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This week we have Jonathan Cahn with his
message, Days of the Golden Calf.
Everybody open up to the book of Exodus.
Exodus chapter 32.
Exodus 32 and verse 1.
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed
to come down from the mountain, the people
assembled around 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
don't know what became of him.
Alright.
This is the scene.
Actually we were in this scene about two
weeks ago when we spoke about entering God's
presence, the portable mountaintop.
But this is now the next part.
This is where it kind of goes downhill
with God's people.
But God's purposes don't change.
But this is what happens.
He's up there, forty days.
And there's thunder and there's lightning and there's
smoke going on on the Mount Sinai.
All the people who have come out of
Egypt are now, have been watching that mountain.
Moses goes up.
He receives the Torah, the law.
Meanwhile, the people see that Moses is not
coming down.
It's been over a month.
A month and ten days.
They said when they saw when Moses was
delayed, or delayed to come down.
But really Moses wasn't quite delayed.
It was God's will on the mountain receiving
the law, what would be marked at 613
commandments.
We think there are delays, but in God's
plan there's no delay.
God is always working in the heavenlies with
His will.
God is working.
God's will will happen when you think not.
When you think there's a delay.
As long as you're in God's will, there's
no delay.
Even though there are things that might not
be happening in our time.
You know, we get into a traffic jam
and we get all bent out of shape.
As if we're delayed.
As if we should be somewhere else.
Well, maybe you messed up.
Maybe you were late.
But now you're in, you got to be
in God's will.
You're not delayed.
You have to be in, if you are
with God in that car, you're not delayed.
When we were in the, we were in
our building.
And we were running out of room in
our first little building.
The size of I don't know what.
Just a very small portion of this room.
Very, very small.
The very first building, not the one in
Garfield.
We were in Lodot.
We were running out of room.
We were growing and we had this place.
We found this place and we were sure
it was it.
And we went up to the town.
And they, waiting for months, they voted it
down.
And it turned out that it was the
day after they voted it down.
Or after we got the news.
The day after we went out and we
found the building that would be our building.
That was ten times our first size.
It was nothing compared to the one we
thought.
And it was always there.
It was there for two years.
And it only, it took us losing a
building three times the size of our first
building.
To get the one that was ten times
the size.
And so God was waiting.
It wasn't the building that wasn't ready.
It was our faith that wasn't ready.
So God was not delaying something.
He was working on our faith.
We had to get so desperate that we
would accept something that was beyond our belief
first.
Messiah's first coming, when he came, the timing,
it was the timing that God had.
It wasn't the timing of Israel.
It wasn't the way they wanted it.
In our lives, God is working out his
will in his time.
As long as we are in his will,
you are not on hold.
You are never on hold in God's will.
There's always something to do to glorify him.
Here though, they think he is delayed.
And so it says, they come up to
Aram and they say, Make us gods to
go out before us that we may move
on.
This Moses is not coming down, it looks
like.
We don't know what happened to him.
We don't know what's going on.
This Moses.
It's kind of like the prodigal son.
Remember when he says, this, this son of
yours.
He speaks about his brother, but he says,
this son of yours.
Doesn't say my brother.
This son.
Well here they say, this Moses.
The man who brought us out of Egypt.
We don't know what happened to him.
This man who brought us out of Egypt
and they're going to abandon him.
That ought to tell you something.
This is the guy who brought down judgment.
God did it through him.
Open up the sea.
God was with him and they're going to
abandon him.
He's with God.
He's on the mountain.
He didn't leave the mountain.
He couldn't have gotten down.
He's still on there.
The smoke is there.
They might have figured that he's dead.
That he got killed up there because they're
not going to go up.
But all of them saw him go up.
They didn't see him go down.
So how could they do this?
Well, people are flaky.
That's a rule.
Think of all that they saw.
And how could they say, all that they
saw.
Well, think of all we've seen.
And when you doubt, after all, you wrote
down all the prayers God answered.
The times when he just spoke to you.
Remember all you have seen.
And let that keep you when you're going
through a tough time.
When you don't see what God is doing.
Remember what he did.
The one who took you out of Egypt.
Yeshua, Messiah, Jesus.
Remember who took you out of Egypt.
Remember what your life was like back then.
Remember that.
All the other issues are nothing.
You know, ministers worrying about their ministries, financial
problems, or wait a minute.
Forget all that.
Remember who took you out of Egypt.
You know, you're worried about all that.
It means nothing in the end.
He's your Savior.
Remember Calvary.
Remember Messiah.
When he asked his disciples and he said,
will you leave me too?
And Peter answered, well, who else?
We can't leave you.
Nobody else has the words of eternal life.
That's the way we have to be.
Here's the beginning of the Torah.
The law.
