old Testament saints, that
the things that happened to them happened to them, that they might be
examples to us (1 Corinthians 10).
1 Corinthians 10:1-11 NASB
1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under
the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized into Moses in
the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the
same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual Rock which followed
them; and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not
well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.
6 Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave
evil things as they also craved. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it
is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.” 8 Nor let
us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one
day. 9 Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the
serpents. 10 Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the
destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were
written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
1 Corinthians 10:1-11 NASB
This is a lesson from the life of Moses who had an encounter with God and the
presence of God was so real in Moses' life that his face literally shone.
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He had experienced the presence of God to such a degree—that the life of God
was so in him that his face literally shone to the degree that he had to wear a
veil over his face when he would go out into public.
Moses would take the veil off his face when he would go in to speak face-to-
face with the Lord.
The people knew that when Moses spoke that he had a message from God -
because of his shining face.

6. Now, the sad thing is this: Moses lost the glow.
There was a time when that glow faded, but Moses continued to wear the veil—
this time not to veil the glory of God; but now, he's wearing the veil to keep
people from knowing that the glory of God is no longer there.
It could be that some of us are also wearing a veil—not to veil the glory, but
maybe to hide the fact that the glory is not there.
That there was once a time when God was very real to us, and we still go
through the motions, still outwardly saying, "Yes, Jesus is real and precious to
me," but, inwardly, you know that you're hiding behind some kind of a veil.
Exodus shows us eight steps to make God real again, to get the glow back!
What to do when the glow is gone.
Start with Exodus 33:1-6.
Exodus 33:1-6 NASB
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people
whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give it.’ 2 I will
send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the
Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. 3 Go up to a land flowing with
milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate
people, and I might destroy you on the way.”
4 When the people heard this sad word, they went into mourning, and none of
them put on his ornaments. 5 For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of
Israel, ‘You are an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one
moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you,
that I may know what I shall do with you.’” 6 So the sons of Israel stripped
themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.
Exodus 33:1-6 NASB

7. What to do when the glow is gone.
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I. There Must be Determination.
II. There Must Be Preparation.
III. There Must Be Isolation.
IV. There Must Be Expectation.
V. There Must Be Adoration.
VI. There Must Be Intercession.
VII. There Must Be Observation.
VIII. There Must Be Transformation.
We will cover items I., II., III. and IV. Today.
I. There Must be Determination.
II. There Must Be Preparation.
III. There Must Be Isolation.
IV. There Must Be Expectation.
Number one:
There must be a determination that you will have God in your life.
God says, "Now, Moses, I have promised you the land. You're going to get the
land. I'm going to send an angel, a mighty angel, to go before you. He's going
to drive these Canaanites out. But Moses, I am not going to go with you. I'll give
you victory. I'll give you success. I'll give you the land. But, you won't have My
presence."
Now, when God said that to Moses, the people mourned, and rightly so they
mourned, because they had enough sense to know that, without God, what
good is the rest of it? (Exodus 33:4)
What good is the land without the Lord?
What good is the victory without the Victor?
What good is the blessing without the Blesser?
What good is the gift or the gifts without the Giver?

8. And so, the people said, "We're not going to settle for an angel."
Look over in Exodus 33:14-15.
The Lord is speaking to Moses.
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Exodus 33:14-15 NASB
14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” 15 Then
he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from
here.”
And, what Moses is saying is, "Lord, I'm not going without You. Lord, if You don't
go, I'm not going."
Some of us would have settled for what God said to Moses.
Many of us would say, "Lord, You promised me eternal life. I've got eternal life.
You promised me Heaven. I've got Heaven. You promised me that You would
see me through. You're going to see me through. Thank You for the angel, Lord.
Thank You for Heaven, Lord. Thank You for eternal security, Lord."
Some of us would settle for that without the conscious presence of God.
No one should ever settle for that.
That's like a husband and wife who remain married but separate, and he
provides for her.
He says, "All right, I'll pay your rent. I'll buy your groceries. I'll cut the grass. But
we're not going to live together."

