Israel's Actions were a Bunch of Bull

The Golden Calf - Exodus 32

Why would the people resort to such an extreme measure as worshiping this idol?

They had recently experienced:

*Delivery from Bondage

*Miraculous supply in the desert of Water, Manna and Quail

*The presence of God in the Cloud and Pillar

*The lightnings, thunderings and an earthquake at Mt. Sinai

Talk about your basic, "but what have you done for me lately?" mentality!

So, what happened?

1. Impatience - people want what they want when they want it.

2. Impertinence - they lacked respect for God and His chosen leader.

3. Impotence - they were so incapable of caring for their own spiritual well-being.

4. Indolence - they were lazy. Rather than being vigilant of the important things of life, they easily let down their guard, and thus were low hanging fruit for the enemy.

5. Incongruence (idolatry) - they wanted an empirical god. One they could see and touch, rather than the true God Who saw their conditions in Egypt, heard their desperate cries, knew their plight and came down to save them. Passing over them on the night of the deaths of the firstborn.