The Old Covenant.
And already they're falling.
Reveals that the law could not save.
From the very beginning.
The law was added, Paul said, to reveal
sin.
So this will be from the beginning.
It shows you how it's not going to
be in the Old Covenant.
That's going to save anybody.
Note the delay.
There's a delay, and there's a fall to
sin.
Be very careful when you think there's a
delay in your life.
Be very careful when you think you're not
getting what you need.
What, what you need is delayed.
Like for instance, I've known women who were
waiting in the Lord, or, or wanted to
get married so much that when it didn't
happen the way they thought, they went off
with the wrong person.
They went off even out of the Lord.
When you don't get that thing you wanted,
beware.
When the Israelites lost, they lost the war,
they couldn't wait, they said, OK, we're going
to jump ahead now.
We're going to fight the next battle on
our own.
And they got destroyed.
It's the lesson of the Master being away
as well.
They believe Moses is gone.
We can do our own thing now.
We don't have Moses.
We don't have Moshe.
We don't have Mo to tell us what
to do now.
We can do our own thing.
We're going to take matters into our own
hands.
Beware of taking matters into your own hands.
Adam and Eve, same thing.
They didn't see God right there.
God seemed to be away.
They did their thing.
The parable that Messiah gives, the Master left
the servants, and the servants did as they
pleased.
They took over.
They partied.
They beat up each other.
They went crazy, as if He was never
coming back.
So here, Moses is gone, it looks like.
It looks like God is gone, which is
crazy, because we don't realize He's there all
the time.
He's watching all the time.
You're never alone.
Those people were slaves in Egypt.
They saw the judgment, saw the plague, saw
the Red Sea, and now look at what
they're doing.
How can they do that?
The same way we are flaky when we
seek so much from God.
They say to Aaron, Make us gods.
Make us idols.
Actually, in English, you see a double truth.
Make us gods.
When you make idols, you're making yourself a
god.
Why?
You become the creator of the thing you're
worshiping.
So you're saying, really, it's about you.
Moses failed.
So we need a new leader, they think.
They can't see Moses.
They never could see God.
They saw the signs of it.
But an interesting word in Hebrew, they say,
make us.
The word in Hebrew is Elohim.
You should all know that word.
Say it.
You can translate Elohim two ways.
You can translate it as God, and you
can translate it as gods, plural, because it's
a plural word.
There's only one God, but this is the
awesomeness.
This is where they see the triunity of
God from the very beginning of the Scripture.
In the beginning, God, but it's more, He's
bigger than what you think, but it's one.
But it's also, that same word is translated
in the Bible in different contexts of gods.
When it speaks of the gods, Elohim.
So it's either going to be, it means
God in His majesty, or it means God's
idols.
So you've got to always have a choice.
It's either God in His majesty, or gods
and idols.
It looks very similar, so be careful.
Are you looking at Elohim God, or have
you started looking at Elohim idols in your
life?
Whatever you serve, that's your God.
Whatever you most delight in, that's your God,
or your idol.
Whatever is your real motive, that's your God.
Your real focus, God.
Your real ultimate thing, that's it.
What are you really living for, that's your
God.
What is your God?
Your Elohim, the one or many things in
your life.
Here they make it to Sinai by God,
and they're saying, but we're going to continue
on our own.
Who has seen such a thing, God says,
when He looks at this?
He says, who has even heard of this,
where a nation exchanges its gods?
No nation exchanged gods.
They came up with their own, pretty much.
They came up with their own gods, so
they didn't, but God was real, Israel, so
Israel actually is exchanging its God.
Verse 2, And Aaron said to them, What,
are you crazy?
How could you be doing this?
No, he didn't.
That's what he should have said.
He said, tear off the gold rings which
are in the ears of your wives, your
sons, they wore rings too, and your daughters,
and bring them to me.
Aaron, how could you?
Aaron, who saw everything, how could he do
that?
Then all the people tore off the golden
rings which were in their ears, and brought
them to Aaron.
They willingly give up their treasures and their
jewelry for their new God.
Verse 4, And he took this from their
hand and fashioned it with a carving tool
and made it into a molten calf.
The golden calf.
Israel is descending to the ways of the
nations.
Here they're given the covenant, they're called out,
Be peculiar, I've called you separate, different from
all the nations of the world.
A holy royal priesthood who brought you out
of Egypt.
How could they do it?
Verse 5, He built an altar before the
calf.
And Aaron made a proclamation, a proclamation.
Tomorrow shall be a festival, a feast to
the Lord.
A proclamation.
Verse 6, So the next day, they rose
early and offered burnt offerings and brought shalom,
peace offerings.
The people sat down to eat and drink
and rose up to play.
They rose early.
That's a word for, it denotes zeal for
sin.
