The Threat of Impatience Exodus 32: 1-6

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v.1            1.          While God is at work, often His people are asked to wait.

                              (And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the
                              mount,

                       

v.1            2.         What God is preparing for His people, they need.

                              (the mount)

v.1            3.          When God’s people cannot see what God is up to, they are tempted with

                               impatience.

                              (mount, the people gathered and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall

                               go before us, for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land

                               of Egypt, we)

v.1            4.         Impatience overrides the report of God’s past faithfulness.

                              (we know not what is become of him.)

v.2            5.        Failing to stay  focused upon God will make a people vulnerable to deceit.

                              (And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the 
                              ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto
                              me.)

v.2            6.        Impatience, when yielded to, can bring open rebellion against God.

                              (And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears,
                              and brought them  unto Aaron.)

v.4-6         7.       Rebellion against God leads to seeking an alternate source for God.

                              (And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, 
                              after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel,
                              which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.)