9. Friend, do you want that kind of a relationship with God?
Do you want what God will give without having God Himself?
Or, are you saying, "I am not satisfied with separate maintenance. I want to
know the Lord intimately."
There must be a determination.
I pray to God that that will be true in my own life because I want to be a growing
Christian.
I'm not there yet.
If we want the conscious presence of God in our lives and in our church, there
must be a determination.
I. There Must be Determination.
II. There Must Be Preparation.
III. There Must Be Isolation.
IV. There Must Be Expectation.
Secondly, there must be preparation.
Let's go to the next chapter - Exodus 34.
Moses says, "Lord, listen. We're not going to take second best. We don't want an
angel. We want You."
And so, now, the Lord is ready to give them what they want.
Look in Exodus 34:1-2
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10. Exodus 34:1-2 NASB
1 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the
former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former
tablets which you shattered. 2 So be ready by morning, and come up in the
morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to Me on the top of the
mountain.
Exodus 34:1-2 NASB
As you know, God had already given Moses the Ten Commandments.
The first time, Moses came down and found the people dancing around a
golden calf, and, in anger, Moses broke those two tablets of stone.
God was ready to say to the people, "My presence is not going to go with you."
But Moses said, "O Lord, I've got to have Your presence."
So, God says, "All right, Moses. Get you two more tablets, and get ready, and
come up on the mountain; and, I am going to deal with you one more time."
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Now, if you expect the presence of God, you need to do what Moses did and
obey God.
Look at it, in verse 2: "Be ready in the morning" (Exodus 34:2).
Don't carelessly, haphazardly, casually seek the presence of God.
God does business with those that mean business.
Did you know the Bible speaks of preparing your heart to seek the Lord?
These two Scriptures you might want to jot down.
2 Chronicles 12:14 & 2 Chronicles 19:3

11. One verse deals with a man named Rehoboam who did not have the presence
of God and here's what the Bible says about him - 2 Chronicles 12:14: "And he
did evil..."—now, why did he do evil?
Well, listen to it—"And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the
Lord." (2 Chronicles 12:14).
Now, is that not an interesting verse? "He did evil" — Rehoboam. Why? "because
he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord."
There must be preparation.
You must be ready!
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Now the converse of that verse - in 2 Chronicles speaks of a man named
Jehoshaphat, a good man.
In 2 Chronicles 19:3, God said this to Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 19:3
3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have taken away
the groves (the Asheroth - the places of pagan worship) out of the land and
have prepared your heart to seek God."
See the emphasis that God makes upon preparation?
You prepare yourself to seek the Lord.

12. Tomorrow morning, when you have your quiet time with God, prepare your
heart, get away, close the door, get a Bible and a notebook, put away all
distractions, and say, "God, I have but one business right now, and that is to
prepare my heart to seek You."
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It is not a casual, haphazard thing that will help you to have—enable you to
have—the conscious presence of God.
Preparing your heart to seek Him is vital, essential and paramount to regaining
the glow!
I. There Must be Determination.
II. There Must Be Preparation.
III. There Must Be Isolation.
IV. There Must Be Expectation.
There must be determination.
You must say, "God, I will not take Your blessings without You. I don't want any
angel. I need You."
Number two: Preparation.
Be ready in the morning.
Now, here's the third thing—determination, preparation—number three: isolation.
Look, in verse 3—Exodus 34:3 "And no man shall come up with you".
That is, "Moses, it's just going to be you and Me alone."

13. Moses was the pastor of 3 million backslidden people and they were bothering
him.
They were complaining.
They were criticizing him.
This reminded Dr. Rogers of a pastor who said, "I don't mind being swallowed by
a whale; I just hate to be nibbled to death by minnows."
That's what was happening to Moses.
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God says to Moses, "Now, leave these people. Get alone with Me."
Later on, Moses is going to intercede for these same people that he was getting
away from.
Dr. Rogers told his congregation that “the best time I spend for you is not when
I'm with you, talking to you about God, but when I'm with God, talking to God
about you?”
The best time that you spend for your children is not necessarily when you're with
your children, but when you're not with your children, talking to God about your
children.
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14. Pastors need to get alone with God.
Sometimes people are disappointed because the pastor is not always there, at
their beck and call.
The man of God who is always available isn't worth a whole lot when he is
available.
There are times when you need to be alone with God.
Not just pastors—parents; not just parents—Sunday School teachers.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, if God has given you a responsibility, you
need to get alone with God - Jesus taught us that.
"When you pray, enter into your closet and pray." (Matthew 6:6).
Now, He didn't mean a clothes closet, He meant a closed place, a place where
you shut the doors and open the window to Heaven.
Get alone with God!
If you'll study the history of people in the Bible who have been blessed, and
have, therefore, been a blessing, these are people who met God in a place of
isolation.
Abraham was alone when the Lord spoke to Abraham and gave him that great
covenant.
Daniel was alone when God spoke to him and gave him a prophecy.
Paul was alone in Arabia where God gave him the epistles, the great things that
he wrote down for us in the Book of Romans.
Peter was alone on a rooftop when he had a vision and God spoke to Simon
Peter, up there, about Cornelius, and opening the door to the Gentiles.
John was alone on the Isle of Patmos on the Lord's Day when God gave him the
Book of the Revelation.
Moses was alone in the wilderness when God gave him the Ten
Commandments.