So picture this scene here.
Imagine being there and seeing it.
Imagine you are in the camp.
Imagine you are one of the Israelites taken
out of Egypt and you watch this happening.
I want you to remember this scene.
Because we are now going to open up
an entirely different realm.
A prophetic realm.
The key here, the tablets, the law.
Moses will look down and see this happening.
And as he sees it happening, he will
take those tablets of the law and smash
them.
And we see two pictures going on here.
One on the top of the mountain, the
other on the bottom.
On the bottom of the mountain, we see
apostasy.
We see a people falling away from their
God.
We see a people in gross, gross debauchery.
And on the top of the mountain, we
see holiness.
We see God's presence.
And we see the law.
And we see Moses then smashing those tablets.
We have the tablets on one hand.
We have the golden calf on the other.
The one is the opposite of the other.
The golden calf is built in the absence
of God and His law.
And the tablets are smashed because of the
golden calf.
They cannot go together.
They go against, they war against each other.
And we are going to see in this
a prophetic revelation.
Amazing.
Of what's happening right now before our eyes.
Western civilization was founded, birthed, not only in
Greece as you hear, Rome as you're taught,
but most centrally in spirit in Israel.
It was all crystallized and born, adopted from
Israel.
The idea of a chosen people, a covenant
people.
Western civilization has this built into it.
It's DNA.
America was born within that.
And even more so.
Americans, the founders of this nation, the pilgrims,
the Puritans, they saw this new civilization as
a new Israel.
Coming out of bondage from the old world.
The old world was like Egypt to them.
John Winthrop, one of the founders called the
grandfather of America, coming on the ship, the
Arbella, coming to New England with a Puritan
called the Exodus of the Puritans.
He wrote that America would be a city
on a hill.
The nations of the world would look to
it.
And he quoted from Deuteronomy.
He quoted from Moses the same words that
Moses gave Israel as they were about to
enter the promised land.
He based his message to the first, the
founders of America, on Moses' word to Israel.
The first proposed seal of the United States
drafted by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson was
an image of the Exodus.
America as crossing the Red Sea and leaving
the old behind.
America was parallel to Israel.
Its ethics, its morality, its system of law
largely founded on the laws of Moses.
There were even laws of the colonies of
some of the states that mentioned the law,
but one said the law of Moses will
be our law.
As with Israel, the founders of this civilization,
they saw America as in covenant with God.
The difference was, the one who was their
redeemer was not Moses, but was Messiah.
Moses was a foreshadow of him anyway.
John Winthrop gave a warning to America.
He said, if America followed God, it would
be the most blessed nation on earth.
If it turned away from God, it would
become the most cursed nation on earth.
We're going to see from this scene from
the mountain of Sinai, a prophetic revelation that's
going to explain what is happening in Western
civilization today, global civilization, and America in particular.
Let's go back now.
Let's look at just those first verses here
and see what it uncovers.
We're going to do more in the future.
This is an opening.
Very important here.
Verse 1.
When the people saw that Moses delayed to
come down from the mountain, the people assembled
around Aaron and said, come make us a
God who will go out before us as
for this Moses, this man who brought us
out of Egypt, we don't know what happened
to him.
When they saw, there was a delay.
George Washington, on his inauguration, gave warning, told
the nation this.
He said, no people are bound to acknowledge
the hand of God more than America.
He has been with us in everything that
happened.
And he said, and I paraphrase, if the
nation rejects the ways of God, God will
withdraw his favor from the land.
Moses went up, left his people.
2,000 years ago, Messiah went up.
He ascended.
Israel was told to be holy and wait
for the return of Moses.
Messiah told his disciples, I'm coming back.
I will come back.
Be ready.
From this came Western civilization and so all
of Western civilization was based originally on Messiah
and that he's coming back.
It was called a Christian civilization.
That was certainly the foundation.
In Exodus, it seemed like Messiah was delayed
in his coming down.
The people of Israel, in that delay, turned
to apostasy.
So, what we are watching now in the
world, this whole Western civilization, Europe and all
that, the delay of Messiah, what seems to
be the delay of his coming, and it's
even spoken about.
People say, where is the promise of his
coming?
Has led to a turning away and apostasy
that we are watching throughout the world.
A rise of secularism.
It's the 20th century that saw things that
would never happen before.
It's because it was 20 centuries where Messiah
had not yet returned.
You saw the rise of atheism.
The rise of communism.
The rise of fascism.
The rise of Nazism.
The rise of all these things.
The longer the delay, the greater the potential
for apostasy among those who stop waiting.
And we've seen the horrors of it as
man declares himself God.
We see that in the Holocaust.
Verse...
Actually, we can start right...
America was born, founded, everything on God.
The school system was founded to teach the
Bible.
The government was founded to carry out the
gospel originally.
All seen as a covenant with God.
But we have watched a progressive turning away.
There have been revivals.
There are revivals.
God's spirit is alive and well among his
people.
But the mainstream culture has turned progressively away
from God.
One of the turning points was the 1960s.
Prayer was removed from school.
The Bible was removed from school.
That's a nation removing prayer and the Bible
from its future and we are reaping the
fruits of it now.
It's not just that one act.
It's that that was symbolic.
That was an epitome.
The nation began removing God from its public
life.
1963.
Right after these two things were removed, we
watched the assassination of a president.
Years of unrest, violence.
America lost its first war.
A moral slide.
Something called a sexual revolution.
New morality.
Things we are reaping now.
A decline in virtually all factors of well
-being for about three decades or so.
A decline in America's power relative to the
world.
Actually, I'm not going to get into it
today, but you know the last eight years,
America's relative economic power has declined drastically with
regard to the rest of the world.
America was in a sense founded on the
moral foundation of the Bible, Ten Commandments.
Even up to the 1960s was still deeply
affected by it.
America was founded on the same law given
to Israel.
In fact, the images of the Ten Commandments,
this scene here, or the Ten Commandments or
Moses giving them are actually engraved or painted
or sculpted in the halls of Congress or
in Washington in several buildings.
The law, the Bible, was seen as the
foundation.
But as here in this scene the people
turn away from that, so America also.
In 1980, something happened.
There's a case that came to the Supreme
Court involving the Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments was put on trial.
Can you imagine?
The case was called, interesting enough, Stone v.
Graham.
Imagine the Ten Commandments on trial.
The Supreme Court.
Supreme Court ruled that to post the Ten
Commandments now in the school system, in a
classroom, anywhere in a classroom or so was
unconstitutional.
Not to mention the fact that it's posted
in government.
But even this opened up a door where
the Ten Commandments was removed from or images
of it were removed from public places beyond
the school as well.
It was struck down and listen to what
the reason was.
The reason was students may be induced to
venerate and possibly even obey the Ten Commandments.
God forbid.
Students might actually be induced to obey the
commandments that say don't steal, don't lie, don't
covet, don't commit adultery, don't murder.
God forbid.
The students should be so affected by this.
And so what have they replaced it with?
So American civilization took a turn, crossed a
critical juncture, began removing the Ten Commandments from
its public square, public life, school system and
thus from its future.
And even that has produced the harvest we
are reaping now.
I mean that's all part of it.
The warning, actually this was actually at Sinai
we see a war against the Ten Commandments.
Began at Sinai with a calf versus the
tablets or the way of God.
And it started here in America the case
of Stone versus Graham.
America was doing the same thing.
And it's going to give us a prophetic
revelation of what's happening.
See Moses was delayed it says but we
know not really but that's how it was
to them.
Therefore make us gods.
So in the delay of the Lord's coming
or what seems to be a delay but
not really America has turned increasingly away.
The obliteration of the Ten Commandments is always
linked to a golden calf.
Let me say that again.
When the Ten Commandments are put away it
is always linked to a golden calf.
What does that mean for America?
What does that mean to America?
It's an amazing thing.
The Constitution itself they said it's unconstitutional.
The Constitutional I've reminded you says on it
in the year of our Lord.
That's even more than the Declaration of Independence
because it's saying it's not only saying the
Lord it's saying He's our Lord.
Who?
Buddha?
No.
Muhammad?
No.
Who is our Lord?
It's saying Jesus, Yeshua is the Lord of
America.
That's what the Constitution says.
But increasingly moving away notice what they said.
They said this Moses not Moses not our
Moses but this Moses.
You know what that means?
That's putting a distance.
This Moses.
That's what it's doing.
That's exactly what is happening in America.
It used to be I said the year
of our Lord.
Our Lord.
Then it becomes the Lord.
Then it becomes this Lord.
It was A.D. You know what they're
trying to do?
They're trying to move it to C.E.
which means before the common era or C
.E. the common era.
Common era of what?
There's nothing.
What are you doing?
You're still dating it to his birth.
But trying to get him out of it.
Just like you do at Christmas.
Try to get him out of his own
birth.
When Newsweek or Time Magazine speak of him
they do articles of him and they do
it about twice a year.
They actually increase their circulation when they do
it usually.
They write of him as not Jesus anymore
but as this Jesus.
I'm not saying they use the word.
That's the way they talk about him.
This thing.
When they talk about Christians it's not about
this is what we are.
It's the Christians.
This group.
When you look at the New York Times
from 1940s I looked it over.
I found they had special pages where on
Sunday or Monday they would reproduce the sermons
preached in the city.