15. And, the Bible tells us about the greatest example of all: The Lord Jesus.
In the midst of a busy, fruitful ministry where miracles were being done, He
withdrew Himself to the wilderness to pray.
If we don’t come apart and pray, we may simply just come apart!
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I. There Must be Determination.
II. There Must Be Preparation.
III. There Must Be Isolation.
IV. There Must Be Expectation.
Determination—it must be there.
Preparation—it must be there.
Isolation—it must be there.
"When you pray, enter into your closet and pray." (Matthew 6:6).
The next thing, if you want that conscious presence of God, is expectation.
Beginning in Exodus 34:4: "And he"—that is, Moses—"hewed two tables of stone
like the first;"—now, why did he hew two tables of stone?
Moses expected God to give him something to put on those tablets.
Exodus 34:4-7 NASB
4 So he cut out two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in
the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and
he took two stone tablets in his hand. 5 The Lord descended in the cloud and
stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord. 6 Then the Lord
passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness
and truth; 7 Who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, Who forgives iniquity,
transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished,
visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the
third and fourth generations.” Exodus 43:4-7 NASB

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Moses went up there to find out something from God, and he got a revelation.
God spoke to Moses, and God said, "Now, Moses, I'm going to give you
something. I want you to be prepared to take it down. Take with you two blank
tablets."
When you have a quiet time, are you expecting God to give you something?
When you open the Word of God, do you expect to learn?
If you come to God, and you expect God to give you something, be ready to
write it down.
You'll be surprised how it will clarify your mind when you write it out.
Writing helps you to think clearly and to put things down cogently—that it writes
it not only upon the paper; it writes it upon your heart.
Writing helps you to organize the things God gives you.
When you go to a prayer meeting to pray for rain, you ought to bring an
umbrella.
When you have a quiet time, you ought to have a notebook.

17. Causing a Passage of Scripture to Burst Aflame in Your Hand.
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1. Read It Through.
• Just open the Bible; read it through.
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2. Think It Out.
• Just bring your mind to it.
• You're to love the Lord your God with all your mind.
• Why would the Lord renew your mind, if He didn't expect you to use it?
(Romans 12:1-2).
• So, read it through.
• Think it out.
3. Pray It In.
• Then, pray it in.
• Talk to God about it.
• One of the finest ways to learn the Scripture is to pray the Scripture.
• When God tells you something in the Bible, or shows you something in
the Bible, tell Him about it.
• Ask Him about it.
• Thank Him for it.
• Read it through.
• Think it out.
• Pray it in.
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18. 4. Write It Down.
• Write down the thoughts that God has given you.
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5. Live It Out.
• This is the way that it really becomes real to you.
• When you find something in the Word of God, these promises and these
truths are not museum pieces to hang on the wall; they're checks to
carry to the bank.
• Live it out.
• Take these promises of God.
• Take these precepts.
• Take these warnings and put them in your life.
• Say, "I will live by that today."
6. Pass It On.
• And then, last of all, pass it on.
• When we meet folks day by day, we ought to have something, a little
nugget from the Word, to share with them.
• We ought to have a verse, a truth, something that God has given us.
• When we give it away, it comes back to us.
• That's the secret of remembering anything.
• That's the reason teachers are blessed to be able to teach the Word of
God.
When I teach, the Word of God does more good for me than it does for you.
Every time I point my index finger at you, three are pointing back at me.
We can all share the Word of God day by day with our friends and as we do, it
becomes so real in our hearts.
When you have this quiet time, you get alone; you have determination; you
have preparation; you have isolation; you have expectation that God is going to
speak to you, so hew yourself two tablets of stone.
If you don't want to hew yourself two tablets of stone, go down to Walgreens,
and get a pen and a notebook, and be prepared for God to speak to you.

19. Sunday
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Exodus 39:42-43; 40:1-4, 34-38
His Presence
October 29, 2017
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA
The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NASB
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
John 14:6 NASB
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father but through me.”
Romans 3:23 NASB
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NASB
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the one who doesn’t deserve death, died in this life to pay the
penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second death explained in
Revelation 21:8.
Revelation 21:8 NASB
8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and
immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NASB
23b but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

20. Romans 5:8 NASB
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us.
Revelation 21:7 NASB
7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be
My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be overcomers.
Romans 10:9-10 NASB
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that
God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person
believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in
salvation.
Romans 10:13 NASB
13 for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
If you have questions or would like to know more, please, contact First Baptist
Church Jackson at 601-949-1900 or http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/