New York Times had a whole page of
summing up all the sermons that they could
in the city.
Can you imagine that today?
I mean if a newspaper did it today
you'd say well that's a Christian newspaper.
But that was the New York Times.
The whole nation was like that.
Now it's this.
It used to simply be our faith, the
faith, faith.
Now it's this faith as opposed to other
faiths.
Same way it's happening this principle, this Moses
principle is happening.
It's happening to marriage.
It used to simply be marriage.
Now it's heterosexual marriage.
It's this kind of marriage.
It's no longer marriage.
It is this particular kind of that.
You see what's happening?
This Moses.
This Jesus.
Before it was unquestioned.
It was simply Moses, simply Jesus.
This was the pillar.
You didn't never question that.
They're falling away from their identity.
So is America.
And what happens when those commandments or the
way of God is pushed out?
When you replace Moses replacing God's presence with
an idol.
When God goes out, when Moses goes out,
when the way of God goes out, you
can be sure the golden calf comes in.
As America rules out Messiah.
Rules out God from its public life.
Rules out His name.
It creates a vacuum.
A spiritual vacuum which must be filled in.
With what?
With idols.
Things you can touch.
Things you can see.
It's no accident.
This principle is so crucial.
No accident.
As America rules out God, it's no accident
that it is ruling in idolatry.
What does that mean?
It means the culture becomes increasingly carnal.
It becomes increasingly materialistic.
It becomes increasingly a sensory overload.
It's got to fill in that spiritual emptiness
with bombardment of images, of sounds, of sensory,
multiplicity of media.
More pervasive than ever.
Houses, children are being bombarded by things never
to that degree before.
Not just television, iPods, internet, computers, a million
things.
And I'm not saying that they're wrong.
But what I am saying is what is
happening is America's becoming addicted to the sensual.
That's exactly what this reveals.
Some people might hear, might be text messaging
right now.
When you should be in communion with God.
Replacing time of prayer with a carnal, the
worship of money, greed.
More time spent pursuing money, pursuing entertainment, than
going after God.
You know how, you know, someone wrote to,
you know how often you could have read
the Bible through and through.
You know, some of you, if you stopped,
you cut down on the television, how much
you could have done the Bible, how much
you could have been on the mountaintop with
God.
How much God could have blessed your life.
Israel forgot where it came from.
America has forgotten where it came from.
The rejection of Moses, the rejection of God
in America, the rejection of Jesus, Yeshua and
God.
There's no neutrality.
It's a, you can watch it in western
civilization.
When Russia turned away from God, it entered
into a period of such darkness.
Marxism, Leninism, in Europe, fascism, never neutral.
It never will be.
It should be, but it's not, because there's
a spiritual thing going on.
So when you turn away from God, it
always leads to something else, not nothing.
It always leads to some other form of
worship, even though people don't realize they're worshiping.
And it leads to evil.
The rejection of Messiah's presence, out of everything,
out of Christmas, out of everything, out of
trying to take him out of his own
thing, has brought in gods, gods of the
media, gods of greed, gods of sensuality, gods
of selfism, gods of addiction, of gain, of
comfort, of status.
Sunday was once a day you had laws
throughout America that you did not buy or
sell on Sunday.
Now I'm not saying that's the answer.
And Sunday's not the Sabbath.
It's the Lord's Day, but it said something.
They said, listen, we don't want to be
interrupted, we don't want our worship to be
interrupted by anything like this, by buying and
selling.
And there's a reason why that's been undone,
because America's saying, you know what, forget that,
the buying and selling is more important to
us.
We're even believers, and I'm not saying you're
in sin for buying or selling, I'm not
saying that, but even believers are being continuously
torn by the world, where at one point
the world wasn't even.
From Elohim, big E, Elohim, to Elohim, little
gods, the worship of one's own hand, an
idol, a culture turned away from God's presence,
increasingly to idols at the bottom, the base
things, the base of the mountain, base things,
instead of the high things.
More and more away from the invisible to
what you see, the worship of celebrities, the
worship of self, the legal system saying, you
know what, we're above God.
The Supreme Court saying, we're supreme, above God,
we can strike down His laws, we are
above.
The state saying, we are above God, we
can legislate God out of existence if we
deem.
We, the state saying, we have charged, or
even the children, more and more a move,
even the United Nations as well, a move
for states and governments to say the children
belong to us, not to the barons.
The carnal greed.
America has led the world now into an
economic collapse.
What do you think was behind it?
A God was behind it.
What God?
A God of greed.
Wall Street, each one trying to make more
money, cutting corners, doing things that were questionable
and unethical.
This Ponzi scheme thing, billions and billions of
dollars.
You know, this guy had people give him
billions of dollars.
But they also wanted as much money as
they could get.
I'm not saying that's always wrong, it depends
on what you're why and what you're doing,
but this was just a pursuit of money
after money without morality, money.
Turns out they just discovered the last few
days, for the last 15 years or so,
he didn't even invest it in anything.
He just took the money.
What do you do with 50 billion dollars?
Where is it?
They're not sure.
He misplaced it.
Maybe it's in the mattress.
50 billion dollars!
You'd think he'd be content.
That's more than nations make.
You'd think he'd be content with one billion,
that's enough, that's a thousand millions.
Called the Ponzi scheme.
Everything's based on something that, money keep coming
in to fuel the light.
Well, it almost seems like the whole financial
system in the last few years was as
a Ponzi scheme.
Now is the day of reckoning.
God said, you want to worship the almighty
dollar?
We'll see how almighty it is.
Entertainment, the work of man's hands becoming more
infused with idolatry, with profanity.
The glory of God is removed.
And as the word of God is spurned,
everything becomes relative.
Right and wrong means nothing.
Man makes up his own values, man changes,
redefines anything he wants because man becomes the
ultimate God.
We're going to see more in the future
days.
We'll explain what's happening right now.
We're watching because, but you've got to understand
this.
There's a direct connection between the removing of
the Ten Commandments as a sign and the
morphing, the transforming of America from a, quote,
Christian civilization to a, quote, post-Christian pagan
civilization.
We're going to see that in every commandment
its removal is linked to triggering a wave
of changes in America.
It's no accident.
If those who founded this civilization on the
word of God would come back today, they
would be, they would be shocked.
They would be nauseous.
They just see the civilization that they put
on the Ten Commandments, or God's way, the
gospel, becoming increasingly a civilization of a golden
calf, worshipping a golden calf.
And it makes sense.
If you had a house, a family, and
they always had the Ten Commandments on their
door, on their door, and one day they
suddenly, they decide to take it down, you'd
say, what's going on here?
Why would they remove it?
Why would they remove thou shalt not commit
adultery?
Well, maybe there's adultery going on.
Because it doesn't line up anymore.
Because it's morphing, it's changing.
It doesn't line up with the standard.
Because now it's going to commit adultery.
That's what's happening in America.
You see, if you're not lining up with
the standard, instead of saying, you know, we've
got to repent, instead, let's take down the
standard.
So it's removing the standard that convicts it,
because why would it remove thou shalt not
covet?
Because it's going to start coveting more than
ever now.
Why remove thou shalt have no other gods?
Because we're going to have other gods now.
We're going to have idols.
That is exactly what we're watching.
The mountain, the deliverer, is spurned.
And the camp at the bottom of the
mountain dances and increasingly debases itself and goes
lower and lower.
It's exchanged the living God for an American
idol.
In future days, we're going to explore this
more, but I want to bring this to
you now.
I want to bring this to us.
Because we're here.
And we want you to be prepared always
in the last days.
This is a dynamic that's happening.
We shouldn't be shocked, because the Bible says
it.
But let's take it home.
We are end-time believers.
How can we live in such days and
overcome?
Days of, which is this called, the days
of the golden calf, based on the rejection
of God's Word.
Well, this in the same way is going
to give us a glimpse of how to
overcome.
When a culture turns away from His Word,
it turns to idols.
But those who stood against it back then,
see, not everybody was running around with a
golden calf.
Not everybody was doing this.
There were people who stayed, and they were
faithful.
They were faithful to God, and they were
faithful to wait until He returned, until Moses
came down that mountain.
They kept the faith.
They held on.
They had to say, you know what?
I'm not changing.
I'm not changing what is God's for what's
going around me.
I don't care if the majority does it.
I don't care if they make it a
law at the bottom of the mountain.
I don't care if they set up their
own government and say, now you've got to
worship the golden calf.
I don't care.
Do what you want.
I'm holding to what I know.
They kept the faith.
They kept the hope, and they kept the
Word.
They reminded themselves, Moses who went up is
coming down again.
And when he comes down, I want to
be faithful at his return.
You in the last days, you're going to
prevail by being, staying vigilant in God.
Reminding ourselves, our Messiah has gone up, just
as surely He will come down, and we
want to be faithful on that day.
The Master is away, the Master will return,
and you must keep His way.
If the rest of the world goes off,
it doesn't matter.
Don't question it.
Don't start questioning just because the majority, you
know, I'm seeing some believers, I mean, I
don't know what they are, but people who
all of a sudden, they're questioning, well, I
don't know, maybe it's not wrong.
What is that?
What would you do if you were living
under Hitler?
You'd do the same thing.
Well, the Nazis forget that.
Be strong.
Be made of something that's going to hold
up.
If you're going to stand, you've got to
hold on to what you know.
Hold on to the Word that God has
given you.
Hold on to the salvation that God has
put in your life.
Hold on to what you know of your
God who has been faithful to you.
Hold fast and do not change the unchangeable
things.
If the world turns away from the Word,
you must all the more turn to the
Word and away from the world.
If the Word says, all the more, we're
going to go farther away, you must do
all the more and say, Lord, help me
to keep your Word.
If the system of this world and culture
spurns these things, you're going to be those
who say, Lord, I want to even more
obey this Word than I have before.
I want to walk it more than I
have before.
I want to meditate on it.
I want to be strong, Lord.
Because I'm not getting it from this world.
The world is doing the opposite.
I have to be stronger in you.
You've got the idol on one side, you've
got the Word on the other.
The Word wars against the idol.
The idol wars against the Word.
You spend all your time watching the world,
watching television, getting involved in it, you're going
to be drawn from the Word.
But if you spend time, you're in the
Word, you're living the Word, following the Word,
you're not going to be bowing down to
idols.
Don't get used to it.
I don't care if the golden calf is
there.
You know, after a while, the golden calf
was there.
You can get used to it.
Don't get used to what is evil.
Don't, don't, don't accept it just because it's
there.
Don't accept it just because everybody does.
Don't condone it.
Don't become jaded by it.
Don't become obsessed with it or focused on
it.
Keep your eyes lifted up to the mountain,
to the heavenlies, where our Redeemer is.
You've got to be strong on earth.
He gave a commission to us when He
left this world.
He gave a commission.
And we need to do that.
It's not just stay strong.
It's do His will.
Move ahead.
Advance.
When you see these things, though, lift up
your eyes.
Your redemption draws near.
Don't get discouraged by the world.
But stay unbowed.
You know, we are to bow to God,
but we are to be the most unbowed
people when it comes to any idol.
That's, you know, what defines a believer?
You bow to God.
But what defines a believer equally is you
do not bow down to Haman.
You don't bow down to the idol in
Babylon, like Daniel.
You will not bow down to that.
I will not follow this thing.
Let everybody follow it.
I will not.
Though the world, though none go with me,
still I will follow.
Stay rooted, grounded.
The Bible says, I pray you be rooted,
grounded with God.
I've got a higher authority.
They have that commercial, you know, some of
you remember it, Hebrew National, have Uncle Sam
with a hot dog saying, but we have
to answer to a higher authority.
Well, we have to answer to a higher
authority.
You are accountable to a higher authority.
That's a good thing.
Remember, the only thing that matters is you
making Him smile.
Your Redeemer is coming back.
Woe to those, you know, when Moses came
down that mountain.
Woe to those who were found worshipping that
golden calf.
I mean, I don't even know how Aaron
got out of that.
I don't know.
But woe to those who are worshipping that
golden calf.
Woe to those who are found that day
having been not faithful.
Woe to those who are found worshipping God,
as the Lord can come at any moment,
and you know, even if He doesn't come
at the moment, you think, you know, your
life can stop at any moment, and you
want to be found faithful on that day.
But blessed are they who remain faithful.
Blessed are you who remains faithful to your
Master.
You, to be the good and faithful servant
that He says, well done, my good and
faithful servant.
You held out.
You held strong when you didn't see.
You trusted Me when you didn't see.
And you did My will, and you would
not bow to Baal, but you stood for
Me.
Blessed are those, you who do His Word,
who believe His Word, who keep His ways,
who serve His will, who bear His witness,
who glorify His name.
For you will be found that you have
stood strong in the last days, in the
days of the golden calf.
Great will be your reward when your Master
returns.
Amen.
Let's close our eyes for a moment.
Let's just stay where we are.
Let's just close our eyes for a moment.
Father, we praise You.
Bless You.
I ask You, seal this Word right now
on our hearts.
Seal this Word.
Father, we ask that You would, Lord, make
us strong.
You know, Lord, what we are dealing with.
This Word is a Word for the end
-time believer.
And Lord, You know what we are dealing
with.
You know each one here.
You know the temptations.
You know, Lord, what we each are confronted
with.
You know, Lord, what we are, Lord, weakened
and where we're strong.
And Lord, we ask right now that You
would make us stronger.
We want to be stronger.
Lord, we do not want to succumb to
the ways of the world.
We do not want to dance to a
tune that is not You.
We do not want to bow to an
idol of gold.
We want to be strong in You all
the more.
More than before.
Lord, we want to be faithful.
Lord, make us strong.
And Lord, this day, we commit, Lord, to
be, Lord, more rooted and grounded in You.
Father, help us, each one of us, to
be more faithful and true than we have
been.
And whatever, there's something in our life we've
been flirting with.
Something we've given ground to.
Lord, we rebuke it.
We cast it out.
We rebuke even the hint of it.
Even the trace of it.
Lord, anything.
Lord, whatever that is, an indulgence, says even
a trace of sexual immorality.
We rebuke it.
Lord, of carnality, we rebuke it.
Of a habit that wastes our time, that
drains us instead of drawing us closer to
You.
Lord, we want to be up the mountain.
We want to be on the mountain.
We want to be unpolluted.
We want to be with You on the
top.
Lord, each of us, when we go home,
we want to be on the mountain.
When we're here in worshipping, we want to
do so with all our hearts on the
mountain.
We want to be filled up with Your
Word and Your Spirit so that we do
not seek to be filled by anything of
this earth.
Lord, make us strong that we can make
a difference.
That we can make a difference in this
day.
And we praise You and bless You and
love You and lift You up.
Ah, Lord, we just give You glory.
Lord, have Your way with us, and whatever
needs to be, make it so.
While our eyes are closed.
If you don't know right now 100%
where you're spending eternity, you need to know.
If you're not sure, the Bible says you
must be born again.
If you're not sure you are, you need
to be.
There's only one way of salvation.
It doesn't matter if you're Catholic, Protestant, Jewish,
whatever you are.
The only thing that matters is that you're
saved.
And the only way to be saved, Jesus
Himself said, you must be born again or
you're not.
There's only two roads you can go on.
One road leads to eternal life.
The other road leads to eternal death, destruction,
judgment forever.
That's what hell is.
That's separation from God forever.
That's the judgment of sin.
And if you're not born again, that's the
road you're on.
But God loves you.
His will is to give everything.
He gave everything for you that you'd be
saved from that.
But the only way to be saved is
that door.
You must be born again in His holy
presence, His love that's reaching down to you
right now.
If you're not 100% sure that right
now you're born again, if you're not 100
% sure, this is for your sake, for
your life, for your eternity.
You got a heartbeat that can stop tomorrow,
that can stop this moment.
And once it stops, that's eternity.
So with our eyes closed, if you're not
sure right now, if you're right with God,
if you're not sure you're going to be
with Him forever, a thousand years from now,
you're going to be somewhere.
If you're not sure it's with Him, pray
with me right now.
If you're not sure you're right with God,
maybe you've prayed before.
Maybe you've known God, but you've been out
of His will.
You're in danger of succumbing to what's on
the bottom.
And God is calling you up.
Or maybe God is just calling you to
a deeper thing now.
You love God, but He's calling you to
be stronger now, to a higher level, higher
plane.
If that's any of you, whoever you are,
whichever one it is, pray with me now.
The Bible says, if you confess with your
mouth, believe in your heart, you shall be
saved.
So whatever, just however you need to pray,
pray with me right now.
God is calling you.
Just repeat the words in a whisper, mean
it in your heart right now.
Say, Yes, Lord.
You're saying, Yes, Lord.
Have your way in my life, and I'm
following you.
So let's pray together.
Just repeat, just with our eyes closed, just
whisper in a whisper, just say the words
and repeat after me.
Mean it in your heart.
The Bible says, confess with your mouth, believe
in your heart.
So let's pray together.
God is calling you, and He will not
reject you if you come, but don't let
salvation pass you by, or don't let God's
calling you to a higher ground pass you
by.
Let's pray right now.
Just repeat after me in a whisper.
Lord God, I come to you now.
I open my heart.
I want to be strong.
I want to be holy.
I want to be the person you made
me to be.
And I am willing to follow you with
all my heart.
I turn away from the past.
I put away everything of darkness.
Lord, I thank you for loving me, giving
your life for me, conquering death so I
could be saved.
And I truly make you the Lord of
every part of my life, my heart.
I will follow you from this moment on,
truly with all my heart, as your disciple.
Lead me on from this moment.
Wash me, cleanse me, forgive me, fill me
with your spirit and your grace.
I praise you.
I receive, Lord, of you into my heart.
And thank you, Lord, that you receive me.
And I can say, you are my God.
I'm yours.
You are mine.
You are my Lord, and I'm your disciple.
I make you Lord of every part of
my life.
Thank you, Lord.
By your word, your promise, I can say,
I am born again.
I am saved.
I'm received.
I'm forgiven.
I have eternal life, and I'll be with
you always.
Lead me to victory, a life and walk
of victory that I might be faithful.
And you might say, well done, my good
and faithful servant.
I thank you, Lord, in the name above
every name, the name of my Redeemer, Jesus.
In his name I pray.
Lead me on as I follow you from
this moment as your disciple in all the
days of my life.
In his holy name I pray.
And I say, amen and amen.
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit
in Classic Sermons series.
This week you heard Jonathan Cahn with his
message, Days of the Golden Calf.
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